The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 23

\ I Pages 2 -+ + - - - - - L] pe U 0444444 44444404444 A’%“fi}“ ary: D R R S S ST B el T rake + + + + L -+ + + + + + [ / O+444344444444444 444444400 Pages 21 10 32 R e e e e e e e e e e e S + - + * + é VOLUME XC-—NO. 163. CEAMANYS | * SECAET WORK IN COLOMBI Scheming to Secure Coal- | ing Station at Car- | tagena. ]r —_— Supports Subsidized Steam- chip Line to Gain Strate- l gic Advantage. | Diplomatic Moves by Which the Eaiser Expects to Command the | Approach to the Isthmian | o The Call CALL BUREAU 4% G STREET, N. WAS TON Nov. §.—Proof that application of to acquire a Colombia, State Department Cartagena ceeded Joseph su Secretary of He nection with application is d by the German he form mitted through at Bogots Significance of Application. ? s ted that the a will irse, to be expe make al of the rities. In- ipon the in- nificance™ tedly forwarded a the State De- and that of- Senor Herran es, proposes ment e att the Ham- Jingoistic as thc he doubts if ire a coaling e Caribbean agena 1s o acqu Great Advantage to Germany. Dis t of the acquisition the erican line of a coal- ing st rtagena, a prominent to-day es Atlas line, which the Ham- Company controls, the | iso runs a line of m Germany to C the navig time of war under & € Government Germ. of erations of a T Caribbean Sea. W command of the Pana canals would be force were sufficlently n sers ing station would e for the op in the base the a and Nicaragua provided the strong, as Carta- ron gena is mearer to those twc is the United States gerous to American Germany to &cc Cartagena, eve uise of a con- cession to a su#idized German steamship line.” BLOOD MAY BE SHED AT RAILROAD CROSSING | Southern Pacific Company Wins a Legal Victory Over the Bisbee Line. EL PASO, Texas, Nov. .—In & lengthy | opinion handed down this morning at| Alamo Gordo, N. M., Judge Parker re- fused to .dissolve the injunction against| the Bisbee Company, but continues it un- | til & final hearing, which will require sev- | ers]l months. While the decision may be reversed on the final hearing, yet in all | probability it will be maintained. The temporary injunction is in force until De- cember 2. This is a decided victory for the South- ern Pecific Company, for the pass which the Bisbee secks to cross is the only out- Jet from the city and thousands of dor lars has already been spent in tunneling to reach it. It is reported here that the Bisbee will concentrate enough men at Feming to reconstruct its tracks recently torn up by the Southern Pacific. A coup has been planned and bloodshed is al- most sure to follow. JUDGE ARTHUR H. NOYES TAKES THE W SAN FRANCISCO, WAR REVENU SUNDAY, E TAXES WILL BE CONTINUED TO CARRY OUT PROGR NOVEMBER 10, 1901—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ITNESS STAND PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMME OF CONGRESS WHOLESALE IN OWN BEHALF IN NOME CONTEMPT INVESTIGATION, REDUCTION HE respondents in the Nome con- tempt cases are at the end of their tether. Judge Arthur H. Noyes, around whom so much of N H the Nome scandal centers, was put upon the stand yesterday morning and under the direction of Judge Mc- Laughlin, his chief counsel, was gulded from the time of his birth until July 23, 1900. The examination has been carried on without interruption. 8o far McLaughlin has directed his questions with a view to show Independence on the part of Noyes | 0 far as connections with McKenzle were The statement of Hume, in which it was alleged that McKenzle sald Noyes' appointment cost him $£5,000,-was a central point of attack in the direct ex- amination. Noyes' tale is not half fin-| ished. Senators, Congressmen, District Judges and other politiclans of the Middle concerned. West figure in it largely. Pillsbury is taking notes, and when the cross-exam- ination begins the most Interesting phase of the cases will be Installed. C. A. 8. Frost went on the stand at the opening of the morning session and under the crossfire of the amicus curiae contin- ued to tell his story about the'lists of names for the juries and certain afMdavits in the case. When Frost's former testi- mony is compared with that of Friday and Saturday some material - Inconsist- encies will be noted. Noyes on the Stand. “The gcope of this inquiry is such that T think it necessary to go back for a con- siderable portion of time,” sald Judge McLaughlin in his direct’ examination of Judge Noyes. Then he took Judge Noyes from his birth to his arrival in Alaska. Noyes first met * Alexander McKensie about twenty years ago In Dakota. “What were the relations between you and McKenzle?”" asked McLaughlin. ““We were intimate, not always on the same side; but his friends were usually my friends,” responded the witness. Then McLaughlin took up Hume's statement that McKenzie had Informed him that $65,000 was paid for Judge Noyes' appointment, that he secured railroad transportation and paid his expenses. “Alexander McKenzie never pald a ho- tel bill, secured any transportation or ever paid One cent for me. ' I don't belleve McKenzle ever sald that,” was the an- swer of the witness. According to Noyes' running account that followed he was of some- little po- litical consequence !n Minneapolis and St. Paul. He narrated his efforts among the Counsel Directs His Ques'ions With View of Attempting to Prove Absence of Bias on Part of Witness in Discharge of Duty |vast Sums Now OCol- Minnesota Politics and Close Relations Between Judge and Receiver McKenzie Furnish Some Entertaining = Sidelights politicians to secure the appointment, re- ferring to Judges, Senators and other gov- erimental officers as his close friends all ready to indorse his application. McKen- sie was as one non est. McKenzie and the Judge. “If McKensie spent $65,000, then it must have been in bribing Senators and Con- gressmen?”’ asked McLaughlin. +* “I can't see how McKenzle ever spent a dollar,” answered Noyes. “It was necessary to obtain the favor of Cushman K. Davis to secure the ap- pointment, was it not?" “Yes. he was the senlor Senator.” . “Do you know what McKensle did do?" “I do not. I presume he did every- thing he could.” Noyes testified further that Senator Da- vis told him that he went to McKinley | for his appointment. Then followed a de- talled account of the preliminary plans for the organization of the court in Alaska and the selection of court officers. “Did you, before proceeding to Alaska, agrze on anything else but a division of the district?”’ continued McLaughlin in direct examination. “I'appointed Mr. Borchsenlus and a dep- uty clerk,” answered the witness. “When you reached S&attle was McKen- zle there?” “I was informed so, but had not seen him or hegrd of him since I left Wash- ington.” “Did you meet Robert Chips there for the first time?”" “No, sir, in Washington; afterward in Seattle.” s &3 JUDGE ARTHUR H. NOYES, LATE OF NOME, STAND. ON THE WITNESS * ““When did you first get acquainted with Mr. Dickey, the deputy clerk?” “I knew him in Minneapolis, where he had a reputation as a capable man.” According to Judge Noyes Dickey was the able man who was going to'establish and Instruct Borchsenius-in his dutfes. The work of an Alaska District Judge wds no easy matter from the recital, and Noyes detailed not only his own dutles but those of the clerk, after which Judge Me- Laughlin took him from Seattle to Nome. Noyes' acqualntanceship with Marshal Vawter and Archie Wheeler came up in natural sequence. Wheeler, another Min- neapolis friend of the Judge, went to Alaska with Judge Noyes. Upon the lat. ter’s arrival the meeting with attorneys was exploited. Then McLaughlin steered the witness into Nome and called his attention to the meeting between Judge Johnson and Judge . Noyes on Saturday. Noyes sald he prebably told Johnson that he Intend- ed to go°to St. Michael on Monday. Just as the morning session closed Judge McLaughlin reached the day when Me- Kenzle Chips versus Linderberg case. @ el el el ettt oottt e B T PRIVATES ARE KILLED IN ACTION AT SAMAR Navy Department Receives News of a Battle, but Details Are Lacking. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Rear Admiral Rodgers at Manila to-day cabled the Sec- refary of the Navy as follows: “Privates George Lynch and E. A. Klo- nan killed in action at Sajopjan, near Basay, Samar, on the 7th inst.” 5 No further detalls of the action are glven, MANILA, Nov. 9.—Physiclans in at- tendarce on Governor Taft report that he is making excellent progress and is now allowed to have balf the usual quantity of food. His wife wilj return from Pe- king on Monday. General Funston has completely recovered from the operation performed on him a month ago for ap- pendicitis and drives dally on the Luneta. Gl il Burglars Wreck Bank Building., SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 9.—The bank at Turin, Jowa, thirty miles south of here, was raided last night. The robbers fafled to reach the cash department and secured only $0. The bank bullding was wrecked. 5 'TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ELECTRIC VOLTS FAIL TO KILL JUMBO Il AT BUFFALO EXPOSITION Big Elephant Declines to Die and Is’ Merely Tickled by the Six \ Shocks Applied on the Platform. Bpecial Dll'pl.hh to The Call. tum at the Exposition grounds at sundown to-day and gave the world a practical .demonstration that an elephant can take 2200 yolts of electricity with npparent unconcern. Whether from defective connections or from insufficient BUP’FALO. N. Y., Nov. 9.—Harnessed with, electrodes ut\g other apparatus, Jumbo II stood in the middle of the stad- current, when the switch that was suppored to turn the death flood of electricity into the elephant's body was turned on, Jumbo merely threw a trunktul of dirt over his back and retused to dle. If the electric current reached him at all he did not express a bit of annoyance. Electric wires had been run’ from the exposition power house to what was to be Jumbo's death platform, and' when the signal was given 2200 volts were turned on. It merely. tickled the beast. ~After bo s unhitched from his harness and taken back to his home in the Midway. the unsuccessful attempt to kill him, Jum- -Explanations made by the electricians for the failure were -that Jumbo’s hide had the ml-ufiée of rubber and that-this formed a non-conductor impervious to electricity. fly take more than 2200 volts to kil an elephant. Jumbo was chained to a plank platform., Electrodes the size of.a large Only 2200 volts had be Jumbo wagged his tall, tore up aplank with his him. When led back to his quarters the elephant: the end of his spinal column. ponge were placed behind his ears and at The ghock: Others declare that if it takes 1800 volts to kill & man it would necessar- -was repeated six times. shocks'had simply tickled a bit. e <+« I the suftrage clause. It is claimed by the | will. AIMS TO DISFRANCHISE mnoni OF ALABAMA On Monday the Citizens Vote on the Rejection or Ratification of New Constitution. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 9.—The citi- Fens of Alabama will vote on Monday for the ratification or rejection of the consti- tution formulated by the late Constitu- tutional Convention. The proposed consti- tution has for its main purpose the dis- franchisement of the negro, and at the same time to leave the ballot in the hands of every white citizen in the State. The advocates of the new instrument say that this will be brought about by the adoption of the proposed constitution. It provides for a leutenant governor, in- creases the terms of St officers to four years, lowers the Ilimit of taxation -and makes many other changes fyom the fundamental law under which the State 1a now being governed. The general sentiment seems to be that the constitution will be adopted by a ma- || Jority ‘exceeding 25,000. The main fight against the constitution and was appointed receiver in the | NOT LIKELY lected Needed for Pub- lic Improvements. President Wants Great Navy, and Army Cannot Be Cut Down. Authorization of the Nicaragua Canal Will Cause All the Surplus to Be Consumed in the Needed Waterway. PR i 5 Spectal Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N, ‘W., WASHINGTON, Nov. &—No matter how desirable it may be to men who are paying the tax, there seems to be abso- lutely no likelihood that there will be a wholesale reduction of the so-called war taxes. Secretary of the Treasury Gage to-day authorized a denial of the report that™he, the President and Mr. Payne, chairman of the House Committes on Ways and Means, had agreed that all the ‘war taxes should go. “I have not yet made up my mind as to what reduction I will recommend in my report,” sald Gage. “There are sev- eral things which will be considered as preventing the passages of a bill abelish~ ing all these taxes at one swoop. Un- doubtedly some odds and ends that mow cause annoyance should come off. The question what to do with the surplus is a very important one, and I prefer to leave that to be discussed in my report.” Vast Revenue Is Required. There will be & loud outery from prac- tically all the members of Congress who against any large re the war taxes. Senator Hanna In his interview with a Call cor- respondent expressed this feeling when he said that he would tell Secretary Gage how to spend the surplus if it was worry- ing him. The expenditures of the next Congress are likely to exceed those of any Congress, with the exception of the period-of the war with Spain. President Roosevelt wants a great navy, and the expenses of the army cannot be reduced. There must be a river and har- bor bill at this session, and it is Ukely to be a record-breaker. In addition to that the coming Congress is likely to authorize the comstruction of the Nica- raguan canal, and if that great work be undertaken there is no likelihood that there will be any effort to keep down the surplus. All the surplus that can be hoarded will be needed to give the people their hearts’ desire in the form of a wat- erway connecting the Atlantic and Pa- cifie. * ‘What Taxes Are Costing. These are things that make everybody skeptical when there is a report that somebody is going to make Congress cut down the war revenue taxes. The war taxes are now costing the public at the rate of about 32538 a day. The accom- panying figures show the working of the reduction made by the last Congress for the first quarter of the fiscal year begin- ning July., It is shown that there has been a decrease in these taxes for the quarter amounting to $9,19%,54 3L For the year the reduction will be less than $36,~ 000,000 because there has been an increase in other items that will oftset the expect- ed reduction. Congress had estimated the reduction at $0,000,000. The total fiscal receipts for this year are likely to be in round numbers about $30,000000. It is doubtful if Congress can be prevailed on to make a greater reduction than about $30,000,000. Spe———— DEATHS MAY RESULT ‘__ Two Players in Contests at Cincinnati Severely Injured and Likely to Die. CINCINNATI, Nov. 9—Two football players were probably fatally injured in the games here to-day. -In the game be- tween the University of Cincinnati and Hanover (Ind.) College James Kirkpat- rick, left halfback of the Universijy of Cincinnatl, while making a tackle, had his spinal column injured and is reported to be in a serious condition. Louis Runk was also ecarried off the field during the game between the New- port Xavier College and the Newport High School College. Runk was the left tackle of the Xavier team and was serf- ously injured while tackling. To-night the physiclans have very little hope for his recovery. —_— Lord Neville Given Liberty. LONDON, Nov. %—Lord Willlam Ne- ville was released from Parkhurst prison on ticket-of-leave yesterday. He was sen- tenced to flve years’ penal servitude Feb- ruary 15, 189, for fraud in connection with a promissory note. His lordship spent most of his time during his incar- ceration in wheeling a barrow on the prison lll‘lfl.‘ @t opposition to the new instrument that many white men will be disfranchised, as the registrars have too much power and can register and reject voters at their