The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1902, Page 1

Yo VOLUME XCL-NO 51. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1902. LORD JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE A FOE OF THIS GOVERNMENT DURING THE WAR BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND SPAIN ADVOCATES OF THE NICARAGUA CANAL ROUTE 'NOT DISTURBED BY REPORT OF COMMISSION Senator Mitchell of Or egon Declares the Obstacles in the Way of Accepting the Panama Offer Are Insurmountable. SR z — CHATRMAN OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION, FINAL REPORT OF THE BOARD, AND REPRODUCTIONS OF TWO DRAWINGS THAT SHOW THE WAT- WHO DELIVE! ERWAY ROUTES AND THEIR RELATIVE LENGTHS. TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT THE ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STRE N. W., WASHINGTON, Jan. Unshaken by the suppleme; report of the Isthmian Canal Commission in favor of Panama, the supporters of the Nicaragua bill, Both in the Canal Committee and in the Sen- ate, are continuing their campaign as no new developments had occurred. It is admitted, however, that the new turn of events may have fome effect in the Sen- ate. The sentiment there, as shown by the recent poll by The Call, is for the careful consideration of the Panama offer. Those Senators who, like Senator Mor- gan, from the first have stood for the Nicaragua bill hold that the report sub- mitted to the President on Saturday throws no new light on the situation, in- asmuch as the commission is only sup- porting itself. They say there is no doubt that the members of the commis- sion would have favored Panama in the original report if the $40,000,000 offer had been made in time. Mitchell’s Views Not Changed. - . Senator Mitchell of Oregon, an im- portant member of the Senate Canal Com- mittee, voicing the Nicaragua sentiment| in the committee, said to-night: “Assuming that the gommission has come out in favor of the Panama route, I cannot tell what effect it will have on the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals. My views are mot altered in any degree. +I pase my. objections '3 | completion of the canal. % accepting the offer of the Panama Canal Company, fizst, on the endless litigation which it is likely to bring upon the United States; secong, on a very serious question of legality in- volved in the sale of the property. “Again, it has not been proved to the satisfaction of the committee that the Colombian Government is ready to make all the concessions which the Panama agents assume will be given. The number of stockholders of the old Panama com- pany is variously estimated at from 200,000 to 500,000, Their certificates of stock | call for a 5 per cent dividend upon the Allowing that they have given full legal consent to the sale of the Pangma franchise, if the United States completes the canal and operates it T can see only trouble ahead in our courts from the stockholders of the old company. Another Great Obstacle. “The proposition to sell also includes a majority of the stock of the raflroad com- pany and the question of legality here enters. The Panama Railroad Company was organized as a private corporation under the laws of New York, and in ord to make a transfer to the Government legal 2 special act of the New¥ork Legis- lature would be necessary. “The line of the Panama Railroad along the route of the canal would have to be torn up 1f that route were taken. It is péssible for any one of the individuals owning stock to get out an injunction to — | prevent the tearing up of this road. Suchn action would be ;sssible against individ- uals doing the work of the Government. “I stand for an interoceanic canal as =oon as one can be bullt. I alsostand for the most feasible route, and beljeve firmly that all propositions should be given thor- ough consideration. “The obstacles in the | way of accepting the Panama offer, I be- | lieve, are insurmountable.” | WOMAN MURDERS Two COLORED MUSICIANS | They Refused to Play Ragtime Airs and She Shot Them to Death. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 19.—William Slaughter and Ralph Johnson, colored musicians, were shot and killed and Pow- ell Calloway, white, was mortally wound- ed last. night by Lilllan Watson at a dance at Morris Creek in the mining re- gion. The Watson woman, who had en- tered the hall evidently under the influ- | ence of liquor, ordered the musicians to play ragtime music, and when they did not respond whipped out a revolver from undér her wrap and began firing. Slaugh- ter and Johnson were killed Instantly. ‘Slaughter received a bullet in the mouth and Johnson one in the left breast. A third .bullet struck Calloway, who was an onlooker, in the back. Physiclans pro- nounce his wound fatal. The murder escaped lynching only by the timely ar- rival'of officers. = . . VIELDS LIFE AATHER THAN HIS JEWELS Aged Diamond Merchant Is Gagged and Slain by Thieves. Refuses to Open a Safe in Which His Wares Are Stored. Scene of the Tragedy Gives Evidence of Pctim’s Desperate Strug- gle Against His Brutal Assailants. oS ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 19.~Bella E. Brown, aged 65, a prominent dealer in diamonds and manufacturer of jewelry, was found murdered in his store here to- night. His legs were tied together and he was gagged with a long red neck scarf. At the back of the head was a hole ex- tending into the brain and there were several gashes In the scalp, evidently made with a hammer, which was found near the body smeared with blood and white hairs from the head of thegvictim. The murdered man’s head was covered with blood and a pool of blood had formed on top of a small chest of drawers, over which the head lay. All about were evi- dences of a determined struggle, but a thorough search failed to discover any positive clew as to the identity of the murderer or murderers. From the position of the body in front of a safe, the conclusion was'reached by the police that the murderer had placed Brown before the safe, which was locked, and which contained thousands of dol- lars’ worth of diamonds and jewelry, and tried to force him to work the combina- tion for him. His right hand was covered with blood, indicating that he had raised it to his head when he was struck and tried to ward off the other blows that followed. The murderer obtained noth. ing of value, sxcept. a dfamond stid that | own wore. N LCOT TRUNKS OF DIAMONDS. Bold Thieves Make Rich Haul at a Montana Railway Station. GLENDIVE, Mont.,, Jan. 19.—Robbers secured between $10,000 and $20,00 worth of unset and set diamonds to-day by stealing two trunks from the baggage- rcom of the Northern Pacific station and breaking them open. Nothing is missing from the trunks except a bag of unset diamonds and three or four Hundred rings, mounted in gold settings. A tray containing twenty-four set diamonds was overlooked by the robbers. The trunks were the property of C. B. Clausen, traveling representative of S."H. Clausen & Co., wholesale manufacturing jewelers of Minneapolis. Mr. Clausen ar- rived from the East last night and left his trunks in charge of the baggage agent. The robbery was an unusually bold one, as four men were asleep in the upper story of the station and the express agent slept in a room adjoining the baggage- rcem. \None of them heard the robbers at work. The windows of the baggage-room were forced open and through it the two trunks, which weighed about 250 pounds each, were hoisted out. They were taken only a few feét from the station, broken open and the diamonds @bstracted. The robbery was undoubtedly committed as the west-bound train was at the depot at 4 o'clock, as at that hour the express agent is busy attending to the train and is absent from his office for at least twenty minutes. That the robbery was committed by professionals is evident from the fact that they knew which trunks contained the .jewelry and the great weight of the trunks makes it cer- tain that more than one man was con- cerned in the robbery. The police have arrested “Jimmy' Me- Carty, an ex-prizefighter, who has been acting suspiciously. GENERAL TUNG FUH SIANG IS EXECUTED AT SHANSI LONDON, Jan. 19.—The Shanghal corre- spondent of the Standard says that ac- cording to trustworthy reports recelved from Peking General Tung Fuh Siang, the notorious anti-foreignef, whose execu- tion was recently ordered by the Dowager Empress, was executed January 15 at the yamen of the Governor of Shansi, In Kan- su province. Russia Menaces American Trade. SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Russian dominance in Manchuria will menace America’s trade interests in the northern part of China, according to Isaac Hamill, who has spent the last year in Shanghal and ad- jacent places. Hamill arrived here to-day from Victoria and left at once for San Francisco. He said: I doubt whether American manu- facturers realize that Russian supremacy in Manchuria will work materially to their disadvantage. Our trade is princl- pally with the northern section of China. At present we have ready access to these markets andgit is to our profit to keep them open. ussian control would mean ultimately the creation of prohibitive qu- ties whl:}x would shut out our products. A rich market, one of the best in the Orij- ent, would then be lost to America, and our trade would decrease in consequence, America should impress upon the emp're the necessity of maintaining the open doory® 2 PRICE FIVE CENTS. BRITISH EMBASSADOR TRIES TO FORM EUROPEAN COALITION ON SCHEME FOR INTERVENTION Diplomats Reveal Secrets Showing That to Russia’s Friendship Am rica Owes Immunity From FNL s ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.— The refusal of Russia, as well as of Great Britain, to intervene during the war with Spain/was responsible for the failure of the Austrian effort to bring about a European coall- tion against the United States. Officlals acquainted with the detafls of the negotiations between the powers in connection with the formation of a Eu- ropean coalition against the United States say ‘that Great Britaln had much to do with their failure, and this fact, it is ex- pected, will be brotight out in a statement which will be made in the British House of Commons to-morrow by Viscount Cranborne, one of the Under Secretaries for Foreign Affairs. Diplomats who took part in the nego- tiations say that Lord Pauncefote, the British Embassador, not only took an active part in the councils of the Embas- sadors in Washington, but, not satisfied with the effect of the first representation to the Presldent, drafted another, which was considered by the diplomatic corps and cabled to Europe for approval. This approval was not forthcoming, for the reason that neither Great Britain nor Russia was disposed to permig its repre- sentatives to go to the extent it recom- mended. : Great Britain Lukewarm Austria and Hungary were the powers which especially endeavored to obtain European intervention in behalf of Spain. Austria was moved to act by dynastic rea- sons, France because her people were heavily interested in Spanish finances. M. Hanotaux, who was French Minister of Forelgn Affairs at the time, has stated that the Russian Government announced that it would take no part in.a quarrel with the United States, save that of neu- trality. Mr. Balfour, who was in charge of of Lord Salisbury, was quoted as stating that Great Britain stood ready to do all TRAIN ORDERS BY TELEPHONE Illineis Central to Do Away With the Tele- graphic System. Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Telephones will soon supplant the telegraph on the entire Illinois Central Railroad system. Con- tracts have been let for the equipment of the raflroad's 5000 miles of lines with the new service. The management plans to abandon tele- graphic means of communication in favor of the volce-carrying wires. All train or- ders and messages of every sort are to be transmitted by long-distance appa- ratus instead of the telegraph key. The Illinois Central Rallroad owns and operates more than 5000 miles of road. To equip this with the new system will cost about §100 a mile, or $500,000 for the entire task. . A number of American railway compa- nies have been experimenting with tele- phones in transmitting train orders and | for other purposes, but all have hesitated to substitute them for the telegraphic system. e FINDS UNDERGROUND [4 BETBEA! OF CHINESE Montana Officer Unearths Hiding “Place of Coolies Smuggled Across the Border. FORT BENTON, Mont., Jan. 19.—From a discovery made here to-day it appears that a systematic scheme for smuggling Chinese across the border into the United States has been unearthed. Marshal Sneath, noticing smoke issuing from beneath the sidewalk of an old res- taurant on Front street, made an investi- gation as to its source and discovered a fire burning in the cellar. Further in- vestigation revealed a Chinese in hiding, who made ineffectual attempts to con- ceal himself upon the appearance of the officer, In the cellar were found quanti- ties of all kinds of food, with which the captured Celestlal had been doing his own cooking. The Chinese was placed in jail pending further investigation by the officials. He claims he has papers, but was unable to produce them. KING OF SERVIA WILLING TO ABDICATE THE THRONE Alexander to Retire in Favor of Prince XKarageorgevitch if Guaranteed a Pension. VIENNA, Jan. 19.—The Belgrade corre- spondent of the Neue Frele Presse de- clares the question of ‘succession to the throne of Servia to be ripe for solution, as King Alexander, if guaranteed a sufficlent pension, is willing to abdicate in favor of Prince Alexis Karageorgevitch, a descend. ant of Kara George, the “Black George of the Servians” and claimant to the throne of Servia. In any case, continues the correspondent, Prince Alexis Karageorge- vitch is likely to be proclaimed heir to the throne,’ as neither Russla nor Servia ob- ject to this cpurse. . - - 1 o -+ LORD PAUNCEFOTE, GREAT BRITAIN'S EMBASSADOR.TO THE UNITED STATES. in its power to prevent war. M. Hano- taux asserts that in reply to the Austrian representation suggesting intervention, Great Britain replied in the identical terms used by France: that if all the other powers decided upon interference she would not isolate herself. At that time Secretary Hay was Embas- V-,ior to Great Britain, The London For- elgn Office was disturbed by the news of Lord Ppuncefote's activity, but the im- pression existed that the British Embas- DELVERS FIND . GIANT’S BONES From New Mexico Comes Wondrous Story of a Skeleton. Special Dispatch to The Call. EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M., Jan. 19— An’archaeological find has_been made on the Mesa Rica, near Chapento, thi coun- ty. It is the skeleton of a prehistoric man. Legend has it that the vicinity of the Chapento and the Mesa Rica was peo- pled by a race of glants centuries ago. Evidence to substantiate this tradition was found on the ranch of Don Luciano Quintano. Five men, several days ago, began to excavate at a place marked by two pieces of rough hewn white butiding stone about fifteen feet apart. They had dug about five feet between the stones when the skeleton was unearthed. The bones are well preserved. The glant's chest measurement could have been no less than, eight feet. The lower jawbone is all that remains of the head. It is a massive piece and in it is a huge tooth. The forearm measured three feet and the length of the arm must have been about six feet. The skeleton will be sent to the Arch- aeological Society at Santa Fe. GREAT-AUNT OF YOUNG KING OF SPAIN IS DEAD Infanta Maria Cristina Isabella Passes Away at the Age of Sixty-Nine. to The Call and New York Her- Copyright, 1902, by the Herald Pub- fishing Company. ' MADRID, Jan. 19.—Infanta Maria Cris- tina Isabella died here to-day after a lin- gering illness. She was in her sixty-ninth year. Infanta Marfa Cristina Isabella was the great aunt of the young king of Spain. She was the fifth child of Infante Fran- cls, whose eldest son, her brother, mar- ried Queen Isabella. Both Queen Isa- bella and her consort, since the former's abdication In favor of her son, Alfonso XII, in 1870, have lived in exile, but the Infanta Cristina, who margled a cousin, another Prince of the royal house, as his second wife, had her residence in Madrid. NURSE HANGS CHILD ; BY NECK TO GASPIPE Murders Five-Year-Old Boy That Annoys Her and Then Attempts Suicide. CINCINNATI, Jan. 19—W. H. Whit- taker, a prominent attorney, and his wife went visiting to-day and left their only child, a 5-year-old boy, with Annie Lage, who had been with the family only a short time. When they returned the child was found hanging to a gaspipe In the cellar and the servant was unconscious from as- phyxiation. The Indications are that the woman had trouble with the little boy Special Cable ald. that she.inhaled gas just previous to the ~« -geturn of the Whittakers. She will dle, iy e S G B i e e o e s e e and hanged him early in the day, and | Interference by Powers. + sador was stmply endeavoring to forestall Continental intervention by drawing up a joint note which would be approved by the powers and which would give the President an opportunity to make re- sponse. The note, which was a “pressing appeal to the feelings of humanity and modera- tion of American people in their existing differences with Spain,” earnestly “hoped that further negotiations will lead to an agreement which, while securing the maintenance of peace, will afford all nee- essary guarantees of the re-establishment of order in Cuba.” McKinley’s Pointed Reply. President McKinley's response was phatie. “The Government of the United States,” he said, “appreciates the humanitarian and disinterested character of the com- munication now made on behalf of the powers named, and, for its part, is confl- dent that equal appreciation will be shown for its own earnest and unselfish endeavor to fulfill a duty to humanity by ending a situation the indefinite prolonga- tion of which has become intolerable.” Lord Pauncefote then showed his hand by endeavoring to get the powers to join in a note even stronger than those already presented, but Russia positively refused to be a party. % After the battle of Manila Bay Herr von Bulow, the German Secretary of State, informed Embassador White that “Germany has been from the first deter- mined to exercise the strictest neutral- ity.” Germany, tod had come to recognize the futility of efforts to bring about European intervention in the war between Spain and the United States. {| In view of the difference of opinion which prevalls, even in Washington, in regard to the attitude of Great Britain during the Spanish war, the statement { which will be made By Viscount.Cran- borne In response to a question propounded by Henry Norman, M. P., is awaited with interest. LOSES POUNDS . BY HUNDREDS Washington Man Makes Remarkable Reduction in Weight. Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Dr. R. M. McComas, a druggist of Washington, who is & cousin of Senator McComas of Maryland, has announced to friends that he has succeeded in reducing his weight 207 pounds. Six years ago he weighed 417 pounds and now tips the scales at 210. Dr. McComas says his life was not worth'living when he weighed 417 pounds. In 1895 he began an attempt to reduce His weight. In the first month he ate ome meal a week, which brought down his weight by fifty pounds. After that he ate one meal a day and still keeps up that practice. He made some anti-fat medicine of his own prescription and took two bot- tles the first year. It helped to reduce fat, he says. McComas’ diet consists principally of bread, butter and meats. He has lost his great liking for coffee and reduced his smoking allowance from twenty cigars a day to one cigar a week. When he weighed 417 pounds he could not walk. Now he takes a long walk every day and says he feels younger than he has feit for thirty years. ENGINEER FALLS ASLEEP AND COLLISION FOLLOWS Passenger and Freight Train Come Together, but Fortunately No Lives Are Lost. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 19.—~The westbound Missour{ Pacific passenger train that left 8t. Louis last night collided head on with an eastbound freight train near Etlah, Mo., after midnight. Engineer Wijliam Mazee of the freight had fallen asleep. He awoke just after Etlah had been passed. He had been ordered to meet the passenger at that point, and realizing that he could not pull back he stopped his train and ran ahead to flag the passenger. . He was too late. The baggage car was damaged badly and several freight cars were wrecked. The passenger coaches arfd Pullmans jumpeéd the track. But one person was Injured, Judge Elijah Robin- son of Kansas City, who escaped with severe bruises. NEGOTIATING FOR RELEASE OF CAPTIVE MISSIONARY American Minister Leishman, Sta- tioned at Constantinople, Is Now Treating With the Brigands. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 19.—Reliable news has been received here that Miss Ellen M. Stone, the captive American missionary, Mme. Tsilka, her companion, and the latter's baby are well. Negotia- tions which it is said will result in the early and safe return of the captives are in progress. : John G. A. Leishman, the American Minister here, is now directing the nego- tiations. He declines to say any! for publication but admits there is for