The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1904, Page 1

1Yy I f7e "y THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Fran- Alcazar—“The Masqueraders.” California—‘“The Eternal City.” Central—“Quo Vadis.” Chutes—Vandeville. Columbia—“A Chinese Money- moon.” Fischer's—“The Beauty Shop.” Grand—“David Harum.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. To-Day. Tiveli—When Johunny Comes Marching Home.” Matinee o cisco for thirty hours ending HUE Y2 midnight, January 38: V/d\.,« \ San Francisco and vicinity— /'y ™/ | Pair Thursday with fog in the | ¥/ )\\ I morning; light east winds. ! / i A. G. McADIE, | S o District Porecaster. | VO XCV—NO. DYNAMITER JEMANDS HREATENING WRECKS, AND ARMED GUARDG ARE PLAGED ON TRAC SAN FRANCISCO 510,000 FROM SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMIPANY K AND TH CERN 10 GAIN PN N Kaiser Plans {o ive Aid fo Russia. Will Occupy Copen- hagen and Close “the Baltic. Hopes to Be Well Repaid for Shutting Out Brit- ish Ships. Y WAR better pr s to be dc under he foregoing agreement y of the sam the Kaiser to Copenhagen t von Bulow, the subsequent the Crown Prince to he fact that the Kaiser sdam especially to Denmark, with Cour ow again present. This, explain what diplomats P. we = so curious about RUSHING TROOPS TO EAST. 1 flicers, speaking last | evening hat 7000 men were being | r the eastern provinces | ong the Siberian line | g the utmost the ert says the weak- | is artillery, vy and not in- -firing guns. ner who was ap- vernment to take | that point to Port | that, in spite of | S on the freight,| * demurrage for cld.in port, all was en he came to ask | ent would pay ent of the vessel | e enemy, that MOVEM The Admi ments of - 5 E E ian ships in the | his business in the United States, BLACKMAILER, with the terror of dynamite as the force behind his threats, is trying to rob the Southern Pacific Company of $10,000, and fear of death to passengers and wreck of property .. on the road between Stockton and Los Angeles holds the corporation officials in nervous dread. Night and day Iynx-eyed Pinkertons, railroad detectives and county sheriffs and their deputies are keeping watch along the lonesome stretches of track where the dynamiter, through letters mailed at Fresno, says he will use the agent of destruction that is his ally unless he receives the money de- After the method used by Gravelle, the. notorious Montana wrecker, a red light is to flash in the night as the train bearing the treasure goes by and the bag of gold is to be flung out beside The wreck a few days ago at Volta is now supposed to have manded. that light. rious threatener. een caused by this myste- 5 $10,000 REWARD CANNOT-DISPLAY White Flags YN TO 20TH YOuU MUST SUG- GEST. GIVING N OICATOR SoME DTHER wiAY Detectives in Rags Mingle With “Hoboes.” CELET A Every possible precaution has been | taken by General ager Krutt- schnitt and Manager the co tt be 1e slightest pub! to th interfere v traffic between this Angeles. It on the part of the city only blac ut would s usly senger Los was overzealousness chief ¢ that caused the and its confirmation obtained from reliable sources, notwithstanding General Man- er Kruttschnitt’s refusal to enter into a discussion of the affair. Several days ago, when the officials of the company began to realize that life and property on their California re being jeopardized, they sud- ed in all the detectives along rious divisions and put them to work on thé case. Then Superintend- ent Burkhaltér hurried north from Fresno and had a conference with Gen- of the company, however story to leak out was readily ager Agler, and their decision was that the detective force should be increased. About that time Detective MacFar- lane, superintendent of the Western agencies of the Pinkertons, was re- ported to be or his way to this city on a tour of the coast offices, and he was promptly advised to come direct to San Francisco. MacFarlane is re- garded as one of the shrewdest men in and a representative of the Pinkertons, | with whom he has been employed for many years, he has gained consider- able experience with all classes of men suspected of being in plots to force the big railroad companies to give up gold under penalty of suffering great losses by the blowing up of their trains. MOBILIZES DETECTIVES. MacFarlane, it is said, selected a large number of the most courageous men from the different coast agencies of the Pinkertons and had them hur- ried down the coast to points where their services could be quickly utilized | in the event of a clew being obtained of the men wanted. A number were Continued on Page 3, Column 4, con;lnued on Page 2, Column 4. Manager Kruttschnitt and Man- | ,nvaz;v'awv)rf PROMINENT RAILROAD OFFICI AXED TO THWART DY A ARE THREATENS BE- TO LS WIOSE ENERGIES TER WHO ;Says Bag of Gold ; Where Red Light Shines. | A threat to wreck every train | running through the San Joaquin Valley unless $10,000 is paid by a | certain date has been made to the | cfficials of the Southern Pacific Railroad in three anonymous let- | | ters mailed in Fresno. Great ex- citement has been aroused in rail- | way circles, and the whole track of the Southern Pacific from San Francisco to Los Angeles is being closely guarded by agents of the | Southern Pacific and Pinkerton detectives. Thirteen detectives have been in Fresno for the last week,- and every mailbox there | has been guarded by them and | local officers in the hope of ap-| jprehcnding the letter writer, and | 2 number of suspicious characters in Fresno with unsavory records have been kept closely under sur- veillance. A | The wreck of the Owl train at Volta, seventy miles northwest of Fresno, on the night of January 13 roused the railway people to action. The first of the anony- - | | * n Must Be Throw mous letters was received several days before that date, and at first no attention was,paid to it, but the circumstances of the Owl wreck seemed to indicate that the writers of the letter had perhaps taken this means of -warning the rail- road that they meant business. The disaster at Volta was clearly the work of wreckers, who had dragged a telephone pole several hundred ‘yards and laid it across the track. The night was foggy and the pole was not seen, the en- gine crashing into it full force. The wreck was'the worst from the point of view of property lost that has ever befallen the Owl. VOLTA WRECK WARNING. It was only a few days :after the Volta wreck that a second communication was received from Fresno. It was addressed, like the first, to “The Manager- of the Southern Pacific Railroad,” with no other direction, and'was turned over to a. Fresno official of the road, who in turn forwarded it to Continued on Page 2, Column 1, [y R AND THAIN ROBS WIFE - AND MAKES I ESCRE George Keown Sud- | denly Drops Out Weds Young Lady for Her {| Money and After Getting It Absconds. Pomona Officers Learn That the Fugi- tive Swindled and Deserted An- other Woman in Kansas, — ! | | | Clash Among De-| tectives Gathered | at Fresno. —_— { A telegram received:late last night from Fresno stated that General Man- ager Burckhalter of the San Joaquin division had been telegraphed by Gen- cral Manager Kruttschnitt to take full | charge of the investigation at that end of the line. This order was the result of reports received here to the effect that the different bands of detectives, employed in the hunt for the men sup- posed to be at the bottom of the plot to blow up a Southern Pacific train, were clashing on the question of au- thority. The same dispatch stated that the rallroad officials there believe they have traced ‘the direction from which the | threatening letters addressed to the “‘general manager” of the Southern Pa- cific came and that they have been furnished other valuable evidence that would resuit in a number of arrests ‘were an attack made ' on a train dur- ing the next twenty-four hours. The ‘gathering of this evidence began immediately after the Volta derailment and hds been vigorously prosecuted ever since. It is said that several men posing as tramps, bu_'. who are sup- posed to be of a more daring criminal | nature, have been under surveillance for & number of days, and their actions | as reported by the men who are trail- | ing them thoroughly convince the de- tectives and .the railroad officials at Fresno that they were in various ways implicated in the Volta affair, and have | since been planning another attack on the Valley trains. | ‘The keenness of the sleuths now working quietly in and about Fresno | has been greatly stimulated by the re- | port emanating from the office of their agency that the Southern Pacific Com- pany is ready to pay a handsome re- ward for the apprehension of the men. The.appearance of numerous armed men on the road between Fresno and Stociton yesterday and points south of Fresno is said to have aroused much excitement among the people of that section, os A dispatch from Volta last evening stated that the railroad company has had photographers at work along the track taking _hotographs of the scene of the recent derailment with some unknown purpose in view. | attention of the scientific world will be-| Special Dispatch to The Call. POMONA, Keown, who Jan. —Georgs W, has been posing here as er of timber land in Brit- ome sixty miles east is wanted by the po- He i3 accused of big- amy in addition to deserting his bride after swinc t of $7000. Keown is a tall man. dark complex- | ioned, has black eyes and hair and about 45 years old. MAY CHANGE | NEGRO BABE Experiment Under- faken by Indiana Dot Special Dispatch to The Call. a wealthy ow ish Columbia | from Vancouv | lice in Pomona. s came to Pomona from Lincoln, Neb., last October. Keowa talked of the pros- pective sale of his timber lands $175,000, and had plans drawn for a mansion among the orange groves and roses of Pomona Valley. He leased the ground floor of the Ruth block here and fitted it up for a grocery. On De- cember 1 he started ostensibly for San Francisco to buy a stock for his new store. On December 8 he wrote from San Francisco that he had heard there had been a fire in his timber in British for SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 27.—Be- Columbia that he was going to cause of the experiment of Dr. J. W. | Vancouver to see about it. When Hill, one of the leading physicians and | Christmas came and nothing more was surgeons of Indiana, to prevent infants | heard his wife became born of negro parents from reverting | Alarm safety, and inquiry back to the old type of the negro race, | "t his affairs showed that he had sited the $7000 she gave him .08 Angeles bank that he had been with an unknown fixed upon South Bend during the next few months. All arrangements have | been completed for Dr. Hill's soluticn of the color scheme of the human race. An expectant mother has consented to zct as patient and will enter the hospital as soon as the rooms are fin- ished in the manner necessary fo= the scientific event. According to Dr. Hill, the negro's skin is more sensitive than that of any other human being and for that reason known that he more pigment is thrown out to protect | - Sonld Trkare A him under the climatic conditions in | g =% “ACINE AT th whica his forefathers were born, the | o6 SO%8 ‘0SS " intense heat of the troples making this [ o 1%° “AnNO" necessary. By preventing pigmenta- | (1° FOICS nave Aueertal tion, the doctor be a _hid of [ ™ i, v negro parents, which is generally born F“‘m’ L ‘““ whit., turning darker under the sun's = : rays, will become even whiter than the | SECUTing $4200 Caucesian race. This follows the idea OGN cation woman Santa Barbara and had posed as a widower who The woman, that she s. Keown as The local was in love had but $4000, as going to g r wedding sent to him were notified on Jar have since clews to the been .se- where- ps in Law- ed a M and t res, wed. 1900 rence, Stella of Br. Feson, a Norwegian scientist, | '05T2Phs sent from Wom pe | who found that by putting a chameleon | Tonce Were Tecognized as under violet light rays the pigmenta- tion, or throwing off of color, was nc: of such marked extent as under ordi- nary white rays. For this reason red | light ravs will be employed in making | the experiment, for the reason that they have a subduing effect and are not Mrs. Keown has been left pennile among strangers. When The Call re- porter called upon her at her home to- night she showed the effects of lor weeping and anguish, | “I was married simply for the s rays that irritate and prevent pigme-- | that I had,” sald she. “We tation. | Lincoln last May, and he made v —_——— |love to me from the first. We were married last June, and from that day until Keown left for San Francisco he schemed to get my every dollar. He had my full confidence and I believed ol . he was a rich man temporarily embar- TTne 2% Soxmaly Siidken rassed. That he is a bigamist seve REORS fhe Raut. | times over I have not.the least doubt.” NEW YORK. Jan. 27.—The baardl R of governors of the New York Stock | MURDERERS OF MR Exchange to-night decided, upon the | YOUNGBLOOD MUST DIE recommendation of the stocklist com- mittee, to strike from the list of stocks dealt in upon the exchange the com- | mon and preferred stocks of tha| American Steel Foundries Company. | President Thomas declined to give any reasons for the action. Joseph E. Schwab, brother of| Charles M. Schwab, is president of the | mpany. Among the directors are S. R. Callaway, E. B. Thomas, Lewis N. Nixon, Max Pam, W. C. Brown and STEEL FOUNDRIES STOCK | BARRED ON' THE ExCHA)’GE‘ Company Headed by Brother of | Peters and Anderson, Who Killed ‘Woman They Robbed, Are Sen- tenced to Death. DENVER, Jan. harles O. Peters and 'Newton Anderson were to-night found guilty of murder in the first de- gree by a jury which fixed their pun- ishment at hanging. The crime for which they are convicted is the killing |of Mrs. “Amanda Youngbiood while Charles M. Schwab. The company | they: with a "f‘mmmn‘;\. :‘r»v_l Arnold, has outstanding $1 0,006 par of | Were attempting to ro the little gro- % % 5 | cery store of Thomas Youngblood, the ;:::en;nn stock and $15,500,000 of pre-;’ husband of their vietim. Armold, who | is alleged to have been the leader and the ome who planned the affair and | fired the fatal shot, is to be tried sepa- | rately. e REPUBLICS POSTPONE PANAMA RECOGNITION | ———e——n Ecuador’s Minister to Rio .hnltm{ Bodles Recovered at Vietor. Carries on a Pro-Colombia | VICTOR: Colo., Jan. 27.—The bodies Propaganda. | of the fourteen miners who fell with GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. 27.—A | the cage 1500 feet down the shaft of cablegram has been received from the | the Stratton Independence mine yes- Minister of Ecuador at Rio de Janeiro | terday have been recovered and are announcing that, owing to his diplo- | lying on two rows of benches in a car- matic influence, Brazil, Chile and Ar- | penter shop near the shafthouse. Only gentina have postponed their recog- | one of the victims, Edward Twiggs, aition of the republic of Panama, was recognizable.