The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1898, Page 1

The- Call VOLUME LXXXIIL—NO. 45. SAN FRANC ISCO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUMORS OF NEW RIOTS IN HAVANA But the Administration Is Not @dlarmed by the Situation. However, the Battle-Ship Maine Remains in Readiness to Pro- ceed Instantly if Summoned by General Lee. AR R R R B2 R R R R R R R R R R R R R POOPOOOO D INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA AND AMERICAN CONTROL. members State Department and to th of Cuba. dicates in these countries, bonds are way guarantees their payment. that t v the v nly t commercial power. ¥ been made to this country by certain ts to secure active intervention. If this were ates would become morally responsible for the pay- ban loan. This could be done by a protectorate similar nd in Egypt or by direct control of the Cuban cus- ere 590000000000 00006606060000 & Private information has been sent to the of the Foreign Affairs Commit- tee in Congr ying e0 show that powerful influences are at work to secure independence for Cuba. Spain has issued bonds to the gross t $400,000,000, based specifically upon the resources and These bonds are held in large part in Great Britain it is said, have ibout to become valueless un- They devastated, and that it can be L4 @ @ & @ ® ® @ @ @ & ® & @ @ @ DGOOPOOOPOOOVOOCOOOOGOGS m correspondent telegraphs: in circulation late to-night t fresh riots having broken out in 1d not be cofiffirmed. Despite the alarms Washington offi- clals maintained a dignified coolness to- over the Cuban situation. It can ated authoritatively that the Ha- vana riots of yesterday, which were she left New Y proceed to Havana. yesterday afternoon. promptly subdued, have not changed the attitude of the administration in| Havana. General Blanco, however, to | ant ( regard to relations with Spain, or its | quiet the apprehension of General Lee, general policy on the Cuban question. stationed guards around his office and It can state ness that the F sanguine that to restc the m McKin from be d with equal positi esident is by no means ever be able sland through President 2 house. the | m sees from the autor k that one be sent to his ficial reports | General Lee's dispatch w hat autonomy White House, where the Pre: much headway. He A r, that there is tuation that action by the present time. His He will meet arise with the e in conference. These offi ered the suggestion of looking to the disps further Secretary Long. Mr. Day the Herald's dispatch this morning. The | cjups instructions given to the Maine when rk for Key West on De- cember 11 were that she might have to The dispatch from Consul-General Lee indicating that se- rious trouble existed in Havana came It is understood that General Lee sent to General Blan- co and urged upon him the advisability In closing his dispatch to the department General Lee intimated that has been physically what General Wey. sence of a man-of-war was de- sirable, although he did not directly nt to the dent and ssistant Secretary of State Day were als consid- General tch of a man-of- war to Cuba, and as a result Mr. Day went to the Navy Department to see Lee most pacific means at hand, and always | Secretary Long that the President did be prepared for any emergency. not believe that a warship should be HAVA} day a offices of T ing A, Jan. 12.—About noon to- Sent to Havana, but it w. d gathered in front of the Diario de la Marina shout- “Death to El Diario!” General t the regular troops to re- and to compel the dispersal crowd which kept up a continu- shouting on the streets near Cen- | Park | These people accuse El Diario de la | Marina of being responsible for the at- | crov be ready, and General Lee w: danger. s desired that the Maine might be in readiness to pro- ceed to that port at an instant’s notice. Accordingly Secretary Long telegraph- ed instructions to Captain Sigsbee to s advised that he might cable to Captain Sigsbee to come to Havana should there be any | Government and that of the United News of the suppression of the riots was sent by General Lee late last night, tacks made upon army officers and | This afternoon he reiterated his state. Spanish residents in the island. They | ment that quiet prevailed, and in a sub. y that La Discusion and El Re- | sequent message explained that there centrado received their cue from El Diarfo. A man selling El Diario was shot in the arm. CONSUL-GENERAL LEE ALLAYS THE FEARS OF TROUBLE AT HAVANA. But Orders Stand for the Maine to Be Ready | to Proceed to the Cuban Capital at an Instant’s Notice. | NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—The Herald's Washington correspondent sends the following: Consul-General Lee cabled to the State Department late this even- ing that In view of the more pacific condition of affairs in Havana there is no need of an American warship there. While gratified at this information there is no intention to abate vigilance in the matter of providing Americans and their interests in Cuba with pro- tection should they be endangered by further riots. The intention is to per- mit the orders given to the Maine late | yesterday afternoon to be in readiness | to proceed to Havana at an instant’s | notice, to stand. She is at the disposal of Consul-General Lee, and the moment he considers that the iInterests of this Gavernment require the presence of a | man-of-war he is empowered to cable | Captain C. D. Sigsbee, her commander, to come. Of course, it is recognized by the President that the necessity which will call the Maine to Havana must be urgent. The administration does not desire to station a man-of-war in Ha- na harbor. The authorities object to the officers and men to in- ons from dangerous diseases, an think their presence in the har- | bor would cause some overt act to be committed which might involve Spain | and the United States. | There was ample confirmation to-day | of the Herald’s exclusive announcement that the Maine had been ordered to be ready to leave for Havana should Con- gul-General Lee desire her presence. Secretary Long was disinclined to dis- cuss the situation, but finally sald that the original orders given to the vessel had not been changed, as was stated in ®® NEWS OF THE DAY. cisco: day, with southerly winds. twenty-four hours: San Francisco Portland ... Los Angeles San Diego . FIRST PAGE. Situation In Cuba Critical. Annexation Short of Votes. Prestdent Dole of Hawall Coming. The Jute Bag Scandal. SECOND PAGE. % The Jute Bag Scandal THIRD PAGE. §tll Fight Mark Hanna Young Santa Rosa Girl Vanished. France to Prosecute Zola. Prince Guilty, but Irresponsible. Theodore Durrant Is Ashes. Burfed Alfve in a Mine. FOURTH PAGE. The Baden Murderer’s Trial. Story of Alsip’s Finances. FIFTH PAGE. Congress at Work. Los Angeles School Scandal News Along the Water Front. Working for the Jubllee. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Immigration Restriction. The South and the Fair. The Los Angeles School Scandal. Currency Reform. A Foolish Boodler. The Runaway Horse. Storles From the Corridors. The Coast Pr. SEVENTH PAGE. New Year's at the Greek Church. Improvements on Polk Street. The Shain Divorce Case. Robbed by Bunko Men. Robbed in Daylight. EIGHTH PAGE. Commercial World. NINTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay TENTH PAGE. Racing at Oakland. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. School Positions for Favorites. Capture of a Burglar. A Night Among the Sports. L4 ® @ @ & L4 ® ® ® k4 @ @ o> 0.4 @ P9990900900® Weather forecast for San Fran- Increasing cloudiness on Fri- Maximum temperature for the past 9996666666 60666 6666w | “Military Mutinies in Havana.” ® @ 3 & @ @ & @ ® & ® 99 @ & ® @ » @ 04 @ @ @ @ @ > @ @ ® @ @ @ | orders of the squadron to make its win- b4 PP 00000 000099 00000 OQ@ was no further pressing need of a man- of-war. An official of the administra- tion told me to-day that there was no need of alarm over the possibility of a rupture between the United States and Spain. He recalled the fact that the Navy Department recently sent the cruiser Marblehead to Port Au Prince to protect Americans. Similarly, the Maine would have gone to Havana. He said that the stories that the entire| squadron had been ordered to Havana were absurd. The squadron will not leave Hampton Roads before Sunday. It will then proceed to Tortugas, and engage in target practice. It will rest | on Sunday, January 23, and will then sail for drill grounds, which lie between | Tampa and Key West. The vessels ! which will take part in the drill will be | the New York, the flagship; the battle- | ships Towa, Indiana and Massachusetts, | second-class battleship Texas, crulsers Detroit and Montgomery, monitor Ter- | ror and dispatch boat Fern. The Maine | will probably be directed to take part | in the squadron maneuvers. The squad- ron will remain at the¥drill grounds un- | til April. The Detroit has just reached | Key West from a cruise to the West | | Ina and in accordance with orders | | sent b the department, the Marble- | | head was preparing to leave for Na- | vassa Island when an accident occurred | during target practice, which resulted | | in injuring four men. The Marble- | | head delayed. The torpedo boat flotilla will | soon sail for Galveston, Tex. | President McKinley is not so anxious | to-day in regard to the Cuban situation as he was yesterday. Reports sent out from Washington this morning that | there was a Cabinet meeting presum- | ably at 5 o’clock this morning are un- | true. It is believed that the flurry is over, at least for the present. | - GREAT INTEREST IN | THE TROUBLE IS NOW | MANIFESTED AT MADRID. Government Version Says the Uproar Is Over, Thanks to the Loyalty of the Volunteers at Havana. MADRID, Jan. 13.—I need scarcely tell you that news published early this evening of the rising in Havana excit- ed acute interest. Early placards were postedup in prominent places forecast- ing what the evening papers would publish later on, and these were sur- | rounded by crowds of people, who chat- tered as only Spaniards can. Later on | when the papers came out there was a rush for them instantly. Men read them, covered up their eyes with typi- cal Spanish cloaks nd in cafes and all were intent to know the de- tails, which, when printed, did not tell you any more than my first telegram. The case is somewhat like that of the Greek officers who, three years ago, broke into the office of the Acropolis, | an Athens newspaper, and threw the type and everything possible out of the | window. But this case is worse, as it implies that the officers In question dis- of havingan American warship come to | agree with autonomy, which the pres- Government is trying so hard to es- tablish. It is not true that the officers will be summarily shot. They will be tried by court-martial. Their conduct ler's was morally. The Queen Regent at an early hour was given the con- tents of the telegram from Cuba, and a council of ministers was held at the palace. Alarming rumors went about in the Stock Exchange, the most sinister of which was that the volunteers had gone over to the mutineers, whereas the contrary is the case. They stood stanchly by the new Government. Informed | There was a slump all around, but it was not serious. The Government ver- sion issued is very brief. It says that all the trouble is over, thanks to the loyalty of the volunteers. The Gov- ernment feels annoyed at this trouble occurring at a time when everything is going so smoothly, but gains hope in the feeling that the United States will now see that the object of the present States are the same, and that cries of “Viva Espana!” “Viva Weyler!” “Mu- erte alaautonomia!” uttered againstthe Government were also uttered agalnst the United States’ policy. The Heraldo makes the greatest fea- ture of all the papers, having a whole page with the heading right across, | 1t | professes to have received a special re- | port through a steamer touching at Key West, and says that 100 officers took part belonging to different corps. The origin of the trouble was some newspaper attacks upon Captains Cal- vo and Sanchez, General Weyler's aids. Captain General Blanco is much irritated, and proposes severe action. | A cable dispatch from Havana says | | that a new law to prevent the press of | Cuba from attacking the prestige of the | Spanish army and officials will appear | in to-morrow’s Gaceta. | EXCITEMENT ABOARD THE BATTLESHIPS INDIANA AND 10WA. After Taking on Coal These Vessels Leave for 0/d Point Comfort to Join the ! North Atlantic Squadron. 1 NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Jan. 13— | The battieship Indiana left this after- | noon for Odl Point Comfort, after tak- ing on 990 tons of coal, to join the other vessels of the North Atlantic squadron. The battleship Towa came up this afternoon to fill her coal bunk- ers. Rumors as to trouble have reach- ed the men on these vessels, and there | is some excitement aboard ship, but no | important orders have been received from Washington. | It is understood that the vessels now in these waters will not sail for the South until Saturday morning, unless there are further developments of an unexpected nature in the Havana sit- | uation. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 13.—The flag- ship New York will probably sail for Key West to-morrow morning. One hundred tons of coal have been ordered alongside the ship at Seawalls Point, alongside the monitor Terror, which is also at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and day and night shifts are now at work pre- paring her for sea. Ammunition to be | used for target practice while on the | winter cruise has been delivered aboard | the warships within the past few days. | Naval officers decline to discuss the sit- uation, but peint out the fact that the 000000000000000000000006 THE TREATY'S FRIENDS ARE FRIGHTENED Not Votes Enough to| Bring About An- nexation. Still Four Short on a Care- ful Poll of the Senate. This Calculation Gives the An- | nexationists All the Doubt- ful Senators. departure has consequently been | PRESIDENT HARDAT WORK | All the Efforts of the Administration ‘Will Not Succeed in Seizing the Hawaiian Islands. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CO00000000000000C A poll of the Senate made at Washington to-day shows the annexation treaty four votes abso- lutely short of the two- thirds necessary to secure its ratification. Asthe mat- ter stands, there are fifty- one Senators for the treaty, thirty-three against - and five doubtful. Giving the annexationists all the doubt- ful votes, they would still have only fifty-six. It re- quires sixty to insure rati- fication. Q0000000000000 0000Q0Q0C0D 000000002000 000C00C Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, D. C., Jan. 13 It is Very apparent th t t‘he Ha- watian snnexatloals . b Loly €= moralized. This is evident from a lead- ing article in an evening paper whose editor, for reasons well understood’ in Honolulu, is rampant for annexation. The Star tries to make it appear that Senators Thurston and Gear, who were a day or two ago announced as op- posed to annexation, are now doubt- ful about their policy. In its juggle with figures, this paper says: With Thurston and Gear in line, and count- ing Kenney and Smith as there would be sixty votes treaty. Tt is unders rin Is very apt fo vote for annexation. The fact that Mr. Morrill has been a most attentive listener to the speeches favorable, for the favoring annexation since the Senate has been holding executive sessions, and his remarks made to other Senat- ors are believed by many friends of the treaty to mean he doubtful as to the w; in which his vote will be cast and that should it be shown his vote would determine the question he would likely cast it in the affirmative. “With Thurston and Gear in favor of the treat if they so de re them- selves according to the expectations of many, Mr. Morrill would be the only Republican in opposition, and, as stat- ed, his opposition is now regarded as of a doubtful nature rather than having a firm conviction against the wisdom of the treaty. “There are also possibilities of votes favoring the treaty in addition to those indicated. Senator Daniel remarked to- day that he was still doubtful, though inclined to vote against annexation. Roach and Mitchell are also doubtful. The President is using all the influence in his power to make friends for the treaty. The whole situation as it ap- pears to-day is very much more hope- ful than it has been for several days.” A careful and conservative poll made vesterday showed that the annexation- is tood that McLau- | HAWAITS PRESIDENT [§ COMING Sanford B.. Dole the Role of a Lobbyist. in Thinks He Can Aid the Tottering Cause of Annexation, | i | On the Way to Washington to Take Charge of the Forlorn Hope Brigade. WHAT HIS TOUR COSTS. | | Ten Thousand Dollars Appropriated | to Defray the Expenses of the Chief Executive's Junket. Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, Jan. 6.—And now the fair city by the Golden Gate should prepare to salute the President of Ha- | wali with all due honor and courtesy, for he is the first, and perchance the last, President of the Republic of Ha- wali. Once before Hawali sent you a King, but you treated him too hospita- bly and royally, and we lost him. The | ruler Hawaii sends by the steamship Peru on the 7th is a man cast in a dif- ferent mold. He, too, is a son of the soil and of an honored and noble mis- ionary fatker, pleasing and charming personality. As a man and a gentleman his bitterest political opponents have no words of dispraise or in detriment of his per- sonal character. As a politician and a statesman he will be on trial before his peers in Washington. | The Council of State at its delibera- | tions late yesterday afternoon derlded‘ | by a unanimous vote that Sanford B. | | Dole, President of the Republic of Ha- | waii, should be authorized to proceed | with all haste to Washington to labor | in the cause of annexation. This ac- tion was taken after a preliminary | meeting of the members of the Gov- rnment with Chief Justice Judd, Gen- eral A. S. Hartwell, John Ena, F. J.: Lowrie, Henry Waterhouse, Wiilllam C. | ‘“’Hder. Colonel W. F. Allen, W. A'! | Kinney, P. C. Jones, James A. Ken- | nedy, C. B. Ripley, Albert Wilcox, Cecil | | Brown, George W. Smith, J. B. Ath-| | erton, W. R. Castle and others. | It was thought at this meeting that | | a tidal wave of enthusiasm would fol- |low in the President’s wake in his journey through the United States, un- | | til it would overwhelm all opposition | and carry the bark eof annexation | | through Congress at a thirty-five-knot | | run. But then the dignity of the toga | | of our chief magistrate is to be pre- served. According to the official organ | | it was expressly stated that he was | not to appear before committees to be subjected to questioning and cross- | | examination like an ordinary witness. | | Neither was it the intention that he | should travel about addressing meet- | ings or bodies indiscriminately or mis- | cellaneously. His conduct was to be | | dignified, of course, and his goings and | comings from day to day would be left | to his own judgment and discretion. | The Cabinet then met and approved, | and then the great Council of State | also approved, and Minister Cooper, he | who rules over the Foreign Office and | Board of Education, will, after Satur- day next, be the Acting President of Hawaii, an honor earned through read- ing the revolutionary proclamation of the “Committee of Safety,” which formed the Provisional Government in those early days of January, 1893, from | the threshold of the Government build- | ing under the protecting arms of | United States Minister Stevens and Captain Wiltse, U. S. N. It is said by annexationists who claim to have inside information that this bold stroke of policy—one in the nature of the end justifying the means | Continued on Fourth Page. Continued on Fourth Page. J. P. DIGGS, Brother of the Middleman. ter cruise in the Gulf have not been re- voked J HOW DIGGS GOT CHEAP JUTE SACKS Correspondence From Prison Records. by Telegraph and Without Affidavits in the Nick of Time. DEPUE AS MUTUAL FRIEND. The following correspondence will explain how the middleman gets San Quentin sacks at bedrock prices: WOODLAND, Cal., Jan. 30, 1897. ‘W. E. Hale, Warden, San Quentin, Cal Dear Sir: What are sacks worth? T already have a few customers and I would like to do the sack business with you the coming year, and would like also to know what would be the chances for me to secure a certain number of bags for June and July delivery, so that I will know I will be able to furnish my customers with them at a certain given rice. 3 Of course, I would furnish the affidavits at the proper time. I would be pleased to hear from you on this point, and you might talk the mat- ter over with our mutual friend, Mr. De Pue, and let me know in regard Interesting and Convincing Sixty-Six Thousand Bags Ordered R g e S R S and a man of very | O ) to it. Yours truly, M. DIGGS. IR R R R R B e D Y HALE TELLS HIM HOW. February 3, 1897. Mr. M. Diggs, Woodland, Cal. Dear Sir: In reply to vour favor of the 30th ult. I beg to say that the price of our grain bags has been fixed by the State Board of Prison Directors at 4% cents. Con- ditions and terms will be same as formerly, and I inclose herewith a number of blank order-sheets. The outlook now is that bags wilt advance in price with the sea- . son and our present price may be changed by the directors at any time. The only way I can see for you to secure the bags you require for your customers is to obtain their orders as soon as possible and send them in with the requir- ed deposit, to have them booked for delivery at any time to suit yourself. The “Ostrom law” may be re- pealed or modified by the present Legislature, but even if it the same rules will most likely be fol- lowed by the directors in the dis- posal of our bags, with, perhaps, the exception that they will not insist upon an affidavit with or- ders from known direct custom- ers. Until something is done by the Legislature, we must, of course, follow the provisions of that law. Yours truly, ‘W. E. HALE, Warden. - + * - -> - - - - - - -> - - - - - -* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -> - - - - - -> On the day Mr. Edgar DePue, the dean of the Board of State Prison Di- rectors, retired from office, he admit- ted to a representative of The Call full cognizance, on the part of himself and assoclates, of the fact that middlemen throughout the State were carrying on an extensive retail traffic in San Quen- tin sacks. He knew further that this stock was created and replenished from sales made on excessive applications, and defended the action of the direct- ors, wherein it may have favored the conniving methods of the middlemen, on the ground that the board could not go out into the country and prose- 500000000000 0000000000000000000000800000000000000000 e DR e e e e S SRS cute theapplicants for misdemeanor un- | der the Ostrom law. Mr. DePue was entirely frank in discussing this phase | of the management of San Quentin grain bag sales, and maintained that | the directors did the very best they could under the circumstances. It has been the policy of the board to assume that, no matter who applied for AND DIGGS GETS THERE! WOODLAND, Cal., Feb. 16, 1897. ‘W. E. Hale, Warden, San Quentin, Cal. Dear Sir: Will you please let me know as soon as you can after you decide to make a change in the price of bags? Notify me as soon as possible after you find out there is to be a change. Yours truly, M. DIGGS. WOODLAND, Cal, Feb. 19, 1897. ‘W. E. Hale, Warden, San Quentin, Cal. Dear Sir: I wired you this morn- ing to reserve for me 66,000 sacks, and that I would forward affida- vits. T received your answer stat- ing that you would do so, for which please accept thanks. It will probably take me several days to get the affidavits, as some of the farmers live quite a dis- tance in the country, and it ig storming so hard and owing to the poor condition of the roads it may be severa! days before they get in, but I will forward them to you as soon as T possibly can. Thanking you for past favors, I remain, yours truly, M. DIGGS. R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R A sacks as a middleman, or as depositor of the required 10 per cent, the affidavit affixed, in which the number of sacks is specified as necessary for use, was sufficient to demand their approval. It has been a case with them of not car- ing to go behind the returns. Various pretextsareoffered for this acquiescent course, the least plausible of which is that several farmers pcol their applica- tions under one affidavit to secure the benefit of the lower rate on large ship- ments. Why they could not apply un- der affidavit severally and provide for carload consignment to a given point, with the same result, is not explained. Again, it is held that almost inva- riably farmers apply for more sacks than they really need, and the residue pass into the hands of the storekeepers and country dealers. Under a carefully supervised system | of sales it does not appear that such a contingency would be of consequence, so far as the market price of sacks MARSHALL DIGGS, Middleman.