The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 17

R S S B WY Be o 0000000000000 00e® [ & >p - Pages 17 10 30 han o o o o d VOLUME XCIII=NO. 112, CASTRO DO SAN FRANCISCO, SUN 20 -y DAY, MARCH 1903—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LUNTARILY RESIGNS DICTATORSHIP OF VDENEZUELA IN ORDER TO RESTORE TRANQUILLITY IN TROUBLED REPUBLIC ENGLAND’S LORD CHIEF JUSTICE NAMED AS MEMBER Sir Louis Jette and Sir Alverstone OF ALASKAN COMMISSION John Douglas Armour of Canada Will Act With as Great Britain’'s Representatives. - — - SR 3o Sk ASHINGTON, = March 21.—The British em- bassy here has been for- mally advised of the appointment of Lord Chief Justice Alverstone of England, and Sir Louis Jette, retired Judge of the Supreme Court of Quebec, and Sir John Douglas Armour, Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, as members of the Alaska Boundary Commission, provided for under { the Hay-Herbert treaty. Sir Michael Herbert has informed the State Department of the appoint- ments. | S - K3 j REPRESENTATIVES OF GREAT | BRITAIN ON THE ALASKA l BCUNDARY COMMISSION. G — * bt s |MISS BARTON e NO LONGER | IN CONTROL N MRS. BURDICK SAYS A WORD TO THE CALL Denies She Will Try to Shield the Name of Pennell. day ehe a 1 her belief, rth not the murderer. che would seek to was att 2 ederick B. Hartzel s e public before ¢ d Mrs. Burdick X g e ay it was un- € T h statement,” she ing further to say.” r witness at T probability 1 it become known,defi- letters the District At- possession that passed Per From a single to have contained this must kill him" | r has grown | cording to.rumors. refused to dis- | $ perintendent and Chief Detect- | nell 1 detectives e case made | lieve that some « the house had not gullty knowledge of the crime. The sig- t 1 so far as the house is e the open doo) d the win- dow slight i. The m un- Guestions left by the door. s Did sc erson leave the winflow open for him in case he chose to come in or cave by that w Thet he did do so is shown by the ® unbroken the sill. If he had a key, who gave it to him? The Burdick’s door is a compli- it would be d for even al cracksman to pick it. | There were no marks of a jimmy on either the window or the door. | on this side to-night. |Red Cross Board to Re- tire Her From the Management. PIEFERRSES. | THE QUEEN‘ WASHINGTON, Mar | sult of recent conferences of the execu- Alexandra Goes Twice | tive board of the American National Red . | Cross Society, Miss Cla B: b= to See Buffalo Bill’s ably wul:( be retired fr:rl;: aci‘l'::ncnpnrl(;lol Rough Riders. Special Dispatch to The Call. of that organization. The new executive, according to the agreement which now prevai will be Rear Admiral Willlam Cable to The Call and New York | K-.Van Reypen, United Btates navy (re- CopFright, 1905, by the New York | tired), formerly surgeon general of the Publishing C ny. { navy LONDON, March 21.—Queen Alexandra | The enforced retirement of Miss Barton ) a victim to the delights of Buf- | is considered to be a regrettable, but Wild West show. Twice within | absolutely necessary, step for the re- six days the Queen went to the Olympla | establishment of the Red Cross in public the Indians, cowboys and rough | confidence. It is characterized, more- riders of the world perform. over, by those who are familiar with the The only part of the show she did not | situation, as a final step toward estab- approve of was the storming of San Juan | lishing harmony, and it is also repre- Hill. The heavy firing of the guns made sented that even under the most favor- her head ache, so on both occaslons of | able auspices the continuation of Miss Barton's management of the organization her visit that spectacle was put first on the prografmme and finished before she ar- | could not produce so much good as the efforts of a new trained and energetic rived | Not only the Queen, but the Prince and | executive. A meeting of the board of trustees of Princess of Wales, Princess Victoria and Princess Margaret Patricla of Connaught | the Red Cross will be held here within the next ten days, when, it is expected, went to see the show twice. The King | went once. The tiny Princess Mary of | the tentative agreement reached by the Wales had the great treat of accompany- | executive committee will be formally ap- ing her grandmother and her parents upon | proved. both visits. | The plan also proposes to create a po- | sition of honorary president for life, which will be tendered Miss Barton in recognition of her services. ICEJAM BLOCKADES THE NIAGARA CHANN’EL! Checks the Flow of Water on the wumMMY OF AN INDIAN American Side of the Falls. WHO I!'_Elilo IN BATTLE NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., March 21.— | Scalp Is Missing and the Aborigine’s The wide channel between the American | Body Is Pierced by Two | Arrows. shore and Goat Island, known as the | American Falls, was almost dry t0-day. | A1 BUQUERQUE, N. M., March 21— have a mummy on The shallowness of the water was due 19 | Gross - Kelly & Co. an dmmense ice jam at the head of Goate.xhipition which is a great curiosity. The Isiand. The lce started to jam in the |).qy ig evidently that of an Indian, large rapids above the falls this afternoon, and | ung stately. It was excavated from a to-night only a few small rivulets of | cqve near Tularosa, fifty miles west of water are flowing over the American side | Magdalena, last week by a party of ox- of the falls. | plorers. With the mummy were found a The park was crowded with spectators | jarge bow and some pottery of old de- of the unusual sight, while those on the | signs. . Canadian side were attracted by the| A notable pecullarity of the curlosity thunder of three times the normal amount | are” two arrows run through the body. of water passing over the brink of the | one through the shoulder and the other Horseshoe Falls. Several persons walked | through the back. A moceasin which across the almost dry bed of the river | was well preserved, was on one’ of the feet, and the scalp was missing. HIGHWAYMEN HOOT DOWN PASSENGERS Fierce Battle on a Car Near Los Angeles. Masked Robbers Kill One Citizen and Hurt Others. Railway Laborer Opens Fire and Desperado Gets the Bullets. ——r—y Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 21.—Three masked robbers attempted to hold up a car on the Los Angeles-Pacific electrie line running between Los Angeles and Santa Monica about a mile west of the city limits at 9 o'clock to-night, and af- ter a pistol duel between C. W. Hender- son, one of the passengers, and one of the robbers, the other two highwaymen began shooting right and left through the crowded car. One passenger was killed and three wounded. The dead man was H..A. Gris- wold, a tourist from lowa. "The injured are J. C. Cunningham of Los Angeles, a prominent trunk manu- facturer, shot through the left thigh, thigh bone broken; the wound is constd- cred very serious. 1lis Pearson of Saw- telle, the Soldiers’ Home station on the electric line, shot through the left leg. a figgh wound. Dr. C. H. Bowles, 5 Squth "Hill street, Los Angeles, shot through the left hand, several bones in Lis hand broken, o It 1s belfeved that one of the robbers was badly wounded, because he- was beard to cry out and was seen to half fall off the car immediately after Hender- son began shooting at him. e OBSTRUCTION ON TRACK. The hold-up occurred at the head of a deep cut near the junction of the Ocean Park electric line. The robbers had placed a steel rail, a large bench and a cement barrel on the track at a point near where it runs through a large vineyard. Charles Currin, the motorman, saw the obstruction when the car was several hundred yards from it, because the car was equipped with a powerful search- light. He at once turned off the current and ran slowly to the place. The car struck the obstruction at greatly reduced speed. 5 The moment the car struck, three men wearing white masks or handkerchiefs over their faces sprang from( the weeds alongside the track. One of them boarded the front end of the car and the other two the rear end. The man who boarded the front end commanded the passengers who were occupying the open seats at that end to put up their hands, and when one of them did not comply he fired a shot. Henderson was seated within six feet of the point where the robber boarded the car, and having seen the obstruction he drew his revolver. The instant the rcbber fired at the other man Henderson opened fire on him, shooting as fast as he could pull the trigger. The robber then turned his gun upon Henderson, but as he did so he was seen to bend over and then cried out as if in pain. Then, straightening up, he began shooting at the bunch of passengers who were hud- dled in the front seats. One of his bullets struck Ellis Pearson in the left leg. Hen- derson continued firing, and the robber was seen to fall as he struck the ground. SHOWER OF BULLETS. While this was going on on the outside of the car a tragedy was being enacted in the inside, that portion of it which is fully enclosed. The two robbers who had en- tered the rear door commanded the pas- sengers to raise their hands, and most of them did so. Before any attempt could be made by the robbers to search the passengers for their valuables the shoot- ing began on the outside of the car, Then the other two robbers began shooting right and left into the crowd of passen- gers. Griswold was seated about the mjddle of the car, with his back turned toward the robbers. At the command, “Hands up!” he tried to secrete his watch under his legs, and one of the robbers, thinking he was about to draw a gun, fired point blank at him. The bullet struck him in the back of the neck and he fell over into the lap of his aged mother, who was seat- ed at his side. Dr. C. H. Bowles was near the front door and at the command of the robbers he raised his hands. While he had them in the air one of the bullets from a rob- ber's revolver struck his left hand and shattered the: bones. After emptying their revolvers the robbers backed out of the door and sprang off the car and dis- appeared. Which way they went none of the passengers know. GIRL’'S NARROW ESCAPE. The car proceeded with all possible speed to Sawtelle, tihe nearest point where medical ald ‘could be secured. Griswold expired before the car had gone a mile. He never spoke after he was shot, and when his body was lifted from the car at Santa Monica his watch was found under him onthe seat. His mother was covered RACAS, March 21.—President Castro has resigned. He placed his resignation of the Pres- — idency of the republic of Venezuela in the hands of the President of Congress after reading the Presidential message to-day. Senor Costro handed over the exercise of the Presidential functions to' the President of Congress. In the the ordinary course of event term would have ended on February 20, 1908. He was elected President of Venezuela in Feb- ruary of last year, for six years, beginning February 20, 1902. President Castro’s | | WHITE MEN SELL NEGROES INTO SLAVERY Arrests in Alabama Re- veal Ante-Bellum Conditions. Special Dispatch to The Call BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 21.—Robert M. Franklin, Willlam T. Joiner, L. A. Grogan, Jesse London and John McDan- iel, all of Goodwater, were brought to the United States Court this morning by Deputy Marshals Gibson, Trammell and Colcott of Montgomery. The men, all of whom are white, are charged with having kidmaped Madison Davis, a negro, last July and sold him to Elijah Turner, who is alleged to have charge of lime works near Calels, Ala. All are under indictment. It is alleged by Davis that there are twenty-seven other negroes confined in the stockade at Calcis and kept there in involuntary servitude. The men under indictment are among the most prominent citizens of Good- water. + L with his blood and was armost insane from fright and grief. The bullet which Killed him grazed the cheek of Miss Anna Funk, who was traveling with him. At Sawtelle Pearson was taken off the car and conveyed to his home. The other wounded persons were taken to Santa Monica and given surgical attention. As soon as the shooting was over Hen- derson, who had fired at the robbers, sprang from the car. He had fired all his cartridges and feared they would kill him if he remdined. He ran across the vine- yard and .struck a wire fence and was knocked down. While in that position he saw two of the robbers run to a roadway near by and climb into a buggy and drive toward this city. Every available officer was sent to the scene as 0on as the news of the robbery reached the city, but no trace of the rob- bers was found. Owing to the confusion incident to the shooting practically no de- scription of the men was secured, except that one was an unusually tall and the other two of lower stature. REWARD FOR OUTLAWS. The general manager of the company stated to-night that the company will of- fer a reward of $1000 for the capture ol each of the robbers. The highwaymen secured nothing whatever from the pas- sengers. That many more were not killed or wcunded is little short of miraculous. In- side the car were thirty or more passen- gers and there were more than ten shots NEW AIRSHIP WILL CONVEY TEN PERSONS Santos-Dumont Prepar- ing to Construct His Tenth Courser. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. *PARIS, March 21.—Extending from the Rue Longchamps to the Seine at Neuilly fs M. Santos-Dument’s - new = balloon ground of 18,000 square meters. Thirty-five fir masts are to be part of the framework of the big balloon shed, which will have four partitions. Two central aisles will be reserved for big airships, and narrow ones for storage and the repairing of vari- ous “Santos-Dumonts.” M. Santos-Dumont said that the big balloon which he intended building here. the “Santos-Dumont X,” will be of 2000 least ten per n: FIVE MEN OF TUG'S CREW DROWNED IN COLLISION of thescrew of the tug Pilot of this city were drowned in a collision between the’ tug and the steamship Winifred in the Delaware River, off Marcus Hook, Pa., late last night. The remaining three mem- bers of the cerw were saved. The follow- ing were drowned: ALONZO HAZARD, engineer. JOHN BENNETT, mate. FRANK ATKINSON, steward. ALBERT PAINTER, deckhand. PORTUGUESE FIREMAN, name un- known. The Winifred was towing the barge this city, and became fogbound in Delaware Bay on Thursday. The Pilot had towed the Conemaugh and guided the Winifred from the anchorage and was pulling in hawser when the steamer crashed Into her amidships with terrible force. The tug soon sank. The ‘Winifred was uninjured. @ il e e e | fired. the woodwork in many places when the car reached this city at midnight. H. A. Griswold, who was killed by the robbers, was a visitor from Manson, Towa. He was president of the Manson Bank and was a man of wealth. He came of his mother's health and had been liv- ing at the Hotel Corona. He also had a cottage on the beach at Santa Monica and was en route thither when he met | his death. His body was brought to this | city late to-night. PHILADELPHIA, March 21.—Five men | Conemaugh from Port Arthur, Texas, to/| Bullets were found imbedded in | here several months ago for the benefit | cubic meters and the basket will carry at | | 1 | WHO HAS RESIGNED PRESI- DENCY OF VENEZUELA. [ GENERAL CIPRIANO CASTRO, | | 4 . 10 ASHINGTON, March 2L.—The first ingimation received by } Secretary Hay of President Castro’s resignation was given him by the press dis- patch announcing the fact. He would not discuss ‘ the news beyond saying that it was . unexpected. ' Herbert W. Bewen. Venezuela’s plenipotentiary here, likewise not been informed until shown the dispatch. Unti! officially advised, he said, he would be unable to'give expression to any views on the subject. Late ight Secretary Hay received a patch from Mr. Russell, United States arge d’Affaires in Caracas, confirming the report of President Castro's resigna- tion, but stating that he doubted if the Venezuelan Congress would accept it. had From an authoritative quarter it was lcarned that this move on the part of President Castro had long been contem- plated.” Representations were made to him several months ago by the leaders of Venezuéla that his resignation would | have the effect of enabling the people of that country to present a solid front to the world in the matters in controversy with the several powers. The statement was made that the resignation is the re- sult of a secret agreement with the lead- ers referred to, that President Castro shculd temporarily relinquish his office pending the adjustment of the questions | which Minister Bowen has in hand. It was intimated that while President Cas- tro nominally gives up his office it is the intention to Keep it within the family by the | 4 arrangement to make Castro’s nephew tug | yice President, so that he would suc- ceed to the Presidency. It is the belief here, based on informas tion which has been up to now kept invie olate, that the present plan is to ailow President Castro to remain cut of office for a short time and then re-clect him at he next election When told later that President Castro had turned over the functions of his of- fice to the President of the Senate, Gien- eral Velutini, the Assoc: Press in- formant expressed much surprise, in view of the reputed understanding upon which the resignation was based. Velutini is said to be one of the cleverest and shrew- est men In Venezuelan public Mfe. It Is believed that If the Venezuelan Congress refuses to accept the resignation, as in- timated by Mr. Russell, the United States Continued o; Page 18, Column 1. ted