The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 75. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, AUGU ST 14, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS, FERRELL GIVES P THE GHKS Returns to Carson With the Blood- hounds. Accuses Man-Hunters of Showing White Feather. Says He Could Have Cap- tured Outlaws if Given Any Assistance. S NS Russian Admiral in Amur and NICHOLAS APPOINTS ALEXIEFF DICEROY THREE GLAIM THI5 AGTOR to Have Coritrol Kwan Tung. i ». the 13.—Officer C. been on , Aug. who escaped Folsom prisoners has two weeks with the bloodhounds Nev he las penitentiary s afternoon on the stage from Weodfords, where he spent Wednes- from other assista: ing for b of th s worn out with the chase, but he sat tion of locating the s and yesterday was within of a place they had robbed. e. He had to chain himself rail and dragging to to developments the escapes are, or at Top and Hope Valley. 1 was with- em Wednesday and ia posses had not deserted the men could easily have W rnia posse left me. They f the country and from that were such that the roads ABANDON A HOT TRAIL. that the After questi run to cover. se 1 took the trail that They carried me when there two of and myself found a e « icts that was | nds were fairly two men desert- er's, a place in and Hope the family ter- of their e had been description. most five con- tes ahead rs that on a had been d that rkwoods and i on me and he rest peaking e har complained t had they time 8- ASSISTANCE. enow hoeless and the rocks the Rufr them thr 1gh Upper Hope Va ear Round Top with all kinds of hiding places. As soon as I located t 1 came to Wgodfords, where I telephoned Markieeville and the s nding cour for help. ‘A8 no one came to my aid 2and was a useless fight alone I con- sded 1o. come home with the dogs. I am going back to Reno on this train and wants the dogs or Califorr ser- ces in the future she will have to fur nish that will stay when the finish that the men are now in roughest in the Sierra Ne- vadas and while it is extremely rough a ipes are open to the convicts miles to the north lies Lake ch leads to Lake Tahoe, to the Inyo and Mono ry the cd es five Twenty ot west tails, ley, which is a broad outlet for the ettire country that leads to the roads, OUTIAWS WELL ARMED. the general belief here that the will gow break up and take what et thel need, as the section is full of hem. The mountains around them are fillcd with|\campers and it would be an matte! for them to pass through the y in tle night time, which is only a &w miles from the Southern Pacific, Around Lake Tahoe the same condition ex It ¢ only a day's walk to the Ta coultry and from there to the other pointi are easy journeys. Ferrell e thatfhe men are well armed and I is mer cas va ac are in a ) of plenty, as sheep camps and cattle cimps are to be found on every hand.” Ther| seems to be no movement in this sectionfto aid in the capture of the for | arrived in | = from Kirkwoods alone and prevent | are between en we got to Kirk- | and cooked | while to the extreme north | | l RUSSIAN OFFICER WHOM THE CZAR HAS APPOINTED VICEROY TO | RULE WITH SUPREME AUTHOR AND THE KWANTUNG PROVIN 15 HISEAND “Reggie” Barlow’s Marriages Are Numerous. Romantic Los Angeles Wedding" Uncovers Scandal. Milwaukee Heiress Wooed and Won on a Train Has Rivals. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—Three women claim Reginald Barlow, the Chicago matinee | idol, as husband. One is Miss Bertha | Merkel, a wealthy society girp of Mil- waukee, Wis., to whom dispatches from | Milwaukee say Barlow has just been mar- | rled in Los Angeles after a romantic | courtship aboard a train. Another fs the | daughter of a farmer, and the third—no- body knows but Barlow. | The news that Reginald Barlow, late of | Millie James’ “Little Princess” company | | at ' Powers' Theater, had married Mlssi kee, in Los Angeles came to Chicago to- | day—a crushing blow, no doubt, to the | devotees of the handsome young matinee ' idol. Greater grief, however, is in store | | for three women, who now—each aithout | the oth knowledge—claim Bariow as husband. | That Barlow has thus committed big- | amy by marrying Miss Merkel does not admit_of a doubt in the minds of those | who knew him personally during his two | years' residence in Chicago. Indeed, that | | he had once before committed the same | offense, though this is less capable of proof, is equally certain, according to the | same acquaintan | Last February Barlow figured in an im- portant announcement made from the stage of the People's Institute, at Harri- | son and Lecavitt siregts, by dlay Hosmer, Teading 1ofly of the repertoile company playing at that theater. Bariow was then stage manager of the company and enact- ed roles of considerable importance. ACTOR BARLOW A FATHER. ITY OVER THE AMUR DISTRICT c .| | = { T. PETERSBURG, Aug. 13.—A new viceroyalty comprising the Amur district and Kwantung province created in August, 1899 has been established. Heretofore the Amur | district has been controlled by a Governor | | Generat. Articles signed by the Czar and promul- | gated August 12 appoint Vice Admiral | Alexiets, aide-de-camp general to the Czar, as Viceroy of this Far Eastern ter- | ritory. He will be vested with supreme | authority in all the branches of the civil administration, the direction of which will no longer be in the hands of the Minis- | try. It will be the Viceroy’s duty to | | maintain order @nd insure safety in the | | district traversed by the Eastern Chinese | | Raflway, as well as to watch over the needs of the Russian inhabitants, both [wilhin and without the Russian posses- | sions bordering on the territory under his | } jurisdiction. Diplomatic negotiations with neighbor- ing states regarding the affairs of this territory will be in the hands of the Vice- roy, who will also be intrusted with the command of the Russian fleet in the Pa- cific and all the troops in the new vice. royalty. Until a lJaw embodying the dge ties of the Viceroy is issued the regula- tions drawn up in 1845 for the administra- tion of the Far Eastern country and Cau- casian territory will remain in force. A special committee, presided over by the Czar, will sce that the actions of the Viceroy are in harmony with the general | | policy of the Russian Ministries. Viceroy Alexieff has been instructed to submit to the Czar for his approval proposals for the administration of the territory over which he is about to assume jurisdiction. — TRIUMPH OF M. DE WITTE. Peace Policy Wins Against Kuropat- kin’s Aggression. LONDON, Aug. 14.—The Daily Mail this | morning declared that the appointment of | Vice Admiral Alexieff as Viceroy of the | Amur district and Kwantung province is | most important, as it indicates the tri- umph of M. de Witte, the Russian | Finance Minister, and the policy of peace over General Kuropatkin, the Minister of | War, and that it is a significant step toward the settlement of the existing dif- | | ferences both with China and Japan. The Daily Mail says that there has existed for | years a sharp division in the Cabinet | over the Far Eastern policy, and thst General Kuropatkin and a majority of the Ministers insisted that the actual an- nexation of Manchuria should be secured immediately at any cost of money or credit. On the other hand, M. de Witte steadily opposed taking any step to pre- ! cipitate hostilities between Russia and any other power in the East. He is con- fident that time only is needed to bring about all that Russia desires in Man- churia, and as Chancelior of the Ex- chequer he is anxious to secure the benefits of annexation at the least pos- sible cost. 8o sharp was the dissension between the two parties that when Gen- eral Kuropatkin visited the Far East he avowed his intention not to set foot in Manchuria, declaring that it was M. de Witte's affair, and not his. M. de Witte has triump) not only by securing the selection of Vice Admiral | sian authori Alexieff, who is the ror's personal triend, but by managing to exclude the action of the Cabinet in Manchurian mat- ters in the future by making the Viceroy ~* | iLadies and gentlemen,” said Miss Hos- solely responsible to the Czar and himself. | mer, “I take great pleasure in announc- | General Kuropatkin's present policy there- } ing that we have just had an addition to | fore will be abandoned, and M. de Witte | our company. Reginald Barlow and his | | Bertha Merkel, a society girl of Milwau-| | |\ TURKISH CANNON BOMBARD A MACEDONIAN STRONGHOLD Eighteen Hundred Insurgents Defend Krushevo Against Four Thousand Regulars. g IVHNE AN FRES A 6N INTO GROWD Four Dead, Three Dying, Twenty Wounded. will have a frec hand in dealing with the | wife are now the parents of a sweet little Manchuriam question. | girl baby. I wish to propose three cheers The Daily Mail prints a dispatch from | for Mr. and Mrs. Barlow.” Tokio which says the Japanese Minister| The cheers were given with a will and | to Russia had an audience with the Czar | were followed by repeated calls for Bar- on Wednesday - with reference to Man- | low and the bab Barlow responded, churia thanking his many friends in the audience for the good will shown himself and fam- NO PROTEST CONTEMPLATED., ily and expressing regret that it would be } Evacuation of Manchuria Will Not |1cessary (o delay the baby's first ap- Be Affected by Ukase. Barlow, then, was indeed married. A LONDON, g 13.=7 | PI 0\17)»\,1 Aug. 13~The Assoclated | year or so before, then a member of the | ress correspondent learns on high Rus- | osmer Company, he had spent a vaca- | e i that the establishment of | yion of a week or 5o in Charleston, Mo., | = vigapira ty for the Amur district and | roturning to Chicago with a pretty little wangtung province will not affect the | country girl, whom he introduced as his evacuation of Manchuria in October. For | pride. They had been married at Charles- some time Russian has been considering ton after a courtship as brief and roman- the advisability of placing the control of | 4o as that which, it seems, has just cul- all her Far Eastern territory and Manchu- | minated in his marriage to Miss Merkel ria under one head, instead of three, as|or Milwaukee. at present. As long as the Russian occu- | Barlow and his bride went to housekeep- pation of Manchurla shall last Viceroy | in. at 213 Leavitt street. Their honey- Alexieft will be in charge and will com- | moon was very hanpy. - Barlow appeared mand the troops in that region, but when | t; nave sincere affection for his wife and the evacuation shall occur he will simply | tne ljttle country bride was completely have control of the Port Arthur and Ta- | enamored of her good-looking actor hus- lien Wan zone, through which the raifl- band. road runs, in addition to the possessions | Then domestic life began to pall upon which are indubitably Russian. Barlow: . Stories iwere. told. of ‘divers: af- The British Government is aware of the ukase and has taken no action, nor is it expected to do so. | fairs of the heart in which he figured with other woman, for the most part pa- trons of the theater. Such storfes did not disturb Mrs. Barlow from Charleston, Mo. When repeated to her by neighbors’ gossip she was wont to say, calmly, that she knew other women admired her hus- band—indeed, it was 1ot to be wondered at; but that her husband should deign to care for other women was a very foolish notion and nobody could make her be- leve it. ANOTHER ALLEGED WIFE. .| Perhaps the faith of the little woman would have been staggered if she had known of a scene that one other woman in particular created behind the theater #ix months after her marriage to Barlow, | Only a few persons witnessed this, but they are unanimons in saying that for a married man Barlow appeared to poor advantage. Who the woman was no one but Barlow knew. For all that the others knew they apprared “‘out of blue,” just as Bar- low himself had, some two years previous- ly. But as to who she claimed to be, there was no doubt left of that three min- utes after she had gained admittance to the greenrooth of the theater one day dur- ing an aftegnoon performance and accost- ed Barlow as he hurried to his dressing- room. In spite of the fact that Barlow was in his make-up, recognition on the part of the woman was instant. “Reggle, don't you know your wife?"” she said appealingly, stretching her hands toward the actor. Barlow was startled. “Good God! where did you come from?"* he ejaculated, ignoring the visitor's loving gesture. Then he drew the woman apart and conversed with her in low tones for some time. At last she departed. She was not seen about the theater thereafter. Of her rmation was volunteered - IMPERIAL TROOPS DEFEATED. Three Thousand German-Drilled Sol- diers Sent as Reinforcements. HONGKONG, Aug. 13.—The Chinese im- perial troops have been defeated by rebels at Hwei-Chou-Fu, in the -southern prov- ince of Kwangtung. Imperial reinforce- ments, consisting of, 300 German-drilled troops, have arrived at Canton. - Concession Causes Protest. YOKOHAMA, Aug. 13.—The Japaness Minister at Seoul on August 11 protested to the Korean Government against the concession to Russia of 300 acres of land at Yongampho, on the Korean side of the Yalu River, urging the distance of Yon- gampho from the Russian timbering ope- rations and the irregularity of occupying the land first and negotiating afterward. The Minister warned Korea that such ac- tion was harmful to the independence and integrity of the Korean empire, —_—— BOONE POTTER ESCAPES FROM WYOMING JAIL SHERIDAN, Wyo., Aug. 13.—Boone Pot- ter, the notorious desperado, wanted in North Carolina for the murder of two deputy sheriffs, who was captured ten days ago by Marshal Crinnell, made a sensational escape from the Sheridan County jail last night. The combination of the jail door had not been tugned, and Potter, securing a broom handle and a chair rung, tied them together with a handkerchief so that the two formed a right angle. With this instrument he suc- ceeded in throwing back the bolt to the door. Once outside the cage he secured a poker and made an opening through the {dentity no. info brick wall. Another prisoner soon after. | PY_Barlow. ward followed him out, went to the police | OP July 13 Barlow and his wife from station and gave the alarm. Potter was | Charleston, Mo, bp__ke on hom_ k"”“"_ being held for requisition from North Carolina. Continued on Page'2, Column 3. e WINFIELD, Kans.,, Aug. 13.—At 9 o’clock to-night, whjle Camen’s band was playing its weekly concert on Main street | | to a crowd of 5000 people, Gilbert Twigg, a crazy man 6 years of age, opened fire on the crowd with a double harreled shot- gun loaded with heavy bullets. As a re- sult four are now dead, three are dying 1d no less than twenty injured, perhaps five or six fatally. The dead: STERLIN RACE carpenter. DAWSON TIMOTSON, a barber, whose brains were blown out, B. G. BOWMAN, a carpenter of Oxford, Kans. GILBERT TWIGG, the shooting, killed- b; The known injured: the man who did Officer Nichols. Mrs. John Ballard, shot in the neck: James Clarkson, shot in back and arm; R. B. Oliver, shot in shoulder and back: Clyde Reed, shot in hips; J. B. Storey, shot in chest and knee; William Wilkins, shot in knee; Charles Thomas, shot in knee; Charles Baird, shot in arm; Port Smith, shot in head; W. E. Farnsworth, shot in bowels; Otis Carter, shot in head; Arthur Hans- ford, Willlam Cenchman, William Moore, Arley Bourdette, Elmer Davis, Claude Wagoner, Samuel Compton, Ben Ridge- way, also badly injured. The band had just finished playing a waltz, when Twigg stepped out from an alley a ha!f block distant_and deliber- ately taking aim at the bandstand fired two shots. Oliver, the bandman, fell at the first shot, but the crowd, not realiz- ing what had happened, rushed toward the killer, believing that there had been an accidental shooting of some kind. As the crowd closed In the crazy man dis- charged two more Shots at them, caus- ing a scatterment in -every direction. With the crowd fleeing, the man stood in a demoniacal attitude, firing at ran- dom in every direction. Men and women howled and shrieked and ran, but no one seemed able to stop the frightful carnage until Officer George Nichols con- fronted him and_ fired a hullet into his head. But befora life was extinct the demented man drew a rvevolver from his pocket and fired a shot into his own body. The dead and dying were by this time scattered all over the street and fright- ened ‘people, not knowing where the shoot- ing was coming from, sought safety in every quarter. It was fully half an hour before they realized what had happened and recovered sufficiently to take care of the injured. . Gilbert Twigg was a miller by trade. The bovs around town commonly refer- red to him as “Crazy” Twigg, but no one thought he was dangerous. A few years ago he went to New Mexico, re- turning in time to enlist as a soldler in .the Philippines. MEXICO BUYS STOCK OF RAILWAY COMPANY AUSTIN, Tex., dug. 13.—It is reported in high financial circles of Mexico that the Mexican Government has just pur- chased 100,000 shares of stock of the Mex- fean Central Rallway Company. The purchase is said to have been made through the firm of Speyer & Co. of New York. This will give the idexican Govern- ment a voice in\the management of the - property and is important step in its plan of acquiring control of all the rail- roads in Mexico. /oA 3 | | 1 T | [ongszry aF Rao LV SR GARIA. > | ] i Al I THE CENTER OF A EV at Diavat, near Monastir. into Monastir and arming the FAMOUS RELIGIOUS RETREAT IN MACEDONIA N ATTACK BY NT OF A MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. ALONICA, Aug. 13.—Four thousand Turkish troops are besicging Krushevg, and their artilier ceascless bombardment of the insurgent stronghold. The town is defended by 1800 Macedontans. Another battle is in progress Turkey_is pouring reinforcements | WHICH MOSLEM FANATICS IN MAY BE THE —_ is keeping a up sident Mussulmans. - ! o ONDON, Aug. 14—The Daily Mail prints a Belgrade dispatch which says that the Turkish troops de- stroyed the villdge of Leskovatz and fourteen other places in the district of Uskub, and that the insur- gents have burned the villages of Nako- lets .and Krani, inhabited by Albanians, and the Turkish village of Kashani. It i{s stated that when the insurgents cap- tured the Turkish mail a few days ago they carried off £125,000. SALONICA, Aug. 13.—Information from Monastir is to the effect-that the insur- gents have occupied Klisura and Pissorde, and that the Albanian rebels have been disastrously defeated in the Dobyrsko re- glon. A Turkish post near Sorovitch has been robbed. It is reported that Bulgarian insurgents have massacred the inhabitants of, the large Turkish village of Konati, near Monastir. Only twenty escaped. The civil and military authorities at Salonica wired to Congtantinople on Au- gust 11, stating that a general insurrec- tion was expected for August 14, and dis- claiming all responsibility unless they were reinforced. Constantinople replied, ordering the enrollment immediately of 2000 exclusively Mussulman gendarmes for service in Salonica. The insurgent banner was unfuried on August 10 at Knosko, near Glergvell, showing that the insurrection is spread- ing éastward. According to the latest advices from Monastir, dated August 10, the Bulgarians are elated at the death of the Russian Consul. - Trustworthy information from Chegani, in the district of Florina, says the Turks have decided to murder the Austrian Con- sul. Great anxiety prevails at Monastir, ow- ing to the threatening attitude of the Turkish soldiers. It is sald that the French and Itallan Consuls are in dan- ger. Fighting is proceeding at Chernareka, near Gumenje, to which place reinforce- ments have been sent. A great move- ment of troops is proceeding to Mitro- vitza, Salonica and Sorovitch. P —_— WANT AMERICAN SYMPATHY. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 13.—The Mace- donian leaders express themselves as sreatly disappointed. with what they as- sert is the distinctly hostile attitude of America toward their cause, as manifest- ed in the utterances of the press. Dr. Christo Tartarcheff, one of the presidents of the Central International Macedonian Committee, said to-day that his party was convinced that American newsphpers had been bought with Turkish gold. “There seems to be no other explana- tion of the tone of their articles,” he sald. “They are not only unsympathetic toward the movement, but decidedly inimical to it. Tt is impossible that such an attitude could arise from ignorapce of the trus state of affairs in a country so intelligent as America, and it is alsq difficult to be- lleve that the impression created by the Miss Stone affair could have so preju- diced thc American press. “In regard to the present situation, only real intervention by the powers can stop the fighting of the insurgents. Fafling in such’ intervention, the campaign will be prosecuted to the bitter end. The band now fighting in the vilayet of Monastir consists of 5000 to 19,000 men, mostly young and erthusiastic and trained in the use of arms. Their number could be quadrupled were it not that the difficurty of feeding such an army renders its increase inad- visable. The Turkish troops are badly clothed and demoralized. They have - peatedly refused to march against the in- surgents, who are well supplied with arms and ammunition, chiefly purchased from Turkish soldiers, who sold their guns for cash almost within sight of the bar- racks of Monastir. “By the pientiful employment of money insurgent bands have been enabled to smuggle any quantity of guns across the frontier, and the highest Turkish officials have readily accepted insurgent gold.” He concluded by saying that the com- mittee lived in daily hope that the powers would realize the justice of their cause and intervene. He said the friends of the cause looked chiefly toward England, as the pioneer of liberty, to assist them. Tscheneft, president of the Macedonian committee, and his friend, Colonel Yan- koff, both of whom are ex-officers in the Bulgarian army. have been arrested by Bulgarian police near the Macedonian frontier, under the suspicion that they Continued on Page 2, Column & ..