The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1902, Page 1

s VCOCLUME XCIL—NO. 116. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAYOR SCHMITZ REMOVES FOUR REMAINING MEMBERS OF OLD san immediately appointed Drs. J. C. Stinson, A. S. Adle AMENDS | CHINESE MEASURE Committee Finishes Colorado Mob Hangs Uncle Sam Is Denied| Biil Providing for Exclusion. Favorable Report to| Be Made to the | House. CITIZENS | LYNCH A | RUFFIAN a Negro at a Courthouse. i Assailant of a Woman | Meets a Speedy | Death. CUBANS TO HOLD HAVANA Naval Station at Capital. Government of Island to Be Turned Over May 20. Changes Ordered by%Body of Victim Is Rid- All Troops to Leave Foreign Affairs Committee. , March 2.—The House Affairs to-day | ration of the Chinese | a practically unani- | it favorably reported measure has been dered for more than from the committee changes. The ex- borers is made com- > fainland territory of 1 all insular posses- Philippines and Hz lly restored the mended by the members, so shall apply to all s to those who sions at the ave come there since, be born there here- | FOR THE PHILIPPINES. “ the committee framed the following new section, specially direc:ingl the Philippine Commission 16 put the ex- | i Commission are required to make y for the enforce- out from : may enter, there would be a Chinese owing to the lack of force to make careful more important committee are as other the cation of Chine: photographs, at | In addition | e other ports spa- the examination of Chinese the Commis- of Immigration is author- h other ports as may e Chinese REDUCES PENALTIES. ttee considered that the orig- | in making it a er to neglect to retain secking admission and misdemeanor. 1so subjected a vessel to it brought over forbd- | the committee changed 0 t the owner or | too severe fture in case uck out the clause re- ed States District Attor- ney tc t all deportation pro- ceedings ring at least two cred- - er than Chincse to L to remain in the The prot v nst Chinese sailors struck out, thus | sailors to be em- was made to | hinese by reference to | e also struck | ed States | every case | mixed, out the fee Commissior is prac- | rtain b s hopefu y consideration ortin; Hitt ireday, | of being John Redm tionalists, gave ymmons to-day a vote of cer lliam Court Gu ing made the Colonial S Chamberlain, withdraw honorable gentleman of traitor addressed Irish Nationalist, in the h 20, which led to Dillon re- nberlain was a “‘damned | kel Initiation Results in a Death. | PARSONS. Kans., March 2%.—Lee Wat- | son, a l4-year-old boy, was killed to-night | by taking hold of a live electric light | wire. The boy was a member of a high school society which was initiating a can- to-night. Part of the initiation was the epplication of this wire to the -andidate. Watson took hold of it and was immediately killed. Some of the in- sulation on the wire had worn off and hed been a plaything for the boys in the @ay time for wecks past. Jdate | head with hi | Mrs | was | not ¢ | late to dled With Many Bullets. LA JUNTA, Colo, March %.—W. H Wallace, a negro sleeping-car porter, was Iynched about 8 o'clock to-night in a cor- | k ner of the Courthouse square, being bhanged to an electric light pole by a| howling mob of 4000 people, who have ! been hunting for him all day. After the body of the negro was riddled with bullets. Wallace had been kept out of town all day by Sheriff Farr in an attempt to save him from the mob. The prisoner made no resistance to the lynching and died protesting his in- nocence. Mrs. Henrietta H. Miller, a gray-haired v7oman, aged 67, who was going from Los Angeles to Denver to visit relatives, was brutally assaulted and outraged by Wal- lace in the Santa Fe Rallroad yards here between 10 and 11 o'c ock last night It was one of the most brutal crimes ever committed in this vicinity, and the | aged victim was left for dead in an iso- | lated section of the city by her fiendish | assailant. ATTACK ON WOMAN. Mrs. Miller arrived last,njzht in a-tour- ist car on train 2, known 45 the Califor- nia Limited, running between Los An- geles and Chicago. The arrived here at 1 Mr the train, nding to leave for Denver | 3:2%5 this morning. Seeing a negro ir a | Pu lman porter's uniform she asked h train where the Denver sleeper was. He said | | he would show her the car and he | wezlked with him through the railroad rds for a considerable distance. Finally e told her companion she would go back to the depot. He struck her on the partly stunning her, and then carried the woman to an ice-- | hbuse near by. By this time Mrs. Miller had recovered somewhat and began to struggle violently her efforts to release herself. The | | negro struck her severar on the ! | h 1d then to stop any possible outc: closed his fingers on her throat until she ceased her struggles. About 12 o'clock Miller recovered consciousn She | tiff with cold and so badly wounded she could hardly walk. She could | utter a sound above a whisver, o | cruelly had she been choked. She crawled back to the depot, following the tracks so that she might not become lost DISCOVERY OF WALLACE. hing the ot platform n a swoon there until a Sice that a s0 she and lay covered by one of the railroad man was picked ied into the The police were immed not doctors summoned. Under the ent of physicians Mrs. Miller soon recovered enough to tell the story of her assault. She gave a minute description of her as- | sailant. This description was recognized | by the railroad men as fitting W. H. Wal- lace, a Pullman car porter. Wallace was | found in the car of which he had charge and was arrested. Fearing a lynching Sheriff Farr decided | to take the negro to Pueblo. When his intention became known, however, the | railroad employes declared that he could not travel by rall as they would refuse to operate a train out of La Junta with Wallace on board: The Sheriff placed his prisoner in a carriage and started for treatm Suzar City, on the Missouri Pacific, twen- ty miles north. At that place he was too cateh the train for- Pueblo and then decided to drive through. Meantime an armed party had left La. Junta to overtake the Sheriff and prisoner. The carriage finally overhauled “'i Patterson Hollow, midw: between | Rockyford and Manzanola. Sheriff Farr made no resistance and Wallace did not ask for mercy. The carriage was turned back toward La Junta. Passing through Rockyford the mob was joined by 500 men f that town. La Junta was reached | about 7 o'clock. where thousands of men, women and children, many from the sur- undizg country, awalted them. DRAG THE NEGRO. | A peace element endeavored to stop the ed lynching, and a committee con- of Robert Patterson, banker; Dr. Charles Dearborn, County. . and other prominent citizens > privilege of trying to get from 2 confession. This was granted and the negro was taken into the Court- | house. After half an hour the word went out that the Courthouse doors were locked and that the committec would try to pre- vent a lynching. Immediately pandemo- nium reigned. §tones were hurled at the building until every window was broken. | Then with a telegraph pole for a bat- | tering ram the crowd broke in the doors and Wallace was taken out. Mayor Fred A. Sabin made a speech to was Continued on Page Two. | Except the Coast Artillery. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N W., WASHINGTON, March 2—At a con- | ference this afternoon between Secretary Root and General Wood and President- elect Palma, Senor Tamayo and Senor Quesada, representing Cuba, there ' was practically settled the important question of sites where the United States will ac- quire coaling stations. The administra- tion had been anxious to establish sta- tions at Havana and Nipe Bay, on the northern coast of Cuba, and Guantanamo and Cienfuegos, on the southern coast. President-élect Palma emphatically told Secretary Root that the Cuban people would never consent to the location by the United States, or any other forelgn government, of a naval station in thehar- bor of Havana. out the terms of the Platt amendment with respect to the sale or lease of sites for coaling stations in the island, but they feel that their capital should belong entirely to themselves and that no.other than the Cuban flag should wave within its boundaries, TO TURN OVER ISLAND. Secretary Root has made public his or- der to General Wood directing him to turn over the government of Cuba to its people on May 2). next. The order re- quires the Cuban Government to assume all treaty obligations, and directs General Wood to continue an artillery force, to avoid leaving the island entirely defense- less, until the Cuban Government shall have an opportunity (o organize its own force. He also is directed to consult with Presi- dent-elect Palma and substitute such per- | now | sons as he shall desire for ~those holding official positions in Cuba. All of the United States troops, except 800 men of the coast artillery, are to be brought to the United States as rapidly as the transportation facilities will per- mit, between now and May 2. The re- tention of these artillerymen is for the purpose of caring for three batteries of coast artfllery. These troops will be un- | der command of Colonel Willlam L. Has- kin of t at Fort ] : artillery corps, now on duty rumbull, Connecticut. WOOD TO EXECUTE PLANS. The order also directs the discontinu- ce of the entire military department of Cub; d places the territory to be tem- perarily retained by the United States in the Department of the East, commanded by Major General Brooke, General Wood and all the staff officers on duty in Cuba are ordered to report to the Adjutant General at Washington for instructions as to their future assign- ment to duty. It was stated at the War Department to-day that nothing has yet been settled with regard to the future station of General Wood, but that the matter wouid be settled before the termi- nation of his duties in Cuba. General Wood will leave here to-morrow for Havana in order to carry into execu- tion the plans for the transfer of the gov- ernment. It is understood that President- elect Palma will not go to Havana until the early part of May. His plans are not fully matured and will depend on develop- ments in the near future, Secretary Koot has requested Secretary Hay to arrange for diplomatic representa- tion of the United States in Cuba. Pro- | vision for consular service will also be made. CUBAN RECIPROCITY, Another conference was held at the White House to-night on the subject of Cuban reciprocity, and was participated in by the President and his leaders, in-| cluding Chairman Payne and Representa- | tives Dalzell and Young of the Ways and Means Committee, and Cannon, chairman of the Republican caucus. The members came at the invitation of the President and remained with him for an hour. The conference was in the main an exchange of views between the executive and Con- gressmen on the general reciprocity prop- osition, and the positive statement was made that there were no new develop- ments in the situation, and that the pro- | gramme adopted by the Republican cau- cus, providing a 20 per cent reduction on Cuban imports, would be carried out in the House. The Ways and Means Committee has not yet reported the bill framed for the purpose of carrying out the: caucus plan, which is delayed, it is asserted, by the absence of one of the Republican representatives from the city. - They will gladly carry | General Wood is ordered to con- | vene the Cuban Congress before May 20. | * | | e J CorLiy Phelan’s Appointees Ousted by Mayor Schmitz. s AYOR - SCHMITZ . removed Drs, J. M. Willlamson, ‘R. W. | Baum, and William B. Lewitt from their offices as members of | the Board of Health yes terday and imediately appointed Drs. J. Coplin Stinson, A. S. Adler, T. A. Rot- | tanzi and M. E. Van Meter to the vacan- cies created by the removals. That the Mayor intended to remove the four medical members of the Health Board was published in The Call exclu- sively one montli ago. The reasons as- signed by the Mayor are contained in a notice which was served on Drs. Willlam- son, Baum, Buckley 'and Lewitt early in | the afterncon. His Honor states in the | notice that their removal from office is the result, of the incalculable injury done to the city and the State by the Health Board of which they were members in declaring without foundation in fact that | bubonic plague existed in San Francisco. The Mayor holds the members named cul- pable for repeatedly-and persistently pub- lishing the false statement to the detri- ment of the community. investigation on his part has demonstrat- ed to his entire satisfaction that bubonic plague never at any time existed in this city, the Mayor states. | MAYOR GIVES HIS REASONS. While the Mayor assigns the foregoing as the main reason why he has used the power vested in him by the charter, ne also quotes others, which he says would be sufficient calise for the removal of the members of the board. These include the quarantining of Chinatown” at a great ex- pense, which he ¢haracterizes as under no circumstances a justifiable measure. He also refers to the hurried disposition of the bodles of suspected plague cases as exceedingly blameworthy. The notice of removal which was served on the mem- bers of the old board follows: “SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 1902, “Messrs. J. M. Williamson, M.D., R. W, Baum, M.D., V. P. Buckley, M.D., and W, B. Lewitt, M.D.: Pursuant to the author- {ity vested in me by section 18 of article XVTI of the charter of the city and coun- ty of San Francisco, I hereby remove you and each of you, for cause, from ofice | as members of the Board of Health of the city and county of San Francisco, and 1 herebw notif§ you that I have appoint- ed and 1 do hereby appoint as members of such Board of Health in your place | A. S. Adler, M.D., T. A. Rottanzi, M.p., | and M. E. Vau Meter, M.D, “The action thus taken by me is not unmixed with regret, on account of the | personality of the officials removed; but, |in the interest of the city of San Fran- | cisco, and, indced of the whole State of | California, and actuated and animated by | a profound realization - of . the serious | duties imposed upon me, I see my way | clear to no other: course. - Following fs {the cause for which you are removed, | to wit: INJUSTICE. TO THE PEOPLE. “‘Continued injury and injustice to the people and city of Ban Francisco and of the State of California, and to their com- » L Vincent P. Bucklcy | An exhaustive | | | BUBONIC HEALTH BOARD AND APPOINTS THEIR SUCCESSORS AYOR SCHMITZ wused the authority wested in him by the charter yesterday to remeve Drs. Williamson, Baum, Buckley ar.! Lewitt from the Board of Health, to which they were appointed by Mayor Phelan. Mayor Schmitz in @ long communication notifies the ousted members that he hes reméved them for cause, the main charge being that they have worked continued injury and injustice to the people of this city and State by publishing, under their official the unfounded statement that bubonic plague has existed in San = Francisco. Othc" causes are enumerated, which of themselves, according to the Maxyor, would have justified him in dismissing the recalcitrant mambers. Mayor M. E. Van Mecter and T. A. Rottanzi to fill the vacancies. it |Four New Members ‘Are Named to Fill the Vacancies. mercial and financial interest, in declaring, | proclaiming and publishing under your of- | flelal sanction, and without proper foun- | bonic plague exists in San Francisco and | that it has existed therein since March 1.6, 1900, “For three months past T have carefully “exnm!ned and investigated all accessible { | | portea ana declared by you, and under bonic plague, and I am unalterably con- vinced that notwithstanding your decla- rations and publications, bubenic plague haz not existed and does not exist in San { Francisco. “My investigations have been thorough and searching. I find that your an- nounced conclusions are based almost en- tirely upon bacteriological examinations, which, under the circumstances and in the light of events, are mnot conclusive or wholly rellable. Without desiring to cast any personal reflections, I find that where the work of your bacterlologist has been supervised the same results have not been obtained as when he has acted alone, “Out of thirteen ‘suspected’ ported before April 8, 1301, and investigat- ed under your authority, six or scven ‘were pronounced and published by you as cases of true bubonic plague, Out of 103 such cases examined between April 8 1901, and August 27, 1901, under joint in- vestigation of your beard and the State Board of Health, not one authentic case of plague was discovered. “‘Since the last-named date, there befhg no further active oflicial participation by these physicians in the autopsies, numer- ous cases are again reported and pub- iished as true bubonic plague cases. PLAGUE NEVER EXISTED. “I realize that it is safer to err on the side of caution, and that it is a matter of eminent propriety to be conservative and stead Messrs. J. Coplin Stinson, M.D., | ! Judsment on subjects of such grave { importance, in view of the disastrous calamities which might ensue from neg- lect to observe proper precautions in deal- ing with possible contagious or pestilen- tial diseases. However, the facts which have been developed, the conditions which have prevailed, the results which have been demonstrated, since the first alarm- ist and scarehead announcements of the existence of this dread pest in our midst, seem to me to have shown eonclusively that bubonic plague did not at any time and does not now prevall in this city. “Yet with full knowledge of all the facts there continue to be published and given | to the world, up to the present day, un- der your auspices and. authyr!ly, Tepeated announcements of its continued existerce, dation or justification in' fact, that bu- | reports’and records, and have personally | | Inquired into numerous specific cases re- | your authority, to have been cases of bu- | cases re- | DR AND THE CHIEF OF POLICE, EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS. T A | RoTTANZ) | | | & | — & THE BOARD OF HEALTH ABPOINTED BY MAYOR EUGENE E. ‘ SCHMITZ, THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS REMOVED. DR. J. M..WILLIAMSGN. DRIR. W.BAUM. | DR. V:P. BUCKLEY. DR.W.B. LEWITT. + THE OLD BOARD AND THE NEW. SR TIY T APPOINTED. DR. J. C. STINSON. DR. T. A. ROTTANZI. DR. M. E. VAN METER. DR. A. S. ADLER. g -+ and-constant reports of new discoveries and ‘verifications.’ “These reports, published in the promi- nent medical and lay journals of - the world, have done and are doing our city | and State untold damage. They are keep- ing from us a large number of desirable | immigrants and tourists; to a large ex- | tent they are holding back the develop- ment-of our industries and interests | | through the influx of outside capital, { and, with the imaginative prophecies of future augmentation in the number and { virulence of the cases, they are seritusly | jeopardizing the future welfare of our city. ! BAD POLICY OF OLD BOARD. “The-injury would have been the heay- fer and more severe had not the unitel press of the city intelligently and patri- otically ascertained for itself -the true facts of the bubonlc plague situation and refrained from giving undeserved and undue publicity to your reports. It is evi- dent from recent instances and develop- ments, one as late as February 21, 1902, that you are absolutely and unchangeably committed to the policy of maintaining, harboring and proclaiming this baseless i bubonic plague situation; that you are proceeding, even at this late day, upon the theory that every case investigated is a suspicious case and that every such case must be assumed to be,and published as, a true case of bubonic plague until ' the contrary is so clearly established by overwhelming evidence that the true dis- ease can no longer be concealed under tha mask of the bubonic plague. This policy is one of irreparable injury to the people, whose protectors you are supposed to be: it Is against the welfare and prosperity of the city, and Is, in my opinion, ample and abundant justification for your removal “Based on this, and accruing from it, numerous other acts arose, each of which would .constitute power for removal, un- der the charter provisions. *‘The roping and fencing in and the far- cical quarantining of Chinatown, at great expense, were useless, extravagant, ex- pensive and under no circumstances jus- tifiable measures. “The hurried removal and disposition of the bodies of ‘suspected’ cases without oppartunity for examination by disinter- ested .and reputable physicians, on their demand, is equally blameworthy. “The manifest co-operation of your board in establishing cenditions whicn would inevitably have resulted in the quarantining of this city and State by the other States of the Union and by the Fed- eral Government would also of itself be a sufficient cauee for your removal. *“*All the statements herein_ contained I find and declare to be the facts and I as- sign them as the cause for your re- moval from office as aforesald. Yours, ete. E. BE. SCHMITZ, “Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco."” Later in the afternoon Mayor Schmitz Continued on Page Two.