The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1905. NEW FAMILY IF CILLINS N HIDING House Is Found and Police Are on Guard. Byingtcnmto Serve Grand Jury Subpena on Mrs. McCurdy. | { | { | Distriet Attorney Meets Much-Married | Husband &t Door, Who Refuses to Lt Him In Life Secame unbearable for Mrs. law of Attorney t her Mill Valley District Attorney terday after- her abode in George D residence in Collins. part of de- locating 118 Sac- he days the mother-in-law seclusion in Marin P r severs {the use of the Japanese LOAD SHIPS WITH WAR MUNITIONS Accidental Discovery Made | That Two Vessels in Port | | Are Taking on Shells for; Rapid-Fire Guns of Japsf RATTON SAYS HE CANNOT STOP THEM Captain and Crew of Heath- | dene Unnerved When They Learn Immocent Looking Packages Are Contraband Two vessels are being loaded at Long wharf, Oakland, with ghells &nd other munitions of war manufac- tured in Germany and designed for army and nevy. This discovery vesterday made the air hum about the Custom-house and caused several distinct thrills of more or less varied emotions in the British, Russian, German and Japan- ese consulates. While the British steamship Heath- dene, Captain W. J. Milburn, was tak- ing on cargo at Long Wharf on the Oakland side vesterday the careiess handling by a stevedore resulted in the breaking open of a case of shells for rapid-fire guns, which are sup- posed to be destined for the Japanese navy. There were 2500 of these cases to be taken aboard and the invoice bore the designation, “Manufactured of Metal” It also appeared that the came from Hamburg. w which had signed for the voyage was soon muttering, for the ~ prospect of sailing a contraband car- - go through seas bristling with Rus- v she turned to San s Wwas. not to their lking. 3 sco again in search of a refuge n of affairs became 80 se- rious that Captain Milburn stopped sooner were her plans being car- | the loading and came immediately to . - e on thay the Grand |San Francisco to consult with the of- 3 s and she ficials of the Occidental an - o hiding place Steamship Company, which - o tered the ship from her owners, J. T. : n & Sons of Newcastle-on-Tyne. e o Before leaving the vessel - or the crew was appo on and informed captain he seamen would refuse to do f a unless some new ar-| - rangements were made. To run the risk of capture and the re- sulting loss of all their personal ef- out any probability of extra | was more than they was communicated to Joseph S. Spear Jr. surveyor of cus- toms, who in turn mnotified Collector Investigation was at once wae learned that at the r the Heathdene, anoth- er vessel, the Volga, was being loaded with similar munitions of war for the use of the Japanese Government.e The Heathdene came to this port in ballast - from Honolulu. DYNAMITE SHELLS, SAYS SPEAR. | Burveyor Spear made the following official report to Collector Stratton: > ere are mow being se under trans- B tation entry No. 2569, per | York from Hamburg, for . ed E. M. E. H H., 2627 facture of metal.’ are no pa: e sample is un- losive dynamite teel piercing cap, - may be in some of the aforesaid cases on | presented, the shipment | pparatus, not terms as will exact character of | s A% - it is deemed that the ship- | Judge Law be in violation of Department of £ ar No. 30, Bureau | 1004, as to the ac- . tt bie nitions of what may be T b war. Res; SPEAR Jr., or of Customs. | s 2 One sample accompanying. TI - The “one sample accompanying” was en unloaded shell, brand new, of four - inches diameter and about nine inches g ly stated that |y, jength. It was covered with black new n would appear varnish and was encircled near the £ base with a bright copper ring of a half-inch in width. - The shells and other munitions were . manufactured, presumably, at the B stim Krupp Works in Germany, and were om Collins | gnipped from$Hamburg, thence to New r her pitiful | York and thence across the Continent = jurors and the tes- 1o San Francisto in bond for im- timor of the family | ;mediate exportation. v Attorney By After refreshing his memory on in- | '3 he can produce at | ternational law, the Collector an- | ho were present D. Collins married Char- He has been trying to er Connolly, the priest who and expects when the case is INMATE OF AGNEW IS DENIED HABEAS CORPUS Albert F. Clarke Declares That He Has Been Rallroaded Into an Insane Asylum. inmate of the ap- e Judge yesterday denied g &% a reason that made the proper show- le him to such a writ forth that he had never ced before any court in the i tes before having been ad- judged insane and committed and he eppealed to the United States court, believing he could receive there hearing which he had not had in the State courts. The handw ng, spelling, wording punctuation in the letter show Clarke to be & man of education, with nowledge of legal forms, and to be ely sane, so far as the subject natter of the letter is concerned. It believed that Judge de Haven de- nied the application because it ap- peared that Clarke had not applied to 2 State court for a writ and there been denied. e ————— Hyland to Fight Louis Long. The Miners’ Athletic Club of Grass ‘alley has matched Louis Long, who ocked out Jack Cordell at Marys- last month, and “Fighting” Dick Hyland. These lads are to meet in a twenty-round contest on the 27th inst. for & purse $750 and a side bet of $500, the wi emount. If You Are Goinx East. Passengers will be allowed stopover st Portland not to exceed ten days to -isit Lewis and Clark fon all ;i:kem regardiess of lmmdin‘?n-l! via Portlend and Nortigern Rail- ymy. For culars write to or see T. XK. Stateler, street, Sen i er taking the entire | nounced that although the cargo was contraband, he was powerless to stop its exportation. Belligerents, he ex- plained, had a right to buy, and neutral or friendly nations had a right to sell | munitions of war and other contra- | band. The fitting out of an expedition or the replenishing of a war vessel was | | prohibited, but the mere commercial handling of contraband of war could not be interfered with. Of course, Stratton added, the vessels and car- goes are liable to confiscation by either one of the belligerents. CAPTAIN IS WORRIED. The prospect of being captured and | perhaps executed by the Russians was very displeasing to tht captain of the Heathdene, and he begged Collector | Stratton yesterday to make some order that might afford him an excuse to decline the capgo, but the Colleetor | was unable to grant the request, and the captain, with shivering timbers, | wobbled his way back to the Oakland | mole. ! Abdut a week will elapse before the | vessels finigh loading. In addition to! shells and ammaunition, the He&th—j dene's cargo will consist of baled cot- | ton. Paul Kosakevitch, the Russian Con- sul, said last night that he had been informed that the steamship Heathdene H was being loaded at Oakland with con- | trabend goods. He had not taken any ! action as yet, and was relying upon{ the neutrality laws now in force, he explained, as set forth in the proclama- | tion of President Roosevelt, issued in | February, 1904. The Consul said he had heard nothing from his Govern- | ment upon the subject. ———— Jury Acquits Mrs. Vidler, CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., May 12. After half an hour’s deliberation the {jury in the case of Mrs. Mattie Vid- |Jer, charged with the murder of Helen | Coulter Douglas on April 13 in the National Hotel, to-night returned a wverdict of acquittal. —_——— Mute Killed by a Train. - BISBEE, A. T. May 12.—John Sterling. a2 mute 40 years of age, was struck by a passenger train on the El Paso and Southwestern to-day On his person was found .a ' card from the Stonecutters’ Union of San Francisco. | struck-a mine on May 4 near the Miao- | the transport was blown away. and |° SHORTEST ROUTE 10 THE COAST Colorado and Southern Pro- poses to Lessen the Dis- tance by Rail from Den- ver to San Franeisco WESTERN PACIFIC TO BE ITS OUTLET Construction Plans Contem-! plate a Through Line From the Gulf of Mexico to the Golden Gate Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK, May 12.—Details were | given day of the plans for the de- | velopmen®.of the Colorado and Bouth- | ern, by which the road will not alone ! be a through line to the gulf, but will | also establish the shortest route from | Denver westward across Colorado, connections by which it will e coast over the Western Pa- i | Teach thy | eifie, | 'These plans show that any inteén- tions which may have existed to take over the Denver, Northwestern and Pacifie, known as the Moffat, !hortg Line, have been abandoned. By build- | ing an extension along the south fork | of the Platte River from South Platte | to Lake George, where a connection is to be made with the Colorado Midland. | the Colorado Southern interests de- | clare, they will make a shorter cut across the State than the Moffat line. | { They will, furthermore, seriously dim- | inish the Moffat line’s business in | | Boulder County by the ultimate acqui- J | sition of the Colorado and Northwest- | | ern Railway, with which an exclusive | | traffic agreement has just been signed. | | Surveys are at present under way | along the south fork of the Platte for the line which .will make a through | run from Denver to the Colorado Mid- | land at Lake George. The road will| run for forty-three miles through a canyon along the river's edge. thn| it is completed the wide detour from | Denver to Colorado Springs and the ———+ BRITISH SHIP HEATHDENE, WHICH WAS LOADING A CARGO ON LONG WHARF, OAKLAND, YESTERDAYX WHEN ONE CC] A BOX WHICH EXPOSED TO VIEW SEVERAL DYNAMITE OF THE STEVEDORES CCIDENTALLY BROKE OPEN CARTRIDGES CONSIGNED TO JAPAN FROM GHERMANY. difficult grades between the latter point and Lake George will be avoided, mak- ing a direct westward route for Den- ver and Eastern traffic. BRITISH STEAMSHIP STRIKES A MINE AND SINKS IMMEDIATELY. Boats From Port Arihur Rescue Passengers, but Several of the TOKIO, May steamship Sobralense, 13.—The British | bound from | Newchwang to Kobe, struck a mine | off Port Arthur yesterday and sank | immediately. Boats from Port Arthur rescued all the Buropeans aboard, but it is be- lieved that several of the crew and passengers were drowned. | It is believed that the steamship | was inside the zone that ships have been warned to avoid. e REPORTS MINOR ENCOUNTERS. Linevitch Tells of Fighting for Pos- session of a Pass. ST. PETERSBURG, May 12.—Gen- eral Linevitch, in a dispatch from the | front dated May 11, reports a series of | small engagements for the possession | of a pass seven miles southwest of | Chimiotse. On May 5 the Russians | retired to Chimiotse and on May 6 the | fighting was resumed and lasted all | day long. The resuit was indecisive. | Simultaneously detachments were | engaged seven miles from TUfangu.| The Japanese advanced up to the Rus- | sian bayonets, but were repulsed. On the night of May 6 the Japanese were | reinforced and the Russians com- menced to retire. On May 7 a third | Russian detachment advanced to Ta- vangau Pass and met the Japanese, against whom they operated success- | fully for possession of the pass. On May 7 the Japanese resumed a | decisive offensive against the Russian | right flank, but were repulsed. A N JAPANESE TRANSPORT LOST. ‘ | News of Vessel's Collision With a Mine 1s Confirmed. CHEFU, May 13, 8 4. m.—A mer- chant vessel which has arrived here confirms the report that the Japanese transport Sheyutsu, with 1800 tons of provisions, bound for Newchwang, tao Islands. The entire after part of The Sheyutsu signaled the merchantman that she was in distress, but refused aid merchantman was a Chinese ship. The captain of the merchantman says that it seemed impossible that the transport could live in the storm that was prevailing at the time and he be- lieves that she sank. RO RO THREATEN JAPAN'S COMMERCE. Viadivostok Cruisers Are Now Out Upon the ST. PETERSBURG, May 12.—The Admiralty declines to divulge any in- formation which it has about the ships of the Vladivostok division which are reported to be off the coast of Japan, but the impression prevajls in naval circies that, acting under the instruc- tions of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, they have passed through the Suguru Straits into the Pacific on a recon- naissance to ascertain if the passage TOK?D. May 13.—An imperial proc- lamation that martial la exists {Chicago Man to when she ascertained that the| Crew Perish. ’ met a Japanese scoutship and was warned not to take a route down the | China coast which would bring her into the proximity of the Pescadores Islands. WILL PETITION FOR FRANCHISE Appear Before Parliament in Be- half of American Capital Epecial Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, May 13.—Samuel Insul of Chicago is expected in London shortly in connection with his efforts | to establish a great electrical power | development plant. His presence is necessary at this time because of the | investigatigns which a committee of the houses of Parliament is making, looking to the granting of a franchise. Insul's financial arrangements are complete, but his precise position with reference to the electric power bill now before Parliament is not known here. This bill provides for an ex- penditure of $15,000,000 and is op- posed by the London County Coun- cil. There is an impression that this bill is a sort of feeler, introduced for the purpose of discovering any serious ob- Jections. to be profited by when Insul makes his open declaration for an ex- clusive franchise. It is said that Insul | | has been requested to appear before | —* | " "This route will enjoy heavy business |on every mile from Denver to Gmd' { Junction, where it will connect with | lthe Rio Grande Western. From Den—‘ ver to Leadville the road will traverse | THREE FELONS MAY CALL OFF STRIKE T0-DAY Governing Body of the Teamsters Will Pass Upon Question of Capitulation DEALT SEVERE BLOWS Team Owners’ Association Insists That the Drivers Give Up the Struggle ——e CHICAGO, May 12.—Three severe blows were dealt to the cause of the striking teamsters to-night, and as a result the governing body of the or- gan) on, the Teamsters’ Joint Coun~ cil, will meet to-morrow night to de- cide whether or not t! e strike shall be declared off. The decision to call this meeting of the counct! followed a two hours’ ses- sion between the officials of the Teams~ sters’ Union and the Team Owners’ Association. The members of the lat- ter body have all through the present strike been favorable to the teamsters rather than to the Employers’ Asso- clation. To-night, however, the team owners informed the teamsters that their cause was lost and that the best thing they could do was to call off the strike. and do it at once. The team- sters demurred, but the team owners were obdurate, and the meeting of the council was set for to-morrow night. The second blow also came from the Teamowners’ Association when the res- ignation of John C. Driscoll, its secretary, was tendered and accepted. Secretary Driscoll has been an official of the association since its inception several years ago and during the pres- ent strike has been a potent factor om the side of the teamsters. The thivd blow was administered at the meeting of the Illinois Manufactur- ers’ ‘which At a secret meeting held to-night the members of the associa- tion decided that they would uphoid Associa- the cause of the Employers’ - tion, which has been eco the fight against the strikers, and that they would do all in their power to make the Employers’ Association a permanent institution. ‘Writes Letter Predicting His Death to Consul Gemeral and Then Commits Suicide. LONDON, May 12.—Y¥i Han Fung, the Korean charge d’affaires here, committed suicide by hanging at the legation to-day. He wrote a letter BREAK PRISON Desperate Wyoming Convicts Qverpower a Deputy Sher- iff and Secure Liberty CASPER, Wyo., May 12.—While Dep- uty Sherift Webb was giving water to a prisoner in the County Jail to-night he was overpowered and disarmed by Ed Lee, Martin Tour and William Wardlows, prisoners, who made their escape after securing guns, ammuni- | tion and clothing from the Sheriff’s of- fice and horses and saddles from the stables. They bound and gagged Webb's wife and choked her, but be- fore departing removed the gag and bade her good-by. The trio rode away in the direction of the Casper Mountains. Deputy Sher- iff Hart organized a posse and started in pursuit, overtaking thé bandits near the summit of the mountains, seven miles from town, where a battle oc- curred. Citizens with field glasses wit- nessed the beginning of the fight, but night came on and the outcome is nat known. Lee was formerly a Deputy Sherif and knows every foot of the country. He was awaiting trial for horse steal- ing. Tour i# charged with stealing cattle, and Wardlows is charged with forgery. A second posse has left Cas- | per and a third will join the chase at midnight. ————— TELLS A STARTLING STORY ANENT MURDER OF VILARDO Policeman Makes Report of Informa- tion He Received as to Others Be- ing Implicated in Crime. Startling information was reported to Captain Burnett by Policeman Rob- that Pietro Torturici, the murderer of | the Parliamentary committee upon the | Blaggio Vilardo, was working for an | present bill and that he has signified | his intention of doing so. | There is no general power generat- | | ing plant in London and the field is a | | gilt-efiged one. There would be plenty | of demand for the power and it is not | absolutely unlikely that Charles T. Yerkes would participate in the un- | dertaking in the interest of his under- | ground railway enterprise and might | permit the power transmission wires to be run through his tunnels. Ac- | cording to those who have consider- able knowledge of the situation, there is not likely to be any bill for this purpose passed during the present | term of Parliament. Investigation of the gas industry in this country in all its phases is to be made by Ernest C. Brown, editor and proprietor of the Progressive 6 Age, published in New York, ‘solely in the interests of the gas business of Amer- ica. Brown is believed largely to rep- resent Anthony N. Brady, the gas king of America. Brown's requests for fa- | cilities to study the gas prpblem of | London and in the provinces have met with unanimous courtesy and assent. One authority went so far as to state magnates of the United States may cide to enter the British field, in which’ case, it is pointed eut, the difficulties | de-, , has advised in Lon- Railway, ive in abr ‘I on a trip around the world. orange grower at a place called Co- rona in Riverside County, and that two accomplices assisted Torturici in the dastardly crime. The policeman | refused to divuige to Burneft who his informant was, but said that the in- formation is reliable. A man named Francisco and an- other named Ricardo Souzda are leged to have had a hand in the crime. Francisco is said to be a fisherman who owns a fishing smack called the i Stella, which lies at the foot of Mar | son street. | information, he participated According to the latest in the slaughter, while Souzda carried the limbs and head to the foot of Powell street and threw them into the bay. Captain Burnett notified Sheriff Co- burn of Riverside to make a search for Torturiei and late last night re- ceived word from Coburn that no such man could be found. ——— ‘Summons Served Upon Alexander. NEW YORK, May 12.—James W. Mclntyre, Annie 3| F. Hyde and Mary B. Ripley, in which the plslntfl:!; desire the removal ower of maid conducting the JSociety away from the stock- i n;! 1; rich mining country, beyond that this morning to the Korean Consul | penetrating a prosperous agricultural | General, W. H. Morgan, asking him | section. | to come to the legation at once, as he ert O'Connor last might to the effect| ' | In a circular which has been sent to | Colorado and Southern stockholders | the first accurate figures are given of the purpose of the $100,000,000 mortzage which they are asked to authorize. i i The sum of 337,000,000 is to be de- | | voted to refunding bonds and equip- ment obligations; for betterments and improvements, $15,000,000; for reim- { bursement of the treasury of the com- | pany, etc., $2,500,000, and for the acqui- sition of additional properties, $45,500,- —— NEW ROAD TO THE COAST. Positive Announcement by President | { of the St. Paul | | MITCHELL, S. D., May 12—Official | announcement was made in this city | and Chamberlain to-day by President Earling of the Chicago, Milwaukee and ! St. Paul Railway Company, that it ‘would at once press the construction of a line from both Chamberlain and Everest, in this State, to the Pacific : Coast. The Missouri will be bridged ! at two places and the two westbound lines will come together in Central Wy- | oming, whence a single track will be extended to the coast, with terminals | at_Seattle and Bellingham Bay. | The company is deeply interested in | great areas of coal and oil lands in ‘Wyoming, and these are to be devel- oped. Already the first section from | Chamberlain west to the Black Hills is under construction, and the announce- ment which was to-day given out by President Barling personally sets at rest all conflicting reports as to the | intention of getting to the Pacific. The | financial arrangements are perfected | and construction will be hurried as fast | as possible. | | ] { ! { i | I _— VIENNA, May 12.—The lower holise of the | | | Reichstag has the customs tarift bill, | including the clauses dealing with iron and mac) . All the amendments were rejected. i one. Prince George Cadets, exact size and shape. A Short Smoke that is also a Good Smoke never found a little cigar was going to die to-day. A few min- utes later Morgan heard from a neigh- bor that Fung had killed himself. The deceased had recently shown signs of mental troubles. —_————— BIGELOW'S DEFALCATIONS COSTLY TO STOCKHOLDERS Comptroller Ridgeley Levies Million- Dollar Assessment Upom Na- tional Bank. MILWAUKEE., Wis., May 12— Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely has levied an assessment of 66 2-3 per cent on stockholders of the First Na- tional Bank of this city to raise $1,000,000 to make good the capital stock lost by the defalcations of for- mer President Bigelow. —_——— French Training Ship Hits Rock. PARIS, May 12.—A dispatch from Bayonne reports that the French nav- al training ship Duguay Trounin has struck a rock in Saint Jean/de Luz Bay. Relief parties are seeking to refloat her. —_—— More Fountain Pens sold every year—everybody would use them if they knew how handy they ; are. Waterman's Ideal is the best foun- tain pen we know—more of them sold than of any other—we are selllng agents. Letter orders filled. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. - —_——— WOLTON, Wyo., Miy 12 —Frank Smith, the sheepherder, who was ptured here last night after a running fight, in which he wounded four men. including Deputy Sheriff Hoback, and whom & mob sought to iynch, Bas been safely landed in jail ar Caspar. s OCONTO, Wis.. May 12.—Louis J. Rens, ons of the best known men in Oconto agent for the McEachern Ci . committed wuicide to-night. A shortage of more than been found in his accounts. — but have