The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 4, 1896, Page 1

4 VOLUME L XIX —NO. 126. PRICE FIVE CE SPAIN'S TROOPS ARE VERY WEARY. Tired Out by a Fruitless Pursuit of the Cuban Insurgents. REGULARS ARE BEATEN Unable to Force Battles Upon the Constantly Moving Bands of Patriots. WEYLER SANCTIONS MURDERS. v Brutal Butcheries That Only Cause an Increase of the Army Fight- ing for Freedom. HAVANA, Cusa, April 1 (via Tampa, Fla., April —Army preparations have been pushed with great vigor ior the past month. General Weyler has given officers and men rpo rest. His orders have been peremptory and many a general has in- curred his displeasure by tardiness. The result of these active movements nas been to completely tire out a large portion of the army in the field. The insurgents have been kept moving, their camps have been destroyed and a dozen of their hospi- > been burned during the month s just passed, but the Government ot forced a single battle npon the The only serious engagements have been those in which the insurgents have had the advantage of position or numbers, as at Cuyajabos and Candelaria, nsive and mi. cial reports as battle: crown, but which investigation a number of them proved to be massacres of unarmed citizens, and there have been mitted than bat- of Cuba during If a hundredth part s that reach here of the opera- rs con e true, the reasen ral Weyler canceled all passes vondents is plain. the estates report excesses committed by detached bodies of Spanish troops in ali parts of the island, and there is no sugar this year. The problem is how to preserve the lives of employes and prevent wa destruction by the troops. The insurgents have gained more in the past month than in any two that have preceded it. Weyler's decree compelling people to abandon their homes in the in- teri tants into the rebel measures adopted cities and towns hs number of rec better class in ¢ The landing important expedi- tions has given inspiration to the insur- gent army. Their hopes were never brighter. Hot weather is already here, and the rains are not far off. The limited time remaining for military operations this sp makes it plain that Spain can- not ¢ h the rebellion before the wet season sets in, and the serious problem of caring for the lives of her soldiers presents 1. A Spanish officer says that the ses of the wrmy through fevers and other sickness have been 12,000 since Sep- ber and over 25,000 during the year ended Marck 1. 3 rals Andrea and Madan have been E to Spamn, making nine generals who hayve been returned since General Weyler arrived. General Obrejon is also booked to return and General Pando, com- der of the First Army Corps, has been ed back for allowing Gomez to enter Santa Clara without fighting a battle. Gen- cral Suarez Valdez is also on the coast. He is also in command of Pinar del Rio, and and besides failing to suppress the rebel- lion in his section, he sent an impertinent message to Weyler by heliograph. Weyler eays he can get more active work out of colonels than from generals, and the exodus continues. Thereis much dissatis- faction among officers of higher grade. Generai Weyler has beenin a highly Tnervous state for several days and many stormy iuterviews between himself and armies, The harsh toward suspects in e also increased the s from families of the te: Lis men have taken place. His troubles with the politicians are just beginning. He has assured the home Government t elections can be held in Cuba, and ‘the Reformists and Autonomists, refusing to take part, leaves the Union-Constitu- tion or Conservative, or Spanish party, alone in the field. Rumors that Weyler will be recalled are persistent. Since adv.ces that the United States will not recognize the belligerency of the Cubans General Wevler has begun open executions of prisoners of war. Three have been shot at Cabanas prison within a week and more are doomed to the same fate. J. FRANK CLARK. LA WOMEN AND MEN SLAIN. Neither Person Nor Sex Respected by Cruel Spaniards. NEW ORLEANS, La., April 3.—The fol- lowing hasibeen received from Cuba by J. XNelson Polhemus, local representative in this city of the Cuban junta. Mr. Polhe- mus vouches for its authenticity : *“In the township of Jaruco, on the plan- tation of Morales, the troops of Colonel Tort, in command of the rural guards, ar- rested four men and one woman on the charge of bemng insurgent sympathizers aud then took them to the armory, where the men were beaten and subsequently killed, as also was the woman, who re- fused to state sbe was in connection with the rebel forces. The crime is more hor- rible, as the woman, namea Margarita - Pearosa, was soon to become a mother. PvIn the village of San Antonio de los Baiios a man named Benito Lazado, sus- pected of insurgent tendencies, and who had a brother in the rebel lines, was ar- rested and shot to death by the soldiers, has driven many peaceable inbabi- | | ating columns to being reported as trying to escape, and the forces being compelled to fire upon him. “‘On the plantation Salvador, the prop- erty of the Count of Baretto, the soldiers ot General Aldecoa’s division maltreated the women, wiyes aud daughters of the laborers, after having threatened their male relatives with death, many of whom were tied witnessing the deed. This same thing happened in the _ village of San Matias, near Jaruco, where the forces of Colonel Tel- lerjico violated the women folk of the fam- ily of Jose Calabuche. On the Plantation Calixto of San Antonio Hernandez, near San Antonio de las Vegas, Captain Man- uel Ruis Adams of the Regiment of Tsabel shot to death an inoffensive crazy loon who had ascended a tree and was throwing cocoanuts at the troops. “‘The troops under the command of Gen- eral Echague entered the towns of Limar and Zumidero, boasting that they had sent thirteen rebel soldiers to meet their fate and showing their bloody arms as proof of the butchery. Three miles from Zumi- dero, to my knowledge and to the knowl- edge of the commander of the Spanish forces, Roberto Bermudez and his division ot the insurgents were encamped. “I have made a careful inquiry into the facts and find that the above are all true, every iota of them, and to further evi- dence the hatred which these poor Cubans engender in the soldiers of the Spanish army I will relate a statement made by a | Spanish officer (Cuban by birth) and the speaker had been captured in Pinardel Rio by General Maceo and after being pa- roled and returned his sword sent to Ha- vana. “Lieueenant Corolly Pedroso of one of the cavairy battalions made a statement at the residence of Mr. Carlos Pedroso, in the presence of various persons, that he had struck down with his sword two mnegroes, and further added that when he left for the field, he killed cvery Cuban he could get- hold of, even by the simplest charge, as every Cuban was an insurgent at heart, and that General Weyler had given in- stractions to the commanders of the oper- pose of as many in- surgent sympathizers as possible, and that he would stop talk, and would stand between the officers and the publie, but that the i rgents must be put an end to at all hazards. ““To further appreciate the condition of this oquntry I will relate what I heard in the city of Trinidad while there a few aays ago. The Rev. Father Cuervory Canonigo said: ‘I believe that all the Cu- bans possible should be killed off and clear the country and in that manner make room for families which would be brought over from Spain to Cuba. The negroes and mulattoes should all be killed off si- lently and without exciting any comment and their property confiscated. Therelore, when we would bring families over from Spain and colonize the island we could give them this confiscated property ana they could make a "good start in life.. The Cubans who =end their children to the United Statestobe edu- cated should be taken hold of by the police and quietly placed where they would do - | the least harm, because the Americdns her talk of attempting to grind have the republican ideas which are the real cause of -the desire of the Cubans to revolt. The Yankees have the only coun- try where sympathizers with the Cubans are, and they are responsible for this war.’ “While at Trinidad I paid a visit to an insurgent camp. I found that the wives and daughters of a great many of the in- surgents were with them, and the aay fol- lowing the readoption of the resolutions by the House and Senate they were given a dinner by the leader ana it was resolved to ask of the Cuban Govern- ment that when Havana shall be captured the avenue of Carlos III shall be known as American avenue, and that the statues of the leading Senators and Rep- resentatives who had defended the Cubans be placed at intervals on this plaza. Those women are not camp women, but some of the ladies who months ago were shining social lights of the cities of Matanzas, Car- denas, Cienfuegos, Santiago, Camaguey and Havana. The camps were orderly, well-established discipline being noted, and above all hygienic measures pervading, . _ENTITLED TO RECCGNITION. Hitt of Illinois Makes a Telling Argu- ment for Cubans. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3.—The prospect of a further debate on the Caban question filled the galleries of the House before the hour of meeting to-day, but the interest among members was not so great, judginz from the attendance, not more than half the seats being filled when Chaplain Couden invoked the divine bless- ing. A1 2:30 o'clock Hitt ¢alled up the report of the conference committee on the Cuban resolutions. The report recommended the adoption of the followirg resolutions as passed by the Senate: - Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress a condition of public war exists between the Government of Spain and the government pre- vailing and for some time maintained by the force of arms by the pecple of Cuba, and that the United States of America should maintain a etrict neutrality between the contending powers, according to esch al: the 13ghts of belligerenis in the ports and territory of the United States. Resolved, fugther, That the friendly offices of the United States should be offered by the President to the Spanish Government for the recognition of the independence of Cuba. Hitt immediately took the floor and said : “The two resolutions which the conference committee has agreed to, propose first, that the United States should accord to the people of Cuba beiligerent rights, and secondly tender the friendly offices of the United States to the Spanish Government for the recognition of Cuban independ- ence.” It was true that the second resolution, as adopted by the House, was in a more cautious form than that the House pro- posed. and Spain, unless seeking a quarrel, could not have resented such a proposi- tion, while tbe resolution of the Senate, proposing independence, was more exposed to captious objection. But when a war be- tween a parent Government and a de- pendency has been going on for a consid- erable time, and when separation was the best solution of the war, the mediation or friendly counsel of another nation to solve an existing struggie by recognizing inde- pendence, might be a truly friendly act, and this in fact has often been done. In cases almost precisely parallel to this, when Spain was at war with her depend- encies on this continent in the early part of this century, our Government had in fact taken the very step proposed in this second resolution. He referred also to the action of President Grant during the ten years’ struggle between Spain and the peo- | virons of Havana. ple of Cuba, fromn 1868 to Boss Rainey—Learning steps for “Lanigan’s ball,”” are you? Well, I’ll teach you to dance! through our Minister at Madrid, offered the good offices of the United States, to bring that war to a close on the basis of Cuban independence. The immediate recognition of belliger- ency was a far more important and practi- cal question. That was the point covered by the first resolution, both of the Senate and of the House. In mere bulk the peti- tions presented to Congress favoring this course had exceeded those upon any other subject for years. On the cther side, individual members, especially of the committee charged with the subject, had received letters from citi- zens deprecating any action whatever. These letters were almost always from those who cail themselves business men, brokers apd financial men, who weére op- posed to any agitation or discussion of a foreign question and seem to care little about the Cubans or Spanish, but chiefly about the market. The unmistakable voice of the people of the United States, as expressed in the enormous majority given in the House, 262 to 17, was in favor of recognition of the belligerency of the Cubans. It was against this that all the Spanish influences in this country were most strenuously exerted. It was to this hope of recognition of bel- ligerency that all friends of Cuba turned. The reason was plain. It would be of in- estimable assistance to the Cuban cause. It would give them a flag. It would give them a status in the world. If they pro- cured a vessel and entered New York harbor to-morrow with their lone-star flag they would be liable to be treated as | pirates. The Spanish Minister would imme- diately claim that this should be done, but with a recognized flag they could enter as the ships from all countries do. They could buy munitions of war openly. They could buy supplies of every kind. Men could go openly if notin drmed expedi- tions to join them. They could negotiate loans, negotiate them as openly as the Spaniards could do now. In 1815 the Spanish Minister, De Onis, when the colonies in South America were struggling just as the Cubans are now, demanded that our ports should be closed to the | revolutionists under the fiag of Buenos Ayres, Carthagena and the Mexican Con- gress and other places which he said haa “revolted against the authority of the King, my master.” He denounced them as pirates and bandits and demanded that they should be so treated. President Madi- son disregarded the belligerency of tne struggling colonists. He directad the Secretary of State, Monroe, to make the calm answer on the 29th of January, 1816, The President thought it proper some time past to give orders to the collectors not to make the flags of any vessel a criterion or condition of its admission into the ports of the United States, and he replied to the half-savage demand of the Spanish Minis- ter that the revolutionists be treated as pirates in these dignifiea and noble words: *‘All that your Government had a right to claim of the United States was that they should not interfere in the contest or pro- mote by any active service the success of the revolution, admitting that they con- | tinued to overlook the injuries received from Spain and remaingd at peace. This right was common to the colonists. With equal justice might they claim that we would not interfere to their disadvan- tage; that our ports should remain open to both parties as they were before the commencement of the struggle; that our Jaws regulating commerce with foreigh nations should not be changed to their injury. On these principles the United States has acted. ‘Was not the success of the Cubans now probable? For a year they had baffled the armies of Spain. 1In a recertstatement by the Spanish Minister, addressed to the people of the United States, he said that Spain had sent 125,000 men to Cuba. With this great army more than forty war ves- sels had been co-operating to shut the Cubans in and gubdue them. Far from being subdued, they had fought on success- fully for a year, each month and each week pressing forward, bringing province after province under their power until their suthority had extended over 600 miles from the eastern to the western end of the island, and tne Spanish forces were to-day largely penned in the cities. The Spanish newspaper organs had been constantly claiming that the republic had no capital, and if one were pretended they would at once capture it. ““But, said Hitt, “‘we see publications from Cisneros the Pres- ident of the Cuban;Republic at Cubitas, their capital, which they have beld undis- turbed for nearly a year—undisturbed be- cause they defied Spanish power—while the dispatches in this morning’s papers give accounts of engagements in thewen- It looks from this i878, when he, | distance as though General Weyler in | Havana had more cause to be uneasy than President Cisneros in his capital at Cubi- tas. % “This is a far greater war than the ten years' war of 1868 to 1878, with which it is 50 often compared. That was confined to the eastern end of the island. The revo- lutionists never established their power far from the province of Santiago. The armies of Gomez and Maceo, working in perfect harmony, have fought their way steadily through province after province until they have come into Pinar del Rio at the western end of the island. The politi- harmonious, effective and victorious from the first. It is exactly what President Monroe called ‘a movement of such a steady and consistent form as to make success probable.” And now, as in the time of Monroe, they should have ex- tended to them the rights to which they. are entitled by the law of nations as equal | parties to a civil war.” Hitt deniea that the Cubans had full representation with the Parliament of Spain. The great majority of the Cuban deputations to the Spanish Cortes -con- Hitt said in conclusion: “It is sometimes objected that we onght not to encourage the Cubans to separate government as they would simply enter | upon anarchy and successive revolutions, as so often has happened with Spanish- American colonies. But in fact Cuba differs from all the others except Chile in that two-thirds of 1ts population are of European origin. Chile and Cuba are the _only two spots in Spanish-America where the Spanish race colonized in the fashion in which the Anglo-Saxons colonized—by transplanting their people and building up their own race. The million white people of Cubg, once organized into an independent government, will soon settle into suitable conditions and enter upon a career of prosperity. It is our duty to treat them to-day with fairness—to observea neutrality that isreal. Americans are descendants of those who struggled through a contest against tyranny like that to-day in Cuba should not be false to the memory of their fathers or to the traditions and spirit of their history. We are under no obligations to favor Spain and opvression as against Cuba and freedom. Remember how Spain invaded and seized upon Santo Domingo when the United States was engaged in the War of the Rebellion. It wasdisclosed in the debates in the Spanish Cortes afterward that the occupation ot Santo Domingo was entered upon expressly to thwart the influence of the United States and prevent our ob- taining a station at Samana. It was in this spirit that Spain so early recognized the belligerency of the Confederates, a month before blood was shed in battle. It was done in co-operation with Louis Napoleon, who, also pursuing the same scheme of oppression, took advantage of our troubles to overthrow the republic of Mexico and set up an empire there. We have no debt of gratitude, and should be influenced by no sentiments but those of justice and that enlightened self-interest which 1s the true guide in the policy of nations. “When this vote has been given, as it will be overwhelmingly by the House, concurring with the Senate in expressing the will of the people of the United States, we cannot doubt that the executive will act and obey the voice of the Nation and that we will speedily hear that the Presi- dent has recognized the belligerency of the struggling Cubans. The waning canse of Spain has been apparent from week to week for two months past.” Hitt was interrupted by Patterson (D.) of Tennessee, who asked. what proportion of the 1,600,000 population in Cuba had engaged in the movement to secure the independence of the island. Hitt stated that a communication to the House from tle Secretary of State showed the number of troops in the fieid last August was 30,000, one-third of which were well armed. Since coming into the House to-day Hitt said he had been handed a statement by Mr. Rappleye, the correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, who bhad just returned from Cuba, which showed that the Cuban army now numbered over 60,000 men. Patterson then inquired what pumber of Cubans had enlisted in the Spanish army, which Hitt said he could not an- swer with definiteness. Patterson said the thought he had was that if the people of Cuba, with substan- tial unanimity, desired their autonomy and independence, they ought to have it, and that Spain should not be permitted to hold the territory of such people by sub- jugation. [Applause.] Hitt spoke a few minutes more than an hour, and at the c[oue of his remarks was warmly applauded. cal and military organization has been | sisted of Spaniards from Cubs. not Cubans. | Hyde (R.) of Washington asked Hitt ta | state if the President should not take any action upon theresolutions, whether or not they would be entirely nugatory, excent merely as an expression of sentiment. Hitt replied that he could not recognize the possibility of such a condition of af- fairs and therefore declined to express an | opinion. Boutelle (R.) of Maine referred to the fact .that when this subject was first brought before the House, February 27, he interposed an objection against the hur- | ried and inconsiderate action then pro- posed. He did not suppose then that he was the only member who opposed such hasty action, but the press of the country | had given him a wide prominence in con- nection with what it termed ‘“arresting action” on the Cuban resolutions. Hedid not complain of that prominence then, and did not now. For, if any vindication of his position was needed, it was fur- | nished by the appearance of these resolu- | tions.in the Hotise more than a month later for further consideration. That demonstrated that somebody, somewhere, {+had been of the opinion that a question of this importance should not be voted upon and passed while members of the House were hurrying out of the hall, hatted and coated, to their belated dinners. Boutelle reviewed the history of the par- liamentary progress of the resolutions, | and expressed the opinion that it was not | the intention of the movers of the resolu- | tions to commit Congress to any d efinite and decided policy. Congress, he said, had the power to put the resolutions in such a form as to compel the President to act upon them, but that had been care- fully avoided. No joint resolution was befdre the House and none had been. It was as well known as anything possibly could be that the President did not believe that a state of belligerency exists in the island of Cuba, ~ Referring to the matter of public senti- ment, alleged to be supporting the resolu- tions, Boutelle said he did not claim to speak for the entire American public, but he had not received in the course of the discussion a single letter from a man of reliable, thoughtful, considerate judgment expressing an opinion in favor of the United States embroiling itself in this contention in the island of Cuba. He said people knew how this alleged public sentiment was created and fostered, es- pecially by a portion of the press which lives and thrives upon sensationalism. Boutelle said there was a tendency on the part of some Representatives in Con- gress, as well as other people, to jump to the conclusion that it is the duty of the United States to step in and right every wrong that is brought to public notice. He denied it. It was not the duty of the TUnited States to be the Don Quixote of tke earth. Even if the duty were conceded the country did not have the ability to perform that part. Boutelle said the House was in duty bound not to act upon a matter of such great importance without full knowledge of the facts. What were the Representa- tives doing here? he asked. Why did they not try to elevate and lead public senti- ment? The people were looking to them for light and guidance, and they ought to know more than has been vouchsared to the House before taking any action on a a complication of war with a foreign country. He believed he was.in sympathy with men anywhere trying to gain their freedom; but 1t was a strange condition, in bis opinion, when the tacit admission ‘was made 1n the Republican party here that with our constitution and laws we could not maintain the liberties of a large proportion of our own people when the dec- laration was made in every contested elec- tion case that over a large area of this country a portion of its citizens were de- nied their most precious rights; it was strange, he said, that it was deemed the duty of the United States to dash across the Gulf of Mexico and establish and maintain the freedom of the mulatto in- surgents in Cuba. There were no facts here, he said, suffi- cient to justify the House adopting these resolutions, He was free to say that the administration had not received facts which justified the President and his ad- visers in recognizing a state of belligerency in Cuba. That belligerent rights had not been granted to the Cubans wasg, in his opinion, ample proof that the President baa no ground upon which to act. Bou- telle closed his speech by quoting from the documents and writings of General Grant, Secretary Hamilton Fish and George ‘Washington to sustain his contention that to grant belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents or to interfere with Spain to secure the independence of the island at this ume would be unwise and an un- founded action. e Boutelle spoke nearly an hour and a half subject which might lead the country into" and held the attention of the House thoughout, and was generally applauded at the close. . Skinner (Pop.) of North Carolnia was the last speaker of the afternoonm, elo- quently pleading for bringing Cuba under the stars and stripes. s ALL WORKING TOGETHER. Cheering News From the Cuban Army Reoceived by the Junta, NEW YORK, N. Y., April 3.—*All the officers of the Cuban army are working together with the best of feeling,” said F. G. Pierra of the Junta yesterday. ‘“‘There have been no indications of dissension. That there is such harmony of action is our best guarantee of success. If our Spanish friends were as united as to meth- ods of carrying on the war, they would give us more trouble. “Is General Gomez dead? Well, he was alive three days ago; that is the best I-can say. There have been rumors for several weeks that he was dying of fever. They are false. We received a letter from Gomez a short time ago, in which he said that his officers had not knowingly destroyed any American property on the island. He said further that if any such property had been destroyed, he was sure the Cuban republic would pay for it. “Gomez thinks Weyler 1s less dangerous to the cause than Campos was. ‘His acts and his reputation make friends for us,” he writes. ‘Maceo has sent word to us that on his part the campaign will be kept up through the summer, which is a time when the Spanish forces will be incapaci- tated for fighting on account of not being acclimated.” el DENIED BY THE MINISTRY. Spain Worried by the Rumor of Trouble With Uncle Sam. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 3,—A special dispatch to the Herald from Madrid says: A rumor is in circulation here to the effect that the United States would send a squadron to Barcelona if Spain continued her preparations against Cuba. The rumor is o persistent that the following ministerial denial has been issued: “The Ministry emphatically denies that there is any foundation for the rumor that interna- tional difficulties have arisen which im- pede the sending of a squadron to Crnba or the arming of trans-Atlantic steamers as cruisers.”” e RELEASE OF THE BERMUDA. The Seized Steamer to Be Permitted to Teave Puerto Cortez. LOXNDON, Exc., April 3.—A private dis- patch was received here this evening an- nouncing the release of the steamer Ber- muda at Puerto Cortez. The vessel will sail to-morrow. Her destination is given as New Orleans. Fifty boxes of ammuni- tion found aboard of her, and which were seized, were held by the Hondurian au- thorities. Colonel Nunez is a passenger aboard the vessel. WLL STAY IF OFCE Premier Bourgeois and His Cabi- net Not Discouraged by Interpellation. In the Senate a Resolution Is Adopted Refusing to Give a Vote of Confidence. PARIS, Fraxce, April 3.—An inter- pellation on the Government's foreign policy was submitted in the Senate to-day. M. Bourgeois, Prime Minister and Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs, asked that the ques- tion be deferred, as he could give no reply beyond that which he had made in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. He added that the adjournment of the interpellation = would not lessen the Senate’s rights, while it would give the Government the authority and strength necessary to pursue .its negotiations re- garding the Egyptian and other foreign questions. The Senate refused to agree to M. Bourgeois’ proposal, whereupon the Prime Minister declared that he should make no reply to the interpellation, hav- ing no further explanation to furnish. The following resolution was then sub- mitted : The Senate, noting the declaration of the Government that it cannot add to its explana- tion to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, and regreting that those explanations are in- sufficient, refuses to grant’ the Government a vote of confidence and passes the order of the day. This was adopted by a vote of 157 to 77. The Senate adjourned untit April 22. Im- mediately thereafter the Ministers retired and held a council at the Foreign Office. It is not expected that they will resign. A delegation from the Senate and Cham- ber of Deputies have visited M. Bourgeois and assured him of their esteem and con- fidence. The Cabinet decided unanimously that the vote of confidence adopted by the Chamber of Deputies yesterday made it the duty of the Ministers to remain in office. - M. Bourgeois proceeded to the Palace of the Elysee immediately after the conference and informed President Faure of the decision that had been ar- rived at. The Cabinet will meet again to- MOrrow. P GAVE POISON TO THE PORTER. Adolph Meyer Accused of Murdering a Man Who Sent: Him to an 2 Asylum. CHICAGO, ILL., April 3.—James Fen- ton, 60 years of age, porter at the board- ing-house of Adolph Meyer, at 349 Elm street, dropped dead just after eating his supper to-night, ana Meyer is looked uyon with suspicion of having poisoned hjm. Mrs. Mever is also sick, and it is believed her husband has poisoned both his wife and the old porter. The police say that Adolph Meyer has recently been dis- charged from an insane asylum, where his wife sent him, James Fenton having been used as a principal witness. Meyer, it is claimed, has had a grudge against the two for placing him in the asylum, and he is now suspected of trying to get revenge by murder. B Explosion at an’ Oil Well. PITTSBURG, Pa., April 3.—Early this morning a boiler exploded at one of the Korest 011 Company’s oil ‘wells on the Thornburg farm, in Robinson Township. Engineer W. 8. Thomas was blown a hun- dred feet, and both arms and both legs were broken. He will die. John S. Beck, a coal-hauler, was also seriously injured. HUSE SHOWS A MASS OF SCARS, The Aged Jurist's Evidence of Maltreatment at Highlands. DRAMATIC COURT SCENE, He Displays a Limb Seamed and Gashed as Proof of Cruel Practices. DR. CAMPBELL UNDER ARREST: The Medical Director of the Asylumy in Trouble for Failure to File a Certificate. SAN BERNARDINO, Can, April 3.— The habeas corpus proceedaings brought by Attorney F. F. Gallardo to secure the ree lease of Judge Huse from the Highlands Asylum, has brought forth serious devele opments. As aresult of the ¢ase, Dr. M, B. Campbell, medical directer of tha asylum, was to-day arrested. The charge against Dr. Campbell is failure to rezister his certificate as 8 practicing , physician in San Bernardino County; but back of this there is believed to be an intenticn on the part of Judge Huse’s friends to secure a thoroueh renovation of the institution and an investigation of the methods of itg officials and employes. A dramatic scene was enacted in Judga Otis' court to-day during the progress of the case. Gallardo, the attorney for and friend of Judge Huse, was upon the stand. During his examination District Attorney Sprecker sarcastically asked why, if the aged jurist had been so horribly male treated at the asylum as Gallardo claimed, some evidence to that effect had not been introduced. Up ‘to this time Judge Huse had been a very attentive listener, keeping his eyes fixed upon every witness. When fhe District Attorney asked the question, the Judge moved back in his chair and, putting one foot against the table in front of him, he pulled up his trousers and uaderwear to the knee, disclosing a leg covered by a mass of scars from the ankle to the knee, For fully ten minutes he described to the court the way the wounds were inflicted and the effect they had upon nim. Gallardo proved a shrewd witness. He was asked in regard to the vast property interests of Judge Huse at Santa Barbara and San Francisco, and his questioner in- quired if there was not danger ot the prop« erty being scattered after Judge Huse was committed, it not being in the hands of a guardian. Gallardo said there was. Then be was asked why he had not applied for & guardian for Judge Huse. Hisanswer wass *‘Because to do so I would have to make an affidavit that Jndge Huse was insane, and that I have never considered him tg be.” Attorney Gallardo reitefated the charge that there was a plot to rob Judge Huse of his landed interests. = Dr. Dolan, the assistant superintendent of the asylum and Sapervisor Kimball, were examined to-day. Both testified that Judge Huse was harmless, as far as the life and property of others was concerned, and that they did not believe that he would harm himself. His only failing was that he persisted in picking at his clothes and destroying them. Attorney Galiardo asked why they opposed releasing him. Both witnesses answered that it would be quite dangerous to do so, which was in direct contradiction to their previous admissions, The habeas corpus proceedings have at~ tracted iarge crowds to the courtroom, and some of the ‘testimony places the asylum management in an unfavorable light. Par- ticularly thrilling was the pitiful story of the old Juage this afternoon, when he de- scribed the brutal treatment which he and Attorney Gallardo claim he received. In- terest hes been added to the case by the arrest of Dr. Campbell. ‘While the neglect to file his certificate was probably an oversight, the case against him is certain to be contested vigorously. ‘When asked whileon the stand as to his motive in having Dr. Campbell arrested, Attorney Gallardg replied : “My motive was this: Because 1 have the right to attack in any way I can and weaken the influence of those who are ope posed to Judge Huse's interests.” The case will be continued to-morrow. BULLETS FOR WHITECAPS Farmer Eckston Gives a Band of Masked Men a Very Warm Reception. Now Some of His Neighbors Are Hobe bling About Complaining of Rheumatic Troubles. WICHITA, Kaxs., April 3.—Whitecaps served notice on Jack Eckston, near Bayne- vitle. last week, that he must leave the county in five days. Their grievance was the reported cruelty of Eckston to his little crippled child. Eckston paid no heed to the notice. The night after the expiration of the five daysa band of a dozen masked and armed men stole up toward Eckston’s house, supposedly with murderous intent. The farmer was on the watch and pro- posed 1o give them a warm reception. He hid himself behind an outbuilding and let fly with a repeating rifle, aiming only to cripple them. They fled in a panic after several had been wounded. To-day several neighbors whom FEcke ston had thought to be his best friends are hobbling about on crutches and complain=- ing of serious rheumatic trouble. Eckston will not prosecute and .has no fears of further molestation,