The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1898, Page 1

Call SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1898.- PRICE FIVE CENTS. VERLAND TRAIN IN TH E DITCH A Wreck on the Central Pacific Near Cape Horn. West Bound Passenger Drawn by Two Engines Jumps the Track, Killing an Engineer and a Fireman. Po80006 00606606600 0080 P THE DEAD, . ® Engineer D. Z. Hackett @ ¢ reman Edward Lightner. ¢ THE INJURED. & © J. J. Burke, express ® ¢ ger, badly = % S . @ ® passenger, © ® wound on head @ ® Wor injured internally. 2 » C. C. Brown, engineer, serious wound on head ® [orROoR R SACRAMENTO, Jan. 18.—At 5 o’clock this after the forward engine of stbound overland train, due in 5:40 p. m., jumped the of Colfax, and, ing the roadbed, turned down over a low embank The second engine followed it der off the track, but luckily turned over and remained on the roadbed instead of plumping upon the engine down the embankment, or the fatality list might have been longer. The accident oceurred just below one of the most dangerous places on this | or any other railroad. At Cape Horn the angle is about 45 degrees, and there 1s no obstruction between it and the abyss thousands of feet below. Engineer C. C. Brown and Fireman Edward Lightner were on the forward engine, and, the great machine lurched and went over, both men went down with it. En Brown es- caped with a few ficial bruises, and an hour later was walking around, but Lightner was somewhere under- neath his engine and presumably dead, as up to a late hour to-night he had not been foun as Hackett and Fireman h of this city, were on e, and the accident, oc- i d without warning, of them a chance to jump. kett was badly scalded d and fac and at 7 o’clock two the second eurring gave nei Engineer I about the he injured inter hours after he went over with his en- | gine, he breath F. Brown, Hackett's fi ed several | contusions about the body, but was not | seriously injured | The malil ca the baggage and ex~1 press car, the day coach and the smok- | ing car also left the rails, but did not leave the roadbed, and bevond a gen- | eral shaking up none of the were injured | Mail Clerk Stevens was flung against | the end of his car with extreme violence and his back is injured, though how geverely could not be rtained. Ex- press Messenger Burke was also shaken up, but received no contusions, and at | latest accounts was sdid to be all | right. | D. Z. Hackett, well known all over | the Coast as “Don” Hackett, had been | | will be a severe blow. in the employ of the Southern Pacific “ompany for many years and was con- sidered one of the most careful and re- ble men on the road. from Sacramento to Reno, his home station being this city. He had two daughters Iwing in San Francisco and had other relatives in other cities in the State. He was 75 years of age. Edward Lightner was 23 years of age and a nephew af Passenger Engineer Bonus Lightner. His home station was Rocklin, Engineer Brown's engine mak- ing the run between Rocklin and Wadsworth. Lightner was well known in this city and had a host of friends here, to whom the news of his death His home was at Colfax. Two tourist, two sleeping and a din- ing-room car remained on the rails, | and, beyond a shock and jar, all but two of the passengers knew nothing at the moment of the accident of the tragedy at the front of the train. In the baggage car on a cot was an inva- lid lady passenger, who, besides the se- vere shock she received, is believed to have been injured internally. The track from Long Ravine Bridge to the town of Colfax is on an upgrade, | and the train was consequently not de- scending, but ascending, when the en- gine left the track. Physicians from Colfax were soon at the scene of the wreck, and everything possible was done to relieve the suffer- ings of the injured. A specfal train from this city, having on board Divi- ston Superintendent J. B. Wright, As- sistant Superintendent T. R. Jones, Resident Engineer Robinson and Dr. Huntington, chief surgeon of the Rail- rcad Hospital in this city, and his as- sistant, Dr. Nourse, was immediately started for the scene of the accident, and the wrecking train, with a full complement of men, was also hurried forward, and the work of clearing the track pushea as rapidly as possible. The cause of the accident is not known, though it is thought by some that the rails may have spread. The railroad officials expect to have the track cleared early to-morrow fore- noon. PASSENGER TRAIN ROUNDING CAPE HORN. His run was | VOLUNTEERS CONSPIRACY - DISCOVERED |A Plot to Overthrow | Blanco Nipped in ' Time. Scheme to Drive the Gov- ernor-General From | Cuba Fails. | The Plan Included the Capture of the Regular Troops at Havana. LEADERS ARE ARRAIGNED. | | All the moned to the Palace and Forced Colorels of Volunteers Sum- | to Swear Allegiance. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | — | NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—A special ca- ble to the Sun from Havana sa Just as this dispatch is sent by special cou- rier to Key West Havana is in a tre- mendous excitement caused by the news of a formidable conspiracy among the volunteers to overthrow General Blanco. The conspiracy was discovered yvesterday morning by the Chief of Po- | lice, Colonel Paglieri. | The plotters intended to start an armed revolt by the 20,000 volunteers now in Havana and to compel General Blanco to leave the island, as they did Captain-General Domingo Dulce in 1868. A simultaneous assault was to be made on the forts surrounding Havana, es- pecially on La Cabana, and the troops now stationed at strategical points of the city were to be overpowered and compelled to surrender. The success of the conspiracy was mnearly assured by the complick of many officers of the army, the sympathy of the Span- ish regular infantry and of the military police with the volunteers and rioters of the past week. As soon as the news reached the pal-" ace General Blan.o summoned a coun- ’cil of his staff officers to advise with ther. = Generals Arotas, Solanc, Gon- zales Parrado, Marsto and Colonel Pag- | lieri advised the Governor-General to assume an energetic attitude and pun- ish severely the colonels of battalions of volunteers if they were found to be guilty. The news spread rapidly in | town that Senor Calderon, lieutenant- colonel of the Fifth Battalion of Vol- | unteers, was at the head of the mili- | tary conspiracy. General Blanco summoned to his pal- ace last night all the colonels of the volunteers in Havana. Not a single one. failed to be present. A stormy scene ensued, which is now the talk of Havana. Blanco upbraided them se- verely, saying it was hard to believe “patriotic Spaniards wearing the hon- Continued on Second Page. @000000090@0@@@@@@@@@oo&oo$ooooo@ooe@owmeéooocm@@@oc»o@o@eww@@ PP HUNTINGION [N FAVOR OF ANNEXATION Having a Great Lik- ing for Chinese Cheap Labor. Said to Back Mr. Scheme Because of a Steamship Deal. Hawaiian Registry for Vessels in Return for the Railway Magnate’s Support. THE CHINA GOT A FLAG.| And the President of the Island Re- public Received Considerable Aid and Comfort. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. suLRRLAVLRRNRNN 3 WASHIJGTON, Jan. 18.—The Washington Post thinks that a vote on the Hawalian treaty will not be reached in the Sen- ate for three or four weeks yet. Senator Carter; the chairman of the Census Committee, gave notice to the Senate on Monday that he intended to insist upon the disposition of the bill pro- viding for the appointment of a director and thirty-one other employes of the twelfth census. In response to an inquiry from Mr. White of California, Mr. Carter sald he had no desire to displace the Hawalian treaty, but thought the census measure could be passed promptly. Senator Davis was quoted yes- terday as saying he did not be- lieve the vote on the treaty would be taken for a month. kS % % NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—There is no surprise here over the flpt'lbnt C, P. Huntington is i faver of annexation. His attitude in the matter is usually attributed to his well known love for Chinese labor. The gentleman was seen at 10 o'clock to-night and asked’| concerning his views on Hawall. He was not inclined to talk at length, but in what he said he was entirely frank. “While annexation might affect cer- tain local interests,” he responded to a direct questioen, citizen I believe we should control the islands.” The cat has escaped the bag. Perhaps it is worth while to examine the “local interests” in regard to which Mr. Huntington feels concern. While on his latest visit to San Francisco he gave a dinner to certain of his subor- dinates there. On this occasion, which was in May of last year, the principal event was an address from Huntington himself. This address was printed in full in The Call, a copy of which is at hand. After eulogizing his guestsand reciting the progress. of the country Huntington said: “If you could have had the cheap labor of Asia with which to do a portion of the work, the indus- tries created would have given employ- ment to two Americans for every Mon- golian, but the Americans lost the work for the lack of the industries which would have sprung up in the development of the raw material, if | ———————————————— 506000099000 0006 00060 NEWS OF THE DAY. @ Weather forecast for San Fran- clsco: Light rain on Wednesday morning, followed by fair; winds generally westerly. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four houré: San Francisco Portland .. Los Angeles Ban Diego -. FIRST PAGE. Overland Train in the Ditch. Huntington Favors Annexation. City Water Fight Almost Won. Conspiracy to Overthrow Blanco. SECOND PAGE. Los Angeles School Scandal. Great Cotton Spinners’ Strike. May Give Santa Fe a Rival. Rich Man's Double Life. Fight for Gorman's Toga. THIRD PAGE. Nieolini Is Dead. The Ohlo Bribery Scandal. Chamberlain Talks on Commerce. China Buys Peace From Germany. Jordan Denounces California Laws, FOURTH "PAGE. The Cuban Cause in Congress. News of the Pusilists. FIFTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. Must Pay Bonds in Gold. SIXTH PAGE. P090E00090000009060000000090000000000 0 Editorial. The Real Annexation Leader. A Real Little Devil, New Departure in Licenses. San Mateo Enterprise. The New England Strike. “The Conqueror of the Klondike.” SEVENTH PAGE. Return of a Violinist. Trouble Among the Teachers. Merchants Oppose a New Law. Dole Goes Away To-day. A Little Court Episode. EIGHTH PAGE. The Commercial World. NINTH PAGE. News,From Across the Bay. TENTH PAGE. Racing at Oakland. Colonel Trumbo Maligned. Wanted Her. Son Arrested. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. Jubilee Preparations. Woman Robbed in Her Home. Opposed to the Monkey Park. A Notable Wedding. P09 000000000 0000000 P99 09990900999092909000000000¢ Dole’s | % mEnLuLuLNuNLLLNNaNn Ustill as an American | y,q gereed, they think and say, that | | LOS ANGELES TO CONTROL HER OWN (] 0Q000C0O0C ing resolution: this momentous matter; 0000000000000 00000000000000 ‘“We, the People’s party City Central session this 18th day of January, 1898, do declare that inasmuch as the San Francisco Call has enthusiastically taken up the water supply question in Los Angeles City and has taken the side of the people in therefore be it “Resolved, That we, as representatives of a party that declared in its platform of recent date for mountain or other pure water to be dis- tributed, controlled and owned by the people themselves, tender our sincere thanks to The Call hearty co-operation in his great fight for the people of this city.” The resolution was offered by Milton Carlson, an instructor in the Los Angeles High School and the chairman of the committee. it was presented it was adopted amid great enthusiasm and a copy was ordered engrossed and sent to John D. Spreckels as editor of the Call. WATER ©00000000000000000000000008 PEOPLE INDORSE THE CALL’S POSITION. ° LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.—A meeting of the Republican City Central © Committee is to be called at an early day to indorse the position The Call has taken in regard to the city water contest. Chairman Telfair Creighton has already called a meeting of the Demo- cratic City Committee to consider a resolutionof indorsement. The Silver Republican Club and the Jeffersonian Society will take action on the matter through its board of directors. Central Committee met and by a unanimous vote adopted the follow- This evening the Populist City Committee, assembled in do hereby and assure its editor of our After C0COOC0000C0C0000000C0000 0000000000000 000000000000000O0000000 this could only be done by workmen | mon interests. Indeed, the fact that whose average price was not above the | Huntington is fighting them is one of rate paid by other manufacturing countries of the worid. * * * No in- telligent man questions the generalben- efit of labor-saving machines, which | have added so much to the prospects and progress of our country, yet we might as well rule them out as to turn away the labor of the Chinese.” Such were the Huntington senti- ments in May of last year, and no change of heart on his part has been reported. No wonder he wants to take in Hawaii with its thousands of his chosen people. Now the Chinese are obliged to sneak in, and the inconve- nience to which they are put must be trying to their friend. But there is another “local matter” well understood here whether the peo- ple of the coast appreciate it or not, and this is the Huntington desire to have certain ships of English manufac- ture given an American register. It is stated here that Huntington is anx- ious to have the China, the Aztec and Baracouda fly the American flag. They are English bottoms and not entitled to the privilege. It is openly said here that Huntington has made a deal with the annexationists whereby these ves- sels were to be given register. Then there would be no way of preventing them having American registry if fly- ing the flag of Hawail at the time the tslands were taken in. This is thought here to be the milk in the cocoanut. It is even stated that some of these ships have already received the boon Hunt- ington has been seeking, and now fly the Hawalian flag. Among those who | know Huntington the opinion prevails that this is in accordance with the spe- cific terms of a bargain. Huntington in the event of recelving the registry asked for, he would do all he could to help annexation, and he is doing it. Among the opponents of annexation this fact is a source of delight. They contend that nothing could injure the Dole scheme quite so much as the sup- port of it by Huntington. That he comes to its support, they argue, is the best showing possible that it Is per- niclous and directly against the com- | | [ { United States. the strongest assurances that they are in the right, and that they will triumph. They feel that this fight is not one to be won with Southern Pa- cific money. SENATOR MORGAN MAKES A TALK FOR ANNEXATION. Claims That the Nation Which Controls the Hawaiian Islands Will Control the Commerce of the Pacific. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Senator Morgan occupied the attention of the | Senate during the entire time of the executive session to-day in the presen- tation of his views on the subject of annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. This was the second installment of the Senator’s speech, and when he conclud- ed, a few minutes after 5 o'clock, he had not then reached the end. He spoke for about three Rours to-day, and his speech was a general presentation | of the importance of the islands to the He dwelt especially up- on the military importance of the is- lands, quoting General Schofield and Captain Mahan at length in support of his pesition that the islands were a natural outpost for the United States and necessary to the protection of our western coast and of our general com- merce in case of war. Mr. Morgan predicted that if the United States did not take advantage | of the present opportunity to acquire the islands there would be war between this country and some other power within ten years. within the bounds of possibility, in view of the present European compe- tition for territory in Asia, that the Hawalian Islands should be allowed to remain independent for any length of time after the United States should an- nounce a determination not to make them a part of American territory. “Does the Senator from Alabama mean to say, Continued on Second Page. SUPPLY ATTORNEY DUNN GIVES IS VIEWS It was not, he said, | interrupted Senator Pet- | City Has the Right ta Assume Possession in July. |Lease Held by the Mo- 12 nopoly Will Expire in That Month. | The Counsel’s Contention | Backed by an Array of Ju- dicial Decisions. Is | PEOPLE WILL TRIUMPH. | Excellent Results of The Call’s Cru= i sade Againsta Greedy and Shame- i less Corporation. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18.—The second result of the publication by The Call of the people’s side of the case in the great battle that is on between the city of Los Angeles and the Los An- | geles City Water Company, in which the magnificent sum of over a million and a half of money of the taxpayers is at stake, can be recorded. The sec- ond result is one that will be a sur- prise to the people of Los Angeles, and which will be another boomerang to the syndicated daily press, which in this all-important contest has present- ed only such facts as the water com- pany desired the public to have. City | Attorney Willam E. Dunn goes on record as stating that the proposition and contention of Mayor M. P. Snyder that at the expiration of its lease from the city the plant now in the posses- sion of the water company reverts to the city and that the city can take pos- session of it on July 22 next is correct and sound from a legal standpoint. This is the most important state- ment that has ever come from City At- torney Dunn in regard to this matter of municipal operation of a water dis- tributing plant. Mr. Dunn goes fur- ther. He says that the counsel en- gaged and paid for by the city to con- fer with him in regard to all water litigation—Messrs. Lee and Scott— agree with him that all the city has to do is to take possession of the plant of the water company on the expira- | tion of its lease. Then the company will be forced to go into the courts to | have determined the valuation of the THIS IS WHAT ANNEXATION MEANS.