The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH 27. 1903. REGIPROCITY TREATIED ARE | BUTTE SUPERVISOR SECOND VICTIM MANSLAYER SOWELL OF IBANDONED All but That With, Cuba Will Be ‘Dgpped. i Administration Yields to the Wishes of Senators. Agreements With France and Other Countries Fail of Support convention been to ex- he United States March 26.—The an- he Jamalca Legislature the reciprocit States ‘is but a v be expected of a It was evi- | | that body that | | “ to the recip- | | { J- he reciprocity | | 4 I ve ation. among which is ublic, are not, d, to be again | | December next en- rtant item of re- of the treaties, est Indies, and mport is con-| | n 1s estopped | | reduction of duty | | s of the Cuban re- | which specifieally | ed by any be ad- by treaty an treaty ls | than is administrat ng to a be ter greement, y | OF 4 i | DAY JLAN TREATY IN DANGER. 1 OLD FEUD NEAR ORO OM THE WOUND. C SUPERVISOR OF BUTTE COUNTY WHO WAS SHOT AS THE RESULT { VILLE AND WHO DIED YESTER- | to Its Ratification. cedes to the provide that ROVILLE, 2 visor Kimbrell y Shadrack Sowell whe ward Dickhouse and William. C wounded yesterday. y at H injured arm was amputated at 8 o'clock this morning, but s of blood had been so great as to ave him in a weak condition, and his no surprise to the attending who W t Ed killed was, ied to eport to- | ion of all troduced it was o'clock KING EDWARD'S HEALTH pisti IS APPARENILY GOOD | physicians E - * Seldom In the history "y That He Is Xl and Suffering | |, cycitement run 8o From Depression Does Not of Butte County h over the end- Kimbrell, Who Was Shot at the Tragic mination of a Feud Near Oroville, Passes ‘w tngton Loan and Trust bullding, can 8d. Super- ! Cul- | | e — | Away After Telling a Story of the Crimei | only is left to mourn his tragic death. | Curry will 1i but for the rest of his life will carry a stiff knee, the bullet | having struck his leg in such a manner | 1s to cripple the member in a permanent | related story of the| times before he died and | in substantially the same manner as it s told by Horton, the only man of the present who escaped the wrath of rell m the tragedy n; 11 without injury. He described the, t mental anguish which ered when Sowell had tracked him | of fraud. | taken because of his attempt to resist | efforts to make him pay tribute. The re- ingof a tragedy as now. Supervisor | by the blood he had lost to the elace | Find Confirmation. Kimbrell was a popular man. He was | where he lay exhausted and how his 2.—The vague sug- | respected by his constituents and was | begging and pleading for mercy induced | s00l Post that King | well known throughout the county. Dick- | the man to spare his life. | 1th and suffers from | house, the first victim to succumb, was | Sowell ged counsel on arrival at} find confirmation in | much thought of in the vicinity where | Oroville yesterday, and probably under ers. The King is fre- he resided, and a feature which tends to | his attorney’s advice has not talked of the lic and is apparently | gtrongly work upon the feelings of his affair. He discussed it, however, before He went to vislt | nejghbors is the fact that by his death | ;:“!r'tl}:gktlhlienéa”o?"’:»;:if,fi,’,’:da;figi‘ by ]a;erx\:.:‘o: '.;.;“dpz;:: four amall «)-mx;nex);.(,;xeh:l:::t:‘\:zr:et\hir; | e hans b rob st steeplechase at Liverpool to-mor- years of -fxu o w-id S f n'm ln:iut on the ground that Dickhouse He will start on Monday next for are left with his wido’ would not get out of his way when he n or nd thence will go on a yachting Queen Alexandra is to leave the day to spend three weeks at Copen- - hardly compatible with g Edward is in 111 RS~ Vo T CARDINAL RAMPOLLA IS TO BE REWARDED Pope Iao Intends +o Appoint Him Acting Vice Chancellor of the Holy See. rch 26 is stated that the reward Cardinal Ram- and therefore w g his place as state secreta:y next consistory appoint him chancellor of holy is ome of great Hignity, t since the death of Car- ary of this year, Cardinal Rampolia the 5 tment of vice chanceilor t of the Pope he ceases Cardinal Rampolla this the t sitting of nmission. The proceedings s services at were secret Wreckage Litters a Coast. VICTORIA, B. C., March 2.—Wreckage has been foun the west coast of Van- sland which would point to the one of the Liverpool owned which bave carried lumber from the north coast ports during the winter has met with a serious buffeting, if she has not been wrecked. Up i the vicinity of Topreef Point Indlans have found g quantity of lumber strewn along the rocks and they have also found the stern of & ship's lifeboat with the word “Liver- pool.” [ | | | Kimbrell had no children and his wife D e e e e e MACHINE-FIRING GUN IS SUCCESSFULLY TESTED Generals Miles and Wheeler Regard the New Firearm as an Im- portant Invention. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, March 26.—A test of the machine-firing gun, the invention of Dr. McLean of this city, was made in the presence of General Nelson A. Miles and General Joseph Wheeler in this city to-day. General Miles was pres- ent as the president of the board of fortl- ficaifons. The firing was done from the top of a tall building into Lake Erle. The McLean gun shoots twenty-five times with one pull of the trigger. A circuiar plate fitted to the side of the weapin feeds the cartridges., Gas generated by first explosion sets the plate auto- in motion. The gun can also be used as @a machine gun. General Wheeler thinks well of the new firearm, and General Miles was quoted as saying that it was an interesting experiment and the gun an important invention. the matically o Young Gibbs Fights a Draw. SALT LAKE, Utab March 2.—The best Young Gibbs of Cleveland could do with Jerry McCarty of Butte to-night was a draw at the end of the twentieth round. McCarty went down and almost out in the tenth from a left in the stomach, and in the sixteenth went down twice, the gang saving him GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 2.—Art Simms of Akron knocked out Kid Black of Chicago in the sixth round of a ten round fght at the Olympic Athletic Club to- night it wished to shoot Kimbrell. SPECIAL JURY WILL TRY STRATTON WILL CONTESTi Motion of Attorneys for Executors to | Excuse the Old Panel Is Granted. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 2. —Judge Seeds this afternoon granted the motion of the attorneys for the executors of W. 8. Stratton’s will to quash the | panel of jurors in attendance upon the District Court and ordered a new venire, returnable Saturday next, when the se- lection of a jury to try the will contest will be begun. In announcing his decision the Judge sald: “Without the slightest reflection against jurors on ‘this panel or any attorney in this case, the court deems it necessary to sustain the motion in order that the | greatest apportunity for a fair and im- | partial trial of this case can be had ang | that no parties to this controversy may | enter upon a triai belleving that they are | not on fair and equal terms.” LR Physician Goes to Penitentiary. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 26.—A sep- sation was caused here this afternoon when the jury returned a verdict of three years in the penitentiary for Dr. A. p. Taylor, a prominent physician and presi. dent of thé Industrial Mutual Deposit Company, which fafled a year ago. The charge was embezzlement by appropriat- ing the surplus fund to dividends when no dividend had been earned. There are three more indictments against Taylor. Fifty other similar indictments are to be tried against prominent citizens, olYa FRAUD 15 ENRICRING - POSTAL RING ChicagoMan Makes Accusation of Blackmail |Claims Officials Barter the Privileges of the Mails. G 4 Exhibits Receipt for Coin in Proof of His Charge. PR - EN Speclal Dispateh to The Call. CHICAGO, March 26.—Startling detailed charges against alleged corrupt postoffice officials and lawyers, who he claims are in collusion with them, are made by C. Franklin Davis of Chicago, who proposes to have President Roosevelt supplied with information resulting In an investigation of the department. Davis exhibits a receipt given to him by Harrison J. Barrett, a Baltimore law- yer, who has been named in connectlon with the disclosures and who Davis claims is the go-between used by officials in a gigantic plot by which thousands of concerns throughout the United States have been held up for milllons of dollars. Thc . cstoffice Department has dep . the use of the malls to the League «f Educators, with headquarters in this city, of which Davis is agent, on the ground Davis declares this actfon was ceipt bears Barrett's letterhead and reads as follows: “It is understood that in the event that no action is taken by the Postoffice De- partment in the matter of the League of Educaiors, Chicago, a fee of $00, in monthly installments of $50 each, is to be paid to Harrison J. Barrett for profes- sional services. “HARRISON J. BARRETT. " Davis says that the consplracy and fraud in the Wepartme.: are more fat- reaching than is gererc ly supposed and ,fi' x o Arsciin wiich twer he (vers, ininense sims have been squeezed from the vietims. “I do not believe General Tyner is in- | volved in the donspiracy,” says Davis, | “but many high officiais whose names have not yet come to light are in this piot. There are two or tlhree lawyers in ccllusion with them. Besides Barrett there are two Washington attorneys wke work together. When my trouble began Attorney Edward A. Oldham of Washing- ton called on me and sald: *“‘R. W. Haynes, a lawyer in the Wash- just the matter just as you want it." “Barrett, however, had the inside track, as he {s a nephew of General James M. Tyner, recently removed. The Postoflice Department actually sends out this man’s | circulars to people for whom they are about to make trouble. I received one. They expect their victims to go to this lawyer, and they get their rake-off. The lawyer gets his fee and they get a per- centage of that. Then the victim has to pay tribute right along to keep the privi- lege of the malls. “An investigation is always made, an adverse report follows, and this report is held like a sword suspended over the vic- tim’s head. When he stops payment the sword falls.” e NEGRO DELEGATES WILL NOT ATTEND THE SESSION Threatened Troul;le in Wormen’s Council Over the Color Question Is Satisfactorily Settled. NEW ORLEANS, March 2.—The threatened trouble over the color ques- tion having simmered down, the National Counefl of Women of the United States | opened its executive session hers to-day and the general officers held their public reception to-night. No negroes were present on either occasion. v Mrs. May Wright Sewall, presidént of the International Council, said there had never been any probability of the attend- ance of a colored woman at the soclal functions. Similar receptions had always been given at the North, but on no occa- sion had a negro woman attended. “There are only two colored women in the world entitled to be present at the business sessions here,” said Mrs. Sewall. “One is Mrs. Yates of Missourl. The other is Mrs. Willlams of this city. Mrs. Yates could not come and sent her proxy. But Mrs. Williams, to whom the proxy was forwarded, has written to me that she never had any intention of participat- ing in the meeting and so there never has Leen any mingling of the whites and the Diacks during our stay in New Orleans.” Investigating Murder of Indian. KIPP, Mont., March 26 — Assistant United States Attorney G. H. Balley has | arrived here from Helena to investigate the death of Joseph Fast Buffalo Horse, the Indian found dead here. Three In- jans are under arrest on suspicion of having committed the murder. The dead Indian was ope of the handsomest on the reservation and was the envy of the band. From indications the body had been aragged by a lariat around the redskin’s neck. Lipton Insures Shamrock IIT. LONDON, March 2%.—Sir Thomas Lipton has insured the Shamrock III at Lloyd's for $100,000. ‘The insurance, which is for one year, covers all risks, including’ the voyage across the Atlantlc. The real value of the challenger is greatly in ex- cess of $100.000, ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. BURDICK INQUEST, PROLIFIC OF SCANDALS BUT BARREN OF CLEWS, COMES TO AN END Inquiry Into Death of Pennell Now to Begin. Warrants May Issue for “John Doe” and “Jane Doe.” UFFALO, N. Y., March 26— The inquest into the death of Edwin I. Burdick, who was murdered just a month ago in his home on Ashland avenue, ended thjs afternoon. At the close of the inquest Judge Murphy an- nounced that an officlal inquiry intv the tragic death of Arthur Pennell, who has figured so prominently in the Burdick inquest, will begin next Monday. The Burdick inquest has served to de- velop several theories relative to the crime that had been suggested many days P { 7155 A EL L VA + —— A 50 B St A — R — S — WOMAN WHO, WITH HER HUSBAND, WHOSE NAME HAS BEEN CONSPICUOUS IN THE BURDICK INQUEST, PERISHED IN AN AUTQMOBILE DISASTER, WHICH WILL BE OFFICIALLY INVESTIGATED, AND SER- | VANT IN THE BURDICK HOME, WHOSE TESTIMONY CONTRADICTED THAT OF MRS. HULL. — ago, but it would be hardly correct to say | | that the investigation has added anything | | tangible to any of these theortes. | Aside from the failure of the au(hori-; ties to secure evidence bearing directly | upon the commission of the crime or to | establish ‘the identity of the murderer, there is a feeling of satisfaction that the name of Mr. Burdick has been lifted from the mire in which it was at first dragged and his character shown in its true light. MURDERED MAN’'S WRONGS. The evidence brought out during the ex- amination of witnesses by District Attor- ney Coastworth has shown Burdick to | have been a loving father, always willing to sacrifice his own happiness and pride | for the sake of his children; that he wa!! the victim of false friendship, broken pledges, and, in face of it all, a forgiv- ing, indulgent husband. The efforts of the authorities to fix the crime upon some one will not end with | the Coroner’s inquest. At the same time there is now little hope of success In this undertaking and the murder probably will go down in criminal history as one of the great unsolved mysteries. Judge Murphy said after court adjourn- ed this afternoon that his judgment in the cese would not be handed down until Monday or perhaps late in the week. It| is possible that he may issue warrnmsi for the arrest of “John Doe” and “Jane | Doe.”” If Judge Murphy sees fit to take such action the District Attorney will be | chliged to submit the whole case to the Grand Jury. PASTOR POWERS TESTIFIES. When the inquest was resumed this | morning every seat in Judge.Murphy's court was occupied. The Rev. L. M. Powers, pastor of the Church of the Mes- slah, who recently made a statement over his signature defending Mrs. Hull, mother of Mrs. Burdick, and accusing Pennell, then dead, of the murder of Burdick, was the first witness. He said that Mrs. Hull | and the Burdicks were members of his church congregations. On two separate occasions he had had talks with Bur- dick concerning the latter’s domestic af- fairs. The first ome was at Burdick's of- fice about three weeks prior to the mur- der. He called voluntarily to talk with ‘Burdick about the matter, which the wit- ness said “had become common talk at that time.” Mrs. Hull also had discussed it with him once during a call the minister made at the house. Asked to repeat the con- versation with Mrs. Hull, Mr. Powers said: She told me her daughter had left home Continued on Page 8, Column 1. ROMANCE ENDS | WITH DISASTER | TO HIS SKlFF1 Probable Drowning of Richf Miss Bradley’s Mar- | ried Suitor. | Special Dispatch to The Call. ’ INSURGENTS IN NICARAGUA FARE POORLY President Zelaya’s Forces Recapture " the Town of Juigalpa. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 26.—The GREENWICH, Conn., March 2.— | Fevolution which broke out at Julgalpas, Whetlier. Charles: G.. Quintard ‘was | in the Department of Chontales, is being | suppressed. Juigalpa has been recap- drowned to-day while making his escape in a ten-foot skiff from officers of Con- necticut, who were armed with warrants for his arrest ‘on a charge of the aban- donment of his wife for Alice Bradley, or | tured by the Government forces and the | forts on Lake Nicaragua and the river | | 8an Juan are in the Government's hands. The Governor is confident that order will whether he was able to make a landing | b entirely restored within a few days. on some friendly shore at Riverside or | WASHINGTON, March 25.—Orders wers Sound Beach and thus escape is unknown. The skiff in which he rowed away when hailed by officers on shore with a warrant for his arrest was picked up full of water off the Riverside Yacht Club house. This is another chapter in the now famous troubles of Quintard and Miss Bradley. Mrs. Quintard, who is a daugh- ter of Captain Burley of Sound Beach, has a suit pending in the Greenwich Bor- ough Ccurt, ¢harging her Husband with non-support. She also has sued Miss Bradley, who is very wealthy, for alfen- ating her husband’s affections. The lat- est charge was presented by Prosecuting Attorney Carter of Stamford, Mrs. Quint- ard representing that her husband had abandoned her and was living with Miss Bradley in a house in North Stamford. To-night Miss Bradley is being watched, for all who krow Quintard say he wiil surely return to where she is if he is alive. If he is living the Connecticut au- thorities intend to get him at any cost. EARTH SUFFERS A DENT FROM GIRL'S HARD HEAD Seattle Maid Leaps Sixty Feet to End Life and Is Un- injured. SEATTLE, March 26.—Miss Lou Storme attempted to commit suicide this morn- ing by 'eaping from a balcony sixty feet high. Bhe struck squarely on her head, driving a hole In the ground three Inches deep. She was not even rendered uncon- sclous by the fall, and not a bone was ‘broken. She endeavored to persuade the officers who picked her up to allow her to walk to the hospital | published to-day to Admiral Coghlan, ) commanding the Gulf squadron, which is now at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, to re- turn to his base at Culebra If in his judg- | ment conaitions warrant his return. The Navy Department offered to have a | squadron touch at San Domingo, where a revolution s« in progress, but the State Department felt that the detall of the Atlanta for that service some time ago | was sufficient for the present. | AFRICAN LIONESS JULIA WHELPS TWO STURDY CUBS King Edward VII Shakes the Zoo With Roar of Satisfaction Over His Progeny. King Edward VII, the magnificent African lion in the Zoo at the Chutes, roared lustily yesterday and scores of his | four-legged neighbors took up the re- frain with hearty good will. The cause of all the excitement was that Julia, his royal consort, had pre- sented the monarch of the jungle with twin cubs, pronounced by Colonel Danfef Boone and the Zoo attendants to be splen- did and healthy specimens. At late re- ports last night the mother and young- sters were all doing well and it was stat- ed that the infant incubators would not have to be called into requisition to raise the newcomers. ——— Helena Team Starts West. HELENA, Mont.. March 25.—The Helena team left for Bakersfield, Cal., for prac- tice prior to the opening of the season of the Northwest League on April 14 at Los | Angeles.