The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1906, Page 31

g San Francisco Sunday: light north to westerly. A 'Thc Call Prints THE WEBATHER. Forecast for January 28, 1908: District Forecaster. G. McADIE, ahd vicinity—Fair winde, changing More News Thah Any cher Pa per Published in San Francisco THE THEATERS. ALHAMBRA—“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Matinee. ALCAZAR—'‘The Admirable Criche ton.”” Matinee, CALIFORNIA — “Alcazar Beauties.”” Matinee. COLUMBIA—‘Die Beruhmte Frau.”” CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. GRAND—"“Way Down East.” Mati- nee. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee. MAJESTIC—“Sweet Neil of Ol TTVOLI—*The Brigands.” AN FACES ACCUSATION OF PERJURY Town Topics Chief « Placed Under Arrest, PR oY Charged With Having Sworn Falsely in Libel Suit. Daughter Puts Up $10,000] Bail for His Appearance on Thursday. P to The Call NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Joseph M. el, fll at his home, will be com- pelied to sign himself “former Judge | | he Court of Special Sessions” if the | | plans mow under way be ecarried to a essful end. Immediate action on part e his of the Appeliate Division to removal from the bemch ed, and the bar assoelation, irtexy, is awaiting this step re itx powerful grievamce commit- He also probably veral clubs. ve. led from D. | was arrested | by a detectivi y Jercme’s staff. He or- mobile with the officer February Albert olicitor for o The Wooster was g the C t on the n Topics. was underlined in the etter and a line from it whieh was marked ann, when ile & witness in the had not placed regular € as a magistrate, former State Sen- as counsel. for an early hear- 4 prefer that the case morrow. Assistant Dis- objected to coming day, and next Thursday 2w Wray ment sy QUESTION OF VERACITY. EW YORK, Jan. 21.—As Colonel Mann e Criminal Courts building having been held in $19,000 leating court, would Je stopped, stood erect and, shaking cene at those waiting for him to get » range, shouted: 5 are so formidable. I have ed more serious flashes than any you fire rifer porters next week. How the — do I know?"” he sald. may be in jail next week."” Concerning the controversy 'with the President’s secretary, Loeb, Colonel Mann waid 1 never brought the name of the Presi- dent into this cese myself. Jerome in- structed me to produce in court the cor- rected proofs sent by the President. We ad the devil's own time in finding the >resident’s proofs. re same proofs that were ite House for possible cor- the day he was asked by re- Town Topics would appear “r corrections on these y were returned?” Who made them? How do I know? How do you account for the fact that Mr. Loeb dpes mot positively recollect having < ted with you?” = than I can tell. We cer- municated with him. ter which we got from re inclosed the corrected which he also forwarded rapbs that appeared on Fads and Fancles de- Roosevelt. The pub- nas all the facts and must decide this sestion of veracity. One letter was made lic from the White House, the other is in the possession of the District rney. say mow we did forward proofs to the President. We got them back cor- The corrected proofs were shown in court. We got four photographs, and they, as well as all we wrote about Roosevelt, were printed in Fads and Fan- cles.” Western Pacific to SALT LAK ’ e was granted by the City Council 17 ight, which gives the Western Pa- cific Raflroad entrance to the city and permits the erection of a union depot for the Western Pacific and Rio Grande. There was no opposition, et by several photograph- | OUR PAGES—SAN : the stranded steamer. | FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2 1906 —PAGES 31 TO 42. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Instead of doing this the Czar steamed away. and declares that the life boats were leaky and life preservers nseless, | that the officers maintained no order after the ship struck. SEA WASHES ASHORE THE BODIES OF I6 Three Men Seen on i| Beach Not New ‘ Survivors. ;O/ the 154 Persons on Board 37 Are Alrve. VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 27.—The steamer | Salvor returned from the wreck to-day with three survivors, and the United States steamer Grant will reach Seattle to-night with eleven more and three bodies, while the tug Bahada, with two fishing dories, is trying to recover- the | bodles washed ashore near the scene of the wreck, which cannot be taken over the difficult trail. Sixteen bodies had been recovered up to this evening, five being identified, and search is being contfnued for others. The Balvor brought Frank Connors, a waiter, and George Long, a fireman, to Victoria, and both were immediately received at the Marine Hospital, as they were suf- fering severely. Connors was for a time |in danger of losing his reason. When the raft on which he drifted to Turret Island, in Barkley Sound, with nine others, of whom four became mad, one so violent that he had to be re- strained by his fellows, - Connors, im- bued by the hallucination that he had seen a lighthouse, wandered off into the bush, where he almost succumbed to the privations endured before he was found & day later by an Indian and transferred to the steamer Salvor, lying on a log muttering, almost insane. Long was also on that raft. Both men had a frightful experience after leaving the vessel, not the least shocking of it being when they signaled madly to the steam- ship City of Topeka, which they took to be the Queen, and sa¥ the steamer sheer away, leaving them to drift at the mercy of the waves until they drifted ashore, with four of their companions raving ma- niacs before death came to them. The tug Bahada reached Bamfleld Creek to-night with Captain Patterson of the Paeific Coast Steamship Company on board, the tug having picked him up at Neah Bay, together with some dories, which will be used with fishermen man- ning them to search the coast for bodies. The revenue cutter Grant was standing at the scene of the wreck when the Bahada arrived and two officers of the Grant and Mr. Bunker, the passenger from the Valencla, as well as some of the men from the Bahada, made a land- ing near the scene to get the bodles found. Before these could be taken into | the dories the sea began to rise and they had to leave In order to ge through the surf without the bodles. Bunker, the BSeattle assistant schooi | superintendent, who survived the disaster and who has been energetic in his work since reaching shore, offered his services to vatrol the beach if the Government would allow him men. He said bodles were being washed in all along the shore, but it was only possible to search for them at low wateér. Captain Patterson of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company tried to organize an Indian crew to search and falling to get sufficient men he -will proceed to Neah Bay to get Indians and cances from there. FEleven bodies had been found near the wreck and Light- keeper Patterson found another near the lighthouse. The Bahada put into Bam- fleld for the night and it will return to and if possible make landings with the dories. The officers of the Grant say the revenue cutter will return also after ::.ndhu her survivors and bodies at Seat- QUEEN ARRIVES FROM | | the scene of the wreck in the morning LIFE BELTS ON VALENCIA WORTHLESS Reeds Are Used in Preservers Instead of Cork. Bunker Tells of His Battle to Save Loved Ones. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 21.—F. F. Bun- ker, who was recently appointed School Superintendent of Seattle and. who was one of the nine men who escaped from the Valencia and landed on the beach near Darling River, tells a harrowing tale. He sald there was an evident lack of discipline among the officers of the ili-fated ship, and this statement has been corroborated by other passengers. Bunker, whose wife and two children are among those drowned, is outspoken in his denunciation of the Valencla's crew and the life-saving apparatus on the vessel. According to his tale a messboy cursed an officer to his face for not giving proper orders. Bunker said boat number two ‘was sent through the surf with more than twenty passengers in it, and only seven got ashore after it capsized. He got in the next boat lowered, with his wife and two children, a boy and & girl. This boat was sent out without officers or seamen. The boat capsized and he tried to crawl back. As he did so the boat righted and nearly filled. He got in and his wife was clinging to the side of the boat. The girl was gone and the boy was imp. He tried to restore the boy to life, and the littls fellow re- covered consciousness and began to cry and call “Papa.” ‘His wife sald she could not hold on longer. He kissed her good- by. Just then the boat again capsized. He told his wife to hold on and took her with one arm and the child with the other, but something struck him on the head and he lost them. He was swept in and out three times by the breakers, but finally managed to clutch the rocks and hold fast. He waited on the rocks after clamber- ing out of the reach of the water untii the morning and then climbed up the Wiuft and found a trail to a hut, which he reached after great. hardship, having to swim a river. In the hut he found some moldy ns. During the next two days the suffering of himself and other sur- vivors who had joined him was terrible, but help arrived from the cable station at Bamfield, then a party from Clo-Oose, then those from the Salvor. Bunker says that in his opinion there are several questions that require an- swering in connection with the disas- ter. He wants to know: /“Why are boationds of officers and men?” e “Why were the plugs for the bot- toms of the bouts not made to Atr” oo \ f?' > 27l N ~ 73 ROSTITON OF THE IRECK l«oIIJWE Ex-d CHRIRIN COZSTINVS, + NO ORDER MAINTAINED OF VANCOUVER ISLAND. - IN THE RUSH FOR BOATS Startling Evidence Given by Survivors of the Wreck. sm-lmmtmo-n.‘ SEATTLE, Jan. #1.—'"The coverings|we were outside ths were no sooner removed from the boats than people began crowding into them from all sides.” Such was the startling statement made by Boatswain McCarthy of the steamship Valencia, when being examined \ before U:ked States Inspectors of Hulls| SBATTLE, Jan. 21.—The adoption of and Bollers Whitney andl Turner during | Wireless telegraphy by the officials of the opening of the investigation into Valencia disaster, which began this after- noon. The testimony of McCarthy con- flicts with other Teports of the wreck, which tell of the most excellent disci- pline. McCarthy's \ statement. regarding the ‘weather when the vessel struck does not wholly correspond with those of First As- \ breakers. Then had & Government boat been handy the pas- sengers could have been taken off.” —_— TO INSTALL WIRELESS. 105t | Owsiers of Valemeia Hope to Preveat of Disaster. the | the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for use on 4ts vessels plying between this city and San Francisco, for the purpose of better effecting their| safety and pre- venting disasters like that of the Valen- cla in the future, will, according to the attitude of the officlals to-day, be taken up within the next week or so. At the present time the officials of the company are go taken up with the recent disaster sistant Engineer Carrick, who'stated that | yna¢ they have not time to properly in- a strong wind was blowing. McCarthy | vestigate this matter. says there was very lttle wind. Carrick on | engineer of the First Assistant Engineer being called to the stand at the opening | ‘W. H. Allison, assistant superintending company, the offices of the company this morning stated that he was very much in. favor of the investigation testified that the best | or installing wireless telegraphy on the of order prevalled® This does not corre- | vessels. He sald: spond with McCarthy’s statements re- garding the piling of passengers into the boats. Carrick testified that the { life-saving equipment of the Valencla was in perfect | means of order and stated that Captain Johnson | gers intrusted was cool and collected. ‘Asked if'a “Ye indeed, I think it would cer- fal be a good thing for all vessels car- rying passengers to and from this port mhnubmmmowm:lm At present time there is. e 4 the ltves of passen- vessels, Vessels on the Atlantic coast now successfully use the system, and there is no reason why life-saving boat could have reached the we could not do the same. vessel, or that if one had been there lives ‘would have been saved, Carrick _an- swered: ‘water e e 0 St e tabl “a_life-saving m.mflnt would CAPTAIN COUSINS SAYS .THE TUG MIGHT HAVE SAVED SOME L Captain Cousins of the steamship Queen, which ‘arrived yesterday from the scene of the wreck of the Valencia, says that something might have been done to save the lives of those lost when the wreck went to pieces but for the refusal of the master of the British tug Czar to go in near, Surviver Bunker says that lack of discipline on the Valencia was evident, Willis, another survivor, says the Valencia was not properly equipped and IVES. 1HE SCENE OF THE VALENCIA WRECK | ?B/my'acém Say 1 hey Volunteered Caprain Cousins Says | Only Tug Could Have Helped. The Pacific Coast pany’s liner Queen, the first vessel dis- patched to the assistance of the fated Valencia, arrived here yesterday, and Captain Cousins told the story of the unavailing effort he made to reach the wrecked coaster. Captain Cousins took the Queen as near. to than experienced pilots considered safe —but was unable to render any aid. He tried to inauce the captain powerful tug engaged work of rescue to go in closer to the Valencia, but the towboat man refused and steamed away to seek shelter far from the scene of disaster. remained in the vicinity of the wreck i until relieved by the City of Topeka. TELLS HOW HE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON THE ATTEMPT yAHLO!:NmA. AND A MAP SHOWING WHERE THE UNFORTUNATE VESSEL WENT The on ashore and when the Queen arrived at the British found awaiting him orders to proceed immediately to the scene of the wreck. As many passengers as wished to do o landed at Victoria and were taken care of returned. A number of passengers ac- companied the Queen on her trip to the scene of the disaster. Before leaving Victoria Captain Cous- ins learned that the wrecked steamship was the Valencia. As the Valencia had gone wshore in waters with which Cap- tain Cousins had no familiar acquain- tance, the services were enlisted of two Canadian pilots—men well acquainted with every shoal and reef on the Van- couver the eccentricities ‘which her port. Before she got to Victoria word was received CZAR N SLAYS WIFE OF A MILLIONATRE Shoots When De- - | mand for Money Is Refused. Tragedy Occurs on the Porch of Woman's Home. o Man Boat. Murderer, a Former Coachman of Victim, Is Pursued and Captured. Steamship Com- 111- Special Dispatch to The Call, LOS "ANGELES, Jan. —Mrs. C. A Canfleld, wife of multi-millionaire and oil magnate C. A. Canfield, and a prominent society woman of Los Angeles, was shot | and almest instantly killed to-night while sitting on the front porch of her residence at 503 South Alvarado street in the fash- lonable section of the city. Her siayer was Morris Buck, a former family coach- man, who is in custody. According to his own story, related to the officer who captured him, Buck wrote to Mrs. Canfleld, soliciting an interview and demanding the payment of a large sum of money which he clatmedl to be due him. He sald his letter received no re- sponse and he deteymined to seek a per- sonal interview with Mrs, Canfleld. He arrived at the Canfleld mansion about 5:40 this evening and found Mrs. Canfield sitting on the front porch. When he re- newed his demand for cash she ordered him off the premises. s A servant of the household started to- 1 ward him and Buck drew a pistol from his pocket. Mrs. Canfield grabbed the pistol and attempted to wrest it from him. During the scuffle he pulled the trigger of the weapon and the bullet struck Mrs. Canfleld in the breast and she fell back on the porch. Officers who arrested Buck after a chase of several blocks are convinced that the man is sane. According to the ver- sion of neighbors who witnessed a portion of the tragedy, Buck first shot Mrs. Can- field in the breast, and when she fell back on the porch he leaned over and deliber- ately fired another shot into her abdomen, The first shot went directly through the heart. His victim lived about twenty minutes. Neighbors and others, including officers, chased the murderer several blocks before he was run down, during which time he was fired at by two of his pursuers, both of whom missed their aim. The man finally turned from the street and ran into the boathouse at West Lake Park. De- tective Foster followed and found him cowering’ beneath a counter in the build- ing. e pulled him our, dlsarmed him and took him to the police station. Om his person, in addition to the pistol with ‘which he had done the killing, a 38-caliber revolver, was found a long dirK knife, sharpened to a razor edge, and several loose cartridges. There was serious talk of lynching the murderer and a mob of several hundred persons was prepared to wreak personal vengeance upon him had he not been hustled off by the detectives. Buck is about 28 years old, and lttle s known of him since he was coachman in the Can- fleld family. C. A. Canfleld left home a few days age in a private car for an inspection of ofl properties in Mexico. He was aceom- panied by two of his young daughters, 12 and 14 years of age. Telegrams have o the wreck as he dared—nearer of a to help in the ‘The Queen TO RESCUE Seactle this left trip Queen had regulay to that a steamship was on the Vancouver Island coast, Columbia port Captain Cousins by the company until the Queen Island coast and familiar with f -tides and cur- With information that the Valencia e AR was four les west of Car- | Special Cablegram ow manah light, the Queen left Victoria at| Yok Heruid Ty 5:30 p. ins tells the following story: “When we- reached the vicinity of m. last Tuesday. Captain Cous- e LONDON, Jan. 27.—Is madness infec- tious? Do the bacilll exist and can mad- where we supposed the wreck was it ness be cured by attacking these bactlii? ‘was too dark for us to do anything. Llnn Ford Robertson and Dr. McRae of strong souths “At daylight on Wednesday we start- ed for naled the lighthouse mph‘i.hm for the Carmanah light. We sig- the position of the wreck. ‘weather | year 2000 persons in theé asylums then was quite clear. in country died of this disease. Its “They signaled that the wroek lay | ca exact nature, notwith- eighteen miles to the westward. When ‘we| had gone twelve miles we discov- sered the Valencia on the beach. thing was submerged except the affer house and the after end of the hurri- cane deck. Fore and main masts and the smokestack were standing. We could see what we thought were people I in the main rigging and on the hurri- | cane deck aft. Every- | whe any special relationship to general pa- “Shortly after we saw her the Va- | probable. - ( lencia fired three guns. It was too rough for us to attempt to reacHf her. We walited for half an hour, when the British the tug LOSE SIGHT OF WRECK. ' “By this time a thick ing, which completely king steamer Salvor and came along. i ‘was fall- ut the beach 27.—Vietor Challen Jeannette Stiles of