The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1903, Page 1

4 mfing November 20: Francisco and vieinity— oudy, unsettled weather Fri- ay, with showers; brisk to high scutherly winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. 3 THE, VOLUME XCIV—NO. 173. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, CALL Benefit in Ald of Theat: Managers’ Charity Fuad. Pischer's—“Rubes and Roses.” Grand—“Ben Hur."” Orpheum—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. Tivoli—Grand Opera. +* 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COBAN BILL ISHOOTS WIFE Aot BY AND HIMSELF | THE HOUSE . IN A CROWD Only Twenty - One Tragedy at Rail- Negative Votes | road Depot in Recorded. Los Angeles. Democrats Make Fu-|Children Plead for tile Attempts to the Life of the Amend, Mother. e Y A Strictly Party Vote on Ap-!Jealous Husband Uses a Pistol in Presenc2 of Spectators. peal From One Ruling by Speaker. i 19.—The Hc Cal peopie them, persons and those outgoing vounds are surgeons whither she usy of his ex-con- A Roemer to com- ch, had he succeeded >uld have left his two aged 4 and 6 years, parent- ses to his at- tempt upon thelr mother’'s life and of his own suicide. 'Possibly the last| eal of his eider daughter, who after mother had once been shot turned pon the father and pleaded, with ter- n her voice and eyes. papa, papa, don't hur{ mamma 4 >f‘\« any he had fired the and his third other instant i shot at his wife was perhaps the best-known the Down district. For had Constable and Deputy Sheriff there. A few months e was convicted of selling liquor ense and paid a heavy fine. his Deputy Sheriff's star was taken from him and he was obliged to resign' as Constable. Four years ago his brother, Frank Governor J ¢ the latter returned to Downey and began living t home of his brother. Henry Ro er became jealous and after a vio- y he swore out an insanity mplaint against his wife. She was mmitted to the Highland Asylum. | A month or two ago she was dis- charged as cured and returned home. Again Frank Roemer begap showing her attentions and this so enraged | Henry that the latter began drinking | heavily. A man of quiet habits when sober, he was converted into almost a mon by drink, and for ths past two | eks there had been constant quarrels between him and his wife. According to her statement, he final- refused to provide food for his fam- | morning there was noth- the house | at the Rep enter upon would did not desire to to and this to eat in rds he heard was the screaming ap- | | power ic cheats. onded Williams, vs I am unco: fous of it say the length it would epend upon the care and y ght -into action at the of the avenue. If you could ay approximate the celerity ately actuated this admini with the new “ifIam, tration in conmection born republic of Panama you would have it back here in three da But the minds of all the mighty Caesars in another place have not op- this Panama business an v have operated on this treaty, said n They will operate in some way or an sald Williams, “providing the trust is not hurt. They are walting Just before 4 o'clock Payne of New York said he did not care to talk fur- Williams moved to recommit to the Ways and Means Com- instructions in the line of dments previously proposed. led the motion to be out iams appealed from the decision of the chair and asked to be heard on the point of order. Payne raised a point of order, but the Speak- | er entertairied the appeal. | Payne moved to lay the appeal on | the table, and his motion was carried by & vote of 133 to 165, a strict party alignment. On the passage of the bill an attempt | ing vote the ayes were 335 and the noes | have had one child, a daughter, She then told | 1d come to Los Angeles to | her father and there se- her children. Despite his | 1 warnings she packed her be- | gings and boarded the train. As| train neared Los Angeles he en- He, too, had boarded the | He de- | the tered the car. train without her knowledge. manded that she return home, but she | refused. He waited until she had reached the door of the depot and then confronted her, and despite the fact| that scores of persons were crowding | past them, he stopped her In the nar- | row passage and demanded to know if she intended to leave him. When she | answered that she did, he drew a re- | volver and shot her theugh the cheeks, | There was a panic among those in the | depot and no person tried to interfere. | Mrs. Roemer fell to the floor, but soon | staggered to her feet and begged her ! busband not to shoot her. Their terri- | fied children were clinging to their | mother's skirts and screaming to their | father not to hurt .their mother, but | Roemer, as soon as the woman gained | s ot i e against | her right arm and fired a bullet through | her body. As she fell he sent a bullet | through his own heart. | While their mother was being lifted | on a stretcher to be conveyed to a hospital the two little girls were lifted | over the body of their father and taken | to the home of their grandparents. | Late to-night it was given out at the! hospital that the woman will speedily recover unless blood poisoning super- | venes | @ -i=ih tiiiieieeiniieieinieieieiilk @ [ but only twenty-three members second- ed the demand—an insufficient number. William Alden Smith (R.) of Michi. gan demanded a division, and on a ris. was made to secure an aye and no vote, | 21. This passed the bill. COWBOYS THREATEN ATTACK ON PRISON AT CHEYENNE TO " PREUVENT HANGING OF HORN BAD WORDS OPEN PI3 O T0 SILDER Army Man Curses Before Wife of President. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Wil- | liam H. Young, 36 years old, an artil- leryman attached to the Fourth Bat- tery of Field Artillery, stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, was convicted here in police court to-day of using profanity in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt. He was sentenced by Judge Ivory G. Kim- ball to pay a fine of $20 or spend two months in the workhouse as an equiva. lent. He went to the workhouse. Young was in charge of a Govern- ment team in front of the Pennsylvania depot at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon when the President’s carriage, contain- ing Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Cowles, drove up to the shed in front of the station. The heavy wagoen in charge of the soldier was in the path of the con- veyance from the White House, and the artilleryman was requested to drive on a few feet by Policeman Whalen. Instead of complying, Young began to swear and was arrested. When the case was called in court to- day Young said he had had a drink of whisky and might have made use of bad language, but he was not sure. Young enlisted in the army two years ago. He was a resident of Philadel- phia, where his parents now reside. —————————— TINY VISITOR EXPECTED AT THE VANDERBILT HOME Extensive Preparations for Its Ar- rival Haye Been in Progress for Some Time. NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Extensive preparations for the arrival of a tiny visitor have been progressing for some time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam K. Vanderbilt Jr. Mrs. Vanderbilt was Miss Virginia Fair and was married to William K. Vanderbilt Jr. on April 4, 1899. They was born November 23. 1900. | | | | | | | ) GOV, CHATTERTON —~e, | high on the tracks—a huge pile THIRTY-ONE MEN PERIGH IN A WRECK Big Four Freight and Work Train Collide. Cars Crowded by , Laborers. i Crews of the Two Locomo- | tives Save Their Lives by Jumping. g PEORIA, IIL, Nov. 13.—Thirty-one men were killed and at least fifteen injured to-day in a head-end co on between a west-bound freight train and a work train on the Cleveland, Cincin- Chicago and St. Louis Railrodd, I nati, between Mackinaw and Tremont, All of the bodies have been take the debris, which is piled thirty of broken timber and twisted and dis- torted iron and steel. The bodies are mangled so that many are unrecogniz- able. All of the dead and most of the injured were members of the work train. The crews on both locomotives jumped to save their lives. The collision occurred in a deep cut at the beginning of a sharp curve, neither train being visible to the crew of the other until they were within fifty feet of each other. The engineers set the brakes, sounded the whistles and then jumped. The trains struck with such force that the crash was heard a | mile away, A second after the collision the boiler of the work train exploded, throwing GZAR PLANG GEIZURE OF - NEW POINT Troops to Occupy Shaho, on Yalu River. (Crash Makes Debris of Movement a Menace to the Interests of America. Premier Katsura Makes a Full Statement of Japan- ese Attitude. Spectal Cablegram to The Call and New York er Copy ht, 1908, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. LONDON, Nov. 20.—The Morning Post’s Chefu correspondent, who has just returned from the Yalu River re- gion, learns that it is Russia’s intem- tion soon to occupy Shaho in force. The Daily Mail's Tientsin correspond- ent announces that the Japanese have occupied Wichu, at the mouth of the Yalu River, and that the Chinese Gov- ernment has withdrawn its note to the provincial Governors advising them to prepare for war. The Daily Mail's Tokio correspond- ent has received telegrams from Seoul saying that the Russian Minister has again successfully interfered to pre- vent the opening of Yongampho, com- sent to which the Korean Foreign Min- ister was on the point of communicat- ing to the British, American and Jap- anese Ministers on Tuesday last. The Tim Shanghai correspondent says that a private letter from an of- ficial at Moukden states that the Rus- sians have treated the native authori- | ties with the Vtmost indignity, openly | declaring that {hereoccupation %4s in- tended as an intimation that Russia would not permit the exercise of treaty | rights in Manchuria and claiming that | iron bars and timbers a distance of 200 | feet, f LIST OF THE VICTIMS. The list of the dead follows: ."4 | | ONCE NOTED SCOUT AND BORDER DETECTIVE . WHO WILL. CONDUCT HIS OWN EXECUTION'IN CHEYENNE 'TO-DAY, AND STATE EXECU- | TIVE WHO HAS BEEN THREATENED WITH ASSASSINATION. ‘ Wyoming’s Governor Warned That His Assassination Will Follow i Execution. ‘ Special Dispatch to The Call. s CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 18.—Prep-| Mr. Watson says that Horn is not an arations were to-night completed for |infidel. although his knowledge of re- the execution of Tom Horn, ex-army |liglon is most rudimentary. scout, range stock detective, paid as- | FOrn was given letters to-night from | sassin of the cattle barons and reputed ‘ his two »{ers, one in}‘anada and one slayer of half a dozen men, who will | In Missouri, and their heartbreaking | farewells failed to break down his mar- be hanged at 11 o'clock to-morrow for ! the murder of William Nickell of Iron Mountain. Horn -will be his own ex- | ecutioner. He will be taken from the | death chamber at 10:30 o'clock, his arms and legs strapped, and before stepping on the gallows will be per- velous composure. The vigilance of the authorities and | their fear of the desperation of Horn's | friends Is evidenced by the fact that | Charley Irwin, a prominent cowboy and a devoted friend of Horn, this after- | mitted to bid his friends good-by and |N0on obtained a letter from Governor | make any address to the newspaper |Chatterton asking Sherift Smalley, if | o h A | the latter deemed it safe, to permit Ir. When Horn is placed on the trap he | Wi to speak to Horn in his cell. This will set” n ‘Shotion the machinery ot | the Sheriff refused to do. | eath, his own weight openiug a valve | GOVERNOR RECEIVES THREAT. | causing water to flow from a vessel. | Governor Chatterton has received a | When sufficient water has escaped a|letter, written on stationery of the Al- | heavy weight will fall to the floor, | jerking the hinged prop from under bany Hotel, in Denver, threatening him | ROBERT KING, Tremont. THOMAS TROY, Tremont. WILLIAM EADS, Tremont. | CHARLES E. MEYERS, Blooming- ton. GEORGE SMITH, Bloomington. GEORGE HARMON, Bloomington. JOHN DORAN, Bloomington. JOHN SMITH, Bloomington. FRED BACHMAN, Danvers. JOHN SHAW, Mackinaw. STEPHEN CULTER, Mackinaw. Twenty unidentified men, mangled be- yond recognition. Conductor J. W. Jude of Indianap- olis, who had charge of the freight train, received orders at Urbana, it is said, to wait at Mackinaw for the work train. The freight train did not stop. The engineer of the work train, George B. Thacker, had orders, it is id. to pass the freight train at Mackinaw and was on the way thither. The work train was about five minutes late and | was running at full speed in order to make up time. ENGINEER'S LEAP FOR LIFE. When about two miles from Ninert and enterinz a cut, each engineer saw | the other zpproaching train, and, real- | izing that it was impossible to stop, each threw on the emergency brake, | whistled twice and then leaped from his cab. The collision was Noonan, who hastened to house and telephoned to Tremont. special train with four physicians was | made up in a few minutes and in less | than a half hour was at the wreck. At seen by Russell | a nearby | Al | mentioned. You, the trap and Horn will drop six feet and four inches. The gallows, -which is erected In one corner of the jail, | within twenty feet of Horn and in | plain view, was tested to-aight with | bags of sand of Horn's weight. The | rope was tested with a 400-pound | weight. Everything is in readiness for | the execution. GRIM ORDER TO GUARDS. Word was received to-day that Horn's friends would attempt his rescue | to-night. The force of guards has been | doubled and the full strength of the militia companies is thrown about the | jafl. 1t Horn's friends come there will | be one of the bloodiest battles in the | history of the West, and if the attack- | ing party should succeed in storming | the jail they wil not get Horn, for he | will b shot down by the guards. These | are the orders given them. Horn, realizing that all hope was gone, prepared to-night to meet his | God. Rev. Mr. Watson of St. Mark's ;Eplscopal Church, assisted by a choir | of three, held a service In the cell of the condemned cattle detective this evening, at which Horn for the first time succumbed to religious influence. The service was a dramatiz cne and during the singing of the hymn, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” Horn first showed a realization of his position. During Mr. Watson’s prayer “Jim” McLoud, who broke jail with Horn last summer, burst.into passionate weeping. % CONDEMNED MAN PRAYS. Horn seemed to slowly yield and finally knelt down and prayed with the minister. After the service Horn de- clared to Mr. Watson that he realized his position and that there was no hope for him. He then told the minister that he had been reading the Bible given him and that he desired, as a cowboy, which Ito say he would “go straight to his Maker."” have been completed. - The six guards with death unless he commuted the |the same time another train arrived | | sentence of Tom Horn, who is to be | hanged here to-morrow for the murder of William Nickell. The letter declared | in substance that if Horn were permit- ted to hang, Governor Chatterton would not live twenty-four hours thereafter. The. Governor does not regard the threat serfously. Cheyenne is filled with cowboys from all- parts of this State, Coloradc and even New Mexico. Bets of $50 and $100 |are being made at even money that Horn will not hang. The officials ac- cept these bets as meaning there will be an attempt to rescue Horn. S MORTENSEN MUST DIE. Governor of Utah Refuses to Com- mute Murderer’s Sentence. SALT LAKE, Nov. 19.—At a late hour to-night Governor Wells refused to interfere with the death sentence imposed on Peter Mortensen for the murder of James R. Hay, and before noon to-morrow Mortensen will be shot to death in the yard at the State Pen- itentiary. The decision of the Governor not to interfere was reached after he and two other members of the board of pardons had listened to a long and earnest plea of the prisoner for a stay of execution in order that he might prove his innocence. He failed, how- ever, to convince the board that he could produce evidence not already brought out during his trial. E.rn'r in the day the State Supreme Court refused Mortensen’s petition for a rehearing on the second appeal of his case, and as a last hope the pris- oner asked that he be permitted to ap- pear before. the Board of Pardons and show cause why he should not be shot to-morrow; All arrangements for the execution | from Peking, bearing Superintendent | | Barnard of the Big Four and three | | physicians. The second train bore a| | number of Turkish rugs, and these were | utilized to carry out the bodies of the | vietims. After working two hours the | bodies of twenty-six men were taken out and laid on an embankment near | the side of the track. | BODY THIRTY FEET IN AIR. | One of the last bodies recovered was | that of Willlam Bailey, who had been | | thrown thirty feet into the air and held | in place by two steel rails which hadi been pushed up between the locomotive and the tender of the work train. The | workmen had been laying tails at difs| ferent points along the track. | The injured were taken to the two | | caboeses of the relief train, where hos- | pitals were improvised. One caboose was taken to Morton, while the other was taken to Tremont. Widows and | orphans thronged around the wreck to- | night asking for information. Out of thirty-five men who constituted | the crew of the work train only four are lving, and two of these are seri- ously injured. Wreckage is strewn along the track for 200 feet and twenty- | four hours will elapse before it can be | cleared. '.-H-H-i—l-H-H-l-i-l—H—H—l—H—i—H-. who will do the shooting have been selected and the rifles and steel jacket- ed bullets (o be used have been thor- oughly examined. The riflemen will be located in the prison blacksmith shop, concealed behind a screem in which there will be an opening’ only large enough to permit the men to take care- ful aim on the condemned man, who ‘will be seated in a chair with his back to the prison wall. One rifle will be loaded with a blank cartridge so that the United States and Japan had re- cently concluded a convention. Count Katsura, the Japanese Pre- mier, in an interview with the corre- spondent of the Manchester Guardian in Tokio, said it was a great mistake to think the Japanese were eager to fight. “The outer world,” he said, “is told | of one man who shouts for war, but the ninety and nine who do not are not who live in Japan, can see for yourselves how universally quiet is the tone of press and speaker. “If war should be forced upon us, that is another thing. We are absolutely prepared to defend our national exist- ence at any moment. I feel sure there is no danger of any such emergency, but we are ready.” NOT A PLEDGE TO JAPAN. Asked about the w expressed in some Japanese papers that Russia’s re- cent action amounted to an attack; that the retention of Russian troops in Manchuria was & challenge which Ja- pan must accept, the Count replied: “No, it is nothing of the kind. That is only a little newspaper sensational- ism. The agitation in the Japanese press about Russia’s pledge to evacuate Manchuria does not represent the views of the Japanese Government. Russia only said that to China as a mere vol- untary promise. It was no pledge to Japan; it cannot be insisted upon by Japan as an obligation. “If Russia does not keep faith it is to her discredit, but it is no casus belli to Japan. All that talk is a mistake. There is no difference of opinion in our Cabinet. The British opinion seems to be that if Russia will not withdraw it is no use making a fuss so long as the open door is guaranteed, with full maintenance of treaty rights; and the British view is our view in this mat- ter.” The Count was asked: “Then Russia has agreed not to oppose the open door or commercial facilities?”” to which he replied: ““The principle of Chinese sovereignty must be upheld, with all it implies. Russian troops may remain as railway guards, not as a sign of Russian sov- ereignty. The country must remain China’s, and the treaties will hold good in every detail. New ports are opened by China in Manchuria under her new treaties. The door is open and our traders are in Manchurian towns now. KOREA MUST BE LET ALONE. “Japan demands that the sovereign rights of China and the vpea door for trade should be mafntained. If this Great Britain and the United States support her. I do not think Russia will or can object, but of course I cannot tell you anything about the negotia- tions now pending.” Turning to Korea the Count was asked if there was any statement of Japan's views that could be sent to England. The Premier replied that it was an avowed principle of Japanese policy that no other power must med- dle with Korea. Any outstdie inter- ference there, he said, would certainly be a casus belli, but nothing »f the sort was likely to oecur. The interviewer remarkesd: “But there have been many reports of recent Russian encroachments and intrigue ia Korea.” The Premier said: “Some of these nobody will know who fired the fatal | reports are erroneous; due to excessive shots. zeal on the part of Russian officlals”