The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME L\\\\ —NO. :128. SAN FRANCISCO, SU NDAY, APRIL 2, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE : FIVE CENTS. IHI UES, - April 1-—C. P: n, president: of Uthe Southern Pacific.and other cor-- porations, arrived in Los Angeles. this morning on his private train of three vestibuled cars, accompanied. by Huntington and a reétinue- of: s from the -New York house These :will ‘be 1 in the Huntington mansion in Francisco. San Upon _its" arrivai”at Santa Monica at 11:30 o’¢lock Mr. Hunt: ington’s private train stopped “atthé station just long enough to ‘take on General M. H. Sherman, .who. accom: panied the par which included H: E: Huntington also, to thé . big- @ wharf, where an inspection was made. There is no fight hetween : Santa Monica and San Pedro that I know of." said.C. P. Huntington. ‘Santa. Monica 18 going to be the harhor. of Southern California—nothing can prevent. it.”” He is looking extremely though he says he has *“ E ears, as sboy and man, watched trend of veil ve the 1 business. of the Huntington, “I idered, there never was & more favorablé outlook. Busi- ness tides se to come by decades— sometimes bad. As e dry -spell in Cali- ss about that than the th was chaperoned by neipal stockholder electric line. Mr. ffer for the sale of ration and prob- > it before he leaves In response to a direct id: s true that I have become in- ectric road enter- may - go further. Oh, really, no; I haven’'t ). with that.” out the Sena- 1tington?” was 7 I take little interest in that subject. I.don’t think White should go back, be- cause I think he is not & suit- able man. I wili say further the Senatorial question t I do not believe that Herrin was authorized to rep- resent me or the Southern Pa- cific Company in the recent Senatorial failure. Whatever may have done during “Oh, on ,in any view of the case, was upon his own responsibility. We are not to considered as being dicta- and demanding - who 4222444444444 44494444 Ran A b SRR SRR R R IR R TR S S T SR S epe or who shall not be or, Senator, or- other netionary. on our way. We our knitting. hows' it.. ‘Of Our cou ERRH +>-+D D e o ln o S B e e e o o e e os ! + @ D¢ . + L4 & L3 3 COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON. t we seek to carry out policies just the same as all tradespeople.” ““Will Mr. Stillman leave the Southern Pacific directory, as reported?”’ “That is something I know nothing about. General Hubbard is managing that matter altogether and I give no thought to it. I have come out here for a few months to look over matters and see how affairs have gone since 1 was here last, but I don’t worry.” “The fact that George W. Monteith has a warrant issued for you rest on & charge of perjury is not giving you much concern apparently, Mr. Hunting- ton,” What Huntington really said in reply at the first outbreak of his feelings. must be imagined, but he calmed in a few moments and quietly said: “Oh, that unspeakable fellow. Why, he is the lowest of the. low, and what: he is.trying to do will fall flat. Bah! don’t speak of him; he.don’t amount Regarding the coast line Mr. Hunt- ington said: “They are. working on''that now, I believe... As for further extensions of any lines they will be built as they are required. . We always give the people what they want. T will v that trains will' run between San - Francisco and Los Angeles vear.” Regarding his plans the magnate said: by “I expect to be in San Francisco to- | morrow night and to be back in New York about May 1.” When asked why Mrs. Stanford sold ker Central Pacific stock he declined to discuss the reason, remarking: “It is not always safe .to interfere with other people’s business. They have the liberty to do as they please and rights that should be respected.” Regarding the railroad suits of the former commis- sion, he said he favored a dis- missal of proceedings that were now of record, as had been proposed by Railroad Commniissioner W. Blackstock. rere s PR RS _“While T tentatively favor expansion, I cannot say T am a full-fledged expan- &lonist,. but the pedple ~ of California sHould for many commercial -reasons: favor expansfon of trade in the Philip- pines and. the Orient, for the riches of the: world have been therP and wiil be for centurjes to come,” to a request for his views on imperial- BELIEVES THE POPE 1S NOT NEAR DEATH | the recent operation. he is always making verses, but never | Personal Attendant of Leo XIII Considers Him Yet Strong. L 1 HIS BRAIN TIRELESS Remains as Bright Mentally as Though in the Full Flush of His Powers. Spectal Dispatch to The. Call: } R + + * + 5 0 April 1—The rumors. 4 + in London and cabled 4 o & 1 ited tates that the <+ + pe was dead without foun-: 4 + n. . His Holiness received. + * al prelates in-audience to- 4| $3d + X + RS o g dho e P 20 £ o S g T 0 40 £l | ¥ *hevalier Rio Cen- | tra rsonal attendant, sup- | ving information regard- Pope’s condition and the dally | § wered from the im- £ the ost invariably awakens| When I enter 1 find him inc recent operation: | bed with the: rosary in At 8 o'clock the secretaries | talks on ordinary topics ad the new " he receives Car- | Monsignor Tripepl, political and eccles Occaslonally he gives | 2 to foreign prelates who are in | d midday the Pope; who all has been abed, s, but | ange h | In the ness does nothing i to an his Holi- of work. He re little, but never write His chief pleasure is 10 talk of his favorite books or hear them Physicians vizit him twice daily, at 9 o’clock in lhn‘ ng and at 3 o'clock in the after- The Pope continually talks of blsl } fort. { nor Angeli, | | Pope reads and dictates corrections and _ | the | gives his name as Charles Grimes. | this evening, approaching death with the sweetest resignation. = Occasionally he has -ex- pressed. the. desire that he may be ared ‘for a ghort time longer to com- plete his work for the church. His physical frailty is something to marvel at, but his spirit burns with the fire almost of youth. as if -he were in the full flush of his powers and nothing seems to tire -his brain. “It_is. quite true the Pope composed poems during the illness attendant upon For attempts a lohg-sustained’ poetical ef: He often dictates verses to Sig: Wwho writes them out. alterations, for he is satisfied | with- his" work. “After all.the years I have watched his Holiness near Him, He has: absolutely no or- ganic disease ahd the pre t weak s will pass away. He has :al\\ays beén physically weak nd that fact, bt opinion, furnishes the secret «’\I hls usually excelient health.” Drs. Mazzoni and Lapponi. to-day re- moved the dead skin from- the wound on the Pope's thigh résulting from the recent. cperation upon his Holiness. Thr wound is almost healed: MURDER OR SUICIDE IN‘A° PRESCOTT HOTEL George Mayer 'Arrested on ‘the Sus- " picion That He Killed His _ ° . Wife. : ‘OTT, Ariz.. April 1.—Mrs. George +was shot and instantly killed this sening in her apartments in the Wind- sor Hotel. - Whether it was murder or | a Coroner’s jury "'will have to de- never after 6 o'clock a shot was heard partments: occupied, by Mr. and When <) | locked, was forced Mrs. Mayer was found dead on the floor a bullet hole through the left rer was standing near the ate body and made an effort to secure the revolver, which was Iying on the bed. with the evi- dent intention of killing himself. prevented doing so. He. refused to make any statement as to which of them fired the fatal shot and was taken into cus- tody by the Coroner’s inquest. KILLED BY A COWBEBOY. | Railroad Man Murdered in a Saloon at Barstow. BARSTOW, April 1.—-D. C. Conahan, a switchman, was shot and instantly killed in Gallagher's saloon this afternoon by a cowhoy from Arizona who has been hang- ing about town for six or eight days and The only witness to the tragedy was Lewis Halsted, 2 boy of 16, who entered the | saloon just in time to see the fatal shot fired. Grimes fled to the hills, but was sooni captured by a posse of citizens and lodged in jail. The Coroner and Sheriff arrived late but the inquest has ‘been postponed until morning. No one seems to know where the trouble started, Mentally he is strong | that matter | The | I ‘canriot believe death ‘is| e door, which was.| He was | Sheriff to awalt the result of | hW TERSION OF DREYFLS CONVICTION 1 Trapped by Men Into Whose Secrets He Pried Too ‘ Closely. CENERAL STAF'S ACT | Officers Who Embezzled Money of the Secret-Service Said to Have Formed the Consviracy. Special Dispatch ‘to ‘The Call. NEW YORK, April 1. —A special cable.to the Journal from London says: If any further interest can be attached to the Dreyfus case it will be found in | the explanation published in a London society paper givirig.a new version to the. whole affair on, the authority of a hlg"l French official. This goes:-on to say that Droytus had |the {1l luck to stumble blindly into the | path of a body of ‘meh Who were en- | gaged in & monstrous fraud. These men were officers on the French general staff, which was in league-to embezzle secret service mieney. The War Office service. was” hopelessly corrupt. It divided nearly the whole sum’ among’ the offi- cers controlling the espionage depart- ment. It packed the- pigeon holes in: the War Office with bogus documents,. for which large sums were supposed to have been paid- Dreyfus, having access to ‘the secret | dossier, began asking the War . Office searching questions, and it was re: solved to get rid of-him. Dreyfus him-- self has probably but a glimmering of the reason for his condéemnation. He- was a prying, curious person. eager to obtain information and singularly in-- discreet in his methods of obtaining it. | In his pryings into dark holes and corners of the War Office he ®ot'too warm on the scent of the men who were diverting the secret service funds into their own pockets. They thought he knew more than he did, so they sac- rificed him. Then, when the agitation for his release came, they were forced to manufacture evidence of his tuflt. MACARTHURS December 1 of this | was his n"ply’ spends annually $100,000 in the secrét | For years, the general staff | SCOUTS CLOSh - T0 CALT MPIT Fall to ‘Find Rebels - Any Force Near “That in : 'I_reasuié -aixd _What 15 Left of His Army Naarmg the | pit, penétrating to w: place: :No surgents’ documents: are -repc . removed - from ¢ ‘eight miles east !ml mpit . to t the fq ‘to havs been Baliauag, f Aguinaldo is also there. { The monitor Monadne#k was fired | upon by insurgent artillery at Parana- ue to-day. The vessel replied to the | fire and quickly silenced the enemy’s battery. Insurgents are reported to be gath- | ering in force at Cainta and Taytay | under Pio del Pilar. | The American troops are having 2 | much needed rest at Malolos. General | MacArthur has established headquart- ers in the former Filipino Hall of Con- gress, and the troops are making them- | selves as comfortable as possible. The | army gunboats will preparé a water | base on the river when Calumpit is at- | | tacked, and an armored train is in readiness to be used farther north | when the advance of troops is resumed. The absence of extensive camp debris | on the ground captured by the Ameri- cans in the last week indicates that the | enemy's force has been greatly exag-| gerated. | The plans of the rebels, if they have | | any, are conjectural. Considerable rebel | | forces have been collected along the | fronts of General Lawton and (mnPr.«ll | Hall, who are holding the line from the | | 2 | water works to La Loma. There is| | shooting nightly along this line. appar- | | ently for the purpose .of breaking the | | Americans' sleep. Consequeéntly Gen- eral Lawton bas detalled fiva sharp- . shooters from each company to attend! to: the rebels and the Americans are picking off numbers of them. General King this morning sent out a reconnoitering party of twelve .com- panies.of thé North Dakota Regiment and a brisk engagement followed, dur- ing whieh seven Filipinos were killed. On the American side a lieutenant and two privates were woundéd. | The death of Lieutenant Gregg of the 1 Fourth Infantry, who was killed near | | the Manila water works yesterday, has deeply affected’ the. army, as he was one of the most popular young -officers. His funeral took ph(n to-day. AGUINALDO WILL BECOME A BRIGAND | | NEW YORK, Aprll 1.—A cable to the Journal dated Manila, April- 1, 7:45 p. m., says: Scouts of General Mac- Arthur's division penetrated within a mile of Calumpit to-day without find- ing the enemy. The natives who have { escaped the lash of Aguinaldo are re- turning to their homes and resuming | their ordinary avocations. A commit- tee of natives has been organized and is preparing a petition for peace, which will be presented to the American com- | manders, offering full and free submis- | sion to America. The war, so far as| it is 'a war against the Filipino repub- lic, is over. Hereafter it is a contest | against powerful brigands. Aguinaldo and his forces, greatly re- | duced by deaths and dlsaffection, are | | fleeing to the northeast, driving the na- tive Tagallos before them so far as pos sible and cheering them with stories that the Americans are about o offer | terms. They are being dispersed through the mountains about San Fer- nando and in the province of ‘Neuva Ecija, preparatory to-a life of brigand- age. Neuva Ecijl has a comparatively agreeable climate. through the rainy season, and will pravide a good base for raiding expeditions into the lower prov- inces about Manila and Malolos: The advarice of our army to Calumpit will probahly be madp m MOrrow. WASHINGTON THINKS : PEACE IS NEAR NEW YORK, Aprfl 1.—The Wash- | ington correspondent of - the Herald | telegraphs: With information showing that the insurgent army is disorgan- ized, and with'the announcement from General Otis of his Intention. to con- tinue an active campaign, the authori- ties express themselves as “very “well satisfied with the situation in the Phil- ippines. It was reported here this af- ternoon that Aguinaldo had sent repre- sentatives to Manila to treat with the | Philippine Commission, but Acting Sec- | retary Meiklejohn, with whom I talked to-night, declared the report absolutely unfounded. . Mr. Meiklejohn expresses the utmost satisfaction with the condition of af- Afairs on the-island of Luzon, as re- ‘ported by General Otis, and is confi- .dent-that within a very short time the trouble will have ended. _ General _Otis’ instructions to the troops at Malolos and along the rail- way, to proceed on reconnoitering duty is constried at the department to mean that he is trying to locate any present bodiés of the enemy which may still* be ready for operations, and should they be found.it is-expected he’ will take steps to immediately crush them. So far he has found, according to his re- ‘port, that the lnsurge' s are only in small forces in the surrounding terri- tory. but it may be that Aguinaldo is Keeping small detachments in the-field while he is re-forming. his a.rmy at his new headquarters. It would ‘ot surprise officials to learn’ B e I S | the action of Mataafa’s followers in at- | cendiary proclamation D P P S DN S S EW YORK, April 1.—The Her.| ald’s Washington correspondent | sends the following: Official in- formation from Samoa shows | that the German Consul General | was at the hottom of the recent trou | ble in the islands, resulting in the kill- | ing of an American marine and British | lors, and culminating in the bom- | bardment of the followers of Mataafd by American and British warships. Secretary Hay made public this| afternoon an official ~dispatch from Rear Admiragl Kautz, recelved by the Navy Department to-day, and com-| municated to the State Depaiftment. It] was dated Newcastle, N. 8. W, March | 30, From this dispatch it s belleved | tacking ' the American and. ' British guards was the direct result of an in- issued by the German Consul General, and that to this extent the German -Government, through Its representative, i responsi- | ble-for the attack and for the sub:e-‘ quent bombardment, | Officials of the administration are| much displeased at the action of the| German Consul General, and It is be- | lieved that when the German Emhas-; sador called at the State Department this afternoon Secretary Hay ac- quainted him with the displeasure of this Government in rather pocmwe lan- guage. 1 also have reason to believe that the Secretary told Embassador von Holle- ben that, pending the final settlement of the future government of the island, the United States would expect all Ger- | man officials in’ the island to be gov-| erned by the action of the majority of the Consuls. It is hoped by thetadmin- | istration that the German (‘nOVerannt“ will send instructions to the German | Consul and the German naval c(\mmun»_} der which will result in the majn- tenance of a modus vivendi, pending a | final settlement of Samoan affairs, by | | shich the government will be admin- | istered by the majority of the Consuls until the arrival of the High Joint Com- | mission representing the three govern- | ments, which is to determine the fu-| ture government of the islands. As the | American and British Consuls are act- | ing in harmony, this would put the gov- | ernment into their hands for the time being, and Mataafa would have to sub- mit to it or make war upon the. two governments. Officials here do not be- lieve .that the German Government would go to the extent of attempting | to uphold Mataafa by force. Dissatisfaction is felt at the attitude of the German Government, as well as at the action of the Consul General. It has been evident for.some fime that the: German Government, while. pro- fessing the utmost friendliness, has been trying.-to create an impression that American and British officials, and not ' the-German representatives, have been responsible for the trouble in Sa- | moa. Press dispatches from Berlin, evidently inspired, speak of “American explanations, intimating - that the American Government had done some- thing calling for an explanation.: They. also intimate that Rear Admiral Kautz has been reproved from Washington, thus giving -the “impression that the course of the rear admiral was not sat- isfactory to the American Government. It ig, of eourse, unnecessary to say that | the American Government has not | made any explanations, and-that Rear Admiral Kautz has not been reproved. A dispatch was sent to Admiral Kautz yesterday, before his dispatch was received, directing him to preserve the status que and avoid, if possible, any friction with the natives or. with the German Consul. This was in no sense a censure of the rear admiral, EMBASSADOR WHITE. B o0 0660000000000 ebebebsisrdsdsdedodede@® | Baron von Bulow, e >4 OG-+ o e e e whose course is entirely approved. President McKinley and Secretary Hay are considering the question ot who shall be appointed as the Amer- can member of the High Joint Commis- sion to negotiate as to the future of the islands. 1 understand the Presi- dent has several names under consid- eration, but it may be some time be- | fore a decision is made, as negotiations for the commission have not yet been completed. It is desired that the whole matter shall be settled with as little. delay- as -possible, and the Presidsnt will try to have the American member of the commission decided upon soon, so that he will be able ta leave for Sa- moa as soon as the German and British Commissioner$ shaill start. THE GERMAN PAPERS UGLY IN TONE Some Comments Smd to Be Inspired That Do Not Make. for Peace. Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 1.—The latest devel- opments in. the Samoan muddle.have claimed the larger part of public at- tention this week. The Government is most reticent, to the great dissatisfac- tlon of the press; and in the absence of clear information from headquarters regarding the attitude of the Govern- ment editorial comment is varied and contradictory. THe Agrarian organs attack the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Government for yielding over much to the United States Embassador, Andrew D. White, and to the authorities at Washington. The Nationalistic Deutsche Zeitung says: “Many Germans are disappointed with the Von Bulow regime and wish Marscheil von Bieberstein,- bad as he was, back again.” The XKreuz Zeitung say thére is abundant econfirmation at-hand show- ing it is not o much the United Stafes | as Great Britain that has opposéd dif- ficulties in front of every step Germany has taken or wished to take in Samoa, and expresses amazement that ‘“‘while Great Britain has attempted: to ‘make’ Germany. believe she. was friendly, the British policy of .envy "continués.” . . The Kreuz Zettung adds: “England’s calculations seem to bé that Germany will not risk -a ‘conflict over such a trifle as Samoa. The error of this cal- culation is that our prestige in ‘the world ‘depends on the maintenance of our acquired rights. We are-ready td agree to a fair compromise, including the abolition of the (‘nndnm!nlum. Be- yond that we cannot go.” X It is understood that the fdregoing was inspired. Another article in-the Kreuz Zeltung | says: . “It is shameful that in spite-of the paramount German interests in Sa- moa Eneglish is the only language:of- ficially allowed."” " The paper then asks the Government to see, 'in the negdtiations pending, that Germany is a(‘cordéd‘oqual rights’ with England. In conclusion the:Kreuz Zeitung remarks: “Englandq success | in Samoa at Germany's cost.would be the. worst “business England .has done for the last. hundred, years.”. The Tageblatt express5 confidence that neither Great Britain nor the United States will override legitimate German rights and-‘maintains that the Government -possesses information to the ‘effect that no- such Bttempt will be made. The Cologne. Gazette pnbushes letters from its cn;r?qundent at Samoa. . The latest, dated.February 18, rehearses the old complaiit agairist Chief Justice Chambers, who is charged with over- stepping his funcuons toward Dr. Raf- ASHINGTON, April 1.— The - following .was - given out at the State Department this afternoon:. © The Secretaty of State has received from the Sec- retary of the Navy a telegram ad- dressed to him by Rear Admiral Kautz relative to Samoan mat- térs: It -is dated; Newcastle, N. S. ‘W, March. 30,1899, -and reads as follow “The Mataafa people obeyed orders. to ‘leave the:Government reservations. -~ Since:“then ‘they have. become aggressive,: killing Private: Holloway --and ~‘three British sailors. Our.man-Kkilled was guarding the American con- sulate. “The German Consul General issued. an incendiary ‘proclama- tion saying that my praclamation was tintrue-and.that he would up- hold:the provisional government. The British forces act:in- concert with those of the United States, shelling rebels whetrever they can be reached.” A copy of -this “dispatch was sent to the German Embassador. Befetietet0t 0 B R o e tieuem fel and Herren Fries and:Von Bulow. The corréspondent also claims that the landing of the binejackets and marines from the British cruiser Porpoise in the Grevesmuhl affair was injudicious and calculated to make matters worse. Ac- cording to this correspondent the whole attitude of the British representatives was wrong and the rigid non-interfer- ence of the German warship Falke in | the native quarrels was the only cor- | rect one. The Gazette corrects several of the correspondent’s statements, but main- tains that Mr. Chambers’ attitude has been incorrect. The general tone of the press, in com- menting upon the recent. occurrences, is one of distrust both of Great Britain and the United States and. their ulti- mate intentions. “In this the German newspapers have seemingly been con- firmed by specials received from the United States, all of which assert that the American press and people desire a serlous encounter with Germany. The influential Centrist Cologne Volks Zeitung prints a New York special warning Germany: against - the. belief “that the anti-German sentiment pre- vailing in the United States is. of small account.” It asserts that war against Germany 1is daily préached and “may lead to deplorable results if the Ameri- can Government does:not check this in time.” The. Government semi-official press, however, ' remains calm and dignified and insists thdt all the mooted points betweer ‘the two nations will be ami- cably. adjusted. Mr. White, upon several occasions this week, has expressed a like opinion to the correspondent of the Associated Press. He.repeated that neither. the German nor the United States Govern- ment :attached much importance te the Samoan imbroglio, and added: “Throughout I have found the Govern- ment very conciliatory and inclined to take -a r.asonahle view of all questions entering into a final settlement in Sa- moa.” e h s THE ENGLISE PRESS FAVORS = PARTITION That Is the Only Way to Settle the Samoan- Problem Perma- nently. Caopyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press. LONDON, April 1.—The Samoan blaze has been. the léading political topic of the week and the general -drift of the -press comments has been that the mat- tr will be settled ‘amicably between the powers. . The Spectator this° week says: ‘“The Samoan’ incident looks ugly, but we do not think it will come: “to" anything. Undér - other circumstances the bom- bardment. would have produced war, but -as matters stand the three powers will arrive at an agreement. Let us | hope that they Wwill divide the islands for the'peace of the world. "Any gov- eérnmeént .is " better than the . condo- nminium:” *'The Saturday Review: throws the en- | tire blame upon the German-agents and ‘declares . the bombardment . will: not prove an unmixed ewvik if it finally cox. virices Germany-of the folly of making Samoa-the ‘scapegoat of international "jealousies’ in. the South Pacific.” | AUSTRALIAN TROOPS |- - NFFER THEIR SERVICES Volunteers Are Anxious to Go and Fight for Great Britain in Samoa. WELLINGTON, N. Z., April 1—Be- lieving the imperial authorities might need special communication with Sa- moa, the Premier, Mr. R. J. Sodden, has cabled that the steamer Tutaneka I { will hold herself in readiness at Auck- land. to carry- dispatches and has of- fered to send a battalion of troops and volunteers to assist the British war- ships. Thé volunteers who are en- camped at -Auckland for the Easter ma- neuvers promptly . offered their ser- vices. IfilfilfilfilfilfiIfilfilfilfilfllfilbl‘alfilfi fififil&‘filfilfi.fi'fil&lfi.filfi.fi lm.filnm that the Philippines Commission has| determined to delay the issuance of its proclamation calling upon the insur- gents to lay down their arms and re- turn to their ordinary vocations and promising them ammnesty a@nd. home rule-under the direction of the commis- sion. Thig proclamation has been preé- pared, and it was the expectation ‘of the authm—mes that it would be pub- lished immediately after the -fall of Matolos. The fact that it has been withheld Is regarded as an indication of the com- mission’s ‘belief’ that it would be wiser if it should +ivaif’ until Aguinaldo’s forces.are given & more complete drub- bing by the American troops than any they hive yet had. ‘There is no inten- tion on the part of the administration to interfere with the commission, and the President is confident it under- stands the situation much- better than he does. In reply to cablegrams sent by Gen- eral Corbin yesterday, General Otis informed the War Department to-day