The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1902, Page 1

NO. 118. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1502. - * PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUNGARIANS COMMIT AN AWFUL GRIME Beat Non-Union Men With Clubs and Kill One. —_— Many Acts of Violence Are Reported in Anthracite Coal Fields. et Governor Stoae Dec'ares He Will Keep an Army on Duty, but Holds Martial Law in Abeyance. Tt I PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25.—While there much disorder and many acts of the hard coal re- lessness was not so in the week. 1 troops and a sted greatly in ce. outbreak occurred where a mon-union miner a band of Hun- parts of the region of violence con- r anthracite re quiet, most of the in the vicinity of esbarre. ay Governor Stone declare martial He replied: ng the power of the martial law, it would resort to that Guard have been regions to suppress bs where the civil are unable to suppress them t interfere wi the civil au- are there to aid and assist e is a surplus in the treasury is prepared to maintain a the field for an indefinite > hesitation in expressing coal regions authorities y n uppress serve order regardless of cost.” JAMES WINSTON’S MURDER. Waylaid by Strikers and Beaten and Kicked to Death. t. 2.—James was killed and was severely f Hungarian styikers, n on their way to work SCRANT! Winstor v half a mile from Thirteenth Regiment at s got away, but Winston's a club and he he lay prostrate and beat him was carried home nion man, and Tom Preston and Harry three men who are alleged Shubah, the to have the crime, have fled. Bix d 1 who were in the crow h the assailants emerged d held in $1000 bail each Mrs. George Marshall, colored, wife of etor of a hotel at Jessup, escorted n a crowd of 100 strik el to the Sterrick Creek o last night. When an to avenge 1f by bom- e hotel Mrs. Marshall fired on the crowd be b. tk up and peppered & dozen | t. This scattered the of the Thirteenth Regiment was called a of the Pancoast colliery in Throop. T evening a crowd of strikers threw stones at non-union men who were belng escorted home from work in Forest City. The soldiers loaded their guns and the er said he would give the word another stone was thrown. The ted away. One man who held Cold the soldiers’ work by dis- congregation of mobs. TROOPS DISPEES_E MOBS. Co:l and Iron Policemen Assaulted and Left for Dead. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 2.—The Eighteenth Regiment arrived at the min- ing tewn of Duryea, this county, late this aftermoon. The town is almost on the di- viding line between Luzerne and Lacka- wanna counties, and ever since the strike began has been the.scene of many acts of violenc After g some orders General Gobin came ic Wilkesbarre to-night. One bettalion of the Ninth Regiment io- day we Nanticoke, Plymouth and Maynanie and dispersed large crowds that had mbled in the vicinity of the mines. Sheriff Jacobs accompanied the \@iers «nd at Nanticoke placed under rrest John Succho, who was heavily armed. David Aknow, coal and fron policeman, was assauited by strikers at Brookside. in the northemn part of the city, this after- noon, and left on the road for dead. He was removed to the hospital in a critical condition. President kxchell and his advisers at strike headquarters say the presence of of | n-law was badly | of “temults,” riots “and| s of violence, and my de- them and pre- | jumped on him, | attempted to disperse a | crowd which was tearing up the tracks | i | t \United States Intends [FORMING TREATIES WIiTH NEW REPUBLIC to Retain Isle of Pines in Negotiations With Cuba Concerning | Commerce, Reciprocity and Extradition. J B e 3 ~t { MINISTERS OF CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE EN- GAGED IN ATTENDING TO NE GOTIATION OF TREATIES ON COM- | MERCE AND EXTRADITION BETWEEN THE TWO REPUBLICS. % ASHINGTON, Sept. 2%.— | With the expectation of | being ready to present to | Congress at the opening & | of its next session a fa- bric of treaties between the United States and Cuba, negotiatiors are pending between Senor Quesada, the Cuban Minister, and the State Depart- ment with regard to a commercial treat: | an extradition treaty and a treaty to ad- just the title to the Island of Pines. It is the purpose of Minister Quesada, it is stated, to draw up the commercial treaty on reciprocity lines. such a treaty will depend naturally on The fate of | Cuban reciprocity. United States Minis- ter Squiers at Havana will attend to the | Cuban end of negotiations. | An extradition treaty between the United States and Cuba already has been drafted. The provision for the establish- | ment of civil government in Cuba omitted |the Island of Pines from the constitu- tional boundaries of Cuba and left its [title to future definition by treaty. The | United States has decided to leave the island under the jurisdiction of the Cuban Government until such a convention can be consummated. The Island of Pines is a municipality in the district of the judi- cial district of Bejucal and a part of Congressional action on the subject of | Havana province. L RS T R IR RWIAAIRN Y WOULD MAKE ROOSEVELT AN HONORARY COLONEL | King Edward Desires to Bestow an | Unusual Honor on the | President. | LONDON, Sept. 26.—It is sald that King | Baward desires to show his esteem for | President Roosevelt by asking him to be- | come colonel-in-chief of a British regi- | ment. | Emperor William has already been hon- ored in 2 similar manner, but it is doubt- | ful whether a precedent exists for paying a compliment of this kind to the president of a republic. It is stated that researches are progress- ing officially and that if no precedent exists his Majesty will probably make one. Such a compliment paid to America would be highly popular here. @ i the troops in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties has had the effect of strength- ening the ranks of the strikers. — Exaggerated, Says Mitchell. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 2%.—Presi- dent Mitchell of the United Mine Work- ers of America, in a long distance tele- phone message to the News to-day from ‘Wilkesbarre, said: “The reports of lawlessness in the strike region are greatly exaggerated. There has been no serious outbreak. There have been individual acts of law- lessness, but nothing has occurred that has been a concerted move on the part of the strikers. ARE NN Some Stray Firing. LEBANON, Pa., Sept. 25.—There was some stray firing in the vicinity of the American Iron and Steel Company’s plant to-night, but no one was injured. Pickets were stationed about the big plant. TWO OUTLAWS ARE KILLED AFTER DESPERATE FIGHT Posse Captures Two Others, Who Re- fuse to Give the Names of Their Dead Companions, MUSKOGEE, 1. T., Sept. 2%.—Deputy United States Marshal Funk and a posse killed two outlaws, whose names are un- known, at Henrletta, after a desperate fight, and captured two others. One of' the captured men is Jim Holbrook, a member of Bert Casey’s gang. Both men refused to divulge the names of the men who were killed. ‘' There were five men in the gang. The officers surrounded them. In the fight that followed one outlaw escaped. Officers are now pursuing him near Eufaula. Jim Holbrook is the only one of the men who is known. He has been hunted many times, but never captured. He is a con- federate of Sam Bauer, who was shot at Checotah. He was a member of . the Brooks faction, three of whom were killed at Spokagee Monday. Both Holbrook an the other captured man will be placed lg jail here to-night. QUARRELING MONKS ARE SENT TO PRISON WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—A further ac- count of the singular controversy which arose between the Creek and Latin monks over right to sweep the steps and pave- ment of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is contained in a report to the Department of State by United States Consul Merrill, at Jerusalem, dated Au- gust 15. This controversy led to a bit- ter personal struggle between the monks, in which a number of the participants were injured seriously. Wholesale ar- rests followed, and thirty-four monks were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one week to a vear. The present outcome of the trouble was the issue of irades by the Sultan granting te the several powers the right to pro- tect their own subjects in Jerusalem. FIREBUG DESTROTS A BLOCK Sausalito I8 Vis- ited by Big Bt Many Families Made Homeless by an Ing:gl]_di_ary. Lack of Water Hampers Fighters and Loss Is Heavy. —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAUSALITO, Sept. 25.—A fire of ex- traordinary fury, and damsging beyond | anything of the like ever recorded in this town, started a few minutes before 12 o'clock to-night. Within an almost in- credibly short time an entire block of buildings was reduced to ashes and prob- |ably a dozen families were rendered | homeless. The loss may reach $100,000, The blaze is believed to have been of incendiary origin, for the owners of the | structure in which it started are confident | that every precaution against fire was | taken by them before they closed for the i | night.* The amazing rapidity with which thi | flames made headway startled every resi: {dent in the town from beach shingle to hill top. Not a drop of water was to be | had. - The hydrants were discovered to be | ont of ‘order and. effarts to pump water from the bay were futile. In their emergency hundreds of people, headed by Mayor Thomas and reinforced by nearly fifty officers and the men from the revenue cutter Thetis, which had just arrived from the Arctic, went vigorously to work with such inadequate facilities as they had at hand to stay the progress of the blaze. Ar appeal is declared to have been made to the company which supplies water for household use and is said to have been re- fused. Whether true or not, the report of a refusal gained ground and excited the severest condemnation. The fire started in a barn in the rear of the blacksmith shop of Pedro Brothers, very close to the water front. Before an alarm was given it had almost destroyed the flimsy structure and was moving rap- idly toward the east and west. The Fire Department pressed quickly to the scerfe with apparatus and proceeded to attach the hose to the hydrant. Only at that perilous moment was it found that the hydrants were empty. The hose was then run to the bay, but the pumps were not of sufficient power to yield a stream because of the low tide. By this time the flames had spread along Caledonia, Johnson and Water streets, and was fast moving southward to the aristocratic quarfers on the hill. Many dweliings were destroyed, but in the majority of cases the owners were enabled to save their belongings. Trees on the slopes furnished fuel for the fire and, like another Pelee, the peak above glowed in the reddest of light. Among the houses destroyed were the residence of John Johnson, stables of Jo- seph Peters, the residence of Willlam ‘Warnerwiltz, the blacksmith shop of J. 8. Pedro Bros., blacksmith shop of Benn Bros., Frederick Revere's barber shop, Marrida’s plumbing shop, the stables of Judge Bellrude, Justice of the Peace, and many small houses. The men from the Thetis were under command of Lieutenants Gamble and Goudy and Dr. Horn. Their labors were most effective,.and so was the service rendered by the crew of the British ship Genvarock. After burning for more than two hours the fire was gotten under control. During the excitement Louls Haffner, the well-known resident and capitalist, dropped dead. Heart disease is the sup- posed cause of his death. He was 75 vears old. STATE FAIR PAVILION HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Street Car Passengers See Flames Shooting Up to the Build- ing’s Roof. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25.—The big ex- position building of the State Agricultural Soclety had a close call from destruction by fire to-night. About 9:30 o'clock the passengers in a passing street car noticed flames shooting upward from the center of the roof. The watchman was quickly notified and the fire department called to the scene. By quick work on the part of Chief Guthrie and his mer the flames were prevented from gaining headway. It appears that the fire origined from an immense stretch of canvas which was being ofled and was to be used to pro- tect the music stand in the center of the building. In some unaccountable manner this canvas caught fire and the flames were carried upward into the roof. The damage can be repaired with the expendi- ture of a few hundred dollars. CHINESE COOLIES FLOCKING TO AMERICA DESPITE LAWS FRAMED TO EXCLUDE THEM Wily Mongolians and White Allies Devise New Methods to Evade Statute, and Stream of lllegal Immigration Threatens to Reach Alarming Proportions Unless Means Can Be Found to Check It OB g NSCRUPULOUS agentsof theT wily Chinese have put into operation new methods of evading the excjusion act which have started a stream of emigration toward the shores of America that is even now alarming In size and the cause of con- sternation in what it indicates for the fu- ture. The Treasury Department must find o+ & means to check the growing unlawful im- migration promptly or it will soon reach a magnitude that will disturb seriously industrial conditidns on the Pacific Coast and arouse general indignation that the will of the people in regard to the en- trance of Chinese coolies is being thwarted. Two devices are now being used most effectively, and the agents of the Treas- ury Department, whose duty it is to keep out the Chinese, find themselves helpless to repair the breach in the wall. Writs of habeas corpus are sought by the score now on behalf of Chinese immigrants claiming to be returning rightfully to this country and by this means the ‘“‘native son” Chinese, who has never before been outside the limits of some little province on the Yangste-Kiang, is hustled away from the inspectors before they have had opportunity to take his statement. Under the law's protection the alleged subject of Uncle Sam is kept in custody in the County Jail instead of in-the isolation of the detention shed. His attorneys may see him as often as they please and the men who are prepared to sweag that the alleged native son was born at such-and- such a place and date, of such-and-such parents, are coached in conjunction with the immigrant, so that when the case is called before Commissioner Heacock of the United States District Court so per- fect a showing is made that nothing is left for the court but to order the dis- charge of the Chinese held in custedy. EASY ROAD TO CITIZENSHIP. Chan Ling, born in Foochow, and who never saw the shores of America before, thus steps out into the ranks of Amer- ican labor with a court record to estab- lish his claim that he was born at 17 Waverly place, March 24, 1882, and that his parents were Chan Dong and Sing Chee. He is forever safe from molesta- tion. No power in the executive branch - the Government can disturb him, for the court has declared him to be a sub- ject, lawfully returning to his native land. He can work for his masters who pro- vided for his coming. He can even put his name on the Great Register and be- come a voter and do the bidding of white and yellow bosses in helping to shape po- litical events to their liking. Certified copies of this court record, or of court records in cases possibly in which the Chinese were actually entitled to admission, are furnished, In accord- ance with the law, to Chinese or their at- torneys upon application and the payment of the prescribed fee. The record, with photograph attached, is sent to China and given to a Chinese who resembles the man photographed and described and with this to establish his claim to the right to be admitted he is shipped to this country ar.d again the law is evaded. Or the rec- ord is given to a Chinese who has entered surreptitiously across the border and Is likely to be arrested at any time and de- ported. With this record in his posses- sion and with witnesses ready.to swear [ &0 SITRATTON HoDsory FEDERAL OFFICERS WHO ARE CONFRONTED BY DIFFICULT PROB- LEM OF HOW TO THWART NEW SCHEMES OF CHINESE AND THEIR WHITE ALLIES TO EVADE EXCLUSION ACT. } o that he is the man designated in the document, another servile coolie becomes a subject, entitled to the protection of the country and to the electoral franchise. This is the second method, used partly to supplement the first and partly as an independent means to thwart the law. The Collector of Customs is authorized to pass upon the claims of a Chinese to American nativity. He may accept the recommendation of the Chinese Bureau and refuse admission or he may let the immigrant land, as it may please him. In this way Collector Stratton’s prede- cessor admitted 3000 alleged native sons within two years. Collector Stratton has been very careful in his administration of the exclusion act, and in all cases in which the officials of the Chinese Bureau have recommended the deportation of a Chinese he has uniformly followed that recommendation. CALL’S EXPOSE EFFECTIVE. The expose made by The Call in April, 1900, of the corrupt practices of Chinese and their attorneys and the connivance of Government officials put an end to the wholesale violation of the law and re- sulted in keeping out of American terri- tory a horde of Chinese who, except for that expose, would have secured admis- sion. Collector Stratton’s honest admin® istration has kept the bars up and has driven the wily Chinese and their white accomplices to devise new ways to evade the law. ‘Within three months a marked increase in the number of alleged native son Chi- nese seeking admission has been no- ticed. Since the time of The Call's ex- pose In 1900 to a few months ago not more than five or six such eases, on the average, were presented by each incom- ing China steamer. For several months the number has been growing, until the situation has become alarming. The America Mary, arriving August §, had thirteen alleged native-born Chinese aboard. On the Gaelic, reaching port Au- gust 27, there were nineteen Chinese who claimed to have been born in this coun- try. ' The Hongkong Maru, arriving Sep- tember 1, had thirteen of this class of Chinese. -. The China, reaching port September 12, had twenty-five- alleged ‘native son Chi- — nese, and of these nine were taken out on writs of habeas corpus before the in- spectors could get statements from them. It is estimated that fully $5 per cent of all cases in which admission on the ground of American nativity is sought are fraudulent. Certified copies of court records of Chi- nese are obtained upon application to the eclerk of the United States District Court. George E. Morse, who holds that office, has furnished hundreds of them to ap- plicants within a few months. The num- ber of applicants is increasing and less and less effort is being made to cover up suspiclous circumstances connected with the applications. Some of the rec- ords have no photographs attached, and numerous applications are made for these. Occasionally the applicant is so brazen as to send a photograph which he alleges is a likeness of the man whose court record he desires, asking that it be at- tached. In some cases a photograph and affidavits that it is a photograph of the man named In the record are inclosed within the official cover of the certified copy of the court record, in order that it may seem a part of the official docu- ment and pass muster where the inspec- tion is not too rigid. USE OF HABEAS CORPUS WRIT. Three classes of Chinese come to this port seeking admission under the provi- sions of the exclusion act—first, mer- chants, students and tourists with “sec- tion 6" certificates obtained at Hongkong or other Chinese point from the Chinese Government and vised by the American Consul; second, laborers who had regis- tered in the United States and are re- turning from China with their certificates _ of registration; third, Chinese claiming to be natives of the United States return- ing from China. No considerable number of Chinese can evade the law and secure admission ex- cept in the third ciass. A Chinese who has no certificate of registration and who is obviously not of the merchant or stu- dent class cannot land in an American port unless he demonstrate that he iIs a native of America. If he was born In this country he cannot be excluded, and if Continued on Page 2, Column 8,