The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1900, Page 13

PROPSTPRINOR SRONO R OR Pages -"f FERETEFEEER SRERD REF SXOLORSROROQ The ,0-0-0-00000’ E LXXXVII—-NO. 125. Uall, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1900—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. | § | W iages )22 HORORPHPROR O X ORPHORINO % PUGXPUP RGN E i PRICE FIVE CE?NTS. TELLS OF CONSPIRACY TO KILL OFF DEMOCRATS Most Sensational Testimony at the Pre- liminary Trial of Goebel's Alleged Assassin. Golden Declares That Secretary of State Caleb Powers and Other Republican Officials Sent for Mountaineers to Commit Murder. v bedededede N . P ! Kentucky’s Great Pol'tical Tragedy, the Shooting of Senator Goebel. * T e, taken from Harper's Weekly. shows the scene in front of the State House at Frankfort, Ky., T 30, when Senator Goebel, while on his way to the Capitol, was mortally wounded by a shot ? . window of the executive buflding, shown on the right. Num s have been made of parties accused or. ¥ - spected of tne crime, inciuding some State officials and employes. Secretary of State Caleb -Powers’ . w veloping some of the most sensational features ever known in the political history of the ¢ pi st te. The Kentucky Legislature has offered a reward of $100.000 for the arrest and conviction of the par- . * ed Senator Goebel. e tietie Nt oo R oo e eNe Netie UeN R +%e RN Rete Ne foNeNe UK oN o0 Koo Rolie e ReNO "ORT, Ky.. March 2¢—"John Powers told me they had two niggers here to kill Goebel. They were Hoc- er Dick Coombs.” t was made to-day by Wharton Golden, a frall, consumptive-looking Kentucky mountaineer, whiie on ir the preliminary examination of Secretary of State Caleb Powers, charged with conspiracy to kill id & story e events leading up to the murder that, if substantiated, will, in the minds of those prosecution, at least, probably go far toward proving the contentions of the commonwealth that the s the result of a pian In which several prominent men were involved. Whether the defense will seek to im- testimony in this preliminary examination is not known, as the attorneys for the defense will not talk nless such attempt is made the commonwealth will rest its case, both County Attorney Polsgrove bell being satisflel that enough evidence has béen presented to hold the defendants on.the charges. claims to have been a fi to Secretary Powers and his brother, John Powers, for years, gave testimony DI DI DEDIPDIDIDEIIPIDIVIDIDIDPEDE +PGDG I edetebeded @ and Brabant fon. noon P B P .' otie tietie et oot o e ate Uetie NN eN o2 Nee Rotie He Liotios o250 Rele LK KRR 4% +%eO | Ma NKFORT, Ky., h %—F. Golden boursv! put on the witness stand of Secr charged with He examinati P. wers, ator Goeb: s replies to questi impression. majority in the Leg- he name of | incidental ¥ on, John Powers, , Finlay, Judge ngham 3 others to bring e mountaineers to having It e Commonwealth will rest conclt of Golden's testimony. was seized with a slight hemor- uring the morning and adjourn- | was taken earlier than usual. | evs for the Commonwealth say en’s testimony is practically the | and expect to prove by it not only existed, but also who oy splicated e courtroom was jammed long before r set for the examination and a | crowd rematned outside. | Golden as a Witness. | of State Powers was brought | morning and Golden was | He sald he had known | Powers for about eighteen years | knew Mr. Culton. He was | nted with Governor Taylor and n Powers. He said he was a of the defendants. He was | January and February | w Secretary Powers nearly every | He was in Frankfort on January 14| d went to Laurel County for three or | four days, from there returning to Frank- | fort “From where did you go—to Bar- | sked Attorney Campbell itating the witness said:, nswer that.” Secretary 1 won't “When did you have a conversation with Secretary Powers?’ “When Mr. Powers and I left here to- | gether. Colonel Powers told me to go to Jiarlan County and tell Postmaster John Hirst to send down ten witnesses in the d that idea 00000‘00;0000000000000000 | 4880000080020 Rane0a0es FRANKFORT, Ky., March 24.—There was much excite- ment in Democratic quarters to-day over a report that the guards in charge of the State arsenal had laid a mine in front of the arsenal and con- nected it with the inside by wire, so that it could be touched off in case of an at- tack. The excitement was in- creased when another report was circulated that one of the officers had purchased 100 feet of fuse from a local hardware merchant. It was reported that this fuse was to be at- tached to the mine alleged to be at the arsenal. - & @+ 4444444444044 4 4400 contest case who were regular mountain feudists.” “Did he understand what you meant by | that, and what was your understanding of that request?” Obhjected to, but overruled. “I won't answer that,” sald Golden. After some parley Golden said: ““Well, men who would stand up and if necessary go into that legislative hall and kill off enough to make It in our favor. T did not see Mr. Hirst. I saw Hamp How- ard. I told him we wanted ten regular mountain feudists for witnesses. We wanted men who had good Coit's forty- fives “Were the Colt's forty-fives to be put In,| evidence?’ asked Attorney Campbell. “Most assuredly they were,” answered Golden. Selected by Hamp Howard. In reply to a cuestion Golden said he did not know the witnesses who came to Frankfort. He « livered the message to Howard on Sunay a few days before the shooting of Goebel. “When did you next see Caleb Powers?" “] saw him on Tuesday. I got on the train at Ferris Station, Laurel County. He had a couple of men on the train named Pease and Locket. He told me to take care of them. I next saw Pow- ers in Frankfort. I don't remember what conversation we had then.” ““Who selected the men who came from Harlan County?” e e e R s damaging to John Powers, but he also brought in the names of many others, including Charles v that they do not expect to have his name brought forth prominently in the story of the. alleged con- n was not cross-examined to-day, and adjournment was taken at an early hour this afternoon on account of having a slight hemorrhage during the morning, becoming so weak under the strain nat he begged to be aliowed a respite. lan was made to bring to Frankfort several hundred “regular mountain feudists,’” who . ““go into the legislative halls and kill off enough Democrats to make it our He was quite nervous at times. ow that the alleged plot to kill Goebel was part of the original plan, nor did it contain the But the commonwealth sought to show by Golden's conversations with va-. not only John and Caleb Powers, but others as well, had full knowledge of the alleged plan of as- | Golden's tes- “Hamp Howard. men besides the He selected thirty ten. Caleb Powers, I | think, selected the men from Knox Coun- There were about seventy or elighty. | Jim Sparks, County Attorney in Laurel | ty. County, selected the men from Laurel County."” ““When was it determined to bring the men to Frankfort?” “I don’t know Army of Mountaineers Wanted. The witness stated that at London Pow- ers satd he wanted a regular army of mountaineers to come to Frankfort. In answer to further questions Golden said Powers gave him $160 to give to Judge Bingham in Eell County. “I gave some of it to Bingham to send | ten men down to Frankfort,” said Golden. The witness also said he gave Howard | 73 80 for ten tickets to Frankfort and re- turn. He knew some of the men from Bell County. Most of them were moun- tain feudists. About twelve or fifteen hundred men were brought to Frankfort. They were fed back of the State House. Captain Davis and Charles Finley pro- vided the provisions. Continuing Golden sald: ‘“We sent some of them back that night. By ‘we’ I mean myself, Powers, Davis, Culton and Governor Taylor. Finley Tay- lor and Powers decided to send back all except ten or fifteen from each coun‘y. I selected twelve armed men to be kept from Laurel County. About 175 men of the mountaineers brought to Frankfqrt remained here to see that we got justice.” “Did you have any further conversation with Powers regarding the work to be done by the men coming here?” “No, sir. They understood what they ‘were kept here for. We knew that those men were here to go into that legisla- tive hall and. If necessary clean out enough Democrats to make a majority on our side.” The answer created a sensation. Had Negroes Hired. Golden sald he was in the executive building on the day before the shooting. He met Powers in Governor Taylor’ anteroom. Powers asked him to go to Louisville that day. He told John Pow- ers that he was going to Loulsville with Caleb Powers. During a lengthy argument over a tech- nical point Golden became ill and court was adjourned to 1:30 o’clock. Golden resumed his testimony at the afternoon session. He sald John Powers and a black-eyed, mustached man had a Continued on Paze Fiftean. o *% 'fl‘g ’fl R ‘8 ’8_0?2 *RIR NN e R o2 ROBERTS AENANS AT DLOENFONTEN Delays the Advance on Pre- toria Until Country Is Cleared of Boers. LS D S PRELIMINARY WORK BEING ACCOMPLISHED —_— | By the Aid of General French’s Cav- | alry British Hope to Capture Big Body of Boers Now Head- ing for Kroonstadt. B =5 G Special cable to The Call and New York Her- 1. Copyright, 190, by the Herald Pub- ald. lishing Company. ONDON, March %.—Lord Roberts 1s still marking time at Bloemfontein. At least he has not yet begun pushing his army northward to- ward Pretoria. but the time is far from being wasted by the. British com- mander in chief, as an advance would be risky matter unless the country behind im was fairly rmed bodies of Boers before he set out. This prellminary work is now being ac- complished. Lord Roberts telegraphs | that the country tc the south of Bloem- fontein is gradually quieting down; that large quantities of arms have been de- livered up to the British authorities, and that the Free Staters are beginning to recognize the advantage of bringing in supplies for sale to the troops. a | h a; tricts, Lord Roberts adds, are being at- tended with good results. That, of course, is another thing for which Lord Roberts is waiting. He wlll doubtless delay also until General French has disposed of Commandant Ollvier's retreating com- mando and is able to report the country free from armed Boers. As soon as that time arrives word will come of the British mounted patrols mov- ing northward to drive back any of the | enemy in the neighborhood of Brandfert. General French, it is reported, is in he- liograhpic communieation with Maseru, Basutoland. which is about forty miles east of Thaba Nchu and ten miles south of Ladysmith. From this peint close watch Is being kept on the movements of the Boer force under Olivier, which is re- ported to number about 5000 men and to have several guns. For a time everybody wondered what had become of various detachments of in- vaders who succeeded in keeping the British at bay so long at Colesberg, | Stermberg and Dordrecht. It was gen- | erally supposed - that they had all dis- { 3 | persed il - to. hoj but the flatest T!;flfl a 0 Tn te that a large’ number of the: ve combined and are trying to elude the British forces | and reach Kroonstadt. The belief {s gen- | eral here that with Gatacre, Clements in hot pursuit and with French apparently in position to bar their way they can scarcely hope to escape. Should the dashing cavalry commander be able to throw even onme brigade of cav- alry with horse artillery in ffont of the Boers their fate wculd be sealed, so the military experts think. French's success in this operation hLinges largely on the | question of remounts. Reports come, | however, that a large number of fresh horses have been sent up from Stellen- | besch since the Brit'sh entry into Bloem fontein. | cavalry should by now have practically recovered {ts mcbility. The preventing of this column from reaching the main body of Boers would | be a serious blow to Kruger and Steyn, gince the republics are in urgent need of all the fighting men they can obtain. All the evidence goes to prove the substantial accuracy of the report from Pretoria that the Boer forces are combining for great resistance at Kroonstadt and that they | will fight desperately. everybody here, now that Colonel Plu- mer’s little band has been checked and forced to retire. In the absence of trust- worthy news of the advance from the south mauny persons seem to have the idea that a force must have started from | Boshof, which, it will be remembered, was recently occupied and garrisoned by Lord Methuen. This is quite possible, but it is not thought by military experts to be probable, because it is difficult to believe | that a column marching in a northeast- | erly direction from Boshof would not have | come under the Boers’ observation. If | the Boers had obtained knowledge of such a movement the news would certainly have peen sent out from Pretoria. Assuming that a relief column has started from Kimberley, it has most likely taken a ‘western route, making a wide detour to avold coming in contact with any Boers who may have been left to guard the rallroad south of Mafeking. If such a force is on its way news of its movements cannot be much longer kept from the publie. | ROBERTS MAY REACH PRETORIA BY MAY LONDON, March 24.—Spencer Wilkip- son, reviewing the situation at the seat of war for the Assoclated Press at midnight, says: 5 “The two points of acute Interest are just now at Mafeking and the Boer col- umn trekking north from Smithfleld and Rouxville, along the Basuto border. About Mafeking we are in the dark. Colonel Plumer has but a handful of men and is not strong enough to attack Commandant Snyman and raise the siege. Command- ant Snyman, therefore, has attacked him and Colonel Plumer has prudently retired, expecting no doubt to return after Com- mandant Snyman whenever the latter goes back. “Lord Roberts never forgets small things while attending to great things. It may be taken as certain that he knows how and when he shall have Mafeking re- lleved, supposing the garrison can hold out, but he does not disclose his plans in adyance. > 2 “We are all left to our guess. My first guess that the column had gone up by Barkley on or about February 19 seems to have been wrong. My next, that the mounted force would go up from Prieska as soon as the rebels were settled, is not yet ruled out. “General Methuen has been nearly a week near Fourteen Streams, probably ‘waiting for troops enough. The Boer ‘who s hoping to get past Gen- eral French up at may be caught and made to fight, but with a few . mounted men he ought to: be Military operations in the western dis- | By the aid of these the British | PORTO RICO’S PEOPLE BECOIMNING PAUPERIZED America Been Others There | n Sovereignty In Certain Sections Aid —Appears to Have a Blight on the Island. Is Not Needed, But in Is at Present a Prospect of Great Destitution. 8pecial Dispatch to The Call | NOM’&*& *BeR oG BN ok NeRe Rel+R 4N e NoNe HoNe Ne ReRNeN sRoNeR +NeNeN NN+ N R 5O 8 WASHINGTON, March 24.—The Porto Rican appropriation bill was signed by the President at ? s‘s 4:20 p. m. to-day. Comptroller Dawes was the only person present when the President attached his sig- ? | é nature. ® i ..n.ssommasommosouomnommaos.msouomfiomm.gomogowwom~no‘ | EW YORK, March 24—The Herald | among the people the impression pro-| believe the present prosperity of the correspondent sends the following | duced {s a most painful one. country is due to protection. You need | under date of San Juan, March 17: | i The American military officlals i told me that the year and a half | ot American soverelgnty had been a settled and cleared of | blight on the island. This was not the; | echo of the Spanish or of Porto Ricans' | feelings. They spoke their own views | with soldierly frankness and sometimes | | with a word of regret for their own po- sition. Leaving for the moment the question | of responsibility, no one can doubt the | evidence of the senses. The blight is | here. It spreads over the town and out | into the country. Trade is dead and mer- cantile and industrial activity Iyzed. In the fsolated mountain districts where the entire dependence of the popu- | 1ation is on coffee growing there !s still | much misery and without- aid from some quarter the people would starve, 1 have asked a number of army officers who have been stationed in the isolated | sections and they tell me as much, but they add that the tendency to pauperiz- ing the inhabitants is becoming pro- | nounced, and that in the sugar and to- bacco reglons the relief should be stopped. In those districts there is some work and money could be earned with which to buy supplies and a little local trade be set in motlon again. The distinction between Spaniards and | | Whatever may have | onfsms in the past t@day they are a | united class. The basis of thelr union 1s | hostility to the United States. I suppose it is true that the Porto | Ricans welcomed General Miles and the American troops as friends because everybody who was here at the time says #o, But all that Is past. Drifting around is para- | native Porto Ricans is not a marked one. | een thelr antag- | It is not exaggeration to say that they | | feel they are treated as a conquest by a | nation stranger to their race. The dif- | ference in language, though it accounts for much, does not account for this feel- | Ing, nor have there been arbitrary mili- tary acts to create resentment. The| military authority In operation is a fic-| | tlon. No one feels its weight or com- | | plains of oppressive actions. The army | officers are well liked by the people. The | manufacturing with a given amount of ‘ return of many of them to the United | money and a given amount of time, you States has brought out evidences of good | can compete with the world. If that be | will. | true the only question is how you can Not to know of this and the American | gain a broader fleld; how obstacles can feeling would be to be without eves or | be removed. All history goes to show that T have often wondered during these | trade is a pursuit of peace and that the great triumphs are gained by the best | equipped. “Theoretically and practically, I think | tree trade is absolutely correct. At least it seems to me a- tariff law such as will bring revenue, and only revenue, is what you ought to labor for. The Porto Rican t | question would be a farce if it were not BOSTON, March 24—“Free trade with|a tragedy.” | Porto Rico” was the subject for discus-| President Jordan sald Porto Rico and sion at the dinner of the New England | the Philippines were not the only coun- the Hotel | tries oppressed by us, but that we had | Vendome to-night, and the policy of mistreated Cuba, the American Indians President McKinley in dealing with the | and others in the same way. He spoke of | Porto Rico and Philippine questions was | aristocracy, militarism, slavery and im- | severely attacked. Among the speakers | perialism as the four great evils of hu- were Congressman De Armond of Mis-| manity, speaking humorousiy of the “ad- | souri, President David Starr Jordan of | vantages of imperialism.™ | Leland Stanford University and Patrick | Patrick A. Collins sald we could not af- | A. Collins. Congressman De Armond |ford to break our pledge to Porto Rico | satd: any longer. He sald he would itke to ses “It has seemed to me that the genmeral | Cuba and Porto Rico set up for them- sentiment on tariff laws constructed sole- | selves, and he belleved no European Iy for revenue is unfavorable. What we | would interfere with either of them as reed more than anything else is liberal | long as our Government attended to its trade principles. I don’t belleve in pro- | business and relied on the Monroe doe- tection as a doctrine or policy. I don'titrine. free and unrestricted markets. People unobstructed and left free will buy and sell where they can do so to the best ad- vantage. It Is not a matter of sentiment, but commercial interests. Just so far as people depend on legislation alone to do things for them, just so far will they fall short of what they wish to do. You are in the height and glory of your ability in manufacturing. In the broad fleld of | ears. | last few days if the American officlals | are themselves aware of its intensity. | M R ‘TIME TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE ISLANDS | | Free Trade League, held at | = British. If he stands to fight he may be | detained for some time. “Lord Roberts has now been more than ten days at Bloomfontein. He seems to | wish to settle the country behind him be- fore going on. Probably, too, he has ex- tensive preparations to complete. His next campaign will go into the dry sea- | son, when the nights are often very cold and the veldt is dry and bare. He will want his men equipped for this season and his transport service qualified to be as near independent as possible of grass and water. The design no doubt Is that General Buller in tte next advance will | move simultaneously with Lord Roberts. day Lieutenant Colonel Crabbe, Captaln )it was only possible to take such a st Trotter and lleutenant, the Hon. Elygon | ;{Il:zn "::_Yelfg:elll p :.!: ‘;:::;1“ it an of the Grenadier Guards, and Lieutenant | that. . e under Colonel Codrington of the Coldstream | {he Present conditions to accede to the Guards, rode cight or nine miles beyond | e ARMS BEING DELIVERED. their camps on the Modder River with- out escort, except one trooper. They were fired upon by a party of Boers and Lieu- LONDON, March 24.—Lord Roberts tele- tent Elygon was killed and Lieutenant | graphs to the War Office from Bloemfon- Crabbe, Lieutenant Colonel Codrington | g:llg;‘\'l.ndar date of March 23 (evening), as and Captain Trotter were seriously | 1% 3 wounded. The trooper also was wounded. Th:rl:::{xGntlr!y o B e Sy M P place is gener- One of the wounded officers held uD | ally settling down. Numi o a white handkerchief and the Boers came | have been delivered and. the people are to their assi-*ance and did all they possi- | beginning to recognize the advantage of | bly could, a..ending to thelr wounds. The ' b n{lni In supplies for sale. The move- | Boers then conveyed the wounded to the | ment of the troops in the western dis- The Mafeking problem is still puzzling | General Buller perhaps s not ready. nearest farmhouse, where they were trict Is being attended with good results.” “Lord Roberts will shortly have the| taken care of.” —_—— eighth division and may also form of the | ey @ troops mow available a new tenth divi- AUSTRIA'S ATTITUDE. | GENERAL WOODGATE DEAD ik LONDON, March M.—Advices recefved VIENNA, March 24.—It is semi-oMicially | pere announce the death in announced that the Government of Aus- | Hospital tria-Hungary has replied to the South Af- | Woodgate, w! rica appeal for mediation in the war that | gagement at .—Q-Q-O—Q—Q—HQ'OQ*QHHO—»MH sion. He will then have in his own hands 70,000 men and General Buller will have 40,000. “The former force need not necessarily be moving all on one line, for it would be easy to form a third column to cross the Vaal River at Kim v and turn any Boer defense on that river. In view of these figures and the known power of Lerd Roberts as a leader, I attach little | importance to the Boer declarations that they will make a big fight. If they stand before they are driven into Pretoria I ex- pect they will be enveloped. They may defend Pretoria, but that can help them but little. It will be a question of weeks. “Lord Roberts may be looked for north of the Vaal at the end of April and be- fore Pretoria, if the Boers fall back to that place, in the first half of May.” SATISFIED WITH THE ADVENT OF THE BRITISH March 28.— the Mool yesterday of General Sir Edward ho was wounded in the en-~ Spion Kop on January 24. O e e ™ R R e e T B T I R e R e R SR S i R e e IR e B e e e e e R e e e e B | BLOEMFONTEIN, Friday, Advices from Thaba Nchu, between Bloemfontein and Ladybrand, on the Orange Free State border, dated March 21, says General French's force is resting there, and distributing Lord Roberts’ proclamation. Brand, a son of the for- mer President of the Free State, Sir John Henry Brand, continues his duties as landdrost. He appears quite willing to co-operate with the new regime. The people gererally outwardly express satis- faction with the advent of the British. The insurgents In the northern part of Cape Colony have been detected in an ingenious swindle. It appears that before the departure of the Boers they pur- chased quantities of the notes of the Boer force, which they are now present- ing to the British authorities, demanding compensation for property alleged to have been requisitioned or damaged. The loy- alists, who are the actual losers of the goods, are infuriated. EX-CONSUL MACRUM TO BE HEARD IN PUBLIC ‘WASHINGTON. = March 24.—Former Consul Macrum Is to have an opportunity to air all of his grievances against Secre- { tary Hay in public. The original intention was to have him appear before the sub- committee of the Committee on Forelgn Affairs, behind closed doors, as his charges concerned the relations btween the United States and forelgn puwers. There was a disposition on the part of some of his friends, however, to criticize what they called star chamber proceed- ings, and It has been declded to have the hearings next week before the full com- mittee and with open doors. e i e BRITISH OFFICERS SHOT ~ AND CAPTURED BY BOERS LONDON, March 24.—At a late hour the ‘War Office posted the following dispatch from General Roberts: . March 24.--Yester- “HANDS UP, OR NO QUARTER.” (From The Spear.) to the London papers, instances of the Boers abusing the privi- white flag and the confidence of the British to whom they have surrender have been so frequent that orders Lave been lssued to it no attention shall be pald to offers of surrender unless the down at once. e e e e e e e e e e S e e A sl A e aa e ae an D R R R e R S )