The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1901, Page 13

om ++ - T ream— Coxere HEXIEORSRORS mmwb‘ 1065 13 10 2 P s e 2 2 R e 2 22 i ‘uo-uo&o; n 00- 220542080 g VOLUME LXXXIX-—N SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1901-THIRTY-TWO PAGE Tall, mmmw | bages 022} mmmw PRICE FIVE CENTS 0. ripo CIBSONS DOES NOT UPHOLD RS, NATION Crusade in Kansas Causes Surprise o Cardinal. Declares Women Unsex| Themselves by Taking Law in Their Hands. —_—— Elopement of t tober and their ] Special Dispatch to The Call. S | BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.—An interview | th Cardinal Gibbons on Mrs. Nation's | rusade in Kansas and his position on the temperance question will appear in the | Baltimore Sunday Herald. Cardinal Gib- s interview gives expression, with great earnestness, to the views| which he holds regarding total abstinence | neral vement. what we | o moral- | »nal use of be condemned. | MRS. CLAIRE BINFORD AND “HEALER” HARRIS MARRY AT EL PASO Wedding Comes as a Sequel to the he Pair Last Oc- Arrest at Phoenix nd Italy, where ne, no serious MRS. C. M. BINFORD OF LOS A NGELES, WHOSE SENSATIONAL - ” - 7:,"“}:“'__’"”:: , ELOPEMENT WITH “FAITH HEALER" W. C. HARRIS IN OCTOBER : LAST BROUGHT SORROW TO TWO HOMES. s w the Papal| | s s prescribe it for his| $—— * [ \ won SRl S e Special Dispatch to The Call. ' B A G A - OS ANGELES, Feb. 9.—The sequel | the local social scandal of the year. Mrs. s which have occurred in: nt oty g5 g it Binford elopeme: October took place the principals in were married at have filled me with astonishment. Either U A Kansas are | gy pyeo’ Tex. The parents of Mrs. Claire : ecessary. or ¢ McComas Binford, the beautiful young ary and wise and Just, | gomayn in the case, © ; recelved the be rigidly enforced by the horities. If, on the other McComas: We were Well and happs AND CLAIRE McComas, then 17, eloped with Charles M. Binford, the marriage taking place at Echc Mouptain. v repealed. 1 my opin- istify Mrs. »wers in taking the Two years ago Claire it Binford then a bank clerk. The " » couple soon removed Prescott, Ariz., = e where Binford worked as a bookkeeper, Last summer Mrs. Binford visited her home in this city and met Professor C. W. Harris, a handsome young practitioner of magnetic healing. She took a course of treatment under him and the pair became | it could of the total adb- substitution of calculated to help deeply infatuated, notwithstanding the | ne because T deplore and | fact that each was married ! es of Mrs. Nation Their 'ment on October 29, 1900, was | pathize wit r < them. But, 1 f women, how- the law and By their vio- selves. Re- be provided by authorities, and must all work together and smash the sa- | loons and save ourselves and our fellows. | God bless you, but you all look as if you | would like to help me. Be good and do | what you can, and meet me in heaven.” “Wiil you have your hatchet there?” cried out a voice. “Oh, I won't need it there,” ly the first time the Car- retortea ut so openly on the tem- n and taken a stand | Mrs- Nation, and the chorus of roars | stinence. It is contrary | eVoked by the witty sally were lcst only of Archbishops Corrigan | When the train started out. Large crowds were at Dexter and Earl- | ham, while De Soto and Booneville l.xrnml‘ out well, considering the size of the towns. but continued as effervescent | THOUSANDS GREET CRUSADER. Nation did not show any symptoms | Mrs. Nation Attracts Big Crowds | of fatigue, +Harris and Mrs. Harris promptly filed suit for divoree, but Binford had the guilty pair arrested at Phoenix. The charge was reduced to a nominal basis, and the principals, plead- ing guilty, were fined $100 each. Apparent mutual lowed, but the infatuacion between Harris and Mrs. Binford was too deep to smothered. Harris ovenly visited M nford on her return to Los Angeles, and he declared to her varents his desire to | marry her. When Binford and the first Mrs. Harris realized the situation they obtained divorces followed. In thelr naste to be wedded, Binford entered into a marine marriage off the part of Redones reconciliations foi- | and to-day’'s marriage | WHOLESALE LOOTING BY FOREIGNERS Chinese Make Grave Charges Against - Favier. Archbishop Declares, How- ever, That He Did Not Make Raid. o e PEKING, Feb. 9.—The members of the family of Lu Sen, Minister of Foreign A?- fairs, who was executed by the Empress | Dowager because he would not sanction the anti-forelgn movement, have lodged | a complaint with the international Gov- ernment of Peking charging Archbishop | Favier, who is' now in France, with loot- ing their house of money and valuables to an agsregate of a million taels (about | $700,000) on the day after the slege wns‘ raised. The “League of Civilian Looters” of all nationalities has been disrupted by dif- | ferences which have arisen over the di- | | vision of the spoils, and there now seems | to be a chance for honest men, includh‘g | the Chinese, to get their dues. | It only one-tenth of the charges of, | murder, assault and robbery against the foreigners are substantiated, as there is | much reason to believe will be the case, | Christendom will have cause to blush for| ’\ shame. ) The family of Lu Sen state that the stolen property is mow in the possession | | ot Herbert L. Squiers, First Secretary of | | the American Legation, and is about to | be shipped away. ———— DENIED BY FAVIER. Says There is No Truth in the Alle- gations Made. MARSEILLES, Feb. 9.—Archbishop Fa- vier, the head of the French missions in North China and the Viear Apostoiic of Peking, will =sall on his return to China | to-morrow. In the course of andnterview ASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The re- port of the special Congres- sional committee which inves- tigated the hazing of Cadet Booz and the general subject of hazing at West Peint was submitted to the House of Representatives by the chairman, Representative Dick, together with a bill making stringent regulations against hnhll. fighting and all brutal practices. The report Is an exhaustive review of | il de el e © last Tuesday and immediately started for | he declared to-day that the accusatiofs the City of Mexico, whete Hatris will be- | brought by the family of Lu Sen, Chinese gin life anew as vice president of a gas | Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was éx- company. They stopped at Bl Paso long | ecuted by the Empress Dowager bécause enough to have the marriagé cereriony | he would not sanction the anti-foreign the practice of hazing in all its forms, and while moderate in tone, it s, never- theless, & stinging arralgnment of the many alleged brutal practices enumer- ated. It specifies more than one hundred repeated. Mrs. Harris number one is ,mnwmem that the PBishop looted their stopping at a local lodging-house and is houses of money and valuables aRRTegat- practically without‘fands. | ing a million taels, the day after the siege | was raifed, are absolutely untrué., He | further said that immediately upon his arrhux in Peking he will place himself at | the atrposition of the aliles and furhish a complete reply to the calumnies. If, how- ever, it be shown that any Christian, | which was accomplishied ‘withéut objec tion on the part of Mrs. Nation. HOLTON’S J’OINTS CLOSED. | Cttizens Wreck Ome 2 h g Otibrs , without his knowledge or order. injured ny Cainese family, he will deem it his ‘duty. after investigation by the allles, to i endeavor to make reparation. Quit Business. TOPEKA, Kans, Feb. 9.—Holton, Kans.,, was purged of its joints to-day. The purging process was accomplished by a band of at least a thousand determined citizens, who took the law into their own | i e L I GERMAN TfiOOPS ACTIVE. distinet methods of annoying and harass- | ing fourth class men, and describes them in detatl. One of the “funny formations” de« scribed is that practiced on Philip Sheri- dan Jr., who was compelled to ride a | broomstick, “In mockery of his illustrious | father's achievement at Winchester.” The report states that a system of fight- ing has grown up which is shocking in its | character. The fights are described and the committee states that n'e ‘West Point code is more vicious than the Queens- berry code. The committee holds that fighting is the worst form of hazing. The report says that such fighting as During Her Tour. ES MOINES Feb. 9.—Mrs low gh Na- on took on a new phal one to the Rock Island pas crowds in the town to come to Des Mot ture. she passed through to deliver a lec- she v In the afternoo ed four sa- loons, doing mo damage, but drawing such & big crowd on the street that the police were compelled to stop the crusader. the evening she addressed a large meet- ing in the Y. M. C. A. bullding. The jour- | r Bluffs to Atlantic was | the hour being too early for | from Council quietly. lantic the fir train, and visitors swarmed Mrs. Nation saw gd glad to see you. Shake ess the boys and the young I just love you all.” ta, where Mrs. Nation ndow opened and hands the aperture. Fully a were gathered on the y as could surged hook hands with Mrs. d for the platform, but out suddenly and the train pulled crowd was left behind. At Adair there was another large crowd, end Mrs. Nation grasped hands and then ade a short speech, saying: God bless you. You are all ealoon ers; I can see it in your faces. We | work together to down rum and Here's some dttle boys; come dears, and shake hands with me. I'm Carrie Nation; I'm the saloon Don’t look like it, do I? But I with my little hatchet. God bless Now, I want every one of u to fill your pockets with rocks and go and smash saloons and joints. Good- e largest crowd along the first half of e journey was at Stuart. At Casey the rowd shook hands with Mrs. Nation and lomored for & speech, but there was not time At Stuart, however, the platform was erally covered with people, and after customary handshake Mrs. Nation “You see, I haven't got 2 hatchet with me,” throwing back her head. “I guess I won't need it here in this State. We e western part of | In | people to be out to see the cru-| wn the aisle she cried out: | crowd of the day was | ! and jubllant as ever. At Valley Junction 1 fully 200 laboring men were present, many of them railroad hands employed in the | Rock Island’s shops. There Mrs. Nation | chook hands with everybody within reach | and then singled out a red-nosed man as the victim of her retort. that needs a saloon smasher, all right; I can tell him by his | looks. Come up here, my friend, and| shake hands”with Carrio Nation; don't| be afraid.’ The crowd roared, but the man slmply‘ reddened in the face and refused to budge. | “You are one of the smashed!” cried | ‘Mr!, Nation. There's a man “I guess I'll have to go| out there after you.” The crowd gave way, but Mrs. Nation simply laughed and the man sulked. o've got & couple of joints here in | town,” cried another man. | “Smash 'em! Smash 'em!” cried Mrs. Nation. At Des Molnes there were fully 5000 peo- ple cheering and yelling at the station when the train pulled in. As Mrs. Nation | walked out of the car and got a glimpse of the vast throng she broke loose in childish glee, saying: “Just look at it! Just look at the dears! | May God bless every on After half an hour’s work on the part of the police a way was made through | the crowa for Mrs. Nation to reach a car- riage which had been provided. Once in- side the carriage the clamor for a shake | of her hand was too great and the saloon smasher stepped out of the carriage and clinging to the swinging door with one hand frantically grasped the outstretched hands and arms with the other and crying all the wrung them sincerely, while: “God bless you: here'! a saloon smasher. God bless you.” After the reception, which lasted fully difteen minutes, the crowd was forced | back and the carriage moved up to the Sabine House, the only prominent hotel in the city without a bar. Here Mrs. Na- tion received many hundreds, shaking hands and giving all her blessings. By this time the enthusiasm had been worked up to a high degree and Mrs. Na- tion was urged to make a tour of the sa- loons. This she agreed to do, and at 3:30 o'clock, accompanied by two city de- tectives detailed by the Chief of Police, called upon four saloon-keepers in their places of business. She was followed by an enormous crowd, reaching as high as 5000. When the barroom of the Kirkwood Hotel was reathed the Chief of Police held a hasty consultation® with his offi- cers and concludel to stop the crusade, | of ‘business and neariy had the fixtures | hands and meted out summary justice to | the jointists of the &ity. Three joints | were put out of business and Holton is a | dry town for the first time In fifteen years. The citizens of Holton held a meeting | | last night and décided that the joints | must be cloged at once. This afternoon at 3.o'clock they met at the Methodist ercises they started out to do their work. There were about 300 people at the church. but it soon became known what was go- ing on and soon the main street of the city was crowded with eager people, anx- lous to see the work accomplished. There were a number of officers in ths | crowd and they led the way to the first | joint, which was kept by a woman by the name of Hicks, on the south slde of the public square. This has for years been one of the most notorious places of the city. The crowd broke in the doors and took out all the liquor, emptying It into the streets, They then broke up all the fixtures- in true Mrs. Nation style, not leaving a whole thing that could be used | in the joint business. The proprietress of | the joint tried to leave, but the crowd re- fused to let her. ‘When the demolition of the Hicks joint | was complete, the crowd started to do the same thing with tne other joints of the city, two in number. The proprietors of these joints, by working very hard, managed to turn out all their liquor by the time the crowd reached their places moved. They pleaded carncstly to be al- lowed to keep the fixtures and promised on their oaths never ugain to sell a drop of liquor in Holton. One of the jointists, a man by the name @f Anderson, got down on his knees and supplicated the crowd not to destroy his fixtures, as jt would ruin him financlaliy, and he prom- ised to have them out of town In an hour. The citizens decided to give the remaln- ing jointists a few hours within which‘to leave the city. There was not a semblance of lawless- ness at any time during the progress of the smashing. Lawyers, newspaper men and business men heiped swell the crowd. which was composed of some of the very best people of Holton, . After the smashing nad been eomletu! the ‘gudrdians of the.law went to the Methodist church and had a: thanksgiy- ing service over the successfl result of their work. To-night a meeting was held in Holton and a vigilance committee was organized to see that a joint never again would have a chance to do business there. Th> mem- bers of the cammittee say that the first Jjoint that starts there will be immediately smashed and the owner of it buuma from the city One Body Sent to Investigate Reports | | that at West Point is a felony, according cf N-w Ilassacres. ‘m the statutes in many of the States, BERLIN, Feb. 9.—A dispatch from Fleld | and that the time has come when Con- Marshal Count von Waldersee, dated Pe- [ | gress must decide whether fights which | king, Friday, February 8, says: | It has arrived at Singho, | church, and after some evangelistic ex- | “Cleve's column returned to Tientsin February 8 without any untoward inei- | dent. Von Troha's column {s returning. north of Peking. “A Jager company, detachments of cav- | alry, gone via Nankhow to Yenkhing, venty- two kilometers northwest of Peking, to | investigate fresh murders of Christians recently reported.” FOR ATTACKING GERMANS. Four Men Recently Arrested Have ' Been Executed. HONGKONG, Feb. 9.—A dispatch from Canton sgys four men who had been ar- rested for attacking Germans near Kun- chuk have been executed. The same dis- patch announces the arrival of the new Viceroy of Canton. The native newspa- pers approve the appointment, stating that the. new official belongs to the pro- gressive party. POLICE CHARGE UFON MARCHING STUDENTS | Several Persons Injured in Ricts at Madrid and Many Ar- rests IMade. MADRID, Feb. 9.—The Countess Ca- serta, accompanied by her daughters, Donpas Pla Immaculada and Jofina, drove through the leading streets to-day o visit the art gailery. They were sa- Juted respectfully. Count Caserta also made a number of visits. Donnas Pla and Jofina have given the Princess of the Asturias a valuable watch encrusted with pearls and diamonds. All the aris- toeracy of Madrid have signed the vis- iting book of the Count and Countess Caserta, who are now instailed in a por- tion of the Asturias apartments in the reyal palace. The Minister of Education has author- ized all the universities to advance the carnival holidays on the occasion of the wedding. Students who are hostile to the Casertas decided to protest against this step and paraded the streets, but no dis- order occurred. The students continued their manifesta- tions and the police charged npon them and some arrests were made. It is stated that several persons were injured during the late demonstrations and numerous arrests were made. A petard was exploded this evening in front of the publishing house of Perez Galdols, damaging the facade of the building. L ten kilometers | mounted infagtry and artillery, have | | are high crimes elsewhere shall continue | at West Point. Class Distinctions. The report first discusses the class dis- | tinctions between the upper class men and | the “‘beasts” and ‘‘plebes,!’ as the new ar- | rivals and under class men are called, and says: “The upper class men have gradually evolved an entire code of unwritten laws governing their relations with fourth | class men as well as the whole course of | conduct which should be pursued by the | latter. Under this code no friendships are | formed between the upper class men and | the lower class men; they have no social intercourse or relations. Except where the parties have been acquainted before entering the academy, the upper class man treats the fourth class man as un- known, a stranger and an inferfor. The fourth class man has no right to speak so- clally to the upper class man, and when he speaks to him on business he addresses hirg as ‘mister’ or ‘sir.’ No fourth class man should gaze, stare or even look squarely at an upper class man, but drop the eyes when in one's presence, and fail- ure to do so is a punishable offense. “After the fourth class men go into camp each Is assigned, by lot or other- wise, to some upper class man as specfal duty man and as such must discharge the dutics of a body and tent servant. He must sweep his superior's tent, put up and take down his bed, adjust the flaps of his tent, carry water and dis- charge other similar duties. The upper class men, profiting no doubt by what they have learned from their predecessors ‘have resorted to more than one hundred B e and the aid of their own fertile ingenuity, | CODE OF THE UPPER CLASS MEN IS SCORED IN REPORT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS Humiliation and Hazing of the Cadets by Their Seniors De- clared a Practi-e That Must Be Stamped Out---Fighting, a Felony in Many States, the Worst Form of Abuse distinct methods of annoying and harass- ing fourth class men. They are divided into three general classes: First, things done professedly for the good of fourth class men or of the service; second, things done to punish fourth class men for vio- lations of the upper class code; third, things done apparently without purpose except to annoy or for the mere amuse- ment of upper class men."” Oppressive System of Hazing. The committee then describe in detall bracing, eagling, wooden Willleing, choo- chooing, dipping, sitting on bayonet, eat- ing quinine, standing on head In bathtub ' fi g0 oh at the military reservation at West Point. Victims Among the Cadets. “It is, of course, impossible to deter- mine with mathematical accuracy just what has been the effect of this long course of cruel and annoying treatment upon fourth class men. We do know that several, notably Cadets MacArthur, Breth and Burton, were hazed into convulsions; that many more, including Cadets Has- call, Kensel, McGinnls and Pegram, were hazed until they fainted. Cadet Vannata and perhaps others have been hazed until sick. Cadets Booz and Breth were both THREE WEST POINT CADETS WHO WERE HAZ. ED INTO CONVUL~ SIONS BY UPPER CLASS MEN. THEIR CASES ARE REFERRED TO BY THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. filled with water and many other forms | treated. with great severity, and wers of hazing. Continuing the report says: *“As this system grew and became more and more oppressive it became necessary to have some effective means to coerce obedience to these unlawful behests of upper class men and to meet this demand a system of fighting has gradually grown up which iIs shocking in its character. Each of the upper classes has a regular fighting committee, and whenever it is reported, for example, to the president of the third class thut some fourth class man has refused to obey any of the un- lawful and fillegal orders of an upper class man or has in some other important respect violated thc upper class code, all of which it must be borne in mind is in direct conflict with the regulations and rules of the academy, the president calls his fighting committee together and if it thinks the charge rude it orders the fourth class man called out and names the man who is to whip him.” Fighting Most Vicious. The committee describe the fights at length and say: “A fight to a finish has more viclous meaning here than elsewhere. Theoretic- ally, when a man is clearly whipped his seconds may throw up the fight. The rec- ord shows, however, but one instance of this being attempted and In that the prin- cipal was the upper class man in the fight and refused to abide by his seconds’ ad- vice. To show his grit and courage the de- feated party, although helpless so far as fighting Is concerned, must nominally go on so long as there is any possibility that he can come back to the ring, even though he is incapable of doing -anything but take punishment. Many of the witnesses say that he must fight until knocked In- sensible; others say that of course he would be excused when physically incap- able of coming up again. “In the opinion of this committee, when this system of fighting. has been de- stroyed the worst forms of hazing must die with it. Such fights as these are felo- nies in many of the States. They have gone on for years at West Point and no one has been punished during the period covered by the investigations by your committee, and the time has now arrived when Congress must decide whether the fights, substantially everywhere else treated as high crimes, shall continue to never well after they left the academy, and each died in his young manhood, be- fore the graduation of his class. but we cannot affirmatively find that thelr death was caused by their treatment.” Taking up the Booz case, the committes states that his conduct at the academy was strictly correct, although under the offensive class despotism it was viewed as meriting chastisement. The circum- stances of his being called out, his fght and the system of annoyance practiced on him are minutely stated. The come mittee. add: ““Whether injurfes in the fight, disturb- ance of the stomach, irritation of feelings and other superadded ordeals to the se- vere but proper duties of a cadet, created the depression in Booz, and whether with- out these unlawful exactions he could have studied and gained In strength and vigor, are also problems beyond human knowledge to determine. And the Uke commentary must be made respecting tha case of John Edward Breth.” The committee say on the whole a man's religious opinions are highly re- spected at the academy. In one case a cadet was called a “damned Jew,” but this was an isolated case. Two Hebrews now at the academy testified that they have never been lll-treated on account of race and religion. More Officers Required. The diligent efforts of the academy offi- cials to suppress hazing are set forth. But it is pointed out that while there are sev- enty-one army officers at the academy, eleven persons are solely charged with maintaining discipline in a reservation of more than 2000 acres and more than two miles long, over about 40 cadets. The committee considers it absolutely essen- tial that more officers should be in the camp at all hours of the day and night. The bill sfimmed contains eleven sec- tions against hazing and provides means for its detection and punishment. Dis- missal is provided for taking part in a fight or a challenge, directly or indirectly, or for any- form of annoyance, harassing or “pracing” of cadets. Cadets dismissed are made ineligible to appointment to the army, navy or marine corps. Provision is made for courts of inquiry, courts-mar- tial, closer association between offices and cadets and other means for effectual- 1ly stopping the practice of hazing. Al e RE'I'IREMENT OF MAJOR C. E. DUTTON THE SEQUEL TO THE FRENCH GUN SCANDAL Army Officer Who Made Public the Plans of the Board of _Ordnance Goes Into Private Life. CALL BUREAU, 1408 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Orders is- sued by the President retiring Major Clar- ence E. Dutton of the ordnance depart- ment sre the sequel to the French gun scandal which caused so much gossip last November. quisition by Captain Isaac Lewis of the artillery, secretary of the Board of Ord- nance and Fortificaticns, of plans of the famous French fieild gun. The publica- tion of this incident caused an official in- vestigation to be made by Lieutenant Gen- eral Miles, who was apparently convinced in manufacturing a gun decided upon by the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications. It is understood that Major Dutton showed conclusively that he was not prompted by malice in making public the information, but Secretary Roct decided to approve Major Dutton’s application for retirement after thirty years' service, and Major Dutton is the officer who made | that the information had been given to | this action was favorably Indorsed by the public the inforination regdarding the a the press to prevent the use of the plans President.