The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCI-NO. 150. SAN FRANCISCO, ‘TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICAN OFFICERS IN PRISON| Engage in Row at Venice and Are Sentenced. Captain Wynne of the Marines Heads the List. LINKING EXISTING RAILWAYS Old Roads Formed Into Transconti- nental Line. Six Hundred Miles; Remain to Be Covered. Men Fromthe Cruiser|Gould Interests Are Chicago in Bad Plight. Special D! tch to The Call VENICE, April 28—Captain Robert F. U. 8. M. C., Assistant Surgeon Ledbetter, Lieutenant John and a marine named Wilfred il of the United States crulser who wer arrested on April 25 Plazza di San Marco, were to-day a police court. According e police the Americans were guilty jerly conduct in the square of St. e police were obliged to inter- wounding private citizens. or asked for a sen- hs' imprisonment for nders wounded. Two im £160 each. dmitted that lh‘t} were acted in self de- 1€ that they were mobbed by ten days’ the others to three 0 have to be de- f the day the commander accompanied by visited er his deep regret at four officers impli- Prefect that they gn. d the worst im- e Ital ne as a tion are more or less accus- ki d, this is the e so far dis- ainful impression e American Em- ions at Venice of the It was said the at Italian court ders they will American court- BE COURTMARTIALED. TON. Action will to effect | MAY ices confirm: r plight have not r St partment: that it ssador in Rome to the Italian e of obtainin y of is soners ips they will imprison- | | cont re charged with resisting | g nd six months each for | been stopping in Chicago, besides compensation | have conferred at the Auditorilum Annex Associated With Clark. Secial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, April 28.—Another trans- raflroad 1s to be stretched s the United States from Southern California to the Atlantic Coast. Chi- cago, although not directly on the pro- posed route, will be only 100 miles to the | northward, and will be connected with it. The new road will be composed principal- Iy of lines already in existence. This announcement was made to-day as the result of & conference between Sen- ator Thomas Kearns of Utah, Republi- can National Committeeman; Richard C. of Missourl, and ex-Assistant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath of Salt Lake City. For two days the three politicians have where they nental acrc on the advisability of making public the | plans which have been hatching for months. “Only about 600 miles remain to be cov- eréd before the new road across the con- | | tinent will be an accomplished fact,” ex: the | the Prefect and | Salt Lake City via the San Pedro, Los | them also will be Senator Clark of | tana and other Western capitalists, . Wynne was sentenced | Plained ex-Congressman Kerens to-day. ‘These unfinished termini of the road. spaces are at two San Pedro, a port t and compensation | close to Los Angeles, will be the Pacific terminal of the new road. Newport News or Baltimore will be the Atlantic term- inus. “From San Pedro the road will run to Angeles and Salt Lake now building and about 300 miles of which still remain to be buflt. From Salt Lake City to Denver and Pueblo the con- necting link will be the Denver and Rio Grande Rafiroad. From Pueblo to St. Louis the Missourl Pacific will furnish the roadway. From St. Louis to Cleve- land or Buffalo the Wabash Rallroad will connect. ' “If we should secure the, Western Maryiand Raflroad we should not need to build much track, and in that case Bal- timore would be our terminal. But New- port News offers better facllities.” Gould interests will control the transcontinental road. Associated City Rallway, new with Mon- | who | want a new outlet to the East and central portions of the country fcers of the crut ser | TORNADC KILLS SEVEN PEOPLE IN TEXAS TOWN | Forty Others Ar;erdly Injured and | "€ | message to the Dallas News from Mor- arrest of ad- | 1 here state that ( nited States Ma- « . v 1 of the marine nat John tch officers, E. Lled- were on the of ation cloth was the dishes h. Capiain Surgeon Ledbetter and mmediately inter- ridge he man, and were ar- in sted by guard THINKS IT IS A MISTAKE. formed of the trouble, of the length of the , and he believes ake. n officer or seaman vio- foreign country,” the e is liable to ar- 1 have not been in- of the officers. at hand I think it will officers were not guilty erfered in be- sted: men who nto trouble.” SANTIAGO THE CENTER OF ANOTHER REVOLUTION INCE, April 28.—1It is re- revolution has broken . Telegraphic com- republic. and rrupted e center of the which ,is di- | President Horatio Vas- | jeved here that the revolu- | i by Vice It is by tion will probably be suppressed by Government forces Three of the Crew Lost. SANDUSKY, Ohio, April 28.—The fish- which arrived hefle §¢ schooner Louis to- brought the first detalls of the wreck of the passen- ger steamer Gribbe of Cleveland, which went to pieces on Point Pelee on Sunday, Three of the crew were drowned. ay iks it surprising that | town were demolished. When | | i from Porto Plata, | t of Santo Do- | the | | conaition owing to survivors and the | Much Valuable Property Is Destroyed. DALLAS, Tex., April 28.—A telephone | gan, T nrose, County, says a tornado passed over a small town in Somerville between 5 and 6 p. m., killing injuring forty more and seven persons, demolishing much property. The dead: Mrs. Gage. Mrs. Carl Milan. Two-year-old daughter of J. R. Milan. Mr. Ford, pastor of the Methodist | church. Miss Mae Connell. , Boy named Mudgrove, Unknown woman. The most seriously injured are: Mrs. Tidwell, Mrs. Baschow, Mr..and Mrs. Thomas Trice and baby, Miss Fogg, Mr. and Mrs. Shields, Miss Lewis of ‘Weatherford. The Court-house was badly damaged, a printing office was blown away, two sa- loons were partly destroved, Meyers' wareroom was demolished; Lilly & Son’s grocery store was blown away, a black- smith shop was destroyed and four build- ings of Hendricks & Son were totally de- molished. One-third of the business houses of the Assistance has been sent to Glenrose from Morgan. Tt i CATHOLIC AUTHORITIES NOT EXPECTED TO ACT Church Will Not Notice Bishop Kei- ley’s Utterances Against Presi- dent Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, April 28.—An attack by Bishop Kelley of Savannah on President Roosevelt in an address delivered there Saturday created great interest among leading Catholic authorities. Cardinal Martinelli Is out of the city, but it is stated authoritalively that there 'is no likelihood of any action on the part of | the church as a result of the Bishop's | utterances. This view is based on the fact that the Bishvp is an American citi- zen and bas a right to give expression to his views so far as they are not derog- atory to religion. He has always been 2n ardent Southerner ind often expressed the most intense Vews regarding the cause for which he fiught in the days of the Confederacy. Archbishop Corrigan Is Improving. NEW YORK, April Z—The condition of Archbishop Corrigan has greatly im- proved and he passed a\peaceful day. His physicians report that the pneumonia is now thoroughly broken and the only dan- ger lies now in the patieat’s weakened his loug and severe illne; His condition to-right when Dr. Leyds left the archiepiscépal residence was s0 far fmproved that & was consid- ered unnecessary to issue the customary nightly bulletin. | \ | packing-houses. \CANNOT PREVENT PROBING Conference Scheme of Beef Trust Is a Failure. The Federal and State Officials Are Active. Attorney General Is Not Willing to Comprqmise. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 28.—There will be no conference between Attorney Gen- ‘cnn Knox, Attorney Genmeral Davies of | New York and representatives of the beef trust. This decision was reached in Wash- ington this afternoon after very pointed | conferences at the White House and the | Department of Justice. Indeed, it was only necessary to have the matter brought to the attention of the President, Attor- ney General Knox and Attorney General | Davies to have it rejected as something | not to be entertained for an instant.’ The first that was known about the as- tounding proposition appeared in a New | York paper this morning and was widely spread by the Associated Press. The story was that Sulzberger, of Schwarz- child & Sulzberger, had said the price of beef would come down to a normal figure within thirty days, when the grass-fed cattle come in from Texas. The article then went on to say that through the influence of a committee of a Republican club of New York a conference would be | held in Washington on Thursday between Attorney General Davies on one sidé and the representatives of the trust on the other. This conference was apparently to be heid for the purpose of permitting the representatives of the, trust to make | prormises to reduce the price of meat, in return for which something, not clearly defined, might happen in connection with the prosecutions now under way or in contemplation by the United States and the State of New York. CANNOT STOP .PROSECUTION. In other words it was clearly an at- tempt to bring the Attorney General of the State of New York to a. conference with "thie representatives of a combina- tion that- has been shown to be a nctori- ous lawbreaker, and whom that officlal will be required to prosecute criminally and also to proceed against civilly. Attorney General Davies, accompanied by Controller Miller of New York, ap- peared in Washington this morning, paid a quick visit to the White House and then called on Attorney General Knox at the Department of Justice, where they had a long conference, taking leave of the Attorney General at 1:30 o'clock to | lunch with the President. ‘When Attorney General Davies left the White House he said: *“I have received a letter conveying the proposition that'l should meet representatives of the big Why I should meet them or what would happen as the result of my meeting them has not been disclosed. But you can say that I have declined emphatically to have anything to do with any such conferences. I have no busi- ness conferring with these men. They are charged with violation of the law, with oppressing the public. If they are guilty it is my business to prosecute them.” Attorney General Knox had a long con- ference with the President before Attor- ney General Davies visited either the White House or the Department of Jus- tice. The Attorney General gave informa- tion regarding the progress of the beet trust litigation, and the President was very much pleased to know what had been accomplished. ATTORNEY DAY ACTIVE. CHICAGO, April 28.—Whether injunc- tion proceedings against the beef trust are brought at an early date or not there is no questioning the fact that Judge W. A. Day, the Government's special attor- ney, believes strongly in getting at the preliminary proceedings as soon as pos- sible. He arrived at the office of United States District Attorney Bethea an hour before most business men were at thelr breakfast tables. Bethea was no laggard himself, and the attorneys went into con- ference at once. Some evidence was given by persons supposed to know the instde of the packers’ affairs. It is said to be convineing in its nature. It goes almost without saying, however, that the state- ments as to the strength of the evidence does not come from either Bethea or Day. There are few indications that the case will go before the Federal Court until the last of this week or the first of next. The outline of the asseveration to be made has been drawn. It is an outline mereiy, and may- be filled in with much more matter, though there is a legal stability to the skeleton as it stands. The packers are charged with blacklist- ing retailers who do not obey fixed Tules of the trust. They are charged with hav- lng an agreement to lower and raise prices at will with no particular regard for the law of supply and demand. They are accused also of having applled an iron grip to throttle competition. The main allegation is of course that ‘an agreement exists to control the beef trade.” Attorney General Davies of New York will use the' evidence collected in Chicago tkis week as ammunition for the fight he is to begin against the trust under the law of that Staté known as the Donnelly anti-trust act. Its provisions are similar to those of the Sherman law. MISSOURI TAKES HAND. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 28 —At- torney General Crow this afternoon pre- DENIES J AIDING REBELS But Minister Hart Will Not Return to Begota. Colombia Declares Him Persona Non Grata. Serious Charges Are Made Against the Diplomat. Spectal Dlmtdl to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 140' G Street N. W., WASHINGTON, April 28.—Charles Bur- dett Hart, United States Minister to Co- lombia, has been declared persona non grata by the Bogota gdvernment. Official notification has been given to the Presi- dent that Colombia finds herself unable to treat longer with Hart, and she desires that another citizen of the United States be accredited as Minister in his place. Recognizing the undoubted right of Co- lombia to insist upon having in her cap- ital a diplomatic representative agreeable to her, the President will probably not permit Hart to return to his post. Colombia’s objection to Hart is based primarily upon her belief that he has been glving assistance to the insurreetion. She has also transmitted charges arising out of the difficulties which the Minister has had with his landlord and the connection of Hart’s son with a business firm fn Bo- gota. Hart arrived in Washington a few days | ago on leave of absence. He called at the ‘White House and the State Department and explained the facts of the trouble from his point of view to the President and Secretary Hay. Officials of the administration are dis- inclined to speak about the charges made against Minister Hart. It is learned, how- ever, that the Colombian authorities be- lieve the American legation has been used by the insurgents for getting infor- mation. This was the charge made by Spain against General Lee when he was Consul General in Havana. Hart emphatically denies that he has alded the insurgents in the prosecution of their campaign and asserts that his course has been entirely correct. The trouble Hart has had. with his lindlord irose out of s allgked treat- ment of the house he occupied. The iand- lord further alleges that certain articles of furniture are missing. Slight attention is paid to these charges. It happened that the goods imported by the firm to which Hart, the younger, be- longs, sometimes became mixed with ar- ticles imported by the legation. The lat- ter, under courtesy shown diplomatic agents, were admitted free of duty. Vex- atious questions arose from the confusion, which Hart asserts was entirely acci- dental on his part. At the same time of- ficials of the State Department say that it is a mistake for a Minister 'to permit any of his relatives to engage in business in the country to which he is accredited. MERCHANTS OF CHICAGO UNITE IN STRONG PROTEST Complain to Interstate Commerce Commission of Alleged Discrimi- nation in Freight Rates. CHICAGO, April 28.—Merchants and manufacturers of Chicago have united in a strong protest to the Interstate Com- merce Commission against alleged dis- crimination In transcontinental rates. It is charged that by the rates made, Chi- cago manufacturers are placed in compe- | tition with New York for Pacific Coast trade and for trade west of the Rocky Mountains. Attention is called, to the fact that equal rates from New York and Chi- cago to Pacific :Coast points practically eliminate the advantage which should be Chicago’s’ owing to her situation territo- rially. AL Harriman to Hold Conference. OMAHA, April 28.—President Harriman of the Southern Pacific, who has been ih the West for several days, asked the head officials of the Union Pacific to con- fer with him in San Francisco on May 1 on matters concerning the two roads. General Manager Dickinson and General Passenger Agent Lomax left last night, and President Burt, with other depart- ment heads, started West to-day. exact nature of the conference is not glven out, but it is understood that it has to do with the Salt Lake-Los Angeles cut-off and other Western improvements. 0 e e e e e sented a petition to Chief Justice Gavan Burgess of the Missourl Supreme Court, asking that he issue an order directing Charles W. Armour and Kirkland B. Armour of the Armour Packing Company of Kansas City; J. H. Dold of the Jacob Dold Packing Company, Kansas City; O W. Waller, agent of Swift & Co., South St. Joseph; Gus Bischoff, secretary of the St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company, St. Louls, and Walter Pfeiffer, president of the St. Louis Butchers’ Union, St. Louils, to appear before Judge G. D. Burgess on May 6 to answer such relevant and material questions as may be put to them by the Attorney General of the State of Missouri, concerning any alleged illegal contract, agreement, ar.- rangement, combination, pool, under- standing, and confederation to fix, main- tain and regulate the price to be paid by all retailers and consumers of dressed beef and meats of all kinds, and to limit the supply and production thereof and to 'maintain such fixed supply, production and price as agreed upon. Judge Burgess issued an order as re- quested by the Attorney General, sum- moning the persons named to appear in Jefferson City on the date mentioned to L sive testimony relative to the beef trust.|: o The | CONFIRMS THE STORIES OF FIENDISH CRUELTY “FRIFRESERIATIVE JOSEFPR C :v:uF:_y: THREE CONGRESSMEN WHO DE- NOUNCED THE ACTS OF EBAL JACOB H. SMITH. GEN- o - Returned Soldiers Tell of Brutal Deeds Com- mitted in the Philippines. Special Dispatch to The Call. POKANE, April 25.—Storles of | can hold no more. flendish cruelty practiced by American soldfers in the Phil- ippines are confirmed by mem- bers of the Seventeenth Tn- fantry, who have just returned from Manila. Two companies, K and M, | are stationed at Fort Wright, Spokane. The returned soldiers confirm the press dispatches and give new details which came under their personal observation. The scouting party under Lieutenant Bol- ton of Company L, Seventeenth Infantry, was -particularly bloodthirsty in its meth- ods. There are two soldiers now at Fort ‘Wright who were with Bolton on his scouting trips. One of them is Private Hines of Company K and the other is Rufus Wilson of Company M. They were detached from the regular service in the Philippines and were placed in the squad with which Bolton roamed over' the isl- ands in quest of arms and information. “Lieutenant Bolton certainly treated those natives most cruelly,” said Private Hines yesterday. “I was with him on' a scouting trip seventeen days in the northern part of Luzon. We would ran- sack the native .towns in search of arms and information about the insurrectos. When Bolton got hold of a Filiptno from | whom he wanted to get information he showed him no mercy. I myself saw the ‘water cure’ given three times on that trip. One time Bolton was unsatisfied with giving the ordinary water. He tied him down and forced Shasta water down his throat. I wouldn't stand for such cruelty as that, and I walked away. That Shasta water is vile stuff. It has a ter- rible taste and it sickens a man dread- fully. “Before I joined Lieutenant Bolton's scouting party he had got information from natives by hanging them to trees. I did not see that myself, however. The ‘water cure’ is a simple thing. The native is tied down fat on the ground ‘and his mouth forced open with sticks or a | string, which is tled behind his head. Then water is poured down his threat through a bamboo. tube, which is nearly always handy. The native must drink the ‘As much as a gallon can be forced into a man in that way. Then the water is pumped out of him by stamping on his stomach or rolling him over. When he comes to the native is al- ways ready to talk. “Lieutenant Bolton had only from six to a dozen men with him on his scouting ! trips, but-he would go anywhere. When he came to a village where the insur- rectos had been centered he would sum- mon the presidente before him. He would demand information as to the where- abouts of the native troops or would de- mand knowledge of hidden rifles. If the presidente was unwilling to talk he would get the ‘water cure.’ In one place we got thirty rifles. Lieutenant Bolton was cer- tainly a brave man. He spoke all the native languages and Spanish, and he was not afraid of anything. His men ‘would go with him any place.” Brivate Rufus Wilson of Company M, who was with Bolton, refused to talk about the matter. “I don't know any- thing about the ‘water cure,’” he said, doggedly, “and if I did I wouldn’t tell my own brother, for it might get some of- ficers who are friends of mine into trou- ble.” oI I Y L GENERAL SMITH IS SCORED. Representatives Declare He Is a Dis- grace to the Uniform. WASHINGTON, April 28.—Representa- tive Sibley of Pennsylvania created a sen- sation here to-day during the general de- bate on the agricultural bill, denouncing General Jacob H. Smith for the orders he issued in the Samar campaign. He de- clared that General Smith was a disgrace | to the uniform he wore and expressed the hope that the President would strip him of his uniform within forty-eight hours. Sibley’s speech was enthusiastically ap- plauded by the Democrats and was re- celved with some evidence of approval on the Republican side. The speech was con- sidered the more remarkable in that it came from a Republican who left the Democratic party on the issues raised by the Splnuh war and who has since been “Water Cure” Varied by Stringing Up Natives. Curtis of Kansas made a brief but fer- vent defense of General Funston against the eriticism to which he had been sub- Jected. “The people of Kansas,” he began, “are proud of the bravery and daring of gal- lant Fred Funston. (Applause on the Re- publican side). He has beea criticized here for an act which for daring of con- ception and execution ranks with the greatest feats of arms—he captured the new George Washington—Aguinaldo. “If another had accomplished what General Funston did,” he said, “the Dem~ verats wéuld have made him their can- didate for President.” He called attention to the fact that his promotion had been recommended by Gen- eral Wheaton and General MacArthur, both soldiers of the Civil War, “soldiers who knew more of war and the rules of war than all the politicians in this coun- try combined.” And his commission, be added, was signed by the greatest Presi= dent we have ever “had—the soldier, statesman and martyr—Willlam McKin- ley. (Applause.) Feeley of Illinois submitted some re- marks in support of the contention that the laws of neutrality were being vio- lated by this Government in allowing the shipment of mules and horses to South Africa for use by the British against the Boer republics. He said public sentiment favored the cause of the Boers, and in- sisted that neither secretly nor openly should our Governmént extend aid to the British. Feeley and Gillette of Massachu- setts clashed on the interpretation of that portion of the treaty of Washington which bound the United States and Eng- land as to what constitutes war ma- terials. Sibley then made his bitter denuncia- tion of General Jacob Smith. He said he had always defended the course of the administration and believed In expansion, but when it came to such orders as issued by General Smith, humanity seemed to have marched backward. Said he: “I have heard of the Saracen scourge, but, thank God, it took eighteen centu~ ries after Calvary to produce a General Smith.” He declared that General Smith should be discharged in disgrace. “He admits that he issued the orders to make Samar a howling wilderness,” sald Sibley, “and to kill all over ten years of age. Such a man should not be permitted to stay in the army until ths sun goes down. He is a disgrace not only to himself but to every man who wears his uniform. No man can justify such orders, no matter how adroit may be the plea of his lawyers and defenders. Heo admits he issued the orders and I hope there is enough courage, patriotism and Christianity at the other end of the av nue to see that he is stripped of his form within forty-eight hours.” Williams of Mississippi heartily dorsed Sibley’s onslaught upon