The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1902, Page 1

[} » FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 190 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALLIED FLEET LANDS MARINES:; CASTRO ISSUES A CALL TO ARMS COML-LADEN CARS BURDEN THE TRACKS Barons Refuse to Sell to New Yorkers. Await Higher Prices| While the Poor | Are Dying. Dealers Whose Yards Are Now Empty Cannot Buy | New Supplies. [ | Rl Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The coal famine | that is making the rich shiver and the poor die in this city is not genuine. It is | the result of a corner—a deliberate con- spiracy on the part of coal operators to keep the supply short and force prices | to the top. Dwellers in New York who | have listened to the long stories given out by special agents of the operators about their herculean efforts to keep the city supplied may believe all these pro- fessions, ‘but business men who live in New Jersey and who come daily into | New York on different roads know ex- actly what the situation is. | \ Ask one of these men what the price is in any of the hundreds of New Jersey | towns and cities within 100 miles of New | York. He will tell you that he can get | coal—all he wants of it—for 3625 a ton. | He will tell you that all dlong=tie <ozt road tracks there are thousands upon | thousands of -coal cars filled with an- | thracite. Some of it has been walting on | sidings for weeks. It is covered with | snow. The men who own it have be!"i holding it for zero weather, which they knew would soon afflict New York. | Meanwhile New York shivers. Mothers | d their babjes lie down at night and | when the neighbors come next day they are frogen corpses. Even the rich shiver, | for the price soars higher and higher. | Greedy holders hang on in the hope that it will go higher yet. To cover the tracks as far as possible, | & third party has been brought into the | ous deal. This is the speculator. | s whose yards are empty, retailers nave a few tons to sell at exorbi- tant prices either by the half or quarter | ton or by the bag or pail to the very poor, tell you that they cannot get coal | of the oper They have to get it of the specula and pay whatever prices may be demanded. Some of the specula- tors demand as high as $9 and $10 a ton. Yet coal fis selling for $550 at the mines and North and East rivers are full of barges of coal held by speculators. COAL FOR MILWAUKEEANS. Men and Women Fight for Chance to Buy Anthracite, | MILWAUKEE, Dec. 10.—It was neces- | sary to-day to call the assistance of the police to keep order at several of the big | retafl coal offices In the downtown dis- | tricts of the city. There were immense crowds at every office clamoring for some | of the coal that has arrived from Lake Erie ports the past two days. Women who were well dressed fought for places | in the lines at the windows, and there | were several rushes that took some of | them off their feet. Stories of suffering | from the cold during the last few days | were told by those most eager to get the | attention of the order clerks, and some | of them were pathetic. It is doubtful it sny city in the /[Northwest has suffered es severely as Milwaukee on account of the miners’ strike. | The greatest difficulty that now con- fronts the coal dealers is the question of | Gistribution. They have thousands of | orders In their books, but only a limited number of men and teams to deliver them, and they find it impossible to hire | enough men and teams to take care of | thelr customers. | PRESIDENT DISCUSSES PROPOSED WESTERN TRIP| Hopes to Spend a Month in Colorado | and Three Weeks in Wyoming. 2 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—President Roosevelt talked with Senator Warren of | ‘Wyoming to-day about the trip which the former expects to make to the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States next spring. The President said he hoped to spend a long time in the West, not only visiting many cities and towns, but en- joying a hunting trip in Colorado and ‘Wyoming. He referred humorously to his recent bear-hunting experience in Missis- sippl and expressed the opinion that he would have better luck in the Far West. He said he wished to spend a month in Colorado and about three weeks in Wyo- ming if the state of public business would permit Low to Be an Embassador. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The World says that Mayor Low of New ¥ork will be appointed Embassador to France at the conclusion of his term. ¥ | | | - Venezuelan Warships Yield Without Com- bat and British and German Forces Land| - A GUAIRA, Dec. 10.---The combined Angio-German fleet is entefing this harbor and the first vessels are not 300 feet from the custom house. The landing of marines has begun. President Castro has issued a call to arms to all Venezuelans. Legation and German residences last night and to-day. Mobs' stoned the German The populace is clamoring for war. American Minister Bowen has compelled the release of leading English and German citizens. - | | to Rescue the Foreigners in Caracas A GUAIRA, Dec. 10.—Ten German and four British cruisers captured the Venezuelan fieet yesterday. They went alongside the Venezuelan vessels and ordered them to surrender, and without a shot ~being fired the British and German forces seized the vessels in the name of the German Emperor and the King of England. Two of. the vessels, which were undergoing repairs, were broken up. The German cruiser Panther steamed into the harbor during these pro- ceedings with her decks cléared for action. /The Venezuelan steamers - were taken outside the harbor,-and at z.o’clock this morning the General Crespo, Tulmo and Margarita were sunk. The Ossun was the only vessel spared, in view, of the protest made - by. the French Charge d’Affaires, H. Qufevreux, who notified the commodore of the allied fleet that the Ossun is the property of a Frenchman. ~ At 10 o'clock last evening 130 German sailors were landed and. pro- ceeded to Cardone], a suburb of La Guaira, .in which is situated the resi- dence of German Consul Lentz, whom, with ‘his family, they escorted: back to La Guaira and placed on board the warship Vineta. . On their way back to this port the German sailors met a party of Venezuelan. soldiers, but no collision took place. . At 5 o'clock this' morning.a landing party of-thirty Britsh seamen went to the British consulate and conducted the ‘British Consul, R." Schunck, and family on board the Retribution. S TR, | The German and British residents at La ‘Guaira have all been arrested* with the exception.of Messrs. Fieldwich, Prince and Le Page, the English directors of the harbor corporation, who barricaded thémselves in their houses. Fieldwich, Prince and'Le Page were rescued by the forces of the al- lied powers and have been taken on board the Retribution. The Englishmen’s houses were surrounded by Venezuelan policemen, but when a party of 320 sailors waslandéd "at '5 ‘o'clock in the afternocon and marched to their relief the policemen made fio resistance and “the inmates were conducted to the Retribution without trouble. The British and German warships, however, in the meantime had cleared for action. 4 ! No one here can explain the Teason ‘of the allied powers in taking ac- tion without giving Venezuela time to reply to their note, The British torpedo boat destroyer Quail arrived here at 2 o’clock this afterncon. The German cruiser Panther left this morning in the direction of Carupano, and the German cruiser Falke has sailed for Puerto Cabello on a search for the remainder of the Venezuelan ‘fleet. It is believed that the cruiser Indefatigable is on her way to the Venezuelan seaport of Guanta, ;hg port of Barcelona, where the Venezuelan gunboat Restaurador is now ying. : Troops are expected here from Caracas, as the Government is credited with the intention of repulsing any landing by the allied forces. All the stores and banks here are closed. . Great excitement previils, as the population fears that the town may be shelled or other action taken by the Anglo-German vessels to-night. g UNCLE SAM.TO CALL “TIME.” WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—Speaking generally, the United States in the entire controversy has reserved the right-to say when the measures to co- erce Yepezuela are too drastic. It is not to be expected that this Govern- ment”will allow Germany and Great Britain:to’ overrun a little republic which has been ‘torn by revolutions and whose resources have been _dissi- pated by former rulers, who made rash contracts - with foreign capitalists which are now “being enforced by a ‘fleet. < i State Departmelnt officials hope the situation wifl lend itself to a peace- ful settlement. . While the chance of the' United States becoming involved is not so great as alarmists have assumed, the situation is yet critical because it 5. | PRESIDENT CTIPRIANO 11 CASTR.O ! BELLIGERENT RULER OF'VE;..E;ZLTELA‘ THE UNITED STATES MIN- ISTER IN CARACAS:AND THE& | ' DONGOVERNMENT'S FOREIGN OFFICE. ‘UNDER‘SECRETARY OF THE LON- . .4 DEEE United States fM;fii;'?eFBb"i{éh' Comipels the Release of .Englishmen and Germans Arrested by Order of ASHINGTON; Dec. ‘16— It was sald.at the British &nd - German , embassies to-day that the action of -~ President Castro in or- i «dering -the arrest .of. all subjects of .the British and German Gov- ernments In Caracas was withoiit préce- dent in_the history of ‘civilized, countries supposedly at, peace with each other, and that such action would be regarded as sufficlent ground for a declaration 6f Warf. Members of the diplomatic corps Here; in- deed, regard it as being such a decl: tion in itself. "Many years sago, when President Soras was at the head, of- the Buenos Ayres Government, Great ‘Britain became involved in.a dispute with: the South American . country and Soras. issued a decree that all ‘British subjécts’ should be arrested‘and their heads-taken: off*at | the first shot fired ‘from the British men- of-war then threatening to.bombard cft- ies along the. Argentina coast. Mufinte- ly an agréement was .reached; and : the | drastic order was not carried out.: @ is the first fime a severé test has been ation that the Monroe/ doctrine:is not [ et o 3us s President Castro Minister Bowen, in Caracas, has accept- ed the trust placed upon himito look after the ‘interests of ‘the British ‘and- German citizehs in Venezuela and this has brought him “into conflict :with President Castro. Hehas informed the State Department that a-number of these citizens were ar- -rested- yesterday ‘in" Caracas. -Bowen at once addressed himself to- President Cas- "tro to secure’their reledse. | He represent- {ed that'he had'been charged with the care ‘of the ‘British and German subjects in Venezela, but- President Castro was unwilling at first” to_recognize his au- thority. Finally the Minister convinced him.that he was acting within his rights and President Castro consented with re- Tuctance to ‘releasé the principal prison- | ers. " Bowen will insist upon the release of the remainder. , ¥ < Nothing in Bowen’s reports to. the State Department /indicate -the- reason for the st of th foreigners, except that they were Germans or British.” Continued on Page 3, Column 2. made of Pregident Roosevelt's declar- a“shield for th American republics ‘lan flagship. Bolivar. -British:sloop ‘Alert, which then towed the which evade legal obligations. The eyes of every South, American: republic ; are on the United States. and the administration realizes that _its attitude must be ‘sharply outlined now so that there will be no uncerainty as to the position ip, will assume in future troubles of a similar nature. £ .. In Congressional circles to-night ‘there was talk of introducing a resolu- tion calling on the Secretary of State to submit-to Congress.the correspon- dence between tlge United States, Germany-and England relative to the pro- wramme of coercion. P, ¢ iy e Venezuelan Warship | Bolivar Is Captured by British Cruiser Special -cable to: The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1902, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 10.—Three o'clock yes- terday afternoon was the hour:when the' time limit of forty-eight hours given by England and Germany to Venezuela expired. No reply to the ulti- matum was recelved. A boat’s crew, all armed, left the Brit- ish! cruicer Charybdis at 9 o'clock in the evening- ahd' went on board the Venezue- Her surrender was | démanded and was peacefully effected. Four officers and twenty-five men of the captured vessel were taken on board the Bolivar alongside the Charybdis. The seals were affixed on the effects of the captain_and officers. The. Bolivar was commissioned three weeks ago -and was supplied with arms and ammunition. All British warships except the Charyb- dis sailed ‘out of port at-4 o'clock this morning. . The eloop Fantone has gone to Barranca to command the Orinoco and open it to the trade of all nations. The cruisers ‘Tndefatigable and Retribution are bound' for the northern coast of Venezu- | ela and the Alert for the Gulf of Paria. Later.the captured Bolivar, manned by jackies from the Charybdis, and fiying the. British flag, salled for Venezuela to aid in the capture of the rest of Castro’s | fleet. 3 The commodore on board the Charybdis refuses to disclose his plans to even his own officers. All of the vessels left under sealed orders.. The flagship Ariadne ar- rived later in the morning and the com- | modore is now on board censulting with the admiral. The ‘torpédo-boat destroyer Quail has been sent to La Guaira to carry mes- | sages, as interruption of the cable is feared: :The British Minister from Cara- cas is expectad here. Kilbridge Is Found Guilty. . DUBLIN, Dec. 10.—Dennis Kilbridge, a former member of Parliament, was found guilty to-day at the Leinster Assizes of inciting in a speech the murder of Major General Neares of County Westmeath. The prisorer, who was recommended to mercy by the jury, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. d | from a mattress FIEND TRIES T0 DESTROY FOUR LINES Horrifying Crimes Committed Near Salinas. Murderous Tramp In- vades Lone Ranch at Night. - Husband, Wife, Hired Man and Child Beaten With a Hatehet. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SALINAS, Dec. 10.—Not since the kill- ing of Sheriff Farley in 1898 has the com- munity of Salinas and vicinity been so profoundly moved as when the news was received to-day that the entire household of one of the oldest ranchers of the county had almost suffered death. The story of how a demon had invaded the peaceful home of peaceful people and maimed and mutilated a woman, a child | and two men and left them dying, has stirred the blood of every citizen to a re- vengeful fever that would mean quick and sure destruction to the criminal were he found. To make the story more piti- ful and make the spirit'of revenge mote ntense, the unfortunates lay for two days unconscious and just as the flend left them Monday night, for not'unti] to-day did aid reach them. Last Monday might_at. 10 o'clock a knock came at the cozy little home of Simeon Graves, near this city, and a voice In the darkness commanded him to throw up his hands. A revolver was thrust into his face. Startled at this un- expected summons Graves stepped back in the room A dtsperate man of the tramp type, nearly six feet tall, and in the neighbor- hood of 30 years old, followed into the room, threatening with oaths to kill-every member of the household if any resis- tance was offered to him. “I have robbed many houses and know what to do and how to do it.” the in- truder said. “If no resistance s offered | to me T will harm none of you. Resist me and I will kill you all.” VICTIMS ARE PINIONED. Taken at a disadvantage and with ne weapons at hand, and being persuaded by his frightened wife, Graves offered no resistance and allowed himself to be tied hand and foot by, strips of clothing torn in the sleeping room. Mrs. Graves was similarly tied. By this time George Allen, the 12-year- old adopted child of Mr. and Mrs. Graves, came into the bedroom. He was seized by the robber, but was not tied. Instead he was forced to guide the robber to an out- where the hired man, Charles Al- slept. At the point of a pistol Al- was made to enter the house, where he and the boy were bound-with cords. Mrs. Graves was then released and compelled to accompany the robber into another room. Disappointed at mot securing more than a few jewels, he be- gan to torture Mrs. Graves. The bourd husband heard her sobs and strained and tugged at his cords until one of them finally gave way. In a moment he had cut the remainfng cords and had also released the hjred man. ) ‘Arming himself with a pistol, Graves rushed into the room where the cries of his wife sounded. A short battle ensued in the dark apartment, during which Graves shot twice and the robber three times. One of the bullets struck Graves just above the heart. The wounded man, the hired man and Mrs. Graves were then retied and placed alongside the boy in the bedroom of the husband and wife. The robber then searched the house, turning everything upside down. DECIDES TO MURDER. Whether his disappointment at finding nothing further enraged him or it was a part of his hellish original plan, he de- cided to murdir in s cold and calculating manner as evir murder was done. 'This is how the hired man in a rational mo- ment this afternoon deseribed it and this was told while the surgeon was dressing his wounds. { : “He blindfolded us. We were already tied. T could hear him beating the others. I think he struck the little boy first. He did not cry out. I could only hear the blows. Then he went on to the others. I tried to break my cords, but could net. I knew I was to be killed. He was a devil. I begged, and so did the others, but he would not listen. Then he struck me and that was all.” ~ And so they were beaten into Insensibil- ity. The wounds were inflicted with a small hand ax, the property of the ranch. No less than a half-dozen wounds were inflicted upon each of the unfortunates. The skull of the boy was broken in two, or three places. His face was battered almost beyond recognition. The affair took place Monday night, and on Tuesday afternoon a neighbor named house, bright, bright Continued on Page 3, Column & 2 %