The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1901, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED SDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1901 RANSOM IS NOT YET PAID, BUT CAPTIVE STILL LIVES Money Is Being Rapidly Subscribed to Secure the Release of Miss Stone, the Abducted Missionary, and Government Is Active Special Dispat: ch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Oct. 8— Though the . time lmit within which the ransom for Miss Stone was to have been paid expired at noon to-day, the woman, according to in- formation received by ihe State Depart- nt, is etill alive. This gratifying intel- ligence is clouded by a suspicion of the course which Bulgaria has pursued. picion now entertained that cipated in the plot for the onary’s abduction be ab- eolutely confirmed, it is the purpose of this Government to submit a heavy claim which shall include indemnity for Miss Stone and the amount of ransom that will be paid, or, in “he event of her death, an indemnity for her heirs. The officials in- | sist that there is no fund out of which | ransom of Miss Stone can be dis- bursed, but there is reason to belleve that the secret fund of the State Department be used to supplement the amount | ributed by the charitable of the Unit- tes in case the money collected not reach the sum fixed by Miss captors. The department is ob- g the utmost reticence, claiming n ill-advised publication may de- | borate plans they have under | he woman's rescue. The officials refuse to confirm or deny irculation as to the negotia- in progress, but say that everything | jle is being done to rescue Miss Blame Laid on Turkey. LONDON, O-t. 9.—The Daily Mail has T ed the following dispatch from its T ative: egram 1 addressed to him to- hew, president of the Mace- denies that the committee the abduction of Miss Stone. mmittee desires the support i for the Macedonian cause, not commit such a folly sa; *'did the deed, and nsible.” denies the - suggestion an Government is not do- rescue Miss Stone. He | troops are engaged in the search Beloved in Bulgaria. IPPQPOLIS, Bulgaria, Oct. 8.— ter. the fate of Miss Helen naped American mis- isifies here. There is wide- mnation of the Government such freedom to the Macedo- as to enable it to engi- | ze. ided here before she went | and she is well known | the country. The patriotic | are incense as they recog- Miss Stone her colleagues | rican missions in Bulgaria and | cedonia have been their best friends ghout the troubles. There is no lack indications that Prince Ferdinand is : & his own position by permitting se-to the committee as to enable blackmail prominent people in sup- of the Macedonian cause. onsul General Dickinson, when here on way to Sofia from Constantinople, ght it probable that if the brigands | nd from headquarters that the ransom would not be paid they would re- lease Miss Stone, 1d not be helped by the murder oman. Torture of Suspects. Oct. 8.—A letter received by the gency from Salonica, dated Octo- can Consul here has just received the arrangements with the Valf the payment of the ransom of slgarian Forelgn Minis- | Miss Stone. The United States will advance the money, afterward settling with Turkey. The Turkish authorities have made numerous | arrests among the Bulgarian population, with- out distinction of religion, and nearly ail have | been put to torture in the hope of abstracting | | information. A prisoner named Dimitri said an | understanding existed between the Protestants |and the Macedonian committee, and that Miss Stone was even acting in concert with them, | with the view of obtaining funds for a political- | religious ~ propaganda. - These declarations, wrung_from Dimitrl under torture, are value- | less. “What is certain is that the captain of the band designated for the payment of the ransom | 2 place in proximity to the Roumanian frontier, | which proves that he hopes to escape the Turk- | 18h police, and that the Bulgarian police do not cause him anxlety. This condition of affairs is shown by the fact that five or six bands of brigands of twelve or fifteen men each have become so bold between Strumitza and Kuprili that- the officials of the Orlental Rallroad have requested the Turkish military authorities to reinforce the troops | suarding the track and bridges | CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. kell, the American missionary at Samo- kov, Bulgaria, is opening negotiations with the brigands with the view of reduc- ing the amount of the ransom demanded for the release of Miss Stone. Efforts of Missionary Board. HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 8.—An _inter- esting feature of the opening session of the American board of commissioners for the board of foreign missions, which be- gan here this afternoon, was the response by Dr. Capen, president of the board, to the address of welcome delivered by Rev. P. Parker, D.D., of this city. Dr. Capen sald: We are in_great anxiety Miss Helen Stone,” so greatly beloved, who is to-day in the hands of the bandits with the sentence of death hanging over her. It is a comfort In our tears to know that our Gov- ernment is doing everything that is possible 10 be done for her rescue. Saturday Secretary Smith of this board and mysel? met President Roosevelt and Assistant Secretary Adee in conference on this matter. I Miss Stone were a member of his own family Mr. Roosevelt could hardly put more heart into it Fvery power of diplomacy is belng used for | er rescue. " We must thank God that although | President McKinley is gone there is in Presi- | dent Roosevelt another man of God who will see that American missionaries under' the flag | of the stars and strips shall have the fullest possible protection. It may be necessary that a ransom shall be paid, but that will not close the incident. It will be but the heginning of the chapter. . Nathaniel P. Lodge of Towa and Dr. A, W. Acheman of Oregon have been named as members of the committee on nomina- tions. fter devotional exercises at this even- ing’s session of the American board, President Capen read the official report of the board concerning the captivity and ransom of Miss Stone. The report fol- lows: There 1s such universal interest In the case of Miss Helen Stone, now in the hands of brig- ands, that it seems wise for the officers of the board to make a brief statement of the facts as | they exist at the present time. For several weeks the Government authorities at Washing- ton have been at work using every possible ef- fort to secure her release. These have been days of deep anxiety for the officers of the board. We have been in frequent communica- tion with our representative in Constantinople. Last Thursday we recelved a dispatch from ‘Washington that told us how Increasingly grave the situation had become. On the re- ceipt of this telegram a meeting of the pru- dential committee was hastily called to meet 8.—Mr. Has- over the fate of the following day at 12 o'clock. The committee came together and discussed the situation most thoroughly. On the one side was the life of & dearly beloved missionary; on the other side was the fact that if we yielded to this demand | for ran#om it was putting a premium upon the life of every misslonary of the American Board, and not of our board only, but missionaries of every soclety in the world. The question was even broader than the case of missionaries; it practically concerned the safety of any and every American citizen. Recognizing the full gravity of the situation, the committee, without a dissenting vote, decided that it had no right to pay a ransom and establish a precedent that would be sure to be dangerous in all the future. Furthermore, we were restrained by the fact — tember I. and other foreign countries. TEN BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION FILES ITS ARTICLES IN PHOENIX Special spatch t) The Call. — J)HOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 8—Articles of a ten billion dollar corporation were filed to-day with l the Territorial Secretary. It is the International Construction and Development Company. The incorporators are Richard D. Coulter, George H. Herron and John C. Wolfram of Pitts- burg. Coulter is a prominent official of that city. This is the largest capitalization among several hundred articles of incorporation filed with the Secretary under the peculiarly favorable laws of the Territory, which went into”effect on. Sep- The articles of the International Construction and Development Company were received from Pittsburg by mail. The stock is divided into shares of $1 each. The company may do anything reasonable for a corporation to undertake. tion of railroads and canals, the operation of mines and kindred projects. It is believed that this gigantic corporation may have connection with the reports recently published concerning the for- mation of a syndicate of American capitalists to construct a network of electric railways in Russia Its general scope, as set forth, embraces the construc- K UNION PACIFIC MEN HOLD ANNUAL MEETING More Than One Million Shares Repre- sented at the Session in Salt Lake. SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. 8.—The annual stockholders’ meeting of the Union Pa- cific Railway took place in this city to- day. Those preseyt at the meeting were President Horace _G. Burt, Seoretary ‘Alexander Millard, Judge Kelly of Omaba and Le Grand Young, loeal counsel for the big system. In all 1326243 shares were rep- Sented at the meeting. TR Wo mew girectors, Charles A. Peabody and Henry H. Rogers, both of New York, were elected into tue board to-day. They take the places of the temporary direct- ors, H. W. Krech and F. P. Voorhees. Considerable business was transacted at to-day’s meeting, including the readlpg of drafts of the annual report of the Union Pacific, setting forth the condition of the road and the contemplated improvements. The following board was elected to serve during the ensuing year: Oliver Ames, Horace G. Burt, T. Jefferson Coolidge Jr., Thomas T. Kckert, Louis Fitzgerald, L o e that we have no funds that could be used for this purpose. The Government was restrained from paying the money by constitutional lim- itation, and the American Board seemed equally restrained from paying a ransom. Sympathy of the President. citud, f the committee was such i their purpose. to do. everything was so strong that they sent @ deputation conslsting the president and one of its secretaries to ¥ v President Roosevelt and Washington to meet the offielals of the State Department. This conterence was held last Saturday forenoon. It is impossible to overstate the sympathy and interest of the President, the acting Secretary ot State and other officials. The conference was lengthy, the Government showed wha taking and how during which steps it was every power of diplomacy | was being used to effect the release of Miss Confidential details were given, which, of course, it would be a breach of trust to give %o the public, but the friends of the board and the whole nation may be assured that every- thing possible is being done to further the recovery of Miss Stone. The heart and the persistence of the President in this effort were most significant. The officlals assured us that apparently at the moment the only practicable Method to secure her life was to have the funds promptly at hand to pay the ransom. It vas evidently the positive conviction of the rnment that this step was the first one to be taken. But it ought to be clearly under- Stood that this is but one step; that when she has been released there will be a vigorous at- tempt not only to secure the return of the money. but, furthermore, to bring about such conditions that such an’ occurrence shall not be possible in the future. No one doubts that our Government as at present organized will not drop this matter until the rights of Ameri- can citizenship are established Meanwhile a_movement was begun under the leadership of Miss Stone’s family to secure by popular appeal the amount of the ransom, and notice had already been sent out that funds could be sent to Boston. Under this advice of the Government a meet- ing of the prudential committee was called on Sunday morning, which was attended by elght Stone. MAJORS MUST SERVE LIFE TERM IN PRISON Utah Judge Passes Sentence on Young Man Called the ‘“Boy Murderer.” LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 8.—In the District Court to-day Judge Hart sentenced Abe Majors, popularly known as “the boy murderer,” to life imprisonment for the killing of Captain Brown, chief of the Ogden police, three years ago. Majors, who is barely out of his teens, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to be shot in 1899, but the Supreme Court granted him a new trial, which was coa- cluded on Saturday. L e e e e e e o George J. Gould, Edward H. Harrimanst Marvin Hughitt, James H. Hyde, Otto H. Kahn, Charles A. Peabody, Winslow 8. Plerce, Henry H. Rogers, Jacob H. Schiff and James Stillman. President - Burt and the other officlals | who arrived from the East this morning will remain over until to-morrow, when the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Oregon Short Line will take place. members of the committee and four officers. The report of the gentlemen sent to Washing- ton was recelved, and after full deliberation it was decided that, while we could not recede from the action of last Friday, the tidings of the Government made it most evident that the first thing was to secure Miss Stone's safety, then other steps would follow; therefore Wé | felt that as individuals it was our duty and | privilege to help by all means in our power | the securing of this ransom from the general | public. Communications were sent by tele- | gram, so far as possible, to every part of the | Country, even to the Pacific Coast. Monéy i sums large and smail has been | received in answer to this appeal to humanity. The Government has shown its supreme inter- est in this matter by already becoming the custodian of this fund, as handed to it by the firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. This plan not only shows the Government's interest, but it forblds any possibility that any part of the money will be paid over until Miss Stone per- sonally has been placed in satety in the hands of the proper authorities. It will be seen from the above statement that the board was a umit in its whole action from | the beginning and consistent throughout. Its officers and friends are willing to use every effort to procure this fund under the conditions and limitations given. Any one who had been present at the conference in Washington would not hesitate to have full confidence in the Gov- | ernment’s efforts. The officials of the board, having been received into its confidence, are willing to trust the Government, and we have no doubt that the friends of the board will have confidence in us. Raising Money for Ransom. BOSTON, Oct. 8.—No additional state- ment of money received for the ransom fund for Miss Stone was given out tos night by Kidder, Peabody & Co. after the one of the late afternoon showing $49,- 57481 in cash and $7000 in unpaid pledges. This made the total $36,57461, to. which will be added in the morning the sums received over night. The rush of contrib- utors is over, because of the general opin- ion that the critical moment has been P GIVES A WIFE-BEATER LONG TERM IN PRISON Judge Burnett of Santa Rosa Sen- tences Frank E. Drake to Fourteen Years. SANTA ROSA, Oct. 8—Frank E. Drake, the Petalnma man who recently assaulted his wife with a pistol, badly injuring her, was to-day sentenced to’ fourteen years in San Quentin for his crime. Drake was scathingly rebuked by ~Judge nett, who said that'if the law permitted it he would _have sentenced the prisoner for life. Fourteen years is the extreme lim- it. Drake kissed his wife good-by and was led away tc his cell. Harnesses the Stanislaus. SAN ANDREAS, Oct. 8.—The Melones Mining Company’s dam at Robinsons Ferry was completed to-day. Six hours after closing the floodgates water was running over the crest. Work upon the flume will begin at once to convey this water to a 12)-stamp mill now under way at Robinsons. B e e e 1 averted, and that a month’s time offers ample opportunity to add to the fund. Charles A. Stone, brother of the captive missionary, wishes activity for the fund to continue for a few days longer. He hopes that the cable dispatches indicat- ing that the brigands have granted a month’s time are right, yet he has no per- sonal confirmation of that fact, although he has repeatedly sent messages to both Constantinople and Samokov. He says that, the idea In the West that he had stated that no money is needed because enough has been given is all wrong. He is still anxious about getting the total of $110,000. Next Saturday will be the twenty-third anniversary of Miss Stone’s sailing from Beston for the missionary field in Bul- garia. Accuses Turkey’s Sultan. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 8.—Dr. M. Mesro- pian of this city, a physician and a na- tive of Armenia, who has lectured much in Eastern cities on the atrocities prac- ticed upon the Armenians by the Turks, declares that the abduction of Miss Stone, the American missionary, by brigands in Bulgaria was the work of the Bultan of Turkey. He said: I am sure that it was he who ordered the brigands to carry oft Miss Stone. He ordered her taken across the Bulgarian border so as to distract suspiclon from himself. It is a move in retaliation for the enforced payment of the $90,000 indemnity that the United States exacted of him for the burning of American missionary buildings. I believe it would be far better for the Government to send a warship over there than to pay the ransom. Mission- arfes will not be safe after Abdul Hamld has received the ransom. Missionaries will be ab- ducted everywhere. The Sultan is determined 0 be revenged for the loss of that $90,000 and the abduction serves a double purpose—the re- turn of the money and the behest of fanaticism. There is ho crime the Turk would not commit in the name of his religion. GOVERNMENT PAYS TOLLS ON THE “HEMP” MESSAGES Adjutant General Corbin Admits That Uncle Sam Was Charged With Cablegrams Sent by Colonel Heistand to General Otis ASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—When the Senate Committee on Mil- itary Affairs to-day resumed | its investigation of the charges against Colonel Heistand Thomas J. Mackay appeared as attorney for Major Hawkes, the prosecut- ing witness. Former Assistant Secretary | of War George D. Meiklejohn, resuming his ‘testimony, detailed a conversation he | had with Hawkes, in which the latter de- clared that unless he was appointed to a position he would publish the detalls of the hemp combination. Meiklejohn told him that so far as he was concerned he might do so. It was during this talk that Hawkes told him of his controversy with Flint, Eddy & Co., Hawkes expressing the opinion that his appointment had been re- voked because of the controversy. F. 8. Brown, a clerk 1n the office of the auditor of the War Department, was called to testify as to the auditing of a dispatch Colonel Heistand had sent to General Otis. It appeared that the dis- patch was audited among others, the ag- gregate tells of which were in excess of $5000. The account w=s certified to by Adjutant General Corbin. The records showed that the cost of the Helstand cablegram was $58 12. Frior to the state- ment of Witness Brown, Needham, Hei- s had -nformed the com- mittee that it was Colonel Heistand's in- tention to pay for the cablegram to Gen- eral Ois and for the reply thereto when the amount had been ascertained. General Corbin was recalled and ex- plained that he had certified to the accur- the account as audited on the re- ort of a board of examiners of account: Pofsonally he could ‘mot examine eve telegram involved in the account and did no s0. figgtennnt Colonel W. H. Carter, assist- ant adjutant general, testifled that every effort was made by the Board of m- ination to eliminate all messages which did not deal with official business. He had not seen the Heistand dispatch him- B acy of “No additional facts were developed du ing the cross-examination. A(tnrln v Mackay pressed a number’ of «questions as to why Meiklejohn did not answer the Jetters Hawkes wrote. Coples of these let- ters were In evidence, but not the origin- als. Meiklejohn said he might or might not have received them. He directed them to be filed, but did not consider replies ecessary. nMa(‘ka;" cz&un:el for Hawkes, wa:l;ed he propose emp company n ;bangongd because Flint, Eddy & Co. had 2 monopoly of the hemp business in but Meiklejohn replied tha Philippines, t he never knew anything about Flint Eddy & Co. The committee declined to permit.coun- sel to ask questions designed to bring Sec- Tetary Root into the investigation, Ser ator Cockrell declaring all such matter improper, as Secretary Root was not un- der investigation. : Michener was recalled to testify as to an alleged telephone communication be tween him and Meiklejohn relative to tF Hawkes settlement. He denied an knowledge of such a communication Meiklejohn had testified that he had no such communication. * @ -l efeleliele i @ BROTHER'S HAND SLAYS MURDERER Indian Metes Out Pun- ishment Decreed by Tribe. CARSON, Nev., Oct. 8 —Word was re- celved in this city to-day that Joe Pete, the Indian who murdered Willlam Dang- berg in Alpine County, California, about a year ago, has been killed by his broth- | er. Only last week Joe Pete murdered his father-in-law and nearly killed another Indian in the camp. Joe Pete was arrested for the murder of Dangberg, was tried and convicted and | the day set for his execution. Then he made his escape from the County Jail Rewards aggregating $2000 were offered for his capture. He was heard from many times, but the white men did not care to attempt his capture in the mountains and the Indians would not lend assistance. After the murder of Joe Pete’s father- in-law recently the tribesmen held a con- sultation and appointed Pete’s brother as the one to kill the murderer. The brother executed_his mission early this morning. slaying Joe Pete in his hiding place in Alpine County. The State of Nevada has had a standing reward for Joe Pete, dead or alive. Safe for Assessor’s Office. The Supervisors’ Building Committee awarded a contract yesterday for building a safe in the Assessor's office for $820. The sum of $1700 was appropriated in the last budget for the purpose. 1f you weuld have things come your way u must settle down. WAR DECLARED ON MUSTANGS People of the Southwest Preparing for a Round-Up. SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. 8.—Sport rival- ing In excitement that of a buffalo hunt is scheduled to take place in Washington and Iron counties and across the Utah line into Northern Arizona on Thursday, when the people of the Canaan district expeet to set forth and exterminate a3 many desert horses as can be rounded u The hunt is booked to start at Pi Springs. Where it will end no one pr tends to know. The mustangs, or desert horses, are so thick in the district lying between Hur- ricane Ridge and Kanab Wash and over the old Canaan range to Mount Turnbi that ranchers are complaining or many scores. The range is being eaten up, gen- tle horses are being run off and many valuable animals are being shot by mi: take by careless sportsmen firing on sup posed desert horses. So the populace has decided that the mustang must go. Two years ago a similar decision was reached. During the progress of the hunt 300 horses were shot and left on the plain and 1500 were run down and dispatched, with the exception of 300 considered wort keeping. Predictions are freely made that this record will be broken Thursda Prominent cattlemen and horsemen hav the proposed drive in hand and are mar- shaling their forces for an epoch break- ing round-up. A young man may be sharp, and still he may cut no ice. 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