The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1904, Page 1

east. _— TEE WEATEER: Forecast made at San Pran- cisco for thirty hours ending at midnight, January 13: San Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy Wednesday; east winds changing to south- A G District Porecaster. light north- McADIE, | - Tivol .1....’ Comes Marching % Go!_h!.—“m Deering’s Di- - | qv- SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1904. A PRICE FIVE CENTS. FACTS POINT TO-SOEBDER AS ASSASSIN Leon S. Soeder, arrested on suspicion of having foully murdered his brother-in-law, Joseph Blaise, last Sunday at Russian Hill, is an ex-convict, having served a term in San Quentin for burglary. The suspect was give a- rigid ex- am his room n by the police yesterday and most damaging evidence was secured against him. Soeder took the suit he wore last Sunday to a cleaning works early on Monday morning. He also pawned a revolver after the detectives had searched Under examination, Soeder admitted that he had been married twice and claims his first wife went to Europe and died. His second wife died under suspicious circumstances last year. — P CZAR SPEEDS MOMENTOUS MESSAGES TO THE VICEROY IN THE ORIENT AND GENERALS AWAIT SIGNAL OF WA \ L) ORE STOUNDS NG g = Extraordinary Strike Reported at Crip- |+ ple- Creek. 2—A st two feet wide and hness has been « the Unit nder thoroughly unde idea of the value ich streak can best known th bet- but it is most ties owned lease L to $15,000 a ton. Armed guards surround the property and even while men are breaking very rich ore a guard is over the News of the wonderfu ing a furor the district. The & has “leaked out a little” and wires are hot from mining men all over country asking for direct and I find is creat- over rike pos- in the W. P. H. is in o the wonderful find made -nr © years ago in Damon ground. That is now in controversy in the coufts the Jerry Joknson Company. I ely that within a very small area | = be opened up with depth ! great that Croesus could | not measure them. The United Mines | Company is controlied by the Woods | brothers, who have had their entire holdings in court for sixty days. The | ;'.m will put the promoters, who have at the head and front of many promotions, on their feet again. Their main standby, the Goid Coin, over which s erected the finest shaft house in the world, is once more coming into *® bonanza. Water is going down in the shaft and values at a depth are so great that gold miners are appalied at the assays. e Bond Issue L WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The War Department to-day accepted the pro- posal of Harvey Fiske & Sons of New York, representing Fiske &* Robin- son and the National City Bank of New York, for the entire $7,000,000 bond issue of the Philippine Govern- ment on account of thé purchase of the friar lands at $107.577. o feet of ore exposed | el JAPANESE ARE AC TIONS OFFICTALS WHO IVE IN NEGOTIA- TH RUSSIA. 1 | | Conflm Likely to Begin| at Any .\\omcnr, Savs an Officer. ew York New York ETERSBUR ST G, Jan. 12— From a very highly placed gen- communications of the « highest importartce are now passing con- | {stantly over the wires between Admiral’ Alexieff and the Empe- ror. On'these much depends. | The monarch, \\]'Ill(’ extremely | desirous of peace, is equally firm concerning Russia’s prestige, and | he trusts, now that matters are so far advanced and are in such a | critical phase, entirely to the good | judgment - of the viceroy as to | what is necessary to be done. My informant, the general, a con- !nrmcd friend of peace, says: | “There may still be hopes of | peace left, but I fear the political | ax111:3>pherc is charged with elec- tricity and the storm may break |at any moment. One thing I can | tell you is that the general staff is most fully prepared for an out- break of war. All our arrange- ments are perfect up to the last {item. All we have got to do now | is to press a button and the whole | l machinery will start working.” A colonel of the War Office staff who knows Manchuria and China well said this afternoon : “Mark my words, Japan will never fight us. She is ‘merely bar- tering to make the best bargain and get most out of us and she will make terms. “But please tell me what has the United States against us? A — e e Continged on Page 5, Column 1, eral I am enabled to tell you that | R + i | ! -+ & (LN AFTER - SUPERVISOR Accuses Official in Fresno County of Malteasyce. Jan. 2.—The grand jur ¥ filed the most sensational report | lever presented by a grand jury in this | county. Supervisor Burleih is aceused of malfeasance in office and Is asked to {show cause why he should not be re- {moved from office. A. .aggers, the | | roadmaster in Burieigh's district, was indicted for misappropriation of pub- The grand jury has been in session for several weeks and rumors have week to the effect that the Supervisors were under investigation and that some startling facts had been brought to light. Nothing definite was made known, however, till the report was given out to-day. Burleigh is specifically charged with | having hired men at low wages to do road work and then sent in fictitious bills to the county, pocketing whatever might be left after the wages were paid. The indictments against Jaggers, Imperatrice and Thompson were | brought because of their alleged com- plicity in the transaction. The charge is made also that Burleigh used county employes to chop down trees on a coun- ty road and convert it into cordwood for his private use. i s R Riverside Supervisor Is Indicted, "RIVERSIDE, Jan. 12.—Supervisor C. W. Craven was indicted by the grand jury to-day on the charge of embez- zlement. It is alleged that he retained & commission on lumber purchased by | the county and converted the same to his own use. The amount of the al- leged embezzlement is $125. Craven was arrested to-night and furnished bail in the sum of $2000, —— Run on Superior Bank. SUPERIOR, Wis, Jan. 12.—A run was started on the savings depart- ment of the First National Bank to- day and this afternoon the line of de- positors extended out into the street. A notice was issued by the bank of- ficials stating that the bank will re- main open to-night until the last per- son in the line has been paid. li funds. D. Imperatrice and J. Thompson, also employes in Burleigh's distrfct, were indicted on similar | charges. been in circylation during the past | COLOMBIA - IS READY 70 STRIKE. Ofilcers of the Navy | Attack. O Thousands of Troops Are | Reported to Be Very | Near Panama. | — | United States Marines Start Scouting | and Warships Wil Make Demon- stration on the Coast. ; —_— | Jany 12.—United States | | naval authorities here appear to be | convinced. from the tenor of the re- ports which are continually brought that Colombia is determined to| tend an army to attack l:nnama. i | The Panaman authorities yester-| | day received official confirmation of | | | the fact that the Colombian troops at | | Titumati number at least 4000 men, | | under the command of Generals Ortiz, | Uribe-Uribe, ‘Bustamente and Novo. | These troops are well armed and sup- | Jbligd, with ammunition and have. tour _,guns, three steam launches apd 8 supply of cattle. . The district is afl !unproducm-e one apd the provigions |and other supplies which the troops | possess Have been brought to them | from other places. The Government | { learned these facts frogm a reliable in- { ! formant at Titumati, who contrives to | isend news of events from that dis- | | tance to Colon by means of signals and | trutsworthy messengers. | ! ARMY ASKS FOR BOATS. | News has also been received lhatr [ the Tndian chief, Inanaquina, returned | | vesterday to Cartagena to interview | the Colombian officers regarding a re- | | quest made by them for 300 Indian umall boats to be used by the army at | Titumati in crossing the rivers. Colonel Villamil, who is now sta- | tioned at Rio Mandjnga, at the mouth | of San Blas Bay, in command of a hundred Panaman soldiers, in a re- | port sent in yesterday said he had no | need of more troops. The colonel said | he had already sent out scouts as far | as ¢ o-n‘epllon to the east and Culebra | to the west, who have confirmed the holief that the mountain trails are so | difficult that it would be an easy mal-] 'mr for the colonel's command to stop | an army attempting to puss over them. MARINES ARE SCOUTING. | i A scouting party ef United States| marines has just left Colon ¢u the | | steamer Herald for Nombre de Dios. | | from which place.they will send a | small boat to Mandinga, with the ob- | jeet of undertaking a journey to the | | Darien district, toward Tiburon. This expedition is likely to be absent for two or three weeks and on its return | the naval authorities will have the | fullest information obtainable regard- | ing trails, etc. | * It is expected that all the warships | will leave Colon to-morrow for the | purpose of making a demonstration | along the San Blas coast. The vessels will land an attacking force the mo- ment information reaches them that Colombian troops have crossed into Panama territory. 2 There are no signs 8f a Colombian army in the vicinity of Panama terri- tory on the Pacific. The outlook is apparently warlike. s | ROOT URGES CONCILIATION. Secretary of War Says Government Is Friendly to Colombia. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Shortly after the Cabinet meeting to-day Sec- retary Root issued the following state- ment regarding the isthmian policy of the administration: “The publication in various guarters of news indicating that the Govern- the isthmus to carry on military ope- rations against Colombia has l-n the source of considerable annoyance to the | executive and tot.luwu-m Nomuntmm h‘m“ -uuumhhhm ing made. It is not believed by mamtm»tfi.m i State. that mm&.fir on the at Colon Expect ment is preparing to send troops to| i as to declare war against us; and, even if this ruinous step should be taken by Colombia, this Government would be in no haste to respond to her challenge. The President makes all possible al- lowance for the natural excitement in Bogota over a state of things for which | the Celombian Government is alone re- sponsible and of which it was fully fore- warned. But they must sooner or later recognize the irresistible force of ac- complished facts, and the sooner this is done the hetter for all parties.. We ha\e done them no wrong; we would like to be of service to them. If they are wise they will not put. it out of our power to help them by any act of rash- ness and violence.” General Reyes, prior to his departure from Washington, in an'interview with Secretary Hay arranged for further consideration between representatives of the twq governments on the Pana- ma matter, Colombian Envoy. x-;—— Return to His | Home Saturday. NEW YORK, Jan. fael Reyes, the special Colombian ‘en- voy, arrived in New York to-day from Washington, accompanied by J. D. An- | gulo. General Reyes is expected to =ail Saturday from this.port for Colombia, but said to-day that he did mot know | positively when he would depart. e Persia Recognizes Panama. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Per- sian Government has recognized ‘ the independehce of the republic of Pan- ama. —_———— PREFERRED STOCUK AT IDW RATE - ’10 mrsa United States R(H m Re- duces Rates From $82 50 to $55 a Share. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The Unil States Steel Corporation has ‘éxten: its ‘profit-sharing plan and invites sub- scriptions to the preferred stock from employes at $55 per share, w of the eriginal price of 52 50. The following statement was to-day by Treasurer mmm 17.. clothes and one ble: - Mmrmm » except that the ‘matter of to .—General - Ra- 18 | 18 } \ - oo [ | | Suspect Is an Ex-Convict. Has Clothes Cleaned Day After Joseph Blaise Meets His End. e { | | ARNED ‘Robbers Cornered on [Sland in the - Columbia. Special Dispateh to The Call. IRRIGON, Or., Jan. 12.—Surround- g | ©1 on an island by a posse of twenty |armed men, three Italians, dared to rob in open daylight and then | who had return to town for dinner, were cap- tured to-day. On their persons were evidences of many robberies. Italian wore five separate suits of amounting in all to $550. Ten watches, ahn adopted - Dlmbor 31, ;& quantity of jewelry and a number of 1902, h.ufll in M‘M ‘employes are | weapons were found upon them. ‘This merning five men, including the three Italians, were sidetracked here ltml year is | while beating their way over the rail- road. Soon after Reginald Horbern of .mfin '-pl;ut ‘official of - the | Boise, Idaho, was met by the Italians \pany m ?w that it | and coolly robbed of 325 and a gold ‘watch. Horbern returned to town and told m market | his story. While the ppsse was form- ing the Italians appeared to get din- ner. Hearing that they were being .owhl. they made for the outskirts. ‘The posse followed them at some lit- Fleeing before the posse the Italians waded into.an arm of the Columbia n,—q.‘ River to a small island. Here, when they saw that they were surrounded by overwhelming numbers. with no mce of escape, they attempted bat- were soon made prisoners. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 12.—Former Governor Bushnell's condition continues extremely critical. - Each | had five drafts, | i - doe o 1 LEON S. SOEDER, SUSPECTED MURDERER OF - JOSEPH BLAISE. [ FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST FOR BURGLARY IN 1804, AND SCENE IN CHIEF'S OFFICE. - - | Evidence of a most damaging nature was secured yesterday by Chief of Po- lice Wittman and Detective Tom Gib- son against Leon S. Soeder, the cook that is suspected of having lured his brother-in-law, Joseph® Blaise. from his home in Germany agd murdering him in“a mést cold-blocded manner last Sunday night at the foot of Russian Hill The most important,facts brought to light yésterday against Soeder R ord as an ex-convict | th an attempt tc terfeit geld coins; cleaning of the | of clothes he wore last Sunday; pawn- ing of a revelver which he denied own- ing, and a final admission that he had | been married twice and that his first wife had disappeared. Chief 6f Police Wittman feels cer- tain that Soeder is gulity of murder- ing Blaise for the purpose of securing the insurance carried on the life of | the murdered man, and the facts brought to light yesterday are looked upon as most important links in the chain of evidence that the police de- partment is now weaving around the man under arrest. Soeder admits that he went to Eu- rope and induced his brother-in-law to me to this country and try his for- tune; he also admits that he insured Blaise's life in his own favor, but his | admissions end there. GIVEN “SWEATING” PROCESS. Soeder denies that he killed Blaise, and whatever damaging evidence the police have so far secured against the suspect bas been wrung from him by the most searching examination. Soeder was taken before Chief of Police Wittman twice yesterday and given a severe questioning. -In police pariance, the “sweating process” was | productive of good results. After the first examination of Seeder by Wittman and Detective Gibson, the suspected man fairly collapsed. He was seized with a spell of vomiting and when taken back to his cell in the City Prison he was trembling in a The afternocn “sweating had a similar resuit, and a mnfi-«m from Sceder that he is guilty of mur- dering Blaise is looked for soon by the police. Soeder says that he is 37 years old and that he came to the United States in the early eighties. On certain points his memory is clear. but on others he shows a deep cunning and will not re- member dates. He savs that he has worked as a Continued on Page 2, Column 3.