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

VOLUME XCL-—NO. 110. NEW DEVELOPMENTS MISSING HAL SMITH WAS M URDERED e that his destination the investigation of the facts proceeds. vith. HE developments yesterday following- the exclusive presentation by The Call of the stariling facts in connection with the disappearance of Hal Smith, the assistant storekeeper at the Palace Hotel, on Friday, the 7th inst., character tending to show that the missing man was foully dealt with. The conmection with the case of Samuel A. Garratt, a waiter, who was a friend of Smith's, and presumably the man with whom Smith was to pay a visit o the park on the day of his disappearance, becomes more mysterious as Garratt told a number of falsehoods to friends after the fact of Smith's disappearance zeas mode known, and on the following Wednesday he departed suddenly for Nevada, after telling his landlady | was Montana. He carried a mysterious bundle which he guarded jealously, and when asked what it contained: replied_that it was soiled clothing. ferry this statement may be regarded as an cvasion of importance to the issue. : 1t developed vyesterday that Garratt’s reputation was not of the best. | session of this money coupled <with his mysterious vanishment may furnish a motive for murder. case is becoming widespread, and the impression prevails that Smith has been foully dealt In view of the fact that he had a trunk which he checked for Nevada at the It:was also asserted-that Smith had tzco money orders in ’ns possession on the day he disappeared amounting to nearly $200 together with about $50 cash. At all cvenis the detettives are now actively engaged in the search for Garratt and telegranis were sent to Nevada last night. were of a The pos- The interest in the EXPRESS WISH TO END WAR BIG ODDS| Democrats of House Show Sympathy for Boers. BATTLES AUGAINST | | One American Stands | Off Band of Fifty ';' Fllzpmos. Caucus Agrees to Ald K I”S Three of Enemy Two Struggling Republics. Determined Effortsto! Braver_y Dzspla_yed by | “Force” Action by Congress. Epec WASHINGTON, Democrats 1 Dispatch to The Call D. C, dec the laring that Congress should the ing deav struggling Boer republics and pledg- themselves t» use their utmost ors to “‘force” port resolutions expressive of such pathy, if'only that Congress may have an opportunity Representative Hay of Virginia presided to act #op of Lonisiana acted as secretary. attendance was large. There was no div sion of the sentiment as to the course to be taken, the question presented being | simply one of choice between two resolu- tions, one offered by Randall 6f Texas and the other by Sulzer of New York The Sulzer resolution was as follows: VIEW OF SULZER., By the Democrats of resentatives of the United ssembled : he Boers in sympathize with ic struggle to m independence, and protest in f humanity and civilization uation of warfare which tain nt feelings of all liberty-loving T a that we shall use our best « s e the Congress of the United s. being committed to the principle for the settiement of inter- x putes, request the President t rge upon the Government of his Maje wisdom of 2 ing this poi- se of stoppinz the awful a cw going on in South Africa, £ he Gov nt of the United s . me strict peutrality b « e conte rees.” re as follows: . in caucs e of the people « 8 \frican republic F St in their = eir liberty and in- IN INTEBEST OF HUMANITY. should, in appeal terest of peace, bring about a just settlement of existing differences, to the end that peace | may be established erture: leavor to d Honorable nd nited she tairly honcrably maintain a position of strict neutrality in this con- | test between nations fri to us, and see to it that the neutrality orously and impartially enforced “Resolved, That we, cs Democrats, representatives of the people, will our v:tmost endeavor to force the commit. tees now dominated by the party, having in their charge resolutions similar to these. to report the same back to the House, so that the Congress may give expression thereon, declaring the sentiments and will of the American peo- ple.” After some remarks by Randall, Sulzer and Cochran of Missouri the Sulzer reso. lution was voted down, 32-35, and th Randall resolution was then unanimously adopted. In pursuance of the' action March 19.—The of the House at a caucus held to-night unanimously adopted resolutions express sympathy of the American people for en- | the committees to re- m- he their laws are vig- | and | use | Republican | and Then Is Cut Down. | Lieutenant Van { Schaick. ; = Special Dispatch to The all NEW Louils YORK, March Joseph Van Schaick, who was drop- ped from the cia 19.—Lieutenant | pass in mathematics. has has been suc- equations with bolomen. of them single-handed, held the others until the The fourth | man, whom he encountered while the oth- | the Philippines, cessfully trying He fought fifty killed three and where he arrival of reinforcements | ers were popping at him with their rifles, | &t the caucus and Representative Robert- | The | almost severed his arm with a bolo. The arm, by the skill of & contract surgeon, | was kept intact, and the leriténant is here He will | g0 to Washington in a day or se where he to have the ulna nerve sutured. will have an operaticn performed. It is said on gocd authority he has been | recommended for promotion on account of his gallant service. STORY OF THE ENCOUNTER. “Word was brought to us,’ lieutenant to-day. hat a party of in- surgents had pilla a few miles from Nasugbu, in the prov- ince of Batangas, where my regiment, the Fourth United States Artillery, was sta- tioned last November. Captain H. B. Smith took sixteen men and went after the insurgents. With his command were James k. Meade, then contract surgeon, and mySelf. There were in the band 105 rifiemen and 150 bolomen. On account of my knowle: my guide and 1 were somewhat in advance of the rest of the party. He suddenly stepped from his horse and wriggled through the grass backward as though he were a snake. “At this moment Private Hewison came up. 1 rode into the gap in the bushes and there saw’ the entire party of Fili- pinos. I reasoned that there was nothing for us to do but fight. Just then a big ellow in red started for us. ‘There i our man, Hewi 1 shouted to ¢ ldier, and Hewison pursuéd his man wn the canyon. I then rode up and | my revolver began the attack. I three men. The fourth time I pulled the trigger there was no discharge. Then I remembered that I had fired three shots over the head of the guilde “who would not answer my questions. BOLO IS WIELDED TWICE. “As soon as the vantage I slipped from my saddle, but he, 100, missed fire, and 1 rode him down. I attempted to kill anoiher man with the | butt of my pistol. He dodged, and then I hurled the revolver at his face. At the | same tifme he raised his bolo and brought | States | it down with both hands. “] raised my left hand to protect my head. He struck twice. The first cut laid open my elbow ‘and the second cut sev- ered arterles and some of the nerves and | tendons at the wrist and passed through the ulna. 1 turned and ran. 1 held up my wounded arm. Behind me followed the bolomen. The first man I saw was Dr. Meade. Kill the man behind me, doctor,’ I cried, ‘before you look after me.’ The Filipino was four paces in the rear and the doctor killed him. He then came back to attend me. The pain was very slight, for the force of the blow and the sever- ing of the nerves had benumbed the sease | of feeling. The doctor performed a skill- ul bit of surgery, and I was able to ride { back to Nasugbu, Iourleen miles. Dr, Meade's care saved my arm.’ taker at the caucus to-night a resolution | will be framed for introduction in ‘he‘.'l‘H—)—’-n—l-fiq—r-l—H-H—H-l-H—l*. House, and hereafter the Democrats will do everything in their power to secure ac- tion upon it. —_———— DELEGATES ARE THANKFUL, Boers Acknowledge Aid of the Dutch, | Irish and Germans. NEW YORK, March 19.—Messrs. Wol- marans and Wessels, the Boer envoys, will sall for France to-morrow on the steamer La Gascogne. Wolmarans said to-night, in the course of an interview: “Since we have been in this country it Das been said that our alllance with the | Irish has hurt our cause. On the eve of {our return we must deny that statement and declare that the alliance has been profitable to us both on the battiefield and ! | by the fight which is being waged for us l by the Irish members in the English Par- | "[hmtnl First, we have to thank the | Dutch, next the Irish and then the Ger- mans. We also know that the people of | the United States are with us heart and i soul and we believe that a few words of sympathy from the United States Senate and House of Representatives would go. a great way in helping us with the na- tions of the Old World."” of 1899 in the fourtn | | vear at West Point because he couid not | returned from said the | d the town of Lian, | rifleman had the ad- | | ] } Zamep 78 ARG Oecr 4 flfln Nz % HE bpublication of the mys- terious facts in connection with the dizappearance on the 7th inst. of Hal Smith, assistant storekeeper of the Palace Hotel, ‘all of which lead irresistibly to the conviction that he | was murdered, related exclusively in The Call, created a sensation yes- terday. T peculiar circumstances con- | necting a waiter named Samuel A. Gar- ratt with the missing man, and his flight in great haste to some unknown point in Nevada five days after Smith dropped out of sight, are engaging the attention of the | detectives and a searching investigation of the facts brought to light by The Call is now in progress. The developments of yesterday | strengthen the belief that | murdered and that Garratt may know something about the affair. Garratt's connection with the missing man, his con- duet prior and subsequent to Smith's dis- eppearance and his hasty flight from the city serve to cast grave suspicion upon him as being in some manner responsible i for the disappearance of the man whose friendship he enjoyed. At all events ef- forts will be made to apprehend him, and he will be given an opportunity of ex- plaining away certain facts which point to him in no uncertain light as the man responsible for the strange vanishment of the young Palace Hotel employe. | SMITH’S VANISHMENT. | Smith was a man of studious tempera- ment and of excellent moral habits. On Friday, the 7th inst,, he told his associ- | ates at the Palace that he intended that afternoon to’ visit the park im the com- | pany of a friend. He went to his room at 837 Bush street at 2:30 o’clock and spent !a few minutes it his room among his | books, He was heard to whistle to him- | self, and a few minutes later he went to | the dining-room, where his landlady, Mrs. Kate Mackey, was seated, and presented her with a bunch of violets, He discussed the state of the weather with her and ex- pressed the bellef that it would rain dur- ing the afternoon. He announced his in- tention of going to the theater on the fol- lowing Tuesday evening and offered Mrs. Mackey two seats to the Columbia for | that evening, saying he intended to go to Fischer's. 'He re-entered his own room and five minutes later left the houle, never to be seen again by any one whi as tend to Smith was and” in the without gloves overcoat, closet was . which he ‘his never ‘knows him. On his bed were lying his | Deteétives ‘Searching for Garratt the Waiter. Claim Is Made That| His Record Is i ‘Not Good. Belief Growing That| .Crime Has Been | Commttted | | PRINCIPALS - IN LATEST DISAP- PEARANCE MYSTERY AND THE PLACES BEARING THEREON! went on any . trip. about . the. city when off duty. On a table were found: his eveglasses, which 'he invariably used. The appearance of the room was that of any which s temporarily left by an eccu: pant who designs to return immediately. It s this pecullar circumstance which! iy disproves. the bellef, if it exists, ithat Smith took a. sudden notion to commit) suicide, and that acting upon an impuise of that character he proceeded to carry | it into immediate execution. § A MYSTERIOUS BUNDLE. Garratt's ‘connection with Smith as his friend has already been explained. Gar- ratt is a waiter and he worked for a time &x’ the Hayes Valley restaurant.. This siness changed hands about the first, of the current month and Garratt was com: pelled to seek other employment. He took a room at 1035 Market street, where his actions attracted attention. He remaiéd there seven days, and on Wednesday at last week gave up his room with the an- nouncement that ‘he could' make no money. in San Francisco and that he intended w; leave for Montana. He carried a rnyste- rious bundle in his arms while the ex- presemarn took- his trunk . to the ferry,] where he was rejoined by Garratf a few minutes later. Latham, the expressman, saw Garratt check his trunk for some point in Nevldu received his'fee and dé- parted. il Garratt's statements as to hls emplog- ‘ment flurlns “the first week .of the presen month were false. He cm::ml to be em-| Pleasanton. lnveman.gon showed thit hzé was not. knoiln at either plaoc T =k \“kKnow little, Mrs. Hamilton says she only | | RS.: JENNIE HAMILTON, | who lives at 3430 Sixteenth strect, is quite certa'n thai Smith has been done away with. She was a mutual/ . friend of the missing man and his friend Garratt. She knew Smith very intimately, and was interested enough in his welfare to_be an occasional correspondent. Of Garratt she claims to knows him slightly. ‘When seen yesterday at her home M#s. Hamlilton ‘talked ‘quite freely. She told | much about Smith that she had learned duflnx‘ an ‘acquaintance covering a period olxo\era véar. She said: ' .am quite certain that Mr. Smith has been done. away With or has met some fate which ‘prevents.him from. putting in an appeacance. He Was a sober, steady-going man and not in the least. bit inclined to be erratic. T donm't think he was & man who would commit suicide, Ot ‘Garratt T-have little to ¢ay. He was a pe- cullar sort.of & T don’t think he was as steady as Mr. $mith. At all events he did not o the mammers, education or polish of Mr. Smith. Théy got.alons real well together, how- | i efi_either of, them was short of Ve ll.“gi '& 819 Minoa strect. Mr. Gar- | i foont bt ne onty remained Joh in the Cosmopolitan Ho- ALLEGES | burchase money came an opponent of the sale of the isl- | creait and that he made | with the Danish Government by he | or | from the Senoussi tribe. BRIBERY | IN SALE | Niels Gron Opposing Transfer of West Indies. 'Says Congressmen| and Others Get | the Money Stories A reClassedas Nonsense by Sec- | retary Hay. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N.| W, WASHINGTON, March 19.—Niels Gron, from Copehagen, Denmark, has been in Washingten for several days, en- deavoring to arouse opposition in Con- gress to the purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies. Gron desires to deféat the plan to transfer the ‘lslunds to the United States by having Congress fail tc appropriate the 35,000,000 He has no credentials or _letters of introduction, but claims: o “WRAt he -styles’ the ‘mo6 snls‘ party” In Denmark Until-recently he was a strong advocate of the sale of, the islands to ‘the United States, and_ he IS one of the persons who 'brought about the negotiation of the treaty in 1867, which' fell through owing to the Spanish-American War. Gron as-| ‘rts that he changed his position and b ands through the publication in Denmark of a report made by Captain Walter ! Christmas, formerly a Danish naval offi- cer, who was brought into the negotia- tion of the present treaty through Sec- retary Hay. Gron has an alleged copy | of the report, whith he has been showing | 1o W per correspondents, and he has | also shown it to Senator Hoar and Rep- resentative Grosvenor. ALLEGES VAST BRIBERY. In this aileged repert Captain Chr! mas sald he had to bribe large numbers of Congressmen, various press associa- tions and friends and relatives of promi- | nent politiclans, some of named. -Not having - any money with | which to carry out these contracts, the | report allcges that he did the bribing on an arrangement whicn was to get 10 per cent of the entire ‘e, out which he w: . and also p the bhad promised vario of he to American | Congressmen, newspaper men and friends and relatives of public personages. Gron has failed to make any impression whatever in Washington. The report al- lcged to have been made by Captain | Christmas is so preposterous that even | | General Grosvener was only momentarily | stirred by it. He at first declared that it/ wis a_very serious matter and made one | two visits to the Secretary of State | in behalf of Gron and then dropped the case. 7 Secretary Hay says that any talk of | bribery or the improper use of influence in comnection with the negotiations of | tlis treaty is nonsense pure and simple. | | OPPOSITION IN DENMARK. i COPENHAGEN, March 19—The Land- | thing, the upper house, in committee of | the whole and in executive session, voted | to-day to ratify the treaty providing for | the sale of the Danish West Indies to the | United States. After this action there | will be two readings, one of which is to! be in open session. The first of these | readings will not take place before March | 25. The opponents of the treaty are play- ing for delay, but the measure s now as. ured of a majority of two votes in favor | of ratification. | The treaty's opponents to-day held a| meeting, which was largely attended, sev- | eral members of, the Landthing being | present. - Fresh proposals were submitted | to start a direct Danish West Indies line | of steamers and to establish large sugar | plantations. The meeting subscribed 3,500;- | 000 crowns for the enterprise. The ob-| ject of the meeting was to influcnce the Landthing’'s decision. Tribesmen Fight the French. PARIS, March 19.—The Journal des De- bats to-day says that it learns that a French column in the Lake Tchad district of Africa which defeated Chief Rabah's son has since met with serious opposition No ‘details of | the fighting have been received, but it is known that in an engagement near the capital of the district of Kanem a French veptain was killed | man interests in whom are | j ———— ‘TESTING MERGER’S LEGALITY Taking of Evidencein One Action Is Begfln. 'On the List of Wit= nesses Are Promi= nent Financiers. Morgan, Rockefeller and Harriman toy Be Heard. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 19.—Proceedings that may be far-reaching jn their conse- quences were begun before Special Ex- aminer Mabey in this city to-day in one of the suits brought to test the legality of the Northern Securities merger, that masterly alllance consummated by the gebiys of James J. Hill, and agalnst | which President Roosevelt and Attorney General Knox have’ trained the batteries of Federal law. By order of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court subpenas have been issued in the name of the President of the United States, calling for the appearaace of the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway, those of the Northern Securities Company and other interested capitalists. A beginning was n:ade to-day when John S. Kennedy, the Lanker, philanthropist and director or trustee in a dozen ‘big financial or trans- | portation companies, was on the witness stand nearly two hours. NOTED MEN ON THE LIST. Jacob H. Scaiff of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., who represented the Har the great struggle for control of the Northern Pacifiec that re- stlted in a panic in Wall street last May, s to take the stand at 3 o'clock to-mor- Tow aft oon, and George W. Perkins and Charles 8, eel of the firm of J. P. Morgan & to be examined earlier. Scme of in the fmancial galaxy who are likely to be sworn later are: M. H riman, J. P. Morgan, Willilam C. . H. McK. Twombly, James H. Smith, D. amusl Thorme, Daniel . 2. T. Nichols, George F. Baker, Willlam P. Clough, George C. Clark. ward D. Adams, Nicholas Terhune, Eben Brayton Ives and Heary W. B. Thomas, n. EKENNEDY'S TESTIMONY. his examination to-day Ken- bject of the Northern Conmpa was to protect the s of the Pacific against such an attack as ed here Tast spring. and which resulted in the panic. He s that orig lly it was the idea to pool the North cific stock o “Was it the purpose of you geatlemen to place the stock of the Northern Securi tles Company on the market for misc: laneous purchasers? asked Attorney Lancaster of Minnesota, counsel for Peter | Power, who is the plaintiff in the pro- | ceedings. I cannot remember that any such thing was ever discussed or suggested.” “Was It not your intention to acquirs other property besides the Northern Pa- cific and the Great Northern?" Kennedy said thers had been sugges- tions in that direction. He knew nothing of his own knowledge about the purchase of $11,000,000 or $12,000,000 of Great North- ern stock by Hill. He understood the stock was purchased, but he did not know how much. He purchased 10,000 shares himself. HARRIMAN. AND SCHIFF. The examiner next turned his attention | to the election of Harriman to the direc- torate of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. Kennedy said he could not give him any Information as to why Harriman was elected a director of the Burlington. “Do you know when Harriman sold his Northern Pacific stock to J. P. Morgan?” asked Lancaster. “In the autumn, I believe,” nedy. “Do you know that at tHe time their names were proposed for election on the board of directors of the Northern Pa- cific Company the relations between Schift and Harriman were very much strained?” asked the examiner. Kennedy answered that he know it. Will Sail on the Sheridan. WASHINGTON, March 19.—It is prae- tically settled that the Twenty-ninth In- famtry, now at San Francisco, will sail for the Philippines on the transport Sher- idan about April L replied Ken- did net