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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23
Fate of Three Men Who
Lose Control of a
SailbOat.
CapSized in the Rapids and
Swept Into the Roaring
Abyss.
Five Thousand Spectators Witness
the Tragedy. Powerless to Add
the Victims.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, Aug. % -
This afternoon three men were swept to
death over the brink of Horseshoe Falls.
Eve thousand people witnessed the awful
occurrence, powerless 10 aid the victims
who were in q small saiiboat of the clinker
fashion.
The spectators first noticed that the
craft was further down the river than such
boats usually go. No one then, however.
anticipated fata lending, but faster and
farther down the stream e boat drifted
with the current The sails were not
working effectively or else those in the
boat knew little about sailing. The posi-
ton OF the boat was nearer the Canadian
shore and for it the occupants seemed
heading. When the first reef and first
line of breakers were met those on the
shore realized the danger and crowded to
the edge OF the river TO watch breatblessly.
Then the three occupants fully realized
their danger and two of the men got the
oars out and began pulling with all their
strength, but their efforts were fruitless
They had gone too far with the current
and as the boat plunged over another reef
it was capsized and the three half-crazed
human beings were thrown into the
white-capped waters.
On one OF the Dufferin Islands stood
Thomas Young, Chief of the Ontario
police, noted for his daring. He had been
an observer of the danger to the boat and
its occupants, and his hope was that he
might in some way aid them, but when
the boat capsized it was sevepty-f five
yards off from where Chief Young stood.
II saw the boat capsize," said he, land
the three men thrown into the water One
OF the men gra bbed another as though
determined to save him. The other man
swan with great strength and bravery
toward the shore, and would have reached
it had the falls not been so near. Both
he and the others who had disappeared
before were swept over the falls
The boat was carried by the current into
the head Of one of the islands, where it
was soon surrounded py crowd OF peo-
pie, many of whom carried home pieces
as souvenirs of The tragedy they witnessed.
On one piece OF an oar picked up after
the accident the letters IN. P" were
marked. The boat was not from this
port, and the con- lusion is that it came
from further up the stream or from one of
the numerous Sunday parties on The
islands in the navigable portion OF the
river.
The three victims were Frank Weber, 40
years old, of Buffalo. who leaves a wife
and three children; Warren Bush, q
years old, of Chicago, and Charles Glas-
ner, % years old, of Chicago. The bodies
will not be recovered probably for some
days, if ever.
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STOLE WHEELS BY WHOLESALE.
Arrest of Young Attorney of Omaha
Who Was the Chief of q Band of
Bicycle Thieves.

OMAHA, NEB., Aug. PA. R. Smith,
Omaha, is in Jail an acknowledged forger,
bicycle thief and all-round associate of
dangerous crooks. For year he has been
leading dual lie, and none of his nu-
merous associates in respectable circles
suspected anything wrong. He had offices
in the New York Life building, and for a
month dozens of wheels belonging to ii e
lawyers of that building have been stolen
in mysterious manner, and no one could
understand how the room IN which the
wheels were kept could be entered.
Now it is explained since Smith had a
key. He became 80 bold that Saturday
he took seven high grade wheels from the
room, pawned two of them in Omaha and
shipped the others to Chicago auction
dealers. The same day he forged promi-
nent business mans name to 5000 check
and got it cashed. He was just starting
to the Klondike when arrested. One OF
the wheels pawned here got him into
trouble. In his pockets were found lists
of auction dealers in Chicago. st. Louis
and Kansas City, and notes showing he
had shipped them 277 wheels since Jan
uary l. These wheels are supposed to
have been stolen here and elsewhere and
shipped to Smith, who was head of an OIL
ganized gang of bicycle thieves. Smith
confessed all when arrested. He came
here year ago from Doyleston, Pa,
where he is highly connected.
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MANY OUTFITS LOST.
Bad Condition of the White Pass
Trail From Skaguay Where Gold
Seekers Are StrugzIing

SEATTLE, WASH. Aug. 22-Possibly
the best idea of the condition of the White
Pass trail from Skaguay is given in let
ter from Duke Prigmore received in this
city yesterday. 1t was brought down by
the steamer Starr. After leaving camp
al Skaguay MIR. Pr. gmore says:
THE first three miles is a fairly good
wagon road, which leads to the skaguay
River, a rather shallow but very swift
stream. There the miners have erected an
improvised bridge, over which only one
horse can be taken at time. Beyond the
bridge for three miles horses and wagons
can be used. DEVILS Hill is then reached.
The trail is pot over two feet wide here,
while the climb is at an angle of IS de-
grees. AT the summit of the hill horses
are compelled to make a jump of nearly
two feet high, only TO alight on slippery
rock. Further down the trail is a steep
incline, on which logs have been laid,
forming kind of ladder.
After crossing the first hill a half mile
OF fairly good travelling is encountered
when the big hill is reached. The path
over this hill can scarcely be called trail,
as Mr.. Prigmore says it is quite narrow
and at places is almost impossible for
horses The formation is of a soft and
slippery slate rock. The trail winds
crookedly around the hill or rather noun
tain, while below it sheers off 500 feet 10
the river. At this locality many horses
and packs have been lost. 1t is almost
impossible for horses to pack any consid-
cradle amount of supplies around this
bluff. After traversing several miles of
this kind of road the big marsh is
reached.
Here the packers become frightened, as
a horse will either founder and roll in the
mud until he gives up from sheer exhaus-
ton, or else loses the pack or breaks his
leg. This bog is one and half miles long.
and many OF the miners are here camped
waiting for the winter freeze, so they can
get over it.
A party ahead on the marsh told NJ r
Prigmore that very few had passed them
and they were making but slight progress,
which fact leads him to believe that
scarcely ten parties have thus far this
summer crossed the summit by way of
Skaguay.
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CONFESSION OF THE CREOLE.
Little Doubt That He Committed the
Murder for Which Two Italians
Here Lynched.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 22.-The
confession made yesterday by Antonio
Richards, alias the Creole, that he was
the murderer of the old Spaniard, Joa-
quin Roccena, for whose assassination two
Italians were lynched at Hahnville on
August 8. 1896. and for whose murder the
United States paid an indemnity to the
Italian Government OF $4,000. is likely 10
lead to the reopening of The investipa-
ton into the lynchins.
The two Italians lynched were Salvador
Arena and Giuseppe Van Slarella. At
the same time the other Italian confined
N the same jail at Hahnville, charged
with the murder of Jules Guesmard, was
.ynched.
The authorities of st. Charles Parish
said they had absolute proof, although
circumstantial, OF the guilt of Arena and
Van Siarella. who on more than one occa.
sion had threatened the old Spaniard's
life because he interfered with their bus:-
ness. The Creole gives such ails of The
murder as to leave little doubt of the
truth of the confession. He murdered
Roccena. he says. for robbery, and was
Disguised to find only so cents on his
body. The murder was committed with
an iron rail-, the Creole striking his victim
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LOEG-DI5 LANCE SUPERVISION.
By the Use of Telephones and Meg
aphones Mr.. Stanley Conducted a
Sundays chooI While in Bed.

WICHITA, KANs., Aug. 22.--The only
Sunday-sckool IN the United States ever
conducted by telephone is that connected
was directed to-day by Superin ,endent
w. E. Stanley from his sick bed. The
Sunday school is the largest in Kansas.
and for over twenty years Mr.. Stanley has
served as its superintendent. On July IS
he was thrown from his buggy and sus-
tanned broken thigh. His friends sent
to New York for three megaphones, and
by attaching them to telephones connect
ing Mr.. Stanley's home and the church,
Mr.. Stanley was enabled to hear all that
went on in the church auditorium and 10
make his voice audible to the people as
sem bled there. He requested the pastor,
DR.. w. B. Slutz, to lead in pray r, and an
nounced the songs.
After the class Rotations he asked
James Allison, a cousin of President Nc
Kinley, 10 conduct the lesson review.
When the regular routine had been COM
pleted, Mr.. Stanley talked to the school,
praising the good work done, and thank.
ing his friends for the pleasure the expert
ment had afforded him.
The singing by the Sunday.school gave
came to him over the wire without losing
any of its power and sweetness. Tonight
Mr.. Stanley in his bed listened to the SER
mon by Dr.. Ssutz, and scores of people,
not only in this city, but in Hutchin son,
Arkansas City. Winfield and Wellington,
also en- joyed it by telephone.
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circles. He is veteran of both the Civil
and Mexican wars

circles. He is veteran of both the Civil
and Mexican wars.
Another interesting figure on the Queen
is John Muir of California, the noted
mountain-climber and explorer, after
whom the famous Muir glacier in Alaska
was named. He will go over the white
trail from Skaguay and expects to reach
the Yukon before the winter freeze.
Word was received this afternoon from
Nanaimo that the steamer Rosalie had
put in there for coal and would reach
Seattle about O'Clock to- morrow morn
ing. The Rosalie comes from Dyea and
Skaguay and it is presumed will have
some interesting news.
The schooner Moonlight got away this
evening for Dyea and Skaguay with about
seventy-tve passengers and a cargo OF
lumber. The Moonlight will be towed by
the tug J. NJ. Colman, and it is expected
that the trip will he made in six days.
Tie lumber being taken I'D to Skaguay by
the Moonlight belongs to J. B. Rogers
and w. Nichols, and is to be used to build
a hotel. Captain Cantillion will be in
charge of the schooner.
1t is announced that Saturday next the
barkentine BlakeIey will enter the Alaska
trade TO be sent north by Martin & Co.,
charterers of the Moonlight. She has
capacity for 400 passengers, but will only
taEe 800 and Will take large cargo of
lumber and supplies. The rates will be
the same as the Moonlight's. The Blake
ley has been engaged in the Goldfish trade
to Boring Sea, and is the vessel over
which so much trouble was had in the
United States courts over year ago, and
finally became the property of Tracy Rob-
ertson.
The small steamer Detroitis being over
hauled and made ready to send north
Wednesday to be used between Juneau
and Skaguay. The big steamer william
cite is due from Dyea tomorrow. The
City of Topeka is expected in on Tuesday,
although both vessels may be day late.
A number OF passengers have been Sc
cured in Seattle for the steamer Bristol,
which leaves Victoria Tuesday morning
with $50 passengers fer the Yukon via ST.
Michael. Men from st. Louis, Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, New York and other Eastern
points will leave here tomorrow night on
the steamer City of Seattle for Victoria,
where they will be transferred.
A statement was made by a passenger
on the Bristol, booked from CHICAGO, and
friend of P. B. Weare, of the North
American Transportation and Trading
Company. in which he said: II was told
by Mr.. Weare to get to Seattle and take
the first steamer for St. Michael and the
Yukon, as l would probably have until
the middle of October to get up the river;
that the rush in the spring would surpass
the most vivid imagination, and that all
the boats possible TO be built between now
and spring could not handle the business,
and rates, instead of being lower. or even
remaining as at present, would more than
likely be considerably higher
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Announce That They
Will Establish Uni
VerSal Anarchy.
Circular Warning the Powers
to Look to the Safety of
Their Subjects.
Resolve to Die Rather Than Endure
Ing at Trafalgar Square.

CONSTANTINOPLE. TURKEY. Aug. %.
The ambassadors here recently received
sim ultaneously a circular signed by the
Armenian revolutionary committee. COM
planning that the powers had done 10th
ing for their nation. which was approach
ing ruin. Continuing, the. circular said:
Europe has remained mute ct the
tears mothers have shed over murdered
children. We have therefore resolved to
estab lish universal anarchy on the 31st of
August, the day the destroyer of our ma
tion assembled the throne. Take measures
for the safety of your fellow subjects,
whom we do not wish to harm. We are
all resolved to die rather than continue
our suffering"
LONDON, ENG. Aug. ga mass meet
ing was held at Trafalgar Square this aft
ernoon to protest against the cruel treat
ment of prisoners in Spanish jails. OF
the 5000 people assembled, the majority
were drawn by curiosity and seemed COM
pletely indifferent to the object of the
prom oters of the gathering. A large
mum Der OF detectives and policemen were
scattered through the crowd.
The conductors of the meeting were
chiefly London socialists who desire to
disavow any connection with the an
archists. One speaker who had the te-
nerity to declare that he was an anarchist
found himself interrupted by companion
on the platform, who vigorously pulled
his coat tails and apparently warned him
not to further commit him self IN that d.
rection.
Only two or three Spaniards, recently
deported from Spain, charged with being
anarchists. were present. 1t was stated
that the remainder had already left Eng
land.
Letters of sympathy were read from
Henri Rochefort James Keir Hardie and
others.
The best speakers earnestly and effect
ivelv denounced the cruelties perpe trated
by the Spaniards, while others declared
their intention to make England ring and
10 set Europe ahame. This tickled the
crowd, with the exception OF some of the
less enthusiastic.
DR.. Aveling made violent attack on
Canovas, who. he declared, had been exc
cuted, while Coli was murdered.
Toward the close of the meeting an op-
position gathering was started near by.
Those taking part became boisterous and
finally mobbed and hooted the anti-Spain
speakers. One OF the latter. being struck,
felled his assailant to the ground. The
police protected those whom the Spanish
sympathizers would have moDbed had it
not been for them. For a time 1t looked
like riot, but order was soon restored.
While the trouble was going on at the
meeting one Of the refugees, named Cana,
and some OF his comrades, were mobbed
in another direction. The police rescued
them and sent them to their lodgings in a
cab.
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STAMP C0LLeCTOhS TO MEET.
Delegates on the Way to Boston to
attend the Convention of the
PbIdteEc Association.

BOSTON, MASS, Aug. 22.-Stamp COL
lectors from all over the country will flock
to Boston this week to attend the twelfth
annual convention OF the American
Philatelic Association. The hottest fight
of the convention will be the contest for
the next meeting place, San Franc cisco
making the biggest bid. New YORK will
put III strong opposition. The president
OF :he association is ex-Mayor Frank +.
Oiney OF Providence, who has collection
valued at 500, 900. The three vice. pre- ST.
dents are all Boston men; the secretary is
George F. Bard of Muscatin, Iowa; assist
ant secretary. h. B. Phillips OF Berkeley,
Cal. international secretary. E. Doe blin
of Pittsburg; treasurer. N. w. Chandler
of Collinsvile. ILL.,, and the superintend-
ent of sales and purchasing agent is 6. N.
Mekeel of st. Louis.
The convention will last three days. 1t
will be called TO order in Wesleyan Hall,
Sc Brom field street, Tuesday, at 10 A. NJ.
At the first days's session committees will
be appointed, officers reports received
and new officers chosen. On Wednesday
the delegates will enjoy an all days ex-
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NOW

There is absolutely no charge for show
ing you what others have said about it.
They ex press them selves. too. in familiar
language. Something you can easily
understand. When man says that he
is better than he has been in twenty
years" you know what he means. When
he says 1.-THE drains have stopped" you
understand that. 1t might add few
years to your life if you were to look into
this matter more and more closely. If
you will call at the great Institute you
and see some thousands of grateful let
ters. Are you conoeited enough to
imagine that your case is the worst OF all }
1t is not. 1t is durable. Cure it
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From Anene he by B anms efR aAng

cursion. On Thursday the business of the
convention will be compile ted. Special
entertainment will be provided for the
ladies. The delegates will be quartered
principally at the Revere and Norfolk
houses.
One of the matters of business to come
up at the convention is reincorporation to
secure change of name. One reason for
the desire to change the society's name is
the tendency of many people to use
lhe initials A. P. A., which are identi-
cal with another well-known organiza-
ton. There will be few changes in the
officers. The president and vice-presi-
dents will undoubtedly be reelected, but
there is contest for the position of secre.
tary and treasurer.
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NOW.

TN SETTING OUT TO MAKE YOUR
l. fortune if you see things with a clear
eye you will admit that you waste no
time over anything. You take quite
good deal of care though that you do not
get misled. Is the journey OF life less i'm
portant than your chase after fortunef
No money on earth will repay you Tor
system utterly depleted. Is yours getting
depleted d? The truth is Yes" You
know that when you read this. Why not
take little care in getting your system
rebuilt. The grand "HUDYAN" treat
ment for weakening manhood is open for
your most exsctiDg queries. Do not be
fooIed-ask about it, and ask about it
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DEATHS OF MANY EXILES.

Perish So Fast at Spanish Penal
Station That Collins Gtrs Omt.
LIVERPOOL, ENG, Aug. 22.-The Brit
ish steamer Niger has arrived here from
the island OF Fernando Pc, on the west
coast of Africa, where is situated one of
the Spanish penal stations. She left
Fernando 20 July 10. at which time there
were reports CT Cuban and Philippine ex-
lies dying so rapidly that cofins could
not be obtained in which to bury them.
The authorities supplied some, the bot
toms of which opened on hinges. In these
the bodies would be placed and lowered
into the earth. Then by manipulation
of the ropes the coffin would be raised,
the weight of the body causing the bot tom
to open and the corpse to drop to the bot
tom of the grave. Then the coffin would
be hauled out to be used again when oc.
casion arose.
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TO TAKE 200 GIRLS.
Ralph K Montmorency OF Seattle,
Fitting Out Novel Expedi-
ton In Boston,

ton In Boston.
BOSTON, MASS, Aug. 22.-Ralph K.
Montmorency of Seattle is here on
novel expedition. He is going to take
ship load OF handsome young Boston girls
10 the Klondike-about2 200 Of them, he e1-
pects. In an intervied to-day he said:
II am going 10 take ship load of young
Boston girls to Alaska during the coming
season. / shall take them as passengers.
If they choose to get married as soon as
they get there, that's their own lookout,
Or they can teach school, set up tailor
ing establishments, become hotel house.
keepers, or do missionary work among
the Indians. for all care l shall char
ter stanch steam craft and make the
trip around the Horn and up across the
Pacific 10 Bering Sea and to the mouth of
the Yukon. As soon as the river is clear
of ice shall push right up to the god
fields. 1t may take five months. shall
take as much freight as possible
my main object is to get coed steam
vessel around 10 the Pacific to do a gen.
eral transportation business between
Puget Sound and Alaskan ports next
summer. You can't get a craft OF any SORT
out there now for love or money. With
200 young women passengers at $3.50
piece, making $4,000, and something on
the freight, 1 shall make good profit
A Boston friend of the Seattle man twit-
ted him with being the Eastern agent OF
L. NJ. keenan, of Ola, South Dakota, in his
Alaska matrimonial business. With char
acteristic Western frankness, Mr.. Montmo-
rency vigorously denied this. 81 consider
that South Dakotan's scheme to take un-
suspeciing girls to the Klondike and sell
them like cattle as perfectly Infamous"
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from behind and killing. as he Always
did, with single blow.
The body was then drawn by ropet
a neighboring ditch and partly buried
there. Creole to-day clearly iden hneo
the weapon with which the murder was
committed and which has been in the pos
session OF the Sheriff ever since.
Creole seems to be a monstroslty. hi
father was hanged for murder. All his
No urders have been brutal and cruel, and
all but one were committed for ROBBERY.
He is considerably over feet tall, weighs
$50 pounds and is giant in strength. a
single blow from him with ciuo or par
has always been fatal. There seems to be
no doubt OF the truth of the confession. as
the bodies OF four of his victims have AL
ready been disinterred where he mao
buried them.
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with a drove of pack mules and burros.
which they hope TO dispose of TO miners
going into the Trinity mines. For the
past week they have been buying pack
animals and now have about thirty on
hand. If they do not dispose OF all their
animals in Trinity County they will push
on to the Klondike, going overland to
juneau,
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HALIFAX. Nova SEQ TIA, Aug. 22-The
Boring Sea Claims Commission opens IN
this city on Tuesday. Sir Charles Upper,
Hon. F. Peters and E. V. Bodweli, coun-
sci represe ting the sealers and Canadian
Government, are here. Don M. Dickin-
SON, one OF the counsel representing the
United States, has also arrived. On Tues
day Judge William Putnam, the United
States commissioner. and Judge King, the
Canadian commissioner, will arrive and
omen cOurt.
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1ha shootina or a Judae.

WOODSTOCK, VI, Aug. 22.-Thomas
o. Seaver, Judge of the Probate Court, was
shot through the right lung this morning
by William Lawrencs because the Judge
had issued restraining order against
Lawrence involving the custody of the
latter's child. The wound is dangerous.