The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 101. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1502. STANDS ON HIS RECORD Pres‘ident Roosevelt Is Not Seeking Indorsement. Believes, Now, How- ever, That Honor Is Due Him. ' Fight Made by Trust Magnates Arouses Supporters. Special Dispatch to The CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. Ccanl | | W., Sept. §—Light was thrown to- @ay by a member of the Cabinet on the great contest now raging be- | tween the supporters of President Roose- | velt and the trusts as to whether the | Presidient shall have an unequicoval in- dorsement at the Republican State con- | vention to be held at Saratoga. | “The President,” said this Cabinet mem- " ber, “is not asking anybody to give him | an indorsement of any sort. He is willing to go before the people on his record, and'| if an indorsement comes all well and good, whether it be an indorsement of his policies or a declaration in favor of his nomination in 1904. GRATIFIED THE PRESIDENT. “The Pre t felt when California, | Missouri, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Dela- ware declared in favor of his nomination in 1904 that they were doing something | which mig t be necessary at this time. He thou; was a little too early for | Btate cc ons to commit themselves | as to wha thelr opinion other State conventio uld do two years hence, but as of optnion utterly | Aministration it was to him. If any President in advance | friends thought that New 4 do it, but he did mot care | t that and was willing to let | ly gratify d the York shot much abou the matter -drift. | FEELING IS INTENSIFIED. | “Recently, however, such bitter attacks have béen made upon the President for assuming what he considered to be a‘per- fectly rational and high position on the | subject of aggregations of capital, that | a decided change came over the minds of | his friends regarding what the New York | State convention ought to do, I allude | mow particularly to his friends in New | York State, where attacks on the Presi- | dent have been most severe. They felt that much as the President had been s d as the enemy of trusts, which He i and aiming to’destroy trusts when h ing to correct such evils the Republican party ite should come out flatly indorse the policy which he ned with such frankness and yet moderation. This feeling be- fied when it became known at representative finan- terably made up theiry hat the President should not be re- use of his attitude on the should not have an indorse- t atoga, which would count as They believe now that the Repub- jon at Saratoga should dis- specific terms indorse ‘the | sition of the President that publicity orporations is needed; that it is neces- bring them under government | and that if this cannot be accom- plished by legislation, it should be ac- complished by constitutional amendment. DESIRES INDORSEMENT. | he President did not particularly care | indorsement for 1904 until certain | tial gentlemen, who felt that their | schemes for extending the trust sys- | were being hampered, declared that 1d have no indorsement. Then, of rse, he wanted it. - He Is not going to | nterfere, however, to the slightest extent. | 1 do mot think he will turn over a hand | to get either an indorsement of his trust | policy or of his candidacy. Of the two | he would immeasurably prefer the first, | and his friends In New York will un-| doubtedly bend every effort to have Sen. ator Platt, Govegnor Odell and Colonel Sherman of the an conve ctly and in to | tate Committee adopt | that view and favor an emphatic plank | about the trusts.” ALPINE CLIMBERS MEET | WITH FRIGHTFUL DEATHS| Two of Them Miss Their Footing and | Fall Six Hundred [ Feet. VIENNA, Sept. 8.—There were three fatal Alpine accidents last Sunday. Three members of the Vienna Soclal and Tour- ing Club, while ascending the Rax Alps, Jost their way. Two of the climbers fell a distance of 60 feet and were killed. The third was obliged to stand upright upon a narrow ledge of rock from noon of Sunday until 10 o'clock Monday morn- ing, when he was rescued. Near Vienna, on the Kiestergestelg, a man fell and broke his neck. — Another Insurrection in Morocco. MADRID, Sept. S.—Reports from Tan- | gicr, Morocco, describe the situation in | Moroceo as serious. The Berbers have risen against the Sultan and made an- other attack upon the Jewish quarter of Mekires. The gates of the city have been closed, and 7000 troops have been sent | there from Fez to quell the insurgection. Electrocuted in State Prison. BOSTON, Sept. 8.—John C. Best was | electrocuted at the State Prison at 12:22 this morning. Best's crime was the par- ticularly atrocious murder of his em- pioyer and supposed rival, George E. Bafley, manager of the Break Heart Hill farm at Saugus, and whose dismembered body was found in sacks in & pond. I FIRMIN PARTISANS BEING PUT IN JAIL AT PORT AU PRINCE Sinking of the Crete-a-Pierrot by a German War Vessel Is Followed by Firm Meas- ures by Hayti’s Government. o ORT AU PRINCE, Haytl, Sept. 8.—The Government be- gan yesterday to arrest the . partisans of General Firmin, the reyolutionary - eandidate 7., for thé Presidency, and this cturse of action is being continued. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—As was .ex- pected, “William F. Powell, the United States. Minister to Hayti, reported promptly to the State Department the sinking of the Haytian gunboat Crete-a- | Plerrot by the German gunboat Panther. |' In a dispatch dated yesterday at Port au | Prince the Minister said it was reported that the Panther had called upon Killick to surrender, that he had. refused and that the Panther had sunk the Crete-a- Pierrot and all the crew had been lost. A second and later dispatch corrected ‘the statement as to the crew, saying that they had escaped. The Minister promised to make an extended report by mail. The Navy Department was also in- formed of the event in the following dis- patch, received from Commander Mc- Lean, in command of the United States cruiser Cincinnati: “PORT AU PRINCE, Sept. 8. —Secretary of the Navy, Washington: German gun- boat Panther sunk Crete-a-Pierrot at Gonaives. Crew escaped. The Panther re- turned to Port au Prince. McLEAN.” WILL BENEFIT COMMERCE. As matters stand, there is nothing "to be done by the State Department at this juncture. The officials have not changed their view that the incident was one be- tween the German and Haytian Govern- ments and that it was not our business. The Berlin advices to the effect that the Haytian Government had expressed its satisfaction with the situation, being brought to the attention of the depart- ment here, went to confirm the officials in their position. . No American interests have been affected unfavorably.|n their judgment, and as the United States has not recognized the revolutionists in Hayt! there is no one to make complaint to this Government. On the whole It s felt that the termination of Killick's career in summary fashion may have a salu- tary effect not only fn Hayti but also in South .ana+ Central American countries where heretofore the sltightest revolution- ary disturbance has been made the pre- text for vexatious and expensive inter- ference with foreign merchant vessels. Only recently the British cruiser Phaeton was obliged to force the Colombian Gov- ernment to release the British steamer Ecuador, which it was intended to im- press into service as a troop transport, while still more recently Commander Mc- Crea adopted a similarly vigorous course with respect to this same Admiral Kil- lick, and it 18 not doubted that had he remained In Haytian waters he would have ‘siezed the Crete-a-Pierrot for viola- tion of his warning to let foreign ship- ping alune. Altogether these active na- val measures are expected to have bene- ficial results throughout that section of the world, so far as forelgn commerce is | concerned. OFFICIALLY REPORTED. BERLIN, Sept. 8.—The Marine Minis- try has given out the official report of the sinking of the Firminist gunboat Crete-a-Plerrot: “Captain Eckermann of the Panther had received orders to capture the pirati- cal gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot. The Panther went there from Port Au Prince to Go- naives, where it completely-surprised the Crete-a-Plerrot. The German command- ant sent the following ultimatum: * ‘Strike your colors within fifteen min- utes and disembark from your ship with- AMERICA’'S REPRESENTATIVE IN HAYTI"WHO REPORTS ON THE REVOLUTION. 2 out undertaking any defensive measures whatever; otherwise an immediate attack will follow.’ “The Panther had already cleared for action.. The Crete-a-Pierrot hauled down her flag within the allotted time and the créw disembarked. The Panther then at- tempted to take the Crete-a-Pierrot in tow, but an explosion of her aft powder magazine soon ensued, which was evi- dently effected by the Crete-a-Pierrot's creiv. “The explosion destroyed her stern and | set the vessel on fire, rendering taking her in tow impossible, especially as further explosions followed. As this was regarded as a hostile act and as the guns afore were still in condition the Panther's cap- tain caused the boat's forward magazine to be exploded through a cannonade. | After this was effected the Crete-a-Pler- rot broke up and sank. The admiral was | on board with the rebels. Gonaives is in | the hands of the rebels.” | The German Foreign Office informs the Associated Press that the Haytian Pro- visional Government has communicated to Germany that Haytl regarded the Firminist gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot as a pirate and that the interests of Haytt were untouched by the action of the German gunboat Panther in sinking the Crete-a-Pierrot at the entrance of the harbor of Gonaives. MAY CAUSE CONTROVERSY. LONDON, Sept. 8.—A few of the after- noon papers in commenting on the sub- ject seem to anticipate that the sinking of the Firminist gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot by the German gunboat Panther at the entrance of Gonalves Harbor may prove controversial. ““So summary a revenge for breach of international courtesy,” says the St. James Gazette, “is like breaking the frailest butterfly on the largest wheel. Supposing the butterfly’s big neighbor takes a hand in the game, matters may become most serious,” The Westminster Gazette, speculating on the matter, holds that “nothing in Monroeism prevents a big continent from boxing the ears of a troublesome boy on the other hemisphere, so long as the big boy does not eat or otherwise annex the smaller one.” INVOKES GREAT INTEREST. London Papers Comment on the Ap- plication of the ‘“Mailed Fist.” LONDON, Sept. 9.—Intense interest has been invoked here by the sinking of the gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot at Gonaives, Hayti, by the German cruiser Panther, and the morning papers devote lengthy editorial articles to the incident. A ma- jority of the papers agree that there js no likelihood of serious developments foi- lowing the occurrence. . The 'Daily Tele- graph says: - “No International eemplications will fol- low, but it is Impossible to overlook the danger that some similar incident in the far only served their apprenticeship, be- MARRIES A DYING " TEACHER Sad Termination of Romance Begun in Colorado. Denver Belle Goes to Philippines to Join Lover. While Her Fiance Is Expiring She Be- comes His Wife. asuee Special Dispatch to The cail. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—Marriage to her betrothed, as he lay dying of Asiatic cholera in Manila, was the dolor- ous finale of the journey made by Miss Jeanette Williams of Denver to the Phil- ippines. She had expected to meet her flance, Rudolph Zunsteifi, formerly of Colorado Springs, Colo., who had been appointed a teacher and assigned to Nacarlang, La- guna. But on July 15, within a few hours after she stepped blithely down the gang- plank of an army transport, unconscious of Zunsteln's illness, she stood ‘beside his deathbed. MET AS STUDENTS. She had met him and they became en- gaged when students at the University of Colorado. When guided by his friends In Manila she hastened to the Nouse where he lay, there seemed no immediate danger of death, although his iliness was considered critlcal. Nor did the attend- ing physiclans know he suffered from cholera. They dlagnosed his case as dys- entery. But Miss Willlams was apprehensive. She had been graduated from the uni- versity with the degree of M. D. and re- solved to follow her betrothed to the Phil- ippines and with her scientific knowledge become a strong aid to him in his work among the native Filipinos. Arrangements were hastily made for thed marriage ceremony the following day, July 16. A minister, had been requested to come at 2 o'clock. DIES ON WEDDING DAY. But in the morning of the sad wedding day theré came a sudden turn for the word fn Zunstein's condition. A minister sent for hurriedly. He came and pronounced the words which made them ‘hiisband and wife. The young woman was almost speechless from the despair which had seized her. The young schoolmaster could searcely more than whisper the re- plies to the marriage ritual. Within five hours after the ceremony was concluded Zunstein was dead. Then it was learned that the disease which he had suffered from was Asiatic cholera, to the attack of which most vic- tims succumb. The details of the story were received at the War Department to-day from Ma- nila. Miss Williams applied for transpor- tation and was granted permission to go out to Manila on a transport as long ago as last March. i Marries on His Death Bed. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Bradford B. Mec- Gregor, who was operated on for kidney disease at his cottage near Mamoroneck on Saturday last, died to-day. McGregor married Miss Clara Schlemmer of New York a few hours before the operation was performed. He was a son of the late Ambrose M. McGregor, one of the or- ganizers of the Standard Oil Company. - Z Part of Island Will Disappear. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—A Sun special from Paris says: M. Camille Flamma- rion, the well-known scientist, expresses the opinion that the revival of the vol- canic activity in the West Indies is a menace to all French and English 4slands | in the Antilles. He believes that the northwestern portion of Martinique will finally disappear altogether. @ siivieileleiieieieieiieieieleidullol @ tuture may drop the spark into the mag- azine of the Monroe doctrine.” The Telegraph holds that the precedent established by this vigorous application of the “mailed fist,” if followed, cannot fail to bring about a situation of perilous tensfon. ‘The strict principles, the paper says, with which American statesmen re- gard Monroeism are one thing; the sus- ceptibilities of the American peaple are another. The latter might become excited where the former were not technically contravened by an incident such as the sinking of the Crete-a-Pierrot. The Morning Post says the incident is particularly valuable as introducing some necessary limitations to Monroeism as set forth by President Roosevelt and says: “If the punitive process should involve the occupation of territory for its pur- poses what would be the attitude of the United States?” The Daily News publishes a striking analogy of the personal cnaracteristics of Emperor Willlam and President Roosevelt and refers to the possibilities of two men ‘“of such amazing energy,” who have so ing brought into a ‘“‘conflict so powerful that the faintest hint of it is sufficient to send a wave of excitement throughout the continents.” “If the Panther’s action was meant as a hint to America, President Roosevelt,” says the Daily News, “has very astutely turned a blind eye to the signal; he de- clines to see any hint. A smaller man than the President would be tempted, un- der such circumstances, to play to the galleries. He has acted with character- istic good sense in brushing the matter aside as a trivial Incident, which has flluminated by its brief flash the vast sea of ‘possibilities ~ that would have to be taced should the old world ever come into direct conflict with Monroeism.” - CHAFFEE REPORTS AN ATTACK BY THE FEROCIOUS MOROS Warlike Tactics of the Natives of Mindanao Will Cause American Troops to Start a Vigorous Campaign. e e e — COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF ARMY IN PHILIPPINES AND COMMAN- DER OF TROOPS ON MINDANAO. - J ' x * ASHINGTON, Sept 8.— The War Department has received a cable dis- patch from General Chaffee, dated- ‘Manila, September 6, stating that oan attack was made on the United States troops at Mataling Falls, seven milés from Camp Vicars, by Moros, September 1. First Lieutenant William M. Parker, Eleventh Infantry, and two soldiers were wounded and one soldier killed. General Chaffee also says: @Have authorized - Brigadier ~General Samuel Sumner to mave troops into Maciu country and exact promise of good be- havior in futuge of dates and followers. Troops have been attacked twelve times since May 2, with loss to us.of four killed and twelve wounded. We have remained D o B A O B e e e o o | DOES NOT ABANDON HOPE OF GETTING THE FUGITIVES| Special Prosecutor Erwin Says the Gredhe and Gaynor Cases Are Not Yet Ended. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Marion Erwin, the special assistant ' to the ~Attorney General in the prosecution of Captain O. M. Carter ‘and Greene and Gaynor, has just returned from New York, where he went in connection with civil suits:to re- cover half a million dollars of assets to the Goyernment. Regarding the Greene and Gaynor ex- tradition matter Erwin said. Judge Caron’s decision reversing Judge An- drews' judgment and discharging the prisoners from custody before we could have our hear- ing before the extradition commissioner, is by no means regarded by the Department of Jus- tice as ending our efforts to accomplish the ex- tradition. It Is trye that we have no appeal undeh the laws of Canada from the decision of Judge Caron. While we have mo appeal, I will mot say that we are entirely without remedy. What- ever remedies exist will be applied In the swproper way at the proper time. Meanwhile the defendants are practically compelled to keep close to their city of refuge. It is sufficient to say that the extradition proceedings are not ended. e Big Shortage of a Defaulter. NEW YORK, Sept. 8. New defalcations are dally coming to light in the case of William Malcolm, treasurer of the Pas- saic Building and Loan Association, who has disappeared. The shortage, at first thought to be $60,000, has now reached over $150,000. Cyclone Destroys a Town.. PARIS, Sept. 8 — Dispatches from Buenos Ayres announce the destruction of the town of Bolivar, Argentine Repub- lic, by a tornado. Fourteen people were killed and fifty were injured.” -~ ,all the time quiet, seeking friendship; in action, self-defense only.” The last:part of Generai Chaffee’s dis- patch evidently fs intended to inform the War Department that he has been acting wholly upon the defenmsive in the Moro country. . His instructions have been to do nothing which would provoke trouble with the Moros, and the position of the ‘War Department is that If there is a conflict it must be justified by the ag- gressions of the Moros. Some time ago General Chaffee asked for authority to attack the Moros imme- diately, bvi he was advised the depart- ment wished' to avoid hostilities if pos- sible. .At the same time it has long bden the’ belfef” of officials of the department that an aggressive campaign In Mindanao is inevitable ‘and it would not be sur- rrising if there shouyld be a foreward movement of the United States troops in a short time. MAINE GOES REPUBLICAN BY. INCREASED PLURALITY Entire Congressional and Four-Fifths of the Legislative Ticket Is § Elected. .PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 8.—Chairman Simpson of ‘the State Committee to-night selt a meéssage to the President saying: ‘Maine has gone Republican as it’ once went for Governor' Kent. 'We have carried the State by.a plurality.of 25,000.© We have elected the entire delezation in Congress-by a large ma- Jority, have ¢hosen every Senator, with one ex- cebtion, and Ebout four-fifths of the Legisla- ture. The Pine Tree State indorses your ad- ministration with no uncertaln voice. A message of like import was sent to Senator Hanna saying: the Republiean policies which have given to ouf country _a, prosperity: unequaled in his- tory.of the world. Republican plurality has been 12,000 e - Dismisses the Demurrer. TRENTON. N, J, -Sept: 8.—Vice Chan- cellor .Stevens to-day .dismissed the de- murrer of the city of Paterson in the suit brought by Henry W. Doremus and oth- ers against Paterson for about $3,000,000 damages for. polluting the Passaic River, along which Doremus owned property. THe tase will go t6 a final hearing on the question of damages to be awarded. Boer Generals to Tour United States. © LONDON, Sept. 8. —~General Botha's sec- retary, Bredoner, sa gramme for ‘the future. Maine has to-day shown her appreciation of | Congressman Burlelgh sent a message announcing the result to Chairman Bab- cock -of the Republican Congressional Committee. He said the average off-year this evening that the Boer generals expect their tour of the United' States to occupy six months. The generals will _proceed to The Hague to- morrow in order:.to attend the gathering of the Boer leaders and prepare a pro- PRICE FIVE CENTS. ASSUMES ILLEGAL : POWERS ColOmb—i:;;_;linister of War in Role of Dictator. Execution of Liberal Leaders Arouses Indignation. Defeat of Government at Agua Dulce Is Confirmed. Special Dispatch to The Call KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 8.—Last ad- vices which have been, received here from Bogota, Colombia, are that President Marroquin and Minister of War Fernan- dez have quarreled and that the latter is @eveloping a tendency to assume illegai and dictatorfal powers. There is general indignation against General Fernandez be- couse of the execution of the revolution- ary or Liberal leaders Generals Suarez and Lacroix and others belonging to the best families in Bogota. Senor Martinez Silva, former Colombian Minister at Washington, and other prom- inent Conservatives have been imprisoned for publishing documents criticizing the acts of Minister Fernandez and the gen- eral Government policy. Passengers who have arrived on the steamship Trent report the situation on the isthmus as stili critical. They say that of the 1500 soldiers who recently reached Colon to reinforce the Govern- ment troops most are boys and raw re- cruits. CONFIRMS THE DEFEAT. They further report that the insurgent steamer Boyaca was sighted on the morn- ing of September 5 towing four large schooners with soldiers off Point Chame, about fifty miles from Panama Bay, which confirms the defeat of the Govern- ment forces at Agua Dulce and the move- ment of General Herrera's army on Colon and Panama. General Vargos Santos is now supposed to be with General Herrera. It is reported that a gunboat of about 250 tons left San Francisco about Septem- ber 2 for Panama, where she is expected about September 15, regarding which the insurgent war vessels have been already advised. Advices from Carthagena report that the Magdaleiia River is still blocked. Only four steamers have come down, as the passage is difficult owing to the revolu- tionary forces holding Point Pinon with pewerful artillery. It is rumored that the Government steamers Hercules and Cisneros have been either sunk or captured by the in- surgents. COLON, Colombia, Sept. 8.—Over 1000 Government troops were hurried from Panama to Colon yesterday afternoom. and additional entrenchments are being erected at Monkey Hill, a mile from Co~ lon, on the railroad, and other points in expectation of an insurgent attack. The gunboat Boyaca has been mobilizing troops under the command of insurgent General Herrera in the direction of Pan- ama. VENEZUELAN CHIEF DIES, PARIS, Sept. 8.—A dispatch to the | Matin from Port-of-Spain says General Monagas, one of the ptincipal Venezuelan revolutionary chiéfs, has died of dysen- tery at Chagnasamos. General Matos with his army is at Alea Gracia. Presi~ dent Castro has returned to Caracas. Insurgent forces attacked a train going to La Guaira when a few kilometres | from Caracas. Troops were sent fo the | assistance of the train, but they were | beaten after a fight that lasted a whole | day. A further engagement is expected. Reinforcements have been sent from Caracas to La Guaira. The Government troops have abandoned Cancagna and are falling back on La Guaira. GREAT NORTHERN FEARS ANOTHER BIG HOLD-UP Two Heavily Armed Messengers Are Stationed in Every Car of the Passenger Trains. GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 8.—The Great Northern will not take any more ‘chances of a “hold-up” such.as occurred on the main line a year ago last July. The through trains from Glasgow to be- yond Kalispel resemble one of the ar- mored trains which the English used dur- ing the South African war. The cause of it all 1s news brought to the head officials that an attempt would be made to “hold up” the through express about six miles this side of Belton and west of Midvale. It is a fact that a party of six strange men armed to the teeth have been in that viecinity for the past week, and it is pre- sumed they are the parties of whom the railroad people have suspicions. The party has two horses for each man, and the members do not seem to be hunting. They avoid being seen as much as possi- ble. Every evening the west bound pas- senger train has two heavily armed mes- sengers allotted to each car, some of them being on the blind baggage and oth- ers scattered at available points along the cars where the best shooting can be had In case of any Kid Curry antics. It is be- lieved that the alleged outlaws have wind of the reception prepared for them. They are still in the mountains, and it is as- serted that they are looking over the trails preparatory to attempting the “mold-up.” Seriously Injured by a Cave-In. WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 8.—While C. A. Hayes and his four-year-old son were looking through a prospect tunnel a short distance below Wardner to-day a cave-in occurred. Hayes' leg was broken, and the boy was so badly injured that he will prebably die. | | (=