The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1895, Page 1

* VOLUME L VIII.—NO. Call 142 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNIN G, OCTOBER 20, 1895 TWENTY-FOUR PAGE JENTS. DEBTS OF RAILROADS, EPCRT OF THE GOVERN- MENT DIRECTORS IS MADE PUBLIC, COOMBS’' IDEAS UPHELD. TRART ESIRE TO TERMINATE RELATIONS EXISTING BETWEEN UNCLE SAM AND DEBTORS. FORECLOSURE OF THE LIENS. ONS To WHICH THE N OF CONGRESS Is CavL: WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct.19. — The views of Union Pacific Director Coombs concerning the Union and Central Pacific railroads and their relation to the Govern- ment were given in THE CALL’S dispatches last night. Coombs was the only one of the directors who made a careful and painstaking personal investigation, and this he did at the Cleveland. In the main his conclusions agree with those of his associate directors except that the latter present an alterna- prc ¥ tiv, sition which 1s appended. It d, however, that if Mr. Cleveland recommendation in his mes- opt Mr. Coombs’ proposition T reorg: ation of the roads ance by the Secretary of the a stipulated minimum sum to | sage he w to provide and the acc ment directors of the Union d have submitted their an- to the Secretary of the Interior. The directors are J. N. H. Patrick, W. J. nbs " W. Doane. Mr.Combs gave lic individual views yester- 1in TueCarrL. The report resson of the inability of the t at maturity the interest 1 the mortgages of the com- uber of foreclosure suits affect- ing various parts of the property are now pending in the Circuit courtsof the United States. The suit against that part of the prop- erty of the Kansas Pacific Railroad which lies east of the Kansas-Missouri State line one-half of a mile, the report states, is a matter of great importance, as it embraces valuable terminals in Kansds City. The Kansas Pac Consolidated Mortgage Company holds the mortgage. There is some qu n as to whether this part of the road is subject to a lien of the Govern- mént. In regard to the suit brought by Dexter and Ames affecting that part of the road extending from Omaha to a point five miles west of Ogden, formal notice has been given to the Attorney-General of its pendency, and the directors state that they are confronted with the question as to the effect of a decree of foreclosure and sale, followed by an actual sale, upon the lien of the United States. The question is of great gravity, to which the attention of the department and of Congress is seri- ously invited. The report adds that as the Government directors have ifrequently declared their opposition to any scheme of Government ownership of railroad properties it is un- necessary to repeat their reasons for their continuation. For purposes of reaching a reasonable basis of settlement and also affording to the Government the protec- which the present situation appears lire the directors suggest the follow- ing action: First—That it is desirable to terminate the relations between the Government and the railroad properties either by accepting a fixed sum of money or a determinate amount of bonds rather than to continue for an indefinite number of years the ex- istence of an unsatisfactory and imperfect lien, the suvervision and protection of which necessarily involves constant fric- tion between the departments of the Gov- ernment and the management of the roads. Second — That complications attending the terms of any proposed adjustment are vastly increased by the retention of the railroad extending from,Kansas City to Denver and from Denver to Cheyerne. This is caused by the fact that the lien of the United States on the Kansas Pacific Railroad ornly extends 393.94 miles west of Kansas City, so that the adjustment of both liens prior to the lien of the United States and of the liens on the parts of the railroad not subject to the lien of the United States, involves amounts out of proportion to the claim of the United States. A bill to be introduced in Congress is submitted with the report, its purpose being the concluding of the relations of the Gov- ernment to the railroad. The total amount standing to the credit of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific United States sinking funds on October 1 last was §21,389,095. The total amount of prior lien bonds of the Union Pacific Rail- way Company and the Central Pacific Railway Company amounted in the aggre- gate to 847,000. The cash balaace in the hands of the Union Pacific receivers applicable to the Union Pacific property will probably be approximately sufficient to meet the arrears of interest accruing on its prior bonds. The entire gross amount of prior liens on the Union Pacific and Central Paciiic (exclusive of the Kansas Pacific) held in the several sinking funds will be $30,961,660. The amount which might be required to discharge or purchase this prior lien is liable to be much in- creased if the foregoing mentioned sums in the sinking fund of the United States under the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General should not be available for the purpose indicated, and the same consideration applies to the sinking funds held by the trustees of the Central Pacific mortgages. If Congress should fix the minimum price which it is willing to receive in sat- sfaction of its claims at a sum which would meet the approval of an intending burchaser, the entire transaction could wanifestly be so arranged between the contracting parties as to avoid the neces- sity of any expenditure of moneys from the treasury of the United States for the Purpose of taking up the prior liens, and request of President | that part of the arrangemeat would re- main entirely in the handsof a purchasing committee, whose sole relations to the Jnited States in that event would be in the cash payment of the amount so agreed to be received. In conclusion the report calls the atten- tion of the department to the propriety of obtaining from the bond-aided companies full statements showing all lands now re- maining in the ownership of the several companies. DOUBLE MURDER IN I0WA. A Jealous Mulatto EEI His Wife, Attacked a Sheriff and Fatally Shot an Inno- cent Woman. WEBSTER, Ia., Oct. 19.—A double mur- der and the wounding of Sheriff Woolsey of Webster County occurred last night at the coal mining town of Lehigh, near this city. Reed Smith, a mulatto, in a fit of jeal- ousy, clubbed his wife in a horrible man- ner on 7Thursday night, and she died yes- terday. When Sheriff Woolsey arrived at Smith’s house he submitted to arrest, but asked to be allowed to go to an anjoining room for his coat. When he emerged he was armed with a gun. With one bullet he severed an ear of the Sheriff and fatally wounded a woman who happened to be in the house. | He escaped and is being pursued. | THROWN WHILE RACING DETAILS OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF JOHN W. MACKAY JR. IN FRANCE. | H1s Horse Gor Bevond ControL | AND HE Was HURLED AGAINST A TREE, PARIS, Fraxce, Oct. 19.—The particu- | lars of the accident to John W. .\lnckfl)" Jr., which resulted in his death this morn- | ing, are as follows: Mr. Mackay was at his | country chateau in slange, in the Depart- ment of Sarthe. With three friends who | were his guests he arranged a horse-race to | be run upon a circular track at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, each to ride his own | horse. Mr. Mackay’s horse got beyond | his rider’s control and bolted the track, | throwing Mr. Mackay violently to the | ground. As he plunged forward he struck against the butt of a tree headforemost, | the blow catching him directly between | the eyes. He was immediately picked up and car- ried into the chateau, where he was worked over assiduously in an endeavor to restore him to consciousness, but_all the restorative efforts were in vain. He died at 9:30 last night, six hours after the acci- | dent. There was no member of the fam- | ily present when he died. Mr. Mackay’s father and mother were notified of his death early this morning, and the body | will be transferred to-morrow to the Rue | Tilsit in Paris, where Mrs, Mackay has ordered the erection of a catafalque to re- ceive it, around which lighted candles will be burnex. The place where the accident oceurred is in a remote rural district, and the friends of Mr. Mackey had' to send more than twenty miles to proecure a doctor. The physician did not arrive until hours after the accident. He pronounced Mr. Mackay ;,o be suffering from concussion of the rain. SYMPATHY e ¥OR THE FATHER. Friends of Mr. Mackay Offer Their Sin- cere Condolener. Owing to the fact that the accident hap- pened so far from Paris, John W. Mackay received no particulars of his son’s death until nearly noon yesterday. Up to that | time all through the night and the fore- | noon of yesterday the grief-stricken father | did rot sleep at all. | Finally when the cable telling the story | at Mayet came his friends persuaded him to go to his bed. where he slept during the | afternoon. During the day there was a constant stream of callers, who came to express | their sympathy. On all sides of the City the news made a strong impressiou and aroused the sympathy of all classes. At the time of the accident Clarence Mackay and the Princess Colonna, the brother and sister of the deceased, were in | Paris, where they are now. His mother, Mrs. Mackay, was at her home in London, The body has been embalmed and will be transferred to Rue Tilsit in Paris. It | is certain that it will be taken in time to | New York and probably out here, where it | will find a final resting-place. | Mr. Mackay has made no plans for his future movements, but will probably re- | main in this City for a time. | gt Run Down by a Train. | WEEPING WATER, Ngsr., Oct. 19.— | News reached here this evening of a fatal accident at a Rock Island crossing near Murdock last night. A mover in a cov- ered wagon with his wife, son and daugh- ter, was crossing the track when a train struck the wagon, killing the man in. | stantly, The daughter will die. The other | two were not badly injurea. Their names | cannot be learned. IT'S DEAD RIPE. ¢ Opening of the Cleveland Chestnut Burr.” [Chicago Evening Press.] RODE ON How THE VALLEY RoAD FIRST PASSENGERS TRAVELED. FLATCARS, S TRIP OF ODD FELLOWS. [ | | ROLLING STOCK CROWDED WITH | VISITORS INSPECTING THE LINE, SAW THE CREWS AT WORK. THE ToURISTS IMPRESSSED WITH THE RAPID PROGRESS THAT Has BEEN MaDE. STOCKTON, CaL.,, Oct. 19.—An excur- sion bound for nowhere in particular, with | standing-room only, and the conductor lost in the crowd, was the kind that took the visiting Odd Fellows over the Valley Road lines in this city durieg their recent visit. aboard early and avoid the rush. The man who generally makes good time on the bass drum of the Canton band did not | have room to beat in correct meter, but | the puffing of the “Claus Spreckels’” sup- plied a sort of accompaniment to the ef- forts of the other musicians. In spite of these little inconveniences the Odd Fellows from every section of the State of California were enabled to see for themselves the vast amount of work done by the Valley Road Company within the last three months. They witnessed the activity 1n the yards, the operating of the track crew and numerous other evidences of the progress of the work. Nothing was passed over, that is certain, for in the crowd were numerous Stocktonians, who pointed out the objects from the moving train with an air savoring of “Don’t you wish you were one of us?”’ The visitors and citizens had a jolly gooa time of it on the flatcars, in default | of Pullmans, and the former stored away a lot of information concerning the Valley road for dispensation on their return home. = omegata CONDEMNATION SUIT. Action in Court Necessary to Secure a Right of Way. STOCKTON, Car., Oct. 19.—The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- road, by its attorneys, Colonel E. R. Pres- ton and Woods & Levinsky, to-day filed a The requisite for a ride was to get | | suit against P. J. Chalmers of this county, | for the condemnation of a right of way | through his lands. Mr. Chalmers has de- manded $3000 for 5.463 acres of land, and | the company failing to induce him to re- | cede from his unjust position, no other | course was open but an appeal to the Supe- rior Cours for an adjudication of their dif- | ferences. ‘ The suit was instituted only after the seemingly reasonable offer of the company had been rejected by Mr. Chalmers. The land lies in the northeast quarter of section 25, township 1 south, range 8 east, and the line of the road cuts off but a single corner of the ranch. It is under- | stood that the action will receive early at- | tention by the court. When this matter is | disposed of, the right of way will be clear from the material storage yards on Mor- mon Channel to the Stanislaus River. At the river the work of driving the piles for the great steel drawbridge is be- | ing prosecuted with great vigor, and this | spirit pervades the workall along the line. } By this time next week it is expected that | the first construction train will be at work | in the country. The deed to block 21 from Simpson & Gray has been recoided. Great credit is due to 8. D. Woods in the acquirement of | the block, as he handled the negotiations in such a fair manner as to inspire confi- dence on both sides. The company has a force of men at work on the tract west of Edison street and south of Kearny. Earth is being | taken from the McDougald ditch to make a roadbed along Edison street. The canal will thus be widened and deepened, and after the roadbed is made more earth will be taken from the ditch to fill up the | company’s property there. About twenty- | five acres will be filled to the depth of | from three to five feet, so a great deal of | earth will have to be taken from the ditch | for this purpose. Asa result, a channel capable of floating river craft will be formed. The McDougald ditch empties into Mor- mon Channel, near the bend of that stream, at the western limits of the city. ‘Wharves will be built there so that freight may be loaded and unloaded on and from barges and steamers. The Valley road will thus have two places where freight may be handled on the water front. A CaLy correspondent has it from an at- torney who above all others ought to know that the rumors that J. P. Rendon and other Taylor-street property-owners contemplate suing the road because of the grade established on that street are greatly exaggerated. | This gentleman says the company can | see that Mr. Rendon’s property has been | damaged, and as Mr. Rendon knows he | will receive just treatment in the matter he is willing to take the company’s word that any claim he may have will not be | ignored. This spirit on the part of the | company is actuated by the best of motives, for even if it be true that the property-owners have a legal claim it would be hard to press it, as the City Council by resolution authorized the com- pany to establish 1ts line above the official grade in order to protect the tracks from overflow water from Mormon Channel. The company stands in no danger of suits so far as can be learned. | WAR CLOUDS GATHER, CLEVERNESS OF THE SULTAN | IN OUTWITTING THE POWERS. ACCEPTED THE SCHEME. BUT IN DoING So HE Dip Nor " YIELD TO ANY MATERIAL POINT. TROUBLES IN THE FAR EAST. JAPAN HasTILY PROCURING VEs- SELS To WiIPE Russia OFF THE PaAcIFIC. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York Times.] LONDON, E~c., Oct. 19.—It is really playing with words to call the diplomatic arrangement which has been arrived at in Constantinople a settlement. Nothing has been settled. Englaud has been forced to choose between open rupture with her ostensible colleagnes or accepting their plan of letting the Sultan down easily, and very reluctantly has taken the latter course. Accordingly the Sultan has signed a document which concedes about a tenth part of what Rosebery originally claimed, and ignores altogether Salisbury’slater and magnified demands. There is to be reform on paper of the local Government in six eastern vilayets of Asia Minor, a portion of the offices are to be held by Christians, and the Moslem Governors are to have Christian secretaries. Pledges, on paper also, are given about amnesty for the Armenians now under arrest and about reform in prisons and management of the police. That seems to be all that—after these five months of negotiations, backed by imposing massing of war fleets—has been extracted from the Sultan. It amounts to nothing more than the reaffirmation of the pledges that he gave eighteen years ago, and he, no doubt, would have been delighted to concede it on the very first day of the negotiations. Even this much he is allowed to minimize in the eyes of his own subjects by declaring, through official newspapers, that what he is doing is not intended for the benetit of the Chris- tians by themselves, but is merely an ex- perimental step in a programme for re- forming the governmental machinery of the whole empire. Nothing could be more fatuous and impotent than thisconclusion, if it had to be regarded as concluding any- thing; but, unfortunately, the Eastern question remains as much open as ever. Neither the Armenian committee on one side, which has been running this whole Government, with plenty of money at its comand and a sort of walking-delegate au- thority to close up the Armenian shops and coerce the entire Armenian commu- nity to do its bidding, nor the Mohamme- dan governing clique on the other side, has any intention of abandoning its activity or of laying down its arms because the Sul- tan signed one paper more or less. Alil the elements of the trouble which convulsed Stamboul and Trebizond a week ago re- main unaffected. Every London newspa- per man in Constantinople predicts that there is to be a revolution in Turkey. There is as great and threatering an un- certainty in the external relations of Tur- key as exists within. The British fleet at Lemnos has been augmented during the week by the Camperdown, instead of hav- ing been diminished. In the meantime Russia’s Black Sea fleet, instead of going into winter quarters at Sebastopol asin other years, early in October, has been v provisioned at Odessa and brought southward to some unknown point near the mouth of the Bosphorus. Both these movements were antecedent to the so- called settlement and might have been explained as intended for the purpose of scaring the Sultan, if it had not turned out that he himself practleally dictated the terms ot the settlement and was not scared at all. As it is these two fleets are instinctively thought of in their relation to each other rather than to the Sultan. That there is direct danger of England and Russia be- coming embroiled in Turkish waters is not suggested, but it is apparent that they have finished with the farce of pretending to act in concert and at last stand free to observe the Turkish confusion and anarchy each on its own account and in its own in- terest. This is a situation which cannot but be fertile in sensatienal rumors and alarms so long as the fleets remain where they are. When the French Chamber of Deputies meet next week it is universally understood that the Egyptian question will be at once brought up, and with fresh, urgent importance. What the French pro- pose to demand is not clear, but it has been accepted by every one all summer that at the October Parliamentary session they were to formulate a definite policy of some sort. This question may be debated with a large spectacular effect hetween Paris and London, but the usual fight will be waged at Constantinople, where English diplomacy on one side will be frankly pitted against Russo-French influence on the other side. There is another reason why these two fleets, with possibly the French Mediter- ranean squadron as well, will occupy men’s thoughts a good deal for the next month or two. All these disturbing things are really subordinate in point of actual weight to what is going on. ifi the far East. Not even the episode of Bulgaria’s crumpling in the Russian grasp, which will probably be seen before Christmas, will be of an in- ternational importance equal to the events which are working themselves out in obscurity on the other side of the globe. An old Newcastle engine-builder friend of mine, who yesterday signed a contract with the Japanese for a $150,000 job, tells me curious things about the way the Japanese are laying out the money that they expect to get from China. They have two big battle-ships on the stocks here, ordered before the war and now nearly finished. and they are completing arrange- ments with British builders for three more of the same size, also eleven armored cruisers and some torpedo cruisers. All are to be hurried forward with the utmost dispatch. Meanv-hile a Chinese commis- sion of eight cx.erts and officials here in Eurove is charged with the task of ex- amining the various shipyards and marine models, and of recommending where orders for a new Chinese navy may be placed to the best advantage. The Japanese have money and are pay- ing one-third down at the signingof the contract, one-third when the engines are put in and the final third at the launching and delivery, but no one will trust the Chi- nese at ail, and they must pay in full be- fore the work is begun. The Japanese make no bones in saying among ship- builders that they are going to whip Rus- sia off the Pacific. From other sources I hear that great nervousness exists lest the disorders in Korea precipitate a Russo-Japanese colli- sion prematurely. In this whole business England is deeply involved, and it is there and on the Mekong that skilled students like Sir Charles Dilke believe that England stands the greatest chance of active trouble. The American embassy has been in- vested the whole week with cordons of newspaper men anxious to find out about Venezuela, but the smiling secretaries have blandly resisted all attempts to get a word of news. Thisisall the more successful since they have no news themselves. What it all amounts to, { am told by politicians, is that Chamberlain desires to attract at- tention to himself as the hero who can Continued on Second Page. uw A VISITING ODDFELLOWS AT STOCKTON TOOK. ¥ agin, et o iie \Ame‘: m&r‘.h‘u.‘.‘, A\ Wiy A TRIP OVER THE I8ketched by a ““Call” artist.] g o R COMPLETED PORTION OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD ON A TRAIN OF FLATCARS. STRIFE IN SALVADOR, PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ IS THREATENED ON ALL, SIDES. REBELS GROWING BOLD. REVOLUTIONARY PROCLAMATIONS POSTED ON THE WALLS OF THE CAPITAL, ARMY COMMANDERS CHANGED. It Is CLAIMED THAT THEY ARE IN THE CONSPIRACY TO OVER- THROW THE GOVERNMENT, SAN SALVADOR, SALvapog, Oct. 19.— The Government has changed command- ers of all {roops for this city and Santa Ana, as it is claimed that they are nearly alt in the conspiracy to overthrow the Government. The malcontents grow bolder daily, and this morning a revolntionary proclamation calling the people to arms was found on many walls of this city. Last week’s robbery of arms from the barracks was much greater than at first reported. It is known that the thievesor conspirators made many arms, mostly cannon, useless. . Soldiers are openly threatening and will desert en masse, unless paid. This is frightening the merchants, who fear a repes tition of last Monday’s riots in Sonsonate, where the garrison rose and claimed that they were not paid. So they looted all the mercantile and many private houses, steals ing over $600,000 in cash and goods, with which they made off toward the lower coast country. General Manuel Rivas telegraphs from Santa Tecla that he is unable to hold the Cojutepeque Indians in check, as they in- sist that they will march on this city and capture President Gutierrez, who they pro- pose to hold as hostage until all their grievances are settled and they are paid in full: The greatest precantions have been taken here to avert a surprise from the outside. Gutierrez wants to resign, but is detained by his friends, principally Castellanos, whom Gutierrez wants to leave as Presi- dent. There is great dissension in the Cabinet. It is reported that relations with Guatemala are strained. Merchants complain that they are suffer< ing heavy losses in the custom-houses, where goods are robbed in transit. The Government has sent more troops to Chalalaentngo, where there has been heavy fighting for over a week. Fourteen persons were arrested Wednesday at La Union on suspicion ‘of being in a con- spiracy to seize the custom-house there and capture shipping in ports. The con- spirators had a lot of arms concealed which_the police seized. Those arrested will be tried by a military court. WARSHIP CONDE VENADITO LOST. Wreck of the Spanish Vessel While Render- ing Assistance to the Colon on the Colorado Reefs. JACKSONVILLE, Fra., Oct. 19.—A cablegram from Key West, Fla., sayss Passengers by the Mascotte to-night bring word that notwithstanding the Govern= ment has endeavored to keep the matter quiet, it is now positively known that tha warship Conde Venadito has been lost while rendering assistance to the ehip Colon on the Colorado Reefs. —_— Storms on the Italian Coast. ROME, Irary, Oct. 19.—The violent storms which have prevailed along the coasts of Italy and the interior have re sulted in the death of fifty persons and ine jury to hundreds of others, while the dame age to property is almost incalculable. For additional Paciflc Coast news see Pages §, 5 and B LEVTSTRAUSS OVERALLS "~ AND SPRING BOTTOM PANTS. EVERY PAIR GUARANTEED. 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