The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1901, Page 13

Gorenrsronoxoxers 3 - = * * * b 4 : DOrOueFF P HEX + 324 ¥OX SXOGLOX SRR i 3 Pages 13 10 22 ¢ 3 s * i / i DOOXPOLBXIXORDE B X BHORDHD4 X IHED VOLUME XC—NO. 38. SAN FRAN NEW BATTLESHIP MAINE GLIDES FROM CRADLE AND IS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED AT THE YARDS OF THE CRAMPS AT PHILADELPHIA One of Largest Crowds That Has Ever Seen War Vessel Leave Ways at Cramps Makes Patriotic Demonstration in Honor of Ship That Will Replace Ill-Fated Craft Whose Shapeless Mass Lies in Havana Harbor HILADELPHIA, July 2.—The bat- Maine, designed to be big- ger, stronger and faster than her mesake, whose shapeless mass 1 harbor of Havana, cessfylly launched from the yards es in the Sram Company to-day. One of the jargest crowds that has ever ship leave the ways at Cramp's ards was on hand, and patriotism ran ship left her cradle, , wherein the shipyard is lo- and attended the Thousands of persons from arts of the city were on hand, and vard was thrown open to the pub- lic every vantage point in the confines of the place swarméd with humanity. The weather was beautiful. The State of Maine was officially repre- Governor Hill and members of From Washington came Rear Bredford, Melville and Walker, nt Commander Bailey, Captain ormer Governor of Guam, and a r of bureau chiefs of the Navy De- t seen & W wi Kensingto t took & holiday a as tb President McKinley, Secretary of the Navy Long. Admiral Dewey, Captain Sigs- bee and other naval dignitaries who re- ceived § ations were unable to attend. The ceremony of christening the ship was performed by Miss Mary Preble An- derson of Portland, Me., a descendant of the Prebie family, that has added fame to the naval honors of the country. s the last timber that held the ship was Sawws m twain and the vessel began siés Anderson struck the bow ine a blow with a bottle of mprgne and formally christened her. As the vessel slid off the ways a great showt went up and every steam craft in he vicinity began the tooting of whistles. son belongs to a family that stified with the American prominently as the Adams American statesmanship with American armies. of the Portland s a young soldier who siege of Louisburg Zdward was a boy when rolution broke out. He joined the distinguished himself and utibn attained high rank, with ancestor iis son Ship and Engine Building | m N o+ NEW BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED YESTERDAY AND YOUNG LADY WHO CHRISTENED IT. E2 so that in 1803, as a commodore, he com- msnded the famous expedition which humbled the Barbary pirates. Commo- dcre Preble was styled “the Father of the American Navy.” - Commodore Preble's nephew, Admiral George H. Preble, saw active and distin- guished service in two wars, that against Mexico, where he participated in the bom- bardment of Vera Cruz, and the Civil War, when he commanded a vessel under Farragut at New Orleans and Mobile. With the third Portland Preble was Lieu- tenant Commander Edward E. Preble, grandsen of Commodore Preble, who was the’ navigator of the Kearsarge in the famous battle with the Alabama. Com- modore Preble married Mary Deering in 1801. A They had but one child, Edward Deering Preble, who left three children, a son, Edward E. Preble, the navigator of the Kearsarge, and two daughters, Mrs. Ed- gar Tucker of New York and Mrs. W. H. Anderson of Portland, mother of Miss Mary Preble Anderson. The Maine is 5 per cent finished. Her keel was laid in April, 1899, and the ship will be ready for transfer tosthe Govern- ment in eighteen months or two years' time. Bremerton a Navy Yard. SEATTLE, July/ 2.—Advices from Washington state that the Secretary of the Navy has ordered that hereafter the naval establishment at Bremerton shall be known as the Bremerton navy yard instead of the Bremerton naval station.q o ~/ ! JIGNALS FLAGH BETWEEN GREAT DGEAN STEAMERS Success ot Messages Sent From an Outgoing Vessel. ’ PRl Wonderful Working of the Marconi System of Wire- less Telegraphy. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 27.—Between the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of thg North German Lloyd line and the Cu- nard steamship Lucania a very success- ful test of the operation of the Marconi wireless telegraph system was made this afternoon th the waters of New York harbor. The Lucania salled for Liverpool at 1 o'clock this afternoon, while the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse remained berthed at pler 51, North River, = from which she will sail on Tuesday next. For more than an hour the two vessels were in constant communication with each other, and until the Lucania passed out of the Narrows there was no difficulty in reading her signals. ““Exact Position Recorded. ' It was agreed upon between the two op- erators, George Kroncke of the German ship and Willlam Hepworth on the Luca- a, that the test was a semi-private af- fair, and the messages were in the nature of friendly greetings, with the exception that several times during the passage of Continued on Page Fourteen. BORDER MEN HANG THIEF T0 LIk Quickly Avenge Stealing of a Horse Near Tucson. —_— Lasso Their Victim After a Long Chase and Des- perate Fight. Pl Cowboys From a Nearby Ranch Are Driven Back When They At- tempt to Aid the Cap- tured Man. ety 2P, Special Dispatch to The Call. | TUCSON, July 27.—Swift was the venge- | ance meted out to Ignacio Rivera, a Mex- | | fean vaquero, by a party of cowboys from a ranch twenty-five miles south of Tuc- son last night. Rivera’s crime was the tealing of a horse—a capital offense on | the border. He was pursued by a party of men of the ranch from which the horse was taken, lassoed after a chase of five miles and strung up to a mesquite tree. Not until this morning, when his body was found swinging from a limb, was the fate that had overtaken him made known. So silently and swiftly did the self-con- | stituted executioners carry out their plans that it is not known even yet from what | ranch they came, nor has any light been | thrown upon events leading up to the pur- suit and the lynching. Ranchmen and cowboys in the vicinity are not exerting themselves to get the details, preferring to refrain from too much curiosity. Early last evening “Broncho Steve,” who is foreman of the Sahuarito ranch, | | twenty miles south of Tucson, saw a band of cowboys pass his ranch, riding swiftly | in the direction of Tucson. The foreman's suspicions were aroused when they passed | him without uttering<a word. Cowboys seldom ride hard without yelling. Steve decided to saddle his horse and follow them, which he did at an early hour this | morning. Body Swinging to a Limb. At Hart's ranch Steve found a crowd of cowboys standing about the body of a man swinging to the limb of a mesquité tree. He was a stranger to the cowboys in that section and mystery surrounded the affair until ‘‘Broncho_Steve' arrived and told of having seen the posse the night before. His information made it plain that the man was a horsethief, who had been pursued and caught by cowboys working upon a ranch farther south. The lynched man was later found to be Ignaclo | Rivera, this name being written on several | letters in his pockets. Rivera was a Mex- { fcan vaquero and was this afternoon idei- tified as a cowboy who had been working at a ranchmear the border line for some time. ' Cowboys at Hart's ranch, who heard the pursuing band arrive, heard several shots and saw a band of horsemen aup- proach in the darkness. They did not care to inquire into the shooting, but one of them ventured close enougn to distin- guish the forms of the horsemen and saw that one man in the crowd was apparently held by a rope about his body, as though he had been lassoed, and was emptying his six-shooter at the party which had come upon him. Rope the Horsethief. Evidently the posse did not care to shoot Rivera, for the cowboys at Hart's ranch say that all the shooting was done by the man who was afterward hanged. The cowboys in the attacking party rode about their man as though they were trying to rope him so as to fasten his arms to his body and prevent him using his six-shooter. This they succeeded in doing before Rivera could do any damage to the lynching party, and Rivera was jerked to the ground and dragged some distance to a mesquite tree. The Hart's ranch cowboys then attempted to inter- fere, seeing that it was a fight in which one man was opposed by a half dozen, but the lynching party drove them back, and they were powerless to do anything. Rivera was placed beneath a limb of the tree, a rope was tightened about his neck and thrown over the limb at a point ‘where the body would swing free of the ground. After hauling Rivera up they tied the rope about the tree. Then the lynching party rode back to the ranch- house. The cowboys were not aware until this morning of what had been the fate of the man they had seen lassoed. They knew that there had been a fight, but did not know that it had preceded a lynching. Coroner Learns No Details . The story of the lynching was brought in by a cowboy to-day and the Coroner | was notified. He went out to the scenc this afternoon and returned late to-night. The story of the cowboy in relation to the lynching cannot be verified, but | “Broncho Steve,”” who came in this even- ing, says that Rivera was hanged last night and that the men who did the work are not known about Hart’s ranch. It is! evident that he has been working on the range and had elther stolen a horse or got into other trouble which angered the cowhboys, and they followed him to his death. Rivera was a young man and had been geen by some of the cowboys at Hart's ranch before during a roundup of cattle. It is the general belief that he was flee- ing upon a stolen horse toward Tucson. —e. Refuses Demands of Strikers. SPOKANE, ‘July 27.—A special to the Spokesman-Review from Rossland, B. C., states thdt the managers of all the big mines in that district to-day sent formal communications to the various labor JISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1901-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SECRETARY LONG WILL PROHIBIT OFFICERS - OF NAVY FROM TALKING FOR PUBLICATION : CONCERNING SCHLEY-SAMPSON CONTROVERSY This Order, Which Will Be Issued Next Week, Is Not Intended as a “Muzzle” on the Men Who Participated in the Battle of Santiago Bay, for They T————— CIANT COMBINE OF CALFORNINS 0L INTERESTS Hundred Million Dollar Consolidation Is > Completed. Output Throughout This State. — = Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, July 21.—The Herald to-morrow ‘will' say: For several months plans have been under discussion for or- - ganizing ‘the oil producers of California to market their product on co-operative lines. Two.or three efforts made in that line failed, because the condition was not sufficiently disorganized to = demonstrate the necessity of co-operation to the pro- ducers. The competition to sell, however, has gradually forced down the price of crude oil until in"Kern County sales of stock on hand have been made as low as 17 cents a barrel, a price which could only be dis- astrous to the producers if continued .in- definitely. With this condition facing them the ne- cessity became apparent to all the pro- ducers to do something to Testore profit in ofl production by raising the price. While there were many operators in the Kern River field, there were a few men who controlled the greater part of the land. and for some days they have been consla- ering the situation, finally reaching an agreement on ‘the lines on which organ- ization should be perfected. This plan was finally put into the hands of W. S. Porter of Los Angeles to work out, and so successfully has the work been done that twelve companies, representing 65 per cent of the Kern River field, have now signed and other companies are rapidly entering the combine. Tt represents a cap- ! jtalization of between $75,00,000 and $100,- 000,000. Companies That Have Signed. The twelve Kern River companies which may be classed as the “charter mem- bers” of the combine are said to be: Monte Cristo Ofl Company, Reed Crude Ofl Company, Canfleld Oil Company, Pe- troleum Development Company, Imperial Oil Company, Chicago Crude Oil Com- pany, San Joaquin Oll Company, Kern Oil Company, Sterling Ofl Company, Bear Flag Oil Company, Green & Whittier Oil Company and Toltes Oil Company. ett & Blodgett and others, representing almost the entire acreage of Sunset; by Canfield & Chanslor, with a great acreage in Midway, while almost all of the com- panies in McKittrick are reported to have signed contracts similar to those signed by the Kern River producers. The unions, declining to accede to the demands of their striking employes. The indica- tions now are that the strike will be ! greatly protracted. Coalinga product is said to be practically Continued on Page Fourteen. Embraces Almost the Entire | This combine will be supported by Jew-’ ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, July 27.— Believing that irresponsible dis- cussion should cease now that an / official investigation is to be made, Secretary Long will issue an order next week forbidding officers of the ser- vice from talking for publicatior. This oréer, it is explained to-day, is in no sense intended to ‘‘muzzle” officers. They will be given an opportunity to make their statements under oath, when they must tell the truth, the whole truth and noth- ing' but the truth. Judge Advocate Gen- eral Lemly will make a complete list of Will All Have a Chance to Make Statements Before Court of Inquiry in this case the department would suggest that a rigid blockade and the employment of our torpedo-boats might accomplish the desired object, viz.: The destruction of the enemy’s vessels without subjecting unnecessarily our men-of-war to the fire of land batteries.” Secretary Long’s Reasons. Secretary Long ‘exfMined that there were two reasors for this, viz.: First, that there might be no American troops to occupy any captured stronghold or to protect them from riot and arson until after the dry season began, and second, lack of docking facilities, which made it L WD i / 0 CRUISER BROOKLYN, THE FLAGSHIP OF COMMODORE SCHLEY DURING THE BATTLE OF SANTIAGO BAY, AND TWO SPANISH OF- FICERS WHO UPHOLD THE AMERICAN COMMANDER. officers and others who may be able to throw light upon the subject under in- quiry. If Rear Admiral Schley should find the list incomplete he will be per- mitted to add such names as he may deem advisable. In this way every officer who has any information bearing upon the conduct of Rear Admiral Schley or any other officer will be placed on the ‘witness stand. Silent Concerning Sampsor. The decision of Secretary Long to issue the order is the result of various inter- views which have appeared since the agi- tation of the Schiey-Sampson controversy was renewed by comment upon the Mac lay history. This decision was rsached yesterday before Rear Admiral Sampson spondent in Boston, which were printel this morning. In view of the departmen atiitude deprecating further newspaper | discussion none of the officers with whom The Call correspondent talked to-day would authorize him to quote them in re- spect to the views expressed by the ad- miral. Secretary Long declined to say a word about them. Admiral Sampson's state- ments _tally generally, however, with tue official records, except with regard to his assertion that “I had received manda- tory orders from the Navy Department not to jeopardize anv of the Vessels on the mine fields or by attacking heavy bat- teries until the: Spanish fleet had been de- stroyed.” " In a confidential letter o Admiral Samp- son, dated April 6, i8%, Secretary Long stated that “the department did not wish ‘the admiral to expose the vessels of his squadron to the fire of the batteries at Havana, Santlago de Cuba or other strongly fortified ports in Cuba unless the more formidable Spanish vessels should take refuge within those harbora. Even expressed his views to The Call corre- | particularly desirable that our vessels should not be crippled before the capture or destruction of Spain’s most formidable vessels. ’ After war had been declared Secretary | Long in telegraphic Instruction to Ad- | miral Sampson, dated April 26, Informed | 'Admiral Sampson that “while the depart- ment does not wish the bombardment of forts protected by cannom, it Is within your discretion to destroy light batterles which may protect vessels you desire to attack, if you can do so without exposurs to heavy suns.” On May 5 Sampson was directed not to risk so crippling his vessels against | fortifications as to prevent thema from | soon afterward fighting the Spanish fleet. This message was supplemented by a let- | ter in which the Secretary stated that | “the department Is perfectly willing that you should expose your ships to the he: t guns of land bDatteries, if im your epinien there are Spanish vessels of sufficiect military importance protected by these guns to make an attack advise i ablé, your chief alm being for the present the destruction of the enemy's principal vessels.” As Shown Ly the Racords. So far as the records of the department show, there are no further instructions to Sampson regarding - risking his ships against fortifications. But it is pointed out that the primary conslderation of the department was the destruction of the Spanish fleet, whether protected by bat« teries or not, and this could only be in- sured by adopting reasonable caution im operations against shore guns. It is the understanding in Washington that. Lleutenant Commander Staunten, ho was Sampson's flag lHeutenant, wrote Continued on Page Fourteems