The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1902, Page 1

VOLU XCII-N 1 32. SAN FRANCISC MYSTERIOUS TALK ABOUT A NEW HEIR Lawyer Says Child of Charles Fair Exists. William Cannon Tells a Queer Tale to C. 8. Neal. Declares That Offspring of the Late Millionaire Is Known to Him. ate «\f Charles L. Fair came to her it be black or white, young or le or female, is even a matter of ture to the managers of and legiti- e heirs to the es:ate. m L. Cannon, an attorney, in- formed Charles S. Neal, manager of the that he had a client who pur- to be jonaire who met death in her than that he said noth- 'hat further action will be taken is in doubt. The attorney main- | sphinx-like silence and will give | nint as to when he will be ready to proceed in an action, if, indeed, he ever w sterday and inguired for Her- ichs. He was referred to Man- 2 and at once stated his case. said that he was convinced that his | was the offspring of Charles L. | and then ceased to impart ln!orma-‘ demands and made no | left the office. The Fair ) stock in the matter. They | y another attempt lOl e and will be prepared to | cce the es meet any action that may be brought. | Mr. Oelrichs, when interviewed, =stated that he knew nothing more of the al- Jeged heir than had been told him by hls“ ger and that he had dismissed the | rious alleged heir to a portion | the putative child of the | MILITIAMEN IN HIDING AT NEW ORLEANS Loth to Turn Out and Fight the Strikers. Business Men Anxious to Avoid Further Bloodshed. |Governor Heard Hemtatgs About Calling Out the Troops. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 9.—The street | car strike situation in this city is becom- ir.g graver every hour, though there was | no viclence of any note to-day. Governor | Heard arrived to-night. He met the Mayor, Adjutant General Humle, Gen- eral Glynn, Attorney General Gulon, Speaker of the House Sanders, Secretary Hestor of the Cotton Exchange and sev- eral members of his staff. After review- ing the situation he went at 9 o'clock to | a meeting of the public safety committee in the Cotton Exchange, where he was closeted for several hours. MILTIAMEN IN HIDING. The Governor is being urged by | business men to endeavor to settle trouble without a resort to troops. | Out of 1600-militiamen in the city at 6 o'clock to-night 700 had reported at the armories, or had bgen brought in by cor- poral’s guards. > The squads had to exercise a great deal | of patience to ref from resenting the attacks and jeers Gf the crowds on the | sireets. At every pdint they were greet- ed with derisive epithets by the crowds {of men apd boys. One militiaman rodel around the city on a horse and was at- | tacked several times by boys with stones. ! Many of the soldiers do not want to go | on this service and are hiding. They say they have friends and relatives among | the strikers and they do not want to be calied upen “to shoot ‘ther. TWO MEN ARE BEATEN: the the mind. annou 8aid: “I have absolute- | for the public at present. 1‘ r affirm nor deny even that I| office of the Fair estate to-| t id them I will refuse to tion. I act in the relation rney to a th(r‘( Whether there | tion or mot I cannot COLONIAL SECRETARY THBEATENS TO RESIGN | Cham cation Bill Will Cause a Gov- ernment Crisis. HA Eng., Oct. 9.—The{ erence of the Liberal | was called by Colonia! rlain to formulate the Birmingham Liberal education bill, was| the meel!ns‘ a lengthy | dged that the bill | ald the Liberal | split_on that point. vs been in favor of viding only secular | or wrongly, the| required that | some kind be ould not get what nionist Government it | t it from the Radical Gu-—‘ oliow the Govern- | ed the Liberal Union- ffer on the complicated nothing to assist the who would hand over home rulers, who woud | African problems to the pro-Bo and who | 1 interests in the leave imp: s of little F nders and domestic forms to the framers of the Newcastle mme. e Coionial Secretary had scveral sug- ons amending the educational bill so give safe and g ilar centrol. He he could promise, however, that one was definitely certain, namely, that Il would not be withdrawn. He e Government could not withdraw out a tremendous loss of prestige, at the only logical alternative to eptance of the bill would be the ure necessary to replace the ex- ominational schools. clusion Chamberlain announced Il it would resign. He warned his 1o mark that and to remember nsequences. cial report issued to the press of hearers nial Becretary Chamberlain’s speech says that 105 persons attended the meeting. A prominent delegate updn leaving the con- ference said Chamberlain had completc!y dominated the meeting, that peakers had sald they would rather swallow the bill whole than embarrgss the Government and that, in short, by the threat that the Government would resign in case the bill were defeated Chamberlain appeared to have played a trump card and to bave stopped effectu- ally any incipient revolt. e — Fire Sweeps Through Lodging-House NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Fire early this morning at Park row and North street swept through a lodging-house in which )"men were asleep. All the inmates cs- caped injury so far as known. The flames weremgot under control with a loss of not were than $25,000. rlain Says Defeat of the Edu-‘ | a conference, which lasted three hours. * | would permit County Judge Orr to reap- private conference which foliowed Colo- | 1 severa | \ The . New. Orieans Railway Company | made no attempt to run cars to-day. The ! sirikers and their sympathizers massed at Capal and Galvez, streets to the num- ber of 25 and walted patiently all day | for the first car to come out. | Toward evening William Connors and | | John Lynch, waiking along Canal street, asked some one to direct them to the |car barn. The strikers took them for | non-union men and beat them badly. A ratrol wagon came along and the men were rescued after fhe police used their ciubs. Everything now hinges on the course | | acopted by the Governor.” There is a de- 1 mand from some quarters that he proceed i immediately to put the troops on the | streets and quell the strikers, while on | the other hand the business element as | a rule want to see an effort made to set- tle the trouble without blaodshed. All the sixteen men wounded in yester- day’s riot are doing.well. EXECUTORS MAY ACCEPT OFFER TO COMPROMISE Strong Efforts Are Being Made to | Settle the Stratton Estate | Litigation. COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. .—A com- promise between the warring executors. and administrators of the Stratton estate | is looked for as a result of a conference | which has been going on between the at- torueys of the contending factions. In | this the attorneys for the son, L Harry | Stratton, are taking a part and it is be- | lieved thet his claim will be adjusted at | the same time, The hearing on the matter of the legal- | ity of the appointment of the adminis- | trators by County Judge Orr two weeks | ago came up in the District Court at 11| o dlock before Judge W. P. Seeds, but a | pestpenement was taken. Judge A. T. CGunnell, representing I. Harry Stratton; Judge Ira Harris, for the administrators, and Attorney Henry McAllister Jr., for the executors, immediately went into It was reported semi-officially that a conclusion had been reached for the pres- ent administrators to resign, which would do away with the proceedings on the writ of certiorari in the District Court and point new adminjstrators with a free hand should it become necessary to do S0 in the future. The report also states that the son’s offer to compromise for $1,000,00 may be accepted by the execu- tors, who could then be left to carry out the provisions of the will. TETHERINGTON REFUSES TO DISCUSS THE SHOOTING | Salt Lake Police Find a Witness Who Throws Considerable Light on the Mystery. SALT LAKE, Oct. 9.—A witness to the shooting of Robert W. Tetherington of | Sacramento, Cal., Tuesday night has been discovered in the person of Bertha Platt, @ young girl who lives near the scene of the shooting. She says she saw Tether- ington quarreling with two men, whom he had been in conversaflon with earlier in the day. While the quarrel was going on 2 fourth man joined the party, and a mo- ment later he was seen to draw a re- volver and fire. The men then walked rapidly away, leaving ‘Tetherington on the ground. The police have seven suspects under arrest. Tetherington’s condition to- day 1is reported as veryifavorable. He still absolutely refuses to discuss the sbooting. BIG STEAL CONGOGTED BY YOUTHS Four Mexicans Rob Copete Mine in Mexico. Spurious “Boletos” Are Issued by the Wholesale. Thirty Thousand Dollars Is Cleaned Up by Daring Culprits. Special Dispatch to The Call. EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 9.—A big steal aggregating $30,000 was discovered in the cashier’s office of the Copete mine of the Cananea Consolidated Mining Company, at Cananea, Sonora, recently and the re- sult is that four young Mexicans in that office are languishing in jail. T. W. Smith, a brother of J. A. Smith of this city, arrived here and gives the fol- lowing account of the systematic robbery carried on by the shrewd young opera- tors: The Cananea Company has a systém of paying its men that is really a banking system. Each employe is given a pass bodlks called a “cartero,” in which he is credited with his work from day to day. The men are paid off once a month, ana they can draw orders, called *boletos,’” on the company’s store agent. Their az- counts in their “‘carteros,” the ‘boletos,” | are payable to bearer. It seems that there Was no system of checking up these “bo- letos” againt the books of the timekeep- ers and so these four young men con- celved the bold plan of issuing “boletos” promiscuously and selling them, which they did at the ruling rate of 9 cents on the dollar.; #our thousand dollars has been traced-against them, but it s be- Ueved that they have gotten the best of the company to.the amount of about $30,- { 000. The @ y of the. frauds was made by hese “‘boletos’” against the checkbook, ch contained a correct st Wfi The “bclelfll" l===ft====—_-——_. LARGE 'MINING DEAL "IN SHASTA COUNTY { Famous Bully Hill Property Is Sold for Something Like One Mil- lion Dollars. REDDING, Oct. 9.—The most important mining sale that has ever been consum- mated in Shasta County was made this morning and by it the Mount Shasta Mines Company bezomes the owner of the famous Bully Hill mines, smelter and property of Delamar and also of Dela- mar's interests {n San Bernardino County. | W. B. Ryder, accountant for the Mount Shasta people, gave out the news to-night and it has been the sole absorbing topic of conversation among mining men and people generally. The price is not men- tioned. but it is-in the neighborhood of a million dollars, which is the largest sum ever paid for a mining property in North- ern Californfa. Delamar bought the prop- erty for something like $200,000. For several weeks the deal has been pending. The Mount Shasta people were more anxious to buy than Delamar was to sell. The mine is a bonanza, some of the product being solid copper and a system of chis- eling is necessary to extricate it. It has vielded big profits for Delamar and unless an unusually large sum of money was | offered he would not listen to any propo- sition to sell. The Mount Shasta people have heretofore acquired several adjoin- ing claims, some of which they claim are bonanzas in themselves. They also own the famous Mount Shasta mine near Shas- ta, on which they are now putting exten- sive machinery. ‘The company will en- | large and improve the Delamar smelter and intend to connect the two mines with an electric road. —_—— OREGON SHORT LINE AMENDS ITS ARTICLES Action Is Taken to Conform With the © Purpose of the Union Paclnc Railway. SALT LAKE, Oct. 9.—At a speclal meeting of the stockholders of the Ore- gon Short Line Rallway Company held Lere to-day an amendment to the articles of association was adopted which em- rowers the company to construct or ac- quire by purchase, 5 lease or oth- erwise and “to maintain and op- erate ferrfes, ferry-boats, steam- boats, steamships, warehouses and other property appurtenant to the busi- ness of ferries or navigation. Also to en- gage generally in the business of trans- portation upon the navigable waters of the United States or other countries and upon the high seas, and to purchase .or otherwise acquire and guarantee. the cap- ital stock and other, obunucmu of any company having power to engage in such business or engaged therein. This action is taken, it is'said, in order to conform with the purpose of the Union Pacific Rallway Company, which con- trols the Oregon Short Line, to try for the carying trade between the Pacific Coast and Japan, China and the Far East. : £ NG 0 Peasant Uprising in Russia, BERLIN, Oct. §.—Anothér peasant up- rising has broken out in the Government of Poltava, Russia. According to news sent across the border to the Soclalist or. gan, the Vorwaerts, flera conflicts are uung.zhc. between the p‘u.nu and the local forces, which are now being rein- forced. ' 'Many persoris are reported to ‘have been killed or woum.d. : , FRIDAY‘, OCTOBER. 10, 1902 AND M YS TERY REMAINS UNSOLVED Evidence Poim‘s to the Young Wife’s Suicide, but There Are Theories of Accident or Crime. ey tragedy. ignominy npon her. = RS. MAUDE WIGGER'S tragic ‘déath at fan Mateo last Monday is still|’ wrapped in mystery. The comnty offi- cials are completely baffled, and as yet have not discovered a single fact po'nting at all convineingly to an explanation of the While some aro indlined o the suicide theory, not a single circumstancs of | {he last hours of the unfortunate young wife has been related that warrants fixing that Shexwas given burial yesterday in Oypress Lawn Cemetery, and : Coroner James Crowe “asserts- that he' will devote his entire energy to the case. Thel' {inquest will be held next Wednesday: o— | i —k AN MATEO, Oct. . 9.—Mrs. Mdude Wigger of San Mateo was given burial to-day. The Episcopal service was read over her casket and she was laid beneath the green.sward of Crpress Lawn Cemetery. But the mystery that clings about her tragic death is as deep as ever. Not a single c'ew has been discovered that promises to lead to a solution, and no one who is willing to do so can advance more than an opinion as to the source of the blow that struck her down in her youth. This much alone is known: The young wife died in most terrible agony, and neither before nor during her death throes did she say or do anything to fasten the shame of sulcide upon her memory. An autopsy twelve hours later disclosed the presence in her stomach of strychnine. How the poison was ob- tained, in what form it was taken or by what means it was administered—these are unanswered, and the San Mateo County officials confess themselves com- pletely at fault. Some things that set the tongues of gossips wagging with imputations of foul play have been explained, and with the swing of the pendulum many of the neighbors have adopted suicide. The husband, Henry Wigger, 1ow gays that on three previous occa- sions she made attemnpts upon her life, twice by poison and once by hanging. | denice pointing to_suicide, the theory of /| e a_ year ago, when she tried to hang her- self, Her physician, Dr. W. L. Norris, gays she ‘was subject to attacks of mel- ancholia. - That is.the sum of the evi- Not - anotier trifle has becn produced to.show that the weman took her‘own life. ' OPPOSE SUICIDE THEORY. The evidence that may be set down 1n the other column more than, cancels to meny minds all that has been advanced by Mrs. Wigger's friends who are so anxious to prove her a suicide. - In the first place, she was a woman'of sunny, brave disposition. Her sisters deny that she ever attémpted -suicide and spurn. the idea that she killed -herself. Mrs. ‘Wigger was engaged.in the housewifely occupation of counting her laundry at 8:40 o'clock Mon- day morning when Mrs." Herbst sent for her to come and stay with her while Mrs, Herbst's frlend, Mrs. B, A. Norris of Oakland, who had come down ‘to San Mateo to keep her company for a time, should take hcr daughter to school. Mrs. ‘Wigger promptly responded,. golng -to Mrs. Herbst's home in’ happy spirfts. She had scen her husband.go away to his work and had bidden- him ° good-hy in playful mood. She said. no farewell ‘to her child, whom she lovgi withall a mother’s tenderness. 7T G g Some - minutes, possibly ten or fifteen, elapsed after she reached the Herbst home and before she was taken ill. Phy- et .4 WOMAN WHOSE MYSTERIOUS DEATH FROM POISON IN SAN MATEO CAUSED EXCITEMENT AND INVESTIGATION BY THE AUTHORITIES, AND A VIEW OF THE HOUSE WHEREIN SHE DIED. - — strychnine found in her stomach, be- tsveen three and five grains, the probabil- ity is that her agony commenced within a very few minutes, not more than ten, after the polson was swallowed. Thrée conyvulsions were suffered by the stricken woman, and between were two Tueld _interyvals. .. In. these - intervals her every thought W fo. Sght Tor breath and life. - Neighbors who been sum- moned say that not a word escaped her lips to. express fegret for a rash deed or joy that.a suicidal purpose was. suc- ceeding. Instead she suggested changes in her position tHat she might breathe more easily. In her agony she cried: What could I have eaten to cause me such pain?” Surely if Mrs. Wigger died by her own hand she was a superb actress. The drug stores of San Mateo and Redwood City have been canvassed and none of them sold:the poison to Mrs. Wigger. - No peison-was found in. either the Wigger or the Herbst house. A SISTER’S ACCUSATION. A sister of Mrs. Wigger, ~ Mrs. Alice TWeston,” who is a nurse in the 'Armitage Home, reached the. Herbst house after Wigger had returned from San Francisco. After she had seen her sister lying dead in the parlor she ran-from the house and ccnfronted Wigger “at the gate, shriek- img owt at him: “You killed Maude; you know. you did™ That was the fuel for the gossip that soon. spread about; San Mateo. Wigger went, in the course of a few hours, to the physician, Dr. Norris, ind said that there was talk about his'wife's death and that he wapted an autepay; performed. At 2 o'clock in the uffernoon the under- taker arrived from' Rédwood City, but refused totouch the body until he had seen a death certificatel He found Dr. Norris, who said the husband wanted an 2utopsy, and in any case he did not want to sign @ certificate until he had per- formed an autopsy. S0 the autopsy was held—at 9 o’clock that night. The next day, the Coroner ¢ame. The next he impareled-a jury. A, Ay more and the .woman® was buried. Next Wednesday, the Inquest will be held, but there Is no promise that the mystery will be: solved by. the @eliberate methods of the San Mateo | County officials. The Sheriff's office had no'news what- land his deputies read it in yesterday's Call. Mrs. Weston, sister 5f the dead woman, said to-day that she regretted deeply hav- ing said the bitter words of aceusation against her brother-in.taw. “I was insane from grief,” she sald. *I had “ho reason whatever for saying such a thing. T didn't Xnow' what T was say- Ing. He was always kind to her and if we found fault with him she always stood up for him loyally.” ‘“Fhen you think Mrs. Wigger commit- ted suicide?” was asked. “Oh, no. She did not, I am sure. She could not have done that. She was so bright and happy and courageous. She had no moody spells and she loved her child so much that she never could have killed herself and left the child. I dom't see how she could have taken the poison accidentally, either. It Is all beyond me, but I don't suspect or accuse any oene of crime.” HUSBAND IS SILENT. Henry Wigger refused to maks any statement to the press. Mrs. Grace M. Herbst talked fresly to reporters of the tragedy that occurred in her home so soon after the sudden death of her husband, Willlam Herbst. She said that very soon after Mrs. Narris left the bouse, probably about ten minutes to § o’clock, Mrs. Wigger complained of feel- ing ill and started to walk from a chair to a couch, staggering as she went. See~ ing that her visitor was very fll she rap out to summon help. What occurred after the neighbors came has already been told. In speaking of her-own affairs Mrs Herbst said: -“I. wasn't divorced from Claxtons while he was in the Klordike, but after he came back. And the court gave me the custody of our daughter. I've Nt Claxton keep her, but when L was Bast last I could bave brought her back with me.” The funmeral of Mrs. held - from Mrs. Herbst's . !J-l at noon and the body was takenm on_ ‘the I2:30 train to Cypress Lawn Cemetery for interment. Mr. and Mrs. John Weston of San Francisco, par- ents.of Mrs. Wigger, and her sisters, the husband’ and daughters and other rela- tives and friends saw the body interred. The inquest will be held next Wednes- The last attempt, he claims, was about |sicians say .that with the ‘amount of |ever of the tragic death until -Mansfleld | day morning it 10 o’clock. .WWWWW%DWW CLOSING OF SOCIALIST CLUB CAUSES A RIOT Five of the Mob Are Killed by the Civil Guard and Several Are ‘Wounded. i GIBRALTAR, Oct. 9.—The compulsory closing this afternoon of a Socialist club Avithin the Spanish lines resulted in-a riot in which five of the rioters were killed and several wounded. The mob fired upon the civil guard, who were temporarily driven back, but who returned the. fire of the rioters and scattered their assailants. The mob afterward attacked the house of the Mayor and other dwellings, but it was finally dispersed. A battallon of infantry and a squadron of cavalry have arrived here from San Roque. —_——— Missouri Miners End Strike. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 9.—As a result of a conference here to-day between the United Mine Workers of Missouri and the mine operators practically all of the 1300 striking miners of Missourl will re- sume work ~to-morTow. A new wage scale for the ensuing year. was agreed ‘upon, and it is belleved that all of the miners and operators in Missourl who haye falled ‘to agree on a scale for 1903 will soon arrive at a settlement. % St ol A Mrs. Harriet W. Davis. | SAN RAFAEL. Oct. 8. Harrlet W. Davis of Ross Valley, !n this muuty,,aild his morning. She was a ”vfi(aw weall ku wymhem.‘ A 3 BITE OF A PET CAT MAY CAUSE HER DEATH Daughter of a Prnminent Sebastopol Resident Meects With a Serious Mishap. . " SANTA ROSA, O¢t. 9.—Mrs. Marfe Din- never of Sebastopol is in-a critical condi- tlon as a result of a cat bite. She had a pet feline which had been poisoned, and ¢he was,very anxious to save its life. In attempting to give the animal ofl to ccunteract the effcets of the polson she was bitten ‘severely. No attention was pald to.the bite at ‘first, but in a day.or so Mrs. Dinnever's arm began to. pain her and a physiclan ‘was called, but as yet nothing has helped the member. Mrs. Dinnever is a daugh- ter of Mrs. A. Bonnardel, one of the most prominent and largest -property ‘owners of Sebastopol. smmxsxo'rnAsomm to om an o:dcr to Halt and Is ately Fired Upon.. 'TAMAQUA, Pa., Oct. 9,—James Burnham, a striker, was shot through the heart and h:ltmuy killed by a saldier “on guard duxy at Brownsville, near Burnham 1s sald to h e gl e s S ch was an expl xpkhnm“ The soldfer’ called upon | to hdlt and this order is said to have been.d | pel. He then turned the AND ONE ru'mr INJURED Serious Shooting Amy Is the Sequel of a Murder Committed in _ Oklahoma. EL DORADO, O. T, Oct. 9.~Three men were killed, one fatally. injured amd two others less serlously wounded in a shoot- inig affray on the l’tm! here this after- noon. . The dead: H. DEERING,-Constable, TOM PARNELL, farmer. WALTER PARNELL, farmer, The wounded: Quy B. Tuecker, City Marshal, shot six times and will die; Dr. Hilton, wounds not serious; Jim, Parnell, not serious, Tke shooting is the sequel to_the killing here September 18.by ‘Deering- of Robert Mullins, which followed & wedding. e 3 p !hootl Trustees and Pupils. WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. $.—At Altona, a small town near the North DaXkota line, ST Toews, a school t . had some trouble with the . school uille- and, | meeting them on the road while going to' y | school, drew a revolver and shot A, Rem- L H!obenlflflmhn Toews n returned to the schoolhouse and shot three pupils, two of them daughters of Kehler and the other a ‘daughter of Rem- upon himself and will dle. lg-vtl.mob.n and Armed Government Steamers Are to Cruise Off St. Marc, Gonaives and Port de Paix. PORT AU PRINCE, Haytl, Oct. .—The provisiopal government definitely an- noupced .to-day that Genmeral Nord, the ‘War Minister, has occupled the gown of Limbe, but news to the effect that the “¥he blockade of the ports of St. Mare, Gonaives and Port de Paix, held by the Firminists, will be declared -effective October 12, (when three armed Govern~ ment steamets, the Nouvelle Volderogue, Mantel and Grande Riviere, will be off those’ ports, The Government army is still at Wit- liamston and Mirebalis. There has been no serious- fighting up to the present. Death Ends His Futile Search. MARYSVILLE, Oct. $ —While searching for & long-lost zon George F. Smith found death instead. He arrtved here yesterday and told his sad story, saying that his boy had been traced to Yuba County and that he felt his dreary search was fast drawing to an end. It was. but not as he anticipated. In the afterncon his life~ less body was found in a room at a hotel, death having been caused by an overdose of 'audanum. Smith was a miner, about 6 years of age and had lived in various sections of Callfornia,