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

VOLUME XCI—NO. 147 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, PRICE FIVE CENTS. ADMITS ORDERS TO KILL AND BURN AND MAKE A WILDERNESS OF SAMAR HOUSES RAZED BY TORNADO Fifty Buildings Are Blown Down at Joplin. Death and Injury to More Than Score of People. Disasters Also Due to Storm in Other Localities. by falling CAPE (colored), died from Mrs. unter, Wil- Viila of Joplin; F. FURY IN SUBURBS. y of orm was f The but it g down rn part of the city of the fini was scores Seventeen eet on the east. elt there is scarcely which i not damaged. east from-the malm portion of the storm spent its fury in sub- tricts known as Moon- The little home swept away completely and the three in- use are dying, al ctured. STORM STRIKES OMAHA. OMAHA, April 25.—An unusually uck this city on and injured a d unroofed a number down- s were stopped for signs were blown ed 13, was struck walk on Military avenue, fayor George ing sign at and was otherwise e Taggert was oken billboard glass windows in downtown s blown in and we: a . st shutting out For a time the wind blew sev- hour and con: rable LINCO:! b —A terrific straightaway reaching at times a velocity of s les an hour, prevailed at Lincoln throughout the afternoon and into the night. Only minor damage was done TOPEKA, Kan., April —A fierce north wind, carrying clouds of dust and a low temperature, has been blowing in Kansas since noon to-day. There is ho in- dication of rain and the wheat fields are drifting badly. BREATHES INTO MOUTH AND REVIVES STUDENT DENVER culiar hea April %.—An instance of pe- Park to-day Miss Eva Hamassen, a stu- e classrooms and frighr students by 1 of death of the park, was sent he n one of th for and 1 brand at this p , but without suc- nt that a woman's woman's readiness to act be- n the saving of a life. ther student, quietly kne down and breathed into Miss This somewhat outre scitated the invalid. a case of suspended animation,” irs. Cooke. “I have seen it often in sband’s case and that was the only for it. It is caused by ble, I suppose.” performance res ent some er in another similar attack, but by this time her own physician was present and she was removed to her home. e New York Governor on the Way. NEWBURGH, N. Y., April 25.—Gov- ernor Odell, with his wife, his daughter and his sister, Miss Ophelia Odell, started | to-day on a trip for California. They will go via Washington, where they will be joined by ex-Mayor B. B. Odell, the Gov- ernor’s father, and Senator Ellsworth. of ter- of idwell Hunter was trouble occurred at University was taken sudden- presenting A young physician, tried to revive Miss the day Miss Hamassen had | '\ CHANGING ROUTE TO . THEEAST Southern Pacific to Lay a New Line West of Yuma. Portion of the Road Will Be on Mexi- can Territory. —_— Takes It Out of Con- trol of Interstate Commission. Special Dispatch to The Call SAN DIEGO, April %.—Sensational in- formation regarding raflroad affairs leak- ed out from authentic sources to-day. It A has been learned that the Southern Pa- cific Company is to abandon about 100 miles of its main line west of Yuma, follow- ing the south instead of the north line of the Colorado Desert, forking at Imperial, with a second line to San Diezo over the survey of the San Diego and Eastern road, or in the neighborhood of that sur- | vey. This implies the absorption of the Imperial and Gulf Railroad, now being graded. Aside from the importance of this move | to the towns of Southern California it has an indirect effect on transcontinental bus , as the road will pass for a short distance through Mexican territory, thus relieving it from control by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Pacific Railroad will be ‘placed in the same position as the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which for years has been a dis- turbing element in transcontinental traf- fic. SURVEY IS COMMENCED. The Southern Pacific has already set a force of men at work on the survey for | the new line, and, as the country is per- | tectiy level, 1t will“take bup-ufew ddys | to make the run from Yuma. Thé route will pass the Salton Basin on the west, instead of the north, to a point near Walters, where the new road will again | connect with the old roadbed and con- tinue into Los Angeles through Indio. It cannot be definitely announced that the Southern Pacific has made a deal with the San Diego and Eastern road. | That may not be the case, but the in- formation is to the effect that when President Harriman was in Southern Cali- fornia a few days ago it was definitely | decided that the company would make the change In its roadbed at once and build to this city, which will require but 125 miles of additional trackage. The reasons for making the change are | numerous. The most importart is the fact | that on the western side of the Colorado River there is a chain of sandhills about fifty miles long, extending from a point in Mexico to the northwest, where they | approach close to the foothills of the Chuckawalla Mountains. Any road<com- ing west from Yuma is forced to choose | between the narrow pass north of the sandhills and one entering Mexican terri- tory, south of the hills. SANDHILLS ARE DRIFTING. The Southern Pacific Company took the northern route, but it has seen those | sandhills drifting steadily farther to the | north until it has become a question of | but a very few years when it will be | forced to abandon the pass. It is prac- | tically impossible to keep the right of way clear of the drifting sand. The company has appropriated $500,000 to lay heavy rails |across the desert, and, realizing the neces- sity for changing its route soon, this is found to be an opportune time for doing 0 Another factor in forcing the company to the change is the movement -on the part of several roads toward the south- ‘ western coast, and that of the people of | | San Diego, in making the survey for their road, the San Diego and Eastern. Nat- urally if any other road passes south of the sandhills it will have the first choice of the ground, and the Southern Pacific does not propose to let another road have that able first choice. SENATOR MASON STRIKES IT RICH IN ALASKA Company in Which He Is Interested Said to Have Millions in Sight. TACOMA, April 25.—The Columbia Hy- draulic Mining Company, of which Sena- | tor Mason is the chief stockholder, has | made a gold strike in Atlin district. After irstalling a plant of machinery 1 $100,000 the company finds that it possesses a mountain of gravel and sand, all of which is auriferous. Experts esti- mate that if everything works well this summer the company will take out mil- lions of dollars. Johnson, who discovered the property, was formerly a city councilman of West Superior. He went to Atlin three years ago and bought claims of homesick min- ers. Later he stumbled on the property now being developed. Going to Chicago, he laid the proposition before Senator | Mason, who interested his friends and ob- tained money for the purchase and ship- ment of a, plant, including the nine-mile narrow gauge railway necessary to de- | liver the machinery at the base of the mountain. Peter Kimberly, the iron mag- Southern | I | TSENATOR EDWARD W CcaRRACHK J ALL BUREAU, U8 G STREET, N. W., WASHING- TON, April 25.—Senator Car mack of Tennessee made a most sensational speech this afternoon in opposition to the Philippine government bill. He is a mem- ber of the Philippine committee, and his utterances in opposition to the policy of the administration attracted considerable attention. President Roosevelt was criti- cized, and Brigadier General Frederick Funston received an unmerciful excoria- tion. Carmack said that the bill, like the Philippine tariff bill, simply presented the aspect of imperialism. It was not a ques- tion only of framing just laws for the Filipinos, but a question of right to make any laws whatever for that people. “The claims of the Republicans,” said he, “is that they had burned enough towns, wasted enough and killed enough people to make good their right. The Jand is ours because we have strewn it with the ashes of its homes and drenched it with the blood of its people.” BRINGS IN BRYAN. Opponents of this policy denfed that we had derived any just powers of govern- ment from the subjugation of the gov- erned, and that was the real issue of this debate. In the former debate, he said, Spooner had charged that the minority had prostituted the question of partisan purposes, and that W. J. Bryan had seized upon it to force an‘issue with the administration. Unfortunately for this argument the fact was that Bryan had declared his position upon this question | nate of Scranton, Penn., is another stock- | holder. long before anybody knew what the pol- icy of the administration would be. At 3 > i THREE GENERALS AND A TEN- NESSEE STATESMAN WHO FIG- URE IN PHILIPPINE NEWS. o e that time the public utterances of McKin- ley and Bryan wgre in exact accord, and if the administration had not reversed its policy there would have been no differ- ence between them. The Democrats in the Senate, he insisted, had tried to re- move the question from party politics. It was now claimed that the civil authority of the United States was supreme throughout the Philippines, and it was treason for a Democrat to express an opinion. He cited the public utterances of President McKinley and Mr. Roose- velt, and the speeches of Republican Sen- ators, and quoted from the Republican campaign book to show that a general policy of colonialism and conquest was adyocated as Republican doctrine. QUOTES ROOSEVELT. “The idea that you can transform the character of a race by teaching them to read,” said he, “is the wildest, crazlest, the most fantastic dream that ever flitted through a lunatic’s brain.” He quoted utterances from Mr. Roose- velt, charging that ‘‘treasonable” utter- auces had incited the Filipinos to Insur- rection, and said that we must not judge the President in his moments of oratori- cal ferocity, or when the frenzy of battle was in his blood. The President was not vindictive, but simply “strenuous,” and resembled in his habits of speech a cer- tain “Tennesseean” horse of which it was sald that running away was his natural gait. Mr. Roosevelt had habitually spoken of the Filipinos as “savages” and “bar- barfans” and ‘‘Apaches,” and these de- nunciations had been scattered through- out the islands to inflame the people against th United States. The effect of the President’s language had been to Carmack Makes a Sensational Speech Criticizing the President and Excoriating Funston. barden and intensify Filipino opposition to American rule. = N Some of our military heroes had been guilty of a like offense, said he. He re- ferred to a recent speech of General Fun- ston, whom he described as ‘‘the Jay- hawker, brigadier from the windswept plains, the mightiest Samson that ever wielded the jawbone of an ass as a weapon of war.” DEATH CHEATS FUNSTON. Carmack sald death had cheated Fun- ston of some illustrious victims, like former Senator Sherman and former President Harrison, but there were still enough to keep him busy. Papers had quoted Funston as saying the President entirely approved his gallows speech and wanted him to accept an invitation from the junior Senator from Massachusetts to £o to Boston and talk to the people there about hanging ‘the senior Senator from Massachusetts, but the plain truth was that Funston could not hang anybody. Funston should go back to the Philippines —to the land where there was plenty of hemp and no constitution. “If men are to be hanged without re- gard to law for speaking words calcu- lated to incite insurrection,” said he, “the first neck to feel the strangling clutch of the soaped rope should be the heroic gul- iet of Funston.” Every since he had been in the Philip- pines he had been pouring forth tirades of indiscriminate insult against the whole people and had outrageously insulted the very men upon whom the commission was relying for aid in pacifying the country. He also had it on the very highest author- Dattos Submi to American Troops. VARV RS ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHING- TON, April 25.—Considerable relief was occasloned at the White House and the War Department to-day by a dis- patch from Major General Chaffee announcing submission to the Amer- ican authorities of several Moro Dattos who have inaugurated hostilities against the American troops. There Is a general approval of General Chaffee's purpose to go to Mindanao and discuss the situation with General Davis. The President -in all the dispatches sent to that cfficer has impressed upon him the advisability of maintaining peacd, and he has replied that he will observe this pol- fcy. It im said that General Chaffee is acting properly in sending a strong force to Mindanao, and it is hoped that the re- tirement of the troops to Malabang and Parang will not be construed by the na- tives as a retreat. The present object of General Chaffee to send expeditions oc- casionally to the Lake Lanao region does not meet with favor and may be disap- proved by the President. There is no necessity, in the opinion of the adminis- tration, for the army to take any action which is likely to provoke hostilities. Appended is the cablegram received from Chaffee: Before Baldwin could be communicated with he had taken the fort at Pulas after slight re- sistance. No casualties. Very soon after the neighboring town of Ganasi opened its doors, holsted the white flag and delivered the red flag. Datto Lampok and others with strong following asked permission to call and make peace. Datto Amani Pack of Gana, who sent threatening messages in reply to my letter, is one of those who have submitted. The camp is two miles from Gana, whose Sultan has asked Baldwin to come there. I have directed him not to move. He Is ten miles from the Datto. It is my purpose to have an interview with General Davis. Will go on Hancock, which leaves here to-day for Malabang with a battal- fon of the Tenth Infantry. It is our purpose to show : considerable force of troops to lake Continued on Page Two. Moros, converse with Dattos, then retire troops by different tralls to Malabang and Parang: thereafter to send expeditions oceasionally to liFrial of Gen- -4 + at Manila t ila. ANILA, April %.—The trial by court-martfal of General | | | cial to good order and dis- | cipline began to-day. Gen- | eral Lloyd Wheaton presided. Colonel ceedings. He willing to admit Gen- eral Smith gave instructions to Major Waller to kill and burn and make Samar and tHat he did specify all over 10 years, as the Samar boys of that age were equal- Iy as dangerous as their elders. Cprps, were the only witnesses examined. Their testimony developed nothing. Major Lytletan W. T. Waller, Marine present to-day on account of sickness, but it is expected he will be in attendance to-morrow. eral Smith Jacob H. Smith on the charge of conduct prejudi- | Charles A. Woodruff, counsel for the de- | fense, said he desired to simplify the pro- a howling wilderness; that he wanted everybody killed capable of bearing arms Captain David Porter, Marine Corps, and Lieutenant John H. A. Day, Marine | Corps, will be the only other witness for the prosecution. He was unable to be The defense will call several officers of the Ninth Infantry. o SPRINGS A SURPRISE. Unexpected Remarks of Attorney General at Editor’s Trial. MANILA, April 25.—At the trial to-day of the editor of Freedom, who is charged with sedition in publishing an article from an American periodical to which the editor of Freedom agreed and added re- marks of his own censuring the United States Commissioners’ rule, the Attorney General, L. R. Wilfley, created a sensa- tion and astounded the Judge, lawyers and spectators. He lost his temper with Judge Odlin and said: “The clvil government wants to know where it stands under the law passed. It wants to know whether it will be en- forced or whether sach unwarranted statements will be allowed. The court knows the wishes of the Government, and it is to be presumed that it knows its own rules.” Judge Odlin replied: “The court will determine the case ae- cording to law. The court wants you to understand that it believes individuals have rights as well as governments.” The defense had asked for a delay of a week owing to counsel having been dis- qualified on accoufit of not passing the Filipino standard of law. The hearing in the demurrers in the case was postponed until May 3. @ it @ Iske. We supposed Gana was thirty-five miles from Malabang, but it was actually a short twenty-one. No fighting; not necessary to overcome opposition to present location of troops; T75 men with Baldwin, two troops of cavalry dismounted twelve miles in rear. Every effort will be made to prevent general war. Davis says situation at this time is very fa- vorable