The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1902, Page 1

- VOLUME XCL—NO. 102. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOER EMISSARY SAYS KITCHENER NEEDS QUARTER MILLION ADDITIONAL TROOPS BEFORE HE CAN CONTROL SOUTH AFRICA CHINESE PRESENT PROTEST CONGER, MIN- UNITED [ | | Memorial Against the Re-enactment of Exclusion. EKING, March 11.—The Chi- rong memorial enactment of the ion law by the ment here par- t t the exclusion of Chi- nese from the Philippine and Hawafian is t the Chinese had ial interests repr resuit in.-pecu GERMANY’S ASSURANCES. CA TR G STREET, VASHINGTON, March 11.—Posi- have been given the Germany that T ce of Chili, C re Chinese Government carries tees which it has given qually strong assurances U, 1406 as t Germany has no in- ng ive concessions In view of no disposi- due to her t concessions asked quisition exclusive lies to other well btedly be in- out her designs RUMOR OF HIS RECALL SURPRISES WASHINGTON cials Are Puzzled About a Story Regarding the Embassador From Germany. {INGTON, March 11L—Surprise is expressed in s at the report t He se German Em- If he has bee 1 to Berlin, this yaction was taken upon the iative of the Germa nd without any suggestion 1 he T d States. Herr von Holleber ersona grata to this Governmen is acceptable to Emp: rk of his approval for the suggestion that Prince Henry visit the United States Emperor recently conferred upon the Embassador the Order of Red Eagle. At the German Embassy preparations are being made in anticipation of the return ¢ the Embassador to-morrow. Nothing A known of his probable departure from 1 ntry. If the Embassador had been it is said that he would d the embassy and have made ngements for presenting his Jetters 2 President. s supposed that he ror William. As a JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT IN FLEISHMAN GAB'E Legal Process Ends Another Chapter in the Story of the Cashier. W YORK, March 1L—Judgment by default for $9%0000 was entered to-day against Henry J. Fleishman in favor of the Farmers’ and Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles, Cal. Fleishman was formerly cashier of the bank, and, it is alleged, wrongfully con- verted to his own use funds of the bank. An attachment for 3$%,000 was fissued against his property December 27, 1901 —_— Folkething Ratifies the Treaty. COPENHAGEN, March 11.—The Folke- thing, in committee of the whole and in executive session, to-day voted by a large majority in favor of the ratification of the treaty providing for the salel of the Danish West Indies to the United Btates. 9 will | | [ | army. FUNSTON |PRINCE HENRY OF PR ADVISES HANGING Sharp Language Used by Aguinaldo’s - Captor. Signers of a Petition for the Filipinos Stir Ire. Gallows Would Suit Some Americans, He Says. CHICAGO, March 11.—General Freder ick S. Funston was the guest of honor at an elaborate banquet held to-night in the clubhouse of the Marquette Club, mem- bers of the Lincoln Club also sharing in the occasion. General Funston in his speech said: ““Had it not been for the so-called peace party in the States the insurrection wouid have begn suppressed finally in January, 1900. Since that time 600 lives have been crificed and millions of dollars have been spent. Were it not for the hope of { the few leaders still under arms that the United States is on the verge of a civil war in their behalf, all resistance wouid be at an end. “Two negro soldiers deserted our army and for a time served in the insurgent They were caught and hanged It would have been more an act of justice had we hanged people who signed the recent petition to Congress asking that we confer with the Philippine leaders an effort to secure peace two ignorant beings were executed, while in the other people mare guilty than they in In the one case and in full possession of their senses were | allowed to go free. “We are informed that Major Waller, one of the bravest and best officers in the | army, is to be court-martialed because he shot some natives who stole the food from | his starving men. bully for Waller. I am glad he did it The great mass of the natives in the Philippines do not know what independ- ence is. Ninety-five per cent want to be left alone and prefer to ‘be governed by | others than themselves. “The case of Cuba has been held as an | example of what we could do in the Far East. I belleve my experience in both cduntries has given me an insight into the character of both peoples. There are forty Cuban leaders who are the superiors of any leader the Filipinos ever had. There is no comparison between the two | And I am not lying awake, either, think- | ing how I Jove the Cubans.” |SAYS HER BUSINESS | { | | United | the | understands | WAS SIMPLY MURDEX Texas Woman Confesses That She Aided in Killing and Rob- bing Men. BEAUMONT, Tex.. March 1l—Mattie Bennett to-day confessed to Sherift Landry that she was fhe head of a gang of negro women and white men who have for months been luring men into her house, drugging them, knocking them on the head and then robbing them. If they died they were dragged to the river and thrown in. If they were only stunned they | | were dragged out of ‘he house to a re- | | mote part of some street and left there for pedestrians or policemen to find. The woman was arrested on suspicion of being connected with the murder of Benjamin Pearson, one of the five mur- dered men whose bodies have been found in the river. She denies that she was guilty of this crime, but admits that some of her gang discussed the commission of | it. On the strength of her confession a white man named Punch Prim and a negro woman known as “Mary Jane” have been arrested and are in jail. All of them have been diligently “sweated” and Sheriff Landry stated to-night that he ex- pected a full confession not only of the | murder of Pearson but of others. A grew- some fear is taking possession of the town that perhaps a dozen men among those who have come to Beaumont and were afterward reported as missing have been murdered and that their bodies are yet at the bottom of the rive: —_——— MANY INSURGENTS ARE KILLED IN BATTLE Colombian Nefipaper Says 200 Met Death or Received Wounds and 400 Were Made Prisoners. Colombia, March I1L—Accord- quilla, the revolutionists recently occu- pied a section of the Magdalena River two miles long, between Penon and Cerro. On the approach of volunteer troops from Santander the revolutionists retired to the interior of the department. g A newspaper of recent date published at Honda, on the Magdalena River, con- tains an account of a battle fought at Soacha, near Bogota, February 23, in which the revolutionists numbered about 2000, while the Government had 3000 men engaged. The revolutionists lost 200 men killed or wounded and had 400 men taken prisoners. The Government gunboat General Pin- zon left Porto Colombia March 7 with troops for Rio Hacha. Pl e O, Thousands Are Destitute. ST. PETERSBURG, March 1l.—Severe earthquake shocks recurred at Shamaka, Trans-Caucasia, Sunday. About 12,000 per- sons are destitute as a result of the sub- terranean disturbances which occurred at If that js true, I say | | s received here from Barran- | USSIA SAYS FAREWELL AND SAILS | AWAY FOR THE FATHERLAND | | | | | | | 1 | | f | | | | AUF WIEDERSEHEN! | | | +* . :Visit of the Emperor’s Brother Is Brought to a Fitting Close by | Appropriate Exchanges of Friendly Sentiment Between { EW YORK. March 11.—Prinec>» Henry of Prussia sailed for Germany on board the Hamburg - American liner | Deutschland this afternoon, ! His last day in Americ: was spent entirely on board the Deutsch- land, but it was filled with pleasant inci- dents. The Prince breakfasted early, and about 10 o'clock began to receive official | farewell visitors, including representa- tives of Germany in this country and those of the United States Government. | Mayor Low of New York was also & caller, and the Prince, in bidding him farewell, gave a hint that he had some intention of returning to America for a second visit. The Prince, in replying to | the Mayor's expressions, said: “I thank the citizens of New York for all their kindness to me, which I appre- clate deeply. If I should return to Amer- |ica I should feel when I reached New York that I was once more at home.” The members of the party that accom- panied the Prince on his tour were his guests at luncheon. Covers were lald for twenty-eight persons in the dining room | of the steamship, and music was fur- nished by the band from the Hohenzol- Jern. At the close of the luncheon, when it came to saying good-by, the Prince, taking a rose from the table, sald: ““This is the badge of that which I have been admiring during my entire stay in | the United States—American Beauty.” | He placed the flower in his buttonhole, | and each guest followed his exampl Immediately after the luncheon at | the Prince’s Invitation the party went to the commander’s bridge of the Deutsch- | 1and, and were there photographed. Then | the real leave-taking began. The final farewells were said by members of the German Embassy at Washington. FAIL TO SEE THE PRINCE. An incident of the forenoon was the call of the committee of forty New York let- ter carriers, representing the New York branchof the Letter Carriers’ Association. They came to present to the Prince a bronze tablet in commemoration of the martyred Presidents of the United States —Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. The let- ter carriers failed to see the Prince and were received by Admiral von Secken- dorff in his behalf. In thanking them the admiral said his Royal Highness, in return | for the present, would send to the New | York Letter Carriers’ Association his portrait, with autograph, to hang on the walls of the ofganization's room in New York. Shortly before the Deutschland safled Shamaka about the middle of February. |the United Singing socleties of Hudson g County, New Jersey, appeared on Geck of the Prin Vietoria Louise, which lay alongside the Deutschland, and sarg a number of selections. Prince Henry appeared on the bridge of the Deutechland with Captain Albers and bowed his acknowledgments repeatedly. When the ship sailed all the approaches ana the plerhouse were crowded. The first cabin section of the Deutschiand was packed all the afternoon with passengers and their friends, and in many women had to be rescued from the crush to see the Prince. GIVEN NOISY SEND-OFF. The Deutschland sailed at 3:45 o’clock. As she moved away from the pier the cheering was continuous. The Prince ap- peared on the bridge and bowed. All down North River the passing tugs and craft of every description gave the great liner and her distinguished passenger a voisy send-off. At the Battery, whick was reached at 4 o'clock, a crowd cheered as the vessel steamed down the bay. The Deutschland reached the Narrows at 4:35 r. m. Forts Wadsworth and Hamilton fired salutes, which were answered by the Deutschland, and* the garrison at Fort Wadsworth lined up on the bluff un- til the steamer had passed out Into the lower bay. The Deutschland is due at Hamburg on Monday next. The Prince's apartments on the Deutschland include the captain's cabin and three other adjoining rooms, especial- ly connected for the use of his Royal Highness. The social hall on the Deutsch- land was beautifully decorated with flow- ers, and there was a profusion of them in the Prince’s suite of rooms. The company, had also tastefully decorated the pier. The imperial yacht Hohenzollern started cn her homeward trip at 2:40 this after- noon. A crowd witnessed the departure of the ship at her pier, and a cheer from the people was answered with a salute by whistle from the Hohenzollern. For an hour before the time for sailing the crew and- officers of the Hohenzollern held a levee, bidding farewell to friends. The Hohenzollern is under orders to pro- ceed to Bermuda, where it will make its first stop. FAREWELL GREETINGS. WASHINGTON, March 11.—The follow- ing exchanges took place to-day between Prince Henry of Prussia, who sailed for Europe on the Deutschland, and Presi- dent Roosevelt: “HOBOKEN, N. J, March 11.—The President of the United States: On this day of my departure I beg to thank you personally, as well as the nation whose xuest I have been, for all the kindness,' \ the | { s Germans and Americans. consideration and good feeling I have met with during my visit to your interesting country. T hope that my ,visit has in- creased the feelings of friendship between the country I represent and the United States. Bldding you farewell, let me wish you every possible success, and pray. re- member me to Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt, who so charmingly and with g0 much pluck accomplished her task when launching his Majesty's yacht Meteor. Once more. most hearty thanks. May we meet again. “HEINRICH, Prinz von Prussen.” “WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTO! March 11.—Henry, Prince of Prussia, Steamer Deutschland. Hamburg Dock, Ho- boken, N. J.: Not only have Ienjoyed your visit personally, but on behalf of my countrymen 1 wish to express to you the pleasure it has been to see you and the .real good I think your visit has done in promoting a feeling of friendship between Germany and the United States. It is my earnest wish that this feeling may strengthen steadily. Mrs. Roosevelt sends her warm regards and so would Miss Roosevelt if she were not absent. Pray present my heartiest greeting to his Ma- jesty the German Emperor. Again I thank you for your visit and wish you all good luck wherever you may be. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT." FOOLS THE DETECTIVES, BUT COMES TO COURT Count Festetics Appears to Answer to His Wife’s Charge of Aban- donment. NEW YORK, March 11.—Count Gyula de Testetics, whose domestic troubles have been frequent during the last two years, appeared in the West-side Police Court this morning to answer to the charge of abandonment. Police Court detectives had been look- ing for him for many months to serve a warrant obtained by his wife on June 17, 1901. The detectives were unable to find him, but the Count appeared in court vol- untarily, he said, as he had heard men were inquiring after him. b s e Defaulter for Ten Years. ST. LOUIS, March 1.—William F. Floff- meister, iate supreme recorder of the Le- gion of Honor, who committed suicide January 21 within twelve hours after be- ing defeated for re-election, was short in his accounts with the lodge to the amount of $30,514, as was announced in a signed statement to-night by the officers of the order, who had just finished an examina- tion of the books in collaboration with an expert accountant. The defalcations are shown as ex over ten years. | manner in which he has beenreceived will — GERMANS WHO CRY FOR AID Pleafor Naval Demon- Stration Against Brazil. Claim Is Made That Railway Will Be Confiscated. Bankers Seek to Pre-| vent Loss of Trade. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BERLIN, March 11.—Strong protests are being made at the German Foreign Office by the Disconto Gesellschaft Bank and other institutions interested in railway properties in the South American repub- lics. The Disconto Gesellschaft Bank is now asking protection against the Brazil- ian Government, which is understcod to be on the point of confiscating a raflway which is already in the hands of a re- ceiver favorable to the Government. Brazil claims that the German investors | did not fulfill the stipulations of the con- cession and this is sufficient cause to re- peal the franchise. A naval demonstration and aggressive action are planned as the only way to bring Brazil to terms. According to leading German financiers the situation is most critical. An announcement made several day ago that the syndicate controlling a Venazuelan raflroad was endeavoring to sell it to American capitalists is con- firmed. This alarms German officials. American control of the Venezuelan rail- way and the Southwest Railway of Brazil | means a loss of German trade and pres- tige. | German Investors complain bitterly that the Government cannot offer sufficient protection to warrant them in holding the | property claimed. | Germany cannot offer protection because of ihe limitations of the Monroe-dae! and only the ['nited States is ‘able to convert these roads into dividend-paying | properties and demand justice in South American courts. It is believed that the representations made by Prince Henry and the gourteous result in a liberal policy toward Germany and no objection wiil be made to Ger- many's security of protection such as England obtains through the possession of islands in the West Indies, the French | through Martinique and the Dutch through Curacao. 3 Count veon Waldersee has postponed his journey to the United States for a year. COURT’S DECISION FAVORS THE SOUTHERN PACIFIO Company May Lay Rails Along a Disputed Embankment at Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, March 1L.—A filed in the Superior Court of this county by Judge F. B. Ogden of Alameda County determines a suit which has long | been pending between Daniel McCarthy, a wealthy land owner near Brighton, and the Southern Pacific Company. For more | than thirty-five years the trains from | Placerville and Stockton have ¢ome into Sacramento by way of the R street em- decision bankment, running the entire length of the city, and thence along the water front. Several years ago the railroad company, to save distance and otherwi facilitate the handling of its passenger trains, decided to abandon R street and run the trains from Brighton Junction across an old embankment to its main lines on B street and thence to the depot An obstacle to this move was raised by Daniel McCarthy, who claimed that a stretch of the embankment running from Brighton belonged to his farm. Judge Ogden was called in to try the case and a great legal battie was fought, culminat- ing in yesterday’s decision. Judge Ogden decides that McCarthy has no claim in the premises: that the city obtained the strip of land many years ago for a levee and allowed the railroad to put a track upon it, and that if any party has a right to object to the use of the track it is the city. It is understood the city has no ob- jection to the use of the embankment. The South Side Improvement Club has been formed, with many influential cit- izens as members, to induce the rallroad to abandon the R street road altogether and permit its use as a boulevard. It is believed, however, the company intends to hold on to it for the movement of part of its freight business. HSRUTSCI WRECKAGE IS CAST UP NEAR CAPE FLATTERY Includes a Figurehead and Shield | friendshiv. Like Those Carried on Reve- nue Cutters. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., March 11. BRITAIN TO SEND NEW MEN - PR 2 LORD KITCHENER, MANDER OF THE BRITISH TROOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA. | 5 - COM- Disaster to Methuen Causes Further Re- inforcements. ONDON, March 11.—Although the Boers in London regard Delarey’s victory over Methuen as an extremely brilliant and important affair, they com- ment on the battle in a tone of subdued rejoicing. The foremost of the secret Dutch emissaries in England sai “Let no one suppose we imagine our- selves out of the woods simply because a Boer general has overcome a large force of the enemy commanded by an officer of Ligh rank and considerable fame. The ineident-Accides nothing. though it nat- urally deeply stirs the Boer heart and does something to eradicate the gloom of the burghers’ bereavements, sacrifices &né trials, but the resolve of the patriots to accept no humiliating peace was al- ready fixed and irrevocable. “Lord Kitchener will need a quarter of a million additional troops before he will be able to control South Africa or offer any sort of safety either to soldiers or ctvilians.” MUST SEE IT THROUGH. There is little disposition to minimize the Boer victory, but everywhere is heard the determination to maintain the tradi- tion that blows serve to strengthen and stiffen British resolution. Lord Rosebery struck the popular note to-day in a speech tefore the Glasgow students. He admitted that it was heartbreaking after all the expenditure of life, time and money, bui he added: “It v:ill not dishearten us. We have got to cee this thing through. We must take the blows which fortune deals us with eguanimit owing ourselves worthy of Letter fortunes.” Lord Rosebery expressed the hope that more prosperous times were in store, and that in the future “it would be our proud memory that when our country passed thrcugh the storm we did not for a me- ment flinch and were not for an instant dismayed.” ANXIETY FOR GRENFELL. Reports from the Continent that the Cefeat of General Methuen was followed by another fight, also favorable to the Boers, occasion some anxiety, owing to the absence of news from General Gren- fell's column of 1300 men, which left Klerksdorp to join General Methuen. It is thought that possibly General Delarey may have attacked Grenfell. War Secretary Brodrick, when asked in the House of Commons to-day what steps had been taken, in view of the success of the Boers against Methuen, to send Lord Kitchener reinforcements, said 6000 yeo- manry would be immediately embarked with large drafts of cavalry and infantry. Lord Kitchener would be given all the assistance he asked for. —_———— SYMPATHY FOR METHUEN. Baron von Richthofen’s Feeling Words in the Prussian Diet. BERLIN, March I1.—In the Prussian Diet to-day the Foreign Secretary, Baron von Richthofen, after reading the answer of the British Government permitting the delivery of German charitable gifts to the Boers In the South African concentration camps under the surveillance of the camp authorities, declared that the reply guar- anteed a just gistribution and added: “The English and German nations are connected by ‘ties of blood, race and They are cousins who may again find themselves side by side. Gen- eral Methuen deserves our complete sym- pathy. As the military attache to the —Prospectors returning from the coast | British Embassy in Berlin he enjoyed the south of Cape Flattery reported finding | esteem of Emperors Willlam and Fred- wreckage on the beach near Cape John- son, which consisted of the seroll figure- head of a vessel. erick.” The sacrifices that Great Britain had On the side of the|made in blood and treasure, sald the figurehead was a shield similar to that | Foréign Secretary, made it only humaniy carried on revenue cutters. It had a blue | Putural that her susceptibilities should be- background, with gilt stars at the the stripes being red and white. top, 1t bore | Goubly felt by her. come more acute. Every harsh word was Every friendly ad- indication of having been in the water | dress was accepted with double gratitude. but a short time. The wood In places | If the members of the Diet wished to se- was indented, which indicated that the |Cure the co-operation of the British in vessel to which it belonged had been in a collision. _ Continued on Page Two,