The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1899, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 4. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE (4, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS, NEW COURT-MARTIAL ORDERED FOR DREYFUS [ e o . ¢ * @ . @eietededed iy . Qe e THIS MEANS IE WILL BE ACQUITTED i Y And Now France Is Wonder- ing if the Guilty Will Be Properly Punished. - R o o o S S S o o + PARIS, June 3.—The Court of Cassation to-day rendered 2 verdict in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus case, and order- ing a new court-martial to sit at Rennes, sixty miles from Nantes, for the trial of the prisoner. + + + + - + - + + - B + . + > * + + o . D e e S e R 3 , June at he ‘ount terha: Drevfus has fallen like a thunderbol It is true that his word has not in the only doubt ut his authorship of the document he his guilt. At wrote the uch value, admits any a traitor. I nobody advised Those who refuse to admit his inno cence now are simply bound hand and foot to their party: As cabled yesterday, the Cabinet council decided to placard the fudg- nt of the Court of Cassation in all ich communes. This decision has t been made official, but a num- f Deputies intend to move on Mon- say me day that the Government take this step. This ws which way the wind blows, blowing in faver of Dreyfus ilitation. Then a it is fairly certain that the accuss 1 of forgery trumped up against L nant Colonel Picquart ‘0:\11. for the writing of which Dreyfus | transcribed on the docket of the first R T | ' { Palace of Jus will be di ed by the Public Prose- cutor. Dreyfus ha also been informed that the Court of ( ation has de- cm: d or retrial before a fr This means his acquittal, and g this is the auestion that is gripping cople’s hearts— will the guilty be p 1?7 Esterhazy has de to the cor- respondent of the Matin that he will defend himself, teeth and claws, He declares that he wrote the bordereau upon the order of Colonel Sandherr. | just as Lieutenant Colonel Henry com- piled the forged proofs of the guilt of | Dreyfus upon command, and he adds, terribly: “Henry died a victim of his obedience.” You will remember that Henry was found dead in a cell in Mont Valerien fortress on the night his arrest - was reported. He had Kkilled himself, but er rumor has it that both caretid arteries were cut, which, as a diplo- matist said to me a few days ago, was one too many for a good suicide. You will remember that I cabled you these rumors at the time, and Esterhazy's remarks bring them up again. | | { | | | before any judgment can be lat all. | Calais, | declared that the demand for a reviso; | fluencing their minds and now not $- 9 #-94-9+04@ that the great washing day ds dawn-|ing that | ing. The judgment of the court was awaited this afternoon with tense nervi ¥ It is said that the majority of the magistrates have decided that there are | two new facts to be exacted by the law revised. hat the document which was shown in 1894, and which does not abply to and, second, that the border- These are, first e Canaille de D the court-martial decided its verdict, Dreyfus B . PRISON OF DREYFUS ON DEVILS e e SR e ey was convicted, was not written by him | This reminds one of the Governor of “alais, who gave thirty-nine reasons | why he hadn’t fired a salute, the thirty- | ninth being that he had no powder. | —_—— | THE DECISION THAT ; GRANTS A REVISION' PARIS, June 3.—In the Court of Cas- | ion to-day, previous to the an-| 4 | nouncement of the verdict in favor of | Dreyfus, crow assembled at the | e and in its neighbor- awaiting the decis! Perfect’ prevailed. The decision, which pronounced at 3:40 p. m., the mer is to be re-tried on the follow- tion: fus guilty of having, in 1894, machinations, or having had ion hood calm : 2 | with a foreign power | , agents with a view of facilitating | acts of hostility in the case of a war | with France, or of having provided the means therefor by furnishing notes or documents retraced on the bordereau?” | The audience received the - decision | with cries of ““Viva la Justice.” When the doors of the Court of Cas- | sation were opened an immense crowd | of people attenipted to rush through the | entrance, and for a time there. was | great confusion-and uproar. The ses- | sion opened at 3 o'clock, when ‘the | president of the court, M. Mazeau, after | reminding the audience that all demon- | strations were interdicted, gave judg- ment in the follo g tenor: “The court, after hearing the report of the premier president of the Civil| Chamber, the Public Prosecutor's find- ings, and the application of Maitre | M¢ rd (counsel for Mme. Dreyfus) under the new article 443, of paragraph | ., of the Code of Criminal Procedure. | to the effect that a revision of judz- ment can be demanded when new facts are produced, or documents show- ing the innocence of the con- demned, and in view of the judgment | of October 20, 1898, rendered by the eriminal chamber, ordering an mnuirvfi‘ n of the Dreyfus case unless presented in proper form, and in view of the re- sults of said inquiry, in view of:the presentation to the court-martial of a secret document bearing the words “Ce Canaille de D—," and seeing that the communication of this document is proved by the depositions of M. Casi- mir-Perier, General Mercier and Gen- eral Boisdeffre, and seeing that M. Casimir-Perier has declared he heard from General Mercier that the docu- ment bearing the weords ““Ce Canaille de D—;” submitted to the court-mar- tial, was believed to implicate ‘Drey- fus, and that in addition Generals Mer- cler and Boisdeffre, who were invited to say whether they knew If said com- munication had occurred, refused to re- ply, thus acknowledging it; seeing that by the revelations subsequent to the verdict the communication to the court- martial of a document capable of in- regarded as applicable to Drey- fus, constitutes a new fact cal- culated to establish the inno- | cence of Dreyfus; seeing that| the crime charged against Dreyfus consisted of furnishing the secret docu- | ments connected with the national de- fense, accompanying which was a mis- | sive styled a bordereau, undated, un- signed and written*on filigraned paper which was no longer manufactured, and that two authenticated letters, written on the identical paper, dated contemporaneously with the bordereau, were discovered in the house of ster- When the Matin correspondent asked | hazy, the writing upon which experts | Esterhazy what he, supposed the gen- | have declared to be the same as that | erals would will lie, as usual.” he replied: What appears certain, however, is]tablish the innocence of Qreyiul; see- “They | of the bordereau, which fact was un- known to the court-martial, tend to es- oo+ B D e e e SECR SRCE SCER SR S ol i e the alleged confessions of Dreyfus to Captain le Brun-Renaud are disproved in view of these argu- ments and without submitting others, the court quashes and annuls the ver- dict of condemnation of December 22, 1894, against Alfred Dreyfus by the’ first court-martial of the military gov- ernment of Paris and sends the accused before court-martial at Rennes, to be specially appointed, to conduct the new trial.” This judgment is to be printed and O e e S S ) g e S SO Y B R e e a2 @ | ISLAND . alongside the decision | annulled. The court then ad- court-martial, which journe: Premier Dupuy has summoned the Ministers of the Interior, Justice, War and Navy and the Colonies to meet to- | morrow morning order to confer upun the measuresito be taken to bring Dreyfus back to France. B A ZOLA GLAD THAT THE TRUTH PREVAILS rief interview with M. Emile Zola, now living in strict retirement n: the Crysta but who proposes to return’ to arly next week. M. Zola was naturally overjoyed at the out- a b is Continued on GEN. scond Page. WORCRCEON | being recognized as | the schooner Rambler, | party of gold se PORTO RICO DEMANDS ITS INDEPENDENCE e The Situation on the Island Has Become Intolerable to- Natives. e WITHOUT A COUNTRY Position - of the People Who Hailed the Americans as Their Deliverers. e Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 3.—“Grant us in- stant relief or give us independence!" | is the cry of the starving natives of Porto Rico, according to Drs. Julio Henna and Zeno Gundis, Porto Rican Commissioners to Washington. “The situation has become intoler- able and the hour of deliverance can- not be long defegme they declare. “Military rule is oppressive and uncon- stitutional. The pecple are not gov- erned by the laws of the United States, but are under the sword of a military Governor, Whose dictum is absolute and without appeal. The islanders are de- nied the rights of citizenship, and having broken with Spain and not yet citizens of the United States are a people without a country. Even the Spaniards on the island have more rights and privileges. They can take cut papers and become American citizens, a privilege not ac- corded to the Porto Ricans. “Instead of absolute free trade be- tween the United States and Porto Rico, as on ate and inter- territorial prin a high tariff kept up, unlawfully and without mercy, impoverishing the island, for when the customs are paid all the profits are gone. “Whereas, the people of the island hailed the advent of their deliverers from the Spanish yoke with joy and | gratitude, they now feel deeply ag- grieved and enraged at the manner in which the Goyvernment has abused their rights and privileges and are.ready to wdopt any means whatsoever for seif- protection and the amelicration of their condition, even to a claim fqr absolute | independence.” These are the sentiments of the two commissioners from Porto Rico, as ex- pressed at their headquarters in this city. = Off to the Gold Fields. ANGELES, June 3.—On Tuesday aptain Crosby, n Pedro for San Roque, lifornia coast, with a ers from this seetion. The Rambler is a forty-foot, fi ~toot beam craft and can carry twenty men. CROECRCEORD LOS will sail from on the Lower C LAWTON BEG BLEACHING BONES LINE THE TRAL ——— Human Skeletons the Mile- ~posts on the Edmonton Route to the Yukon. SRat GOLD SEEKERS PERISH HEE At Mud River Settlement a Large Party of Scurvy-Stricken Miners Are Starving. e Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. June 3.—The Ed- trail has been called a ‘‘trail of and according to the story, or collection of stories, of privation and suffering in a vain search for gold and a desperate struggle by brave men to get back to civilization, told by the twenty-nine passengers from the Up- per Cassiar country who arrived by the Danube, death still lurks on that trail. The returned miners tell of death and disaster, of the finding of dead miners, | of the skeletons lining the trail. They | tell of threatened starvation in the camps where melancholy and emaci- ated unfortunates are still stalled, many suffering from scurvy and many from frozen limbs, which some are lik: ly to lose by the surgeon's knife as soon as they can be brought to a camp where a physician can be found. At Mud River the greatest number of unfortunates are to be found. There starvation relief which already has been sent from Glenora soon arrives the remaining pack mules and any wandering Siw: dog or other animal that may be cap- tured are likely to become food for the men. * At least a dozen men are en- camped there, some suffering from scurvy and others from frostbite. At McDames Creek and Dease there are more unfortunates, starvation is not so near Lake for although the Hudson B: long since sold out all its stores, many of the min- ers have still some supplies, which are being pooled and which will keep them in food until more arrives. The returned miners tell of deaths by drowning,.gn the Great Slave Lake, a big expanse of wind-swept waters which has swallowed ‘'up many unfort- unates owing to the capsizing of their boats since last winter. News is brought of mysterious disappearances, in one tase a party of ten or twelve having dropped out of sight com- pletely. The most disquieting news concerns the loss of a party of ten or twelve men, who doubtless have perished in the snow-covered mountains in the vicinity of Upper Liard post. party started from Fort Liard for Upper Liard. The snow was heavy and traveling conditions dangerous, but the Continued on Second Page. L f= CECECHONOEON IN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN. L o e e I by S S = . oee eue Native Miliii ANILA, June 4, 10:46 a. m.—A vigorous campaign was begun on Saturday against General Pio del Pilar’s force of 2000 rebels in the foothills at the mouth of Laguna de Bai and in the tewns of Cainta, Taytay and Antipolo, under the supervision of Gerneral Law- ton. General Hall, with 2500 men, moved southeast from the pumping station, and Colouel Wholley, who relieved General King in command of his bri- gade, proceeded east from San Pedro Macate, the two divisions approaching each other. 5 Colouel Wholley captured Cainta with small loss, the rebels fleelng before the advance of the United States troops. General Hall drove the Filipinos from ‘the vicinity ‘of Mariquina, sweeping them toward Colonel Wholley's column. NEW YORK, June 3.—The Washing- ton correspondent of the Herald tele-. graphs: Having determingd that Gen- eral Otis’ command can be reinforced to the strength desired from regular troops now in the United States and the West Indies, the authorities are preparing a list of the regiments which will be sent to Manila. With affairs in JPorLo Rico in-a quiet condition it has been deemed possible to withdraw one regiment from that island, and the Eleventh will in all probability be se- lected for service in the Philippines. The Twenty-fourth Infantry, on the Pacific slope, is also available. In addition to these infantry com- mands more cavalry will be sent to Ma. nila and the department will choose between the Third, Sixth and Ninth, all of which have been filled to the limit allowed by the President's order. Four regiments is ample, and if the number of enlistments to be made from the returning volunteers approximates the number that it is believed by the department will be secured there will be eno\axgh to bring General Otis’ force up to 30,000. As' it is depired by the Presideit to .2 B T e R o S S a at Agana, on the Island of Guam. o oot ot e Xl —0—&&&0—04—0‘ return the volunteers here as rapidly as possible the War Department pro- poses to send reinforcements to General Otis with all dispatch and crders to the regiments selected will probably be issued next week. There is no expecta- tion on' the part of the authorities that the insurgents will lay down their arms. What is expected is that they will en- deavor to recruit thefr ranks and pre- pare in every possible way for the dry season, when the grand campaign of the Americans will occur. It is the expectation that filibustering expeditions will now be put under way for the purpose of getting supplies and munitions. of war to Aguinaldo, and it will devolve upon the navy to maintain an effective patrol. The issuance of a proclamation declaring a blockade of the ports is not for an instant thought of by the department, but Captain Bar- ker, now commanding the Aslatic squadron, and his successor, Commo- dore Watson, will take measures for covering the important harbors and capturing any vessel which may have arms and ammunition aboard for the Filipinos. is pending and unless the | but there | In December the | . A RECORD Governor Gage Is not highly pleased | with The Call's expose of the extra session scheme. In an interview he is quoted as saying: ? “That yarn in The Call to-day that I intend to call an extra ses- sion is characteristic of the ac- curacy -of The Call’s statements relative to my office, and in this respect I only need to cite the.in- | correct announcements of the ex- ecutive appointments that paper | has made from time to time.” The record of The Call's announce- ments regarding executive appoint- ments and other affairs connected with the Governor’s office can easily be pro- duced. If the extra session predicted | is as accurate as the predictions wi of executive appointments, the Legis lature will surely be convened in spe- | cial session. In the first place, The Call named in advance the entire Republican State | ticket nominated at the Sacramento convention and predicted the election of every nomiinee on the ticket. Before Gage was inaugurated The Call announced that W. I. Foley would | be appointed private secretary o the Governor. He was appointed. ° On December 2, a month prior to Gage’s {nauguration, The Call an- nounced that William H. Davis would be appointed executive secretary. The | picture of Mr. Davis was printed with the announcement. Mr. Davis was ap- | pointed. As early as January 2, 1899, The Call | announced that Gage had promised the State patronage to promote the elec- | tion of D. M. Burns as United States Senator. On January 7 The Call again sserted that Gage was promising State | patronage to assist Burns. Before Daniel Kavane and C. J. Fox were appointed to office by the Gover- nor, The Call published the dispatch under date of Sacramento, January 3, | 1899: | | “The law office that was formerly | Henry T. Gage's in the city of Los An- | geles is mow without occupants. The | two remaining attaches of the Gover- | | nor's law office arrived in the city this | morning and soon it is expectel their | names will be entered upon the payroll ‘} s | of the State. The two latest arriv were Daniel' Kavane and C. J. Fox. As | soon as Governor Gage provides for his | | stenographer, C. J. Fox, and for his | | general factotum, Dan Kavane, he will | have given places to every individual | who had any connéction with his law business in Los Angeles.” Several days after the publication of this dispatch Fox was appointed sten- | ographer of the Governor, which posi- tion he now holds, and Kavane was ap- pointed secretary of the State Board of Examiners, which place he still occu- pies. Does the Governor challenge the accuracy of The Call's predicions re- garding the inside patronage? On June 2, day before yesterday, the Governor announced that Dr. Payne, Dr. Barbat, Dr. Keeney and Dr. Coffey were appointed to constitute tne San Francisco Board of Health. On the twelfth page of The Call of April 29, under the heading, ‘‘Gage Se- lects Men for the Board of Health,” the' following was published: | ‘Word went out last night that three members of the local Board of Health had been selected and that the others would be named by Monday at the lat- est. The three who have already been appointed are Dr. Barbat, Dr. W. B. Coffey and Dr. J. W. Keeney. Dr. Barbat is.the family physician of D. M. Burns, while Dr. Coffey is chief surgeon for the Market-street Railway Company. Dr. Keeney is a stepson of Police Commissioner Alvord and is ex- amining physician for the Police De- partment, Of the aspirants for the remaining positions on the Board of Health there are four whose prospects are conceded to be exceptionally bright. These are Dr. Henry Meyer, who has been iden- tified with local politics for years and was at one time chairman of the Re- publican County Committee; Dr. R. ‘W. Payne, a relative of John 1. Sabin of the telephone company; Dr. Wins- Jow Anderson, who has long been af- flicted with an ambition to hold office, and Dr. W. L Terry, whose residence is at the Occidental Hotel. Politicians who are thoroughly con- versant with the situation will readily understand that these gentlemen need have no great cause for anxiety over the outcome. But the appointment of Drs. Barbat, Coffey and Keeney is set- tled and there need be no further dis- _cussion areund the hotel corridors as to their chances. The Governor, in the light of the record, wiil hardly dispute the charac- teristic accuracy of The Call in respect to the Board of Health. The appointment of Martin Aguirre to the position of Warden at San Quen- tin did not surprise the people of Cali- fornia, but the announcement made on « | as that of Steppacher | appointed. | The Call’'s predictions correct? FOR GOVERNOR GAGE TO PONDER OVER Long List of Predictions Fully Verified. ACCURACY OF THE CALL Appointments, Bad and Indiffer- ent, Published Ahead of Ex- ecutive Announcement. ary 19 last that Gage had selected Aguirre for Warden to succeed Hale did cause some astonishment. Regarding the appointment of Regis- trar of Voters, The Call on March 14, 1899, published a picture of Jake Step- pacher, and below the picture a dis- patch bearing date Sacramento, March 3, was published as follows : “It is announced on good authority that Governor Gage will appoint Jake Steppacher Registrar of Voters to suc- ceed W. J. Biggy.” The fact that Governor Gage subse- quently caused certain members of the executive committee of the Republican State Central Committee to hope and believe that such a rank appointment for Registrar would not be made does not in any sense weaken The Call's characteristic | accuracy. When Joseph L. Maude was on his way from Los Angeles to Sacramento some weeks since and some days be- fore he was appointed Highway Com- missioner The Call predicted that he would be appointed to that office. The Call accurately published the original slate for the Paris Exposition Commission—M. H. de Young, Mark McDonald and B. C. Truman. Mr. de Young was offered the place but de- clined to accept it. There was a good deal of talk about tendering the posi- tion to W. H. Mills, but before definite steps were taken the programme was changed by designating a Democrat from San Francisco, and dropping Mark L. McDonald {(Democrat) of Santa Rosa to make way for a North- ern California Republican. The fact that Gage fendered the office to ex-Mayor E. B. Pond was mentioned in The Call, and the predic- tion made that W. W. Foote would be E. W. Runyon was ap- pointed from Northern California after it was learned that General N. P. Chip- man would not accept. The Call has announced accurately in advance of executive announcement every important appointment made by Governor Gage except that of Captain Seamans for adjutant general. This appointment was thought to be too bad for even Gage to make, and The Call did not predict it. The appointments for the Code Com- mission have not been announced by the executive, but The Call predicts that Gage will appoint his law partner, Denis of Los Angeles, and W. C. Van Fleet of San Francisco. Fully conscious of the fact that Gage was reputed to. be a man of unbounded courage, The Call vredicted that he would not have sufficient courage to reappoint Mose Gunst to the office of Police Commissioner. The Call’'s pre- diction was verified. The Governor re- treated behind the provisions of the law®under which an officer may serve until his successor is elected or ap- pointed. He did not have the courage to appoint Mose, but allowed him to serve. Since the statement published excld- sively in The Call to the effect that U. S. Grant had withdrawn from the Senatorial contest has been verified by Grant himself, this paper is prepared to make another charaeteristic an- nouncement, to-wit: Governor Gage -will call an extra | session of the Legislature as soon as he is convinced that D. M. Burns can be elected to the United States Senate. Notwithstanding Gage's repeated de- nials, The Call during the last session of the Legislature predicted that the patronage at the disposalsof the ex- ecutive was to be used tofreward the supporters of D. M. Burns. Were not Can you, Governor Gage, dispute the ac- curacy of The Call's statement in this respect? g In conclusion, The Call predicts that Governor Gage will make some more bad appointments, but none worse than he has made, and will retire from of- fice the most unpopular man that ever sat in the Governor’s chair? OVER A SCORE OF INDIANS DROWNED Two Boats Bearing a Potlatch Party Capsize in Lake of the Clouds. LAYGAN ALBERTO, June 3.—Between twenty-five and thirty Indians, including men, women and children, were drowned yesterday in Lake of the Clouds, near .ae Canadian Pacific Railway, while crossing the reservation to attend a potlatch. They were_traveling in boats, rudely manufac- tured of the skins of. eariboo and other animals, when two long boats collided. Both vessels were rendered useless, and the entire party was lost. The third vessel, bearing the skins of deer, bear, cariboo, mountain sheep and goats, and manned by four Indians, reached the spot as the last survivor slipped from the capsized boat and dis- appear: in. the glacier-fed waters of the lake. A dense cloud resting on the urface of the lake was responsible for { the seventh page of The Call of Janu~ | the accident. =