The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV—NO. 61. SAN FRANCISCO, FRiDAY. JULY 31, 19038. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CREEK AR TEST FOR FLYING VACHINES Novel ‘Experiment! to Be Tried in France. Attenipt Will Be Made to Descend Upon a City. Time Seems Near When Battles Will Be Fought in the Clouds. i for the as. stimates that within g the believed a er consider- WALLA WALLA CITIZENS EILL TWO-HEADED SNAKE One Head Has No Eyes, but Full Complement of Well-Devel- oped Teeth. epart from gular head a place not in - Sumnons Served Upon Receiver. TRENY J N .—A summons on former Q. Smith, d States Shipbuild- sceedings instituted in e Trust Company 16,000,000 mort- : company’s prop- ar to the one insti- & designed to reach in that State, nable September 17. —_—— Chicago &dered to New York. WASHINGTAN, July 30.—An order was d avy Department Colon at Lisbon detaching roy the European squadron divecting Wr to sall Saturday for York. The \essel will be extensively aired at Newlork and then will re- rk the flagship on compan{'s p perty The sumi place the New the Pacific statiol ‘| out a hurry order for reinforce- AND Couriers Gallop to the Towns for Aid. DPosses and Mili- tia Guard Al ‘ Outlets. ch to The Call OOL, El Dorado County, July 30.— The very latest re- port regarding the Folsom fugitives is that four of the con- ¢ been located on Web- r Creek, above Lotus. While report has not been verified, 1ough credence has been placed in it to cause all officers in this | vicinity and Auburn to hurry to | Lotus. [ | Sheriff Keena and his deputies, | ex-Sheriff Conroy of Placer, | Sheriff Mansfield of San Mateo | and Sheriff Bailey of Glenn all | passed through here this even- |ing, headed toward Webber Creek. The report that came to this |side was to the effect that the | | hotel man at Lotus went out this | -| afternoon and in the vicinity of | found a camp| where the refugees had taken breakfast or -dinner. A farmer living in that vicinity reported that four of the convicts called at his place this morning to get | drinking water. | Sheriff Bosquit, whose head- | quarters have been at Lotus and who is supposed to be in charge of operations, has ordered the | militia to the northern end of | Webber Creek. He is guarding [the lower end, and he has sent Vebber Creek ['ments all along the line. No at- | tempt will be made to capture | before daybreak. | Sheriff Keena and the various | Placer County posses will reach | the seat of operations about mid- | night. If this latest report of the ;\\'hercabouti of the lawbreakers be true, there will surely be a fight to-morrow. Aid Is Asked by the Guards Near Pine Hill Special rlispn(rj-: to The Call LACERVILLE, July 30— A telephone message was re- ceived here from Guard Seavey of Folsom Prison, who telephoned | from Lotus that a courier had just MAY BA | there, and asking Seavey to send e \ Cowaqy ~ W”Greenm ET TWO COMVICTS BETWEEN VAHKEE I, AND ridden in from Pine Hill, bring- ing the information that three or four convicts had been located aid at once. The convicts were reported to have been located by three deputy sheriffs. Telephone messages have been sent to all ad- jacent points giving this news from Lotus and requesting that reinforcements be rushed there. Pine Hill is five miles due south of Lotus and on Webber Creek. It is located south of the mountain range. The news from Lotus was fol- lowed by another message from Shingle Springs,*being sent by William Rassmussen. He tele- phoned here that Sheriff Reese had sent back a request for the mes- sage to be telephoned, and it was to the effect that the Sheriff had located five of the convicts at Webber Creek, near Gaylord bridge. POSSE IS EXHAUSTED. The Sheriff's posse was report- ed to be exhausted and aid was asked for. Gaylord’s bridge is half a mile from Pine Hill, so it is evident that the above two mes- sages refer to the same discovery of the convicts. There are more than 200armed men operating in the hunt for the band of convicts from Folsom Prison. In the region of Pilot Hill, Cool, Lotus. Greenwood and | Ime NorTw FORK OF | THE AMER/CAN RIVER i A MANHUNTERS IN EL DORADO HURRY AT NIGHT TO WEBBER TTLE AT DAWN WITH FUGITIDE CONDICTS OUR fugitives from Folsom Prison who thus far have succeeded in escaping the bullets of two hundred man-hunters in El Dorado County, are believed now to be perilously located on-Webber Creck, not very far from the hamlet of Lotus. The pursuing officers, according to dispaiches received early this morning from the scene of the chase for the murderers, feel con- fident that no mistake has been made in the identity of the men who called at farmers’ houses on W ebber Creck late yesterday afternoon. The information has been considered of sufficient value to cause a rapid mustering of all posses and troops at Lotus. The trails and stream were com- pletely guarded by midnight. victs be found a terrible battle may result. At daybreak the pursiters will search the region, and if the con- <+ -+ PROMINENT MEMBERS OF POSSES WHO ARE TAKING AN ACTIVE PART IN THE PURSUIT OF THE FOLSOM CONVICTS, AND THE HEROINE OF PILOT HILL. 1 o e Coloma, armed men have swarm- ed day and ‘night. The people who live in the vicinity of the places do not know the faces of every law officer in the hunt. To carry a gun and ask for informa- tion as to escaped convicts brings forth plenty of information. There is little trouble for friends of the escaped con- victs to learn all the plans of the law officers and com- municate them to the hunted men. Chance may operate in fa- vor of the law officers and help them to kill or capture the eleven murderers from Folsom Prison, but it will be only chance. TROOPS ON MARCH. No plans have yet been made by the Sheriffs to cut off the band of convicts from going over the “old robbers’ " trail. In response to the- call from Webber 'Creek Sheriff Bosquit, Deputy Gillis Cook and four other deputies, Lieutenant Tom Smith of Company H and fourteen mil- itiamen have 'all hurried south uty Sheriff Cook has found on the river bank underclothing which evidently had been washed and put up to dry. This clothing is said to belong to the convicts, who in haste must have left with- out it. Woman Reports That Convicts Came at Night OTUS, via Placerville, July 30.—Two of the convicts were seen last night by Mrs. Catherine Stronach, who resides with her grandmother, Mrs. Elias Brown, at Macbeth’s ranch. At g o’clock last night two rough- looking men, carrying rifles, called at the house and asked for a drink of water. They were given some and they then filled two tin cans. They had slouch hats pulled down over their eyes and Mrs. Stronach says that she could not see above their noses. They asked her if she was from Lotus down the river. Den-| Continued on Page 4, Column 3. PLOTTERS \Fleeing Convicts | i 1 | | | | | SELECT 4 Seek Rubicon | Criminal Crowd May Be Dery JSafe. Specisl Dispatch to The Call LACERVILLE, July 30.—The Call | correspondents here were fur- rished with information that indi- | cates that the band of convicts | who escaped from Folsom prison | last Monday are not trying blindly to | evade the posses and troops that are | pursuing them. The old “robbers’ trail” | is the one that the convicts made up their | minds to use when they planned their | murderous break from Folsom. | The movements of the convicts since | last Monday morning seem to prove that | the information given in The Call to-day | is correct even if it does come from the lips of an ex-convict. To mention this | man's name would mean his death at the hands of some friend of the escaping band of murderers who are being hunted for high and low by the Sheriffs of four counties and a company of the National Guard. It has been learned that the ringleaders | of the escaping band were furnished with | complete information as to the best way to go to evade capture long befors zhe} break was made. | PLAN OF CONSPIRATORS. The plot was to break from prison and! to take the old ‘“robbers’ trail,” wmcn} | | { | | house. leads from Clarksville and runs to the Rubicon country in the eastern portion of El Dorado County. If the convicts ever reach the Rubicon country they will probably not be caught, for they can hide there for an indefinite time. The country abounds with deer and all kinds of game and fish and in the summer is filled with cattle that graze there. In winter the Rubicon is covered with heavy snow, but there are plenty of the cattlemen's cot- tages and cabins that would afford shel- ter to the convicts. The old “robbers’ trail,” starting from Clarksville, runs to Mormon Island bridge, thence to Salmon Falls, Bear Mountain, Pilot Hill, thence to Greenwood, to George’s Slide, thence to Otter Creek, near the extinct volcano, thence to Forest Hill, and crossing the Middle Fork of the American River goes into the Rubicon country. This trail crosses the wildest country in this part of California and even the hardy mountaineers who live around here have never been over this trail. The ex-convict who furnished The Call with this infor- mation laughs at the probable efforts of Sheriff Bosquit and Sheriff Keena and the militla to head off the escaped des- peradoes. He sald that he had watched the progress of the chase since last Mon- day night and that the band of convicts could not be caught, as they knew what they were about. EAGER FRIENDS ASSIST. That the convicts are traveling by night is positively proved by the fact that not a sign of them has been seen since Mon- day night, when they released the guards they had captured. There are a number of ex-convicts living in El Dorado County and there is no doubt that they are throwing the posses off the track by spreading false reports that the murder- ers have been seen first at this point and Continued on Page 4, Column 3. £ NEGRO MOB CAIES DOWN EOUGATIR 'Breaks Up Booker Washington's Meeting. {Riot in Hall Prevents Delivering of a Lecture, Police Rescue Noted Leader From Colored Men Armed With Razors. Special Dispatch to The Calk BOSTON, July 30.—Booker Washing- ton's lecture to-night on the problems confronting the colored race was broken up by his local opponents, led by Editor Trotter of the Guardian, the colored or- gan. Trotter is under arrest, with eight fpllowers. and Bernard Charles is in the hospital with a razor wound i his side. The lecture started with a packed Assistant United States District Attorney Lewis (colored) presided. He had only uttered Washington’s name when Trotter yelled: “Is the rope and the torch all we shall get under your leadership?” and “Can a | man be an educator and a smooth politi- cian at the same time?” Then came a storm of hisses and some one sent for the police. Thirty bluecoats responded and Trotter was arrested. Then his adherents began yelling and cursing. More questions and epithets were hurled at Washington. Philippine Commissioner Fortune, a negro, tried to stem the tide and was cast out. Five women were arrested after the rioting began. An attempt was made to assault Wash- ington, but twenty policemen with drawn clubs beat back the rioters and escorted Washington to his cab and accompanied him to his hotel. At midnight the negroes were threaten ing to “do” Washington on sight. e " SUES ARIZONA JUDGE FOR $45,000 DAMAGES Los Angeles Attorney Holds Jurist Responsible for Loss of Val- uable Securities. LOS ANGELES, July 30.—J. R. Conroy, a local attorney, brought suit here to- day against Hon. George R. Davis, Judge of the First Judicial District of Arizona, for $45,000. Conroy, in his complaing, charges that Judge Davis unlawfully re- quired him to withdraw from. the United States mail and deposit in court a letter containing two valuable notes. This, it is charged, happened in Arizona in May of this year. These notes weré the subject matter of litigation then pending in the District Court. Conroy claims that the notes were in his possession as security for attorney’s fees due from his client Beauchamp H. Smith. One of the notes was for the sum of $000 and the other for $19,1%. Conroy put them in a letter addressed to Los Angeles, out of this court's jurisdiction. For alleged disre- spectful language addressed by Conroy to the court he was fined $100 by Judge Davis. He now places his damage from the deprivation of the nates at $5,000 and for the alleged wrong done him in the contempt proceedings at $10,000. SRR CASTRO INVITES TROUBLE WITH ALL THE POWERS Diplomatic Corps in Caracas Protests Jointly Against Affront to Spanish Consul. PORT OF SPAIN, Island of Trinidad, July 30.—Passengers who have just arrived from Caracas say that in consequence of the incident which occurred last Monday at La Guayra, where, as a result of frie- tion between the Spanish Consul and the local authorities, the exequatur of Lhe Consul was withdrawn, the diplomatic corps at Caracas met and decided to send a joint note protesting agalnst the action of the La Guayra authorities and the withdrawal of the exequatur of the Spanish Consul. They took this action, it is sajd, not for the purpose of assisting the Spanish claim before the mixed tribunal, but because of the precedent which would be established and because they considered it contrary to the protocols made with the powers and signed by Bowen, the United States Minister, acting as the representaive of President Castro. -