The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1899, Page 1

Call VOLUME LXXXV-NO. 156. PRICE FIVE CENTS. The SAN ¥RANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1899, KAUTZ LAYS BLAME UPON CONSUL ROSE - Says He Found That Official Openly Backing Mataafa's | ce@® ey e v THE FILIPINOS MAKE ~ DESPERATE RESISTANCE NOT LIKELY 10 BE CALLED kd : The President Would Like {| to Pass the Currency EXTRA SESSIN - WELBURN IN . “THE CLUTCH OF THE LAW Fugitive Ex-Revenue Collector i : Sy Captured After Many A MAKER OF TROUBLE 3 | TROUBLES INTHE WY b : 3 S Migl;;v‘v;ry tm 5enre HE WAS MASQUERADING d Ispii:;l;}::::d in the AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER 1 LR e Rowte: Mith e Conemay s oo St NEW YORK, May 4—The W ing- ton correspondent of the Herald tele- graphs: Since it was announced that the Caucus Committee of Republican representatives had agreed at Atlantig City on a currency reform bill. which B R .. pines When the Federal Officers Found Him at the Presidio Reser- vation. is to be made a party measure it meets the approval of the Republican merabers of | the Senate! Pinance Cora- SCA M. WELBURN, ex-Collec- | and was waiting transportation to the | mittee, there has been a revival of the tor of Internal Revenue for the | Philippines. Shortly after 2 o'clock yes { report that the President will call an bethexn District of ‘California.if Sy sl erioct Gompeny Lo me I8 TR S oot Conire . ¥ wemed for whom the Federal authorities | 370 WhEE S0 ¥ oo iy Y Ber that it would be good policy to have have been looking ever since hiS | Goy» a5 Welburn snd declared that he an extra session, so as to get the House = Mysterlous disappearance more than a | was the fugitive. When arrested the sol- —~ . . . | anized promptly and have the cur- Ye€ar ago, was arrested yesterday at | dier showed no surprise, b positively Church at Caloocan, Ruined by Fire From American Guns. €£§?n| mn”x sed in n.ier( that the the Presidio, where he was shunning | declared that he was not the man the offi- transition from the old system to new | Publicity In the garb of a private in |cers sought. He said that he was Olan H. . and that he had en- L S S e e S S T S might take place before the beginning | I Company, Ninth Infantry, U. S. A., w—d;n 'Y‘t';“;;lxl;::?' e B Ma 3 TI\T ! States troops the following in- | Of the Presidential campaign en route to the Philippines. He is now Sshpaimetinl el betindenh g2, W 4 N ame under n of Mr. Rus-| It cannot be learned, however. that | in the County Jail, to await trial on an |~ g a i “qeieriptive list shows that he 2 | i % the President has any intention at the indictment of thirty-one counts charg- | waq born in Auburn, Alabama, is 33 years = 3 of the Tw *connoitering party found three present time of calling an extra se ing him with failure, while acting as|and 7 months old. His occupation is 5 Troatne Taaid tothe ' 4 Sacione Jiuis v nhtr‘lslh" r'!!.\"»:r,\'ms_ sion. I am assured by party leaders disbursing agent for the Government, |given as that of a laborer. His personal + nd Eng Con- + 4 wounded (e trenches and | (ien wiom he has discussed the situ- | to turn over moneys collected by him. | description is as follows: = Eyes. blue; B did because + 1tive ned to ation that the President wishes to have The arrest of Welburn, under the bhair, dark, slightly gr complexion, ps or;lak to d:c:;;e + . to death from all the time possible before the meet- | circumstances, was as complet @0+ 600000 0000Q o e = v 1l Hale pushed a were hurried | ing of Congress to restore order in the prise to the authorities as it mus 7 5 e. Now that we are + ‘h.,l b B More nd violently thrown | Philippines and to decide upon his pol- | been to the fugitive. After his sudden | ¢ . let us undo the ¥ s B Al ick : unded men from Then their arms were | joy for the future government of those | disappearance in December, 1397, the | ¢ * and we did. + E Lawton’s brigade were O aan s B e : Government seemed to be unable to| ¢ : i o ddekT R brought to Manila from Malolos by Sptctant of et A o While it is recognized that it would | find any trace of him. He had dropped ¥ + A Ao T SO t night's t The heat is unbear- struggled to their knee: be well to have the new currency law | completely “off the map” and what few | ¢ + g but holdl‘fle an in- o ¥ what seemed to be a prayer, | in operation before the campaign | efforts were made to overhaul him were | ¢ + ion on what had been 4 Bpave (Colonel Funston Was . 1 toward San then, springing up, bared their | opens, the disposition of the Republi- | locked upon as purely perfunctory.| ¢ + ince January 1, but 4 : k d that they will - 1 for the expected can leaders seems to be to try to get | From time to time rumors to the effect | ¢ + German Consul General + Sllghtly Wounded in At- at which (}‘\,,“'g:'n,g'h“?““j‘r‘i it up and pass it in regular session | that he was in Mexico, in Texas and | ¢ B id unreasona- + a0k [pon San Tomas o0 then tHe sed rromidie vits | TRIDES i s Ee i ip L extee PATARKE Wete ehicrlatel bt hemansena o ¢ - igec 3 . is con- ew, session. C: s g 9 fleré:gtrcs::, : ting. H;T_{!Iv* sol '.‘”‘“. of Uncle Sam in the| The details of the agreement reached | hardihood to enlist, knowing as he must [ L 2 + even in aheown estininiion. + ——— It is reported that, impressed by re- “h!‘\'”"v . according to Mr. Russell, by the Caucus Committee are carefullv | that his regiment was likely at any| ¢ + 4 3 cent events, the Filipinos are wavering et ck, and are thoroughly tired | guarded from the public on the theory | time to be ordered to San Francisco, | ¢ 3 “I therefore concluded to do J Special Dispatch to The Call in their allegiance to the insurrection | * ‘““m,;\}“r;]"‘_‘ fi‘,‘iz}“:”-m.d s that it would be discourteous to mem- | it is not so certain that he would ber ‘ . it to be done, and re- % = ] and are likely to assume a neutral at- | “the United States hag a b&gp;'s:::‘lj bers of the Senate Finance Committee | now occupying a prison cell. 4 4 atter to the Govern- ANILA, May 5, 8:25 a. m. tract in the Philippines than they | for the House committee to announce | Welburn, or as he s pleased to style | 4 + r 2 —In spite of the peaceful ms that General Antunio Luna’s | thought they had and are liable to get | its conclusions before submitting them | El\g:l_;e!l!nin"::\ec‘fl[r;nsl'és?lfl;n?a’?fi;:} airn-, :f SAMOAN LOSE HEAVILY | overtures the Filipinos vigorously resisted of General Mac- of their commissioners, | are destined to destruction with- has been irmen: scatter. The American arm skillfully posted at points ¢ into a hole before they get through with it. " The soldiers would welcome ny way that would give them a chance to throw off their burden.” —~ to the Senate. There is reason to be- lieve, however, that the committee found it hard to reach any agreement at all, and that the measure agreed THE PHILIPPINES est news the Herald has received from = toward San Fernando, fighting the entire country beyond Quingua e R ~ t desperately at long range after | with the strongest sort of intrench-| o yupon i S ji@ee- o % t the Shell- e 3 8 g T oA of taking this course| LONDON; May 4—“What is the lat- running from trench to trench! when driven out by the Ameri- can artillery. The movement upon San Tomas com- 5:30 o’clock in the morning. s brigade, consisting of under command of Ma- th Artillery, two ms of the Fifty-first ITowa regi- the First Nebraska and the First iment, advanced along the miles west of the railway | General MacArthur swung toward San Tomas, the route to which was almost unprotected, and General Lawton | brought his brigade in against Balsuam from the southeast, covering the line of retreat of the rebels toward the mountains and depriving them of a refuge upon which they had already counted. General Lawton captured 350,000 bushels of rice, an important part of the stores established by the rebels. The Spanish commissioners have | made another futile attempt for the re- of the Spaniards held as prisoners Their vessels steamed liet by the Filipinos. the Philippines?” Richard Croker asked, on the arrival of the steamship | New York at Southampton this morn- | ing, and when I told him that negotia- | tions for a cessation of hostilities were | still in progre with some promise of successful conclusion, he exclaimed | emphatically: | “‘Good; I am glad to hear that: but we ought to get rid of the islands. Spain did a good stroke of business for herself in obtaining twenty millions from the United States for them. They were a continual drain on her. and I think that we should either sell or | trade our rights in the islands after | peace and order are restored. I do not | believe we ought to give away the | REPUBLICANY OPPOSED T0 ALL TRU e S in Its Next National Q@i ei e e = he ~dx C = the advance stra advantage. The insurgents CROK upon falls far short of being a com- — REBELS Arthur’s division from Apalit | expected them to advance on Balinag OKER SAYS SELL prehensive scheme of currency and ¢ 0 | of Quingua, and had furrowed banking reform. ¥ @ . s + ¢ } . ! ‘ [J JF AL R e AR S S R AR S SCE ST T S S o S o o IR BN STCED TS ST SN IR SR A 2R S ol 2 o I e o 2 | = | = K Utah L to the port nearest Dagupan anrilr;: possessions the war brought us without | i s handecars, pushed | to iand they t a letter to Aguinaldo | receiving something in return. | | s - ntieth Kansas and First | saying they were authorized to ex- | “I consider the scheme advocated by | Platform. | O"'\'\VE‘LBURN, regiments deploying to the | change 15,000 Filipinos for the Spanish g;:'“_helrah} for the exchange of the | 15 g when feasible. prisoners. The reply was recetved from | Philippines for the British West Indies | —.— [@ecoseteirisivieoie @ to be traversed proved | Senor Mabini, dated May 2, saying that | 3t B4 RS Bt BRgiand does not | ¥ encountered, miles of | Aguinaldo was negotiating for peace, | yrade for her. ‘She has enough on her Special Dispatch to The Call. | company with others of a detachment of | & 2 2 i 7 3 2 : = g | thirty s from Camp Haw- rehes and many unford- | pending which negotiations he could | hands in Africa, India and the Far g - 5 .| thirty recruits sent here D 34 o Jaying the advance ma- | not discuss the question of exchange of without taking on more trouble | NEW YORK, May 4.—The Herald's|jey Galveston, Tex., where he enlisted | § DIt - the shape of the Philippines. Washington correspondent sends the | April 22 last. The detachment stopped | PR O+-0+6+0-00-06sQ prisoners. Senator-elect Depew’s de- the first night in town at the Interna- | wu AR — 1t we Eetaln the islands and attempt i following: mAn Lot nt s met with resistance s to govern them from a distance, the | claration that the next Republican | tional Hotel on Kearny street, and on the | ¢ ;. poione 5 feet 113 inch It s 1 on approaching the river | AN ENGLISH VERSION auestion will fizure very prominently | giaiform will undoubtedly ~contain a |next day, undoubtedly through Weiburn's | (hot Bdl' cniited &t Camp Hawier, as, which is about eight PROBABLY OVERDRAWN in the next Presidential election.” | Jeclaration condemning trusts is con- | CUrlosity to learn how things had been | Gaiveston, Texas, for three vears, and ¥ Apalit. The center D rred in by many Republican leaders | going on at the Federal buillding since | that he had seen no brevious: service: ad bridge had drop- | e MORE CASUALTIES CIE Y e leaders. | i sty departure, his identlty was re- | T recruiting officer who. calisted him cer and the rebels had| VICTORIA, B. C., May 4—Two Aus- Representative Henderson ¢ OWa, | vealed to one who put the United States | i Second Lieutenant Ferguson of the t, the Ger- the p from ree to check Gen- main body lying in | front of General in king force poured rtillery and musketry e river the enemy stub- sted for over an hour, ulti- bank under General Wheat tralian newspaper men, who arrived here last night from the Orient by | the steamer Rio Jun Maru—P. J. Rus- sell and G. S. Witton—gave the Times | the following account of their impres- | sions of the American soldiers, their | present adversaries, and of the treat- | ment meted out by the Americans tc | “are treating the insurgents in a most | shameful manner. The sentries in| haiting the unfortunates, do not warn | REPORTED BY OTIS | ciary Committee, to which any anti WASHING' N y ol 2 VASHINGTON, May #—General Ots|yryge bill would be referred, said to me reports. the following additional casual- | ties: Killed—Fourth Cavalry, April 23, Cor- poral John Golambeski. Wounded—Fourth Cavalry, K, Private James F. McGreevy, hand, slight; First trusts in its next platform. He said aggregations of capital engaged in va- rious industries were becoming so cidental. April Schaffer, leg, thigh, sligh! > Privite Charles ight; K. Willlam Gllbert, eo H. Hunter, hip, slight, A high official of the administration, in discussing the trust question, said to who, if he is not elected Speaker'of the | | House, will be chairman of the Judi- | | to-night that he had no doubt the Re- | publican party would declare against | Marshal on his track. This person was William E. Davis, a colored man, whose express wagon stood at the Appraiser's | building during all of the time that Wel- | burn was in office. | Davis happened to be at the Interna- tional Hotel Saturday morning, when he was approached by Welburn, who felt sure that his closest friend would be un- able to recognize in the clean-shaven, | Revenue wanted by Uncle Sam. That is | where he made his mistake. Davis had | | not been talking to him more than a min- First Artillery. The descriptive list fur- ther shows that Bedell has a circular pitted scar on the left knee and that he has numerous moles on his back and shoulders. On Monday Bedell drew his allowance of clothing, and one noticeable fact is that his signature for his clothes bears no resemblance to the signature upon the register of the International Ho- tel. The iatter is that of a man unused breaking when Ma the Filipinos: Nebraska, May 1, C, Private Paul Ossow- % k an:jn:h‘}'ou:f «Tha Americans,” Mr. Russell said,” ski, hand, severe, accidental. May 4‘.“;‘ enormous that they could not be ig- | sun-browned, stalwart, blue-uniformed |to writing and shows very little evidence en ; Private John D. hand, severe, ac- | nored. Olan H. Bedell the ex-Collector of |of education, while the former is a much better specimen of chirography. The men who came here with Bedell from Texas declare that he never talked 1eantime, | AT | tried ineffectually 2 > of | them. The general practice seems to .me: ‘“There is no doubt the platforms | B e et ew | of himself, and that they knew nothi the Filipi it (drn:‘“hn:‘ 2: ot o to ‘fire and then sing out.’” DR. SAMUEL KENNEDY of both great political parties will con- | 1% & D‘:‘;l;"f:u e L oy Lof Biatormer- Fistory‘They say that e the track. S A mistake was made during Mr. Rus- tain anti-trust declarations. I believe | none other than his former patron, Ogca | Was friendly and of pleasant address and O 5 they: di sell's stay which nearly cost an Ameri- MAY ESCAPE DEATH | the Democrats will make opposition to | M. Welburn. that he was a good companion, but that imatumal 28 509 A5 Shey: discovered that the f canpicer hIBCE L copiain M e - | trusts one of the principal planks in| Davis lost no time in conveying this im- | Pevond this they knew nothing. Cor- g & ot “LINllL : mlu}rvp fl;w nl‘(ir e oule il o \:‘:rtxt "Sut to his mckr:et;nanér Engiish * Convict . Confesses” to: the| their Dlatform. They will denouics the fpraision {o e proner anthorities. " He | gnral Georgoto'“ll::r}::%‘slld(ihm wr:\" ‘:; ; war LiadEa at ] e a ek : ide of | regifieht to the practice of firing and Murder of Dolly Re; Republican party as friendly to trusts. | hurried to Bert H. . Thomas, special | J0f0 G0 0SS 000 0y et May 1n s wers e foune . reEained | BAC L ruing the comer, & sentry fired Which' v Reynolds, for | P T8 a7 to meet them on that | revenue collector, and told him what he | hie told him he had eniisted last May in e eir o ge and fo ht ra v €] R € Wy s v. v | s 8 . B e lecla N e e erately | 28 im as he approached in the gloom tich Senuedy, Has Bean groumd, however, and we will show by | knew. He sald he could not be mistaken | ;.3 ‘nce found to be untrue. Miller's for three-quarters of an hour in the ; his chin off. Another step Condemned. £ th Ay o {in the strongly marked features of the | 5 s e Fiihe K 3 Hea and blew e 1 P the record of the party in the present | go mer Collector. Thomas, In trun, re- | Statement is borne out by “Bedell's” de mmediately, | face of the American volleys and a | and the unfortunate officer would have | NEW YORK, May 4—A special to the | administration that everything possible | ported the matter to United States Mar- | Scriptive list, which shows that the sol- and othe rerman the ( detained on r Falke . gun carriage from the Philadel which was lost the time of »ment, has been recovered, phia the Continued on Second Paze, boarding trains that were in readiness and the others taking the road to San Fernando, after burning the villages of | San Tomas and Monalin. About noon press censor goes through everything the correspondents wish to send out and the blue pencil obliterates all that kind of thing. The Americans as a rule have no love for the Filipinos and ‘Worid from Washington says: of Dolly Reynolds in the Grand Hotel last August, may yet escape the electric chair. Richard T. Nicholson, now con- fined in Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, Lon- don, has made an alleged confession of the crime, acknowledging that he mur- be brought when there is some proba- bility that the Government will win | them. We could go ahead and file suits | against every trust in the country, but | this acquaintance with Welburn. The two | officers were unable to locate their man iun Monday and met with no better suc- cess on Tuesday and Wednesday. They were greatly impeded in their search by dier had had no previous service. ing of | rapid-fire fusillade until outf been killed outright. : Dr. Sam- law has baen done to re-|s . s held. They | the Montana regiment. Then “You never hear of these little inci- | uel J. Kennedy, now under sentence of | Sracr, toste T B e R e oo ror 11 " One of the circumstances that convinced n that had | scramble ensued, most of the enemy | dents over here, said Mr. Russell; “the | death in 8ing Sing Prison for the murder “Tt will be'recognlzed Shat suits cavlon Monday last Deputy Moffitt because of [ Marshal Shine that Bedell was Welburn was the fact that when he was examining his descriptive lists Welburn's character was given as excellent. This is only done in the case where a man about whom the recruiting officér knows nothing shows er heato: crosse e 4 their way would summaril Miss = s - 3 e W s £d [‘,h broken L‘h;{;?,fii‘r captives, Of course-there | (oo pedromn whoce she was boduarrel in | it would be pure demagogy to file suits | reason of the fact that there are about himself to be possesed of more than or- ed the stragglers out of | $hoot tReR (iP5 (0" e ‘said In excuse | confession Nicholson sent to the prisss | Which the Attorney General would |10 recruits at the Presidio, and at that | dinary education and whose addrees and s and advanced toward San !5 (| lodthirstiness. Several in- | authorities. They referred it through va- | know in advance would be thrown out | time they did not know the name under | general appearance is above the ordinary. General Hale effected a| Of I8 D000 been witnessed when a | Hous official channels to the Marquls of i ! out | L Welburn had enlisted. Finally | Although Bedell had only been in the | stances ha M 2| Salisbury, the Prime Ministe by the court, in view of its previous | Sy army since last month he has made a g simultaneously, after a slight pand of insurgents came and parleyed | office it w ster. From his s | Marshal Shine went to Captain Hardin, y e has made an sary o repair 4 B b e Gt IR et | e o LG b deCiston who' has command of the casual detach. | eXcellent reputation for attention to duty ssary pair a stone | under a flag fote, thence to Secretary Hay, who will ment, for assistance, and that officer sug- | and general soldierly qualities. Our loss up to that hour (noon) was | two members of the Nebraska regiment and one of the Montana killed. and | ptain Albrecht, three members of the Kansas regiment, two of the Mon- tana, four of the Nebraska and one of the South Dakota wounded. The ene- my’'s loss was very slight. 1 1 After a short rest the advance was | continued, General Wheaton encoun- | | cans agd then treacherously hurled spears at unarmed soldiers. But, all things considered, it cannot be said that the Filipinos are being treated properly in the fighting. The Ameri- cans used Aguinaldo as a decoy when the war was on with Spain, when his trained fighters who had so long fought the Spaniards were of use to them and | then, to use the picturesque vernacular of the United States soldiers, ‘they turn him down.”” As for the treatment of prisoners by send it, with other papers, t6 Governor Roosevelt. It is expected ‘the Governor will grant a respite pending a full in- vestigation, Nicholson is undergoing a sentence of eighteen months for mgde. meanor. Severe Earthquake in Greece. ATHENS, May 4—Severe seismic dis- turbances visited the southern and east- ern departments of Peloponnesus last night. The town of Liguditza was seri- ously damaged, many houses being thrown down. Three More Training Ships. NEW YORK, May 4—A Washington special to the Herald says: Rear Admiral Crowninshield has obtained the approval of the Navy Department to his recom- mendation to assign three more vessels to the training service—the Mohican, Hartford and Monongahela. The Monon- gahela will assume her new duty as soon as she has completed her summer cruise with the cadets. The Mohican and Hart- ford will be stationed o the Pacific Coast. | gested to him that he look over the de- scriptive lists of the recruits who had re- ported on Saturday, for that was the day that the detachment which had stopped at the International Hotel went out to the Presidio. When Shine read the descriptive list of Bedell he declared his belief that Bedell was the man they wanted. This was yes- terday. Bedell had been assigned to Com- pany I, of the casual detachment, pend- ing assignment to some regular regiment, As soon as possible after having made the arrest Marshal Shine took Welburn to the Appraiser’s building. the prisoner refusing to admit that he was any other than what he seemed—a private in the army. Going into the office of Marshal Shine, however, he met face to face Shel- ley Monckton. one of the deputies. “Hello, Shelley,” he exclaimed. lo.” replied Monckton, stranger.” ‘Welburn persisted in denying his iden~ “‘Hel- ou're quite a