The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-—NO. 179. 2 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MARINES LAND FROM BATTLESHIP IOWA TO PROTECT TRANSIT ACROSS ISTHMUS 3 | YUKON MEN SEND PLEA | COLOMBIAN TROOPS ENGAGE INSURGENTS AT EMPIRE AND BOTH SIDES LO [l FOR TROOPS Officials Hasten to Ot- tawa to Checkmate Conspirators. Capitalists Fear Danger to Their Holdings in Far North. Plotters Cache Arms and Ammuni- tion at Strategic Points Along | the Route to the Gold Fields. through er to Seattle Ottawa Fukon force the e been de- Hidden Stores Along Yukon. | Cormrmmprie | aREA terminus, and be the capital of rators depended om Americans throughout Alaska | d circulated copies of grievances, with | General Alban, W Has Routed the Enemy and Expects to Recapture Colon Within Twenty-Four Hours-—United e grand seal of the organiz in e Horse,“Atlin, Dawson, Skagway and Circle City." J. W. Gray, secretary of the Yukon Public Works Department, started for White Horse with the other officials, but * the party at Seattle and went to Ot- | tawa over the Cahadian Pacific Railroad. OLON, Nov. %.—General Alban has been slightly wounded in bat- tle with revolutionists. His horse was killed under him. The rest of General Alban's troop arrived in Panama yesterday badly worn out from tramping with scarcely any food. Seven hundred of them, commanded, by General Alban, left on the 3 o'clock train AGCUSES CHICAGO MAN OF A FIENDISH CRIME Dying Woman Declares That Andrew Boland Maliciously Set Fire to | Her Clothing. CHICAGO, Nov. 2%.—Anne Von Broth of 2 South Sangamon street died at the | County Hospital last night from burns, | \? the afternoon for Empire to meet the said to have been infiicted by Andrew | I0TC® Of General Domingo Diaz and | General Lugo. The adyance guards of Boland. Accosding to the ante-mortem state- | ment made to the police by Miss Von | Broth, the couple were quarreling. She | ©'clock. The Liberals retreated to Em- declared Boland became so angry that he | P and thence to Matachin, where moved the globe and the chimney from { there Was a hard battle to-day. & lamp and attempted to burn her face| General Alban started at noon to-day with the flame. She struggled to save | foF San Pablo, where the Liberals are herself. Her dress caught fire and in an | StrOnsly intrenched. It is believed that instant she was 2 mass of flames, | fENtINE is now in progress at San Pablo. Alarmed at the result of his action, the | Lh¢ 10sses in the fighting yesterday and | to-day have been very heavy on each side. Revolutionists Are Routed. Colonel Shafer, superintendent of the Panama Railroad, has received a tele- gram from General Alban, dated Mata- chin, saying that the Government troops completely routed the revolutionists in » General Lugo's force were met at Cule- bra and a sharp fight occured at § woman said, Boland attempted to ex- tinguish the fire and was severely burned d st firet told the police that the had been meant as a joke. Later | he said it was an accident. The policej will hold him pending the result of the Coroner’s inquest. ho Is Slightly Wounded in the Battl AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES AT THE ISTHVWUS OF PANAMA, AND SCENES ABOUT COLON SE HEAVILY —iote | e, Telegraphs From States Government Probably Will Prevent the Bombardment of That Special Cable to The Call and New Y ork Herald. Copyrighted, 1901, by the Herald Publishing Company. the battle at that place this morning and that the general expects to be in Colon within twenty-four hours. Colonel Shafer has been informed that a battalion of marines from the United States battleship Iowa have arrived at Matachin, which is about half way across the isthmus, to protect the rafl- road and see that traffic on the line is not interrupted by either side. They were landed at the request of United States Consul Gudger at Panama. Details from the Towa’s marines are now accompanying each passenger train, and transit across the isthmus, which was interrupted for a short time, has been re-established. Postpone the Bombardment. General Ignacio Follaco, Senor de La Rosa, who is General Diaz's secretary, and the commanders of foreign war ves- sels in the harbor held a conference at 1 o’clock this morning on board the Brit- ish cruiser Tribune. As a result of this confererice General Diaz agreed not to- bombard the city or to land troops before 6 o’clock on Friday morning. The Government gunboat, General Pin- zon, sailed out of the harbor at 4 o’clock this morning. Her destination is not known here. Captain Foriaco of the Gen- eral Pipzon has 600 ‘men under him on the vessel. * There is a report that the gunboat is short of provisions and that foreign war vessels have joined in helping to replen- ish her foed supply. The postponement of the bombardment, which had been expected to-day, has re- stored quiet and good order in the city and the rush of foreigners to take refuge on board warships has ceased. WOUNDED LEFT ON FIELD. Nc Care Is Given Soldiers Who Fali in the Battle. COLON, Nov. 2.—Yesterday morning at 10 o’clock the schooner Clapet and a rail- road barge returned to Panama, bringing 350 men, from Chorrera, being the re- mainder of General Alban’s expedition. Great crowds gathered at the wharf to witness the landing of the soldiers. They were recelved with bands of music, but the music sounded mournful and the aly more like a funeral march than the joy- ful strains of welcome to a victorious army. General Alban looked his usual and calm self and acted more like a man on whose hands .time hangs heavily for want of something to do than one coping with grave responsibilities under trying circumstances. At 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the head of several hundred men, General Alban left Panama by train for Empire station, where the Liberals were reported to be in fairly strong numbers. His pur- pose was to surprise and rout them. The train bearing these troops was held up Just before it arrived at Culebra station, owing to the Liberals opening fire on Al- ban's advance guard. Alban disembarked his men from the train, which returned to Panama. The fighting at Culebra lasted from 4:40 until 9 p. m. The Revs. Loveridge and Jacobs, Bap- tist and Wesleyan ministers, respective- ly, narrowly escaped being shot. Their house in Culebra was riddled by bullets. The Government troops advanced and the fighting was stubborn all along the railroad liné until Empire station, a mile and a half distant, was reached. The Lib- erals retreated slowly, Alban’s men fol- lowing them until the latter eventually reached Matachin station. Here General Alban met and conferred with Captain Perry of the Iewa, who was returning from Colon on an armored. the Field That He City and Panama crain. It is understood that Captain Perry {/will not allow the railroad to transport troops, consequently General Alban and | his men were forced to push ahead on foot. It is said Here that they thus { reached San Pablo, where the Liberals are in force and that fighting is taking place there. The Liberals are under command of General Lugo. Between the stations of Culebra and Empire more than 150 killed and wounded ‘men could be seen along the track. There is no proper Red Cross service and the wounded lack care. The Liberals at Colon declare the ma- Jjority of the men killed on the line to have been Conservative troops and that _ 'the rebels are still in force along the rail- road. Three hundred of the Iowa's marines were landed at 4:30 yesterday afternoon at Panama to protect the property of the railroad and to insure the continuance of transit across the isthmus. In Government circles there is still en- tire confidence in General Alban and it is believed that he is capable to cope with the present situaticn. 1t is estimated that the Conservative Continued on Mige Two ¢ LR SR AR GOVERNMENT FIGHTS UNION OF RAILWAYS Department of Justice to Move Against Consolidation. nd Kings of Finance Fail to Change Attitude of Roosevelt. Minnesota’s Attorney Gemeral Dée clares He Will Back Governoy Van Sant in Preventing Traffic Trust. gt e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. %5.—The World has the following from Washington: It is now | understood that there is a strong prob- ability that the Department of Justice will take action against the copper trust, the sugar trust and the new railrcad trust, under the Sherman anti-trust law, as combinations in restraint of trade, bas- ing such action upon the decision of the | United States. Supreme Court in the | Trans-Missouri Freight Association case. | The Department of Justice officials have reached the conclusion that the Sherman law is adequate, but will take no action until after the opening of Congress. Great pressure is being brought to bear upon the President to induce him to mod- ify his recommendations relative to trusts, Leading representatives of railroad and other affected interests are trying to head | off any drastic recommendations. Sev- eral men vitally interested, including J. J. Hill, A. B. Stickney, Thomas J. Lowery and Clinton Morrison, already have been here on such an errand. Colonel D. S. Lamont came Saturday, but the President was out of the city. Burt Gets Little Satisfaction. Horace M. Burt of Omaha, president of the Union Pacific, called on Presidenc Roosevelt to-day. He wanted to prevent any direct reference in the President's message to the Northern Securities Com~ pany. It is said he inquired if it were possible for the President to intimate to Governor Van Sant of Minnesota that it would be well to delay his crusade until the Department of Justice had time to do something. Mr. Burt got little satisfaction at the White House. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. %5.—Attorney General Douglas, who returned home this evening, made the following statement in regard to the attempt to be made to prevent the proposed consolidation of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies, through the medium of the Northern Securities Company of New Jersey: “I shall earnestly co-operate with Gov= ernor Van Sant in fighting any consolida~ tion which is in violaticn of law, and will do anything in my power to encourage further legislation of a practical nature, either State or natienal, which is not cal- culated t9 preserve competition. Hints at Proper Remedies. “The organization of this New Jersey corporation for the purchase of a control- ling interest In the stock of rival railway companies—two of which cross and re- | cross Minnesota—is a clear violation of the spirit, although not of the letter, of the act of 1881, the validity of which was sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States in the Pearsall case. I am not in a position to discuss the remedies, but am under the impression that inter- ference by the Federal authorities, based upon the Sherman anti-trust act and the Interstate commerce act, is likely to bring about good results. It may be that liti- gation Instituted by the State, seeking the cancellation of some unused rallway fran- chises, may be of slight assistance, Other proceedings of law, which I feel it in. opportune, to discuss, may also be of value.” —_— HALF A MILLION OF CHINESE IN DANGER OF STARVATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%5.—John Good- now, Consul General 2° Shanghal, reporis to the State Department that more than a half-million people in the Yangtse Val- ley will starve this winter unless they gst help from outside. A committee of for- eigners and Chinese hac been formed in Shanghal to relieve 'he conditions of these people, and all f reigners in China are subscribing liberally. Contributions may be made through the British Consul General at Shanghai, P. L. Warren, who is chairman of the relief committee. MISS WACKERMAN SHOWS SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT LONDON, Nov. 25.—Miss Helen Vander- bilt Wackerman of New York, who was taken to St. Giles Infirmary November 13 as a wandering lunatic, is now in Clay- bury Asylum, Woodford, Essex, which is controlled by the London County Council. She was removed to the asylum after a desperate attempt to kill a nurse, whem she almost succeeded in throttling. Miss Wackerman is now ir a padded cell, bat Mrs. Wackerman, who has visited her daughter, said to-day that she seemed to be improving. Mrs. Wackerman paid a visit to the American consulate to-day, and was informed that no steps to obtain the release of her daughter are feastbie at present.