The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCI-NO. 159 PRICE FIVE CENTS. GOVERNMENT’S NEXT STEP AGAINST THE GIGANTIC BEEF TRUST WILL BE AN EFFORT TO ENJOIN THE PACKERS IN COMBINATION CHAFFEE TO MEET | SULTANS| Military Governor to Talk With Moro Leaders. Root Upholds Work of Generals in the Philippines. War Secretary Cites Orders Approved by Lincoln. MANILA, May 7.—General Chaffee sail- the transport Ingalls for the f Island of Mindanao. Davis telegraphed that he resence of the Military Gov. ippines would have a 1 the prominent Moros, im tely replied to Mir He has Davis to arrange a con- the minent surviving flee established at Camp the troops now are. Lit- can be obtained concern- d General Americans. two or three amputa- that essary and no oc s now con: that of Captain Moore. naffee took with him a quan- ti es and two doctors. He = will be no more fighting v ops are attacked where | May 7.—Secretary Root wing response to the ng for coples of all | Smith and other | campaign in Sa- ive to the orders or instructions have been the commanding military he Phil nes relative to the ry operations ir the Ts- or relating to the cam- b H. Smith, in said uctions for the of the United | roved and promul- m Lincoln, in General , a copy of which is o and which have been fol- to orders respect of that y all DECLARES A PRICE WAS PUT UPON VOTE OF A CITY COUNCIL me has been as not been deemed wise or prac- from sct of mi erfere ary the world under con- officers commanding the e Philippines necessarily un- is possible for ment BELL AND SMITH'S ORDERS. ted to the Senate | tion of May 1| orders issued 1 of the orders issued y the its two or- Gers dated December 8 - rst General Bell re- | fer f the natives, to th L and to| their il the rules | of Therefore, he de- | ictantly obliged to | elf of the right of retaliation regulations, and to deal se- verely with persons who commit acts de- in General Order No. 10, He but one of e flagrant violations namely, has ent evaded, judged rize2 by the sec- s of warfare, murder, above cf e law ed, in the vain hope exercise of forbearance and gen- ght be conciliated and 4 convinced of the he Government. In- ad the desired effect, how- province of Batangas failed to appeal to 4 most appreciative intel- it has been interpreted of weakness and fear, ish and ignorant con- sed to consider suc- 2 the f people, the people ¥ at they look down r corn jts kindliest | consequently find thoroughly occupled entire population, united in using, conniving at or which almost traging the laws and is EXPEDIENTS OF ENEMY. reckless expedients adopted of the by the intimidation brigade com- cting efther. r those of peace- interests of his tition of barbarous recement of the penal- pro the operations Washington | cies which the compe- | ive to reconcentra- | Continued on Page Two. T . SSELVAGE STAT FAVORABLE VOTE ON FRANCH St o —— ATOR FROM HUMBOLDT COUNTY WH® SWEARS THAT A NSET TELEPHONE COMPANY FOR $4000. ISE RIGHTS IN EUREKA WAS — % State Senator Selvage, as Attorney for Sunset Company, Accuses Federal Official at Eureka. UREKA, May 7.—The wran- | gle in the Council chamber concerning the allegations of conspiracy to stifie bids for | the supply of sewer pipe for | the ci new system has | taken a new form, and other issues and | accusations have been dragged into the | controversy Councilman Buhne, not ng been permitted at last evening's sion to read an affidavit in which 8. A Campbell, is dr-l Collector of Customs, cused of offering to deliver the Council | to the Sunset Telephone Company- for | $4000, published its contents this evening | in the Daily Standard. The r\ubllx’\(ion‘ created a s ation. because of the promi- nence in business and political circles of | the persons concerned and the gravity | of the charges directly and impliedly | made. Thomas H. Selvage, Senator from the | First District and candidate for Con- gress, is the affiant. After reviewing ihe political situation and the quarrel in the | Republican camp between J. C. Bull and | 8. A. Campbell, Republican leaders, and | C. S. Milnes, editor of the Daily Times, on one side, and J. F. Thomoson, editor of the Daily Standard, and Selvage on the other, the Senatér deposes in part as fol- lows: SENATOR SELVAGE'S CHARGES. “I am a resident attorney for the Sun- | et “Telephone and Telegraph Company of the Pacific Coast. The company has quite an extensive system in the city of Kureka. During the fall of 11, this company sought to make improvements | in the city of Eureka, and, as its attor- | ney, I made application in accordance | with the ordinances of the City Council of the city of Eureka for permission to | make such extension and improvements. The Humboldt Times, edited and man- | aged by C..S. Milnes, immediately com- | menced a war upen the telephone com- pany, and fought the granting of any rights to the company by the city. “The City Council referred the appli- cation to a committee, and in the mean- time Sterling A. Campbell called me up on the ’phone and told me he wished to have a conversation with me. T told him I was at leisure and he came to my of- fice. “He then stated to me that the City Council could be handled if the telephone | company wished to extend its plant and improve its system. T asked him how, and he told me that for a consideration of $1000 each for theee Councilmen and a satisfactory settlement with C. 8. Milnes, the matter could be settled. He thought it would cost abotit $1000 altogether. AUTHORIZED TO ACT. “He stated that Mr. Poland, Mr. Dauph- iny and Mr. Ziegler, members of the City Couneil, had agreed to accept that sum and grant the privileges, and he was au- thorized by them to act in the matter. He told me further that if T wished to verify what he stated. I could call it Mr. Poland and he would talk to me on the subject. T told him I had no reason to doubt his word. He stated that it | had cost the telephone company $50,000 | in San Francisco to get the privileges it desired, and there was no reason why it should not contribute something to the | boys in Bureka.” The deponent further alleges that the telephone company rejected the proposi- tion -and sent B. C. Carroll to Eureka to endeavor to bring about an understand- ing, but nothing was accomplished. REVOLUPIONISTS RULE OVER SANTO DOMINGO Town of Puerto Plata Capitulates and the Insurgent Forces Take Possession, PORTO PLATA, San Domingo, May 7. —Porto Plata has capitulated to the rev- | olutionary forces, which have entered the tewn In good order and have taken pos- session of the fort. Governor Deschamps has embarked n a French steamship to go to Porto Rico. Aquiles Alvarez is the new Governor of this town, under' the provisional government of Vice President Horacio Vasquez, leader of the revoly- tion. With the capitulation of Porto Plata, the whole republic is now in the hands of the revolutionary government. Gov- ernor Deschamps was much opposed to yielding to the insurgents, but the offi- cers and crew of the Dominican warship in port sided with the revolutionists and Deschamps’ capitulation was rendered necessary. Draft of the SALISBURY 'SAYS BOERS WILL NOT Bill Now Ready. Unlawful Acts Are to Be Checked. Blocks Work of the Big Plants. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHING- TON, May 7.—Attorney Gen- eral Knox to-day completed his revision of the draft of the bill of complaint against the beef trust and sent it to the printer. The Attorney General declined to make any statement as to its provisions, and former Judge W. A. Day, who is actively associated with him as special counsel, was equally reticent. Big news in connection with the Gov- ernment’s proceedings against the beef octopus is said to be that the bill of com- plaint will ask for the immediate en- jeining of various packing houses from further combining for the lowering of prices at the stock yards; for the rais- ing of prices on the butcher's block; for the blacklisting of dealers and employes, and various other unlawful acts which have made its name an object of wrath to the whole American people. By an immediate injunction is meant that si- multaneously with the filing of the bill of complaint and the issuance of an or- der by a United States judge in Chicago, the beef trust will be as completely blocked in its efforts to filch dollars il- legally from the pockets of the public as though armed United States Marshals had stepped in and taken its agents into custody and possessed themselves of the great packing plants. In other words, as a lawyer put it to-day, “It is ke put- nng 2 man in jail without bail and trying eTwRres "t-~ — N MEANS QUICK ACTION. There are two ways by which the De- partment of Justice could have proceeded. One would have béen to have gone into court and asked for an immediate pre- liminary injunction on the showing made by the bill of complaint and accompany- ing affidavits, and the other would have been to have asked the court to receive papers and appoint a master in equity to take testimony for the purpose of es- tablishing facts on which, an injunction might issue. One would have meant in- stant action, the other delay. The for- mer has been chosen. In this case so thorough has been the work of former Judge Day and District Attorney Bethea and so full and convincing has been the proof of the existence of this unlawful combination, ‘that the department is un- derstood to feel perfectly satisfied that it has ample evidence on which to base its request for an immediate preliminary in- junction and it expects that request to be granted. Attorney General Knox and former Judge Day had a final conference this aft- ernoon on the subject of injunction pro- ceedings, and the Attorney General ‘an- nounced that he might have something to say within a few days with reference to the matter. The attention of Day was called to the testimony of J. W. Blythe, general coun- sel of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rallroad, given before the House Com- mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com- merce. Blythe told the committee that the railroads had ceased paying rebates, and these rebates being withdrawn from their coffers had compelled the packers to raise the price of beef. In other words, Blythe endeavored to make the commit- tee belleve that the public was now pay- ing the profits of the packers instead of the rallroads, and that this was due to the Department of Justice acting on evi- dence furnished by the Interstate Com- merce Commission in having enjoined the railroads from giving rebates. ALL PAY SAME RATE. Pay in ‘commenting on this said: “Mr. Blythe is a very good general counsel, but 1 have always noticed that lawyers for railroads make very bad traffic managers. Bilythe is entirely in error when he says that the withdrawal of rebates has com- pelled the beef trust to raise the price of its product. He does not understand the case. The fact is that before we en- joined the railroads they were charging the published traffic rate to everybody and giving rebates amounting to from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year to large pack- ing houses. The little packers and small shippers got 1o rebate and were thus at a very serious disadvantage. When we enjoined the roads they all abolished the former published rate and made a pub- lished rate which was equivalent to the secret rate which the so-called beef trust enjoyed. This public rate is now; being paid by the big packers as well as by the small ones. Everybody is paying the same rate now, and instead of having the litle fel- low at a disadvantage the big fellow ig on the same basis with him, but the trust houses are not paying a cent more than they were before We enjoined the rail- roads and before they lifted the price of beef.” JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.,, May 7.—Quo warranto proceedings or an application for Continued on Page Two. GET CONCESSIONS dreat Britain Does Not Intend to Recede. ONDON, May 7.—The Premier, Lord Salisbury, as president of the annual grand habitation of the Primrose League at Albert Hall, to-day 'spoke to an im- mense audience in a much less, pessimistic vein than when he was last heard in public. He congratulated the league on the stanch support given to Conservative governments, one result of which was that Great Britain was now supreme in Egypt, while with regard to Ireland, the country need no longer fear the *‘insane, suicidal projects of -imperial disruption supported by many of the op- position statesmen.” At the same time he said the country must not expect ‘“the ashes of past con- flicts” to be extinguished immediatels Great Britain had had a great and seri- ous war; but admitting that misery and suffering had been caused, it “must be recognized that the power, prestige, in- fluence and magic effect of our great em- pire are more potent, moure efficlent and ‘more admirable than ever before.” “We have suffered,” continued the Pre- mier, “but we have won.”” It was impos- sible not to feel that the efforts of the people of the country have, in some cases, not been worthily recognized. The other day Morley asked if there was a single member of the Cabinet of 1899 who, if he could have foreseen the results of the policy on which they were then launching the country, would not have checked the diplomacy leading to such deplorable re- sults. As a member of that Cabinet he (Salisbury) wished to meet this statement with the most indignant denial. The war had been used by some politicians for the squalid purpose of Injuring their oppo- nents. When a neighboring power or tribe invaded his Majesty's dominions “and made an attack which was a gross and flagrant outrage it could only be met by fighting in their own country those who had despised the rights and sovereignty of our sovereign.” Turning to the peace negotiations, Lord Salisbury announced that “Great Britain has not receded.one inch from her former position. As to rights we claimed and the policy we intended to pursue we are exactly where we were.” The Premier repudiated the assertion that Great Britain was weakening on the subject of the peace terms. He declared the country could not afford to submit to the suggestion that affairs should be al- lowed to slide back into a position where it would be in the power of the ememy | when the.opportunity suited him to re- new the issues for which this country had fought during the last three years. When the conflict was over all possible would be done to mold their present op- ponents so they could take up their posi- tion in the empire which had conferred so many blessings on the human race. But it must be thoroughly understood that the whole government of the country was to be of such a character that it would be impossible that the struggle could be re- < g BRITISH PREMIER WHO MADE MOST SIGNIFICANT SPEECH YESTERDAY. No Weakening on the Subject of Peace : Terms. o5 g newed. It was important that this should be made clear, for some people thought the empire might become tired. He did not wish to convey the idea that there was any feeling of bitterness toward the Boers, for there was nothing the Govern- ment more earnestly desired than that they should enjoy all the privileges con- ferred on their brother nations by the colonial system. Touching on the question of imperial federation, Lord Salisbury warned his hearers of the danger of overhaste and exhorted those who were anxious to se- cure federation to earnestly consider the steps they were going to take and the re- sults- expected. “We cannot,”” said he. “safely interfere by legislative action with the natural de- velopment of our relations to our daugh- ter countries. I look with apprehension on any attempt, unless backed up by the strong mass of public opinion, to antiei- pate ‘events or foreclose precious results | which, if we are patient and careful, are in store for the empire.” Further advices received here from South Africa announced that 208 Boers had been captured and that ten burghers were killed in the neighborhood of Lind- ley, Orange River Colony, yesterday. Lord Kitchener, in reporting the capture of Boers near Lindley, said that the Brit- ish troops forming a continuous line left the Frankfort, Heilbron and Vredefort line at dawn without wheels of any sort and proceeded rapidly south, rea®hing th- Kroonstad and Lindley neighborhood with the result announced. The British casual- ties were nil. The captured men tepresent the most irreconcilable Boers in the Or ange River Colony. The town of Okiep, Western Cape Col- ony, which had been besieged since April 4 by a Transvaal force under Command- ant Smutz, has been relieved by a Brit- ish force under Colonel Cooper. The gar- rison was in good health and only a few of the troops were wounded. The Boers retired south. Lord Kitchener, in reporting t'ie reliet of Okiep, adds that the Cencordia dis- trict, in about the same part of Cape Colony, is clear of Boern. EIGH /i HURT IN WRECK Santa Fe Overland Train Meets With a Mishap. Coach Crowded With Passengers Is Derailed. Many of the Victims Are Brought to This City. THE INJURED. David M. Foltz of San Fran- cisco, bruised Lmee, two fingers crushed, lacerated nose, internal injuries. Mr. Morris of Fresno, lacer- ations of head. Felix 0'Neil of San Franeis- co, contusion of right leg. Francisco Magee, left leg bruised. | Macke Ekono L b laborer, Theo Lookopoolus, contusion of back. | Samuel J. Grimes, Goverm- | ment mail weligher, ex- tended contusion of knee. Peter Lotz, laborer, fracture of seventh rib and contu- sion of right side. * — A serious train wreck occurred at Mil- ler, a station several miles north of Ma- dera on the Santa Fe line, at noon yes- terday. The accident was caused by the breaking of a kingbolt in the forward truck of the express car of overland train No. 7, due to arrive in this city at 6 o'clock last evening. The express car, combination baggage and mail car and first passenger coach were derailed. Fif- teen passengers were more or less seri- ously injured. At the time of the accident the train was running at about fifteen miles an hour and was just passing through the The moment that Engineer Fitz- patrick discovered that there was some- thing wrong he “downed” the brakes with all possible speed, and fortunately saved the engine and tender from leav~ ing the rails. caped uninjured, the only one of the train crew who was hurt being Railway Weigher Samuel J. Grimes, who was not serfously injured. The three cars that left the rails were thrown on their sides, but the other five cars in the rear of the trainm,.includ- ing the Pullmans, were uninjured, and none of the passengers in these cars were hurt. TAKEN TO GERMAN HOSPITAL. As soon as possible after the accident Conductor Farrell, who was in charge of the train, telegraphed to Merced for help, but before a wrecking train arrived the overland had been made up again and was run on to a switch. Within an hour after the wreck the train was again on the main line on its way to this city, with several surgeons from Madera aboard rendering aid to the injured. The three cars lying on their side were left behind and but for their presence there was no evidence that an accident had occurred. On the arrival of the train at Point Richmond ambulances were in readiness for those who were the most seriously injured and they were carefully removed from the cars and upon their arrival on this side of the bay were taken to the German Hospital with all possible dispatch. At a late hour last evening Dr. A. W. Morton, the company’s chief sur- geon, stated that possibly the most seri- ously injured was Peter Lotz, who sus- tained a fracture of the seventh rib. David M. Foltz, son of Mrs. Clara Folts, was taken to his home in this city. He sustained internal injuries and a severely bruised knee and two fingers of his left hand were crushed and his nose lacerated. Late last evening hq was having severa hemorrhages and his physicians said that his injurles were very serious. GIRL’'S STORY OF WRECK. Traffic officials say that the accident was unavoldable and one that might not happen again in the history of raflroad- ing. Miss Abble McCarthy, aged 18, who was on the train, tells a graphic story of the wreck. She said in anp interview last night: We were running at a fair rate of spesd and I was sitting with another girl in the fourth car when the accident occurred. The first thing I knew was seeing a tremendous amount of dust. We closed the windows, and the porter, who was sitting In the same car as myself, went forward to see what was the matter. He came rushing back and the mext minute we were over. The engine and the first car stayed on the ralls, but the baggage car and the passenger car next to it went over on their sides and our car went over on & slant. -The four cars behind us stayed on the rails. The jar was tremendous, but no one im my car was hurt, and by the aid of passengers in the back car we were enabled to met out through the door in safety and be handed to the ground. People in the car ahead of us were not so fortunate. One man had a badly cut forehead; another man, I beard them say, had a broken rib; another had an injury to his hip and sev- eral were contused and bruised. station. He and his fireman es-