The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1903, Page 21

1 Pages 21 to 34 VOLUME XCIV-NO. 105. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1903—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TURKS PUT TO DEATH SIX THOUSAND CHRISTIANS: BULGARIA WILL MOBILIZE TWO ARMY DIUISIONS OFIA, Sept. 12.—JAccording to information brought to the revolutionary paper Autonomic, a force of Albanians, assisted by Turkish regular forces acting under orders direct from the Yildiz I(msk massacred the entire Bulgarian Christian population of the Okhrida and Leren districts. Awful descriptions are given ‘of the sights seen there. The soldiers, slaughtering men, women and children in every direction, displayed a barbarism never before witnessed. The number of killed is not stated in the courier’s dispatch, but according to reports from other sources the total number of the victims will reach 6000. RICH FARMER iE VICTIM OF ASSHSSIN Mystermus Crime| In a Southern County. Stranger Opens Fire| When Orders Are Disobeyed. Terrified Wife Gives Alarm | and Officers Search for Slayer. 4 AN 1s r'BIbPO Sept. he was a member he reached a poir three miles of his home, a ma stepped out of the brush by the side of the road and commanded Kuhnle to get € bugky, which he did. As be vehicle Kuhnle made a king act the at- ne 2g in the nelgh- an ut of ¢ alighted ud outcry of ® th ome STRANGER OPENS FIRE. was on the ground his ass: » walk back a short e retreated in the oppo- sin fired and the a shotgun took literally blowing morning portions of found scattered feet square. ot alarmed Mrs. ped up the horse and where she gave the and at once notified the The news was quickly taken | he officers were soon b ssin. Late to-night him had been discovered. BODY WAS DRAGGED. found about twenty buggy was stopped t from where Kuhnle aving been dragged € brush by the mur- the murderer body of his vie- n to the ground, by those living The other his head and eces. This brains were a of tw v was the of the cri in rots took effect 38 years of age and | He leaves a wite | He was a prominent | ict and was in pros- | He had been a | t neighborhood for about | He was universally liked | the officers are at a be a motive for the crime. | deputies to-night for the desperado d he be caught it is feared that summary vengeance would be | wrought, for numerous threats of mob law have been made. The Coroner's inquest was held over | the body here to-day, but no new facts| were brought out and a verdict was ren- | dered in accordance with the facts cited Although Kuhnle's pockets were rified | and his satchel containing $6) was taken, | there are few who believe that robbery was the direct motive, though he had no | known enemies. | The spot where the crime was commit- | ted s within a short distance of farm | houses and the shots were plainly heard | by the res —————————— i “STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” | THE NATIONAL ANTHEM | Navy Dep.rment . Directs That Due | Respect Be Shown ‘When Air Is Rendered. i WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—The Navy De- partment has issued an order declaring the “Star Spangled Banner” the national anthem and directing that whenever the | composition i played all officers and men shall stand at “attention,” unless they engaged in duty that will not permit them to do so. It is required that the| came reipytt shall be observed fowar the | national air of any other country when played in the presence of official represen- | tatives of such country. e e———— Anti-Semitic Riot in Austria. LEMBURG, Austria, Sept. 12—An antj- Semitic riot occurred yesterday at the an- nual fair at Seeblatov, in consequence of 2 woman having been murdered in a Jewish house. Three Jews were seriously injured and & number slightly hurt dur- ing the riot. The windows in many Jew- ish houses werd smashed. and a 1s going 1 | | \ i | this city. | federates, | ried women, AUTHORITIES TRACE LOOT FAOM TRAING 'Railroad Employes Implicated in Thefts. Missing Goods Found in a House Near Salinas. R Southern Pacific Men Ac- cused by a “Fence” Who Is Under Arrest. Special Dispatch to The Call. SALIN , Sep . J. Nes- bitt of th assisted by Southern Pacific etectives from San Francisco, has succeeded In unearthing a widespread plot among rafiroad employes for the stealing of organized gang was making a pusiness of pilfering from the various freight trains. It was not until Thursday afternoon that the officers were able to obtain evidence sufficlent to warrant the taking of definite action. Accompanied by officers from San Fran- cisco, Sheriff Nesbitt raided a resort on the Castrovilie road, about a mile from Within the building the of- ficers discovered a quantity of furniture and beneath the flooring a large amount of goods, including a quantity of hides, was found. stolen from the freight through here. The keeper of the house, James Daugh- erty, was arrested, but two of his con- who had been living in the house, made their escape. Thursday evening Daugherty was put through a long secret “sweating” fessed the whole affair. He claimed that he simply acted as *‘fence” for the gang and that among its members were thir- teen raflroad men, including two freight conductors. He stated that the opera- tions of the gang had extended over a number of months and that they had three or four different places where the stolen goods were secreted until disposed of. The officers are using every means to apprehend the other members of the gang. In the meantime the prisoner is Kkept in solitary confinement in a building separate from the main county jal. ———— DEPLORES LIQUOR HABIT OF FASHIONABLE WOMEN trains passing London Journal Says Use of| “Cordials” Is Growing at Alarming Rate. Special Cable to The Call and New' York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. LONDON, Sept. 12.—Fashionable wo- men’s clubs in the West End are very | much exercised just now over a subject one of the newspapers has labeled “The Deadly Liquenr.” It started from a statement in the London World that the habit among women of indulging in what | are commonly called “cordials” is grow- ing at a rapid rate, Idleness is alleged by the World to be the predisposing cause of the growing indulgence by young mar- especially of the upper classes, in alcoholic drinks. Coffee and liquors figure at suppers after the play and at luncheon partles, | however simply planned. The girl in her first season nowadays, says this journal, thus drinks her benedictine or creme de menthe perhaps three times a day. The yeung married woman takes her whisky and aerated water as a matter of course. A correspondent of one of the London newspapers has interviewed a number of wine merchants, who agree that a great deal more liquor is sold now than three years ago. ————— McCLELLAN TO MAKE RACE AGAINST LOW Congressman Seems Certain of Tam- many Nomination for New York Mayoralty. NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—With the convic- tion that Mayor Low will accept the fu- sion pomination almost to a eertainty, and Charles F. Murphy’s intention to nominate Representative George B. Mc- Clellan apparently crystalizing into ada- ment, the outlook to-day was that each party would be pleased with its opponent in this campalgn. Tammany wants Low to run. But Tammany does not want Low any more than the fusionists want McClellan. The mayor and his campaign managers are confident that they can beat any Tammany organ man and espe- cially the man of all others who is close to Charles F. Murphy and a favorite of Richard Croker goods in transit from railroad | For the past year it has been known | All of the goods had been | and finally con- | EAPLOSION ON GRUISER OLYMPIA 'Alcohol, Stolen by Warship’s Men Blows Up. Two Killed, One Miss- ing and Severdl i Injured. Victims of Acc.dent, Envel- oped in Fire, Meset Horrible Death, NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 12.—The explosion of a barrel of alcohol on the superstruc- ture deck of the cruiser Olympia, in the dry dock at the Norfolk Navy Yard, night killed two men, severely injured | several others and set fire to the ship. The master-at-arms of the vessel is miss. | ing. The dead: | | CORPORAL YERKES, U, 8. M. C. WHITE MAN, name unknown. The damage by fire was confined to the deck of the vessel and gmbrdced ohly. canvas awnings and thelr fixtures. decks, however, were slightly injured. - Immediately after the explosion fire alarms were sounded and the crew, the navy yard department and a detachment of marines under Captain Boots soon ex- tinguished the flames. | The explosion, according to reports from eye-witnesses, followed the theft of a bar- | rel of grain alcohol, containing fifty-six gallons, by a party of sailors. This bar- rel, it is sald, was taken from one of the | storehouses of the navy yard and re- moved to the dock near the Olympla. There it was opened. Shipkeeper Daly on | board the Olympia detected the odor of he spirits and summoned the ship's mas- | ter-at-arms. A search led to the discov-| ery of the barrel, which was taken aboard | the Olympia and placed on the hurricane | deck. With the exception of a small quantity, which had been consumed, it was intact. Yerkes and the unknown sailor went to | the barrel and one of them struck a match. An explosion followed and both | men were enveloped in the flaming liquor. They perished before a hand could be raised to save them. The ship at once caught fire and the blaze for a while was stubborn, but was finally extinguished. In the excitement the sallors concerned in the affair escaped the parties sent out to arrest them. to- The =hip's company was assembled and the <hlp s master-at-arms failed to re- spond 'to his name. It Is not known what became of him. One report has it that he was not on the ship at the time of the ex- plosion. No one was admitted to the navy yard, and all accounts of the explosion and at- tending circumstances were obtained front outsiders. The injured are said to num- ber from four to seven. LXCITEMENT IN BOGOTA OVER CANAL DISCUSSION Colombian Legislator in Speech At- tacks Honor of Panama’s New Governor. BOGOTA, Sept. 12—In the House of Refresentatives to-day Senor Teran in a speech attacked ‘the honor and ability of Benor Obaldia, the newly appointed Gov- ernor of Panama, and proposed bringing | charges in both sides of Congress against President Marroquin for his appointment. A heated discussion followed. The State Minister eloquently defended Senor Obal- dia, speaking of him in the highest terms. There is great excitement here, and the discussion of the canal treaty by Congress is the topic of all conversation. The State Minister declared in Con- gress that Jose Manuel Marroquin and Lorenzo Marroquin would decline to be candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the republic. EIGHT MASKED MEN ‘[ BLOW OPEN BANK SAFE Armed Robbers Picket Streets of Dakota Town Until Booty Is Secured. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, Sept. 12.—A band of eight masked men blew . open the safe in the Minnehaha County Bank at Valley Springs this morning and se- cured between $3000 and $10,000 in cash. Residents of the town were aroused shortly before daybreak by several ex- plosions. When citizens' appeared on the streets to ascertain the cause they discovered that the town was picketed by seven or eight men who drove the residents from the streets on pain of in- stant death. The robbers then completed 4 their work and left town. - 4 JflflcX OX AN — AUTOMOBILE ARGHIP 13 THE LATEST Inventor Believes He Has Solved Problem. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Lewis Gathmann, the inventor of the Gathmann |- shell, which received considerable atten- tion on the part of members of Congress some months ago, and which was tested at Sandy Hook by officers of the army, has invented a mechanical automobile alr- ship which, he beileves, will solve the problem of aerial navigation. Gathmann's alrship may become of the greatest use from a military standpoint, according to the inventor, but he conserv- atively says that he does not belleve that any airship will ever become commerchl]y valuable. An ordinary electric fan, inverted so that the fan revolves horizontally, is the basis of Gathmann's idea. He has worked out a machine with huge fans, measuring thirty-six feet from tip to tip, which re- volve at a speed of 260 revolutions per min- ute, and the rushing air from underneath causes the car attached to rise from the earth. The fans are on huge spindles, operated by a double gasoline engine. Gathmann has already constructed a model, which, he says, clearly demon- strates that the airship of the future must be a purely mechanical contrivance based on scientific principles and not constructed on the idea of flying birds, any more than steam engines should have been patterned after running horses. By securing great horsepower from his engines, sufficient to cause his fans to revolve at such high speed as to displace air, he declares, his machine will arlse from the ground and sail at will, so long as the power is kept up. The car is of the lightest construction and gasoline is used to generate power. — —e——— 7wa?7£.a’7' VIZZAGE Y BrrLGARIA— - SCE TIER OF FERDINAND'S TROUBLED PRINCIPALITY. Horrible Massacre Excites the Sofia Government. OFIA, Sept. 12—With the arrival of new and sensational reports of the wholesale massacre of Christians in Mace- donia, the situation here is hourly becoming more alarming. If the latest messages, which state that 6000 Bulgarians have been slaughtered in the districts of Okhrida and Leren, should be con- firmed, no doubt exists that the Government will be forced to or- .der the mobilization of the army. Official circles are so far without information regarding the reported massacre, but, in view of the character of the latest ad- vices from Macedonia, it is feared that the news is only too true. Rumors are current that at a council of the Ministers to-day it was decided to mobilize immediately the first and second army divisions. This is officially denied, but well informed persons do not doubt that the Cabinet, which is meeting in council daily, is seriously considering such a measure. , Continued on Page 22, Columns 3 and 4. \FEFUGEES ARRIVIVG X7 THE BVIGARIZN FERONI7ER NE IN THE. WAR DISTRICT OF Bl:'LGARIA WHERE THE INSURAENTS HAVE FORTIFIED A NUMBER OF CITIES AND ARE RESISTING TURKISH ARTILLERY AND RIFLEMEN, AND VIEW ON THE FRON- Two French Wars- ships Hurrying Eastward. Larger - Force Is o o in Readiness to Sail. p eign Office. it has been decided to send the cruiser La Touche- Treville to Turkish waters without wait- Ing for the other ships from the French squadron ordered to be in readiness to sall for the Levant. The La Touche-Tre- ville probably will be followed by the crulser Duchella. Their special polnts of observation will be Salonica, Beirut and Smyrna, but they will not go directly to these places. The warships will rendesz- vous at the small Greek island of Syria ARIS, Sept. 12—After & confer- ence between the officers of the Marine Ministry and of the For- ———————————— off the coast and within steaming dis- tance of the disturbed district. Admirat Jaurigeberry and his flagship will remain at Toulon, ready to reinforce the two cruisers with a large naval force in case of a more serfous turn of events. e e NAZIM PASHA ENERGETIC. New Vali of Beirut Restores Feeling of Confidence. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The following bulletin was posted at the State Depart- ment to-day: “Minister Leishman telegraphs under date of yesterday, the Iith, that the fol- lowing proclamation has appeared In the papers of Constantinople: “ ‘By command of his Imperial Majesty, the Sultan, Reshid Bey, Governor General of Beirut. has been dismissed. Nazim Pasha, Governor General of Damascus, has been appointed acting Governor Gen- eral of Beirut." “The officlal gazette prints a notice that Nazim Pasha has taken temporary charge of the administration of Beirut. “Minister Leishman also communicates the substance of a report received by him Continued on Page 22, Column 4 ’