The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVIII—-NO. 167. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, PROFESSOR ROSS’ LECTURES / DISPLEASE MRS. STANFORD Noted Sociologist Resigns His Position Because His Opinions Conflict With Those of the Patroness Palo Alto Unive of which lows quite Professor Ross’ Statement. n birth rate the Orient is the hine f it teemed with the same kir nating the e struggle e In the disc which birth- . ex- to quote one c made & profound impres- peals Displeases Mrs. Stanford. At Stanford University the are protessors il arter my b He Aoes an ® It was a y the same time JOHN BULL’S EXPENDITURE IS ENORMOUS —_— Sir Michael Hicks-Beach De- clares the Wealth of the Transyaai Must Bear Part of War’s Cost. ONDON, Nov. 13.—Sir A\Hr‘hafll{ Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the | Exchequer, speaking this even- | ing in Bristol, sald it would not be his privilege the budget to relleve the taxpayers. wished he could say that he was not able | increase the budget, but the Govern-| nt's expenses had been enormous, es- pecially in China and South Africa. He | declared emphatically, however, that the wealth of the Transvaal would have to| bear part of the South African expenses. The early calling of Parliament, with the object of securing for the Government further borrowing power to meet the ex- penses of the South African and Chinese uations, has caused much comment in the money market. It is understood that Government has already borrowed 45,000,000 from the Bank of England, and further operations of this kind would be imprudent and would disorganize the money market t is quite impossible to foretell what ount the Chancellor of the Exchequer will find it necessary to borrow. next | He in the THIRTEEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION IN A MINE LIN, Nov. 13—Thirteen persons were killed and fourteen others injured seriously in a fire damp explosion in the Pluto coal mine at Wicsa, near Brux. the | | | | | DR. EDWARD A. ROSS have given me, 1 am unwilling to become a r of embar- frer the e beg Jeave to ol Jordan read When 1 n the above Dr. e had just recelved from which had wiedge of been i directed that I 1 to the end January Acceptance of Resignation. ed upor Jordan and resignation was not a at once were made by President I have waited till now fn the hope that efr- cumstances might_arise which would lead you to & reconsideration ““As this has not been the case, I, with great therefore, ance accept your resignation, to take effect at your own convenlence. Tn doing o 1 wish to express once more the high esteem in which your work as a student and a teacher, as well as your character as a n, is beld by all your colleagues.” My coolie immigration speech offense n from cture before the Ia questions of c s not my sole April I complied with an invita- arfan church of Oakland to on ““The Twentieth Century iressed myself almost wh ity growth and city heal and ncidentally on the matter of pub- out, however, the drift, toward the municipal p of water and gas works, and predict- as regards street rallways, 14 probably pa Last American through a period of then revert to private under regulation character a 1 ownership ar My remarks were of course, I took no Only months of spe- enable me to say r a particular city like Oakland or San 14 better itself by supplying fits Yet this lecture was ob- local question vestigation could water or lght d ¢ Objectionable Utterances. Last year I spoke three tigies in public. The Brit- once before university extension center on Empire,” once before a church on “The ntieth Century City,” and once before a meeting on coolle immigration. To my ances on tw of these occasions objection It is plain, therefore, that this been made , place for 1 cannot with self-res IG BATTLE IS EXPECTED IN COLOMBIA e S b Decisive Engagement Has Prob- ably Been Fought Between the Rebel and Govern- ment Forces. S SR ANAMA, Nov. 13.—Late mail advices received by the French steamer from Cartagena, which arrived here yesterday, indi- cated that a decisive engage- ment may have been fought between the revolutionists and Government troops in Bolivar Province. General Rafael Uribe, head of the rebels, was still at Carozal on November 7, organizing his forces for an advance on Barranquilla. porated into his army most of the Gov- ernment troops he captured at Carozal, and is said to have been joined by many recruits from the surrounding country, who had beefi attracted by his success. B With the captured supplies and troops | he was then practically ready for an ad- vance, and it was believed he would soon march on important coast ports. General Ospina, with a strong Govern- ment force, on November 7 was reported | as having arrived iIn Onejas, a short march from El Carmen, where the first | opposition was to be offered to the ad- vance. El Carmen is in the hills south of Caro- zal, and is a strong strategic point. TWO HUNDRED CHINESE SLAIN. LONDON, Nov. 13.—A special dispatch from Tientsin, dated November 10, says a force of Russians has captured the ar- senal northeast of Yentsin with trifling loss, killing 200 Chinese and capturing a ‘quantity of arms and treasure, He had incor- | rsity. to speak on topics to which I have given igation. It is my duty as an impart on occasion to sober people a scientific spirit my conclusions on sub- ts with which I am expert. And if I speak I cannot but take positions which are justified by and by the experlence of the ofd | as the municipal ownership of r works or the monopoly profits of street es, or by standard economic science, > relation of the standard of life to mist to statisti that my every appear- upon me the hostile at- powerful persons and inter- and redoubled thefr ef- But 1 had no choice but The sclentist’s business ings clear to the bottom, s what he knows he loses his drew to go, for 1 have put too much not to love it. et in leaving is that 1 must break t bind me to my colleagues of seven ars and must part from my great chief, Dr. Dr. Jordan’s Statement. nto this university exceedingly sorry | en the action here | nuing, he satd: | censider Dr. Ross a man without a America to-day when it comes to soctal scienc He is one of | > most virile and inspiring men in the m that I know. The reason of his a personal one. There is absolutely objection taken either to | the man, to what he teaches or the man- ner in which it is taught. The vacancy he will leave in our faculty cannot be filled. There are many good economlists, but there are no scciologists of his rank | in the country. At present I cannot say | who his successor will be." Alsworth Ros v 1tion no is probably the | in America. He d most noted soclologist was born in Towa thirty-three vears ago, gradnating from college at the .age of nineteen. The next five yegrs he spent in study at University of Berlin and Johns Hop doctor's deg s University. He took his e at the latter institution in 1891 at the age of 24. While here he be- came a member of the Phi Beta Kappa | fraternity. He was appointed professor of economics and soctal sclence at Indiana Untversity by resident - Jordan in 1891, taking the place left vacant by Professor Jenks when the latter was calied to the head of his department at Cornell. Next year Professor Jenks called Dr, Ross to the assoclate professorship of political economy and finance at Cornell. During this time Dr. Ross acted as secretary of the American Econpmical Association. Professor Ross’ Work. When Senator Stanford appointed Dr. Jordan president of his new university he gave him full power to appoint his as- sistants. The regard which President Jor- | dan has for Ross’ work is shown by the | fact that one of the first appointments he made was that of Professor Ross to be head of the department of economic theory and public finance at Stanford Uni- | versity. This position he has held ever | In 1897 he was advanced to the pro- fessorship of sociology on account of his brilllant work In that line. | Recently Dr. Ross was elected a mem- | ber of the Institut International des So- | clologle, he being one of the seven Amer- | icans so honored. In the last nine years Dr. Ross has con- tributed thirty-seven articles to the lead- ing journals of sclenée. That his work is | of the highest order is shown by the fact | that he is a constant contributor to the Political Science Quarterly, Annals of since, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWELVE THOUSAND DECAYING CORPSES OF MURDERED No CHINESE IN AMUR RIVER Women and Children Among the Victims of Russian Atrocity, and One Will Ever Know the Exact Number of Unfortunates Perishing by Shot, Sword and Drowning. i i 3 RUSSIAN OPERATIONS ON THE AMUR RIVER, NEAR AIGUN FROM WHICH COME REPORTS OF WHOLESALE MASSACRE OF CHINESE.—LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS. IV MILITARY EXECUTION OF CHINESEOFFICIALS, COURT-MAR- TIALED AND ORDERED SHOT FOR INCITING UPRISINGS.— FROM THE SPHERE. | scribes, under date September 6, what he | American Academy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Yale Review, publications of | the American Economic Assoclation, | American Journal of Soclology, Review of Reviews, Arena, Independent and Out- He has already in the hands of the er a book entitled “‘Social Control,” which will appear next year in two vol- umes. . HONORS PAID TO A PRINCE OF BELGIUM Prominent Foreign Diplomats at Washington Attend a Re- ception Tendered to Henri de Crog. e | ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON | HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Prince Henri de Croy of Bel- glum was a guest of honor at a small recption given this after- non by the Countess de Lichtervelde, wife | of the Minister from Belgium. The new | Belgian legation, 1109 Sixteenth street, was | thrown open for the first time for a soctal event. The assemblage included only per- | | sonal friends of the guest of honor, and was In no wise official. Among the guests were the British Em- bassador and Lady Pauncefote, the Misses Pauncefote, the Russian Embassador and | Countess Cl{!!lnl, Count Quadt, Charge d'Affaires of the German embassy, the Spanish Minister and the Duchess of Ar- cos, the Misses Lelter and the Misses Pat- | ten. During his stay in Washington Prince Henri de Croy has been the guest of honor | at several small dinner parties given by the Belgian Minister and the Countess de Lichtervelde. The Prince left for New York to-night. He will be a guest at several house par- | ties at the fashionable country seats unti December, when he will return to the cap- { ital for the season. TORTURED AND BURNED ALIVE. BERLIN, Nov. 13.—Private advices an- nounce that the Catholic German mis- sionary, Bishop Hammer, was first hor- ribly tortured and then burned alive in Tustsen. 1 saw in the Amur River. His Accounts surpass in horror those previously pub- lished. “The scenes I have witnessed during the three days since the steamer left Blago- vetchensk,” he says, “‘are horrible beyond the powers of description. It Ig the clos-| ing tableau of a fearful human tragedy. | Two thousand were deliberately drowned | at Morxo, 2000 at Rabe and 8000 around | Blagovetchensk,- a total of 12,000 corpses | incumbering the river, among which there were thousands of women and children. Navigation was all but impossible. week a boat had to plow her way through | a tangled and mangled. mass of corpses lashed together by their long hair. The banks were Lterally covered with corpses. In the curves of the stream were dark, putrid smelling masses of human flesh and bones, surging and swaying in the steamer’s wake. The captain vainly ordered full steam ahead. The sight and smell will be ever with us. “From Blagovetchensk to Aigun, forty- | Last | by shot, sword and stream. Not a village | is left. ‘The silence of death was around | us. The smoking rulns of Aigun were on | the right, with- broken-down, crumbling | walls and shattered, rdofless house: e s “OPEN PORT” AT PEKING. Attempt to Check Capital Punish- ment Until After Due Trial. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Though the authorities would be glad to confirm the ! report from Peking that the envoys had agreed upon the general principles of the demands to he made upon China, they | have no such information. - Mr. Conger has ‘undoubtedly informed: the State Dé- | partment of the results of the meeting of | the diplomatic corps, butit s sald posi-| tively that an agreement has not been reached. The President is urgently press- | ing the powers to agree upon terms of a | Jjoint note 'to be presented to the Chinese | envoys, and it is hoped that his efforts | may be successful. In diplomatic circies | suggestions have been advanced: that | China_be, required 'lo .make Pekmg_nni to a better understanding between the of- ficials of the Chinese Government and for- eigners. The suggestion of a trial before capital punishment can be imposed is made with the reservation that it shall not apply to those responsible far the Boxer outrages. Viceroys of Southern China have made nown to the State Department through Minister Wu, that the execution of the acting viceroy of Chill created a very bad impression among_the_ people under their control and that wholesale slaughter- will | have a decidedly serfous effect in locall ties hitherto favorable to a settlement of | the trouble. | The administration Is using Its ulmrwt‘ endeavor to curb the thirst for blood | which has been displayed by certain of | the forelgn Ministers in Peking. FOREIGNERS ARE ORDERED 0UT Russians Taking road- Houses at Tongku. TIENTSIN . (undated), via |Shanghal, | Nov. 13.—The Ruysslans have ordered ll'ls!I Possession of Rail- | e ONDON, Nov. 13.—The Globe | five kilometers, numerous villages stud-, “open po#t,” and capital punishment shall | forelgners the railroad houses a: publishes a letter ‘from’a Bel- ded’'the banks with a thriving industry. [ occur in future only after due |rlal‘ ; It | Tongku-to vacate the buildings. amlv lh-’? glan gentleman who has . been | Their population was over 100,000. That | is said it would be in the mn»r(;n'nf China | “Y:'nah m\‘ 1t m.‘fn '1 :-‘-T‘-mm of travellng to Peking via the| of Aigun was 20,000. - No one wil ever| and the civilized v\:nrl-l If Peking “rrr‘lr' .{n'ry u-: 2 hu ’ »; of Bombay cav- trans-Siberian railroad. He de- | know the number of those who perished | made an “open port,” as it would conduce | alry, ordering these to remain and the property A dispatch from Tientsin, dated Novem- ver 9, said that as a result of the British representations ' to St. Petersburg Government Russia Is only handing oye: | the rafiread between Tongku and: Peking to Field Marsh t von Waldersee! commander-in-chief of tze internatioma! forces, who will giye it up to the British owners. NS RUNMORS Ol: DOWAGER'S DEATH. There Is a Growing Belief Empress ‘Will Never. Return to Peking. PEKING, Nov. 11, Shanghai, No vember 13.—Another small ‘German expe- ditlon - goes north to-merrow in spite of the fact' that these punitive raids are strongly criticized here as serving no good purpose. Reports of the death of the Dowages Empress are -persistent, .tnough thers is no officlal confirmation .of them, com- munfcation ‘with the court bemg very frregular. There “is a ' growing belef, however, that she will rever ‘return to Peking. via BOERS STILL FIGHT AGAINST BRITISH TROOPS Lord Roberts Reports Skir=- mishes in Three Districts and the Taking of 27 Prisoners. e e ONDON, Nov. 13. — Under date of Johannesburg, November 12, Lord Roberts telegraphs to the ‘War Office as follows: “Rundle reports - skirmishes with small parties of Boers in the Har- rismith, Reitz and Vredo districts recent- ly. The commandos appear to be acting independently and with no object, except to give as much annoyance as possible to the British. . Our casualtles in these skirmishes were two killed and seven wounded. “Douglas arrived at Ventersdorp No- vember 11 from Zerust, capturing during’ the march twenty-seven prisoners and a quantity of cattle and ‘sheep. Venters- dorp, which ‘has been a depot of supplies for the Boers, will now be cleared out.” striking both men in the head. TWO BAD MEN 'KILLED IN A DANCE HALL Willlam Kennedy and Daniel Kildee Go Gunning for Dick Adams and Are Slain Themseives. —_— ALLACE, Idaho, Nov. 13.—About 1 o'clock this morning Dick = Adams shot and killed Wiliam | Kennedy and Danlel Kil- dee in a dance hall at Gem. Early in the evening Kennedy had been abusing Ad- ams, and the latter told him to move on and leave him alone. At 1 o'clock Ken- nedy and Kildee came into Wilson's sa- loon, Kennedy with a revolver down his pants’ leg and a Winchester rifle across his arm, and Kildee with a revolver, and asked for Adams. As they started through the archway from the saloon to the dance hall they met Adams, and Ken- nedy started to raise his rifle. Adams in- stantly drew a revolver and shot twice, He then went to Wardner and gave himself up, BODIES FROM WRECK OF THE MONTICELLO Among: Thoss. of Victims That Will Never Be Recovered. S iege s ARMOUTH, N. 8., Nov. 3.—-Up to 6°p. m. thirty-two bodies of victims of the Monticello disas- ter had been recovered and identified, and those belonging | out of town were forwarded to their homes in St. John, Moncton, Barrington, Hali- fax, Lockport and other places for inter- | ment. are still missing. As some of them went down with the Monticello in deep water their remains may never be found. Cap- tain Harding is one of the.number. The Monticello had a heavy miscella- neous cargo, which is now washing ashore for milés and Is being held by finders for exorbitant salvage. ‘The bodies of twelve other persons Remains ‘of Captain Harding’| DISFRANCHISES THE NEGROES IN GEORGIA Dty | | Bill Introduced in the General Assembly Providing for an Educational and Property Qualification. ok A | TLANTA, Ga., Nov. 13.—Rep- | resentative Hardwick intro- | duced a bill In the General to-day providing \ for an educational and prop- | | Assembly erty qualification for suffrage in this State. The bill is similar to that enacted A bill similar to the one introduced to-day was presented at the last session of the Legislature by Mr. Hardwick, but falled of passage. The bill is expected to raise tne lssue of a constitutional convention for Georgla, | in North Caroltna. and is safd to be presented for that pur- pose. If the measure should become a law it would greatly restrict the negro vote in the State,