The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1903, Page 1

Columbia — tune.” “Soldiers of For- Pischer's—“The Paraders.” Grand—*“Spotless Town.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Chutes—Vaudeville. XCIV—NO. 148 VOLTUM SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26. MOTHER ENDS TOWN FEARS THREE LIVES | DESTRUCTION WHEN INSANE, BY FLAMES Children Strangled?Truckee in Peril at Pacific as a Big Fire Grove. Advances. Horrifying Crime Well-Known Woman of Salinas. Husband Meets Crazed Wife | Sacramento Sends Engine Is Shown Bodies of ‘Supply of Water Runs Short and Aid Is Summoned. and by Special Train to the of Victims. Conflagration. R T e — TER Dor h me TRUCKEE, Oct. s o n ation X s here and - » m the outside can be secured ir - o o fire then spread = . Mrs vards. The local B m to break m st emplo o er yard FATHER CALLS POLICE. and now Sacramento for a pped will Ze new box _umber Company h stde of town. ties the fire i= al . but if some- done in the mext five or le catastrophe may not fire engine. they cont ENGINE LEAVES SACRAMENTO. Dynamite Said to Be in Use Near the Fire. NTO. engine —At 12:5 to- Sacramento by in response to that place for left Sacramento was called assista when a exces In Wood- time e was o o cline Into The Chief Guthrie - it s e. The engine = £ kiil- great work, and the Sacramento N were banqueted by the Woodland . in recognition of their assist- from Truckee late to-night ople were driven to.the ex- namiting bulldings in order he progress of the flames. ' received here stated the ratiroad com- flames and were trom g the town, uld be unabie to do any he wind arose. T S R CRUISER LOMBARDI PUTS MAD MULLAH TO FLIGHT of ying w Italian Government Receives Further Details of the Brief Engage- ment Fought Near Tllig. ] 25.—The owing Oct Government has information con- engagement between Lombardi and forces of ah near Iilig, in Italian So- the close watch kept on the coast by British and Italian ps, the Mad Mullah was unable to get arms and amm by sea as previo He decided take p > make a desperate at. n of a point on with 6 men who, on the 14th tacked the Italian boats and : s Rimnid o : several men. The following day Iverson smba bombarded the Mullak's Pacific Gr ce-and see the r of ve, ask- g n and obliged his followers to re- asked his partner, Dr. ee— A. M. Bitchie, to call and see the child, | TREASURE SEEKERS TRY b ie 1 t the door e TO LYNCH LUCKY FINDER e some ~; one in th‘-”hou:i Enterprise Started by a Newspaper sy Nepre . R ved| Wy KR 5 Secioes went a The neighbors Beard no un- | TARIS. Oct. 5.—An enterpride. started = . ahe . house and nothing | ¥ 1he Matin, consisting of concealig a Tk he tregeds until Iverson | {"°2sure. the whereabouts of which was s . morming 1n find the house in | Indicated in a serial story running in the ol wife crazed and his children | P2PeT: caused trouble here to-day. A . |erowd was seeking the treasure in the o e 2 Buttes Charmont park when a man drove up in a ecab, alighted e facts brought out at | founa and immediately it. The crowd declared that the s jury brought iIn | Ainder was employed by the Matin and & that Loulse, Harold |pag been told where to look. They tried ged, respectively, 12 o lynch him and he was saved with dir- . had come 10 | fcuity. Subsequently 800 persons marched strangling, presumably n|g., the office of the Matin, where they hands of their mother while she was | made a bonfire of coples of the paper and temporarily insane. Mrs. Iverson was ta- | threatened to wreck the premises. The Continued cn r;ge 3; Column 3. ring tk the C Lo, the | police had & hard task in dispersing ml | I | i ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Senator Gorman's speech in Maryland yesterday, In i which he so severely attacked President Rooseveit on the ne- ETO question.is regarded by leaders of both parties in W; gton as the pacemaker for the Democratic campaign next year. | President Roosevelt's closest personal and political friends regard it as the beginning of the execution of a plan to make the race problem a great issue against the Republicans in the Presidentia! election. The Democrats, too, accept Gorman's at- tack with no attempt to conceal their de- light, and all appear to welcome the le- Incidentally the speech is regarded | here as placing Gorman squa in the GORMAN MAKES COLOR LINE A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE Maryland Senator’s Attack Upon President a Direct Bid for South- ern Delegates to Democratic Convention of 1904 and Means 1903. ! That Negro Question Will Be Given Prominence in Campaign | i - race for the Democratic nomination and bidding tn a most prominent manner for the support of the delegates. from the South. It developed to-day that it is a well-de- termined plan on thé part of -national Democrats to Porce the face issue to the | front, not alone in the South and the close ates of Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia, but also in the | larger cities of Ohio, iana, Illinois and | Towa, where they believe it possible to stir up forej question is to be any dov iri, the race isste will make those Democratic. It is not the ) argue that if there surely intent ly forward in Democratic but to hammer it home on every Demo- cratic stump. the Republicans here take the view, juds- | in Gorman's intend sonalities Democrats ing from the speech, that make this part of their campaign directiy: | personal to Mr. Roosevelt himself, and, wherever it is possible, to emphasize the | Booker Washington dinner incident and | the Crum appointment with * white man’s government for the white: man™ as the gampaign cry from cne end of the country te the cther. The election in Maryland is looked upon | by both parties as an important test of the negro question as a campaign issue. It will be the first expression by the peo- ple of that State on the restricting legis- lation now in force there, where an edu- cational test bars many negroes from the privileges of the ballot. Gorman's speech is regarded as staking almost the entire | election in Maryland on this one ques- | tion. It is knownthat he looks upon the result as very important to his party and his friends regard it as critical to his own | chances for the Democratic nomination. . 1 MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING OF NEW YORK ACTRESS | Corona Ricardo, Wounded Unto i Death, Can Give No Informa- tion as to Assailant. | NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Guarded so close. | ly that not even the police knew of the ease, Corona Ricardo, an actress, with a | bullet wound an inch above her heart, lles near death at her home in this city. She was shot late Friday afternoon, and the explanation was made late to-night | that the bullet must have been fired by a mysterious stranger, who had followed her home from the theater repeatedly, or that she was hit by a stray shot from a street brawl. All she knows, it was de- clared, was that she had approached an open window and was peering out through the dusk and rain when from one of two men talking at a fence had come the flash of a pistol, followed by unconsciousness. There are no symptoms of poisoning or other complications, though Miss Ricardo is suffering greatly from the shock. S et Lot i e i | JUDGE ESTEE STILL WEAK, BUT IMPROVING Jurist’s Condition, Following Surgi- cal Operation, Is Considered Favorable. HONOLULU, Oct. 2.—United States District Judge M. M. Estee, who was successfully operated upon yesterday for complications arising from kidney trou- ble, is still very weak, but his condition to-day is, on the whole, considered very favorable. New Jer- | m-born voters on the negro | ntucky and | | n to bring the question prominent. ' platform, | to | j | | | | | | | | POLITICIANS WHOSE NAMES FIGURE IN THE NEWS OF THE DAY. o+ POLICE FIND - STOLENCOIN 0N A FORGER 'New Yorker Caught by Vancouver 5 Officers. Special Dispateh to The Calf. | | VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. %.—Clarence ! Leonard and a young woman who, he | says, is his wife were arrested here at | noon to-day. Leonard is charged with having secured the cash for a forged {check of $10075 in New York about a | week ago. On the persons of the couple | was found $9200. The woman had elght | $1000 bills'in her stocking. The remainder of the money wps in smaller denomina- | tions and was found in Leonard’s clothing. The Leonards were arrested in the Hotel Vancouver, the most fashionable hostelry in this town. They have been spending | money like water since they arrived a couple of days ago. They were in their room at the hotel when Officers Jackson and Mulhern of the Vancouver force placed them under arrest. Leonard disclaimed any knowledge of the check-cashing deal, but when the money was found he at once admitted his guilt, saying that he was the man want- ed. He declared he would fight extradi- tion, but the woman pleaded so hard to go back without trouble that nard has agreed to return to stand tria The couple registered at the hotel yester- TNebraska’s Governor Declares Against the Dance. Special. Dispatch to The 3 | INCOLN eb.. Oct. 25.—Female stenographers who work for the State may not “trip light fantactic;” nelther may grave heads of dflpnvrmsr.(s in cotillions. Governor ¥ has spoken, and de- | clares dancing an absmination. “I am opposed to dancing,” he sai. ‘on moral grounds. Liberties are permitted in the, ballrcoom that are not tolerated eisewhere. Most of the disgraced women attribuie their fall to dancing, for human | vultures haunt the ball rooms to presume upon women, “The difference between the masculine and the femininé code of morals is the cause of the sin and sorrow of the under world. The man may stray from the cor- rect path and be respectable. Every band thrusts the woman downward. “I am opposed to dancing in schools and colleges wherein the examples of young pecple mislead the poorly Informed. If dancing contributes in any way to pulling down the women of our land from their high throne, we should not per- | mit it.” @ il el @ day as Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fay of New York. A telegram was received by the local police at Seattle asking that Aus- tralian-bound steamers be watched for | Leonard and his wife. The arrests were | made on the description given, NEW YORK, Oct. 2%.—Clarence H. Leonard, arrested in Vancouver, B. C.. was employed by Haskins & Sells, public accountants No. 30 Broad street, as a | clerk. He lived with his parents at No. 13 Hollywood avenue, Englewood, N. J. Tuesday, October 13, Leonard left the of- fice of Haskins & Sells for lunch as usaal | and a few moments later L. H. Conant, a member of the firm, was called by tele- phone from a neighboring bank and asked if their firm had authorized Leonard to | cash a check for $7500. Conant hastened | to the bank and pronounced the check a | forgery. This check, together with -n-} other for 32576, had been cashed, and | Leonard had fled, taking with him a dress | suit case which had stood in the office several days. | He was traced to Cortland, N. Y. by detectives, but escaped before his arrest could be accomplished. At the time of his departure Miss Katherine Miller of No. 7 Hollywood avenue, Englewood, left her home, saying that she was going to visit friends in Fairport, N. Y. Leonard had been attentive to Miss Miller. He is about 1 years old and his parents are sald to be well-to-do. The Rev. Dr. George C. Houghton, rec- tor of the Church of the Transfiguration, said this evening that he had no recol- Jection of performing a marriage cere- mony for Clarence H. Leonard and Miss Katherine Miller, acquaintances and ruin young | | ing the last three years, s | chance of gaining a permanent foott | Russian | cussed, there were present, among oth | policy, insisting that Russia should fulfill | his party have been prevented by CHIRTERIN IESELS T I W Russian and Jap-| anese Agents Are Active. | |High Rate Is Offered for All Available | ‘Steamships, : | L L U T Outlook for Peace in the Far| East Grows Darker | Each Day. e s able The. . Copyright id Publishing LONDON, Oct. steamers have been to Call 903, by Company. 2.—Several more large chartered for Port | Arthur or ‘Viadivostok. The Russian Government appears to have suddeply awakened to the fact that Japan is securing all the available ceal and early steamers in which to car it, and Russian chartering agents in co quence appear to have received ingtruc- tions to engage all the early steamers they can get at 23s 6d to Port Arthur or | 26s to Viadivostok. According to dispatches received in Lon- don this morning the situation remains unchanged. It certainly has not improved nor, according to the Daily Mail's Nijni Novgorod correspondent, it improve as long as Russian military opinion in- sts upon Russian predominance in Ko- can rea This correspondent, writing of a conver- sation with a Russian military officer in kigh command, whose claim to speak with authority based on exceptional knowledge of the general condi pre- | valling in the Far East, particularly dur- “The idea of permanent Japanese oceu- pation of any portion of the Far East mainiand is absolutely ridiculed as un- tenable. WOULD RUSSIANIZE KOREA. “My Informant, as a Russian, gives full credit to the intensity of Japanmese na- tional feeling on the score of Korea. He admits that the question of an extension of Japan's cramped island boundaries is fast becoming, if, indeed, ready become, one of life or death to her imperial development, the view that should Japan, whether sult of diplomatic negotiations or of appeal armed force, lose and acquiesces in a all ol to now 1a in Korea her role as dominant power in the Pacific is at an end. But he Insists | on the le nature of the ties which bind ultimate fates of both Manchu Korea with fhe fate of scendency and nomic development & Far East.” Telegraphing from St. Petersburg yes- terday the Dally Telegraph's correspond- ent says: “Owing to the apor political eco- nsion which has been frequently expressed that England and - the United States at present en- courages and miay later actuadly uphold | Japan in her quarrel with Russia, public opinion here has become openly hostile to both English-speaking powers, and a characteristic examnle of the form in which this bitterness displavs Itself is afforded by a leading articie in the Novoe Vremya on the Alaskan award, in which expression Is given to the opinion and even the hope that Canada will now sever the ties connecting her with Great Brit ain.” | ELDER STATESMEN CONFER. YOKOHAMA, Oct. 25. — At the conf: ence held terday be Cabinet | Ministers and the elder statesmen of | Japan, when the Far East crisis was dis- | TS, Privy Councllor Yamagata. Marshal Oyama, Count Inouye, Privy Councilor| Count Matiukata: Baron Komura. the Fereign Minister: General Tereauchi and Baron Yamameto, Minister of Marine, in | addition to Premier Katsura and Marquis Ito Baron Rosen, Russian Minister to Japan, has recelved fresh Instructions from his government, and was to have| had another conference with Foreign Minister Komura to-day. It is understood | that a majority of the Japanese eiders favored adherence to the country’s pa her pledges with regard to Manchuria, on | the grounds that any compromise would | only postpone and mot avert a comflict. It is officially reported here that Haghiwara Shuichi, Secretary of the| Japanese legation at Seoui, Korea, and | the | Russians from landing at Yongampho: | thereupon the party procesded and landed at Wiju. Japanese reports of a visit to the alleged signal station at Yongampho are to the | effect that there is a fort there. TRAINLOADS OF SOLDIERS. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. X — United States Commercial Agent M. M. Lang- horne is here on his way back to -America from Port Salney, the new port on the eastern shore of the Liaotung Peninsula, | about twenty miles from Port Arthur. He | says that on the raliroad trip from Port Dalny he counted seven trains bearing | Russian soldiers going east. Port Dalny | is not progressing, according to the com- mercial agent, the trade remaining at Newchwang and Port Arthur. The latter is favored by Viceroy Alexieff. LIVERPOOL. Oect. 35. — Belicving that war between Russia and Japan cannot| long be delayed. the marine underwriters decline to accept war risks on Japanese steamers, even at the tempting price of % guideas per cent. it has not al-| F PRICE FIVE CENTS. ISURGENT BAND LN - N PARA Seventy-Five Men Would Start a Revolution. Cruiser m With Troops to Attack Invaders. The Colombian Government Causes the Arrest of Liberal Leaders. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. PANAMA, Oct. 2%5.—In an official tele- gram from the prefect of Penomome to Governor Obaldia the latter was informed to-day of the landing of a revolution: expedition of seventy men at C Brea, on the Atlantic coast, nerth of Ver guas. The band eaded by Generals Lugo and Barrera and is reported to be marching n Cocole, on the Pum ordered ning with ombia, under The troops to land at Pesca- miles from Panama, er forced march to Pen ire the inv G Obaldia cruiser Bogota to leave 115 men of command are derta, about and pre d u nome to disperse co vernor t his ev the Battalt of Major structions under i torty News of the landing of th fonists was recefved here with great surprise by both Liberals and Cox servatives ever with a concerted politi therefore no importance is attached to the people of Panama. Liberal movement or pre- al plan of any kind, and t eral impression the merely marauders. Unfounded rumors started by ene: of President Zelaya of Njcaragua have been cireulated hers to the effect that the expedition started from a North Atlantic port of Nicaragua and is backed by the Nicaraguan Govern. ment. The object of the report is to create animosity against Nicaragua Panama and Colon are perfectly quiet and there are n fears of any serious dis- s in Bogota. The troops sent to rome are expected to return in about three days. It believed that revolutionists were expecting reinforcements, but th they were disappoin Advices recetved by the Governor from the Department of Cauca and that Generals tendia and other purposed but were able to is the leaders r lutionary were arrested before do so. movement, hey ks there have Been approaching revolutionary rumors movement Colombia. The political zon of clouded and there ar signs of unrest, arising, probably, f e dis on of and op- position to the anal project the ap- proaching President campaign and the heavy deficit in the treasury. It has been reported that General Pedro Ne dential possibility, had L implicated in a projected revolutionary outbreak somewhere on the sthmus, because of poil 1 opposition 0 Presidwent Marroquin. General Ben- jamin Herrera and other prominent Liberal leaders are sald to be assoctated in this move. The Government Is said to have caused he arrest several prominent Liberal leaders in Bogota, and a number of Liber- als were arrested at Cartagena oa Octo- ber 16. Other arrests are looked for. Bogota, the capital of Coiombia, has been said to be threatened with serfous disorders, arising in the desire of the Government to close Congress before the approaching elections. The Government Is said to have placed an a:med guard in the capitol, where Congress meets, and this action caused much excitement. _————————— HEAVY GALE IS SWEEPING OVER COASTS OF BRITAIN Vessels Run to Port for Shelter and Several of Them Arrive in Distress. LONDON, Oct. %5.—A heavy gale is sweeping over the coasts of Great Britain and vessels are running to port for shel- ter. Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht North Star_ Caotain Stimson, from New York, October 16, for Greenock. Scotland, has put into Queenstown short of coal. The Red Star line steamer Finland, Cap- tain Albrecht, which sailed from Antwerp last Saturday for New York. has arrived at Southampton in distress. She will pro- ceed after making repairs to her steering gear. —_——ee——— DEMEREST'S CHALLENGE REMAINS UNANSWERED Dan Patch’s Trainer Will Not Dis- cuss Match Until He Hears From Owner of Horse. MEMPHIS, Tenn. Oet. 25.—Following | the challenge issued by Demerest, driver of Prince Alert. to race Dan Patch at the Memphis track on November 10 for a purse of $20,000 President F. G. Jones of the Memphis Trotting Associa- | tion announced to-night that he would ofter a suitable “‘purse for the race on behalf of the association. McHenry, Pateh’'s trainer. refused to talk about a match with Prince Alert dil a statement from Mr. r g;nlhm“‘ eapolis, owner of Dan