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VOLUME LXXXII.-NO. 121. POSITIVE PROOFS OF CANNIBALISM Secret of Greely's Camp Revealed by Ghastly Relics. WHATPEARY'S PARTY FOUND. Carved Frozen Remains of a > Man's Thigh Discovered, in the Snow. THIS HASTILY BURIED BY EXPLORERS. _ There Can No Loncer Be Any Doubt That Famishing Men tFed on Human Flesh. BOSTON, MASS., Sept. 29.—Assis • tant Engineer Knight of the Hope says that positive proois of cannibalism were found in Greely's camp by Lieutenant Peary's party. Knight says that when Cape Sabine was reached only the scientists of the party and one or two attendants, to do the rough part of the work, were landed. Before going ashore each of the party was told to expect to find some disagreeable things, but to be prepared to keep silent, forever, if neces sary, as to what was found. All agreed to the proposition, the party was landed and the search began. When it returned aboard it bore a lot of cast-off clothing, empty provision cans, surgical instru ments, etc., and a bit of board bearing the name of "Will Norman," the ice pilot of the party, who died in Brooklyn, N. J V.. a few years ago These things were •} plared in. the- *"***in*-roorrt of the Hope to j dry, while Peary took some other things ! to his cabin. The most important find, however, was not brought on board, but was buried near the camp. It consisted o c the frozen remains of a human right thigh that was found in the snow outside the camp proper, near that place used as a burial ground by the Greely party. This part of a limb was taken from the body at the hip joint, the separation having evidently been made by the use of the knife alone at the hip and knee, for about a foot from the hip joint down the bone was bare, the flesh having apparently been cut away as a butcher cuts a leg of beef. This is in brief the story told by Knight to-day to a CALL correspondent in an Atlantic- av-nue restaurant. Knight at . first was loth to discuss the matter of the / visit to Greely's camp, but he finally said that more was found than anybody had been told of. Then he said: "When Cape Sabine was reached Peary, who was much pleased to have gotten so far, decided to put a party ashore. Only those who lived in the cabin and one or two of the crew, including Assistant Steward Bracker, who had b*en north before, went to the island. They found Greely's camp without any trouble, and then Peary gave orders for a search of the place. Everything was covered with a snow, and it was hard work to find any m thing. Some little tim? was spent before "anything was found.* The first thing to be brought up was an old hat. Then some buttons and the remains of a sur geon's outfit were located. Ail these things was round within the camp proper. '•Outside the camp at some little dis tance was the spot used by Greely's party as a graveyard. Some of the party went i there, but found nothing of importance. • Then one of the men began searching nearer the camp, and in a snow bank found part of a human body. "The attention of t ie scientists was ■called to the matter, and tney said it was beyond doubt part of a human thig t. It had been separated from the body, at the , hip without the bone being broken. One | of the scientists said the man who did the cutting knew his business. The limb below the knee was missing. Part of the flesh was missing for about a foot from the hip joint. It looked as though it had been cut away like a leg of beef is cut. The whole tning was frozen solid, and it probably was that way ever since it was left there, thirteen years ago. This thing was not brought aboard. It was buried some distance from the camp. f "The things that it was decided to A bring aboard were divided into two parts, the one that needed drying being taken to the engine-room, the other to Peary's cabin for the time. Just where they are now I don't know. Everybody on board has been warned to say nothing about that trip several times, but I don't see any harm in telling of it. Every one of The San Francisco Call ATTORNEY McENERNEY Cross-examining the Mayor at the Hearing Before Commissioner Searls. the sailors knew that the Greely party had had a hard time of it up there, and .no one blamed them tor keeping alive any way they could." Assistant Steward Bracker was asked about the trip to Greely's camp. He ad mitted going into Greely's camp, but would only say that oid clothing, buttons, a bit of wood, empty cans, surgical in struments and some other things were found. "What were the other things?" was asked. "Ask Lieutenant Peary; he knows," was Bracker's answer. That was all he would say. Lieutenant Peary was then seen at Parker's. He was very angry over the matter and denied that Knight knew what he was talking about He said: "His story is only a sailor's tale, and nobody should believe it. This is very aggravat ing to me. I have said 1 found nothing. That should settle the matter." The Hope was scheduled to sail from Constitution wharf this afternoon, but it is doubtful if she goes to-night, the load ing, etc., having been delayed by the crowds of visitors. CONNELL'S LETTER. A Survivor of the Greely Expedition Arraigns the Editor of an Evening Shee . RED BLUFF. Cm... Sept. 28— Maurice Connell has issued the following open letter: Editor Evening Bu'klin, Stan Frttaeiteo, Cal— i Sir: The following appears in the editorial coi urns of the Bulletin of the 27.1. iust: "Ii Lieutenant Peary only went north to prove that the members of the (jreely ex p. -a It ion ate each other he might have spared mm sell the trouble, became the world nas known that all along. Tlie complaint is made that they did not finish the job while they were about it." For the above utterance I brand you a liar and a coarse blackguard, in uttering this slander against men who braved death a thousand times iv the service oi the nation and were brought to dire necessity through the incompetency of some blundering officials you show the sensibilities of the brute and the unkindness of the ruffian. This party, oi which it is the proudest act of my lite to have been one, showed more human kindness in one minute under circumstances tbot would have b.-reft Socrates of his will power than you hsvp (!<i»n in your whole career, from your gui: .--.riving cubby hole to the free lunch and cocktail route. 1 know, sir, that you will never be accused of this crime with which you charge others, for the very reason that you arc too cowardly to venture away Jrom your pres ent occupation of squirting squid fluid on peepie who never harmed you. Maurice Connell, Survivor Greely Arctic Expedition. CEU7RAL ..MLRILAN REVO -UTION. Three Suspects Arrive and ft Is bought 7 hat Aid Is Being Sought in 7 his Country. NEW YORK. N. V., Sep. 28.-A dis patch from Washington, coupled with the arrival of three snppos a revolutionists on the French liner La Champasne, has set the customs officials, army people and capitalists interested in Central American projects somewhat on the alert for news of the Central American revolutionists. The Washington dispatch stated that some of the revolutionists in Central American State*) are endeavoring to pro cure aid from the United States. It is also said that the V ;ited States Govern ment has reason to believe that a hlibu-5 .'■•ring erxi-edition ii preparing to leave some port on the Atlantic coast for tbe revolutionary state*-. This information led the customs offi cials ana army people to become inter ested in the arrival Sunday ol the three men ou La Champagne. The men are known to De interested in the revolution ary stales of Central America. One of them admitted that he was on the way there. One of them was on the passenger list as German Etrellano, but his : real name is said to he German Arrellano. He said that he is interested in the Nicara gua revolution, but lo what extent he would not admit. The second man is M. Lopez Paclieco, who admitted he is on his way to Guate mala. But he refused to state what his business is there or when he Intends start ing for that country. Ti.e third man is unknown as to his name and destinati* n. in fact nothing is known about him ex cept that he is with one of the others. SAX FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1897. PLOTTED TO SLAY THE CZAR Socialist Conspirators Betrayed Only by Accident. UNDERMINED A WAR- SAW STREET. Masons Summoned to Prop the Tunnel Notified the Police. HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE ARRESTS MADE. Among Those Taken Into Custody Were Four Disguised German Officers. WARSAW, Russia. Sept. Though an official denial will be forthcoming it has leaked out from official circles in such a manner as leaves no room for doubt that tnere was a deliberate and deter mined plot against Emperor Nicholas at the time of his recent Tisit to this city. Its success was only frustrated by acci dent. Several weeks before tbe arrival of the imperial party a number of persons, sup posed to belong to the German Socialist part}*, v.nderm Norvy sevsi, the prin cipal street in Warsaw, between the Gov ernor-General's palace and the royal cast 1". As the tunnel, which had been under taken f-om the cellar of a beer house, ap proached completion the conspirators be came apprehensive of a collapse of tlie roadway, and called on several Polish masons to build supporters. Trie masons, whose suspicions were aroused, notified the police, and 130 ar rests followed. Among those in custody are four dispuised German officers, either on leave or belonging to the Land webr, who had been ac;ive in tbe actual work of tunneling. A number of mer chants and manufacturers from the town of Lodzey, Poland, are also implicated. ORE SUFFERING IMPENDING Mussulman Notables of Crete Send an Appeal to the Embassadors and the Lu-tan CANE A, Crete, Sept. 28.— Tne Mubmil man notables have sent the following tel egram to the Em bassadois of the powers at Constantinople and to the Sultan : . **Onr position is becoming unbearable. Winter is approaching and we are without (shelter, almost naked and living on a hec togram ol flour day given us by Mussul man charity. Our Christian compatriots have burned our oliv.'s and the island will soon be denuded of timber. Sowing be. gins in October. If we do not return to our homes how can we live next season? Public charity has already expended 000. COO piasters, and it is doubtful if that source of relief can support us another month. We, too. are God's creatures. In the name of humanity put an end to our desperate position.*' Itenleit by Ittteke feller' Agent*. CHICAGO. li.i,, Sept. 28. — The 1 re port that John D. Rockefeller had se cured full control of all the wood pulp paperm:ils in the United States, having been led to put his money into th*» ven ture, not primarily in hope of cain, but to enable him to squeeze weak newspapers and convert them into organs of the Oil Trust and other standard ventures, is posi tively denied by representatives of tbe oil king. WANTONLY SLAIN BY OUTLAWS J. R. Barnett Murdered on a Highway Near Ukiah. BANDIT? FIRE UPON A STAGE. Ruthless Killing of a Passen ger After the Coach Is Robbed. DRIVER SURRENDERS THE EXPRESS. Death at a Mob's Hands the Prob able Fate of -.he Slayers if They Are Caught. UKIAH, (al., Sept. 26 —J. R. Barnett, one of the besi known stage contractors of this State, was murdered to-day by stage ■ robbers on the highway between this city ' and Boonevllle. The shootin * occurred | about six miles southwest of Ukiah and ; within a quarter of a mile of where G. W. Hilton robbed the coast stage three years , ago in company with "Deacon" Oldham. Hirneit and _*'. D. Berryhlll were pas- j sengers on the coast bound stage which j left Ukiah at 2 o'clock this afternoon. i When at the scene of the lormer hold-up ! the stage was stopped, a man calling to the driver to rein in. He accompanied the order with a command to throw out j the express boxes, which was promptly complied with. Barnett and Berryhill were sitting with in the stage on the back seat.' As the stage stopped Harnett ran his hand into his pocket in which he carried his money, and taking therefrom his money sack threw it under the seat in front of him. As he did so a shot was fired by a com panion of the man who stopped the stage, and Barnett lell over dead in Berryhili's lap. The stage driver was commanded to ; drive on. .He did so, stopping at the'El ledge ranch, shout a mile further on, where BarnettV body was taken from the stage ' and brought back to town. The driver ; continued on with the stage. A six-horse team was being driven along not over .30 feet behind the stage, but the driver did not see the robbers, nor did he see them take away the three ex press boxes which were thrown out and subsequently removed by the robbers. The biu'et entered Barnett'* bedy in the upper part of tne right shou'der and near the base of the neck, ranging downward and suaiteriiif. tbe sp'.nal column. An inquest was held this evening. Suspicion points toward certain rough characters who have been seen in this part of the country for some time past The officers have considerable evidence which has not yet been made public. The contents of the express boxes cannot be learned. There are strone threats of lynching to night should the* highwaymen be appre hended, as the dead man was a very popu lar man in this county. He leaves a large family, one of his sons,. John Barnett, being an attorney of San Francisco. Sc- stacker's Aetf Ihi'-rtinej. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 28,— Mrs. Helen N. Knickerbocker has sold to George ("rocker, trie California million aire, a f< ur-3tory, mansard-roof brown stone dwelling on Fifth avenue for about $250,003 It is said that Mr. Crocker will remove the present building and put up a line residence on the site for. his own use. STORIES OF GOLD AND DISASTER News Brought by the Cutter Grant From Unalaska. TREASURE IS COMING ON THE PORTLAND. Survivors of the Hueneme Picked Up by the Steamer Dora. WRECK OF THE SCHOONER IN A DENSE FOG. Two Sailors W shed Overboard While Furling the Outer Jib and Drowned. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.. Sept. 28 - The United 8 ates revenue cutter Grant, Captain Munger, arrived this afternoon from Unalaska and brought the latest ad vices from St. Michael and surrounding country. The steamer Bertha arrived at Unalaska September 12 and reported two inches of snow at St. Michael. Mayor Wood's party had their boat nearly com pleted for sailing up the Yukon and erx pected »o leave St. Michael September 14. They will go no farther than MunooK Creek. There are lots of supplies at Mu nook for the winter. There will be a big crowd of returning miners on the steamer Portland and it is estimated that she will bring three tons of gold. Aboard the Grant are (.attain Peters and crew, in all' nine men, oft the schooner Hueneme, which left Seattle August IK for St. Michael with lumber for building boats for the Yukon River. At 10 o'clock on the night of September 7, . in a den.c fog, the Hueneme went ashore on Uninik Island, completely wrecking herself and cargo. All on board escaped to land by means of lifelines thai the sailors carried ashore by jumping overboard and swimming. Eight days later the captan took three, men in a small boat and rowed from the wr.'ck and started for Unalaska. After pulling three days in an open boat they were picked up by the steamer Dora and taken to Unalaska where they were transferred to the cutter Grant that started f>r the men left on the island. After se curing them the cutter started for. the sound the next day. September -.0. . = .^ The next day out from Unalaska two sailors, .William Hood and Otto Severn, were drowned by being washed overboard while furling the outer j:b. Their bodies were not recovered. Hood was trom this place, where his parents re«ide. WILLI MS FOR GOVERNOR. Massachusetts Democrats Hold a noisy Convention and Indorse the Chicago Platform. WORCESTER, Mass.. Sept. 28.— Georce Fred Williams was to-day nominated for Governor of Massachusetts by the Demo cratic State Convention on a platform that squarely indorses that adopted by the national convention ac Chicago last summer. The other nominees follow: Lieutenant- Governor, Christopher T. Callahan of Holyoke; Secretary, C. D. Nash of Whit man; Attorney-General, John A. O'Kee/e of Lynn; Treasurer and Receiver-General, T. A. Watson of Boston; Auditor, J. L. Cbalifoux of Lowell. The convention was so disorderly at times as almost to require the interven tion of the police. George Fred Williams was the principal figure in the conven tion. There was no opposition to his nomination for Governor, but his insist ence on the turning down of old party leaders who were lukewarm in support of himself and Bryan last fall created a tumult at the outset before permanent urbanization had been effected. Congre-sman Filzeerald was ordered to his seat when he aHtempted to speak, and his adherents at one time threatened to sustain him by force. Finally order was partially restored, and after a speech by Mr. Williams a recess was taken. TO BUiLD SEW DOCKS. Millions Will Re Spent by the Gov- ernment at Mare Island, Goat Island and San Pedro. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 28.— TlM statement was made to-day by an official of the Navy Department that large naval docks will be constructed at Goat Island, at Mare Island and at San Pedro. The cost of such improvements will ag gregate about $4,100,000, but the authori zation of Congress will be required before such a vast sum is spent. The dock on Goat Island and that to be located at San Pedro will be similar. Alluding to the importance of the docks on the Pacific Coast ati official said to day that so far as the dock at Puget Sound is concerned it is an excellent structure. "But one of our battle-ships,'' he con tinued, "in case of accident would have to trust to providence that the accident might occur when near that dock. With a dock of a draft of thirty feet over the blocks at half-tide it would not be a dfficult matter to get a ship, in when it had the margin, and at high tide, no matter bow great the damage, provided she could keep afloat she could be got into the structure and repaired. San Francisco harbor would be just the place for such a dock." The docks at Goat Island and San Pedro will cost $1 500.000 each and that at Mare Island $1,100,000. SUFFOCATED IN A MINE. Five Men Meet a Horrible Death From Black Camp Near Rend- ham, Pa. SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 28.— Five men this afternoon met a horrible death frcm black damp, the after accumulation of a fire in the Jermyn No. 1 mine near Rend ham. The dead are: Isaac Waikins, fire boss; Will Tompkins, Joseph Smith, John Gallagher and William Franklin. The bodies of all but Watkins were dis covered at 5:30 o'clock by a gang of men who went down into the mine with sup plies for combating the fire. At mid night the remains of Waikins had not been found. Since last Tuesday the fire has been raging in the mine. The men who lost their lives represented one shift. They went on duty at 3 o'clock, and no body knew of their death until the dis covery of the lifeless bodies. In the case of eacn body the head pointed toward the shaft, indicating '.hat they .had groped and struggled toward the shaft and fresher air while suffocation was overtaking them. They weie found from one to three rods apart. PAID A NICE COMPLIMENT. But the Women Summoned in a Kansas Court Are Not Permitted to Serve as Jurors- FORT SCOTT, Kans., Sfpt. 28.— Miss M. E. Ros , Mrs. A. W. Doug. ass, Mrs. A. Kaufman and M*-s Cora Wheeler, who were drawn on the district jury and are the first women ever called for such serv ice in Kansas, responded to the summon* to-day, and all but Miss Wheeler expressed a wilr.neness to serve. The question of their eligibility was raised by Judre Biddle, who cited a Washington Supreme Court opinion to show that they were not com petent, and Judge Simons lound that under the constitution and Supreme Court decisions a qualified elec tor must be a male. He was unwilling that the women should serve in civil cases and paid them a nice compliment for their willingness to do so. General Hour Hying PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 25.-General N'eal Dow, ibe veteran prohibitionist, is at the point of death at his home in this city. TRICE FIVE CENTS. THEY TRIED TO PROVE CONSPIRACY Old Board Attorneys Make a New Issue in the Supreme Court. MAYOR niELAX WAS OX THE RACK He Was Asked Why He Ante dated Appointments of New Supervisors. UIS BOJOR ANSWERED CHEERFULLY. After Explaining the Situation He Told Why He Called Upon the Police to Assist the Board, Commissioner Niles Searls of the Supreme Court sat through the morning of yesterday listening to the evidence pre sented by the learned men who represent the rival boards of Supervisors. The surzing crowd was not present, and the Commissioner opened the proceedings by throwing out a searchlight for facts. Facts were all that was desired and lacts were presented by the basketful. There was nothing particularly sensa tional about the testimony taken yester day. The attorney of the old Board of Supervisors trieu bard to disconcert Mayor Phelan, who was the most import ant witness of the day, but this signally failed. The whole effort of the attorney for the ousted Board of Supervisors seemed to be centered on showing that the ousted board had performed its duties and was only prevented irom the continuance of such duties by forcible ejectment. Judgine from the questions propounded to Mayor Phelan by Attorney Garret Mc- Enerney for the old board, it would seem as if it was the intention of tbe^ttorneys for the late eight to charge that its oust in c was the rrsult of a conspiracy. It is not at all unlikely that Mayor Phelan and Governor Budd will be charged with con spiracy when the Morton petition to man damus the Auditor to accept the tax levy fixed by t..e old board comes up lor argu ment this morning. The •proceeding-' of yesterday were not particulary interesting. The representa tives of the old board questioned John A. Russell, clerK of the Board of Supervisors, at length. They made him tell all atom the proceedings of the new board since its appointment by Mayor Phelan and Gov ernor Budd and asked him about every detail of the proceedings. The old time clerk, however, did make some statements that filled the hearts of Messrs. McEnerney, Pillsbury and Garber with joy. In response to ques tions as to the now eventful afternoon of September 20, Mr. Russell said be did not see Britt spill the new Supervisor, Mr. Biggy, out of his seat, but he saw him ejected forcibly by the police. Further on he said the police entered the cham bers of the board, and, in answer to the question as to whether or not they were lorctbiy ejected, said Captain Wittman tapped ex-Supervisor Rivers and others on the shoulder and ordered them to vacate their seats. The same attorney, by close question ing, made it appear positive that the ser geam-at-arms had made an attempt before the police entered to forcibly eject ex- Supervisor Delany from his seat. Denutv County Clark Prey and Notary R. D. McElroy testified to unimportant matters and then Mayor Phelan was called to the stand. After the Mayor testified as to all the matters leading up to the appointment of the n<?w board, and of its proceedings since appointment. Attorney McEnerney started to examine bim The appointments of the members of the new board by the Mayor and Governor were in ev. dence, but McEnerney wanted to know when Mr. Dresbach's name was mentioned. This started the most interesting exami nation of the day. McEnerney had learned that although tbe appointment of the new Supervisors was considered by the Mayor, Governor and other prominent citizens on the night of September 15. no decision as to appointments was reached until alter midnight. He wanted to know when Mr. Dresbach's name was considered. Tbe Mayor stated that it was considered with the names of a number of other gentlemen named and he could not state the time. The subsequent questions propounded to the Mayor showed that McEnerney was leading to an admission of the fact ihat the appointments were made on the morning of September. 1-4 and that the Mayor nad dated tne certificates of ap pointment as having been made on Sep tember 15. When he a«ked Mr. Phelan why he so dated the appointments the Mayor an swered him that as the session at which thi appointments were made commenced oa September 15 he thought the certifi cates should be so dated. In response to a further question as tothe reasons he dated the appointments September 15 he answered, in a jocular way, "I presume I did so because I am not accustomed to sitting up atl nieht, and thought of the meeting bavin; taken place on the day it began." s .-<[ The Mayor laughed after an admission In the Fall There Is Danger to Health and Es- pecial Need of Pure Blood. Disease germ,-, arising from decaying vegetation ana sudden changes from heat to cod threaten the health in the fall. By keeping the b'.ood pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla every one is well protected against these changes. HOOCI'S parflla Is the best— in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by alt druggist^, $1 ; six .or*?*}, vet hood's. , Hood's Pills cure indigestion. 29 cent*