The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII—-NO. 181. FOR A GARAL BY ROUTE NOT INGUMBERED Such Is Sentiment of American Senators. Nicaragua Waterway Is Decidedly in Favor, 1t Is Now Declared Colombia Has No Authority to Make Treaty. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. | W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Nicaragua, mot Paname. It looks, and more so as the session of Congress approaches, like &n American canal by a route unincum- bered, and which in more ways than one has won the popular approval of the peo- | ple of the United States B should the patience of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay overcome Colombia’s undignified haggling and re- | sult in the treaty, the final and fatal obstacle to the building of a Panama canal will be found in the United States Senate. “It is too late now. Colombia has lost | instability of her | Lack of | her chance and the Government has been exposed authority to negotiate a treaty is in- Cubitably in evidence. All of this appears uncer cover of a grasping disposition and an evident attempt to drive a hard bar- gain. No treaty would ever be ratified by the United States Senate. Once rejected, the President is compelled by the terms of the canal &ct to turn to Nicaragua. I think & Nicaraguan canal will be built QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED. Thus spoke to-day a United States Senaior, who has been identified with canal legislation’and interested deeply in the subject for many years. He is not bound to any particular route. His only | desire is an isthmian canal from the At- lantic to the Pacific by the best route | and in the quickest possibie time. It developed to-day that the question of canal legislation will be opened. up imme- on. the assembling of. Congress | short session. Whatever the | may report in his message, | for President questions will be asked as to the negotia- | | the h Colombia, Costa Rica and The subjeet of Attorney Gen- report on the Panama title e be brought up and its sound- ness questioned eragt Knox's at era il Senator Morgan of Alabama, either on the first or second day of the session, will move that this report be referred to the Committee on Interoc Canals, of which he is chairman his will give an opy for disci on of the canal subject, and first of all Knox's report will be brought in question. The Senate, how- ever r & to do with this report The President e terms of the canal T or not the title NO AUTHORITY. reporte that the. title is - nincumbered.” Cer- the ground that this tisfactory,” and argu- will be made on this line. Only in aring ratification of the 3 1 the Senate pass on the ques- of the validity of the title. Should decide that there is still a question of ma rights of course, have uence on any vote on the treaty. It is held by Senator Morgan o interested in canal legisiation that the agreement made by Costa Rica and Nic. aragua in 190 to grant perpetual control of the strip is in force time the United States sees fit~o begin negotia- ticns for @ treaty. “No question of com- pensstion was mentioned in this agres- | ment. It is furthermore known to lead- | ing Senators and the State Department | that both Costa Rica and Nicaragua stand ready to agree to a treaty drawn up in the wording of Secretary Hay, Another important matter to be brought up In_the diScussion of the question in the Snate early in the session s the contertion of leading Senators that the Colomblan Governmerit has no authority te begin negotiations of a treaty for the cession of territory without first being euthorized by the Colombian Cengress, No svch authority has been granted and no such Congress is in existémce at the present time. X AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE LADRONES Inspector Crockett and a Force of Constables Engage and XKill Thirty-Nine Raiders. MANILA, Nov. 2.—The constabulary are carrying out an aggressive campaign agzinst the ladrones in the northern part of the islanid of Leyte andAn the isiand of Biliran. Imspector Crockett with a force of constabulary engaged the ladrones six timés near the village of Ormoc, on the south coast of Leyte, and killed thirty- nine of them. Corporal Montague, at the head of another detachment of constabu- lary, defeated a band of ladrones near Telibaug, on Biliran Island, killing thir- teen of them and capturing thirty-six. e Safe Blowers Make Big Haul. SPARTANBURG, 8. C., Nov. 2l.—Bur- glars this morning blew open the safe of the Enoree Manufacturing Company at Enoree Mills and secured $3000, a part of which belonged to the local postoffice. Biloodhounds have been put upon the trail of the robbers, and others any | ished deficits. -~~~ SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, -1902. port Shows Many 3 WONDERFUL GROWTH OF POSTAL SERVICE IN UNITED STATES Postmaster General Pay‘né’s Annual Re- Millions Expended in Handling the Mails. | | i | = POSTMASTER G GIVES FIGURES INDICATING ERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, WHOSE REPORT GROWTH OF POSTAL SERVICE AND VAST SUMS REQUIRED TO KEEP UP EFFICIENCY. GIGANTIC BAER BLOGIS 0N STRIKE SETTLEMENT *'Sole Dissenter to the Tentative Plan. President of .R('eading Road Still Fights Mitchell. Opposition That Prevents Operators From Bign- ing Agreement, Special Dispatch 18 The Call. CADI.BUREAU. 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Noy. 2I.—George Baer, president of the Reading Railroad and self-constituted «mbassador in all matters pertaining to anmthracite coal, is the man who defeated the agreement of the coal operators and fitneru as the re- sult of the conference between John Mitchell and Wayne MacVeagh ‘in this eity last Friday. 4 Coples of the agreement drawn up by MacVeagh as attorney for the operators and acceptable to Mitchell have been sub- mitted to the President, with a full his- tory of the most recent efforts to reach a settlement of the strike. These papers show that Mitchell was ready to agree to the plans submittéd by the attorney for the operators, and that the strike would have been settled and provision niade for future settiements of like con- troversies had not Baer agaln broken faith and defeated both the operators’ and miners’ efforts. ‘When the full history of the strike and the faflures to settle it is.made public it will appear that Baer has been the onc man more responsible than any other for the condition hordering dn anarchy in the anthracite regions. { ORIGINATES THE IDEA. r.was one At the operatbrs Who last k originateddthe T trying to set- tle the strike independent of thé commis- sion, and he signed a telegram to the commission requesting the suspension of its meetings for a week to give the op- erators and miners an opportunity’ to get together. Wayne MacVeagh, attorney for the Erie Railroad, was selected to act for the operators and confer with Mitchell. The operators considered the tentative B; | ! 1 ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W, | TON, Nov. 27.—Interesting fig- ures, gradwth of* Uncle Sam’s postal system, are given in the annual report of Postmaster General H. C. Payne. | The revenue for 1802 was $121;848,047 and the revenue for 1903 is estimated at $132,- The ‘estimated deficit for 1903 is $5.602,227, although the appropriation made | by Congress for the vear is $138,416,59. Reviewing the work of the department, Payne says: “In 1860, three years before the city free delivery was established, the gross postal $19,1%,610, leaving fa ‘deficit of ~$10,852,543. The magnitude of postal development'is 047 and the increase of.receipts during the past fiscal year over.the preceding year was $1,698,78 greater. than the gross. re- celpts for the year 1860. “The increase in postal revenues not only attests the wonderful prosperity -of the people and the detivity,of business interests throughout 'the country, but also indicates that the extension’ of’postal | tacilities carefully directed results sooner or later in increased receipts and dimin- With phenomenal growth of population andother favoring. condi- tions, the mail matter poured | postoffices has rapidly helped to lesscn the percentage. of deficiencies. - Despite largely _ increased _expenditures, - the revenues gradually approximate the ex- | penses after each ‘added outlay has marked 1 new standard. “Rural free delivery seryice has become an established fact.. It is no longer In' the | experimental stage and undoubtedly Con- gress will continue to_increase the appro- | priation for this service until all the peo- | ple of the country are reached, where it is thickly enough settled to warrant it. The estimates of the department are to the effect that the available territory for this service embraces.-about _ 1,000,000 square miles, or one-third of the 'country’s area, exclusive of Alaska. The 11,650 routes now in operation cover abcut one- third of the available territory. From this it will be seen-that it will require 21,00 employes additional to* those now in the service to cover this territory.~~If €ongress shall make the necessary ap- propriations, it is believed that withinthe next three years the extension of the ser- vice will have been completed. “On June 30,1902, there’ were 2844 rail- road routes, the total length of which was 187,129 miles, with an annual travel of 31%,~ 521,478 miles, costing $35,049,21122. The in- crease in the length of routes was 3771 miles, in annual travel 9,908,153 miles, and in annual expenditure $1,167,82098. A ‘weighing of the mails was had on all of the rafiroad lines: in‘:the fourth contract section, including all the States and Terri- tories (three excepted) west of the Mis- sissippi River, -and thesresult of.the reg- ular quadrennial readjfistment of pay for railroad transportation in those States and Territories for four years begihning July 1 last was an increase in annual cost of $1,374,010 65, being 14:91 per cent. “There were 21,767° star routes, the showing the wonderful | receipts were 38,518,067 and the expenditure | flengtt of which was 2 | 5,646,773 59. bracing all. the States -and gating 110 ing an increase of 2,007,838 miles, - or. 4.30 per cent, over the annual the old contracts. | steamboat routes, the total length 9 miles, the an- WASHING- | nual. travel 120,087,224 miles, and the cost The contracts far all the star routes in the fourth contract section, em- Territories (three excepted) west of the Mississippi | River; expiréd June 30,1902, and new con- tracts were made for all star service in | those Stafes and Territories for the term Euf four years beginning July 1 last. These | new coptracts covered 6037 routes, aggre- i 2 miles in. length and 48,686, | 46 miles of annual travel, the latter be- | | travel under *“At the close of the year there were 210 plan of settlement drawn up by Mac- Veagh and approved it, but doubted the ability of the attorney to reach an agree- ment with Mitchell. MacVeagh Invited Mitchell to come to ‘Washington last Friday and they held an all-day confcrence at the Willard. They reached an agreement on every impertant point. This agreement vrovided for a 10 per cent increase in wages, an eight-hour day, check weighing at the mine to be paiG for by the miners, no recognition of the union and no discrimination against ¢ither union or non-union men, each rail- road company to settle with its own em- ployes, a contract for three years and a plan of arbitration for the settlement -of difficulties in the future. s MOST IMPORTANT OF; ALL. indicated by the fact that for the fiseal | vear 1902 the-postal receipts were $121,848, | into ‘the | | which was" 24,338 miles, with an annual travel .of 5,416,297 miles, costing $598,251 05 er annu Compared with the previous vear this was an _increase_of 367 miles in length of routes, 764,139 milés in annual travel, and $55,26573 in annual cost. The service in the fourth contract section was relet last year for the term of four years beginning July 1, 1902, and the increase in crst-under the new contracts was $62,- 857 41 per annum. | ' “There’ were in operation on June % last 327 electric car routes, aggregating 3508 miles in length, 7,534,757 miles in an- ’nual travel, and costing $414,34875. The ilncresse in length was 551 miles, in an- nual travel 945,348 miles, and in annual { expenditure’ $51,734 58. “At the close of the year there were 1350 lines of traveling postoffices, covering 78,796 miles in length. The number of clerks ‘employed was 9731, annual travel by them in cars 221,589,999 miles. To ac- complish ' this 378 cars and apartments were used on the steam roads, besldes 24 cars on the electric lines under the su- pervision of ‘the Railway Mail Service, and 83 apartments on steamboats. It is estimated that these clerks handled 15.- 062,880,640 pieces of ordinary mail and 24, 174,174 packages and cases of registered mail. The errors by clerks in handling ihe mail as reported indicate but 1 error mede for every 11,502 pleces correctly dis- tributed. “There were 286 casualties to mail cars last year, in which either mail or clerks were injured. Nine clerks were killed land §8 seriously and 302 slightly injured, #Temporary contracts for mail trans- portation in Hawaii made after the ger- vice in the Hawaiian Islands was assum- ed by the United States expired June 30 iast, and the first general letting for a four-year term occurred last year. Un- der the new. contracts effective July a5 1902, there were in Hawali 94 routes, ag- gregating 14,798 miles in length, with an annual travel of 764,373 miles, the cost of which ‘was $97,456 38 per annum, all. the miners. the failure. plan This last item in the agreement Mac- Veagh regarded as the most important of It provided for a series of arbitra- tions from the foremen of the mines up th:ough the various officials and finally named Judge George Gray of the United States Circuit Court as arbiter whenever an agreement was impossible between the direct representatives of the operators and There was to be no strike or- dered without six months’ notice, ‘When MacVeagh submitted this plan of agreement to the operators last week they were unanimous in approving it, but had no hope that Mitchell would sign it. was among those who approved when he thought Mitchell would reject it. Baer After the first conference between Mac- the operators. pendent coal operators, is responsible for The independent werc never a party to the Investigation or of arbitration. MacVeagh serited the six rallroads that operate sev- eral mines. They agreed with his plan. All but Baer were ready to sign after Mitchell had agreed to accent the plan. Baer is the one who defeated this last effort to settle the coal strike. Veagh and Mitchell last Friday MacVeagh reported to the operators that Mitchell was ready to sign. Then Baer repudiated the whole business and refused to agree to the plan submitted by the attorney for Baer, and not the inde- operators repre- WEALTHY TEXAN UNDER ARREST IN NEW YORK He Is Suspecfed of Being Connected With a Gigantic Bank Swindle. NEW YORK, Nov. dau, said to be a wealthy cotton exporter of Texas, was arrested here to-day on suspicion of ' being 27.—William Lan- connected’ with a le involving, it is said, the sum of The firm alleged to be 000 or more. PRICE FIVE- OENTS. TRAIN CRASHES INTO TRAIN * BNICIA, Nov. Z.—Englneer Haw'y Foster amd H. W. Davis were killed*and Brakeman I. J. Cute was se-~ riously, injured inia headon collision between two freight trains at the mail dock, three-quarters of a 'mile from here; at¥% o'clock this morn- | ing. The trains crashed into each other in the yards, No. 221, the westbound Oregon freight, running into No. 202, the east- bound Sacramento freight. No. 202 was due to leave Benicia at 3 a. m. and: had just got under way when No. 221 loomed up in front of it. Engineer Frank Hop- per and Fireman John MéCarthy: of No 202 jumped and saved 'themselves, but Engineer., Foster, . Fireman ; Dayis, and Brakeman Cute of No. 221 were caught in | the wreckage: The blame for the accident is alleged to lie with Engineer Foster in disobeying the rules of the yard by not-having his train under control. .He had a clear track but did not slow up. Conductor Plane of the eastbound traifi saw ‘the danger and ran ahead in a’frantic ‘effoft to switch the westbound to another track, but It was too late. When he was ‘within ten feet of the switch the engine thundered over. it. HEAPS OF WRECKAGE. The wreckage covered the yard, but it | was soon cleared. -The injured. were re- moved to the railroad hospital for treat- ment and the dead were taken to their relatives. Superintendent Palmer said this morn- ing that the disaster seemed to Be due to | a mistake on the part of Foster. “Of course,” he said, ‘‘we can only sur- mise the conditions in the cab of Foster's engine just before the crash came, but it would appear that the blame lies with Fostér in not following the rules of the time card. He was coming west on a clear, straight track, and ought to have seen Engineer Hopper's train at least a half-mile off. It was a bright morning and everything was in plain. sight, “We may learn something when Brake- man Cute is in a condition to be interro- gated. As Foster and Fireman Davis are both dead we must rely upon the state- ‘ments of Hopper, the engineer; McCarthy, his fireman, and Plane, the conductor of the eastbound train. “What Foster was doing at the time is a mystery to me.- His train was a: little behind time and in his haste to catch up ‘he may have temporarily forgotten the approaching eastbound train. He may not have realized that he was so near the switch, as he was still half a mile from Benicla. However, had he followed the rules he would have slowed up and taken NATIVES OBTAIN ARMS TO FIGHT AMERICANS Secret Societies in Philippines Strive to Make Trouble for Uncle Sam. SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—Natives of the Philippine Islands, urged on by newly public policy to continue chea the dissemination of news to the ““There can be no doubt that it is sound the present rates of postage on second-class matter for the benefit of all bona fide daily and weekly newspapers devoted to public. swindled is that of Ladenburg, Thalman & Co., bankers of this city. The detec- tives took every precautionyto prevent the news of the arrest becoming public, and it ‘was admitted at midnight only, when an Assistant District Attorney stated that They assuredly come within the purpose of:the law covering the l-cent per pound rate, "fi this alone is the matter which should majled at such rate.” In conclusion the Postmaster General testifies to the gzealous, efficient service rendered by his assistants and the chiefs of “divisions in the arduous duties de- volving upon them. bers of the, firm will nat talk case and further details are lack charge against- Landau is “suspicion felony.” - the prisoner was at police headquarters. | Newton Kierulff of the traasport The arrest, according to the’ District Attorney, was made in the office | ed with lumber and forage for tke isl- of the banking firm this afternoon. Mem- | ands. As an evidence that this is the ut the | true state of affairs in the Philippizes, - The | Lieutenant Kierulff tells of the finding of of a|a wrecked barge formed secret societies, are arming them- selves, and munitions 0f war arc - being furnished them from some source un- known to the Government of the United States. This is the statcment of Lieutenant H. Dix, ‘which arrived in the harbor to-day load- on the coast of Luzon ‘a few weeks ago. It was loaded with guns AND ENGINEER AND FIREMAN LOSE LIFE UNDER WRECKAGE Disaster Occurs in One of the Yards at the Mail Dock, Near Benicia, Causing Fatalities, Ruin of Property and a Serious Charge of Disregard of Orders, 1 s TRAINMEN WHO WERE IN THE BENICIA COLLISION. FOSTER AND 'DAVIS WERE KILLED AND CUTE WAS INJURED. THE PICTURE OF DAVIS IS FROM AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH. something. on' the: engine which he was fixing. . . Even would have’ been on the lookout. gether it is 'rather mysterious.” TRAFFIC NOT DELAYED. Superintendent Palmer said that the damage was comparatively small. <Only fone of, the engimes was badly damaged and' the damage to the cars is only nomi- nal. There being four tracks within the Benicla yard trafic was not delayed. Henry Foster, the dead engineer, was 28 | years old ‘and. a native of San Franeisco. | He has been in the Southern Pacific Com- | | | Alto- pany’s employ ten yedrs, and five months | ago became an engineer. He had made arrangements to spend Thanksgiving with his wife and child at Los Angeles, their | former home, but at.the last minute the | pressure of business forced him to aban- don’ his plan. ¢ Davis, 'the fireman who lost his life, was | born ih Oakland ninetéen years ago and had beent in the rallroad's employ three years. A tragic fate has pursued all the male members of his family. Of his two grandfathers, one was Policeman Cashin, and was killed by a burglar, and his fath- er and Stepfather met violent deaths. J..J. Cute, the injured brakeman, is 21 vears old. and a native of Stockton. He lives with his parents at 865 Center street. He has been’ with the railroad five months. J L I, SAD NEWS FOR WIFE. Mrs. Foster Hears of Her Husband’s Death While Awaiting Him. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2.—As Mrs. Hen- ry Foster was about to sit down to. h Thanksgiving dinner to-day she was handed a telegram . from Oakland in- fofming her that he@ husband had been killed in a freight k near Benicla. Foster was a Southern Pacific engineer ‘and was the-son of - Detective Charles Foster of this city.< For years it had been his custom'to come here for Thanksgiving | 1 and ammunition, 'hlc/h must have been delivered from some schooner. He turther | states that the cholera has been Increas- { ing In- the islands, and that the death rate In the city of Manfla since the with- drawal of the military forces and the sturning over of the Heal:n Department | to the Civil Government, composed main- | 1y of natives, has increased fuily 50 per cent. 1 | | P 2maf S 8 E I Football Player May Die. COSHOCTON, Ohio, Nov. 27. — Webster Yingling, captain and halfback of the Newcomerstown Athletic Club, was fatal- ly injufed in a football game here to-day with the Coshocton team, He is un- conscious and et expected to recover. LR LR Archbishop Riordan in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Archbishop Rior- dan of San Francisco is a passenger from Liverpool - on - the- White ‘Star steamer Celtic, which'arrived to-night. I tention might have been distracted by that case the fireman | 4o south several days ahead of time to visit his parents. He telegraphed yesterday that he hoped to leave Oakland last night and would reach Los Angeles about nooh to-day. His wife and parents spent more than an hour waiting for him, expecting him on every street car that passed. Just | as they were about to enter the house to | 80 to dinner a messenger boy rode up on fa wheel and handed Mrs. Foster the tele- gram which annognced the death of her husband, The news prostrated her for a time, but.she was able to leave for Oak- land on’ the “Owl to‘night,” accompanied by her husband's méther. PASSENGER CARS DERAILED. Porter Is Injured but the Other Per- sons Aboard Escape. SACRAMENTO, 27.—About noen to-day.the west-bound passenger train, known“as No. 5, met_with an accident at Crystal Lake, three miles. west of Cisco. Four passenger cars. were deralled. A Pullman car porter, ‘whose name could not be learned, -was injured. ' A wrecking train was dispatched from, this city to the.scene of the aceident to clear the track. - A special was made up to bring the passengers to Sacraimento. —— GRAVEL CARS IN THE WAY. Passengers on a Train, Are Shaken Up Near: Stockton. * STOCKTON, Nov. 2.—This morning shortly after 7 o'clock a passenger train on the ‘Southern Pacific collided with a gravel . train near Castle switch, about five' miles north of Stockton. The engines were so badly damaged that they were useless, and a delay of almost three hours took place before. another locomotive could be secured to move: the passenger train. While the’ passengers were shaken up, none of them were seriously Mmjured, as’ the train was slowing down to pass the switch when ‘the accident oceurred, The blame for the-collision has ov. 20t been the side track. It Is possible that his at- | and this year he sent his wife and baby | fixed as wet. Bttt M e e R @ | FIRM ACCUSES HIM OF STEALING MONEY Captain Fergusonm of San Francisco Is Arrested by the Police of Vietoria. VICTORIA,-B. €., Nov. 8. —Captain E. Ferguson of San Franeisco, who repre- sented Mohun & €o. of San Franciseo at Cape Nome, and was receiver at Nome lunder Judge Noyes and more recently United States Commissioner, was held by thé local police to-night, together with E. C. Blackett of Nome, his attorney, on Instructions from Mobun & Co. of San Francisco, who allege that Ferguson em- bezaled 35000 of their funds, which was appropriated to his own use. Ferguson went north in 139 with 35000 to $10,000 worth of merchandise bels to, the San Fr-nc'o firm, of which he was_ agent. .