The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1897. NOSALES | < [JF AREND N DIXON Poison That Killed the Belews Purchased Elsewhere. QUEST WILL NOT BE ABANDONED. i Detectives to Visit All the| Drugstores in San ncisco. T 'MAY S BEVELGP. SENSATIONS. INQUE }L < Belew and Harry Alien Will Agaln Face Each Other. g the drug- amento. He withc that =old 1 the Belew Dixon 1t ay be store arderer of test clew the m FRANK BELEW, TBE DIXON SUSPECT. DREYFUS CASE NOW THE TOPL Nothing Else Seems to Be Talked Of in Paris. INCREASED DOUBT)| AS 10 GuUIL1. Officers Who Sympathizad With the Captain Are Degraded. GERMANY BELIEVES THE PRISONER INNOCENT. But WIill Not Interfere With the Punishm 'nt Inf.icted by the French Governmant. Coprright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. PARIS, No It goes without say- ing that one of the entiralling, absorbing topics during the week has been the Drey- f The papers have contained lit- te eise, and nothing eise se-ms to be talkea about. The case undoubtedly con- us case. 3 1 ons revealed the startling st negligent system pre- | stores. violated in Sacra- as in other places,” found the poison b dust in many | ere were evidences that no ey De and Captain | to.San Francisco to con- Wenzell and Chief | nvestigation of all the Francisco will be made i Monday h the hope of s w Attor e race of tue sale of the fatal tin’s detec- s interesied in the rch. The fact that bought by people at , where there is no <ter, is one of the factors minal record sons g sto the act of March, 1891, a druggist | red 1o keev a record of the sale of This record must conta.n the name ddress of vurchasers, a | statement of the purposes for wkich it is required, the name and guantity of the puison bourht#nd the name of the dis- penser at the pha-mac e law of the the sale of is requ ail poisc | anl all Tne most thoro arch bas not re- vealed any =ale of arsenic toany oie liv- ing In tnis part of the country. The reason the search will be carried on 1n San Francisco is that Frank Belew, as well as othe«r persons whose names .k been mentioned in conneciion with the c > has often visited the city. Ifany of the suspects is 1 Ity man there 1s a pos- «ipbility that he may have purchased the arsenic in the city. Arthur Belew has just returned from a visit “down the roac’’—he does not say where—which was made ior the purpose of investigating a SIOIy concerning a crious woman who is said to bave \ scen hovering about the Belew resi- caon the i preceding the fatal akfa-t. He <ays he has not been able to account tor the presence of the woman or to learn just who she v He thinks it m«y bave been the cr.minal, and so greatis the faith of the Be «ws in the in- nocence of their brotuer that they are spending money to ruu down all plausibe clews. Ca tiin Curtin will make his report to the District Attorney ater tue inquest. it is his opinion that the arrest ol auny per now suspected would bs nonse; ess new evidence is scovered. - missing link 1s proof of wwe sact that purcbased arsenic. If 1t couid that e ither Frank Belew or hased any arsenicat any tue past year, for any pur- er any pretext whatever, it | or un N bs difficult” for the purchaser to | e-coy | ‘Uhe public nere is looking forward | eag iy 1o the inquest. There wiil be a | meeting between Harry Allen and Frank Belew at day. Tuey have meu be- | fore ha- accused the other of | the crime. It will be interesting to hesr | Frank Belew teil of his sister’s death. | Thirty wiinesces for t e inquest were | summoned to-dav and notified tc be pres- | ent 0:30 A. M. Tuesdav. Tke jurors | are: W. J. McElvane, Jacob Schneider, George Steinmiller, Claus Frahm, J. M. Bell, Louis Haike, Charies Douoho, John McDermott and Charles Nowmar. jand foremost the uncomfortable feeling ! | and not as tains all the elements calculated to im- passion the French mind. There is first | that after ali Dreyfus may not be guiity, apert from the fact that such men as Scheuren Kestner and Gabriel Monod have convinced themseives of the inno- cence of that prisoner on the desolate | isiand off the South American coast so inaptly named tne Islaad of Salvation. It has now developed that Command nt Forzinetti, governor of the military prison where Dreyius was confined previous to the trial, was so certain of the erroneous finding of the court that he did not hesi. tate to shake Dreyfus by the hand, even afler his condemnation. Commzndant Forzinetti further has publcly proclaimed kis belief, impsarting his convictions amongz others to Henri Rochefort, who published the story in his newspaper. As a resuit Commandant Forzinetti has been superseded in his function not as the military authorities explained for believiug Dreyfus guiltless, but for telting a journabist A similar indiscretion c d azrother officer, Commandant Pauf- fin de Saint Morel, on the staff of Genera! s0. Boisdeffec, to be punished with thirty days’ arrest. These are only two incidents in the drama which is prolific with new situa- | tions. There is a sensational phass every | day, 10 go no further back than the start- | ling denunciation of Comte Walsin Ester- | hazy by Mathieu Dreyfus, youngest vroiher of the condemn«d spy. This was foliowed by Count Esterhazy’s allegation | that Colonel Picquart had joined in the conspiracy toruin him by fabrication of spurious :ocuments. When it was learnea that Colonel Picquart had been sent in disgrace to apo t on the Aigerian fron- x 1o some dizc,very made by his superiors in connection with the Dreyfus | case somc time ago, the public felt, in | theatrical varlance, that the plot thick eued. Even in the ne¢w complications which aro e pending the Inquiry begun by General de Peilieux, the public has alrzady enough and to spare. In connection with the statement that the German Government is ready to de- clare that it never had any dealings with Dreytus, the Figaro publishes this morn- ing the following story of the genesis of M. Scheuren-Kesiner’s clossier: *‘It ap- pears tbal two inhabitants of Mulhauaen, who had doubts abour Dreyius’ - uilt, wrote to Prince Holenlobe to ask if the German Emperor could not, as a man, an_emperor, give evidence in the matter. Prince Hohenloue's reply crme u few days afterward. It was to the effect that the Grand Chancellor did not hesiiate 10 say that since the opsning of the affair the Garman G,vernment had made known officially to the French Gov- ernment that it had never had direct or indirect dealings with Dreyfus, but since then the case had been adjuiged in con- formity with French laws and under these conditions the German Government could not interfere in any way in the matter.” tier, ¢ Richop Mchotsow's Wije Dead. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 20—Mrs. I. L. Nicholson, wife of Bishop Nicholson, of thi. city, died to-dsy of consumption after an ftlluess of two years. Mrs. Nicholson was considered the best authority in the | has been more CISED 0P DERATDING TRALTER Serious Charge Against Los Angeles School Officials. AXTELL AND ADAMS UNDER FIRE. Alleged to Have Levied Assess- ments Upon Certain Instructors. COIN DEMANDED TO PAY FOR INFLUENCE. Six Pearsons Flle Affidavits That They Paid Money to ths Palr. E&pecial Dispatch to THE CALL. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20.—The develop- ments that bave arisen in connection with the brokerage business Superin- tendent of School Buildines C. H. Axtell was apparently «onducting, selling places in the School Department or arrangiug for those who already had places to re- tain them, caused a special me:ting of the Board of iucation to-day. Charges in specific shape were filed by School Di- rectors Charles Cassat Davis and N. P. Conrey. They alleged that School Di- rector Joseph F. Adams, the Populist member from the Seventh Ward, and Building Superintendent Axtell had levied, or caused to be levied and paid to them, assessments upon emploves of the department for supposed influence in re- taining or obtaining for them tieir places. President Mathews presided at the board meeting, and when it was convened | that deadly calm pervaded the meeting- room which foretelis the coming storm. The charges made by Directors Conrey and Davis and the affidaviis of five teachers and one janitor in support of them were read. Direztor Davis then explained why he | had filed the charges. He said that he | was in no way influenced by malice, and | that on the other hand it was with the | utmost regret that he felt it to be his duty | to take the step. He said that he had known of the matter for some time, and that he had given Director Adams every opportunity to ciear himself, but he had fatied to do so. Director Adams then made a fiery speech, in which he accused histwo ac- | cu-ers of attempting to _ruin him by mak- | ing these allegations. He denied that he | had been notified that they were to be filed, and said that before the investiga- tion which he intended to demand closed it would be shown that a conspiracy ex- | isted to ruin him and to indirectly im- peach the political organization which had selected him as its cand.date for the School Board. He said peisonal spite and malice also had influenced people :n urg- | ine the charges aguinst him. D.rector Adams explained that the five teachers from whom he was accused of | indirectly attempting to obtain money | were all appointed from the Fourth Ward, represented by Director Davis, one oi his accusers. He said that every member of the board knew that he had nothing to do | with thbe; appointment, and that his | wishes as to tnem never would and never had been considered. As far as Building Superint-ndent Axtell was concerned, Di- rector Adums said that he had never had any conversation with him as to appoint- ments. When the sreaker resumed his seat he was overcome by the excitement | and the strain. A motion to aproint a committee of three members of the board to investigate tiie charges was carried. Directors Webb, Bartiett and Poor were named. The committee was given power 10 consult the District Altorney on legal points, to subpena employes of the de- partment as witnesses, and to have a!l | testimony taken by a stenographer and | transcribed. The invesiigation was be- | gun at once. A mo‘ion to suspend Building perin- tendent Axtell, pending investigation of | the charges against him, was voted down. Elder J. 8. Pitman is mixed up in the unpleasant affair. He is an ex-member of the board from the Fourth War . and Jan- itor Cooper alieges that he paii $65 to Pit- man to retain his ptace. It is understood t at Piuman admits having received the money, and cluims that he paxd $60 of it ts Axtell. Putmun is a local minister who orlessembroied in politics | of Iate, Theonly witne:s examined tc-night was Janitor E. E Cooper. He swore that he paid ex-School Director Pittman $65 to retain his posiiion as janitor, and that he understood that the money was to go to Axteil and Adams. He aiso swore that when Pittman wasa sctiool director he gave him $15 at one time that he atiended Pittman’s church on Sunday and each 1ime placed $1in the contribution box. His saliry, he raid, was $65 a monih on i. hesupported his wuoe and three chi'dren, He founi these sums he felt compeiled to pay out a haavy tax on him, but he understood that he was doing it to hold his job. ONIONS WIN THE WAR. Failure of an Att;nfl of a Topeka Teacher to Expel Pupils With Bad Breaths. CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—A Topeka (Kans ). special says: Topeka’s onion war 1s over and the onion won. The trouble began when Elmira McCoy, a teacher in the{ Clay-street school, sent three onion-eat- ing pupils home to have their breaths toned down, and announced that here- efier no onion breaths would be per- mitted in the schoolroom. Protests were entered, but Miss MeCoy was upheld by the principal, Mr. McC in- tock. and for twodays the anti-onion edict stocd. Then the pupils took a hand. Wuen «chool was called this mornirg Miss Mct'oy's room smelled like an onion She calle! up one suspect, con- him by smel'ing his breath and sent him home. 8ti!l the obnoxious aroma hung heavy in the room, and another suspect was calied up and dis- missed. Then followed another and another until but half the class was left. At that juncture Miss McCoy saw io what her edict was leading and it was declared off. Later inquiry developed the fact that the pupils in the room excent two had country on church vestments embroidery. The deceased’s relatives live in Baltimore, eaten onions and had signed a pledge to keep it up until the teacher should weaken, |8 train reaches KINGSTON DWELLINGS INUNDATED Waters Encroach Upon the Coeur d’Alene Town. BUT ONE RESIDENCE INHABITED. People Compellad to Vacate Th Homes and Flee in Haste. RAILROADS DAMAGED BY THE FLOOD. Miles of Track Washed Out and Bridgss Carrled From Thelr Foundations. Spectal Dispatch to THE CALL. WALLACE, Ipano, Now. have the Novemver floods in the Ceeur a’Alenes been more disastrous than those of this vear. Railroads have been washed out and peovple driven from they bomes. The water has come from the North Fork this time, the South Fork not being dangeropsly high. The trouble commenced at Kingston. Only one house was inbabited tnere this | morning, the other people having moved to the hills. For weeks everybody there | has been busy tryiug to get logs all out of | the boom, but many were left to go down the r var when it broke last night, This morning the water was four feet deep in the street. The narrow-gaugs railroad in the flat b:yond was washed off the grade, and section men had staked it down to save it from going down the river. The section foreman had been down be- low Cataldo early in the morning and re- ported the Oregon Railway and Naviga- | tion track there standing on the end of the ties. The narrow-gauge bridge be- | tween there and Old Mission had caught immense jams of logsfrom Kineston, also driftwood, which threatenea to carry the bridge out. Notting is known regaraing the old mission, but the situation there must be critical, as the location is on low ground. Persons crossing the river at Kingston reported another sérious break in the O. | R. ana N. track at Enaville, four miles from tiere to Cataido. The railroad foliows the river closely, former floods breaking it in places, so it is very likely broken more oriess, A consiruction crew is now at Cataldo, but progress will be slow until the river fulls, Atnoon the water was an inch lower at | Kingston, but it will fall slow!y until morning, the cold wave having struck the country only yesterday evening. It will take from thirty to forty hoursfor the water to run from the mountains to slack water. Snow on the nigh meuntains was five feet deep when the .warm rains com- menced, over six inches of water falling at Murray during the week, All things considered 1t wiil be Iucky if he before Tuesday. Frem Missoula tbe Nortnern Pacific has hed no trains since Thursday evening, but hopes for one bpefore morning. The trouble was a slide near the Deborgia Mountain. The wires were down, 80 no Lelp could be got until noon to-day. S R e HEAVY 1L0>s OF — Never STOCK. Thousands of Anin als Drowned Around Mowunt Vernon. SEATTLE, Nov. 20 —The most serious damage doue by the recent flood so far re- ported was at Mount Vernon. The dykes surrounding the town broke last nigisit, and within an hour the whole town was under two feet of water. H un- dreds of men worked like Trojans, but their work was futile, as the river contin- ued to rise until it reached a height two ! when the whole Skagit Valley was inun: dated. Hundreds of head of stock were drowned and many barns and granaries washed away. The Great Northern track beiow town is washed out for a distance of 500 | feet, and above the railway bridge one mile of the road iscrippled. It is esti- | mated that it will cost at least $10,000 1o | repair the aykes to this one district. The water 1« subsiding, but still running through the breaks. It will beat least ten days before the water leaves the lowlznds. The whole country for a distance of twen- ty miles to saltwater is under water from four to seven feet. ITALY AND BRAZIL. Friction Has Becoms Serious and Sharp Kotes Are Exchanged by the Diplomats Coprright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. BUNEOS AYRES, Noy. 20.—Count An- tonelli, Italian Minister to Argentina, has received orders to go to Rio Janeiro as envoy extraordinary to Brazil to set- tle difficulties which have arisen out of recen: outrages on Italians in Spirill|| Santo. He will sail on the sieam:hip | Sirio, early next yweek. In the meantime the [talian warship Umbria, now at Buenos Ayres, has received orders to proceed at once to Spiritu Santo 10 pre- vent further anti-Italian demonstrations there. & 1 am advised by the Herald’s cor- respondent in Rio Janerio that friction with Italy has become s2rious. The Gov- ernment has senta note to the Itslian legaiion saying that Italians who suffered damave are at l:berty o bring suit against the Government or that the legation may do so. The note reminds the Italian representative of the great number of Itaidans who figure in the criminal statis- tics of Brazil. In reply to this the lega- tion has sent anote asserting that the aggressors in ihe Spiritu Santo troubles were political agitators, wh) attacked the Italians becaute they declined to pledge their support in the movement against the Government. e FILES A FORMAL CLAIM. Brazilian Minister Demands Damages From Ecuador for Outrages Upon Him. Copyright, 1597, by James Gordon Bennett. PANAMA, Nov. 20.—Tue Herald’s cor- respondent at Guyaquli, Ecuador, states that the Prazilian Minister has filed a formal claim against Ecuador for out. rages on him by the local authoriti Lsa Tacunga, INTRIGUE OF NATIONS NCREASED Incidents That Enrich the Stock Pot of Politics. BONES OF CONTEN- TION ADDED. First Cams the Attitude of Austria and Russia a2s to Turkey. NOW ENVIOU3 EYES ARE CAST ON GERMANY. . TR ¥ Great Britain’s Campalgn In India Assuming a More Serious Nature as Wintar Approaches. Special Dispateh to THE CALL. LONDON, Nov. 20.—The stock pot of in- ternational politics has been enriched dur- ing the last few days by two or three bones which promise to furnish an opportunity for plenty of contentlon hereaiter. Russia contributed the first in her notification, November 13, to the Porte, that the arrears of the Russo-Turkish war indemnity amounted 1o £1,300,000, and that if Turkey intends to apply part of the Greek war indemnity to,an increase of the Turk- 1sh armaments Rassia will demand the payment of this amount. This was fol- lowed by a second note on the same sub- ject. Austria furnished the second bone in her demand for ihe payment of arrears due the Oriental Railway Company for trans- porting Turkish troops curing the war, the raiiroad being an Austrian concern and the arrears amounting to £230,000, at the same time insisting upon the di-- mi-sal of the Valiof Adanu, Asia Minor, and of the Mulaessarif of Mersina, the vort of Adana, the two officials who were respoiisible ‘or the indizn.ties to which an Aus'rian merchant, Brazzafolli, was recently subjcted to, and also ior their share in the insults complained of by the Ausirian Consu! at Mersina, who intar- fered in bebalf of Biazzafolli, the sgent there of the Austrian L'oyd Steamship Company, to all of which demands Tur- key submitted. Incidentally the Turkish Government is also said to have abandoned her naval reorganizaiion plans as a result of the sec- ond note o! Rassia on the subject of the war indemn ty arrears due that country. Germany flavored the contents of the stock pot with hot sauce trom China in the shape of the landing of her sailors und marines at Kiao-Chau, ostensibly for the purpose of insisting upon redress for the murder of two Germau missionaries. but possib'y it is intimated in order to obtain a good coaling station and harbor ior repairing her Hest in the {ar East. Great Britain’s part in these proce: ings remains to be developed. Germany’s | sweep down upon Kiao-Chau Bay has ex- cited the chancellories, ana the advices irom Shanghai that two steamers have been chartered there to convey stores and materials in Kiao-Chau Bay, coupled with the fact that the German marines are now engaged in building winter barracks, leave little doubt that Germuanv has prac- tically annexed Kiao-Chau Bay, which, next to Port Artnur, is the most im- yortant harbor in China. The news from India isabout as dis- couraging as itcan be. The sudden re- crudescence of the activity of tne tribes- men, when it was thought tne affiir was about finished, shows that whatever the British officials may think the natives of the invaled country are not aware that they are b-aten. Their supplies of am- munition and food seem to be inexhaus:- ible, while, according to the latest evi- dence, they have baen in the receipt of a | feet higher than it was four yeais ago, | constant supply of rifles and cartridges | from Birmingham via the Persian Gulf and Afzhanistan. A bad .eaiure of the campaign is the rapid approack of winter. It is already bitterly cold on the frontier, and the Brit- ish t 0ous are not equipped for a winter campaign. The cost of the mili‘arv oner- ations is already est mated at £2,500,000, and this amount will probavly be doubied by the ¢ 0 e of the cam paign. “Satan’s Invisibe World Displaved, or Deaspairing Democracy,’’ is the s n<ational title 0 a_sensational book dealing with the New York campaign, which W. A. 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The policy of having a State that far away can never be agreed to by the American people. Even if Hawaii should become thoroughly Americanized, it is not consistent with our system of Government that a State should be 2000 miles off in the middle of the water. The incorporation of a State that far ayay from our nearest State was never within the contemplation of the founders of the Gov- ernment. “It would be a matter to which the American people would never be recon- ciled, if in some close Presidential election the choice of a President should be de- termined by the vote of Hawaii. ‘It would be equally objectionable il in a closely balanced Senate the question of the passage or defeat of a bill affecting the entire country should be decided by the vote of the Hawaiian Senators.” Asked if any other form of Government could be devised, Senator Bacon said be did not think anything could be done to guarantee any other form of govern- ment. “Even 1f Hawaii is admitted,’”” said Senator Bacon, with some vehemence, ‘“‘she will never be unything but a pocket borough. 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