The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1903, Page 1

IE XCIII-NO. 32 SAN FRANCISCO, THURSD JANUARY 1, 1903 PRICE FIVE CENTS. .. LION-DOLILAR STEEL TRUST WILIL SHARE FUTURE PROFITS WITH ITS EMPLOYES AND MAKE EVERY MAN A STOCKHOLDER YAQUIS GIE THE TROOPS FEARS DAY HARD FIGHT Starving Redskins Make Stand in Foothllls womms | OFCARNAGE 0il Land Locators ' Guard Rights With Guns. | | { | Dozen Braves and Six Failure to Do Assess- | Soldiers Die on the Battlefield. Indians Are Finally Routed Great Rush of Men to Field and Make Off to the Mountains, pecia a .5 shts Ya P 'S Ass Uva- 1y cen Pl the pas w days in s back of Guay A it an & week ago a Yaq rriors, ac r of w e i ron misa, where the Fifth Reg- X s statio Fuse I’\ DIANS MAKE A STAND. a f h. mountains ar men . Y as they | a Agua A m wiom 1 arving a -t »m; elled Coyotes . P ) 5> ha ar - s HA}\'D ;0 HAND FI-HTING. K a essful small Mexican g their women and w se were taken prisone capture into = for his brave subdue s who Sierra in the DECLARE THEY WERE DECOYED TO MINES Workmen Put Into Strikers’ Places File Suits for Heavy Damages. NEW ¥ Dec. 3 have been broug ¥ £ of this ty who « e recent coal nts of the Ivania 2 Xoal Compasy. Damages ok amountin 160,000 are sued for, nd the roey for the plaintifts consulted with an assistant District At- torney to-day about ng the issue before the nd Jury to be sworn in next M TLe pla * clalm that under the pre- tenee that thry would be given work for I the raliroad company or coal company they were decoyed to Hoboken, where they were locked i car and carried against will to the coal regions of | Pennsylvania and compelled 10 et ag | “strike breakers,” Under threats of “be. ing turmed over 10 the fury of the min- The men say they . finally suc- ceeded in making their way back to the city, but declare that on their way home they had marrow escapes from being | to-day of an accident at the Chioride- | price on the head of Captain Abadie, the tuobbed. Balley mine in Trinity County Monday, in | Bri*ish resident of Zaria, the = British g Wi which Frank 1. Douglas was killed and | Government has decided on the immedi- - Will Xeep Open House. Charles Neusse was badly injured. They | ate dispatch of a punitive expedition of ‘ VA 0, Dec. 31.—Viallejo Lodge No. | were working in a cut thirty feet deep | 1200 men belonging to- tne West African , B. P, O, E, held 2 diljan: reception | when, without any warning, the bank | frontier force, The Government has re- nun Jn hcnor of the | ©f thelr few clubrooms Besp Yopen r-ln to-mo; 3 Elks will ded | as been | ment Work Leaves Claims Open. to Drive Stakes Causes Apprehension | EVANSTON, Wyo., Dec promises to bri 3 excitemen led istory of the first day of the ¥ plans are being carried out | foot land whic | ready p ted by the | ment work | P to a few days ago it was believed | t pr ca.ty € be “ wis protected, t loser investigation | shows that at least one-third of the oil field. or area of 800 square miles, wiil ; for refiling at 12:01 ow | vidently being the ion | original locators to proteet their | rights by the use of firearms if the occa- | sion requ | Evanston has been practically divested | of its male ulation, and nearly all places of b have been clc the men being stationed throughout the oil ‘l‘m rea 1o commence driving their| | laim stakes at the dawn of the new vear. Ail armed pith Win-" ers and wgiine, and floodshed i | toliow and several dej | ties w Quell any disturbance | that me 1 the viein of Spring Valley, but it is belleved that his small | force of officers will be unable to cope TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS | San Francisco Is Chosen as the Next Place for Holding Annual Convention. LOS ANGEL Dee. 31.—The Califor- a Teachers' Association to-day elected | officers for the ey are President, Q. W. Erlewine, Sacramentc vice presid Edward Hyatt (River side), Mrs. J nas) 3 tary, Mrs. M. M San Fran- | cisco; assistant Charles | Hughes, Alamed railr secreta Jokn A. Wood ramer and tre urer, Philip Prior, San x-‘,ar.'rm The second vice presidem, secretary and {reasurer we assistar retary ve re- elected San Francisco was chosen as the next | place of meeting | A reception was ter d the visiting te: rs by Los Angeles Teachers Assceiation this evening at School of Expression meetings will be held to-morrow, but the Comnock | he teachers will take an excursion around the kite-shaped track, will go to one of the beach resorts or to Pasadena. | The sessions will be resumed Friday | morning HOUSTON FIREMEN FORM h UNION AND WILL STRIKE| | Notify the Mayor That They Will| | Cease Work After Fbrty-Eight 3 Hours. HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 3L—The fire- men of the ecity notified the Mayor to- day that they would cease work to-night for the present wages, but would st duty for forty-eight The firemen recently union and yesterday in wages on hours free of cost organized a labor made a demand for The strike an increase was | precipitated by a report that the com- | mittee having the matter in charge wijll | recommend only a partial increase, Seventy-three men are affected, the of- ficials being included. A special session of the Council will be held to consider the matter. 2 Y MRS. W. A. CLARK JR. IS NEARING THE END Physicians Say the Young Wife of Montana Millionaire Cannot Recover. the end but a matter 9f a short, time, Paralysis of the bowels has set in and her recovery is impossible. Since the 2l opening | caved birth of her babe, December 1, Mrs. Clark has suffered. Puerperal fever developed, and for several days past her life been despaired of. has Miner Killed and Compavion Injured, REDDING, Dec. 3L.—Word reached Here in on them. Neusse quickly re. vived when rescued. Douglas was founa dead undes fifteen feet of tallings. UNCLE SAM IS NOT READY TO MAI(E RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR. THE YEAR WHICH ! DIED LAST NIGHT PROVED HIM ABLE TO MEET EMERGENCIES AS THEY COME. | s UGANDA CANNIBALS MURDER AND DEVOUR FRONTIER GARRISON Awful Fate Lieutenant and His Men at Port istration has ant de Magnse and his party, who were BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 1.—At 1 o’clock this | in charge of Port Boni, on the frontier of morning the physicians at the Clark home | yganda, - were attacked by a cannibal reported Mrs_ W. A. Clark Jr. dying and | (rjpe on June 14 last and that the entire party was murdered and eaten. VILL PUNISH THE EMIF, BBITA.IN. Dec. the menacing Kanov, a powerful of northern Nigeria, ceived news of the death in Octobe of the Emir of Sokoto, serlous trouble in the past of Belgian Boni. R A e { ~The Congo admin- received news that Lieuten- Dee. 31 OF KANOV | 81.—In attitude of consequence of the Emir’ of Mahommedan who has ruler placed a t who had caused | over the Northern Pacific “corner,” 'FIERPONT MORGAN AND HI5 RIGHT-HAND AN PART COMPANY Climax to Disagreement Re- | sulting From North- ern Pacific Stock ““Corner.” SW. YORK, Dec. 31.—Wall street was d to-day by the anng LTpr ncement by J. Plerpont Morgan's office that Robeft Bacon, for years. Morgan's right-hand man in all things, nection entirely with the Morgan houses here, in Philadeiphia and in Paris. Bacon's retirement Is said to be the ult of a tiff between Morgan and Bacon which Morgan believed Bacon could have pre- vented had he used proper judgment in time. Morgan himself says Bacon's re- tirement i3 due to il heaith. , Morgan was_ in Europe in May of last year, at the time of the Northern Pacific “corner” and its resultant panic. Bacon was here in charge of the business. When Morgan ret .acce to rsspnus fa- gyiohi O Stxcet. e tonik Aer evn‘re 0t g his par, not. dis- mvefln Hun})ny"i-f ving of, Worthern g preveiiting the Jf'corner had severed his con- | EXPECT. TO CROSS THE SHHARR DESERT IN-LARGE BALLODN French Explorers Wlll First Test the Prevailing Di- rection of the Winds. —_— MM. PARIS, Dec. 3 stillcon de Se Marseilles to-day de Bureaux and nt Vic‘or embarked at for Tunls, where they purpose sending up two small balloons to certain ‘whether. the winds which pre- vail in winter will carry,alrships across Sahara desert. If this experiment be successful' the two explorers will' attempt to cr the unexplored portion of the desert irr a big balloon, This plan receives the support of the French Government, which supplies the balloons. The airships to-be used first are sup- plied with automatic registering instry- ments and carry requests, written in sev- eral languages, asking the finders to re- turn them to the authorities: in Tunis. ‘Major Marchand, of Fashoda fame, s to meet the explorers at Gabes, at which point the two balloons will be'sent off. @it e e @ gan's chief partner and adviser. Bacon retains his place as dircctor in the va- rious' Morgan corporations, the | irm’'s | vances in | effective January 1, 1% | year contract with the Amalgamated As. | America covering the NEW YEAR'S CHEER FOR WORKINGMEN Numerous Corpora- tions Increase Wages. \New York Street Rail-| way Adopts New cale. Employes' Pay Will Be Regu- | lated by Their Term of Service. —_— New System Ready for Trial. Dividends in \ Store for . Toilers. Surplus to Be . Divided An- | nually. | | NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—In a double cir cular, the st lders and the officers employes, the States Steel Corporation announces ate a system rkman on its desire, become a perma- re in the profits scheme is preparation by er and ation. T ths of the the + of the corporation and Special Dispatch to The Cal | are signed by George W. an. The 3 sald t NEW YOF Dec. 31.—The Metropoli- | ™ e plag is sald to cet Rail has announced an in- | T — tan Street Rallway has announced an in- | /1= o the RN e S creade in the ges of its motormen anc 2 creade in the wages of its motormen and | 5,0 the apparent advantage of the plan, conduetors. The pay of the men Wil be | which was devised with equal fairness to regulated by their terms of service. The |every m from the president of the managemeént of the roads claims the new [steel corporation itself to the man with vick and shovel orkin O] ne o scale will be higher than that of any sim- | Pick and sh working for one of the ilar corporation in the country : Each employe of the banking-house of received to-day a ual to 100 per I'his duplicates the distribution a year also a ranging from $1% to are between 130 and bonuses and ad an aggregate firm of Morgan & Co w Year's b f his yearly New There were ses in salaries There and the s represent gift by the ago. er a year 140 employ s, New Year $150,000. RAILROAD RAISES WAGES. sehedvia of wages will.go Info efféct on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad that will iarge percentage departments of the Toad increase substantially of increase vary in erent departments | and with different men or ck s of em- | ployes. According to an official state- taken in connec- ment the new schedules tion with previous increases made during the vear 1902, will make the total in | creases approximate what other roads lo- thre cated in the territory | Lackawanna road runs have done in this direction. The increases will approximate $500,000 a month Milwaukee advices state that all of the regu locomotive engineers riy employed | and firemen connected with the Wiscon- | sin Central road, numbering between 609 and will receive a w Year's greet- ing to-morrow from ¢ neral Superintend- ent E. E. Potter of the company in the shape of an official announcement of a general advance in their wages, accord- ing to the present mileage st effect. This general advance will become , and will range from 10 to 25 per cent, according to the | present schedule of pay HANNA SIGNS CONTRACT. The Cleéveland Ohio. City Railroad Company, known locally as the Little Consolidated, through its president, Ser ator M. A. Hanna, to-day signed a one- lway Employes of scale of wages to be paid to its motormen and conductors. The hundreds of employes of the company are much elated over the successful out- come of the negotiations that have been in progress for some time. The Little Consolidated operates nearly a dozen dif- ferent street rallway lines. From Connellsville, Pa that 15,000 miners and coke workers of the Connellsville, Lower Connellsville and Latrobe reglons got a 10 per cent wage advance for a New Year's gift. The in- dependent concerns followed the example set by the H. C. Frick Coke Company, and virtually the same scale will go_into eftect all over the coking country the first of the year. SLEEPS FOR FOUR DAYS AFTER GETTING MARRIED Morpheus Overcomes Groom at Wed- ding Supper and Physicians Are Unable to Arouse Him. REDDING, Dee. 3lL—James who is well known in Chico last week and on Friday was mar- ried to Miss Rena Davis. After the mar- riage service the wedding party sat down to a supper. Purkins went to sleep be- soclation of Street R comes word fore the supper was served and it was | not until Tuesday morning that he was arouged from his strange slumber, “It was at first supposed that Purkins had fainted, but an examination by phy- siclans showed that he was sleeping. A year ago Purkins was hypnotized and he Vvielded readily to the power of the hyp- notist. His strange sleep cannot be ac- counted for, as it is not believed any one in the wedding party of hypnotic power. Big Winnings in Corn Deal. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 31.—Thomas A. Cleage closed his big December corn Geal at noon to-day, a heavy winner. He made settle- ments on all deals at 46 cents, which was two cents over the corn quotations at Chicago. He estimates that between five miliion and six million bushels of con- tract corn were involved in the deal and that his average profit was six cents to the bushel. This makes him aflead on the deal $300,000 to $360,000. number of in-| about | the pay of a| of the employes in all | The -percentdges | gh which the | hedule in | Purkins, | Redding, went to | was possessed e efres that at this tockholders, sense security , | earning power if t w that the | ficers and managers ally were will ing t ¢ Into a contract by h a | part of thetr compensation for services | rendered should be paid only after the | realization of $80,000000 of profits. This represents 1 st on bonds, dividen on stocks and re > for sinking funds. DETAILS OF THE DIVISION. L The plan inviting officers and employes ta” participate 1s Alvided fnto twe par ‘}’ur( one prescribes that from the eary |ings of the corporgtion during the year 1902 th will have been set aside least $2,000.000 and -as much more as needed for the purchase of at least 25,000 share t preferred stock, which will ¢ offere follows to employes T peration and constituent companie At present the corporation and subsid- ompanies employ 168,060 men, receive salaries of 3300 a year or les DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS. The prefer 1 employe during Jam (its closing price m it is proposed to ¢ nto these six classes; Class A will fne It who regeive salarfes of $20,000 a year over; class B will include all those who | receive alaries of from $10.000 to 3$20.000 a year; class C will inclugle all those who | receive salaries of from@5)0 to $10.000 a | vear; class D will inelude all those who ;.’ur—n» salaries of from $2500 to $5000 a | year; E will include all those who | receive salaries of from $500 to $200 a | vear; class F will include all these who | \ | | any share for an mployes may subscr am t exceeding the sum represent- in age of their an- | al salarie in this table | Class B, § per cent; class C class D, 12 F, 20 per ¢ t p In part two of the plan it is explained | that the corporation has been and is Bow 10 per cent; lass per cent 5 per cent; making chapges in the salaries of men | occupying officlal or semi-official posi- tions, and the directors have approved | these recommendations of the finance cemmittee: Whenever dumu.. and less t an $%9.- | 00,000 1s earned during 1%3 one per cent | shell be set aside; whenever §90.000,0 | and less than $100,000,000 is earned ¢ = 1.2 per cent shall be set aside; when- | ever $100,000,000 and less than $110,000,000 s | earned during 193, 1.4 per cent shall be | set aside; whenever $110,000,00 and less | than $120000,000 is earned during 1903, 1.6 per cent shall be aside; whenever | $130,000,000 ana less than $140,000000 is earned during 193, 2 per cent shall be set aside; whenever $140,000,000 and less than $150,000,000 is earned during 1908, 2% per cent shall be set aside; whenever $150,000,- 000 and less than $160,000,000 is earned d ing 1903, 2% per cent shall be set aside. BOTH CASH AND STOCK. The qdestion of what constitutes profits | is to be determined by the finance com mittee, which, it is stated, will have no interest in the profit-sharing plan. It $50,000,000 is earned in the coming year $300,000 will be set aside, one-half to be distributed in cash quarterly, the other half to be reserved until the end of the |year and invested In preferred stock, the stock thus purchased to be divided ome- half to employes entitled thereto, the oth er half to remain with the treasurer of the corporation. Each shareholder is to receive a certificate for his interest com- taining these provisions: First—That if he remain continuously in the service of the corporation or of one or another of its subsidiary companies for five years the stock shall be delivered to him, and he may do as he likes with it. | Second—That if he die or become totally and permanently disabled while in the employ of the corporation or of one or another of its subsidiary companies the stock shall be delivered to his estate or to ‘him. Third—That he may draw the dividends declared on the stock while it is held for his account and he remain in the employ of the corporation or of one or another of its subsidiary companies. | continued on Page 2, Column 4,