The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 18, 1900, Page 13

i i z § . Pages || @enerexeners 02 PHOHPHPAOXEX SASHS XOX SHOKORPROX- ‘0*0'0!0&0*( VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 171. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, M. #O ROROROR S RORS ROn m’. - » s S - 3 3 * * 1 ® s : @IHPAP XL HPARONBADH B, PRDRDHIUDAPANSD BISHOP POTTER DENOUNCES NEW YORK’S POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR SHIELDING AND ENCOURAGING VICE otests to Mayor Van Wyck Against Insults Offered Clergymen When They Seek to Pro- mote Virtue and Order in the Community. Pr EW YORK, Nov. 17.—Plans are now N ce of all socleties that have curing the last few years been en he detalls have not been a seems to be the ge: actor in order of t he community nmindful of ce of vice in a 1y other task which power gs in which vice shielded and en- se whose sworn duty it ge it, and, In and inno- their mothers, r conditions often hard struggle for » them every instinct t are the orna- gentlewoman in re God and in the face £ New York, I protest, as ed me to do, against persistent men- g contacts, to of the base ew York with e and crimes, they by tt re subject. the name of these i defens Christian and Hebrew alike, of races and tongues, but of homes where God 1s feared and his law reverenced and rtue and decency honored and exempli- fied, I call upon you, sir, to save these people, who are in & very real way com- ed to your charge, from a living hell, .g, deadly, damning, to which the criminal supineness of the constituted au- thorities, set for the defense of decengy and good order, threatens to doom them.” Bishop Potter, in conclusion, says ne has no methods to suggest for bettering many 1 be| ~H THCTIS OF WEYLER T0 BE ADOPTED Reconcentrado Sys- tem in South Afri- 1 can @pgblics. Kitchener to Depopulate the ' | Towns and Herd Non- Combatants. | | | DEPARTM 4 BISHOP HENRY C. POTTER: OF THE-PROTBSTANT EPISCOPAL DIO- | CESE OF NEW YORK, WHO DECLARES THE NEW. YORK POLICE H T IS IN LEAGUE WITH: VICE. | L | | y | the conditions; these are in the hands of | | the Mayor. He says hig letter-is in ac- | cordance with instructions laid on him by "lhe convention of the Episcopal church | of this diocese, and he leaves the matter | in the Mayor’s hands. Mayor Van Wyck at once replied to the Bishop by a letter, in which he said he | | passed the Bishop’s communication to the | District Attorney, and then adds: “I wish here to assure you that I will | exert every power which the law has given to right the wrongs and to do away with the conditions of which you com- plain and to secure a hearty and efficlent | co-operation by the ‘Police Department | | with all who are working to do away with | public violations of law and decency. I | stand ready at all times to assist and co- | operats with you in this matter.” Mayor Van Wryck's letter to the Dis- trict Attorney requests him to co-operats with Bishop Potter and the Police Depart- | ment in the movement. In a letter to the | Board of Police Commussioners the Mayor incloses a copy of the Bishop's letter and directs the commissioners to at once CoL- | duct a searching investigation into the duct of the two police officials who, the | | Bishop says, insulted the tlergyman. He, also directs them to do away with the conditions complained of on the East Side. The Mayor's closing paragraph Is: .| I wish it distinctly understood that to | this end I shall use to the utmost limit | | all the power vested in me and that I| shall hold to personal responsibility those | who fail to exert themselves in like mau- | ner.” | BN REFORM WAVE HITS CROKER. Gives Tammany Hall Credit for the Movement Against Vice. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Richard Croker satled for England to-day on the steamer | Lucania. Befors starting Mr. Croker sald: “This movement by Tammany Hall against vice means business. We have | TO CUT HER WAY TO THE NORTH POLE Russian Ice Ship to Be Dispatched on a Perilous Voyage. —_— DON, Nov 17.—An entirely new de- re in Arctic exploration will be made xt summer. Russia will send north her nderful ice ship, the Yermak, with in- uctions to cut her way through to the | The performances of this vessel in iiting her way at three or four miles an r through immense ice fields in the sitic Sea and other Russian waters have | ted amazement among all who have cssed them. She is now being equipped | O | mit that the expedition will be under- |and improved for the greatest of all | tasks, The Armstrongs at Elswick have just | completed a new bow which is espectally | | designed to encounter fields of ice in the Arctic Sea, which are heavier and thicker than any which the Yermak has attacked. The original bow was easily capable of dealing with any of the enormous ice fields which Russia produces. She went to a high latitude on her trip last summer and accomplished all that could be ex- pected of her in the assaults upon the eternal ice which she then encountered. Alterations now being made were sug-| gested by ‘this experience. Admiral Makaroff, who will command the expedition and who is superintending the changes, has the greatest confidence that his ship will cut her way without de- lay straight to the pole and will return safely in the same season. Every pre- caution has been taken to fit her out for a long stay in case of accident or block- ade. Admiral Makaroff has refused to give the detalls of the plans or even ad- taken, but there is no doubt on this point. | mittee ‘of five in the search after | ttonal Navigation Company. | | taken up this fight to purify the city in earnest, and we propose to carry it to a successful issue.”” Chief Devery was asked to-day if he had read the léttér sent by Bishop Potter to | Mayor Van Wyck calling attention to an | alleged laxness in the police department. | “I have nothing to say touching on or appertaining to that matter,” he an- swered. He made a similar reply when asked 1f the investigation and resuitant complaints made by the Tammany com- vice would be treated in the customary man- ner. WAR’S HORRORS JUST BEGINNING( Letters From Boer Women Show the Pitiful Distress Which Has Fol- lowed Burning of Farms, . Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Nov. 17. Kitchener has de- cided to depopulate several towns in the | Transvaal, owing to the difficulty of handling the Boers, who are hampering the ecivilian population. Kitchener is now for the first time un- hampered in carrying on the South African war and it promises to be widely different than under Roberts. He has faced the grim fact that the *enemy" means the entire population and has greatly tightened the censorship, while he finds it necessary to carry out certain military police acts more sultable to a campaign of sheer extermination and ag- gression than consistent with the policy of ultimate conciliation and neighborli- The Transvaal and the Orange Free State are now opening the second season since a crop was sown and it is ness. fourteen months since the normal import of foodstuffs ceased. The railways are still broken for several days weekly. These things combined make the feed- ing of the occupants of the two republics a work of great difficulty, which is in- creased by the finding of towns with stores under garrison. These garrisons the inhabitants betray to commandos, which thereby easily replenish their store, thus making the starving out of the fighting burghers im- possible.. Kitchener's alternative is the Weylerization of the two republics by means of the depopulation of towns, mov- ing every non-mllitary inhabitant toward the coast, where they will be more easily fed, while freelng the army’s hands. This will involve great time and labor and it is doubtful If it {s feasible. Kitcheners movement shows the fearful desolation to which the war has reduced the coun- tries. The publication of letters from Boer women showing the pitiful distress which has followed the burning of farms is not heeded here. The people will forgive any- thing which will bring the fighting to an end and release the troops. Instead of that, however, the Inniskilling Fusileers, who returned to England from Natal a few months ago, have been ordered to re- embark for the Cape. A L A Three Lieutenants Wounded. LONDON, Nov. 17.—An additional list of wounded in South Africa issued to-day includes the names of the Canadian Lleu- tenants J. B. Elmsley, L. E. W. Turner and H. C. C. Cockburn. | | | 1900—THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MAY AGAIN BE LEGALIZED IN COLORADO AS A RESULT OF PORTER’S CRIME Meeting of Business Men and Clergy to Be Held at Denver and Colorado Springs to Protest Against the Burning of the Negro Criminal. | | | s Seameiiteaiipifing | _— PRESTON (JOHN) PORTER JR., THE MURDERER OF LOUISE FROST, WHO WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE BY A MOB OF COLORADO CITIZENS AFTER HE HAD CONFESSED. REPRODUCED FROM A LIFE STEDY MADE BY A DENVER TIMES ARTIST. burning of “John” "Porter near Lake station yesterday—that is, all of Colorado except Lincoln County. In Denver and Colorado Springs meetings of ministers and business men have been called to condemn the brutality of the mob which burned Porter. Lincoln Couaty, however, has no re- grets. R. W. Frost is dctually pleased with his revenge. murderer of his little daughter at almost committed. “I have done nothing that I would not do again,” he said. . His neighbors went to-day to the scene of the burning and bullt a fresh fire over TRANSPORT INDIANA ASHORE ON THE COAST OF ISLA DE POLILLO ANTLA, Nov. 17.—The army trans- port Indiana, loaded with supplies and carrving a company of the Twenty-second Infantry, has gone M | ashore on the rocks on the east side of Isla de Polillo. The soldlers were des- tined to act as a garrison at Baler. The transport Pennsylvania has been sent to the assistance of the stranded vessel. It is thought the Indiana can be saved. The United States army transport Indi- ana is an'iron steamship of 3335 registered tons and before becoming one of the army transport fleet was owned by the Interna- She was built by Cramps & Sons at Philadelphia in 1873 and made her first trip from this port for the Government on October 27, 1598, when she salled for the Philippines with the First and Second battalions of the Kansas regiment on board, in com- mand of Brigadler General (then Colonel) Funston. The Indlana made a return trip to this port with a large number of dead and wounded soldiers, and after being refitted was sent again to Manila. For the last) nine/months, on account of her large ton- { nage, she has been plying in the army ser- vice between Manila and China, carrying troops and supplies to the command of General Chaffee and returning with sick and wounded to hospitals in Manila for transportation home. RECEPTION OF MR. KRUGER. PARIS, Nov. 17.—Dr. Leyds and Dele- gates Wolmarans, Fischer and Wessels reached Parls to-day. This evening they held a conference at the Hotel Schreibe, where ex-President Kruger will stop. They leave in the morning for Marseilles, Mr. Kruger, they say, will land at 10 o’clock in the morning and will arrive in Paris next Friday. MARSEILLES, Nov. 17.—The final ar- rangements have been made for Mr. Kruger's reception here. The ceremony at the landing place has been reduced to a few words of welcome, the speeches be- ing reserved for the banquet which will be given in honor of the ex-President of the Transvaal, even if he is not there. In that case other Boers will be present, — TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY. UNITED STATES TRANSPORT INDIANA, WHICH HAS MET DISASTER IN PHILIPPINE WATERS WHILE CONVEYING SOLDIERS OF THE He set- the match to | the pyre In which was consumed the negro | the precise spot where the murder was | the ashes beside the steel stake to wh! | Porter was chained. When the bones were wholly e umed the ashes were s to the winds, away with the blood of tered from the weeds dyed Louise Frost. Her e -+ ENVER, Nov. 17.—Colorado 1s | the little heap of blue bones that lay In |baby and I did not have the feeling of shuddering with horror over the revenge which so many people said ought to possess me. My one thought was to save others the pain we suffered. What- ever was done with that brute was right, no ma ainly he aid not sut- father did not want the negro's dust to | fer what and she was innocent, defile the spot where his child had been | While he y. May be I would have found dying. some pity I not her mother. No { The Coroner’s jury visited the spot soon afterward, and in ten minutes reached a verdict that Porter “came to his death at | the hands of persons unknown to tue | jury.” | Porter was one of the many low negroes | brousht in to work on section gangs. | Warning was sent out by the lynchers to all these negroes to get out of the State, | and to-day there is not a black working | | on the Union Pacific sections west of the Kansas line. A few of the sightseers from | Denver and other Colo‘ado and Kansas | towns have come home from the burning with bits of bones picked from the fire, | but relic hunting was sternly discouraged | | by the farmers, who executed Porter as a | | matter of duty. The Bible which Porter | | carried in his walk to his death was dis- | played in Denver to-day. A meeting will be held in the First Bap- | tist Church here to-morrow afternoon to | pass resolutions condemning the lynching. The leading pastors of the city will speak and many sermons will be preached on the | subject to-morrow. The Governor has | promised to make a speech, and business | men ard lawyers, many of whom would | have heard without a qualm that the ne- | gro had been hanged, will denounce his burning. | One probable effect of the lynching will l | be tie repeal of the law forbidding capital | punishment i Colorado. Many who con- demn the lynching say it would not have | occurred if the people could have been | sure that the negro would be hanged. The | | tree exercise of the pardoning power by | | Colorado's Governor, particularly in the | cases of murderers, has aroused g strong | sentiment in favor of the return to the| old ]aw. A strong lobby for the repeal bill was at work long before the Porter lynch- ing, and it now has an argument which will appeal to everybody in the State, for even District Attorney Malone, who con- demned tbe lynching, when pressed with questions said: “If I had been Frost and my little girl had been murdered I should have shot that scoundrel full of holes.” Therein he expressed the sentiment of a good many who denounce Frost's venge- ance. —_— GLAD THE NEGRO SUFFERED. Parents of Louise Frost Talk of the Execution. DENVER, Colo., Nov. 17.—“Well, no other parents will suffer from that brute's crimes.” These were the first words spoken by Mrs. Frost to-day when asked for an ex- pression on the punishment of the negro who confessed that he was the murderer of her child. 2 “Of course, I was not consulted as to the punishment to be meted out and I did not know what fate awaited him,” she continued. “I did not care, just so he was removed from the face of the earth. i Nothing can atone for the death of my J one but a parent of an outraged and mur- dered child can know just how I feel."” The murdered child’s father, Robert W. Frost, returned to Denver to-day from | the scene of the lynching. *“A great load has been lifted off us,” ha sald, “and as for me, I don't care who | condemns me for starting the blaze. No other father will have to do what I dia on account of that ‘nigger,’ and, as I said before, if the brute had been lynched for his first offénse in Kansas my baby would be alive to-day and our hearts would not be broken.” e —— WOMEN VOTED FOR BURNING. Wanted No Mercy Shown the Mur- derer of Louise Frost. LIMON, Colo., Nov. 17.—The iron rail to | which John Porter was bound will be left standing as a warning to all inclined to deeds similar to that for which young Porter was burned. A mound of earth has been piled up around the iron rail, covering the ashes, and it will remain as a monument in sight of all passing trains. It is estimated that 700 persoms wit- nessed the execution. No women re- mained during the cremation, but many of them went to the scene before the fire was lighted and the negro was led from carriage to carriage ‘or inspection. The women's vote.was a unit for burning. GEORGE OF GREECE IS BETROTHED PSS It Is Said He Will Wed One of the Royal Princesses of England. le to The Call and New York Her- pyright, 1900, by the Herald Pub- lishing Company. ¢ LONDON, Npv. 17.—It is long since so- clety has found a more interesting topic of conversation than the little rumor which was set afloat yesterday in the ‘West End about a forthcoming royal en- gagement. ‘When it was first announced that hand- some young Prince George of Greece, Governor General of Crete, was to pay a visit to this country some wondered and some suggested that the visit had a cer- tain interesting significance. It is now stated that the Queen has approved of the marriage of one of the English royal Princesses; and that the pfficial announce- ment will be made before long. ‘Whether the wish be father to the thought, it is certain that the Prince has made himself very popular during his brief visit to England. Special Cab! ald. -