The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1903, Page 1

Call. FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 25 1903 PRICE FIVE CENT HOWARD'S DEATH REDEALS CONSPIRACY OF ENEMIES auders. mining claims in Alaska. He dared not walk the streets after -— VAS HOW ARD of Victoria, B. C., whose body was found with two bullet- d and a fractured skull, behind a barn in West Berkeley last Saturday, manifest fraud on the pari-of New York speculators. He had expressed the fear that he would be shot by For a wyear he had dark. cHERRY Howam o "HE. OF AD smiw Daan T Papers of Deceased | Dis:tose Details of Fraud. Days Before His End He Doices Fear of flssassms. PR S he death Howard, whose arn in West f a loward pon whic i i the lor ni behind Berkeley. They show which Captain Howard was how of ng to lay thelr hands on the prize RICH CLAIus THE PRIZE. P ¥ rd was the po: 4 ning property sit ver { British Columbia as a reward ervices nmrrn") in the R 24 It is about th drama which had | s barn in West | man’s papers, now in | . orities, it is shown that 1 he was in New | York end £ to form a company to work his on the Indian River. @hrough his attorney, George P. Clay, whose office is 1% Broadway, he be- came introduce a speculator by the name of Daniel F. Coholan of 271 Broad- way Coholan became terested in Captain Howard's scheme. and, organizing a com- pany from = a group of wealthy finaficlers, prepared to consider Captain Howard’s offer. In a-copy of a letter dressed to Cobolan it appears that How- erd asked that a necessary working cap- al be secured and that he be paid $50,- as soon as the corporation was ‘ormed. Continued on Page 2, Column 4. | Je 8 ,4;_, MEOAL OF WONGR- FOUND IN D <y ot MINING MAN AND EX-SOLDIER WHO WAS A& FOU DEAD AT | ' AND PORTRAIT OF + HIS DAUGHT TOGETHER I OF HIS DECORATIONS. ENGINEERS ~ SAE TRAINS FROM WRECK Special Dispatch to The Call. MERCED, July 24—An extraordinary but futile attempt at train wrecking was made to-day on the Southern Pacific. Rall- road, about twenty miles north of Merced #nd near Delphi Station. The southbound train, a freight, found about fifty fishplates across the rails. The train was running slowly and the obstruc- tion was discovered by the engineer. The encountered fourteen which were seen n time to prevent accident. Information was given to the Sheriff # o'clock a special train, carry- ing Sheriff Swan and Under Sherift Moore a posse of twelve armed citizens, left Merced for the scene. A few miles this side of where the ob- structions were placed two detachments were stationed with instructions to arrest anybody seen along the track. The train proceeded slowly and obstructions were' again found Two hobos were taken in charge who said they had seen boys at some distance who appeared to be doing something on the track. The tramps will be held as witnesses. The footprints of barefoot boys and the hoofmarks of horses were found mnear where the obstructions were placed. From the information given by the hobos and from other sources it is believed that the decd was committed by two - brothers, aged about 10 and 14 years, who were herding horses in the vicinity and who live about a mile and a half from the place where the obstructions were placed. Guards were placed on the tracks by train s following tes across the rails, and at § anc KING GO SLUMMING IN DUBLIN Special Cable .to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1003, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. DUBLIN, July 24.—King Edward's Dub- lin. slums visitywill long be remembered. Refusing to be bound by the official pro- gramme he went from one temement to another, talking to the humble dwellers and manifesting real interest in their wel- tare, As he walked through the streets, hat in hand, the enthusiasm of the people knew. no bounds. It had been arranged that the King should visit two of the corporation tenements, but this did not satisfy him_ and, to the astonishment of all, he pursued his investigations in a thoroughgoing fashion. A noteworthy incident occurred as the King was leaving St. Patrick’s Cathedral. An old woman, struggling through a dense crowd which had gathered at the entrance .and reaching forth her right hand, endeavored to get close to the King, her jmtention evidently being to shake hands. Several officlals were about to push her away when the King interposed, saying: ‘“Leave her alone, - God bless her.” £ \ch a fervent “God hlesa your Majes- " the old woman then saluted the King, who shook her hand warmly. J dn the course of his round the King called upon a2 man who had been out of “work eight months and gave him a five-pound note. _After visiting one tene- ment house the King walked quickly from the street into another poorer one and up a narrow alley leading to a court, where ‘he spent several minutes. When he reappeared a crowd of poor people in the street outside rushed forward and Roadmaster Bulger and the boys wlll be |«cheered again and again. arrested in the morning, When the King stepped into the room WAR SIGNG N ORIENT MULTIPLY '‘Russia Increases the Manchurian Garrisons. Constant Arrival of Reinforcements at Newchwang. | English and Japanese Of- ficers Start for Border of Korea. PRSI - 8 Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, July 2.—The Standard this morning prints a Tientsin dispatch which says that the Newchwang trains are| crowded with Russian troops going in the | direction of Port Arthur: that these | trains are taking precedence over normal | trafic and that heavy guns and ‘other | artillery are being sent, The Times' Peking correspondent says: | There ,are incessant shipments of coal and food stuffs to Port Arthur and fever- | ish drilling and gun practice on the Rus- | sian side; PEKING, July 24.—Reports continue to | be received here that Russia is constant- Iy increasing the number of her troops in Manchuria, and that Russian soldlers | are passing through' Newchwang, en | route to Port Arthur. Admiral Alexieff, | the Russian commander, is sald to be | strengthening the garrisons at Dalny and other places ¢n the Liaotung péninsula | With the object, it is believed, of having his troops so disposed that they may be | speedily mobolized in the event of the | destruction of the Manchurian raflway | along the northern border of Liaotung | peninsula by the Japanese, a hostile oper- | ation which, it is admitted, the Japanese | are competent to perform at any time. A number of English and Japanese offl- | cers® have gone to the Korean border to | learn if the Russians are fortifying there. 2 The Chinese text of mmmw‘ treaty with the umfl is ‘helng- reviged. It is hp; t fhie qmy wm 4 be signed at ar-early date, a hope which | is encouraged by Prince Ching, president | of the Board of Foreign Affairs. | By command of the throne the Board | | of Rites has prepared a programme for {n week's celebration of the Emperor's | | birthday, beginning on Aongust 17. - GIVES RUSSIA MORE TIME. | E ‘ | Japan Will Not Invxte Hostilities Before October. LONDON, July 24—Japan has decided | to adopt the policy of waiting and watch- | ing Russia, advocated by Great Britain. In the meantime she will urge China to | carry out the assurances given to the United States respecting Manchuria and will endeavor to obtain the opening of ad- ditional ports. At the Japanese Legation | here the following statement was made: 1 can assure you that the talk of war be- | tween Russia and Japan is an invention. Japan | has not the least intenti:n of taking that course, | sie proposes to wait and maintain her attitude | of watchfulness. Japag and America are act- | ing on the same lines and it would be difficult for any other power to withstand the pressure they and Great Britain could apply. | It is said that Japan intends | nothing until October, when the final | evacuation of Manchuria must occur. The | faflure of Russia to withdraw from Man- | | churia would be followed by a serious movement on the part of Japan. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegraph Com- pany from St. Petersburg, dated July 20, says: “The attitude of Japan and the warlike tone of the majority of the Japanese press have attracted much attention in official circles here. It is declared by the best informed people that there is no likeli- hood of war, certalnly not upon Russia's initiative. It is sald that Russia has every motive for desiring peace, chiefly for financial reasons, with which are wound up a desire for extensive domestic reforms, which the government considers to be the most efficacious manner of dis- ‘arming internal discontent and nipping the revolutionary propaganda in the bud. “It is belleved to be impossible, from the Russian standpoint, for Japan to em- hark in a contest with Russia single- handed, and it is' not thought she will secure the material support of Great Britain or the United States. Neverthe- less, Russia is taking every precaution to strengthen her military and naval position in tHe Orient, belleving this to be the surest means of discouraging Japanese aggression. “M. Lessar's Port Arthur conference is said to have dealt chiefly with these measures, though they are declared to be entirely precautionary, war being the furthest thing from the wishes of the Russlan government.' L e e e e e e S R S T ) occupied by Joseph Healy he found Healy busily engaged at his occupation of.hoot making. Healy subsequently glvlnF an account of the visit, sald: “1 was partly going on with a pair of boots when the King came in, but of course he didn’'t mind a workingman at his work. I sald I was very much jobliged to his Majesty for visiting a poor man's room."” The r folk of the neighborhood crowded along the path, cheering contin- uously. Children, too—little bare-legged, hatless and unwashed children—who never hoped to see a real live King pass by their gutter playground, joined in the demon- stration,” while from windows and door- ~ways men and, women shouted a chorus ‘ot “Good luck to’ye." : to do PLANNING MIGHTY TIMBER Walker, lumber kings. output of the West. COMBINE ON PACIFIC COAST ILLIONS of acres of timber lands situated in the coast States are involved in a gigantic deal which, it is reported, is being engineered by a syndicate which includes E. H. Harri- man and James J. Hill, the railroad magnates, and Frederick W e The design of this syndicate, it is asserted, is to control the entire lumber t Harriman 1s said to be most active in promoting the scheme and is represented Viere by E. W. Eberlin of New Y ork, who is at the Palace Hotel. erhaeuser and T. B. AR Harriman and Hill Said to Be Behind Big Scheme. If Successful They Will Have Strong Monopoly. A ber interests of the West, is said to be one of the latest ambitions of E. H. Harriman, head of the railroad syndicate. According to the best of in- formation, the railroad magnate, works ing in harmony with several millionaires, has set his_project in motion and is rapldly gathering under his control. the major portion of the largest timber tracts in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Associated with Harriman in the big undertaking are said to be James J. Hill, president «of the Northern Pacific, -who usually fights Harriman on every possible excuse; < Frederick ~Weyerhaeuser ~ of Minneapolis, who is familiarly known as the Rockefeller of the timber world and who is also closely allled with Hill in the northern railroad enterprises; T. B. Walker of Minneapolis, also an old busi- ness assaclate of Hill; wealthy timber man of Grand Rapids, and a number of other rich men of in- fluence in the various timber sections of Western States. HARRIMAN'S AGENTS AT WORK. The scheme is sald to have originated in the mind of a close friend bf Harriman's more than three years ago and received prompt consideration from the magnate, who was not slow in studying the feasi- bility of the undertaking. At once he started his agents westward to work out the plan, whi¢h has thus far progressed successfully. Weyerhaeuser at once fell in with the project and proved a valuable assistant to Harriman, securing the co- operation of Hill and finally that of Walker. { It was about this/time that the last ves- tige of the once great timber belts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was rapidly disappearing before the axes of the lumbermen, and they were already looking to the far West for another great supply. ‘he Weyerhaeusers—father and son—had already begun making purchases of timber land in Washington, where they have now established mills.' Under the corporation: name of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Com| of Tacoma they have acquired more than eight million acres of land. HOLD FOR BETTER PRICES. T. B. Walker had also been busy - in Northern_ California and Southern Ore- gon, whefe he has by now invested in excess of a million dollars. Blodgett had GIGANTIC combine, having in view a monopoly of the vast tim. Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Jacob Blodgett, a |. \W“\ VI "\“\ “».‘ii\T»R?‘iW TO CONTROL PROMINENT RAILROAD MEN AND TIMBER LAND MAGNATES WHO ARE REPORTED TO BE MEMBERS OF A SYNDICATE THAT PLANS ENTIRE LUMBER OUTPUT OF THE PACIFIC COAST. | | 1 | | TEXRS TOWN ‘GIVEN SHOWER BATH OF OIL Special Dispatch to The Gall. HOUSTON, Tex., July 24.—This has been a day of intense excitement at Sour Lake. ' The business center was at mid- day treated to a shower-bath of ofl. To- night . Wall street is running in oil, the plank walks are submerged and not a gleam of artificlal light has been per- mitted in the business center lest the all pervading gas fumes generating from the lakes of oil should become ignited. Such a catastrophe would mean the destruction of. this town of 9000 population and per- haps of a large per cent of the fleld. Not in the history of this field has such a gusher come in. It is located on the Kelster-Geudry tract, in the center of the business section, and just off Wall street. For a month the well has been under way. Last night oll sand was touched and ope- rations were suspended until this morn- ing, when bailing was commenced. A fair- 1y good well was anticipated, but there were no indications of a tremendous gusher. There was a mighty, deafening roar, and mud, water and ofl shot eighty feet over the derrick from the six-inch pipe, The workmen ran for their lives, and a ‘stampede followed on Wall street, which was thronged. A stiff wind from the west alded to turn the whole down- pour into the street. Bankers, oil men and sightseers had no. time to escape. They were drenched from head to foot. ‘Within thirty minutes three squares of the section were completely bathed in the gréasy fluid. The board walks in places floated, and to cross the street meant to wade in oil knee deep. It raised sufficiently to flood the first floors of many business houses. The roar of es- caping gas was tremendous. The drillers. worked through the deluge and within three hours had the well shut off and ‘capped. BULGARIN'S RULER FLEES T0 VIENNA BELGRADE, July 4.—Prifice Ferdi- nand, accompanied by his children, passed through this gjty on his way to Vienna. BERLIN, July 24.—Notwithstanding the semi-official dental that Prince Ferdi- nand's departure from Servia amounts to a flight, the Vosiche Zeitung, which gets well authenticated - private information from Bulgaria, says it bélieves that the rumors of the Prince’s flight have some basis and regards it as probable that he has left the country until the existing ex-~ citement has subsided. It prints to-day a special dispatch from Sofla, saying it is openly asserted there that an’attempt against Prince Ferdinand's throne is mot impossible, Servia’s example having had a profound Influence on the Prince's enemies. LONDON, July 35.—A Vienna dispatch Jjust received says that Prince Ferdinand passed through Budapest at 10 6'clock this morning, seeing nobody, and proceeded immediately to Ebenthal. in the Austrian Alps, where his mother lives, taking with him a numerous suite. It is said in some quarters that Prince Ferdinand warned the Austrian and Russian Governments that he would not return unless the powers granted the application . of Macedonian reforms, but this statement is not con- firmed. —_——————————— RIOTERS MAKE ATTACK ON AN EMPRESS’ PALACE VIETORIA, B. €., July 4. —Mail advices were received by the steamer Tremont, \which arrived to-day from the Orfent, that 200 rioters attacked the Enipress Dowager's summer palace near Peking on July 7 and a body of troops was dis- patched to the scene by Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai. The rioters ned on the arrival of the troops > i