The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1901, Page 1

¢ VOLUME XC—N SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FILIPIND MUTINY AND D0 MURDER Crew of Steamer XKill the Captain and Engineer. Vessel Is Then Abandoned, | but Is Picked Up by | a Gunboat. g T Eleven Desperate Prisoners Break | Jzil at Toilo and Two Are Shot | and Killed by the Guards. rt reaches | at the F\li-i ship Belgika muti- | g the admin- Belgika was fined for | t eleven ess there two of them, cha the island anne! in a | of | cretary Fight. the Gov- been ordered him investi- er with Seec- C TW WARSHIPS ON NAVAL PROGRAMME ary Long Confines Recommer- d-tion to Two Battleships and | Two Armored Cruisers. i T RE % G STREET, N. SHING —~Two battle- s an 3 sers will con- | h Secretary ntained a provision \ Navy to s and | w nce with | B truction, | Se ¢ dering | e f cted ships. | ¥ authorize | session the | hat there | ake at the | r completion Se on etary manu- | arme ng them the armor to in- ir purpose | Government the | department the deliveries | will ageregate 1000 tons per mor after ir eet the views of expects stead of —— BOERS SEEN TO SHOOT THE WOUNDED BRITISH An Official Corroboration of Charges Is Now Promised by the Eng- lish Government. July 11.—Official corrobora- of the charges that the Boers mur- tons LONDON dered the British wounded at Viakfon. teix. promises soon to be forthcoming. In | the House of Commons to-day, replying | to questions of Henry Norman, Liberal, Brodrick read the tel graphic correspondence with Lord Kitch. the subject. The latter had at that the reports were un- he subsequently telegraphed he statement of a wounded yeomanry of- | & the reports, and final- rmed Broderick that he the testimony of seven men to the that they saw Boers shoot the ded. Tord Kitchener added that sworn testimony was being forwarded, PICKPOCKETS TRAVELING WITH THE LEAGUERS COLORADO SPRINGS, July 11.—The police of this city and Manitou were to- day notified of losses by pickpockets ag- gregating $1500. There have been no less than eighteen or twenty cases reported. is belleved that an organized gang of pickpockets is traveling with the Epworth Leaguers. In nearly all cases nothing but money ls retained by the robbers, purses and rallroad tickets being left promiseu- ously about the streets. No arrests have been made here as yet. War Secretary corrobo June 9, 1§ BELOVED PROFESSOR JOSEPH LE CONTE IS LAID TO REST AFTER SIMPLE SERVICE IN HEARST HALL AT THE UNIVERSITY Faculty, Regents, Students and Hundreds of Alumni Gather in the College Town to Pay Affectionate Tribute to the [lemory of the Great Teacher and Sci‘entist. | TZORAL OFFERN IMPLE as his ¢wn gentle, unosten- tatious life had "been was the of sor Joseph Le t B vesterday aft- ernoon. There were no eulogies and no funeral sermon not even the pomp of an extended funeral cortege was invoked as a mark of honor to the mem- e beloved t ory of Hundreds women who had be aistinguished t or who had sat in the lecture room and imbibed inspira- tion from the poetry and enthusiasm and wisdom of Professor “Joe” gathered in Hearst Hall, listened reverentfally d Episcopal service for the dead own men and associated with the ot to a LEAVING and took a last affectionate look at the gentle face in the casket. Many of them followed the body to Mountain View Cem- etery, where it was placed in the family vault to await possible removal and burial beneath the oaks of the Berkeley cam- pus or within the shadow of the towering walls of his beloved Yosemite. The scholastic dignity of the ceremony was In perfect harmony with its touching simplicity. Clergymen in vestments, gray- haired professors and fresher faced youth- ful instructors in faculty robes and mor- tar-boards, regents, alumni and under- graduates in collegiate cap and gown marched in procession from the residence to Hearst Hall, and again, after the serv- ice, led the way from the hall and along the sbhady avenues of the college town. No outbursts of sorrow disturbed the serenity that nature gave the day. Keen regret for the parting and sorrow that no more would the great teacher’s kindly smile be seen or his cheery voice be heard filled every heart. But grief that shakes the body with sobs or that dries up the tears that would give relief was notice- ably absent. Death had come in its least répulsive form and had left those who loved the vemerable man composed In their sorrow and reconciled to their loss. Service for Family at House. A service at which only members of the family were present was held at the resi- dence, 2787 Bancroft way, at 2 o'clock. It was conducted by Bishop Willlam F. Nichols and the Rev. G. E. Swan, rector of St. Mark’s Epliscopal Church of Berke- ley. HEARST I BLL warrwg - o ARgn'7 W o s105ncE b " FROF. GO K- ORGSO . BISHOP Nrcwol S, ANO FRESIDEN T N PRO CESSION LEAVING WHEEZER., AERARS T 4 ARLL. u L N CAP AND 1N PROGESS (0N ES ¢ i 3 . ¢ BISHOP NICHOLS ANO THE REV G.E SWAN IN FRONT OF HEARST HALlw 1 ¢ - SOME OF THE PROFESSORS, REGENTS AND STUDENTS OF. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WHO | MARCHED IN PROCESSION YESTERDAY AT THE FUNERAL IN BERKELEY OF PROFESSOR JOSEPH | LE CONTE. FROM SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY A CALL PHOTOGRAPHER. i < At the close of this service the proces- William R. Davis and Charles Wheeler for up the center aisle of the hall. Bishop sion formed and led the way to Hearst Hall. Tt was headed by Professor String- ham and Professor Slate, two of the deans of the faculty, and the members of the faculty followed, wearing their robes and mortar-boards. President Wheeler walked in their midst and the Regents followed. After the Regents came a large number of alumni, many prominent men being in the ranks, and a delegation of undergrad- uates—men and women, both in cap and gown—completed the colleglate portion of the procession. The Rev. Mr. Swan pre- ceded Bishop Nichols, who was followed by the hearse. The pallbearers were as follows: '~ ._ the alumni; Charles W. Slack and.J. B..Rein- stein for the regents; Professors A. C. Lawson and W. E. Ritter of Professor Le Conte's de-/ partment; Professor Martin Kellogg, E. W. Hilgard, George Davidson and Frederick C. Hesse for the faculty;.Charles B. Fryer and John M. Eshleman for the student body. Cartiages followed the hearse. The procession, moved slowly along Bancroft way to Hearst Hall, which was crowded with alumni and students and townspec- ple. Among the hundreds present were many who had come long distances to pay a final tribute to the memory of Prufessor, The Rev. Mr. Swan led the procession Nichols preceded the casket, reading from the Episcopaiian. service for the dead. The casket was carried by six colored men. Faculty and Regents and students followed, and as the caskel was placed upon the dais yrepared for it in front of the platform at the upyer end of the hall the faculty and Regents and palibearers took seats upon the platform behind Pres- ident Wheeler, Bishop Nichols and the Rev. Mr. Swan. Mrs. Le Conte entered the hall upon the arm of her nephew, Julian Le Conte, and the daughter, Mrs. R. M. Davis, was ac- companied by Professor Cory. They were seated directly in front of the casket, and the alumni and students were given seats in front on either side of them. The hall was filled to tne doors and a crowd ex- tended down the steps into the clubroom, and many remained outside the building entirely. Around the casket were banked the floral offerings and potted plants, while palms and other greenery decorated the angles of the hall. Among the floral of- ferings was a great hasket of white roses sent by the academic council. A French wreath of palm branches, sea lavender and lilies of tke valley, a most artistic piece, made by Mrs. F. E. Woodworth, was sent by Mrs. Phebe Hearst. The stu- dent body’s offering was a great spray of red and white carnations. The services began with the chanting of a psalm by the California Quartet. Bishop Nichols read the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians. The quartet sang “Abide With Me,” and the Rev. Mr. Swan read the prayer of the Episcopalian ser- vice. Memorial Service Announced. President Wheeler stepped forward at a sign from Bishop Nichols and said: At the beginning of the academic semestar a memorial service will be held in honor of our colleague, who has passed from our view. He stated then that all who desired could come forward and look upon the | face of Professcr Le Conte for the time. The procession left the hall in the order last Continued on Page Five. | Steel Hoop Company | dents of the CONFERENCE FALS TO EAD THE STAIE The Billion Dollar Steel Combine Is Still Worried. oipueites Managers of Mills Meet the Representatives of the Strikers. President Shaffer of the Amalgae mated Association Says the Men Are Making Life and Death Fight. 41 PITTSBURG, July 11.—The labor eof= ference at the Hotel Lincoln to-day failed to come to any agreement. Another con- ference will be held to-morrow. The ob- Ject of the conference was the settlement of the strike ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers in the mills of the American Sheet Steel Company and in those of the Amer- jcan Steel Hoop Company. The confer- ence also had another purpose in view— the prevention of a general strike in all the mills controlled by the United States Steel Corporation, the two companies in whose mills the strike had been ordered being constituent companies of the great steel combine. Two sessions of the conference wera held to-day. The first convened shortly after 10 o’clock in the morning. At noom the meeting adjourned for dinmer. At 2 o'clock In the afternoon the second ses- sion was convened, and was continued until 3 o’clock. As a settlement within a reasonable time was seen to be out of the question, the conference adjourned to meet at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. Trust Managers Present. The steel interests at the conference were represented by John Warner of New York, chief of the operating department of the Sheet Steel Company; I. W. Jenks of Pittsburg, manager of the American Steel Hoop Company: Hoyt Preston of New York, late president of the American Warner Arms and M. Leeds c York, vice presie American Tin Plate Com= pany, and Charles W. Bray of Pittsburg, chlef engineer of the same company. The Unitea States Steel Corporation is sald to have been indirectly represented by Messrs. Warner and Preston. At the afternoon session President Shaf- fer, in behalf of the Amalgamated Asso~ ciatlon, formally presented the case for the organized workers and the strikers. He laid stress upon the fact that until this year the union had made no effort di- rectly to force a unioa in all the plants of the combine for the reason that it is New w. | thought best to have that movement orig- | inate and be earried on among the worke men in the mills. Confronted by a New Condition. Since last year, however, a new condl« tion confronted the union men. The offl« clals of the various companies had plainly indicated, he said, that they are working on a policy for operating their non-uniom plants in preference to the union mills and only working the latter when it is abso- lutely necessary. s plan, he declared, is forcing the union men to desert the or- ganization in order to get work. The idle mills being union and the union men being rendered poverty-stricken as the price. for being members of the crganization, means either that the Amalgamated Association is going to be disbanded soon or all the non-union mills will have to be mads unioa, so that equ tice will be given to all. Matter of Life and Death. It was a matter of life and death for the Amalgamated Association that the non- union mills be done with, Shaffer sald. The alleged methods adopted by the American Sheet Steel Company in prae- tically starving the employes of the Old Meadow mills, in Scottdale. into a non- union agreement was elaborated uponm, and the demand made by the company that the mill be left out of the scale en- tirely in the future was taken as an Indl- cation of what the general plan of the company is in dealing with the Amalga~ mated Association. It meant, he sald, slow starvation or else complete surrender to the company, and the giving up of all rights to organizedq union in their plants, Denied by the Officers. In reply to the statements of President Shaffer the officers of the various compa- nies present gave an outline of their po- sition. They denied any Intention of working an injustice toward union work- men in their mills. The feeling for the Amalgamated men had alw been friendly, they said, and they had no de- sire to force any trouble a them. . X3 NEWPGRT NEWS STRIKE COMES TO AN ENDING NEWPORT NEWS, Va, July 11.—The strike of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company’s machinists came | sfiddenly to an end to-night, when by unanimous comnsent | the men decided to return to work Monday at the old scale. | The fact that the machinists | could not obtain funds with | which to support the idle men and that the shipvard man- agement had demonstrated its ability to i1l the vacant | | places are responsible for the defeat of the strikers. 5 ———s away