The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 1903. PRICE i;'IVE C_ENTS. KILLS MAN ~ COPENHAGEN WHO JOINS FUBITIVE [ - IN GUSTODY IN ATTACK Lawyer of Sonora,TAbsconding Cash-| Shoots in Self- = ier of Bank Run | Defense. to Earth. Frank Price Is Dead Julius A. Joergensen; and J. M. Watkins Is a Prisoner in Wounded, Oakland. - ‘ s d | | Booss Bivares Qasie e s"With Female Companion He to Fatal Conflict in At- ? ‘ ‘ Is Trailed Across the torney's Office. Continent. Special Dispatch to The Call = After being followed half way around the world, Julius A. Joergensen, the ab- sconding cashier of the Bank of Den- mark Copenhage was captured in Oakland last night. With him were Jen- nie Moeller, a bookkeeper in the same bank, with whom he ran away, and his two children. 1 absc the stolen Joergensen, the woman children are in the Oakland City Prison, being held there upon extradition papers | issued by Danis! which by Deputy United States rge H. Burnham of San sisted by Detectives Holland Policeman Andrews of SONORA brother of for and J riously J. C —Frank Price, Pri bartender, was se- a was killed M. Watkins, a in wounded this afternoon by as a made e was ey still in his possessi d mor heart. Watkins' wound Webster shot only two his after Government, served hal Ge Francisco and Sh the Oa ce. Joergensen was a respected house- holder in the chief city of Denmark. His in the bank was a responsible cne, but he went the way of other bank- ers who could not stand temptation. He office and com- | fe1 in love with a fair employe, and, tak- who about &/ ¢ her, his two children and 40,000 francs for Wat-| of the bank's funds, came to the United monstrated and | giates. He wandered the conti- ngaged in a | nent, hoping to escape capture, and took the best | 4w, rooms in a small house at 524 Isabelia and commenced | qreet in North Oakland on May s After fight- | Mre Joergensen was left in inutes Webster began | wimoyt means of support. ed his pistol | 1he gefaleation was not discovered until < Price the | Joergensen was well out of the country Watkins in the head. Price eX-| ye paq asked for a vacation, which was ly. Watkine Is at the Ho- | granteqd him, and he made ready to sall Victoria_in & crifical.asndition. | for the United States. Jennie Moeller ask- ed for a vacation at the same time. It wes granted, and she joined Joergensen on the vessel. Nothing was suspecied by either the bank officials or the deserted d Webster's a bystander to the saloon lowed Watk! ion o the & Webster Webster s struck him vorce w across ce Denmark nd, went across himself up to Sheriff g Watkins arrived from 8an | gife until Joergensen's leave of absence . €. Watkins called | ou5 up and the cashier failed to return. by telephone and tried | Then an investigation of his books was an appointment to g0 riding to-| mage, with the result that the shortage she About 2 o'clock | o 49,000 francs was discovered. » BUt| The Danish Government thought the g WeNt | case of enough importance to warrant the COM- | sending of an agent to the United States Into | and to invoke the aid of the extradition | e found it locked and went The missing away wi e in the buggy. Both Price York: 4avill a atkins were drinking heavily. Web- | (here his address in Oakland was found | been warned to look out for h a box shipped to him. The case is said, had made threats Webster has purposely | g to avoid trouble, b s placed in the hands of Deputy Mar- 1 Burnham, who went to Oakland fes- | y and invoked the ald of the police - s office, within 200 feet | there. It was desired to capture both the heriff’s office cashier and the bookkeeper, and so De- I nent is with Webster, who | tectives Holland and Shorey and Police- a quie aceable citizen, and who tried man Andrews were detailed to assist. An- | a tercation. Webster deeply rews, dressed in a laboring mar cos- th he was compelled to shoot. tume, shadowed the house all day and at T Watkins attacked J. H. 7 o’clock located the man and the woman Cave kkeeper for the Standard Lum- | in the house and they were placed under ber with whom he had had | arrest. trou months ago. When Joergensen took the rooms at 824 — e-—— DEATH ENDS LONG FAST OF AN OCTOGENARIAN Aged Woman St;icken by Paralysis Survives Forty-Eight Days Isabella street he sald he was a capital- | ist, with his wife and two children. He lived quietly and when found had $3300 on deposit in the Oakland Bank of Sav- ings, $3000 in the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Savings Bank and about $200 in money in g the house. He will be turned over to the Without Food. Sesseppa v ptad it et ing TACOMA, May 19.—After fasting i gccordance with the extradition pa- days Mrs. Elizabeth Mc- | pers. yesterday at Aberdeen, | None of the people taken Into custody ars. Her feat is considered can speak English. because of her great R 1 TP en weeks ago she suf- UNION PACIFIC STRIKERS stroke of paralysis, which HEAR NEWS OF VICTORY r absolutely helpless, al- = Report of a Settlement Reaches Chey- enne and Results in a Celebration. CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 19.—News re- ceived in Cheyenne this afternoon stated unequivocally that the Union Pacific was able to talk and make cnown. Since that time no her lips. The only thing she was able to swallow was a very lit- | tle water or wine. She was conscious to within a few hours of her death. Her body grad ¢+ wasted away until she | Strike had been settled and that the strik- became a mere adow of her former | ©'® had won on every point. A local pa- scif. She was tenderly cared for by |Per publishes it as a New York dispatch. her daughter, Mrs. James Stewart of | The report said that all non-union men | Aberdeen. | now in the Union Pacific shops would be | Mrs. McGregor experlenced no hun. | tUrned out. Great excitement prevailed | gor, was of cheerful disposition, and, |04 the strikers here have been celebrat- realizing her growing feeblene: way | I8 their supposed victory, Inquiry of Superintendent W. L. Park | and Master Mechanic Niland this even- | | ing brought out the simple response that whoily reconciled to the final ending of | her long fast ——— RELATIONS REMEMBERED | they knew of no settlement. ——————— IN WILL OF SAHLBERG| pppypLICANS CARRY DAY Body of Millionaire Miner Is to Bel IN STOCEKTON ELECTION Brought to San Francisco | Lose but Three Offices to the Demo- for Interment. crats and Win Entire CITY OF MEXICO, May 18.—The will of | City Council. August Sahlberg, the millionaire miner,| STOCKTON, May 19.—The Republi- Las been opened. He leaves his property, | cans carried the city election to-day and estimated at $3.00.000, as follows: Three- | cected all of the city officers except the sixteenths to Captain 8. A. Mathiewson, | Clerk, Superintendent of Streets and his half-brother, Brooklyn; one-sixteenth | gyrveyor. The Republicans elect the | to his aunt, Marie Kalverson of Moudovi, 1‘ following: C. E. Williams, Mayor; T. N. Buffalo County, Wisconsin; two-sixteenths | Moore, Assessor; I. S. Haines, Treas- 1o his friend, W. E. Hendry of El Oro; | uyrer; H. S. Dawson, A. G. Keagle, A. E. five-sixteenths to his friends, Thomas| Aubry, G. W. Haines and S. B. Coates, Quirk of the Isle of Man, now of El Oro; | composing the entire City Council, and five-sixteenths to Mrs. Emilia Rigby, “as | tne two members of the Board of Edu- ® slight token of her esteem and gratitude | catjon to be chosen this year. The Dem- for her constant and undeviating care and ‘ ocrats elect George Wheatley, Clerk; Eli ¥ind and disinterested attention during | confer, Superintendent of Streets, and many years.” Richard Tumelly, Surveyor. He makes provision for embalming his Twenty-five charter amendments that bedy and conveyance of the remains to | completely revolutionize the municipal 8Seu Francisco for interment. &ystem were carried by large majorities. | States. COLOMBIANS AWAIT GALL 10 COMBAT War Trumpets May Sound at Any Hour. All Is in Readiness for Revolutionary Outbreak. Powerful Leaders Will At- tempt the Unseating of Marroquin. Special Dispatch to The Call 19.—Sehor Guillermo R. LONDON, May Calderon, Colombian Consul General in Great Britain, to-day cabled to the Bo- gota Government as follows: iips nearly sold. Advise holding them. War preparing. Be on your guard.” he ships referred to are the cruisers h the Colombian Government author- ized Calderon to sell at the conclusion of recent revolution. ram, the Consul General said: erything is in réadiness for a revolu- the tele tionary outbreak against President Mar- roquin because of that officlal's reported | determination not to cail Congress to- to ratify the Panama Canal treaty, the required ratificaion get but himself. “‘General ) execute Raphael Reyes and General Fernandez, both able leaders, will head the revolutionists. They command the sympathy of Conservatives and Liberals alike. However, President Marroquin is supported by the army, official classes, the diplomatic corps, and, above all, by the United States. Should the attitude of America be sufficiently pronounced, the President may succeed in holding power. Whichever way victory may go, the true interests of the country are likely to be promoted, since a dictatorship is certain. A dictatorship is what Colombia needs. “Every €olembian possesses a rifie. - The olutionists are providing themselves h ammunition and supplies, and war will be begun the moment Reyes and Fer- re nandez speak the word.” Several Colombian revolutionists who have arrived in London express great surprise that the coup d’etat arranged some weeks ago to displace Marroquin still hangs fire. They assert that Mar- roquin’s assumption of arbitrary power means war unless the President should give way. e THIRTEEN SHOTS FIRED; FLESH WOUND IN LEG | Two Editors Burn Powder to Little Purpose in Street Duel in Durango. DURANGO, Colo.,, May 19.—David F. Day, editor of the Democrat, and Frank Hartman, a newspaper writer, fired thir- teen shots at one another on the main street of this city, without serious results. Hartman received a slight flesh wound in the leg. The shooting was the outcome of a fight Day had been making against union printers. The latter started an op- paper on which Hartman was the principal writer. The personal refer- s of the editors to each other in their respective papers have been very caustic and ‘when they met shooting was com- menced hardly without warning. Each claims the other began the duel. Day used two revolvers. No arrests have been made It was reported that Day had previously challenged Editor Higgins of the Even- ing Telegraph to mortal combat and when the shooting began it was thought that these two met, position enct ——— TEN DOLLARS’ REWARD FOR FINDING $10,000 Bootblack Picks Up a Note on Side- walk and Returns It to the Loser. PHILADELPHIA, May 19.—Carimine Camorrati, a bootblack, found a $10,000 bill on the sidewalk at Twelfth and Mar- ket streets. He returned it to the loser and received $10. A few minutes later Policeman Volner picked up at the same corner a pocket- book containing $850. He also restored it, receiving a “thank %ou.” As no one saw Camorrati find the $10,000 bill he might have kept it. Instead of doing so he handed it to his employer. A moment later a young man, shaking from nervous fright, hurried up to the stand and asked if the note had been found. When it was given him he fainted. —_———— AMERICAN DIPLOMACY SCORES NEW TRIUMPH England Will Accord Same Terms as United States in Settlement & With China. WASHINGTON, May 19.—Great Britain has decided to accora China the same terms in the settlement of the Boxer in- demnity as those accepted by the United The State Department has been informed that the English Charge in Pe- king has signified the willingness of his Government to accept payment on a sil- Explaining the | \VICTIMS OF RUSSIAN MOB NUMBERED BY HUNDREDS INSTEAD OF BY SCORES Serianss hops were destroy, EW YORK,May 19.—The World has the following from Bucharest: Two hundred and thirty-five victims of the Kishenev mas- sacre have been buried by soldiers. In some instances revolting cruelties were committed upon men, women and children. One hundred and seventy-five Jews were killed outright, and of the 385 wounded sixty afterward succumbed to their injuri ing a total of 235 murdered. That the outbreak was wholly anti-Semitic was evident, since Christians premises adjoining wrecked Jewish homes were untouched. At least 500 Jewish houses and mak- Christian were unmolested. I.ONDON, May 20.—According to a Peking dispatch to the Times, dated May Manchuria, in spite of the proclamations terial to both the Chinese and Korean | banks of the Yalu River. Trustworthy evidence, says the dispatch, confirms the | report that numbers of Chinese described as former brigands are officered by Rus- sians. They number at least 2000 and carry a badge inscribed, “Protectors of the Forest.” Reviewing the ~Manchurfan situation and commenting on the -apathy of the powers, the Times' correspondent avers the Russian demands. of Manchuria to any other power, not to alter the present administration in Mon- golia, not to ‘open any new treaty ports in Manchuria, and has given assurance not to employ forelgners in the adminis- tration of Manchuria, and whether China gives her consent or not Russia retains the telegraph line between Port Arthur and Moukden. China has agreed that Russia shall Lave full control of the customs at New- cnwang and there is little doubt that an agreement exists glving Russia exclusive muring rights in the Moukden province. When Manchuria is gone, what security wi'l there be, asks the correspondent, for the position of Japan in Korea, military or civil? The Times’ correspondent asserts that on April 22 M. Plancon handed to United States Minister Conger an offictal copy ‘of the Russian demands on China, written in his own hand. The Times, commenting on the foregoing dispatch, says: “Qur correspondent’s assertion is ample and straightforward. It can be disproved if it is false, but until it is disproved it must finally dispose of any lingering doubt as to the precise value of the of- ficial assurances of the Russian de- mands.” b g ot . FLORIDA MOB SHOOTS WHITE MAN TO DEATH Prisoner Accused of Murder of His Cousin Is Taken From Jail and Lynched. MADISON, Fla., May 19.—A mob en- tered this city last night, secured the keys to the jail from the night watch- man, took out Washington Jarvis, a white man, and lynched him. Jarvis was carried some distance from the city, tied to a tree and shot to death. He was ac- cused of murdering his cousin, John Wal- drop.’ Kills His Uncle With a Shotgun. PORTLAND, Or/, May 19.—A special to the Evening Telegram from Independ- ence, Or., says; Alexander Kerr was shot and killed last night four miles south of 19, the situation at Newchwang and in | ené assurances, is unchanged. There is | a constant flow of Russians and war ma- | that China is agreeing, one by one, to all | She has already | undertaken not to allenate any portion | of the United States. ver basis for a term of years, reserving | here by his nephew, Willlam Peacock. under bond the right to receive payment | Peacock came here and surrendered. He of any deficiency that might exist, shouid | gave no reason for killing his uncle, but it hereafter be decided that the payments | it is said they had trouble some time ago. should have been made on a gold basis. | Kerr was seated on the porch of his res- This very much strengthens the attitude | idence when Peacock commenced firing | i | RUSSI™15 POURING SOLDIERS AND GUNS | INTD MANGHURIA | Continu'e; w#;-li'l{e’Ac- i tiviti Despite Peace | “[‘/f j | | EMPEROR IN WHOSE LAND A REVOLTING CURRED, AND BRITISH OFFICIAL FICIAL REPORTS UNDERESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF VI(C MASSACRE HAS OC- CHARGES TE WHO ONDON, May 19.—The Under Foreign Secretary, Lord Cran- borne, was asked in the House of Commons to-day for infor- mation on the massacre of Jews at Kishenev, Bessarabia, a month ago. The Secretary, in reply, said that the total number of killed was about double the number given ‘in, the official Russian reports. Otherwise the facts did not differ from those already published. Lord Cranborne added: “According to the Government's infor- mation, the disturbance arose from the murder of a Christian lad, which was wrongly attributed to the Jews. The lat- ter retaliated on their assailants and the result was an attack on the Jews by a mob on Easter Sunday and Easter Mon- day, in which, it is belleved, about a hundred Jews lost their lives and many more were injured.” The Jews of London are very indignant at the assertion of Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador at Washington, that the troubles at Kishenev were the out- come of the usury of money-lenders. The editor of the Jewish World offers to give $250 to an American charitable institution named by Count Cassini if the latter can substantiate his assertion to the satisfac- tion of three Americans of standing in the United Btates. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspond- ent, In a dispatch dealing with the dis- missal of Governor Raaben of Kishenev, says the conduct of the Governor in al- lowing, by his inaction, the Jewish riots to develop into a massacre, is all the more incomprehensible because he had assured the Jews, who warned him and appealed for protection, that every pre- caution had been taken to suppress dis- order. Yet the work of murder, outrage and devastation was allowed to proceed wiithout hindrance and ‘the Jews were told that nothing could be done for them. The Kishenev massacre, continues the correspondent, has sho hat the local authorities cannot alwa: trusted to protect the Jews, yet in a recent circular | British Official Asserts That Russia Is Con- cealing Actual Number of the Slain. Interior Minister Plehwe laid down that Jewish clubs of self-defense could not be tolerated. Many Russian papers have done every- thing in their power to excite hatred ageinst the Jews and even mow are al- lowed to say that the massacre served the Jews right and urge still further repres- sive. measures against them. spending freedom is allowed to the de- ferders of the Jews. The Pravo has been warned for an article mildly reprehensive of the anti-Semite attacks and the laxity of the administration where Jews are concerned, while the author of the article was censured personally by the Minister of Justice. In justice to the Russian people, how- ever, says the correspondent, it should be pointed out that there is no sympathy on their part with these riots. The whole liberal press has expressed horror thereat ard many clergy, including Father John of Kronstadt and ‘Bishop Jitomir, have denounced them from the pulpit. g ey DISMISSAL HIS PUNISHMENT. Governor Who Permitted Slaughter of Jews Loses Post. ST. PETERSBURG, May 19.—The re- port that Lieutenant General Raaben, Governor of Kishenev, where the massa- cre of Jews occurred a month ago, had been dismissed by the Czar is confirmed. The imperial ukase dismissing the gen- eral is dated May 17. The soldiers have suppressed the Volny and have prohibited street sales of the Novosti, in both cases for contravention of the press regulations. The Russian Government has received no representations from the Government of the United States in regard to the Kishenev massacres beyond an inquiry through Embassador McCormick several days ago whether the money and supplies which were being offered from all parts of America for the sufferers would be acceptable to the Russian Government. The Foreign Office replied that while it greatly appreciated the Amerincan gener- osity there was no need for relief, as the No corre- I HARRINAN MUST BE DFERNTED PO IR IPEROIGITS | Physicians Decide to Re- move the Cause of Illnesa. Special Dispatch to The Call | NEW YORK, May 19.—The physiclans | who are attending Edward H. Harriman | bave decided that as a precautionary | measure he should undergo an operation | for appendicitis, although they say he is | in no immediate danger. This operation, | it Harriman assents, in all probability | will be performed either- at the Hotel | Netherland or at the Presbyterian Hos- | pital. ! It is considered particularly unfortunate | that an operation Is necessary at the pres- ent time, as two of Harriman's children | are 11l with scarlet fever at their home, | 1 Bast Fifty-fifth street. The two young patients ‘are isolated, and other members | of the family in consequence were obliged to abandon their residence to-night and take apartments in the Hotel Netherland. | If Harriman is in good condition and bright spirits to-morrow the operation | will take place in the morning. It is un- derstood that Dr. McBurney will perform | the operation and will be assisted by Har. | riman’s family physicians. | @i O wants of the inhabitants of Kishenev were looked after. There is no doubt that iwhlle Russian officials much regret the Kishenev massacres, they equally resent what they call the “anti-Russian agita- tion in America,” which they claim is fo- mented by the fluential English press.” ———e—— RABBI REPLIES TO CASSINI. Says That High Taxes, Not Usury, Ruin Russian Peasants. PORTLAND, Or., May 19.—Rev. Dr. N. Mosessohn, a well-known Jewish rabbi of this city, speaking of the statement by Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador to Washington, concerning the Jews in | Kishenev, said to-day: “As a native of Russia T was an eye- witness of fully twenty-five of these mas- satres and riots, and had never yet seen | measures taken by the , authorities to | quell the riots until the Jews were plun- dered, killed and their wives and daugh- ters outraged before their very eyes. The fact it is not the Jew that ruins the peasant, but the taxes—the severe means by which these taxes are extracted from the peasants by the Government, as also the silent taxes (bribes) paid to Russian Continued on Page 7, Column &, l