The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 68, gall.’ SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1903. NEGRO CONVICT SEAVIS IS SHOT AND CAPTURED AT AUBURN AFTER ATTEMPTING TO KILL SHERIFF PRICE FIVE CENTS. KEENA AND A DEPUTY [ - = g | R VIS, the desperate negro who escaped with twelve other convicts from Folsom prison, was arrested in the railroad yards at Auburn last night after shooting at Sheriff Keena and Deputy Coan. The A ptied their shotguns at Seavis and he dropped to the ground slightly wounded in both legs. The capture of the outlaw was mainly due to the good judgment displayed by the crew of a freight train. The en- o r wered Seavis on the engine and quietly sent word to the officers. Seavis threw his revolver away after being shot and begged his captors not to kill him. | MUS SA BEY ESCAPES FROM MEDINA AND WILL LEAD THE KURDS IN NEW INSURRECTION AGAINST 1 the\Balkan 3 | wh ONDON, Aug. 6.—Advices from Yed- Aated July 11, report that the »us Kurdish chief, Mussa Bey, responsible for many of trages, has escaped from veral other Kurdish chiefs, | ve been living in exile, and | empts to intercept them have < so incensed that immediate dismissal of ernor of Medina, this being the | It is be- | will reach Kurdestan and rrection against the Turks, | a of the atroci | no Armen s Mussa has escaped t he ABDUL HAMID Bulgarians Renew Dynamite Outrages and War Fires Are Blazing Fiercely Throughout Peninsula. Mussa Bey figured prominently during the Armenian troubles in 18945, He wounded Rev. Mr. Knapp, an American missionary, in 1885, but, despite the evi- dence against him, was acquitted. The United States Minister and the American missioparies resented the verdict and to appease them the Sultan exiled Mussa Bey to Medina. s i) MASSACRES ARE PROBABLE.™ Turkey to Send Albanian Troops Against Macedonians. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 6.—Consular OLOMBIANS BABES LOSE MAY AMEND | THEIR LINES THE THEATY. N A CREEK Prospects of Canal Elude Nurse and Are Becoming | Plunge Into Remote. Stream. — £ cial Dispatch to The Call co NEW YOR the family of ex K. Aug. 6.—A nurse employed e Chief Samuel C. Campbell of 443 West One Hundred and ond street left the house to-day | the with one of the children—George, 3 years ¥ - _|and 6 months old—for a walk along the g " | speedway. Passing the home of Andrew | sty McCormick retired Wall street man, gress of LY T they were joined by his 4-year-old son, | inconstt 1 because Congress did not | Andrew Jr. B t, and fo last canal the proje When the three reached Central bridge the two children managed in some way to from the nurse, who notified the and a general alarm was sent out. A short time after this thé two children | wandered down to the bank of Cromwells Creek. The children were dragging a small express wagon, and as they neared netion other tectmical reasons. Dr. Jose Insignares has been r to sucteed Dr. Joachim Velez as Gov ominated | of the Department of Bolivar. OYETER BAY, Aug. 6.—As the canal sit sation is underitood here, the out an agreement With Colombia so that the | the edge a section of the embankment Panama canal can be transferred to the | caved in, throwing them into the creek, U'nited States is Youded by much more | which is about eight feet deep. Thelr =s at | n the probabilift that the ( Begota will re cries were heard by John Renning, a cart. ask fol,an extension tme | man. Renning ran to where the boys in which ratificatiofg can be exchanged. | were, followed by Detective Curran, who It is now fully exphcted that while the | had been sent out in search of them and treaty will be ratifiel it will be ratified | aieo had heard the cries. mendments haw been made. Only | g more damagiig could happen to ma project, a§ that would be | flat rejection of the thaty. An exten-| sion in the time for rdffication would necessitate the drawing Ulof a new pro- | jch would have tAbe submitted | to the Senate at an extra jon. Amend- ment of the treaty would &en up once more in secret sessions of thi Senate the The treaty e As he approached, Renning says, he saw the McCormick boy holding the little ex- press wagon and trying to keep the Campbell child above the surface. Before Renning jumped into the stream the Campbell b sank, and a moment later the other boy disappeared. The children were quickly brought to the shore, but both were dead. L e o e e one th the P w entire question ratified by the Senate last Mat\h was the | out the law and making preparation for most ltberal one that the ate will | the digging of the Nicaragua canal.” adopt. If the treaty comes bak with™a| Events have alrealy borne out the pre- Jot of amendments it is doubtful the Senate would adopt any of The day the canal treaty was and while Senator Hanna was tha congratu sociates, Senator Morgan, sitting committee room, said with his insci dictions of Senator 'Morgan thus far. There is a suspicion in some quarters that the Pacific railroads, especially the South- ern Pacificc have been up to their old tricks, only that they have transferred their operations from Washington to Bo- gota, and that they are responsible for the delay. Influences that were able to hold the canal back in the United States Congress for twenty years, It is argued, ought to find the Colomblan Congress much easier to handle. ( smile; “They can shake one another's and pat one another's backs, but treaty will never be ratified. In a dw months the President will be follo + I i T|'F‘(KEX'S GREATEST GEN- ERAL. AND THE SULTAN'S JRAND VIZIER. advices which were received here yester- day from Monastir indicate that the sit- uation Macedonia was constantly growing worse. At a meeting of the in | Ministers it has been decided therefore to measures of extreme severity in rder to suppress the revolution. It is reported that Albanian troops will be em- ployed, In which event massacres are al- most inevitable. The Bulgarian patriarch was summoned to the Yildiz Palace yesterday and urged to make a final appeal to his flock to de- liver up their arms and thereby avoid bloodshed. The menacing attitude of the Kurds in Armenia causing increased alarm at Erzeroum, Bitlis and Kharput. It is as- serted in some quarters that the authori- ties are secretly arming the Kurds, while endeavoring to conviet the Armenians of revolutionary intention: — . FIFTY TURKS ARE KILLED. adopt Bulgarians Dynamite the Governor’s Palace in Krushevo. SALONICA, Aug. 6.—A special messen- ger from Monastir reports that the Bul- garian Insurgents have dynamited the konak (Governor's pdlace) in the town of Krushevo, twenty-three miles north of Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. A detachment of Ottoman troops has burned the village of Dihovie, near Mon- astir. Eight Turkish battalions have been dis- patched to Monastir and three battalions to Salonica from Kossovo. Telegraphic communication with Mon- astir is still interrupted. e S SARAFOFF TO COMMAND. ‘Will Lead the Macedonians Against the Sultan’s Troops. LONDON, Aug. 6.—A news agency dis- patch from Vienna says that the Mace- donian Central Revolutionary Committee has fixed August 31 as the date for a gen- eral rising, and that Boris Sarafoff, one T Lieutenant Edie has gone en the naval | M&-fin&s w24 Wiltgee has' béen - persuadéd to g& to Bston ¥y the friends b MAS. TEWIS AGGUSER OF NAVAL NIAN Court-Martial Fol- . lows Alleged Insult. Widow’s Fiance May Fight Duel With Offender. Board of Officers Passes Upon Lieutenant Edie’s Conduct. | Speclal Dispatch to The Call, BAR HARBOR, Me., Aug. 6.—Lieutenant John R. Edie, U. 8. N., made a call upon | the beautiful young widow, Mrs. Cornelia | Baxter Tevi al her cottage here one | evening a weck ago. As a sequel to the | visit the lieutenant i¢ new undergoing a | tial, after having endeavored to e in a duel with Ernest A. Wilt- | , the flance of the wigow. { Tevis, whose husband was a Cali- | millionaire and who is now only 20 rs old, declares that Lieutenant Edie | offered her certain insults. Captain Emery of the Indiana and a board of officers are seeking to discover to what extent, if at | all, the lleutenant was guilty of conduct | unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, | as charged by the lovely complainant. who separated him and Lieutenant Edie at the Kelso Valley Club dance on Sat- urday night Jast. when they were prevent. | ed meeting on the field of honor only by | inability to agree upon a choice of weap- | ons. The affair has caused a most emphatic Lreak in the hitherto somewhat dull sea- son in the way of scandal. 1t is naturally {a great topic of the hour. 5 The questions: Will the Navy Depart- | ment discipline Lieutenant even should the findings of the court-martial { be against him, considering his “pull” at Washington?—and: Will there yet be a | meeting to the death between the young | officer, a hero Santiago, and the fierce | voung Colorado society man und million- | Edie, aire?—are the burden of all discussions of the affair. The officers hearing the case have met every night since the charges werapre- ferred at Malvern and have not yet ar- rived at a decision. They can only report to Washington, where the findings may be pigeonholed. Mrs. Tevis has with her at her cottage her sister. One of her friends in the pavy is Lieutenant Charles E. Courtney. It | was he who took Lieutenant Edie to call | upon Mrs. Tevis apd Miss Baxter. It ap- | pears that Lieutenant Edic got the im- pression that there was to be a lack of | strict conventions; that he and his chum were to have a lively cvening with the | Western beauties. Very scon after the | introductions he is said to have seated | himself familiarly upon the arm of Mrs. Tevis' chair. Whether anything was said lat the time or whether the impulsive | lieutenant was frozen out of the cottage | is not made public, b# the next day Mr. Peters, a close friend of Mrs. Tevis and dier sister, was sent out to the Indiana to lodge a complaint With Captain Emory, with the idea of having Hdie dismissed from the navy or severcly reprimanded. | L e e e e e e e T oY of the leading Mucedonian agitators, has been appointed commander of the revalu- tionary forces, with Alexieff as his prin- cipal Heutenant.’ y The London papers print mail letters | descriptive of the Macedonian situation and dated the latter part of July, which indicate that the committee was vigor- osuly preparing for an uprising at the close of the harvest. The members of the committee, according to these advices, have been vainly hoping for an outbreak of war between Turkey and Bulgaria or some other sensational occurrence, such as a massacre of Christians, to give them an opening; but nothing has occurred, and although the situation is eritical it is just possible that the committee may still further put off the date of the out- break. 1 Meanwhile the Turks are more ready than ever to strangle any rising at its birth. The imperial troops, poorly paid and poorly fed, exasperated by the pro- longation of the crisis and the necessity of incessant duty, night and day, are preying upon the pesantry and would in- dulge in barbarities upon the slightest pretext. e TP Ferdinand Returning to Sofia. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 6.—The newspa- pers announce that Prince Ferdinand is returning. Reports received here , show that crops have been destroyed and bridges blown up in the districts of Mon- astir and Salonica, where the Macedonian committee proclaimed a revolution. In authoritative Bulgarian circles doubt is expressed as to the importange of the rising. B FIND STHRTS ) STAMPEDE Miners in Rush to Kingman's | Gulches. | Special 'Dispatch to The Call KINGMAN, Ariz., Aug. 6.-One of the greatest gold excitements in the Kistory of | Arizona 1s now on at this place. R. A.| Gurley, a mining man of Denver, a few | weeks pgo discovered great reefs of what was supposed. to be granite three miles | south of Kingman, carrying values of | from $10 to $100 to the ton in gold. He as- b | soclated with him M. B. Carpenter and | Sullivan Brothers, lawyer and bankers of | Denver, and purchased the ground from | G. C. Davis for a large sum. They quiet 1y located these big reefs and have many miners perfecting title. 3 , News of the find léaked out and for two | days every man in Kingman has been out ; locating ground. Discoveries are being made daily and the rush from the outside camps is unprecedented. Every train brings new zold seekers from California, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Con- veyances are insufficient to meet the de- mand and are being brought in from out- side towns. Hundreds of men were out in the field to-day and many rich speci- mens of gold were brought to town. Even the gulches are being located and gold panned from the sands. The whole coun- try for miles north and south of the San- ta Fe Railroad is dotfed with location monuments. £ Denver and Idaho mining men are now on the ground and say the field is far ahead of Cripple Creek or even the great blanket deposits:of South Africa. —_————————— BARGE FLORRIE FOUNDERS AND FIVE ARE DROWNED NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 6.—The barge Florrie, in tow of the tug Roswell, while on her way from Norfolk for Prov- idence, foundered Wednesday morning between Barnegat and Fire Island during a heavy northeast storm. Captain Cobb of the barge and one of the deckhands were ed, but Mrs. Cobb, the captain's wife, 10-year-old son, a boy named Jones, who was making the trip with the cap- tain; the engineer and cook of the barge, ‘whose names are not known, went down with the vessel and were lost. ~ X &S ESCAPED CONVICT WHO WAS ARRESTED IN THE RAILROAD YARDS x AT AUBURN LAST NIGHT, ONE OF HIS CAPTORS AND A SCENE ATTENDING THE MAN HU -~ Bullets Whizz in Railroad Yard and Desperado Is Wounded. Special Dispatch to The Call UBURN, Aug. 6.—The negro Seavis, one of the escapes from the Folsom penitentiary, was cap- tured in the railroad yards here at 9:30 o'clock to-night by Sheriff Keena and Deputy Coan after a lively fusillade. The desperate outlaw fired with a revolved on the officers when they started to arrest him, and his aim was poor. The officers promptly replied with their shotguns and- Seavis dropped to the ground shot in both legs. After being wounded Seavis threw away. his revolver and begged the officers to spare his life. He received two flesh wounds in the leg. but neither of them is serious. When freight train No. 214, eastbound, arrived here to- night Conductor O. N. Nelson informed Operator J. P. Schnit- zius that he thought the negro Seavis was on the train. Schnit- zius immediately called up the Sheriff's office and Sheriff Keena and Deputy Coan, armed with sawed-off shotguns loaded with bucl;shot. hurried to the railroad station, taking each side of the tram. SEAVIS MAKES ATTEMPT TO XILL HIS CAPTORS. Keena and Coan started from the head of the train to the caboase. 'When they arrived at the pusher engine the officers discovered their man and commanded him to halt. Seavis started to run, ¥iring several shots a8 he did so. The offiers retaliated, but without efiect. They followed Seavis, however, and soon got another shot at him. Both officers shot at the same time and the shots took effect. - Seavis dropped to the ground and exclaimed: “Don’t kill me; don’t shoot.” Keena responded with a “Hands up,” and Seavis replied: “My hands are up. Don’t shoot.” Cntinued on Page 2, Columns 2 and 3.