The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1901, Page 1

“VOLUME XC—NO. 150. L R a . 2 @ SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, OCTQBER .28, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS RO0GEVELT 3 FIRST MESSAGE WILL URGE CONSTRUGTION OF NIGARAGUA GANAL THE NEED OF A LARGE NAVY AND RE-ENAGTMENT OF CHINESE THE EFFECTS UF GZ0L6051 WILBUAN | | Even Assassin’s Body Is to Be Buried in | Quicklime. Prison Officials Will Leave| No Vestige of Him in i Existence. AR L i Caking Every Precaution to Deprive | the Amarchist of Notoriety, { Even After He Has Paid > the Penalty. | e | | AUEURN, N. Y., Oct. 2.—The time | that Leon Czoigosz, assassin of Pres- | dent McKinley, has to live, is reckoned | by hours now, but there has been no re- of the stringent rules by which | soner has been secluded since his son was closed to-day to | the assassin, and so it 1 the prisoner has paid | t the law exacts. In fact deprive Czolgosz, living, of has been extended to de- | lgosz, dead, of notoriety. | after the execution the | the prisoner, with the vast ac- on of mail that came to th2 derer will be burned, and, if possible, | request of the parents of the dead | for his remains will be evaded. It | feaved that the removal of his body | to Cleveland wo ead to scenes of an | unfortunate nature, and the prison offi- | cials zre very anxious to avoid anything of the kind. The plan of burning the | clothirg and letters of Czolgosz will revent the exhibition of TElICE DY those who pander to the morbid Tuesday morning en J. Warren Mead Various reports notoriety, r to-night. One rumor clock to-morrow, ed by the fact that t of State Prisons Cornelius | not arrive here until 3 w afternoon, and none summoned witnesses burn Death Chair Is Tested. sich Czolgosz will sit to electrical shock was day’ by State ready for the n the final scene al tragedy. Davis the wiring, switck-| satisfied him- condition. He | namos in the prison ent is generated, and | for 2| sating into the g0 on Tuesday and 2 good wil rrying final punishment to Davis will look the appa- ratus « o-morrow and review w s the plan under | which ence of death is to be car- | ried © osz will be the fifty-ninth | man ir te d the fifteenth- at| Auburr at whose electrocution | Da e current The t not yet been but it will be to. The general practi time after the | n designed by com- death 4 to avoid the ap- ism in this case incident in con ncifal wit Dr. Carlos McDonald of New mer president of the Stace Commission, is to be the prin- ending physician at the execu- | He was the alienist who examinei | Buffalo and pronounced the He has been very anxious | with him from the au- assassin’s brain for the pur- microscopical examination. A | o Dr. McDonald had a talk adent Collins and askel | him, after the autopsy, to 2in to New York City fo Mr Czolgosz at Collins said to him: Wants No Sensationalism. tor, 1 kb o planned to make this example of mystery that tall any attempt at sensational- annot allow anything to go away that will in any way s identity for notoriety. the prison for a week examine any portion of the e, but my present plan ism. 1 prison is mot 1. portion of the man, his clothing, or even the letters he re- ceived to leave this place.” Dr. McDor replieda: “I would have liked to take the brain away, but I am frank 1o say that you are absolutely right in the matter. If I desire to make agy examigation I will do it at the prison.” The plan of Superintendent Collins is hriily acquiesced in by Warden Mead, it 's understood that an unrepealed law will be found that will allow the Continued on Page Two. ¢ CONDITION OF BLANCHE BATES IMPROVES AND PHYSICIAN SAYS SHE IS ON ROAD TO RECOVERY Talented California Actress Who Is Ill in a Detroit Hospital Passes the Critical Point, but Months Will Elapse Before She Reappears on Stagg G g L ETROIT, Mich., Blanche Bates, the California actress, who is lying in Grace Hospital, where she has been fo: the past month, suffering with Oct. 27. — Miss | typhoid malaria, is said to be out of dan- ger, although no one is admitted to the sick room with the exception of he mother, who is in constant attendance. She was reported resting comfortably t2 FAVORITE CALIFORNIA ACTRESS WHO IS SERIOUSLY ILL IN A HOSPITAL IN DETROIT. L] night, and her physicians expect stiil more favorable conditions to-morrow. The fact that Miss Bates’ condition was somewhat improved to-day is cheering, as Dr. W. R. McLaren announced ves- ‘terday.that should.she improve to-day there would be little doubt as to her re- covery. The relapse that she sufferel last Wednesday_has left her very weak. and the change for the better was ex- pected to occur during last night or to- day. Notwithstanding the belief that Miss Bates i out of danger, she must face a long, hard siege of illness before she will be fully restored to health. In her weakened condition recovery will ba slow, and it is not improbable that months will =lapse before the talentel Californian will again be seen upon thes stage. D i i i ) CELLAR FORMS THE PRISON OF THE CAPTIVES Letter Is Received From the Companion of Miss Ellen M. Stone. atch to The Call. Special Dis) LONDON, Oct. 27.—A dispatch to the Telegraph from Sofia says that travelers from Bausko state that M. Tsilka lately received a letter from his wife, who was abducted. with Mise, Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, informing him that she and Miss Stone are’ confined in a cel- lar under strict guard, which is main- tained by two men. The robbers, she added, were confident of success and have ample provisions. No confirmation has been received of the recent report that Mme. Tsilka had died In the hands of her captors. “A trustworthy report is in circulation here,” says a dispatch from Sofia to the Daily Telegraph, “that Miss Stone is in the village of Belitza, close to the fron- tier.” CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 27.—During the last few days there has been a vo- Juminous exchange of dispatches in ci- pher between Spencer Eddy, secretary of the United States Legation, and Consul General Dickinson, who is now in Sofia, regarding the efforts to rescue Miss Stone, the abducted missionary, from the bri- gands. The Consul is reticent and noth- ing is made public regarding the inves- tigations. |FINDS SISTER AFTER SEARCH OF MANY YEARS { Relatives Long Separated Are Reunited in a North- Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 27.—Charles Sco- ville, accompanied by his brother-in-law, E. W. Stevens, two wealthy residents of Fresno, Cal., have arrived at Whatcom, The object of their trip was a quest for Scovilie's - sister, Mrs. Sarah Lambert, whom he has not seen since hoth were small children near fifty years ago. Thelr birthplace - was - what is now Seymour, Conn. When seven years of age Sarah Scoville wa$ taken from her parents to Rock Island County, Ill. Many attempts were made to find some trace of her, but all efforts proved futile. During the long vears of separation she never’ gave up hope of some day finding her brothers. At length in 1899 a child’s paper chanced to fall into the hands of her daughter Gracie. It contained a letter written by a little girl describing the Scoville brass manufactory at Waterbury, Conn. At once assoclating the name Scoville with her mother’s and brother’s, Gracle wrote | to the other little girl, who replied in due time. i This investigation proved that the Sco- villes of Waterbury were only distant relatives, but it also led to the where- abouts of Sarah Scoville Lambert’s three 4 brothers and aged mother, Mrs. Leverett | greeted the missionary congress at Orel. | M. Stahkovich boldly preached ‘freedom | sational holdup in the Dewey saloon Fri- KING EDWARD THAIGE UNDER THE aGALPEL Series of Opei‘a.tions for | Cancer of the | Throat. —_— Surgeons Remove Papilloma From the Pagpnt‘s Vo- cal Chords. These Drastic Measures Give Only Temporary Relief l:nd Serious Developments Are Expected. REEEET S - LONDON, Oct. 2/.—Reynolds’ Weekly newspaper is the first British paper to assert that King Eaward s suffering from cancer of the throat. In to-day's | issue it declared that since the King's ac- cession three operations have been per- formed for the removal of papilloma on the left vocal chord and that one was re- moved from the right vocal chord last week. : “Assistance was hastily summoned,” says this journal, “as his Majesty was breathing with difficulty and an immedi- ate operation was performed. But it is regarded as only a temporary relief, the injured epithelium now having become a cancerous growth and gerious develop- ments are expected. PREACHES ARCH HERESIES TO MISSIONARY CONGRESS Utterances of the Marshal of a Russian Province. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 27.—An im- mense sensation has been created here by the address with which M. A. Stahko- vich, Marshal of the province of Orel, of conscience, toleration of the dis- sidents and other arch heresies with which nobles and officials are popularly supposed not to be tainted. The speech has been printed by the paper of Prince Ountomsky, which appears to have more than common courage and has callel forth a storm of protest from the ortho- dox priests to whom he spoke and from the whole reactionary press. M. Stahko- vich declered the orthodox faith strong enough to be able to dispense with the police and that it was time to permit ev erybody to seek and preach salvation after his own fashién. The present sys- tem of conversion was characterized as barbarious and worse than useless. DARING ROBBER SHOT AFTER EXCITING CHASE Bullet From an Officer’s Revolver Penetrates His Neck, Narrow- ly Missing Jugular Vein. HELENA, Mont,, Oct, 27.—After an ex- citing chase by officers over several blocks along Helena's principal business streets, Frank Aker, who made the sen- day evening, fell shot through the neck close to the jugular vein. Aker was in Peterson’s saloon preparing for another holdup when the Chief of Police and a Deputy Sheriff entered the place. Aker made a break to escape, taking a shot at the officers as he ran. The latter re- plied with a fusillade. In a minute the town was in an uproar. Aker ran two blocks before he fell to the sidewalk wounded. He will live to enter the peni- tentiary. He is nervy and coolly con- fesses to holding up the Dewey saloon and the Oxford saloon in Butte, secur- ing about $50 from both of them. s o EFFORTS TO RESCUE ENTOMBED MINERS FAIL Fear Expressed That Imprisoned Men Are Dead, as They Have Ceased Signaling. SALT LAKE, Oct. 27.—A telephone mes- sage from Bingham, Utah, to-night states that up to 10 p. m. rescuing parties had failed to reach Charles Nutting and Wil- lam Anderson, the two miners who were entombed by a cave in the Highland Boy mine Friday night. At that hour it was not known whether the imprisoned men were dead or alive, their signals having SCHLEY'S FRIENDS Highest Law-Making — TO CONGRESS SHOULD THE COURT OF INQUIRY DECIDE AGAINST HIM Unless the Admiral Be Fully Vindicated the Nation’s Make Independent Investigation of Naval Scandal MAY APPEAL Body Will Be "Asked to | | | | | + REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR, WHO MAY BECOME CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. * ASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The Schley Court of Inquiry will finish taking testimony this week and speculation as to the outcome is rife. Schley proved to be an effective witness before the public. His dramatic description of the battle of Santiago was admirable and his friends are already referring to it as his vindication. But there never has been any question raised against Schley's con- duct at the battle of Santiago, except as to the mischance of the loop made by the Brocklyn. Sampson, in his report, praised Schley's conduct at Santlago and left to the Navy Department the question as to how far that conduct should wipe out his “reprehensible conduct” preliminary to the battle. Schley’s conduct while in command of the flying squadron is the subject of inquiry, and the court will pay little attention to the story of the battle. The friends of Schley are beginning to talk about a Congressional investigation in case the report of the court is against him. They do not propose to accept any- thing short of complete vindication and they believe that public sentiment will sustain them in such demand. They also propose to have Congress create the rank of vice admiral for Schley and have him restored to the active list to enjoy his LINEMAN HANGS ALL NIGHT ON THE LIVE WIRE Terrible Spectacle Witnessed ceased after midnight last night. Great difficulty is being encountered in reach- ing the place where the men are located. The walls of the tunnel are constantly crumbling, not only impeding the work of rescue, but also endangering the lives of the miners who are endeavoring to save their entombed comrades. @ irivivisiniiieidriieiiie @ Scoville, then living with her youngest son, James F. Scoville, of Mantua, Ohlo. Later on Mrs. Sarah Lambert visited her mother and brother.James, whom she re- membered as an unnamed baby when she left her home. Bennett Scoville's home was in Con- necticut, where he died. Charles resided in California, but did not meet his sister untll this week. Without wife or child, the lonely old man was rejoiced to meet his long lost sister and his only niece. in the Vicinity of . Victoria. VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 2.—Willlam Docking, a young and unmarried lineman in the employ of the British Columbla FElectric Railway Company, met a tragic fate last night. He was at work on the trunk line which carries the power of the tramway system from Gold Stream, nine miles from Victoria, and toward evening he climbed a pole near the Four Mile House, which, as its name indicates, is four miles from Victoria. Docking fas- tened his safety belt, and when hc was accidentally electrocuted by the strong current which is carried by a heavy wire to the city he was suspended like a high- wayman of old on the gibbet from yes- terday evening until some passers-by found his dead body hanging from the wire this morning, and calling assistance cut down the remains. L e e e e Y Y rank. The chances are, therefore, that the Schley controversy will not end with the report of the Court of Inquiry. It will probably be carried to Congress, to be fought over there in committee and on the floor. | A high officer in the army who has had considerable experience in conducting courts-martial and courts of inquiry says Schley's testimony must necessarily be accepted with great caution. “Schley’s testimony was different from that of all the other witnesses,” said this officer. ““He is the subject of inquiry and he has been present to hear all the testi- mony_offered. He has been able to com- pare this testimony and sum up in a gen- eral denfal. Since Schley read most of his testimony, or his counsel held a type- written copy of his testimony to correct him should he make mistakes, it would not be unfair to assume that it was pre- pared with the ald of counsel. It was, therefore, a summing up of the defense and an argument rather than testimony. The only real testimony by Admiral| Schley will be that under cross-examina- tion. ““The court cannot accept Schley’s testi- mony as absolutely reliable, because in many points it is contradicted by not one but a dozen witnesses, and these were officers whose conduct never has been brought into question.. The court must now judge as to how far these witnesses were credible and how far the admiral, testifying in his own behalf, shall be re- garded as a reliable witness. Flat con- tradictions make the duty of the court an unpleasant one. It cannot find Schley blameless without assuming that a ma- Jority of the naval officers called bore false witness and should be subject to court-martial.” SIGNS PORTEND STRIFE BETWEEN THE REPUBLICS Chile to Mobilize Her Army and Argentine Fleet IstEallng. LONDON, Oct. 28.—The Chilean Gov- ernment announces the mobilization of | the army at the end of November, os- | tensibly for maneuvers, says a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Buenos Ayres. The Argentine fleet has been ordered to | be provistoned and coaled and the sailors | are working day and night. | Three thousand manifestants arrived | here to-day, seeking the intervention of | the national Government in the province of Santa Fe. Generals Roca and Mitre received a deputation and subsequently a great meeting was held, which came to a peaceable conclusion. The President re- | ceived a petition from the promises that the national Government ‘would intervene. t meeting and | gration | DACLUSION LW o S PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS NEAR COMPLETION |Subject of Trusts Will Be Considered at Length. Much of It Is Devoted to the Great Combinations of Capital. —_— Document Will Be Unusually Brief and in Preparing It the Methods of Mr. McKinley' Are Not Followed. et Al Special Dispatch to The Cail. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—President Roosevelt has informed the members of his Cabinet that he will read to them for criticlsm during week his first annual message to Congress. This document is briefer than any mes- sage vet transmitted and it probably will be compressed into still smaller compass. Mr. Roosevelt does not propose to burden tho people with a lengthy document, the sight of which will appall them. It is his opinion that a message briefly but strongly discussing each of the important questions engrossing the attention of the country will be what the nation wants. In his method of writing the message he has pursued a different course from that of the late Mr. McKinley. The lat- ter recelved from each of the members of his Cabinet a statement of the work of his department and the important rec- ommendations he proposed to incorporate in his annual report. A portion of this statement would be used and Mr. Me- Kinley would call attention to the recom- mendations. Mr. Roosevelt has been supplied by members of the Cabinet with data, such as was given to Mr. McKin- ley, but he is paraphrasing them. Trusts the Main Feature. Mr. Roosevelt does not write with a pen. He dictates sometimes to Secretary Cortelyou, sometimes to Assistant Secre- tary Loeb and again to Assistant Secré- tary Barnes. His message is not. of course, completed. It will be necessary to revise it this week, when he learns the views of his Cabinet, and events may cause changes and additions before it is finally transmitted to Congress. These will be some of the important matters discussed by Mr. Roosevelt: Reciprocity—Mr. Roosevelt will make a general statement of the necessity of re- ciprocity, but it is not expected that he will make a specific recommendation of treaties negotiated. Trusts—The President feels strongly on this subject and it is his purpose to de- vote a considerable portion of his mes- sage to it. - At the same time, he will not, though he will urge legislation, present any plan for a determination of this imy portant question. If he follows the view of the Department of Justice, he will urge the amendment of the Sherman law so as to provide machinery for the prose- cution of trusts, makin; it compulsory for them to show to government officials, on demand, copies of their contracts and agreements, and authorizing the employ- ment of agents to make an investigation. Mr. Roosevelt will not indorse this rec- ommendation, so far as is now known, and may not even call attention to it. Favors a Ship Subsidy. Ship Subsidy Bill-The need of augmen- tation of the merchant marine is well known to the country and Mr. Roosevelt will dwell with ecmphasis upon it. He will not commit himseif to the indorse- ment of any measure. In fact, speaking of this subject a few days ago, Mr. Roosevelt said to a member of Congress that he did not believe it ths duty of the Fresident to recommend specific legisla- tion. His duty was to point out the need and leave Congress to furnish the remedy. Navy—By reason of his service in the Navy Department, Mr. Roosevelt takes deep interest in the navy. He has al- ready dictated a very strong essay on the need of a strong navy. He will earnestly urge the adoption of a formidable ship- building programme, which shall include battleships. Outlying dependencies must be protected and the command of the sea is essential to their preservation to the United States. A large navy is also nec- essary for the defense of the Monroe doc- trine. This will be an especially strong feature of the message. Isthmian Canal—Mr. Roosevelt will call attention to the report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, which will be sub- mitted to him about the middle of No- ember. He is an ardent advocate of the canal-and will earnestly urge action. He will also refer to the negotiation of the treaty with Great Britain, which removes all obstacles in the way of American con- struction of the canal and will urge its ratification. In addition to these matters, Mr. Roose- velt is expected to urge the maintenance of the status quo in the Philippines, and the enactment of more stringent immi- laws, which will enable the ex- clusion of undesirable aliens and the re- melent of the Chinese exclusion agk the present ‘