The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1903, Page 3

MMIGRANT HORDE GROWS EAGH MONTH | Year's Record Will Far Exceed the Million Mark. | B Mzjority of Arrivals Come Frocm Austria, Italy and Russia The Call. G STREET, NW., 27.—Immigration pass all records 406 re than a million immi- present fiscal year w as The total last year which was 65,054 in excess of rrivals us over r's - Continued From Page 1, Column 7 te Lo siness h. I business no AT VERTISEMENTS. Skin Diseases of the most stubborn and chronic kind are prompily relieved and eventually cured by the use of Hydrozone This powerful germicide is ab- solutely harmless. It has cured cases pronounced incurable and will cure you. y killing the germs that cause skin diseases, it allows Nature to restore a health skin. Used and endorsed by lead- ing physicians everywhere for the last 12 years. klet on request, Sold by leading druggists or trial bottl= sent prepaid on receipt of 25 cents. Oof ladatiztos 61.0 Prince St., New York visir DR. JORDAN'S crear MUSEUN OF ANATOMY MABKETET. et §r2aTes, 5.7 .Cal, Lagpest Anat- et Museun in the posi ; comracted by the cidest Est 36 years. DR. JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN Conultation free and strictly private. Trescment personsily of by Jeher & Poities Ourt 8 very case underianen. Weie for Book. PHILCSOPRY of MARRIAGE, MAILED FREg (4 waluabie book for mes ) DR JORDAN & 00.. 105 Market St 8§ e e e e o L B 2V DVDBVVUOOIITO The dealing in Schilling’s Be s st ez bekdng powder #pices eoffee flavoring extracts soda islike the goods: good-enough, At your grocer's; mecybacks SERIOUS AEVLT OF IRON WORKERS Many Delegates Threat- en WithdrawalFrom Association. —— | Dominance of Samuel Parks Will Not Be Longer Tol- erated by Them. ekl KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. ZI.—Pitts- | burg, Cleveland, Buffalo and Wheeling | delegates, representing 10,00 men, decided | | here to-night to withdraw from the Inter- national Association of Structural Iron | ana Briage in the event of the continued ce of Samuel Parks, the New valking delegate, in the | ng held here. irman of the direct the anti- the convention. and his Influence that the New York ue as directly regime and it n » Buchanan men to- the president e triumphs Parks he will make New York. he sa n New York as saying nds of trou- 1ot intend to tructural iron New nge in the r bridge I - in about two ngs a c R st rething REPLIES -’IO THE CLERGY. of International Typo- graphical Union Answers Critics. INDIANAPOLIS, S 27.—President Internati aphical xt issue of the organ of reply to ¢ that the t of the » by Roman ynch will wed to ut in- fraternity or the persistence rs have exploited several that._these ¢ should the BUTCHERS MAY QUIT WORK. Packing-House Plants Are Threat- ened With a Tie-Up. GO, Sept. Z.—Every packing- in the United States is threat. a tle-up by a general strike of ated workmen, for the v, unless the owners ¥ield to the demands of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America Whkile the packers are willing to pay wages asked, a hitch in the negotia- s arisen over the demand of the s that the butchers Increase their t of work. Every lodge of butchers country has been asked to vote on of the packers, and meetings for the purpose throughout ¥ to-morrow. If the vote shall avorable it is likely a general strike STRIKE IS THREATENED. Fifteen Thousand Coal Miners May Be Called Out in Pennsylvania. Pa., Sept .—President of District No. 2, United is authority for the state- of the 15,00 cmployes the Pennsylvania Coke and Coal Cor > newly formed sort coal combi- the Cent Pennsylvania field, He has given the officials er 3 to to carry out the scale, Should 1 order a strike. s a member of fail to doeso he w kins, who w: | the Anthracite Arbitration Commission, is vice president of the company —_————— | IRISH LEADER OUTLINES PROGRAMME IN PARLIAMENT John Redmond Says Next Session ‘Will Be Devoted to the Labor- ers’ Question. LONDON, Sept. 2.—Addressing a dem- onstration at Newcastle, County Down, to-day, John Redmond, the Irish leader, said that the Irish land bill having been secured, the next session must be devot- ed to the laborers’ question. The politiéal situation to-day was a strange one and if Premier Balfour desired to retain of- fice the Irish party would hold the power of life or death in its hands and would use that power without compunction to forward the interests of the Irish cause. CARLSBAD, Sept. 2I.—Lord Milner left this morning for London to confer with Premier Balfour regarding the offer made to him of the Secretaryship for the Col- onles. P — Feud Fighter Goes Free. CAMPTON, Ky., Sept. 2I.—The Wolfe County Grand Jury returned a verdict of not gullty to-day In the case of Claude Day, charged with the killing of Felix Bullock in Breathitt County two years ago. Two trials of the case in Jackson, Ky., resulted in divided juries. The case was then transferred to Wolfe County. Judge Redwine presided over the three trials. —_——— Reads Bible Before Killing Himself. ‘WHEELING, Sept. 27.—I1l and in finan- clal trouble, John Laughlin, a prominent citizen, killed himself to-night after mak- ing the most deliberate preparations. Laughlin kissed his wife and son before ; retiring to his room. There he disrobed, put on a night garment, oOpened the family Bible at a favorite chapter, and, after reading a while, shot himseif through the head. —_————— Philippine Trade Steadily Increases. ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 2I—The returns of Philippine commerce for May, 193, show the foreign trade of the islands aggre- gated for the month $6,872,982, exclusive of Government supplies and gold and sil- ver, being even greater than that report- ed for April of the present year, the value of which exceeded that for any single month since American occupation. 1 | ht it out on that | ing the re-election ! Inl THE €AN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1903. ARRIVES TO INVESTIGATE SUICIDE OF TOM KIM YUNG Chew Tszchi, First Secretary of the Chinese Legation at Washington, Will Probe Into Circumstances Surrounding Affair That May Result in International Complications T e W AN —e i i Cotzw J57CHT. ,ITH the arrival Tszchi, first secreta Chinese legation, from Wash.- ington, D. C., last evening, the first chapter of the inves- ation attendant upon the arrest of Tom Kim Yu & and his subsequent suicide by the inhalation of illuminating gas is about to begin, and complications may | resuit that will hold the boards of the | no doubt | | | | { | | | | positions of President of ew Tszchi arrived from Washington | on the overland train last evening fully empowered Sir Chentung Liang Chung, the Chinese Minister, to rigidly investigate the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Tom Kim Yung and his self-destruction. Upon the report of Chew | future -developments | Tszchi will depend in this international affal which has caused the Chinese Government and the Department much concern. The gentleman who occu next in rank to the Chinese Minister to the United States is regarded as one of the most astute members of the diplo- mat: T , and there is that the investigation that he is about to make will be thorough and searching in its nature. Upon his arrival in this city he was met at the ferry by members of the consular service and es- corted to the consulate. Mr. Chew Tszchi was not averse to bes ing interviewed and readily consented to discuss the mission that brings him to the | city. He is a man of commanding ap- pearance, and affability and courtesy are among his chief characteristics. His an- swers to all interrogations are pointed, and he possesses the factulty of skillfully parrying any questions the answers to which might call ferth an expression of personal opinion. SUICIDE CAUSED SOEROW. Mr. Tszchi stated that the announce- ment of the arrest and suiclde of Tom Kim Yurg, military attache of the lega- tion, had caused all of the members of the legation in Washington much sorrow, | as he and gr was a man of sterling character tly liked by all who knew him. “It hardly seems possible to a man with | good common sense,” said the secretary, “that Tom Kim Yung, even if the degen- erate the police of this city maintain he was, would approach a policeman in full uniform on a well lighted public thor- oughfare, traveled by hundreds of pede: trians. It was my good fortune to become acquainted with Tom Kim Yung several years ago in Peking, and he was a gen- eral favorite with every one. His chara ter was above reproach. who knew him intimately can belleve the allegations that have been made.” The representative of the Chinese im- perial Government will begin his investi- gation this morning, and in addition to reviewing the evidence secured by the Six Companies, a visit wiil be paid to Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police Wittman. It sles a positiom | None of those | o CHINESE OFFICIAL WHO IS HERE TO INVESTIGATE SEC- RETARY'S SUICIDE. | | 1 +* g is understood that Chew Tszchi comes armed with credentials from the State Department directing the Federal au- | thorities In this city to assist him in every possible way in his investigation. | Tszchi w: verse to expressing his per- | sonal views on the outcome of the affair, | other than to state that if he found that the arrest was unjustifiable the Chinese Government would take the matter up | with the State Department at Washing- ton. PROPER PROCEDURE. “According to international etiquette, sald Secretary Tszchi, “‘the proper pro- cedure in the case of a member of the diplomatic corps gLommitting a violation of the laws would have been to report the | mensurate with the offense. This rule, | however, only strictly applies to mem- i bers of the dinlomatic corps and not to | members of the consular service.” | Secretary Tszchi was anxlous to ascer- tain from the interviewer what the pub- | e thought of the affair and whether or not it was believed that Tom Kim Yung was gullty of the offense charged. He was surprised to hear that the Chinese | population was divided on that point and circulars had been distributed in China- | town announcing the fact that Tom Kim | Yung was ordered to commit suicide by the acting Consul General The distinguished member of the diplo- | matic corps has been In the diplomatic service for eight years. He is a native of Shantung province and graduated with high honors from the University of Pek- ing in 1593. vestigating the casc to take a vacation | of several weeks. He expresses himself delighted with California climate and scenery. A reception will be tendered him during his stay=$n this city by the Six Companies and the representative mer- cantile organizations of Chinatown. L o e e e e R e, ] FATL ILLNESS SEITES | DUAE Richmond, Sixth of His Line, Succumbs to a Chill PR S el A LONDON, Sept. 2I.—The Duke of Rich- mond, Lennox and Gordon dled last night at Gordon Castle, Banffshire, as the re- sult of a chill contracted on Thursday last. The Duke had been giving a large house party and the castle was full of guests when the gravity of his seizure ‘was announced. Most of the guests left the castle on Friday and Saturday. The deceased was the sixth Duke of Richmond. He was born on February 27, 1818, and succeeded his father in 1860. He held at various times the Government Trade, Lord President of the Council and Secretary for Scotland. He will be succeeded by hie eldest son, the Earl of March. —_—e————————— CHINESE REBELS GETTING - READY FOR AN UPRISING Viceroy Tsen Receives Alarming In- telligence From the Authori- ties of Kwangtung. SHANGHAI, Sept. 21.—Viceroy Tsen is hurrying back to Canton from Kwangsi Province in response to an urgent tele- gram from the local authorities to the effect that the rebels and secret socleties in Kwangtung Province are preparing a rising. B BALTIMORE, Sept. 27.—Archbishop Kain of St. Louls, who came here to the St. Agnes sev ago to recuperate, Sanitarfum has an attack of appendicitis, and an operation probably will be performed at an early date. POISON GAUSES WOMAN'S DEATH Mystery of Sensational Sacramento Case Unveiled. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 2.—Mrs. Mattle V. MacEwen made every preparation for her burial some days before she took the dose of morphine which ended her life. Mayor George H. Clark, head of the Clark & Booth undertaking company, two ‘weeks ago conducted the woman through his establishment and arrived at terms with her with reference to the cost of her funeral. That Coroner Willlam F. Gormley should have dented to ‘tne Call corre- spondent all knowledge of the case, when in fact he had half an hour before pre- sided at an inquest at which a verdict of suicide was rendered, has given rise to no little criticism of the Coroner’s meth- od of conducting a public office. He treated the local newspapers as he at- tempted to treat The Call, and hence The Call, which secured the truth from other sources, was the first paper to tell the Sacramento people about the manner in which the suicide was sought to be hushed up. Mrs, Mattie MacEwen, an aged and re- spected former resident of Sacramento, but of late years a resident of San Fran- cisco, where she had relatives, came up from the latter city about three weeks ago and took a room at a friend's house. Afterward she secured an apartment at the Capital Hotel. On Friday evening she was found in her room at the hotel 1B & condition bordering matter to his Minister and allow his Gov- | crnment to mete out a punishment com- | It is his intention after in- | WHITE MEN VGTIMG OF * THE FRAUDG Lose More Than the Reds in I[ndian Territory. SIS Deplorable Condition in the Choc:aw, Chickasha and Creek Nations NI 3 R Law Prevents Starving Tribesmen Selling Their Holdings and Bettlers Lease the Lands. I sy L S Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 16 G STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—According | to George M. Bailey, a newspaper cor-| respondent who has just spent three weeks in Indlan Territory investigating, the land scandal, the conditions in the | Choctaw, Chickasha and Creek nation: are as bad as they can be and the “‘graft ing” has already exceeded in proportion | | the postoffice scandal. The Indian scan- dals involve the godd faith and integrity of the Government in the administra- tion of an estate of 70,000 helpless per- sons who are wards of the Government. “In the Choctaw and Chickasha coun-| tries the sufferers are white homeseekers | rather than the Indian said Bailey to- night. *“‘After the passage of the Curtis | act, which provided for the allotment of | iands and the ratiiication of the Atoka | agreement and a supplementary treaty, each Choctaw and Chickasha Indian be- | ! came entitled to 320 acres of average land, | 160 acres of which became a homestead | inalienable for twenty years. maining 160 acres the Indian was perm ted to sell, one fourth each year, he received his patent, until all of it was disposed of. Then it that the whits homeseckers from Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri began to flock into the two nations by the s in order to be on the ground when the allotments were made, so as to secure homes by ac- quiring the aiienable lands of Indians. Up to the present time these whites have | been renting the lands from the Indians, paying therefor a percentage of th | crops raised. During this period of wait tthg they have endured all manner of hardships, lived in the merest shacks, | their children have been without school | facilities and they have been preyed upon | by land grafters and Indians e. They have suffered too much already and Con- gress should see to it without delay that | they receive better treatment. | *“The scandals have rcached the highest | development in the Creek nation, for the | reason that the Creek allotments have | been completed. Bradley, of the Bradley Real Estate Ccmpany, informed me that the so-called ‘grafting’ of the kind he was engaged in was the result of the policy of the Interior Department in making it dif- ficult for Indians to sell their land. Creek fullbloods are in a semi-starving | condition and they leased their lands in | order to get money to buy food. If they | had been permitted to sell they could | have pald their debts, purchased nec- ! essaries and Improved their inalienable hgmestcads. “There are Indians in the Federal jail at Muskogee charged with cattle theft who were caught in the timber eating the raw flesh of a yearling they had killed | because they were pressed by hunger. | These Indians are possessed of $2500 or | $3000 worth of land and yet they are crim- could not use thelr inals because they property to prevent starvation. L e e o i S Y ) on coma. Under her pillow was found a blank envelope with enough sulphate of morphine in it to kill a dozen persons. | To Dr. G. B. Campbell, who attended her, the .woman aamitted that she had taken | the poison. She was removed yesterday morning to the house of the friend whom she had first visited and there died about three hours later. Coroner Gormley was called in the case | iand by friends of the woman asked to| | keep the affair out of the newspapers. Gormley complied with the request, even | | to the extent of denying knowledge ot | the affair, untll he found The Call had | | secured the information outside his office. | A jury was summoned. Dr. Campbell appeared befcre it and testified that the | woman had died of poison evidently | taken with suicidal intent, and the verdict of the jury was in accordance with this report. At the Capual Hotel no informa- tion whatever could be obtained, not even the name of the woman, and it was ap- parent that every effort was being made | to keep the affair a secret. | ‘Mayor Clark was called upon this morn-g ing and asked for a statement of his con® nection with the mysterious case. “About two weeks ago,”” said the Mayor, “Mrs. MacEwen called at my establish- ment and sald she expected to die soon, as she was affiicted with heart disease. She asked me what it would cost to give her a proper burial in the event of her death, and 1 gave her different prices for different kinds of funerals. One price pleased her and she said she would depos- it the amount in a local bank, subject to my order. “I thought at the time that the woman was in a despondent mood and that she would think no more of the matter when she recovered from her despondency. When I heard yesterday that she was in a dying condition and was told by Dr. Campbell it was a case of suicide I im- mediately recalled her visit to my estab- lishment.” Dr. Campbell, in an interview with The Call correspondent to-day, sald it was a ciear case of suicide and he had so testi- fled at the Coroner's inquest. He said he asked the woman if she had taken the poison and she nodded affirmatively. He asked her if she had taken it of her own volition and she replied in the same manner that she had. He could not get her to say whether she had taken the drug with sulcidal intent, but he was | certain such was the case, and he said upon his evidence such a verdict was re- turned by the Coroner’s jury. Dr. Campbell showed an envelope con- taining the poison, which he found under Mrs. MacEwen's pillow. In it remained a considerable quantity of poison. The envelope was entirely blank, save for a notation in Dr. Campbeil's handwriting— “Found under Mrs. MacEwen's pillow.” As there is a State law against selling deadly poisons in such quantities, or at all without a physician’s prescription, and as Mrs. MacEwen was not being treated with morphine it i{s evident some druggist is guilty of a violation of the | State law, and another reason appears why there was an effort to hush up the case. Mrs. MacEwen was a highly respected woman and was very well known to the older generation of Sacramento people. B e — Fall Line of Leather Goods | Now on ex.ibition and sale. Ladies’ pocketbooks, wrist bags, netsuki purses, card-cases and bill books, the prettiest things ever made. Your name in_ gold letters free of charge. Sanborn, Vail & | Co., 741 Market strect. Aeit] INDIANS HIGHT AT THE DANGE Stabbthg and Shooting Complete a Savage Festival. Quarrels Result in Serious Trouble at a Farm in Shasta. ksl Y REDDING, Sept. 27.—Several hundred | Indians and halfbreed Indians employed in picking fruit at Anderson, twelve miles south of here, held a dance on the Petty- | grove farm a mile from Anderson, last| night, which wound up in the early hours | this morning with two fights. One ended | fatally at once and the other may result | in a fatality. The Indians and halfbreeds had been drinking. The first trouble was between Jeft Lowry, a haiibreed Indian of Modoc | County, and Dick Rogers, an Indlan of Big Meadows, Plumas County. Rogers, who Is under arrest, says that he loaned | Lowry a dollar some time ago and failed | to get it back, despite repeated requests. | He says he asked Lowry for it again this | morning at the dance and Lowry, calling him a vile name, told him never to ask | for the money again, at the same time | pressing a revaolver against Rogers’ breast and pulling the trigger. The cart- ridge failed to explode. Rogers says he | tabbed Lowry twice in the abdomen to save himself. Physicians say one of the | knife wounds may cause death. Lowry | was & partner of Charley Hough, a noto- | riously bad Indlan of Modoc County, who | was killed by officers. i The excitement of the stabbing affair had hardly worn off when the Indian | heard three pistol shots in rapid | on on the outskirts of the erowd. | They found Joe Henderson, an Indian of Blg Bend, Shasta Count brother of Stonewall Jackson, a locally famous In- dian chief of the same local had been shot through the b« I let touching the heart. Death c few minutes and the identity of the slay- er has not been. established. The Indians will talk but affair, although they say that Henderson was considered the leader in the move- | ment which resulted in the ting and beheading of Loule Thoma an Indian doctor of Burney Valley in this count several months ago. —_————— Child’s Arms Broken. little of the | TRAIN JUMPS FROM TRESTLE {9 FEET HIGH Engine and Mail and Ex- press Cars Land in Shallow Stream. SR Nine Persons Are Killed and Seven Severely Injured in Disaster. RELY CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 2.—While running at a high rate of speed, a south- bound fast mail train on the Souther Railway jumped from a trestle se five feet high north of Danville, W this afternooA and was demolished. the crew of sixteen men, including mail clerks, nine were killed and seven in- jured. The dead: ENGINEER J. A. BRODIE of Placer- ville, Va FIRE N CLARENCE WHITE. CONDUCTOR TOM BLAIR. MAIL CLERK J. L. THOMPSON. MAIL CLERK W. T. CHAMBERS. MAIL CLERK D. T. FLORY. P. N. ARNDENWRIGHT. FLAGMAN and BRAKEMAN, names not known The injured: Mall Splers, Frank recovery of Mail Clerk Spiers is pected. Others of the clerks are believ to be fatally injure the and is on a sharp The tre where curred is 390 feet lon curve. E ineer B je, who was a new | man on the aivision, came to the curve at high speed. The locomotive had gone only about fifty feet, on the trestle t | sprang from the ack, carrying wi it four mail cars and an express car. The ! trestle, a -wooden ure, also gave way for a space of f feet At the foot stream with this the locomo duced to a mas: is & sl and pieces of Ted Wooc on any of cars had made an | effort to jum bodies of all those | killed were f kage of the different cars in en- gaged. e ex- Mildred McCarth the T-year-old | daughter of Tim McCarthy of 427 Clem- entina street, both her arms bro! falling out of a window near her home on. She was treated dll spital. press car w The mail torn open ¢ rs and packages were scattered, but it is belleved e were lost. ADVERTISEMENTS. Without doubt we carry the largest stock of un- derwear of any store on price you wish to pay. e A ————gy At 65¢ At 85¢ At §1.25 At $1.35 At $1.50 At $2.00 $1.00. a mere ished mere garment—All-wool form-fitting or flat goods; usually sold at $1.00 and $1.25. a garment—Fine form-fitting cassi> the Pacific Coast. It is low priced and well selected. Whatever you want in style, color or quality you will find it here at the To popularize our underwear department we reduced several lines as follows: ; a garment—Sanitary fleece-lined under- wear; fancy front;- plush finish; usually underwear in underwear; knitted neck; us- ually $1.50. a garment—Mercerized silk form- fitting underwear; ; usually $1.50 and $1.75. a garment—Pure form-fitting underwear; exceptional quality; usually $2.00. a garment—Fine form-fitting cassi- elegantly fin- worsted wool underwear, with silk stripes, high grade, the best possible qual- ity, which usually is $2.50. The ahove goods come in such colors as gray, tan, brown, ecru, blue, pink, black. fancy stripes and mottled goods. Out-of-town orders filled—write us. SNWOOD. 740 Market Street.