The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1904, Page 1

TEE WEATHEER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty midnight, Seriember 30: San Francisco and vicinity— Fair; continned warm Friday; light northwest wind. = G. E. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. bours ending Grand—“York Majestic—"Captain Barrington.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—"The Serenade.” State Folks.” s 0. 122 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMRER 30, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LETTERS TELL OF LOVE 4ND PLANS TO DEFRAUD H. L. AND WHO RECEIVED LETTERS, FROM. HIM. g OGRAPHER OF CHINESE BUREAU, A DA SILVA DID NOT LAVISH ALL ITENAN ~ ) AGA AT LARGE Noted Forger Makes| Fscape From a Detective, on a charge of brought to this apéd from the e east of here is rumored, re: until it reached a y. The detective who n charge went back to r the escaped prisoner. THIEF ADMITS MANT CRIVES Burglar in Custody at San! Mateo Makes a Confession That Is Startling if True Specia The Cali, SAN MATE —James Hall, alias Charles Hollox alias Charley Meyer ar ed here last week w a meat market, has onfessed to series of burglaries. ng the past four months Hall says robbed the Southern Pacific oad siations at Haywards, San South San - Francisco and he Suisun Implement uisun and a jewelry store y he told where the booty irgm the Menlo Park robbery was hid- den and to lett and Under Sheriff*Butts proceeded to the place and found a lot of clothing besides a miscellaneous assortment of other artic! den away among the bushes in a creek bed. The owners of sogze of the prop- erty were found and the goods restored to them. 1 ay Deputy Sheriff Bart- | { | | BOY THIEF IS LEADER OF A GANG Youth Confesses Band “Rolled Drunks” for Living, HEARR AL Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Sept. 29.—Eddie Turner, a 14-year-old boy, now in the County Jail, confessed -to-day~to “being the leader of a gang of boys who have been “rolling drunks.” Since February 1 last they have robbed fourteen men. “Turner was arrésted a few days ago at Morgan Hill for stealing a wheel from J. W. Liebert. He declares that 2 regular boys' club exists, of which he is the head. The. “club” has its hcadquarters in a cave on'the bank of Coyote Creek. Turner implicated Willie Donovan and Emil Liebenthal. Donovan dented the accusation, but the Liebenthal boy dcmitted that he had taken part in three “rollings.” ——————— ANOTHER RELIEF EXPEDITION TO BE SENT TO THE ARCTIC | W. S. Champ Announces Vessel Will Be Sent for Steamer America Next June. LONDON, Sept. 29.—W. §. Champ, secretary to William Zeigler of New York, and who was_in charge of the expedition sent to search for the Arctic exploration steamer America, will sail for New York to-morrow on board the White Star liner Cedric. On his arrival in the United States he will report to Zeigler the details of the two attempts of the Frithjof to reach Franzjoséfland for the relief of the America. Champ stated to the press that the next relief expedition will leave on June 1,.1905. —_————— ARRANGEMENTS FOR MAIL SERVICE TO MANCHURIA WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.—General Superintendent Janes E. White of the Postoflice Department, has issued the following order: Hereafter and until *s. They were carefully hid-| further orders, mails addressed for de- livery at Newchwang, Manchuria. will be forwarded to San Francisco, Seat- tle or Tacoma, Washington, to be in- cluded in mails made up at either of \ Men Get the OINCIDENT with the arrest of H. L. Eca da | | Silva and Lee Toy, charged || with importing women into { | this country for immoral purposes, comes the revela- | | tion that Da Silva was en- gaged to be married to two young women. To one of these, Miss Agnita Burbank, a stenographer empioyed in the Chinese Bureau, he con- fded some of his plans. In | | turn Miss Burbank kept him \ | posted regarding develop- sitents on this end. The cor- respondence is in the hands of the Federal officials. Da Stlva was released yesterday afternoon on $5000 bonds, furnished by a surety com- pany. Da Silva Win Two Gurls H learts. X S Secret Service H. L. Eca @a Silva, formerly an in- | terpreter in the Chinese bureau, who, | after losing his position there, was in- | dicted by the Federal Grand Jury on | a charge of importing Chinese Women | into this country for immoral purposes, Iwas released yesterday afternoon on a bond of $§5000 furnished by a surety company. 1 . | Papers. In her father’s house on Broadway pretty 17-year-old Carmen Averreto, one of his lady loves, rails at the | man whose affection she tolerated two | years ago. In the apartments occupied | by herself and parents at 531 Turk | street Miss Agnita Burbauk, another |of Da Silva’s fiancees, refuses to discuss the matter at all. Inciden- tally there is an interlocutory decree of | divorce for Da Silva from his Mongo- | lian wife, and to add further to the entanglement of hearts is the mysteri- | ous photograph of a beautiful, dark- — | eyed Spanish girl, whose identity is as | vet unknown. He has his local sweet- hearts guessing how many young women have fallen victim to his blan- | dishments. | _ The letters written by Da Silva to Miss Burbank while in China and in | St. Louis are of an incriminating na- ture, showing that he was not merely acting as an interpreter for a Chinese company, but was actively engaged in securing women for the World's Fair. | The letters tend to show that it was his ultimate intentiown, at the close ‘of the | fair, to “marry” these women to other | Chinese, thus saving them from depor- tation without forfeiting the bond. | OFFICIALS ACTIVE, The activity of the Federal officials, according to one of his letters to Miss Burbank, whom he addresses as ‘“My Onliest Pretzel,” annoyed him very much. In one of his epistles he says: “Dunne guards these Chinese too closely, but when my plans mature I will beat Dunne out before the close of the ex- position.” In another letter he admits that he intended to get these women, who were brought here in bond, mar- ried, so they could not be deported. he letters found in Da Silva's pos- session, when he was arrested at St. Louis, were addressed to “My Dearest Ami” by Miss Burbank, who is em- ployed as a stenographer in the Chi- nese bureau in this city. Miss Bur- bank took great care to keep Da Silva posted regarding affairs in Federal cir- cles. Such information regarding the proceedings of the Federal Grand Jury as leaked out, and newspaper clippings regarding the doings of what was des- ignated as the Chinese ring, were punc- tiliously forwarded to St. Louis. In one of these she writes: ‘“‘Another big roast in the newspapers to-day. I am awfully afraid there will ba trouble. The case will come up before the Fed- eral Grand Jury next week.” Other letters show that Miss Burbank was | well aware of the movements of Da Silva, whom she expected to marry as soon as he procured his decree of di- vorce. WANTS HIM NO MORE. The little Spanish girl on Broadway seems willing to give up the fickle lover. “Now that he has another girl,” she said, “I want him no more. We | have been engaged two years, but I | wes only fifteen—not old enough to have any-sense then. He was nice to me and gave me this piano and this ring. It was pretty. It had five stones, | but they have all fallen out but one, just as his love for me has fallen away. 1 will care for him no longer. But I thought 1 loved—he played music, he sang and he talked, oh, so fine,” and | the dark eyes of the girl‘Sparkled with the remembrance of happy days gone by. In Da Silva’s possession, when ar- rested, were three badges, one of which was his official one, Which he should have turned in when he severed his connection with the Chinese bureau. The other two purport to have been is- | sued by the Treasury and Customs de- partments. One is known to be bogus and the other is believed to be. — Still Fighting for Life. WALMER CASTLE, Kent, Sept. 29, A bulletin issued at Walmer Castle this evening announced that Lady Cur- It is expected that other lmporuntlthooe points, for the United States pos- | zon’s strength had been well main- disclosures will be made by Hall soon. tal agency at Shanghai. China. tained. LD RISH OF WATE N NEXICH Town of Camargo I3, . Swept Away by | | Flaod. San Juan River Breaks Its Bounds and Causes Im- mense Damage. Five Thousand Homeless People Are; Camped on Hill Anxiously Wait- ing for Assistance. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 29.-—All of the town of Camargo, Mexico, which had a population of about 5000 people, has been washed away by a flood in the San Juan River. This information was brought here to-day by F. F. Seabury of Rio Grande City, Tex., Democratic candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Texas Legisla- ture. Camargo is situated about six miles from Rio Grande @City. So far as known no lives were lost. The home- less people are camped on the hills near the destroyed town. An appeal for assistance for them has been made to thé Mexican authori- ties. There were a number of mer- cantile establishments carrying large stocks of goods at Camargo and these were swep Sept. 29.—Heavy twenty-four hours have caused serious damage to rail- roads in Western Texas, New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Several wash- outs are reported on the Santa Fe in New Mexico, the most serious at Engle and at Las Cruces. The special of the delegates to the International Courva's of hers is water-bound near Las Cruces, . . # The Sierra Madre road in Mexico is washed out in several places and thg bridge at Kilometer is weakening an is expected to go during the night. More than an inch of rain fell here, a great rarity for this time of the year. The Rio Grande is on a big rise. All trains will be delayed from twenty to thirty hours. NAKED TOUTHS HIDE 1N BISH Shiver for a Night and a Day While Companion Rides a Long Distance for Clothes g Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.—Naked as they were on the day of their birth and with only the shade of a few bushes to protect them from the desert sun by day and with only a covering of sand by night, Gordon Parker and Harley Redman, whosg homes are in Colton, passed a day and a night near the banks‘of the Colorado River above Yuma Tuesday. ‘With Ward Coe they were en route from Imperial to Arizona. On reaching | the river Parker and Redman stripped and tried to find a safe rord, Coe driv- ing their wagon and mule behind them through the water. Suddenly the wagon struck a bed of quicksand and Coe barely had time to cut the traces before the wagon with their entire out- fit disappearéd. The three reached shore safely, but the two naked boys had to wait until Coe drove the mules 45 miles and back before they could get any clothing. The trip consumed a day and a night. The boys returned to their homes to-day. —_—————— POSTMASTER GENERAL PAYNE IN A CRITICAL CONDITION Suffering From Heart Disease and His Friends Fear He Will Not Recover. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Post- master General Payne is critically ill of heart disease to-night in his apart- |ments in the -Arlington Hotel. He was resting comfortably at midnight, | but his friends fear his illness may be j fatal @n account of the great weak-' ness of his system. 1 President and Mrs. Roosevelt called | to-night to inquire after Payne’s con- | dition. It was not thought best torl them to see him and they left after being assured that for the time being he was resting easily. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was also a caller late to-night, but was not admitted to his room. Dr. G. Lloyd Magruder was with Payne at midnight, after having called twice during the day. The thought it best to send for the pa- tient’s relatives to-night. Dr. Magru- der said to-night: “Postmaster General Payne has not been feeling well for several days. Re- cently decided symptoms of heart trouble have developed. These were very serious during last night and early to-day. He is responding to the remedies employed and is resting more easily to-night.” 3 At 2 o'clock this (Friday) morning there had been no untowered develop- ments and it was expected that' the Postmaster General would spend a fairly comfortable night. - ; duration in the open air. Passes Away in Worcester. at His Home IR GEORE F AR -+ | L WORCESTER, Mass.,, Sept. 30.— George Frisbie Hoar, senior United States Senator from -Massachusetts, ‘his home A this city af ¥ o 'k this morning. The end followed a period, of uncensciousness that had lasted since early Tuesday and came so_gently that only the attending phy- sicians were aware of the exact mo- ment of his ending. The attending physicians despaired of the Senator’s life six weeks ago, but such was the vitality exhibited by their distinguished patient that even they were surprised and the public was at times led to cher- ish faith in an ultimate recovery. On Sunday last, however, all hope was abgndoned after a last unsuccess- ful attempt to administer medicine and nourishment. Brief lucid intervals were followed by longer durations of unconsciousness until Tuesday morn- ing, when the veperable statesman sank into a state of coma from which all efforts to arouse him proved futile. During the last hours there was not a movement of the body and only a scarcely perceptible. pulse evidenced the final struggle. There were present at the bedside when death came the Senator’s son. Rockwood Hoar, his daughter. Mary Hoar, and Dr. W. R. Gilman. who for weeks has been in almost constant at- tendance upon the Senator. FIRE BELLS ARE TOLLED. Intelligence of Senator Hoar's death! was first corimunicated by telephone from the residence to the press by Dr. Gilman. Immediately after a prear- ranged signal was transmitted on the fire alarm system and the long-dreaded tidings were conveyed to the people of the city by the tolling of bells. Arrangements were made to notify the public in this manmner when the physicians attending him decided that the venerable legislator was on his deathbed. Senator Hoar had been in ill health since last .winter. and even when* at- tending the sessions of the Senate he was obliged to exercise extreme care lest his exertions should overcome him. At that time he was troubled’ with lum- bago, and the death of his wife proved such a blow to him that he never re- covered entirely from its effects. Toward the end of the last session of Congress Senator Hoar was frequently absent from the sessions of the Senate and remained at his hotel. He came to his home here soon after the ad- journment, apparently recovered from the lumbago. He was weak, however, and his physician here, Dr. Gilman, ad- vised him to refrain during the sum- mer from any mental or physical ex- ertion in the hope that he might re- gain his strength. He disregarded this injunction, however, on at least three occasions, his love for old associations and his friends overcoming considera- tions for himself. LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE. Late in May he attended the bi-cen- tennial celebration in the town of Sut- ton, Worcester County, and made a speech of more than half an hour’s He was es- pecially interested in this celebration, &s one feature of it was the dedica- tion of a memorial tablet to General R. P. Putnam on the site of Putnam’s birthplace. Senator Hoar made a his- torical address, eulogizing General Put- pam as one of the country’s greatest men. He spoke clearly and logically, but seemed feeble and after speaking a minute or two asked permission to cover his head, as a cool breeze was blowing in his face. He left the speak- ers’ stand as soon as his speech was finished and was driven directly to his home here. It was remarked at the time by those who heard him that it might be his last appearance in pub- C. HA few weeks later Senator Hoar spoke at a special session of court when eulogies were delivered on the | life of Colonel E. B. Stoddard, a life- long friend of the Senator, and he also made an informal address at the English High School on the occasion of the presentation to the city of some coples of Stuart’s portrait of Wash- T - o SENIOR SENATOR FROM MASSA- CHUSETTS, WHO DIED EARLY THIS MORNING. £ & l ington by the Daughters of the Revo- lution. This was the Senator’s last appearance in public. During the lat- ter part of July and up to August 17 he remained in his home and much of the time stayed in bed. He received visitors daily and dictated many let- ters to his secretary. REMARKABLE VITALITY. Previous to the 17th reports of his illness were treated lightly by his fam- ily and immediate friends. On one oc- casion, when a report was circulated that his condition was serious he dic- tated a semi-humorous account of his illness and requested that it be sent to the press. He attributed his illness to “Washington malaria” and to the attack of lumbago. He grew weaker, however, and on the morning of August 17 had a coughing spell, caused by the weak action of the heart. His condi- tion seriously alarmed his ‘physician and his family. On_September' 25 it was announced by his son that he was failing rapidly :and he lapsed at:times into uncon- sciousness. From that time until his death he was unable to take mourish- ment,” but his constitution enabled hi-. to resist death for such a length .. time that even his physician was sur- prised. S it Tl NOTED AS A LAWMAKER. Fully Half of His Life Spent in Legis- lative Halls. George Frisbie Hoar, ldte senior Senator from Massachusetts, was born August 29, 1826, at Concord, Mass. Of the seventy-eight years of his life the half was spent in the legislative halls of his own State and those of the national legislative bodies, and during all which service he was an active and forceful factor in making right and righting wrong as his lively conscience compelled and his intelli- gent mind discerned. He came of good old New England pre-revolutionary ancestors. in his autobiography, published not long since: *“My grandfather, two great-grandfathers and three of my | father’'s uncles were at Concord bridge in the Lincoln company, of which my grandfather, Samuel Hoar, whom I well remémber, was lieutenant, on the 19th of April, 1775. His earlier education was carefully attended to and when of proger age he entered Concord Academy and, fin- 1 ishing the course there, entered Har- | vard College, from which he was graduated in 1846. He then entered j the Dane Law School of the same in- stitution and, duly completing the course, was admitted to the bar. He settled at Worcester, Mass., for the practice of his profession and soon began to “take hold” in munici- pal affairs; was made City Solicitor, which office he held for a number of years, and later was president of the board of trustees of the city library, though then quite a young man. In 1851 he entered the legislative 1d, being elected to the lower house Legislature, and ‘in 1. e He said | STATESMAN DIES|INICTED RS Senator Hoar of Massachusetts FOR FRAUD AT POLLS 'Adolph Steffens s ~ Under Ban for “Stuffing.” !Grand Jury’s First Bill Against Associate of Charles Wyman. Is Fairfax H, Wheelan Testifies That He Witnessed Forgery on Roster and Casting of Ballot. By - e first blow The Grand Jury struck | yesterday at the frauds itted so boldly at the recent prin election. The various committees which have been at work the last week examining rosters reported that evidence of crime had been unearthed to an appalling ex- tent and the mood of the jurors was such that when a case was made out indictment was prompt. The bill will be returned this morn- ing, charging Adolph Steffens, also known as Otto Steffens, with voting the name of another elector in Pre- cinet 73 of the Thirty-ninth Assembly ‘District. The accusation- is based principally on the testimony of Fair- fax H. Wheelan, who testified before the Grand Jury yesterday that he wit- nessed the illegal voting by Steffens. Wheelan saw the accused forge the name of the citizen on the roster and also the procedure of casting the illegal vote. The witness noted the time to be 4:45 o’clock. The man whose name was voted was not near the polls that day and he will so testify. On the roster one of his initials is wrong and the number of his residence was also given erroneously. According to the testimony of Wheelan, Steffens tried to carry the name and residence in his mind, not.being as bold as others, who took the register with them to the roster. Steffens is an intimate friend of Charles Wyman, whose preliminary examination on a similar charge, pre- ferred by Wheelan in the Police Court, will be resumed this afternoon before Judge Cabaniss. Steffens has ac panied Public Works Commi Maestretti to court when the Wyman was being heard. He was for- merly employed in the Fire Depart- ment, but now has a position in the City Hall. His age is about 28 years. The indictment will be returned be- fore Judge Lawlor this morning at 9:30 o’clock. The Grand Jury also heard testi- mony of James W. Coffroth and the election officers as to the frauds in Precinct 103. The officers were C. W. Jamison, J. W. Roach, Mark Cohen, W. E. Gibbons, J. H. Sinclair and J. W. Smallwood. William F. Humphrey, who was a worker at the polls, was also called. No important ineriminat- ing evidence developed, no one being able to tell who was guilty of the illegal voting. Coffroth denied all knowledge of it. CANNOT CARRY ENOUGH FUEL Steep Grades of Sierras Too Much for Oil-Burning En- gines of Southern Pacifie —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Nev., Sept. 24.—The engine of the eastbound passenger train be- came stranded on the Sierra Nevada Mountains just west of the summit this merning and it was four hours before another engine arrived from Blue Can- yon and pulled it into Reno. The unusual delay was due to the fact that the engine, one of the new model oil burners recently placed on the road, ran out of fuel. The heavy grade and long train was the cause of this and the accident probably will result in the company making addi- tional arrangements for carrying a larger supply of oil. —_—————— ACCUSED NEGRO CAPTURED BY CAVALRY DETACHMENT il George Jones, Who Was Brought From Manila on Murder Charge, Retaken. ABILENE, Kan., Sept. 29.—George ‘W. Jomes, a negro soldier of the Ninth Cavalry, has been arrested north of town by a detachment of the Eleventh Cavalry of Fort Riley. He and a com- Panion are charged with the murder of a soldier in Manila. They were brought to San Francisco three weeks ago and escaped by overpowering their guards. Jones' confederate was cap- tured yesterday. He confessed to the crime and told the officers that Jones was in Abilene. Sergeant Major Kelley of the Ninth Cavalry was sent here last night to get his man. While waiting on the streets this morning, Kelley saw Jones and tried to take him. Jones ran and hid in a corn field north of town. Kelley knew he was armed and came to towm al 'telephoned to the fort. A detach- ment of cavalry was sent out and cap- tured the accused man after a fight, in ‘which the negro was severely wounded. He was taken to the fort this after- noon. N