The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 109, MARINES TO STAY ON ROAD Guard on the Panama Line Likely to Remain. This Means Perma- nent Occupation in Colombia. Federal Troops Put Obstructions on the Track. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Colombian | Government troops, not revolutionists, | &re first to obstruct the Panama Rallroad, | t of which the | three warships es to the isth- | on this account This dispatch this afternoon from Com- n of the cruiser Cincinnati, I went to Panama. The pped twice by obstructions, placed on the track. passed I saw Government ers replace the obstructions. Ac- d by the Consul and Commander e Governor. We had | I returned to stopped by ob- oldiers were compelled to Then they stood on the sction the train moved They jumped away. Will No revolutionists are | rumored they are com- the railroad.” MUST MAINTAIN TRANSIT. iron, After the t: conversation. and AR w t the first obstruction to | the operation of raflroad was offered by Colombian Government troops was re- 2 considerable surprise by most | although Commander Me- | y returned from Carib- where he had guarded the in Panama as well as watching informed Secretary that when he was there less ble had been encountered in Panama the revolutionists than with Gov-| ent troops. | 4 States guards maintain transit| e Panams Railresd by provisions of | the treaty of New Grenada of 186. By treaty Colombia guarantees to the ted ‘use of the| rtation of United | nd correspondence, and ed States guarantees to | hat it will at all times keep | across the isthmus free | It is the opinion of | that the treaty obliges | t in the maintenance of | waters with n. f the dispatch received | er McLean were withheld, Moody said he had not to issue any additional | mmander McCrea, who | the situation well in he had reason to believe Government would the Colombian | to Commander Mec- | on the isthmus is d that ian AT LIBERTY TO SHOOT. Government troops his efforts to keep the rail- operates two passenger and trains each day, clear from | ructions he will be at liberty to shoot | one engaged in the work of obstruc- r as the United States is con- | is no difference between the ment troops and the | ates takes no sides re tion. ptain Thomas Perry of the Jowa was at the isthmus during the revo- | lution last November he took a train for | Colon. The Colombian general in com- | mand of the Colombian troops at Panama attempted to board the same train, which was going to Colon, then occupied by the revolutionists. Captain Perry refused to allow him to do so, stating that the protection of the United States could not be used to convey Colombian Government troops mearer their enemy. The permanent occupation of the isth- mus of Panama by marines, which left Philadelphia on Sunday for Colon, may be the result of the continued condition of unrest in Panama. A naval officer well informed as to the situation to-day said: “There is good reason to believe that the department will send those marines to guard the rallway, and then to all intents and purposes forget that they are there, like England did in Egypt, you know. It would hardly do to make permanent oc- cupation formally, but the United States’ own interests are extensive, and the trou- ble is likely to be renewed at any time. The marines could be left there to advan- tage.” COLOMBIA’S PLAIN DUTY. While the act of the Colombian Govern-#| ment troops in obstructing the railway is an apparent violation of the treaty, it was not admitted at the department to- day that representations would be made to the Colombian Government. It is rath- er belleved that action will begtaken to make the Colombian Government realize that the United States expects that coun- try to do her full part in keeping the railroad clear for the convenience of the world’s commerce. A similar warning will, of course, be served on any revolu- tionists who obstruct the rallroad. Orders issued to-day direct Commander Masoh to proceed at once from the naval war college there to relieve Commander McLean from command of the Cincinnati. This change is made merely because Commander McLean's tour of sea duty is | SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 19502. HENDERSON CAUSES QUEEN WILHELMINA PERSONALLY OPENS STAATS GENERAL Popular Young Ruler of the Netherlands Appears to Have Completely Recovered From Her Recent lliness- Throne Speech YOUNG RULER OR THE NETHER- LANDS WHO PERSONALLY | OPENED PARLIAMENT. % A~ < * HE HAGUE, Sept. 16.—Queen Wilhelmina opened the Staats General in person to-day. She appeared to have completely recovered from her illness. She was accompanied by her hus- Prince Henry, and the Queen The Queen’s reference to band, mother. ccmpleted. Commander Mason will not, however, relieve Commander McLean un- til the latter so adjusts matters that a change of command can be made without trouble. By the time Commander Mason arrives at Colon Rear Admiral Casey, with the Wisconsin, will probably have ‘arrived and taken command of affairs in Pan- ama. gomet iy et | REMOVES THE OBSTRUCTIONS. Governor of Panama Is Called to Ac- count by Americans. PANAMA, Sept. 16.—Commander Mec- Lean of the cruiser Cincinnat! and-Com- mander Potter of the cruiser Ranger had a conference yesterday with General Sal- azar, civil and military chief of the De- partment of Panama, regarding the actual state of affairs and the course of | procedure. It is reported that Commander McLean urged the advisability of order- ing that obstructions must not be placed on the line of the Panama Raliroad; that transit must not be interrupted in any way, and that while opposing forces are in the neighborhood of the railway ‘line that no armed forces shall be transport- ed for elther side, to avold endangering the lives of passengers. General Salazar had ordered that all trains be stopped before entering Pan- ama or Colon and inspected by Govern- ment soldiers. As a result obstructions were placed on the track near the two ports in order to force trains to stop, General Salazar's purpose in having trains halted and inspected was to pre- vent revolutionists from entering either port by train. Commander McLean insisted that the placing of obstructions should be stopped, &s it was contrary to the treaty between the United States and Colombia. In re- sponse to the complaint of the American naval officer General Salazar intimated that he would have the obstructions re- moved, though he added that the ob- structions did not authorize TUnited States intervention, as they formed only a method of police work which did not interrupt traffic. No further news has come here regard- ing the movements of General Herrera’s revolutionary army. Rebel warships have been reported off Punta Mala. Grand Jury Makes No Charges. CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—The Grand Jury to-day voted “No bills” against Oscar Thompson, John Claffey and Edward Counselman, who were arrested and held to that body in connection with the Bar- tholin-Mitchell murder mystery. The re- lease of the men is now expected. B L S Pennsylvania Convention Divides. SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 16.—A split in the Republican convention of the Tenth Congressional District to-day resulted in two nominations—William Connell, the in- cumbent, and George Howell. 0 foreign affairs in the speech from the throne was confined to the statement that the relations of The Netherlands with foreign powers continued very friendly. The rest of the speech was devoted to domestic affairs. The Queen mother this afternoon vis- ited the exhibition at Scheveningen in aid of Boer families. Sarafoff Gains His Liberty. VIENNA, Sept. 16—A dispatch from Belgrade, Servia, announces that Sarafoft, the former president of the Macedonian committee, who was arrested there yes- terday after being in hiding for some time past, was released to-day after a magisterial examination. | L e S i i i ol MINNESOTA VOTERS TRY THE NEW PRIMARY LAW Nominations Are Made for Congres- sional Offices in Nine of the Districts. ST. PAUL, Sept. 16.—The new primary law was given its first'test in a general election to-day, when the voters of the various political parties went to the polls to register their choice for nominations for congressional, judicial, legislative and county officers. The nominations for Con- gress so far returned are as follows: First District, Democrat, Peter Mec- Govern. Second District, Republican, J. T. McCleary; Democrat, C. N. Andrews. Third District,” Democrat, C. C. Kellars, Fourth District, Republican, F. C. Ste- vens; Democrat, John L. Gieske. Fifth District, Populist, Andrew Nelson. Sixth District, Democrat, J. A. Duboise. Sev- enth District, Populist, August O. Fos- burg; Prohibitionist, Knute Johnson. Ninth District, Democrat, Alexander Mc- Kinnon; Populist, Nels T. Noen. flie B Ll S LEOPOLD NOT SURE THAT HE WILL COME King of the Belgians Sets at Rest Stories of a Proposed Visit. . LONDON, Sept. 16.—In a telegram to the Associated Press in .response to an in- quiry forwarded Saturday, King Leopold of Belgium himself disposes of all of the positive announcements and denfals re- garding his visit to the United States. Through his aid de camp, Lieutenant Binge, he sent the following message to- day: “To the Associated Press, London— Bagneres de Luchon, France, Sept. 16.— The King, while fully appreclating the interest expressed by the Associated Press, is really unable to say whether it will be possible for him to undertake any travels next year.” —— Strikers Place Their Pickets. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 16.—Notwithstand- ing the court’s order of yesterday the TUnion Pacific strikers to-day placed thir- ty-two pickets in the vicinity of the rail- road and shop yards. None, however, ventured on railroad property and instead of moving about in groups they kept well separated, no two of them appearing to- gether at any time. There was a large squad of policemen patrolling the vicinity where the pickets were also doing duty, | but no clash occurred during the early day. Labor officials stated that they would try to conform as closely as possi- ble to the order of the court, but would maintain their rights as citizens. i e Transport Sumner Reaches Manila. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The War De- partment is advised of the arrival of the transport Sumner at Manila from San Francisco, with the second squadron of | the First Cavalry and 298 enlisted men, SEIZING MINERAL CLAIMS Timber Land Schem- ers UGrab Miners’ Holdings. Quarter Million Acres Already in Their Clutches. Operations Are Going On Now in Eight Counties. State Mineralogist Aubury makes the astonishing statement that during the last few months at least 250,000 acres of public land in the mineralized sections of California and largely mineral in nature have been grabbed by Eastern specu- lators through the employment of dum- my locators. In the tracts thus secured are included many actual mineral claims on which California miners have lo- cated and have prepared to do the as- sessment work necessary to perfect title under the United States mining law. The speculators, he says, are not even timber men. They have seen that there is a great future for mining and that, the surface of California having hardly been scratched over for gold and other metals, there are untold millions of dollars await- ing the owners of these lands in the fu- ture. Mineralogist Aubury therefore ad- vocates having the public domain all withheld from timber entry in this State until there can be an inspection to deter- fine how the lands should be properly classified, whether as timber, mineral or agricultural, and he will move in that direction. MAKE BITTER COMPLAINTS. Complaints have been received in the office of the State Mineralogist from min- ers in the counties of Siskiyou, Shasta, Sierra, Plumas, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, El Dorado and Calaveras concerning the op- erations of the land grabbers in these counties. Hardship has been inflicted upon miners who are poor and to whom the filing of a protest in a land office of the United States means a journey of scores of miles and the expenditure of many dollars. Enrolled in the ranks of the complain- ants are many representatives of the ad- venturous and ‘harés’ clas¢ of men who have made California famous in song and story—the prospectors who find new fields rich in gold. Some of these have rested secure that they would be able to enjoy the fruits of their enterprise by fulfilling the legal requirements, which call for the performance of $100 worth of work per annum upon each mining claim for a certain period as a preliminary to the final perfecting of title. Across their claims the greedy and insatiable specu- lators have thrown their timber claims. The miners are therefore much dis- tressed and incensed. They have put in their time and skill, and landgrabbers from the East, profiting by the mineral discoveries, have coolly prepared to rob them of the fruits of their toil. FIRST STEP PROPOSED. Yesterday Mr. Aubury said that his first move would be to put in the field in the countles where the timber claim specu- lators are operating all the field deputies that the condition of the appropriation | for the State Mining Bureau will permit. Skilled men will be sent out with instruc- tions to inquire carefully and thoroughiy in order that the facts relating to the several mining counties may be put in his possession as promptly and as ac- curately as possible. This mass of data will furnish the basis of the representa- tions to be made to the General Land Of- fice at Washfngton. This will enable the State to present a conclusive showing, which ought to have much weight, consti- tuting a full and official expose of the moves that are being made and also 'showing the dangers that beset a great area of country that has been demon- strated to be mineral. “There is great injustice to the miners in the present conditions,” said Mr. Au- bury. *“The mineral locator has to estab- lish the fact that there is mineral on his claim to make his title good. The tim- ber speculators ought to be compelled to show that the lands they are locating are more valuable for timber than for either agricultural or mineral wealth. I have information that gives me no room to dcubt that I am entirely correct in say- ing that the locations are being made by speculators, who will get all they can and keld on until they can make a clean-up, all at the expense of the miners. “While the timber syndicates are rich, the individual miner, seeking for gold in the Sierra, is generally poor and has not the means to protect his rights. Of this the timber syndicates are undoubtedly aware and that makes them proceed with all the more assurance of being able to get what they are after by the methods they are pursuing. ¥ TAKE LARGE TRACTS. “There are some tracts containing as much as 75,000 acres that the land grab- bers have got hold of already and sev- eral that range from 50,000 to 75,000 acres. The process of locating the land is sim- ilar in all instances. Dummies are hired to visit the public domain and give the use of their names at the rate of $100 each in making the timber locations. There were at least fifty of these dummies that I have heard of in one locality. “As the work of the grabbers is of re- cent origin, there is good reason to sup- pose that they have only begun and what they have already accomplished is merely a feretaste of what may come. The pro- ceedings are likely to.be on a gigantic scale unless some measures are adopted to checkmate them. For this reason it is Continued on Page 2, Column 5. BIG SENSATION BY DECLINING TO RUN Speaker of House of Representatives Re= fuses to Accept Nomination Because of His Views on Tariff and Trust Questions UBUQUE, JTowa, Sept. 16— Speaker Henderson, finding that his views in respect to the treatment of trusts by re- ducing the tariff in whole or in part, are not in accord with the views of many of his party in Iowa, has this day declined to accept the nomi- nation for Congress and has withdrawn from the race. Speaker Henderson has addressed the following letter to C. E. Albrook of El- dora, Iowa, chairman of the notification committee: “My Dear Sir—I have never answered the kind notice communicated by you and your assoclates advising me of my nomi- nation for the eleventh time by acclama- tion as the Republican candidate for Con- gress for the Third Congressional District of Towa. Reported conditions in the pub- lic mind in my district upon public poli- cles induced me to take this delay. Since my return to the district I have made a careful study as to the sentiment in the district and State, and I believe that there is no little sentiment and a growing one among Republicans that I.do not truly represent their views on the tariff ques- tio; n. AGAINST FREE TRADE. “Believing this condition to exist, and knowing that I do not agree with many of my people that the trusts, to whichIamand have been opposed, can be curbed, or the people benefited by free trade in whole or in part, I must decline to accept the nomination so graciously and enthusiasti- cally made. I have devoted twenty of the best years of my life to my people and for my country and have fought for what I believed best for the farmer, the laborer and the business interests of this district and State. I am grateful for the devotion that has ever been accorded me and to the hour of my death will hold in a grateful heart the memory of that devotion. I will 1ater on give in some detail my views and convictions on our conditions and on pub- lic questions and state my reasons why the Republican party and policies should continue in the confidence of the voters of the United States and why the doc- “trines of the Democracy should find no lodgment in the faith and teachings of the Republican party. Truly yours, “D." B. HENDERSON.” CONTEMPLATED FOR WEEKS. Speaker Henderson announced his with- drawal after a conference of several hours’ duration with Chairman Glasser of the Congressional committee and friends this afternoon.~ Speaker Hender- son has been contemplating this action for two weeks, but had intimated nothing of it to his friends until yesterday. At the conference his friends implored him not to take the action, but to no avail. He said he had made up his mind and no argument could cause him to change his decision. When asked for his reason for his withdrawal Speaker Henderson said: «“My letter to Chairman Albrook is the whole thing in a nutshell. You cannot kill the trusts by applying free trade without killing our own industries. Thc foreign trusts are fighting the American trusts and I do not believe that for the purpose of controlling American trusts we should make a market for foreign trusts, thereby crushing out the indus- tries of this country. After my confer- ence last Saturday at Waterloo, hearing the views of the chairman of my district, I concluded that my views on the tariff question were at variance with those of my party and I did not desire to appear in a false position.” GIVES HIS REASONS. Speaker Henderson gave out an address this’ evening which states his views on the tariff and trust questions and says - 2% SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WHO RETIRES FROM CAMPAIGN. - = that because these views, in his opinion, are not in accord with the State platform and with the opinions of prominent mem- bers of his party, he declines to accept the nomination. -The address is to “the Republican voters of the Third Towa Dis- trict.” He says, being a Republican, he is a protectionist, and if he ever enter- tained a doubt as to the wisdom of the protection policy ‘a comparison between the present and past would blot out such doubt. of ‘the tariff planks of the last two na- tional platforms. Continuing, he says: “For three years I have advocated giv- ing control of trusts to Congress. judgment proper supervision can never be had until Congress has power to treat them. I am glad to see from speeches made by our fearless and upright chief executive that he is advocating Federal control over these corporations, and while in some quarters they may sneer at it, I have not seen any proposition yet except this that seems at all likely to bring re- llef. No proposition has ever been made by the Democracy except to put every- thing on- the free list and to give the country free trade. In other words, they propose to kill the child in order to cure it. They promise to slaughter every inter- est in the United States, whether capital or labor, in a wild and blind effort to pro- vide a remedy for trusts. In my opinion if combinations could be regulated and controlled we would have very little de- mand for changes in the tariff laws. To show how strongly the Republican party feels upon the subject, in its State plat- form this year it declares in favor of any modification of the tariff that may be re- quired to prevent affording shelter to monopoly. A BOLD DECLARATION. “Our Democratic friends treat this as moving Into free trade grounds. It is ncthing of the sort. It is a bold declara- tion that if modifications of the tariff are required to prevent monopoly from shel- tering itself under the wings of protec- tion then the tariff shall be modified to prevent that condition. For my part, if any great interest in this country is pros- pering through protective policies or any other législation, and is using its advan- tages, growth and prosperity to pluader the American people, I for one am ready | to strike it by whatever legal means we may be able to adopt, providing that in so doing we 'do not hurt innocent inter- ests. I am not prepared to say I would be willing to strike down and destroy { by papers found in his pockets. He then speaks with satisfaction | In my | PRICE FIVE CENTS. BANKER FISH IS . KILLED Head of Distinguished Family Victim of Saloon Row. Goes on Spree During Wife’s Absence From City. Private Detective Is Held for Striking Fatal Blow. NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The death of Nicholas Fish as the result of a quarrel in a saloon, and the arrest of Thomas J. Sharkey, a private detective, onthe charge of homicide in that connection, has been the subject of close police investigation and conjecture all day. Fish was the head of one of the most distinguished familles in the TUnited States, a banker of great wealth and at one time Minister to the Court of Bel~ gium. He died at Roosevelt Hospital from the effects of injuries received dur- ing an altercation with a stranger in Ehrhardt’s saloon, at Eighth avenue and Thirty-fourth street. According to infor- mation gathered by the police Fish's death was due to a blow struck by Thom- as J. Sharkey, a private detective, who, with two women who were present at the time, was arrested after the death. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. A policeman found Fish lying uncon- scious on the sidewalk In front of the sa- loon and summoned an ambulance, in which he was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital, where his identity was revealed A dis- patch was sent to Mrs. Fish, who was at Tuxedo and who reached the hospital soon after midnight, remaining at the side of her husband, who never regained con- sciousness. According to the police, Fish, who, in his wife’s absence, was living at his town home in Irving place, entered the saloon yesterday, accompanied by a Mrs. Phil- lips and a Mrs. Casey, two women who live on West Thirty-fourth rtreet. There they sat drinking until the: were joined by Sharkey at the invitation of one of the women. Fish continued to treat his companions until, on discovering that his money was exhausted, he announced that he woul@ draw a check and get the bar- tender to cash it. This provoked a derisive remark by Sharkey, who was ignorant of Fish's iden- | tity, and high words followed. A blow was struck, by whom the police do not know, and the two men rushed at each other and the women screamed and tried | to separate them. One of the women, clutching Fish by the arm, succeeded in dragging him out of the saloon to the sidewalk. There he was confronted by Sharkey, who had broken away from his companions, and they clinched. A mo- ment later Fish reeled as if from a blow | and fell prome to the sidewalk. Seeing him lying unconscious, and fearing that he might have been killed, his late com- panions fled, leaving Fish where he fell until a policeman came along and sum- moned an ambulance. As soon as the fact of Fish's identity was established a dozen detectives were set op the trail of his companions, and be- fore daylight they were traced to the house in which the women lived and were arrested. After being arraigned In the Police Court they were brought before Coroner Jackson, who, after a preliminary inquiry, held Sharkey in $10,000 bail on the charge of homicide and the women as ‘witnesses. To the Coroner Sharkey made a state- ment that he met Fish and the two women in the saloon, and after a verbal altercation with Fish they left the place | by aifferent doors. He denfed striking Fish, and declared that he must have fallen as he was leaving the saloon. | Detective Trojan, who made the arrest, | declares in an affidavit that Sharkey ad- mitted to him that he struck Fish. Both the women made sworn statements, but these District Attorney Jerome has re- fused to make public. CAUSED BY HEAVY BLOW. Coroner Jackson, after perfoming an autopsy, pronounced Fish's death to be due to cerebral hemorrhage following con¢assion of the brain, and not to a fracture of the skull, as was at first supposed by the surgeons at the hospi- tal. The Coroner declared his conviction from a careful examination of the con- dition of the brain, that the injury was caused by a heavy blow and not by con- tact with the sidewalk in a fall. In the latter case, he sald, thére would almost certainly have been exterior injuries and a fracture of the skull. The Inquest will be held Friday. Mrs. Fish, who was completely prostrated, re- mained at the hospital all night, and this morning went to her home in Irving place, accompanied by her brothers-in law, Hamilton Fish and Stuyvesant Fish. After the autopsy Fish's body was re- moved to the house. The funeral will be held to-morrow in St. Mark’s Church, in Second avenue. The | burial will be in the family plot at Gar- rison, N. Y. The New York State Society of the Or- der of the Cincinnati, of which Fish was president, has Issued a general order re- questing members of the order to attend the funeral. Nicholas Fish was 53 years of age and the descendant of one of the qldest and most distinguished of American families. | His grandfather, Colonel Nicholas Fish, fought with distinction in the battles of Flarlem Heights, Saratoga and Yorktown, and his father, Hamilton Fish, was the first Secretary of State under President Grant. After several years of diplomatic service he entered the banking business in this city in 1887. Of his brothers, Ham- | American combinations and let foreign Continued oh Page 2, Column 4. flton is the former Republican Speaker of the New York Assembly and Stuyvesant is president of the Illinois Central Rall- rcad Company. il B