The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1899, Page 1

Q)V\\’\\ VAN 11,4 Tall PRICE FIVE CENTS, AGUINALDO DECLARES A DICTATORSHIP If He Gains Supreme Power | It Is Thought He Will Make Peace Terms. LAWTON'S MEX READY Troops Prepared to Depart at Short Notice in Any Direction Desired. + b, o o B o B B B o S g g LONDON 8 Th Pope : ington 4444444440 SR R R S I O O O 2 R R o e I S SR SR S R T O 2 o o ONDON, June 8.—A special dis- patch from Manila to-day says 1t is reported to-day that Aguinaldo has dissolved the Filipino Congress and has proclaimed himself dictator. W \.,1‘\ Jun ASH dict 45 n re n hour in Infantry lepa Favorable repc seived from the belonging he the Filipi yrisoners ceiving fair treatr FIGHTING TO CONTINUE DURING THE WET SEASON part cans ded and are re hent NEW YORK, June 8 —The Herald's hington correspondent e tollowing: Secretary Hay has re ea from civilian members of the Philip Commission their individual regarding the war sit n ih main th are encouraging, showing according to an official with hom 1 talked, that the insu )Xce is re duced to 10,000 men: that Aguinaldo hesitating as to what his future line conduct will be, and that most of the natives owning property in the archi pelago favor the cnforcement by the United States of sovereigr over the islands. The commissione e on the following prope Mons in accordance with which were sent to General Otis Presient Schurman several days : First—That the nz appreciate the military superfority the Ameri- can troops, and that it ssirabie ol -ontinue to use it in such manner dur- Ing the rainy season as to keep allve ‘he fear which the aperations of Otis’ sommand have created. second—That it is desired in the in- terest of the early establishment seace that no opportunity should b ost to educate the natives, as the com- mission has done in the past, in order that they may understand the benefi- ent intentions of this Government. While the commission is to continue | negotiations with the insurgents, ent advices show that it will not be active in this direction for some its -neral Otis will continue his opera- | Ge ions, and continued success on the part | the ot American troops during the 1 eason will, the officials believe, ve the effect of making the insur- gents too tired and apprehensive to withstand the vigorous assaults which will be made when the dry season be- gins I5 \ Dier, the suspect now in jail. NEW EVIDENCE AGAINST DIER S UNEARTHED Chain of Circumstances Tighten About Suspected Slayer of Lorraine. THEY 114D OUIRRELS Marin County Officials Believe That the Missing Woodehopper's Body Will Soon Be Found. el Special Dispatch to The Call The authorities of Marin Coun- ty unraveling the mystery of the disappearance of Peter Lorraime, have made visible progress in that | they have discovered a motive for | the possible killing of Lorrame by It is true the motve 1s puerile. | quarrel, nevertheless, over the most | | trvial matter has more than once | led to homicide. AN RAFAEL, June 8. a startling nature, tend crease the suspicions of the au- 9. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1899, | 7 y - i | | - | . PR R e e S S +~0 . \ i RS gl 15¢ 3¢ - <? &> 3¢ ! ! L + . 1 o B 50 i : - i : 5 & ) > . «Tfi | ® L & | . gl 6 . . @ )¢ *| & : S PS $ 0 i + o e * l i Y & + CRUISER SFAX UPON WHICH'DREYFUS IS RETURNING TO FRANCE. )t a3 DeieieceiestriosisieieisimGPeisieeteteiesieioieirieseseien® ORT DE FRANCE, Mamniquefiv ¥ ), June 8.—The French cruiser Sfax, which is to take Xaptain Dreyfus baek to Fran, d to arrive off Devils Island this afternoon. The dis- P Y- 10, A satch boat Goeland left C eurm a this morning in order to arrange for the embarking The Gceland ad of the time originally fixed on account of the B ople.wha ntetl Q g0 to Devi sland to see Dreyfus embark. Governor Mouttet re- ‘ all.” While Dreyius is making his final preparations for the voyage home, the sfax will ly of coal, orders for which were given yesterday. The cruiser will probably sail for Brest orning. June 8—S! oc-1 =t + M. Dupuy presided at the Cabinet curred this b en the ¥ Ifr\lrr'\ June 0.—The Rome 4 council to-day when the measures to be : AR ¢ ondent of the Daily Mall 4+ (aken were cons 1 revisionis visionists o The Duke of Orleans, who 4 1p : ot fter a meet addressed by M. o Palarniokveaiaraa vt e s orite s l', - innouneed t “,m“ vernment incois de Pressenze of the 4 hoard his ht. the Maroussia, + Das decided not to allow any of the the Clichy ict of Paris. + Genoa, expresses his inten- ¢ generals who are mixed up in the Drey- | ceral fights between riot- + »n to go to Paris soon.” + fus affair to take part in the review at S Rolchareed the + 4+ Longchamps on July 14. o e AR R R A e R IR SR s jovernment to al- of M a President Loubet is not too well : ste eng irating, but sed at the failure of the Govern- . oi-revisionist Deputy for Gers, to in- LEnrsdidnrne thedisinabar event the Auteuil demor tion and amber to-day. His e nty persons placed 14 not be av e to & ge of ly shelved by an overwhe elming major- ers in any event. Probable lis f the Chambe: was much overthrow of the week. ip of the next Gos l)lbllfi\ESTl 0F STANDARD 0IL TRUST Eight Grades Taken From Two Tanks, the Faucet Being Neatly Juggled. COMPETITION KILLED Gl All Kinds of Prices Charged and Mean Practices to Force Out Its Rivals. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ASHINGTON, e 8.—The Indus- Commission umed jts investi- gation of t , the Standard Oil Com- pary receiving especial attentfon. W. H rk of Ohio, who until | Febru- ary was employed by the Standarg Oil Company in various towns in that te, but was then suspended, testified that while employed at Marietta the andard had ousted other companies from the business by competition and then put up the price of oil. Clark said that eight nominal grades of oil were sold out of only two tanks, the faucet being turned in different di- rections for different grades. This was he said, under instructions from managers of the Standard Com- Matthews and Hollings- the | worth. k also said that the com- | pany bought and sold turpentine, but | before selling it would put six or seven gallons of gasoline in each barrel of turpentine : At Columbus Clark was the cashier of At i | the Standard Oil Company. point he said much oil was that | For instance, miners' oil was made by | mixing in a little cottonseed oil. Here ! the Standard Compar tarted with what is called the Shoemaker Oil Com- pany. This was a purely Standard tablishment, he testified, its men being paid by the Standard Company, but it ‘\\Elfl made to appear to be an indepen- | dent concern and was used as a blind. | At ‘Springfleld Clark said he was a | wagon salesman, and the instructions there were to get trade regardless of the price. Some refined ofl was sold as Jow as 4 cents, and here also as many | as four nominal grades of oil were | taken from one tank. Rebates were ! made when necessary.. When he had spoken to the management of the dis- | honesty of these practices he had been told that it was not for him to say about such matters, but to do what he | was' told. At Urbana, he said;, he was manager | for the Standard Company. Here a | competitor was driven out by a threat | to force the price down to 1 cent a gal- lon. The competitor afterward went to the Poorhouse. for a time was nager in Here the work | { was very hard becausc of the great | range of prices. There were twenty ‘li\" different fizu d there. ( man would get cil for 7 cents, whi next-door neighbor wonld pay 91 cents. Rebates aiso were given to e: pecially favored patrons. These were {and plac 'SACRAMENTO AND YOLO | mbers of a new Cabinet are ing from hand to hand. ur pass- Much depends n the outcome of the treatened dem- atlans at the Grand@=Prix. There are increasing indications that there will be violent scenes at Auteuil on Sunday various parties are ex- pressing a determination to demon- | de under the tthews, or _terms. The witness testified that at Newark the company bought a building from over a leaser's head, who was doing a competitive business, and Clark, with | other men, went into the building in the absence of the competltor, loaded | the building on carts and carrled it | away. For this he (Clark) was com- plimented and was to have bheen re- | warded with a two weeks' vacation, | \\h:]v the competitor was so frightened | that he went out of the business. This not accomplished, however, until all his customers had been located by a boy hired to follow his wagon on a ibicycle. At Newark a customer wanted ofl from Cleveland. He was satisfied by supplying him out of a barrel painted red and marked as if from Cleveland. He received the same oil, | hotvever, that other people got. | The ness said laborers for the Standard Company were generally paid 75 cents a day and that they worked on an average of twelve hours a day. | There was, he said, often a difference | of 2 cents a gallon in the price of ofl in places where there was competition where there was none. instructiors of B. as were A. | all changes in price COUNTIES MAY BATTLE Good Prospect of a Merry War Unless a Peace Conference Is Called to Fix Matters. SACRAMENTO, June 8-There is a| prospect for a war between the counties | of Yolo cramento unless a conferenc alled to patch up existing | differences. Yolo and Sacramento havae | not dwelt in very close brotherhood for some time, owing to the habit of the Sacramentans to build levees a little hixh- er than their Yolo neighbors across the | river, thereby offering to the dwellers in the tule belt a surer prospect of being | drowned out a* regular intervals. Since the erection of the Elkhorn ease- ment consideraable of this aggravation has been removed, but the Yolo residents along the river have a_new bone of con- is tention. There is a ferry at Freepor:, eight miles down the ri connecting Yolo with Sacramento County. The ferry is owned by John Soto. Every time a farmer living on the Yolo side desired to cross over to the Bacramento shore ne to pay the ferryman's tribute. Final after this custom had been followed vears, the farmers on the Yolo side and | geveral on the Sacramento side, reinforced by Sacramento merchants, petitioned the Super for a frae ferry sors of this count at . Meanwhile Soto appling to the Supervisors for a renewal of the franchise, and the petitioners emplc d_fought against it. How rd of Supervisors vesterday form- renewed the franchise held b in effect reminded the Yolo r ally an. S that if they wanted to come to Sacramen- to they should malke thelr Supervisors build them good roads that would take them to this city by way of the Yolo bridge. The residents of the locality in- terested In the ferry, however, have not t kindly to this friendly advice, but instead have started a petition_addréssed 10 the Board of Supervisors of Yolo Coun- ty asking it to impose a license of $50 per month upon every grocer, butcher, ba and other supply dealer who drives over from Sacramento County to transact busi- ness in Yolo County. AFTER STREE;J'.‘ CONTRACTORS. Laborers at Los Angeles Claim to Be Unjustly Treated. 1.OS ANGELES, June 8.—The Labor Union Council will in all probability seek to enforce against street sprinkling con- tractors by legal proceedings the eight- hour day and the $2 wage statute. At a meeting of the council evidence was sub- mitied that demonstrated emploves In that department received 65 centé In cash per day and paid 50 cents a day for board to bosses for the poorest class of food. The Labor Councll asserts that the con- tractors have glven a bond and signed itracts that call for monthly wages and dockage. Employes assert that when eding money they had earned they are sl :nlfld 10 per cent on advances before payday T0 W | sensational statement about the plans | | as follows: | | NOW PLANTO PLY THE TORCH Plot to Fire the Island Independence Is Not Granted. AIT TWO YEARS Then if the United States Does Not Turn Over the Government Incendiarism Will Follow. el f i Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, June 8—1In a private letter received by the Herald to-day from a distinguished Cuban, now resi- dent of the United States, | is a most | of the irreconcilable Cuban leaders. The writer is conservative, and is in a position to know what is going on at present in Cuba. The information is “The latest story from Cuba, which I have every reason to believe, having been told me by a prominent Cuban whose intimacy with the leaders in Ha- vana'lends authority to the statement, is that the former revolutionary ele- ment has decided to make a virtue of necessity and gracefuliy, to outward appearances, accept American inter- vention. “At the end of two years, however, if Cuban independence is not acknowl- edged and the government transferred to the Cubans, the torch is to be ap- plied from one end.of the island to the other, by which means all foreign in- vestments will be destroyed. “When it is considered that the wealth of Cuba is dependent on its agricultural development, chiefly cane and tobacco, and that a firebrand maliclously applied in a dry cane field would cause the destruction of thou- sands of dollars of value in a single night, the enormity nf the plot becomes apparent.” OTIS CABLES WHEN THE VOLUNTEERS WILL LEAVE WASHINGTON, June 8.—General Otis cables as follows regarding the re- turn of volunteers: MANILA, June 8.—Adjutant General, | Washington: Oregon request to defer time of departure until 12th; will leave for Portland in transports Ohio and New-. ort. Sixth Infantry upon arrival will re- feve Californians at Negros. Hancock sails In a few days with Nebraska and other troops. voEE HURRYING ENLISTMENT FOR THE PHILIPPINES CHICAGO, June 8.—A Washington special to the Tribune says: An urgent order was sent to all recruiting officers to hurry enlistments for the Fhilip- pine service. Otis needs men badly. | { plica the | and from | agree with S thorities against spect James | Dier, was unearthed to-day at son Canydn by Sheriff lor and Gibson. Both officials are now absolutely convinced that Peter Lorraine, the aged woodchopper of in County Black Hole,” has been | murdered by a bloodthirsty and they have secured evi- dence that they believe will be suffi- cient to send the prisoner. who lan- shes here in the County Jail, to the gallows if the missing woodchopper® body is found hidden in the tangled underbrush close to his lone hut. Runyon Sabrinus, an aged inhabit- ant of Carson Canyon. who had been the missing woodchopper's boon com- panion, and his brother, Charley Sa- brinus, an employe of John Enos’ ber camp, made revelations to Taylor and Detective Gibson thi noon which tightdned the chains of | guilt which the authorities are leaving | no stone- unturned to forge about their prisoner. Runyon Sabrinus has sup- only tangihle information which furnishes a motive for the al- leged murder. A day or so before Lorraine disap- peared he became Involved in a heated quarrel with Dier over the killing of one of the former’s pet cats. According to the story which Sabrinus related in detail to Sheriff Taylor and Detective Gibson to-day, Lorraine accused Dier of having killed. the cat, and while the two woodchappers were angrily dis- cussing the matter he was passing the cabin, and, fearing that Dier, who was much younger and stronger than Lc raine, would attempt violence, Sabrinu remained within hearing distance. Th did not come to blows, but Sabrinus claims that Dier was acutely agitated, his threatening attitude he judges in the light of subsequent events at the quarrel was serious enough to end in bloodshed: Detective Gibson and Sheriff Taylor abrinus in this opinion,and they had little hesitancy in stating to- night, after having a lengthy interview with the suspect, that If “Pete” Lor- raine has been murdered they have the right man in custody. Charley Sabrinus volunteered statements to-day which increased the suspicions of the officials against their prisoner. The day after Lorraine mysterious dropped out of sight Dier was so vis ibly perturbed that he could not work. Sabrinus, who was chopping wood with a fellow werkman on the side of the canyon, says he saw Dier pacing rest- lessly up and down the road with his ax on his shoulder. Later in the day Sabrinus came face to face with Dier on the road. In telling his story to De- tective Gibson to-day Sabrinus stated that Dier. was so unusually excited when they met on that day on the road that he feared Dier would attempt to strike him with the ax. Sabrinus’ rela- tions with the prisoner had always been extremely friendly, but he stated that Dier's actions on that day were so pe- culiar that he feared the prisoner migmj do him violence. Another suspicious circumstance was revealed, which Dier and woodchoppers failed to mention when he was placed under arrest. A few days after Lorraine’s disappearance | Dier left the camp, so Sabrinus statn,‘ and did not return for several days. He sald before leaving, as "he told one woodchopper, that he was going to San Francisco, and another that he was only going down the road a short dis- tance. Sheriff Taylor and District Attorney Mclsaac left here early this morning in a double team and drove to Carson Canyon. They were joined later by De- tective Gibson, whom Chief Lees had | detailed to assist the authorities of Marin in unraveling the mystery. Gib- json surveyed the situation carefully and was not long in forming the opinion that the body of “French Pete” lies hidden close to his lonely abode. They | beat the underbrush close to the cabin for a short time, but as both Gibson and Taylor were particularly anxious to secure whatever evidence they might be able to.find against the suspect, the search for the body was quickly aban- doned. The officers will leave here early to- morrow morning, and when they arrive at the lumber camp they will commence a systematic search for Lorraine's body. In the hunt for the missing wood- chopper’s body they will be assisted by | A | his fellow | | streets, where he went in to telephone o | SILVER DICK BLAND DYING ‘Members of the Family Are Summoned to His Bedside. @+ +0e000e0e0edebeiebeisisieie@® : } )¢ & ! . e e 2 * L 4 & + - P e ® L e ¢+ S & . . L e & . S ¢ | o ; b 4 ® * [ ¢ T | @ * R s | i® | & e g * 1 & | & L. . & & e B 34 > * . & | ¢ & i e o f & + . @ & . - & © IR . | © 4 - gut s e g ‘o { . L O S S S O R S e = ) ST. LOUIS, June 8.—A dispatch from Lebanon, Mo., says: Congressman Richard P. Bland at 4 o’clock this afternoon was growing steadily worse. He was unconscious and his death might be looked for at almost any moment. LEBANON, Mo., June 8.—At 10 p. m. Mr. Bland appeared somewhat | brighter, and will probably live through the night. He has been speechless | for twenty-four hour: The physicid rd the case as hopeless and have so informed the family. All of hi are at the dying man’s bedside to-night except his brother, Judge C. C. Bland of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, who has been telegraphed for. every woodchopper in the camp. Taylor and District Attorney have offered a rew covery of the body On returning frem this evening Detective Sheriff. Taylor closeted ther Dier in his cell for over twa hour KRUGER JiAY still protested his innocence, but when | T I a7 1 Gibson cross-questioned him he made | | H’ several contradictory statements. When | i 1) R told of the impcrtant evidence w hiv'h; they had amassed Dier almost broke okt down. He was extremely nervous and : Shifted from one end of his cot to the | Utter Failure of the Recent other. His replies were spasmodic, and | X When pressed. for an answer whicn|' Conterence Between Mil- might incriminate him Dier reminded his Inquisitors that he was not com- ner and Oom Paul. pelled to make any statement before his preliminary examination. He in- | quired particularly as to the attitude | Special Dispatch to The Call, of the public toward him, and when | o : told that the entire country w DON, Jun The advices re | ceived here to-day from South Africa, | emanating from British sources, show more completely the utter failure of the recent conference at Bloemfontein be- tw President Kruger and the Brit- ish High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Mil- ner. over Lorraine's d tensely excited the whole world is me now.” When Gibson and v left the prisoner he was cn the verge of collapse. The following signed statement of Sheriff Taylor is self- | explanator: I am convinced dispatch from Matjesfontein says r Alfred Milner's proposals included that .if Lorraine has been murdered we have.the right man. | §Tanting the Uitlande additional The evidence against him is pretty strong | Seats in the Rand district, and that and his demeanor is that of one who re- | President Kruger, unde pressure, alizes his position to be pretty had. De-|finally offered three additional seats. tective Gibson is of the same opinion. The | The British High Commissioner there- 5 | most absurd thing in connection. with the upon pointed out the inadequacy of the whole affair is the slush printed about President’s proposal, adding that he Miss Bertha Stedman, in which she S| y.4 come to the conference in the hope S daathi a female Gaboriau or : - 2w | Government that the President of the Transvaal Government was able to af- ford such liberal measures of reform as would enable the Uitlanders to help themselves and relieve the Government | of the obligations to intervene in order to redress particular grievances. Throughout, it is added, President Kruger sought to use the franchise pro- posals as the means of obtaining a 'SHOT BY A BURGLAR e | ; 5 | British Commissioner refused to treat Special Police Officer Carroll of Sac-| he two subjects as interdependent, | ramento Receives a Serious | taking the ground that international 3 Wound. | reform in the Transvaal was necessary | | | knowledge the girl never was in Carson | until to-d She did not mno- | at all, and her letter was sent.to the Marin Journal three days after John Enos told me of o's disappearance. { Lorraine’s D el Snmrr Marin County. SACRAMENTO, June 8.—W. A. Carroll, | in any case in order to preserve the in- a special police officer, who patrols a beat | dependence of the republic and as re- in the southeastern part of the city, was | gards arbitration there were certain R & secionsly wounded. The bul, | auestions upon which it could not be | Tet entered the officer's neck. Carroll had | 2dmitted, while on other questions ar- | seen @ man enter the yard of L. Mebius, | bitration was possibly admissible pro- who resides at Eleventh and N streets, Vided a suitable tribunal was suggested and at once followed him in, finding the | not involying the introduction of a for- fellow industrously at work trying 1o |eign power, which the governments open a window. As soon as he saw the | would never allow. officer he ran, with Carroll in hot pur- The morning papers are beginning to talk seriously of the possibility of war in South Africa. Mr. Chamberlain, Sec- retary of State for the Colonies, in his speech in the House of Commons yes- terday, announced that his reply to the petition of Uitlanders, which had been held back pending the result of the con- ference at Bloemfontein, would now be presented to the Transvaal. This reply is semi-officially described as ‘‘explicit but conciliatory,” but it is believed to be in the nature of a prac- tical ultimatum. The resources of di- plomacy are regarded as exhausted with the failure of the conference. suit. The burglar was caught before he had gone a block, and the officer escorte him to a grocery at Twelfth and O the police station for the patrol wagon. The officer had searched the man, but could not find a weapon upon him. While Carroil was telephoning the burglar slipped a pistol out of his boot and shot | him. After the officer had fallen tho burglar snapped his revolver at him sev- eral times, but the cartridges would not explode. The officer managed to get (o his feet and gave chase to the would-be assassin, firing at him as he ran. But the officer was then so weak from the loss of blood that he could not get the man. The officers have a good description of the burglar and expect to capture him soon.