The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1902, Page 1

RERRV R T . 23 | Inis Paper not | i T Ig//#\\ 3 i g to be taken Fi’(_):n L e od med <4 3 . \ O rA E } ‘ 3 the Library.++++ | T ) ! ey eSS VOLUME XCII-NO., 161. Wil AD | AMERICAN LEGION THE POLIGE, PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1902. FOFS RISE STRUGGLE FOR SPEAKERSHIP IS DEVELOPING ON LINES OF T0 DEFEAT THE WEST AGAINST THE EAST A MORMON Voted Veteran Is Chosen President of the Band of Brave Men Who Won Medals of Honor in War. Tariff Revision and Anti-Tariff Revision Are Questions Upon Which the Rival Candidates Will Battle, but Cannon of Iilinois Wiil Probably Win. . A o - + t of Utah May|+— i State Executive 4 - *\Smoot of Utah Ma , isit 8 | || Find N Visitor at Scené | Find Numerous . * of Crime. 1 Obstacles. 1N * ; i late|| %N Apostle’s G ti Mysteries Accumalate| £\\ postle’s Connection i1 Nl : 2 1 N\ 3 in the Case of | e\ With Polygamy | W \ 1 2 Alan Mason. ) Questioned, I\ S : NS Evidence Found That Ac-| l Republican Opponents of the cused Man Tried to Entice || Man Make a Most Vig- |1 Women to a Park. | orous Protest. BOSTON, Nov. 7.—In the developments | | Special Disbatch to The Call. of the day in tho Mason caze, which has SALT LAKE, Nov. 7.<In spite of. the ‘,i\ljznedAlh:ID“-'(" of B'v;mr; s;nce 3115: overwhelming majority that it appears ara A. Morton was struck down an { killed in Waverly last Saturday, there | | Apostle Reed Smoot will have in the Leg- are several striking details. So serious | | lslature and. thg-open indérsemients by has the case become that Governor | | the Mormon, CHERSEIIMIE Cadldaby for Crane has interested himself and he ‘ 1 the United States Senate, there is a pros- looked over ithe scene of the murder | | pect that a strong fight will be made on while on a visit to-day to Waverly | | him by members of his own party. Prompted by the finding in a pawnshop | Already the polygamy issue has been here of the watches of Agnes McPhee raised. Apostle Smoot has declared in and A Monru‘:. the two women | an interview that he does not practice who were murdered in this city, the ;m-; : plural marriage. An investigation is now | lice are i,vr<,<1vr_g with all their eperg,\ to ( in progress that. strengthens. the bellefl place, if possible, the responsibility for | that he does. High Mormon officials ad- | | the crimes. ir-ha: been learned that a mitted to- ay that an unwritten law of | | negro employed by the Mason family ! v the church exists'requiring any person to has gone away from the city and the| | be a polygamist in order td be an apostle. police eannot ascertain where he is. It Only three members of the gquorum of was & who pawned the ?‘[urlnn | twelve are not known absolutely to have watch pawnbroker, Joseph I\en‘:ser, ‘w | more than one wife. Apostle Smoot's o= store both the McPhee and Mor- | | father had five, and the supposition is watch were. found, was at Dohc_e | that he is no exception to the rule re- to-day sand rapeafed his | / | | sarding apostles. Apostle Smoot in his about the watches, after which he | | t | interview while declaring that he is not for the E Cambridge jail to AT | a polygamist admitted that he is a be- . n for the purpose of identifying | | \\ N\ | liever in the system, which is preached r ‘ |'and taught in the Tabernacle in this city. | Nemser failed to identify Mason. At | The Repuplican opponents of Smoot are Mason was placed among six most vigorous in their protest against the other yamn apd Motnr STy SOPMEe- | | action of the church in attempting to iz each one. He picked out One, man | | ! place the apostle in the Senate. Although as the person who pawned the watch, | | they anticipate defeat in the Legislature but it was not Mason 11 | they desire to go on record and to sub- MASON IN THE PARK. | | mit ‘this record later to the Stnate tn fase In q;obmg the case at “’;\'efly the | | Im‘-‘ue&i& i & ;;“' 'tfi‘ X - police have found evidence that Mason | ! ' cfl of, the present returns . S d NENTLY MENTIGNED IN CON- 1ad made at least two attempts to have | | ‘gapected that about fifteen and possibly NECTION WITH SPEAKERSHIP. n meet him at night at “The Oaks,” | | . more Republican members are strongly A aE f the Metropolitan Park reser- :oynosed to- electing any Mormon apostle R < ot B Do Th et St tnianaltl to the United States Senate. There are | sentiment in the West is taken for grant- A e Mason was a patient, and | | | others who are controlled by Sepator | ed. He is regarded at the present time grounds of whick Miss Morton | fThomas Kearns. While Kearns helped | i as ‘unquestionably in the lead for the led. | Smoot elect his ticket in return for the Speakership, with no one to divide the During the day the attention of Chief ‘church influence in securing his own elec- vote of the great West with him except calledl to & published interview | tion two vears ago, it is known. that he Babcock. between Nemser and reporters, in which | | | personally questions the wisdom of send- i i Lol Yemeer said thet B Was. petd th stick | - | ing Smoot to the Senate. 1In case he LITTLEFIELD IS CONFIDENT. to Bis story and that a mulatto sold the | | DISTINGUISHED GRAND ARMY VETERAN WHO HAS BEEN ELECTED | | Should swing his vote In caucus against ; the rbgearty | 1 - 4 D A L | 2 5 xpe S er of Colet o [ PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF DARING MEN WHO WON | | Bmoof there Is a chance to defeay the <o e m,m;:;ed“:;‘: . perfectly outrageous. The | MEDALS OF HONOR FOR GALLANT DEEDS IN WARFARE. Bt AN e e s 3 v bt 23 ok Nemser was told that | { lkely, for should Kearns oppose Smoot SEATTLE, Nov. 7. — Congressman for closing up his shop | % 11t would defeat his own chances ‘of ‘re- | Charles E. Littlefield of Maine stated to- F golig Shgut wiih She ofoss io | HILADELPHIA, Nov. 7.— als for service in the Spanish-American | ©cction two years hence. . | day that he was going home to begin his 1 the case. He will be re-| 5 = | There is.a movement under discussion, | | e 255wt e e The Medal of Honor Leglon, War and during the Boxer troubles in |, % * & BHEREN, (HOSE & Euesion fight for the Speakership of the next ek composed of Civil War Vet- ¢ }un_a.t Lolnm;l Prestun“:'ecn:nmcnlds l:e | vive the old Liberal or anti-Mopmomn: pat- — - House of Representatives. He belleves hs ez 2 s appointment of a committee to revise the | = ; , 4 - i SAW STRANGE NEGRO. erans de?,r4led by the United 0PO ™ | suggested a- different method of | 1¥; Which disbanded when Utah was ad- ALL BUREAU, 1406 G State of Hlinois, where the sentiment for will be elected, but declares that whatever ry that a strange megro was in States Government for con- ¢, oing new members. | mitted to the Union. The non-Mormons STREET, N. W., WASHING- tarfff revision is said to be rapidly grow- the action of the Republican caucus may whe mallo hans Y'm spicuous bravery "in action, . The total number of medals of honor | &F¢ in a majority in Salt Lake and other b TON, Nov. 7.—Tariff revision ing; Joseoh W. Babcock of Wisconsin, pe he will be content. g oy | it iy 0 Ty Soleveieh i {ssued’ by the Navy Department up to | countles, but their action has not been | and anti-tariff revision—the another representative of the West, Who Ljttlefield has been speaking in Cali- e station, Cambridge, on the | dependence Hall. Two hundred members January .1, 1902, was 504, and by the War | COnCerted, while the Mormon church.can West - against - the East—on Introduced in the last Congress the free fornia during the campaign. Discussing of the Boston and | a negro purchase a | for T State - Detectives nd and Dexter went to Winches- | to-night and together with Chief of | Pclice McIntosh interviewed the woman, | - were in attendance. Major Moses Veale, commander of the legion, presided. The members of the distinguished organiza- tion were welcomed by Mayor Ashbridge, who paid a glowing tribute to the men who fought to preserve the Unjon. Department to Octcber 31, 1897, 1484, those issued by the Secretary of War between | October, 1897, and January, 1902, not belngi upon the records of the organization. | The memdership of the organization num- | bers 548, of this number 480 being of the | swing its followers one way or the other and decide an' election, as was done Tucs- day. If only local issues were to be con- sidered this might be accomplished, but the fact that a Presidential election is coming in two years is likely to prevenL these sharply defined.lines the contest for the Speakership for the Fifty- eighth Congress has already taken shape. As the high tariff high priest of the East, Representative John Dalzell ~of highly protected Pittsburg. Pa., shied his steel bill which so worried high protec- tlonists of the East, a. member of the Ways and Means Committee; John Dal- zell, représentative of the highly protect- ed Interests of Pennsylvania, also a mem- ber of the Ways and Means-Committee the work of the coming Congress, he said: “Legislation on the question of trusts will be the most important feature of Congress’ work this winter. I understand Attorney General Knox is drafting a bul on the subject at present, which will Her name at present i Quartermaster John Noble Preston’s Civil War. | the carrying out of this idea. castor into the ring to-day. 'Coincident and’ second in command; Charles Little- ,robably embody the administration's e says that Saturday even- | report shows that while most of the The election of officers resultdd as fol- | e T TR Withihis: éntrénice chmes! this statement. flld: of . Matrie, rep";":m“vé n,( Y:‘hlz Septinnts. ted for Weston and waited In | medals of honor were awarded for gal- lows: Commander, General Daniel E,| SAVES HER FOUR BABES SrennepressuCalivaibutior, WisoGh Betue | BUSINE Bl TS e ie | OLL) ew, - sea " a: “NBelve:the ettt N s & the Cambridge station for her train from | jantry during the Civil ‘War,, nearly 40 Sickles, New York: senfor vice command. | FROM DEATH IN FLAMES | SY!Vania and one of Dalzell's supporters: leader of the w;nS_er L:e:le;"f of ': passed will reflect the ‘sentiments of %3 until 8 p. m. During this time she | were gained by Veterans for distinguished er, General Liewellyn G. Estes, Washing. | e :1 willbe drawn and quartered before I, House: [Upftisn Eaype of e Ways &nd = president” Roswevelt. “Hie:low sioliin. a9 5ad an excellent opportunity of observing | services during the Indian wars. ‘The ton; junior vice commander, General J.| TACOMA, Nov. 7.—While Mrs. John|will cast a vote under any circumstances Means Committee and Representative piainiy in his campalgn that the Republi- actions of two white men and a ne- | war Department, the report states, is O..Gregg, Montana; chaplain, Rev. Major | Anderson and her four small children | for a bill touching the tariff now or any Sherman, both of New York, have also can party must follow his leadership. gro who were at the station, and she told | preparing a list of those to recelve med- William ‘S. Hubbell, New York. were asleep early -this morning in Na- | time within the next.few years. 1do not been: mentioned . as = candidates = for poreover, his. is a.safe policy. 3 the officers to-day that she was positive naimo fire broke out in the house. The'| belleve there is a single Republican Con- Speaker. but as no ‘announcement has “The Democrats in Congress cannot op- ehe could identify the three men wherever | @ sjefeieisirieiieldeieieiriebrisiieiiviniedeeleiiitniduiniefofuleffniuinioi= @ | smoke awakened the woman and she | gressman from‘the State of Pennsylvania beeh made either by themselves or their pose an anti-trust law, and I believe they £he might see them. The two white men fought her way to the open air with one | who will throw such a- vote!” friends, théy-are not yet regarded In the will vote with the Republicans when the were looking at a photograph; then one | “Well, we might as well | They purchased a slngzc{ ticket for Waverly, and this ticket, the | nurse says, she saw handed to the negro | by one of the white men as they passed! out of the station, aithough the white | wen and the negro had previously manl-‘ fested mo sign of recognition. The negro | took the same train that she did, and she saw him alight at Waverly. This places the megro in Waverly at 5:13, or | about three-quarters of an hour before th sault upon Miss Morton was com- | mitted An ir bar was found to-day at the cdge of Handyside Pond, in Waverly, to | which jt claimed by some the mur- | derer of Bafurday night went to wash his | hands. The bar is two feet long and ANTI-SEMITES MAKE RAIDS ON. THE SOCIALISTS B Rioters at an Election in Vienna Are Charged by the Police and Forty of Them Are Arrested. VIENNA, Nev. 7.—Riotous disturbances marked the election ,in the Favoritein district to-day of members of the Lands- tag (or provincial assembly). Anti-Sem- ensued. VERY SERIOUS ‘ IS THE SITUATION IN . PHILIPPINES Al el iy Failure of the Rice Crop Followed by the Death of Domestic Animals and the Wave of Cholera, Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—While no of her children. She did not have time to dress and by the time she had taken the child to'a place of safety flames had burst out in every room. -Her husband was absent and_the nearest neighbor was too far away to render any assistance. The plucky woman dashed in and out of the house until she had carried all four children out of the burning' building. Several times her nightrobe caught fire, but she escaped without receiving any serious burns. As she was leaving the house for, the last time tne interior was enveloped in flames and the walls and roof soon fell. — Terrific Shock Causes Alarm. HOUGHTON, Mich., Noyv. 7.—Residents of Hancock and Houghton were greatly alarmed by a terrific shock 'which oc- Dalzell's announcement divides the forces of the East just as those in the West are divided. The candidates al- ready -announced are: Joseph G. Cannon, chairman of the Committee on Appropria- tions. the representative of the West and LOSES REASON WHEN DEFEAT I8 RECALLED General Torsl, Instructed fo Draw " Up Account, of the Surrender of running. Both may be looked upon as rep- resentatives of the high tariff sentiment of the East. Cannon has not as yet taken any firm stand‘in’ advocacy of tariff revision, but that ‘be ‘stands for the rapidly growing WOULD REMOVE ALL CONSULSHIPS FROM POLITICS Civil Service . Commission Urges the Enactment of Laws to Better ) Bt e o S bill comes to passage. It is very probable the Democrats will. endeavor to inject some hysterical provisions that would re- sult in much harm if accomplished, but there is no likelihood of their being incor- porated. The bill' will pass both houses.” MARCH AGAINST THE MAD MULLAH AGAIN DELAYED Fanatic Rebel Chief of Somaliland Prepares to Make Stubborn Re- It was on the edge of th , 30 o 7 : I ; iti 2 cnd, and the drawing off Of the wator | o5 stormed the headquarters of the com. | Steps hiave been taken by:the War Do.|Cuffed at 830 ocock. Houses were Santiago, Suddenly ~Be- the Condition of Agents sistance to the Advance of e 2 g partment here toward sending supplies : i e PUSRERS 5c- to Mol e e 'd:'::::dn‘:; from this country for the reliet of sur. | carthquake had occurred. Investigation comes Insane. Abroad. the British. IDENTIFIED BY WOMAN. | During the afternoon a Mrs. Day from | Watertown called at the Cambridge jail and told Sheriff Fairbarn that she wanted to see Alan G. Mason, because she be- | lieved from the pictures which had ap- | peared in the newspapers that he was the | man who had annoyed her last summer | in & lfrary room in this city. Mason | again was placed in Hne with other in- | mates of ihe jail and with them was sub- jocted to a rigid scrutiny. As in the case | of Nemser's attempt at identification, Mre. Day was allowed to give no sign or uiter no word in the presence of the men | Lefore her, but when she returned to the Sherifl’s office from the jail she declared that the fourth man in line was the man who had annoyed her. The fourth man was Mason. This alleged identification by Mrs, Day ds another feature to the case, as it re- ealis another “Jack the Slugger” czse, in which John Soderquest was convicted of mounted police and forty of them were arrested. Many received saber wounds. The anti-Semites carried the election by a majority of 39 out of a tetal poll of ,000. The Clericals now hold the entire representation of Vienna:in the Landstag. @ vl @ assault with intent to kill on Miss R. A. Rogquett on August 10 in the same library building referred to by Mrs. Day. Soder- quest was the janitor of the building, and for the crime the man is now serving a sentence of seven vears. The belief was expressed at the time that Soderquest pleaded guilty that he was responsible for the many mysterious assaults on young women in Cambridge and Brook- line, who were beaten with some. iron weapon just as Miss Morton and Miss McPhee were. State police are now in- vestigating the story of Mrs. Day in com- parison with the more important details of the Soderquest affair, fering caused by the faflure of the rice crop, cholera, an epidemic of animal dis. eases and the scourgirg pest of locusts in the Philippine .Islands, the situation is causing a vast amount of apprehension, In a privateletter to Secretary Root, Governor Taft’of the Philippine Commis.. sion, expresses the belief that it will be a long time before conditions in the islands recover from the present depression. Not for many years heretofore has there been a calamity In such widespread measure visited on the Filipinos. Nearly aj their domestic animals have beerf carrieq off by the rinderpest, while cholera, which claimed thousands of victims, added a finishing touch to the demoralization, In the opinion of officers who have recently returned from the Philippines the.fam- ine which threatens is the most serigus problem now confronting the insular goy- ernment, and while the facflities and the desire to assist the sufférers are both greater than at any similar perfod durin, in" all “directions fafled‘ to discover the cause of the shock. This' is the second oc- currence of shocks within three months. ORI B Citizens Fear Doukhobor Woman. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 7.—At Yorkton a young Doukhobor woman eof attractive appearance dressed herself in white cotton, -with white canvas shoes and proclaimed herself the Virgin Mary. Many of the Doukhobors believe her story and there may be trouble if her advice is in the wrong direction. @ i e @ Spanish occupation, it is thought that the resources of the Philippine Commission must be exercised to the utmost to ade- lee'ly cope with the ‘emergency. . In the meantime it is stated at the War Depart- ment that nothing -will be' done in the direction of relief from here unless Gov- ernor Taft decides that the insular goy- ernment stands in‘peed of outside assist- ance, 7 Lt | e Special Dispatch to The Call. MADRID, Nov. 7.—General Toral, who commanded the Spanish army at San- tiago de Cuba at the time of the town's surrender, lost his reason’in’ this way: A few days ago while at Alhama, in the southwest of Murcia, he recéived in- structions from the Spanish Government to.draw up a full account of the sur- render of Santiago. From that time he showed great signs of agitation and was frequently heard Tepeating the words, “Surrender, surrender.” The news has created a great sensation in Madrid. p Berlin Bank Increases Capital. BERLIN, Nov. 7.—Thé Deutsche Bank to-day formally announced an increase of its capital by $2,500,000 so as to absorb the Dussburg-Ruhorter Bank and provide working funds for its new Dresden and Leipsic branches. % 4 WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.--The Civil Ser- vice ' Commission in its annual report urges the President to recommend to Conaress ‘the . enactment of a_law fur- nishing facilities * for determining - the 'coq:pnatlve qualifications of applicants for the consular service by means of open non-partisan competitive examination. The committee says that under the pres- ent system of patronage appointment there is littie surety that the men: ap- pointed- are qualified for their duties, yet in the more remote and smaller places, where the political removals make the ‘consular term so short. that with the meager pay allowed first-class men can- not’ be secured,'often the best opportuni- tles exist_ for extending American com- merce and furnishing facilities for Ameri- cdniinvéstmentsi- - - .- BERBERA, East Africa, Nov. 7.—Col- onel Swayne, . formerly British com- mander in Somaliland, who has been re- called to England, is ill, He started for home to-day. General Manning, who succeeds Colonel Swayne, Is pushing the preparations for an advance agalnst the Mullah, but he is hampered in his efforts by the fact that the country has so few resources and the consequent necessity of awaiting supplies. The Mullah is profiting by the delay in the start of the British expedition. He has.advanced to within a few miles of Bohotle. He is known to have 3000 rifles, one Maxim gun, much ammunition, 15,000 spearmen and immense reserves of camels and sheep at his command. Bohotle is well garrisoned and has ample defenses. It 1s impossible to prevent the rumning of garfs to the Mullah, which is I con~ stant progress through French territorys