The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1902 INGENDIARY'S TORCH RAZES ENTIRE TOWN All Kiamathon Dis-g appears in Sea of Fire. [ Loss Is Estimated to| Exceed Half Mil- lion Dollars. ~ Great Lumber Mills Are De-| stroyed and the Populace Are Homeless. Sp YREKA thon, formerly es fro Vispatch to The Call. Oct 14—The town of Klama- called Pokegama, fifteen here, on the Klamath River, was algost completely destroyed by fire 1 the result of an incendiary’s | hon was the site of the Pine Lumber Company’s y and the Califor- ring Compan; sash and re started at midnight 1, while the watchmen After burning factory and a large por- er yard, it was stopped, was again applied, ck this morning the sash situated at the other was found to be envel- reir supper. b X ctory blowing and the fire | ness portion of the tile business of together with Klamathon, was mated from $500,- mber yard, contain- eet of lumber, was hat the linemen ines had great | ng in the shape the business of the resident portion w but a blackened waste never will be rebuilt. e Southern Pacific rped and two pas-| yed ten hours. The y lost its depot | nd was e whole of e homeless to- al exodus from | which was con- vesterday is worth al- as it is believed the be reconstructed. The ted to go up on the line | ilroad Company'’s | s the Southern Pa- miles south of Klama- e large timber belt. an unsettled state | this time to make nsurance carried. ated on an elevation visible eighty miles twe away CHICAGO MAXES LORENZ TAKE OUT A LICENSE Famous Medical Man Runs Against the Law in the Windy City. 14T Oct Adolf Lorenz, surgery in the ted success- the last of the hip, to- State Board of ense to practice is morning nce with the ed before that body cense. and this afte request, he app and was graat Yellow Fever in Guayaquil. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Oct. 14.—The Board of Health at a meeting yesterday declared this city to be infected with yel low fever. There have been cases lately, chiefly among Germans. A Jesuit priest named Guerrero, who was educated in the | TUnited States and who had been admin- istering to the sick, died last night of yel- | low fever. L e e e T DIPLOMATS SEEK A CESSATION OF THE HOSTILITIES Following Up the Plan of Minister Powell to Arrange Peace in Hayti. PORT AU PRINCE, Oct. 14.—Acting on the initiative of United States Minister Powell, the diplomatic corps here has proposed & cepsation of hostilities in or- der to arrange the preliminary for peace between the revolutionists and the forces of the Provisional Government. St. Foix Colin, the Provisional Minister ¢ the Imterior, who recently called the population of Port au Prince to arms and | left the city with a force of troops to attack Montrouis, where the Government troops sustained a severe defeat Satur- day, has returned here without engaging the revolutionists. | President Castro and the forces VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT la SHIFTED Capital Is Moved in Haste From Caracas. Decisive Battle Now Being Waged at Victoria. United States Prepares for the Expected Overthrow of Castro. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 14068 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Civil war- fare in Venezuela, where for months Gen- eral Matos has waged a revolution against the Castro administration, has reached a | crisis. A battle which may decide the for- tunes of the revolutionists is being waged and President Castro has been compelled to abdicate the capital, establishing a seat at Victorla, If General Matos occupies Caracas United States Minister Bowen may be called upon to recognize the new Govern- ment which the revolutionists would then undoubtedly proclaim. Even now General Matos styles himself President. To guard against possible injury to American interests which might result in the disorder following a change in the Government the Navy Department is in readiness to send more warships to Ven- | ezuelan waters to assist the gunboat Ma- rietta, already there. The Montgomery is at Santa Marta, near the mouth of the Magdalena River, Colombla, and could ickly reach the Venezuelan coast. The ncinnati is within two days’ run, at Cape Haytien, and stronger naval protec- tion will-be avalilable in a few days,-when | the Olympia, the flagship of Rear Admiral Coghlan, commander of the Caribbean squadron, which was designed for just such efergericies as this, will be ready to leave Boston for Culebra. There is among those here who are fa- miliar with the situation in Venezuela a feeling that there will be no civil peace in Venezuela, even if the revolutionary party is successful. General Matos was Minis- ter of Finance of a former administra- tion, which was overturned by Castro,! and he escaped with nearly all the money in the Venezuelan treasury. But he has many enemies, and it is feared that once in the palace of the President there would soon be a revolt against him, just as there has been against Castro. It is reported-that Castro has had for three months a vessel lying at La Guaira in which he can quickly flee from the country if the fortunes of the civil war turn against him. American interests in Venezuela have thus far been entirely un- molested by the revolutionists. United States Minister Bowen has been on the alert for any affront to Americans, and his prompt action in demanding an apol- ogy for the unwarranted use in battle of the United States fiag by the Venezuelan gunboat Restaurador instilled punctilious respect for the United Statés, a lesson which has not yet faded. RETREAT OF GOVERNMENT. Removal of the Venezuelan Capital From Caracas. WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, Oct. 14.—The Government of Venezuela, owing to the fear that the revolutionists might make a night attack on Caracas and in view of the fact that Vice President Vin- cente Gomez left that city yesterda morning with all the troops available, 800 men, to reinforce President Castro, has | been transferred to the *‘provisional cap- ital” of Venezuela in the Guaxpuero dis- trict, surrounding Los Teques, without any town or village being stipulated as the headquarters of the Ministers. Consequently the seat of government may be in a railroad car or in some other place unknown to the general public. The | Venezuelan Government was also actu- ated in this matter by a desire not to re- ply to the questions of foreign Ministers who have been daily asking for redress as the result of injuries inflicted on the pop- ulations or properties of citizens of the countries which they represent. The latest news from La Victoria, where an important engagement began Monday morning between the army of com- manded by General Matos, General Men- doza, General Peraloza and General Rie- ra, states that President Castro was sur- | rounded by revolutionists and that his position was critical. PUERTO CABELLO, Venezuela, Oct. 14—According to an official report receiv- €d here the battle fought between the Venezuelan revolutionists and the forces of President Castro near La Victorla has resulted in a complete victory for the Jovernment army. —_—— GERMANY AWAITS EVENTS. Will Not Press Claims During Un- settled Conditions. BERLIN, Oct 14.—The dispatches of the Associated Press from Willemstad, an- nouncing the apparent critical position of President Castro of Venezuela, were com- municated to the Foreign Office here, | which had been expecting such news, but which had not yet received confirmatory dispatches. The position of President Castro, according to official intelligene, bas been growing precarious and his ul- timate downfall is predicted. This is the reason why the German claims agalinst of government at | Guaicaipure, twenty milés from Caracas. | FERNANDE. DECLARES A DIGTATORSHIP Colombia in State of Unrest and Anarchy. Report That President Marroquin Is a Prisoner. Revolution Is Prolonged and Government Is Without a Legal Head. Special Dispatch to The Call. COLON, Oct. 7.—Reports of Minister of War Fernandez having declared himself dictator in Bogota and having virtually made President Marroquin a prisoner Lave not caused astonishment here,as Fer- nandez has been recently actthg just as | he pleased. This is the second coup d’ etat effected | by the Conservative Government since the | revolution began three years ago. The first was carried out by Vice President Marroquin usurping the rights of the le- gal President, Sanclemente, August 1, 1900, who was ousted in a most unceremo- nious manner. It was aileged that, al- | though the legal President of Colombia, he was too cld to control public affairs, Fernandez, who once was a mere com- | mander of police in Bogota, has now actad more or less the same way with Marro- quin, so really there is now no constitu- | tional government in Colombia, and there has not been one since July 31, 1900. The actual situation is more anarchial than legal. On October 15 three years will have elapsed since the Liberal revolution began in Suntander. The revolutionary aims . Lave been to reform the constitution of 1885, which has been urged for vears by three-fourths of the whole country, the abolition of monoplies, the reduction of taxation and free elections. | The rebellion will never end until these {'demands are satisfiéd or Americans Inter- | fere. 5 ¥ { Minister Fernandez is much. to blame for the prolongation of. the war .He has { been leading ‘the country to ruin and des- i olation ever since he took charge. Paper currency is at the extraordinary figure of 10,000 per cent discount and now that his ambition and anti-patriotic proceedings i have led to proclaiming himself dictator, | which even the great General Fornis C. | Morquerra was unable to maintain, it | would seem as if a reign of anarchy, with | all its terrible consequences, had begun, leaving Colombia in a worse condition { than ever. | The Liberal party has recently made | several patriotic overtures for peace, but fall to no avail. SR g, : GERMANS ON THE PADILLA. iThey May Have a Chance to Face American Gunners. PANAMA, Colombia, Oct. 14.—Rear Ad- miral Casey has now decided to allow the Colombian Government to use the rail- | road, as the transit of troops and ammu- | nition’ no longer invites hostilities and an interruption of traffic.’ The action of the admiral has produced an excellent im- pression in all circles, | It is reported that General Herrera has several German officers on board the revolutionary gunboat Padilla acting as gunners. So, it is asserted here, Ameri- cans_coming to Colombia with the Gov- | ernment’s armed steamer Bogota (for- merly the Jessle Banning, which sailed from San Francisco October 7) will have | @ chance to show their superiority back of the guns against their German rivals. P. B. Ludd, an American who fought in Cuba as captain of the Sixth Cavalry of Missouri Volunteers, joined the Colom- Jbian army to-day. He is a graduate of | the Michigan Military Academy and be- longs to one of the best families in St. Louis. General Salazar has put him in charge of the Colombian marines intend- ed for the Bogota and he has already started drilling them. Young Leeds, the sixteen-year-old son of Mr. Leeds, president of the Rock Isl- and Rallroad, wanted to join the rebels. He left Andover College, but was stopped here and sent home by the United States Consul, and.arrived in New York to-day. NEW YORK, Oct. 14—R. G. Leeds, the son of W. B. Leeds of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, arrived at this port to-day from Panama, where he had been seized by the American Consul. acting under instructions. Young Leeds was put on board the steamer which brought him here to-day. SAYS FORMER SPOUSE KIDNAPED THE CHILD NEW YORK, Oct. l4—Alexander C. Young, corporation counsel of Hudson County, N. J.,, was arrested to-night on a charge of kidnaping !zls child, preferred by his divorced wife,” Mrs. Louise Mec- Allister Young, a niece of Ward Mec- Allister, and until midnight was detained at a police station. Mrs. Young, who was granted a di- vorce on August 28, was given the, cus- tody of ther little daughter. She charges that on Monday while the child, with its nurse, was standing on the street Young came up and carrled the child away in a cab. L e e ) Venezuela have not been pressed for set- tlement. 3 The Government of Germany is waiting until a new administration 1is formeq capable of carrying out the terms of set- tlement. PRICE FIVE CENTIS. UNITED STATES AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH s Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREATU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASH- INGTON, Oct. 14.—Secretary Hay and other officlals of the State Department were high- ly gratified to-day and ex- tremely hopeful of future settlement of international disputes by arbitration, when they received from the United States agent at The Hague this mes- sage: “All of our contentions in the plous fund case were allowed by the arbitra- tion tribunal and full amount of claims awarded.” This brings to a settlement the dispute between the Government of Mexico and the, Catholic Church of California, which began fifty years ago. It has been the first case heard by the arbitration tri- bunal at The Hague. The United States ‘was represented by Judge Penfield, Solici- tor of the State Department. The prompt result was a source of extreme gratifi- cation to this Government, not on ac- count of the victory, for the money will be, turned over to the Catholic Church and not the United States Government, bet on account of the success which the. first effort of the international tribunat has met. The pious fund was a gift made by char- itable persons in Spain in 1697 for the support of Roman Catholic missions among the Indians of California, which was then a part of Mexico. In 1767 the Spanish crown expelled the Jesuites; who held the fund in trust, from Mexico and California, and the Spanish Government assumed eontrol of the property and funds of ‘the order. ‘When Mexico achieved independence she in turn took over the fund and ap- plied the proceeds to tfle maintenance of missions, but when Upper Californie. was ceded to the United States, Mexico ceased to pay to the Catholic Church in tne TURKISH SOLDIERS BEING RUSHED T0 BULGARIAN BORDER Powers Agree to Request for a Better Surveillance of an Invaded Frontier. 1 CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 14—The Sa- lonica®Monastir Railroad has been or- dered to hold cars in readiness for ‘the transportation of troops and military stores, A detachment of 2300 soldiers left Sa- lonica Sunday for Dede Agitsch, a seaport of European Turkey. A Bulgarian band has been dispersed near Florina, seventeeen miles from Mon- astir. Seven of the band were killed. The powers have notified the Porte of their compliance with Turkey's request to make representations to the Bulgarian Government urging a better surveillance of the Turko-Bulgarian frontier, In response to the Porte's circular Bul- P L e e e 2 e e R SRR R i j I 1 | H | il T + MEMBERS OF THE HAGUE IN- TERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBI- TRATION. 2 s United States’ portion of California its share of its interest in the pious fund. Prelates of the Catholic Church of Cali- fornia sued for their share of interest be- fore the commission of 1868. It was de- cided by Sir Edward Thornton, the um-| pire, that the interest of the fund should be divided equally between the church in California or ,the church in Mexico and that the Government of Mexico should an- nually set aside half of the annual inter- est amounting to $43,080 99,* which, accu- mulating until 1869, amounted to $904,700 79, garia has promised in the future to close her frontler against marauding: bands. GREATNESS OF GLADSTONE PRAISED BY CARNEGIE National Memorial to the Late Pre- mier Is Opened at Famous Hawarden. LONDON, Oct. 14—The library . at Hawarden, erected as-a national me- morial to the late Willlam E. Gladstone and which cost 350,000, was opened by Earl Spencer to-day. - The building stands on the brow of'a hill commanding a view of the Dee, so greatly admired by Mr. Gladstone. It contains the statesman’s valuable collection of books. Crowds of| visitors attended the ceremonies, which commenced with a service in the church conducted - by the Rev. Stephen Glad- stone. Among the speakers who paid tribute to the memory of the dead Pre- mier was Andrew Carnegle. . ‘‘Gladstone,” said Carpegle, “for many years was not only the first in Great Britain; but the first of the ragg.” He continued: ‘“‘America hails Glad- stone as the founder of assured peaceful arbitration. of all international questions between us. Washington, Lincoln and Gladstone were types which brought the | peoples of.the two .countries together in ‘the patriotism of race. . Gladstone was 'a statesman with a consclence and heldL his patent of nobility from the Almighty \God.” Ay | Loren, - ‘which was paid in"full. No further pay- ments were ever made. DECISION OF THE COURT. Arbitration Tribunal Sustains Con- tention of Catholic Church. THE HAGUE, Oct. 14.—The arbitration court In the pious fund case has con- demned Mexico to pay the United States $1,420,682 in Mexican currency. The de- cision of the court was unanimous. The tribunal finds: “First, that the clalm of the United States In behalf of the Archbishop of San Francisco is governed by. the principle of res judicata In virtue of the arbitration decision . pronounced by Sir Edward Thornton, November 11, 1875, and amended by Sir Edward Thornton, October 24, 1876. TERRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN AGED MEN. IND SIX ROBBERS Three Brothers Are Badly Beateny but They Kill Two of the Band of Bandits. yIREC T X CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 14.—In a farm ‘house two miles from the village of Rochester in Lorraine County, a terrible battle was fought to-night between three aged brothers named Meach and six des- perate . ‘robbers. As the result of the battle. two of the robbers were shot to Ceath, one probably fatally wounded and twe -of "the Meach ' brothers were badly beaten. : 3 " There are three of the Meach brothers, aged 80 years, John, about 70, and . Jarvis, aged 6. The old men are said to berich. % ° While John was in the barn he was setzed by three robbers and bound. Go- ing to the house they knocked Jarvis Meach into insensibility. Jobm Meach worked himself loose fram his bonds. WIN VICTORY IN THE COURT OF ARBITRATION International T riburi_hfl at The Hague Decides That the Mexican Government Must Puy to the Pious Fund $1,420,682 at Once and Thereafter $43,050 a Year Forever. BsSER_. AND \ fflfllt 73 SIA . W 7omnse FEX 7 L2 A IAVENTY 02227 o ot . “Second, that in conformity with this decision the Government of the United States of Mexico shouid pay the Govern- ment of the United States $1,420,682 in money of the legal. currency of Mexico, within. the period. fixed by article ten of the protocol of Washington. This sum will cover the total payment of annuities due from and unpaid by the Government of the Mexican Republic, namely, the an- nual ‘payment of $43,050 in Mexican cur- rency from February 2, 1869, to February 2, 1%02. “Third, the Government of the United States of Mexico will pay to the Govern- ment of the United States, February 2, 193, and every following year, for the same date, forever, annual payment of $43,060, of money of the legal currency of Mexico.” The decision of the tribunal was read by Secretary General Ruiyssenaers In the presence of members of the Diplomat- ic Corps, their wives and the representa- tives of the litigants. Dr. Matsen, president of the court, who declared that a revision of the sentence was only- possible in the event of new facts coming to light, thanked the rep- resertatives of the United States and of Mexico for their assistance in enlighten- icg the arbitrators. He added that while no single judge was infallible, the unan- imity of the arbitrators who had so close- 1y examined the whole question at lssue was a guarantee that no mistake had been made. President Matsen concluded with ex- pressing the best wishes for the health of Queen Wilheimina and the prosperity of her people who had welcomed the members .of the court so cordially. Mr. Ralston of Washington, one of the lawyers in the case, and Senor Pardo, in behalf of Mexico, thanked the court for the care it had given to the case. Semnor Pardo sald he was sure that so soon as his” Government learned of the court's award it “would accept it. He must, however, reserve for his Government the right to avail itself of the provisions of the protocol. L T T e e o Y I however, and securing a shotgun cau- tiously stole upon the three burglars who were working at the safe. He shot two of them to death and fatally wounded the third man. The three companions of the men who were watching the house, realizing their danger, immediately got awdy. The robbers secured no money. The wounded robber refused to make any statement as to his identity. Ee———— Women Talk of Suffrage. TOPEKA, Kan.,, Oct. 14.—The first ses- slon of the nineteenth annual meeting of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Assoclation is being held at Representative Hall to- day. John McDonald of the Western School Journal made the address of wel- come, which was responded to by Mrs. Laura M. Johns. The principal address to-day was from Mrs. Carrfe Chapman Catt. To-night Henry B. Blackwell, of the Boston Woman’s Journal, will speak. About seventy-five accredited delegates from womien’s clubs over the State are in attendance. : i Hanna Names Montana Member. BUTTE, Mont.,, Oct. 14—A special to the Miner from Helena says: The Re- publican State Central Committee re- ceived a letter to-day from Mark Hanna, chairman of the Republican National Committee, stating that he had appointed C. H. McLeod of Missoula a member of the committee from Montana in place of the late E. L. Bonner. ‘was named by the State Central Committed a few waeks axa.