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'T J8 VOL. CIV. MONDAY SAN FRANCISCO. APRIL 10. 1916 EIGHTEEN PAGES.

MONDAY No. 101. ViilaEscapesOl 3 1 in SROOSEVELTl HOLLAND ORDERS SHIP IN U. S. TO CEASE LOADING iH 119 nENCi ABANDON 2 Kiddies Buried As Playtime Cave Collapses; 1 Dies Youngsters Dig Hole in Back Yard Sand Plot at Southern Seaside Resort; Engulfed.

2 BRQTHERSIN ANARCHS' 1 SEER, on If BACK FOR II in FIGHT U. S. Br International News Sxeyics LOS ANGELES. April A playtime cave dug In the sand bank of a Venice bungalow suddenly became a tomb to-day for 13-year-old Philip Gilbert, son of Vernon P. Gilbert, well known Los Angeles contractor.

Helen Gilbert, aged 8, narrowly escaped the fate of her brother, but was rescued Just In time to save her life. The Gilbert family went to Venice for the week-end and occupied a bungalow at 81 Ruth avenue. This forenoon Philip and his sister undertook to dig a cave In the backyard. The sand Is soft there and soon they had excavated a hole seven feet deep. Both children went standing In the bottom of the hole and apparently Philip was stooping to dig deeper when the sides of the hole suddenly caved In.

Soon afterward the parents called the children to lunch, got no response and a search revealed Helen's hair sticking above the sand that half filled the hole. Frantically the parents and neighbors dug out both children. Heten was unconscious, but later revived and will recover. Philip was suffocated and was dead when he was pulled out of the hole. Judge A.

L. Frick Dies Following Operation Abraham Lincoln Frick, at one time Superior Judge of Alameda county, one of the best known criminal attorneys the State, died at the Providence Hospital in Oakland last evening following an operation performed over a month ago. His death was not unexpected. He was taken suddenly 111 and rushed from court room to hospital, while handling the case of Adolph Uhl, wealthy clubman, held on a charge of manslaughter for the death of Bees J. Smith, whom he ran over with his automobile.

'Suffrage Special' Starts on Its Tour Br Intienational Niwi Sitvtci WASHINGTON, April 9. The "suffrage special," with 23 repre sentatives of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage aboard, left Washington late to-day for a 88-day tour of the "free" or voting States. Their mission is to complete the formation of a woman voters' party by consolidating the Congressional Union branches In those States into a group pledged to support nationwide suffrage. Curtain Hits Calve In Triumphant Exit While acknowledging the tumul tuous applause which greeted her final number at the Orpheum Theatr last night, Mme. Emma Calve, opera singer, was caught under the de scendlng curtain, which struck her on the shoulder.

She was assisted from the stage by her husband, M. Alnor Gasparrl, and went at once to her apartments at Stanford Court The services of a physician were found unnecetwy, The slight Injury will not affect her engagement Gorky Seriously III; Attack of Pneumonia LONDON. April 9. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says that reports reaching Holland through Berlin are to the effect that Maxim Gorky, the Russian author. Is suffering from pneumonia at Moscow.

His condition Is declared to be alarming. Threat of Lynching Against the Men Who Shot Constable of Auburn in the Back Trio Holds Up Entire Town, Threatening Death After Felling Officer in the Court House Mount Horses and. Flee to the Hills as Great Army of Man Hunters Rushes in Pursuit Br IwTF (NATIONAL NtWf SeEVICE AUBURN. April 9. Out through the gaps in the foothills Into the wild slopes that lead to the high Sierras of Placer county, several hundred men are riding to-night In a man hunt that will add another chapter to the history of outlaw adventure In Canifomla.

The trailers are out to avenge the shooting of "Big Dip," as Constable F. H. Dependener Is lovingly known through this countryside where he has served as a peace officer for 37 years. Lynching Is threatened If his assailants are caught. He was shot to-night while the bells were ringing and the village streets were dotted with church-going groups.

He made a brave fight In an uneven duel In the courthouse with the notorious Cox brothers, James and Albert, and Jesse Hutchinson, a Mexican, who began shooting at him almost without warning after he had refused to release Henry Cox, another brother, who had been arrested for disturbing the peace. HAO OFFERED RELEASE. The brothers had made their plea and Dependener "I'll let him go It you promise to take him home." This did not suit the Cox brothers. As Dependener turned away they drew their guns. The constable sensed his danger and drew his own Shots rang out In quick succession and the courthouse room was filled with smoke.

Dependener was the only one hit He was shot four times and Is dying. The three outlaws ran down the streets, brandishing their revolvers and shouting: "Keep out of the way or we'll kill you." They ran to their horses und rode down the canyon road that Adolph Weber took in 1904 after robbing the bank of 5,000. RIDERS RUSH TO MOUNTS. Church was forgotten. All the riders and hunters and ranchmen in town rushed for their mounts and hastily saddled.

Under the lead of Sheriff McCauley a hundred men took up the trail before 9 o'clock. The posse was augmented during the night The sheriff telephoned to all the surrounding towns and asked for volunteers to Join in the man hunt When dawn came the hills were well patrolled by armed men, ready to shoot The sheriff gave out this warning: "Don't take a chance with them. Shoot to kill." The hills are wild and afford many know every foot of the. ground, are heavily armed and the search for them 1 dangerous. Albert Cox Is 23 years old and has been employed as a ranch hand by James Dudley of Newcastle.

James is 82 years old. He has also been working In that community. Clairvoyant Who Mads Big Fortune, Then Fled, Is Under Charge of Officerj Expected to Arrive in City To-Day Said to Have Confessed His Share In Swindling Antonio Spaletti, Dairyman, Who Tells His Experience to Grand Jury Walton, Also Known as Cavitt, Is One of "Big Five," Which Is Said to Have Cleaned Up $500,000 by Operations Here DR. ALEXANDER WALTON, "clairvoyant metaphysician," will return to San Francisco tonight to face trial on the charge of conspiring to fleece Antonio Spaletti, an aged Swiss dairyman, out of $6, 100. He la not returning voluntarily.

Close by his side on the Journey across the continent on the Overland Limited has been Detective Michael Burke in an attitude of watchful waiting. Waltot nearly escaped in Chicago. He fled from San Francisco after the Spaletti exposure, In which he Is concerned with William Castle, another of the "big five" of San Francisco clairvoyants who has been driven out of business. MAKES HARD FIGHT TO BEAT EXTRADITION He arrived In Chicago February II. Assistant District Attorney Charles Brennan, filed Information with the Chicago police and Walton was arrested on February 24.

He then began a desperate legal battle to defeat extradition proceedings to have him returned to California. The fugitive displayed plenty of money in Chicago. He hired the best criminal attorneys he could find and fought In the courts for Ave weeks. He lost and Burke started West with him. Brennan will go to Sacramento today to meet Burke and Walton.

Walton formerly had an office at 1J8S Sutter street. He Is said to have admitted complicity In the Spaletti swindling. According to Brennan. Walton Is also said to have given valuable Information concerning the Inside workings of the ring of clairvoyants. METHOD WAS TO SELL MINING STOCKS Walton Is also known as Herbert Cavitt He has been operating In San Francisco for several years.

Hit method was to Inveigle patrons Into buying stocks In mines. He had large bundles of mining stocks on hand. They are practically worthless. Investigations made by the District Attorney's office have disclosed the fact that the clairvoyant ring In San Francisco cleaned up nearly $500,000 during the last three years. WIDE SCATTERING OF MYSTIC HEALERS Wilson.

Carranza Mexican Officials Declare U. S. Troops Must Halt; Expect Army to Be Withdrawn. CHICAGO, April 10. Th "Tribune" prints the following from a ttaff correspondent: EL PASO (Texas), April 9 Andres Garcia, official consul of President Carranza of Mexico stationed at and other high Carranza officials, are responsible for -the following statements madX to me in an exclusive interview to night: Francisco Villa has escaped any chance of being captured by the American punitive expedition.

He has crossed into safety a dead line that was established between President Wilson of the United States and President Carranza of Mexico. That dead line is the southern boundary of the State of Chihuahua and the northern boundary of the State of Durango. Carranza officials expect the American troops to be withdrawn from Mexico at once under the provisions of this agreement This information came out for the first time to-night. As Garcia is recognized as the official mouthpiece of the de facto government of Mexico it is taken as strong corroboration of the rumors current on the border for several days that Washington would recall the troops from Mexico. The dead line which Garcia says the American troops were not to cross lies between the towns of Baborigame and Ceballos, extending east and west across a large part of Mexico.

Villa has crossed this line, according to information received here to-night. He is reported to have met General Juan Banderas at Rosario, Durango, to-day. Juan 'Banderas is General Emiliano Zapata's right hand man and was sent from Cuemavaca by his chief to achieve the escape of the "lion of the north." General Pershing's command is now 350 miles south of the American border, and it has only eighty miles to go before it reaches the Durango boundary. Turkey Continues Pleas for Peace BY ANDRE BEAUMONT. I S.

F. Examines and London TiLictArs Exclusive Cable Seeticx MILAN, April 9. News is received hfere from Berne that the Turkish under secretary for foreign affairs and Ressad Pasha have wired for Osman Effendl, former Turkish minister of posts, to join them immediately. They are said to have already had conversations with unofficial delegates regarding proposals for a separate peace. Papen in Holland On Secret Mission LONDON, April 10, 5:02 a.

m. Captain Franz von Papen, former military attache of the German embassy at Washington, whose recall was requested by the United States government last year, has been sent from Berlin on a secret service mis sion to Holland, according to the "Dally Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent Sweden Talks War; Fears Spring Drive Br International Kiwi Seetice COPENHAGEN, April 9. The "Dagensnyheder" to-day says that great events are Imminent in the war. It adds that in view of the coming offensive by the entente allies it will be difficult for Sweden to remain neutral. 15 German Warcraft Sighted Off Norway (SnecUl to the 8n FrtndKD "Eilminr" and London AALESUND (Norway), April 9 Fifteen German vjjfshlps have been I sighted steaming to the north of Bergen.

Germany has resumed her shipping trade, with the west coast of Norway. Norway Women Win Right to Join Council CHRISTLANIA. April 8. via Yon-don, April 9. The Storthing has agreed by 91 votes to 14 to an amendment of the fundamental laws enabling women to be appointed members cf the Council of State.

THE steamer Van der Dam, ailing under the flag of Holland, and at present lying in the port of New York, has been peremptorily ordered by Che-valier van Rappard, Dutch Ambassador at Washington, to stop loading. This news was communicated by telegram yesterday to Joseph di Giorgio of Sacramento and New York, who is the principal charterer of the vessel. Di Giorgio is staying at the Hotel St. Francis. He is the president of the Earl Fruit Company, chairman of the board of directors of the Tropical Fruit Company and a director of the Atlantic Fruit Company.

He has just returned from a visit to Central America. Divers Caplured In Nits; Added to England Fleet Lady of Famous Ship Builderf Herej Says Brit- ains Navy Is Bigger. That a great number of German submarines have been caught in the British steel wire undersea nets, and that contrary to the general belief, these submarines have not gone to the bottom, but have been raised and added to the British navy, was stated last night by Lady Yarrow of London, who Is staying at the CUft Hotel. Lady Tarrow is ths wife of Sir Alfred Yarrow, the famous British shipbuilder. Sir Alfred Is the head of the great Yarrow Shipbuilding Works and was knighted on January 1, 1916.

The honor was conferred on him by King George in recognition of the services he has rendered Urea Britain In building numerous CorpJiestroyen and submarines for the British navy since the war commenced. Lady Yarrow was touring the United States and was staying at Pasadena when the news reached her that her husband had been knighted, and that she was "Her Ladyship" thenceforward. At the Clift Hotel she remarked with a twinkle in her eye: "When the news reached 'me people seemed to expect that I would have changed somewhat One adventurous spirit even went so far as to describe the way in which I wore my coronet as if I already possessed such a commodity!" Lady Yarrow stated that her husband's shipyards are still working feverishly, turning out large numbers of torpedo destroyers. BLAME TEUTONS FOR DUTCH INVASION TALE BY NORTHGROVE COX Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. THE HAGUE, April 9.

The International situation here Is still one of extreme delicacy. So far as the recent rumors of the landing of the British are concerned the Dutch press openly and by name accuses the Chancellor of the German legation at The Hague and the German Consul General at Amsterdam with responsibility for their origin. Neither has yet uttered a denial. Meanwhile the real danger Is not from outside the country, but from the inside. The Dutch shipping Interests, by far the most powerful in the cotmtry, are thoroughly aroused by tne recent marine losses ana are pressing the government to energetic measures.

The Amsterdam "Handelsblad," commenting on the German denial of responsibility for the torpedoing of the Palembang, says: "Either a German submarine torpedoed the Palembang and the Tu-bantla, according to the known methods of German submarine warfare, or a British submarine first In the case of the Tubantia, deliberately and, with a German torpedo, sank a large passenger liner In the dead of night and, second. In the case of the Palembang, torpedoed a peaceful ship off our. own coast and with danger to one of our own war vessels. "Must we again say which we believe Is the most probable?" BRITISH SHIP SEIZURE CAUSES DUTCH STIR BERLIN, April 9, wireless to Say ville. "Public opinion In Holland, says the Overseas News Agency, "Is agitated over the retention by the British authorities since March 22 In I the Downs of the Dutch steamer Lodewljk Van Nassau, with a cargo of salt petre from Chile.

The Dutch fanners fear that the cargo will ar-iiv Urt late for their ttUs spring. EMHLISI Plotters Against P. Morgan Include the Former President in Carnival of Killing Crime Specialists Work Here Getting Closer to Men Who Plan Killings Headquarters Said to Be Located; Want to Capture Assailants Almost Red Handed Theodore Roosevelt and William Porter, a partner in the house of are additional proposed victims In the gigantic anarchist plot to assassinate American banking barons and munitions, manufacturers, it was learned here yesterday. Thsse, with John Plerpont Morgan, Thomas William Lamont Charles M. Schwab and several others whose names are not yet disclosed, are 'the chosen sacrifices in the projected death carnival planned by the sub- tlest brains In the anarchio fraternity, it is stated on high authority.

ANARCHISTS ARE TRACED. The counter-web being woven by the most expert crime specialists, directly employed by Morgan and working in all parts of the country, Including San Francisco, is stated to be nearly complete. Despite their astute and trail-covering methods, the headquarters of the leaders in the plot are said to have ben traced to a large city of the Middle West It is stated, that one" or two of the directing hjads might be arrested any day, but the detectives and experts are purposely staying their hand for a reason which Is keenly dramatic in its possibilities. They desire to make arrests at the moment of the "attempt GIVING PLOTTERS ROPE. "Of what avail would it be to arrest even an acknowledged anarchist if there is notiiing but a 'threatening letter charge to lodge against him?" asked one of th several experts working in San Francisco on the case.

"A lenient Judge might let him off with a brief sentence. "The supreme delicacy of the task now in hand lies in giving ttese men all the rope they can use short of a successful assault The threatened men must be protected, absolutely. But the assassins must be caught at the very moment of their attempt It is no child's play, nor do we play against children." While most of the men known so far as the proposed prey of the anarchists are directly connected with the financing or munitioning of the entente allies in the European war, belligerent sympathies are wholly absent from the motives Involved. Nearly all of the letters, which are Incontrovertlbly from the same general anarchistic source, express the warning: "War or no war we will bring about your death. It Is so de.

1 creei DONE ON SAME MACHINE. The typewritten letters to Morgan, Lamont and Porter, written on stationery of the St Francis Hotel here and of the Hotel Bacon at Portland, have been definitely established to have been typed on the same machine. Months of laborious comparisons were necessary to establish this. What Is more, it is known posi tively that the same person wrote all three letters. Theodor Kytk, handwriting expert and crime specialist who admits being retained In the case by "Eastern Interests" presumably the house of Morgan yesterday explained at his laboratory the more superficial details of his unique means of detecting the identity of letter senders.

In handling the paper upon which a letter is written somewhere a thumb or finger print is left By use of steam fumes from a chemical which reacts photographically upon human perspiration a letter may be placed for a short time over such fumes and each finger print will be made visible as on a photographic plate. Later a "fixing" process makes these lnerasible. Man Bleeds to Death As Teeth Are Pulled GREAT FALLS (Mont). April 9. John W.

Atkinson, a tailor, died here to-day from loss of blood resulting from his having had several teeth extracted last Friday. SALIENT Army of 120,000 Escapes Bloody Trap Unknown to Enemy; Ver-. dun Line Straightened Out From Avocourt to Cumieres General Petain's Troops Capture 150 Yards' of Trenches Near Douaumont and Repulse Crown Prince's Attacks With Losses Denfe Columns Swept Away by Hurricane of Fire When Teutons Hurl Forward in Mass Formation, Gain Post and Lose It By International Ntwi Suvicr LONDON, April 9. The French have abandoned the Bethln-court salient in whose angle, it has been reported, there was an army of 120,000 men. according to the midnight official statement from Paris to-night The Bethincourt salient was a sharp angle of the French front that projected Into the German line of at tack for a depth of about two miles.

The village of Bethincourt was Its apex and a. seven-mile line from Avocourt on the west to Cumieres, on the east through the Mort Homme region, would form its base. It has been called the "sack," and the German drives In this sector have been to alose the neck of the sack and bag the French defenders. The evacuation was carried out last night and throughout to-day the Germans have furiously attacked the new French line, which has been straightened out from Avocourt to Cumieres. HURRICANE OF FIRE HALTS ATTACK The assault was not confined to the flattened angle, but extended with the utmost violence along the whole front west of the Meuse, with an artillery continuation on the east bank of the river as far as Douaumont and Vaux.

The center of the heaviest attacks, however, was the Cumieres-Mort Homme front Here the Germans once more resumed the mass formation which they have to a degree abandoned for the past fortnight According to the French reports, it was a fatal resumption, for the dense columns were swept away by machine gun fire, and the Germans were driven back, leaving of dead. Everywhere, Indeed, along the whole line the Germans were repulsed with heavy losses except at one point That was northeast of Avocourt and there the French admit the Germans succeeded in entering the French line, only, however, to be immediately ejected the counter-attack. 150 YARDS TRENCHES TAKEN BY FRENCH Meantime, the capture by a French troop of about 150 yards of a German trench southwest of Douaumont village northeast of Verdun was announced by the French war office this afternoon. Progress In communicating trenches south of the village also was reported. The Germans made two hand grenade attacks on French positions In the Calllette wood In this region but both were repulsed.

The German official statement is silent on these Important operations, stating that the situation both at Bethincourt and Douaumont remains unchanged. King Spends Birthday With Men in Trenches Br Inthwatiosai Niwi Siitici PARIS, April 9. King Albert spent his birthday anniversary with his troops at the front The other day the Duke of Ven-dome said to him: "Everybouy thinks you are at Havre with the Queen." It is a fact that King Albert has not left the remaining unoccupied Belgian soil during the past eighteen months except when he accompanied President Polncare on trips to the French front The Queen has been absent' from the King's side offiy four days when she took the royal children to Big Bandit Force Between Fugitive and Pursuers May Mean Trap for Dodd's Column) Brigand Upsets Army Plans Driving Hard Into South for Junction With Canuto Reyes, Which Would Give Him Force of Several Thousand Men 9,000 Carranzistas Reported in Position to Hit Columbus Line of Communication in Case of Break With Mexico's Chief EL PASO, April 9. General Ynei Salazar, one cf the best-known of -the former Huerta generals, who has been living here, was reported tonight to have crossed the border with the announced intention of taking up arms against the United States. The information was given to the police by a man who was closely associated with Salazar, and was accepted by them as true, after investigation.

The man who gave the police their information said that some time ago Salazar received a letter from Gen. eral Carranza offering him a command in the field. It was the result of this letter, he said, that Salazar decided to return to Mexico. When Huerta came into power Salazar Wat ona of hia maat aim. easeful field commanders.

He was, however, defeated bv Villa at Parrsl and later came to the United States. He was arrested here and tried three times on charges of conspiring against American neutrality, perjury and gun-running. He was acquitted each time. When the news of the Santa Ysabel massacre reached El Paso a mob attempted to lynch Salazar and he narrowly escaped with his life. These experiences caused him to ooenlv ex press the bitterest feeling against the united states.

Salazar is credited with having a' considerable following in Northern Chihuahua. MEXICO CITY, April 9. The followers of the bandit Francisco Villa have suffered another defeat at the town of San Antonio Debabonoyoa, State of Chihuahua, according to advices received by the War Department. Br Inteenational Kewi StETICE WASHINGTON, April 9. la view of the serious situation irising from Villa's continued flight and the gradual lengthening of the army's line of com- municatlon, General Pershing haa asked General Funston for further Instructions, army officers heard today.

The facts as told in unofficial advices rsachlng Washington are that General Pershing's force has been so reduced by the necessity of maintaining a guard over a 400-mile line of communications and his movements have been so hampered by inability to use the Mexican roads that he Is In a quandary. General Pershing Is understood to have asked one of two things, either that more trops be sent to reinforce his column or that he be given permission to use the railroads to facill- tate the pursuit of Villa. Villa, In the opinion cf array officers, is so far In the interior and his forces have so increased that it cannot be said that the bandits have been dispersed. MOVING TO JOIN GENERAL REYES On the contrary there Is evidence that he is moving forward to a Junction with General Reyes, with the ultimate Intention of Joining Zapata, In which case he may turn and make a stand against the American pursuing force somewhere In the relpn south of Parral. It was indicated by one of the high officers to-night that there is ofMclal news from the border that General Pershing has learned there is a foroa ahead of him.

Beyond this force Over 54,000 Copies of Orchard and Farm were required io fill the demand from subscribers and readers for the April number. This figure sels a new high record for paid-in-advance circulation for Pacific Coast farm papers and is a first class indication of the value of the paper to its former subscribers. Four-fifths of this splendid circulation is concen-, trated in California's richest farming valleys the remainder in adjacent States. It was Antonio Spalettl's story told to the grand Jury that led to the Indictment of the leaders of the ring and started the campaign for the elimination of "clalrvoyancy" as a profitable pursuit In San Francisco. The knowledge that Spaletti had told his story was as a bomb in the camp, and Its explosion was followed by a wide scattering of the mystic healers, metaphysicians, trance me-, dlums, high priests and other exponents of Imaginary magic.

The police have arrested some of the fugitives and are hot on the trail of the others. Spaletti had wrecked his health la the struggle to accumulate the competence that would assure an Independent old age for himself and wife. He placed himself In the care of a physician and was slowly regaining his physical balance when there fell Into his hands the card of William Castle, clairvoyant, on which he read the promise of fortune and health In return for a fee of fifty cents. He had what he thought was a (Continued on Page 6, Column Z) and FARM IRRIOATION Hearst Dldg.t San Francisco. Luther Burhanh's Official Organ.