The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 6. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. REBELLING AGAINST PAYMENT OF INDEMNITY, THE CHINESE FOREIGN UPRISING PROMPT DENIAL IS MADE Miles and the Men Under Him Are Indignant. Lieutenant General Is Hurrying Back to Washington. ‘ Refuses to Talk on| Leakage of Army Secrets. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 5.—When Sec- | retary Root retu d to his desk this| morning the > War Department was with comment on humming a: the latest brea the entire s that their chief disclosure of arm: stated by offici that ticipated in secrets. It is blu f the War Department | suspected of having g these charges | has Gener: General een ret again: the past War Department takes the view t the officer or em- abstracted these reports so that blic was guilty | regulations but ng the United was a part. had a hand in| been attacking | sus; Miles eral he PROOF IS LACKING. | proof has been brought 1 Miles. It is all based on nce being that Gen- | with Presi- y of War Roo(.‘ 3eneral Corbin, General Chaf- | sought to supplant in China fact, with the | far no out that General Miles has | the President and Sec- d thetr legislation In 31 munication” before the flitary Affairs through wh arges made by ve denied Zhal‘ »g them public | | | upon for information. who got the Weir | Congressional Record, | o-day by mak- | berson, to disclose red I do mot| upon { { CULBERSON. | RELIES ON CITY, June 5—Lieutenant commanding Kansas ( his way from there | called threatene 1 on e court-mar ed cer: n official zh here by several other of a boary E | came y afternooh entirely | alone and in such haste that he had not | even reserved a sleeping-car bv,;nh. A reporter read to General Miles a spe- IS ) saying that he was suspected in the White House of having furnished al involving Lieutenant Culberson. enator Culberson nswer as full explicit as Sen- ; one could demand.” General t for yourself, general? that Senator Culberson seems the reply for which vou are second dispatch, “to the effect that orily ordered back to e charges.” d make no reply to shington at 6:30 last teer his arrival from he did not leave | general,” wou REDUCTION OF THE ARMY. | Terrible Cost to British of War in South Afrieca. LONDON, June 5.—An official statement jssued by the War evening oo the tot of the| tish forces in South Africa up to May | the present was 97477. This in- ciud killed, wounded, prisoners, deaths ed home, Of manently incapacitated. The total num- Ser of troops killed in action or who died ®f wounds ¥ while the total number of deaths from disease is 13,250 1 he is the highest of-| | | at Baker C LETSON BALLIET IS FOUND GUILTY Convicted of Using the Mails to Defraud. ES MOINES, Towa, June 5.—Let- son Balliet was found guilty in the Federal Court to-day of us- ing the malls to defraud invest- ors in stock in the White Swan Mining Company, whose property is lo- cated near Baker City, Or. He was charg- ed h having received about { from purchasers of stock and with having invested not to exceed $25,000 in the prop- erty, and that largely in acquiring the title to it after he had begun to sell stock. It was proved by the Government that during the two and one-nalf years that Balliet operated the scheme he had expended $25,000 in buyi newspaper ty, about ertising the mine and himself as the Cecil Rhodes of America; that he had expended various sums on actresses and personal outlays and that since the purchase of the White Swan mine he has put practically nothing into it with a view to developing it on be- half of the stockholders. INTENDED TO DEFRAUD. It was essential for the | prove that Balliet Intended to defraud the investors when he started to use the mails to sell them stock. This was shown by his expenditure of about 000 of the money in the manner described and in no way connected with the devei- opment of the property. The Govern- ment clinched the case against Balliet when he went on the stand and failed to testify as té the whereabouts of the re- maining $150,000 known to have been col- lected by the sale of the stock, but not accounted for. Balliet is 20 years of age and the son of Judge §. F. Baliiet, recently of the Polk County District bench, residing in this city. Young Balliet was engaged in no business unfil he acquired the man- agement of the White Swan Mining and Milling Company. A large number of technical difficulties concerning the title to the property having arisen, he bought the claims and secured a clear title to the White Swan mine. Meanwhile he had been selling stock in the property. When he had secured possession of the mine he removed his headquarters to San Francisco and operated from that city, where he employed thirty people night and day sending out circulars and letters advertising his proposition. UNCLE SAM OBJECTS. The Government objected to the use of the mails to procure money in the first place for the sale of stock In a company which had no valid title to the property in which its stockholders were assured they would participate; secondly, to the sale of stock through the mails without expending the money he recelved in de- veloping the property he was selling ac- cording to his agreement. He was indicted about sixteen months ago, and a year ago this summer his trial was begun In Des Moines. A juror died and the case went over to the May term, 1902, of the Federal court here. Attorneys for Balliet propose to take the case to the United States Supreme Court. The ex- treme penalty is eighteen months in the penitentiary and $500 fine. Postoffice Inspector Mayer promises that if Balliet escapes on this prosecution overnment to | | | { MINING OPERATOR WHO HAS B CONVICTED OF USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD. | ‘ Daring Operator May | Serve Eighteen | Months. < cisco because of his use of the mails in | California to push h | | BALLIET'S CAREER HERE. as a mining king, owner of streetcar lines, I 1 | Ietson Bailiet came into particular prominence in 1 Francisco when in June, 1901, the postal authorities stopped | the heavy mail addressed to him. He | held forth | electric light works and HEWSDApers in a suite of offices at 508 California street. He occupied no less | than twelve rooms and was evidently d‘o- ing a vast buslness. Ten typewriters were' engaged answering people all over the country, who were sending money to Balliet for investment after reading ac. counts of his swift rise to fortune and the many enterprises with which he was con. nected. At the time one issue of a Boston news. paper contained no less than six columns of advertising and reading matter of com. panles operated from Balliet's rooms. The Pacific Ofl Company was written up as being one of the great oil companies of Callfornia, situated in the Arroyo Honda district of the San Joaquin Valley, The | Diamond Ol Company was written up as one of the finest ofl properties In the Me. Kittrick district and Investors were asked to address “A. D. Young, Room 8, b8 California street, San Francisco.” The San Franclsco Mining Company, of which Balliet was shown to be president, was incorporated for the purpose of ‘work- ing the Josephine mine In El Dorade County. The mine had been owned by J. M. ougues, an attorney of this c| sought the aid of Balllet to emfif‘;l"fifi the market. - When Balliet was asked to explain his connection with the companies of which he was president, he stated that he had been elected presient during his absence and without ‘his knowledge or consent Though he, at the time, denied knowing any one of the name of “A. D. Young in connection with his offices, 1t wag known that the party was Miss Alice D, Young, a stenographer in his suite of offices, who attended to the recelpt of al the mail. He, however, on being pressed on the subject, produced a man named Cal Young, an advertising solicitor for an Eastern newspaper. Young when questioned admitted that he inserted the glowing advertisement about the Diamond Oil Company which, how- ever, had been exposed 1in a local ofl Journal as being far from what it claimed leventuully he will be tried in San Fran- ) to be. BOXERS BECOME ACTIVE Danger of Repetition of the Events of 1900. News Indicates the Rapid Spread of Revolt. Civilized World May Be Compelled to Act. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUR U, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 5.—Officials who have had occasion to famillarize themselves with the Chinese situation make no, concealment of their apprehen- slon regarding the significance of recent events In the Celestial Empire. They go so far as to say that Indications are that the civilized world has not had its last trouble with China, and it is evident that American diplomats fear that events are hurrying toward a situation which may become as serious as that which set the world aflame in 1990. News of new Boxer uprisings which has been brought by steamer to Victoria since the 1st of June, followed by the cable report which came from Robert M. Mc- Wade, United States Consul at Canton, yesterday, announcing that there had been fighting between rebels and Chinese troops along the Tonkin frontier, have tended to increase the feeling of dissatisfaction with the situation on the part of American of- ficlals. SAME VAGUE RUMORS. It is recalled that the Boxer uprising which occurred in 1900, resulting in the imprisonment of the foreign legations, be- |gan with rumors which no one under- stood, similar to those which are now coming from China. Even Minister Con- ger did not understand them and the full significance did not dawn until the storm brole. The news from %‘.?mwue was to the effect that Mdrshal Su had captured Kweichoo and Kwangnan, the prefecture on the Yunnan frontier, and that the rebeis had fled to the hills northwest of Nanning. Mall advices indicate a Boxer insurrection In Southwest Chill, fifty Chinese officials engaged in collect- ing taxes were killed and French, Belgian and' native missionaries were put to the sword. There was also a movement in the provinces of Honan and Shantung, which claims to have for its objective Peking. It is significant that these troubles are within the French and Ger- man spheres of influence. OFFICIALS CANNOT SAY. Whether these uprisings are really be- ing encouraged by the French occupants of Tonkin and the Germans in Shantung in order to give an excuse for forcign intervention in the affalrs of China whether they have their inception in the great national feeling of unrest which flamed so flercely two yvears ago the offi- clals here do not pretend to say. They would not be surprised to see th troubles grow until they again become tne subject of international consultations. It is known that the people of China are already groaning beneath the taxa- tion which many will probably be unable to pay. The depreciation in the price of silver and the insistence of the European powers that China meet her obligations in gold will cause an increase of the in- demnity to be paid by China of nearly $70,000,000. \ EXCESSIVE INDEMNITY. Special Commissioner Rockhill, repre- senting the United States, took the ground when the indemnity was being discussed originally that 450,000,000 taels was exces- sive and probably beyond the ability of China to pay. The addition of $70,000,000 to this and the effort of Chinese officlals to wring money from the people have un- doubtedly added to the natlonal unrest. “We have not seen the end of our troubles in China,” said a high official to- day. ‘“No one can foretell what will hap- pen and nothing will surprise those who are familiar with the march of recent events in the Orient.” or PRESIDENT MEETS KEMPFF. Fraises the Admiral for Not Joining in Bombardment. WASHINGTON, June 5.—Rear Admiral Kempff was presented to the President to-day by Representative Bartholdt. 'The President took occasion to praise the ad. miral for his actlon in refusing ta“join in the hombardment of the Taku forts soon after the legation Trelief expedition ar- rived in Chinese waters. / The President informed Admiral Kemptt {hat the civilized world had rendered judgment on his action &nd had decided that he was right. Secretary Moody to-day sent to the House the dispatches passing at the time of the bombardment of' the Taku forts in Chipa. In the maln the course of Rear Admiral Kempf appears to have been fully approved bY the authorities here, but in the latter's correspondence the admiral calls attention to gn injustice which he feels has been/ qone him by the account of the Taku oDerationg contaln- ed in the President’s message to Con. gress following the China campaign, Secretary Moody Withholds some of the correspondence for the Yeason, it 1s said that its publication Wokild not be in the public interest } where |, | AUAIN CAUSE DIPLOMATS TO FEAR ANTI- —— GOVERNOR TAFT PRESENTS THE LITERARY WORKS OF oosEvELT i ROOSEVELT TO THE POPE His Holiness Sends His Thanks. e L3 r e Review of the Churc ‘Question in the Philippines. OME, June 5.—The Pope to-day received Judge Taft, Civil Governor of the Philippines; Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, S. D.; Judge Smith and Major Porter of the judge advocate’s department at Washing- ton. Judge Taft presented to his Holiness a letter from President Roosevelt and a box containing President Roosevelt's lit- erary works. The Pope expressed his thanks for Mr. Roosevelt's friendly greet- ings, promised to study the difficult Phil- ippine questfon, and said he hoped for re- sults. The Pontlff also asked Judge Taft to thank President Roosevelt for his gift. OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, THE PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CIVIL GOVERNOR THE SUPREME PONTIFF, AND — Pontiff Expresses Desire to Aid American Administration in the Work. Rishop O’Gorman acted as interpreter and Major Porter read the President's letter. The audience lasted forty min- utes. EXPLAINED RY TAFT. While talking with the Pope Governor Taft reviewed in a summary way the auestions in‘the Philippines which require scttlement. He pointed out to his Holi- ress that the readjustment of the rela- tions of church and state in the Islands was not an indication of hostility of the United States to the Catholic church, but Geclared that such a readjustment was merely a necessity under the American constitution. Governor Taft referred to the prosperity and the freedom of the Roman Catholic church In the United States, and cited these conditions as an assurance that the Vatican had nothing to fear from the extension of the author- ity of the United States over the Philip- pine Islands. ASSURANCES OF POPE. Replying to Judge Taft, the Pontiff ex- pressed the greatest pride in the Roman Catholic church in the United States and intense Interest in the republic. He carnestly desired to help the American administration of the Philippines in every ble way, and he assured Governor Taft that the Vatican would approach ail questions raised in the broadest and most conclliatory spirft. The Pope said also that matters of detail in connection with the questions to be decided would be re- ferred to a committee of Cardinals, whers they would be considered at length, and that all the issues would be treated with the sole aim of reaching a settlement sat- isfactery to all parties concerned. PONTIFF IN GOOD HEALTH. The Pope appeared to be in excellent health during his interview with Governor Taft and was in a vivaclous humor. He 1eferred pleasantly to Archbishop Ireland in what he had to say concerning the Ro- man Catholic church in the United States. Judge Taft subsequently met Cardinal Rampolla, the Papal Secretary of State, and opened the discussion of Philipping matters. PRESIDENT APPROVES COURT-MARTIAL FINDINGS Lieutenant Ernest Hagedorn of Twen- ty-Eighth Infantry Must Serve Two-Year Sentence. WASHINGTON, June 5—President Roosevelt has approved the findings of the court-martial which sentenced First Lieutenant Ernest Hagedorn, of the Twenty-Eighth Infantry, to be dismissed from the service after two years' confine- ment in the penitentiary, the confinement to begin June 15. Lieutenant Hagedorn was accused of embezzlement of' $3015 of the public funds while acting as quarter- master of the troops at Naic, Cavite Prov- ince, on or about March 1 of this year. AcBording to the evidence he received this money from Lieutenant A. W. Foreman and almost immediately proceeded to go on a protracted spree, during which he spent the money without knowing much about the method. He has a splendid réc- ord as a soldler, having reached his com- mission through promotion from the sanks. Apparently his oniy sin wa drunkenness. Colonel A. C. Markle Thirteenth Infantry, was president, and Major M. F. Waltz, judge advocate of the court-martial which found him guilty at Manila. VALLEJO NAVY YARD MAY BE ABANDONED Senator Hale Complains That It Is Impossible for Large Vessels to Reach It. WASHINGTON, June 5.—Senator Hale to-day introduced an amendment to the naval appropriation bill providing for the appointment of a commission to select a site for a new navy yard in the vicinity | of the present navy yard at Mare Island, Cal., with the end of trans(err‘lng the Mare Island yard to the proposed new yard. The amendment sets forth as a reason for the change the remoteness of the Mare Island yard from the coast and the 1mpossibility of reaching it with large vessels. - Stirring Up an Old Trouble. LONDON, June 5.—Thomas Gibson Howles, Conservative, in the House of Commons to-day, renewed the attempt to obtain information as to whether Great Britain gave the United States any as-| surance prior to the war with Spain. The Government leader, A. J. Balfour, depre- cated a recurrence to a subject regard- ing which, he declared, a good many ques- | tions already had been put with anything but good results. The matter was only of historic interest and Mr. Balfour thought it better that it be allowed to rest. (GENERAL GOMEZ REFUSES TO ACCEPT THE PENSION He Is Willing to Wait Until Cuba Can Pay All Her Soldiers. HAVANA, June 5—General Maximo Gomez has published an open letter hers | In which he refuses to accept the annual | pension of $6000 provided for him in a resolution which is now before the Cuban House of Representatives. | General Gomez asks his friends to de- | feat this resolutlon, saying it would be | unfair for him to accept money so long | as the other Cuban soldlers have not been | provided for. General Gomez asserts that | he has a bill against the Government for ‘war services which some day will have to be paid, but that he is willing to wait un- | til such time as Cuba can pay all her sol- | diers. ik | Professor Pease Receives Honor. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June 5.— Professor E. M. Pease, until recently head of the Latin department at the university, was granted the degree of doctor of laws | by President H. Balser of the University |of Colorado to-day. Professor Pease is greatly honored in receiving this degrees from the same university which granted bim his A. B. and A. M. degrees.