The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1903, Page 10

THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1903, OGDEN-LUCIN CUT-OFF IS DEDICATED BY RAILROAD OFFICIALS SALT LAK CAISIS NER | INTHEUTHH | COIL FIELD Scofield Mining Com- pany Will Attempt ‘ Eviction. i Miners Declare They Will Fight to Retain Their Homes. Workmen Are Told That to Join the | Union Is Equivalent to Being I | Dropped From the | | | 26.—Rela- ! Payroll. PREAR G ing coal miners | | authorities were | | to-day and a crisis in the | | ¥y occur at any minute. | of excitement prev; OFIELD, twe Uta ov. ary WITH CEREMONY OCCURRING FAR OUT ON GREAT P ’ | | RESERVOIR aENDS FLODD ON A GITY |Million Gallons of Wa- ‘KL ter Looss in Los I Angeles. Streets in a Section Qovered, but No Person Is Hurt. | Fences Torn Aw: Wagons Swept for Blocks on a Turbulent Tide and Cellars Filled With Water. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26.—A Johns- | town flood in miniature but devoid of all its horror and loss of life swept over the yards and streets in the An- | gelina Heights district of the city at 1 J0Y0US WELCOME 8 o'clock this morning, tearing away strikers over the posting of ¥ the Pleasant Valley Coal ) to the effect that do not return r time to-morrow nd that they must ¥'S property at once er cent of the miners at ters, it is said, own homes leased from the company. ers declare thev will remamn mes and serious trouble is uld an effort be made to is ves who for k at the reg rged notice issued by ounces that all n must rged. ounced to-day that the engaged 300 men from section of the State, who will > fill the places of the Iners. Violence, it is be- 1 follow the arrival of these the com- miners who consider them- foreigners who are turbing the peace with ats and riotous conduct. - MINERS ATTEMP. MURDER. Try to Run Down Railroad Officials With a Boxcar. KE, Utah, Nov. 2.—A gpe- t News from Scofield, saye that an attempt was made number of striking Italian miners to roll a boxcar railroad tracks leading canyon, through which The attempt was pre- and a number of 1y this morn- g house from which a red flag until taken down by would-be murderer Utah, says Kel in T anizer of the ted Mine Workers, has gone to Salt to protest to Governor Wells Et the presence of State troops in the strike-affected coal districts of Car- bon County. It is also said that he will employ counsel to defend Organizer Charles Demolli, who was sentenced to Jail ct, vesterday for dis- without, it is alleged, hance to defend him- jall at Price, where Demolli is heavily guarded to pre- pts at rescue. result of vigorous agitation startedgby Colonel Holmes, president of the Commercial Club, and Governor #Wells, the price of coal, recently ad- vanced 75 cents a ton, wae to-day re- duced 30 cents a ton. that the advance was entirely unwar- ranted and a legislative Investigation was to have been asked for. PEABODY IS NOT ALARMED. Colorado’s Governor Knows Nothing of Threats Against His Life. DENVER, Nov. 26.—Although Gen- eral Sherman M. Bell declared yester- day that he had Information of a plot to blow up the State House and assas- sinate Governor Peabody and himself, * Covernor Peabody said that he had not heard of any threats or plot of that nature, “I am in receipt of anonymous letters by almost every mail,” sald the Gov- ernor, “but have found none of a threatening nature for some time. The majority of them tell me that I have mistaken my calling and ought to va- cate the Governor's chair. That is my intention, when my term of office ends.” General Bell would not reveal the source of his information. Ordinary soft coal has advanced in price to $10 2 ton in this city. The Colo- rado Fuel and Iron Company is still supplying its regular customers with Canyon City coal at $5 50 a ton, but the ritail price for the coal which other dealers are procuring in the East is fixed at $10. The is confined vent possible atter As a —— DETECTIVE IN THE PLOT. Supposed “Pal” of Train Wreckers & Railroad Agent. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Nov. 25.— The military force in this district has been increased this week to 500 men and close guard is maintained at all the large mines that are being operated with non-union men. Nine of the men who had been confined at Camp Gold- field since Sunday have been released, but several new arrests have been made end there are still ten prisoners in the “bull-pen,” including C. @. Kennison, Sherman Parker and W. F. Davis, the members of the union strike committee. The excitement occasioned by the ex- plosion at the Vindicator mine has sub- sided to a large degree. Union men generally declare their willingness to #1d in sifting the crime to the bottom. Sheriff Robertson denles the state- lgor its ts have been issued for the | oad and mine officials | It was claimed | | { i H < SENATOR CLARK DENOUNGES SUIT Says Malice Prompted Litigation Against His Daughter. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—In a state- ment made to-night Senator Clark of | Montana“denounced the suit instituted against his daughter, Mrs. Culver, by Mrs. Vlasto as an “infamous proceed- ing.” Mrs. Vliasto is suing for dam- ages of $500,000, charging the alienation of the affections of her husband. “A separation took place between Mr. and Mrs. Vlasto eight or ten years ago, before my family became acquainted with Vlasto,” said the Senator, “‘and I denounce the action as an infamous proceeding. “Vlasto was a friend of Dr. Culver, | my son-in-law, for several years. It was through Dr. Culver that I first met him and he made oc- casional visits here, where he became acquainted with my family. We ways considered him an educated and highly respectable man and ar. agree- able companion. He has been the guest of Dr. Culver on two excursions, one to the West, one to Europe. He is an elderly man, old enough to be grand- father to my daughter, and sHe never regarded him in any other light than | @& a courteous friend. Any aliusion as to other relations than that are un- reasonable and actuated by motives of malice. Viasto has been accustomed to g0 to Europe every year and that he met my daughter in Paris, that he was & guest at a tea party or dinner party is a matter that could hot give rise to &ny comment, as it was perfectly natural. “The publication; of the incident of a photograph in which my daughter and Viasto appear in costume together grew out of a costume party held here in my apartments at which fifty or sixty persons were present. All of them were photographed; first in one group, then in smaller groups and in the pres- ence of all of us, “I intend to force this action to a conclusion as rapidly as possible and the testimony shall be taken in open court. I shall force them to show thelir hands.” e — ment attributed to Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell, to the effect that he had refused to take the prisoners now in custody and held by the militia. "I have at all times been ready to re- ceive them,” sald the Sheriff, “and I am able and willing to guarantee to hold and protect them.” The full facts' regarding the at- tempted wrecking of the suburban Florence and Cripple Creek train on November 17 were disclosed to-day. It appears that a detective in the employ of the rallroad company was one of three men who removed the spikes and fish-plates from a rail. The other two men, it is alleged, were Charles McKin- ney and Thomas Foster, who are under arrest. Tt is said that McKinney, when confronted by the detective, confessed his share in the plot under promise of lenfency. Two agents of the raflroad were in hiding within twenty-five feet of where the crime was being at- tempted. These men were heavily armed but did not shoot, as to have dgne so would have endangered the de- tective's life. Foster’s friends claim that he will be able to establish an alibi for himself. —_———— How many people gave thanks for that elegant dinner cooked yesterday on a gas range from S: F. Gas and Electric Co., 415 Post st. ’ —_————— GIBRALTAR, Nov. 26.—Tle Columbia II, a sailing vessel nineteen feet long and six feet beam, in which Captain Ludwig Bisenbraun left Boston on August 11 alome, for Mar- sellles. sailed from Gibraltar this destination. - SALT LAKE, Nov. 26.—Mr. Harri- man danced! *With a mere suggestion |of a smile on his usually immobile face, he did a Highland fling while the band played “Yankee Doodle.” This was a feature of the formal opening day of the Ogden-Lucin cut- | off—the crowning achievement of im- | provements aggregating in cost $134,- 000,000 on the lines under his control. | The man who raised the money to ac- | |quire this vast system and then to | carry out these stupendous improve- | | ments, the “captain of industry,” the “king of finance,” usually cdlm and impassive, for a moment relaxed his | dignity and thus gave vent to his feel- ings. This little episode was not witnessed | by the crowd. It took place at Mid- lake. There the only ceremonies of the occasion—if such they could be called—were held. All who had come on the three trains ‘got out and looked around, and then they stood in a big group to have their photo- graphs taken. A band struck up a se- ries of patriotic afrs. y DOES A HIGHLAND FLING. Harriman had just entered the ob- servation car at the rear of .his train when the strains of ‘“Yankee Doodle” were heard. He began to keep time with his hands, and then ‘the lively air, together with his own buoyant feelings, proved too much to resist. In the center of the group of prominent rallroad men who had come to inspect the work, he began to shuffle his feet end then to kick out in the movements of the Highland fling, with all the abandon of a “kiltle” who hears the shrill note of the bagpipe. When the band stopped playing, he gravely sat down. Men who have known E. H. Harrl- man for years say they never heard of his relaxing his dignity so much be- fore, even in seclusion. Ralilroad men representing more than $1,000,000,000 in capital and more than 50,000 miles of road, besides' othep in- vited guests, took the trip of inspection to-day over one of the most remarkable pleces of roadbed, presenting some of the greatest of engineering problems, known In the world. Thelr impressions may be gauged from an incident that took place in the observation car, where they were grouped as the train passed over a section of completed trestle miles out in the lake. President Hor- ace C. Burt of the Union Pacific, one of the leading railroad construction ex- perts in the country, began to clap his hands as the level, finely built stretch of track, roadbed and trestle was being reeled off in the rear of the train. Prac- tically every railroad man in the car joined in the hearty applause, while Julius Kruttschnitt, assistant to the president, and William Hood, chief en- gineer of the Southern Pacific, smiled their appreciation of the compliment. ENGINEER HOOD'S TRIUMPH. Hood started his railroad career as a rod man for the Central Pacific in 1867, helping to complete the last span in the bridge of steel across the continent. To-day as he sat amid this. group of experts of the rail and heard their com« Y S e Shli SCENES ON THE OGDEN-LUCIN CUT-OFF, AND RAILROAD OFFI- CIALS WHO TOOK PART IN THE FORMAL COMPLETION OF THE LINE TRAVERSING GREAT SALT LAKE. [O— 4 | President Harriman Dances a Highland Fling in His Exuberance Over Completion of Vast Project for Improving His System of Railways, Special Dispatch to The Call. plimentary comments on the engineer- ing work they were watching was the crowning day of his life. Hood, it has long been understoo the Ogden-Lucin cut-off as the monu- ment he is erecting to himself as an engineer. The men who inspected the work to- day were chary about expressing them- selves for publication, but these opin- ions were gieaned from them: That the cut-off is one of the most remarkable pleces of engineering ever undertaken. That eventually it will be a success, aithough much remains to be done. That the sagging of the track in places and other things indicate that the roadbed is not yet ready for regu- lar travel, but that persistence in the present course of dumping in 40,000 tons of rock a day must in time be effective. Although the official figures as to the cost are $4,000,000, it was learned that 85,000,000 already had been spent on the cut-off and that the engincers figure a total of $10,000,000 and perhaps $14,- 000,000. TRAINS . SOON WILL CROSS. Harriman announced that regular trains would be running over the tut- oft by January 1. He will arrive with his party in San Francisco to-morrow. Accompanying Harriman are the heads of practically all the lines form- ing the great transcontinental system known as the Harriman lines. The party included H. G. Burt, president of the Union Pacific; Vice President Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific; President A. J. Earling of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; President David Wilcox of the Delaware and Hudson; Vice President J. N. Faithorn of the Chicago and Alton; Vice Presi- dent J. T. Harahan and General Man- ager J. F. Wallace of the Illinois Cen- tral; General Traffic Manager Stubbs of the Harriman lines; General Man- ager Gardner and Vice President Mc- Cullough of the Chicago and North- western; Chief Engineers Hood of the Southern Pacific, Berry of the Union Pacific and Carter of the Chicago and Northwestern; General Manager Ray- mond Dupuy of the St. Joseph and Grand Island; General Manager G. W. Holdredge of the Burilngton; Vice President H. E. Huntington of the Southern Pacific; President A. L. Moh- ler of the Oregon Railroad and Naviga- tion Company; Assistant Traffic Man- ager B. Campbell of the Harriman lines; Vice President and General Man- ager 'W. H. Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line, and representatives'of the passenger and freight departments of nearly all the lines interested. RECALLS HISTORIC INCIDENT. The last spike, marking the comple- tion of the cut-off, was driven several days ago at a point on the fill nearly opposite the place where thirty-four years ago was driven the golden spike which closed the gap between the lines of the Union and Central Pacific rail- roads on Promontory Point. Many old residents of Utah cities wno witnessed that ceremony accompanied the rail- road officlals to-day in the formal trip of inspection over the new track, which ultimately is to throw oué of use 147 miles of the most Mc;_l{ and expen- , has looged upon | Success of the Venture a Triumph of Engineer- ing Genius. sive raflroading in the transcontinental system. PLANNED BY C. P. HUNTINGTON. Ogden-Lucin Cut-Of Will Effect | Half-Million Saving Yearly. OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 26.—The Ogden- Lucin cut-off is 102 miles in length, 72 miles on land and 30 miles on trestle work and fill-ins over the waters of Great Salt Lake. It presents a practi- cally level track, except for a short dls- tance on the west end near Luein, Nev., where a slight grade is encountered. The use of the cut-off will throw out of transcontinental traffic the old line from Ogden to Lucin, Nev., around the north end of Great Salt Lake. This stretch of track, 147 miles in length, is one of the most difficult and expensive of the Harriman system. Its ,maxi- mum grade, over the long Promontory Hill, is 104 feet to the ml¥, and helper engines are necessary. he elimina- tion of this trackage from overland traffic will thus mean not only a saving of more than $1500 a day in the actual operating expenses, but also a saving of two hours In running time. The original scheme for the cut-off was a pet plan of the late Collis P. Huntington, and under his directions Chief Engineer Hood prepared the plans for the great engineering feat. The plans were perfected after Hunt- ington’s death and the surveys were approved by E. H. Harriman when he obtained control of the line. Actual work on the cut-off was commenced in March, 1902, and thus the immense task has been completed in about twenty months. The last pile was driven dur- ing the last week of October; the track was completely connected and the floor- ing and railing of the long trestle com- pleted to-day, but work on the fill-ins at efther end of the trestle will continue for some time, and it probably will be several months before the cut-off is In- corporated in the overland system for all traffic. The great work has cost the South- ern Pacific Companay more than $4,200,- 000. The cut-off runs from Ogden west for fifteen miles over level country be- fore reaching the 1lake shore, then crosses the east arm of the lake, a width of nine miles to Promontory Point, then nineteen miles across the west arm of the lake, thence across the Great Salt Lake Desert to Lucin, Nev. Across the east arm of the lake will be an almost continuous fill-in supporting the trestle. Near the middle of this will be a gap of six hundred feet of open trestle work, left for the waters of the Bear River, which flow into this arm of the lake. Across Promontory Point runs five miles of solid roadbed, and Here difficult work was encountered, a cut of 3000 feet in length through the sand. and rock of the abrupt cliff being necessary. On this point, one of the most picturesque around the Inland sea, a station will be maintained, and surveys have been made for a mammoth summer resort. Across the west arm of the lake is a stretch of eleven miles of trestle work, with a fill-in approach at each end of four miles. In accomplishing the work of span- ning the lake one great difficulty was encountered across the east arm in the “sinks” or settling of the fill-ins and trestle work. This was caused by the salt from the flow of Bear River having collected for centuries over the bottom of the lake and formed an insecure foundation for a depth of nearly a hun- dred feet. It took thousands of tons of rock and piles without number to reach the bottom of the lake proper, but this was finally accomplished and the grad- ual spreading out and packing of the fill has resulted in a firm roadbed. T L e HARRIMAN IN NEVADA. Railroad Party. Inspects Line Be- tween Ogden and Reno. HALLECK, Nev.,, Nov. 26.—The spe- cial train bearing President Har- riman and party of railroad offi- cials who to-day formally o) ‘\ T0 LINER GEDRIG Relatives of Passengers‘: Become Hysterical | at the Dock. % Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—On a winter | schedule and “all shipshape and Bris- tol fashion,” as nautical sharps say, | the colossal Cedric of the White Star line (sunk in midocean by a senseless rumor) warped into her North River: dock this evening to a tumult of cheers | from more than 500 persons. There | was a trace of the hysterical in the | greeting. The usual ropes separating those entitled to go within the customs lines from those who were not were not stretched, out of regard to the pent-up feelings of the friends and | kindred of the seagoers, and there were scenes bordering on the lachrymose at the foot of the gangplank when it was run up at 5:30 o'clock. Young women flung themselves into their mothers’ arms as if the unsink- | able liner had been in some danger. | The flamboyant newspaper headlines of | two days had got in their nerve-rack- ing work and the embraces were long, | the kisses explosive and the voices tremulant. The passengers themselves were boiling with indignation at the unknown author of the rumor. Some Britons, who surmised that it was an | American invention, calmed down when | told that the story originated in Lon- don and was published first in a Lon- don newspaper. Captain H. J. Haddock first heard of all the fuss from Pilot Carr, who board- ed the. Cedric outside the bar. The captain lost no time in setting the sig- nal, “Report all well aboard,” as he passed in at the Hook. He guessed‘ there might be some anxiety. 1 The captain said he had not even | sighted the Lamport & Holt liner, which was said to have run him down. | He adde: | “We have had a fine passage and | have not parted a rope yarn the whole | way across.” | The Cedric carrieq about 1400 souls, | including the crew. The Earl and Countess of Yarmouth were among the | passengers. Other passengers were Leonard Boyne, Marie Tempest's lead- ing man; Frederick Roosevelt, cousin | of the President; Tom Terriss, play- | wright; Major H. S. Shephard and Ma- | jor Charles Hall of Canada. — Important Auction of Paintings To- | Day At 16 Post street, morning and evening, E. Curtis conducts the sale. —————— Declines to Withdraw Resignation. | DUBRIN, Nov. 26.—William O’Brien, | in a letter to John Redmond, the Irish leader, while acknowledging the sin- cerity of the recent resolutions of the Irish Parllamentary party and the di- rectory of the United Irish League, de- clines to withdraw his resignation as a member of Parllament for Cork City | or to resume his connection with lrlsh;‘ politics. * - traffic over the 103-mile line of raflroad} across Great Salt Lake, known as the | Lucin cut-off, passed through Nevada during the day. The party, from an | observation car at the rear, noted the extensive improvements between ug- | den and Reno. These improvements, | aside from the construction of the cut- | off across the lake, consist of a reduc- | tion of grades and curves and the| shortening of mileage. | The special train, which consists of | three sections, will reach Reno to-mor- row morning. Then the party will be divided, Harriman and other officials of the Southern Pacific going to San Francisco, while most of the Eastern | members, including President Burt,, General Manager Gardner, Vice Pres| dent Hanrahan, General Manager Hodge, General Passenger Agent Fran- cis and a large number of others, will return to Omaha and Chicago. ELKO, Nev., Nov. 26—President Harriman's special train stopped at | Elko for the night, the members of the party wishing to continue their trip by daylight in order to better inspect the reconstruction work now in course | of completion. The special will leave for Reno at 8 o'clock to-morrow morn- ing. A Thanksgiving dinner was serv- ed to the party on the dining car which | has accompanied the train from Oma- ha. The entire trip thus far has been made without mishap. The return trip will begin from Reno on Friday night. l fences, sweeping wagons for blocks, flooding cellars and covering car tracks under several feet of mud, but injuring no person. Without warning the northwest wall of the big city reservoir burst, send- ing more than 1,000,000 gallons of water dow~ a hill more than %0 feet in height and sweeping everything in its path. Fortunately the break occurred upon the side of the reservoir on which there are few buildings and the flood spent its force in a wide gully and then flowed like a cloudburst in a mountain canyon through the streets in that sec- tion of the city. The streets there are narrow and in places the water swept from house to house five feet deep. Innes avenue re- ceived the full force of the torrent and for more than a block cement sidewalks were ripped up and several wagons which had been left standing in that seldom used street were swept away and lodged several blocks down the hill. An iron grading plow was swept more than a block. The family of W. F. Jackson, who live nearest the break, was saved only by reason of the fact that the wall burst 100 feet north of their house and the torrent ran in an opposite direc- tion. The back flow surrounded the house with water, the first floor being covered to a depth of a foot or more. In the immediate vicinity of the reser- voir the flood lasted less than ten min- utes, the water spreading to outleta which led to down town streets. Half a mile away streets were filled with water from curb to curb and scores of persons had to wade across streets which a few moments before had been dry and dusty. None of them then knew the source of the flood and the sudden rush of water caused al- most a panic in many a family. It also caused several teams to run away, but there were no casualties. Along Grand avenue as far south as Jeffer- son street the water almost filled the street, but within half an hour the flood had entirely subsided. The bursting of the reservoir was caused by a defective head gate at the city pumping station. The pumps worked all night, those in charge of them thinking the water was being forced into the Garvanza reservoir, two miles away, but owing to a broken water gate the flow from the pumps was pouring. into the old reservoir, and at the time of the break it was almost running over. No estimate as to the property loss has been made by the city Water Department. The reservoir will not be repaired, because it was soon to have been abandoned. prch it s Leaves Dredge for Transpo ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 26.—Captain Ly« nan of the Governmqnt dredge Chi- nook received a telegram last evening from the quartermaster general re- questing him to accept the command of the transport Thomas, which is on the regular Government line between San Francisco and Manila. He wired his acceptance at once and will leave for his new command as soon as he is relieved. His successor on the Chi- nook will probably be Captain Dunbar, the present first officer of the vessel, whom Captain Lynan has recommend- ed for the position. T — SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 26.—It s rumored here that malls from the United States will shortly bé landed at Plymouth jnstead of Southampton in order to expedite their de- livery in London and to complete the Queens- town_ service. ADVERTISEMENTS.