The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1900. SHOULD BUILD THE NICARAGUA CANAL AT ONCE Trans-Mississippi Congress Favors Independent Procedure. e Partial Various Report Relative to Bills That Are Now Before Congress. —_— ex April tended ongr and f eption given Mr. Lowe's paper canal® evidenced the ¢ taken In that ques- »plause throughout, but Nicaragua amation 1u ittee on Resolutions Brings in 18.—To-day’s ssissippi Commer- a The brought in a veral bills now s intended to avoring the with the same osen as the next e morning session | WILL CARRY FOOD TO STRICKEN INDIA Secretary Long Gives Orders to Close the Option on a Suitable ¥ by died d at 1, for w the will the Prc 2 ¥ th e property N Pain and ignored ————— Shearas Sentenced. DE nd killed George Warner ota RIVERS was ¢ st week, was to-day ige Noyes to ten ¥ Extract Season, We carry In stock all the different brands of Malts {0FF'S MALT EXTRACT t bottles, genuine) 25¢ bottle, or $3.00 dozen. WMALT EXTRACT lz, or $2 50 dozen. MALT EXTRACT 25¢c bottle, or $2.50 dozen. RENNER'S GERMAN MALT EXTRACT 20c bottle, or $2.25 dozen. NUTRINE 25¢ bottle, or $2 25 dozen. 7900 Catalogue mailed free. | THE OWL DRUG CO. Cut-Rate Druggists. 1128 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, Tenth and Broadway, OAKLAND, gue and famin v Long w G because York, sufficient letters »bate Court Hobbe, & daughter) both of this April 19. —Vernea Shearas this county last December. onvicted of the crime of f \ | | 4 | epector Houghton. | Federal | Department | and Chile is imminent.” VOTES ARE ROLLING IN FOR THE MAY QUEEN| CALL A HALT TO0 Struggle at Sacrame nto Grows Very Ex- citing, Friends of the Candidates Now Working Actively. Special Dispatch to The Call. e e e S o 2 SMITH NT WHO WII t, when the final ed. | 1 her be will surely “the The votes represe value of a nickel each and they are being deposited in solid blocks for the favorites. The her day one batch of 20 ilots was de- posited for Mrs. H. G. Smith and it is said that her friends have even larger blocks in store to t e the con- test closes MR o o e o e e e e ] e e e o + ® * Py + LS 3 .. UNDOUBTEDLY BE THE MAY | 3oysen, Sacramento.) ¢ . P et b ebeieieiedQ ntest has 1 rowed down between Mrs McAdams. The friends of husiastic in their claims ndidate will sit on the throne young man, whose > officer, this afternoon list which he headed ad a large number of ach pledged to 100 votes in Adams. A number of the Smith_are also securing ons in her favor. s a_most splrited t that 100,000 eing printed to-day, it ng if something like are cast for the fa- v and Saturday night. ght that the carnival an order with a printing r a number of ballots representing each in value, this being necessary to 'mmodate the heavy demands whie eing made for large blocks of votes. Mrs. Smith and Miss McAdams have of friends and admirers and nothing be left undone by them to promot with § na of the handsomest in the city 10 ASSASSINATE TWO AMERICANS Had Visited the Country to Extradite a Defauliing Banker. ey State Department Has the Matter in Hand and Diplomatic Relations May Be Broken Off Very Soon. Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, April 19.—An attempt by of- of the Chil two Boston police officers s in the unsuccessful effort of the Boston police to secure the extradition of F Moore, a Boston banker, who is 1 with having embezzled $00,000 from a Boston bank and is now at the lean capital. Inspectors A. J. Hough- and J. M. Harrison of the Boston police, who went to Santiago de Chile under the authority of the State De- rtment to bring Moore back to Boston for trial, returned yesterday without him, They are absolutely reticent about their experiences In Chile in response to in- structions from Washington. It fis stated, b by a member of the wever, by police "department that the two Boston officers received scant courtesy at the hands of the Chilean officials and that three men in Chilean uniforms made a deliberate attempt upon the life of In- The two officers were in secret consultation with United States Commissioner Fiske to-day. No inkling of their disclosures to the commissioner | was given out, but that they were of a serlous nature is inferred from the fact that a special messenger was rushed to | Washington late this afternoon with the | commissioner's information. Both officers are under the strictest injunction from thelr chief, acting at the Instance of the authorities, not to discuss_the case for the newspapers until the State has had an opportunity to act. It is stated that the matter is so | serious that the friendly relations be- | tween the United States and Chile are in- volved. A friend of Inspector Houghton and a rominent member of the Boston Police Department thus summarized the matter to-day: “You may be assured that the | State Department will take the most en- | ergetic action when the real facts of the case are known. These facts are such | that a rupture between the United States | The business interests of Boston are determined to secure the extradition of Moore at any cost. Fitzgerald’s Defense. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD CITY, April 19.—The testi- mony for the prosecution in the Fitzger- ald murder case was completed this after- noon and the defense opened. - Beveral witnesses were called who testified that they had seen the defendant the after- noon before the murder and that he was sober at that time. It was also stated that the relations between the two men were friendly. This latter piint was em. that the crime was not hasized to e Premeditated. n Government to as- | DISCRMINATION HGAINST DENVER ' Merchants of That City Ap- pear Before Interstate Commission. —_——— Expert of the Chamber of Commerce Presents Table of Figures Show- ing Favoritism to Omaha and Kansas City. SRR DENVER, April 19.—At the meeting of | the Interstate Commerce Commission to- | @ay all the raiiroads entering Denver esented by attorneys and offi- | clals and a large number of the members | of the Chamber of Commerce, which is | urging the complaints, were present. Some | of the members of the chamber were called to testify. The evidence to-day | was mostly in regard to alleged discrim. | tnation against Denver shippers in favor of concerns in the East. James E. Murden, a freight-rate expert, in the employ of the Chamber of Com- | merce, offered figures and tables to prove what he asserted was favoritism to ship. pers in Kansas City and Omaha. Alfred S. Proctor, a dealer and manu- facturer of ore bags, testified that he | could not manufacture bags in Denver | and compete with St. Louis because the rate from St. Louis to Denver on the finished product was only 68 cents, | whereas the material used In making the begs cost $1 02 laid down in Denver. Joseph Zeigmond, a picture-frame mak- er, said he could buy frames In New York and ship them to Denver cheaper than he could bring the material. George J. Kindel, the original complain- ant, sald the conditions were unchanged from 1885, when the case was first heard by the commission. ‘W. N. Byers, for a number of years president of the Chamber of Commerce, declared that the raflroads were the cause of Denver losing a number of manu- facturing industries, which would have come here had not Denver been handi- capped by unfair freight rates diserimina. tion. He asserted that at least one-fourth | of the business men in Denver at present reatly dissatisfied with conditions. L. M. Bogue, & manufacturer of mixed metals, said he could buy in St. Louis (nh}(‘ed metal cheaper than he could make t_here . V. C. Jackson, a manufacturer of drills, sald he would like to open a l‘f‘:leclS tory here because of the fleld, but the New York article sells for less money in Denver than he could duplicate it for, The defense will not offer any test! mony. adjourned until 10 W Th commission o'clock to-morrow. Suspected of Safs Robbing. Special Dispatch to The Call. . MODESTO, April 15.—Word was re- ceived in this city to-day that the officers at Sonora had arrested a2 man suspected of blowing open the safe in Henry Vogel- man’s saloon on Sunday n(g':x’: Jast. e man had $220 in cash upon the time of his arrest, while the taken from the safe was $240. e ok sl g r(‘:.g::mdu:l photographic supplies, also , deve moun 3 HSE A i e O at ount ® | waters as should be made should be per- A B R R R ection of their respective choices. Smith Is the wife of H. G. Smith, the ywner of the Pioneer Mills, and dence at Tenth and H streets is | CANNON WOULD Sny.s Naval Officers Are In- competent to Perform Civil Duties. ! Remarks Called Out Before the House in a Debate Over Certain Terms of the Naval Bill. —_——— ‘ WASHINGTON, April 19.—The House | spent practically the entire day debating | a proposition in the naval bill designed to | turn over to the navy the survey and | charting of the waters of Cuba, Porto | Rico and the Philippines. The bill carried | an appropriation of $100,000 for this pur- | pose. Cannon, chairman of the Appro- priations Committee, led the fight agalnst | it, arguing that such surveying of these | formed by the coast and geodetic survey, | which, he said, could work cheaper and better. In the end the House adopted an | amendment offered by him to appropriate only the regular $10,00 for ocean surveys. | The_ chairman of the committee of the whole, Payne, overruled the point of or- der against the appropriation for the naval academy, but an amendment of- fered by Cannon was adopted providing that before the money appropriated by the bill for the académy be expended for the whole improvement, not to $6,000,000, be submitted and ap- proved by the Secretary of the Navy. Cummings of New York argued that the proposed surveys should be made by the not by a semi-political bureau like the Coast and Geodetic He poked fun at the superintendent of the survey, who, he sald, flew his own flag while afloat like a flag officer of the navy. He read a letter from d man now in the sur- vey who had served twenty years at se The letter described the work as “Nobody knows anything but me,” it said. “I am commanding officer. I was | only a boatswain in the navy.” Cannon concluded the debate in favor of the amendment. The officers of the | navy were educated to fight, he said, not | to_perform civil dutles. i “In the performance of civil duties,” he | | sald, with great emphasis, “they are the | | mosiincompetent and the most expen- | sive.” | In the burst of applause that followed | this utterance some one cried out some- | thing about “Dewey." | “Oh, I am not talking politics’” re- sponded Cannon. “T am talking dollars and cents, and an efficient survey. | a great admirer of Admiral Dew: the other officers and men who served in | the Spanish war. I love them so well that | when 1 see men trying to set them to | work at something at whlch”lht\\' cannot | cal sustain “themselves T a halt.” (Laughter and applause.) GOVERNORS OF - WESTERN STATES ~ TAKEACTION Oppose the Leasing of| Public Arid Lands by | the Government. | | | | | | | | » ! | In Favor of the Cession of Such Do- | | main to the Several States | | | | Wherein They May Be Situated. ——. SALT LAKE, April 19.—Governor Lee of South Dakota and Governor Poynter arrived to-day and took part in the pro- | ceedings of the Governors of Western States, who have met to discuss subjects of Interest to this section. | After a general discussion the commit- | tee appointed to formulate resolutions | against the leasing of public arid lands | by the General Government and demand- | ing the cession of such lands to the sev- eral States, should any change in the present system be made, reported the foi- lowing, which were adopted: Resolved, That the people of the States here represented are opposed absolutely to any leg- isiation or any actlon of any kind looking to or baving for its object the leasing of the | public arfd lands of the United States by the Keneral Government or any agency thereof. | Resolved, second, That the present laws pro- | viding for the control, management and dis- posal of the public arld lands of the United States are best adapted to the needs and re- quirements of the country and conducive to the settlement and occupancy thereof by bona fide settlers. | Resolved, third, That if it shall be found that the present iaws affecting the arid lands are not satisfactory-to the Congress of the United States then we favor a cession of the | sald arid lands to the several States wherein | they are situated under such terms and con- | ditions as will guarantee the benefits of the free homestead laws to the people of the | United States and that will prevent said lands | either by fee simple title or by the leasing | thereof from passing into the possession or | control of large companies, syndicates, corpor- | ations or wealthy individuals in large quan- titles to the exclusion of others and under such | conditions that the several States may have | the Income arising from sald lands to be de- | voted to the reclamation and improvement | thereof for settlement by bona fide citizens. | Governor Lee of South Dakota was the | only one who opposed the resolution. His | opposition was simply because he beiieved | that the defand for cession to the States should be put first. A form of letters to be sent out to other Governors was adopted. OUTLAW KILLEDM BY SHERIFF'S POSSE Was a Member of a Band of Men Caught Mutilating Brands on Cattle. SALT LAKE, April 19.—A special to the Tribune from Thompsons, Utah, says Mr, Fullerton, manager of the Webster City Cattle Company, yesterday discovered two men m: tilating brands on his cattle. They threatened to shoot and he retreat- ed. "With the assistance of Sheriff Preese and posse the thieves were overtaken seventy miles north of here and ordered to surrender. The thieves showed fight and were followed six miles, all exchang- ing shots. one of the outlaws being in- stantly killed. The dead man answers the description of “Flat Nose George,” and investigation proves conclusively that he Is one of the men that robbed the train of the Unjon Pacific Railroad about a year ago. He has been brought to Thompsons for iden- tification. Men are now on the way from Cheyenne to identify the body. o Arerdteg New Court of Foresters. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, April 19.—A special train, carrying a large delegation of Foresters, left here this evening for Dixon, whe court was instituted to-night. o s, 444444ttt 4ttt 44440 + Have you heard the story of the “Barbed Wire Tele- phone Town.” This is not fic- tion but fact, and well illus- trates the ingenuity of the Californian. Read all about it in The Sunday Call. 44444444440 Bet++444444 } |SAYS LAWTON WAS SHOT BY AN AMERICAN DESERTER M]MIHM_ BEWEY Story From Manila Charges the Officer’s Death to Hamilton Howard, Rated as a Vagabond Drunkard and Now an Officer in the Filipino Army. 0S ANGELES, April 19.—Through advices to-day received from Wen- dell McLaughlin, now in Manila as officlal reporter of the military court, a new version is furnished of the death of Major General H. W. Law- ton. McLaughlin, who is well known here and who reported the special proceedings at Sacramento last winter, confirms the story that is credited with truth in Ma- | nila. This new account traces the tragic end of Lawton to Hamilton Howard, a renegade and deserter from the First Cali- fornia Regiment, who planned the ambus- cade, and upon good authority he is cred- ited with having fired the fatal shot. Howard, it appears, deserted his com- mand at Cavite during the early days of the Spanish war. His reception among the insurgents was not flattering, owing to his dissolute habits, and he became the butt of ridicule, jests and pranks, includ- ing the painting of his body with colors while he lay in a stupor. When a party of Pllar's forces occupied San Mateo and General Lawton made his night march to reach it orders were given to retreat. At this juncture Howard, who had become a camp vagabond, after an interview with Pllar, was placed in charge of the detach- ment’ of sharpshooters that covered.the American advance. They were instructed to kill Lawton and with this desire they pumped their lead In the direction of Gen- eral Lawton and his staff. ‘When Lawton fell Howard's plans were made known and his claims to distinction were rewarded, for, while the nation mourned, this renegade was invested with a uniform by General del Pilar and ap- pointed a major of artfllery, subject to the approval of Aguinaldo, when he could be reached. Howard sports his sword, strategists of the Filipino army. Records of the First California, taken when the regiment left here, show no Hamilton Howard in the ranks. It is possible that such a man joined the com- | mand out in the islands, or just before the regiment left home, but he is not a |local man and no one in the regiment | has any recollection of a goldier of that name. His name has been' mentioned in dispatches as having deserted the United States forces to take service in the insur- gent army, but he has never been men- tioned except as a_man utterly worthless a soldler and dissipated and immoral as a man. ¢RI S SAFE ARRIVAL OF TWO TRANSPORTS ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, April 19.—Telegrams | were received at the War Department to- day announcing the arrival of the trans- port Lennox at Manila and the transport and is now considered one of the greatest Port Stephens at Hilo. The Lennox ear~ ried 457 horses and mules and lost but « of the number on the voyage. Up to the time of the arrival of the Port Stephens at Hilo there had been no losses whatever e s HEAVY SENTENCES FOR FILIPINO COMBATANTS MANILA, April 19.—The military com- mission which tried three Leallamba for guerrilla warfare all three guilty and sentenced two to life imprisonment and years' imprigonment. ) has approved the find , b duced the sentences to fifteen years. Two Ladrones convicted of murder have been sentenced to bc hanged Odonnel. Burial of Mrs. Glascock. Spectal Dispatch to The Call WOODLAND, April Glascock, mother of ex-Se and Mrs. Jack: Hatch of San Jose, ¢ in Washington on the 10th inst burfed hers to-day. She w. Virginia and 82 years of a. last sixteen years she has been a of Washington, but prior to that time s resided in Yolo County for thirty-t vears. Her body was brought here fi burial beside that usband, -~ | was killed in a railroad aceident In 1S54, TO—MORROW night closes the sale of our $10 blue serges, which you have had an opportunity to get for the past ten weeks—don't let the opportunity pass now—it will prove a saving to you. REMEMBER, the suits are all wool, well made from good serge cloth, dyed with a deep shade of unfadable blue. They are made as they should be made—in a thorough, careful manner. guaranteed. TH are popular and because the price is popular, it being SO 10 They are durable, lasting, satisfactory and E store closes at eleven o’clock at night, and with it will close one of the most popular sales we ever had. The sale is popular because the serges if you want a good satisfactory suit at an economical. saving price, here is the chance, but you have only a short time to take advantage of it. Boys’ Washable Suits. Washable suits, made of covert cloth, with suitable trimming, sailor pants ; ages 3 to 10 years; they come in six different shades and make good outing suits. Also sailor suits of brown cheviot, with short pants; ages 3 to 10 years. For a short time these two values will be sold for suits filled as long as the suits last. S.N¥o COC coc Out-of-fown orders for the serges filled if they bear postmark of Friday or Saturday. 718 Market Strect. Orders for washable