The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1905, Page 1

) e D per not ! N warmer; fresh A ing midnight, (CPRINTS MORE THE WEATHER. ’ made at San Francisco for | Auzust and vicinity—Fair Fri west winds. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. EWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED | Sun. CHUTES—Vaude COLUMBIA — * ALHAMBRA—Hawalian Band. CENTRAL—"Land ot Cabbage Patch. GRAND—“Bowery Tramp.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"“Rob Roy." mian Club Concert. the Midnight ville. Matinee, “Mrs. Wiggs of the Matinee—Bohe- e WAR KNIFE 15 SHEATHED BY YAQUIS | PRICE FIVE CENTS. BACK WITh HER FATHER N IRELAND Savages Accept the FlorenceCrokerDid Terms Offered by Mexico. Not Elope, Says | Parent. | End of Strife That Has Whereabouts of Count| Lasted Five Years in Sight. Red Men Will Be Given Lands and Protected if They Are Good Indians. Yaqui Indians, State of Sonora , for the purpose of head from General Torres that cles of peace have Indian chiefs on be- v him as the repre- h forms a part held by the valley of the ct them in thelr iand that all now being held by pding the in guestion be of the Yaqui the of the republic, om and returned that this counter prop- ¢ General Torres, val of President Diaz to be brought to for five years. RELATIONS STRAINED TO BREAKING POINT Great Britain and Germany Are Closely Watching Each Other. —According to sev- s of the Government , the Imperial Chan- rday left Norderney, g his vacation, ¥y to the Castle of w Muehlberg, Under Secretary of who left Berlin for ral weeks, was sud- d to join the Chancellor at eason for these movements is so conjecture, but it is known Jations between Great Brit- ermany have recently been on of breaking to an extent be- knowledge of the public. Precisely t happened has not been d, but a serious situatfon existed; eed, it is understood it has not yet been dissipated. ment appears to hold the conviction that the German Emperor is seeking to rm a European combination against Great Britain. GREAT VOTE IS CAST BY NORWAY’S PEOPLE | | of 10°0o’clock in the evening and 6 o'clock Ballots Favoring Dissolution Number 368,200 to 184 Against It. CHRISTIANIA, =Norway, Aug. 17.— Complete returns from last Sunday's referendum on the question of separa- tion of Norway and Sweden show that votes were cast for. dissolution nst it. The size of the vote ratifying to the leaders of the and has aroused intense in- At the last general election for bers of the Storthing only 236,641 tes were cast. L] Ve GET-RICH-QUICK FIRM SELLS “LOVE CANDY” Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Most unique of ail money-making schemes which have been recently excluded from the use of the mails is the “Love Candy” enterprise of the firm of Baker & Smith of Detroit, Mich., against which a fraud order was issued by the Postoffice Department to- day. Lee L. Baker and Henry G. Smith, who are twenty and twenty-two years old respectively, succeeded in working up a considerable clientele of youths who loved but were not loved in return. It se hands of the postal authorities caused & brisk demand for their confectioner: The letter contained some details of the potency of the love candy. A post- office inspector had an interview with the youthful members of the firm. He put them through the third degree, and dur- ing the ordeal they admitted that zno especial formula was required for the manufacture of the love candy. The British Govern- | s that a letter which fell into the | ter proposition | | know there ‘is nothing to the eiopement | | [ | to see Emperor William. | | other large bells: blowing of steamer | | | other substances so as to'interrupt or dis- | velt wiil return on the transport San Martino Known | Only to Girl. . | Politician Laughs at Reporter | and Refuses to Discuss Affair, SR \ Special Dispatch to The Call ‘ | DUBLIN, Aug. 17.—The newest devel- opment in the alleged elopement of Miss | Florence Croker §s the return of Miss Florence unaccompanied by the hero or the romance, Count Louis San Martino, | whose whereabouts is unknown except to her. By her father's orders she refuses to speak to reporters. | Miss orence left Paris on Tuesday, not knowing that her father was in Lon- dcn. She crossed to Ireland by the night mail, absolutely alone, Mr. Croker and | also the ship's steward pledging their| word to that effect. On arriving at Leopardstown and not | finding her father she telegraphed nim. Mr. Croker cut.short his London visit and left Andrew Freedman to entertain himself at the Cariton,he himself catching | | the night mail and arriving at Kings-| | dwn in the “morning. When he caught sight of a reporter whom he Jeft the night before at the Cariton, a broad smile spread over his face as he asked: “What are yau laying for? Me?” The reporter admitted the charge. Croker said “Well, it is time wasted. I refuse to discuss the matter and your | qlest is hopeless.” “Where is your daughter?” reporter. Croker replied: “Why, at home. She teft the Continent last night to visit me. She was absolutely alone. So far as I asked the story.” He talked volubly of the weather, the beauty of the Irish climate and his im- proved health since he came to Ireland. He certainly looked younger and spright- lier than he did at Wantage. On the forbidden subject he was mum. ROOSTERS MUST NOT CROW DURING NIGHT Board of Health in Mount Vernon, N. Y., Wants Everybody to Sleep. Special Dispatch to The Call. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Aug. 17.— Roosters -are forbidden to crow, dogs to bark, bells to be tolled and engines to toot their whistles in this city between. the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m., accord- ing to . an ordinance approved by the Board of Health to-day and which goes into effect on Satufday. Owners of in- discreet fowls and watchful dogs that give their owners warning of approach- ing burglars will be subject to arrest and a fine ranging from $ to The ordinance reads as follows: ““The ringing of ‘church, locomotiye or whistles; moving or shunting of trains, except in connection with the through traffic of rallroads; handling or move- ment of large masses of rock, metals or turb the sleep of residents within the city of Mount Vernon between the hours in the morning; the maintenance of bel- lowing animals, crowing cocks, barking dogs or birds or animals which produce or are calculated to create and emit noises of degree and kind to disturb the sleep of neighbors between the hours named is hereby prohibited.” MISS ROOSEVELT IS NOT GOING TO PEKING Will Return Home With Sec- retary Taft on an Army Transport. Special Dispatch to The Call. OYSTER BAY, Aug. 17.—It can be stated on the best authority that Miss Alice [Roosevelt will not leave Secretary Tfa's party to visit Peking. Miss Rogse- with Secretary Taft and not a Pacific. Mail liner, as intimated in dispatches from San Francisco. MANILA, Aug. 17.—The transport Logan with Secretary Taft, Miss Roosevelt and party on board, was due at Zamboanga on the Island of Mindanao at 2 p. m on Wednesday, August 16. She will remain there for nineteen hours, and then pro- ceed to Jolo, on the Island of Jolo, ar- riving there at 6.p. m. to-day, August 17. There has been no communication with Mindanao during the past twenty-four hours, owing to a break mn the cable, which will probably take five days to re- pair. Phe next port at which tne party will call will be Cebu. In the Viscayas Islands, where the steamer is due to ar- rive on Monday, August 21. The date set for the banquet to the party at Hongkong is Tuesday, Septem- her & STAGE HELD UPBY LONE HIGHWAYMAN THREE MILES FROM SAN MATEO. Almost within sight of the mansions that dot the hills at San Mateo, the stage running to Halfmoon Bay was held up yesterday morning by a lone bandit, who secured the treasure box and coin from the passengers and made his escape. fire on the intruder and put him to flight. The highwayman was interrupted in his work by an approaching team. He opened (1 BOOTY, ESCAPED TO THP HILLS. ROAST DO AND WHISKY FOR A FEAST Celebrating New Peace Era. —_— RENO, Aug. 17.—Eleven hundred Wa- shoe and Plute Indians, or as many of them as-could navigate to the great councll camp, gathered near Sparks to- night and partook of the great feast of peace. The chief item on the bill of fare was dog meat. More than one hundred dogs, gathered from different Indian camps throughout the State, were brought to Sparks when the Indians arrived. Yes- terday they were killed, skinned and dressed and this afternoon most of them were thrown into pues of hot coals and roasted. The meat when cooked was treated with herbs and spices gathered in the hills and, according to the Indians, greatly enjoyed. Considerable care is being exercised by the county officials, as well as the police force at Sparks, in handling the immense crowd. - Hundreds of the Indians have se- cured liquor and are fighting drunk. The alfalfa fields around the big camp are filled with Indians stretched out upon the ground, too intoxicated to walk. Others are staggering about the streets and roads. Some afe. in an ugly mood and when in this condition it does not require much to start trouble. The mystery is where they secured their supply of fire- ‘water. BARON VON STERNBERG KILLS WOMAN POACHER Speclal Diepatch to The Call. BERLIN, Aug. 17.—Baron Speck von Sternberg, brother of the German Em- bassador, shat & woman poacher at mid- night in mista for a deer in Count von der SchuleRburg’s preserves in Neugattersleben. The woman has since died. Baron Sternberg has voluntarily surrendered to tlie police and has been allowed bail. SHERIFF OF SAN MATEO COUNTY AND A DRAWING DEPICTING THBE STAGE HOLDUP DAY MORNING NEAR SAN MATEO, ON THE HALFMOON BAY ROAD. THE BANDIT, WHICH TOOK PLACE YESTER- AFTER GATHERING UP HIS MIGHT GO BACK A5 A SPECIAL COMMISSIONER Boycott May Result in Conger’s Return to China. g OYSTER BAY, Aug. 17.—As a result of to-day’s conference with the Presi- dent at Sagamore Hill, Edwin H. Con- ger, Embassador to Mexico and former Minister to China, will probably re- turn to China as a special commis- sloner to solve the serious problem which the boycott and Hankow rail- road concession has created. This appointment of a special com- missioner may be taken as an answer to important dispatches recently re- ceived from Minister Rockhill and not made public. There is not the slight- est doubt that the administration feels that not only Chinese officials, but Jap- anese influence is behind the astound- ing anti-American conditions that have suddenly arisen. For the first time in history Chinese of different provinces are acting to- gether. Japan has a vital interest in the Canton Alankow Railway. She holds a concession for a railway from Swatow to a point in the interior, which will be extended to meet the Canton-Hankow Railway when that road passes out of American hands. Conger would not disclose his plans after his visit to the President, and would neither deny nor confirm the well grounded report-that he was to re- turn to Peking. In reply to a question as to whether he believed Japan was belind the ofter of $7,000,000 to J. P. Morgan for the Hankow concession he answered: “I-don't know, though I supposed they needed their millions at home just now.” Conger expressed belief tlLat the sale of the Hankew- railway would be un- questionably a fatal setback. —_——————— Armenians Regain Property. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 17.—A Rus- sian imperial ukase was issued to-day restoring to the Armenians their school and church property in the Caucasus. WAR DEPICTS HINSELF 45 A JEALOLS A Taggart Weeps as His Letters Are Read in Court. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call WOOSTER, Aug. 17.—The scene in the Taggart divorce case to-day was changed from the bitterness that has prevailed before. The afternoon was taken up with the reading of the letters that Major Taggart wrote to his wife while he was on the road to recovery. Dur- ing his cross-examination Judge Smys- er had offered parts of letters as evi- dence, but the letters were turned over to Taggart's attorneys after a hard bat- tle and this afternoon they were read in their entirety in the courtroom. In answer to questions after they had been read Major Taggart’s voice was “visibly affected and his eyes fllled with tears several times. Mrs. Taggart toyed with her parasol and looked more serious and concerned than at any time during the trial. The first letter was a most pathetic appeal to his wife to interfere in his behalf with Colonel Miner. . “Tell Colonel Miner for God's sake to let poor Tag out,” it said. This followed an admission that liquor was the cause of his troubles. “Where were you when you wrote this?” said Sterling. “In the hospital prison.” “Why were you confined there?” “On the first of July after Colonel Miner and Hoff had been to my house the information that I received was that Mrs. Taggart had told Colonel Miner that I -had put her out on the street as naked as the day she was, born. L understood a court-martial would be based on that statement when that letter was written.” Another letter said: “Mother, mother, can all these trou- bles be true or am I ‘only asleep? Please tell me why you would drive me to insanity when I was only in- sanely jealoys? Don't you remember that Sunday when you came upstairs GHERIEF AT TR SSTSSOSTS TOSERW JIANSTHLEZR CRKS ROAD WOULD SHARE TOURST TRAOE Montana Senator’sLine to Connect With Grand Canyon. AL Spectal Dispatch to The Call, DENVER, Aug. 17.—The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad is reaching out for tourist business to the scenic canyons, and will soon be a com- petitor of the Santa Fe to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona. The Clark road rans within twenty-six miles of this canyon., and Clark will bufld the connecting spur for the tour- ist_business, The survey of the twenty-six miles of road from Las Vegas, Nev., to the rim of the canyon has been completed, and grading and laying of the track will commence within a few days. The Clark road will reach the canyon at a point where the scenery is conceded to be about the best. —————————— SULTAN OF MOROCCO WILL NOT GRANT DEMANDS OF FRENCH Ruler Declines to Pay Indemnity and Give Freedom to Allah- Sil-Gharb. FEZ, Morocco, Aug. 17.—The Sultan has declined to accede to the demands of the French Minister for the payment of an indemnity and the release of Al- }lah-Sfl-Ghub. who was arrested in i consequence of local troubles. The Sul- tan claims jurisdiction over all Alge- | ran settlements in Morocco. The:inel- dent may lead to important develop- ments. and promised me you would not pro- voke me any more? If I could only see you for a moment how happy I would be. May God bless you every hour of your life and may he make ! me a better man. May God bless you iand may there be a sweet hereafter, where we can live and love as we used ! to and never say good-by.” “I wrote this‘on the 6th of July when | the children came to see me and bid me | good-by.” “Up to that time what was your Inxpocuuons and desire about your wife?” asked Sterling. “L had no intention of asking for divorce. I expected that my wife, fam- ily and myself would live together.” In another series of letters read after he had left Fort Leavenweorth while he was still very ill there is a strong tone of apology and humillation. He pleads for a renewal of the family relations and wants his wife to join him or give bher nermission for him to come to her. | Coach Halted on the Halfmoon Bay Road. Bandit Fires on a Man Who " Drives Up. 'Collects Booty . and Makes Escape. Spectal Dispatch to The Call REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 17.—One of the most daring stage robberies in the his- tory of the State and one without parallel in this part of the country occurred this | morning three miles from San Mateo and | about twenty miles from San Franciseo. The stage which operates’ between San Mateo and Halfmoon Bay was balted by a loné highzayman on steep grade | near the al Springs dam and, at the point of a revolver, the driver the stage and the affrighted r were forced to deliver trong boxes of Wells-Fargo & ommercial firm of Halfmoon Ba: The robber won but little of value for his desperate deed and fortunately no one was injured, although the highway- man fired three shots at a passing driver of a team who unwittingly interrupted the knight of the road in his work. Ahe affair has created intense excite- ment throughout the county and two well organized posses, lead by Sheriff Mans- field of this city, are scouring the hilis for the bandit. Wells-Fargo detectives age on the scene, but as a very poor de- scription of the robber ‘has been obtained from the occupants of the stage the pros- pect of an early capture is aot brilliant. The stage had left San Mateo at early hour and had gone as far as the Crystal Springs. dam, .. Five pussengers and the driver, Edward Campbell, com- prised the party. On the seat with the driver was O. Olsen, a traveling man em- ployed by Langley & Michaels of San Francisco. On the inside of the coach were Miss A. Johnsan and J. C. Santes of Halfmcon Bay and Peter Julie and Ralph Roosen of San Francisco. In the care of the driver were the money bex of Wells-Fargo & Co. and a private bex of Levy Brothers of Halfmoon Bay. ORDERS DRIVER TO HALT. Just at the turn of the road near the old Smith toll gate, where the cliff de- scends precipitately a hundred feet from the road, a mu ed highwayman stepped into the road “and with leveled revolver shouted the command to hait. The order was obeyed with alacrity. The robber called to the driver to throw the mail sack and the Wells-Fargo box into the roau. Campbell obeyed as far as the boxes were concerned, but hesitated to giving up the mail pouch. An oath from the bandit and a threatening fingering of his pistol brought the desired sack into the road. Partly recovered from their terror, the rs had an' opportunity to observe the robber. He was short, probably five faet seven inches In height, thick set, weighing about one hundred and eighty pounds and was palpably disguised as to dress. He wore a long black overcoat, blue overalls and a tight-Otting black cap. His face was effectually concealed by a black handkerchief. ‘When the mail sack and the boxes had been thrown into the road the robber commanded Santos to pass around his hat among his fellow pass- engers and not to forget himself in the contribution. Santos understands Eng- lish imperfectly and was slow to com- ply. The robber’s pistol and his evi- | dent intention te use it proved a stimu- |lus to Santes and his hat came off | without further delay. While the en- forced donation to the thief was in progress and Santos was wondering how he was going to keep $35 he had in his pocket a team, rapidly driven, turned the bend in the road. FIRES UPON INTRUDER. The highwayman, who had started toward the stage to collect his booty, turned quickly and, leveling als re- volver at the unfortunate interloper, fired. The bullet missed its mark and the driver of the team, E. Bertelotte, jumped from his seat and ran toward the hill. The robber contented himseif with firing two more futile shots at the fleeing man and then turned his at- tention to his prisoners in the stage. With a volley of ocaths he ordered the driver to move on and not to look behind at the peril of his life. The order was strictly obeyed, but the high- wayman was not to enjoy the inspee- tion of his prizes in peace. In a short time another team came into view and this time the robber t fright. He had opened the boxes and abstracted all there was of value in them. He was rifling the mail pouch when Inter- rupted. Leaving the boxes behind he broke and ran, taking the malil sack with him. The alarm was at once given and posses were organized in this city and at San Mateo. Sheriff Mansfleld led the party from here, but as yet no clew of the robber has been obtained. J. W. Thacker of the Wells-Fargo Com- pany is' here rendering whatever as- i sistance his long experience is able to suggest. He, as well as Superintend- ent Woods of the Wells-Fargo Com- pany, declares that the marauder found i nothing of value in the strong box of the company, as large sums of momey are seldom carried and never om the early morning stage. Levy Brothers jmake the same assertion in reference to their loss. It would appear from this that the desperate thief had very little to reward him for his escapade. This is the second stage robbery in the history of San Mateo County and the first under such exceptional condi- tions. The crime of to-day was com- —_— Continued on Page 3, Columa 7.