The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 3

ke sy X A > 4 . The Call , 1 Nis l—'ape,- not 1 to be taken from the Library, ss . SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1899.—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. NSANE MAN SHOT DOWN BY LIRED T0 4 NEGRO SOLDIERS, A Cold-Blood at ed Murder Is Committed Wardner in the Name of Martial Law. Bv HON. PATRICK REDDY. 4 ® ine r, yesterday iore the ( that he would m Last n To-da tramn pas S Whi 1 He was +0 40404040404 Q4040404 @ M . o Coroner France is repor + N ) ndignation prevails, ¢ + Z [ for 1 mniver — ! z P, 7 D B TONS’ became violently insane. fired upon by four negro soldiers and his body fell into the Cocur d’Alence River. BOECROECECNCRE \ prisoner named Joh fe ne he has been under the hallucination on, confined in the bull pen at days ago he was examined be- A ret inquest. Since that iless he identified some of the men supposed to have partici- s ravings he frequently begged to be saved from the fate t McKinlay went to Wardner to inquire into the man’s sanity. him > and’ Jud Kinlay ordered wysicians declared insat the patient in charge, left the penitentiary a few moments be- sed through Wardner intend to take him to Wallace, the the arrival of the train the unfortunate man started to rum. ted to have said that he ordered the soldiers to fire high. The md both the Coroner and the military are censured by the entire 1 murder and one of the most artial law. as a cold-blooded ly regard ed in the name of n @4TIO4C4O4I0+ O+ D4O4D+D+ O+ 0401040400 @ . Cohn and 1 nb, was a Maguire, H. E. Highton, Mayor Phe- I 1 for the purpose procuring lan, Charles L. Patton, Congressman the m ing to be Julius Kahn and M. M. Estee. Some Temple on next of these gentlemen have already con- | or the purpose of sented to address the meeting, while the “action of Governor others have given their consent pro- and vided time and other circumstances will T mmittee has permit ber of leading cit P. H. McCarthy, president of the ing gentlemen have Building 1T s Council, will preside upor James meeting. = i ACHOECECEO CHCECHOECB WARLIKE FEELIN AGAINST BOERS. = S @i 0oibeieiei eiobebe PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR HOSTILITIES Ready to Invade the Trans- ] at Short Order. ONDON, Jjune fairs in the Transvaal were the one absdrb- | ing topic of conversation during the week. On Wednesday many | alarmihg rumors were in circulation, | most of which, however, had evident- | ly been manufactured in this city for | financial purposes. One of the most cire the rumors was to t ect that President Kruger had been given | three months to meet the views of | the British Government, and that| failing recurrence to war would be declared. Whiie such stories obtained no cre- dence among well-informed people, there was no doubt that great anx- jety existed in Government circles as to the outcome of the conference be- | tween Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner. | In trains, in ’‘kuses, in lobbies of{ 10. ntiel of | PERORP SO SO W S SN WD S 0 S 0 S D S G Al AL + 3 . . D S S T R O O R R SRR SIORP S - ) 4444944444444+ +++ neighbors to keep cool, burst out in + + a tempest against Kruger with all + JOHAN BURG, June 10.— +|gorts of threats. § 4+ At xh.‘ mass mee ‘.m«;;:!’ Outland- D% ’ That, of course, all goes to fan the : held here to-day for ”;‘; .;‘)»‘: P ‘flnme, so much so that if the country DG S T or _’_\‘,“,Nd +| had its prtesent will Britain would be- + Milner, the British High Com- + | S0 WAL °‘m°"°‘:- 4+ mission a resolution was +! = + osenti- +GOOD PROSPECT OF WAR + wiil be satisfactory which + | + not provide for the recog- + | IN THE TRANSVAAL + m of equal political rights to + | = + 4| Copyrighted, 189, by the Associated Press. it e, 4| LONDON, June 10.—When the Secre- + quate to satisfy the just demand <+ | t2rY 0f State for the Colonies, Joseph B sy e oG 4 | Chamberlain, in the House of Commons - o the unfranchisc \\h‘1.~- h“': 4 | on Thursday summed up the result of ¥ Alfred Milner's were indorsed 28 4 |i3.. Bioemtontetn conference By-declar: % minimum acceptable The 4| ;o 4p,¢ wg new situation has been cre. + meeting was orderly and was at- +| 004 1o used a pregnant phrase, open e tendsETEoN UhEandens, 3 lapparently to a variety of inter- + _ The Government issued a no- | ot tions Hut fn reality open only to | + tice advising the enfranchised 4| & T 5 politicians who have closely i mghemctoaliows tiie) me ¥ | followed the affairs of the Transv: gto Dcee I agnERCIstuED :‘uml Mr. Chamberlain’s attitude w respect to them are fully satisfied tha LR g g g s i g S| U A Db T e T (“l. declare that by means of these open- ing negotiations in which the British High Commission, Sir Alfred Milner, had exhausted every diplomatic re- source to effect a reasonable settlement of the matters in dispute, it had been theaters, in clubs, and, in fact every- | where, the whole talk was the break | down of the negotiations and its probable serious effects. There was much gnashing of teeth, | | and there were grim references to the | ;;ovea definitely that President Kruger stain upon British arms inflicted by | was irreconcilable, and that all hope the Boers during Gladstone’s Pre-|of an arrangement by a suggestion or miership, and there were frequent | diplomatic pressure was henceforth expressions that the time was now | "fl'}"lh e i = defeat at Maj he British are especially exasper- Tipsis s%?l"“tt}?:e pideads g JUD8 | 1 cd, because they feel they have been Hill. 18 : | trifled with, and the question on every- treated the matter very coolly, when | body's lips is “what next?” confirmation came that the worst| n;r. Chamberlain is not the man to fears were. realized, that President | be diverted from his course. He has Kruger had refused to yield one joc‘ and that the conference simply ended | cause of the Uitlanders, and his next as it began, the excitement increased. | St¢P will be a demand. Then there will Even those papers, which have been | — most cautious and warned their Continued on' Second Paza. publicly and deliberately espoused the | DOORWAY 10 - BE MURDERED g Weird Summons of H. K. Beldin, Well-Known In- surance Man Here. ATTACKED WITH A% Luckily , the Capitalist Escaped. | Two Men Arrested for the | Crime—A Dark Mystery. t gl One of the mos! mysteri- | ous outrages ever wttempt- ed in the bay cities was perpetrated last night on H. K. Belden, manader of| the Huartford Insurance| Company, at his Oakland | residence. 10103 3+00000tdtdeeeitbtdesederdedsdsede He was lured | downstairs by word of an important messade, and| when he appeared at the | door was attacked with an | ax wielded by an wn-| known miscreant. The af-| 7 [ fair is shrouded in mys tery. Jr. Belden denie | all knowldedge of aniyy mo- | tive for the crime and is [happy, apparently, that he escaped by a miracle. Two arrests have been made, but the police are apparently as mich mys- tified ws the wouw!d-be vic- tim of the fouwl attack. i OAKLAND, June 10.—A most fiendish attempt was made late to-night to mur- der H. K. Belden in his own doorway. About 11:40 o'clock- a stranger rang the bell and s answered from up- stairs by Mr. RBelden. The stranger said that he had a telegram for Mr. Belden, and the latter said he would come down. soon as Mr. Belden opened the docr the stranger struck at him with an ax. Mr. Belden at once drew back, | and as he was closing the door the would-be assassin’s ax ed over his arm and he was struck with the handle. The ax wielder then ran off and the police were called. Two suspects were arrested, but Cap- taih Peterson says he has not much faith that either of them is the man wanted. Mr. Belden a capitalist and a fine mansion on Lake street. . Belden is manager of the Har surance Company in San Fran- nd resides in Oakland. He h. always been considered a man of great ability and of quiet and regular habits Mr. Belden’; ount of the attempted asss as follows: 1 had just retired, when 1 heard a sharp ring at the front door. 1 opened th window upstairs and saw a man standing on the porch. He told me to come down, as he had an important dispatch for me. 1 slip- ped on my dr ng-gown, went down- stairg a the front door wide open and put out my hand to receive the messag: Instead of a message I saw a big in the nands of the man The fellow did not a word, but lifted the & 1d made a violent str ! at me. When I saw what he was d -; | ing I proceeded to shut the door as| fast as possible. This caused the handle | of the ax to strike my arm, and the | force of the blow was so great that | when it struck me the ax flew out of the w's hand into the hall. he man immediately ran from my | doorway without ving a word. I| then called for the police and put them sion of the fact nd the ax. sassin w anger | to me and I have not the remotest idea | why he should wish to murder me.” | The ax is an crdinar: the woodchopper’s style. Had the blow | landed there is no doubt that it would have severed Mr. Belden's head. Two men who were in the neighborhood at | the time of the assault were urrfisll'(l‘ a few minutes later and are now in | prison. The ax-wielder had chosen his | time carefully, as the policeman on that | beat had just gone off duty for a half‘ hour to get his dinner. COMMERCIAL COMPACT ‘ QUESTION IS SETTLED | VIENNA, —A | Aus an and H | scttled the at mercial comy s a | \ conference ' of | an Ministers to-day gleich, or economic c ct quesdon, on the L June 10. a a compromise, the details of which will be on antounced in_the Wednesday next. The Weiner Aliegemeine Zeftung |learns tkat after the falling the renewal of the ausgleich t secmed possible to the Governm | retention of the whole ausgleich, includ- ing the prolongation of the Austro-Hun- garfan Bank charter until 1902, or the con- tinuance of the whole ausgleich under the new statute.until 1903 A further proposal, excluding the pos- sibility of the maintenance of the bank after the expiration of the customs and commercial union, was considered. Which plan, it any, will be adopted will not bhe known until Premier Koloman de Szell makes his statement to the Diet. According to the Neue Freie Presse the compromise provided for' the duration of the customs and commercial union and the Austro-Hungarian charter until 1907. The new constitution of the bank will be carried out immediately and the commer cial treaties which expire at the end of 1903 will be renewed to run until the end of 197, so that they may expire at the same time as the customs agreement. e Hungarian Diet High Altitude Causes Insanity. | SACRAMENTO. June 10.—L. Remslet- | ter, a passenger on the ‘east bound over- land train, became insane while the train was going ‘through the sSnowsheds to- night. He was taken off at Truckee and delivered into_the custody of the officers at that place. It is thought the high al-+ titude was_the cause of his sudden affiic- tion. - He has a :brother, F. Remslotter, ! Uving at 507 Haves street. San Francisco. | originz implement of | \ | of some of the Commissioner | ants, and when the Commi | subsequently proceeding to Nicaragua. TO SURVEY THE ISTHMIAN CANAL ROUTES. L S e S e o e e e e e o voe ? REAR L S COMMISSION CHOSEN BY | | R e S e Sk o o S e o o g ADMIRAL JOHN G. WALKER. R A O a a SO R} deeply interested in the canal question | year out of it, and it is to their interest and' earnestly in favor of the construe- | to keep the work going. But the great PR R R game is to saddle the Panama Canal | gl 5 onto the United States—that is, to ‘TJM \_\hm m‘lh- Senate Mr. ; S| make this country pay for it, for | an ardent advocate of the canal. France will always want the canal if it Mr. Noble served as a member of | should ever be built. the Ludlow Canal Commission, the pre< | “Then there is England. She is only decessor of the Walker Comm one of the European nations, but her Mr. Morrison is best known in '}'};’!‘1": \\‘|“h ]lh"“li';'in‘] Eflsll( i sy ang S e B ragua Canal is opened. England has is bridge engireering, and he i to-day the heir apparent of the Mos- PRESIDENT Will Soon Begin Its Work, Which Will Cover a Wide Scope. | =S e | Special Dispatch to The Call. | | ASHINGTON, June 10.—Sec- | retary Hay has announc these members of the c m: dent sible and on selected by the Pr to determine the mos practicable route for a across the isthmus of Panama: « Re n Admiral John G. Walker, retired; Samuel Pasco of Florida; Alfred Noble, civil engigeer, of “Illinois; George Morrison, civil engineer, of New Yor Colonel Peter C. Haines, U. S. A.; Pr fessor William H. Burr of Connecticut; | Lieutenant Colonel Oswald H.’ Ernst, U. S. A.; Lewis M. aupt, civil en- gineer, of Penns, , and Professor Emery R. Johnson of Pennsylvania. There are, therefore, nine members of the commission instead of seven, as ally proposed. As a whole the ssion is regarded as very satis- All of its members are in fa- vor of the construction of a canal across the isthmus, and, unless rtain ually informed civil engine: in shington are misinformed, they will be favorable to the Nicaraguan canal, though inquiry may change the minds It was said at the State Department to-day that no date had been fixed for the organization of the commission. Rear Admiral Walker, chairman of the new commission, will see the President early next week, and will d £ date of meeting, which will be within a short time, and the commission will | then receive its formal instructions | from the President. Immed ely after organization .'\nrl‘ the lections of a of assis sioners have had an opportunity to settle their pri- | vate affairs, they will sail from New York on a regular pa ng steamer for Colon and will commence at or he examination of the Panama route, | corps In some quarters there is a dispositioa to believe that the commission’'s work will cover at least two yea: but it i the desire of the President that the | commission shall submit a report dur- | ing the next session of Congress, in or- | der that action may tRen be taken which will result in the construction of the canal. The commission will be a very expens sive body, and it is estimated to-day that each member will receive a salary at the rate of about $10,000 a r. One million dollars has been appropriated for the work. A secretary will be elected, a corps of surveyors and expert canal men, numbering about 100, will | be employed to assist the commission. Three of the members—Rear Admira ‘Walker, Colonel Haines and Mr. Haupt —were members of the Nicaragua Ca- nal Commission which submitted its re- port to the President a few weeks ago. Former Senator Pasco’s appointment is’ in compliance with the pressure brought to bear by the South, which is commer employed on large works as consulting | quito country held as a hostage in Ja- | eng He and Professor Bure were | maica. She pays him an annuity, and members of the commission appointed | ever since the Clayton-Bulwer treaty w0 c ider the improvement of the she has been trying to get possession water front of New York harbor. "f“llll;'k;‘;:!lntry S o S teaton. Burs Inio e dnaiese inglish capitalists have tried a <“ & S ”_ »“”. '51‘ ‘Tr‘"‘:“"\ l‘f ‘h‘f | number of times to get control of the Troy Polytechnic Institute and now | san Juan River solely to prevent the he a professorship in Columbia Col- | building ‘of the canal. The Clayton- lege of New York. Professor Johnson is a member of the faculty of the University of Penn- sylvania. The President feels that the al side of the canal qu t important, and his selection of sor Johnson is in response to th s of many commercial organiza- Bulwer treaty itself is the greatest ob- stacle to the building of the Nicaraguan Canal and was drafted in the interests of English trade. ‘Now this commission is composed of some of the ablest men in the country. In fact you have thrashed all the wheat out of this thing already. They have been down there and spent two years and a lot of money. They have made an elaborate report, but who has ever seen it? If that report were published, as it ought to be, the people would know by this time why the canal is not building. The commission will go down again, svend ancther two years, and the same old story’ will be told. The opposition is too powerful.” WIDE SCOPE OF THE POWERFUL OPPOSITION TO NICARAGUA CANAL PHILADELPHIA, June f0.—A re- markable criticism was made to-day in connection with the Nicaraguan Canal project by Lewis M. Haupt, one of the two Philadelphia members of the new n just appointed by Pre COMMISSION’S WORK . inley. e appointment of this commi WASHINGTON, June 10.—Besides sion,” said Mr. Haupt, simply an- | the Nicaragua and Panama routes, the other me of procrastination brought | new Isthmian Canal Commission wiil about by the allied opposition to the | getermine the practicability of a canal United States getting possession of a | across the isthmus of Darien. short route to the Far E This op- | It is proposed to place a couple of osition powerful and activ It | small surveying parties on' this rou ts, and when you come to an- never | alyze it it is enough to make one de- re one probabiy to commence Darien_harbor and the other doni work at at Cale- ‘While none of the Com- o far as 1 have been able e any faith in the Darien route, i deemed advisabel to con- sider every canal.route that has been suggested in order that when the work i, To begin with, there is a technical commission composed of English, French, German and other engineers who made their headquarters here last there SI year. Then the transconti- done the fon cannot be nental railway opposition, who believe 2 arged with fBII!‘lH‘k n;x;{n“lnt.‘{'h’,“:.“‘ > canal would hurt their business. | tfTe question. ~Rear-Admiral Walker, thecanal d president of the commission, is endeav- a mistake on their part, as deep increase the busi- This is waterways alwa; oring to call for an early meeting of the commission, and it is expected the ness of railwa first session will be heid the week after Then there is the Panama Canal in- | next. The views of each Commissioner ter The “millions that have been |as to contract of work will then be squandered on that scheme and the | sought and arrangements made for an general impracticability of it are mat- | immediate start. The Panama canal ters of common knowledge. No French- | route will be first surveyed, and the man can be found to invest a penny | commission will then proceed to Nicar- in it. But the company which now | agua.- It is understood that small par- controls it bought it for a song and | tie: 11 be placed on the Nicaraguan route in order to complete the very full data obtained by the late Nicaraguan a | Canal Commission. wiped out all former obligations, and is working upon it to-day. Thé Go ernment of Colombia gets $100,000 EOECEOECECACECECECRCEORCHOR REPORTED DISASTER TO THE T. C. WALKER Unconfirmed Rumor of an Ex plosion Aboard the River Steamboat. STOCKTON, June 11.—A rumor was circulated on the streets of this city at about midnight last night to the effect that’ the steamer T. C. Walker had exploded a boiler or steam drum after passing Antioch on the way to Stockton. Neither the :ource nor a verification of the rumor could be secured, nor could word be had of the steamer's trip up the river. The report is believed to hiave been the result of the imagination of a fertile brain, excited over the many rumors regarding the ‘acci- dent to the catamaran \Wave tnis morning. @ORORORONAROND NAR WRORORONTRABGROHORONOROR. .otmm‘- : % OO0,