The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1906, Page 1

San Francisco and Monday morning, becoming feir during ‘he day; light northwest wind. vicinity—Foggy R PUBLISHED | N ALHAMBRA—‘‘Michael Strogoff.” ‘A Strenucus Life." CALIFORNIA — “Oriental Bur- ALCAZAR— lesquers."” COLUMBIA—'"Woodland.” CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matines. GRAND—"“Way Down Bast." MAJESTIC—"Sweet Nell of O1d Novelist Dixon on the Negro Problem. Advocates Ban- ishment of the negro United fifty years and home, Rev. held the ceting citement cheers of the policemen pastor of m to arrest ipted the pro- shown by endeavored to of Mr. Dixon, and ‘Shame during g ws ho replied to the ar- n- here is only one solution of the ne- ch a race war with ided, and th ¥y colonization Dixon. “This tried accomplished out his years. The negro was at the a plan for try ashington: He t ever passed aires of New ¥ bat to him for T ¥ the is 4000 years d the wh and he will al- avs For that space of time he 5 one of the richest and most E in the world and he . pr way; never bullt s; never struc showed negro or we He will not e with a repeati make good te equality LERGYMAN FAVORS KILLING INCURABLES Rector Indorses hie Suggestion of Dr. }\b'mp\ivl'. 1 'ri;.l‘ said further that '€ pain caused by in- in e administering ould produce a painless e a humane act. He ex- ef that Maude Bailington t in her position that per- beneath wrecks, with es- uld be executed with of a 3 would favor a board of all ordinary cases, the t three physicians, three three persons of other LOYAL TRIBESMEN DEFEATED BY MOROCCAN PRETENDER Rival of the Sul in North m Ravages Region ADRID, ch fro Jan. 28.—According to a rth coast of Moroeco, the pretender, Bu Hammara, N vaged the Riff region, a coast ¢ of heights and mountains in Northern Morocco, bordering on the Mediterranean, wild and difficult of ac- ess a1d in great part inhabited by the RIff, Berbers. There was much fight- in which the loyal Khabyie Xribes- we e iably beaten. ohanmed el Torres, the Minister of reign Affairs, who heads the Mo- ca ation at Algericas, learn- g that n tion at Marchical was en- gaged principally in furnishing the pre- tender wia arms and munitions of war, as sent u telegram to his son order- pe dlspatch of the warship Turki w netmctions that it bombard the gactory —_——— Three Killed in Explosion. WINNIPEG, Man, Jan. 28—By an explosion ol dypamite on the Canadian Pacific Rairoad construction near ¥.rwatin yesterday three men were killed and foir injured. The men were engaged in (ouble-tracking when a premature exjlosion took place. PREDICTS WAR OF TH Presi- | Melilla, the Spanishigea- | ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. = TIVOLI—*The Brigande.” / ) 3 e s miuo e = T — % SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RACES P A | — AUTHOR WHO PREDICTS RACE WAR IN THIS COUNTRY DURING OB TO Bt IN FRANCE Mystery Envelops Rocketeller's Moves. Not Seen Since He De- parted Southward in December. Even the Household Servants Have No Knowledge of His Whereabouts. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. —It was ru- mored at John D. Rockefeller's home at Pocantico Hill to-night that Rocke- feller was in France and not down in North Carolina or Virginia, as has been persistently suggested by his asso- ciates. Rocketelle; daughter. Mrs. Charles A. Strong, is very ill in a sani- tarium at Cannes, ¥rance, and certain close friends of billionaire are con- vinced that he was recently summoned to her bedside and that he really has been out of America for three or four weeks at least. ystery has surrounded Rockefeller's recent movements. Four or five weeks prior to January 1 he left New York, osteneibly for Summerville, N. C, or Hot Springs, Va. He was at Hot Springs last month, but since that time little or nothing has been known of his movements. When Dr. William R. Harper, presi- dent of the University of Chicago, died {three weeks ago it was expected that Rockefeller would go to Chicago to at- tend the funeral, but he did not. He sent messages of condolentes, conveyed through his son, John D. I}ockefeller Jr., and no inkling was giver as to his whereabouts. The people on Rockefeller's estate at Lakewood and at his Cleveland home {are completely in the dark as to his movements. It had been generally as- sumed that Rockefeller's prolonged absence was entirely due to the Mis- souri subpenas. It was said in Lakewood to-day that Rockefeller had told an imtimate friend late in December that he had been planning to sail for France on January | 6. Tt would be hard for him to take passage on a steamship in New York laua escape observation, but the theory He advanced that he may have sailed from Philadelphia or Boston and thus got away without being noticed. —————— s | SIX HUNDRED PHYSICIANS TO STUDY SEA SICKNESS | = Will Embark Upon Voyage and Experi- ment With a Variety of Suggested Cures. Special Cablegram to The Call and Ny « York Herald. Copyright, 1906, uy'ih;e New York Herald Publishing’ Company. PARIS, Jan. 2% — 1t will be a case of “eure thyself” next April on the occa- sion of the medical congress in Lis- bon. The Ligue Contre e Mal de Mer will charter a steamship which will start from Hamburg and call at Ant- werp, Dover and Cherbourg on the way to Portugal. It is expected that about $00 physician 11 accept the in- vitation to sail In steamship to test the hundred odd methods of over- coming sea sickness submitted to the notiee of the league. | FOR WATER ' San Pablo Creek's| | Stream Bone of | the water rights on San Pablo Creek, { supply for the city of Oakland. | County have been invoked in the battle. | and the powerful resources of the Contra | Costa Water Company, | physical | clatm in the stream’s waters. OMPANIES WAGE WAR Contention. Realty Syndicate Files an Appropriation Unexpectedly. Contra Costa Concern Imme- diately- Gives Battle and Armed Men Patrol. OAKLAND, Jan. 28.—War has broken out between the Contra Costa Water Company and the Realty Syndicate over which form the.basis of a possible water Armed deputy sheriffs, sworn In by Eheriff Veale of Contra Costa County, have gone to the scene of disturbance on the borders of the creek, three or four miles north of San Pablo. The courts of Contra Costa On the one side is ranged W. J. Dingee the corporatfon which supplies Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley and the outlying suburbs with water. Against this organization of capi- tal is the Realty Syndicate, represented in the persons of F. M. Smith, the Borax King, and F. C. Havens, the executive head of the great' land-owning institu- tion. The first blow was struck by Havens, who filed in the County Clerk’s offite at Martinez an appropriation of 8000 inches of water dally from San Pablo Creek. Barely was the document on the records than a large force of men and equipmént suddenly appeared along the creek banks where the strcam flows threugh the Clan- cy estate ganch. At this peint is locgted the only avatlable site for a dam on the creek, where an enormous storage reser- voir might be consfructed. Here the workmen yesterday began building a fence across the ranch up to the banks of the creek, as if to assert by | sign possession to the lands which might carry title to a riparian This work proceeded rapidly, and was weil along toward completion when the Contra Costa Water Compary officials gave bhattle. As quickly as the papers could be pre- | pared an application for an injunction to | restrain the Realty Syndicate, F. C. Ha- vens, F. M. Smith and a host of John Doe | defendants was filed before Superior Judge Wells yesterday at Martinez. This restraining order was to prevent those named from erecting fences, making ex- cavations, building a dam, or in any other way disturbing the topography of the Claney ranch, or any other lands along the creek in which ownership is claimed by the Contra Costa Water Company. It | was evident from tire tenor of the re- straining order that the Contra Costa | company had fathomed a plan on the | part of the Havens and the other inter- ested gapitalists to go ahead at once to- ward constructing a large water supply system. The Contra Costa Water Company has {no mind to permit a new rival to enter | the field so easily. The company, which acquired about six years ago large hold- ings on San Pablo Creek, has retained the law firms of Cope & Morrison of San | Francisco .and M. C. Chapman of Gak- | land to fight the battla whith has been | opened in the courts. The lands in dispute are a part of the famous Sobrante rancho, title to which after many years of contest In the courts has been settled. Years of struggling, much blvodshed and much treasure have been expended by the litigants. Many of them lived and died before the tangle over this'no man's land was on the road to a final settlement. The Sobrante was the_overplus left after the Spanish grants were allotted, and through this one runs, almost splitting it in the middle, S8an Pablo Creek. From the San Pablo hills to the bay north of San Pablo and about ten miles north from Oakland flows this stream. | Point, standing off Eoniila Point, apd ac- It is asserted that while the Contra Costa Company has been gathering up lands below, the Realty Syndicate has Dbeen absorbing lands above the dam site, But it has also developed that the Contra Costa Water Company owns only seven- ninths of the Claney ranch, where the site has been located, while the other two-ninths is in the name of Sousa, a holding practically coneeded to be that of the Realty Syndicate. Below the Contra i Costa Water Company asserts ownership to most of the Holdings on both sides of the creek for two and a half or three miles. Tt is upon this the fight against the Havens appropriation will be largely based. That appropriation of 8000 inches is equivalent to nearly 120,000,000 gallons of water a day, a flow said to be enor- mously beyond the run in San Pablo Creek. / With the contest transferred to - the courts of Contra Costa County, both sides are resting, but watchful. While the shot-- gun patrol of the invaders has been met by equally well-armed forces from the Sheriff’s office under authority of the court to prevent any unseemly outbreak, the contestants have made no.move more fermidable than to prepare for the con- test in the courts. This contest follows closely upon a simi- lar fight which has opened hetween the two corporations over riparian rights in Sausal Creek, which flows througl What the War Cost Japan.' TOKIO, Jan. 28.—An official report submitted to the Diét shows that the | actual outlay for the war from the be- ginning of hostilities to end in September last was: For $495.000,000; for the navy, ! ‘was spent on his family. A bullet from VANCOUVER COAST LURES SIX MORE 70 DEATH. The bodies of cighteen victims of the Valencia horror have been recovered. Vessels are patrolling the ocean and Indians are watching along the beach, but there is little,hope that any other survivors will be found. The schooner Ella G turned turtle near where the Valencia went down met their death yesterday on the rocky coast. e " Captain Alexander McLean, notorious as the commander of the pirate Carmencita, | and her crew of six men was lost. was among those drowned. Six more hardy mariners e i ! Fishing Vessel Turns|| Turtle and Crew Is Drowned. CRAFT SINKS NEAR VALENCIA ot TS Notorious Pirate Cap- tain McLean Is e VICTORIA, B.C., Jan. %8.—From Bam- field comes the report that the fishing schooner Ella G turned turtle off Bonilla | Point, Coast of Vancouver, and all hands, | €lx men, were drowned. The notorious | sealer, Captain Alexanger McLean, was | on board. Bontlla Point Is not far from | the scenc of the wheck of the \'(\!encla.l ‘The schooner Eila G left Victoma on Sat- urday, the 20th, on a fishing cruise off the Vancouver Islund coast, in the vicinity of the en e of the Straits. She was seen Tuesday last by settlers at Carmanah cording to those who then watclied her she did not pass out and appeared to be | acting strangely. rumors that she had been lost, advices coming from Bamfield Creek to the ef-} fect that the schooner had turned turtle and all on board—six men—were iost. The Ela G, after she was salved from the beach at Clayoquot, had & large amount of ballast of cement and pig iron re- moved, and it is not thought the ballast was placed properly in the vessel. Captain Alexander McLean, who was interested in the ownership of the vessel, was the sealer who became notorious as a result of sealing ralGs and a recent il- licit sealing cruise to Bering Sea in the schooner. Carmencita. . “Jack” London, the foveligs, stated that McLean was the foundation for the character of en. the, “Sea Walf" of his ¢l of that name; and McLean had since been known on the Pacific Coast as 'The Sea Woll.” ‘With a brother, Daniel McLean,. .who died some years ago, he cngaged in ‘seal- ing on the Pacific Coast for many years, and on one occasion was seized by the Russian cruiser Aleut when sealing off the Copper Islands with the American schooner James Hamilton Lewis, and he then most daringly tried to disable the cruiser by throwing a cable about her propeller. The attempt did not. succeed, and he and his crew were imprisoned. He was responsible for a number of sealing raide, the last being in August of 1904, when he tried to rald Copper Island and was driven off by shore guards, two of his men beéing shot. It was in cons quence of this that the United States s¢ cret service men started to work, and or- ders were given for McLean's arrest when he was absent on his voyage last year |- SEA SLOWLY CING UP BODIES with a crew of thirty-one men from San Francisco. The owners at San Francisco were indicted and are now on bail, and a warrant was issued for McLean, which was never.served, as he remained at Vic- toria, where the Carmencita, now in port, was sold to pay debts. An effort made by the Washington Government fo have McLean arrested for illleit sealing failed, | ahd he remained here until his last fatal voyage. Besides MeLean there were on the Ella G Captain;Fred Forest. George Dunphy, Frank Bitler, Hamry Anderson and a Japanese cook. MclLean's wife and daugh- ter live In Victoria R A FAENCH DK IS LIST VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 28.—A Inrge bark is within a mile of shore, two and a half miles west of Carmanah, setting It is feared she will be lost. The wvessel is beileved to be the Amiral Corbet, a Prench bark. The bark was in sight all day and just after sundown drifted around a point and out of sight. It is not known If she went on the rocks or is anchored. She was in a dnngerous position. The steamer Sal- vor has gone to her assistance. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The Amiral Corbet is a French bark of 1740 tons and is bound for Tacoma, from San Francisco, whence she salled Janu- ary 17. KILLS HIMSELF AFTER LOVED ONES ARE GO N | Former Lumberman of Humboldt County Puts Eud to His Lifes 5 in Denver. DENVER, Jau. 28 —Miles K. Johnson Killed himself yesterday, disheartenéd by many misfortunes. Within two vears his wife and three children have died from econsumption, his last son dying' about siXx months age. A daugh- ter in Los Angeles is at the point of death from consumption. About six months ago Johnson wis attacked by the disease which had killed nearly all his loved ones. Sey- cral years ago Johnson a prosper- ous lumberman of Humboldt County, Cal. When a daughter became ill, he e to Colorado iR the hope that the| imate would save her. His fortune a revolver ended his Iife. Among Dead. ! i Last night there were ! g | | i YESTERDAY WH VESSEL TLE OFF THE FORMER CAPTAIN OF THE PIRATE SHIP CARME! ON WHICH HE AST OF VANCOUVER ISLAN ‘A, WHO LOST HIS LIFE AS SAILING TURNED TUR- OF VICTING Organized Parties Patrol Beach and Vessels Search for Dead Near Scene of Wreck. | . VICTORIA, Jan. 28.—Organized partles are making everw effort to secure all the bodies of victims of the Valencia disaster that can be found. Eighteen have recov- 80 far, and with a calmer sea attempts were made to land near the scene of the wreck gnd take the bodles on tugs, it being impossible to take the corpses over the difficult trails. The tug Lorne left to-night, taking a party to as- gist in the”search, and the Wyadde is golng from Port Townsend with another crew to assist or relleve the tug Bahada. which has some fishing dories on board for use in surf landing. D. Logan, the lineman, who is engaged in searching in the neighborhood of the wreck, with the three unidentified bodles found this after- noon, has elght corpses in all, which are being taken to a small bay, and he éx- peets to have therh taken off to-morrow by the tug Lorne. A - The fishing launch Shamrock from To- quart fishing station reached Bamfield this evening with the bodies found on Tritchett Island, In the broken reef group in the center of -Barley Sound, one body being, it is believed, that of Wilson, the man who became insane and jumped from the life raft, later picked up by the steamship Salver off Turtle Island, with the bodies of two men still on it Three of the cable staff searched the peaches ail around. Cape Beale all day, but found nothing. The Indians in the vielnity have all ‘been advised to keep a ‘good lookout #nd to report all bodies they can find without delay.’ Fearing a dis- position of the Indians to loot the bodies ‘which came ashore the land parties are watching them. It is more probable that the Indians would turn their attention to the freight coming ashore than the bodies, however. Of the elghteen bodies that have been to date but five have been identi- fle The Chief of Police here is in re- c of many desc , which he is m‘ in the hope of identifying the | ular trip from Stockton. ing Angel Island at little more thai | hait speed, as the weather was very thick. | regular manner. but they could see only a few feet ahead through the fog. up through the mist. try tried to sheer off from the vessel. The unwieldy spond quickly to the helm. struck the schooner broadsige. There was a ripping of timbers as the bow- sprit of the Aalaskan deckhouse. knocked '[ONE DROWNED IN COLLISION ONTHE BAY Schooner Is Run Down by Steam- er in Fog, Deckhand Is Lost and Another Fatally Injured. —— | | Captain of J. D. Peters Says That the Smaller Vessel Showed No Light. In the dense fog that hung over the bay last night the river steamer J. D. Peters crashed into the scow schooner Alaskan, which was lying at anchor,off Angel Island. schooner tore off a rear deck house of | the steamer, hurling Robert Hanna. a | deckk hand, ingo the water and dashing C. W. Dennis a chiiery. Hanna was drowned and Den- nis ‘sustaimed injuries that will result in his death. The bowsprit eof the it a plece of miy~ Though her side was stove in, the Peters managed to reach her dock at | Washington street. The Alaskan was not badly injured. Captain C. P. Me- | Murtry blames the disaster on the men of the Alaskay. He declared that there was ne Mght of any description display- ed on' the schoonmer. The Peters was returning on her reg- She was pas: Lookouts were posted in tha Suddenly the outline of a ship loomed Captain MeMur- river boat did net re- The Peters tore away the Hanna wmust have Dbeen unconsclous before he was for he was a good Dennis was found tangled in a_pile | hurled into the ba: swimmer. | of the wreckage with his head crushed ol | iIn shortly after the Peters sheered the United States Government. Saturday afterpoon Marine Inspector Turner and Inspector Whitney began their hearimg. two witnesses, First Assistant Engineer T. F. Carrick and Boatswain Tim J. Me- Carthy, being examined. On account of | previous engagements the inspectors were obliged ta postpone the hearing until Mon- day merning. Carrick, the first witness called, sald he was in the engine-room when the vessel first struck the rocks. He declared that nothing went wrong in the engine-room while he remained there, and it was not until the second shock that the water be- gan to pour into the fire-room. 4 “I think it was about ten minutes afts the first shock that we were driven from the firercom to the main deck,” he said. “I_managed to turn the safety valves off before I went to the deck t6 prevent an explosion of the boilers.” Carrick said that heavy weather did not set in until early iIn the morning. The witness sald that Captaln Jehnson was very cgol throughout and when the ves- sel first struck remained on the bridge supervising affairs. Carrick was in charge of boat No. 7, the second” one launched. Five members of the crew.- two passengers and _himseif were in it. ‘‘The boat was filled before it was low- ered.” he sald. “and some ome evidently cut the tackle away and this preefpitated us Into the water. I think I was the oniy one aboard the boat who was saved. We were in the dark and I managed to grasp l'l:le and was drawn back om to the Shlp /. <o The question was asked: “Did ‘the falls and tackle work all | away frem the schooner. not missed until sonie time afterward. A boat was lowersd hMmn was found. leak and Captain to abanden the search and procced to this eity. Emergency the Central Emergency Hospital, whers he was operated on, but there hope of his recovery. He is 45 years old and a member of the Sailors’ Unionx in good standing. Hanna was 33 yeara old and unmarrie@. slip this lost. her ings i i i Hanna was but mo trace of “Thg Beters vegan o was forced to the Harbor then hurried to was taken Hospital, Hanna is ne The Peters was badly damaged by the collision and will need considerable overhauling before she can go on her run again. Aside from the loss of her bowsprit the schoonmer Wwas not aged and nome of her crew were in= DK dam- AFOUL OF SLIP i i well filled with pas~ a wildveeramble on the decks The fears of the passengers allayed, however, when the quickly backed off and steered e H f ik al R