The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1903, Page 1

ar @ all. VOLUME XCIII—-NO. 358. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, AMERICAN LINER CRASHES ASHORE IN ST. GEORGES CHANNEL AND ONLY A PORTION OF CREW SUCCEEDS IN REACI‘{ING_I:A_ND 1903. J1ST ARMY 0 CLAMOR FOR BREAD Unemployed of Lon- don Plan Dem- onstration. Fifty Thousand to As- semble in Trafalgar Square. \BRIBERY WITNESS ADMITS PERJURY Declares Political Leader Quigg of New York to Be .the Victim of an Astounding Conspiracy. ol STARVIN G CONE]TIO;’ OF NAVAJO INDIANS Food d Some cf ex ve No I 2 ges they el LYNCE LIKELY TO SERVE TERM OF IMPRISONMENT Belief That Death Sentence Be Commuted to Penal Servitude. 26.—1It & General will now general elieve sentence passed upon ’ 1 be amuted to penal | »e fe, subject to further con- ‘ . n of years. DAY ACCEPTS ‘A TENDER OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT 2.—Judge William a tender of appoint- f the United Judge Day >ointment te Justic does will be Macedonia. Bakh fr, the t a and summoned with Foreign e Macedonian k m « sses the ; v outlook in V L %, is more during the | — Cuba Grants an Extension. WASHINGTO) n. 26.—7 President . 1greemer r the tre January become apparent that the time lim- too short. He also transmitted ihe « an boundary treaty to the Sen- aic YORK VICTIM OF A CO TH H CONGRESSMAN WHO IS ALLEGED TO BE THE SPIRACY TO FASTE E SOUGHT TO BRIBE A LAWMAKER N UPON HIM THE CHARGE R R, ASE Jan. 26— Phil who | fied the House Committee on Naval Af- ay that he d ¥ New Y f money to influence e subn ine bill tatement that he might be $100¢ astoundi ork and who had in it g confes- that his and that he th the want- t Lemuel to him ca without any pre- t Doblin intended mak- Members of the one in bri action looked another s Doblin weat on Rodgers, an t witness h, attorne 1 left the stand arose | i g @ sald he appeared for Doblix » had said to him that he Doblin) had made some statements on Satur which were true and some | | which were nd that he held in his | hand a to which Doblin had w The committee was unanimous in that Doblin should appear in rthwith. He was called and ecific denfal of all assertions he had previously made wherein he al- leged ttempt at bribery Heé was rigidly cross-examined by practicaily every memt of the committee | Quigg are not true. and ation of his action of to-day, but persisted that he was tell- ing the truth SOUGHT TO AID LESSLER. Doblin told of his coming to Washing- ton and of his appearance before the committee. He said that when he came to Washington he decided to make the statement he did. pressed for an expla “I now retract every word in which I | said Mr. Quigg tendered me any bribe in any way,” he sald. “The fact is that the statements I made regarding Mr. I read the article as it was handed to me, and I was told by Lessler: ‘You've got to stand for this,” and I said, ‘Oh, that cannot be.’ 'Well,” he sa ‘then I am politically dead.’ “‘Well, I said, ‘vou carry me with you." “He said: ‘You will be all right if you will just appear before this committee. I will go and see the Speaker and fix it up.’ “He goes out of .the room, comes back and said he had seen the Speaker, and said: ‘it will be all right. All you have got to do is to go before the committce and substantiate my story. cannot stand said, ‘I for ‘you have got to. He in a minute.’ He went e came back 1 look after Just before that he d: ‘You need not have ar ar. There to happen to nothing got vou. You appear before this committee and they re friends of mine and all there is to it is that they will report to the full com- mittee and there won't be anything fur- ther to 't The Congressman left the room. 1 la on the sofa. 1 took the paper up again and read it ov. in about half or three-quarters of an hour in came Monte, who said: ‘You come along with me We will get into the Capitol all right. Nobody will s u. We will be a'l: te zet up through a side elevator which is right close to the Naval Lom- mittee door, 2nd we can get in and & will see that Lubody sees you.' “I went into the committee room. The gentlemen were standing about and Monte said: “This Mr. Doblin’ *The other gentlemen all shook hands with me and 1 sat down and after a little while I was handed a cigar, which I smoked. They made me feel agreeable. I took it for granted that it was all right. The first thing T knew one of the-gentlemen of the committee, after a conversation in which I explained my interests in politics in New York State, asked now long T had been in poiitics. Then one of the gentle- men sald: ‘Wasn't it Mr. Quigg who said to you that there was $5000 in it for Mr. a Lessler and $1000 for you?" I said at that time, ‘No, sir.’ Then all the gentlemen around said: ‘Oh, it's all right, you go on, and then there was a discussion in the room as to how I stood. I refused to answer at that tigee at all. The gentle- men seemed to agree that there was noth- ing to it. Feeling agreeably at home, I made my statement—according to the way it read in the paper. 1 felt that I was in the hands of my {riends and it was all right; that T would back up Lessler here and it would be a cinch, and that was all there would be to it; that the committee would report, that Lessler would be vindi- cated and I would be vindicated and it would be all right. After I got out of the committee-room I went to the hotel and asked for Lessler. He was not there, I telephoned to the House but could not get him, and left the city, thinking it was all right.” Doblin then told of a telegram he re- ceived when he got home, which read: “Statement all right. Have no fear.—M." Continued on Page 2. Column 3. | | ratiroad situat | | proceeds of + HARRINAN'S NEW OUTLET - 10 PAGIFIG Salt Lake-Los An-| geles Road Will | Be Built. SRR |Sale of Oregon Short‘ Line Bonds Sup- ; plies Funds. - Used in Construction . at Once, to-day, hak aroused un- railroad circles, it it developments was nnounced | usual inte t.in was generally believed highly importa as in in the far Southwest. was stated In official quarters that th the sale of these new | would be devoted to the construction of | an extension which would link Lc gele: n | | 1t bonds An- Short ch of the Oregon no =1 Ogden and east would be structed. speedily con- & Co. (Harriman) Pacifie, the | Short Line proposed extension, but of the three, it is said, the Southern Pagl‘nc will be placed in a superior ,\'lr;ltesw» in its com- petition-awjthethe ‘fimfl‘ the Santa Fe. y BONDS HAVE BEEN SOLD. The fact that application has been made | to the Stock Exchange to have the addi- Union Paclific and the Oregon foreshadowed | the | Lin cific detafls were given out to explain the purposes of the exten- | n, enough was learned to suggest that a more direct line from Los Ang The three properties under Kuhn, Loeb | control—the Southern | will reap the advantage of the | .| Ten Million Dollars to Be| | Special Dispatch to The Call | | NEW YORK, Jan. %6.—The sale of $10.- | | | 000,000 adattional Oregon Short Line de- | benture and participating bonds, which es to| | | tional $10,000,000 of new Oregon Short Line } s toward the State line which sep- Nevada from Utah. jAt Calientes, . a branch of the Oregon Short its rminal, and the the two points is a Line has | between | 250 miles. In the last annual report of the Union a map of that property attached hows the projected connection between nd Palin Springs, on the South- n Pacific's Califorhia line. been since that survey been made it ntirely possible that | the $10,000,000 will be devoted to the work | outlined. | THREE OUTLETS TO COAST. | When this is completed the great Union | Pacific system, which terminates at Og- matter of Unless there some c! den, will branch out in three distinct ar- terles—one to the north, ending at Port- land, the second straightaway west to the Pacific, with its Golden Gate terminus, and the third southward to the fruitfu district of Los Angeles. The three ter- Pacific Coast are connected the Southern Pa- mini on the coastwise lines of branch contemplated and which undoubtedly will now be buiit will give a short line to traffic emanating from the Los Angeles district to Ogden and from that point on east to Chicago and New York. It is suggested in some quar- ters that Senator Clark’'s new road, the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake, may make connections with the projected new road. EXCURSIONISTS REPORT MONT PELEE IN ACTION | About Eight Hundred Feet of the Cone of th& Volcano Is Blown Away. CASTRIES, Island of St. Lucia, B. W. I, Jan. 26.—The Royal Mail steamer Esk tock more than 400 excursionists to St. Pierre, Martinique, Saturday and returned here to-day. She reports ‘that while at St. Plerre at 5 o'clock in the afternoon Mont Pelee erupted. At that time there were more than 200 persons ashore and great alarm was felt for their safety. Vol- trteers from the passengers who remain- ed on board assisted the crews in hasten- ing to the rescue. After forty minutes of excitement all the passengers were brought back safely. Apparently about 800 feet of the cone of the volcano has been blown away. e S Deposes San Juan’s Mayor. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. 26.—Gov- ernor Hunt, acting independently of ju- dicial proceedings, to-day suspended Manuel Egoszcue, Mayor of this city, from office and ordered independent in- vestigation into the city’'s frauds. A pros- ecution of the Mayor is pending before the District Court on the charge of using the city records to cover up evidence of peculations, but the consensus of opinion is that it will be impossible to procure a jury to convict him, as the Mayor has a great popular following. | bonds listed indicates that the entire | amount has been sold and distributed. The proceeds, therefore, are available im- mediately, and it is not likely that any delay will entue in the beginning of the | work It is expected that construction work | be hurried from a point near Los distance | GOTHAM’'S BANKERS TO AID VENEZUELA Will Undertake the Payment of the Powers First Claims Against the Cara- cas Uovernment. W4 e % YORK FINANCIAL KINGS WHO ARE ASSISTING IN THE | "E MONEY FOR THE | SSSING DEBTS. | —— > ~p — ——— e e | ¥ contro would be settled ‘‘soon | | and satisfactorily | CARACAS, Jan. 28.—The || i js learned that the, Ttallan | Associated Press correspond- | |'ment-ail ‘along has favored an-honorabi | ent has just raceived a com- | |compromise and has let its allles know | munication from the British | |the favor with which it regarded the 1. naval office ot La Guaira, in- | Bowen proposition, while expressing a forming him that the blockade | | Wlliingness to defer to their view | will be raised mext Wednes- || The lifting of the blockade would not | | mean the complete withdrawal from | day. | | American waters of the allied fleet, as it . 4 |is understood that not only will the Brit- ish American fleet remain in its accus- ONDON. Jan Wwas | tomed winter quarters in the Caribbean, carned to-day that Great Brit- | yyy that the German Government wouid ain and Germany have in- formed their representatives in Washington that they consider Minister Bowen's proposals re- garding Venezuela's guarantees as a sat- isfactory basis for further negotiations. In addition to the offer of part of the customs of La Guaira and Porto Cabello as a guarantee, Bowen informed the powers that several New York banks had expressed their willingness to undertake the payment of the first claims demand- ed by the powers upon the basis of such guarantee. As soon as the powers hear of the consent of, reliable houses to guar- antee the payment of the first clalms the blockade will be raised. This is expected to be within two or three days. In the event of this arrangement being conclud- ed it is supposed that the customs of the two ports mentioned will be administered jointly by representatives of the powers and of the banks concerned. At the Ger- man Embassy here it was said there was no reason whatever for a continuance of the blockade, “‘once the powers are satis- fled that the guarantee is not merely of- fered with the object of getting rid of them.” It is understood here that the banks referred to by Bowen are J. & W. Selig- man & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. - TERMS ARE SATISFACTORY. Bowen Expects Formal Acceptance From the Allies. WASHINGTON,Jan. 2.—Minister Bowen, acting for Venezuela, in return for the raising of the blockade, pledges 30 per cent of the receipts of the ports of Porto Cabéllo and La Guaira to be collected by a joint commission made up of one repre- sentative from each of the powers having claims against Venezuela. Up to the close of the day formal notice of the acceptance of the proposition had ret come to Bowen from the representa- tives of allies here. However, such un- official information as Teached Bowen confirmed him in the bellef that the pend- depart from its ancient policy. which has been to get along without station fleets, and will continue the present squadron in American waters as a permanent fleet. B EMBASSADORS AT OUTS. Sir Michael Herbert and Count Quadt Have Stormy Meeting. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The peace ne- gotiations have been brought to such a pass by Mr. Bowen that England's favor was won to the proposal before Germany had scarcely time to read it. This was because Sir Michael Herbert began ‘the vital part of the negotiations with Mr. Bowen twenty-four hours before Count Quadt did. Therefore Count Quadt jearned from another source soonmer than | he did from Sir Michael Herbert that England had received Bowen's third pro- posal—the one which is acceptable. This led to a stormy scene between Sir Michael and Count Quadt, in which the British Embassador was accused of not acting in good faith. The matter was smoothed over, however, and the nego- | tiations continued unruffled. With the promptness which has char- acterized all of its actions in the present emergency, the Itallan Government has cabled to its fleet commander in Venezu- elan waters to withdraw from the block- ade as soon as-the ships of the other| powers do so. Information to this effect was received by the Italian Embassador to-day. SULTAN GROWS WEARY OF FIGHTING THE REBELS Government Troops Engage Forces of the Enemy Outside of Fez and Are Worsted. TANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 2.—Skirmish- ing is reported to be taking place outside of Fez with results favorable to the rebels, who, it is said, greatly outnumber the Sultan's troops. It is rumored that the Sultan is tired of the struggle and wants to leave Fez. PRICE FIVE CENTS. \Name of the '\ Vessel Not Known. Advices Men= ' tion No Pas- | sengers. Gale Raging at Tit_ne of Wreck. OLYHEAD, Wales, Jan. 27.—An Ameri- can liner is reported to be ashore’off Ab- erfrawe Point, fifteen miles south of Holyhead. A heavy gale raging in St. Georges Channel. \ dispatch to the Teleg is Exchange aph Company from Holy= head says that a portion of the crew, numbering seventeen men, have come ashore in their own boa They report that the ves- sel is a total wreck. T'he name of the vessel is not vet known. Part of the crew is ;mal-lc to get the heavy seas running. ashore, owing to The reports received here make no mention of any passen- gers being aboard. NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—TIt is very & probable that any vessel of the America | line of steamers is ashore at Aberfrawe | Point. Vessels of the American line Philadelghia-Liverpool service sail from | Livérpool an Wednesdays and tie only | stéather bound from Philadelphia to Liv- erpool which might be in that locality the Noordland. It is not likely that & Noordland has reached St. Georges Chan- nel, as she ha® not beer reported passing off the T arriving a Queenstown, vented t It is not impr always stops un- ¢ a severe gale able that the‘vessel is | less pr the Chesapeake Steamship Company steame loah, which left Newport News on January 13 for Liverpool, and which passec y the Irish coast, ea n Me Aberfrawe Point is on the coast of Wales, about ten miles utheast of Holyhead. STOWAWAYS ARE TURNED ADRIFT ON THE OCEAN Captain Gives Them a Boat, Com- pass and Provisions and They Reach Land. ¥ NOLULT Jan —~When French bark Vincennes left here for Francisco, November 18 ¢ rried three stowaways, who kept out of sight of tk officers of the vessel till they thoug! she was well away from land. W brought before Captain Selaam French skipper had visions of a fine of $200 that he have to pay for n of the men on his arrival at San He studied the matter found it would be more turn the men provisions and compass. put them over the side of his ship when neacly a hundred miles from land ing them the prc | men got back safely to Honolulu and sold the boat at auction for $25. But C | tor of Customs Stackable got wind of t sale and seized the boat, on which t! buyer must now pay full customs duty if he desires to secure his new property The Collector is also anxious to get on the track of the three stowaways, but so far has run down only one of them and he can speak nothing bat his native vatois. ve it en the wou Fran out and al cisco. losing a boat, sai He ngly adrift acec dir er course to sail. The CORONATION REJOICINGS | COMMENCE AT CALCUTTA Lord Curzon, the Viceroy, Gives a Ball and Fifteen Hundred Guests Attend. CALCUTTA, Jan. 26—The coronation rejolcings commenced here to-day feasts and flluminations of the city. Viceroy, Lord Curzon, gave a ball night to celebrate the centennial of the first government house ball. It w splendid success, the 1300 guests pr all wearing costumes in vogue a hundr years ago. Lord Curzon was attired in a costume which was a fac simile of that worn & Lord Wellesley a century ago. Lady Curzon was robed in a beautiful gown embroidered with gold and having a mag- nificent train. The ancient military tumes and those of the princes were very effective. vl S P Promotions for Army Officers. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Brigadier General Edward M. Hayes, recently pro- moted, was retired to-day and Colonel Charles T. Davis, Fifth Inantry, will be promoted to the vacancy. Other officers to be promoted and retired are Colonel Joseph P. Farley of the Ordnance De : partment and Colonel M. C. Foot | Colonel Francis Moore of the Eleventh Cavalry will receive the permanent pro- motion as brigadier general and will be assigned to the command of a military department in the Philippines. w to- | native