The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVII— 130. £ lthe Library, « s Thls Paper ngt o8 faken fram 4 i ] —: SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1900. SPUR OF A MOUNTAIN PEAK DISLODGED BY A MIGHTY TEMBLOR Section of the San Jacinto Range in Southern California Sinks in a Subterranean Cavern. Millions of Ton POeP P00 0000000000000 9090900000000 eI e e+t 00 600000 0008+@Q R .. L s T 00‘0?0’040?bioitétr)Q‘QO‘Q@O?Qéb ! ! ¢ ! E $ s moved its d rock into = g1y ey beneath, and where the val awning abyss. S eds of feet which undoubtedly once 4000 feet above the us propor- tellect for a miles south- trees and rocl revasses and cracks directions. There are jammed with crevasses whose t fathom. s great mountain slide est supervisor eme Court California, to- rest Ranger Rouse. Their s were 1 at an elevation of 4000 et to & manzanita tree, and Rouse pro- eded to blage a trail across this iden- cal 600 acres to be utilized in case of mountain fires Terrific Seismic Shock. seismic shock that leveled prick bulldings occurred at mas morning. At 10 o'clock officers saw the peak trem- brating constantly with inter- 1 ., but as temblors had been recurring since morning the not alarmed. They left that spur after an hour's work. Mr. about two miles below the nd although shocks were as 45 six each day he did not re- except one which occurred six er at 1:31 p. m. At that time a g as of blasting came from ve him and every dish in his shaken from the cupboard He is of the opinion that this date of the collapse, for clouds ould be seen issuing from the di- of the mountain. The great mas earthquake must have caused of the subterranean cavern to the constantly recurring tem- 4 the mountain pesk to slip ity The terrific £an Jacinto’ the roof eplit and blors e ¥ a few days ago, and when he sought his manzinita tree at the head of the trall to tie his horse to he found that the tree lay uprooted fifty feet below over the edge of wide crevasse and the gently sloping mountain sides lay in a jumbled mass of M. roots, rocks and deep fissures. The south- eastern edge, a half mile away, stood in- ot, but a long slant of blue shale, smooth as glass, at an angle of forty de- grees, showed just where the great mass of earth had moved into the suddenly opened abyss to the northwest. Nature Turned Topsy-Turvy. The temblors still occur weekly, and one occurred last night. On Sunday every- body in this city drove to the foot of the spur and on horseback completed the sleep ascent on & narrow, precipitous ErFECTC OF L& EARTHGUA =B ! % ! Z s i } $ s sc aid not revisit the spur untfl | SRR L e 1 S — Special Dispatech to The Call. S oAy R e e S S e a s ] 1 bridle patch to the scene. It is like climb- | ing the Alps. | ( e there, however, the view that is| ned - well rep: the visitor for his vy trip. What was once a gentle in- | running from a ridge to a small | , is now cavern, of Earth and Molten Metal Engulfed in a Great Crevasse Opened by a Series of Earthquake Shocks. | Marques correspondent of the Times, tel- | egraphing Monday, March 19, says: | on the Transvaal border.” | BRITISH ARE COMBINING TO CRUSH BOERS Big Forces Under Rob- erts, Methuen and Buller Ready to Ad- vance Simultaneous- | ly Upon Johannes- burg and Pretoria. No Definite News Received Concerning Mafeking, but the Belief 'Is Growing That - the - Boers - Have Raised the Siege. i L ONDON, March 20.—With the ex- ception of the account of a small skirmish at Fourteen Springs on Saturday no news reached London yesterday of any fighting in South Africa. It appears that a strong force will be placed at Liord Methuen's disposal, which it Is thought may not be used for the relief of Mafeking since another col- umn from Kimberley is already keeping the Boers employed to the south of the besieged town while froni the north Col- onel Plumer {5 moving down toward Baden-Powell's stronghold. It is thought probable that Lord Methuen's force may make an advance northward simultane- ously with that of Lord Roberts by way of Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom and Kru- | gersdorp to Johannesburg. partially fol- lowing the route of the Jameson expedi- tion. | Ladysmith garrison should be ready to | resume service about the beginning of | April. General Buller will then have a force of four infantry .divisions and one cavalry division besides a large number | of colonial mounted infantry, in all about 40,000 men, with 120 guns. He will thus | be stronger than the whole Boer army | now in the left field. His task will be to | turn the Biggarsberg defenses and then | advance direct upon the Transvaal, ot- | | cupying the attention of a large number of Boers to the east, while Lord Roberts | | moves on Pretoria. By that time Lord Roberts will have been reinforced by Gen- ‘ BLOCK OF ) WRECKED DDA P P S S SO D D S o oh o Tl o Sl Sk e e Character of the Country in Which the Mountain Sunk. B 044—0—0-“—0‘—0—0—0—&*‘—04—0“0—“ > 0o+ b osoeoe0e@ erals Clements, Gatacre and Brabant and | will have about 60,000 men and 20 guns. | place in Africa for them to go, and the | With the country to the rear pacified and road is preparing to send agents to that | with complete control of the rallway-run-, country to induce them to come to this | ning direct to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth | country and settle in the undeveloped por- | and East London, facilitating the trans- | tions and engage either in stock raising or | port of supplies. the advance Yo ez | farming. They are confident of securing | © Dpies. ey Nt | ceedingly rapid. ! sevy u o aaanl. aF Those Indnstelive and | cop things considered Lord Wolseley's R - reported forecast that British troops will | SCHIEL IS QUARRELSOME. reach Pretoria by the middle of May may | 3 i —_— be justified. The distance by railway CAPE TOWN, March 19.—Owing to the | from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal cav-‘ quarrelsomeness of Colonel Schiel, the |{tal is about 310 miles. Serious resistance German officer in charge of the Boer ar- | s not expected south, of Kroonstadt, as | tillery, who was wounded and taken pris- | the railway in that neighborhood has been | oner at the battle of Elandslaagte, he has | destroyed by the Boers. Allowing for the | | been removed from the prisoners’ camp | commandos left to oppose Sir Redvers | to a transport. e e PORTUGUESE TROOPS ACTIVE. LONDON, 3 | Buller the enemy, it is calculated, cannot | | face Lord Roberts with more than 20,000 | | men. | Free Staters continue to surrender. All | dispatches state that they are acqulescing | | in the change of government and return- | ing to their farms. The war seems to be | ractically ended as far as Mr. Steyn's | ellow citizéns are concerned. | Up to 4 o'clock this morning no definite news of Mafeking has been recetved in London. The belief, founded upon private | telegrams, prevails at Cape Town that the | Boers have raised the siege. Lo T March 20.—The Lourenzo | “Last night the Portuguese authoritles | assuredly dispatched by a speclal train a | force of infantry to reinforce the garrison | Scodne 4 WHITE AT CAPE TOWN. separating the alley. There are crevices | every w feet in the earth, some as wide | as six feet and over twenty feet deep. Bushes and small trees have been torn up by the roots and hurled down for | many feet. In one place an oak tree| about fifteen feet high and three feet In | diameter was moved a'al fe The sofl is so broken and cracked that every few steps one is apt to sink | up to the knees. For three-quarters of a mile all t can be seen is a mass of upturned bushes and broken banks. What were once the lowest basins are now the highest Molten Matter Ejected. But the most remarkable thing to be seen on the tract i a half-mile-wide »f ejected materlal. The composi- n is black and of very fine grain. It shines and is even glassy. Beneath the surface of this crystaline rock, mica is found. This is no doubt in igneous rock. A short time ago it was surely molten, for beneath the hardening crust it is soft enqugh to be molded into any shape with the hands. Two or three feet below this is an intruded rock, coarser grained and probably granite. This condition of the earth was first discovered on March 8 by D. W. Rouse. There was some great heat connected with the disturbance, for the earth on the whole 500 acres has been rendered almost fdentical to ashes, and every sign of plant life has been visibly affected—in fact, in most cases, killed ANTI-FOREIGN PARTY’S ASCENDENCY IN CHINA Dowager Empress Rewards Officials Who Display Hatred of Aliens. PEKING, March 18.—The of the anti-foreign party pronounced daily. The Dowager Em- press appears unable to sufficlently re- ward the officials who exhibit marked | hostility to everything not Chinese. Hen- Tung, probably the most bitterly anti- foreign official of the empire, has been decorated with the three-eyed peacock feather, which heretofore has not been conferrea in eighty years. The notorious Li Peng Hing, who was dismissed from ! the governorship of Shan Tung on' Ger- man demand, has been advanced to the first rank, and the former Governor, Yuh Sen of Shan Tung, has been appointed Governor of the Shang-Si district—a snub | to the powers interested and liKely to prejudice Interests in the province, as the powers belieye his maladministration is the cause of the present state of af- fairs in Shan Tung. el SR INDUCE BOER IMMIGRATION. OMAHA, March 19.—When the present | war in South Africa is ended, as it Is sup- | posed 1t will, in the subjugation of the Boers, the Burlington officlals anticipate that thousands of the people of the Trans- vaal will be desirous of getting away from English rule as they were when they went into the African wilderness. There is nol ascendancy | | | | | fender of ance of fifty | is becoming | CAPE TOWN, Sunday, March 18.—Gen- eral Sir George Stewart White, the de- Ladysmith, has arrived here, but is too ill to permit of a public recep: tion being given in his honor. CANADIAN TROOPS TO FBONT.‘ , March 19.—The Canadian 1 Continued on Second Page. | | | | | | I ot e o o i o okt g rallroad which are.destroyed by the Boers as they fall back. On the 250 miles and long one over the Vaal, at Vereeninging, which, burghers. As the progress of the army could not be engineers go prepared to erect temporary wooden bridges parallel to the permanent angn\;ed in such work at the Modder River on the Kimberley line. D T S S S A S PREPARING FOR THE ADVANCE ON PRETORIA., Next to the resistance offered by the Boers themselves the great hindrance to the rapid advance of the British army into the Transvaal is the necessity of rebuilding or replacing by temporary structures the many bridges on the line of the Pretoria are a number of important bridges, notably those over the Vet, the Valgan and the Valsch rivers, besides the ‘with the minor ones, will doubtless all be more or less wrecked by the delayed to await the rebuilding of the iron structures, the royal PRICE FIVE CENT HERRIN NO LONGER POLITICAL MANAGER OF THE RAILROAD Deposed by H. E. Huntington and Jere T. Burke Chosen to Succeed Him as Chief Manipulator. A Series of Blunders, Coupled With Deceit, Reaches a Climax in Which the Friend of the Mexican Is Shorn of His Power. ready formulated. Willlam F. Herrin was deposed as manager of order to d: ical ambition he may possess. =, HUNTINGTON MAKES BURKE THE SUCCESSOR O At a recent secret conference of Southern Pacific officials H. E. Huntington carried out a plan which he had al- political manager of the company and Jere T. Burke, assistant f the Clearing-house andsecretary of the Los Angeles Electric Rallroad Company, was given his place. In aceive the public and to keep Herrin from an explosion of wrath in which he might expose Southern Pa- cific methods and secrets Burke will assume control gradually, undertaking small contracts, assuming greater manip- ulations and making progress until he secures control. His first contract is to defeat John H. Dickinson In any polit- el HUNTINGTON Co F HERRIN. 0@000000000400&00000»000<H00‘®0040&00—‘0’4‘0$+&v0000*00000‘000 .MQVWW«MMW. ILLIAM F. HERRIN - has at last been deposed as the head | of the political bureau of the |accomplish the schemes Intrusted to him, Southern Pacific-Company. He | but he submiited his employers to a hu- | has been shorn of his power to 1 miliation worse than the expcsure of de- manipulate the political schemes of the feat. And in his place Jere T. Burke, very corporation. ' He ‘will- have influence no | well known and by no means unfamiliar more to interfere in the politics of the with the peculiar duties of the position, State or to tamper'with Legislatures or has been chosen. Boards of Supervisors. He has been re- | This revolution in the mauagement of tired in disgrace with the stamp of failure | the political affairs of the Southern Pacific and of unfaithfulness upon him. With all | Company will come as a profound sur- D | road officials. Several months ago, when ¢ | Herrin's ‘blunders were covering the rail- effected. Blunder after blunder was com- mitted by Herrin. | railroad plans at Sacramento. and he was . e 8 . 4 |sent In defeat from the Board of Super- | visors. Striving still to hold his position, ‘i he misrepresented the facts, led the rafl- | extra session of the Legislature, covered it with the odium of public contempt as | well as of defeat and concluded an inglo- rious campaign with unenviable notoriety. That was the climax, and Herrin's em- ployers resolved to remove him from a thing but that of usefulness. But it was necessary to go slowly. While Herrin was | a mammoth mistake as political manager, making enemies instead of friends and recording defeats instead of victories, he could not be thrown out of the raiiroad service altogether, as he possesses rail- road secrets which at the present time would make lighly interesting reading. So it was determined to take his yellow Jacket away from him plecemeal. H. E. Huntington was the diplomat chosen to let Herrin drop easily, and the nephew, it is admitted, accomplished the trick cleverly. Huntington is, by author- ity of his uncle, the autocrat of the South- ern Pacific Company on the coast. For a long time he had been disgusted with the clumsy operations of Herrin as political manager. Over a year ago, Herrin, arro- gating to himself the ownership of the Republican party, promised the railroad people that Burns should be elected United States Senator. Herrin spent a sack of railroad money and Burns was beaten. A serles of defeats followed this big failure. The Southern Pacifie Company lost the grip it held upon the Super- visors of this city for years. The “cork- screw” plot was exposed and the com- pany retired in the dismay of fallure and of exposure. The burlesque manipula- tions of Herrin with the State Board of Rallroad ‘Commissioners made the South- ern Pacific Company the laughing stock of the State. A political clown sat in the chair of authority and everything he touched became a jest. Then came the crowing flasco of the extra session of the Legislature. Herrin persuaded Huntington that he had the votes necessary to elect the man from Mexico a United States Senator. He was so sure of his ground that he scouted the idea of skirmishing for a second choice. The Southern Pacific Company belleves that charity begins at. home and while it wanted Burns it wanted more than any particular aspirant any man who would take his orders from the company. But Herrin laughed at the thought of ‘faflure. He had the votes, he said, and nothing was left but to register them. moré yet between Lord Roberts’ and ones. The, illustration’ shows a party sphere in which his activity had been any- | | prise to all but a very small cilque of rall- | | road with chagrin, The Call predicted the | significant change which has now been He falled to carry oud | | road company Into an indorsement of an | | the enormous and corrupt power of the Herrin had added the offense of deceit to raflroad behind him he not only falled to | the crime of fallure and his career as political manager for the Southern Pa- cific Company was over. But the task of removing him was a delicate ome. He knows too much and the Southern Pacific Company cannot afford at present to drop him altogether. H. E. Huntington undertook the deli- cate diplomatic task himself. He did so with grim pleasure. He remembered the day when his feathers of authority had been plucked and only a lonely seagull perched on the boat rall signaled his de- partufe. He remembered, too, the wel- come that had accompanied his triumph- ant.return, and he decided to treat Herrin in kind. He called a conference of the wise ones of the company, among them J. C. Stubbs, Julius Kruttschnitt and J. A. Fillmore. Herrin himself was invited to be present, and understanding the virtue of a joke even on himself, accepted the invitation. The meeting, which the officials were cau- tioned to keep absolutely a secret, was, as a matter of course, simply a formality. Herrin's fate had been settled before the conference took place. It had been decided to take away from him one by one the political prerogatives which he had abused, to give him still the semblance of power and to give to some one else its substance. There was a double motive in this—to placate and decetve Herrin and to impose upon the public, to let Herrin remain as the mark of criticism and have some one else do the work of the company. At the conference Herrin was told that he had too much to do and that it would be wise for him to conflne himself more in future to his legal dutles and to delegate the delicate functions of political manager to some one else. Herrin saw that his peacock feather had gone and that a slash had been made in his yellow jacket. Then a pretense was made of looking for arother man to perform the dGuties which’ Herrin kad undertaken with such signal failure. The search was short. as Huntington had already chosen Jere T. Burke, assistant manager of the Clearing- house and secretary of the Los Angeles Electric Railroad Company. As a strate- glc preliminary Huntington sounded the praises of Burke, whom he knows from that association which delicate manipala- tion of delicate affairs produces, Hunting- ton pronounced Mr. Burke to be a very virtuous man and, incidentally, very valu- able. He possesses the tact of making fricnds instead of creating enemies, and, of course, no reference, even implied, was made to Herrin. Mr. Burke understands the route which leads from a man’s stomach to his brain and heart, and knows how to-lift out of the bottom of a wineglass that warmth of feeling and good will which makes the other fellow do as you want him to Jo. Mr, Burke gives good dinners; not the kind that Herrin gave to the Railroad Commissioners, but like those that one never hears a word about. And Mr. Burke, Huntington said, combines economy with generosity, as he does tact with industry. He has done some diplomatic serviee for the company, and Mr. Huntington assured his associates that Mr. Burke's expenses never exceeded $150 a day—a mere trifls when one considers what is at stake in Southern Pacific_diplomacy. The Southern Pacific Company judges results, not methods, and Funtington's e — \(commdonwm‘ «