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

AMERICAN FRUITS ALL EXCLUDED Canada Is Included in the German Embargo. Scant Courtesy Is Shown in Making the Decree. The. Pretext Is That San Jose Scale Was Found in Apples. FLIMSY EXCUSE GIVEN. But the United States Will Lose No Time in Entering & Vigorous Protest. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. | ® ® BERLIN, Feb. 3.—It is an- @ nounced that the Bundesrath ©®. /(Federated Council) in plenary @ " sitting to-day, approved its com- © ® - mittee’s proposal that a decree © @: should be issued prohibiting the ©® © importation from America of live ® @ plants and shrubs and packages © @ containing the same. The decree © @ “will also, within a certain meas- © @ -ure, ‘affect American fruits. @ ®. These are to be examined by ex- © @© ‘perts-on their arrival at German © @ ports; the packages found to be @ @ infected with the fruit louse © will be excluded. Instructions to © this effect will be issued to the © customs. authorities. This announcement, which is made by an official agency, ap- pears to indicate a measure dis- tinct from the decree issued on Tuesday by Dr. Miquel, the Prussian Minister of Finance, prohibiting the ' importation of any ‘kind- of American fresh fruit, but it is difficult to as- certain the exact details. The Bundesrath’'s measure, it is pointed out, is *far less strin- gent than similar measures at present enforced in individual States of the American Union.” The Hamburg authorities to- day permitted the unloading of apples from ‘the United States, owing to instructions received from. Berlin, as the result of the protests of the - United States Embassador, White, against Dr. Miquel's decree. The Bundes- rath supersedes with its author- ity Dr. Miquel's decree, which seems ill-advised in its rigor and suddenness, and which, natur- ally provisional, was occasioned by the recently reported results of experiments by Dr. Fried- rich von Kueger, of the Agri- cultural High School. The Bundesrath’s action is due to a series of vigorous protests from shippers affected, and especially those of Hamburg, on the lower Rhine, and at Emmerich, and still more to the protests of Em- bassador White. Its decision forbids the importation only where the fruit is affected by the Aspiditus perniciosus, or San Jose plant bug, which is said to have done enormous damage in the United States. The Bundesrath’'s decree applies to the whole of Germany and makes matters momentarily bet- ter, but it is believed that its future Interpretation will large- ly correspond with Dr. Miquel's decree. Parties interested here fear that the United States will SJJOYOYOYOXO ® OXOJOIOJOXOXOXOIOYOXOKOXO} ®® (O] ol S 0} OJOXOTOIOIOYO IO OXOIOX OO OO YO COYOROXOYOROROROYCHOJOYOIOXO) PEEEEEOOOO®E ® OJOJOIOTOIOXOO] ®© = ® ® @ ® ® [C1OYOXOJOYOLOJOOYOIOTOYOJOXC resort to reprisals. Following are last year's fresh fruit © imports in hundred weights: @] American, 208,000; Austro-Hun- © | garian, 607,000; Dutch, 861,000; © Belgian, 540,000; Italian, 303,000 ©| ® Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Feb. 3. A brief cablegram from Embassador ‘White at Berlin that came to the De- partment of State last evening con- veyed the only cofficial information so far received as to the decree of exclu- sion of American fruit from Prussia. This cablegram was so meager that a request has been sent to Mr. White for | further details. While it is not pos tively known, it is supposed that the | decree appiies only to Prussia and not | to all Germany, a considerable Hmita-| tian. Whether or not it also applies | to Canadian fruit is a matter of specu- | lation. The German Embassador was a vis- | ftor at the State and spent some time with the officials. | After talking with Secretary Sherman | and Assistant Secretary Day the Em- bassador was for half an hour in close | consultation with Mr. Wasson, the| Special Commissioner for the United States in the negotiation of the recipro- city agreement. The Embassador had no news from Berlin direct as to the last decree, which threatens to kill all hope for the negotiation of any kind of reciprocity treaty or agreement within the terms of the present tariff act, as far as Germany is concerned. It is gathered that the basis of the decree, or rather the reason officially sent out by the Prussian Government for the exclusion, is that some ship- ments of American apples, coming from California, have been discovered | to be affected with the disease known as San Jose scale, but just how Ger- man apples are endangered, even if this fact should be established, is not | made plain. One of the standing complaints against American dried fruit, the trade in which with Germany has assumed enormous proportions, is again brought to official notice by a report that comes to the State Department from United States Consul Ozmun at Stuttgart, and is to-day made public in the daily | coln, Neb.; John W. Ross, to be Receiver Department to-day | C Consular reports. He transmits a no- tice issued by the Chief of Police of Stuttgart, to the effect that most of the samples of American “appleings,” or dried apples, taken from the local re- tailers, show the addition of metallic TO EXPLORE THE COPPER RIVER ROUTE General Find a Supply Merriam Instructed to and Mail Road Within United States _Territory. and Circle City. followed hereafter. distress that may be encountered. work of exploration. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Secretary of War has telegraphed in- structions to General Merriam, commanding the Department of Colum- bia, February 1, to organize and send an exploring expedition over the Copper River route in Alaska for the purpose of ascertaining whether a practicable summer or winter route, wholly within the territory of the United States, for mail and suplies, or for mail alone, could be found to the mining regions on the Yukon between Forty-Mile Creek The organization of the party and selection of officers to command it is left to General Merriam. can be found, instructions were given to so mark it that it could be The party is to take, as far as practicable, such supplies as may be found to be serviceable to relieve any persons in Valley have been reported as aggressive, and the officers in charge will be expected to use their efforts to conciliate them. The party will be instructed to proceed as far as practicable toward Circle City, and if deemed advisable to communicate with the relief expedition taking supplies to the Yukon, and the two parties will co-operate in the The expedition probably will make an entrance by Port Valdes or Prince William Sound, unless it be other point is made more advisable. In case a practicable route The natives of the Copper River found that some 8388828289828 2880982082828 2828 08 382858280888 AR RRRR R RRRRRRRAR R R R RAR AR AR R R AR zinc in quantities of 5 grams to the | milogram, and warning all dealers that they will be punished and their goods confiscated if further sales of such | goods are made. | This complaint was made to the De- partment of State about two weeks ago, the German Chief of Police in Co- | logne asserting in his notice that the | zinc was present in the apples because the Americans dry the fruit on “zinc trays instead of wooden bars, as we | do.” | Immediately one of the most enter- prising of our Consuls in Germany | visited an agricultural exposition then | going on in Germany, and reported | that all of the fruit evaporators ex- | hibited, about fourteen in number, | | were fitted with the alleged harmful | zinc trays, which were freely used in | Germany. | During the afternoon further advices were received from Embassador White as to the nature of the decree. It would | seem that the full details are not yet | obtainable in Berlin, but it is expected | that the Embassador will cable the en- | tire decree as soon as he can obtain | possession of it. The important facts | that were established by the last ad- | vices were: First, that the decree of | exclusion uses the word “American” as descriptive of the place of origin of the | fruit, which would seem to include Ca- nadian fruit without question; second, | that the decree, instead of applying | only to fresh fruit, as was at first sup- posed, inciudes in the prohibition all dried fruits from America. State Department officials have not | yet recovered from their surprise at the method adopted by the German Gov- ernment in accomplishing its object in this matter, and undoubtedly the cor- | respondence to follow will set this out | very clearly. | The objection to the course pursued is threefold. In the first place, it is | said to be entirely without the slight- est warning, contrary to precedent and | discourteous toward the Embassador at Berlin to make the decree and put it | | into effect without the slightest warn- | ing to him. In the second place, by | making the decree take effect at once | and stopping all fruit in transit, a great injustice is done to shippers who thus,! without warning, are made to lose | heavily on their capital invested in the | fruit. Third, the decree is condemned | | in that it makes no provision for the | | admission of fruit of absolute purity; permits no demonstration of origin or healthful condition and, in fact, con- | demns all fruit, good or bad alike. | These considerations are to be strongly | | urged upon the German Government as reasons why it should either revoke | or modify the decree on the lines indi- | cated before any more radical action is taken. COL. LUDINGTON DELY PRONOTED The Popular Officer is Now Quartermaster-General of the Army. Being Familiar With the Needs of This Department He Will Im-= prove the Presidio. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House. Washington, Feb. 3. The President to-day sent these nomina- tions to the Senate: Commodore Charles S. Norton, rear-admiral. Marshall I. Ludington, assistant quarter- master-general, to be brigadier-general | and quartermaster-general. Hugh Henry of Vermont, to be Pension Agent at Concord, N. H.; W. H. Johnson, | to be Register of the Land Office at Lin- to be of Publlc Moneys at Glenwood Springs, ; Harry Bailey, to be Receiver of 2 Moneys at Lake View, Or. Walter 8. Velie of Indiana, to be Sur- veyor of Customs, port of Evansville. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Colonel Ludington, assitant quarter- master-general, to be brigadier-general and quartermaster-general. Marshall Independence Ludington was born in Smithfield, Pa., July 4, 1839. He was appointed captain and assistant quar- termaster, United States Volunteers, Oc- tober 20, 1862, and as chief guartermaster of the Third Division, Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, he was en- gaged in the Chancellorsville and Gettys- burg campaigns, and served with marked distinction throughout the war. He was in charge of the gemeral depot of the quartermaster’'s department in this city from 1820 to 1894. He was placed in charge of the general depot of the quar- termaster’s department at New York in 597, from which station he goes to Wash- ington as quartermaster-general. General Ludington is familiar with the military requirements of this city. After he succeeded General Batchelder as depot quartermaster in San Francisco he mani- fested great interest in the improvement of the Presidio reservation. It will be in the line of his duty as quartermaster- general of the army to make the appor- tionment of funds in his particular branch of the service to the various military sta- tions throughout the country. He knows the importance of this station and the :zece.ulty that exists for additional quar- ers. His promotion gives general satisfaction in this department. He is known to Gen- eral Shafter, Colonel Moore and other army officers as a gallant soldier and an officer of fine administrative ability. Among the earnest advocates of Luding- ton’s promotion was Colonel Amos Kim- ball, who was chief quartermaster of the ment of Californfa during the miii- tary administration of Genenlni'onyth_ POPE T0 BE TRANSFERRED Will Command the Ma- rines at Charlestown Navy-Yard. It Is Expected That He Is Soon to Be Detached From Mare Island. | Changes That Revive the Old Stories Concerning Major Meade's Removal. Spectal Dispatch tb The Call. BOSTON, Feb. 3.—It is now two months since Major Robert L. Meade, U. 8. M. C,, who for several vears com- manded the marines at the Charlestown navy yard, was detached from duty and ordered to the command of the marine guard at the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. At the time of his detachment several newspapers pub- lished an announcement that Major Percival C. Pope had received orders detaching him from duty at the Mare Island navy yard and assigning him to this station as a successor to Major Meade. As a matter of fact, Major Pope has not as yet been detached from Mare Island navy yard, and no one has been assigned permanently to the command of the marine guard here. Captain Kelton is acting in command until a successor to Meade is appointed. At the time of Major Meade’s de- tachment there were various stories in circulation as to why he was assigned to duty elsewhere. Two daily papers printed columns as to the probable cause, and mixed the gallant old major up in a pottage of canteens, sutler stores, drunkenness among the men of his command, temperance reform clubs, protests of ministers, etc. But Major Meade, who came of a family which has added lustrous pages to the | history of the United States, came up smilingly through it all. It is true he was transferred from Charlestown to Portsmouth, but then the “exigencies of the service” may have required an able man at Portsmouth. It is com- mon talk at the navy yard, however, that Major Meade's removal was the result of a well-laid plan by several officers of this station; that the scheme was formulated by a-number of his own corps, and by careful nursing a brood was hatched that worked in uni- son for his removal. The announce- ment that Major Pope was coming to this station, it is undestood from a re- liable authority, was given out for the express purpvse of enlisting the inter- est of his friends, who are legion in Boston, and to make the detachment of Major Meade certain. It was spe- clally stated that Major Pope has been detached from Mare Island and would report for duty at Charlestown on a positive date, but this was not true, for he never received any orders. He heard, however, that he was coming, and that his friends had interested themselves in his behalf, and now he probably will | come, for it is understood that he has made an application to the Navy De- partment for transfer to Charlestown. All his interests are centered in and about Boston, and besides it is regarded as the most desirablé of all the sta- tions. It is rumored that within a few days he will receive preparatory or- ders, and that in a day or two he will receive formal and final orders to Charlestown to réport for duty early next month. Pope has performed sev- eral tours of duty here, and is a popu- lar officer. GERMANS AND SLAVS HAVE FREE FIGHTS. Owing to the Strike of Students Lec- tures Have Been Discontiuned at the Vienna University. VIENNA, Feb. 3.—Owing to the stud- ents’ strike, lectures at the university and polytechnic have been discontinued. The German and Slav students had a free fightat noon to-day In the hall of the uni- versity and the students of the Ac of Mines at Llesen interrupted lh:dell:c}: tures by shouting and singing. At Innsbruck there were uproarious scenes at the university, The students invaded th lecture halls and prevented the studies until finally the classes were suspended. Later the German national students attacked and routed the Cath- o{lc tstudoms and then paraded the streets. —— Death of a Pomona Pioneer. POMONA, Feb. 3—Peter Fleming, one of the early pioneers in Pomona Valley, died suddenly with Bright's disease early this morning. He was the 1 con- structor of water tunnels i the foot- hills of Southern Cealifornia for irriga- tion purposes and his several water - nels in this region have attracted nt‘t::- tlon from engineers throughout irrigation regions of the United States. He leaves & widow and grown up children. DISSENSION AMONG THE STOCKHOLDERS Water! Manipulators of Los Angeles at Outs. No Longer Given Clear Sailing in Mulecting the City. Perry and Mott Offer to Sell at Sixty Cents on the Dollar. FAT DIVIDENDS IN DANGER Now There Will Be Developments That Will Result in & Big Benefit to Consumers. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3.—There ex- ists discord and dissension among the stockholders of the Tity Water Com- pany, and it is impossible to predict nt! THE ‘SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1898. OVER THREE - MILLIONS FOR AGRICULTURE An Appropriation Bill Passed by the Senate. Preliminary Provisions Made to Secure Needed Irrigation. Germany’s Embargo on Amer- ican Fruits to Be Inves- tigated. CAFFERY ON CORBETT. White Introduces a Resolution in Reference to the Rights of the People of Hawaii. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Rigs House, ‘Washington, Feb. 3. One of the features of to-day’s ses- sion of the Senate was a speech by Caf- this juncture just what the outcome |fery of Louisiana in support of the res- will be. But whatever it is, it will be; to the advantage of the people of this | city. Until The Call entered the fleld and exposed the nefarious arrangement whereby, through the agency of the syndicated boodle press, the water company stockholders - were to have | clear sailing in their scheme to mulct the city, there was no trouble among the directors. It appeared to them that | they were certain to obtain either two‘ million dollars more than their plant was worth or an extension of the fran- chise for fifty years. But now somel; of the directors doubt whether they will be able to do anything of the kind, | while other directors seem to think that | if the matter is diplomatically handled | they will be able to secure an extension of the franchise or a fat price for the| rattle-trap improvements they have put on the plant. | It is claimed that Messrs. Miner and Drake are the two stockholders. who represent large holdings who seem to think that the water company has the good will to sell to the city at the ex- piration of the lease. They are intent and insistent upon a fat price, and it is claimed that they have stated that if the worst came to the worst the com- pany could go in and obtain an ex- tension of the lease. It is also stated on good authority that some stockholders are dissatisfied with the manner in which Secretary Stephen H. Mott and President W. H. Perry have handled the affairs of the corporation in connection with the ex- piration of the lease. It is also said that when Messrs. Mott and Perry heard of this they became very wroth and promptly offered to sell their stock to the kickers at 60 cents on the dollar. This would make a total valuation of $1,800,000 for the entire plant. | Some of the kicking stockholders | seemed to think that it would be an | easy matter to get an application for an extension of the franchise through | this Council. When they were in-| formed that if the application were | granted it would be necessary to have | a special train on hand to convey the | Councilmen who voted for such exten- sion beyond the wrath of their constit- uents they seemed to be very much | surprised. The truth of the matter is that some | of the stockholders of the water com- pany, who for a long period of years have been drawing down big dividends on their stock, have just had their eyes opened to the fact through The | Call's presentation that the people of | this city are in earnest in this water contest, and they do not propose to be defeated. Treachery on the part of any public servant in the pending negotia- tions they will neither condone, forgive nor forget. These wealthy stockhold- ers are just becoming aware of this fact. The reason their eyes have not been opened before is because the Times, Herald and Express never per- mitted the real situation as to the wa- ter struggle to be disclosed through their columns. But when The Call opened the fight then for the first time did the people have an opportunity to | hear their side of the case and be heard | themselves. That opportunity they | not only accepted, but they have not been at all slow in expressing their | gratitude. Unless the present discord existing among the water compapy stockhold- ers is healed up there will be some de- velopments within a few days. A party named Herman de Laguna has filed an offer with the City Clerk to construct a water works plant for the city and to obtain a water supply for $1,800,000. De Laguna is not in good odor in this city. He has been an applicant for sundry franchises before, and when he | did get one he forfeited it. His offer to take a $2,000,000 contract is looked up- on as simply ridiculous. It is thought that he is not making the offer in good faith. Whether he is or not the Coun- cil will not for a moment consider it, as the standing of De Laguna does not warrant it, PRINCE GEORGE TO BE GOVERNOR OF CRETE. The Powers Are Ready to Enforce His Candidature Should Turkey Prove Obdurate. BERLIN, Feb. 3—The Constantinople correspondent of the Frankfort Zeitung says Russia, France and Great Britain have agreed to insist upon the candida- ture of Prince George of Greece for the Governorship of Crete, and are ready to enforce it should .the Sultan prove ob- durate. Prince George, the correspondent as- serts, has been so informed and is ready to depart for Crete under the tripartite protection. CANEA, Feb, 2.—Members of the Cretan Assembly have arrived from all parts of the islgnd in response to the convocation of the assembly. It has renewed its vote of confldence in the President and re- affirmed his power. Lively satisfaction WAS express by the assembly at the candidature of Prince George of Greece, and the President has been authorized to adopt any opportune measure for insuring his success. Hanford Will Have a Cannery. HANFORD, Feb. 8.—The meeting of the farmers, fruit-growers and property-own- ers of Kings County to take measures to guarantee 1000 tons of fruit to secure the establishment of a $:0,000 cannery here was_well attended. They are but one hundred tons short and expect to secure the full amount by Saturday. At that time the offer of a San o firm to 1d the cannery expires. . olution reported by the Committee on Privileges and Elections declaring that Henry W. Corbett is not entitled to a seat in the Senate from the State of Oregon. Mr. Corbett was appointed as Senator by the Ggvernor of Oregon after the failure of the Legislature to elect a successor to Senator Mitchell. Caffery maintained the Governor of a State had no authority to appoint to fill an original vacancy—a vacancy be- ginning with a new term—after the Legislature had had an opportunity to elect and had failed to do so. The agricultural appropriation bili was under consideration during the greater part of the afternoon and final- ly passed. After a brief executive ses- sion the Senate adjourned. Germany’s order prohibiting the im- portation of American fruits into that empire called out a resolution from Davis of Minnesota, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, calling upon the President, if not incompatible with the public interest, to transmit to the Sen- ate the correspondence and other infor- mation bearing upon the matter in his possession or in that of the State Deé- partment. The resolution was agreed to. In accordance with notice given, Caf- fery of Louisiana called up informally the resolution reported from the Commit- tee on Privileges and Elections declaring that Hon. Henry W. Corbett is not en- titled to -a seat in the Senate from the State of Oregon. Caffery spoke in support of the com- mittee's report against seating Mr. Cor- bett. He claimed a constitutiopal ‘Leg- islature had failed to elect, and the United States Senate could not put a premium upon such dereliction of duty and thereby allow a Governor to appoint a favorite of his to a seat. The agricultural appropriation bill was then taken up. During the discussion of | the bill Cullom yielded to White of Cali- fornia for the introduction of this joint resolution: “‘Resolved, That of right it belongs wholly to the people of the Hawalian Islands to establish and maintain their own form of government and domestic policy; that the United States ought in no wise to interfere therewith, and that any intervention in the political affairs of these islands by any other government will be regarded as an act unfriendly to the United States.” The resolution was passed by the Sen- ate on May 31, 1884, having been reported by Turpie of the Committee on Foreign Relations. White asked that the resolu- tion lie on the table. Cullom then called up the agricultural appropriation bill, the reading of which was concluded last evening. ‘Pending the submission of certain amendments to the bill, Platt of Connecticut expressed his regret that the committee had not strick- en from the bill the appropriation for the purchase and distribution of seeds. He read a letter from a number of members of a Connecticut Grange, in which the statement was made that the seeds sent out by the Agricultural Department were not good, could not be depended upon, and were of no use to the farmers or gar- deners. In reply to Platt's brief statement, Al- len thought that the chief opposition to the Government's distribution of seeds came from those who themselves had seeds for sale. The amendment to the cultural bill offered by Warren, providing for a di- vision of {rrigation and reclamation of arid lands, for the investigation of meth- ods of comstructing irrigation canals and of storing and distributing water in the reclamation of arid lands, the whole to cost $21,300, was discussed briefly by its author and by Stewart of Nevada. It was maintained that the adoption of the amendment would be of enormous value to the Western country. Cullom proposed as a substitute for Warren’s amendment the following: “For the purpose of coilecting from ag- ricultural colleges, agricultural experi- ment stations and other sources, includ- ing practical agents and engineers, prac- tical information and data on the sub- ject of irrigation, and publishing the same in bulletin form, $20,000.” The amendment was adopted and the bill, carrying $3.257,022, was passed. The Senate then, at 5:25 p. m., went into executive sessfon. At 5:28 p. m. the Senate adjourned. il T B COAST FORTIFICATIONS During the Discussion in the House Political Topics Crop Up. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. —The House spent the day ostensibly considering the fortifications appropriation biil. In real- ity the major portion of the time was consumed in the discussion of political topics. The existence of prosperity in this country was again the main question of dispute. The feature of the day was the discovery by Simpson, the Kansas Popu- list, and the exploitation of the alleged fact that Dingley, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, wore a London- made pot hat. Dingley explained that the hat was made in New York. The London trademark was simply placed there to please the Anglo-maniacs who always_preferred things because they were English. All attempts to increase the appropriations in the fortifications appropriation bill or to amend it in any respect were voted down to-day. A bill was passed appropriating $10,000 for a survey and report on the practica- bility of securing a thirty-five-foot chan- nel {n the SBouthwest Pass on the Missis- si River. oote (R.) of New York then devoted some time to the criticism of the fortifica- tions bill. At the rate of appropriations | provided in this bill, he said, it would re- quire fifteen years to ca out the plans of the Endicott board. e asserted that °{1‘ the SouthtAthnueml{m (}afl!b‘ Cflfll.!tl there was not a gun that coul {n Getense of the harbors, . At 3 o'clock the general debate closed and the bill was taKen up for amendment under the five-minute rule. McClellan (D.) of New York offered an amendment to increase the appropria- tion for og)unl and mortars from gx.ofo,m toithout In'x'\"un'xmg d&‘x’xn‘ t 5:05 out col e e al N m. the House adjourtied. P SLAUGHTER OF STRIKERS AT LATTIMER Story of a Méssacre Told at the Trial of Officers. Deputies Boasted in Ad-| vance of Murderous Intentions. Many of the Victims Shown to Have Been Shot in the Back. e BUTCHERED MERCILESSLY So Far the Testimony for the Com- monwealth Puts the Acts of the Sheriff in & Bad Light. Epectal Dispatch to The Call WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 3.—The taking of testimony in the trial of Sher- iff Martin and his deputies began to- day In the Luzerne County Court. At- torney McGahren presented the case for the Commonwealth. McGahren told how the strikers had started to march from Hazelton to Lat- timer and about the deputies boarding the cars and attempting to intercept the men. “We will prove,” he said, “that at this point some of the deputies made threats; that one of them sald: ‘T bet I'll drop six of the strikers.’ An- other said, ‘I hope we get a chance to take a pop at some of them.”” Mec- Gahren then described the shooting. Andrew Siver was the first witness called. He is a Hungarian, but speaks excellent English. He proved the death of Mike Cezlek, saying that he saw him lying dead on the road at Lattimer with a bullet in his head. Witness saw the Sheriff draw his revolver and heard it snap, and then the shooting com- menced. The defense attempted to show that the witness had been eng iged in ter- rorizing men who did not want to strike to such an extent that they were forced to join the strikers through fear of injury, but the court would not -al- low it. Later the defense asked the witness if he had not been engaged in or known of sundry cases of violation with the strikers as aggressors on the day of the strike. This the witness de- nied. The second witness was John Manala, who was at the time of the strike the president of the Harwood local union of the United Mineworkers of America. He told of the meeting, where it was agreed to march to Lattimer, at the invitation of the miners there; his counsels of peace, and the start the next day, all the men being unarmed. At West Hazleton they were stopped by the Sheriff, who ordered them to disperse. Manala protested that they were breaking no law, whereupon one of the deputies grabbed the American flag he bore and tore it in halves. “The Sheriff pointed his revolver and threat- ened to shoot,” said Manala. “The dep- uties pushed us around with the muz- zles of their guns and swore at us, and one struck John Eustis twice with his gun, cutting his head and breaking his arm in two places. Then Burgess Jones of West Hazleton remonstrated with the Sheriff, saying that he could | keep the peace without using any weapons; that he had confidence in us| and would let us march through the streets of his borough as much as we liked. The Sheriff and his deputies then boarded the cars and we marched on toward Lattimer.” Witness was in the road when the shooting commenced. He saw ten men and a number of wounded lying in the road. Rev. Father Richard Aust, pastor of the St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic Church at Hazleton, chairman of the prosecuting committee, was called to prove that many of the strikers were shot in the back. He said he had ex- aminted a number of the dead, but could not tell in detall what their wounds were. He had buried thirteen of the dead. Rev. Carl Hauser, pastor of the Lutheran church at Freeland, sald he had examined several, and found all of them were shot in the side or back. “I boarded a car,” he said, “which brought ten of the dead and a lot of the wounded from the scene of the shooting. There was a pile of rifles in the corner. I said to one of the dep- uties, Frank Clark, ‘I am afraid of some of them falling and exploding.’ ‘You need not be afraid,” he replied, ‘they are all empty now. Charles Guscott, principal of the Lattimer School, a building about 600 yards from the scene of the shooting, said he was teaching school when he heard an unusual noise, and going to the window he found that a number of men, some eighty, were alighting from an electric car. They were deputies. He saw the deputies line up to the side of the road and form with rifles ready. The strikers were by this time some two or three hundred yards away. ‘They were marching five or six abreast and were quiet and orderly. Witness could not see that they carried any weapons. As they drew near the Sheriff advanced to meet them. As he reached the first man a dozen or so formed a sort of half circle around him. He did not hear the Sheriff say anything, nor did he see him read any paper. A minute after the line first stopped those behind pushed ahead to see what was going on and got ahead of the Sheriff. At that moment one of the deputies stepped out of the line and advanced, and one shouted, “If you do not come back we will shoot you, too.” The fellow jumped back into line, and almost immediately after the witness heard a shot. It came from the left line «of deputies. A mo- ment later two shots were fired and then came the volley. As soon as the volley was fired the strikers ran in all directions. Between the road and the schoolhouse fifteen men fell, struck down by shots fired after the first vol- ley. He saw a man shot and killed while running at full speed at a dis- tance of 100 yards from the road. The shooting continued for some two or three minutes. The witness did not see any of the deputies leave the line and run after the strikers to shoot them. He knew a number of the deputles, and saw them plainly just before the shooting occurred. The hearing will be continued to- MOrrow. AWFUL CRIVE | OF A MEXICAN With an Ax He Hacks His Sleeping Wife to Pieces. The Monster Captured by Cow- boys and Landed in Tuecson. Jail. Insane Jealousy Supposed to Have Prompted the Diabolical Deed. Spec‘lll_ Dispatch to The Call. . TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 3—Jose Lopez San was brought in from:the lower Pedro Valley yestérday under guard of several cowboys and placed in the County Prison, charged with the mur- der of his wife. The deed was one of dreadful atrocity, = the unfortunate woman having been almost chopped to pieces with .an ax. Lopez and wife lived at Redington, a:small camp forty miles northeast of Tueson. The man went suddenly insane. or was frenzled through drink and started out with an ax to terrorize the village. After chas- ing several of his neighbors he returned to his home, where his wife was lying asleep in bed. - With one blew he cut open her head, then hacked: at the body till he became. weary. He was afterward surroumded: and captured. The body of ' the :woman was also brought to Tucson and was buried here in consecrated ground. Lopez, who is about 30 years o}d, will be held to answer ‘to the Grand Jury on a charge of murder. He is a quiet, stolid Mexican, getierally believed to be harmless,-and has usually been respon- sibly employed by the stockmen of the San Pedro Valley. . ‘Any insanity he might have exhibited was simply Jjeal- ous rage, so his captors say. The wife. was about:20 years of age and. was highly esteemed among her class. They had been marrigd a year. Beside her in'the bed, when her maniac husband brained. her, was her two- weeks-old child.: Several years -ago Lopez attempted suicide by dashing his head against the blade of an ax. Twenty Killed, Fifty Injured. CONSTANTINOPLE; - Feb. 3.—Details received to-day from Balikesr show that twenty persons were killed and fifty in- jured by the recent earthquake at that place and Brusa. ADVERTISEMENTS. Death’s face is mot a_pleasant thing to look upon, yet thousands of men and wo- men go about daily with the reflection of death in their faces. 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