The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1903, Page 3

FRANCISCO CALL., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1903. DESPERATE FUGITIDES URGE THEIR PRISONERS Driver Ju}fers at; Hands of the | Mob. Fleeing Convicts| Double Upon Tracks. Epecial Dispatch to The Call y 28.—Stage y Brown, one of the fals tured ed this morn- » Guard Kienzen- ng released ct band. | s & young man | son, and the | bat he had jured there was c 2 Call correspe MYSTERY OF GORDON. | rof g s have been searching Island bridge in Red Shirt” | the ranks 4»{‘ = . Gordon was | Island bridge was | ! trt and red Shll’!k rrived at the | act special at- | s took no disadvantage | ers by re- sual method Yo word son posses orma- | d by | of | 18 received wisler, wh NEW ADVERTISEMENTS | A DOUBTING TEOMAS | Had His Falling Hair Stopped and | ff Cured Without Faith. “her, Butte, Mont., October 2, | other people, 1 ed for ¥ with dan- the last few months my | that I was cor | had 1 left- clipped | nd recommended New- onfess that I doubted ave Herpicide rial thick as ever en. uff. “Destroy the the effect.” Herpicide | g for regular | druggists. Send 10c | s mple to The Herpicide Co.. Detroit, Mick | CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought | 2o e Bears the Siguature of To spread the good news — Schilling’s Best — is o spread prosperity. Moneyback; at your grocer’s. OUER HILLS yester- | | G | taking up the trail. | | scale and that the troops would do more Sase SCENE OF THE TERRIBLE CON- FLICT THAT OCCURRED AT FOL- SOM PRISON AND A PROMINENT OFFICIAL WHO PARTICIPATED | IN THE FIGHT. Militia Unable to Render Aid to the Posses G REAT excitement prevailed for a while yesterday at the National Guard headquarters at the Grand ! Hotel. Adjutant General Stone was at his post early, expecting news every moment from the troops which had been ordered out to pursue the fleeing outlaws at Fol- som. From the nature of the dispatches received it was soon apparent that the soldiers could do but little in the way of | About noon General Stone received a dispatch from Nevada City stating that the company ordered from that place had been dismissed, as telegrams from the | Sherifts conveyéd the intelligence that the posses could handle the chase better than the troops and that the services of the | latter were not needed. | “In all probability the company now with the posses will soon be dismissed,” General Stone said yesterday, “for the men in charge of the campaign against the outlaws have dk wvered that it is simply an ordinary man hunt on a large caAPTAW OF THE YmRD harm than good. The Sheriffs and the men under their command know the coun- while the soldiers would soon t in the wilderness and their mili- ¢ skill would be utterly worthless in e of thi - been promoted to the position of Minis-which, it is sald, enabled him to commit ter of Marine, which was occupled for |acts which nobody else would have dare: twenty-three years by Bashaan P.’.ls’h-’\,} to contemplate. During his last illness, who died on Sunday. The latter was | it is sald, his house was rched, pre- known as the permanent Minister of Ma- | sumably with the idea of seizing compro- rine and was reputed to be the mising documents, but nothing was man in the Turkish empire. He was cred- | found and it is presumed that they were ited with the possession of state secrets | all placed for safe keeping, together with — the bulk of his fortune, in a private bank. It is alleged that he agreed with Russia for a consideration to prevent the up- building of the Turkish navy. OTTAWA, Ont., July 28.—Sir Wilfred Lau- rier gave notice to-night of a bill for the con- struction of a natlonal transcontinental rail- way. This Is the Grand Trunk Pacific. New Turkish Minister of Marine. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.—Djelal Minister of Public Instruction, has PLEADS HIS CAUSE AFTER HAVING HUSBAND ARRESTED Santa Rosa Woman Relents and Begs Release of Spouse That Beat Her. SANTA ROSA, July 28.—Mrs. Elsea Pa- rotti of this city refused to prosecute her husband on a charge of battery after hav- ing caused his arrest. In addition to this she paid the costs imcurred and requested the Justice to dismiss the charge against her husband. Parottl was arrested after his day's work was done Monday by Con- stable Boswell and was taken immediately to the Justice’s Court. When his wife saw her husband in the clutches of the law she broke down and wept. She pleaded for his release, but requested that a scold- ing be administered. —_———————— Electric Road for Eureka. EUREKA, July 28.—Articles of incorpor- ation of the Humboldt Transit Company were filed with the County Clerk to-day. The purpose of the company is to build twenty miles of electric road in the city of Eureka and an additional fifty-four miles to other towns in Humboldt Coun- ty. The capital stock is $300.000, of which $75,000 has been subscribed. The directors for the first year are: J. C. Bull Jr. of Eureka, George Henderson of Oakland, R. W. Bull and John C. Bull of Arcata and Charles P. Cutten of Eureka. —_—e———— SANTA BARBARA, July 28.—Several abalone fishermen were arrested in this city to-night for having abalones and shells smaller than the size prescribed by the State law and a large quantity of the shell fish was confiscated. Numerous violations have been reported in the last few weeks among the fishermen on Santa Cruz and other islands in Santa Barbara channel and the officers succeeded to-day in making a roundup. PARIS, July 28.—The approaching marriage of Marine Minister Pelletan to a school teacher, whose name is not given, is announced. OLSOM, July 28.—Guard O. Seavey, who was among those made prisoners by the escaping convicts, gives this account of the fight at Pilot Hill: “When the fight commenced last evening at Pilot Hill I was on the box of the wagon. A bullet struck the side of my face and Hop- 1 ton was also seared by a bullet. hour and a half. When the firing by the posse com- the best thing. to-do. menced the convicts tried to make the guards get in front of them to act as shields. I crouched in the bottom of the wagon, but the convicts kicked me pretty hard and | tried to make me get up. I feel sure that Allison is the convict who was killed in the fight at Pilot Hill. He was shot in the body, and when he realized that he | was mortally wounded he cried out to the rest of the convicts: ‘Well, boys, it is |all up with me. Here goes” Then he placed a revolver to his head and fired, and i he blew almost the top of his head off. Klenzendorf says that it was Murphy who 1‘ was killed, but I am sure it was Allisqp, as I knew him well by sight. | road we had come over. “While the firing was continued from the sides of the road the convicts made General Overseer McDonough wave his white handkerchief as a sign of truce, and after a while the posses stopped firing on the wagon. As the cdnvicts jumped from the wagon the posses started firing again, killing one of the horses and wounding the other three. The convicts realized then they would have to go ahead on foot. They grabbed the guards and held on to them with one hand, and each held his rifle with the other. They all threatened ps with instant death if we tried to get away from them and joim the posses. A “The men of the posses must have recognized us, as they knew when to fire. B —— back to the hotel. the gulches.” GUARD SEAUVEY TELLS OF THE PILOT HILL FIGHT. The convicts started to march up the road, with the guards as their prisoners. We got into the brush and then it grew very dark. We would go for a little distance and then stop, and then go on again, then rest; and this went on for more than an “Finally, at half-past 9 at night, the convicts held a council as to what was Convicts Woods, Theron and Eldridge said the game was up, and the best thing to do was to let us go and for the prisoners to scatter. | Seavis, the colored convict, was not satisfied with this and demanded that all the guards be killed first. Finally the better counsel of the majority prevailed, and Woods, Theron and Eldridge took their rifles and disappeared in the brush. The rest of them would not allow Seavis to shoot, and it was about 10 o'clock last night | that they told us to get out of their camp and get away. “We did not waste any time, but struck the road and stumbled along on the We rested for a time and then as soon as it commenced to get daylight we hurried as best we could for the hotel at Pilot Hill. some of the posses coming along the road, but we soon convinced them who we were, and we finally reached the hotel. We walked about six miles in the night “What became of the convicts after we left them last night we do not know. Their guns were damaged and many of them were useless, as they had used the wrong ammunition, and the weapons had jammed. They have no food with them, unless they have secured some this morning. The country up there is very wild and the ranches are far apart. Itis very hilly and ’Ehere is no water, except in —_— We met | —_—_— BY THREAT OF TORTURE AND DEATH Raid of a House Precedes a Combat. Lead From Rifles Sings Around Slayers. Spectal Dispatch to The Call OLSOM, July 28.—Joseph Foster, the Portuguese rancher, living at Nig- ger Hill, four miles from Folsom, whose house was raided by the band of es- caping convicts and his wagon and four Horse team stolen, and who was forced to drive for the desperadoes, re- turned to Folsom at § o'clock this even- ing. His story is as follows: T was coming down with two four- horse loads of wood toward Folsom from my place when I was met by the band of escaped convicts. This was right above the house of Mr. Norris at Nigger Hill One of the convicts came up to my wagon and told me to stop and unhitch my team and hitch the horses to Mr. Slotman's wagon, of which they already had posses- sion. “Slotman’s wagon was loaded with wood and they made myself and his two hired men unload the wood. Then they made me climb on the seat and drive. They forced me to rush the horses from the place where they captured me, up to Derrington’s ranch, where they let me take my time until they got to Pilot Hill in the afternoon. LOOTING OF A STORE “When we got to Pilot Hill all the con- victs got out and made me drive down to the hotel. They then walked to the hotel and made the people there prepare dinner for all of us, convicts and guards and others. They heiped themselves to every- thing In the store. They remained there from 2 till about 5 o'clock In the evening. When the stage from Auburn passed, shortly after 5, they ordered me to get on the seat of the wagon and for the rest of the captured men to get on board They ordered me to take the road which led to Lotus. “When I was going around the corner of the schoolhouse ome of the comvicts | accidentally discharged his revolver. I went about one hundred feet farther on, when all of a sudden bullets began fly on all sides of us from all directions The convicts spoke up and yelled at me to whip up the horses and said they would shoot me if T did not hurry. “The convict who was on the seat with | me jumped off the seat to the ground and punched the horses in the ribs with a rifle to make them ga faster. Then one of the wheelers was shot by the posse in the | forward foot. It fell down and got up again and then the animal was shot through the stomach and dropped dead Two of my other horses were also shet and injured. “In the meantime I jumped off the seat and then the firing stopped in a little | while. The negro convict, Seavis, then wanted to have the convicts to each grab one of the captured men by the neck, hold him in front of them and return the fire. ‘Frenchy’ Theron and Woods order- ed Seavis not to do this, but to get to the woods. Then we all got out of wagon and the convicts took hold of us, but they did not fire on the posse in the trees on the sides of the road. TRAVEL OVER HILLS. “We got into the wooas and started to climb the top of a hill. Some of the con- victs became exhausted and we had to stop until they could go on. They took us across the hill to a place called Rock Canyon. The ground was so steep it was impossible to walk. We had all of us to slide all the way. We got into the can- yon and then the convicts got us into a growth of large willow trees. Some of the guards accidentally slid over a rock into a pool of water. We then went over another hill and the guards were com- pelled to help some of the convicts, as they were completely exhausted “When we'got to the top of the second hill we all sat down to rest, as we were almost played out. They kept us there until after 10 o’clock last night when they held a council among themselves. They then told us to take to the woods and g0. We left them there and we came back. We followed the ridge for about three miles and came to some open ground. As we were afrald we might come across some strange officers who were hunting for the convicts, we laid down and slept until daylight. Then we came back to the hotel at Pilot Hill and passed the posses going along the road and we told them where we had left the convicts. At Pilot Hill we all got some thing to eat and I came into Folsom with General Overseer McDonough and the other four guards who had been re- leased.” —_——————————— MRS. STANFORD WILL SOON START AROUND THE WORLD Founder of University Contemplates Year and a Half of Travel. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 2. Mrs, Stanford has formulated a definite plan to leave her university home August 6 for a trip around the world. She will sail on that date from San Francisco for Australia, where she will pay a visit to her brother-in-law, Thomas Welton Stan- ford, who has made numerous gifts to the university. From Australia her route will lle through India and other tropical countries to Europe, whence she plans to return after about a year and a hal Mrs. Stanford undertakes the trip the sake of rest, Intending to leave the sole care of university matters in the hands of Dr. Jordan and the board of trustees. She will be accompanied by her private secretary, Miss Bertha Berner; a maid and perhaps one of her relatives. As emphasizing her good health and her courage in starting on such a journey it is an Interesting fact that Mrs. Stanford will celebrate her seventy-elghth birth- day during her Australlan voyage. —_————————— Reform School for §oy Burglar. SANTA ROSA, July —Alvin Butter- wick, the 16-year-old self-confessed burg. lar, who robbed the storehouse of the Oc- cidental Hotel of this city, was sent to the reform school at Ione for five years this afternoon by Judge Burnett. The lad told a sad story. He said he had left his home in Minneapolis with a eir- cus, which he afterward deserted. He wanted to go to the reform school t¢ learn a trade. WASHINGTON, July 28.—The American delegates to the convention called to meet ar Geneva September 15 next to revise the rules of the Red Cross relative to warfare have no- tifled by the Swiss Minister here of an indefinits postponement of the convention. N reason fs esigned.