The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1905, Page 1

3 THE QALL PRUNJS MORE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER PUBUSHED | THE WEATHER Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, July 11: Tuestey, with fog in the morning; brisk west winds. A. G. MoADTE, briel.” N SAN FF rfi; ALCAZAR—"'On Probation.™ CALIFORNIA—“Tess of the D'Urber CENTRAL—'Heart of the Klondike™ COLUMBIA—TYddish Players in “‘Ga- GRAND—"A Turkish Texan'* ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"“Amorita.” PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1905. GEORGE D. COLLINS FLEES FROM THE CITY Attorney George D. Collins, accused of bigamy, secretly left San Francisco in a launch with Clarice McCurdy on Friday evening. He landed in Oakland, rode 1o the Sixteenth-street station in an automobile, and bought tickets for Sacramento. His whereabouss is unknown. The flight was discovered yesterday afternoon and his arrest was ordered. Frank V. Kington, bis clerk, “Bogie’” O’ Donnell, chauffeur, and Charles McNeil, boatman, accompanied him across the bay, but they maintained silence until brought into court. CONTRACT LABOR FOR. THE CANA — Chinese, Japanese and Italians to Be Used. PREPARING l O ATTACK 0N SHEDE Norway Said to Be . Planning an Invasion. Two Thousand of Each Dr. Hedin Warns His to Be Asked For by Government. Failure to Obtain Negroes Planned Caunses the New Countrymen in America. , Passionate Appeal That They Come to the Rescue of as Move. 1 + S RS AN the Fatherland. The Panama Canal STOCKHOLM, July 10.—King Oscar . 3 e | and Crown Prince Gustayus will safl on Commmission in order | 2wty 28 o see Bptac o i 7 to secure a sufficient | Gofie, on the east coast of Sweden. ot labprers on hmus Hhas been turn to the who will n to work the big waterway. I'wo thousand each of Chinese and ] »orers will be secured first as an ex- It was orig- a ntended to em- y West Indian ne- groes, and accordingly immigration bureaus were opened. It was hat 5500 men be secured, ly 1000 have been exy LONDON, July 11.—~The Standard’s ©Christianin correspondent says that the Norwegian throme has been offered to Prince Charles of Denmark, second son | |of Crown - Primce Frederick. Prince Charles is the husband of Princess Maud Alexandra of Great Britain. STOCKHOLM, July 10.—War between Sweden and Norway, with the Nor- wegians as the aggressors, is declared to be an imminent danger by Dr. Sven Hedin, the well-known explorer, who has addressed _a passionate appeal to the Swedes in America to come to thé rescue of the fatherland by raising a naval | | defence fund of $5,000,000. Hedin asserts hat the people of Sweden hawe lapsed | into unbelievable apathy with regard to the union crisis and require urgently to sive patriotism preached to | y Sweden's sons and daughters | across the sea. | orway, according to Hedin, 1s realiz- weden's Indifference and unprepared- ess and is preparing for an attack. It has made all its plans for failing upon Sweden when it deems the pyschological moment shall have arrived. “Fellow countrymen in America,” says Hedin's appeal, “incredible as it may sound, receive my solemn assurance that { | Norw: at the present.moment is our 4 | country’s single enemy. It is armed to atch to The Call July 10.—In order 1a] Comm employed. commission acknowledges inability to secure the required mum- ber of workers through its own ef- forts and in desperation has turned the conmtractors, who will be asked coolies, the teeth by land and sea, with borrowed foreign capital secured on the pretense to that it was wanted for rallway construc- h to build the tion. An alliance with you, an alliance of sympathy and substantial support is the only alllance Sweden needs. No mat- ter how light your financial contribution, your vigorous initiative would have a is- by Secre- | powerful effect on your drowsy kinsmen here, whose awakening from the sleep 1ts | of fancied security is the Imperative need | of Sweden.” | Hedin's description of the apathy of the people seems only slightly overdrawn. Whether it is due to disinclination to mar to | the fete In honor of the home coming to furnish 2000 each of Japanese, Chimewe of the heir-presumptive’s bride. Princess Italian laborers. ent with the daiff. o determine whi because that number can Margaret of Connaught, whom Stock- explanation of the mixture of the | holm welcomed brilliantly yesterday, or it 1s said that it is desired to ex- | whether it is born of a realization that ent national h furnishes the facts in Christiania, is difficult for the rkers. It is stated that the rep- | foreign observer to say. tion from each class was fixed | doubt, however, that the war spirit is Bweden has to reckon with unalterable There is no be | subsiding. The King and the Crown on one ship. The laborers will | Prince are said to have succeeded in In- orted under oontract to remain | spiring the aristocratic and military per- for 500 working days. In accordance | sonages who have hitherto made up the egroes, who are accustomed gration office at Barbadoes So great is the fear s have been.induced to nds around Barbadoes. as the commission has @ r njustice and oppressi ks far as possible. ———————— BLOWS oUT His BRAINS e, and the commission opened | ever that not more than 1000 | and they were drawn from | the decision of the Attorney Gen- | war party with a conviction that there will work only eight hours a | must be no war, except in the event of he Government will give them a wanton attack by Norway. shed quarters, fuel and water | Surprisingly little popular interest is ical attendance. Laborers who | manifested in the forthcoming report of isthmus will not be allowed the Riksdag commission, on which hinges United States unless they the question of war and peace. The re- v with the immigration laws, | port is expected this week. The employment of coolies is the last resort through which the commission MW ] \§ T pes to secure men to dig the canal, | ORLW OF THE SUNKEN was at first decided to employ West | SUBMARINE PERISH to roupn whion it was ex- | Divers Find It Impossible to secure 5000 men without any | or | Continue Attempt at 4 Rescue. { BIZERTA, Tunis, July 11.—The divers the coolies will be ecalled | employed in passing hawsers around the is- | sunken French submarine boat Farfadet e legal questions involved ' find it almost impossible to continue their igements to protect the | work. The submarine is now embedded in lon | mud for two-thirds of her length and is gradually being engulfed. The divers are working waist deep in mud, PARIS, July 10.—Dispatches reaching IN FRONT OF TWO GIRLS the Ministry of Marine show that the au- thorities at ..izerta, Tunis, continue their Stranger in Town of Tenmino im Wash- | tedious efforts to raise the submarine ington Commits Suiecide in a Spec- tacular Menner. OLYMPIA, July 10.—H. Edmonds, boat Farfardet, w.th the expectation of taking out the corpscs of the imprisoned | erew. - 8| One of the last messages from the stranger, this evening stepped in front | interior of the Farfadet was: “Hurry, of two girls at Tenino, Wash., put a | water galning.” Since then complete si- revolver in hillmoulh and blew out his | lence has prevailed within, the diver's brains. A hen's egg, an empty purse ' rope being unanswered. The supposition god e poll tay ~~~~ipt were found his pockets. in | 1s that those who escapec neingz smoth- ered were drowned. Bench BRIDGE BEYOND JURISDICTION OF SECRETARY Congress, Not Taft, Must Decide Car- quinez Question. Special Dispatch to The Call SACRAMENTO, July 10.—The South- ern Pacific Company must secure the consent of Congress before it can bo- gin the construction of a bridge across the Straits of Carquinez. In all tho discussion over the proposed bridge it has been assumed that the consent of the Secretary of War would be suffi- cient, but it has been discovered that under the river and harbor act ap- proved on April 3, 1899, no bridge can be constructed over any navigable water until the consent of Congress first shall have been obtained, and un- til the plans shall have been approved by the chief of engineers and the Seo- retary of War. It is provided, however, that such a structure may be built under the au- thority of the Legislature of a State | across rivers and other waterways, tie navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State after the approval of plans by the chief of engineers and the Secretary of War. As the Legislature of California has given no consent to the erection of any kind of a bridge over the Carquinez Straits it Is pointed out here that the Southern Pacific must secure the con- sent of Congress for a bridge or walt until the next session of the Legisla- ture, eighteen months hence. —————— FAMOUS HOSTESS DIES. Mistress of Priest's Hotel Called by Death. CHINESE CAMP, July 10.—Mrs. Mar- garet Priest, widow of the late William | Priest, died last night at her home on the famous Priest Hill, where for years i she and her husband had kept a hotel. Warrant Qut for | TORMNEY TMOMAS AT Eo R Nom. TemRIN EHaTE HEMMED IN BY FIRE, HE LEAPS' TO DEATH| Arthur Neely Killed Before His Brother’s Eyesin New York. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 10.—Arthur Neely lost his life In a fire In East Forty- on the top floor of the building which took fire and his escape was cut off. He | called from his window for help, whils | his brother, F. Tennyson Neely, from below implored him not to jump. - . ' When the frenzied man conld restrain. himself no longer his brof wera already raising their ladders as the man leaped and if he had waited only a few minutes longer his life might have been saved. . i« WG Neely leaves three n mother was killed in a ralro several years ago and they are with an aunt in_Cle , ‘whom their father l:’::m fi)’nd' ?:“ ago to come to this city for trip, with the ldea of locating THIRTVEICHT - WEN IN BURNING MINE DOONED X Rescuers Perish in Attempts to Save Comrades. fourth street early to-day. . He slept bnmd away. et MRS CHARLOTTA = NEASPIAN COLLINS -, | CALED POWERS 115 TAKEN-TO NEWPORT AL City’s Mayor Arrested for Interfering With Jailer. CINCINNATI, July 10.—In the custody of a United States Marshal, under or- ders_of United States Judge Cochran, who last week assumed jurisdiction in his case, Caleb Powers, charged with complicity in ' the murder of William Gocbel at Frankfort in the winter of 1900, was to-night lodged in the Newport jall, across the river from this city, where he will be held pending a de- cision of the various legal points aris- ing out of his transfer from State to Federal jurisdiction. ‘When Powers arrived at the New- port jail at 7:50 o’clock to-night a con- trovrsy arose between Jailer Ploeger and Mayor Helmbold as to what cell the prisoner should occupy. The Mayor insisted that the cell that had been pre- pared for Powers was not the proper place. Ploeger and Mayor Helmbold finally came to blows and the latter was knocked down. During the fight between the Mayor and the jaller, the furniture in the cell prepared for Pow- ers was confiscated by unknown per- sons. Subsequently Powers was placed in another cell with other prisoners, ‘where he will remain until Jailer Ploe- ger can arrange other quarters for him. For five years Powers has been in Jail. He has been tried four times and sentenced to death three times, but as he walked Into the jail to-night he ex- ressed hope of his ultimate acquittal. e was the only one of those charged with conspiracy to murder Willlam Goebel to be convicted and sentenced to death. His fight for life has been remarkable and the attorneys to-day expressed the bellef that three more years may pass before the end of the present legal complication will make possible the trial in the Federal courts for which he applied five weeks ago at London, Ky. On instructions from United States District Attorney Tinsley, warrants were sworn out late to-night for the arrest of Mayor Helmbold for having interfered with United States officers. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS Armed With Alpenstocks and Smoked Glasses, Ad - venturers Take Trails. START ON JOURNEY | rrest of Alleged Bigamist Takes l/—Vife No. 2 for Company in His Flight. CROSSES BAY IN A LAUNCH Obtains Two Tickets mn Qakland for Sacramento. MRS. McCURDY NOT IN SIGHT Mother of Chicago Bride Also Drops From View. With the so-called wife who was the cause of all his trouble by his side, George D. Collins, the San Francisco attorney who stands accused of the crime of bigamy and whose trial for that offense was supposed to proceed yesterday in the Superior Court of this city, secretly fled in the darkness of last Friday night. Worsted in aevery point of a defense which had been un- usual in the nature and number of technicalities that it has produced and seeing an ultimate defeat ahead, with a term in the penitentiary as the final punishment, Collins evidently feared to face the actual trial and before one man of the jury had been selected he stole away with the one ne loved in a little launch, landed somewhere on the water front of Oakland, purchased two tickets at the Sixteenth-street station and boarded the first train for Sacra- mento. His flight was a complete sur- prise. His whereabouts to-day is un- known, for no one, not even those as- soclated with him in business, have re- ceived word from him since § o'clock last Friday night. MRS. McCURDY DISAPPEARS. Mrs. Sarah A. McCurdy, mother of the second wife of Collins, has also disappeared and the police are search- ing for her. She was seen early Sat urday evening at her residence on Sac- ramento street. No one has been found who saw her leave that place, but yes- terday, when Detective Thomas Wren asked for her she was nowhere to be found and investigation proves that she fled even more secretly than did her son-in-law and daughter. She -could not have gone with them, for she ‘was seen after their departure and the police are of the theory that she is hid- ing within the limits of this city, to appear only when she feels that Col- lins and his wife are safe from the clutches of the law. Warrants have been sworn out for the arrest of George D. Collins, Miss Clarice McCurdy and Mrs. Sarah Me- Curdy. Their descriptions have been sent to police headquarters of many cities of the United States. If they are still within its confines capture is only a question of a short time the officers believe. F COLLINS LEAVES IN LAUNCH. Three men knew of the departure of the refugees and accompanied them on the first stage of their flight. These are Frank V. Kington, attorney and clerk in .the offices of Collins in the Crocker buillding; “Bogie” O'Donnell, a driver of automobiles, and Charles Mc- Nell, owner of bay launches. The first two of these appeared In court yester- day and gave their testimony. The last named has not yet been subpenaed. According to their statement Collins and Miss McCurdy left their home at 1118 Sacramento street In an automo- bile about 7 o’clock In the evening of Friday, July 7. ODonnell and King- ton were in the machine and the party circled around, with the evident inten- tion of escaping observation, until they wharf near the emnd of e McNeil was awaiting .them with a launch and the party stepped aboard. By an unusual route around Alcatraz they were taken over to some wharf along the Oakland water front, arriving about § o'clock that same evening. There another au- tomobile was in waiting. O'Donnell and McNeil put back to San Francisco in the launch and Collins and his wife, with Kington, hurried in the machine to Barnum’s restaurant, Oak- land, where the party dined for nearly an hour. Into the automobile they got again and were whirled down to the Sixteenth-street station, where Kington purchased the two tickets for Sacra- mento. The train pulled in a moment later and Collins and his wife were falrly started on their flight. Kington rode In the automobile back to the Oakland mole, took the ferry-boat Ala- meda to San Francisco and siept that night in his rooms at 1118 Sacramento street. WITNESSES KEEP SILENCE. All three of these witnesses kept a discreet silance as to their night ad- venture and no one else thought of a possible flight of Collins and his wife until after they were missed at church Continued on Page 2, Column