The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1902, Page 1

[ § S i. [ % AR VOLUME XCIII—-N 23. KNG LAUDG THE SUGCESS OF MARGONI Edward Sends His| Congratulations to Inventor. Cables to Lord Minto| His Delight Over | Results. 1 Representatives Say Sys-| tem Has Been Work- | ing for a Week. GLACE BAY, N. S, Dec. 2. —To his wireless message transmitted from Can- #da to King Edward VII, Mr. Marcon! has received the following reply: “I have had the honor of submitting your telegram to the King, and I am commanded to congratulate you sincere- Iy cn the successful issue of your deavors to develop your most important en- invention. The King has been much in- terested in your experiments, as he re- membered the initial ones w com- menced by you on the roval vacht Os- borne 1898, NOLLYS, Private Secretary . Dec ~The King's to’s message, sent by was received to-day reply 21 am much the wireless message wh you sent me, and am delighted at success of Signor Marconi's great which brings Great Britain Capada ser connection “EDWARD, REX and MESSAGES A wu:x AGO. Marconi Keeps Secret the Success of His Efforts. LONDON, Dec. 2.—The Times to-day printed the text of a wireless Marcon! message received from-the Canadian Gov- ernment, as follows: Déc. 2. —The Government . through the Times, desires to e the British people on the shment by Marcont of the great- st feat modern science has yet achieved. “CARTWRIGHT, Acting Premfer. The representatives of Marconi say they 1ve been receiving trans-Atlantic mes- sages for a week. They add that the messages to King Edward and ot came through without a hiich and prae- tically instantaneously. It is calculated that the company will be able to handle 1000 words an hour. As soon as it is able 10 get the postoffice authorities to con- nect Poldhu with the Inland Telegraph it will commence regular com- business between Cornwall and Mar with ni has expressed the results recer sald the inventor was al- he would be able to achieve at they did mot expect him to usiastic. Marconi is going to Cape | Cod Wk'r- his apparatus needs only slight adjustment before it will be ready ! to be linked up with Poldhu, which at | present is the only wireless station on this | side capable of recelving trans-Atlantic messages. Other stations will be bullt | ehortly on the Continent — {id satisfaction | Victor Sends Congratulations. |1 | ROME, Dec. 2.—King Victor Emmanuel | this morning received the wireless mes- | sage from Marconi, forwarded from Cape | Breton, via Cornwall, and sent a congrat- | toty reply ’ ~ A ALL FRANCE IS8 SHAKEN BY HUMBERTS' ARREST PARIS, Dec. 22—The extradition pro- ceedings against the Humbert family, | who were arrested in Madrid on Satur- dey, are being hurried. The public awaits | anxiously the return to Paris of the fugi. | tives. Not since France was shaken by | the Dreyfus case bas the country been €0 intensely interested as it is in the de- velopments in this case. Some papers as- sert ihat the arrest of the Humberts is | only a prelude to even more sensational | developments which involve perlonuu in the foremost rank of political, Judicial &nd soclal affairs. The indicatons are that the Drey{ul‘ matier will again be dragged befors the | public and that there will be & renewal | of the animosity of the anti-Semitic dis- cussion. Deputy Gauthier has taken the | initative in asserting that the relatives of Dreyfus are among the heaviest credi- tors of the Humberts, and that this al- leged fact cxercised an important influ- ence in the highest Governmental qua ters during the Dreyfus trial. Veiled al- lusions have been made to some of lhe‘ men most prominent in public life, some newspapers even going %o far as to name those alleged to figure directly or indirect- | Iy in the affair When the Chamber of Deputies resumes | its sessions the Humbert question prob- ably will become one of the chief ele- | ments in politics. swayed the ministries and it caused g | recent sensational tumult in the Chamber, | e THOUSANDS ARE KILLED BY Tfl mmeum LONDON, Dec —A dispatch from | New Marghelan, Russian Turkestan, re. | ports that the earthquake at Andijan | Lilled 2500 persons in and near that city “nd destroyed 16000 houses. The rum- Liings continue. The authorities so y.r‘ have not been able to cope with the des- titution of the starving, unsheltered pop. wace, obtained, but | | | l | ’den cannot longer be maintained, Already the matter has | + RENOUNGES CROWN AND DISAPPEARS Princess Louise of Saxony Deserts Family. ‘ | Flees From Her' Home| and fearca Is Un- availing. Discord Due to Husband's' Friendship for Dres- | den Actress. DRESDEN, Saxony. Dec. 22—The Crown Princess of Saxony fled from her home on | the night of December 11. The Dresdener | [ J Journal says to-day: “The Princess, in a state of intense men- tal excitement, suddenly deserted her | family at Salzburg and went abroad. The Baxony court functions for the winter, in- | cluding the New Year's reception, have hfl-n canceled.” The foregoing paragraph in to-day's of- clal journal, which' was inserted by the order of the King and Crown Prince of Baxony, has turned into truth what for several days past has been regrded as an ingredible tale. The Crown Princess of Saxony, surrounded by her ladies-in- walting and numerous attendants and ser- vants, has vanished so utterly that the police of every kingdom in Hurope have for ten days been unable to trace her. The official announcement was made In order to obtain the ald of the general pub- lic in finding her and because the court fiction that she preferred to remain in retirement at Balzburg rather than to re- turn to her husband and children at Dres- . BEFORE THE FLIGHT. Accompanied by the Crown Prince, the Princess went to the castle of Emperor | Francis Joseph, -near Salzburg, a month | ago. A week after their arrival at the castle the Prince broke his leg while hunting and was brougnt back to Dres- den. The Princess however, remalned at the castle. \Why she d1d 50 the people of the court did not know, except that, with gloomy tenacity, the Princess usually does what ‘shé pleases. For a little while this explanatiofi sufficea; then fragments of gossip began to reach Dresden. It wag Oonflmud on Page a colm 3. ‘| eration is SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1902. FIVE CENTS. — PRICE TWO MORE VICTIMS OF BYRON WRECK sSuccumB 4 +. Lowrs < ENGINELR ox THE OWL MORGAN READY 10 3UBSCRIBE MEXIGAN LOAN Offers. Ten Millions to the Southern Republie, —_— Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. MEXICO CITY, Doe‘ 22.—~1t is learned that J. P. Morgan & Co. and 6ther bank- ing firms of New York City and London have offered to subscribe to the Mexican Government .a loan of $10,000,000 for pro- posed public works. None of the offer has been accepted as the terms are not satis- factory. It is provided by the act of Congress authorizing this loan that $8,600,000 of it rhall be used for improving the physical condition of the National Tehuantepec Rallroad, which is now owned by’ the Government, but has been leased to Sir Weetman Pearson for fifty-one years. The remainder of the loan is to be used for port improvements and important public works in this city. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 22.—Negotia- tions have been practically consummated whereby an Eastern syndicate, of which - i J. P. Morgan is a director, has obtaifed. control of all the coal mines and coal property west of Green River, in Ken- tucky, except the mines owned by nm B8t. Bernard Coal Company. The consid. e A L) s A s I e JOGKEY SAYS H13- LIFE WAS THREATENED Scandal - Breaks Upon theéz;;ztans Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2.-Jockey .W. Hicks, before ‘a notary .public + to-day, made ‘sMdavits that his life had beén threatened it he did not ride three horses on last Tuesday to lose. “Frank Grefer, a "local bbuhmker, ac- cording to ‘Hicks, is the man who threat- ened his @icks’) life it he did not “pull,”’ or take Moabina, War Cry and Mathaldle iato the heavy going.' The boy says that he would have dorie-his. best\if his ‘life was not in danger. , In_a full ,confessio, made' by Jovkey Hicks, he does not in- criminate Hatfield & Ownsby, 'who hold one-third of the contract for his'servic: Accogding _to , the . confession, wifich s s8id t8 be in the’possession of the sf ards and which has'been' given’ out for publication, Grefer. & BStitzel, bookmake: were the ‘mén who’ were '“fixing" '/ horses that Hicks rode_here. ‘Although_it was denfed by the stewards of the Crescent City Jockoy Club ‘ard other officlals that there was any evidence taken in the Hicks case, on Saturday. nevertheless it:wap learned from a reli- | able source that. Ownsby, atfleld Hicks and another\person whose famt | could not be learned . ‘wer: elouud. with the stewards from 12 until 1 o'clock. From what can/beé learned, it seems. that: lays everything on the shoulders of Gre- fer and those:connected with him. . The stewards this’ attéinoon tefused to:[ New York-Ch! Investigation, but; said | Crestline; Ohlo, that “they ‘would, b ready. to présent a | tance’ ‘of '131-mllen “ uu.,-mi\mnrh ‘make ' public n)mtomtlw oy . the|' Hicks | SCENE AT THE SOUTHERN PA- CIFIC .HOBPITAL . AND ENGI- NEER OF WRECKED TRAIN. o+ ‘doubled - back SH[HIFF LOGES THAIL OF THE 3TAGE AOBBER Bold Knight of High- way Escapes With His Booty. - REDDING, Dec, 22.—The bold highway- man’ who held up ‘the, Redding-Weaver- ville stage, yesterday morning has thus| far .eluded' the officers. ' Sheriff Behrens tracked him three mllel Wwest of the scene of the robbery to Cl‘lr Creek. . There he ‘skirted: the . creek .for. two miles and toward ' the stage -road. From the tracks it is evident the robber was endeavoring to tapgle his pursuers. The trail: was fellowed almost to the Iim- dts, of ithis city: and/then was;lost in the labyrinth of footprintsiand wagon tracks. The officers'npw bélleve the: fellow caught @, south-bound train' and’-got out’ of ‘the county. The Sheriff lnw- to-night for the south in an endel\ur tn overbaul 'his .man. 3 <The Wan--!‘urlo boxu w’ro inspected ‘to-day, at ‘tho local ofice “and:their con- .tents checked. There was‘nothing miss- m‘. The only articles the boxes cuntuned on_the .outward trip yesterday. morning were 'two, boxes .of . jewelry addressed - to a Weaverville jeweler and a pouch con- talning i the ~ waybills. | These were not ‘touched. LADIES | NOT . !OL-'I'ID The "victims of ‘the M.'Muym.n after the first fright and after thu suspense of holding. up. lhelx- han wi ended en- .tered into: the funny, mide.of-the. matter .and jt was the subject of discussion on the upward trip. 'F. C. Meckel, one ot the victims, was en route. to ‘his home in long: . jvania lines wllt “of « Plttaburg was mi \zmv byithe Pennsylvania's to] thip: oity. " thads “full stopr -+ ‘*\' pecial in a nn‘ tmn, +| recetved ‘his - instructions . from Deputy N INTEREST " OF EANBLER Banker Lewl/sohn Not Yet in Mood to Testify. —_— ‘/ NEW, YORK, Dec. 2 —Jesse Lewisohn, who, | the court decided, should answer the. District "\ Attarney's question as to whether he knew Richard Canfield, who, it is alleged, is the proprietor of a gam- bling: house, to-day answered in ths af- firmative. - He was next asked: . “Were.you ever in Clnfleld'u prior to December 121, 18977" He at first refused to answer, but later, | on the advice of his attorney that the | statute of ‘limitations -which bars any prosecution after five years-for gambling removed the constitutional ' privilege, Lewisohn sald he hfid not. .He declined to answer when asked if he had been in the_ house. recently. | Lauterbach, attorney. for Lewisohn, is ‘the authority for what ocurred at the in- auiry. - Lewisohn was arraigned .before Justice ‘Wyatt charged with being - gullty of a misdemeanor as a contumaceous witness. The hearing on this charge went over until'the third Monday in January. Lewi- sohn is held also on a ‘warrant charging him with contempt of court for refusing to answer questions to-day. , Subsequently a.writ of- habeas corpus was applied for and granted by Justice Scott. Argument was_continued until' Wednesday, on the understanding* that Lauderbach' serve a «writ of certliorari on Jerome and have the entire argument on that day: Lewisohn was then paroled in.the custody of his counsel. The preliminary hearing in the case of Inspector Brooks, ‘Who is accused by Da- vid W. Bucklin -of having broken into Richiard, A. Canfield’s house on the night of De\.embtr 1, was bel\ln !Mly before Magistrate Krain. . John'Delehanty, Can- fleld's attorney, whowas present at the fim! of the rald, told of the affair. Dele- hpnly was being questionad as to the con- tents of the house “when former Judge _Fursman, counsél. for the .defense, 8- marked concerning the gambling imple- | ments found there: * “Supposing’ they were.. He -had-a per- fect right to have them. You can buy them In ahy #porting goods store in New York, and ‘1. could have them in my =4 l.wllhd without violating the lmpaumr Braokl munm that he had goneito the hause wigh search Warrants. Finding the doors lofked he ordered Ser- geant Cohen to effect an entrance by a .window, which' he ‘did. ' He himself hag Commissioner, Piper. The hurh.m addourned till Friday, - - - TO THEIR INJURIES, RAISING DISASTER'S DEATH ROLL TO TWENTY-THREE Men Assert Road Is to Blame. Equipment Is Unequal to Demand. WO more victims of _the Southern Pacific wreck hor- ror at Byron Saturday even- ing succumbed yesterday to their shocking injuries, in< creasing the mournful deatH roil to twenty-three. These were Miss Stella Howard of %2 Taylor street, who died at the Railroad Hospital at 6:48 p. m., and Walter Vernon, who follow~ ed his father at Fresno in the morning. All sorts of conflicting theories are be- ing advarced to explain the disaster. Manager Jomes Agler of the Western division boldly charges Engineer McGuire of the Stockton flyer with the respomsi- bility, saying that the latter should have seen the lights of the Owl and checked his speed long before Brakeman Cole sig= raled him. No action will be taken, however, until McGuire recovers suffi- clently from his injuries to speak in his own behalf. The unfortunate engineer is being ciosely guarded at the hospital. | and, owing to the shattered condition of his nerves, no one is allowed to see or talk to him. All alleged interviews giv- ing McGuire's personal account of the collision are pronounced by the hospital surgeons to be unqualified “fakes.” OFFICIALS BLAME McGUIRE. The disposition of the company officials to shift the blgme for the fatal wreck upon the defenseless cngineer of the fiyer has aroused widespread indignation among the employes of the road. None of them will give a statement for publi- cation authoritatively, for fear of losing their positions; but they talk freely among themselves of what they believe to be the true cause of the cellision. This, they say, is really due to the nig- sardly of the any in mands of the rapidly growing trafe. For months past the road hag had g greater volume of business than it could handle with any degree of safety, but ne new .engines or rolling stock were pur- chased. Locomotives that should have been ordered to the machine shops for re- pairs were immediately sent out upon a return trip, only to meet with annoying delays along the road because of some break or defect In the complicated gear- ing. NO. TIME FOR REPAIRS. There was no provision for rellef re- lays, for the heavy traffic required the service of every car and engime at the road’s command to run trains at intervals of from ten to twenty minutes headway. Fast time_ too, became necessary in order to cover the ground and get back for an- | other trip. This left no time for repairs and the natural process of wear and tear did the rest in reducfng the entire equip- ment to the danger point of Inefficiency. The rallroad men—those who do the ac- tual work and face all the danger—also assert that the train crews are subjected to the same pressure of overwork. Engineers coming in from a long run have been ordered out again Immediately without rest or sleep, ind under such conditions should not be held responsible for lack of watchfuiness or other neglect. One of these engineers suddenly discov- ered, to his horfor, that he had been asleep on his seat for ten minutes while running sixty miles an hour. Another who was urged to undertake a return trip to Los Angeles within a few min- utes of his arrival flatly refused to do so unless given a brakeman to stand at his elbow and keep him awake during the run. The men, it is acknowledged, are paid well for this overtime by the com- pany, but the strain is too great and they cannot hold up under it. The road's employes have frequently discussed these shortcomings of manage- ment among themselves, and, it is said, predicted some such direful disaster many weeks ago. The real cause of the accident under- Iying ail of these theories will undoubt- edly be brought to the surface befors long if official rivairy among Coroners can do it. Victims of the wreck having died In Byron, Oakland, San Francisco and Fres. no, the Coroners of Fresno, Contra Costa, Alameda and San Francisco coungles have impaneled separate juries and summoned witnesses with the intention of helding searching inquests. Each will act inde- pendently and exert every effort to get at the real facts Involved. The accident promises to be nn ‘expen- sive one for the Southern Pacific Com- pany with so many killed n‘umu‘t Damage sults and -endless are sure to follow, even if the relatives of the slain are settled with at the usual average of 33000 each. —_—— CORONERS READY FOR WORK. Three Juries Sworn In to Investigate the Southern Pacific Wreck. The real cause of the rallroad disas- ter at Byron cannot long .hd. detestlon, for three rival Coroners have “impaneled juries and summoned witnesses for an inquest this week. The Fresno Coroner also got In the game, but contented him- self with complying with the letter of the law and leaving the burden of hv.‘.. tion upon the other three. Coroner Leland of San Francisco yes- terday impaneled the following jury to view the bodles: Davoust, 317 Eilis street; Charles _ Continued on Page 3, Column %