The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX-NO. 136. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WALL STREET MAY LEND AID T0 ENGLAND Ohject of Pierpont Morgan’s Visit t0 Landon. Britain Negotiating for a Loan to Cover War Deficit. ———— lishing Company. LONDON, April 14.—Between the Chan- eellor of the Exchequer and J. Plerpont Morgan the financial world at this mo- ment i in a position to do some tall guessing. le each in his own way provides ant scope for conjecture regarding tentions, the tallest guess yet heard couples the two named in somewhat re- markable fashijon. How Sir Michael Hicks-Beach intends ng funds to meet the war deficit ited a Aeluge of suggestions, rang- ng from high protection to a wholesale grab m! ns supposed to be in| chancery, but a Lombard street man who & to know what he is talking about declares Mr. Morgan’s visit to London at ® moment when the budget absorbs atten- g but accidental. More un- 1 sve happened, he says, than Mr. Morgan finding cash to meet the de- ficit of the British exchequer. { For weeks past, he declares, the Gov- ernment 1 department has been feeling New York opinion regarding the v of raising a loan of £10,000,000 The present condition of | fork money market leads to the hat it could be obtained for 3 to 3% | on a loan issucd at par. Lombard street | would want at least one-half per cent | financi, GENERAL BUTTERFIELD IS SLIGHTLY BETTER, BUT YET IN DANGER lllness From Which the Warrior Suffers Is a Recurrence of the Attack of - =" Ay = / Soff T | WITTGERERAL Aphasia That Prostrated Him in 1899 |G | DANIEL BUTTERAIELY, more. 2 + The general opinion of financiers here is GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD, that the Government intends to continue | THE CIVIL WAR LEADER, WHO IS the present policy of getting funds from | | DANGEROUSLY ILL. hand to mouth until the war is really | Yl over, and then a loan covering the entire | : o pa:‘ynnf 210:.009,0?. will b(. :Ol‘ldv | General Butterfield’s allment is a recur- geabl f“ the revenues of the an- rence of an attack of aphasia, which nexed wpm:ucs : | prostrated him in the summer of 1899. i — e + ' | plies, an impairment in the expression of "r‘l":r"':‘" hfi";’:gnn‘; u‘zflo;a;‘;h;; < ‘ ideas, either by speech or by writing. ln L:‘V I;f (_;‘ o, D“a:_mm e ':‘ [ one form of aphasia the patient remem- . remperi ey et § | bers the words which he wishes to utter, 2 = but cannot ariculate them, although his he cou in s oo :lp ;nhl\:':r;:“::;fl:o ‘::: P + ). vocal apparatus and power of phonation place in th 2 - | * are intact. This is the form of General EW YORK, April 14—General Butterfield's malady. It is due, the physi Butterfield, who is suffering from cians say, to lesion of the third left ANTI-CANTEEN LAW RUINOUS —_— Increase in Intoxication and Rioting Alarms Army Offizials. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET,N. W., WASHINGTON, April 14.—Intoxication riotous conduct among private sol- of the army have been alarmingly ased by the operation of the law | hing the sale of beer in post can- teens. This is the information that comes to the War Department from every part of the country where troops are stationed. In Washington several new saloons have opened and are doing a flourishing busi- ness near Fort Meyer. There has been a decided increase in the number of saloons in the village of Phoe- bus, Va., adjoining the military reserv. tion on which Fort Monroe is located. Officers say that if the soldiers would con- | fine themselves to light drinks in these saloons the evil would not be so great, but, instead of drinking light beers and wines, such as were sold in the post can- teens, they drink cheap whisky and other heavy liquors, and they are led into gam- bling games and other forms of vice, an which could not exist within the limits of a y post. | There has been a large increase in the number of saloons in the neighborhood of all army posts. This is directly contrary to the experience when the canteen was first put into operation. Then there was | a decrease in the number of saloons in the | neighborhood of army posts. FAMOUS HAT-TRIMMING | CASES AT LAST DECIDED Compromise Effected by Which Gov- ernment Must Pay Smaller Amount Than Claimed. PHILADELPHIA, April 14.—The Record ¢ to-morrow: The fameous “hat cases, involving $20,000,000, and ce 1884 have been the subject of egal battle between the Govern- and a number of merchants, have t been settled. It is stated on high rority that a compromise has been ected through which the merchants in- terested will recelve about $4,000,000 from the U States Treasury in full settle- mept of the much larger amount they claim to have been forced to pay in excess of legal duties. The su which have engaged the at- some of the best lawyers in i States, were brought by Dickinson, Kohn, Adler & Co., | maker. Henry Tilge and other | ns. These cases will, it is | be called up in the United States | rict Court Thursday, when judgment | U he corfessed against the Government | for the amounts agreed upon. In other suits verdicts will be taken in favor of tue defendants. = Philadelphi; sajd an attack of paralysis, was slightly better to-day. How- ever, owing to the advanced age of the general, physicians are not san- guine of his recovery. E e e e ARMED CITIZENS frontal convolution of the brain. Sensory aphasia is an incapacity to comprehend the meaning of spoken words, and may accompany the other form of the malady after it has declared itself. AWAIT THE RAILROAD LABORERS Pomona Now Thoroughly Aroused and’ in Readiness for a Battle. Special Dispatch to The Call. POMONA, April 14—Nothing else is talked in Pomona Valley but the attempt | of the Southern Pacific Comptny to seize | First street here by building a side track on it before the City Council can grant a franchise to the new Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad to build its main line along that thoroughfare. Every one is waiting for the first at- tempt of the Southern Pacific laborers to relay a side track on First street, and whenever the attempt is made there is sure to be excitement and possibly a fracgs. The citizens of Pomona are unan- imous in the determination to resist the least aggression of the Southern Pacific Company on the city property. The scene of the track laying vesterday is guarded by scores of men, and whenever the rail- road work train comes back to Pomona with another lot of trackmen and track | material, an alarm will be given on the | city fire bell and over 2000 armed men will | rush to resist the laborers’ efforts to seize First street. The work train with its crew of Mexican | laborers and construction material left | | be relaxed a moment. town suddenly last evening, and spent the night at Ontario, eight miles from here. All last night armed men were on the business streets here ready for action when the guards might give the signal that.the track laying was being renewed. Men slept in livery stables and in barns near the scene of the track laying, so as to be ready to resist the railroad aggres- sions with the least possible delay. To-morrow the Pomona City Council will probably grant a franchise to the street to the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. It may be that the fight for the street will be continued only in the courts from this time forth, but the guarding of the city’s rights will not Chief Engineer Swain says that he was sent here by the Southern Pacific Company to construct a side track on First street and that he was unprepared for the angry resistance his men met with here. He says, however, that the track will be laid when he wishes to lay it and that the railroad company owns half the land on First street. SUCCESSFUL HYPNOTISM OVER A TELEPHONE WIRE Two Experts Operate Upon Subjects One Hundred and Twenty Miles Away. “DENVER, April 14.—A test of hypnotiz- formed successfully in Pueblo and Denver last night by J. Edward Hilts of Cleve- land, Ohio, and Fred H. Stoufer of Pueblo. operated upon before, took his seat at a table in & Pueblo office, with the receiver | held fast to his ear by a steel spring, such | as is used in telephone exchanges. Dr. Hilts spoke into the microphone in Den- | ver and his voice was carried to the sub- ject 120 miles away. A telegraph operator in the room with Coons kept the hypnotist posted with bulletins on the subject’s con- ing by long distance telephone was per- | dition. In a short time Coons was under the operator’s influence, and at the hypno- |usz"s suggestion atega bit of potato, | Alonzo Coons, who has frequently been Snuffed ammonia and performed several of the common tests to the genuineness of the trance. Mr. Stoufer performed a similar experi- ment on J. H. Johnson, a subject in Den- ver. The same tests used on Coons were used on Johnson with success. Both sub- Jjects became rigid in the cataleptic state, and doctors examined the eyeballs of each and found them not at all sensitive. JAPAN MOVES T0 CHECKMATE CZAR'S PLANS Demands That Army of China Be Sent fo M_@g@uria, Should It Prove Inadequate International Force Will (Co-operate. sl PEKING, April 14—Koumara Youtara, the Japanese Minister, accompanied by General Yamaguchi, the Japanese com- mander, recently called upon Prince Ching and notified him that the return of Em- peror Kwang Su to Peking was urgently the Emperor’s wishes would be respected by the foreign representatives and that every courtesy would be shown him. It was pointed out to the Chinese pleni- potentiary that the Emperor’s return was of the highest importance as affecting the maintenance of the integrity of the Chi- nese empire, and that he should come ac- companied by every available soldier—by at least 20,000 men {if possible. These troops, it was further contend-d by the Japanese Minister, must be sent into Man- churia, as the Russians reported great disturbances there and it was not right that the task of quelling the trouble should be thrown upon the shoulders of | one nation. Finally Prince Ching was as- sured that if the 20,000 Chinese troops could not suppress the disorders in Man- churia, other powers would send an inter- | national force to co-operate with China, which all the powers regarded as a friend- 1y power. No reply having been received to this communication, Li Hung Chang was to- day notified to the same effect, and told that Emperor Kwang Su must give an im- mediate answer. The preparations which the Japanese here are making for an early start indi- cate that they expect war between Rus- sia and Japan. Vessels arriving at Taku from Nagasaki repgrt the mobilization of the Japanese fleet, and the continuanece of preparations on board ship for the an- ticipated struggle. Ministers Are Censured. Prince Ching savs all his reports go to show that the missionary statements re- garding a rebellion in Mongolia are not supported by the facts. Neither does he believe that the rebellion of General Tung Fuh Siang amounts to much. “It is the object of certain elements,” he asserts, “to make it seem that China is in a condition of constant broil, render- ing it unsafe for the foreign troops to be withdrawn. Those who have this in view will magnify a village quarrel into a big rebellion. missionaries, naturally timid, take mse reports in good faith.” The conduct of the Ministers of the pow- ers over the negotiations with the Chi- nese plenipotentiaries causes much ad- verse comment among the military authorities. Their dilatory tactics have prevented what might have been accom- plished two months ago. Even now the | meetings of the Ministers are postponed for the most trivial causes, for instance, the desire of one Minister to go on a pic- nic to the tombs of the Ming dynasty pre- vented the holding of a meeting for a number of days. Then M. de Giers and | other Ministers insisted upon celebrating Easter, and thus a week was consumed. In a third case a visit by one Minister to | Tientsin held up negotiations for four days. These are fair illustrations of what | has been almost continuous since the be- | ginning. | S0P SO HOLD CONGER RESPONSIBLE. Missionaries Say He Partly Author- | _ized Excursions for Tribute. | VICTORIA, B. C., April 14.—Included in | the advices brought by the steamer Duke | of Fife, which arrived this evening, was | a statement made by a missionary lately | arrived in Japan from Peking to the ef- | fect that the United States Minister to China was in accord with the punative expeditions led by missionaries who col- lected tributes from the Chinese villages as indemnities for the murder of Chinese | Christians and the destruction of the'r | property, these same indemnities being obtained, as a rule, as the result of threats made by the missionaries that unless the indemnity was forthcoming the villages weuld be burned. The statement is made in a letter wrii- ten by the Rev. Mr. Galt to the Kobe Chronicle, in which the writer says that the missionary tribute excursions in China were indorsed and to some extent authorized by Mr. Conger, the United States Minister. Commenting on the Rev. Mr. Galt's letter, the Japan Adver- tiser says: “We can easily conceive it to be possi- ble that a private gentleman having sc many ladies under his ch; and sub- jected to the horrors of t;? slege of Peking should be moved to such a piten of indignation against the Chinese whick might warp his judgment and blind his mental vision when an opportunity pre- sented itself, but it passes our comprehen- sion how the official representative of u great nation should be so forgetful of his position as to lend his countenance or authority to anv such measure as the infliction of punishment upon presumably unoffending communities which lay at his mercy, and, least of all, that he should delegate his authority to irresponsible and prejudiced religious agents, who, what- ever thelr good qualities in their espe tial line, have never been credited with desired. Prince Ching was informed that | RICHARD B. POTTS ENDS ATTEMPT AT HIS REFORMATION BY HANGING HIMSELF IN DARK PRISON CELL Oakland Young Man of Excellent Family and Brilliant Prospects Becomes a Slave to Morphine and Frustrates Father to Save Him From the Habit Final Effort of Sick and despondent, a miserable wreck from the use of morphine and lack- ing the strength to struggle longer against the habit, Richard B. Potts, the only son of a prominent Oakland man, put an end to his wretched existence by hang- ing himself early yesterday morning. The suicide oc- curred in a prison cell, where Potts had been placed in a last effort to effect his refor- mation. Young Potts had bright prospects in life. His father possess:d wealth and social position. He was an only son, the last of his branch of the family. His father’s paternal love and pride and hope of posterity were cen- tered in him, and exesptional opportunities to obtain cul- ture and to satisfy ambition ‘were at his command. All of this was sacrificed by the young man through the insidious influence of morphine. The habit made an abject slave of him, until he became the associate of dissipated wretches, his rea- son tottering and his body a wreck. His imprisonment was the last of a long series of fruitless efforts to effect his regeneration. 0 e e el teferierfeeielele o] ofecfodofofentonfecffrefeofoe deefoefocfoefnfofenfenfoofol B B T e B B B B o B B B L o B e L R | | ICHARD B. POTTS, an Oakland young man of excellent family, committed suicide early yesterday ‘morning by hanging himself in his cell in the Alameda County Jail. He had been sent to jail at his father's instance and with his own consent in the hope that he might 1 freed from the mor- phine habit, but despondency and the tor- ture of unsatisfied craving for the drug caused him to take his own life. Young Potts was the only son of R. C. Potts, a retired capitalist and former member of the Alameda County Repub- lican Central Committee, who resides at 1228 Linden street, Oakland. The father had lavished every attention on the son whom he expected to bear the name with honor and to continue his branch of the family, but the drug habit had fastened itsclf upon the young man, wrecking him mentally and physically and blasting the hopes of his father. The commitment to jall was a last effort to break the fetters that bound him. Body Found by a Prisoner. The lifeless body was found yesterday morning at 7 o’clock by a fellow prisoner. It was suspended by a rope made of a 9 o > 4 RICHARD B. POTTS, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE IN THE ALAMEDA I COUNTY JAIL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN INCARCERATED TO CURE HIM OF THE MORPHINE HABIT. ' | P * sheet torn into strips, one end of which | was fast to the iron grating that forms | the celling of the cell. The despondent | prisoner had fastened a noose about his | neck and then stepped off his cot, his feet | dangling twenty inches above the cell floor. Chief Jailer Schoenau was summoned at once. He cut down the suspended form and loosened the noose. The body was still warm but life was gone. The body was removed to the Morgue and the young man’s father was notified. The bereaved parent told the jailers a story of years of effort to reform his only child. Only Saturday the son and his father | had a long conversation with each other, | and when ‘they parted the young man appeared in the best of spirits and an-| nounced his determination to' continue | ths battle against the enslaving habit he had contracted. In consequence fear | was not felt that he would take his own | hfe. Father Strived to Reform Him. The father had exhausted every means at his command to cure his son, and as a last resort, after gaining the boy’'s con- sent, had him committed to jail for six months, believing that proper medical at- tention and deprivation of opportunity to secure the drug would work his regenera- tion. “I consulted with friends and physi- cians before taking-this step,” said Mr. Potts last evening, “and we decided that this was the final effort. He was sent to jail on March 22. T found him getting | along well, and believed that by thetime his sentence should expire I could with | safety send him East to relatives near Peoria, Ill, to start anew. ‘“He was the last, except myself, of my branch of the familv, and I hal hoped to make a man of him and to leavs him what fortune I possess.” Young Potts was not strong mentally when he began to use the drug. In 1893, while at Chicago on a visit. he became violently insane, and was brought home to Oakland in charge of nurses. Imme- diately upon his arrival he was examined and committed to the State Hospital at Agnews. After six months of treatment Potts was released on probation, and never since had developed violent tend- encies. His actions were at times indica~ tive of mental aberration, but the physi- clans were not willing to pronounce him a’ subject for recommitment. @it e PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD SEEKING AN ENTRANCE TO SAN FRANCISCO el NEW YORK, April 15.—The Press says the Pennsylva- nia, America’s greatest railroad system, not content with the absorption of its rivals, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Chesapeake and Ohio railways, and the complete domination of the Eastern territory, is seeking entrance to San Fran- » cisco, and that control of either the Santa Fe or the Rock Island will be secured for this purpose. Immense docks, costing several millions of dollars, are now being constructed on the Atlantic coast for the accom- modation of the American {ine of steamers, which s con- trolled by the Pennsylvania. This railroad will then have practically a through line from San Francisco to Southamp- The capital stock has been increased from ton and London. $150,000,000 to $250,000,000. 7. J. Hill and associates of the Great Northern Railroad had acquired contro] of the Northern Pacific and J. Plerpont Morgan had invited Hill to go into the Erie. Then the two got control of the Burlington, forming a through transcon- q.:_g_”““_,.,..,.,.,.m_‘.;.fl-,—x-.-x—-z-.—r_ ool e NEGRO MURDERER SHOT WHILE ON WAY TO JAIL Killed White Man for His Money and Implicates Another in the Crime. HASTINGS, Fla., April 14—Julius Es- Kew, manager of the Armstrong Turpen- tine Company near here, was shot and killed by Jim Kirby, a negro, last night. Eskew had $150 on his person and the negro wanted the money. After Eskew was dead, it is said. Kirby started toward the body for the purpose of robbing it, but was frightened away. He escaped into a swamp, where he was captured with the aid of bloodhounds. While Sheriff Perry was waiting in the depot with the negro to take him to St. Augustine unknown parties fired through a window and put five bullets into Kirby's back. He thought he would die and made a confession implicating Robert Lee, another negro. Bloodhounds are now after Lee. Eskew was well and favorably known in Florida. The crime has created great excitement in St. Johns County, and there may be a double lynching. Sl MACEDONIAN CONGRESS FORBIDDEN BY TURKEY LONDON, April 15—t is asserted here,” says the Vienna correspondent of the Times, “that the Ottoman Govern- ment has addressed a sharp note to Bul- demanding the immediate dissolu- an overweening amount of tact, judgment or worldly wisdom.” L tion of the Macedonlan committee and prohibition of the Macedonian congress.” Special Dispatch to The Call. tinental line. Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific Gould, with the Wabash and other lines extending to Buf- falo and Pittsburg, threatened to “Bottle up"” the Pennsyl- vania at its Western terminal. Meanwhile the Harriman syndicate, with the and the Alton, and ‘Wall street contends that the purchase of the Santa Fe or the Rock Island is the log- ical outcome. Wall street is so ccrtain that the Pennsylva- overshadows all othe Exchange last week factor. The . volume the greatest activity generally, but the shr that only the beginni been experienced. DIES, AND HER GEMS REST ALL UNGUARDED | Fortune in Jewels Found in the House of 2 Woman Dead in Arizona. PHOENIX, Ariz., April 14—The death here last night of Mrs. Robin Iche at her temporary home north of the city re- veals the fact that unconcealed and un- guarded in the house was immense wealth | in jewels and precious stones. | The husband of the woman is in jail awaiting trial for insanity and the Sher- iff has taken charge of the jewelry, the | estimated value of which is not less than $50,000. Mrs. Iche has a sister in Birming- ham, England, the wife of a great coal operator. —_—— DECORATORS OF ST. PAUL THREATEN GENERAL STRIKE ST. PAUL, April 15.—Trouble of a ser’- ous character is brewing among the build- ing trades unions of St. Paul, and a gen- eral strike is said to be imminent. There | has been a long-standing difference be- | tween the painters and decorators and the masters’ association, the latter de- manding that their men withdraw from the Building Trades Council. The decorat ors resisted the demand, and at a meeting | to-day formulated an ultimatum, which will be submitted to-morrow. They say that if the employers accept their term: all will be well; if not, they will strike. It is understood that there is no ques- tiol of wages or hours involved. | says the cause is nia must extend that it is predicted much higher prices for the shares of railroads’ which operate westward from the Mississippi will prevail. The fact that a buyer like the Pennsylvania, with its tré- mendous resources, is in the market to buy out railroads r considerations. Trading in the Stock was influenced almost solely by this of business was beyond all records and was in railroad shares. Prices rose éwd judges of street dealing maintain ng of the rise in railroad issues has il @ OF NATIONAL PRESTIGE Would Purchase in Palestine a Haven for the Oppressed of Their 3 Race. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 4.—Fifteen hundred Hebrews held a meeting to-day in the igterest of Lhe Zionistic movement and demonstrated their approval of the plan which, it is heped, will restore the ancient prestige of the Jews as a nation. The plan is to raise a fund sufficiently large to purchase land in Palestine from the Turks and make it a haven for the oppressed Jews of cvery land. One of the branches of the organization is located in Milwaukee. Dr. Caro of this city, one of the chief promoters of the movement, to be progecuted with L fervor. | DEATH MAY BE PENALTY FOR OPIUM SMOKERS Law Is Promulgated Inflicting Cap- ital Punishment on Korean “Fiends.” LONDON, April 15.—According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail the Korean Government has pro- mulgated a law enforcing the penalty of death for opfum smoking. The Government of Korea, according to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from St. Petersburg, has decided to bufld thirty- two coast fortresses to resist & possible Japanese h‘"‘,“" | e