The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1903, Page 1

S XCIV—NO. 144. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908. @all. PRICE FIVE CENTS, TECOND MATE ARTHUR RAUENS AND FOUR SEAMEN OF WRECKED SOUTH PORTLAND PICKED UP AT SEA NS | TALKING OF INNEXKTION Growing RageOver the Alaskan Decision. Public Men Advocat;e: Independence for | Dominion. Saythe Way Is Being Paved for Joining the Ameri- can Btates. | VAKX Columbia ¥ € . COURSE OF THE BOUNDARY. | British Agent Traces Line as Fixed by the Award. N, Oct. 20.—La | - day by C ers ¥ Lodge and 1 a eaty, a binding ma- | e es at Cape axon, g e northern en- e of el between Wales s roceeding morth between & ands to Portland chan- | the middle of Portland From there the line . from peak to peak of | 1 > from tidal wa- | rty miles, | e Thom- | fined from | n miles north | thence follows bout north- | follows the coot passes, ins to Mount | 1o the police & the pro- o o . weather, | ” rd and then on| " the rear of Yak- | n > peak by somew route to Mount e, Eilas. Marked map follows to-morrow, “SIFTON.” l | Nevada, S00AES DIE FROM EATING CABBAGES i Poisonous Worm; Claims Georgia Victims. | Heavy Loss of Life Before Cause Is | Discovered. Death-Dealing Pest Has the Appearance of Tiny Snake. Spectal , Oct. 21.—Great loss the counties of to eating cabbage | by a strange worm. | few weeks m White, Townes, Union, e and other counties g them have reported scores of persons th t the mysterious deaths were not od aad all occurred , after the cabbage. Then a farmer in v, in gathering cabbages, worm about two inches long t the size of a needle. He says 1 he toucked the cabbage the shot out its tongue like acted in every like a Becoming alarmed, he sent the the Sta Chemist, who reported that it contained enough poison to kill | | cause. of way fifteen persons. e The worms are so small that it is hard housewives to find them when pre- | & cabbage for cooking, and man: cooked in this way. The cab- | age crop is great this section, but he discovery of the poisonous worm has made % a complete loss. Up to this time | h d for getting | that has been ave been of the worm, o! cause of so many deaths. _————————————— GIRIAT'S ACCOMPLICE | TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF | Laderman’s Brother Says the Woman Strangled Eugenie Fougeres and Her Maid. | PARIS, Oct. 2L—A man named Lader- | himself to-day at Lyons as he s being arrested by the police in con- | nection with the murder at Alx-fes-Bains last month of a woman named Eugenie | Fougeres. His condition is critical. La. derman’s brother tells the following story of the crime, which, he says, was arranged | a woman named Giriat, known | in certain circles as “La Nubienne,” and Henri B her lover. | Laderman agreed to assist in the theft | of the jewels on condition that there be | no killing, He secreted himself in the | garden of the woman's villa. When Fou- | " maid came into the house she was | d and gagged by Giriat, who then | treated Fougeres in the same manner. | After handing Laderman the jewels Giriat strangled Fougeres, whom she hated. jer to dispose of the witness to me, she strangled the mald. Girlat | .sked Laderman to bind and gag her. s he aid before leaving the villa with the jewe betwee: sot, Chen, 1 —_——————————— STOCKHOLDERS DEMAND REMOVAL OF OFFICERS| Large Ownmers in Mexican Mining | and Exploration Company Propose Changes in Management. 3TON, Oct. 21.—James V. Dig- ard L. Dignowity and Ed- owity and Charles Hedges, of cne-third in par value of the f the Mexican Mining and Explor- ing Company, have called a meeting of the etockholders of the company for Sat- urday, November 7, to consider and act upon the removal from office of former United States Senator John P. Jones-of | president; First Vice President Eugene Davls, Secretary F. G. Norrls, Treasurer E. C. Clark, General Counsel John K. Cowen, and Frank K. Gillespie and E. C. Bryan, directors. The meeting will also consider the an- nulment of the contract by which Clark & Co. have been acting as fiscal agents, of the company and decide upon the re- moval of the offices of the company from Washington to New York. —————————————— SPECTATORS APPLAUD | WOMAN’S DEATH STRUGGLE | —_— | Boa Kills Tamer While Crowd Cries | “Bravo” at,What It Supposes | Is Acting. BERLIN, Oct. 2L—A young woman was squeezed to death by a boa constrictor at Voelkiingen, Prussia, to-day, while giving a performance in a menagerie. The spec- tators thought at first that her screams and frentic struggies as the snake tight- ened its colls were part of the show and applauded and cried “Bravo” at the “real- ism” of her acting. The attendants, how- i | | E3 . 5 | | yet with the assistance of a tug. ever, saw the woman's danger, ran in, beat the snake and slashed it with knives, The woman was dead when released. FTER twenty hours of perilous voyaging on an improvised raft, Second Mate Arthur Ravens, and Ole Blombat steamer South Portland, were picked up by a boat from the Spo- kane about noon Tuesday 15 miles below Cape Blanco and 12 Gunderson, Charles and F. Johanssen, sailors of the wrecked miles off shore. Five of their companions on the raft had suc- cumbed to exposure during the night preceding. The rescued men corroborate the story that Captain McIntyre abandoned his ship and many of the crew and passengers. o SESECOND MATS ).- ACTHUR RAVENS DEAD AND MISSING. | | PASSENGERS: | Mts. Fletcher Bent. S. Baker. | J. S. Lahey. Mrs. W. E. Tyrrell. William Tyrrell. F. Moinge. C. Hollenbeck. D. McKay. Paul Reimuth. o | J. C. Wright. | J. Watson. | OFFICERS AND CREW: | William Coleman, steward. George Jackson, second cook. E. Humphrey, seaman. John McKenzie, carpenter. B. Doherty, fireman. P. Wolfe, oiler. | First Assistant Engineer Chas. Huston. N EA * ES THE SURVIVORS. || e | PASSENGERS: | W. L. Wilson. 1 o E> O ormBAT L. Baker. | Guy Bent. | Al Bailey. 111 H. Weber. | OFFICERS AND CREW: Captain J. B. Mclntyre. First Officer Charles Bruce. Second Officer Arthur Ravens. Chief Engineer James Ward. Second Assistant Engineer T. Pizzetti. John McKeown, oiler. | J. Driscoll, oiler. i | W. Hughes, fireman. | | W. Robertson, fireman. | James Alwood, seaman. C. Johnson, seaman. Ole Gundersen, seaman. Charles Blombat, seaman. F. Johanssen, seaman. CREW 1N BOATS — that the boat will reach Hawali safely, as the light reflected from the crater of Mauna Loa will serve as a guide from afar. The other missing boat, containing the first mate and seven of the crew, drifted off in a northerly direction, where it will likely cross the path of the Oriental steamers and be picked up. The French Consul here has requested the Federal authorities to send out the United States tug Iroqueis in search of the missing boats. The wrecking of the Conetable de Richemont was due to a peculiar mistake. The rock on which she struck was mis- taken for a ship and the vessel ap- proached it for the purpose of hailing and requesting provisions, of which the Con- etable de Richemont was very short. It is thought that the vessel can be saved ORT ORFORD, Or., Oct. 21.—We find that Charles L. Huson came to his death from exposure upon a life raft, having been wrecked on the steamer South Portland Octber 19. We further find from the evi- dence that Captain J. B. McIntyre was criminally negligent in his duties as mas- ter in abandoning the wrecked steamer before seeing to the safety of the passen- gers and.crew.” The above was the verdict returned to- night by the jury impaneled by E, W. Jensen, Justice of the Peace, and acting Coroner of Curry County, for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of the death of Charles L. Huson, first assistant en- gineer of the steamer South Portland, which was wrecked on Cape Blanco reef Monday evening last. The jury touk the testimony of several of the survivors of the wreck and after a hearing lasting twelve hours concluded that the captain should be censured for leaving the ship in the first boat. . Oiler John Driscoll gave the follo: account of the wreck during 'is examina- —— Murderous Father Is Arraigned. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21.—J. L. Barnett was arraigned before Justice Chambers to-day charged with an assault to marder his l5-year-old son, who now les at the California Hospital. As it is yet too early to determine the result of the boy’s inju- ries, examination of the prisoner was de- ferred until Friday, when, if the boy is still unable to appear, the case will again be postponed tion at the Coroner’s inquest: “I was on watch when the ship struck. I felt her strike and came on deck. Twenty minutes after, before I got per- mission or orders to go on deck, some one, I do not know who, called all hands out of the engine-room. When I came up out of the engine-room two boats had al- ready been lowered and one hanging in the davits turned over. I left the ship on the life raft. There was one life raft and a raft was made impromptu. I could not tell exactly how long after the ship struck before she sank, hut it was still afloat when I left. We pulled away from the ship, as we were afrald of the suction ‘when she went down and were off cuite a distance when she sank. g “Half an hour after the boat struck, I should think, and after she had gone down, I saw the raft we had made to westward of us. We were close to it at one time. When I came on deck I could see not more than 200 yards. The engine ‘was stopped when we struck, but it was started up again afterward. After the first boat had left Y.be ship the mate sald \ Coroner’s Jury of Port Orford Passes Severe Censiire on Cap-| tain Mclntyre for Abandoning Ship he would try to get the snip in as close to shore as he could and she must have run about fifteen minutes with that end from the emergency raft to the life raft we were on.” LOOKS FOR LIFE PRESERUERS BUT CAN FIND NONE ESLIE BAKER, a passenger, said: ‘““When the ship struck I was in my berth. I came on deck immediately, and left the ship on boat No. 2. In it was Captain McIntyre; but in the lowering of the boat everybody seemed to have charge. I helped ladies into the boat Which turned over.. The boat was righted again, and we tried to pick up all people possible. I did not know Huson, the dead engineer. “Captain McIntyre's boat was the first * SURVIVORS OF WRECKED SOUTH PORTLAND RESCUED FROM LIFE RAFT BY THE SPOKANE. F L 4 N {French Bark Wrecked ‘ 7 |Survivors Relate the on Shoals and < Crui { Abandoned. W feery of Cruise R of Raft. HONOLULU, Oct. 2L—The French bark i k Conetable de Richemont has been lost on | French Frigate Shoals and sixteen of her | Only Fou" Out Of crew are missing. Captain Raubt with the carpenter, cook and three seamen Twelve Are reached Kaual on Sunday in a small| boat and arrived here this morning. Cap- J'aved. tain Raubt reports that hfs ship struck o the shoals at 4 a. m. on October 10 in a dead calm and had to be abanodned twen- | ESCUED from a frail raft twelve ty-four hours later. Two boats with six- | . B _1.; miles off shore, when death seem- teen men are missing, one in charge of A 1 ed inevitable and almost welcome, the first mate, who is the son of the cap- J N N N i sea-beaten -and exhausted, thers g el Y S AL URY HOLDS CAPTAI EGLIGENT. ey e taining the boatswain and seven men. [ maw of the ocean four men from the | These two boats are without provisions i . 2 A, 5 3 ™ | wrecked steamer South Portland to con- | and e searching expedition may be or- r'{s E, the jury, find that Charles L. Huston came to his death from exposurc upon a life | found the paltroon commander of the ganized to look for the shipwrecked men. raft, having been wrecked on the steamer South Portland,; October 19. We further || sunken ship, Captain Melntyre. They are Tre Conetable de Richemont was bound fid *¥) 7 £} . % o e 8T, | | Secona Mates Arthur Ravens and three from Hongkong to a South American ; i f_rom the evidence that Captain J. B. McIntyre was criminally negligent in his | | scamen, Charles Blombat, F. Johanssen n:;; RSN duties as master in abandoning the wrecked steamer before seeing to the safety of the passen- | | and Ole Gundersen, who, with e:sht:t:- e boat containing the boatswain and 5. i) . 2 §e AR . . T | | ers, were left upon the stricken vessel by Siish ot e e Reparatol Moms Ahe tae gers and crew.”—-Ferdict of Coroner’s jury impaneled by Justice of the Peace E. W. Jensen at 1 | he captain withaut: other means of. es- containing Captain Raubt October 14 and Port Orford, Or. | | caping a grave in the deep than what took a southerly direction. It is thought P 4 | they could put together with their own hands from the material torn from the deck. Under . the direction of Second Mate Ravens, who appears to be one ‘of those rare heroes whom danger only hardens and sharpens, the abandoned passengers and crew wrested loose the twenty-foot strongbacks supporting the bridge, and cleating these with hatches on one side R ANE R L e e, | they improvised a raft three feet in width. This they launched only a few minutes before the South Portland slipped from the rock which had gored her side and sank forever to the bottom of the ocean. Second Mate Ravens stayed on deck un- The first, til ft was In the water. 1aun was disastrous. The frail eraft} cu and three of the original dozen werd washed away. One of these was the carpenter, John McKenzie, and another was Steward William H. Coleman. The third was a seaman, who was probably Charies Petersen, although none of the survivors are certaln of his name. The last man disappeared immediately be- neath the waves. Ravens threw the car- | penter a bench from the deck of the ship and a hatch to Steward Coleman. Both ot them caught the supports and when last seen were afloat. The remaining nine, having righted the raft, got om it Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Ouunudonrmfl,cd_l._‘