The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1898, Page 3

THE 'PRICE THE PRESIDENT WILL PAY FOR JAPAN’S CONSENT TO ANNEXATION JAPS T0 BE GIVEN THE FRANCHISE The Cost of Hawaii the United States. to Take In a Region Domin- ated by Brown Men From Asia. And Make Voters of Many Mongolians Now in’This Country. CALIFORNIA IS MENACED. Civilizationin Danger, and the Whites Pacific Coast Are Threatened. on the Epecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Feb. 3. Japan has been removed as an ele- ment in the opposition to the cnnsum-] mation of the annexation of the Ha- waiian Islands by the United States. | This result has been attained by the | conclusion of an agreement between this Government and that of Japan, as resented by Minister Toru Hoshi, which, by practically settling the status | f the Japanese in Hawall, removes the r stantial difference that has ex- e two Governments. Government, for its T ed some time ago that it hger cared to interpose any ob- -tion to the annexation of Hawall, ed on principle. Since that time the correspondence between Mr. Hoshi and the State Department has been directed to a satisfactory settlement of the status of the resident Japanese in Ha- walii, and this last point has now been adjusted, so far as the executive branch of the Governraent is capable of -ting independently, the agreement eing reduced to the shape of a written memorandum. This dccument which has not been generally taken into account in the consideration of means for adjusting the questions that have arisen over the us of Japanese in Hawall, goes into in July next year, and among things it confers upon Japanese the territory of the United States all of the rights accorded to the s of the most favored nation, ich, of course, carries with it rights f naturalization and the exercise of rights of franchise. Presuming at annexation is effected the Japan- in Hawall will, in 1899, have the ne rights as those in the present mits of the United States. All that ins to be fixed is the status of the e during the time that must se between the ratification of the cation treaty and the beginning of | operations of the Japanese treaty 9 Inasmuch as the pending an- | xation treaty provides for the ap-| ment of a commission to visit the and prepare such legislation as be necessary to consummate the algamation of the territories, this st question can easily be adjusted along with other details in the bill to be reported to Congress. There will be no vote on the Ha- waiian treaty in the Senate for at least a fortnight, and it may be post- poned for a month. The friends of the treaty to-day claim exactly the two- thirds necessary for ratification, but they are not so sure of these votes that they dare risk a roll call. Just as | soon as they see the ratification ma- | jority clinched a vote will be taken, and not before. If the success-of the treaty is not assured a joint resolution will be sub- stituted.” Friends of the treaty have been annoyed by thecourseofSenators Chandler and Wolcott, who have been advocates of annexation, but who now seek to delay and embarrass it. Both these Senators, since the vote on the Teller resolution, -have declared their | intention ‘of postponing consideration, and yesterday :in ~ executive session they joined: with Senator Thurston in his attempt to' sidetrack the treaty. It is surmised’ that their plrpose is to worry the administration as a lesson | to President McKinley for his attitude | in regard to the Teller resolution. | Senator Chandler. is as much inter- | ested in Cuba in. Hawaii, and he | may insist that-before going further | in the direction of Hawalian annexa- | tion the Senate-be -assured that the President will ‘intervene in Cuba on behalf of the insurgents. So far as “the. ratification of the | treaty is concerned the hope of the Committee on Foreign Relations rests in Senator: Gorman. The Maryland Senator is doing all he can to advance Hawaiian annexation. He bas shown more genuine intérest in this subject than any other that has come before | Congress this session. If a joint reso- lution be resorted to the only question would be as to whether it could reach a- vote in the.House. A majority in the Senate 'is: assured, and there is aiso a favorable - majority in the House, . but.- Speaker Reed is not| friendly to the scheme and it has been doubted whether he would stand in its way. Chairman Dingley thinks that in this casé the Speaker will do noth- ing .to prevent the majority in the House . and he " looks for favorable action -on a- joint resolution. Senatof. White * said to-day, after introducing his resolution for non- intervention in Hawalian -affairs by other:powers, that he would call the resolution -up to-morrow and ask the Senate t5 pass it without debate. He added’that it was his opinion that our intenition ‘to defend the independence of the “islands has been made suf- ficiently- clear in the past, but that it PPPPIPPIVPPIVPIPPI00PPP00P000PPOPCPPE00000000000000000000060606060 AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP ASSAILED The Secretary of State, acting for the President of the United States, and the Japanese Minister at Washington, acting’ for his Government, have entered into an agree- all objection to the an- nexation of Hawaii this country, the rights of citizenship, including the frauchise. In other words, Hawaii is to come in as a State or Territory, dominated institutions. President should American citizenship. ment, under the terms of which Japan withdraws to in cousid- eration of the virtual ex- tension to the Japanese in the United States of respect Toru Hoshi, Japanese M by Japs, and the nation may see the spectacle of Japanese sitting in both houses of Congress, and there will be thrown into the electorate of the Pacific Coast States a body of Asiatics alien in every way to the spirit of American It is too high a price to pay for the islands. civilization and the sanctity of Anglo-Saxon 0@@@00000@@@@0@000@QOOOQOQQQ@@@Q@@@O@OO@®@@@@@@@@Q@@OQQQO@ @9006000060@0@09000@00@@@@@@0900900&@00@@0@@9@@@@@0@0 o090 0 inister at Washington. Even Congress and the COMBINE INTO ONE COMPANY Biscuits and Crackers to Be Controlled by a Trust. Millions of Capital Ready to Carry Out the Big Scheme. Of Gourse This Will Result in No Benefit for the Consumers. Special Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—All the biscuit and cracker companies between Salt Lake City on the West, Portland, Me., on the East, St. Paul on the North, and New Orleans on the South, will to-morow morning be under one man- agement. The name of the new cor- poration, which was incorporated to- day in the State of New Jersey with a capital of $25,000,000 of preferred and $30,000,000 of common stock is the Na- tional Biscuit Company. The actual transfer of the deeds of the various plants controlled by the companies merged into the National Company took place to-day in the office of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, in this city. Benjamin F. Crawford of Mansfield, Ohio, was elected presi- dent; H. F. Vorheis of Chicago first vice-president; Frank O. Lowden of Chicago, second vice-president; C. E. Rumsey of Pittsburg, secretary and treasurer. cash all the assets, bills receivable and operating plants of all the bak- American Biscuit Company, the United States Baking Company and New York Biscuit Company. It also assumes all the indebtedness of these companies. Practically all the stockholders of the old companies subscribed for stock in the National company. The amount of money paid in stock and cash by the National Company for the buildings in the various com- panies which have been merged into the National is exactly $23,000,000. It was determined at the inception of the deal to limit the amount to this, and it was declared to-night that any stock- holder in any of the old companies who has not subscribed for stock the National Company will not now be able to subscribe for new stock, it be- ing all taken up. Such stockholders in the old concerns at any time they may select to sell. If they do elect to sell, their stock will be taken at the market price. If they do not choose to sell, they are out of it. The total indebtedness of the vari- ous concerns absorbed by the National Company is placed in round figures at $2,000,000, and this, it was said to- night, would be paid off immediately. The directors of the National Company estimate that after all contingencies have been provided for they wiil have a cash working capital of $6,000,000, and $10,000,000 of quick assets. One million dollars of the common stock and $2,000,000 of the preferred are to be retained in the treasury. Sausalito Man’s Troubles. SAUSALITO, Feb. 3—Hans Christen- sen was arrested here to-day for shoot- ing firearms within the town's jurisdic- tion. Christensen was attracted by Mrs. Lucy Souza’s chickens and killed two of them. Christensen is the man who some time agc was arrested for using vulgar would do no harm to reafiirm the doc: trine by Congressional declaration at thé present time. i —— janguage and for a defense he alleged t;:{ he was simply calling the family cat, and that the vulgar térm was the name of The new company has purchased for | eries which were controlled by the | in | will be offered cash for their holdings | RICHES OF THE LITILE GEM Wonderful Strike Made at the Washington Mine. | Ore Assays From Twenty-Five to Forty Thousand Dollars to the Ton. Now There Wiil Be a Great Rush to | the Gold Field on an Indian Reservation. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. COLVILLE, Wash., Feb. 3.—One of the richest strikes ever made in the | Northwest is reported in the bottom of | the 90-foot shaft in the Little Gem mine | | about three miles east of Rockcut and | | one mile from the well-known Little | Giant mine, in what is known as the Pierres Lake district of the north half | of the Colviile Indian reservation. This | portion of the reservation was thrown | | open to mineral settlement in 1896, and | | in the last few months has developed | several mineral surprises, the greatest of which is this. Yesterday samples from the bottom | | of the Little Gem shaft were brought | | to Marcus. They showed malleable | | free gold, and assays gave values of | from the unprecedented figure of $25,- 000 to $40,000 a ton. The samples were not mere chips, but were chunks of | rock six inches long, which would | weigh from five to ten pounds. It is reported the vein runs transversely across the bottom of the shaft, describ- ing nearly a perpendicular dip, and is ! fully ten inches in width, with free gold | sparsely scattered through the rock outside the vein. The property is owned by the Federal | Mining Company of Spokane. A mgi rush to the Pierres Lake district has | started from all portions of, the reser- vaticn as the result of the strike. It is expected when the news reaches Spo- kane there will be a still greater rush. | It is anticipated the rush will be even | | grater than that of last summer into | | Eureka on the western portion of the | | north half of the reservation, when the | iRepul:'lic mine was struck. Bureka | now has a population of 2500, but will | | have to give up some of her| popula- | tion in favor of the new camp. Should the quartz which carries this wonderfully rich value, as shown by the assay, prove to be only a pocket, it | would nevertheless, according to min- | ing experts, indicate the presence of rich ore bodies. The owners of the Lit- tle Gem are close-mouthed about the matter. ‘While they deny the rich values come from a pocket, they offer | no description of the property. It is expected this spring will see an enor- mous rush from all parts of the North- west to the north half of the reserva- tion, which with its two millions of Just north of the boundary line the rich mines of British Columbia have been refractcry ore propositions, but in this new region, forty miles from the Canadian mines, the rich strikes have all been free gold. The experience of the Republic is likely to be repeated by many. Development was begun two months ago on that mine. There is now two million dollars’ worth of ore block- ed out, running as high as $800 a ton. San Rafael Man Injured. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 3.—Louis Chap- plier, a bootblack, was almost killed by the local train last night. While attempt- ing to board the train while in motion he fell and was caught in the chain and dragged along the track. The train was stopped and Chapplier gicked up. He was cut about the head and severely bruised about the acres, s proving to be fabulously rich. |. ORDEN'S NEW LEASE OF LIFE Reprieved by Governor Budd Until the 17th of June. W Should His Sanity Be Estab- lished He Will Then Be Hanged. Meantime the Commission of Lunacy ‘Will Make Investigation. a Thorough Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—Governor Budd to-day granted Salter D. Wor- den, awaiting execution at Folsom Prison for participating in the wreck- | ing of the overland train in Yolo Coun- ty during the strike in 1894, another re- | prieve until June 17 of this year. Un- less by that time he is granted another reprieve or is pardoned Worden will be hanged on the date designated. The reprieve was issued to enable the com- mission of lunacy appointed by Gover- nor Budd to inquire into Worden’'s mental condition, to continue its in- vestigation. It is most likely that the Governor will be guided in his future acts in the matter by the nature of the lunacy commission’s report. Recounting the facts of the reprieve, the Governor’s order reads: “A large number of organizations and citizens of this State and of the United States have petitioned me, asking that I com- mute the sentence of death heretofore imposed upon said S. D. Worden, This request has also been made by many prominent State and Federal officials occupying exalted judicial and legisla- tive positions, and by the Hon. Grover Cleveland, former President of the United States. The request is chiefly based upon a claim that the said Wor- den is and was mentally unsound and not fully responsible for his acts. For the purpese of enabling me to deter- mine this fact, I have heretofore re- ferred this question to Drs. Gardner, Hatch and Clark for examination and investigation, with a request that they report to me their opinion as to his sanity or moral responsibility, and they have asked for an extension of time with which to correct and conclude this examination and to make the report re- quested.” LONG CRUISE AMONG PACIFIC ISLANDS One Month Will Be Spent by the Mo- hican at Samoa, Where Natives ‘Will Be Disciplined. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — Secretary Long to-day ordered Commander G. M. Book of the training ship Mohican to pro- ceed upon the cruise of the islands of the Pacificc. The Mohican will stay one month at Apia, Samoa, and additional orders which were sent to Commander Book before his departure from San Francisco will require him to obtain re- dress for outrages on Ageflcan missions which have been reported to the depart- ment by former Consul-General Chllx,mh- " The cruise will be of about eight months’ duration, and this itinerary will be followed: Honolulu, two weeks; Fan- ning Island, one week: Apla, Samoa, one month; Auckland, New Zealand, two weeks; Talcahuano, Chile, two weeks; Callao, Peru, one week; Galapagos Isl- and, four uyfi and at Honolulu two W , From Honolulu the ship will re- turn to the United PPPPPOOVVPBPVVOPIPOIVOVPPVP00000000000009000000000000000000000060606 FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1898. MRS, HADLEY DODGES THE PATMENT Has Not Yet Paid a Cent to Jilted Mr. Melcher. | And Does Not Intend to | Unless Actually Compelled. Returns to Auburn and Boldly Beards the Lion in His Den. NOW SUBJECT TO ARREST. Unless the Money for the Broken Heart Is Produced the Police ‘Will Take a Hand. Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Feb. 3.—An Auburn | (Maine) special says: Interest in the famous Melcher-Hadley affair, which occupled so much of the public atten- tion last September when that breach of promise case was tried here in the Supreme Court, has been revived by the return of Mrs. Louise Dingley-Hadley | from San Diego, Cal,, where she mar- ried the wealthy hotel proprietor of | that city. It will be remembered that Mrs. Hadley is the niece of Congress- man Dingley. It is feared that she has bearded the | lion in his den by thus boldly return- ing to the scene of the old trouble, and it is said that she may be taken into custody in the legal process of the exe- cution of the judgment awarded | against her. Arthur S. Melcher of Auburn, her re- jected suitor, got a verdict of $1789, and the judgment as made up was $1848 30. Mrs. Hadley refused to pay, as did her | father, the Hon. Jeremiah Dingley, who is reported to be the wealthiest man in this section of the country. The most sensational attempts are constantly be- ing made to collect the money, but so far they have been in vain. An exe- cution was isswed October 15, 1897, and | Monday another execution was issued. This has been returned to the clerk of the Supreme Court with judgment not satisfied. George C. Wing, counsel for the plaintiff, sent Deputy Sheriff Cum- | mings to the home of Mr. Dingley, where his daughter is stopping, to serve a paper upon her. Mr. Cummings | was told that Mrs. Hadley was sick and could not see him. Later the Dep- uty Sheriff was sent to the house again, but he could not gain admittatice in spite of his several determined efforts and persistent demands, and so the pa- pers were left in the vestibule of the house. Mrs. Hadley has now been cited to appear before Judge J. W. Mitchell, who is a Disclosure Commis- sioner, next Tuesday. If she is able to show that she has no property she will be obliged to take the poor debtor’s oath. If Mrs. Hadley and her father persist in their stubborn- wesistance to | the law and refuse to obey the sum- mons to appear before the Disclosure Commissioner the police here say that they will be compelled to resort to sterner measures, and will certainly have to subject her to the indignity of arrest. It is stated by his friends that Mr. Dingley has threatened to . defy the law, and declares that all the Sheriffs in the Pine Tree State can't compel his daughter to undergo the hurgmatlon of taking the poor debtor’s oath. It is an interesting situation, and the society people of the State are on the qui vive for the latest developments in the case. Some of the friends of | Mrs. Hadley say they are confldent that | she will do the wisest thing before it is too late, and not try to defy the law. They intimate that she has signified her willingness to pay the judgment, but that she does not want to do it, unless she is compelled to, out of fem- inine spite for Melcher.. MEET THE VISCAYE Cruiser BrooklynWill Welcome Spain’s ‘W arship. Unc.le Sam to Extend All Courtesies to the Visitor. This Shows That Relations With Spain Are Now Most Friendly. WITH GREAT DISCRETION. El Correo Says the United States Made Explanations of a Peaceful Nature. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—According to an official statement by Captain Mur- phy, captain of marines on the cruiser Brooklyn, when that vessel leaves the New York navy yard to-morrow she will go out for the purpose of meeting unofficially the Spanish warship Vis- caye, under command of Captain Eu- bate. The Viscaye is expected to ar- rive in American waters about the time the Brooklyn reaches Hampton Roads. The Brooklyn, which is under command of Captain Cook, had orders to join the Atlantic squadron, but Captain Mur- phy, when he gave out these facts at the navy yard to-night, said that these orders had been changed. He called attention to the fact that the Brooklyn had been ordered to proceed to Wind- ward Islands, and mentioned the place at which she would touch, and said this was proof positive of the position the cruiser was to take. It was learned from other sources that the Brooklyn is to pay all courtesies to the Spanish vessel which are accorded foreign ves- sels sailing in American waters. MADRID, Feb. 8—The war party here has tried to make capital out of the Montgomery's visit. EIl Correo, the Government organ, puts them right and says that in political circles the departure of the Montgomery has nothing to do with the political rela- tions between the United States and Spain, and that all rumors to the con- trary are without foundation. The Gov- ernment of the United States, it says, has acted in the matter with the great- est discretion, because, before he Mont- gomery left Key West, explanations of the peaceful nature of the cruise were fully given. One paper quotes a refer- ence to jingoes claiming indemnity for the death of Dentist Ruiz, and says that the Washington Government has no claim against Spain. ¥l Correo fin- ishes by saying that all the data show the good dispositions and friendship of the United States, which are the best assurances of peace in Cuba. GENERAL FLAGLOR IS NOT SURPRISED WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Call cor- respondent to-night asked Chief of Ord- nance Flaglor of the War Department whether he had seen a report to the ef- fect that at a test made at the Presidio vesterday at least fifty pieces of the shrapnel shells were defective. General Flaglor sald: *Yes, and it would not be surprising If more than that number wera defective. They are old shells. The department requires tests to be made fre- quently to ascertain if the stock of am- munition on hand at the different posts is serviceable. It is not surprising that a large proportion of the shells tested at the Presidio were worthless. Indeed, this is the very reason that the test was made of the old stock so that we could replan- ish with a fresh supply.” The correspondent then saw General ‘Wilson, chief of engineers, about the or- ders sent to San Francisco yesterday to rush the work on the fortifications. “There is no significance in this action,” sald he, ““we merely desire that the work of the engineering corps in erecting the fortifications keep pace with the ord- nance department, so that a place for the guns and carriages will be ready upon their arrival.” Charged With Alteriflg_' a: Signed Bill Sale. of Should the Allegations Be Sus< tained He Is Guilty of. - - Forgery. ; Peculiarly Complicated Case Which the Accused Says He Can Easily - - Straighten Out. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Feb. 3.—A complaint was drawn up In this city this afternoon charging Francis A. Fee, ex-District’ Attorney of Madera County, with forg= ery. The document was mailed to Dis« trict Attorney W. H. Larew and a war~ rant was issued upon it. Fee was im- mediately placed under arrest and was arraigned at once. He demanded that his preliminary examination be set for hearing as soon as possible. It was fixed for to-morrow forenoon-at 10. o'clock, and he was then released o bail. ¢ The alleged forgery is of a peculiar nature, being the claimed changing of .. a document after it was signed, -which.- is defined as forgery under ‘the law. The alleged crime grew out of a busi- ness transaction between the Ceomi- - mercial Bank of Madera and Watkins & Prosser of the Hunter Company: of that town. Some time last September Watkins & Prosser became embar-. rassed finanvially and they made abl of sale to the bank of all their lumbér and personal property of every de: scription to secure the payment their debts, amounting to between $20, 000 and $30,000. The bank, in consideras; : tion of the bill of sale, assumed p&y=. ment of all the liabilities. x ‘ Fee acted as attorney for the banl§ and prepared the bill of sale, which. . was signed by Watkins & .Prosser. Among the creditors was the firm .of Rosenthal & Kutner, to whom the lumi-. - -- ber concern owed $2429. It is- stated that that being their claim it was o the original bill of sale and was: as= sumed by the bank. After the bill"of sale was signed by Watkins & Prosser it is claimed that the bill of sale was" returned to Attorney Fee, who is al- leged to have removed the first page of the document, in which the Rosen- thal & Kutner claim is said to have been set forth. The document -was typewritten, and Fee is alleged to have substituted a duplicate page, excepting that Rosenthal & Kutner's claim was omitted in the substituted page. The allegéd tampering with the doc< ument was not discovered until recent- ly, when Rosenthal & Kutner present- ed their claim to the bank for pay- ment. The bank cashier referred to the bill of sale and stated that he knew nothing of the claim, as it did not ap- pear in the bill of sale, which was sup- posed to contain all the liabilities of the erstwhile lumber firm, and they re- fused to pay the claim. Rosenthal asserts that Lawyer Fee had assured him that the claim of his firm was included among the list of creditors of Watkins & Prosser. It is claimed, on the other hand, however, that the substitution of the page was made before the document had been signed. When Fee had prepared the paper the bank officials told him that the bank had an agreement with Ro- senthal & Kutner different from that with the rest of the creditors, and Fee claims that acting upon that informa- tion _he made the change complained of. He declares that it was before the bill of sale was signed. Mr. Fee is quite a prominent lawyer of Madera and was the first Distriet Attorney of that county, assuming tha office in 1893, when Madera was sep- arated from Fresno and made a county by itself. He took a prominent part in’ the fight for the formation of the new county. Of Interest to the Coast. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—By direction of the President, Lieutenant-Colonel James - Jackson, United States Army, is detailed for service as professor at the RBishop. Scott Academy, Portland, Or. Pensions have been granied as follows: California—Original, Balthazar Niderost, San Francisco, $6; James A. Andrés, Oak- land, $6; Alfred M. 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