The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCIL—NO. 112. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAR CH 22, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES IN GRAVE DANGER OF BEING RETIRED BY THE PRESIDENT Ranking Officer of the Army Is Accused of “Playing Politics” and of. Overstepping the Bound of Discipline in Seeking Public Applause. ELIRD ROOT -- \ | - g | FREJIDENT I THECSORE. ROOVEVELT = = — = = e | | COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WHO, IT IS BELIEVED, IS SERIOUSLY OF- FENDED BY GENERAL MILES' OPPORTUNITY, AND TWO LATEST UTT.TRANCES AND WILL ADVOCATES OF THE BILL CREATING A GENERAL STAFF. RETIRE HIM AT THE EARLIEST BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. W., WASH- VGTON, March 21.—Lieutenant General Nelson A. is in grave danger of being retired by the This action is not contemplated because s iticisms of the President and Secretary of r before the Senate Military Committee, but on © unfitness to occupy his high office, which the n serts he has displayed. TIt.is not proposed. mmediat retire General Miles. His past record that he will be unable to stay inside and another impropriety will be fol- ax friends of the President and the Sec- s thing General Miles said before the Military Committee should e Preside the bou lowed by v him under official censure, The impression is apperently deeply rooted that the. lieutenant Séleral of the army is ving politics.”, and that to retire him &s & result of his testimony would be to make a martyr ©of him, or, at least, arouse sympathy for him throughout the country . “General MI ,” sald a prominent official to-day, “has long didate for the Presidency. He desires to be an anti- ndidate. . This was true of b war while McKinley was on and Democ st after the “Continuously since President Roosevelt entered the White House the licutenant general has beer contrary to the wishes of the President, who is his commander-in-chief, and ‘to the policy of the Secretary of War, and constantly catering to the Democratic and anti-administration element “General Miles, in his annual report, came out fairly and squarel;y against the canteen, against the department and against the President. In this way he won a great deal of applause from the church people and was commended in all of the church newspapers. Yet at the time General Miles wrote his report the canteen question had bega settled. A graph abolishing it had been inserted the army reor- \ zation bill last winter. FIGURES IN SCHLEY CONTROVERSY. “General Miles next figured in the Schley controversy. When the court of inquiry rendered its decision he gave an interview ng the court and upholding Schiey. For this ed by the Secretary of War, and his friends make it appear that he had been abused and critict e was repriman endeavored to humiliated “Then came the army board, which was convened for the purpose of selecting sites for army posts where troops are to be quartered when not in active service in the field. He issued a statement in which he disagreed with the majority of the board, declaring it was against public policy that army posts should be located near large citles, because troops may be used for shooting down workingmen. -No thinking man would for & moment take the view that United States troops would ever be used for overawing workingmen. “The lieutenarft- general followed this up with a request that he be sent to-the Philippines for the purpose of pacifying | the islands. He was going at once to terminate military ope- rations and resort to diplomacy. This is a Democratic posi: tion again, and General Miles unquestionably will have com- mendation from the Democrats and anti-imperialists. But it is opposed to the policy of the administration, of which Gen- eral Miles is a part. and also to the policy of the War De- partment, with which he is’prominently connected. The fact that General Miles had made this request and that it had been refused was a department secret until it became dls- closed in some way. It certalnly was not disclosed through the office of the Secretary of War. “This brings us up to #he hearing before the Committee on Military Affairs yesterday. General Miles had a perfect right to appear before ‘the committee and say anything he wished. The public, and not the department, will pass on the pro- priety and good taste of his testimony. Some of it seems to have been on_ the lines of the Bryan idea he was following out with reference to army posts. General Miles, in taking this position before the committee, was opposing recommen- dations of the Presidentiand the bill drawn by the Secretary of War to carry into effect those recommendations. PLAYS POLITICAL -GAME TO LIMIT. “Thus, General Miles has been playing the political game | to the limit. Undoubtedly for-the good of the service General Miles ought to be retired.” ” The session of the Cabinet to-day was almost exclusively devoted to consideration of the case of General Miles. Every member of the Cabinet agreed with the President that Miles had committed. a grave breach of decorum. It was deter- mined, however, that it- would be unwise to antagonize the Senate Military Affairs Committee, which would certainly ob- Ject to the punishment of an officer called by it to testify be- cause of the statements he made while under examination. The Cabinet decided that General Miles’ case could safely rest with the country. General Miles said to-day that the statement he made be- fore the Senate committee was behind closed doors and under the seal of confidence. It was stated in behalf of the com- mittee that he would be fully protected from punizhment. The committee regrets that one of its members was so indiscreet as to make public General Miles' statements. It was reported to-day that the general had declared that under the bill-Sec- retary Root and Adjutant General Corbin would have an op- portunity to perpetuate their spower and put their favorites in office, and its enactment would be a long step in the direc- tion of the establishment of a military despotism in this coun- try. A partisan President could have a partisan staff and Continued on Page Two. ACCUSES RUMBLE OF FRAUD Virginia Clergyman Claims He Was Swindled. Promoter of Mining Scheme Is in Trouble. | Twelve Thousand of Preacher’s Dollars Take Wing. Rev. D. D. Smith, ‘a retired Episco- palian clergyman of Virginia, yesterday tiled in the United' States Circuit Court, through his attorney, Gavin McNab, a complaint in which he makes many alle- gations concerning ¢. W. Rumbie and the Sunset Mining Company. He sets forth that he has lost $12500 by reason of in- vesting in the stock of the company | named and that he was induced to invest by false representations made, by Rum- ble. Concerning these the reverend gen- tleman says in ‘his complaint: Your complainant charges that the said Rum- | ble is guflty of fraud, misrepresentation and | concealment; that he has used the money of complainant to purchase certaln propertics, a part of said complainant's money being ex- pended in buying the Wagner mine, or as Rumble styles it, the Old Glory mine, which mine is now in Rumble’s name; that the Sun- set Mining Company is a fiction and the said Rumble is realiy the company; that he holds [ in his own name the proverty which he ren- resented to belong to the company; that sald Rumble has signed the advertisements of said company as its secretary and general manager and that he has used said company as a blind to fraudulently. obtain money.from your com- plainant in the far East, MINISTER INVESTS HIS MONEY. 1 According to the complaint, Rev. Mr. Smith put all of his $12,500 into,the stock of the Sunset Mining Company within the iast year, on the representation made to | him by G. W. Rumble that the company { was a corporation under thé laws of Call- | fornia. He was led to belicve, so he al- leges, that the Sunset Mining Company owned fourteen gold mines in. Califor- nia, that it had earned »2 per cent monthly dividénds for moré than seven years; that Wells, Fargo & Co. were its bankers in San Francisco stock was: listed .on #he . Exc)flgmu{;t’e mfl_%‘;g‘-‘uup share. | To induce the purchase of more stock, | %o Rev. Mr. Smith alleges, Rumble sent { to him through the United States mail, circulars and' letters containing state- ments of the great progress, development and value of the Bunset Mining Company, all of which statements the complainant | now alleges were false. Finally Rev. Mr. Smith hecame vicfous and he details in his complaint | the method he took to ascertain the facts | concerning Rumble and the Sunset Min- ing Company. He explains that his sus- picions were aroused by “the contradic- | tory statements of said Rumble and from | his urgency to sell at par stock which he declared had paid ninety-two monthly dividends of 2 per cent each consecutively | ! ana which he =aid he was willing to guar- antee to earn and pay said 2 per cent per | month."” He therefore employed Samue! B, | Woods of Virginia to visit California to | investigate. What he says has been dis- | cavered by Woods is best told In the com- | plainant's language as contained in his | complaint: DISCOVERIES ARE MADE. sus- He (Woods) discovered that the Sunset Min- | | ing Company, which he had heen told by said | Rumble had paid 2 per cent monthly 'Ih‘itlflurls; | for more than seven vears, was only ineorpo- | ratea on March 1900: «hat tne only charter | | subscribers to stock were G. . Rumble, | $1,500,000 and Mrs. K. . Allington $1,500,000; the eald Mrs. Allington, your complainant was | informea and belleves, is a relative of said | Rumble and lives in Rochester, New \'m'k.{ that ghe is the wife of a carpenter and with- | out mears and was used.as a president of the | #aid Sunset Mining Company as a dummy by | celd Rumble for his swindling purposes, and | that the eafd Rumble and Allington never paid anything of, value for said stock. * * * The capital stock of sald company was $10,- 000,000, He further learncd that the Sunset Mining Company never had an account with TWells, Fargo & Co., bankers, who were not the bankers of the sald Sunset Mining Com- pany, but on the contrary the sald Wells, Fago & Co. had threatened to publish the said Rumble if he did not take the name of their firm from his advertisements; that each and every statement of eaid Rumble told this complainant was false and designed solely for the purpose of deceiving £ald complainant; that the Sunset Mining Company, Instead of owning fourteen gold mines, owned none as far as your complainant. has been able to learn. * + Trat the sald Rumble is well known to the police of San Franclsco as a notorious | swindler; that he has been convicted hereto- | fore of running bogus mining exchanges In sald city. Finally the court is asked to make Rumble and the Sunset Mining Company parties defendant and it is demanded that an injunction shall issue {o restrain Rumble from disposing of the OId Gicry or Wagner mine, about four miles from Oroville, which was deeded to Rumble in June, 1901 MACEDONIANS FIGHT THE . TURKISH TROOPS Battle Occurs Near Sistova and Twen- ty-Six of the Rebels Are Wounded. LONDON, March 22.—~The correspondent of the Morning Leader at Vienna reports a conflict between Turkish troops and Macedonian revolutionists at Sistova, near Kastorim, European Turkey. The Turks surrounded the village and overcame the rebeis. During the fighting four Macadonians and two Turks were killed and twenty-six of the rebels were wounded. - All the male inhabitants of the village were arrested. © - o DYING WIFE PROPOSES THAT ERE SHE IS LAID IN THE GRAVE HER HUSBAND AND NURSE WED Alexander Carrel Agrees to Marry Miss Alice Starrett Over the Corpse of His Spouse, but the Bride-to-Be Shrinks in Horror When the Hour Arrives. Sas. Acice a) SOTARRETT DB ITARE - 7% ”"“(;5: R ALEXAAGER W CARRE bo i VER the corpse of his dead wife on her burial day Alexander W. Carrel would have wed Miss Alice A. Starrett_had not the young woman shrunk in hor- ror at the eleventh hour from-the performance of the ceremony. TWhile making preparations for the dead wife's funeral Alexander Carrel found time to prepare for a marriage with Miss Starrett. , Mrs. Carrel died last Wednesday afternoon, at 6 o'clock, at 74 Willow avenue, and in less than twenty-four hours, while his wife's body lay stark and cold in the parlor of their little' home, Carrel called at the County Clerk’s office and took out a license to wed Miss Starrett. The funeral of Mrs. Carrel took place yesterday afternoon from the home of the Carrels, on Willow avenue, but the pro- posed marriage ceremony, which set:the neighbors’ tonsues a-wagging in condemnation of both Carrel and his bride-to-be, was only abandoned when Miss Starrett’s courage faltered. The young lady, after giving her promise to become Carrel's second wife before the body of his first was laid away to its last resting place, balked at the uncanny prospect of being wedded to a man labering in the throes of a deep sorrow, which she, too, feit. The horror of it all struck her and she flatly refused to become the wife of Carrel, or a party to the ghoulish ceremony. DYING WIFE'S PROPOSAL. The marriage of Alexander Carrel and Alice Starrett was proposed by Mrs. Carrel just before her death. It was her dying request that the husband she was about to leave for the last time should wed the woman who had nursed her during her illness. Miss Starrett was a mutual friend of the Carrels. She lived with them in their home on Willow-avenue and was constantly at the bedside of Mrs. Carrel during a protracted illness. Mrs. Carrel was suffering from consumption and when, on Tuesday night, Dr. F. R. Orella gave up all hope of her recovery and admitted that the end was drawing near, the dying woman called her husband and Miss Starrett into the room, and said in weak tones, I am dying now, and I have one last request to make; will you both grant 1t?"” The sorrow of the death scene affected Carrel and Miss Star- rett and moved them to bitter tears. Both promised to grant any request that the dying woman might make. Taking her husband’'s hand in her own, Mrs. Carrel said: “Alexander, I want you to marry Alice before my body is placed in the grave. Will you do it?"" It was a strange re- quest, but Carrel did not remonstrate with his dylng wife. “T will, if she is willing,”” he answered. Then turning to Miss Starrett, who was standing by the deathbed. the fast-waning woman said, “Alice, will you marry him?” Miss Starrett an- swered, “Yes, I will.” TERRIBLE BOND IS MADE. Thus the-terrible bond was made, ‘and a few hours later, when Mrs. Carrel's soul passed into the land of shadows, Car- rel began his preparations to keep the promise he made his dying wife. p 5 i - + HUSBAND AND NURSE WHO PLEDGED.THE DYING WIFE OF THE FORMER THAT, THEY WOULD ARRY | BEFORE HER BODY WAS LAID TO REST. AT THE LAST MOMENT THE YOUNG WOMAN, OVERCOME | WITH HORROR, REFUSED TO WED. i % I ] - — vE — - * After making the preliminary preparations for the funeral, Carrel”visited Cupid Danforth’s office. He was wan and ner- vous as he gave his hame and that of his proposed bride. Buf Deople are genmerally a trifle perturbed when they 2o about making thelr preparations to-enter the matrimonial sea, and “Cupid” did not become suspicious that he was giving a man a license to enter into a ceremony that, had it been consum- mated, would have went on record as being the strangest matrimonial ‘knot: ever tled in this city. Carrel went away and made further preparations for the wedding. He went to the jeweler's and bought a plain gold ring. With the mar- riage license in - one hand and. the wedding ring in the pocket of his waistcoat, Alexander Carrel stood within the pale of his dead wife's bler, ready ‘to'wed the woman of his wife's cholce before the body of his helpmate of the past was taken out of the darkened parlors on its last journey to the ceme- tery. But Miss Starrett struggled hard and long with Her vow. She had/given the dying woman her promise, but he# nature rebelled against carrying it out And so, when the Rev. Dr. Gardner-of Palo Alto arrived-at the home of sorrow yésterday he was only asked to perform one ceremony—that of offering up the funeral prayers for the repose of the soul of the dead. FRIENDS GET INKLING. There were a few friends of the Carrels who were not num- bered among those who shed tears at the bier of the dead wo- man. The publication of the marriage license gave them an inkling of the proposed ceremony, and several remained away. But quite a few followed the remains to Odd Fellows' Ceme- tery, where they were cremated. “I was willing to wed Miss Starrett,” said Carrel, when he returned from the funeral yesterday. “It was my wife's dying request, and I only agreed to do it to please her. Thank God! at the last moment Miss Starrett backed out.” “Will the wedding take place at some future time?” asked. “No,” answered Carrel. “That was the last chance: my heart Is in' the coffin with -my dead wife; I only agreed to do it to please her.” Carrel was laboring under an intense nervous strain, and he refused to say. anything further in connection with the pro- posed marriage. Carrel is quite well to do. months ago from Palo Alto, ness dealer. PALO ALTO, March 21.—A. M. Carrel, who vowed to marry Miss Starrett before his wife was buried. has been a resident of this city for seven years. Carrel came here in straitened financial circumstances and opened a harness and - saddlery store. He had been fairly successful when he sold out his business and left for San Francisco. Mrs. Carrel practically controlled her husband's business here, was an exceedingly hard-working woman and was highly respected. was He came to this city about six ‘where he was a prosperous har-