The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1902, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1902. GENERAL GRANT’S EXPEDITION FRAGRANT BLOSSOMS TO ADORN RARE ARCH AND REGAL THRONE Elaborate Preparations Are Being Made for the Street Fair to Be Held in Sacramento. ol | | { { { | | | | { ! | | | { { | | | / < = WIS Sl RS sSSP R S | MISS CLARA KRUTT NITT OF SACRAMENTO, A COUSIN OF THE MANAG OF THE SOUTHERN PA- CIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, WHO HAS ENTERED THE CONTEST FOR THE HONOR OF REIGNING AS QUEEN OF THE STREET CARNIVAL IN THE STATE CAPITAL. EX & A SN Ry % TO, Aprf 27.—The col- California, who in turn are being chosen | brilllant soclal events during the week. b ‘ or the honor in their respective com- | On thes which promises to be an £pan the intersection of Tenth murities by popular vote. The Queen | claborate r, will be the coronZtion faced in po-1 20d her court will figure in‘a number of | ball. morning a large force of mem will be plzced at work completing and decorat- fiowers the arch and the throne of the Queen, two blocks away. It is intended this year to continue the Street Fair to L street alongside Capitol Park, and it is believed that a great im- provement over last year's scattered ap- pearance of the structures will be the re suit The floral parade on May 13 will be e of the most attractive features of the Street Fair. A ladies’ general committee has been organized to manage it, of which Mre. D. A. Lindley has beén chosen pres- jdent. Among the organizations repr:- septed in the committee are the Native Daughters of the Golden West, the Sat- urday Club and the Tuesday Club. The committee has prepared an invitation for ail persons having vehicles to join in the fioral pageant, and it h assurance th there be many beautiful flow decked turnouts Additional zest has been given to contést for May Queen by therein of Miss Clara Kruttschnitt this city. Miss Kruttschnitt is a cou: of Julius Kruttschnitt, general manager of the Southern Pacific Campany, and she has many supporters among the employes of the Southern Pacific shops. The con- test will close May 5, and it is expect- ed that every day until that date will wit- nees the polling of he: 14 behalf of the respe; the the entrance £ ve favorites. The May Queen will form her court wa ris hern done last year, from the pretty from _different towns in No Eruptions Dry, moist, scaly tetter, all forms of eczema or salt rheum, pimples and other cutaneous eruptions proceed from humors, either inherited or acquired through defective digestion and assimi- lation. To treat these eruptions ing medicines is dangerous. The thing to do is to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pills Which thoroughly cleanse the blood, expelling all humors and . building up the whole system. They cure. Accept no substitute. Testimonials of remarksble cures mailed on wequest, C. I HOOD CO., Lowell, Mass, with dry- vy additional votes | FEASHNTS SACK - EIRHTY ESTATES Destroy Everything They Find Impossible to Carry Off. ST. PETERSBURG, April 27.—The peas- ants in the Poltava and Kirkhoff -prov- inces, where 18,000 are reported to be par- ticipating in riots, have already sacked | eighty estates, where they destroyed ev- erything they could not carry off. The | whole region is terrorized, and land own- ers and stewards are fleeing for safety. The fear is increasing that Kharkoff and other towiis will 'bé attacked. Some of | the authorities are showing weakness and pusillanimity, while others are cruelly vig- | orous and are causing wholesale floggings of ' persons arrested. The agitation at Moscow is o serious that the Czar has relinquished his intention of spending the Russian Easter there. | cluding M." Dewitte, -thé Minister of Fi- | nance, continue to receive letters threat- ening them with depth. | | The judicial inguiry into the aseassina- | tion April 15.0f M..Siphlaguine, the Mi | ister of the Interlor, has led to the arrests of many persons suspected of connection with anti-government.conspiracy, Thes2 |include a Jewess, who is the fiancee of Baischaneff, the assassin of the Minister, and her father, who supplied Balschaneff with money. Upon learning of the arrests of his fiancee, Balschaneff attempted to commit suicide, but was prevented from so doing by his guards. ] | Accidentally Kills Himself. TOPEKA, Kans,, April 2ZZ.—William W. Carr, aged 38 years, day operator and ccrrespondent for the Assoclated Press in this city, who has: been visiting hig perents in Eudora, Kaps,, was accident- | | | ally shot and killed at that place this afte: n at 3 o'clock. While taking a shotguh from & buggy he tripped, causing the guh, whose barrel was held directly over his heart, to explode. He exclaimed “I am shot,” and-died. Carr had'been connected with the Associated Press at varjous points for the last fifteen years. He leaves a wife. The Ministers, in- ORATORICAL ERA I THE SENATE End of Debate on the Philippine Bill Not in Sight. WASHINGTON, April 27.—The plans of the Senate for the week do not extend be- yond the continuation of the debate on the Philippine government bill and the consideration of minor matters when there is no one prepared to spéak on the Philippine bill. There is no prospect thus far for speeches in support of that meas- ure, and consequently all the talk bids fair. to continue to be on the negative side of the question. TUp to the present time the speeches all have been made by minority members of the Philippine Comi- mitice, but it is said that other Demo- cratic 'Senators have promised to ralse their voices in opposition to ’the bill, among them being Turner, Clay and Sim- mons, Senator Hoar has made known his intention- to_speak on the bill, but it is not expected that he will be heard dur- ing the present week. In the committees {he inquiries into the sugar_question ‘as related to Cuba and into General Crozier's connection with gun carriage inventions probably -will be begun. The Committee on the - Philip- pines also proceeds with its investigation into the condition of affairs in the Philip- pines. There is a miscellaneotis programme ahead of the House for this week, To- morrow the special rule for consideratioh | of the omnibus public bill will be brought In and passed, and the remainder of the day will be devoted to District, of Colum. bia business. - On Tuesday the omnibus bill will be passed. Consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill will be re- sumed on Wednesday, and after it is dis- posed of the District of Columbia appro- priation bill will be taken up and prob- ably passed before the end of the week. With its passage dnly two appropriation bills will remain to be acted on by the House—the naval and the general ‘de- ficiency bills. Seldom have the appropria- tion bills been so well advanced at a long session of Congress as they are this year. Queen Wilhelmina Improving. THE HAGUE, April 27.—Bulletins issued at” Castle Loo declare the condition of Queen Wilhelmina continues satisfactory. .| ing in Congress, providing for the leasing oTRONG CASE AGAINST THE - BEEF TRUST Bvidence of a Combine Is Regarded as ~Conclusive. Interstate Commerce Com- migsion Supplies Valu- - able Details. Attorney’ General Knox Has in His Possession a Telltale Copy of- the' Credit Agreement. ' Special Dispateh to’ The Call. CALL 'BUREAU, M(f G.STREET, N. W., "WASHINGTON;- April 2.—That Dis- trict, Attoxnéy Bethiea of Chicago ~and former Judge W. A Day will be able to conclusively. prove: the existénce of a beef st As the firm, gpinion of those familiar jth the evidenpe which has been gath- eral Knox to substantfate their applica- tion for" an - injunctioh ‘to’ réstrain the monopoly - from “continuing, rf combination that has made meats of a kinds a luxury. 7 It will first he necessary to prove that {he -contract or combinatian ‘has -been. formed in restraint ef trade or commerce | among the several States of the Union or with foreign nations in the manner de- clared_ta be illegal by the Sherman anti- frust law, under which the proceedings are being brought. - That such combination, the o which has been to monopolize the: beef trade, has been formed and is in actual operation will be shown by the authori- | tleg. conclusively by eumulative evidence. Other evidence, ‘some of it documentary, was gathered in the hearings hefore the Interstate Commerce Commission. At that time it was used only so far as it-had bearing upon concessions in freight rates made 4o the trust. Much of it, however, is valuable as 'shawing the trust's exist- ence. It is understood that the details of ar- bitrary regulation of prices and reduc- tion of shipments to points where it was intended to advance prices have been gathered by Bethea in Chicago. A letter written by P. L. Hughes, Eastern man- ager for Cudahy & Co., will be used as proof of this practice. Attorney General Knox is in possession of a copy of a credit agreement showing that the trust houses in the sales of their products acted praetically as a single concern. He has also a copy of the ‘“‘cartage agreement,” under which all of the trust houses agreed to make the cus- | tomer pay for the delivery of purchases, Although this evidence is believed to be | conclusive in establishing the existence of a conspiracy, it is understood herg that | Bethea and former Judge Day have be- | gun other lines of inquiry, which are ex- | pected to make the Government's case | impregnable. The Department of Justice | is confident that the proceedings whicn | are about to be begun cannot fail. St NOT A BEEF-TRUST BILL. Colonel Irish Ex})lains the Proposed Leasing of Grazing Lands. WASHINGTON, April 27.—Colonel John P. Irish of San Francisco, who is inter- ested in the passage of the bill now pend- {.of grasing lands in ghe pullic domain to | eattle bwners, whigh is denolinced by Sen- ator Gibson of Montana,as a beef trust | ‘measure, declared to-day that this bill, in- |:stead of being in the interest of the trust, | was designed to reduce the power of the trust by increasing the supply of cattle. Said Colonel Irish: | There are 600,000,000 acres of public land | west of the Missourl River. Of this 100,000,000 is suitable for homesteads and 100,000,000 may be made habitable by frrigation. The remain- ing 400,000,000 will never be good for anything except 'grazing. This land is now common property and it js being reduced In extent at the rate of 5,000,000 gcres a year by overfeed- ing. ~After the cattle have taken all they can from it sheep are turned in and eat roots of the fodder, transforming the range into a des- ert. My bill provides that every settler shall | have the right of leasing ten acres of land | adjacent fo his freehold for each acre of free- hold that he owns. It also provides for the protection of pastoral freeholders by permitting | them to lease ten acres of public land for each acre of freehold In the same county in which | the freehold Js situafed. This takes care of freeholders. The remainder of the land, under the terms | of the bill, may be leased to herd owners who | have stock there upon a certain date, in pru-l portion to the size of their herds. This ar- rangement will leave Western men in posses- ! sion and will keep out speculators, including the beef trust. The leases can ba transferred| only under a regulation made by the Secretary of the Interior. The bill makes no condition in the homestead law. Any man is permitted to take a leasehold and obtain & freehold there at any time. | It was found in Australia séventeen years ago that grazing lsuds were being destroyed. | The leasing system was tried with success. Texas followed the example of Australia a few years later. The effect of the law in Texas has been to increase the number of herd- | awners. | " ’As chairman of the committee on legislation of the American Cattle Growers' Assoclation, which i{ncludes growers, large and mmail, in every State west of the Missouri River, and growers of fine cattle in Illinois, Indiana and 1 have been interested in urging this F. C. Lusk of California is president of the assoclation and Bartlette Richards of Ne- braska is ité vice president. We have no lobby and_we have not spent a dollar here. - I am in Washington primarily on_other business, but T would like to sce this bill pass., Binger Herrmann, Commissioner of the Land Office, who is fighting this Dbill, two years ago was a stronz advocate of thé leasing plan. I do not know what has caused him to change his position. We are mot opposed to the Irrigation bill. On the contrary we are in favor of it. Un- der our leasing plan the Government would receive’$8,000.000 a vear at 2 cents an acre, Our bill provides that this money shall be spent for_irrigation. The great obstacle to the irri- gation bill at present is the fear of Eastern farmers that they may bé called upon to con- tribute to the cost of irrigation in the West. The bill provides that money derived from the sale’ of public lands sha)l be spent In irriga- tion. The total income this source {s di- minishing and eventually "will reach the van- ishing point. Tt is féared ‘that at that time | | extensive irrigation work 'may be in progress, for which the entire country will be called upon to pay. If thit objection could be removed | the irrigation bill will pass, and the passage | of our bl would remove it. " Cattle- falsers are not satisfled with the ' prices they obtain from the beef trust for their cattle. There ds good reason .for some of the advance in price. The producer is now get- | 4ing 27 per cent more for his cattle, but the irfl!( has ivecreased the price &0 per cent. |” It 1s a fact that the number ‘of cattle per capifa_of population has decreased since 1870, During the period since then the number of cattle has increased 17 ‘per cent, while the population has risen 23 per cent. To that ex- tent an increase in' prices is justified. The only way to restore the proportion is.for® the | Government to retain title to its 400,000,000, | acres of grazing lands in the public domain and see that these lands are maintained and im-' proved. di ‘ered under the-direction’ of Attorney Gen-{~ the nuwerfl“ —— P COLONEL: f‘. D . o | BALDYZLIY- | .59 Q9~\, [ ANILA, April 27.—General Fred- erick D. Grant's expedition on the gunboats Baseo and Florida, several steam launches and na- tive lighters has ascended the Gandara River, in the island of Samar, | and has brought the insurgent leader | Guevarra and his entire command down to the coast. | Guevarra's command consists of Rafael | Sebastian, Abaki and thirty-elght other | officers, 189 men and 161 rifles. Three hundred insurgents, with 131 rifles, are expected to arrive at Catbalo- gan, Samar, to-day to surrender formally to the American authorities. Three thou- sand bolomen, Twenty-eight of. them armed with rifles, surrendered yesterday at Sulat, also in Samar. Guevarra succeeded General Lukban to the command of the insurgent forces in Samar when the latter was captured last February. He announced his intention to surrender in March. NEGROS LADRONES YIELD. Captain L. W. V. Kennon of the Sixth GOAT. GAUSES SCHOOL PANIC Wicked Animal Inter- rupts the Tenor of Education. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, April 27.—The teacher and pupils of Dirigo district school, situated at Stewarts Point. in this county, were held captive in the schoolhouse Friday by an angry goat. | The animal came unexpectedly to the | front door of the institution of learning, and upon being denied admittance start- ed to revenge himself. . Lowering his horns, he used his head on the seficol- house déor, which had beeh closed in his face by one of the pupils, and almost destroyed it before he desisted. Meanwhile the teacher and pupils ‘were holding a council of war on the 'inside. To attract the attention of the goat else- where and prevent the total demolition of the door was the object: sought. One of thé pupils volunteered to undertake the task. ¥rom a convenient window he reached the ground and made his way stealthily to the front door. The goat caught a glimpse o1 the pupil, and forth- with refrained from knocking the - door from its hinges. The animal took after the and ran him into the limbs of a neighboring tree, where he was kept a vrisoner for a skort time. The obfect of the boy was accomplished, however, in that the goat failed to re- turn to the onslaught on the door. After foraging in the. school yard for a shért time the goat returned-to his place in a ncighboring herd, from which he had wi,llv give your baby . health, strengthandagood development. Send for a free sample of Mellin's Food, Mellin’s Food Company, Boston, Mass. wandered a few hours before. The ani- mal was a large Angora, and thoroughly frightened the teacher and pupils of the school, on whom he attempted to wreak his vengeance. LR AR *SANTA .ROSA, ‘April 27.—Mary Cas- sato was severely bitten on,the face last uvenh’xfi, by a dog which she was caress- ing. e child.is but 4 years of age, and passionately fond of dogs. She is in the abit of fondling tg."’"‘ canines, and yfully grasped the dog which attacked - s AMERICAN OFFICER WHO IS LEADING ‘A FORCE AGAINST THE FEROCIOUS MORO FANATICS ON THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO. | THE MOROS NUMBER A HALF MILLION SOULS. + B | Infantry reports from the island of ' = Colonel Baldwin is a veteyan of the. T 2 e e e e e S S R R R S la) gu. Her face was lacerated. Negros the surrender of the ladrone lead- | er Rufo with 158 officers and men of his command. together with twelve guns, 140 bolos, seven spears and a few revolvers and daggers. Captain Kennon says this surrender means the opening of the whoie of the southern coast of the island of Negros. After Papa Isio, Rufo was the most important ladrone chief on the isi- and. He promises to force Papa Isio and | his few remaining followers to surrender. Papa Isio was appointed a colonel in the insurgent army by General Malvar one year ago. Colonel Baldwin, who for many years was stationed at Chicago and Fort Sheri- dan as inspector of rifle practice, is in command of the battalion which has gone into the interior of Mindanao after the Moros, who attacked a party of American soldiers. The information that some of the villages of the Mohammedan natives have hoisted the red flag, indicating their intention to fight to the last and gain their heaven by dying in battle, is taken to mean that Colonel Baldwin may be en- | countering fighting of a kind not hereto- | fore met with by American soldiers the Philippines. | HAS-A GALLANT RECORD. ANNUAL SESSION OF THEOSOPHISTS American Society Re- Jjects Overtures of Be- sant Followers. INDIANAPOLIS, April 27,—The sixe teenth annual convention of the Theo- sophical Society of America met here to- day In executive session. Besides elect- ing officers and reaffirming the principles contained in the platform adopted at Bos- ton in 1865, the convention declined to con- sider overtures toward a coalition with the Besant Company, and took favor- able action toward uniting the American, English, German and Scandinavian | branches. A. S. Spencer, treasurer, was unable to be vresent, and his report was read by Secretary Hyatt. The following officials were elected: Secretary, Dr. Thaddeus P. Hyatt; treas- urer, H. B. Mitchell. vice A. S. Spencer. Executive committee—Gearge Dewy, San Pedro, Cal.; J. D. Bord, Fort Wayne, Ind. M. D. Butler, Indianapolis; H. M. Bunker, Brookiyn, N. Y.; Mrs, Charles Johnston, Flush: ing, N. Y.; Dr.'A. P. Buchanan, Fort Wayne. A letier was read In which the conven- tlon was asked to adopt resolutions look- ing toward joining tle forces of the The- oabilhlcal Society of America with those of the' so-celled Besant Camp of Theos- ophists. Such action was regarded as contrary to the constitution, as it was lield that it would be a virtual acknowl- edgment of the charges preferred against William Q. Judge by the other party when the split took place. The movement to unite under one con- stitution the American, English, German and Scandinavian branches of the soclety was favored. A communication was re- | ceived from the English soclety sub- | mitting an International constitution for adoption. A resolution was adopted to the effect that the convention approve of the senti- ment in the English resclutions, but that final discussion on the paring a constitution should-be deferre for discussion by the branches of the var- ious American cities; the constitution to be adopted with possible modifications at the next convention. | | in_explanation. | ments at the Occidental yesterday. BRINGS IN GUEVARRA’S FORCE Insurgent Leader and His Entire Command Surrender on the Island of Samar. — | Civil ana Indtan wars and bears the dis- ' tinction of being the oniy man ever twice named by Congress for the medal of honor. The first recommendation was for gallantry in an Indian fight in Texas in 1874, and the second for conspicuous brav- ery in the battle of Wolf Mountain tana. He has also been brevetted s times for bravery. He was born in Michi- gan, and after serving in the Civil War as a volunteer was given a commission in the regular army. At a farewell banquet here to the of- ficers of -the Ninth Infantry acting Civil Governor Luke E. Wright paid a glowing tribute to the military forces. He sald the army, under circumstances of surprising difficulty, had paved the way for the work of the civil authorities, and that only a few cases of friction between the two branches of government had oc- curred. He said that General Chaffee, whose opinion might at times have dif- fered from those of the civil agthorities, had been a most loyal supporte® of civil rule. In replying General Chaffee said the of- ficers of the army knew that their duty to the couptry demanded their efforts to retain the'civil authorities and to sup- press the rebellion. The cholera situation in the islands does not show any improvement. Cholera cases are reported among the American soldiers in the Camarines provinces of South Lu- zon and elsewhere, but so far few Ameri- cans have been attacked and the disease is mainly confined to natives and Chinese. In Manila there have been 55 cases and 449 deaths from cholera, while the prov- inces report 1599 cases and 1169 deaths. IR B D i TELLS OF THE “GRASS CURE” Colonel Rodman Says It Preceded the Water Torture. CHICAGO, April 27.—The “grass cure,” the latest of military methods of convert- ing the barbarian Filipinos to be dis- closed by soldiers returning from the isi- ands, was unfolded in detail to members of the Marquette Club at the Grant birth- day anniversary banquet last night by Lieutenant Colonel Redman of the Twen- tieth Regular Infantry, now stationed at Fort Sheridan. According to Colonel Rod- man the “water cure” was unknown when he left the Philippines, but an ef- ficient substitute had been found in an- other process, known as the ‘“‘grass cure.” “It was simple, yet effective,” he said “We had to have some means of forcing the natives to confes- sion, and some military genius devised what was known in the islands as the ‘grasscure.” 1 never heard of the ‘water cure’ till I came home. “Whenever natives were rounded up and they refused to divulge information they were known to possess they were formed in line. When they persisted in | declining to repent and confess they were told that the rules of warfare were rigid and that they must die. “Then they had to draw lots and the rative who drew the black ball was taken out into.the tall grass and told to prepare for death. The soldiers were drawn up in a regular squad, with their guns pointing at the vietim, and at his feet in the tall | grass there was a soldier who lay flat on | hig face, so that he was not seen. “The order to fire was given, the sol- diers shot over the head of the native and at the same instant the hidden soldier pulled at his legs and down he tumbled It impressed the natives, for they thought that the man was shot. They didn’t kno that he was unhurt. After three or for sacrifices had been made in this manner the natives generally fell on their knees and told all they knew. “The ‘grass cure’ was the only one I knew of, but it was just as effective as the ‘water cure’ is said to have been.” DENIES CRUELTY TALE. 'Cnlonel Arthur ngner Declares the Filipinos Were Well Treated. Colonel Arthur Wagher, who has been adjutant general at Manila during the last two vears, arrived on the transport Grant Saturday night and took apart- Colo- nel Wagner is on his way East to sume the duties of adjutant general at CHicago, to which station he has been transferred by the War Department. Colonel Wagner, when asked to ex- press his opinion as to the alleged cruel- ties perpetrated by the orders of Gen eral Jacob H. Smith in the island of Samar, said: “The stories of cruelty to the natives have been largely exaggerated. There have been, no doubt, some individual cases of crueity, as there have been in all wars. The Filipinos have been treat- ed, in most instances, with a degree of humanity and magnanimity, which they have attributed to weakness on the part of Americans. The Filipinos have nat- urally taken advantage of this faet, but 1 am sure that no untoward severity has been shown them by the American sol- diers. “The United States Government has the situation well in hand in the Phil- ippines. There are only two provinces in the island of Luzon where there was any trouble. These are Rotangas and tasunn de Bay, but the trouble is prett ell at an end, and the revolutionar spirit of the insurgents has been co pletely stamped out. and that, as I ha said before, without severe or cruel methods. As to the ‘water «cu they lay so much stress upon, there has been more of that in the imagination of the people of the United States than in the island of Samar.” * JOHN J. FULTON CO. His Physician’s Cerlificale Bright's Disease and Diabetes Are Positively Curable. THE FOLLOWING CASE IS INTER- esting, as we are able to present the body of the physician's certificate: The patient is a mining man of this city. Bright's Disease; casts; albumenuria: patient much weakened and depressed and confined to his home. The administration was with the consent of the physiciar who stands high in this city, and is ¢ was connected with one of the colleges Seven months after the treatment was inaugurated the patient was practically well and the physician wrote a report on the case, from which we are petmitted to extract the following: “This is to certify that one of my pa- tlents came to me with what proved to be Bright's Disease; albumen and casts pre: ent. Placed on the usual treatment, which reduced the albumen somewhat. but case resisted further efforts, and patient's vi- tality was at a low ebb. Put him on a compound that is claimed to be a specific for Bright's Disease. I kept a close watch, examining the urine at least onc a week. During the succeeding twenty weeks the pain entirely passed away, al- bumen was gradually reduced to the slightest trace, and the general health improved till he is practically well. No g:hle.r. treatment was given except a striet et. . We are prepared to verify these facts in every particular. Medical works agree that Bright's Dis- ease and Diabetes are incurable, but per cent are positively recovering under the Fulton Compound. (Common forms of Kidney Complaint offer but short re- sistance.) Price $1 for tne Bright's Dis- ease and $1 50 for the betic Compounc John J. Fulton Co., San Francisco, soi compounders. Office, Mills building. Free tests made for patients. Descriptive pam- phlet mailed free. Also on sale at Owl Dru; mpany. 1123 Market st} Ferry Drug o, § Market st Wi “Nersafter pubLh: Commy o Tk of Public] lete o city agents. e