The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1902, Page 2

0 DEHORNED BULL ILLS WORKMAN A TR T Desperate Combat on a San Jozquin County Ranch. - Maddened Auimal Butts and Tramples Employe Death. The Call —Patrick Burke, ck ranch near Hunt- s killed by a de- Burke was ck broken, y terribly found of kis THE PACIFIC COAST ade in the Postal Service | nd More New Pensions Granted. TON Change 24.—The Postof- | Post- | orester that Captain | report tu the | isco for ex- Califor- —Anérew Markan, Street Fair Pavilion Ready. N1 R —The pavilion in | the resources of and deco- s the | | ek a e liabilities are in business | Myers | the FIRST SURVEYS FOR IRRIGAT.ON Government Moves for the Rsclamation of Arid Land. Two Parties Will Take the| Field Along Colorado River. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.—Richard Ur- quhart Goode, head of the geological de- partment of the Paeific Coast, with. of- fices In Washington, is in this city en route to Washington. In speaking of the work of his department, Goode sald: Within & few weeks two partics will begin River. The operatione alung Lhée Colovado points which they all_start will bo | and The Necdies on the £ large ircigation @ystems to be d uy te2 Governmenat, the ulti- tch 18 to reclatm the desert. Marshal will 150 milies g every creek xeming this map and determine lands mentioned uded between The arid HAREOR IMPROVEMENT TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY Bids for Dredging at San Pedro and San Diego to Be Adver- tised For. )$ ANGELES, Sept. 24{—Improve- to the inner harbor at San Pedro, ed for in the last Congressional ap- propriation, are to be commenced at once. Captain Edgar Jadwin, Corps of Engi- U. 8. A, will to-morrow begin ad- ng for sealed bids for extensive redging at the entrance and inside of Wilmington harbor and at San Diego. The work to be done is divided into three jons, 'The first provides for ree | dredging at the entrance of the inner har- which must have a depth of twenty at low water. The second division aces dredging within the harbor north of the entrance to obtain depths of eighteen feet at low water along portions of the principal wharves and depths of fourteen feet in the approaches to the wharves. For these two divisions §100,000 is availa The third division provides for the dredging of a ship channel across the ccean bar outside the entrance to San Diego harbor. The depth at low water must be twenty-six feet, the depth of the two to Hve feet, and the fund avail- bor, — e FLAG IS HAULED DOWN ON THE PHILADELPHIA Cruiser Goes Out of Commission and Is to B: Extensively Altered and Repaired. PUGET SOUND NAVY YARD, Sept. 24. orders from the Navy Department the colors were hauled down on board the ted States cruiser Philadelphia to- ¢y, signifying that the cruiser is out of com! sion. It is probable that she will be in ordinary for more than a year. Extensive repairs have been ‘ordered. The chief part of this work will be the cutting down of the decks to main deck. 3y doing this it is intended that the Phil- adelphia shall not’ stand so high above the water. At the present time her high white sides are considered too much of a target for an enemy’'s guns. In acdition to this work many other re- irs have been ordered. While work on the decks is progressing every section of toc gigging and machinery will be clean- ed, ®verhauled and renewed wherever | necessary. b Transport Attache a Fugitive. VALLEJO, Sept. 24.—A warrant was is- sued last evening for the arrest of Fred late of the hospital transport So- charging him with the embezzle- $1200. A constable has gone to an Francisco to find him. When the So- lace was here on ber last trip and was being stored previous to her departure, Myers made contracts for stores to the amo of more than $1200 with McCud- | den & Cheline and was given the money to pay for them. The accounts are still unpaid and immediately on the arrival of Solace at San Francisco Myers de- serted the ship. iy Papal Delegate Coming Speedily. ROME, Sept. 24—The Vatican has in- structed Monsignor Diomede Valconer, re- appointed Papal Delegate to the States, to proceed immediately to Washington, a8 it considers that that post has been already too long vacant. Has been celebrated realized in both ion - of 1900, erican uction, and is made leasing 3! Varke! Street, San Francise, TRIUMPH LUDWIG PIANO was awarded the highest honors at the Paris Interna- xposition -at Buffalo last year. THE LUDWIG PIANO is beyond question one of the best pianos made, and possesses very distinct qualities of tone of a high order; is beautiful in design, excellent in is exceedingly reasonable, and the terms are THE WILEY B. ALLEN Co. ONE-PRICE PIANO HOUSE Pacific Coast Agency JSor the celebrated CHASE ® BAKER. PIANO PLAVYER Europe and - America for the and the same horor at.the Pan- to wear like iron. Branct—85! Erocdway, Oakland, | { | i to be vreliminary to the es-| that ihe authoriwes In Wash- | ne \/hether to go @head with the | in | | | | \ { fires in the daytime. jset T was in San Francisco, so maybe there { | | | and broke down and cont {1 saw Treanor watching me Wednesd: ion the ladder a lady { shawl cn came out on ( THE SfAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1802. BOY INCENDIARIES DESCRIBE THEIR CRIMINAL OPERATIONS Confess Having Applied Tlatches to Nine Just to See the Firemen Run. AN RAFAEL, Sept. 24.—Antone Morris and Eugene Case, 9 and 14 years of age, admit that they are the incendiaries who have eluded detection for many months. The record of the San Rafael department shows sixteen fires from unknown causes, but the boys vehemently assert they were résponsible for only nine of these. The first fire supposed to have been of incen- aary origin occurred in October, 1901. The young culprits claim that their first crime was committed on November 5, at which time they ignited the hay in the barn of Grady & Grady. Since that time, they say, they caused the destruction of eight other places, and occasionally start- ed a grass fire to keep in practice: The loss caused by the sixteen fires was about | $20,000, and the underwriters of San Fran- cisco will pay to Constable William reanor a reward of $00 for having ap- rehended the culprits. d Morris under but not uh- st mght was he enabled to collect tent evidence to warrant an arrest. vas taken into custody, put to the st of a close cross-questioning ed that Mor- s had set the fires. The bo: il awaiting deveélopment: CASE TELLS OF CRIMES., Eugene Case, the elder of the two lads, is shrewder than hi ion in crime, although he admits having been with at most of the fires he tries to shift all of the blame upon the little fel- low by saying the latter did the actual work of incendiarism. Case told the fol- lowing story in prison to-day: Tony always lit the match. I was with him most of the timé, but would never go into the piace. I used to stay outside. We did no: t all the fires—only nine. That's all, sure. ny generally just used matches, but I saw him with a cendle once. Then he had a little cologne bottle full of coal ofl once. He liked to set them and was not afrald a bit. I mefer told him to do it, but guess he did it for fun. When they caught us at the Soda Works fire I told Tony that we would get in trouble, but he sald he didn't care. He said they had been trying to find out who did all of them and could rot find out; that it was fun to be a firebug. Yes, 1 was the one to give away on Tony. ¥ night down by the narrow gauge depot so I hid un- derneath the platform. I did not go under thers to set the depot on fire, but just to hide. When 1 thought he had gone I came out, but he nabbed me, He told me that he knew all about the fires I had been setting and was going to teke me to jail; that he had been spying on me for a long time and knew all about my sctting Gieske's barn on fire. He told me so much about it and besides I knew he had been watching us, so I confessed that Tony had set them. Last night when so many ques- tions were asked me I just told all I knew. I guess Treanor will get the $500 and I will bave to go to jail, but I don’t mind. I didn’t set them—I just watched. When Tony set the Conway barn I was outside. He climbed a lad- der. He got scared, t because when he was h a sort of white way's back porch. Tony would not When he came w I saw her, too, and thoug! light the match, but he did. down the ladder he ran. When /he set Scott's’ barn I ran to Scott's home to’ tell them, but no one was at home. We never—or at least Tony never—set any When some of them were e else with him. I was only at . Tony told me the reason he did it was that he liked to see the firemen run We etarted in with the Grady barn last win- ter, and the last one was the sada works. Tony Just used a cigarette there. He stuck the cigar- ette between the cracks and set the hay on fire. Several times we have seen Pete O'Brien, the night watchman, and once he came pretty Dear seeling Tony set a fire, but we ran. I used to read the articles in the papers about the fivebus, and fellows used to tell me all about it. I used to tell Tony what the papers said, but never told any one until last night that was the firebugs. Tony don't care if he is caught and I don't either. It don’t hurt. YOUNG TONY’S CONFESSION. Tony Morris’ story, in. his own words, follows: $ He and Gene had been partners for a long time, He is older than me but he always seemed to be like me. I don’t know just how we first commenced to set fires. He used to read, but I can't. He often told me about things he read. went to the Olitz fire ter it sorter put the idea in our head. I used to do the lighting, but he was always with me when I done Sométimes I was kinder afraid, but we never used to meet many peorle until about the last few we set. . People secemed to be watching us and It was fun to fool them, Grady's barn was the first I fixed. I did that with a match, but we did it all kinds of ways after that. It was lots of fun to see the iaze and all the people running and the stles tooting, I t cruel and I never like set a fire to any place where any people as. I did not like to set houses—just barns. The biggest fire we t was Cheda's barn. hat was a big fire. I wished the horses burned, though. burned up old lady Walsh. That dent. A lamp turned over thes tell me to do it and in Gieske's me the match, w to | TREANOR TELLS OF CAPTURE. Constable William F. Treanor, to whom is due the credit for capturing the fire- bugs and gaining a full confession from them, said 1 have st rected that Case boy for a long time and have been watching him many a night. I could not quite land the little imp, trough. He i1s a shrewd rascal. I lald sev- | eral traps for him, but he ulways eluded the L e o 73 2 T a2 e e e o ol ) | BICYCLE, CAB AND | and unconscious, the attendants removed | bottom of her feet, causing a permanent STREETCAR COLLIDE Five Persons Injured in a Peculiar Accident on a Los Angeles Street. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.—Five persons were injured, one perhaps fatally, in a collision at a late hour last night, in which a bicycle, a hack and a street car were involved. Mrs. Chester D. Maxson, wife of a mining man of this city, was riding homeward on a bleycle in the southwestern part of the city. She was on the wrong side of the street and in the dark was run down and thrown under the hoofs of horses attached to a passing cab. Her bicycle was wrecked and she was seriously injured, sustaining three broken ribs and internal injuries. In attempting to avoid the collision the driver of the hack, which contained a gentleman and two ladies, swung his horses across the car track directly in front of an on-coming car. Another col- lision ensuved, in which the carriage was smashed and its occupants hurled out. The driver and his passengers were bruis- ed and cut, but not seriously. Blistered Feet and Damage Suit. SEATTLE, Sept. 24—Hannah Matson has filed suit against the Seattle General Hospital for $5000 damages. Mrs. Matson alleges that on June 4 she underwent a surgical operation in the hospital. After the operation she claims, while she was still under the influence of chloroform her to a sick ward and applied hot water bags to her feet. She saya that the water bags were 50 hot that they scalded the injury. AT, Burglaries in Lordsburg. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24—The postal authorities have been notified of two bur- glaries in Lordsburg, this county. The postoffice was robbed of about $200 wortn of stamps. A butcher shop also was raid- €d, the safe being carried some distance away and there blown open. The thieves got considerable cash and negotiable pa- per. E Tranefer of Timber Lands. RED BLUFF, Sept. 24.—There is a great stir here in timber lands. Deeds were filed in the County Clerk's office yesterday by which more than 30,000 acres of tim ber land in the northeastern part of T hama County was transferred to the Cur- tis Holbrook Company, a corporation of San Francisco. L aich Ay PETALUMA, Sept. 24.—Miss Vivian Jones, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Willlam Jones, was married to-day to DeWitt Appleton, a bus: man of San Benito, - S | s are HOwW Buildings . Bradually have been eliminated. PRICE OF LOGS GOING UPWARD Puget Sound Association Once More Adds to Schedule. All of the Smaller Concerns Are Driven Out of the Field. Far Sy N AT Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Sept. 24—The fact that the timber supply tributary to Puget Sound is mow controlled by a small number of companies and syndicates has been brought home to the mill owners this week by another jump in the price of fir and cedar logs. Small ‘logging concerns The big 1 i e SAN RAFAEL'S INCENDIARY, HIS | ACCOMPLICE AND THE AR- RESTING OFFICER. BTN CoNSTamLE LA e TRe amOr | S g s snure. TLast night T saw him and followed him. He went under the depot, but I waited. When he came out I copped hi I scared him then and on the to jail be confeszed to two fires, but said young Morris set them. 1 then went to Morris' house andggot him. After midnight ast night tiie two&Rds con- fessed to seven other fires and to-day sald they started the Catholic church blaze, too. I guess we will get them to confess tb all after RIOTING ARD-BLOODSHED CONTINU ——— Continued From Page 1, Column 4. The soldiers will remain in the armory, ready to respond to any call. e President Mitchell refused to make any comment on Sheriff Jacobs' action in ask- ing the Governor for troops for the Wy- oming region. He said the presence of the militia would not interfere with any of -his plans, which were to push the strike to a successful issue. Sheriff Jacobs, in a statement issued to the public, explains at length why he called on the Governor for troops. He says that the outbreaks were becoming to0 numerous, and with the limited num- ber:of men at his command he could not cope with the unlawful assemblies that gathered in various places throughout the country. % A Central Railroad of New Jersey coal train which -was moving out of a mine siding at Warrior Run last night was de- railed by an open switch, which had been tampered with by unknown persons. The crew escaped by jumping and the cars were piled up in a big wreck. The coal which the train was carrying was intend- ed for New York. A big crowd of strikers attempted to prevent the non-unfon men employed at the Exeter colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, at’ Sturgeonville, from go- ing to work this morning. A number of deputy sheriffs, in charge of Thomas Burke, tried to protect the workmen. A fight followed, in which several shots were fired. David Richards, a fire boss, was shot in the leg, and David Harris and John P. Stroh were beaten on the head with clubs. Burke was also knocked down with a stone and rendered uncon- scious. Coal and iron police finally dis- persed “the mob. Magistrate Ehret of West Pittston issued warrants for twen- ty-five of the ringleaders engaged in the |- riot. A crowd of 500 men and toys refused to allow non-union workmen to cross the Susquehanna River bridge at Nanticoke lpls morning. A deputy sheriff read the riot act and the mob dispersed. The 2::3?;: ftox'mt_heEmlma"rl")lv hnlb urle:idytl:in‘d effect. Ever: s quiet at the mines to-night. e 0 . & —_—— CHASE NON-UNION MEN. . | Strikers Form Themselves Into Bands of Human Huntsmen. SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 24.—Three calls were made on the Thirteenth Regiment to-day to quell disturbances. The first came at 9 o'clock in the morning from Johnson No. 2 colliery at ‘Priceburg, where the strikers were holding up a coal train with obstructions on the frack and threats against the train hands. Two | X3 2 while. Whether or not these lads have been working under the instructions of others or not I do not at this time care to say. They don’t realize the enormity of their crimes and neither cares what is done to him. BELIEVES THERE WERE OTHERS T. S. Hock, secretary of the San Ra- fael Fire Department, does not believe that Morris and Case set all the fires. He said to-night: Some of the blazes were prepared by a master hand. If the boys did set them there may have been some one else who instigated it. The record of the incendiary fires and the estimated lossses arec as follows: October 21, 1901—Orlitz, $800. November 5—Grady & Grady, barn, $1850. November 26—Buil's barn, $2000. December 27—Mulcahy’s barn, $1000. December 20—Cassidy’s barn, $800. March 26—Cheda & Co,, barn, $5000. August 12—Geiske's barn, $100. August 15—Catholic church, $1000. August 18—Loretta’s fruit store, $50. August_20—Scott’s barn, $100. September 10—Geiske's . $300. September 20—Soda works' stable, $500. September 22—Donohue home, $1000. The Cypress Villa, Dreyer's and other buildings were set afire, but the loss was | not great. CAULIFLOWER OF FIRE RISES ON LA SOUFRIERE Extraordinary Spectacle Witnessed by the People on &i. Vin- cent Island. KINGSTOWN, island of St. Vincent, Monday, Sept. 22.—The eruption of the Soufriere yesterday was a dazzling phe- nomenon. At 6 o'clock at night the crater emitted a huge efflorescing cloud, which spread while rapidly ascending, changing from black to gray ana then to silver color, coruscating quickly and suddenly until it appeared as If a red caulifiower had bloomed on its crest. This caused a glare over the city, but proved harmless. The eruption lasted about fifteen min- utes. The cable company reports further and unprecedented difficulties in the attempts made to repair the cables between St. Lucia and St. Vincent and St. Lucia and Grenada. One end of the St Lucia-St. Vincent section is buoyed in 1800 fathoms of water. A strange fact is that St. Lucia, lying between St. Vincent and Martinique and only forty miles from the seat of the recent volcanic disturbances, has experlenced no tremors during erup- tions, and only the faintest sounds were heard on one occasion, while distinct earth rumblings and loud detonations have been experienced as far as St. Kitts to the north and Trinidad to the south, both about one hundred miles distant [ B Y companies hurried thither on a s train and dispersed the crowd. This 'foe':f ing the same soldlers were called to the same place to disperse a crowd that was chasing_non-union men returning from work, Two strikers, one with an ax and the other with a knife, were arrested by the soldiers and taken to the camp. About 5:30 p. m. two Hungarians were returning from work at the Temple Com- pany’'s Sterrick Creek colliery in Jessup and were chased by a crowd of strikers, mostly foreigners. tives fired several shots and this brought the whole neighborhood to the scene. Immediately a general hunt was organized by the strikers and their sympathizers, with non- union men coming from all the adjacent collieries as their arry. Half a dozen dlggr:;yt groups of non- union men were chased by as many dif- ferent crowds in as many different %lrec- tions. Shots were freely exchanged. While the neighborhood was still in an uproar two militia companies from OM- phant, four miles away, arrived and the harics Wehater of Be arles Webster of Peckville had three ribs broken and his head broken, Charles Foley of Peckville had his head badly gashed with a stone and Fred Mason of tOllphnFtb'wudbatg:‘y ux:c} up ‘hy blows rom clubs and stones. All three the Sterrick Creek colliery, "ork s ' | ot logs as they will.. | acres, | Company has procured all | eity limits will be | logging companies now operating controt large supplies of timber and they, to- | Rether with the big mill companies which cwn their own timber, can 1x the pri The prices of logs adopted by the Los- gers’ Assoclation this week are as follows: .2100Ting logs, 3%; merchantable logs, $7 50; * number 2 graae, ¥50; ceaar logs, 3 o . In former years the mills would not pur- chase number 2 grade at any price. But when the first quality logs became ex- pensive the mills commenced using sec- und-grade logs for manufacturing lum- ber which soid as first quality. ‘Lne log- | gers have since been advancing the price until the present cost of a!l grades is the highest in the history of ruget Sound logging. Anticipating this situation, the mills khave been purchasing their own timber supply wherever practicable. Shingle mius gradually have been moving from tidewater into the timber belt, where the | frefght on cedar logs could be save Lumber mills which have to,buy their logs feel the present increased prices | more than others. Commencing forty years ago the Puget Mill Company of San Francisco began farotectmg itself by purchasing timber lunds freely in the Puget Sound district. 1ts holdings have gradually been increas- ed to 400,000 acres. The Tacoma Mill Com- pany and the Port Blakeley Mill Com- pany, both of San Francisco, own 9,000 about equally divided between them. The St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company of this city owns nearly 100,000 acres. These companies and a few others own- ing their own timber lands are thus amply protected. While logs have been selling cheaply they have saved their supply for future needs by purchasing in the open markef. Stumpage is now worth $150 per thou- sand and lumber men estimate that it will increase to $5 per thousand within ten years. The fact is that the available timber supply is becoming limited, prob- abiy not exceeding 50,000,000,000 feet in the Puget Sound country. It is being cu: off or burmed by forest fires at the rate of 1,000,000,000 feet yearly. At least double this available supply is included in forest reserves or is scattered through the mountains, making it un- avallable by present logging methods. Rea Heads Railroad Company. SAN JOSE, Sept. 24—Now that the Saratoga and San Jose Electric Railway of its fran- chises, the personnel of the company has been made public. It is as follows: Presi- dent, James W. Rea; vice president, Jo- seph Flory of St. Louis; O. A. Hale, di- rector; L. A. Whitehurst of Gilroy, di- rector; L. Lion, treasurer; F. S. Granger, director and manager. The franchise out- side of the city has been already sold and in thirty days the franchise within the gut up for the highest bidder. Surveyors have nearly completed their work and the construction of the road will begin at once. It is expected to have the line in operation early next spring. CREDITORS SEIZE HER FURNITURE. Delay Mrs., Florence M. Bishop’s Change of Residence. Vanload of Household Effects Adorns a Street of Sausalito, _— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAUSALITO, Sept. 24—The troubles of Mrs. Florence M. Bishop of Kent Sta- tion, in Marin County, have only com- menced if the endeavors of her numer- ous creditors to cause her trouble can be taken as a criterion. Yesterday Mrs. Bishop, who has been living at the aris- | tocratic suburb of Kent, decided to move | to San Francisco for the winter. The lares et penates of the Bishop household were bundled on a large van especially engaged from San Francisco and the ex- pressman in charge was about to em- bark on the steamer Tamalpais yester- day, on the early afternoon trip, when Constable Treanor of San Rafael ap- |-peared on the scene and attached the elegant furniture and plano on a_claim for $137 for meats supplied the Bishop household by J. Herzog of San Rafael. Mrs. Bishop, through her son, Tyndall Bishop, who is a lawyer, tendered a check in payment to satisfy the attachment, but the Constable demanded coin of the realm; so the vanload of furniture adorn- ed a street of Sausalito last evening, a | monument to the watchfulness of Consta- | ble Treanor. | _At an early hout this morning Mrs. Bishop, accompanied by her son, reached Sausalitoand satisfled the claim of Butcher Herzog. The weary expressman, who had been compelled to wait in Sausa- lito and guard his team, gladly hitched his horses to the van and prepared to take passage on the steamer Sausalito. | But, alas! the goods and chattels of the | Bishop household were destined to still | adorn the street. The early train brought still another creditor, D. W. Martens, a grocer of San Rafael, accompanied by | Constable George Agnew with another at- tachment issued by Sheriff Taylor in the | sum of $236 10 for groceries. | At alate hour this afternoon the furni- | ture, guarded by a Constable and the | weary expressman, was still standing on | the main street and served as a play- ground for numerous children. The Bishops are well known among the smart set of San Rafael, where they have participated in the numerous games and social functions incidental to the summer | season. Comedian Cashman Held Up. SAN JOSE, Sept. 24—Harry Cashman, | the leading comedian of the “Fiddle Des | Dee” company, nowplaying in the Victory Theater, was held up on North San Pedro street at a late hour this morning by two footpads, who took from him a few dol- lars. The comedian when accosted at- tempted to turn the matter off in a joke, but the men lacked a sense of humor and at the point of a revolver made him dis- gorge. John Keily and _Willlam Gal- lagher were arrested this morni on sus- | picion of being the highwaymen, but they could mot be positively identified. They pleaded guilty, however, to vagrancy and were given terms of 180’ days each in the | County Jail. | B { Boy Author Seriously Ill, | SAN JOSE, Sept. 24—Roy Lotz, who has | gained some reputation as a boy author, is dangerously ill at his home in this city. | He is the son of Joseph Lotz, the County | Treasurer. Roy is but 13 vears of age |and has shown genius as a writer. A | number of his short stories have been | published and a short time ago he issued | a book, which received much praise. Roy | Lotz is said to be the youngest author o% note in the State. He is a nephew of | Matilda Lotz. the great antmal painter. “IW H-O 1S ten tumes as cheap as meat. ant some more.” A picce of beef which costs twentye five cents, translated into energy— that is, into bone, blood, brawn and brain—will only yield 68 per cent. as compared with twenty-five cents’ worth of H-O, which will yield 345 per cent. H-O is than meat, and better. e