The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1903 CRIMINALS NOW SEEKING REFUGE IN EASTERN AMADOR MAY SOON B M. PLAN A NEW REBELLION A G Chicagoan Tells Amaz- ing Things About the Islands. EEEE He Declares, Are g Natives for War. | PR - S y Carry Rifles to the a Merchant Who le Sam’s Insu- terviewer ——————— ARE ENLISTED. tv last Sat- s have reported to WORKE FOR THE HOUNDS. Dogs An Be Turned Loose at Web- the all that is s Convict ized and 1 will be put on the trail. Shas Reward. r Increases TO, Aug -Governor Par- reward for ADVERTISEMENTS. ears It is a wonderful soap that takes hold quick and does no harm. No harm! It leaves the skin soft like a baby’s; no alkali in it, nothing but soap. The harm is done by alkali. Still more hatm is done by not washing. 3o, bad soap is better than none. What is bad soap? Im- perfectly made; the fat and alkali not well bal- anced or not combined. What is good soap? Pears’. S"‘.nffcvfllhelfll .1 g's Best briag-in a new era in trade. So faras they go, the grocer’s business is perfectly easy and perfectly safe: Uniform price and jua- lity make it easy, and mongy- back makes it safe, ‘ | the militia at the Grand Victory mine are | distriet, | | er. - - FISHT o —_—— Continued From Page 1, Column 6. culations of the events of the past few days, five of the convicts who ambushed | somewhere on the middle fork of the Co- sumnes River southwest of the town of Grizzly Flat. The convicts Seavis and | Case are still in the region of the Web- | ber Creek district, where the creek runs | into the south fork of the American Riv- | These desperadoes, one of whom is the motorious and bloodthirsty negro, were seen Saturday night about four miles due -enst of Salmon Falls. They took dinner at the Chapman ranch and ad- mitted their identity. GORDON ENTIRELY LOST. “Red Shirt” Gordon has not been seen since he dropped away from the band of thirteeh murderers when Guard Ryan of | Folsom prison fired om the outlaws at Mormon Island bridge. Gordon is prob- ably in hiding by this ‘time in some lar city. Still three more of the convicts are | thought to be on the middle fork of the Americarr River, northeast of the Span- | ish Dry Diggings, which are near the Placer County line. One of the convicts is probably in. Nevada to-day, as all re- ports indicate that one of the outlaws | worked his way clean across El Dorado County and struck out on the Tahoe road, | The air fs stili filled with rumors of | all kinds d the work of the Sheriffs | and posses Is most arduous. Every ru- mor and report that comes in has to be | | Lotus to | ing. investigated, for otherwise it would seem | as if the entire malodorous population of | Folsom prison was at large. | An ance of the hard work of the shown by the report that came m Dutch Flat late last night | had been exchanged between | and two convicts near Dutch Flat Cemetery. Sherift Keena of Placer County rode with his posse all night from Dutch Flat, while another posse sped over the road from Auburn in order to be in the expected battle this morn- Early news from Dutch Flat this morning showed that there was nothing | whatever in last night's report that a| convict had been wounded and one of | the posse shot. VEXATIONS FOR POSSES. So with a report that the body of a convict had been found near Auburn this morning. Investigation showed that this was founded on the report made in Pla- cerville yesterday that one of the con- viets who had ambushed the militia had been found on the hill near the Grand Victory mine. The report from Placer- ville reached Auburn and in going from one person to another it was distorted. A search is being made of the hill where the soldiers were ambushed in order to see If one of the convicts is lying dead there, but so far no signs have been dis- covered. Every possible outlet from El Dorado County is carefully guarded by 500 armed men, but thers is still the pos- »Conflicting Tales| | Vex the Active Officers of Law| sibility of the murderers who killed the two soldiers slipping through the lines, P%%)Efl fig 'r'{fi{L'_WAY: 3‘0 “PLECERVILLE ¥ = a®a E SURROUNDED BY VETERAN Posses Are Afield at Daybreak, but Have Futile Trip PR S Desperado Roberts Crosses Summit of High Sierras ——— fpecial Dispatch to The Call. LACERVILLE, Aug. 3—Deputy Sherift Cook of El Dorado Coun- ty, Constable Leake of New- castle, Placer County, and three companions left town before daylight and went to the Pa- cific House, twenty miles east, on the road to Tahoe, for the purpose of tralling five supposed convicts who appeared at the station named last night. The report ‘was discovered to be without fundation. It was learned, however, that Convict Roberts passed the summit of the Sierras four days ago, and has undoubtedly passed out of Carson and Virginia City before to-day. Roberts broke away from his companions and set out on an almost straight line east, avolding the towns. He carried a bundle, but no gun. He stopped | several hours at a house this side of Sum- | mit. At Summit he met a party of twen- ty young people who were camping. He ‘was fed by them and left in the direction of Nevada. Carson is distant from Sum- mit about forty miles, and Roberts had plenty of time to get there since Thurs- day. A dozen people along the road, who see S0 few strangers that they remember them, identified Roberts’ photograph as that of the man observed by them, as did also the camper: Scenes in the El Dorado Hills Where Hundreds of Armed Men Are Searching for Folsom Felons. Webber Creek Soli Shows Traces «f Traveling Felons Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LACERVILLE, Aug. 3.—Lieu- tenant Kip, Charley Jolly and thelr Folsom guards have met no success in the Lotus, and Webber Creek districts to-day in their hunt for escaped con- victs. The posse of sixteen men was divided this morning into detach- ments of two br three men each and hills around Orellis and Jurgen's postoffice were diligently patrolled, but results were not encouraging. Tracks were found at various points and some were thought to be those of outlaws, It 15 generally agreed that convicts Case and Seavis at least are still in the neighborhood of Webber Creek. Jolly be- lieves that more outlaws ¥et are wan- dering around In the same section. This locality has been searched for five days by different posses with no suc Guards began work at daylight and toile until noon when they returned to Lotus for dinner. A long conference was held after which the wearied searchers rested. Great secrecy was maintained about maneuvers, as most of the leaders in the great manhunt are certain that outside aid and information have been furnished the convicts. At twilight guards set out from Euhlenkamp's store for the cross road three miles south of Lotus. The plan is to statien two men in eight lonely houses in Webber Creek district in hope of catching the convicts who may call. SR g VISIT OF FUGITIVES. Convicts Boldly Confess Their Iden- tity at a Ranch. PLACERVILLE, Aug. 3.—Charley Dal- ton came into town this afternoon from Alabama Flat, which is situated three miles due west from Garden Valley, with a story of the visit of four convicts to the ranch of David Hume yesterday afternoon. Hume was alone in his house. Four men, who admitted that they were es- caped convicts, pointed a revolver at his head and demanded a meal. Hume obeyed, and sald that his visitors seemed to think that “Smoky,” as Seavis is called by his companions, was captured at Webber Creek. They said nothing about having seen any posses, but were on their guard, -and were avoiding all centers of population. When they had finished the men took a few articles lylng about the house and barn that might be useful and, dlsap- peared. Hume said he did not notice which direction his visitors made for. All he cared about was to see them go and go quickly. L e e e e e ] Amador Sheriff and His Posse Expect a Battle Continued From Page 1,Cols. 8 and 4. force of twenty men. I belleve that we will have a brisk fight.” Norman was with Deputy Sheriff Thom- as Jackson of Amador at the Evans ana Sonntag round-up. Jackson is one ‘of the best known gunfighters and trailers in California. He has a wooden foot, which, however, does not impede his mountaln work materially. He is as happy as a clam at high tide to get into so lively a hunt, and asserts that he will come back with some scalps. The outlaws traveled most of the day and night following their departure from Hanks’ Exchange over the roughest kind of country and arrived at a point a mile and a half from the Copper Lead mine at 10:30 o'clock last night. They visited the cabin of George Esty, commonly known as “Dutch Henry,” and held him up at the point of a rifle. He was compelled to prepare a meal for the desperadoes, who ate heartily. After sup- per thev went through the old man's house and took practically everything he possessed. Warning him that he would be killed if he should report the affair, they strode off in the darkness up the bed of the river, whicn is nearly dry at this geason of the vear. Seavis, the negro, was not in the gang, and as he was seen at Chapman’s only a few hours after the fight it is certain that he was not with the men who killed the militiamen, as w first thought. News of the hold-up in the neighbor- hood of the Copper iead mine was brought to Placerville by J. H. Blakely, a veteran stage driver, who got his in- formation from Dick Lyons at Somerset. Slight information on the same subject was received by Sheriff Bosquit over the telephone from Pleasant Valley, which is fourteen miles from the scene of the rob- bery. Stage Drivegp Blakely's statement is as follows: WILD RIDE OF LYONS. “I. got into Somerset early this morn- ing and saw Dick Lyons riding horse- back down the road like mad. He shout- ed that he was coming for help to get the escaved convicts who stood up and robbed “Dutch Henry” a mile and a half below the Copper Lead mine on the Co- sumnes River. He was after Sheriff Nor- man and four other men from Amador County, who spent last night at” Bakers Bar, and who intended to make Grizzly Flat to-day to head off the convicts. “Lyons sald that the outlaws knocked at the door of his cabin and when he appeared they told him to dig up some grub and be quick about it. They held a gun on him while he cooked supper. After they had eaten they went through the shack and gobbled up blankets, food and even a lot of clothes. They said they were convicts. They lay around half an hour or so and then took on up the Mid- dle Fork of the Cosumnes toward Grizaly Flat. REGION VERY ROUGH. “There is no road to that village and the convicts must have taken a mountain trail if they did not keep along the river bed. There are no houses to speak of beyond the Flat, and if the outlaws are careful fthey can get to the hills and over into Nevada. They can grub stake most any day, shooting game. Besides there will not be any one who will tackle the job of hunting them in the mountains. It is worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. They came down from the Cooper mine to Fair Play and then up to Somerset, where he ran into me.” 0. H. McCoughey, manager of a gold mine two miles up the Cosumnes from the Copper Lead mine, has been in Pla- cerville for a week, and was much ex- cited yesterday when he heard that the desperadoes were heading toward his camp. His wife and children and twenty employes are at the mine and are in no way prepared to protect themselves from the outlaws. McCoughey says that his people will have sense enough to feed reckless murderers if they arrive and he will make no objection if half the camp is carried away into the Sierras. 3 £l S Mourning Hundreds View the Bodies of Soldier Dead Spectal Dispatch to The Call LACERVILLE, Aug. 3.—Flags are at halfmast and an air of mourning pervades this city on account of the untimely end- ing of Festus Rutherford and Griffith Jones, the two members of Company H of the Second Regiment, National Guard of California, who so bravely met death whileshunting for some of the escaped felons from Folsom prison last Saturday. The bodies of the two men were viewed by hundreds of people yesterday at the undertaking establishment of Coroner ‘Winchell. This morning Captain Wister of the militia mounted a guard of honor and this guard’ will be maintained during the night. The body of Rutherford was removed from Placerville this morning to his mother's home at Missouri Flat, as she and her children desired te have the remains of their loved one in the home for one night before the Interment Is held. Jones' body remains at the Cor- oner’s office and unless word is rece.ved to-day from Jones' wife, from whom he was separated, the militia company will carry out its plans and give the remains a military funeral. The wife of Jones and her little girl live in San Francisco, but no one has been able to locate them. The body of Rutherford will be buried to-morrow morning and that of Jones in the afternoon. Brief services will be held at the Rutherford home and the body wiil then be brought to Placerville, where it will be met by the militia company and members of the Fraternal Brotherhood. Services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church and the Rev. George T. King will officiate. The funeral will be a military one and all honors will be ren- dered to the dead hero. The interment will be at Union Cemetery. Tfhe funeral of Jones will take place In the afternoon and military honors will be a tribute to the heroic young man who gave his life while serving as a volunteer to enforce the law. The body of Philip Stringer has been taken care of by his friends and the funeral of the man who was accidentally shot will be private. MAN-HUNTERS FRUITLESS == BALLOTING FIR POPE Sixth Vote Is Taken by the College of Car- dinals, Throng Gathered Before the Vatican Is Again Dis- appointed. — e Tllness of the Spanish Cardinal, Her- Tero y Espinosa, Has Taken a Critical | ./~ &y Turn. iy ———e ROME, Aug. 3.—After three full days of deliberation, during which six ballots have been taken, the members of the conclave still remain shut up in the Vat- ican without having selected a successor to Leo XIIL. The futility of both the ballots taken to-day was evidenced by the smoke which arose from the Sistine Chapel. This mute signal +his evening was watched by a large crowd, which partly filled the Square of San Pletro, and which, it was estimated, numbered about 15,000. Great disappointment was manifested, and when the little puff of smoke appeared there were loud eries, not only of disappointment, but evem of derision. Rome Is becoming extremely impatient over the delay in the selection of the new Pope, concerning which there appears to be no definite expression, owing to the rigld secrecy with which the proceedings within the conclave are being guarded. To-day practically the only news that came from the Sistine Chapel was that of the extremely grave iliness of Cardinai Herrero. It is presumed, however, that | the other aged Cardinals also are suffer- ing from their prolonged incarceration and the intense heat. NO BREAK IN FACTIONS. Among the Embassadors and ecclesias- tics there exists a general opinion that, it only for the sake of saving the aged Cardinals, much may be sacrified within the conclave to arrive at a speedy con- clusion. On the other hand there are a few pessimistic enough to believe tMat the hostility among the factions in the Sacred College is so bitter that the strug- gle may be continued for several weeks. Out of all the rumors and gossip afloat concerning what is transpiring in the con- clave the most persistent report Is to the effect that the Rampolla and Serafino Van- nutelll factions have remained compact and that the attempt of one faction to press forward a new candidate in the hope of breaking the strength of the other has falled. The Italia says that matters have reached a point which pre- sages the possibility of the election of a foreign Pope and that Cardinal Kopp, Bishop of Breslau, who is most frequent- 1y mentioned in this connection, has the support of the German Emperor. If this is true, the Italia interprets it as a move on the part of the Rampolla faction to win over the Austro-German Cardinals from Serafino Vannutelll. CARDINAL HERRERO DYING. The Osservatore Romano, the organ of the Vatican, officially announces that Car- dinal Herrero pinosa, being gravely 1ll, has received the last communion. Mon- signor Boniface Marin, the Vicar Gen- eral of his archdiocese (Valencia), was admitted to the conclave to-day, the door being opened for with all the prescribed preca ide were the Governor and the con- clave, assisted by captains of the guard. The Apostolic Prothenotaries and the son of Prince Chigl acted as witnesses. In. side the door when it was opened were Monsignor Merry del Val, secretary of the consistory; Monsigor Roggi, prefect €t jceremonien, snd Monsgmee. M. The record of the admittance of Monsig- nor Marin was officially recorded in a formal document, which will be placed in the archives. 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