The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1902, Page 1

s Koy a VOLUME XCII—-NO. 5. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JUNE 35, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHICAGO TEAMSTERS’ STRIKE SETTLED + LEAKAGE POLITICS OF ARMY | BACK OF SECRETS| THE SUIT General Miles Now |Eureka Land Office Faces Some New Receiver Seeks Charges. Injunction. Republicans Suspect| Repudiates His Resig- Him of Giving Out | nation Now Held Information. In Trust. President. Roosevelt|Declares It Was Ob- Causing a Rigid tained From Him Investigation. by Coercion. Special Dispatch to The Call. G STREET, N.| EUREKA, June 4—After a lull of two June 4—Until it is | Weeks, the feud of the local political lead- ther or not an of- | ers has been renewed with increased bit- - War Department | terness,and sensational exposes of *boss” erson with a copy | method in Humboldt County are in pros- charges that | Pect. One startling denouement came to- enz winked” at cru- | 9a¥, when J. F. Thompson, editor of the Philippines, the | Standard, began suit against A. J. Mon- which was begun | roe, J. C. Bull Jr., and S. A. Campbel! to r to-day will | Testrain them from delivering to J. C. Bull Dilig to ascertain | ST- his resignation as receiver of the land = sall day at | °ffice, to be forwarded by the latter to | Washington. ho were astound- | Back of this action there 1s an interest- 2 read these | INE Dolitical story. The ground on which came out from | the Injunction is sought is that the res- : r Department | ENation was procured through duress and ¢ Licutenant General | C°°F€ion. On the other hand, the defend- s bring forts | 2PtS named in the application for a re- by the | Straining order declare that the resigna- ow | tion was freely made and delivered into the hands of Monroe, former city attor- ney of Bureka, to be delivered to Bull, who is chairman of the Republican Coun- ty Central Committee. Receiver Thompson alleges without equivocation that the resignation was not | freely given, that it was obtained from him by fraudulent methods, and for that | reason he repudiates it. | | According to the statements made by the defendants, Thompson’s term as re- | cetver expired early in the year and he | sought a reappointment. A bitter fight was made against him, and the conduct of the receiver's office during his incum- rement les is at pres- to Washington where he wit- Lewis field SEARCH FOR CULPRIT. ct- ! bency was attacked. They allege that for the man who broke all | rhompeon arranged a Gompromise where- - sivitgiaut infor-| 1y {he charges were to be dropped and be m 1 secret archives of the | | was to place his resignation in the hands of the most rigid | 5¢ some gisinterested third person, to be d itS | gelivered to Bull as soon as his reap-| pointment were made. was made out in favor of the younger | Bull. According to this arrangement, the document was duly drawn up and signed. S. A. Campbell, who is named as one of The | the defendants, is collector of the port Private Weir fol- 1 b 5 »ugh four depart- | of Eureka, and figured prominently in the | B £ < ker West, inspec wri recent sensational exposures involving | of Luzon, 10 | members of the city council and which | presented in the | have resulted in a series of libel suits. stigated | office of ihe | OFFICERS IDENTIFY - They were | A WOUNDED BANDIT General Miles, | referred them | SALT LAKE, Utah, June 4—A special dvocate general, | to the Tribune from Wilson, Idaho, says were received | that Julius Hanson, claiming to have where they | come from Pocatello, walked into town | this morning with a serious bullet wound UP TO MILES. | in nis shoulder, which he said hdd been to Acting Sec- the informa- his depar! ED inflictéd by a man who attempted to hoid him up two miles from Weiser. Police officers from Huntington to-day tified Hanson as one of two men who vis made a| had held up W. W. Erwin last night in positive that| guntington. After the hold-up the men .\(m‘ out h:v" bad a pitched battle with the officers, in ¢ War De-| which one was wounded in the shoulder. pastment | The other highwayman is thought to ha I r W presert in| gied from wounds somewhere in the hills rear Huntington. g President Promises a Visit. WASHINGTON, June 4.—The, President to-day promised Representative McLach- lan of California and John F. Hughes of at in e had no He deg has artment, the t bee conse s is mot|; s Angeles, the organizer of “Teddy's known. He will probably ¢ in Wash- | perrors,” that he would visit Los Angeles ington in & @ay or two | some time during the spring of 1963. Secretary Root will have returned to| _ - o % : ton to-morrow morning.. The in. | @-i-i=i-itiririsirit - @ vestigation will then be taken in hand by | he was whipped and beaten unmercitully. i Among army officers it is a com- | of speculation to-night. Cer- Senators have, for some | er since the split between | He was then stood up and asked to con- fess. He did not. He was then beaten and clubbed again. I do not think that & square inch of the man's body was left evelt and General Miles, | untouched. He was kicked. A Tope was the latter has been providing | ihen thrown across a beam, the man was Demoerats with much of the in: | strung up by the thumbs, another rope with ey have combaled | was tied to his feet and they were jerked Since the charges|from under him. While up he was| Iberson so ng endeav- | peaten.” | channels | are more | wrough official a leaked out, they nced in their intimation to this ef- TIED TO A SADDLE. Another charge is that Lieutenant Ar- nold directed that the man be immersed 5 own in Senator Beveridge's |, ", .r.ei untll he was unconsclous query as to whether of MOl| geir concluded his charges with the fol- es gave out the information. |, ... 0 ciotement: “Men of the troop | imminent and will follow | employ The resignation | PRIVATE WEIR'S CHARGES. arges preferred against Lieuten- Private Weir are prob- e most direct allegations of )n the part of American soldiers duced during the entire The charges include by were Philippine de e following statemer e 1 was with a detachment of e four men doing garrison duty in ¢ town of Pasay, three miles from Man- tive man, about 21 years of age, rested and accused of being a mur- de d highway robber. Now whether the man was guilty or not, I do not know. Bu yway, Lieutenant F. T. Arnold, for he was the officer in command, gave or- ders to Sergeant Edwards, both of troop H Fourth Cavalry, ment of our to take the man to quarters The prisoner was stripped naked and laid his back on the bare floor. He was then given “Water cure.’ The man begged Sor mercy, but to no avail. While down on { have told us that they have known Ar- nold to have a man tied to the saddle of a horse. A few feet of slack was allowed. A soldier was then mounted on the horse and told to gallop down the road for a mile and back. If the prisoner could run as fast as the horse, it was all well, but if he could not, he had to drag. Arnold bad had this done several times and more than once the prisoner was dragged.” Captain Parker West, who made an in- vestigation, reported that three soldiers corroborated what Weir sald about the treatment of prisoners. Captain West concluded his report as follows: I believe that a thorough investigation into the matter will substantiate the charges made by Private Weir that prisoners were treat- ed in a cruel manner and that Lieutenant Arnold winked at this treatment.” Sergeant Edwards, who inflicted the tor- tures referred to, has been ordered before a court martial, and the case againsf Lieutenant Arnold is being further investi- gated. —t STRIKE'S END MAY BE NEAR New VYorkers Ask President to Seek Settlement. Business Men Appeal to Rooseveit for Aid. Danger of a Water Famine in Penn- sylvania. Special Diepatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 4.—President Roosevelt will be asked by the manufac- turers and business men of this city to tervene to settle the strike in the an- thracite coal fields. At a regular meeting of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation to- day resolutions were adopted pointing out the hardships that industry was be- ing made to suffer on account of the strike and indicating a law empowering the President to act. A committee, con- sisting of Darwin R. James, James Tal- cott and John D. Kiernan, was appoint- ed to go to Washington and lay the ap- peal of the business men before Roose- velt. James offered resolutions which recited the fact that more than 100,00 men are now out. “Anthracite coal as a fuel,” the resolu- tion said, “has become a prime necessity of life and industry, and the threatened scarcity caused by the controversy has resulted in a large advance in price and great hardship and injury to all con- A larger advance in price s if the differ- ences ' between the railroads and their s in the mines are not speedily adjusted.” PRESIDENT CONSIDERS. WASHING June 4.—President Roosevelt spent some ' time this after- noon considering the proposition of the New York Board of Trade and Transpor- tation that he appeint a commissioner to investigate the strike situation in the anthracite regions with the view of ef- tecting an arbitration of the differences between the miners and operators. It is id that the President has not decided w action he will take in response to the suggestion Senator Hanna of the Civic Federation when interviewed to-day professed to know nothing of the New York board's action, but it is intimated in official cir- cles that-if a commissioner is appointed the Presdent will look to the Senator to undertake the task. WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 4.—More engineers, firemen and pump runners obeyeG the call of the Miners’ Union and struck to-day, but in most instances the coal company's officials were able to fill the places of the strikers. A correspondent was informed by a mining official who has positive informa- tion on the subject that most of the mines in the Schuylkill region are accumulating water. The Reading Company’s collieries located in that region are the chief sui- ferers. The collleries of the Lehigh Vali- ley Company and individual companies in the same territory are also slowly filling. In the Hazleton, Wilkesbarre and Scran- tor. districts the condition is not so bad, only one mine here and there showing water. FAMINE OF WATER. The Susquehanna Coal Company’s col- liery 5 at Nanticoke was forced to shut down its engines, all the firemen re- fusing to go to work. This company fur- nishes the power for the water supply of Nanticoke and unless the engines are again started the borough will have a wa- ter famine to contend with. There was a slight fire In the town to- day and as the fire alarm is sounded by means of the colliery whistle, there was much trouble and delay before the volun- teer company could be called to the scene of the fire. The company, it is sald, will allow its mines to fill with water and let the borough get its water supply as best it can. It was comparatively qulet today in the Wyoming valley. There was the usual gathering of crowds at several collieries at starting and stopping time, but nothing of a serfous nature occurred. Some men were stoned on thelr way to and from work and several were thrown into podls of water. The fear of bodily harm is causing more men to quit work than are the arguments of the strikers. President Mitchell was kept busy all day at his headquarters. He had nothing to say regarding his visit to Scranton last night where he met Frank P. Sargent, Chief of the Locomotive Firemen. Re- garding the general strike situation he sald everything was progressing satisfac- torily; that more men were coming out each day and that the idle men are be- having themselves well. The national president had no comment to make when informed that the New York Board of Trade had decided to ask President Roose- velt to take up the task of trying to end the great struggle. sumers. No. —_— State May Recover Coin. LINCOLN, Nebr., June 4—The Supreme Court to-day by reversing the findings of the District Court of Douglas County opens the way for the possible recovery by the State of the $537,000 which former State Treasurer Bartley was convicted of embezzling. The Supreme Court in effect holds that Bartley's bondsmen were wrongly discharged from liability and re- mands the case for a new trial, manded. o CHICAGO, June 5.—The teamsters’ strike was settled at 4:15 o’clock this morning. The men gain recognition of the union. The scale agreed upon averages 2 cents less than the men de- All pickets will be withdrawn at once and the men will return to work this morning. 5 ol ) <€ PRINCIPAL THOROUGHFARE OF CHICAGO, UPON WHICH POLICE BATTLE WITH RIOTERS. | Scores Badly Injured at . Chicago. @ sifrderi + fofoelet It is believed a compromise may be reached on unsettled points. The confer- | ence is still in session and probably will Police Escort Caravan of Meat Wagons and Fight Desperate Mobs. HICAGO. June 4.—Driven by men covered with dust and blood, many of them barely able from exhaustion to hold the reins in their hands, thirty- six ‘meat wagons entered the main gate of the Union Stockyards to- night amid shower of stones, bricks, bottles and sticks. The wagons, guarded by five police wagons filled with blue- coats and two omnibuses crowded to the fullest capacity with policemen. were on the return from a delivery of suppiles to downtown provision houses after one of the fiercest days in the strike of the beef packers’ teamsters. To-night the soldiers of the First Regi- ment, I. N. G., were instructed to be pre- pared for a hurry call to duty. The coin- manding officers sent word to other offi- cers and “through them the non-commis- sioned officers were detailed to notify the privates to be ready at a moment's no- tice. Governor Yates is in the city to- night. MANY PERSONS INJURED. It is estimated that the total number of persons injured during the day is be- {ween 100 and 150. Following is a partial list of the most seriously wounded: Edward Schiman, Swift & Co. driver; hit on head with rock; serious. Miss Carrie Schownaid, knocked down by horses and trampled; serlous. John J. McGuire, policeman; hit on head with a horseshoe; badly hurt. John Linenculjal, policeman; injured on Congress street. ! Joseph Billings, clubbed by police on Harrison street: serious. Nicholas Caully, driver for a brewery company, struck Policeman Curry ang knocked him down: was subsequently beaten and arrested by that officer. a Policeman Curry, badly bruised in melee with mob. Albert Wagner, driver; beaten on head with club and sent to hospital; serious. John Monahan, sald to be a union team- ster; clubbed and badly hurt at Harrison and State streets. John Johnson, driver; serious. Charles Wright, 18 years old; crushed by brick; probably fatal. George Siegross, knocked from ‘wagon of Armour & Co. and badly injured at Randolph and Clark streets. E. L. Lewis, Schwarzchild & Sulzberger driver; hit with horseshoe at ‘‘Newsboys’ alley” and Fifth avenue: may die. M. Sheppard, wholesale salesman for Swift & Co.: hit on 'head by brick while standing in fromt of 155 Fifth avenue; seriously injured. KNOCKED FROM SEAT. Many of the drivers, officials at packing houses, were cut and bruised from head to foot. The police were in even worse condition. The wagon drivers had been working from 5 o’clock in the morning and the progress from the stock- vards to the business district and back again had been contested bitterly by mobs of strike sympathizers. At the very entrance to the stockyards to-night, after all seeming danger had passed, George June, an employe of the Anglo-American Packing Company, was struck with a baseball bat and knocked from his wagon seat. He was picked up unconscious, and it is believed may dje. Many others were struck at the same time by a shower of stones, but the po- lice were too worn out to offer resistance. More than a dozen battles were fought during the day between rioters and the police, and the hospitals to-night are overcrowded with the injured. hit with brick; skull the T | last several hours longer. |'DEMANDS OF MEN GRANTED. Strike of the Drivers for Department Stores Is Over. CHICAGO, June 4.—After thirty hours, | during which the delivery of goods from | the big downtown department stores was The fiercest battle of the day took place | stopped, the strike of the Department this afternoon at Sixteenth street and |Store Delivery Drivers’ Union, affecting Michigan avenue. The rioters stood on | 1300 men, was settled at a conference held the viaduct and hurled rocks at the meat | here this afternoon. i wagons passing underneath. The mob| The demands of the men In regard to was the most formidable in numbers and | wages were granted, and the stores in daring of any of the crowds that gath- ‘ agreed not to discriminate against union ered during the day. Before this mob | men and to furnish uniform coats and could be dispersed the police were com- | caps where required. The agreement was pelled to use revolvers. More than fifty | the result of concessions made by both shots were fired, bullets passing over the | sides and was brought about largely heads of the crowds, which finally be- | through the effort of Frederick Job, came frightened and scattered, but not| chajrman of the State Board of Arbitra= until after many of the rioters and PO- | tjon. The men returned to work to-day. licemen were injured. During the morning hours the down-| THREE STRIKERS ARE SHOT. town street crossings were almost devoid | of officers, but the City Hall resembled an army barracks with hundreds of blue- | coated men drawn up in squads walting to | Battle Is the Result of an Encounter With Non-Union Men. GRANITE CITY, I, June 4—A riot be summoned to the scene of rioting. A conference was held to-night between the representatives of the packers and teamsters locking to a settlement of the strike. President Frederick W. Job, chair- man of the State Board of Arbitration, | brovght about the meeting. A settlement of the strike of the dellvery wagons of the retail State-street department stores, ear- lier in the day, formed the basis on which the oppusing elements hoped to effect a compromise. e e o PACKERS YIELD POINTS. Refuse, However, to Recognize the Strikers’ Union. CHICAGO, June 5.—At 1:30 a. m., after four hours of censultation in which the question of recognition of the union was thoroughly discussed, an agreement re- garding wages and hours was decided on. The representatives of the packers con- ceded the demands of the strikers on these two questions, but were obdurate In their refusal to recognize the strikers' unfon. broke out here this morning between sev- eral hundred striking molders and non- union employes, and as a result three strikers were shot, two fatally. John Buffington was shot in the back, the buj | let lodging in the kidney. S. B. Medford, | aged 35 years, was shot in the right arm. | Alexander Matthews, aged 30 years, was | shot In the left leg. | The trouble broke ont at 5 a m., when 2 trainload of employes of the steel com- pany who had not struck reached Granits City: As the men were proceeding through a narrow lame to their work in the mills they were first threatened by the strikers and then assailed with stones. Revolvers were them brought into play and several shots were fired by both parties. | Miners Are Burned to Death. | LONDON. June 4—Eight miners were | burned to death to-day as the resuit of an | explosion of gas at Guest, Keene & Co's colliery at Dowlais, Glamorganshire, Wales.