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

VOLUME XCII-NO. 97. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1502. Ay g PRICE FIVE OCENTS. MARTINIQUE IS DOOMED BY WRATH OF PELEE ASTRIES, Island of St. Lucia, B. W. I, Sept. 4, 8 p. m.—The Royal ‘Mail steamer Yaro arrived here this evening from the island of Mar- She brings the report that a violent volcanic eruption occurred there last night and that about 2000 persons are said to have tinique. perished. Large numbers of people are Ileaving the island. BETRAYAL ENDS HIS MURDERS, Southwest’s Most No- torious Outlaw Is Captured. Former Train Robber Assists the Au- thorities. Juan Chacon, Slayer of a Dozen Men, in Custody. o The Call 4—Juan Chacon law in Southern as captured x-Captain Burt Ran and e tra robber who turned State's evi- ed going to the peniten- n had led the officers a chase cov- er would and Stiles by anged with Chacon to per- Th two men were camp- 1 on the San Pedro there Stiles made some day night. He ment and just into Chacon's DESPERADO SURPRISED. had just arisen, and as approaching the othing. When Stiles enly appeared and cov- eir rifles ad nothing He knew both men if he er. both would shoot Spesy without doub tlaw at large in A the most zona. He d of desperadoes Clifton and Morenci about four years ago. One night he and three companions entered the town of Morenci, robbed the store of Paul Saucedo and made their escape. A pcsse pursued them and three of the fugitives were killed, Afterward S on 2 escaping. cedo himself went after Chacon and accidentally met him on a lonely trafl. Chacon had the drop on Saucedo sho m dead. Chacon was finally landed in jail by Sheriff Birchfield, tried and sentenced to be hanged. Two days before he was to pay the penalty for his many crimes he broke jail and had since been at large. ONE DOZEN LIVES. Two Sheriffs have been elected in Gra- hem in that time and each pledged himself to capture Chacon. The outlaw always succeeded in eiuding them, and in fights with rangers, Sheriffs and other officers he killed twelve Twelve notches on his six-shooter which he carried when captured marked the end of so muny lives at his hand. Parks had been hounding Chacon and on ounty men oft for the past two years, but dur- four months he spent most of the ti in the saddle following his m As a dare-devil and outlaw Chacon had his admirers, and they claim that he would have been true to his promise not to be taken alive had he not been be. ed by his friend Stiles. con has been taken to Solomonville and there will be executed at an early date to prevent his escape and further acts of lawlessness. ing the LIPTON’S RACING BOAT 5 TO BE BUILT OF STEEL Experience With Recent Challengers Makes Him Distrustful of New Metals and Alloys. LONDON, Sept. 4—In planning Sir Thomas Lipton’s new challenger for the America’'s cup Mr. Fife has introduced unexpected features. His expe- s with recent challengers have made him distrustful of new metals and alloys and he has decided to drop them. Con- sequently the contract which the Dennises have in hand provides for the building of a cup racer wholly of steel. The frames are to be of bulbed angle steel and the plating will be thin plates of nickel steel. | pulsory arbitration law. stealing in the San | Deputy | STRIKERS | President Mitchell Advises Men .to Resume. Governor Asked fto | End Strife in Penn- ‘ sylvania. i 1 [ | READY TO RETURN . TO WORK IN MANY OF COAL FIELDS OF WEST VIRGINIA 4 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE KEYSTONE STATE WHO HAS BEEN REQUESTED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO END THE LONG STRIKE IN THE ANTHRACITE COAL REGIONS, AND IF NECESSARY TO CALL THE LEGISLATURE TO ENACT A COMPULSORY ARBITRATION LAW. g— | UNTINGTON, W. Va., Sept. | Virginia s practically at | an end. At a mass-meet- ing of miners from all the | coal fields along the Nor- | folk and Western Railroad here to-day it was almost unanimously agreed to end take back all the old miners, and they | have signified their willingness to do | | this. The miners have agreed to return | to work next Monday. It is reported that President Mitchell of .the .United Mine Workers advised, the strikers to re- turn to work. He realized that winter was near at hand and that the miners in this field could not hold out much longer, as almost every one was depen- dent upon the union for food and cloth. ing. It is thought the strikers at New River and Kanawha fields will soon follow to- | day’s action. The Pocahontas mine con- tinues to burn out, but the operators think that they will soon have it under control. ASKED TO END STRIKE. | HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept 4.—Governor Stone was waited upon by a committee from the State Legislative Board of Rail- road Employes of Pennsylvamia this af- | ternoon and requested to take immediate | steps to bring about a settlément of the strike in the anthracite regions and if | necessary call an extra session of the Legislature for the enactment of a com- The committee the strike provided the operators ®ould | presented a signed statement setting 4—The coal Strike in West | forth that the strike is causing much dis- tress among the anthracite miners and their familles, hardships to millions of people and proving destructive to the bus- iness of the State. The committee stated that railroad em- ployes depend upon the coal traffic for four-fifths of their living and that they were not making as good wages as be- fore the strike. He said the board was preparing ‘a bill which its members . be- lieved would end the strike and prevent strikes in the future if it should become a law. Governor Stong replied that if, by call- ing a speclal session of the Legislature, a law could be passed that would be con- stitutional and would settle the strike and prevent others, he would not hesitate to call o special session. Governor Stone also sald he regarded the strike as of sufficlent public interest to justify an extra session’ of the Legis- lature if it would solve the difficulty, but he wculd not call a special session in the interest of speculation or for political ef- fect if no satisfactory law could be pass- ed'or:some’ good come out of it. GLOOM AMONG STRIKERS. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 4—Presi- dent Baer’s declaration that the miners’ strike cannot be settled except on the terms heretofore stated by the coal coms panies has cast a gloom over the entire strike region. President -~ Mitchell discussed Baer's statement with some of his lleutenants, tut he declined to say anythtg for pub- 7 = lication. Mitchell denled the feport that he had réceived a communication from J. Pierpont Morgan asking him to state the best terms upon which he would set- tle the strike. TAMAQUA, Pa., Sept. 4—Although Ma- jor Gearhardt did not sent any part of the troops out this morning the non-union men were not molested while on their way to work. President Baer's statement to Senators Quay and ‘Penrose has had a depressing effect on the miners here. Yesterday they were confident of victory. To-day they say the end of the strike seems a long way off. e PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE ACTS. Recommends Changes in the Control of Corporations. JAZELTON, Pa., Sept. 4—A committee appointed - to-day at a meéting of the People's Alliance tc draw a plan for ter- minating the strike reported unanimously | in fabor of a special session of the State Legislature to enact the following legisla- tion: v Compulsory arbitration; that present legislation be so revised that the State | may have morepowerover foreign corpora- tions doing business within its borders; the passage of a law making it illegal for any person under 21 Vears of age to’ be employed more than eight hours a day, and that those articles of the State con- stitution which relate to the control vest- Continued on Page 5, Column 5. v - WILLIAM DESIRES HARMONY Words of the German Emperor to Pac- ify Poles. Asks That All Party Rancor Be Put Aside. i - Promises to Preven Interference in Religion. POSEN, Prussia, Sept. 4.—A statue of Emperor Frederick was unveiled here to- day in the presence of Emperor Willlam, Empress Victoria, the Crown Prince Fred- erick Willlam, Field Marshal Count von Eulow, the Cabinet Ministers and many other notables. Replying to the address of the Provin- cial Diet, Emperor Willlam enjoined the Germans to lay aside their inherited ten- dency to engage in party strife and to work for the good of the country. His Majesty said: “The patriotic words in which you have conveyed to me and the Empress the feel- ings of the province flll our hearts with joy and thankfulness. Thcy find their confirmation in the patriotic welcome ex- tefided 16 ug by the’ people of this place. ‘We are here among a loyal German town, and loyalty is the work the Germais have to accomplish for the improvement of the count¥y. “If this work, the cbject of which is the elevation of the people and the country for the good and benefit of the whole, is to siucceed, it is necessary thdt the Ger- mans lay .aside their inherited party ran- cor and that each’ shall be prepared to sacrifice his own particular individuality in order to labor with all alike in:the commuiiity, just as in diys of yore the Knights of the Teutonic Order, renounc- ing their political independence and con- venience, rallied to the firm bond of the order for the purpose of spreading Ger- man civilization by incessant, hard toil. “Furthermore, my officials, as a matter of course, must carry out the policy I have recognized as the right policy in the | interest of the province, following my di- rections to the letter and obeying my or- ders without hesitation. “The co-operation of the people and the officials, under the guidance of the crown, will not fail to bring about in the course of time the prosperous develdpment of the province.” Referring to the Poles, he sald: “I deeply regret that a section of my subjects of non-German origin appears to have dificulty in falling' in with our conditions of life. The reason for this may probably be found in two misappre- hensions, Firstly, the fear of interfer- ence with their religion is kept alive among them. He who asserts that dif- ficulties are placed in the way of my sub- jects of Roman faith in regard to the exercises of their religion, or that they will be forced to depart from it, is gullty of telling a downright le. My whole relgn and words and actions prove how bighly I value religion, by which I mean the personal relation of every man to his God, and such a person insults by a cal- umny of this nature the successor of the Great King, who sald: “Every one is entitled to obtain blessedness in his own fashion.” “The second misapprehension consists in the fact that the fear is kept alive that their racial peculiarities and traditions are to be extirpated. That is not so. The kingdom of Prussia Is composed of many races who are proud of their former his- tory and Individuality. This, however, does not prevent them from being good Prussians. Traditions and recollections may live in peace, but they belong to his- tory, to the past. This day I recognize only Prussidns are here, and I owe it to the labors of my forefathers to see that this province shall remain irrevocably pound to the Prussian monarchy, and that it shall forever be good Prussian and good German soil. “] empty this goblet filled with the julce of grapes ripened on the banks of 1he beautiful Rhine, to the welfd#re of the province of Poland and its capital on the Warthe."” Emperor William’s speech to-day was designed to conciliate the Poles, insofar as this could be done by phraseology that did not imply “weakness and to reaffirm the continuance of the present policy, in- cluding that of making German the only Janguage of the schools and the admin- istration. 3 Polish newspapers have recelved the Emperor's speech in silence. . Inquiries made among the Poles and Germans of this city indlcate that both elements con- sider the race quarrel in the province as likely to continue and that it will result in hard feeling and hard usage on both sides, trade and social boycotts, secret societies and the employment of - spies. z / -;WO Thousand People Are Killed by Renewed Eruptions. ‘ OINT- A’ PITRF, Guadeloupe, Sept. 4—Gunlike re- ports from the south give warning that Mont Pelee is still violently active. Thick black clouds hang low in the sky. The heat is intense. Although the Governor has issued a proclamation announcing that the commission sept to inspect La Soufriere reports that there are no indica- tions of danger from that source, the public panic has abated in no manner. "It is generally belived that the Island of Martinique is doomed to total destruction; and the fear is that when the catas- trophe comes Guadeloupe will be visited by an all-destructive tidal wave. Business is absolutely at a standstill. Few shops are open, and if it were not for the efforts of a small number of the more valiant souls hundreds would starve to death here because of their fear of a more terrible death. Details that have been received during the last two days prove that the eruption of Mopt Pelee of August 30 was far more violent than any of the earlier explosions, and the results were more terrible than first reported. At Morne Rouge more than 1000 have died and many others are so badly injured that they cannot recover. Almest the entire village has been de- stroyed, church towers standing as a sort of monument to the dead. The gendarmes that were quartered at Morne Rouge were found dead with their horses in the road, they having made an unsuccessful attempt to escape the fire which was ®howered upon them from the crater of Pelee. The positions in which their bodies, were found tell the story of the flight. One by one they were dverf%kcn by _a wall of flame.that shot from the mouth of the volcano. Not one escaped. Troops that were sent irom Fort de France to rescue the wounded were compelled to flee to escape the destruction which had enveloped their comrades. As the eruptions continye the mouth of Mont Pelee grows in size. It is now of enormous proportions. Morne Lacroix, one of the peaks that reared skyward from the side of Pelee, has fallen bodily into the crater, and it has been completely swal- lowed. There seems to be a side pressure in the crater, and the burning chasm widens, perceptibly every day. Clouds no more hang about the crest of Mont Pelee. The terrific heat seems to drive everything away. A column of flame and smoke rears di- rectly into the heavens, so that its top is lost to sight. It is es- timated that this.column is eight times as high as the volcano. In the darkness of the night it has the appearance of a stream of molten iron, standing fixed by some mysterious power between heaven and earth. S From Morne Capote the relief troops were compelled to make a quick retreat; though they succeeded in taking out a few wounded.” The entire country almost up to Fort de France is under a deep cover of ashes. This has made it impossible to find the bodies of those who perished while fleeing to the sea- coast. Constance Cara, one of the few who succeeded in escaping from Morne Rouge after the explosion, found refuge on the steamér Esk. Telling her story, she said that she was with twelve others in her house when Pelee gave its first warning of the disaster, which'it was about to pour upon the village. She ‘said that the first explosion destroyed many houses. She was hurled with great force against the wall of the room in which she was sitting. On recovering from the shock she ran outside, and there saw three separate tongues of fire sweeping down from the mouth of the volcano. . The earth shook with so great violence that she could not retain her feet. . She was blinded by the glare of the flames. The heat was so terrific that her flesh was blistered. She awaited death which she thought was in- evitable. Fortunately the fire swept a little to one side of her ar(:l she was saved. 2 At Grand Anse the tide swept 300 feet inshore destroying many houses and drowning scores of inhabitants. Even at Fort de France the most stout of heart have lost courage. Few believe that the end will be anything less than the total destruction of the island: - Those who are able are leaving Martinique, and those who remain do so with the one hope that they will be taken before Pelee completes its work. The Esk and Souchet are taking the inhabitants to neighboring “islands as rapidly as possible. Another = steamship belonging to the Compagnie Transatlantique is expected at Fort de France on Saturday to assist in the work. * Colonel Lecour has reported to his Government that it is his opinion that in the end the island of Martinique will have to be abandoned. He asks for assistance in the transportation of the inhabitants to other islands in West Iddian waters. KINGSTON. Jamaica, Sept. 4—|some of the inhabitants have returned, Aceording to reports [eceivgd[ the greatest apprehension prevails. The unfortunate islanders neve? know what to-day from Fort de Francc[ Saturday night's eruption of Mont Pelee was more serious than at first re- ported, even worse than that of May 11. “The ‘area of destruction extends five miles farther eastward. At the first out- ’ break of the volcano the people fled in ! every direction, the majority seeking safety in the boats in the harbor. While 1 is going to happen next and live in a state of tension that is pitiable. Panic is renewed at each successive rumbling of the earth and at terrific explosions that proceed from the mountain. All along the northern part of the island earthquake shocks are doing much dam- Continued on Page 3, Column £