The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 2 g, 1902. DARING SCIENTISTS EXPLORE FUMING CRATER OF LA SOUFRIERE INTHRACITE COAL STRIKE NEAR CRISIS Outcome of the Struggle Hinges Upon Tc-Day’s Developments. rRUIIYTS THE SOV rIovITTE MARTINIQUE Immense Damage Will Result Should the Men Desert the Pumps. XNeither Side Shows Disposition to Yield and It Is Feared That Serious Disturbances | Will Occur. BT e WILKESBARRE, Pa,, June 1.—The eve ked upon 2s a most com- e progress of the anthra- oal strike finds the entire n apprehensive mood. o'clock in the morning the order ed Mine Workers of America, all the stationary engineers, | pumpmen, unless the com- n eight-hour work- and | in_the colliery during the suspens! will go into effect, | x ast the outcome of | new move. Victory for either side of immense advantage and both contest are striving with er at their command to win. eed in shutting down the e properties will suffer | that may reach into millions of and if the employers should be keep the water out of their work- hout the aid of organized labor it hat the power of the union in the cite region has reached its limit help in the effort to force the grant the demands of the LUETS The mine workers will prese the property of the if tne given will permit hours and wages | ither side to-night shows sposition to yleld. OF DISTURBANCES. | Mitchell said to-night that | first time in the history of | zation that the union was com- of employes | er safety of the her instances, he said, were granted. { throughout the coal belt | eek will witness more To-morrow is looked FEARS dent trouble will occur. abor leaders have counseled | » remain quiet and commit { three-qua to continue work. This claim v admitted to-day by a com- I familiar with the situation. e plans of the union have not made public, it,is known that a gystem has been mapped out view of getting out those men who | to quit to-morrow. A house- nvass will be started, which Il _bave much effect. The that have been adopted in re- non-union men who will take ' places are not known. ; all the nop-union men to be are mow in the region. The say that the number of those volunteered to fill strikers’ been large and that no diffi- | has been encountered in selecting men. An army of approximately good 5000 armed coal and iron policemen, sworn in under a law of the State of Pennsylva- is in the field to-night, ready to pro- nia tect thes men and the various mining | the preperties. There are throughout the country, it is said, about 1000 men who are doing secret work for the companies. EACH COLLIERY FENCED IN. Every colliery in the coal belt has either a board or barbed wire fence around it. At some of *“e mines “‘camps’ cars are Iying on the siding for the accommodation of non-union men, most of whom will live on. It was very quiet around Guarters to-day. President the day in going over correspondence. only visitors were Charles F Sheriff of Lackawanna County, ic Scranton is located, and a friend of the Sheriff. There was some speculation re- garding the object of such visit. Sheriff Schad to-day posted a notice at each col- liery in Lackawanna County warning all sons not employed at the mines to away from those properties and not to violate the law in any y. At the meeting of the firemen and engi- neers employed in the collieries of the Susquehanna Coal Company, the Alden Coal Company and the two collieries of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company, heid at Nanticoke te-day, it decided by a vote of about two to ene not to strike. A joint meeting of the brotherhoods of railway engineers, firemen, trainmen, switchmen, conductors and 'telegraphers employed by the Central Rallroad of New Jersey was held at Ashley to-night. A resolution was adopted pledging the co- operation of all railroaders, if such a move were necessary in order for the miners to win their strike. SPECIAL GUARDS ON DUTY. rike head- chell spent His Public Sentiment Opposes Their Em- ployment at Hazleton. HAZLETON, Pa., June 1.—The several hundred special officers brought here last night for guard duty at the collieries in the Hazleton district were distributed to- day. They will be housed and boarded at breakers. Public sentiment here is against the pecial officers. Some of the mine workers’' leaders believe the officers are non-union firemen and pump- runners, The plan of the coal companies to ex- change engineers, firemen and pump-run- ners who expressed a willingness to work, | but not in their own district, has been frustrated by the mine-workers by the | issuance of orders to the enzineers, fire- men and pump-runners who remain away from their posts, to report at head- quarters to-morrow. In this way the unicn will keep track of all hands. The leaders assert to-night that all of the fire- men and pump-runners will strike. They are not sure of the encineers, but belicve that only a small portion of the latter | will continue to work. The coal companies’ agents say they are prepared to il the places of all strik- ers and that the calling out of the en- gineers, firemen and pump-runners will | not cause them any hardship. In some quarters the belief prevails that if the companies succeed in kecping their fires and pumps going, an effort will be made within two weeks to resume the mining of coal at some collleries with non-union men. District President Duffy spent to-day in Panther Creek Valley, where it was reported there was danger of the def: ion of some of the firemen and pump- runners The scene that occurred here last night upon the arrival of a deputation of special officers was repeated at 7 o'clock to-night, when about twenty officers in charge of a coal company agent boarded a trolley car at the Hazleton House for Freeland. The streets were crowded, and when the of- ficers came into sight about 500 men rushed at them hissing and yelling. It scattered | | < oF ST PIERRE , cOVERED WITH ASHES, Looscrra STEA M SHIP “RORAIMA” BURNING E)F” Rurry s BRSS OF T CATMHEPRAL - T A ST PIERRE 8% &7 - & ALD EXPEDITION. ALD PUBLISHING COMPANY). SCENES IN THE DESTROYED CITY ON THE ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE, REPRODUCED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE CALL-HER- (COPYRIGHT, 1%2, BY THE NEW YORK HER- was feared the crowd would attack the officers,” and trouble would undoubtedly have occurred had not Chief of Police Ferry and four of his men held the ex- cited strike sympathizers back until the car left. As the car started the velling and hissing was resumed. Two of the imported men remained in the city, and as they proceeded through the crowd un- der police protection to their hotel they were hooted. The servant girls at the Hazleton House, where some of the officers are quartered, quit their posts immediately afer the episode, declaring they would not wait upon the imported men. Pt S PUMP MEN ARE DIVIDED. Majority Will Report for Duty in Sub-District No. 1. TAMAQUA, Pa., June 1.—At a meet- ing to-day of delegates from all the local unions of the United Mine Workers in sub-district No. 1, held in Coaldale to decide whether the pump-men in Panther Creek Valley shall obey the order to strike to-morrow, th: anti-strike senti- ment was very strong. It is said to-night that the greater number of the men will report for duty to-morrow. Immediately after the meeting, strike missionaries made a canvass of the men, but it is said that their efforts will not be productive of any results. This evening an official of the Lehigh Coal and Navization Com- pany sald that the company had the as- surance that a sufficlent number of men to run the pumps would report for duty in the morning. Vote Against a Strike. SUSQUEHANNA, Pa, June 1.—The firemen, pump-runners and engineers em- rloyed in the Erle Rallroad's mines at Forest City have voted not to strike on Monday. In anticipation of trouble after Monday, the company’s property has been enclosed with an eight-foot barbed wire -3 fence and will be guarded by a large force of coal and iron police. Ten Furnaces Are Working. PITTSBURG, June 1.—The blast furnace operat of the Shenango and Mahoning valleys feel confident that the strike of the furnace werkers, begun to-day, is practically defeated. The operators say ten of the thirty furnaces are working to- night and claim to have new men ready to take the places of all strikers. No ef- fort was made to extend the strike to the Pittsburg district, the leaders say, because in some insances superintendents of fur- naces asked for more time and arranged for conferences during the week, and in other cases because the organization is not strong enough as yet in this district. PB;OMINENT CITIZENS ACCUSED OF MURDER Authorities Are Confident of Convict- ing Them of the Killing of Porferio Galigos. LAJARA, Colo, June 1.—H. V. Smith, Orval Smith, Earl Hart and Dude Hart, charged with the murder of Porferio Gali- gos, which occurred on Rock Creek, in Rio Grande County, on the 10th of Feb- ruary last, were arrested at Montevista this morning. H. V. Smith is a commissioner of the Soldiers’ Home at Montevista and is a prominent citizen of that vicinity. Much surprise is expressed over his arrest. His son Orval has been in trouble before. The Hart brothers are not very well known. The officers claim they have a complete chain of evidence against the parties ana are confident of effecting a conviction. The trouble which culminated in the shooting of Galigos, who was prominent among the Mexicans, was brought about through the efforts of certain parties try- ing to drive the sheep from the ranges about Rock Creek. YAQUIS DIE IN BATTLES WITH TROOP3 Mezxican Soldiers Engage the Rebellious Indians. Terrorized Citizens of Sonora Prepare for Be {enss. General Torres Assembles His Comgwe mand for Operation Agsinst Savai Hordes and Hopes of His Suet~ cess Are Entertained. i Caiciba Special Dispatch to The Call HERMOSILLO, Mexico, June 1.—The Yaqui uprising in Sonora is spreading rapidly and has caused great excitement in Hermosillo and other towns in the cen- = i ! CALL. tHERAL D ExPEDITIOry ASTRIES, St. Lucia, June 1.—In company with Professor T. A. Jag- ger of Harvard University, T. M McDonald and George C. Curtl I have made an ascent of St. Vi cent’'s volcano, Soufriere—the first ascent since the terrible eruption which de- stroyed about 2000 lives, We have just re- turned here from an interesting expedi- tion, which enabled us to obtain a survey of the conditions on the Soufriere. In our climbing we had the assistance of six natives, who facilitated our work by their knowledge of the volcano. The old crater of Soufriere was the cen- ter of the disturbance. We found another crater, which was a half-mile deep. There was a small boiling lake at the bottom of this crater. We found no evidence cf molten lava having been erupted, but the Soufriere emitted vast quantities of ashes and cinders. The volcano is still active and is a dan- gerous spot for explorers. Report reached us upon our return here that another eruption took place at an early hour this morning. There was a decided earthquake disturbance. The summit of the Soufriere was Illumined by a flery, vaporous mass. EDMUND O. HOVEY, Assistant Curator of the American Mu- seum of Natural History. ———e ENTIRE ISLAND MAY SUBSIDE. Startling Wamh?[s Given to Resi- dents on St. Vincent. KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Friday, May 29.—La Soufriere volcano is still ac- tive. Another eruption occurred at 10 o'clock this morning. It was accom- panied by a thunderous noise and a shock of earthquake, while volumes of dense vapor ascended to such a height that they were visible from Kingstown. The vapor formed a thick cloud over the crater of the volcano and this cloud was illumined as if by fire. In . the crater itself the lightning was more vivid than on any previous occasion. No damage was done and the eruption ceased at the end of an hour. With the exception of this occur- rence, the night was quiet and tHe weather fair. Throughout Friday the crater was capped with dense gray and silver clouds and sand fell heavily this morning on the leward side of the moun- tain within a radius of eight miles. An_American scientist who ascended La Soufriere reports to the awe of the inhabitants that the island of St. Vin- cent may subside. There are clear indi- cations, he sald, that a considerable por- tion of the leeward district would sink. Copyright, 1902, by the New Yor Scientist Gives Warning That the Island of St. Vincent May Sink Into the Ocean. From the Special Correspondent of The Call and the New York Herald. k Herald Publishing Company. Owing to the continuous rain there have en heavy floods in the windward dis- tricts, and many houses have been wash- ed away or filled with mud. At Rabacca the storehouse, a large brick building, was washed into the sea by a stream of mud. The wharf at Rabacca and the car- go crane there are also covered with mud. News has reached here of another erup- tlon of Mont Pelee, Martinique, on May 27. Owing to the great quantity of ashes which fell on the British island of Do- minica that day, it is presumed that the eruption which threw them out was of great severity. Mont Pelee is still emit- ting vast columns of smoke and flashes of lightning from it have been seen forty and fifty miles from St. Plerre. PHILIPPINE REVENUES EXCEED EXPENDITURES Excess-of More Than Eight Millfon Dollars Collected Since Date of American Occupation. WASHINGTON, June 1.—A statement of the public civil revenues of the Philippine archipelago and the expenditures there- from since the date of American occupa- tion, August 28, 1898, to June 30, 1901, shows: Revenues—Fiscal year 1890, $3,507,803; year 1900, $6,764,407; fiscal year 1901, $10,672, 752. Total for three years, §20,044,962. Expenditures—Fiscal year 1809, $2,376,008: fiscal vear 1900, $4,758.678; fiscal vear 1901, $5.6 Total expenditures for three years, 786,762 1 E ¥ Excess of receipts over expenditures, $8,- 158,200. In addition there were funds seized amounting to $680.515. All the computa- fons are in American money. FRESIDENT BOYCE PREDICTS A VICTORY FOR SOCIALISM Western Federation of Labor and the Miners’ Union to Vote on the Question. DENVER, June 1L—To-morroy will be the most important day of the sessions of the conventions of the Western Fed- 1ration of Labor and the Western Miners’ Union. The matter of the adoption of scclalism or of independent political ac- ticn will come up in both conventions, and it is expected that a vote will be taken before adjournment for the day. President Boyce and some of the other leaders predict a vtcton{ for socialism, but it is admitted that this will not carry ‘without considerable opposition. How strong this opposition is will probably not be known till the vote is counted. — tral part of Sonora. At El Tanque, near Hermosillo, a desperate battle was fought between Mexican troops and 300 Yaquis. in which the Indians were routed. About thirty Yaquis and fifteen Mexicans wers killed in this battle. On May 29 a messenger arrived at Her- mosillo bearing the news that 300 Yaqul warriors, heavily armed, had taken pos- session of the Topahue ranch, and that between Colorado and Torres a band of Yaquis had killed two ranchers. Other ranchers had escaped after a hard fight, leaving a number of Indians dead on the field. This messenger also brought news that fifty Yaquis had taken possession of Pichaco, an important ranch property near San Bartolo. On receipt of the message General Luis Torres, commander of the Mexican army in Sonora, assembied all of the regulars in Hermosillo and sent a message to the Prefect of Ures commanding him to as- semble troops. Later a messenger arrived bringivg news that a large band of Yaquis had attacked the Camou mill, nine miles from Hermosillo, and captured it. The mill, was defended by twenty-five Mexicans urder command of Joaquin Rodmigues, tut they_ were unable to withstadd the enemy. The troops retired after wound- lné several Indlans. eneral Torres on receipt of this news immediately left with the Twenty-ninth Battalion of regulars for the mill. Fran- cisco Munoz, Secretary of State, in com- mand at Hermosillo In the absence of General Torres, immediately called for volunteers to protect the palace, city and surrounding ranches. About 200 men, In- cluding prominent merchants and their sons, assembled and were armed with Mauser rifles and cartridges. The volun- teers were placed under command of Simon Bley, a prominent Hermosillo mer- chant, and divided into three bands, one to guard the palace, another to guard city und_the third to protect and re surrounding ranchers, who were deserting their haciendas and taking refuge in Her- mosillo. Early Friday morning General Torres sent a messenger to FHermosillo, who brought news that the regulars and vol- unteers, who had joined them, recaptured the Camou mill late Thursday afterneor. The Mexican troops pursued a band of 300 retreating _ Yaquis toward El Tanque. About half-way to that place the Mexi- cans caught up with the fleeing Yaquis and a fight ensued. The Yaquis were de- feated and continued their flight to Bl Tanque, leaving ten dead on the fleld. At El Tanque the Indians made a desperate stand and a bloody battle occurred. It was now near nightfall, and the In- dians fought from behind trees and adoba huts. General Torres led a desperate charge and the Yaquis were routed. They retreated in the darkness, carrying off their wounded and leaving twenty 5ead Many rifles and a large supply of ammu- nition were captured. The ican troo; lcst fifteen killed and twenty wounded the fights at the Camou mill and EI Tanque. The fleeing Yaquis escaped be- hind the Matazan Mountain eral Torres hopes to confine to that district.