The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1903, Page 1

Forecast made midnight December Cloudy Wednesday; erly wind, &t San Fran-- cisco for thirty hours endiny San Francisco and vicinity— changing to north- A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. 2, 1903: light south- | i CALL I the T +——%——'—' -——r+ THE TEEATERS. Alcazar—“A Poor Relation.” . California—“At" the 0ld Cross Roads.” Central—*“The Pischer's—"I. Grand—"“Over Columbia—*“Way. Down East.” _Orphewm—Vaudeville. n. Chutes— Vaudeville. Counterfeiters.™ 0. o Niagara Falls.” NCISCO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1903. | . Dz IESTIN | HANDS OF RECEIVERS CourtTakesCharge of the Elijah’s Property. — Followers Ignore His Pleas for More Money. | Lack of Ready Funds Brings | Disaster to Leader of | Restoration Host. CHICAGO, Dec. 1L—Financial culties whi durirg the cry of John ‘Alexander Dowle, the self- t refused to ap- property should have no- a proceeding. Af- pointed before the City could be dissi- | entered the order | d Currier. wie's first confes- ade at a rally City. cash in his fol- | t it out.” It in his work n't give it up. | the n' the same strain for h “hour, tears glistening on | 4 of the financial | Zion industries| s He h emselves f frightening many into de- appeal sent’a long-line of ple to the & on Friday, when t'the paying teller's v 1t their money R}Z\'E"'S APPEAL FOR -MONEY. the n- $20,000 was deposited-in the r Fr while the A"]Hul’.! as twice as much. Late ¥ yon A. W. C ham of withdraw $300 and | have to give thirty | he could get his| sther appeal w r funds, but the de. red were-few, and chiefly In trivial r 'krd the members ’7!‘ than ever for| He declared’ that he must have | Continued on Pr.ge 2, Colmnn 2. Dowie a | left New CORONER’S JURY DECLARES THAT GARNETT IS GUILTY OF THE WILLFUL MURDER OF MAJOR J. W. M’'CLUNG Evidence Given Is Damaging to Accused. {3 tion retired broker, residence 857 came to his death in the Waldeck E, the jury, find thaf the said I. W. McClung,: age 56 years, mm;-,,v Alabama; occupa- Post street, in the city and county of San 1 Sanatorium, in said city and county, on the 26th day of ! ber, 19go3, from shock and internal hemorrhage from gunshot wound of the upper abdomen. And that said shot was fired frow: a pistol in the hands of Alexander ('arm‘tt with murderous. intent.”—Verdict of the Coroner’s Tury. Crowd flssembles to Listen to Tes: timony. ancisco; ovem- B - o - OF Scandal Reported in Portland’s Postoffice. Special Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 1.—A scahdal = sed in the Portiand post- | h Postmaster F. A. Ban- in c e barely n alleged irregularity inspectors are engaged r. They discovered at $500: and $1000 | the tage to prevent the o the gossip afloat about result in nspector in"charge of e in tigation now in ogress was commenced on Monday of district, week by the two local inspectors, O. C. Riches and A. R. Butler.: They had not proceeded far when they discovered “I O U” which had been placed in the cash drawer in lieu of money. This was reported to Chief: Inspector | Linn, and it ‘was deemed of such im- portance that Inspector C. L. Wayland- of Seattle was sent to Portland to ald in thé investigation. ———— RATLWAY IS UNABLE TO RETIRE ITS BONDS| Failure ‘of the Plan Proposed by the Mexican Central Company Is Announced. NEW ‘YORK, Dec. 1.—Inability of thé Mexican Central Railway to carry to success its plan to retire its income bonds, amounting to approximately 000,000, has been announced. The failure of the plan, which was intend- | ed as the first step in the reorganiza- tion of the company’s finances, was due to the.opposition of two bond- holders’ protective companies, each acting independently of the other. Henry Clay Pierce, chairman of the Mexican Central board of directors, in announcing the withdrawal of - the plan, states that each bondholder will be_thereby enabled to act independ- ently in his dealings with the two committees. — > ——— Reaches Her Destination in Safety. HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 1.—John W. Gates’ private yacht, Roxana, which Orleans on November 21 for [ Port’ Arthur, Tex.,, and was reported as long overdue, reached her destina- tion in safety last night. The yacht { was not built for. rough seas and was requently forced to seek refuge in small harbors along the coast. The journey was otherwise without incident. PTERTIN. 05T COIN GLEORGE 72 2 - OF GEORGE * I SHIELS. I TENOGRAPIER POHLY REAPING /‘f"s Cors | "k CORONER'S | INQUEST; (HSER TOD LL 0 OPEN REICHSTG 4 ||Alarm Is Added To 1 by Announce- ment. Special Difpatch to The Call. THE _DYINGC E ARRRIGHMEN'T STATEMENT o 1B ! M.IIJOR McCLUNG’J" J‘L.IIYER AND. II)ITNEJ’J‘EJ' AT THE INQUEJ’T A morbid throng of humanity filled the inquest-room of the Coroner's of- when a jury in the who was shot | fice yesterday morning listened to the testimony of Major J. W. McClung, e | her presence was required before the | jury. The most important point brought out in the testimony was given by Dr. George F. Shiels and Dr. George H. Martin, both of whom attended Major | by ‘Alexander Garnett 6n the evening | NeClung shiortly after he was wounded | rooms of Mrs. in willful’ of November 25 in the Lillian Hitchcock-Coit Hotel. A verdict of the Palaee | murder | was returned by the jury against Alex- | | fatally wounded and that he would die Perhaps the most interested specta- | and asked the wounded man to tell hotv tor of the proceedings was Alexander . he had beem shot. . ander Garnett. Garnett, the man aceused of the mur- der of Major McClung. was taken to the inquest-rodm by De- tective Ryan a few minutes after the proceed. 78 commenced and he was given a & 't in the front row of the seats reserv for the public. beside his rela did not allow a = 1gle word of the tes- timony to escape him. It was shortly after 10 o'clock yes- terday morning that Coroner Leland called the case of Major McClung for investigation by the jury. District At- torney Byington was present to repre- sent the people and Attorney W. Alford listened to the evidence on behalf of the man that killed Major McClung. The gathering in the -inquest-room was a cosmopolitan one. Prominent officials, whom duty called -to the pro- ceedings, sat beside courtroom loung- ers, while distinguished medical men elbowed with bellboys and maids from thé Palace Hotel, summoned as wit- nesses. 'MRS. COIT NOT PRESENT. A touch of society and fashion was given to the gathering by the presence of some women who reside at.the Pal- ace Hotel. The curiosity seekers who expected to listen to the testimony of Mrs. Lillian HitchcocK-Coit and watch her demeanor on the witness stand were disappointed, as she was not called as a witness and the jury heard her testi- mony, taken on Monday in the form of a deposition by the Coroner, read by the official stenographer. Mrs. J. W. McClung, the: widow of the man whose life was so ruthlessly takeh by Alexander Garnett, arrived at the ‘Coroner’s office, attended by a male relative. She was garbed in complete mourning and she was allowed to wait in Coroner Leland’s private office until The prisoner | | answer of his old friend, Major Mc- He saf, =, Porter Garnett, and |, | h) the bullet fired by Alexander Gar- nett. 5 Dr. Shiels testified that he had in- formed Major McClung that he was "An intense quiet pervaded the in- quest-room as Dr. Shiels quoted the Clung, who had been informed that he could not live. CURSED AND SHOT VICTIM. “I told him he was fatally wounded and could not live,” testified Dr. Shiels, “and I asked him to tell me how he hrad been shot. “McClung replied that if he was go- ing to die he wanted his wife to be | with him,” continued Dr. Shiels. 3 ““Then he said to me: ‘I was calling on Mrs. Coit and a man came in crazy | He | drunk, it was Alexander Garnett. tried to shoot her and I protected her. He threatened her and I told him to. go away and then he said,.''— —| you, I will shoot you,” shot.’ ” - . Alexander Garnett listened to this damaging testimony without flinching and he continued to gnaw at his short, stubby mustache and shift in his seat on the bench. The jury summoned by Coroner Le. land consisted of the following citizens: V. Lilienthal, Hyman Marks, William McKay, C. Moore, H: I. Van Frank, H, Schaffer, Paul E. Arndt, J. J. Hen- dricks, W. Wickhem and George Seeger. Previous to the calling of witnésses Coroner Leland informed the jury that Mrs. Lilllan Hitchcock-Coit was phy- sically unable to.be present. **I was told by her physician, Dr. de Vecehi,” said Coroner Leland, “that he did not know when Mrs. Coit might be able to appear and testify. He did not know if she would be able to be here in a day, a week or in months. I therefore went to her rooms in the Palace Hotel yesterday and took her sworn deposi- tion in -the presence of District Attor- ney Byington, her attorney and others. and then I was BERLIN, Dec.-1.—The alarm. over| |.| Emperor William's eritical condition | || was intensified to-day by a semi-official | __4, | announceme that on account of the | S condition of his throat he wiil not be | present at the opening of the Reichstag | | on Thursday. The annbuncement was made in the Neue Politische Corre- | spondenz, which journal frequently has | | The dep sition will now be read to YOU.” | been a source of. ministerial announce- | JURY HEARS DEPOSITION. ments. That journal states that Chan- | The officlal stenographer of Coroner | cellor von Bulow will act in the Em- | Leland then read the deposition of Mrs. | Peror's stead "l Coit to the jury, the same having been | -The statement that the Emperor willy published at length in The Call yester- [ ROt even be ent on that occasion, | |day. The jury listened to the evidence | Which he has never before missed since }of the solitary .eve-witness of the kill- | B¢ ascended the throne, even though | ing of Major McClung by Alexander | the condition of.his throat might not Garnett, and the accused man patd | PeTmit him’'to read his address, 1s re- | sarded as significant of a graver con- dition of -health than any ome having | official knowledge of his case has ever | admitted. In official cireles it is suggested that the Emperor may mereily desire to avoid the painful impression which | the public would gain from geeing | | him a semi-invalid instead of the careful attention to the recital of the tragic events that have placed him within the meshes of the law. Following the reading of Mrs. Coit's deposition testimony was given by Mrs. Dr. Whitney, a friend of Mrs. Coit, who resides at the Palace Hotel. Mrs. Whit- ney being sworn testifled as follow: “It was last Wednesday, about 5 p.m., that ¥ was in my rooms at the Pal- | ace Hotel when I heard a loud knock- ing at my door. I opened the door.and caw Alexander Garnett there. He was greatly excited. He asked for my hus- band, Dr. Whitney, and requested me to go to Mrs. Coit's rooms, as Major McClung had been shot there. My hus- { band was not in, and I went with Gar- nett to Mrs. Coit's rooms. I found Mrs. Coit there, and Major McClung was | lying on the lounge. There was blood | on.his shirt front. Mrs. Coit sald that no doctor had grrived. I saw that Ma- jor McClung required imimediate atten- tion, antl I went to the rooms of Dr. Shiels. My rooms are clase to those of Mrs. Coit. I cannot recall if Garnett said anything to me while I went with him from my rooms to those of Mrs. Coit. 2 DID NOT EXPLAIN SHCOTING. “When I went into Mrs. Coit’s rooms Garnett asked for his overcoat, and Mrs.*Coit said that. it should be given to him. The maid, Nora, was in the room also when T arrived there. I can- not remember where the overcoat was in the. room. I think Mrs. Coit handed the coat to Garnett, but I am not sure. ‘When I came back, with Dr. Shiels I did not go into the room with him. I waited in the hallway while he went in to’ examine Major McClung. “1 did not hear Major McClung say anything as to how he had been shot. All T heard him say was, ‘Get a doctor.” Mrs. Coit did not say anything to me | { | they are accustomed. impression, however, is that Emperor William is actually so weak and ill that it is a physical impossibility for him to leave the ¢ pement of the palace at Poftsdam, where no bulle- tins have been issued for several da: This impression is heightened the fact that when, on Sunday, Emperor burg, the German E United States, hé¢ was unable to de- liver to him a verbal message. His condition was such that ‘he was un- able to ‘carry on any conversation with the Embassador. s A Flames -Encircle Playing Child. REDDING, Dec. 1.-— As two boys, aged 5 and 7 years, and a girl aged 3, | children of Mr. and Mrs. Rube Weir of Churn Creek, were playing about a brush fire a quarter of a mile from home this afternoon, one of the boys fired the grass by means of a brand. The flames quickly encircled the girl, whose clothing Was ignited, and before the father-reached the scene every gar- | ment on her was burned. The prompt | application of oil allows the girl to rest easier this evening. —_— Carnegie’s Offer Is Accepted. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.—The City Council’'s Committee on Free Libraries to-day voted td accept from Andrew Carnegie the gift of $1,500,000 for the building of thirty branch libraries in this city. Accemwce has been strong- 1y opposed. The general by the received Baron von Stern- mbassador to the l Continued on Page 2, Column 3. ' martial and strenuous figure to which |, | peror declined to grant this rec AR EAGTERN CRISIS NEARS SLTTLEMENT e ‘Japan and Russia on Verge of an Agreement. |Mikado Gives Czar a Free Hand in the North, Willin Turn Be Unmolested in His Operations in Korea. le- -xpected this ‘forthecom- ing agreeme ilows Russia ‘will ‘accept. - the two agree- ‘ments ¢ Japa and and 1898 Korea, dated 1 ly, ur whi Japan secured varic rights K ling the main- tenance .of z In ex- change foF. th an Wil acéept Rt specting ) It is beliew stated positive a re- ot be ly—that .Japan and Rus- ort of the " and the in- tegrity of China a In -diplomatic here much gratification d at the satisfactory stage which the ne- gotiations between Japan have now entered FRANCE: WORKS FOR PEACE. Before "the ' recent unt Lamedorff: the sian’ Foreign Minis- ter;:to Paris_ on which-occasion h companied the Czar, France and Great Britain, asa 'result of.‘the:entente ex- | isting ‘between them, thieir influence ‘Wit Ris respectively, for .the p ing” an’ amicable agré question in-dfspute: When ¢ visit of C dorff arrivéd.Delcasse nch For- elgn’. Minister,” 100k . 6eeasion o “point out. the interest which. France had in a peaceful solition’ of the difficulty.- At | the’ samie “time Delcasse - told * Count Lamsdorff that it.- was élearly under- stood that, o matter svhat th® result, there would be-no "c e, generally speaking, in the attit »f France to- ward Rw * Coun L the delicacy tion, but e | the Russian peaceful_soluti Great Britaim getic representatix ernmént. Diplom much credit to the res e two dist which has and Japanese.c 70 INCREASE SEOUL GARRISON, Information has uncils to the effect t ing at Seoul though she no the Korean ca as an #ndica that r plateg the strengthening of her son in Seoul The Emperor of ea is much agt- tated over the situation in his country and is denying himself to all foreigners, evidently fearing that the¢ Russian and Japanese representatives in Seoul will ask for an audience and present fresh demands. This attitude of the Emperor | was illustrated when the afimiral of the French squadron, which put in at Che- mulpo, nroceeded to Seoul, where the French Minister asked for an audience for the naval represent - CHINA WOULD AID JAPAN. Statesmen Favor the Making of & Common Cause Against Russia. PEKING, Dec. 1.—China’s most dis- cerning and ~ influential statesmen doubt the ability of the Russian and Japanesé governments to avoid war, and intend? if their forebodings are verified, to use all their power 4o in~ duce tite Pekimg Government to make common eause with Japan. It seems highly probable that the advice of these men will prevail, for the rulers of China are eager to see Russia brought s realized that Japan must neces. be the leader in such an enter- in order that a successful cam- The Japanese have prise, paign may result. large ideas as to their rights in mat- ters connected with the mutual inter- ests of the two empires, but the ablest Chinese believe their country would be far better with Japan dominating Northeastern Asia than with Russia doing so. They reason that the Japan- ese would always encourage the devel- opment of China's natural strength as Continued on Page 2, Columa &