The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1898, Page 1

Call VOLUME LXXXIII.—NO. 71. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DUPUY DE LOME’S VILE ABUSE OF HE PRESIDENT LETTER QF THE MINISTER [5 PRODUCED It McKinley Styled a Low Politician. In Is Accused of Truckling to -the Rabble of the Country. Now the Sackvilie West Spain May Be Given His Passports. of PROMPT ACTION IN ORDER. Although the Diplomat Declares the Epistle a Forgery the Writing Is Like His. Spectal Dispateh to The Call. [3 + + + “The message has unde= ceived the insurgents, who expected something clse, and has paralyzed the ac= tion of Congress, but I con= sider it bad. Besides the Kinley is weak and is ca= of the President 0000000030000/ et0000060000000000000 the insurgents of Cu- the stand well with the jingoes §*essccscsssstr s tttrcecnoossesecsecsos 020000000000 000000069 SENOR DUPUY DE LOME. ooooooooosoooooooooooooooooooooooog Senate that the Pres- independence of the republic of Cuba PLEADS IN VAIN FOR FAIR PLAY Emile Zola’s Trial Is Marked by Many Sensations. Mme. Dreyfus Not Per- mitted to Answer Ques- tions Asked. Ex-President Cassimir-Perrier Declares He Dare Not Tell the Truth. EXCITEMENT IS FEVERISH. After Court Adjourns the Novelist and His Friends Are Assailed by Angry Mobs. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BURRUUVRLRIVRIREN LONDON, Feb. 9.—The Dally News publishes this morning an interview which David Christie Murray, the novelist and play- wright, has had withMme. Drey- fus. She said that after her husband’'s arrest Major Paty du Clam visited her on seven- teen consecutive days, denounc ing her husband as a scoundrel and traitor and alternately threatening and cajoling her in the hope that she would con- fess her husband’s guilt. But she revealed nothing, because she had nothing to reveal, and she now says it was impossible that her husband could have confessed himself guilty, inas- much as he was innocent. LR R s eI MLBIT R IIN HRRU/RIUINIERR t SIE ::n‘;::rlles:':gith "\‘:I:i‘ct:bl':: THREE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS o PARIS, Feb. 8 —When the trial of repeats all that the press PRESENTED IN THE SENATE. g‘M. Emne’ Zola and M. Perieux, mana- | 5 blic P $ Spai ger of the Aurore, growing out of the | ARG P PR Otigeai O | former’s denunciation of the Esterhazy has said of Wuyler it BY MASON. BY CANNON. BY ALLEN. okcoun-mamal in & letter to the news- shows once more that Mc~ T . = o = |paper named, was resuned in the As- Resolved, That the Resolved, By the Resolved, That & g'-ue Gourt of the Seine t0-0&y mcenes | condition of Ppublic Q| gl to those of yesterday were wit- | tering to the rabble, and, ident of the United war exists between @ 5 nessed. When the t | besides, is a low politician e States is urged to no- the Government of g| wen:ead terrl:cns:rug;re“:n z:::z:dp‘el;;‘l.:‘ i i E ov- o | 5, who desires to leave the hereby is, requested s;i,:‘h‘;h:‘m??');npafé :r::enfndpr;:fmi,ed © | fighting thelr way with blows and door open to me and to to motify Spain and ¢ PN LSS o ognize and for some time O |kicks toward the hall. | © | The entrance of M. Zola was the sig- | maintained by force & © nal for an outburst, during which the | of arms by the peo- SALTER D. e WORDEN HAS | ST SALTER D. ANGRY WATERS SWEEP THE BOAT OVER THE FALLS WORDEN. But One Man of a Party of Five Escapes Death in the Awful Plunge. of his party.” Extract ba ghat, @i war (02 2 Lonfori betore: theltin lo ot Cuby and that © |feweries of “Vive Zola!” were drowned | from the letter written by |/© icalled):must at once ?f,‘é' '("fmfie’;'r‘:;htmgj‘i ’l‘he United States of @ | DY shouts of “A bas Zola!” When the the Spanish Minister at cease and be discon- 5 tne United States America shall main- o | Judge entered the scene was so tumul- Washirigton. tinued, and that the will on that date rec- tain a strict neutral- o | tuous that he directed the Municipal United States of ognize the belliger- ity between the con- © | Guards to force the crowds from the eeccreccccccoccsccsec e SR cncy| of lhed (‘uba]n tendirég garth}a‘s and O |doors, and to remove some of the America hereby de- patriots an will accort ot the i i Call Office, Riggs House, clares and will main- & Within ninety days ® rights of belligerency g {Peapl Com e b cowded hals M- Washington, Feb, 8. ; e thereafter assert the in the ports and ter- © | Rochefort was cheered when he ar- Senor Dupuy dé Lome promises to be tain peace on the isl- independence of the ritories of the United © |rived. and of Cuba. republic of Cuba. States. © | The presiding Judge, M. de la Gor- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOO the Sackville West of Spanish diplo- macy, and that the smooth representa- tive of land of the castanet will be given his paseports to-morrow or as soon thereafter as the wunrolling of red tape will permit, may be regarded as a matter of course, provided he does not prove a letter to a friend in his own handwriting to be a forgery of the rankest ki The letter in question was recelved here late to-night and created a sen- sation. Should it prove to be genuine, as those responsible for it say it will be, the effect on Congress will be tre- mendous. The letter was written to Senor Canalejas, one of Spain’s ex-cab- inet ministers who lately made a tour of Cuba, and in it President McKinley is referred to as “a low fellow, little in statesmanship, who delights in truck- ling to the rabble.” Canalejas is urged | to have some good men sent here that the attention of the members of the American Senate may be diverted from the real Cuban question by ““appealing to the self-interest of this nation of shopkeepers.” It is due Senor de Lome to say that though he at first refused to discuss the letter he late to-night addressed a note to the press, in which he pro- nounced the document a rank forgery, adding that he would indeed be foolish were he even to think such things of President McKinley, much less put them in writing. The pro-Cuban ele- ment, in and out of Congress, however, profess to believe De Lome wrote the letter, and say that to-morrow will witness such scenes in and about the national capital as have not been witnessed since the stormy period of war between the States. The following is a translation of the full text of the letter: : constituted, and the discovery of the intentions and purposes of this Govern- ment. . The exiles will return, one by one. and when they return will come walk- ing into the sheepfold, and the chiefs will gradually return. Neither of these had the courage to leave en masse and they will not have the courage thus to return. surgents, who expected something else gress, but I consider it bad. ~Besides the natural and inevitable coarseness with which he repeats all that the press and public opinion of Spain has said of Weyler shows once more that McKinley is weak and catering to' the rabble, and besides is a low politician who desires to leave the door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes of his party. Nevertheless, as a matter of fact it | will only depend on ourselves whether | he will prove bad and adverse to us. agree entirely with you, without mi tary success nothing can be accom- political success there is here always danger that the insurgents will be en- couraged, if not by the Government, at least by public opinion. I do not believe you pay enough at- tention to the role of England. Nearly all the newspaper canaille which swarms in your hotel are English, and at the same time that they are correspondents of journals here they are also corre- spondents of the best newspapers and reviews of London. Thus it has been since the begin- ning. To my mind the only object of England is that Americans should oc- cupy themselves with us and leave her in peace, and if there is war so much the better; that would further remove what is threatening her—although that will never happen. g It would be most important that you ‘should agitate the question of commer- cial relations, even though it would be only for effect, and that you should send here a man of importance in order that I might use him to make propa- ganda among Senators and others in opposition to the junta and to win over the exiles. There goes Amblard. I believe he comes too deeply taken up with little political matters, and there must be 5 something very great or we shall lose. time and an advance by the wrong | Adele returns your salutation, and we road—the sending of emissaries to the | wish you in the new year to be the mes- rebel field, negotiating with the auton- | senger of peace, and take this new Omists not yet declared to be legally | year’s present to poor Spain. Always Legation de Espana, ~ Washington, D. C. SENOR DON JOSE CANAL- EJAS—My Distinguished and Dear Friend: You need not apologize for not having written me; I also ought to have written you, but have not done so on account of being weighed down with work and nous sommes quittes. The situation here continues un- changed. Everything depends on politi- cal and military success in Cuba. The prologue of this second method of war- fare will end the day that the colonial Cabinet shall be appointed, and it re- lieves us in the eyes of this country of a part of the responsibility of what may happen there, and they must cast the re- sponsibility upon the Cubans, whom pihey believe to be so immaculate. Until then we will not be able to see clearly, and I consider it to be a loss of and has paralyzed the action of Con-| EXEE X RRRRCRE R R R R 2 & XX | your attentive friend and servent, who | kisses your hands, i ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LOME. Those who have seen the original letter and who are famillar with the chirography of De Lome have no hesi- tancy in pronouncing it genuine. Be- sides it is written on the official paper | of the Spanish Legation. How it came into the hands of the The message has undeceived the in- | cypan delegation when it was address- | | ed from Washington to Havana before Canalejas left Cuba for Spain, is ex- plained as an act of patriotism by a Cuban secret agent in Havana, who, knowing the contents of the letter, and desiring to expose to the world the character of Spanish diplomacy, stole the letter in Havana at the risk of his own life. Photographic copies of it were | taken to-day by several persons, and | many who know the handwriting of | de Lome came ¢~ the’ office, attracted | by curiosity, to see the letter. They all | declared it absolutely genuine. President McKinley has heard of the matter of such delicacy. After the letter, although private, is brought to plished there, and without military and | the notice of the country he may feel | constrained to take official notice of |it. It can be stated, however, that | whatever action is taken it will not be until after it is clearly established that | Mr. De Lome wrote the letter. I un- derstand *that the course will be to | have Mr. Woodford call the attention of the Madrid authorities to the pub- | lication of the letter. It is assumed | that the Spanish Minister of Foreign | Affairs will at once call upon Mr. De | Lome for an explanation. On this will | depend his further relations as Span- | | ish Minister. wrote the letter will, it is assumed | here, be justification for his recall by | his own Government without any di- | rect request for it by this’Government. | 'This, I was told by a high officlal of | the Government, would be the easiest | way out of the unfortunate difficulty, Ennd would avoid any rupture in our relations with Spain which might en- | sue should the Madrid authorities not | recall De Lome on their own account. furnished when Minister Muruaga, !'Senor De Lome’'s immediate predeces- | sor, was quietly recalled by his Gov- ernment on ‘the ~suggestion of the | United States on account of his .criti- cism in a newspaper interview of the to the Allianca affair. | NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Horatio Ru- | bens, counsel for, the Cuban Revolu- | tionary party in the United States, said Continued on Second Page. o An admission on his part that he A direct precedent for this course was | | course of Secretary Gresham in regard | O |gue, read a letter from Count Ester- & 000000000000000000000000C000000000000 | hazy, in which the latter refused to | testify. Thereupon M. Laborie, coun- | sel for M. Zola, insisted that Esterhazy | should be brought to court by force, | The court admitted the claims of the defense, and decided that General Mer- cier, the former Minister of War, and Major Paty du Clam, should be sum- ! mened. The court also decided " that the other witnesses alleged to be ill | should be visited by a doctor, and that if found able to appear they should be | summoned. - { Mme. Dreyfus was the first witness. She was dressed In black and was much distressed. M. Laborie asked her whether she could say under what circumstances she was informed by Major Paty du Clam, in 1894, of her husband's arrest. The Judge declined to put the question. | M. Zola here arose and cried: “T de- | sire the same treatment as the assassin | | or the thief. They have always the | }rlght to defend themselves, but I am | | deprived of this. T am mocked and in- | ‘sulted in the streets and the obscene | press drags me in the mud. You see, | I letter, but will not publicly discuss a | gentlemen of the jury, the position I {am in. I wish to have my witnesses | heard, but I am prevented.” | “But do you not know the law?” the | | Judge asked. | | “No, I don’t know, and don’t want to | know,” was Zola's reply. | This scene caused great excitement | among the spectators. | M. Laborie demanded that the ques- | tions be put. The Judge answered: “I will enter your protest, if you desire, but will not put the questions which are foreign to the indictment in.order to arrive at a revision of the Dreyfus | case, which has already been deter- mined.” Thereupon M. Laborie exclaimed: “In the presence of the obstructions placed I in our way” [Cries of “No, no, quite right!] “I have the honor to.ask what means we should employ?” “That does not concern me,” answer- | ed the Judge, whereat there was laugh- ter. | M. Laborie then proposed to submit ' a list of questions, leaving the court to indicate. which of them might be put, and the session was suspended in order | for the questions to be drawn up. | During the interval the noise in the | court was deafening. Every one dis- cussed the case at the top of his or heri voice with such intensity of excitement _that the faces of the disputants were! distorted. . In the meanwhile Mme, Dreyfus retired to the witness room, | where she was seized with a violent fit | of hysterics. | On the resumption of the session of the court M. Laborie presented a state- | ment claiming the right to ask Mme. - Continued on Second Page. | | the powerful Mhe boat containing several men. 0000000000000 0OODOQ | ward the bank. There they saw an up- o © | turned boat slowly drifting about. ° . O | Loine b ana Taws thevs. compIstaly Q s | exhausted. st O GEORGE FREEMAN SR, g Later Freeman revived and stated © aged 50. that he had left a man clinging under- © GEORGE FREEMAN JR. ©|neath, and that he had shouted once © aged 26. . OI or twice for help. In his exhausted © - JAMES FREEMAN, aged 1. © Sond;}t_lon‘the aflld, ,:t ;lmsl impossible v, . © | for him to tell whether it was one Ci ek SHANNON, aged 38 © | f his brothers or Shannon. The sur- viving member of the party was re- OOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOO; PORTLAND, Cr Feb. 8—In the thundering waters of Willamette Falls | four men were swept to death at a few minutes past 7 o'clock this morning. Confused in the dense bank of fog wtile crossing the river in a boat ‘a short distance above Oregon City, and | while trying to find their bearings, | their craft was seized by the mightyi current and hurled to d-struction. | Five men started on the ride to what | seemed inevitable death, but one mirac- | ulously escaped He was almost insen- | sible from the shock and could not| have held out a minute longer when | he was picked up by the rescuers, who | got out in time io see the boat go over the falls. Three of the victims of the accident were members of the same family. All were employes of the Crown Paper Mills at -.egon City. They were resi dents of -anemah, and were on their | way to work. The lost are: George Freeman, 50 years old, of Canemah, married; George and James Freeman, | his sons, 26 and 16 years old, respect- Canemah, married, and leaves a wife and four children. Shortly befére 7 o'clock the five men met as usual at their embarking point. Freeman senior was at the oars. He | rowed along the usual course and head- | ed for the west bank of the river. It probably did not occur to the occupants of the boat that the Willamette had been rising very rapidly since Sunday, and it is supposed the current carried the boat farther than they ‘suspected | before the discovery was made that something was wrong. In the dense fog it was not possible to locate famil- iar signs and in that gray mist the men | had no warning but the ominous, sulien roar of the falls as they drew nearer and nearer the most dangerous point. Suddenly the cheery chat of the boys was interrupted. The boat gave a wild | lurch as the main torrent struck it. In the same instant all five of the men discovered that they were far below the usual point of crossing and that | current was carrying them down at a velocity that increased | ively; L. J. Shannon, 36 years old, Mi | every second. Additional hands were | put to the oars and an attempt was made to pull out of the swirling, rush- ing stream. Tn wild despair each man clung to | the plunging craft in the rapids, which | swept it along at express train speed. | The occupants of the boat began to shout an alarm. Their cries reached | the ears of some of the employes at the | power station of the Portland General | Electric Works. Rushing out on the | trestle walk which runs into the store | they could but discern the outlines 3{‘ eneral alarm was then given. A boat | put out from the electric works, but it was some time before the rescuers could see anyghing of the ill-fated party. There Was little hope of seeing | either the boat or its occupants. The rescuers rowed around the big eddies to the west side of the river. Muffled osies caused them to row to- 000000000600 moved to a house near by, where. re- storatives were applied. The frightful experience made him almost incapable of speaking coherently. He could scarcely remember how {t happened, and in the blinding mists he could not see the others. He remembered the shouts of his father as the boat made the leap. When it reached calm water again there was no one to be seen. In the present high water it is not probable that thebodies of the drowned men will be recovered. The Willamette is rising rapidly and is now ten feet above low water mark. ——— e PO00000000000000060 bd > NEWS OF THE DAY. > & Weather forecast for San Fran- & cisco: Fair on Wednesday, with tn- ® creasing cloudiness in the afternoon; | %0 changing to southeast, winds. | & Maximum temperature for the past & twenty-four hours: & San Franciseo B4 degrees & Portland ... 48 degrees © Los Angeles . & San Diego . @ ® FIRST PAGE & The Spanish Minister's Indiscretion. & Zola Wants Fair Play. & Salter D. Worden Confesses. & To Death Over a Waterfall. & SECOND PAGE. & Patriarch of Masonry Dead. . & An Attorney Held for Forgery. kS THIRD PAGE. & Soldiers Hurried to AlasKa. & Sam Wall’s Trip Down the Yukon. & War on Sacramento Gamblers. & San Jose School Scandal. & A New Enoch Arden Story. | & China Will Do Without Cash, & Mrs. Hadley In Very Sick. & Senators Visit San Quentin. FOURTH PAGE. Murderous Mind of Frank Belew. Los Angeles Water Fight. Annexation in Reed's Hands. English Parliament Meets. Congress Is at Work. FIFTH PAGE. A New Home for Girls. Mrs. Hoffman Testifies. Why a Viclous Dog Still Lives, SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Blaine’s Hawallan Policy. The Latest Broken Heart. The Los Angeles Water Fight. Zola in Court. & @ @ (4 @ ke @ L4 & @ @ © @ > | @ Respectfully Declined. No Excuse for Brutality. News of Forelgn Navies. Stories From the Corridors. .SEVENTH PAGE. University Regents Meet. News Along the Water Front. Kiondike Wedding at the Fair. EIGHTH PAGE. The Commercial World. NINTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. TENTH PAGE. Racing at Oakland. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. L ke @ L4 @ @ | the middle, there was CONFESSED TOLD THE STORY OF THE WRECK He Could No Longer Stand the Pricking of Conscience. Unburdened His Mind of Its Load of Guilt. Gave Names of Many Others Who Were Implicated in the Crime. SIMPLY OBEYED ORDERS. Says He Went Blindly to the Work Without Knowing What He Was Doing. One more murderer has confessed to his misdeeds. One more man, goaded by the prickings of a guilty conscience, has unburdened his soul and ‘admitted his participation in crime. Salter D. Worden has sent to Gov- ernor Budd a full confession of his complicity in the wrecking of the train whereby Engineer Clark met his death during the great strike of 1804. The confession, in the convicted man’s own writing, bearing the date of the 2d inst., was filed in the Governor's office yesterday by Warden Aull of the Folsom prison. It is more than a confession. It is an acctisation. It gives the names of others who were also connected with the crime, and in extenuation of his guilt Worden pleads that he did not know what he was doing, but blindly obeyed orders of others. It is a startling document, and from it may arise sensational developments equal in tragic sequence to any which have arisen in connection with the great crime for which Worden stands convicted and is under the sentence of death. It was not an easy matter to induce Wordén to open his lips and reveal his connection with the crime , but the agency which finally accomplished this persisted. until at last the seal was broken. Those directly instrumental in securing this confession were Warden Aull, S. Z. Wilcox, a brother-in-law of the doomed man, and Rev. Whiting Worden, Salter's brother, whois a missionary to Japan. Warden Aull has labored long and earnestly with the condemned man urg- ing him to make a clean breast of the whole matter, while his brother and brother-in-law wrote him many letters beseeching him not to go before his Maker with a lie on his lips, if he were guilty. To this pressure Worden fin- ally yielded, and has given a statement which bears upon its face the stamp of sincerity and truth. Men not hereto- fore thought to be involved in the crime have been implicated, while oth;r names are mentioned as principals in the conspiracy that belong to men who have been connected with the crime by, implication and surmise. Warden Aull said yesterday that Worden seemed to feel much better since making the confession, and he now has the bearing of a man who is relieved of a heavy burden. No hope of reward or mitigation of his sentence has been held out to him, and he says that he is now ready to meet whatever fate is in store for him. Following is the confession: llency, the Governor of C;!l‘ffal;glsn.Elx{?n. Jaynes Budd. I came back to Sacramento in search of work some time the last of January or the first part of February, 1894, but did not obtain any until April, when I went to work in the repair department under s. In May, I think about Mr. Douglas: Al ‘ofdtll\e erican Railway Union organized In é\amcramenm‘ of which I became a mem- ber, and in the election of officers I was elected as a delegate to attend the con- vention in the city of Chicago in the following month (June) and represent them, that is, the Sacramento lodge. and for which I was to receive $5 per day, while absent, and they were also to furnish me transportation there and return. 1 got leave of absence from Mr. Douglass for thirty days, and he also knew where I was going. I had a pass from Sacramento to Ogden, and return, which was obtained for me by the committee appointed for that pur- pose, and was advanced. the sum of fifty ($50) dollars, and was to have more sent me to Chicago in care of officers there, and they did send me, just before my return, twenty-five dol- lars, by the sesretar.y, ;]’ol;m .F Doughty. . . When I got up that morning I felt all broke up and tired, but after taking two drinks started for headquarters on Front street and then learned that United Stages troops had come that morning. Room was full, but Knox nor others were not there; went back Harbor Commigsion Investigation. School Scandal Spreading. Spring Valley Asks Too Much. @ 0000000000000 00009 OPP000P000900PP0PPPE0PDPPPOPPOVP00P0VOPPP0P0000PP900900000P000006DED 06 to breakfast at Tremont House; was about 8 a. m.; then went toFront street again; found Knox was at new rooms, Second and J streets, and went there and talked for maybe a half hour of A