The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1904, Page 21

IR, micrnight, June 5: Forecast made at cisco for thirty hours ending San Prancisco and vicinity— Fair Sunday; cooler at night; s THE WEATKER. San Fran- CALL — THE THEEATERS. Central—“A Alcazar—*“Toll Gate Inn.” California—'The Cavalier.” “u. l." Celebrated Case.” Matinee To- m; :"m:'hu;ndl. changing to "3.5.;:3.‘ m of Navarre.” A. G. McADIE, Orvheum—Vaudeville. Matinee ) District Forecaster. | ‘H::I‘l-';“"'rlo Toy Maker.” 5 FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1904—PAGES 21 TO 34. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FILES SUIT 0 RECOTER | PUKER LOSS Woman Causes @, Stir Among Poli- | ficians. . it e Alleges That Her Son Was “Trimmed” by Nebraska Democrats. T | Officers and Members of the Original | Bryan Club in Omaha Are Defendants, —_—— tch to The Call | 4—Mrs. Eliza Ross | a suit in the Fed- Jacksonian Club, Club and the lead- | f De g mocrats in Ne- | L recovery of $2000 al- leg ree lost by her son, Robert poker games at the « d 1903 1 at the club t, | Ed- | Harry | John | urphy and club althou, also are | Smith, John O'Con- | Josgrove, John Cook and ges in her petition that | e de- for safe depositing the lost it in play- the Jack- the full of the ciub purchased ss a ticket to San Fran- ut of the way. Rela- rduced him to return ¥ of the money. n progressing for a settlement out s king to e STILL RISING IN SOUTHERN RIVERS KANSAS Many Washouts on the Railroads Are | Reported and Crops Have Suf- fered G t Damage. ., June 4.—No far- in Kansas dur- | 1 hours. A rapid situation is mougt of | Crops’ have | jured, thousands of k drowned and build- | Three lives were lost, be ascertained. Kansas is bearing the e flood to-night. The Neo- Arknasas rivers are The Kaw is al- ood enormous b »een done. The Arkansd' and Wailnut rivers ere rapidly rising at Winfield and Arkansas City. The Kaw and Blue rivers are rising at Manhattan. Many washouts on railroads are reported. —_———— MEXICAN SOLDIERS DEFEAT THE YAQUIS Persons Held by the Indians in So- nora for Ransom Are Relecased. GUAYMAS, Mexico, May 4.—Army officials here have been advised that three companies of Federal soldiers, which went out in pursuit of the band of Yaquis which has been raiding ranches, defeated the Indians near San | Jose dz Guaymas, taking many prison- ers and recovering the hostages taken by the Yaquis where the ranches were pillaged and burned. —_—— DUTCH TROOPS CAPTURE FORTRESS AT TAMPERING One Hundred and Seventy-Six Chinese Are Killed Before the Strong- hoid Is Taken. i BATAVIA, Java, June 4.—The Netherlands troops have captured a native fortress at Tampering, in the Gajoe country, island of Sumatra. The Dutch losses were thirty-three killed or wounded. One hundred and seventy-six Chinese were killed. ————————————— Prominent Turfman Arrested. CHICAGO, June 4.—James Gaylen Brown, a prominent turfman, was ar- rested to-day at Harlem race track, charged with embezzling $25,000 from his father’s estate. | which | mi | working at the warehouse, | building, but it is reported all of them | of the American ships there has had “CAESAR” YOUNG, THE CALIFORNIA TURFMAN, JLflIN LWHILE RIDING IN CAB WITH ACTRESS “Nan’’ Patterson, Wrecker of the Book- maker’'s Home, Will Be Charged UJith His Murder. TEN LIVES LOST IN AN EXPLOSION Warehouse of a Dis- tilling Company Destroyed. Fire Breaks Out in Ruins and Workmen Are Burned to Death. ‘ Flames Spread to an Adjoining Stock- yard and More Than Three Thoa- | cand Head of Cattle Perish. | { June 4.—An explosion | in the eleven-story | Corning " Distilling | this afternoon completely wrecked the building. The ruins took | fire and communicated to three adjoin- | ing buildings and they were burned to | the ground. Ten men were buried be- | neath the ruins and burned to death. | Six others were injured. The loss on the buildings and whis and spirits | stored will approximate $1,000,000. The | sing | FREDERICK KNOLL. | LOUIS BEHREND. | JOE ZIMMERMAN. | JOHN HOBECKER. LOUIS SAX. WILLIAM FINLEY JR. E. BROWN. M. CROWL. | JOHN LEPPIN. | WILLIAM FIELD. | The injured: Adam Werner, Edward | Werner, Elmer Hogan, J. B. Marshall, | James M. Miller and Allie Feinberg. The warehouse, containing in the neighborhood of 30,000 barrels of whis- | ky, was instantly a seething caldron, PEORIA, T, occurred warehouse of the Company |and it was known that no one inside | the big structure could live a moment.. | The whisky from the bursting barrels | flooded everything in that section, and | in & short time there was a foot of | whisky in the street. It was burning | furiously, and the cries of 3200 stoors‘ chained fast in the stockyards were | pitiable to hear. Their distress lasted | but a few moments, however, for they | were soon dead, either roasted. or suf- focated by the fumes Frederick Knoll and William Finfey, | who had charge of the men employed | in this department, had just left the| building when the éxplosion and col- | lapse came. Knoll was erushed to the earth, and almost instantly -the place | re he had gone down was enveloped | es. > gaugers, fifteen of whom “erer had com- | pleted their work and gone away. | There were three storekeepers in the | got out safely. OUR WARSHIPS DISTUR FRANCE Government Said to Favor Withdrawal of Some of Our Vessels Now at Tangier — PARIS, June 4—Although no official intimation on the subject "has been given, it is understood that France adopted a view favoring the with- drawal of some of -the American wzr- ships now at Tangiers. The presence the effect of attracting ships of other nationalities, inciuding Italian and British, 3 & According to the French view, if a local agitation occurred American, Italian and British ships might land forces to preserve order, and it is pointed out that this would involve se- rious responsibilities upon the United States and would also have the effect of discrediting France's paramount in- fluence in Moroeco. - The Amierican of- ficials say that the Upited States war- ships will be promptly withdrawn if France undertakes the entire burden of securing the release of Perdicaris. Thus far, however, France, while offering to do everything possible, has ho desire to assume the burden of settling the inci- dent. The Freanch officials say they gladly would relieve the United States Government of the embarrassment of the Moroccan affair, but they did not wish to do so by placing themselves in a similar embarrassment. —_——— Princess Mary of Ba-ien Passes Away. GMUNDEN, Austria, June 4.—Prin- cess Mary of Baden. eldest daughter B NEW YORK, June 4¢—While his wfle waited for him on the American line pler to-day with tickets ready for their voyage on the Germanic to Europe, Frank T. Young, known as “Caesar” Young, the well-known turfman, for- shot and killed in a cab. He died with- out having spoken a word that would clear the mystery surrounding the trag- edy. merly a resident of San Francisco, wul - | | /;T/-‘ \ | % | Femm Trorzns N | (Camza=) Youve: 5 d “Nan” Patterson, an actress with whom Young was infatuated, but to es- cape whose society it is alleged he was | about to go abroad, was in the cab with him When he was shot. She says the wound which caused Young's death was inflicted by himself, but the police and the District Attorney are not con- vinced that she has told the truth. She is now in the Tombs, Coroner Brown having held her without bail pending an examination, which will begin at noon on Monday. In all probability she will be charged with the murder of Young. Mrs. Young, who is a beautiful and talented woman and who has been| credited by her husband with having lifted him from a position of poverty to one of affluence, is at the home of one of her sisters in Harlem, heart- broken and in a state of complete phy- | sical collapse. Physicians say her rea- son is in no danger of being shattered, but that there is extreme danger of her | death from nervous and physical ex- | | haustion. She knew of her husband’s | infatuation for the woman who was| with him when he was shot, and it was | to destroy tihs infatuation that she had | persuaded him to go with her to Eu- | rope. She refuses to believe that Young | committed suicide and continues to call | for justice upon his slayer, THEORIES ARE CONFLICTING. Those who have known “Caesar” Young in the East are inclined to be- lleve that he shot himself when suf- fering from a fit of temporary insan- ity. But his relatives and his most intimate friends scout the suilcide theory and insist that the Patterson woman be charged with his murder. John D. Miilin, the life long friend and business partner of Young, met “Nan” Patterson at the office of Coroner Brown, this afternoon and denounced her as a murderess. Miilin could not restrain his anger, remembering the at- tempts he had made to keep Young from the woman, and had he not been restrained he would have struck her down where she stood quailing under the bitterness of his words. She cried for protection and later, when sent to the Tombs, though she shuddered, she appeared to be relleved at being cer- tain of at least temporary escape from Millin's fury. Everything was in readiness to-day for the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Young for Europe. The tickets had been purchased and most of their bag- gage was already aboard the Ger- manic. © Young spoke to his friends about the trip, saying he expected to enjoy himself and adding that ‘he would be glad to get away from the Patterson woman. Young left home early this morning, telling his wife he wished to buy a hat and settle a few small bills and prom- ising to meet her on the pter. Of his | later . movements nothing save that told by “Nan” Patterson. She has been stopping with ner sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mor- gan Smith, at the St. Paul Hotel. Her sister early this morning told her that Young had telephoned to her to meet him on the Fifty-ninth street platform of the Sixth avenue elevated. She dressed herself hurriedly and met Young. Together they went to Eighth | avenue and Fifty-ninth street and there took a cab. . of the Duke of :Cumberland’and wife of Prince Maximilian of Baden, died here to-day, aged 34 years. . c “NAN” PATTERSON'S STORY. Little is known of the movements of'| the pair after that, except the follow- | is known 'r -+ PRINCIPALS IN__NEW _ YOI TRAGEDY AND THE BEALTIF‘L‘ .WIFE OF THE VICTIM . z story told by “Nan” Patterson to ice Captain Sweeney: ‘Mr. Young and I have been friends for more than two years. I loved him in spite of the fact that he was mar- | ried. I believe he loved me more than any one else and we hoped that some time fate might be goad to us. I met him to-day upon response to a tele- phone message. He was in the best of health and spirits, though he com- plained bitterly because he had to go to Europe and leave me. He said he would be gone several months, but promised to be back before the end of E I I o | summer. “We walked through Fifty-ninth street, Mr. Young having asked me to rjde with him to the pier. Before we Teached the cab we passed a saloon and I waited outside while Mr. Young went in and got a drink. He said that he needed a ‘bracer.’ “During our ride down Fifth avenue we talked about the trip and his fu- ture plans. We stopped at Twenty- third street and Mr. Young purchased a new hat in-one of the stores in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Then we drove on and the only other stop that was made was when we were nearing the pler and Mr. Young decided to have another drink. I walted in the cab. Belng again seated in the cab, Mr. Young said: ‘We may never see each other again, I .started to remon- strate, when there was the report of a revolver, “I was terribly frightened. The re- port was muffled. I thought Mr. Young had shot himself or had attempted to shoot me, keeping the revolver in his pocket/ After the report he sank for- ward and his head droppéd ‘into my lap. 1 reached for the revolver and finally found it in his pocket—in his right-hand pocket, I believe. I took it out and thrust it back. into the pocket. If he did not shoot, as I thought, he must have put the re- volver back into lLis pocket after wounding himself. It seems ‘strange that he could do that, bui the entire thing is terribly strange and I.do not know what happened.” UNDER THE WOMAN'S sm.n. Other statements were made by Mrs. Patterson before the day was over, and though she added to what she told Captain Sweeney, going back over her life with Young, she never changed in any other particular the story shé told immediately after her arrest. District Attorney Jerome's office was communicated with by Captain Swee- ney and by Coroner Brown. Assistant District Attorney Cans was detailed on the case .nd hnmédlaufy an’investiga- tian was begun to determine whether “Caesar” Young was the victim of a murder. That Young was infatuated with “Nan” Patterson there can be no doubt. He seemed to be unable to withstand her blandishments. He was more than generous in his dealings with her. At times his infatuation became so intense that he was crazed. Twice he was taken care of by his friends until his wife could reach him. Mrs. Young seemed to have an influ- ence upon him when she was with him that was even greater than that ex- erted by “Nan” Patterson. So it may | be that he shot himself while tempo- ‘rarily insane, as a few of his friends believe. All who have been on terms of inti- macy with “Caesar” Young assert he was never known to carry a revolver and they ask why he'should have arm- ed himself when about to begin a for- eign trip. Mrs. Young said-she got ready her husband’'s clothing this morning and is certain he had no re- volyer. If he had intended to shoot himself, friends say, he would not have stopped to purchase a hat. When his { clothing was searched in the Hudson Street Hospital a roll of bills contain- ing $1820-was found. It is argued that had he been intent upon self destruc- tion he would have given the money to his wife or to Mrs. Patterson. COURSE OF THE BULLET. Entering his left breast the bullet which / killed him passed between the first and second ribs, ranged back- ward and slightly downward, cut through his left lung and finally lodged in his back, after severing the fourth spinal vertebrae. His friends, the police and Assistant District Attor- ney Gans, say it would have been dif- ficult, though not impossible, for a wound such as this to have been in- flicted upon himself by Mr. Young. They also point to the fact that Mrs. Patterson says the revolver was fired from Young's pocket. That was not done. Powder marks on the coat show where-the bullet cut through the gar- ment, but there are no powder marks on the coat pocket. It would seem to have been impossible for Young to place the revolver where Mrs. Patter- son says she found it. The shock of the wound was paralyzing. Had he held the revolver when it was fired it must have dropped from his hand. At least that is the. supposition of Cap- tain Sweeney. Captain Langham of the Detective Bureau, who has taken charge of the investigation, has been told of a num- ber of threatening letters received by ‘Young and believed to have been sent by a woman. In those letters Young ‘was told- that if he attempted to leave New York he would be shot. Upon examination at police head- quarters no stains or der marks were found on “NnM Patterson’s hands. Stains were foufid on Young's hands, believed to have been made by powder. A microscopic test will be made. At the police station Mrs. Patterson wept hysterically and kissed a postai card she said Young had given her in the cab, telling where to address let- ters to him in Europe. On the reverse side was her sister's New York address. After Mrs. Patterson had been com- mitted to the Tombs without bail her attorney told a different story. He said the card was written by Young before Continued on Page 23, Column 3. | of farms. GALE RAZES TWO TOWNS ON PRAIRIE Indian Territory IS Swept by 2 Tornado. e Chattanooga and Faxons Reported to Have Been En- tirely Destroyed. Oklahoma Cities Suffer Heavy Damage and Large Areas of Growing Grain Are Destroyed LAWTON, O. T., June 4—A tornado in the Kiowa and Comanche nations has demolished a great number of resi- | dences and business houses at numer- ous small towns and laid waste dozens One person is known to have been killed and about a dozen are be- lieved to have been injured, one fatally. It is reported that the towns of Chat- tanooga and Faxons, small places, have been entirely destroyed. They are known to have been in the track of the storm. Wires are down and details are lacking. Thg town of Hulen also is re- ported to have been completely de- stroyed. An area several miles wide and ex- tending from Frederick, in the south- western pnart of Comanch. County, to the Indian Territory line, was devas- tated. In ‘this beit it is estimated that fully 200 houses were Wrecked and the crops almost totally ruined. A terrific rainstorm prevailed first, five inches of water falling, washing out crops and ruining many farms. This was followed by an unusually heavy hailstorm, hail stones as big as a man’s hand beating down everything green and breaking thousands of win- dow panes. The tornado appeared to jump from place to place, leaving intervening spots untouched. It was especially se- around Waller. Mrs. Thomas house was struck and demol- Mrs. J. W. vere Payne’'s ished and she was killed. Gill was injured internally in the wrecking of her home. S. G. Brown's house was also demolished and all six members of the family injured more or less seriously. In and around Waller fully twenty houses were demolished or badly dam- aged. Ten miles southwest of Lawton fifteen houses were wrecked and sev- era¥ farms, with their complete crops of cotton and corn and with all the farm property, were wiped out. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T, June 4— Reports coming in from over Oklahoma and Indian Territory indicate that a great amount of damage has resulted from wind, hail and rain storms during the past two days. In Comanche Coun- ty a severe wind caused much loss. At ‘Walter Mfs. Thomas Payne was killed and a number of others injured. The property loss in the town and county will reach $150,000. Other inland towns are reported to have suffered heavily, and hundreds of acres of growing crops were destroyed. The wires are down in Southwestern Oklahoma and no trains are running. Railroad schedules have been aban- doned. No trains arrived here over the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Okla- homa and Southwestern or the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas to-day. The Rock Island is suffering from washouts and the Santa Fe is running late and only as far north as Wichita. Flood conditions exist over both Ter- ritories and much bottom land is in- undated. The North Canadian at this point’left its banks to-day, and a fur- ther rise is reported from up-river points. —————— BRITISH EXPEDITION CAPTURES TWO GUNS Tibetans Refuse to Forward Letter Announcing Latest Date on Which Negotiations Can Be Made. SIMLA, British India, June 4.—The British expedition into Tibet has cap- tured two 4-pounders from the enemy and a Lassa general is reported to have been killed. The Tibetans have refused to for- ward to Dassa the letter from Colonel Younghusband, the political agent with the expedition, fixing the latest date on which the British are pre- pared to meet and negotiate with the Amban and Tibetan delegates at Gyangtse before advancing on Lassa. —_———————— AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION KILLS HIMSELF NEW YORK, June 4.—George Richmond, engineer, author and translatoy of technical books of inter- national reputation, was found dead in his private office in this city to-day, aged 45 years. He had committed suicide. & I MALN SLAV ARMY FAST ADVANCING Vanguard Enters the Liaotung Penin- sula. B Kuropatkin’s Forces Hurry- ing to Attack Besiegers of Port Arthur. Russ'an Raiders Capture Japanese Near Gensan and Destroy Korean Villaga, | Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York | Herald Publishing Company. PARIS, June 5.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Matin says he learns from a trustworthy source that the advance guard of 14,000 men under General Stakelberg, sent by General Kuropatkin to the relief of Port Arthur, | has already reached the entrance to the | Liaotung Peninsula, and that the bulk | of the army is following. The correspondent of the Matin at | Newchwang confirms this, stating that important movements of Russian troops are proceeding to the southward of Tachichae, toward Kaiping. The leading military authorities here expect the early fall of Port Arthur, and view this as a most serious if not an irreparable blow to Russia, the con- dition of Port Arthur being compared with that of Metz and Sedan during the Franco-Prussian war. It is pointed out that General Kuropatkin is making the same fatal mistake in regard to Port Arthur's ability to resist that the French made in connection with Meta. The military critics without exception disapprove of Kuropatkin's policy of non-resistance. This is a notable change in French sentiment since the war began. The official view for the first time is strong- ly pessimistic concerning Russia’s ability to retrieve the series of reverses culminating with the expected fall of Port Arthur. SLAV OPERATIONS IN KOREA. GENSAN, Korea, via Seoul, June 4.— A small party of Japanese has been captured by Russians eight miles north of Gensan. It had been previously sup- pesed there were no Japanese in this district and the captured party pos- sibly consisted of civilians—possibly scouts landed in North Korea for ser- vice In the intelligence department. Two hundred and fifty Russians quartered at Hamheung are fortifying the hill immediately south of the town. The native Governor and his staff, who left Hamheung on the approach of the Russians, arrived here yesterday. The village of Mancure, ten miles ncrth of Gensan, is now burning, the, Russians having fired it during the night. The flames can be seen from here. Junks arriving here report that Cos- sack scouts have appeared in many villages north and east. Their object is not apparent. The natives are the only sufferers and a large Japanese force, if landed farther up the coast. could easily cut off and annihilate the raiders, whose small numbers would preclude the possibility of their pre- venting the Japanese army landing. TWO BANDITS EXECUTED. LIAOYANG, June 4.— Merchants from the south complain that the Jap- anese are not pay:ng for the supplies taken by them as they did in the ear- lier stages of the war, and assert that they are even ill treated and insulted when they ask for meney. Two Chinese bandits were executed hera yesterday. Arother trainload of wounded Rus- slans has arrived here and has been visited by General Kuropatkin, wh> talked to the men and was assured that they were doing well CHEFU, June 5, 11 a. m.—The Rus- sian Consul here is receiving messages from Port Arthur by means of carrier pigeons. The messages are being for- warded to St. Petersburg. i et GENSAN LXPECTS ATTACK. ‘Women and Children Will Seek Safety in Mountain Menastery. SEOUL, Korea,. June 4—The Com- missioner of Customs of Gensan, Korea, wires that a Russian attack on that place is deemed imminent. He is mak- ing preparations to send the women and children to a mountain monastery, twenty miles distant. A junk has reported that the Rus- sians have landed field pieces at Sha River, near Hamheung. north of Gen- san, at which place Cossack reinforce- ments are expected. —_— Paris Hears Wild Rumor. PARIS, June 4—A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Havas Agency says an unconfirmed rumor is circu- lating there that General Kuroki has been captured by the Russians. g ‘War News Continued on Page 38