The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-—NO. 130. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NOTED OFFICERS OF THE NAVY TELL OF GALLANT WORK DONE BY SCHLEY DURING DESTRUCTION OF CERVERA'S FLEET - 2= | AONIRAL DEWES. DMIRAL How( SoN | s > AR RS N R 2 \I > N : COMMANDE . CTAFPT. cHARLES - CHADWICH SicssEs. Hon. | Raynons ADMIRAL SCHLEY’S CHIEF COUNSEL AND IMPORTANT WITNESSES BEFORE THE NAVAL COURT OF INQUIRY AT WASHINGTON. BULCARIAS COMPLICITY IN ABDUCTION Sofia Government Now Suspected of Aid- ing Brigands. United States Using Every Effort to Save the Life of Miss Stone. NS o If Ransom Money Is Recaptured After the Missionary Woman’s Release It Will Be Returned to e Contributors. comm the of bduction icity, e Department. e been con: ng the pol- = most important g development of the vernment of Bulgaria placed in a position where i crime ficials. been the hotbed of and it may g to involve vith the United movement for American missionary. y in States count the capture of t Cause of the Suspicion. The suspicion e officials in Bulga have arisen from t garian Government to rescue Miss Stone. Offic ing Bulgaria is act- w of the prob- der a dfficulty, in vi that the use of f the Geath of the captiv the international complic: It is probable the suspicion which has ex- isted as to Bulgaria’s connec it A abduction of Miss Stone caused the United ions come in. States to appeal to Ru with the Balkan sia to use its geod te to spare no to effect the libe jon of the can lady. Bulgaria’s situation in Europe is such that it is impossible for the United States to reach her. he has no sea coast. Her water frontage is on the Black Sea. An American squadron lies at Genoa, Italy, but on account of Turkieh regulations warships cannot pass through the Dardanelles. Thus entrance into the Black Sea is closed. All that the United States can consequently do is to exprese to Bulgaria, in casé the suspicion now entertained becomes absojutely con- firmed, its condemnation of the course Continued on Page Nine. AFGHANISTAN'S AMEER - SUMMONED BY DEATH Opportunity and Frontier n the Fear in England That Russia May Seize thel Forcibly Extend Her Disputed Territory | THE LATE ABDURRAHMAN KAHN, AMEER OF AFGHAN- ISTAN. % ONDON, Oct. 8—A news agency publishes the following dispatch from Simla, dated this evening: Habib Oullah Khan, eldest son of the Ameer of Afghanistan, has reported to the British agent at Cabul t the Ameer died last Tuursday afder | & brief illness. | A dispatch to the Assoclated Press from | Simla says the Ameer was taken seriously |ill September 28. Habib Oullah Khan on | October 2 asked in durbar that public prayers be offered for the Ameer. On the | morning of October 3 Habib Oullah Khan announced that his father had expired at 2 o'elock that morning. Nothing is known of the state of affairs at Cabul. No confirmation has been received at the Foreign Office of the report of the death of the Ameer of Afghanistan, but the truth of the report is not doubted. In | view of the existing critical situation in Scuth Africa the news sent something like | a shock through the United Kingdom. Great confidence, however, is expressed or all sides of the ability of the Indian Viceréy to deal with the situation. Before Lord Curzon attained his present dignities he had traveled through Afghan- istan as the guest of the Ameer and had thoroughly mastered the problem of Brit- policy in Central Asia. ‘Will Assume Succession. At Simla it is believed that Habib Oul- lah Khan, who was regarded by his father as his successor, and had long had a share in the Government, will assume the succession peaceably. He is at Cabul. For some years under his father's con- trolling hand he has had charge of the =5 [ army and the state treasury and the Su-, | preme Court of Appeal. He is regarded | | as a wise and temperate ruler, favorable | to Great Britain, but less masterful than | his father, and for this reason less likely | | to be strong enough to govern the fierce, | | unruly tribes or to resist the attempts of | | his brothers to seize power. | It is expected that Lord Curzon will postpone his intended tour of Burmah un- til the Afghan question settles down. The editorials in the morning papers express confidence that, with a strong | Vicerdy and a strong Government at | home, any possible complications follow- ing the death of the Ameer will be firmly | and prudently met. || There is, however, an underlying cur- {rent. of wur discernible as to | whether Ru seize the opportunity | {10 push her frontier forward. The Brit- }ish troops. in India, owing to the - South | African war, are now below their normal | strength. It will be impossible to take any more for South Africa, and the news will still further encourageé the Boers to prolong their resistance. Life of the Late Ameer. Abdurrahman Khan was the eldest son of Afzul Khan, and nephew of the late Ameer, Shere Ali. He was a Barakzai | and was born about 1830. During the civil | war of 1864 he played a leading part on the side of his father against his uncle, and the great victories of Shaikhabad-and Khelat-i-Ghilzai were mainly due to his generalship. In 1868 he suffered defeat at the hands of his cousin, a son of Shere All, and fled from -~ the - country into Russian territory. A He _remain- ed in Turkestan until 1879, = when he made his way to the Cabul frontier and a year later the British Indian Government acknowledged him as Ameer of Afghanistan. From the British Government he received a subsidy of £160,000 a year, with large gifts of artil- lery, rifles and ammunition, to be used in improving his miltary force. An attempt was made by a Sepoy to assassinate him December 26, 1888, but he escaped the bul- let intended for him. His sympathies were British rather than Russian, and consid- erable anxiety was felt in England in 1894, when he suffered from severe illness. He was made a G. C. 8. L. and was invited by Queen Victoria to visit England, but, being unable to go himself, he sent his son, who received a warm welcome. He was suspected of conniving at the rising of the tribes along the Indo-Afghan fron- tier in 1897, but showed his friendship to the British Government by refusing to receive a deputation sent to enlist his aid against the English. RUSSIAN CHURCH WRECKED, EIGHTY PEOPLE KILLED LONDON, Oct. 8—In Pavlouka, a town of 4000 inhabitants, 120 miles from Khar- koff, says a dispatch to the Standard from Moscow, a quarrel between Stundists and Orthodox church people led to a free fight. The Russian church was wrecked. Eighty people were killed. The police ‘were powerless and troops were sent from Kharkoff to restore order. The Russian priests escaped with the more valuable TWENTY-ONE B3 3LAIN Great Stalking Stunt at Rominten. Bie EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GER- MANY, WHO IS HAVING SPORT IN STAG STALKING. - £3 BERLIN, Oct. 7.—Emperor William left Rominten to-day, having Kkilled twenty- one stags during the fortnight he spent there. He went to Hubertusstock, the imperial hunting lodge near Eberswalde, where he will continue deer stalking for several days. The Chief Burgomaster, Herr Kirsch- ner, has sent a letter to the Common Councll, declining to submit for the Em- peror’s sanction the name of Herr Kauff- mann, recently re-elected Second Burgo- master of Berlin. Herr Kauffmann, a few months ago, was elected Second Burgomaster of Berlin by a majority of the Common Councll, con- sisting of Radicals and Socialists. Em- peror Willlam declined to confirm his election, which is the privilege of the crown, which also has the right, if the vacancy is not filled within a certain time, to appoint a Government official to act as Second Burgomaster until an election which the Emperor can sanction takes place. —— SELECTS A DEMOCRAT TO FILL COURT VACANCY WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—President Roosevelt to-day appointed ex-Governor sacred images and altar vessels. Goode Jones of Alabama to be United BY WILLIA German Emperor Does | | 'MEIKLE JOHN L ASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—George D. Meiklejohn, former Assist- Want Secretary of War, was a witness before the Senate Mil- itary Affairs Committee at the Heistand investigation to-day. He had } come to Chicago from Chihuahua, Mexico, | to testify. He detailed his recollections He said of the proposed hemp company. | that when the proposition was made to him by Colonel Heistand to take stock in the company he replied that he would give it his consideration when he had leisure. . He declared that he had not signed the “To whom it may concern” Jet- ter introducing Major Hawkes with is official titie. He explained at length Ma- jor Hawkes’ appointment to a position in the Philippine service, and asserted that the appointment was made solely upon the strength of Hawkes' recommenda- tions and upon that of his record as a soldier. He declared it had nothing to do with Hawkes' controversy with Heistand. Closing of Hemp Ports. Meiklejohn cxplained that the opening and closing of hemp ports in the Philip- pines was wholly within the control 'of the military governor of the islands, and he; could not, and would not if he could, have inconvenienced -him in the matter. He said that he saw 10 impropriety in officers” of the Government investing in such an enterprise as the proposed hemp company if they desired to do so. Reverting to the appointment of. Major Hawkes to a position in the Philippine service, Meiklejohn said that he had told Hawkes’ attorney that, although Major Hawkes had excellent indorsements, it would not be in the interest of the ser- vice to appoint a man that was engaged in a controversy with an army ofiicer, as the clvilian some time might be placed in a position of a subordinate to that of- ficer. Meiklejohn emphatically denied the in- timations in the resolutions authorizing the inquiry that he had at any time used his official position to pay private obliga- tions. Hawkes Makes Threats. L. S. Holt of North Carolina testified as to the conversations he had had with Major Hawkes concerning the settlement of the latter's alleged claim against the States District Judge of the middle and northern district of Alabama, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John Bruce. Bx-Governcr Jones always has been a Democrat, and was twice chief executive of his State. He was Geheral Gordon's adjutant general during the Civil War. In 189 as a gold Demo- crat he supported Palmer and Buckner. It is understood that Booker T. Wash- ington, the well known negro educator, was one of ex-Governor Jones’ support- ers. The latter not only has aided Wash- ington in his efforts to elevate the negro, but he opposed the negro suffrage amend- ment incorporated in the Alabama con- stitution. Representative Thompson of Alabama, a Democrat, who learned of ex- Governor Jones’ appointment’ from the President himse!f, upon leaving the White House expressed satisfaction over the President’s action. . “Governor Jones,” EXPLAINS ARMY HEMP COMBINE \Former Assistant Sectetaty of War Admits "His Participation in the Heistand Com-| pany and Says There Was No Impropiiety| £ 5 | - 3 FORMER ASSISTANT ~ WAR SECRETARY MEIKLEJOHN, CONNECTED WITH SCANDAL. - -+ proposed compdny. Hawkes had sald that he would- “‘get-even”-with certain-persons in the hemp combination if they did not settle with him. He said that Hawkes had told him he would have an investiga- tion, which would involve high officials of the Government. Hawkes had not said to him that he would stop the investiga- tion for $500. The remainder of the testimony taken by the committee was not important. The committee stated that it would con- clude_to-morrow the taking of testimony for the present. At a date to be an- nounced later some other witnesses will be examined and the committee then will make its report. 0 2 e e 2 ] said he, “is not only one of the ablest lawyers in Alabama, but one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the State. This ‘act of Prezident Roosevelt will place him in the same high esteem in the South in which the late President McKinley was held.” - Object to Judge Cantrill. GEORGETOWN, Ky., Oct. 7.—The sec- ond trial of former Secretary of State Caleb Powers, charged with complicity in the murder of Governor William Goebel, began here to-day. Governor Goebel's brother Arthur was present. The defense sprang a sensaticn by filing an affidavit to require Judge Cantrill to vacate the bench. The Judge thereupon adjourned court until to-morrow. The affidavit al- leges in forceful language the partisan feeling shown by the Judge in the former trials. MRS FLAGSHIP IN GREAT BATTLE {Engages Three Spanish Vessels at One Time During Fight. | Hodgson and Folger Relate Schley’s Conduct While | Under Fire. Brooklyn’s Guns in Constant Action While the Cruiser Was Making the Loop That Has Be- come Famous. —_—— WASHINGTON, Oct. T.—Lieutenant Commander Hodgson to-day again ocen- pied the greater part of the time of the Schley court of inquiry as a witness. He was followed cn the stand by Captain W. M. Folger, formerly chief of the bu- reau of ordnance of the Navy Depart- ment, but commander of the New Or- leans during th: Spanish war. Lieutenant Dyson also was recalled to add sonie details to his former testimony concerning the coal suprly of the Ameri- can fleet during the Santiago blockade. Commander Hodgson repeated and ex- tended his story of the battle of July 3, giving the opinion that Commodore Schley’s conduct on that occasion was such as that of a commander in chief should have been. He also explained at some length his correspondence with Ad- miral Schley concerning the alleged col- loquy between them while the Santiago engagement was in progress. He sald he had no controversy Twith the commodore, but- he repeated-that the commodore had said “Damn the Texas” when told that that vessel was in danger. Captain Folger sald that the bombarde ment of the Cristobal Colon May 31 had been eminently successful in developing the strength of the Spanish shore bat- teries, and had shown them to be very weak. He also said that if the Spanish vessels had attempted to ‘escape dt night they could not have been seert by the blockading fleet in bad weather. Testimony of Hodgson. The day's proceedings began with the recall of Lieutenant Doyle and Command- er Rodgers for the purpose of correcting their previous testimony, and when they had been excused Lieutenant Commander Hodgson, navigator of the Brooklyn dur- ing the Santiago campaign, resumed the stand. This was his third sitting, and when he began to-day's testimony the judge advocate had not entirely completed his questions. There were still a few of the letters constituting the correspond- ence between the witness and Admiral Schley to be read, and when they were coneluded Captain Lemly and Hanna pro- ceeded with their questions. When the reading of the Schley-Hodg- son correspondence had been concluded Captain Lemly asked Hodgson whether his denial of the colloquy between him- self and Commodore Scaley had ever been published entire. Hodgson replied in the Continued on Page Nine.