The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1903, Page 3

TH SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1903. ROBBERS FAIL 10 OPEN SALE Bold Attempt Is Made to Get the Money in Strong Box in a Railway Depot in Oregon | e it Cracksmen Are Believed to Belong to Gang That Broke Into the Bank at Sheridan NP Special Dispatch to The Call Dec. 16.—An w open the depot last in the e to open the e up the job It is believed ones whe erat berg re- cently, and who yway with sev- eral thousand dc from the bank at Sheridan. T. that no explosives were used te one discover- ing the burglars while they were at | work. The depot is located a short dis- | tance from the n proper and is de- serted after R The robbe secured_tools with which to b sare lock by rob- bing a se. This is regard of that the robbers e men who broke | into the , as they, too. | had res tion-house for e e DIRECTORS OF VETERA { HOME 10SE COFFEY SUIT Court Rules That Money Left by De- cedent Must Be Distributed Ac- cording to Terms of Will. Dec. 16.—Justice McKnig! decisio: executor of t fey, deceased, against the board of ors of the Veterans’ Home. He a judgment in the 34 interest and but denies $96 damages t In the holds that 1 be distrib- the rule ws of the excess of is ely to be appealed to torney F k g the defer - Resigns From Napa Public Library. Miss M Pears’ The skin ought to be clear ; there is nothing strange in a beautiful face. | If we wash with proper soap, the skin will be open and clear, unless the health is bad. A good skin is better than a doctor, The soap to use is Pears’; no free alkali in it. Pears’, the soap that clears but not excoriates. Sold al! over the world. The - housekeeper or the cook who does or doesn't keep a jar of the Company's LIEBIG &= OF BEEF always at hand both for fla- voring soups and sauces as well as for making that handy cup of hot beef tea, will oblige by sending her address to David & Co., 105 Hudson St., She will receive free, a useful cook book. BEERS Famous the - Worid Over—Fully Matured. Sotd Everswhore; 4 | Hisbkasd M. NTiL: CO. raciic Coast Agents. i Dotk eronomical and luzis | Best — o I ious —- Schilling’s your grocer’s; and moneyback. AK COMBINATION LOCK| | married this evening to Fannie Tru, | | Maniey and deputies, acting on in- \ ARMED NE? GIVE CHASE | | | | i |Stiles and Alvord, Who Broke Jail at Tombstone, Secure | Horses and Are Now Heading | f for the Huachuca Mountains| | ] e IR i i TWENTY PRISONERS | MAKE THEIR ESCAPE EREETCINGA i | Mexican Rurales Are Sent Out| From Magdalena to Capture Any of the Fugitives Who May Try to Cross the Border | Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. TUCSON, Ariz., Det. 16.—A count of | the prisoners in the Tombstone jail this morning revealed the fact that twenty | had escaped last night along with Stiles and Alvord. Of these one returned, but| | none of the others have been captured, | although the chase is a hot one and | every officer in the line country has | been pressed into service. United States Marshal McCord, who is still at Tucson, | will ask the Department of Justice for ! hority to organize a party here, as! Tucson has become the headquarters for those engaged in the chase. At least one party of the escaped prisoners has been traced to the Huachuea Moun- | tains, and another is belleved to be | headed in that direction. | and Alvord were both seen| s after daybreak this morning by | 1 Indian who was trailing them. He | came to Huachuca siding at 6 o'clock and reported that the two desperadoes s | had passed him, going toward the Hua- e of William Cof- | chuca Mountains. They did not him, as he concealed himself behind a | m cactus. Both escapes were mounted and armed with rifles and re- ! | A posse under Deputy Sheriff McDonald arrived at Huachuca siding from Tombstone two hours afterward | and immediately took up the trail of | the fugiti One see the posse returned to Fair- bank late this afternoon and reported | that some of the outlaws had been sur- in the Huachuca Mountains. | a report was received announc- g that the men had succeeded in es- caping the posse and are now riding to- ward the Gunsight district. Jack Virgin, a deserter from the navy, who was in jail and among the escaped prisoners, followed them for a mile and then returned. He says that es and Alvord went straight to a point in the gulch behind the jail, where horses and arms were g 'm. They then mounted and desert- ed the rest of the prisoners The others divided in two parties. One is composed of Jim Bennett, Louis James, Depriest nd O’Brien, the highwaymen: Gould, the Bowie murderer, and Sailor Brown, | a noted thief. The other party is made up mostly of Mexicans, who were in jail petty offenses. Many of the latter band are believed to be in hiding spect holes and old shafts be- Tombstone and Bisbee, and un- { doubtedly will be captured. W. C. Green of Cananea, So- who was at Bisbee at the time all break, has taken a personal in the apprehension of Stiles and has offered a handsome their capture. He wired Colonel Kosterlitzky, command of the rurales at Magdalena, to send out a troop for the purpose of capturi Stiles and Alvord or any other p Colonel nora of the interest and Alvord rewa for in | ers who attempt to cross the line. Colonel Kosterlitzky left Magdalena this afternoon at the head of troop of rurales. He goes to the Cierro Pinto Mountains, a favorite Sonora rendez- vous for Stiles, Alvord and other des- peradoes. This section is west ot Nogales and south of the Gunsight country. B A | INDIAN FINDS WRECK { OF STEAMER DISCOVERY United " States Revenue Cutter Rush Goes to the Scene, Taking the Red Man as a Guide. Wash., I the says the wreck teamer Discov- | ery has been found. An Indian from Cross Sound found the wreck and | brought the news to Juneau. { The Unite@ States revenue cutter n In has gone to the scene, taking the | ian as a guide. The steamer Discovery was a small ocean-going vessel of about 200 tons. She was bui't at Port Townsend 1n 1898. She salled from Yakutat for | in October with about | thirty persons, including a number of | passengers. Some days later wreckage | | was found near the mouth of the Seal | River. It is the opinion of marine meu ; that the vessel foundered in a storm |and all on board met death. | —_—e————— Women Organize Improvement Club. | NAPA, Dec. 16.—More than fifty | representative women of Napa met at the City Hall Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of organizing an improve- ment club. The immediate efforts of | the organization will be along the line | of working for the carrying of the Seattle early ~| coming bond election. Mrs. G. M. | | Prancis was elected president, Mrs. | | Anna Holden vice president, Miss | Fisher secretary and Miss Claire| { Goodman treasurer. | ———————— Society Attends Chinese Wedding. VALLEJO, Dec. 16.—Ho Soon, a do- mestic in the employ of Dr. C. E.| Turner, Health Officer of this city, was a girl from the Chinese mission in San! Francisco. The wedding took place at the home of Dr. Turner and was attended by many soclety people. ——— Gambling Houses Raided. WALLACE, Idaho, Dec. 16.~Sheriff straction from District Judge Morgan, to-day raided all the saloons in the Coeur d’Alene towns, including Wal- lace, Wardner, Burke and Mullin, and contiscated all gambling devices. Two large truckloads of paraphernalia was seized and will be publicly burn- €d or destroyed at Wallace, SERVES COPIES | the man, OF INJUNCTION Deputy Marshal Notifies the Striking Miners at Hodson of Federal Court Proceedings N S L UARDS WATCH PROPERTY | Attempt Is to Be Made to Re- suine Work With Non-Union Men and Trouble May Follow | — Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Dec. 16.—A deputy | United States Marshal passed through | Stockton to-day to serve copies of the injunction issued from the Federal court in San Francisco on the 150 strik- ing miners at Hodson. The officer reached the Royal Consolidated mine about § o'clock this evening and began service of the papers. { A telephone message from the mine this afternoon announced that all was quiet, but that trouble was feared as soon as the strikers had been served with the injunction and the mine made an attempt to reopen. One hundred and sixty strikers and sympathizers are | camped about the mine. They main- tain a complete picket line around the property and have allowed no one to pass the line except the mine officlals. The mine has a guard of five watch- | men, armed with repeating rifles. The ! engineers have remained on duty and the pumps are running. It was fur- | ther stated that the strikers had at last learned of the injupction against them and that they seemed consider- ably worrled, but inciined to be de- fiant. An attempt will be made to re- open the mine with non-union help brought in from outside points. It is i \ stated that arrangements have been | made to send in a crew of men to- morrow. | The United States Marshal will serve the injunction to-night and to-morrow and if the strikers thereafter disobey | the court order warrants for their ar- | rest for contempt of court will follow. —_—— | MINERS AT SUTTER CREEK { DECLARE THEIR STRIKE OFF Men Will Be Taken Back to Work as Soon as Places Can Be Found for Them. SUTTER CREEK, Dec. 16.—At a meeting of Sutter Creek Union, West- ern Federation of Miners, last night | | it was voted to declare the strike off at the South Eureka mine. The three men who were discharged will not be ck, it being claimed that a s reason was given for their One of the engineers be- longing to the Western Federation of Miners was called out shortly after the strike was declared, November 16, | and he W not be employed again, ! the reason given by Superintendent Moore being that there is no place for him, as the mine will have two en- gineers hereaftér. This refusal may | se more trouble: Superintendent Moore will take back the men as fast as places are | found for them. veral went on to- night. The mine has been kept free from water by the two engineers re- | maining. They are members of the engineers’ union and not subject to orders from the Western Federation | of Miners. —ee——— SUPREME COURT DECISION { ¢ OIL CLAIMS Holds That in Locating a Section the Lines of the Government Survey | Must Be Foliowed. BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 16.—The Su- preme Court has rendered a decision which holds in effect that in locating a section of oil lands the lines of the Government survey are to be followed even though the amount thus enclosed | may exceed 160 ac , and may also ba left outside the claim stakes set up by the locators. The decision was givan in the case of Mrs. J. M. Crawford vs. the | Kern Oil Company in favor of the com- pany and overrules the Superior Court of this county. The land lavolved is| three acres in the heart of Kern River district, all of which was outside the | location stakes set up by the company’s locators and part of which is in excess ct the 180 acres in the section, An ap- plication for a rehearing is to be filed. Many claims are affected by the decis- fon. ——e e Redding Is Infested by Tramps. REDDING, Dec. 16.—Tramps have been flocking into town during the past few ys and are committing many eri Tom Kemper, a bartender, was held up by an armed man early this snorning while he was going to Officer Bainbridge was ap- | proached this afternoon by a hard- | looking character, who gave him 25 cents to furnish a meal for a tramp arrested earller for selling fake jew- | elry. The policeman started to arrest| who struck at him and ran| off. Bainbridge threw his ciub at the fleeing tramp, but missed him. The | tramp then picked up the club and threw it back at the officer, making him dedge. The fleeing man escaped. | —_—————— We are selling agents for pens that will fit your hand; cost from | $1.00 10 ¥5.00 each.” Sanborn, Vail & Co., | 741 Market st. LB B -+ | 1 fountain | FREE TO CALL WANT AD- VERTISERS. A SALT AND PEPPER SHAKER | FREE TO EVERY “WANT” ADVERTISER IN THE CHRISTMAS C Each and every want adver- tiser in the Christmas Call will be presented with this very at- traciive novelty, which is of handsome appearance, highly nickel plated and made with a very pretty ceiluloid band. Xt will certainly prove a useful household utility. This premium can only be ob- taincd by a “want” ad. for insertion in the Christmas Call. It cannot be secured in any other way. B S o e R i s tv s g | erman, attorney and agent of the Yel-| { workmen to the diStrict under false i the provisions of a law passed by the| | last Legislature, by which the offense | operations with 200 non-union miners, | | of them were told by me that there had | | office Berryman was accompanied by | three other men. { be no misunderstanding. If you go to| | broken, and since October 1 we have | men, and the greatest trouble we have L | Financial | cember 3, via St. Michael, | body of an Indian woman which was ATTORNEY MUST | ANSWER MINERS el Union Men Induce Randsburg Justice to Issue Warrant for Arrest of John D. Ackerman! ST TR STRIKE RAISES AN ISSL'E, Questions Arise Under New Law and the Accused Man Laughs at the Allegations BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 16.—Justice Manning of Randsburg has issued a | warrant for the arrest of John D. Ack- | in San| ehipping low Aster Mining Company Francisco, on a charge of representations as to the conditions there. The warrant was issued under | is made a misdemeanor. John D. Ackerman when interviewed last night at his residence in Oakland | said: | “We had a strike of miners at the| Yellaw Aster mine that we broke in ptember. On October 1 we resumed and have been golng ever since. John F. Berryman, the man who swore to the complaint, is one of a bunch of | seventeen men who were sent from San Francisco on December 2 to work at the mine. Berryman and all of the rest | been a strike on, that we had broken the strike and that they could go to work provided they were non-union men. The first time he called at my They replied then: “‘Oh, we're not union men.’ “*Well,” 1 said, ‘we will not have a union man on the place, and I'll tell| you that in plain English, so there shall | Randsburg and afiiliate with the union | you will lose your jobs.’ | “They asked me about the fare to| Randsburg, and I told them if they | made up a crowd of more than ten I| would get them a special rate. On De- | cember 3 seventeen of them showed up. | 1 went with them, but Berryman signed | the ticket and checked the baggage. | Each man was told by myself in the | | presence of two or moére witnesses in | my office that we had broken the strike | at the mine. “The complaint was filed on Decem- ber 8. I have a certified copy of it, and my attorneys, Frank McGowan and H. | W. Hutton, declare that it is not worth | the paper it's printed on. We will at- | tack it, first because it is alleged the offense of misrepresenting conditions at | the mine was committed in San Fran- cisco and the Randsburg Justice has no jurisdiction, and, second, on the| complaint itself as worthless, and, third, on the ground that the men were | in no wise deceived. Berryman claims | I did not tell him about the strike. “Sheriff Kelly of Kern County holds the warrant for my arrest, and I have talked with him over the ’'phone. He told me he was about of the same opin- fon as myself about the complaint. I told him if he came to San Francisco | after me he might as well lay in a| vear's provisions, because T would fight the thing through the last court. “We are keeping a heavy guard| around our property, but the strike is| been running our 130 stamps every day. We got 100 Missourians among the new is to keep them from going out and fighting with the remnants of the men who went on strike.” OME 1S SHORT OF REAY COIN Crisis Forces Mer- chants to Demand Cash for Goods and No Credit Is Given SEATTLE, Wash.,, Dec. gram to the Times fiom t 16.—A tele- Nome, De- says: To- day the Government officials announcad that wireless communication with Nome would be established inside of ten days. Several partly successful tests have been made. There is a financial crisis existing in Nome. Merchants demand cash for all purchases, credit being entirely sus- pended. 3 Boodle charge: against the City Council are being freely made in the | papers. Nome's debt is $35,000, with no income until the first of June. The schooner Zenith, with a crew of ten and twenty passengers, is frozen in for the winter near Golovin Bay. The vessel is in a very bad position. The passengers are in good health, well sup- plied and in no danger. A dispute has arisen between the | of eiectric street railway. GOVERNOR ACTS [N ARDON CASE Decides to Issue a Warrant for Return of J. E. Chandler, Who Is Wanted in Colorado Bed Sl adl MAY APPEAL TO COURT Sentence of Life Imprisonment Imposed Upon Murderer From San Diego Is Commuted e SACRAMENTO, Dec. 16.—Governor Pardee has decided to issue a warrant of rendition in the case of J. E. Chand- ler, who is wanted in Colorado to an- swer a charge of conspiring to commit | arson, but will defer action for two or three days in order to give Chandier an opportunity to test the extradition in the courts on habeas corpus if he so desires. F. H. Thompson, an attorney of Los Angeles, representing Chandler, who is detained in that city, made the claim that Chandler is not a fugitive from justice for the reason that he was | not in Colorado at the time the offense cemplained of was committed. The Governor has granted a pardon to J. M. Bridges, who was released from prison nearly a year ago and who is now in business at Bakersfield. The object in granting the pardon is to re- store Bridges to citizenship. Governor Pardee has granted a com- mutation of the sentence to life impris- onment imposed upon Pedro Yanes, convicted of murder committed in San Diego County. Yanes has, with credits, served a sentence of twenty-four years. He was convicted of having killed a station agent on the Colorado desert, and was only 15 years of age when the crime was committed. .The Superior Judge by whom Yanes was sentenced and a number of influential people of Southern California petitioned the Gov- ernor for clemency. tion granted Yanes will be released the first Monday in December, 1906. Foo Yock, a Chinese sent to prison | for life and who later became insane and was committed to the Stockton State Hospital, will soon be released, his relatives desiring to send him back to China. The Justices of the Supreme Court have assented to the return of the Chinese to his native country. — e SANTA ROSA TO ENJOY BETTER RAILWAY SERVICE Common Council Decides to Sell Fran- chise Covering Many Important Streets in Thriving City. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 16.—Santa Rosa is to have an up-to-date system The mem- bers of the Common Council met this morning to consider the matter of advertising for the sale of a franchise covering many important streets in this city and as a result of their de- liberations determined to offer the franchise for sale. The petitioner is Burke Corbett of San Francisco, who represents the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Electric Railway. The company is now building from Petaluma fo- ward this ¢ity and proposes to estab- lish an interurban line through Green Valley to Forestville. Santa Rosa is to be connected with this system. The fact that the Council has de- termined to advertise the franchise for sale is a cause for great rejoicing | in this city. By the commuta- | BEGIV WORK N RAILYAY ENTERPRISE Ground Is Broken by Projectors of the New Bowie and Clark Road Which Is to Conneet San Mateo With Coast { i FORCE OF LABORERS el S Large Quantities of Steel Rails, ! Arrive and Are Now Being Qe Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN MATEO, Dec. 16.—Ground was of the new Bowle & Clark railroad, the ccast towns of Halfmoon Bay and Pescadero, on the west coast, and Coyote Point, on the bay. Large quan- tities of steel rails, crossties and other | eral days, and all are now being dis- | tributed along the route. | Engineer E. F. Haas of San Francis- | co, who has charge of the construction, | put a force of laborers to work on H | ing and laying the track will be vig- | be from the intersection of Third ave- | nue and Rallroad street, at the South- | ern Pacific crossing, down third ave | nue to H street, through H to Poplar avenue, thence through that thorough- | fare to Coyote Point. The franchise for this road was granted at recent meet- | ings of the County Supervisors and City Trustees to Henry P. Bowie and | Charles W. Clark. Under its terms the road must be completed in the city lim- its within two years and in the county within five years. it will be buiit now is not known. Clark | is still in the East and Bowie is reticent concerning their plans. Coyote Point is owned by the Bowie estate, and the rumor is persistent that the present plans contemplate the ex- and Railroad street to the point, where a recreation resort, including baths, a hotel and other attractions, will erected to accommodate the large crowds of visitors which flock here dur- ing the summer. It is given out unof- ficially that all this is to be plished in time for the coming sum- mer season. It is also soon as Senator Clark has recovered from his illness he will 160k into this enterpfise with a view to taking an ve and financial interest in it. In ac! | is now contemplated may be expected to materialize. The tracks now being 1 1ald are for an electric road. —_———————— Kansas City Gets Conventlon. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—The national | convention of the Prohibition party will | be held at Kansas City, Mo. The ex- | ecutive committee of the party so de- lcided this afternoon. Towns | COMMENCES GRADING | Cross Ties and Other Material | Distributed Along the Route | | broken yesterday for the construction | which is to connect San Mateo with | materials have been arriving for sev- | street yesterday, and the work of grad- | orously pushed forward. The route will | Just how much of | | tension of the road from Third avenue | be accom- | said that as| this event a more extemsive line than | SATS A GHOST HAUNTS CHERCH Young Colored Man at Kalama { Tells Weird Story Concerning the Doings of a Speeter | ——— | PEOPLE SHUN LOCALITY { Residents Appoint Committee | to Make a Thorough Investi- | gation Into the Whole Matter e it tch to The Call. TACOMA, Dec. 16.—Kalama .has a sensation in a ghost which {s sald to haunt a church there. Dick Sorters, a young colored man, was the first one to whom the ghost made its appear- ance. In the rear of the church is a small room, in which there is a bed and bed- ding. The bed, when not in use, is left Special Dis, | unmade, with the covers t n over the footboard to air. The path young Sorters follows home each evening leads him near a window of this room There being no blinds he could easily see the Interior. One evening last week as he passed the window he says he noticed something resembling a human being lying on the floor beside the bed and in the moonlight it looked decided- Iy ghostly. Sorters raised his lantern and peered in. The “thing,” which was wrapped in white, began to rise, but instead of | rising in an ordinary way it floated straight up. | Sorters did not stay to Investigate. | The same thing occurred again Satur- day night and an investigating com- | mittee is now trying to ermine whether it was an optical Hllusion on Sorters’ part or whether some one is attempting a practical joke. Sorters | and others residing in the neighborhood now go home by a roundabcut way, giving the church a wide be: —_—————————— LENOS COMPLETE DEAL IN CUBAN LANDS | Acquire 150,000 Acres in Province of Puerto Principe on North Side of Bay of Nuevitas. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16— ith the expected ratification of the reciprocity treaty with Cuba to-day comes the in formation of an important land deal which embraces the acquirement by Los Angeles parties of a tract of 150,- 000 acres of land in the province of Puerto Princine, on the north side of the bay of Nuevitas, which it is pro- | posed to subdivide and sell lots of ten to fifty acres each. William H. Carlson, former United States Com- missioner of Railws organized a local s ing of E. S. Field, fo mer Superv of this county; E. L an oil man; C S cal con- | tractor; € F. B. Harpert and E. tterworth, real estate dealers; Perry A. Howard, con- tractor, and J. M. White. The proj- ect calls for heavy investments and it ted to interest Eastern capital enterprise. It is intended to | e upon the land and | establish agencics for exploiting the [ tract at New York, Toronto, Chicago, | Los Angeles and at Havana or Nue- vitas. The land was acquired In one block from the trustees in whose name the original Spanish grant was vested. | in o |in | lay out a fow 1 | \*\“r N ADVERTISEMENTS. )/ city and Federal authorities over the found just within the city limits and which the city authorities refused to bury. The city officials finally cared for the body after dogs had got at it. —_——————————— Physician Weds an Alameda Belle. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 16.—Dr. Ed- ward J. Ruddock of Guerneville and Miss Eva L. Stanford of Alameda were married this afternoon in the parlors of the Occidental Hotel. The ceremony was performed by Rev. E. J. Hoskins of the Guerneville Congre- gational Church. Dr. Ruddock is a prominent practitioner of Sonoma County and has resided in Guerneville many years. ————————————— ¥all Kills an Aged Man. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 16.—Orrin Taylor, aged 32 years, died this afternoon as the result of injuries received by a fall on the street last Saturday. He had been residing at the home- of his daughter, Mrs. C. F. Morse, and while walking with his grandson on Satur- be sent to Morgan, Vt, for interment. . Have you some fellow qua mas wi hat this year? Stetson Hats at § son has the quality, mirable gift. Our other pri $1.95 and $1.30. in every shape, th a present? w hich A “Merchandise Order” a hat is a good gift. We carry an_ elegant lin $4.00 in all shapes. The Stet- (s A \ Gifts among your ac- 1 \ “ intances that you remember every Christ- Why not give him 2 e of makes it an ad- ices for hats are $3.00, $2.50, At these prices we have them style and color. for The picture shows old San- ty, himself, discarding usual cap for one of our style Derbies. his late ’Qut-of-town orders filled—Write us. SNWO0D§(D 740 Market Street. = 1‘“@;‘::—,.. A