The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCIH-NO. 1 43. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1902. MARIAN NOLAN, “THE CALIFORNIA VENUS,” SHOT AND ALMOST INSTANTLY KILLED BY E. MARSHUTS, WHO COMMITS SUICIDE GAYS SOME MEN MAY BE JACRIFICED Mitchell’s Plea to the Assembled Miners. CABLE LMD T0 STATION AT FANNING l 'Line Is in Working Order to That Island. MOB BURNG A NEGRO AT THE STAKE Murderer Young Is Given Short - Shrift. Holds Out Hope That|King Greig Sends Mes-|Taken From Jail and All Will Return to Work. Engineers Demand Assur- ance Which Delays Settlement. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 20.—The anxiously awaited convention of the 143,- 000 striking miners met to-day, but it did not reach a vote on the proposed plan of settlement. It is expected to do so to- morrow. ent in the Nesbitt Theater, where the convention was held, and they were em- powered by their local unions to cast $67 v for or against President Roose- proposed plan of arbitration. The t majority of the delegates were un- instructed, the few who were being en- firemen and pumpmen, who fear the 5000 strikers of th classes may back their old places, eers me te adoption of the Presi- 1, which carries with it declar- ing the strike off and a general resump- of work through the I75-mile strip the hard coal mining region. SETTLEMENT IS DELAYED. At one time y it seemed certain t the convention was about to adopt the recomme fon of President Mitch- ¢ll to end the strike, but the steam men's WAS too earfiest and the final vote over until to-morrow, when it is next rtain the vote to declare the strike off will sh big majority for it. ™ t kers, except Mitch- y heard zt all in the con- the anxi engineers be- to give full expression to But to-morrow, it is pre- ders will be heard, and one went rs e would not corded againkt the plan t of the United States them and which all the { the mine workers in have recommonded. ssions, foreroon and net results as e convention t was a permancht 1 in the chair, President’s plan s ecloguent im g its adoption « committee on as Mitcheil »uld prepare a public telling the convention strike, if it should trike was de- the ome of d the we th conv on the »urned for the day was on embodied In oper speech to I questions President’s commission REPORTERS ARE ADMITTED. The convention to-day ion to admit newspaper re- the sessions, open or ex- even union miners eagerly waiting by the hundreds out in the street could not get into the theater. newspaper men won 2 victory by big ma- jorities—first when a petition from them king to be aliowed to remain was read d a motion to grant the request was carried, and, later, when a motion was made to reconsider the first vote to ad- mit. The pleas which won were that the reporters represented the people, that public opinion had heiped the sbrikers and that the best way to get an accurate re port of the convention, of immediate a; national import, was to let press representatives there on the spot. Even the suggestion of a press committee del- egated to give the news to the corre- spondents was turned down by the con- vention. . District President T. D. Nicholls of Scranton called the convention into ses- sion at 10:20 o'clock. On account of pres- sure of business at strike headquarters, President Mitchell was unable to be pres- ent until the afternoon session. The three district secretaries—John T, Dempsey of Scranton, John P. Gallagher of Hazelton and George Hartlein of Shamokin—were | appointed a committee on credentials, The work of this committee was done in an hour. The routine proceedings were followed by singing, the suggestion hav- ing been made that the convention be en- tertained for a while by some of the “Sweet Welsh singers” of the organiza- tion. A delegate from the Wyoming Val- ley caused a storm of-enthusiasm by sing- ing a song entitled “Give Three Cheers for Mitchell for the Strike that We Have Won.” Songs and short speeches by other delegates followed and the striking mine workers for the time being seemed to have forgotten their troubles. At 11:45 ad- Continued on Page 3, Column 3. There were 662 delegates pres- | now held | nion men. This question of the ers, firemen and pumpmen proved | - mnly stumbling bl in the way Oli district officer, said to- | be more than | Twice the | sage to Merchant in This City. Sydney End Is Expected to Reach Ocean Speck in Few Days. e L. W. Storror, San' Fran- ciseco—Following for John Wightman Jr. received with surprise: “Prosperity will reign. Aloha nui from us all. G. B. GREIG.” McLachlan, Bamfield, B. C. | Oct. 20, 12:30 p. ING GREIG of Fanning Island, that lonesome ocean speck near- ly 4000 miles from any mainland, woke up yesterday to the fact that he was no longer a recluse. The voice of civilization in the shape of | the *‘click,” *“click,” of the telegraph | aroused him from his meditations on his peaceful isle. The submarine cable had reached his door. King Greig took his pipe from his mouth | and with wondering eyes read the follow- ing, fresh from the American shore of | the Pacific: SAN FRANCISCO, via Bamfield, B. C. George B. Grels, Fanning Istana? ~My “con- sratuations on completion of cable. Wishing prosperity to the inhabitants of Fanning; JOHN WIGHTMAN JR. The King called ‘his Secretary and bade him write. In a short time his Majesty had acknowledged the congratulations, the result being the receipt in this city | yesterday of the following cablegram from Fanning by way of Bamfield, B. C., the starting point of the cable on this side of the ocean: | L w. San Francisco: Following | for John Wightman Jr. received with surprise: “Prosperity will reign. Aloha nui from us all. G. B. GREIG McLachlan, Bamfeld, B. C., Oct. 20, 12:30 p. The cablegram received by Mr. Wight- Storror, man, who is a commission merchant at | 3y California street, this city, and agent of Greig & Bicknell, owners of Fanning and Washington islands, shows that the | British cable has been laid to Fanning and is in working order from that point. | This is the first message to a private in- | dividual ever sent over it to this side of the ocean, and the original will be treas- ured by Mr. Wightman and kept among his collection of curiosities, The message to King Greig was sent by Mr. Wightman to Bamfield a few days 2go, with instruction to forward it as soon as commurication was opened. It had been announced then that it expected the cable would soon rezcn Fanning, but Mr. swer so soon. It is expected that the cable will soon | be in working order all the way from British Columbia to Sycney. Work was begun at both ends about the same time, one ship starting from Vancouver and the other from Sydney. As each had about the same distance to cover, the cable ship that left Syndey should very soon have |its end of the great submarine rope of steel and copper at Fanning. The Sydney end was laid succeéssfully to the Fijis some time ago. The contract of the company laying the cable provides that its work shall be com- pleted by the end of 1%02. The contract price for laying it Is £1,79§,000. It has been suggested thdt the British and the mmerican Pacific cables be con- nected at Fanning and the suggestion has met with favor from both sides. MAKING VAST RESERVOIR OF CALAVERAS VALLEY Spring Valley Water Company’s En- | gineers Begin Preliminary | Work. | SAN JOSE, Oct. 2.—The work prelim- | inary to converting Calaveras Valley into | @ vast storage reservoir nas been com- menced by the Spring Valley Water Com- pany. A full force of engineers and fif- teen laborers are- engaged. This is but forces that will be employed and the cul- mination of whose work will change the topography of that section of Santa Clara Valley. With mountains and hills on’ all sides there will be little to do but build | the dam. The preliminary work will con- | sist of cutting down all the trees and | brush and doing. some excavating. A | number of houses, barns and fences will have to be removed, as the building of the dam will force the water up into the | hills. One of the county roads runs on the side of the valley past the Calaveras school-house, and both the school and road will have to be abandoned. Permis- sion to move the road must be obtained from the Board of Supervisors, Wightman hardly expected an an- | Put to Death in Flames. An Arkansas Mob Avenges Killing of a White Woman, FOREST CITY, Ark., Oct. 20.—Charles Young, a negro charged with assaulting and afterward murdering Mrs. Edward Lewis, a white woman, was burned to- night by a mob of infurfated citizens of this county. Sheriff W. E. Williams used every effort against this extreme meas- ure. He had telephoned to Judge Hutton of this district, who had promised to come | to-morrow and give immediate trial for the negro, and the leadets of the mob had given the Sheriff positive 1edges that they would awalt the trial antl take no violent measures. About 8:30 o'clock to-night a mob marched to the jail and demanded the | keys. Deputy Sheriff Murphy undertcok | to communicate with Sheriff Williams, whereupon members of the mob forcibly | took the cell keys from Murphy, and breaking in the jail door with sledge ham- | mers, dragged the prisoner from his cell. | Sheriff Williams had arrived in the mean- time, his protests not being heeded. The mob took the negro to a polnt about half a mile east of town, bound him, piled wood around him aWd set fire to it. The negro bégged piteausly for his life, but the mob tufned deat ears, - In & short time the flames leaped ip ‘He expired in the preserice of the several hundred | men composing the mob. After Young had been put to death the mob started | In quest of another negro alleged to have | been implicated in' the killing of Mrs. | Lewis. At midnight he had net been | found. MINNESOTA MILLINER SUES FOR BIG AGES Alleges That Wealthy Merchant, Who Married a Los Angeles ‘Widow, Deceived Her. MANKATO, Minn., Oct. 20.—A sensation was caused here to-day when Mrs. Lizzie H. Phelps, proprietress of a fashionable millinery establishment, commeyiced an action in the District Court against Les- | ter Patterson to recover $80,000 damages for alleged breach of promise of mar- riage. Patterson was recently married to a wealthy widow at Los Angeles, Cal. He is a wholesale grocer and one of the wealthiest and best-known residents of Mankato. Since his recent miarriage, which was his second matrimonial vent- ure, he has spent most of his time at Bismarck, N. D., and the complaint in this action was served upon him there. Mrs. Phelps alleges that she and Patter- son were engaged for two years and that she was greatly astonished when the Cal- | ifornia wedding took place. {CONVICTED OF MURDERING | A MAN WHO IS ALIVE Supposed Victim Appears in Court- i room to Prove That He Is Not Dead. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 20.—Just as the case of Clarence Peake, charged with | the murder of Silas Hulin at - Clinton, Tenr., was about to be called in the Su- preme Court here to-day, a man entered the courtroom unannounced and, address- ing Chief Justice Beard, said: “I am Stlas Hulin, who was not killed by Clarence Peake,” Peake, who is the son of a prominent family, had been sentenced in'a lower court to ten years in the penitentiary and is now in the insane asylum near here, a raving maniac, as the result of his trou- bles. Hulin declares that Peake shot an- other, whose name Is now unknown, and that he (Hulin) escaped on the first train and went to Colorado, from which State he came back here to prove that he was not dead. Lt iy PLAYS THROUGH FOOTBALL GAME WITH ARM BROKEN Rare Display of Grit by Filipino Boy Attending Santa Clara College. SAN JOSE, Oct. 20.—A rare display of the advance guard preparing for the lary it was made by one of the Filipino stu- Bey| BT tu. dents at Santa Clara College Yesterday, Francis Ramos, who came over from the islands about a year ago to attend school, had his right arm broken in two places in a football game. Tne contest was be- tween two elevens of the smaller boys of the college. It was in the first part of the game that the accident occurred, but the lad played through the entire game without letting any one know of his injury. There was no substitute available, and Ramos held up bravely and plaved a good game, as he feared that his withdrawal would break up the contest. The injury ig 5 painful one, and the boy sufferéd greatly | before it received'attention.” * 0,5 | Double Tragedy Is En ADDENED by jealousy and disappointed in his love, Ed- ward Marshuts, formerly a " stenographer, last evening shot and fatally wounded Marian Nolan, who for years was acknowledged to have been one of California’s most beautiful women. After wreaking vengeance on the woman, Marshuts turned the . weapon on_himself and fired a bullet into his own brain,” ‘killing himself fnstantly. The double »4ragedy occurred on O'Farrell street, between Jones and Leavenworth, and produced one of the most frightful scenes ever witnessed on the streets of this city. A number of the residents on O'Farrell street witnessed the shooting and rushed immediately to Miss Nolan's assistance. An ambulance was speedily summoned, but Marshuts’ aim had been true and death ensued before she could be taken to the Central Emergency Hospi- tal. 3y Marshuts, after shooting himself, fell dead to the sidewalk within a few feet of where the murdered woman lay breathing her last. The shooting occurred at 5:45 o'cleck, just when the streets were filled with people cn their way home from work. The street around the fatal spot was soon crowded with turious men and women who desired to catch a glimpse of the bloody spectacle. Miss Marian Nolan was formerly the wife of Senor Santiago Cabrara, a wealthy Mexican planter. She was famed for her beautiful figure all over the United States. - During the World's Fair in Chicago, Marian Nolan's figure was sculptured by Rupert Schmid and ex- hibited in the White City as. the ‘“Cali- fornia Venus.”. She also acted as the model for the statue ‘of liberty that crowns the dome .0f the San Francisco City Hall. For the last two years, sirce her divorce from Senor Cabrara, Edward Marshuts had been paying her his atten- tions. At first they were accented and for a time: it was reperted that Marian was to wed Marshuts, but in a short time she tired of him and tried to get rid of him. He, however, was too deeply in iove and still continued to follow her, even though he knew his company was dis- tasteful to her. MARSHUTS FOLLOWS WOMAN. Yesterday afternoon Miss Nolan was re- turning to her home at 736 O'Farreil street when Marshuts met her and de- manded that he.be allowed to accompany her. She evidently did' not desire his company, as the people who saw them walking up O'Farrell street heard them quarreling. After they passed Jones street Miss Nolan was seen to strike Mar- shuts on the head with her umbrella and to strike himm with her fists. She was ob- viously in a great rage and did not want him with her. He followed her with his entreaties until they reached the middle of the block: At that point she broke her umbrella handle on his head, ¥ He then-pulled his revolver from his hip pocket and shot her. The first shot, which he .fired evidently without aim, went wild, but the second struck the un- fortunate woman in front of the right ear, passed completely through her head and came out in front of the left ear. The man then turned his weapon on himself. The bullet struck him above the left ear and passed into his brain, bringing death instantly. So quickly did he wield his deadly pistol that it ‘seemed to the wit- nesses that both the man and the woman were shot at the same instant, as ‘both fell to the ground together. | “Martan Nolan never spoke after she hag i Night. ‘ acted on O’Farrell Street a Few ‘Minutes Before 6 O’Clock Last ¥, e MAN WHO!KILLED HER AND | GiRL KNOW]‘W TO FAME AS “THE, CALIFORNIA VENUS!,AND THE O'FARRELL STREET LAST NIGHT. THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE® ON e 1 | | been shot. “H. J. Licbrandt and his broth- | er, who reside at 554 O'Farrell street, were | among”the first of thése who Witnessed the shooting to reach her side. Mr. Lie- | brandt ‘told “the ‘following story of the | tragedy: “I ana@'my brothér were looking | out of the winadw: when the shots' were fired. . We saw the whole of the frightful spectacle. I saw Marian’ Nolan, whom I have known for: years; coming up O'Far- reéll ' street’ with Marshuts' - as. soon as "they = passed Jones. ~ I could see that they were quarreling, although I | could not hear what was being safd. I saw Miss Nolan sirike her = companion over the head with: her umbrella and hit him with her fists.~. I.called to my brother ‘and told him there was a woman ‘giving it to a man'in the street. BREAKS ‘UMBRELLA ON HIM. “When they got in front of 567 O'Farrell street: and, aimost opposite my_window, . she struck ~ him so. hard: with her um- brella that she .broke the handle. When she hit' him - she - exclaimed, ‘You wilt follow . me!’ , He then drew his pistol from his hip, pocket and commenced shooting. The first bullet was firéd while the muzzle of the gun was pointed dewn- ward, but the second <was discharged when it was pointéd directly at her head. When he drew the gun she started as if to run from him. When the second shot was fired she fell to the sidewalk without uttering a word. - I.immediately rushed across the street o her assist- ance. She was unconscious and blood wag issuing from 'her nose. She had zallen face downward. I turned her over and placed her head on a plllow which was given me by a lady. » ““Phe sceneé ‘was one of the most dread- ful ‘that 1 have ever witnessed. While ‘the three shots were being firéd Mar- shuts and Miss Nolan were only a few feet apart, and when they fell to the sidewalk their bodies were -close to- P . Blood was streaming from an ugly wound in the top of his head. and from her nose and the wound ‘near hdg ear. The sidewalk was covered with gore, and the whole scene presénted a e N e b Frank Ralph, a spécial officer. of .the | Hibernia Bank, was also'a witness of the | shooting. He found the pistol with which Marshuts brought death to the. woman: he loved and to himself. It is a*32 ealy iber Smith & Wesson. " It was turried overs "to. Detective Jerry Dinan, who ‘examined and found that three, ofthe cdrtridiges fthat it contalned had been discharged. It is-a”five-shooter ' and ¢ontained two loaded cartridges. For a weapon of such a small caliber it did ‘extremely deadly work. ‘of the bullet into Marshuts’ head was al- most an inch in diametér. ‘The police of- ficers ure of the opinion that if the mur- derer's and suicide’s aim had not been for the most vital spots the wounds would not have proved fatal. LETTERS IN HIS rocf.-r Marshuts’ body was allowed fo lie on the morgue wagon and officers arfived. By that time the stream of blood had rin cut into the gutter’and hundreds of ‘peo- tloody corpse. When the Coroner's dep- utles searched Marshuts" clothes = they found two copies of letters which show clearly. his relation tg. Miss Nolan and also support the claims of her friends more to do with him. One of the letters was' written on last Ffiday and was in the nature of an earnest appeal for Miss Nolan to meet the writer immediately. This letter was as follows: Friday,Oct. 17, '02 My Dear Marian: It is very essential thac I hear from you immediately upon yaur recefv- ing this note. 1 hope thalt you will understand the imvortance of this and not delay commu- cating with the at once. I tried to' reach you by telephone, but without results. Therefore please let me hear from you the moment that you receive this, when I will tell you' the reason for this basty message. Yours, Tel. No, 411. The second letter was written on Sun- day, and in it Marshuts stated- that he had red a position ‘‘far -iy-y" and that intended to leave to ept It in a few dayf " He spoke confidently of The hole made by the .entrance | the sidewalk for almost an hour before ! ple were gathcred around the' murderer's | kgt she did not want to have anything | making an abundance of money afd then of, - winning Martan Nolan. ‘Her sister, however, declares that he had mo inten- tion of leaving and that the letter was written merely to get Marian. to see him again. The letter is as follows: My Dear Marian: Don't you think it about time,: Martan, that you let me see.your, dear little' face again? A week ago list Wednes day’ (this Sth inst.) you fold me that fm youf séeing me again 1t would ‘have to be very Gulet, : bence .my . letter of. the, day following and also ‘the one.of Friday 'last being in‘aicidher manner. It does'not look well, But +| T wanted to help you “ut; and If your mall is not openéd. ‘as”you once told me you Had re= 7| quiested your mother so to do). why, then there is no need of other than an open styles and how | 'much I do love such a style of writing. My letter of the 17th inst., Friday. relative to the nosition far away from here: splendid in every resect, with more than'a montH's rest betore reaching there. It is understdod that I Jeave here'the middle of this week, and fafl- ing. that there is a prospect of the following | week being satisfactory, ‘but.of‘that' I am not | quite certain. Therefore, -you will* uniderstand the business-like tone of my short letter of the 7th inst. Said I wanted to gather up ail !| tie tHings belonging to.me, incinding those in Your ‘poésession, and naturally I wanted to see you te’not only bid you good-by, but to ask a promies of you, Marian, betore satlfyg, as you | must. be convinced that .I.am.doing this be- cause of our mutual {fiterest In.one another and to: secure the happy. Nomelifs that our hearts so much desire, ag eviderieed by mutual confidences exchanged between us at different tizes. * ¢ Diek., will yet. admipe”my constancy, and in winning you you will have-on ot the truest of men; ‘and” your mother even will come to love me for, my uprightness and,- I feel, bril- liants career. ‘It iy In your hands, as Dr. B. has also’sald, and- since the-garning point is "here’ Tet: us’ meet ‘it - with. full “confidence, and what' & happy life yours will be, pure, sweet .and graceful. My two letters of October 2 and @ coversd ‘these points so thopeughly that I am not Ing to repeat herefn, but onl¥.ask you to ‘member the many times, as well as the ki ‘references therein, all indicating my loyal and never turning my back om you in even your worst- trials, A_business change away from here was what was needed, so we. could get:dur bear- ings, and now that it has come, and that fs what'you so much wished for, we must avail ourselves of it and secure what we so long | waited for. After I get settled you can come on; and it won't be long. Singularly enough, how prophetic was my fear when on September 22, the last time I saw you at sister'’s, it occurred o -me that if I told you the truth that the Salt Lake | ctfice would not be ready for Mr. MeN— to | 1eave -there until the latter part of November I might not see you as much from Sep~ | tember 22 until the time of going there, as | heretofore, and quite right I was; but I did not tell you a story as to_time and keep post- { poning, and consequently was deprived of your Society a little more than usual. So it oe- surred to me to take up with the first thing, and_since the Orfental matter will without }doubt open up a great chagce for Dick also in, the Dullding of telephone and telegraph sys- qE9% | 'teme, which is a part of the plans of the | organization, aside from conducting commerce, you will d the wisdom of closing with them in Tence to anything else, no matter how good. In that country these people are going to | build and develop railroads. telephone and tel- egraph. systems, etc.; so I speak of Dick you see that the kind-heartedness again comes up and that my motives are of the purest and best. .If we all four were there together, and 1 have not the siightest doubt of its being ac- ccmplished in a few years. Dick and I would be_very successful and prominent, for this minds all the concern is Immense and gives our the chance in the world to develop with growth of fts vast schemes. ‘would _—— Continued on Page 2, Column & i