The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-NO. 2 5. i e o e SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. APPALLING DESOLATION AND DEATH - IN THE WAKE OF WEST VIRGINIA'S FLOOD ETERANS T0 SECURE CLAY FYANS' SCALP Reappointment Will Not Be Given the Pension Commissioner. General Sickles Confirms the Statement Made by Cor- poral Tanner. — Grand Army Men Have the Written Promise of the Republican National Committee. h to The Call e 24.—General Daniel ay Corporal Tan- mise was made National Republi- Clay Evans should mmissioner of Pen- aid the t M n appointed com- West in the fall ct un- v to the old d not again e promise of the nce was given 1d not be becom- he text of the com- without the consent of which Senator Hanna was able to say orivate conversa- ans would not again be think that announcement inttane st Virginia and Illi- soldiers have a great where In Letters of Gold. cement had much on of President Mc- v disliked Mr. Ev- man, I have no as mot been in ac- d liberal ideas of he pension laws. aws were passed to make o0d the promise made by President Lin- when sed the armies families of the men jured in the cause of i be cared for and sup- nest promise n the walls of the pen- ' added the general, s have been responsi- Evans. This t the opposition Pension fon to Mr. d Be Fatal. 1 be reappointed I tment Woul I, after his re- appear be- old soldiers I should be fcrm. T cannot think him en by the national s been denounced by the Grand Army ate where the NAVY PAYMASTER MARTIN SEVERELY REPRIMANDED Appropriates to His Own Personal Use Public Money Held by Him in Trust. WASHINGTON, June 24—Secretary g to-day administered a stinging rep- Paymaster John R. Martin, 4 States navy, who pleaded guflty to dalous conduct based in using Government onal purposes. told Paymaster guilty committed in vio L ri Tnt & charge of = vy action upon fund Martin of a serious offense tion of law and regula- tion ““The acts charged,” said the Sec- retary, “were, in fact, an appropriation to your own use of public money held It was not even a case but not yet payvable. by you in trust of money due you Had you died or otherwise left the service | id have been a shortage. That re wo you had reso your commard to make it good is of no consequence.” - TEDERAL 6OVERNMENT SUES SENATOR CLARXK HELENA M June 24 —United States Attorney Rogers to-day began ac- tion in the Federal Court against Senator W. A. Clark which the Government seeks to have set aside patents for about 10,0% acres of valuable land now under control of the Senator. The Government claims that the lands were taken up with- in the last three years under the timber end stone act by persons who, contrary to law, filed on them for speculative pur- peses and knowing that they expected to | dispose of them to Senator Clark or his egents. The lands involved are all in Mis- soula County. | | | in Nebraska, Kan- | The | 1a be written | no object in making | ceive their fees s or funds elsewhere at | 3 a6 [ | |1 | B { \ T = /%// | £ r | ) Wi | i CHl L)l %\/&fl& HANNA MEN CONTROL | " REPUBLICANS OF OHIO | OLUMBUS, Ohio, ( Republican State | this Jung 2.—The Convention to afternoon. | States Senator Foraker, the temporary chairman. | several committees had been appointed the convention adjourned until to-morrow morning. *The vital issue to-day was not in the convention proper, but was in the election of a State Central Committee, | when the delegates representing each of {the twenty-one Congressional districts | met separately and a committeeman was | named for each district. The result was | a Gecided victory for the so-called Hanna | men, for they made a clean sweep, con- | trenting districts that heretofore have been dominated by the “insurgents.” The | result insures the election of Congress- man Dick as chairman of the State Ex- ecutive Committee. Charles Foster, ex- Secretary of the Treasury, ex-Governor, | ex-Congressman and for many years a delegate at large to national conventions, | was defeated for member of the State | Central Committee from the Thirteenth District, because of his opposition to Sen- ator Hanna. After his defeat Foster ve- hemently addressed the delegates of his | district on cliques and intrigues and on the dangers of “local imperialism.” Hanna’s Sweeping Victory. Ex-Governor Bushnell had been elected as a delegate and had been made chair- man of the Clark County delegation, but at the meeting of the delegates of his dis- | trict it was announced that he would not attend the convention. His friends gave some very pointed reasons for his ab- | sence. ‘The Hanna men have never before been abje to control the party orfanization in the Columbus district, but to-day they se- | cured everything. | 1t was thought after the Cuyahoga | County Convention in Cleveland last week | ttat Senator Hanna would not get the ! solid support of his home delegation, but | he secured both of the State committee- |men in the Twentieth and Twenty-first | districts. : | While the Hanna leaders were making | their fight for State committeemen they {aid not overlook the committee on cre- | dentials, and it is assured to-night that | none of the Daugherty men, who are here | as contesting delegates, can be seated. Fight Against Caldwell. | The State Committee fight having been | settled, the interest to-night centers in the platform to be reported and the fight ‘Opening of the State Convention Marked by | the Defeat of “Insurgents” and a Ringing | Speech by Senator Foraker. nominate candidates for Governor 1 terant Governor Caldwell because of his and other State officers met here | alleged championing of certain liquor in- The feature of [ter:sts during the past year. The issue Y | the brief session was the speech of United | against Caldwell seems to be an open one After he had spoken and the | | Ohio Republican Congressmen and mem- bers of the Legislature and other leaders that the State Antl-Saloon League !s making against the renomination of Lieu- to-night. Senators Foraker and Hanna were loud- ly cheered as they came upon the con- vention platform together. Nearly all ‘the were seated upon the platform, over which were displayed the portraits of Governor Nash and Senators Foraker and Hanna. K Senator Foraker was introduced as temporary chairman of the convention. He was enthusiastically received. Senator Foraker's speech was frequently inter- rupted with demonstrations of approval, notably when he said the flag would stay wherever it had been planted. Foraker upheld every act of the admin- istration, particularly in reference to the policy of expansion and the government of insular possessions. The committee on permanent organiza- tion then selected Senator Hanna for per- manent chairman and continued the rest of the temporary organization. Senator Hanna will address the convention on taking the chair to-morrow. The new State committee was organized with P. W. Durr as chairman and Martin Slater as secretary. Lieutenant Governor Caldwell caused quite a stir to-night by announcing that he would not be a candidate for renom- ination. The representatives of the brewers ex- press their displeasure at what they call the enforced retirement of Caldwell and the recent defeat of State Senator Seiber and others for renomination, while the author of the Clark local option law hag been renominated in Columbus for Rep- resentative. When Caldwell declined re- nomination George B. Cox, chairman of the Hamilton County delegation, suggest- ed State Senator Carl Nippert of Cincin- nati to a conference of the leaders, and there is now no doubt.that Senator Nip- pert will be nominated for Lieutenant Governor. Nippert was formerly princi- pal of schools at Cincinnati and after- ward Police Prosecutor. Forecast of the Ticket. A forecast of the ticket indicates the following: Governor—George K. Nash. Lieutenant Governor—Carl L. Nippert. Supreme Judge—W. L. Crew. Clerk of Supreme Court—A. W. Critch- field. f Attorney General—J. A. Sheets. State Treasurer—J. B. Cameron. Member of Board of Public Works—W. G. Johnson. + ] | | | | ‘ i i | | i | | | 5 i | | | | + s OFFICIALS WHO FIGURE IN THE RELIEF OF SUFFERERS FROM THE FLOOD. ] 1 =3 PRESIDENT PLANS TOUR NEXT YEAR Intends to Visit States in the Northern Beit. ‘Washington, Oregon and the Yellowstone Are to Be Included. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 24—Volney Foster, president of the Union League Club of Chicago, to-day invited President McKinley to fix a new date for the big banquet which was to have been given him cnhis return from the Pacific Coast by the Union League Club, the Tilinois Manufacturers’ Association and the Busi- ness Mefl's League. Foster, speaking for the three organizations, said they hoped to have the pleasure of entertaining the President some time next fall. .- The President expressed regret at hav- ing disappointed the Chicago people, and said he would be glad to attend Ythat big banquet gome time in the future, but he did not believe it could be this year. He is planning to make a trip to the North- west early next summer, visiting Wash- ingtcn, Oregon and the northern belt of States, taking in the Yellowston Park, which he has never seen. He told Foster he would prefer to have the Chicago date left open' for the present, and if possible fitted into that tour as it was originally planned it should be on his return fro.. the Pacific Coast. ONDON, June 24.—A special from Craddock, Cape Colony, says: The detachment of the Colonial Mounted Rifles, which was at- tacked by the Boers at Water- Kkloof June 20, was pursuing Commandant Malan, when General Kritzinger surprised the Rifles’ camp at Waterkloof while the Colonial troopers were saddling up. The fight lasted two and a half hours. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain has sig- nalized his recovery from an attack of gout and his resumption of his duties by telegraphing to the - Unionist candidate for Stratford: “I hope the electors will remember that a seat lost to the Government is still a geat gained by the Boers,”, thus repeating the dlctum which earned him unlimited abuse at the time of the last election. Lessons of Transvaal War. An interesting paper, written by Jean de Bloch, the Russian Councilor of State and member of the Russian Ministry of Finance, on the lessons of the Transvaal war, was read at the United Service Insti- tution to-day. M. de Bloch declared that WASHINGTON WEDDING SETS GOSSIPS TALKING —_— Lloyd A. Turner of San Francisco Quietly Marries Belle of Virginia. WASHINGTON, June 24.—Rather un- usual ocurrences attended the .weddidg here of Lloyd A. Turner, a wealthy young man of San Francisco, and Adeline L. Mayo, a belle of Richmond, Va. Accom- panied by a friend of the groom, the young couple, who, it is said, had only known each other one week, went to the home of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia at 9:30 o’clock Thursday night and induced him to go to his office and issue them a marriage li- cense. Equipped with this instrument, the party was rapidly driven to the residence of the Rev. John M. Schick, who solem- nized the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Turner sailed last Saturday for Europe. Turner and his mother have resided here for some time past, the latter having been anxious to get her sen a commission in the navy. The young man is quite wealthy. His legal -home is in San Francisco. Mrs. Turner is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Mayo of Richmond. A report is current that Miss Mayo was engaged to a New. Yorker and that she came here to avoid the marriage. —_——— Dies at Age of 107. BOLINAS, June 24—Mrs. Ramona Briones Munos dled here to-day at the age of 107. She was a native of San Diego. The funeral will be held on Wed- nesday. KRITZINGER ATTACKS | | ing repairs to the railroad and coal opera- THE BRITISH TROOPS \Pursuing Column Is Sutprised by the Boers| and Fierce Fighting Lasts Two and a Half Hours. } | | pect to be open the South African war had proved that | myilitary service, as practiced to-day, was | absurd, and that the sacrifice made on | the Continent to support consecription was unnecessary. . The war showed that the | theatrical :spectacles called maneuvers were in no way related to real warfare. | Due to New Conditions. One of the most remarkable features was the constant impossibility of deter- mining the enemy’s position. This was not attributable to British defective re- connaissance, but to the mew conditicns of war. It was not mistakes made by the British nor the qualities of the Boers, who had shown an entire lack of rational strategy and tactics, which produced the results seen, but smokeless powder and long range quick-firing rifles, which in- volved dispersion and invisibility to a de- gree unheard of formerly and to the possi- bility of providing riflemen with a larger number of cartridges. The action of the artillery in South Africa had been gen- erally absolutely contemptible against an entrenched enemy. SEVERAL DEATHS FROM THE HEAT AT CHICAGO George Wiley, One of the Vi Succumbs While at Work in a Foundry. CHICAGO, June 24—Two deaths and eleven prostrations, of which several are serious, were the result of the heat in Chicago to-day. The dead: GEORGE WILEY, prostrated while at work in a fcundry. FRITZ ABRAMSEN, inmate of Dun- ning, succumbed during the night. Over 300 cattle were stifled in their pens at the stock yards. Several hundred cat- tle, hogs and sheep were also taken out dead from the carsson in-coming trains. Mrs. McKinley Greatly Improved. | ‘WASHINGTON, June 24.—For the first time since she was brought home from California in a feeble condition Mrs. Mec- Kinley was able to ge downstairs and join the President while the latter was at| luncheon. ‘She remained at the table for scme little time and then returned to her room, having enjoyed the break in the | daily routine of life for the past month. Mrs. McKinley's condition continues fa- vorable. —_— Bomb Intended for a Prince. ROME, June 24{.—An unexplodéd bomb has been found in a rallroad carriage in which two Princes of the House of Mon- tenegro have been traveling in Italy. | Top coal 1 | was contained L0SS OF LIFE NOT 50 GREAT 15 REPORTED Number Who Perished May Not Exceed Sixty. Governor Issues an Appeal for Contributions to Aid Sufferers. Difficulty in Securing Details of the Appalling Disaster, Whicll Vis- £ ited a Wide Section. e CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., June 24— After a conference to-night with the Sec- retary of State and other officlals, Gov- ernor White issued an appeal to the citi- | zens of West Virginia for contributions in ald of the flood sufferers in the Flat region. The Governor states that, while he is yet without definite in- formation, it is certain that an appalling disaster has overtaken the people of that region, and that aid will be required to care for the sick and destitute and bury the dead. Generous gifts of money and needed supplies are urged. In response to a message from Governor Nash of Ohio, asking whether assistance | would be needed, Governor White repiied that he hoped for definite information from the stricken region to-morrow, but | that the suffering would undoubtedly be | great. | side aid had best be in money, and can Governor White added: “Any out- be sent to the adjutant general at Charlestown, or to any bank cashier at Bluefield. Thousands of miners are home- less.” ROANOKE, Va., June 24.—The following statement, made to-night by one of the general officers of the Norfolk and West- ern Rallway summarizing the flood situa- tion in the light of the latest dispatches, was given to the Associated Press: “Restoration of the telegraph lines de- velops that the damage by flood through the coal fields was exaggerated. The loss of life will not exceed sixty or seventy- five, and the damage to property, includ- tions, will not exceed $500,000. It is ex- pected the rallway will get a line opened through to-morrow or next day.” A telegram this afternoon dated Ennis, W. Va., from General Manager Johnson of the Norfolk and Western Rallway, says: “The best Information is that sixty peo- ple were drowned in the North Fork of | the Elkhorn. Property loss, about $300,000. | The Norfolk and Western Railroad suf- ferea severely in tracks and trestles. Ex- for traffic some time Wednesday if we have no storms.” FIFTY BOPIES RECOVERED. The List of Missing and Reported Drowned Foots Up 249. BLUEFIELD, W. Va., June 24.—Detalls of the fearful flood in the Pocahontas ilat top region are slowly drifting into this town, which is situated twenty-five miles south of the scene of wrecked homes, and fully bear out the fears early entertained as to the havoc wrought by the storm. Fifty dead bodies have been found. Thou- sands of people are homeless and it is feared that many are without food, or at the best with only food enough to last a few days. The work of establishing rail- road commuynication is being pushed with vigor. There is little hope of sending the sufferers succor until railroad connection is restored. Men are at work clearing away the debris and recovering the bodies of the dead. The dead are being aug- mented hourly. Rellef trains are running between this city and the edge of the stricken district and everything possible is being done to relieve the suffering and destitition. The latest estimate is that it will take ten days to repair the track. In- fermation from the Tug River district is to the effect that the damage to the coal operations there is not great, but that the lumber interests have suffered consider- ably. Like the Johnstown Flood. Over a hundred miles of track belonging to the various coal operators are practi- cally lost. The rails are bent and twisted like wires. Even the heavy girders of the collapsed railroad bridges were rendered useless. The force of the flood is better understood when it is explained that by reason of a long fall and a low iron bridge some distance up the valley the flood was dammed and a monster body of water ac- cumulated, probably as large a volume as in the famous dam at Jobnstown. When this obstruction gave way it let down a great flood on the vil- lages and mining eamns below. It is reported that Dr. Hatfield, a promi. nent physician and a kinsman of the fam- ous feudists of this section of Kentucky, was comipelled to sheoot two negro plun- derers who were robbing defenseless flood sufferers. The negroes were George Wade and Alexander Watts, both desperate characters. The, slowness of recovery of bodles is because the corpses of the missing are hidden in mammoth piles of debris. Some of these piles are thirty feet high and cover in some instances as much as a half acre of ground, and it Is the work of days to search through them. It has beem sug- Continued on Page Two.