The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 1

through the classified section Vi sI tE -5" l- SS VOL. XCI. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER -12, 1909. SEVENTY-EIGHT PAGES. No.

165. T-SLA VER TURNS AN Protest Sent to Nagel Boycott Cable to China HOLDS UP GLEASONS STORE CHINESE HY TO BOYCOTT AMERICAN GOODS BURGLAR ARRESTED AT WQRK POSED PHOTO OP DRUG STORE, SHOWING PSCUDO BHNDIT HOLDING UP NOLAND Angry at the Determination of Mm. mm E3 fN3 the Government to Use the Detention Sheds at Angel Island to House Newcomers, 'I 1 1 Lri FIVE HOURS AFTER HDLO UP: LOOKS EIKE flflMDlT SOUGHT During Dru Store Robbery Six Cower Behind Counter While Prescription Clerk Hands Over $200 to Man With Gun. PHONES THREAT TO KILL DOCTOR -J Following it the text of telegram of protest against the opening of the Angel Island Immigration Station, tent by local Chinese: "Kindly defer action on proposed removal of detention stations for examination of Chinese immigrants from San Francisco to Angel Island pending receipt from here of petition protesting against such removal. Petition will be forwarded from here within three days.

"CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, "Look Tin Eli, Secretary." Following is the message from Xagcl to the Chamber of Commerce: "Cannot defer action in the absence of the President, but will take this matter up immediately upon his return. "CHARLES NAGEL." Following is the text of message sent by locat Chinese to merchants in China, in which boycott against American goods is threatened "Await cablegram about the opening of station on. Angel Island. If it is opened, declare day of mourning and establish PETITION SENT TO TAFT Oriental Mprcantile Body Ca- bles to China to Stop. Purchasing From Americans if Authorities Do Not Recede, CHINESE boycott of American A goods more drastic and comprehensive In Its extent than the AMAZING CAREER OP BANDIT one instituted several years ago Is threatened as the result of the announcement of the opening: of the new detention sheds at Angrel Island.

The boycott, if levied, will be "world-wide," far as the Chinese are concerned. boycott." The Chinese of San Francisco and the Chinese of China are hand in glove Boys Fire a Jail To Gain Freedom Huddle in Corner Waiting for Blaze to Burn Exit Through the Walls. The Hold-Up At 8.10 last night the bandit trailed into the Glcason-Coumecn drug store, pointed a pistol at Dr. Xoland and commanded him to throw up his hands. Xoland opened the cash register and threw more than $200 in cash on the counter.

Dr. Glcason, in the prescription room, recognized the bandit as he walked in, and cried a teaming to four friends who were with him. The robber scooped up all but fifty-fire dollars and walked out. The Chase Harry Cournecn and T. Bittcrson ran from the prescription department as the bandit walked out and chased him down Market street.

At Marshall Square avenue he broke into a run. The two pursuers shouted to Policeman Gaylord and all thy-ce followed in hot pursuit. I'p to City Hall avenue ran the hold-up man with his gun drawn, down to Larkin street, up Larkin to Birch avenue. Policeman Gaylord kept on his trail up the alley to Polk street, south on Polk to Grove and out Grove to Van Xcss, where the highwayman disappeared. The Record a Week Ago He made his first appearance when he held up Dr.

Edward II. Glcason in the Glcason-Courncen store at the point of a revolver and forced him to hand over $50. A few minutes later he tried to hold-up David B. Greene in his drug store at Franklin and Turk.strccts, but was frightened aicay by the screams of Mrs. Greene.

He ran from there to the Bums' Hanunan baths in Eddy street, near Van Xess, dashed in and killed the night manager, William II. Schneider. He fled to Van Xcss avenue, and at Ellis street held up William L. Hawkins, who got the best of a scuffle and turned him over to the crowd. He took advantage of an opportunity and escaped.

in the fight to prevent the place e'f detention of Chinese Immigrants from being changed from the mainland to the island. The Chinese Six Companies has begun an active campaign in the matter, and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce has addressed a petition to president Taft and telegrams to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and have been advised In return that the new detention station on the island will epen, notwithstanding their protest. Signs of Unfriendliness. Not only do the Chinese object to the opening -of; the new statloiir ut they say in an official communication to President Taft, without reaching after diplomatic language, that the power it is, proposed Congress will confer on the immigration authorities to issue subpenas and punish for contempt is indicative of an unfriendly attitude toward China and Chinese. In an effort to burn his way to freedom through the thin walls of the Elmhurst lockup yesterday, Lloyd Gup-tll, a 17-year-old youth arrested for burglary, set' tire to a pile of rubbish in the little Jail ana was apprehended just in time to prevent the success of his scheme.

GuptU and Henry Thomas, aged, 11 years, broke Into the home of E. Baker in the Avalon tract in Elm hurst yesterday morning and stol various articles. GuptU was arrested yesterday afternoon by Policeman Gil bcrt. This was the first arrest made by the Oakland Police Department in the nevrly annexed district. So serious is the situation ana so Interested are the Chinese of this city zjCj.

--Wt' JJ In the matter that former Judge Car The boys were taken to the Elmhurst lockup and Captain of Police Lynch and Policeman McKeegan went out In the police automobile from Oakland to BULLETIN. At 1:30 o'clock this morning the police arrested a man who had brokea Into the Waldorf saloon in Market street. They say he answers the description of the slayer-bandit, but the man strenuously denied any connection with the Gleason hold-up. He said he broke into the saloon because his wife and seven children were starving. He gave his name as Frank Burke.

roll Cook, counsel for the Chinese Six Companies, presented the whole case to the new Chinese Minister, Chang Yin- take them to the City As Lynch and McKeegan approached the jail they saw smoke issuing from the win Tang, at the St. Francis Hotel yegter dow. They opened the door and in the jday and enlisted his support the boys huddled in a far corner, ETURNIXG to the same place from which he started the career of station on the maln- i light to obtain ready to make a break for liberty as soon as the blaze should have eaten terror a week ago that ended in the killing of one man and the holding up of four others, the loite highwayman who shot William land for the housing of Incoming Chi nese. its way through the wooden wall. EAST KNOCKS OUT GRANEY The envoy of the Empire assured Judge Cook that he would take the H.

Schneider in the Ilammam baths eiitercd the Gleason-Courneen drug store, 1282 Market street, last night and obtained $-00 at the point of a matter up with President Taft per revolver in the presence of seven persons. Eddie In Isocount cr With Cold Weather, Half an hour later, while the entire city was being searched for him. sonally immediately upon his arrival at Washington, and that every effort but la Recovering. Sixvinl by wire, tl) longest In th world. would be made to nave me govern- the highwayman called up Dr.

Edward II. Gleason on the telephone and told him that he would kill him if lie did not find more money in the cash register when he returned to the drug store the next time. NONCHALANT IN SPITE OF CROWD. NEW YORK, December 11. Eddie Graney has been critically ill with con IJICllt If this fails, Judge Cook, as the rep gestion of the lungs, and at one time it was thought that he might not re resentative of the Chinese people of With the police of a half dozen States trying to learn his identity, tha cover.

Graney underestimated the pen otrative powers of the Eastern cold weather, and went about town during slayer of Schneider walked up to the counter of the drug store while Market street was streaming with holiday shoppers and proceeded to hold up the place for the second time with a nonchalance that appeared to be as the recent cold snap without an over coat and wearing the same lightweight the United States, may be called upon to go as a special envoy to Washington to lay the facts In the case before the President and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and to insist on behalf of the Chinese that adequate accommodations for their housing upon arrival here be provided. clothing as In San-Francisco. When he studied as it was startling. awoke on Wednesday morning he found Gleason, who was held up by the man Saturday week, recognized him it difficult to breathe. A high fever de as he entered the store and retreated, cautioning everybody in the place to seek places of safety in rear apartments.

veloped and he grew rapidly worse. Physicians for two days were in almost constant attendance on the San Advises a Boycott. Walking up to Henry Xoland, a prescription clerk, the bandit poked a steel-blue revolver in his face and ordered him to throw up his hands. Franciscan. To-day Graney's fever has abated and to-night he was reported "I don't wan't any foolishness from you," said the man.

"Up with out of danger and In the center is a picture of the bandit, drawn from descriptions. On either side are the men icho were in the store when it teas held vp. On the left are Edward Briggs (above), Dr. Glcason and II. E.

Xoland. On the right are Dr. Thomas Bcddison (above), George Dillon and T. II. Courvccr.

your hands quick." MILLIONAIRE'S SON SLAIN BEGINS AT ONCE TO HAND OUT COIN. Employee Sboota Manager of Instead of complying with the command, Xoland walked to the cash i i i i ij Acre Cattle Ranch. register, pulled open tne urawer ana ncgan iu nanuiuis sum anj silver coins on the counter. He was thoroughly frightened, and the maa COimCT'S FOfiTUflE Politics In Census Is Cause for Dismissal LEBEAU (3. December 11.

David George Mackenzie, son of Murdo 101 TO Oil COOK, GREELY 00ITS CLUB kept the revolver trained on him as the money was being shelled out in scattered disorder. Mackenzie, the millionaire cattleman of Trinidad, was shot and killed The Chinese Chamber of Commerce has been in communication with various chambers of commerce throughout China and have advised a boycott of American goods if the Washington government insists on opening the new station on the island. The following message has been sent to chambers of commerce in the empire: "Await cablegram about the opening of station on Angel Island. If it opened declare day of mourning and establish a boycott." The Chinese are not only excited; they are Incensed over the proposed opening of the new detention station. While they say the sheds at the Pa- clflo Mail Dock, at First and Brannan streets are unsanitary and necessary of Improvement, they insist that the ll REACH shortly before noon to-day in this Taft Calls in Supervisors and city.

The man who did the Bhootlrfg, Bud" Stevens, was placed under ar rest. Tells Them What's What in Coming Enumeration. Special by leued win, tb longot in tba world. Murdo Mackenzie is a former presi NEW YORK, December 11. Alphonse Stephanl, the wealthy "dead" man in New York State, is fast becoming a dent of the National Livestock Association and is now head of the Matador Land Cattle Co.

He is a personal friend of former President Roosevelt. Special Ijj IhkJ wire, tiit Jonetst in th world. NEW YORK, December 11. The Cook-Peary controversy has led to the resignation of General A. W.

Greely from the Explorers' Club, of which he was president before Commander Peary was elected to" that position. Peary is now president. General Grcely's letter of resigna millionaire, although he cannot spend cent of his great income. In the Supreme Court to-day Justice Young Mackenzie for the last four WASHINGTON, December 11. President Taft to-day served notice on ambitious members of Congress, that the newly organized machinery for the taking of the coming census Is not to be utilized for political ends.

He The man began pocketing the coin hurriedly with his free hand whi! he kept Xoland covered with the other. He had gathered up almost a'J of the money, with the exception of $50. when J. H. Courneen, Gleason's partner in the drug business, poked his head from behind a portiere separating the store from the prescription department.

"Dont give him the shouted Courneen to Poland, who wa continuing to heap gold and silver pieces on the counter. Courneen's voice appeared to startle the hold-up man, who glanced up hurriedly and stopped filling his pockets. "I'LL STAND FOR NO MONKEY BUSINESS." "Be sure that none pf you follow me," he shouted loudly, shitting his glance from Xoland to the compartment screened by the portiere. "Ill stand no monkey business from any of you." Shoving his revolver into the right pocket of his sack coat, the mn then walked deliberately to the door, glanced up and down Market street carefully, and sauntered off leisurely. Mixing with the crowd of shoppers in the brilliantly lighted street, tha Zabury granted the petition of the years had been in charge of a ranch of 600.000 acres, on the Cheyenne River Trust Company of America, legal trus- inconveniences to which they will have ee of Stephani's property, to sell the tion was a brief, formal document in which no reason for his action was addressed eighty-five supervisors of A.o submit in the event the new station lghts or warrants he possesses to sub the census at the executive office and told them plainly if they used their scribe to new stock of the Pennsyl- given, but it Is a matter of general knowledge among men Interested i reservation.

In South Dakota. "Bud" Stevens was an old employee of the Matador Land Cattle and a pensioner aboVit the place. I SON FOR BLACKMA I LE ania Railroad Company, New York offices or if they permitted the enumerators directly under them to further Central and Chicago and Northwestern. exploration that General Greely thinks the Explorers' Club Is dominated by As a life convict In uannemora rlson, where lie has spent me lasi Peary partisans. political ends, he would remove them promptly.

ighteen years, Stephanl has accumu- When Dr. Cook first claimed to have uted a fortune estimated at over "Many of you most of you have discovered the North Polo the Ex Woman Who Threatened Mra. Thlppa With Dynamite la Sentenced. 500.000. plorers' Club invited him to a dinner to been recommended by Congressmen, said the President, "and it may be St-ephanl was sentenced to prison ror fe for murdering former Judge Mur ray, whom he accused or treating mm nfalrly in business dealings.

mis that some of those Congressmen will come to you and expect because they did recommend you that you owe them mother died soon afterwards, leaving is opened are more galling. Fear Long Detention. They assert that because of the distance from this city they will be unable to get white witnesses to vouch for their friends and relatives arriving and their families will have to remain the island perhaps for a week or so while the red tape of inspection is being unwound. They charge that they are being discriminated against as no nation has ever been discriminated against. "How would you like to have your wife and children kept on Angel Island for a week or two weeks or perhaps three months while the Inspectors are d- "(Continued on Page 99, Column 2.) im 125,000.

His lamer also leu mm highwayman continued to walk until he got to Marshall Square avenue, block away. The poor light afforded by the glimmering street lamps hera appeared to give him the opportunity that he as waiting for. and he brka into a run, just as two of the seven men that had been in the drug stora when he entered had started in pursuit. Patrolman Henry C. Gaylcr was impressed into the chase, and followed after the man until he had wound through a lull dozen blocks and lost him something In the way of selecting the 10.0U0.

With this small capital tephnni conceived the plan of mak- men as enumerators who will help ng Wall street yield mm a revenue them in their Congressional elections. that might one day be the means of be given while Hudson-Fulon celebration was on. Then Commander Peary came out with his claim of discovery and assertion that Dr. Cook was an I in poster and the Peary faction In the cluo succeeded in having the proposed dinner called off. General Greely expressed his opinion at the time in unmistakable terms.

General Greely, himself an Arctic explorer of experience and reputation, has stood stanohly by Dr. Cook In this controversy. The announcement ot the i oHlgiiH tl.ui was made to-day by Secretary Harry D. Welsh DENVER, December II. Mrs.

Allen F. Read, recently convicted of assault with intent to blackmail Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps of Denver of $10,000, was this afternoon sentenced to not less than on year not; more than eighteen years In the penitentiary. Mrs. Read, who attempted to frighten Mrs.

Phipps by displaying two sticks of dynamite during an automobile ride, took her sentence stoically. Under the sentence she will be subject a parole at the end of a year. "You have got to select the men who pening the prison doors lor nlm. from you think will do the work, and If you me to time lie wrote to relatives art- self near Van Xess avenue and Grove street. catch them doing political work I wish lslng them to make certain invest ments for him.

Prom the nrst his Tingling telephone wires had coin eyed i.ews ot trie s'artur-g of the murderer and highwayman to pclice headquarters in the mean udg-ment was correct. Some or the you to remove them, just as I will remove you If I catch you doing political work." It Is business. I am not ronts- he placed in banK in London, time, and within twenty minutes after he hsd left the drug store almoit Paris and Frankfort. Others he invested in railroad stocks. quarreling with the Congressmen..