The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1903, Page 17

. R e e e e e e e e o e o o Paoes 1710 28 Qetsoetoetotedetoidotese [ e o I e ok o o P e e o e e e ] Pages L e e B Qeiev oo VOLUME XCIII—-NO. 49, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1903—FORTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UAR STRIKE |CONSPIAINE SIMMINENT | TO CONTINUE N THIS GITY! ~ GOAL FAMINE Carmen ExpellediO by Union Make | an Appeal. —_— perators Decrease Output, of the Mines. Testimony of Sixteen Sensational Charge Is Will Be Taken Made by John W. Wednesday. 5 Mitchell., S | | I i road En Route Here From New York. "Not Supplied With Suffi- cient Cars. em to £ the mines of the mines, for R Ra ws will not mi t they se, to tes- -3 i matter. T am o ¢ = g f my inf gt p say this'for the pur- - pose of placing - on an = & 3 bedy else. The fa e matter is, my : o g information w at it is im- with » it, th n to be in the mir We believe . 10 be given w We do not | M . trouble at t mines 1 an t = But 1 want the c to unde . P stand that the men wt e been idle all this time t tient. FORTY TO BE INDICTED. g 3 ’Chicggo Grand Jury Will Return Man- True Bills Against Dealers. > CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Forty indictments eside e been voted by the special Grand . v that these official . 'r}“'z rY (“";'k ':"’ besty ok 1 Vhilr Tasks’ e e causes of the shortage o 05 iin P ke this_city. names were L 1 it being declared by State's a2 i apman | Attorney Dineen that, inasmuch as the ; ; .n em. | indictments had been merely voted and . isc atters with | ® of the accused men . xe of the before 10 o'clock on el ire be- | Monday morning, when the jury will re- ne. It is said that among the men inst whom it is the intention to re- B n indictments are many who stand £ high in the business and social world. g es of Manager Chap- | This fact was given by the State’s At- ®rve severely critl- | togney as one reason why no list of the I street car men Is th acfused men would be given out to-night. m A w as Inspector of In analyzing the evidence to which it 5 Members of the | nag been listening for a week the jury 1ad only been em- | peljeveq it had found a combination ex- "‘f”’ elght | 1o1ing among the operators, the jobbers, 2 i":_'g::““ the wholesalers and the retailers, cover- e o oon. | 105 the se of the coal supply from on on- . the mines to the consumers. They a db,:‘,;m:: i’;::d“z; found that understandings existed be- 3 & gang of men | LWeeN the operators of the various States, the Illinois and the Nor rators’ Assoc Coal Operators’ Association hern Illinois Soft al OpeZ tion in collusion with the Indiana Coal Operators’ Assoclation in an attempt to govern the whole bitu- minous supply of two States. t of the present agitated | What application the conspiracy act 2 the T Railroads will | could have to the local dealers and ope- say. It is cur- | rators in the face of the fact that the that should the | combination is general was the hard ques- tatement be refused by | tion for the jurors, but the attorneys ex- ask for a | plained that as soon as the coal was a new lodge. Union | brought into Iilinois the possessor who in that nager Chap- | any way restrained trade was amenable. this step and | Wwith this interpretation in mind the Jury 1aul a new cable to house. His offer ornia Btreet Car engine was used, t down from Stockton With two local street | oontinued the taking of corroborative tes. g «ds of dissen- timony. v in a vie- | ———— ver ¥ labor of | ORANGE GROWERS UNEASY. - Corne | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17.—Those who are w | closely watching the orange tndustry be. | e A lieve they see in the market reports of 5 the last few days evidence that the coal « A ne in the East is materially affect- he orange-growers of California. Re- om various sections are to the effect sl 4 - <IN that the fruit is arriving badly frosted, which is taken to indlcate that the cars have In many instances been left on side tracks through lack of motive power or fuel to keep them moving. Whether this Is the cause of the re- ported loss of fruit in transit there is fuel faminé. Twenty-five will be sent to ¢ach city. Srave fear that the fuel famine will re- | MIKERS FIND VST RICHES ON STREAMS ‘New Klondike Dis- covered in the | Far North ‘Stampede Begins to | Golden Soil Near the Tanana. —_— | Greatest Since Hender- | son’s Big Luck. | ——ieie 17.—A special to SON £ays: A tremen- strike, the magnitude of | s nefer been equaled since Bob | 1d his wonderful story of the Leen made eightesn miles nderson t of a point on Tanana River, 300 miles from its source. The district is American territory. Circie has been de- populated and a wild stampede of pros- rom he surrounding country yet few have reached | over | = that have proved the wealth were sunk late this winter n to reach Dawson from has just arrived. He is red J. Wada. well known | Dawsor racity and hon- esty are { traits. So far | the report has not been spread to any ex- but little that has en told has eated an excitement that me stampede. GOLD IN VARIETY. of Wada t on the ground d! t resembles the Klondike »al formation, but has a heav- of tim Gold tn wi had been found in eight dif- | W left for Daw- Dav the surely ans a repo er. rike was made on Pedro, | a creek running parallel with Tanana, | | about eighteen miles from the river. Thig | | creek is'staked for miles. Dan McCarthy, { ™ a wellk T@oR@Ronite, made the ais- | mation lnressmron lf.nid Stream, a continuation of | Pedro, which has proved to be the ric est so far found cents at th teen feet down edrock not yet struck pay December 24 while his first hole. Tt panned 7 cents. lay he had 16 cents to the pan. Three days later he had found 25 to the pay. The ground became r all the time as he descended and he found bef reaching bedrock may be still more nsational reading wh the news is lly received | Ped not as vet equaled Gold Stream. Seven cents is the richest found, but its wealth | better indicated in a statement that | the Costa brothers sunk seven holes to | | bedrock and found an even run of gold | | in every one h a pay streak over | | eight feet deep right through with a width ‘ of about six hundred feet. BIG OFFER FOR CLAIM. Gold Stream is a blg district, three claims (Alaska dimension) wide. It was not vet all staked when Wada left. About 100 men are working the ground. Jack Costa was offered $50,000 for his claim on Gold Stream and refused it. Thomas B. Grimsey, who was serving | one Year for theft, escaped from the po- | police barracks Wednesday evening. It | was dusk at the time. Grimsey was work- | ing on the police water wagon, in charge | of Constable Atkinson. He entered lhe} barn at the front door and escaped outi of the rear. When on trial he told the Judge that he had a wife and children in Seattle. The police have been unable to find any trace of him, although it is al- most impossible for him to leave the country, as the trail is guarded. | | Joseph Andrew Clark, the oppnsltlun[ candidate, polled the largest vote in Tues- | | day’s election for the Yukon Council in the Dawson district. Dr. Alfred Thomp- son got second place. In district No. 2, which includes all the creeks, Rev. John Pringle polled the largest vote. Max Lan- derville got second place. Robert Lowe was elected from the White Horse dis- trict. | sult in a serious blockade of fruit moving to the far Eastern markets. The large | size of the fruit is tending to confirm the larger estimates of tho size of the | crop and it now seems certain that there | will be shipped during the season fully 22,000 carloads of citrus fruits. — | Mob Raids the Coal Cars. | TOLEDO, 0., Jan. 17.—A mob, including over 200 men, women, boys and girls, to- | day seized five cars of soft coal which had just arrived in the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad yards, consigned to the National Malleable Casting Company and local ofl men. There was no attempt | to stop the wholesale theft, neither the | police nor the officlals of the raflroad tak- The fuel was sleighs, boxes, Creek, the discovery creek, has | ing a hand in the affair. carried off in wagons, buckets and baskets. e 2 R | Ogden Fears Coal Famine, OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 17.—There is a threatened shortage of coal in Ogden caused by the fact that the Union Pacific strike renders it impossible for the road to move coal from its mines as formerly, and the output of the Rlo Grande to a great ‘extent is contracted by the South- ern Pacific and the Coast trade. The railroads have employed detectives to patrol the yards here as a protection against coal thiever EXPLOSION ON THE BATTLESHIP MASSACHUSETTS KILLS SIX MEN Powder Charge for Eight-Inch Gun Is Touched Off by Accidert During Target Practice. AN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. 17. | Five men were kiiled and four | others injured, one dying aft- erward, by the explosion of a powder charge of an oight- inch gun on board the United States banles;flp Massachusetts yesterday | | morning while at target practi bra Island. Detafls of the explosion were cbtained when the Massachusetts arrived | here to-day. [ The explosion occurred in the starboard | after eight-inch turret shortly before noon yesterday, and was due to accidental | diccharge of a percussion primer while the breech of the gun was open. The full charge exploded in the turret and killed or injured all of the crew of the gun, numbering nine men. Ensign Ward K. Wortman, who was in charge of the tur- t,'escaped injury, though he was stand- ing n the gun. DISCIPLINE IS SPLENDID. Magnificent discipline was immediately shown by the officers and crew of the battleship. Captain Barry Lee, command- ing the marine guard of the vessel, and Ensign Clapence Abele immediately flood- e off Cule- | | ed the turret with water, and Lieutenant Charles ¥. Hughes and Gunner Kuhlwein |- went below to the magazine, picking up powder charges and preventing further explosions, while Lieutenant Willlam C. Cole and Gun Captain Soneman entered the turret and withdrew the charge from the other gun, whose breech was open. The survivors of the gun's érew when rescued were burned, mutilated and near- 1y dead. One man, whose clothing was on fire, jumped overboard. In less than a minute after the explosion three streams of water were pouring into the turret, preventing the charge in the other $-inch gun exploding. A naval board, summoned by Rear Ad- miral Higginson, In command of the squadron, is Investigating the disaster to learn its cause and fix the blame, if any there be. FIVE VICTIMS BURIED. A funeral service for Platt, Malinowsky, Loesser, Hendricksen and Rule, the five men killed outright, was held at 1 o’clock this afterncon on board the Massachu- setts, Chaplain Wright ofilclating. After- ward a procession was formed on shore and proceeded to the military cemetery of Porto Rico, where the interment took place. The regimental band of the garri- son of Porto Rico took part In the cere- monies. Admiral Higginson and the offi- cers of the Massachusetts were at the graveside, where military honors and also Masonic honors for one of the dead were rendered. Coxswaln Take, the sixth victim, dled | this afternoon. The condition of Appren- tice Schert and S8eaman Dossett is critical and it is now believed that these men will not survive their injuries. Seaman Pat- terson is doing well and it is expected that he will recover. The 8-inch guns on the Massachusetts are next in size below the 13-inch turret guns carried by this battleship and just above the rapid-fire gun limit. The| | breech of the gun in a canlike metal re- ceptacle Intended to gunr‘(» against just | i liin B W 7. vz Ba7TLiES. v TYRRET Jzugm TED BY X CROIN -on B A crersrrTs. THE FXPLASIAY " Hc LRBED 2 ot I TS 7l s 7 Ty 7 = 77, | oL UNITED STATES WARSHIP ON WHICH A FATAL EXPLOSION HAS OCCURRED, AND THE NAVAL OFFICER SQUADRON TO WHICH SHE'BELONGED. IN COMMAND OF THE ! EX charges were not contained in fixed metal- lic cases and the powder was put up in canvas bags. The regulations require that the powder bags rererred to should | be conveyed from the magazines to the this kind of an accident. CAREERS OF THE VICTIMS. Naval Records Supply History of Those Killed or Injured. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The records of the Navy Department give a history of those killed on the Massachusetts as fol- lows: Felix Herbert Loesser, enlisted at New York, October 4, 1900, as apprentice third class; born Brooklyn, December 1, 1884; residence, New York; next of kin, Ed- ward Loesser, 313 East Eighty-sixth street, New York. Stephen Frank Malinowskl, enlisted at Chicago, August 4, 1900, for four years; born in Poland, August 3, 1882; residence, South Chicago; next of kin, Frank Mali- nowski, 8434 Ontario street, South Chicago. Andrew Hendricksen, enlisted at New York, September 24, 1900, for four years; born in Norway, March 13, 3873, residence, New York; next of kin, Hans Jennsen, Christiansand, Norway. Kenneth Joseph Platt, enlisted at Al- bany, N. Y., August 16, 1909, for four years as landsman for training; born in Dublin, Ireland, May 6, 1882; residence, Troy, N. Y.; mext of kin, Sarah Platt (mother), 369 'Eighth street, Troy. Robert Rule, enlisted at Cincinnati, March 29, 1901, for four years as lands- man for training; born in Cincinnati, May 12, 1882; residence, Mount Washington, Ohio; next of kin, John A. Rule (father), Mpunt Washington | | next i Albert Stephen Tacke, landsman, en listed at St. Louis, September 1, 1899; next of kin, Mrs. Marle Magel (mother), 2122 Miami street, St. Louis. The records give the following concern- | ng the injured: Alexander Newton D nlisted at Durham, of kin, Newton lands: July 20, Dossett (father), | 1003 Pettigrew street, Durham. James Garfield Patterson, landsman, en- listed at League Island, Pa., March 27, 1900; next of kin, Mrs. Barbara Nagle (next friend), 27 Sohoe street, Pittsburg. Walter Willam August Schert, enlisted at Chicago, March 1, 199, as apprentice; | next of kin, George P. Schert (father), 375 Cleveland avenue, Cleveland. Wortman a Montana Boy. Wortman, who was in charge of the tur- ret c¢n the Massachusetts where the ex- plesion occurred, is a native of this city and was appointed to Annapolis seven years ago as a result of competitive ex- amination. He was at one time captain of the Academy baseball club and took a prominent part in athletics. } No Duty to Be Collected. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The Treasury Department has received a number of in. quiries to-day as to whether the Govern- ment proposed to admit coal into the United States free of duty under the act approved January 15, or to collect the duty and then refund it to the importers. In view of the fact that the wording of the act leaves some doubt as to the real purpose of Congress, Chairman Payne of the House Ways and Means Committee was consulted to-day, and his answer leaves no doubt that it was the intent of Congress that no duty should be collected, 1001; | | 3875 Cleveland avenue, | country™ within the | laws, and hence repair cat te HELENA, Mont., Jan. 17.—Ensign Ward | ? EXPLOSION’S | VICTIMS ON ’ BATTLESHIP THE DEAD XK. J. Platt, 369 Eighth street, Troy, N. Y. 8. F. Malinowski, 8433 On- tario street, Chicago. F. H. Loesser, 313 East Eighth street, New York. Andrew Hendricksen, Nor- way. A. 8. Tacke, cockswain, Miami street, St. Louis. R. Rule, Walnut Hill, Cin- | cinnati. | THE INJURED. A. N. Dossett, seaman, Durham, N. C., probably will die. J. G. Patterson, seaman, | 22 Sohoe str Pittsburg, will recover. W. A. Schert, apprentice, Chi- cago, probably will die. BOTTOM OF PACIFIC NOT “FOREIGN COUNTRY” Duty Must Be Paid on Repair Ma- terial for Commercial Pacific Cable Company. WASHINGTON_ Ja Department has decid of the Pacific ed that t Ocean 1 mear the Commercial Pacific ( cannot be withdrawn warehouse for re payment of duty. The law specif able C to to be entitled n tha goods must be | gN coun- try, which fact d by the certificate of a 1 ¢ nsul in the country where the landed. The rate of duty is 3 ad va< lorem. DYING MAN CLAIMS HE IS WILKES BOOTH GUTHRIE, O. T., Jan dying, D. E. George, wealthy citizen. made the statem he was John Wilkes Booth, of President Lincoln. George 2 suicide at El Reno and made and successful attempt in a Enid, taking poison. He stated that had successfully eluded the officers after killing Lincoln and had remained t known to the world ever since. Ife was reputed to be very wealthy, owning land in Oklahoma, Indian Territory and at Dallas, Tex. Telegrams to-day ask that the body be held for identification. —Just an he Police to Guard Coal Trains. SHAMOKIN, Pa., Jan. 1T to loaded trains being robbed of fuel and to guard against such trains being held up by persons rendered desperate beca of the coal famine, policemen were o dered by the Reading and Pennsylva raflroad companies to- to guard loaded trains while in transit to market through districts where the famine is the worst. Owing