The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-NO.' 4, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOERS STILL REEP UP THE BOLD WARFARE One Force Fights Most Fiercely for Nine Hours. Jamestown Is' Threatened by | | the Commando Under Fouche. British War Office Making No Effort to Allay the Uneasiness Caused by Recent Battles. | — LONDO ne 4—A special from Wil- | lowmore, Cape Colony, sa Command- ant Sheeper, with 700 attacked Wil- Jowmore beaten off after nine A Cape Tow is threatened by says: Jamestown | Fouche’s commando. The War Office made the following an- nouncement last nigt: “All the informa- tion received from lLord Kitchener re- specting rec agements in South s been communicated to the pub- Afric e Uneasiness Not Aliayed. | LONDON, Jjune 3.—-The War Office is no effort to the public un- ness occas he scantiness of the news from South Africa. Nothing has yet come through uminate the Viak- | ein affair, dispatch on the | first official announce- | kir he only being a ee-line message from | Lork Kitchener, issucd this morning, giv- | ng three additional names of nfl‘.ccrel The Relief of Zeerust. Details just f the relief of | Zeerust thuen show the | wn was practically besieged for several | months and that its food supply was | short { dispatch from Pretorla announces | ary have captured | aw of the late Gen- | was an energetic, | active | has filled several | rding that occupied | eral Jouber: n has been very of | MRS. McKINLEY STILL i IN CRITICAL CONDITION Most Noted Heart Specialist in the | United States Is Called in Consultation. NEW YORK. June 3.—A Journal special from Washingto That the physi- | 5 W ded Mrs. McKinley | o have atte ever since her return to Washington re- gard her c as most critical, was orning when Dr. Wil- | cmphasized liam Osler, of one of | in , was called | ultation at the White H. Rixey, and Johnson. I When M ¥ was so critically ill jections of salt solu- i ts were used cess. the Johns Hopkins Uni- the most r Drs ernberg 1t is | hg physi- expert such heroic Mrs. McKin- having their verified. | to have an the effect | g on the case 3.—Dr. Rixey, af- White for ght that n the condition House said o'clock she was bly The complaint i while Mrs. Mc- from Washington, and jously sapped her cked, but its effect very weak con- te House to-night there | cheerful and 1 that Mrs. McKin- nce of the re- she has displayed | ther consul- | e morning. evid, ley w markable vi heretofere. There w tation of the phy RUMNMOR 'I:H;'.lj HAVEMEYER INTENDS RESIGNING | Gossip That He Will Relinquish | Presidency of the American Sugar | Refining Company. | NEW YORK, June 3.—It was reported | to-day that President Havemeyer will re- | sign from the presidency of the American | Sugar Refining Company and be succeed- | ed by. W. B. Thomas of Boston. President Havemeyer was inaccessible | Auring the afternoon and sent word that he had nothing to say about the matter referred to. The report about Mr. Have- meyer resigning is not generally belleved, since he is regarded as the most experi- enced sugar refiner in the United States. The sugar company’s directors will meet to-morrow. One report was that they will declare an extra scrip dividend in addi- tion to the regular dividend. MEETS WITH SERIOUS ACCIDENT WHILE DIVING Performer Falls Forty Feet and Strikes Head Foremost in the Shallow Water. BUFFALO, June %—Teddy Oliver, 13 years old, was pernaps fatally Injured whiie doing his act mm a midway show at the exposition grounds to-night. Oliver's turn was to ride a bicycle off the edge of a platform forgy fee: high and dive into a pool of water below. The water in the basin into which Oliver made the dive is eighteen feet deep m the center, the bot- tom slanting upward toward the edge of the pool, where it is only five feet deep. To-night, just as he reached the edge of the platform, his wleel swerved and he was thrown head foremost into the shal- low water on the outer edge of the pool. give ! (1 i | posed or already in progress, of the prin- | panied by their wives and other mem- | the afternoon of the 1ith. | evening, June 12. From Los Angeles the | ton, where they will stay until Sunday CONGRESSMEN COMING TO INSPECT RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS OF PACIFIC COAST STATES AND ALASKA — California Ports May Derive Particular Benefit From the Personal Examinations Which Will Be Made by Members | | START 15 MADE FAOM CAPTAL Delegation Will Make| First Stop at New Orleans. Lawmakers Accompanied by | Wives and Other Mem- | bers of Families. | Special Diepatch to The Cail. | CALL BUREAU, 186 G STREET. N.| W., WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Com- mittee on Rivers and Harbors of the last | House of Representatives started to-day on an extended tour of the Pacific Coast | States and Alaska for the purpose of in- | specting the work of improvement, pro-{ cipal rivers and harbors of that section. be members of the committee are accom- bers of their families, and expect to com- | bine a good deal of pleasure with the business which compels their long jour- ney. The party will first stop at New Or- leans, where they will spend Thursday. Leaving New Orleans that evening, they will reach Houston, Tex., early the next | morning, remaining in that vicinity two or three days and probably visiting Gal- veston. They will leave Houston for the Pacific Coast Sunday morning, the 9th instant, stopping a few hours at San An- | tonio and El Paso, reaching Colton on . To Inspect California Ports. From Colton the party will travel over the Southern California railway to San Diego and from there to Los Angeles, reathing the latter place Wednesday | party expects to visit Santa Monica and San Pedro, spending one day in each place. They will leave Los Angeles Sat- urday, June 15, by the Coast line, making 2 brief stop at Santa Barbara and arriv- ing at San Luis Obispo the same after- noon, where the Pacific Coast line will haul the cars to Port Harford in season to make an inspection of the harbor that afternoon. Sunday, the 16th, will be spent at Del Monte. Monday, the 17th, the party will go to Santa Cruz, leaving there the fol- lowing morning for San Francisco, mak- ing brief stops at Ban Jose and Palo Alto. They will arrive at San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, June 18, and remain there until Saturday morning, June 22, when they will leave by boat for Stock- afternoon. Monday, Tuesday and ‘Wednesday, June 24, 2% and 26, will be spent in Sacramento and Marysville. ‘Work in the Northwest. On the 2ith the party will leave for Portland, Or. Here the party will dis- miss their special cars and, after a stop in Portland, they will proceed north, spending several weeks in the State of thl‘ngton and in Alaska. The return Continued on Second Page. | ering whether the Spooner amendment ED CABINET WA COURT OPINIONS Has Not as Yet Received : Views of Dissenting | Justices, Question of Extra Session Will Be Considered in Few Days. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET. N. W., WASHINGTON, June 3.—The ques- tion of whether an extra session wliil be | necessary may be decided at the meet- | ing of the Cabinet to-morrow, though it may be postponed to allow additional time to Attorney General Knox and Sec- retary of War Root to consider the dis- senting opinions of Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Harlan in the Downes case | and that of Justice McKenna in the De | Lima case. These opinions, which may | throw some light on the questions in- volved, have been delayed in reaching the Cabinet. The Attorney General and Secretary of War have had several conferences, and, although the Attorney General would not indicate this evening what _conclusion they would probably reach, he said that their views thus far were In complete harmony and that all reports that there had been any disagreement between them | were absurd. They are carefully consid- does mnot authorize the collection of duties on imports from the Philippines to the United States for the benefit of the treasury of the Philippines, just as the duties on the imports from Porto Rico are now collected for the benefit of the treasury of Porto Rico. If this cannot be done they will prob- ably decide that the amendment permits the imposition of an export tax on goods shipped from the Philippines to the United States; that takx to be collected either at the port of departure in the Philippines or at the port of arrival in the United States and the proceeds paid into the insular treasury. ‘Head of University Resigns. LAWRENCE, Kans., June 3.—Chancel- lor F. H. Snow, who has been at the head | of the University of Kansas for eleven vears, has tendered his resignation. It will be accepted and Chancellor Snow will be given the chalr of natural history. Chancellor Srow's health broke down a year ago following the death by drowning in the harbor at Ban Francisco of kis son, a newspaper reporter, who bhad gone on a tug to receive news from a transport bringing soldiers from the Philippines. He has spent most of the year in California on leave. { &3 S MEMBERS OF CONGRESSION- AL COMMITTEE NOW ON WAY TO THE COAST. WAGER LENES HEAY SHORTAGE Jabier Zea Embezzles Money Belonging to Mexico. Disappears From Federal Telegraph Office After a Series of Thefts. Special Dispach to The Call. EL PASO, Tex., June 3.—Manager Ja- bier Zea of the federal telegraph office at Juarez, Mexico, has disappeared, and after checking over the accounts of his office the auditor has ascertained a short- age of $15,000 exists. Manager Zea left the city quietly a week ago. When he went away the office safe was lockel and as no one knew the combination it was necessary ta employ a locksmith to open it. Twelve dollars in cash was all that was found. Zea's shortage has been in- creasing for several years, and it was not discovered carlier owing to the loose methods of the Government in checking up its employes’ accounts. A guarantee company of the United States was on ;s bond to the extent of $3000 and it has put detectives on his tracks. He is sum;o:ed to have gone to San Francisco, whete it s said he has relatives residing at 406 Fourth street. A Government in- spector who has been working on the case says Zea had a confederate in charge of the federal telegraph office in some large city ih the interior of Mexico. With the ald of this confederate Zea, he says, managed to swindle very smoothly. When in need of $500 or $1000 his confeder- ate would send him a telegraph order to pay the sum desired to an imaginary per- son and Zea would mr money in his ocket. SN P Mansser en ‘wan'n B iver, 1ived on the fat of the land and spent money Jav- ishly. The address given on Fourth street is a store which has not been occupied for six years. It was never used as a resi- | dence. .Inquiry ~* all the houses in the block failed to disclose the presence of the missing manager. o of a Committee From the House of Representatives ©-0 Arciayecn je i s EARL"S BROTHER LAY SERVANT Frank S. Lascelles Kills a Chinese While Insane. Loses Reason Through Brood- ing Over a Fancied Insult. Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 3—Tn a fit of insanity induced by sickness and by an alleged insult, Hon. Frank 8. Lascelies this morning killed his servant, a Chinese, who had been In Lis employ for many years. Lascelles believed some one was trying to break into his house. He shot the Chinese In the hall, just after the ser- vant had entered the door. Lascelles has been ranching for a half dozen years In Windermere Valley In Kootenay. He was sent out to British Columbia by hig relatives, his brother be- ing the Earl of Harewood and his cousin, Sir Frank Lascelles, the English Embas- sador to Germany. Two months ago a neighbor had him brought intoscourt in connection with a horse-stealing case, and Lascelles never got over the insult that he claimed this action put upon a man of his position. Yesterday Lascelles went out horseback riding and returned with neither horse, hat, nor coat. At 4 o'clock this morning he called John Lambert, his assistant, to sit up with him, as he could not sleep. Lambert acquiesced, but later fell asleep and was soon awakened by hearing Las- celles raving downstairs. Lascelles called out that he would kiil the first person he saw. Lambert ran down to quiet him, but Lascelles pointed a rifle at him and Lam- bert had to run to save his life. A few minutes later a shot was heard from the house. Lambert hurried for a policeman and a half dozen armed men came td arrest the Englishman. He was standing over the body of the dead cook, flercely kicking him. He flourished the rifle and was arrested after much diffi- culty. This evening he was taken to the Provincial Insane Asylum at Westmins- ter. Grant Memorial Statue. WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Grant statue or memorial. commission has jssued a pamphlet inviting the compe- titfon of architects for models, which must_be submitted between March 1 and April'1, 102. The statue or memorial will cost $240.000. Says Play Is Revolutionary. LONDON, June 4—The Ottoman Gov- ernment, says the Constantinople corre- spondent of the Dally Malil, has prohib- ited/the performance of “‘Cyrano de Berg- erac, * declaring it to be revolutionary. L K SETTLERS FEAR < THE ARAPAHOES Indians Are Arming for ‘Warpath in Lander Valley. Recent Shooting Affrays May Cause a General Out- break of Reds. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Juke 3.—A sheep- herder employed by Willlam Madden of Arapahde Indians fifty miles northeast of Fort ‘Washakle late yesterday afternoon. name can be learned, but it is reported the killing was a cold-blooded murder, A telegram from Lander to-night says the Arapahoe Tndians who recently defied Tn- dian Agent Nickerson and said they would hold their sun dance in spite of his or- ders to the contrary are arming. This is the most serious turn that affairs have vet taken, and there is much apprehen- slon among white settlers in the Lander Valley. Tt is believed, that the threatened outbreak capnot be averted without blood- shed and the use of troops. SALT LAKE, Utah, June 3.—A special to the Tribune from Lander, Wyo., says that as a result of a shooting affray be- tween a white man and an Arapahoe In- dian which occurred on the reservation Sunday. and in which the Indlan was killed, serfous trouble is feared, as the Indians are reported to he very ugly over the affair. It appears the white, who is a stockherder, and the Indlan quarreled over a horse which the heruer had and which the Indian claimed. - A fight en- sued, in which about thirty shots were ex- changed before the Tndian was killed. The sheepmen are said to be badly frightened over the situation and are moving their herds closer together for protectian. They have sent to the outlying stores for am- munition. The herder who did the killing has quit the country. * WASHINGTON. June 2.—At the request of the Interior Department, the Secre- tary of War has instructed General Mer- rlam. commanding the Department of the Colorado, to employ as many of his troops as may be necessary to maintain order on the Kiowa reservation in Oklahoma. This action is based on a dispatch from Col- onet Randlett, in‘charge of the Kiowa and Comanche agency, reporting that at least 1000 futruders had settled in the Wichita Mountains, which are within the Kiowa {1ands soon to be opened for settlement, and they claimed the right to do so under the United States mineral laws. Secre- tary Hitcheock =aid to-day that they had no rights whatever and that they would be promptly ejected. — Bernhardt Opens in London. I.ONDON, June 3—The Bernhardt. Coquelin searon, under the management of Maurice Grau, opened auspiciously to- night at Her Maljesty’s Theater, whic! ‘was crowded. Mme. Bernhardt and IP Coquelin were most enthusiastically re- ceived. Lost Cabin was shot down by a party of | No detalls of the affair or the victim's | TREMENDOUS COMBINATION OF RAILADADG May Take in All Lines West of the Mis- sissippi. Great Harmonization Plan Reported to Be Now ? Forming. ¥ ——— Control of Roads to Pacific Coas® Result of Settlement of North- ern Pacific Differences. . JR PR Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 3.—The Press says: One tremendous consolidation of all rail- roads operating between the Mlssissippl River and the Pacific Coast promises to result from the settlement of the differ- | ences which caused the Northern Pacific | corner. The Press i able to announce |on the highest authority that not omly have the differences been settled between the Morgan-Hill faction and the Harri~ man party regarding the Burlington deal, and the relations of that railroad and the Northern Pacific and Great Northern with the Union Pacific, but also that the | St. Paul, Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago and Great Western will be | taken care of in a great harmonization scheme of the trunk lines of the West. The exact details of the harmony agreement are withheld until J. Plerpont | Morgan arrives from Europe. He will sail for this country to-morrow. James J. Hill, who has been his representative {in the Northern Pacific conflict and in | the practical management of the Mor- | gan-Hill railroads, has been in the city | for a week, arriving here several days in advance of the time he expected to come after the preliminary settlement in regard to the Northern Pacific cornmer. “Wait and See,” Says Hill. In Morgan's absence Hill has remained “incommunicado,” giving to his friénds the assurance that they must “wait and | see. Facts will tell the tale in good time.” | In Hill's simple expression Is the whole | truth in a nutshell. | The agreement regarding the contro- | versy over the control of the Northern Paclfic means that the property will re- main under the direction of the Morgan- Hill faction, although the Kuhn-Loeb- Hearriman-Geould faction, backed by the Rockefeller and Stillman interests, own a majority of the common and preferred steck combined, and further, that the harmeny agreement will result in a closer alllance between the great trans-Missis- sipp! railways which extend from Chi- cago to the coast and have affiliations to carry American products to the far East. Alliance of Big Railroads. Just how these arrangements of this tremendous alliance of big railroad prop- erties will be carried out cannot be told at this time, but it can be asserted upon the highest authority that such arrange- ments are making: that there will be harmony; that the Northern Pacifi¢ direc- tors will include men identified with the Urion Pacific and that the whole conduct of the trans-Mississippl railroads will be on a basis that the greatest profit will be derived from a more perfect amity and concerd. Advance information that such plan of “harmenization” was being arranged has stimulated the prices of railroad shares. The upward movement in securi- ties began last week. It continued tp-day, and the buying was by Wall street's strongest interests and was supplemented by purchases for investment account. | HELD IN HEAVY BAIL TO ANSWER MURDER CHARGE | Mrs. Mary McWilliams Is Accused of Being Accessory to Poison- ing of Dr. Barmes. SPRINGFIELD, Il., June 3.—Mrs. Mary McWilllams of Quincy, mother of Mrs. | Mary Barnes of that city, and who was arrested on a charge of being implicated in the murder of Mrs. Barnes’ husband, Dr. Joseph L. Barnes of Monticello, for which erime Mrs. Barnes and Willlam W. Ferguson have been indicted, had her preliminary examination béfore Justice Henderson of Jacksonville to-day, and was bound over to the Grand Jury in the sum of 35000, which she has not given. Ferguson, the negro who confessed to having given Dr. Barnes poisoned candy at the Central Hospital for Insane at Jacksonville, which caused his death, tes- tified that the candy was given him in Quincy by Mrs. Barnes in the presence of Mrs. McWilllams, and that the latter instructed him to zive the candy to Dr: Barnes. S T THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF GRAIN DESTROYED Wall of Fire Sweeping Along the Foothills Southwest of Los Banos. LOS BANOS, June 3.—A grain fire has been raging in the valleys of the foothilis about eighteen milez southwest of Los Banos since 4 o'clock this afterncon. A high west wind is carrying the fire rapid- ly southeasterly toward the plains. It has probably destroyed 20000 aeres of grain and feed already. Gangs of fire- fighters are being sent out from town. —— Cup Defender a Speedy Boat. NEWPORT, R. I, June 3.—The syndi- cate’'s America’'s cup defender Constitu- tion was given a frial spin to-day. Out to sea in the vicinity of the lightship, where the wind was freshest. the yacht was sent hither and thither, close-hauled and on long. reaches. Then she was put about and coming before the wind swept into the bay, making a splendld spectacle for a racing yacht.