The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1899, Page 1

OLUME LXXXVI— 0. 110. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1899. VICTORIOUS MARCH OF THE INSURGENTS President Andrade ofm\—/enezuela Retreats ~ After Defeat, and Castro's Army Ad- vances Toward Caracas. Special Cabie to The Call and New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1889, by James Gordon Bennett. DP9 0099000009090 6940600000+ ePEOE- 2O+ 40+ 0 —0—@'—0—0-040—0—0. L B e e o 8 L o o o SR o o o B Venezuela, Sept. 17.— :nt Andrade has returned city after his disastrous at the hands of the revolu- army under Cipriano Castro. The latter continues his victo- rious advar 3 shed Mara- cay. The Cabinet is doing everything pos- sible to prev 4 in Caracas. is great excitement. The Eng- h _and American Ministers (pective Govern- ments for o] WASHING Sept. 16.—Until a report is made on the matter by Commander Hemphill of the Detroit, showing the need of another ship, the State Department will not ask the Navy Department to order the ville to Venezuelan wate It is said by e beseceie and apprehension. naval officials that the Detroit will surely arrive at La Guayra by to-mor- row or Tuesday. In a dispatch to the State Department received erday and mentioned in the Herald t morn- ing, Mr. Russell, Charge d'Affaires, suggested that another warship besides ve: the Detroit be ordered to Puerto Ca- ballo, and Acting etary Allen noti- fied the State Department that the Nashville, now at Gibara, Cuba, couid be sent if desired. It is understood, however, as indicated, that the State Department will await a full report on the situation which Commander Hemp- hill will make immediately upon his arrival. The dispatch announcing that the in- surrectionary forces had reached Mara- cay has for the first time caused admin- istration officials to doubt the ability of Street Scene in Caracas, Showing Capital Building on the Left. Venezuelan revolutionists under Castro are now marching toward the capital, where there is considerable excitement sieieieieisieieieietriedece@ B S S S R a C CAR SICER SEORY SORS S the Government to suppress the insur- ! rection. Ma v is near Valencia and on the road connecting that city with Carac The capital has no defens and it is thought that Castro Is moving toward that point with a view of in a revolu ng it and proclaiming ¢ party Government. Senor Pulido, Venezuelan Charge d‘Affaires, said to-night: “I am unable to give any reason for the return of President Andrade to Caracas, for I am | without official information concerning the progress of the revolution. I am confident, however, that he participated | in any battles that may have occurred with his usual bravery, judigment and skill and that his return to Caracas is for the purpose of taking fresh meas- ures for suppressing the insurrec- tion.” | | | | CLOUD ONDON, Sept. 18.—All dispatches from South Africa this morning talk of the imminence of hostili- ties and the preparations for them. In Johannesburg it seems to be taken for granted that the Orange Free State has approved President Kruger’s not and promised active as- eistance in the event of war. An official telegram posted at Volks- rust says that the Transvaal, with the assent of the Orange Free State, repu- dlates British suzerainty and adheres to the seven years' franchise. At Cape Town it is reported that Mr. Hofmeyer, the Afrikander leader, sent a communication to President Steyn of the Orange Free State, entreating him to do his utmost to preserve peace, but that he received In answer the words: “Too late.” All military men agree that it is out of the question to begin hostile opera- tions before the middle of next month, | no rain having fallen and the veldt b(-‘ ing still bare. It is supposed that the next move contemplated by the Transvaal is an appeal to the powers, hegging them to recommend arbitration on the lines of the conference at The Hague. There was a serious disturbance in the market square of Johannesburg on Saturday afternoon. A meeting called by a labor agitator named Bain to con- demn the British policy and to enroll volunteers to flcnt for the Boers led to serious fights with the police, lasting a couple of hours. Many persons ‘were injured, among them the recently noto- rious Dr. Matthews, who made a charge against a mounted policeman. An im- mense crowd, singing “Rule Britan- nia,” accompanied him to the police office. OF HOVER OVER T “ WAR AGA | The Daily Chronicle says: | gret that the Boers, by fair offer made in fair language, have | taken a line giving fresh points to the | argument of their enemies that Presi- dent Kruger is a shifty and imprac- | ticable politician, fit only to be spoken | to across a line of bayonets.” These extracts fairly represent press opinion in London. All the papers characterize the attempt to represent Conyngham Greene as suggesting the Transvaal's former proposals as mere shifty prevarications. The Pretoria correspondent of | Morning Post in his summary of the Transvaal’s reply, says the Transvaal | repudiates suzerainty and the right of | interference, and denies that either | State Attorney *Smuts or the Govern- ment offered a five years’ franchise | otherwise than on Conyngham Greene's assurance that the imperial ' Govern- | ment would withdraw its claim of a right to interfere in the Transvaal's | internal affairs. The correspondent adds: “The reply anticipates a final alternative of a British note by saying that further suggestions on the line in- | dicated are vain.” | _The Cape Town correspondent of the | Daily Mail says: “Afrikanderbund cir- | el profess to have information that President McKinley has intervened be- tween Great Britain and the Trans- vaal. Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner, in reply to a correspond- ent who had requested information re- | garding the position of British subjects {in the Orange Free State in the event of hostilities, has replied that he is un- | aware of anything in the relations be- tween the imperial Governmnet and the Orange Free State which would justify | hostile action on the latter’s part, and expressed the opinion that it would be | equally contrary to international law to order out British subjects against the | Queen’s soldiers or to utilize them in “We re-| rejecting a | the | ! Government would satisfy Her Majesty’'s | such a manner as to set free a corre- | | sponding number of burghers for ser- | | vice against her Majesty's troops. This | | is & most opportune pronouncement. as | LONDON PRESS THINKS BOERS MEAN TO FIGHT LONDON, Sept. 18.—The Morning Post says: “The Boers mean to fight. That is the plain English of it.” The Standard says: “The Transvaal note is unsatisfactory, and, indeed, a dangerous composition. It might be go- ing too far to say that the last hope of peace has vanished or that diplomacy has said its final word, but it idle to deny that the rulers of the Transvaal have brought their country very close to the brink of a disaster, which the British Government has done its best to avert.” The Daily Mail says: “President Kruger's deflance has terminated a iong period of unrest and uncertainty in South Africa, for, whatever may be the issue of the present situation, one thing is certain that dualism in South Africa will end: forever.,” the Orange Free State purposes com- manding British subjects to guard the | Basutoland bqrder." EVASIVE REPLY OF BOERS TO GREAT BRITAIN Transvaal to Mr. Chamberlain’s latest note is said to cover nine pages. It is sive” character which Mr. Chamber- government to consider the situation afresh. It practically repudiates suze- rainty, reverts to the seven years’ franchise and declines to give equality to the Dutch and English languages in the Volksraad. In short, it is politely negative and deflant. The full text may not be avallable for a day or two, but it will not change the aspects of affairs. The Cabinet will probably meet on Wednes- LONDON, Sept. 18.—The reply of the | eminently of the “negative and inclu- | lain declared would compel the imperial | | to, considering, as it did, such a measure RANSVAAL day or Thursday to consider the next step. PRETORIA, Sept. 17.—The reply of the Government of the South African republic to the latest .dispatch, dated September 12, of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Cham- | berlain, after acknowledging the re-| ceipt of the British note, proceeds in | part as follows: | The Government deeply regrets the withdrawal, as the Government under- | stands it, of the invitation contained in | the British dispatch of August 23 and the | substitution in place thereof of an en- tirely new proposal. The proposals, now fallen through, contained in the Transvaal dispatch o rAugust 19 and August 21, were elicited rom this Government by suggestions | the British diplomatic agent in | (Conyngham Greene) to _the syaal State Secretary (F. W. Reltz), suggestions which this Government acted upon in good faith and after specially ascertaining whether they would be likely | to prove acceptable to the British Gov- ernment. This Government had by no | means an intention ‘to raise again need- | ssly the question of its political status, but “acted with the sole object of en- deavoring by the aid of the local British agent to put an end to the strained con- dition of affairs. This was done in the shape of a pro- posal which this Government deems, both as regards its spirit and form, to be 3> worded as relying upon intimations to this Government. This Government saw a dif- ficulty as to the acceptance of these pro- posals by the people and legislature of the ransyvaal and also on account of a sin- | cere desire to secure peace and because | assured by Mr. Chamberlain that such | proposals would not be deemed a refusal | of his proposals, but would be settled on | their merits. As regards the joint commission, the Transvaal adheres to thne acceptance of the invitation thereunto given by Her Majesty’s Government and cannot under- stand why such commission which before was deemed necessary to explain the com- plicated detafls of the seven years’ law | should now be deemed unneceéssary and why it should now, without much in-| quiry, be thought possible to declare this | law inadequate. Further, there must be a misappre- hension if it be assumed that this Govern. | ment was prepared to lay proposals for a five years’ franchise on a quarter repre- sentation of the new population before the Volksraad for unconditional acceptance, As to the language, this Government never made any offer such as s referred both unnecess;ry a;\d undesirable. The proposed conference, as oppose: the jolgt commission of inquiry, ggis go&,? ernment s likewise not unwilling to enter upon, but the difficulty is that an accept- ance thereof is made dependent upon the acceptance, on the side of the Transvaal of precedent conditions which this Goy- ernment does not feel as liberty to submit to the Volksraad and., moreover, the sub- jects to be discussed at the conference re- main undefined. This Government ardently desires and gladly accepts arbi- tration, as its firs intention is to adheras {0 the terms of the London convention of The dispatch concludes by trusting that the British Government on recon- sideration may not deem it fit to make | more onerous or new proposals, but will “adhere to Great Britain’s proposals for a jeint commission of inquiry as pre- viously explained by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Imperial Parliam nt.” L WHITES SLAY "NECAD MINERS IV LS Carterville the Scene of a Fearful Riot Be!ween the Rival Races. SIL MEN SLAIN AND SEVENTH WILL DI Governor Tanner Styles the Affair a Blot on the State and Orders Out the Militia. L e Special Dispatch to The Call. ARTERVILLE, I, Sept. 17— Carterville was the scene of a bloody riot between white and ne- gro miners to-day. were killed and one other mortal- ly wounded. Company C, Fourth Regi- ment, I. N. G., arrived here late this evening and will endeavor to preserve order. Forty miners fror: the Herrin mines left that place for this city this evening armed with Krag-Jorgensen rifles, determined to a the white miners should their services be re- quired. Trouble has been brewir. : ever since the militia was recalled by Governor Tanner last Monday, since which time the white miners have refused to allow the negro miners to come into town. To-day thirteen negroes marched into the town and opened fire on a crowd of whites. The whites returned the fire promptly cnd a running fight ensued. The negroes, closely followed by the whites, scattered, some running up the main street and the remainder starting down the railroad track. Here the worst execution was done. After the fight was over four dead bodies were picked up and another mortally wound- ed. They were taken to the City Hall, where the wounded man was given medical treatment and an inquest was held over the dead ones. Latfer, near the brush mines in another part of the ity two other dead bodies were found. The killed: REV, O. T. J. FLCYD. HUSE BRADLEY. JOHN BLACK. HENRY BRANUM. TWO UNIDENTIFIED. Mortally wounded: Sim Cummings. The Mayor has taken every precau- tion to prevent further troubles and none will occur unless the negroes make an attack. Superintendent Donnelly of the Brush mines, where the negroes reside, re- ports that the negroes are worked up into a frenzy and that while he is do- ing all ia his power to hold them in check he expects further trouble. Late to-night Governor Tanner re- ceived the following telegram from Sheriff Gray of Carterville: Company C has reported to me. The situation is critical. There are many armed men in Carterville and in the vicin- ity of the Brush mine. The military com- pany is not sufficient to disperse the mob. Governor T.aner telegraphed Sheriff Gray as follows: “You sha’. have all the force necessary to enforce the law and b ing the guilty parties to justice.” MURPHYSBORO, Ill, Sept. 1 One of the Cead negroes at Carterville is a preacher, the others are laborers. One of the negroes when first shot started to run. He was shot again and fell. One of the white men then ran up and | shot him through the head with a rifle. The shooting took place immediately in front of Mayor Zimmerman's house and in full view of several ladies seated on tle porch. Before the noise of the first shots had died away the streets began to fill with excited, armed men. After the crowd of negroes had been killed and scattered it was the evident intention of the infuriated miners to gc to Grernville, where the big non- union negro camp is located, and finis! the wor.. All the afternoon an angr crowd of men patrolled the streets. Later the projected trip to Greenville was apparent: called off. SPRINGFIELD, Tll., Sept. 17.—Gov- ernor Tanner has ordered two compa- nies of the Fourth Regiment, under command o olonel Bennett, to Car- terville. The Governor gave out the fol- lowing statcment to-night: I received a message from Captain Brush, owner and manager of the mine at Carterville, stating that a mob had at- tacked and killed five of the negro miners while waiting at the Illinois Central de. po: for a train; that the Sheriff was un. able to control the situation and was powerless to arrest the parties, asking me to order troops to Carterville, and that he had ordered his men to stay on his ground. In response to this message, knowing | some’of the conditions of that place ang without walting to hear from the Sherifr, T ordered Lieutenant Lowden of Company ¢ ot Carbondale to proceed at once ty Carterville, preparing a special if neces. sary, and when reaching Carterville to suppress the riot ‘and protect life and property, but report to the Sheriff of Wihiameon County for orders, in the event that the Sheriff was on the ground, T also ordered Captain Hersh of (o pany B of Newton to proceed with his company by the quickest route to Carter- Ville, and to report to Colonel Bannett for riot ‘duty. At the same time I ordered Colonel Bennett of the Fourth Regiment Who lives at Greenville, to proceed to Cartervile at once and take charge of the troops. 1 also directed the commanding officer of Company F of Mount Vernon tg Drepare to be In readiness to move on short notice. At 4 o'clock. two hours from the time 1 ‘recelved the message mentioned from Captain Brush, 1 received a message from Licutenant Lowden, of Company C, of Carbondale, stating’ that he would Teave on a special train for Carterville at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Later I received a message from Captain Brush stating that later reports showed that six of his men were killed and two Injured and that @ large armed mob of men was between Carterville and his_mine and that one company was not sufficient. v This {8 a blot on the fair name of the commonwealth of siunois and will be o disgrace to, the coramunity of Willlamson Cotinty, unless quic.. and vigorous action is taken by the county authorities. The good and law-abiding citizens of William- Son County should rise to the situation and support the officers in restoring peace and order and In the arrest and conviee tion of the guilty parties. I hope that the Newton Company will reach Carterville before morning and before any conflict oc- curs, but 1 do not believe and s.all not believe until it happens, that the strikers will attack the National Guard or- at- tempt to oppose it in doing its duty. Six negroes | PRICE FIVE CENTS, JUSTICE THROTTLED BY A BIASED JUDGE AN RAFAEL, Sept. 17.—Justice | of te Peace G. Rodden is making an effor. to use his office to pun- ish those with whom he has had personal differences. If this mag- istrate were given a free rein no man who engendered his displeasure would be safe. In his hands the machinery of a court of law dangerous weapon with which it appears he would not hesitate to punish the innocent or mulct the defenseless. The measure by which this Judge deals out law to the unfor- tunates whos: unlucky star leads them to his court is‘the quesion of friend or | foe. And woe to the foe who falls into the clutches of Justice of the Peace N Rodden. To such the wheels of his court machinery turns to grind their very bones. No quarter is shown. They are enemies of the Judge and jus- tice is not for them. The Call has caught this tyrant in the very act of condemning a defendant who had not been given a hearing; of preparing to punish a man who in the eyes of the law is innocent of crime, because he has not been proven guilty of sealing the fate of this man, so far as lay within his power, before he had | | been given an opportunity to be heard | in court. Citizens of Marin County, how does such a picture strike you? Those of you | who are lovers of liberty and upholders | of the law, how do you fancy the idea of liberty and law being throttled by an unscrupulous, venomous person who has wormed himself into office upon the | promise that he would deal out justice? Those of you who take pride in your | county, can you look your fellows squarely in the face when the proof goes forth that no man’s peace or hap- piness is safe in your midst who has caused the displeasure ¢ your town- | ship magistrate, G. Rodden, Czar of the | Justice Cou:t of San Rafael by the grace of himself and the permission of | the Clan Cochrane? Caught at his work this man squirmed like a snake robbed of its fangs and deprived of its venom, and then sought to cover up his tracks by a clumsy effort to mutilate the records of his court; to blot out the words | from a document that proved his unfit- ness to preside in a court of justice; to conceal the evidence which showed him | to be prejudiced and narrow, vindict- | ive and vieious. He admitted his prejudice when cor- nered: he admitted that the man whom he intended to punish was his enemy, | and vet he had not *he manhood to re- | fuse to try the case, where the defend- LR e S L L S S ST S S S IS Himself. .—www+ewflflmwwq JUDGE RODDEN, Whose Court Puts Marin to Shame. Magistrate Rodden, Caught at His Game, Attempts to Destroy Evidence Against | 1 c | 1 e o e e e s ] orsement on the back of the com- laint: It appearing to me that the ofiense in the within deposition mentioned has been committed, and that there is suificient cause to d p! chance to even up an old score and wreak his velgeance on a man whose greatest fault seems to have been in knowing too much about Rodden and not being afraid to tell it. A few days ago M. F. Cochrane swore to a complaint before this mis- erable magistrate, charging John D. Spreckels, proprietor of The Call, and Frank L. Perkins, the San Rafael cor- respondent, “vith criminal libel. Per- kins was arrested and taken before Rodden, and is now enjoying his lib- erty because he furnished bonds. Rod- den is no lover of Perkins. What their differences may be is not a matter that thereof, I order that he| be held to answer to the same and committed to— His dis-Honor had evidently not.de- | cided whether to commit the defendant | to a slow death by being . dipped in | boiling ofl or give him life imprison- | ment at San Quentin. | It is well to note that the name of | John D. Spreckels is not mentioned in | the Rodden decree. Rodden had no | acquaintance with Mr. Spreckels and i interests the public. What the publlc‘ is concerned in is that Perkins is I«'harged with a crime before a court i\\-here all the laws of the land, where the princivles that form the founda- tion of the nation, give him the right to expect justice and the distinction of being considered as innocent of crime | as the unborn babe until his guilt is| proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Perkins has not been tried. No evi- | dence either for or against him has been produced in court. His case has not even been set for hearing. Yet at this status of the prosecution, without they have hac no personal differences. Rodden wrote the words quoted | above. When cornered he confessed | that .the indorsement of sPerkins’ pre- | sumed guilt was a little premature, and then blurted out like a spanked | schoolboy that Perkins had not treated him fairly; that he had caused to be printed things that pricked the thin Rodden hide. He admitted his ani- mus. This was the reason he had jumped at the opportunity to try th» Perkins case. It was his chance to get revenge on a presumed enemy, and it appears that this is the Judge’s highest ‘When representatives of The Call in- timated to him ‘hat it was tbke inten- tion of the paper to expose the wholé matter, Rodden ran his pencil through the writing, and later when the news- paper men were absent he made an in- effectual attempt to erase the inscrip- tion. Two Call reporters and a photog- rapher visited the Justice this morn- ant's liberty was at stake, when he % o g e ing and requested permission to in- stopped to consider that he had a|Delieve the within named |spect the complaint. It had been in- L e O B R Ui S S i S i it i S e e on ot | THE EVIDENCE OF RODDEN'S VINDICTIVENESS. Frank L. Perkins guilty| spected previously, without the knowl- edge or consent . of the Judge, and a copy made of the inscription that was to. condemn Perkins to .the Rodden punishment. The Judge was docile until the words that show his bias were turned to. As the newspaper representatives in- spected them closely he was visibly agitated. He turned pale and- began to tremble like a man with the palsey. From appearances he fully appreciated that he had been trapped. “We would like to photograph this, Judge.” @+ ¢+ ed e e o R SR R R o oo S e ot i 44&—0—@—0—0%—0. - ! $ . : T s o | i + ? S o I s b3 + 1 ® 1 + 0 P L R B e i S i S S e o S S g e b e e et eie@ THE FIRST EFFORT TO HIDE HIS GUILT. That was too much. Pho- Negatives do not lie. Rodden grabbed the document from one of the reporters and held on to it as Heavens! tograph it! Never! though it were a priceless treasure that was about to be wrested from him by the unfeeling newspaper men. No amount of argument could turn him from his determination to conceal from the public the evidence of his incapa- bility an< of the fact that his official head should be unceremoniously sev- ered from the rest of his being. He claimed that his office was closed on Sunday and that therefore the pa- one iota of testimony having been taken, before the ink on the complaint has had a chance to dry, Justice G. Rodden tries the issue in his own mind, measures the defendant as a fancied enemy, consequently finding him guilty, and, having determined on the verdict when the matter comes regu- larly for trial, makes the following in- idea of the purpose of his court. Driven into a corner this person took refuge behind the childish explanation that he had written the telltale words before he realized that Perkins had not been held, and claimed that they were of no force and did not foreshadow his final decision bec ause he had not ap- pended his signature. RODDEN’'S DAUBS THAT FAILED TO BAFFLE THE CAMERA. document and could not be inspected any further. per was not a nublic “This thirg dor- Lot amount to any- thing anyhow,” whined the cornered magi-trate. “I have not signed it. Of course it is in my handwriting, but that makes no difference I did not re- alize that Perkins had not been held when I wrote it. Please go and tell