The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV—-NO. 69. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1903. DAVISVILLE OFFICERS KILIL SUSPECT WHO REFUSED TO HALT. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DETECTIVE FISHER SHOOTS AT OUTLAW FAHEY IN SACRAMENTO PRISONER IN TANKS IN THIS CITY MAY BE CONVICT HOWARD TURKISH TROOPS WITH ARTILLERY 'DEFEAT A LARGE BULGARIAN FORCE ——— e e h JUANA MARRIAGES IRE FARGES Hundreds of Cali- fornians Are in Sad Plight. Aug in conne with a probate case on trial ® Alle this startling fact stom of rushing married has not w. This affects hun- ver the bor- n San Diego, etna Green or another, married at t of driving h in the Mexica nothing m disgrace tc re than absurd f. have Iy » district for at least six month \ previous to ‘the marriage e marfiage cannot be performed by y but & Judge of “First Instance,” cor- ponding very much to our Superior Judges. Before the wedding can take ce the bans must be posted in some spicuous place in the old-fashioned way for at least fifteen days. Finally there must be two witnesses who can and Go swear that the contracting parties are legally capable of forming the union and have all the necessary legal requirements. After the marriage the magistrate is re- uuired to make a record of the proceed- ing General agrees that void been drade, the Mexican Consul, the Tia Juana marriages are and worthless. The man who has performing these marriages is one Fuentes, at one time accused of smug- gling Chix over the border into the United States. Whether Fuentes has act- ed in h is not known. It may be that Fuentes cynically laughed in his sleeve ag he pocketed the American gold, gave the Americans pieces of paper writ- ten over with certificates that did not amount to anythirg and was grateful to an all-wise Providence thet led so many foolish Americanos to want to be mar- ried. There has never been, so far as known, a judicial decision by a California court as to the legality of these marriages, but such & ruling will doubtiess be the result the case now being considered here &nd in which the showing was made that the couple icterested in the case ¢id not comply with the Mexican law when they were married. How many dozens, scores or hundreds of couples in this State such & decision would affect will perhaps mever be known, but their name Is degion. rese good gong | LADRONES ARE ROUTED IN BATTLE Twenty-N.n> Dead Left on the Field. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. MANILA, Aug. 7.—Two hundred ladro- nes in the Province of Albay, under the command of the notorious Ola, attacked twenty-five members of the constabulary under a native sergeant. The latter were forced to retreat into a stone house, where they were besieged for a half-hour. They finally made a sortie and charged the ladrones, killing twenty-nine of them and capturing a dozen guns and a num- ber of prisoners. There were no casual- ties among the constabulary. Colonel Bandholtz reports six encoun- ters with scattered bands of ladrones, a number of whom were captured. These bands had been collecting tribute from natives and passing sentences of death upon Filipinos who suport thé American administration. These disturbances seri- ously affect the hemp trade. e . TURKEY WELL PREPARED. VIENNA, Aug. The Foreign Office | 1s absolutely without information regard- ing the fresh outbreaks in the Balkans | and 1s not inclined to believe that the sit- {uation is really dangerous. The diplo- | mats are convinced that so long as Aus- tria and Russia maintain their present attitude any serious outbreak is impos- | sible. One of the principal explanations for the reported fresh outbreaks is that, the har- vest being over, large numbers of men leaving work have joined the bands in Macedonia, but a general revolutionary movement appears to be unexpected. It is thought that the Macedomian commit- tees are following their former policy of inciting attacks upon the Turkish Mo- hammedans in the hope of exciting the Turks to massacre the Bulgarians in re- venge. It is believed that Turkey is well pra- pared to put down any revolution, there being 50,000 troops in the disaffected prov- inces, in addition to large reserves. Four Battalions of Sultan’s Soldiers|’ and Seventeen Hundred Bulgarians in Combat Near Sorovitch, SALONICA, Aug. 7.—Four battalions of Turk- ish troops, supported by artillery, yesterday met and routed a body of 1700 Bulgarians near Sorovitch. maintain friendly relations with the Porte and to prevent bands crossing the fron- tier, but 2 popular movement is feared in the event of a massacre of peaceful Mace- donfans by the Turkish soldiery. Meet- ings of prominent Macedonians were held to-day and measures for succoring the sufferers from the insurrection were dis- cussed, but no decision was reached. SALONICA, Aug. 7.—A band of 300 in- surgents has appeared near the: railway bridge over the river Vardar, two hours distant fromMhis city. The great fodder deposits at Samanti, Antirdi and Har- manli have been burned. R IS HOLDS KURDS IN CHECK. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 6.—(De- layed in transmission.)—News received here as to the extent of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement in the vilayet of Monastir is conflicting. In consular dispatches which were received this morn- ing the opinion is expressed that the in- surrection broke out a fortnight earljer than its chiefs intended and before the bands were in readiness, presumably be- cause the leaders were disconcerted by the active pre\'en@vo measures adopted by the authorities. The Bulgarian insurgents of a number of villages have fled to the mountains for refuge. The railways have asked that the troops guarding the lines be quadru- pled, but this would entail the employ- ment of 20,000 soldiers, and, in view of the impoverished treasury, the Government will find it difficult to comply with the request. In spite of the reports to the contrary, it Is confidently believed in well-informed quarters that the Porte, in conformity with Its declarations, will employ only regular troops to suppress the insurrec- tion, as it is well aware it is important for Turkey to-avoid excesses such as would certainly be the outcome of the i | | | | | | | | [ | | ! | | || i {1 [ | — — — -t BULGARIAN RULER WHO IS STRIVING TO KEEP HIS PEOPLE FROM { WAR WITH TURKEY, AND LEADER WHO WILL COMMAND THE [ 1 MACEDONIAN INSURGENTS, 13 | OFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 7.—The ) employment of undisciplined Albanians : fresh insurrectionary outbreak [ or other irregular soldlery. The diplo- in Macedonia, which was be- | mats here entertain no doubt that the lieved to be impossible, has | Porte will continue its present policy of produced a sensation every- | f8hting the bands with regulars, where. It is believed that the | ©Of the eight battalions of infantry dis- latest provocations by the Turkish troops | PAtched to Monastir, four will remain at drove the insurrectionlsts to despair. The | Monastir, three will occupy the heights Bulgarian Government 1o tesulved "te | Of Peristeri, to the westward of Monastir, and one will go to Florin, a town of 1100 inhabitants, seventeen miles southwest of Monastir. The Porte has sent categorical instruc- tions to the valls of the Armenian prov- Inces of Asia Minor, holding them person- ally responsible for any Kurdish excesses and ordering vigorous measures to be taken to prevent fighting. The British Vice-Consul at Bitlis has been ordered to Mush, eighty miles south of Erzeroum, where the Armenian massacres by the Kurds and the Turks occurred in 1894, to investigate the situation there. A consu- lar dispatch from Erzeroum, received here this morning, says the excitement in that district is dying out, but that the vall of Erzeroum reports that 600 armed Huitcha- kists from Russlan territory have com- pelled the Armenians in the villages of Sassoupt vilayet (also the scene of Ar- mPnla.J‘rnnua.cres in 1804), to take refuge in the mountains. The vall has sent four battalions of troops against the Huitcha- kists, who escaped to the mountains. The Porte has communicated this Information to the Russian Embassy, calling attention to the fact that the bands came from Rus- sian territory. At FERDINAND Ii FOR PEACE. LONDON, Aug. 7.—As fgr as officlals representing the Balkan states here’ are aware, the Macedonian committee does not possess sufficient funds to inaugurate a successful revolution, but it hopes by continuing the existing unrest to ultf o- ly bring about the interference of the powers which signed the Berlin treaty. Joseph Angeloff, the first. diplomatic agent of Bulgaria in London, said to-day: “But for the far-seeing policy of Prince Ferdinand and the fron hand he pas on the Bulgarian Ministry there wodld cer- tainly have been a general rising on’ be- half of Macedonia. The feeling at the heart of every Bulgarian is to go to Mace. denia, but this cannot be. We shall con. tinue to make representations to the Porte for reforms and better government in Macedonia. Bulgaria is disturbed to the quick over Macedonia, but there will be no disturbance of the present peace.” N unidentified man was A‘hot and killed near Davisville yesterday afternoon by Constable the Folsom escapes. shot down. slmfs at him. Fahey got rmay Hainline and Deputy Sheriff Johnson, who tried to arrest him, believing him to be one of The stranger ran off instead of obeying their command to halt gnd was Detective Max Fisher met Convict Fahey in Sacramento last night and fired five He was accompanied by a man believed to be Outlaw Miller. An Unknown Victim of Mistake. Rifle Balls Cut Short His Life. AP AVISVILLE, Aug. 7. —An unidentified man was killed near here{ about 3:30 o'clock this afternoon by Constable Hainline and Deputy Sheriff Johnson, who supposed that he was Howard, the escaped convict. The testimony taken at the Coroner’s inquest to- night shows that the man’s death was due to his own folly, as he was repeatedly commanded to halt before the fatal shot was fired. For two days the whole country | has been on the alert for HO\\-z{r(!, twho is supposed to be in hiding | along Putah Creek or near the old | canal. -~ About - noon to-day a | stranger called at the farm of F. W. Palmer, three miles west of | Davisville. He asked for lunch and was given something to eat. He inquired about the crops, and | also asked the way to Sacramento. | When through eating lunch he walked off hurriedly, but in a di- rection opposite to Sacramento. The appearance and action of the | man were such as to arouse thc} suspicion of Palmer, and as soon as the suspect was out of sight| Palmer called up Constable Hain- line and notified him of the inci- dents.. The closely clipped hair | and short, stubby beard of the | stranger indicated that he might be Howard. Constable Hainline consulted | with Deputy Sheriff Johnson, and they decided to investigate. Thev} drove out to Palmer’s house and learned what he knew about the man. They then drove up the creek about a mile and tied their horse to a tree. They soon found the trail of the man and saw by tracks in the muddy banks where he had en- tered the creek. After following | the creek a short distance, and just as they were about to reach a bend, they heard a shot a short distance away. Johnson rematked, “Ts the fellow shooting at us? Hainline replied, “I guess he is shooting fish.” Just about that time the officers came in sight of the suspect. He was naked and in about two feet of water, and was.apparently tak- ingja bath. He held something in his hand, which the officers took for a pistol. They werethen about three hundred yards away, and Deputy Johnson suggested that, as he was only armed with a re- volver, they make an effort to get closer to him. The officers walked very fast until they were within 200 yards of him. They then shouted to him to drop his hands and that they were officers. Instead of dojng so he started to run. The officers pursued for fifty yards, both of them continuously commandmg him to halt. He was traveling in the direction of a clump of wil- lows, where the officers suspected that he had a rifle concealed. Both officers were armed with rifles and they fired. Only one shot took ef- fect. A bullet passid through the fleshy part of the suspect’s Teft arm. Whatever he was holding in his hand he dropped in the 1 Continued on Page 3, Column 4. | Guaymas, Is Arrested at an Early Hour. pa S e Second Man Reported Here. T 3 o'clock this morning a man supposed to be the | escaped convict Howard | was arrested and placed | in the “tanks” of the City Prison. The arrest was made during an exciting search of the water front by the police, acting upon informa- tion received that Howard had| eluded his pursuers in the interior | and was well on his way toward | this city. Whether or not the sus- | pect is the much-wanted convict | | will be established to-day when | his photograph and measurements under the Bertillon system will be | available. HE chase for the convicts who fought their way to liberty | from Folsom prison is getting | dangerously clese to this city. Word was received by the po- | lice ]ast night that onc of the | criminals had. broken through the lines of ‘puckuers in the mountains and was well o his way to.this city. Sergeant Ellis and Officer Barrett were at once sent out to watch the incoming ferrybodts 4nd. to examine into the af- fairs of any suspicious characters coming | into the city, All of the passengers on | | the late ferry-boats landed under the | eyes of the police, but the looked-for | convict did not arrive or at least was not detected if he did. After the last boat had landed, how- ever, information reached Licutenant Duke at the Harbor Police Station that a man resembling one of the escaped con- victs had been seen loitering on the water front. Duke immediately gommunicated with | the Central station and a number of de- | tectives were hastily sent out to search | for the suspect. At an early hour this | morning the police were scouring the vi- cinfty where the man was said to have been seen and also all along the water | front. Each wharf and landing place was visited, the detectives making a thorough search. | At 2 o'clock this morning detectives set | out in small boats, and with the aid of | lanterns peered'beneath the wharves, as | it was considered probable that he had | taken advantage of this opportunity to| evade his pursuers. Another rumor spread that Convict| Howard had been seen in the city and ! during the night had dodged down East | street, where he was soon lost to view. The police were sent also to make in- vestigation in the neighborhood, but found no tangible proof of the presence of the escape. MEXIC TIRES OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION Spectal Dispateh to The Call. EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 7.—A report from relfable sources has reached here that Secretary of State Roman Corrol of the Mexican republic has just issued an or- der that Chinese be excluded from Mex- ico. The order is directed especially to the western coast along the Gulf, where Chinese have been arriving by the ship- load and scattering throughout the re- public, many finally making their way to the United States by smuggling them- selves across the border. The order becomes effective at once and it is stated that several cargoes ol Chi- nese, now on the seas and destined for state of Sonora, will not be permitted to land. The next Mexican Congress, which meets September 16, will, it is said, pass a general law for the exclusion of all Chinese immigrants. —_———— Thousands of Homes Burned. BARCELONA, Spain; Aug. 7.—A ter- rible fire has totally destroyed a quarter of Esperragua occupled by the working people. Three thousand families were rendered destitute and some workmen perished in the flames. Esperragua is fourteen miles west of Barcelona. [ his pockets rifled. ® | refuge Aim Is Poor Owing to Hur Bold Prison Bird ddets Away. e ACRAMENTO, Aug. 7. —Detective Max P. Fisher met Convict Fa- hey face to face to-night and a r&ognition was exchanged. Before the detective could draw | his revolver from his pocket Fa- hey cqyered him with a pistol, and | with an oath commanded him to throw up his hands. Fahey es- caped, but not until the detective had fired five shots at him. A man who the detective believes was Convict Miller was with Fahey | and escaped also. At midnight Chief Sullivan and Detectives Fisher and Fitzgerald and Deputy Sheriff Wittenbrock left the city in carriages for a point near the American River bridge, where they will search for Fahey and the man believed to be Miller. Fisher in his exciting en- counter flashed his snap light full in the face of Fahey, and rec- ognized himas the man sent up for a long term in the Folsom peniten- tiary from Sacramento. The de- tective also fully recognized the voice as that of Fahey. Circumstances of a convineing nature led the officers to believe that Fahey and Miller came to Sacramento before daybreak this morning in a cart stolen from Charles Darling, a resident of the neighborhood of Alder Creek, be- low Folsom. A man was held up at an early morning hour within | the city limits by two men, one of and was reyolver, This act also credited to the two escaped convicts. whom carried a East of the passenger depot is a large lumber pile, braced up by heavy pillars, which form an abut- ment reaching within a foot of the track on which to-night stood | some freight cars, waiting to be picked up by a late train for Ore- gon. The space which intervenes between these pillars forms a which tramps freqyent when they desire to board a train moving out of the depot. Detective Fisher believed Fa- hey, who for many years lived in Sacramento, would select this place if he intended to board a night train and elude the officers, who have been scouring the local- ity for him to-day. In company with Deputy Sheriff Wittenbrock Detective Fisher to-night visited the gloomy spot in the railroad yards. On one side of the narrow passageway loomed the lumber piles; on the other stood the freight cars, while the passage was blocked by the pillars to such an extent that a man had to squeeze his way past them from one open space into the other. Fisher got into the first space and tripped over a man who had sprawled there. He pulled his pocket light and sent its rays plercing Into the space di- vided by the mext pillar. As he did so he saw the face and form of Fahey in the shadow of the pillar and he could detect a man beyond him, whom he is certain was convict Miller. The latter shouted to Fahey: “Watch out, that's Fisher.” But Fahey needed no warning. In an instant he had a revolver leveled at Fisher and from his set lips came hissing the order, coupled with a foul epithet, “Throw up your hands.” Fisher's_answer was _to reach for his Continued on Page 3, Column 3. 0