The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME i(‘lll—-\'(). 65 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1903 BOWEN SUBMITS ULTIMATUM THAT LEAVES ALLIES NO CHOICE PRICE FIVE CENTS. BETWEEN A BACKDOWN AND A BREAKING OFF OF NEGOTIATIONS THQIT NS SPEEU JEATH 10 SOLDIERS Mexican Battalion Is Almost Anni- hllated Great Loss of Life in an Unexpected En- gagement, Sonora Indians Catch Troops Trap and Alarm San Marcial. IN TROOPS IN A TRAP. Twelfth Ba were ber 1use frightened rom a critical co = were ir a large num B o# ar: not wn. t om San Mar- wn anxiously | guiar troops s 2 d in the fi —_— — | FRENCH SOLDIERS WILL { BE SUPPLIED WITH WINE | Chamber of discussion The sitting was ck sustained seneral Andre, | ittee over an = € for an increase in | for the purpose of | vs with wine. This | 1 spite of the opposition of . and the commission, was s votes to 213. The main | S proposer of the amend- | iat the campaign in China | soldiers supplied with wine —— g 1.cot more @rank ocly endurance than those who water. i 1 o ot MYSTERY VEILS RUTAL GRIME 0 THE ST, - Mutilated Body of a Missing Broker Discovered. Occupants of Room in Which Remains Lay Have Disappeared. —_— appearance wards, was of his head a l There and other wounds ging-house were two the face and body that apparently been inflicted with a sharp instru- A twelve-inch butcher knife that » ) bureau evi- dentl as used b murderer. A led w od and water stood ar b shstand ' on the floor. Sowards seen dead about forty-eight hours. iging-house is conducted by A. Adams, who s the room in which Sowards’ bo vas found had been ed a ar a woman, who gave . he woman d- enty-five years old taller ar od- abe four housekeeping. without say- going. ich Sowards dis- real estate office, City Hall. At that in money on his person. in the morn- er to go out in the aft- moved i i lig! place Friday were did on w his he had $300 ad made’ arrangemen a st nd some property and was heard from him after 1:30 k that afternocon when he departed presumably to keep the engagement. No one at the lodging-house had seen Sowards before to-day, when his body was discovered by a man who had cailed | » inquire about some furniture that had been left in the Martin apartments. The ¢ the room were locked and the man entered with a skeleton key. On a in the corner, covered with a quilt and with a pillow over the head, was found the body which was identified im- | mediately as that of Sowards. In a | pocket was found a memorandum book | which contained an entry that may throw | some light on the murder of the old man: The entry read: «C. E. Martin, four months, $200 on dia- monds at 3 per cent, m\ame monthly, | 2, due Feb. 7, 1903." no entry or any payment hav- | ing been made and it is the theory of the police that Sowards may have called to | collect his Interest and been murdered for his money. There was mo evidence | of a struggle in the room and it is thought Sowards may have been plied ! with liquor or drugged and then mur-! dered. This morning - before the discovery of | the body Mrs. Martin called at the lodg- | ing-house fof the purpose of getting a plant that had been left in the rooms, but as the doors were locked she did not ors to Condnued on P:ge 2, Column, 5. Martin was | | signed —ofe 1 “We will exhaust all peaceful means with the understanding that when that has been done we will not give m, but fight."—President Castro’s statement to The Cail. ‘KINB EOWARD'S - SICKNESS MAY PROVE SERIOUS 'Belief That His Real Ailment Is Appen- dicitis. Bulletins Issued by Physicians. ok LS S ial Dispatch The ( NEW YORK Feb. The imes has ! the fc wing: london he King's sud- den isposition, necessitating a post- ponement of his visit of Devonshire bas created general s is to the at Duke and Chatsworth, rise here, and it marked as eurious, to say the least, that the King should have been apparent. Iy in excellent health and spirits, laughing Duchess | heartily with the Prince of Wales during the tree-planting ceremony at 11:30 o’clock s morning, and then within an hour een pronounced as suffering from a fe- verish cold and unable to leave Windsor Castle, as arranged. The King's dislike for breaking public | is well known | and p! ate engagements by the pecple; therefore they are inclined to be skeptical regarding the caule as. ment when the alteration gramme must have caused great Incon- venience to a great many besides his ex- pectant host and hostess. With regard to the suddenness of his illness and the fact that feverish colds do ot ordinarily develop with such rapidity, | also the invariable practice of the court physicians and other officials to minimize royal ailments, there is a tendency to at- tribute his indisposition to a recrudes- cence of the case of appendicitis which caused a postponement of the coronation and which came near ending the King's life. It is known that sufferers from appen- dicitis frequently have heavy sudden at- tacks; hence the anxiety of the public is not dispelled by the reassuring statement that his ifMisposition in this case is only a feverish cold. of his pro- Wants to Control Public Utilities. CHICAGO, Feb. 2—By a unanimous vote the city placed itself on record to- night as desiring municipal ownership for his ‘having done so at a mo- | SIMFSON WERK ENRAGED MEN MENTALLY WHEN ~ SEEK WITINS OVEN COMMAND FOR.LYNCHN ' 'Record’s Disclosure| Surprises Naval | on House in Shasta Circles. |, County. —— —— wnite « zore- | London Populace Discredits| Rear Admiral a Sufl‘erer;Child Gives the Alarm and | From Aphasia During | ‘ a Vigilance Committee Spanish War. Is Afield. RS 3 Special .Dispatgh to The Call, Spéclal Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU,"1406 G STR : REDDING. Feb. 2—Ten armed hobocs{ | Intense In- | mage an attack upon the home of Mr. | terest was created in naval circles to-day | A MO L e Tas Mbtiateh, Who llve nieds by tlie publication of the fact that the | ~n¢ MrS. de la:] e the edge of the Mounfain Copper Com- pany’s property at Iron Mountain, last night, and'had-it not been for the little medical record of-the late Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson, through which his wid- ow, Mrs, Sampson, was given a pension of $30 a month, showed that e suffered | daughter 'of Mrs. de la Montaign, who as early as 1897 from apbasia, an insid- | ran over’ .the hills - and nofified ' the jous mental disease, and that attacks re- guards, ‘the tramps would have -carried occurred several times in the period:be- fore his retirement. Because Secretary and Admiral Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of Naviga- | tion, were absent at Annapolis, no offi- clal statement was made as to why the department was satisfied that.the disease | from which Rear Admiral Sampson suf- | tered had not incapacitated him from | Guty. The opinion expressed to-day by of- | ficers who were either on his staff or as- | sociated with him in the Santiago cam- | paign was that while Rear Admiral Samp- son may have at times suffered from aphasia, he recovered from the attacks, out their nefarious plans. About § o'clock ‘ten” men, armed wita rifles and’ pistols, approached the De ia Montaign house: De la, Montaign was not at’ home, and the only dccupants of the house were his wife and little daughter ané a young Jady named Davis, who was aying with, them. The hobges Kicked down the door of the house and the women were frightened al- most iAito hysterics. The intruders leveled guns at Mrs! de la Montaign and Miss Davis and angrily demanded them to pro- ear and was not in any manner unfit for | duce the man, referring to:De la Mon- duty. taign, and thréatened to kill them if they Surgeon @eneral Rixey of the navy, | did not.produce him. ‘While: they weore thus threatening the women .the little girl slipped out of the back door and raced over the hills to where some .of the company's guards were stationed, She told the guards of the assault, and three of them proceeded to the De la Montaign home. They chased the hoboes until they had crossed the line of the company’s property. A few yards further the guards discovered that they were ambushed. They had encoun- tered a rendezvous of about twenty-five Ttalians, and all were armed. The Ital- jans 'so ‘completely outnumbered ! guards thal they. were compelled to turn and flee for their lives. These hoboes are camped together and are a cause of terror to the inhabitants living in the neighborhood of Iron Moun- who was in charge of the naval dispen- | sary in Washingten in 1897, said to-day: “I attended Captain Sampson before he was ordered to sea in 1 He suffered a slight attack of aphasia, but entirely recovered from it, and when he left ‘Washington to go to sea he was fit ln} perform any reasonable duty. While he | commanded the fleet in Caribbean waters he was under the eye of the fleet. sur- geon, one of the best officers in the med- ical corps, who would have quickly recog- nized any affection which interferdd with Rear Admiral Sampson’s capacity for performing his duty.” Captain Lemly, judge advocate general of the navy, to-day said that the report that the Navy Department had refused to allow | Rear Admiral Sampson to appear as a | and operation of gas and electric lighting plants. The Legislature will be memo- rialized to pass an enabling act at once. N tain. To-night the vigilance committee will go to Iron Mountain, and there may bLe a lynching before morning. incorrect. Captain Leraly desirag him as a witness, but Rear Admiral Schley's at- witness at the Schley court of Inquiry was torneys objected. i Hoboes Make Attack the | SENKTORS HOLD P NOMINATION | Addicks Man in Delaware. Y FRESOENT (8hy at Appointment of| !Flat Refusal - of Powers’ Demands. flAll Nations - Wil Fflre . Equally. e Castro Makes | His Fmal Stand. CARACAS, Feb. 2.—Presi- | dent Castro’s troops are | gaged in battle with a strong revolutionary force only four- teen miles south of Caraca | There has been no decisive | | result, but the revolutionists | | have gained ground. Accord- | ing to the latest reports the ,insurgents are advancing on | all sides. en- | § Pl—srroi g ot R ! ASHINGTON, Feb. 2 | Herbert W. Bowen, Venezuela's represen- in the negotia- Washington | for a settlement of the | against that country, has through the British % | Embassador here what amo prac- tically to an ultimatum to the allied pow ;nr: of Great Britain, Germany and Ttaly | regarding their insistence for preferentia n claims sent reatment in the settlement of their claims agair This note, | which the British sador received | shortly before 9 ¢ to-night, was | cabled at once to London, copies of it be- ing transmitted to the Italian and Ger- man Embassies for transmission to Rome London and Berlin. It Is in reply to the proposition submitted at a joint confer ence of the negotiators this afternecn by the British Bmbassador, urging that | the /Allled powers be allowed two-thirds | of 30 per cent of the customs receipts of the ports of La Guaira and Puerto Ca- bello and that the United States and the { other claimant nations—France, Belgium Holland, Denmark, Spain and Norway | and Sweden—content themselves with t maining oae-third of this percentage } FroREms | that is, 10 per cent of the receipts of 3 hese two ports. Committee - on Judiciary * | y MAKES FLAT REFUSAL | Votes in Favor of \ In the note received by the British Em 1 | bassador from Bowen to-night, the latter j Rejection. { refuses point blank the proposition for a | —_— e | and 10 per division, on the ground i Special Dispatch to The Call. | that to recognize the principle it em- | bodies would be absoh offensive | CALL BUREAU, STR | mod | W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—-J. Edward | that {*Addicks™ leadership of the Republican | save | party in Delaware received a severe blow | ment to-day when the Senate Committee on | Vene voted to report in favor of the nomination of W to be United States Attorney for Delaware. This a will be a setback to the candidacy | Addicks for United States Senator. | cidentally President Roosevelt's good in appointing Byrne rejection M. Byrne mittee was: To reject—Hoar, banks, Platt and Nelson and Pettus, Turner, Culbe; r(c(m Clark, Fai: by President McKinley of the anti-Addicks wing. with’ Dr. L. H. Ball an took sides with the Addicks gress from the Addicks forces. President Roosevelt ing Byrne the President displaced who had been put into office while Byrs was running for Congress. interfering in gny way in Delaware He said the Addicks men 13,000 votes to 8000 by the other side ar were entitled to some recognition. e — EX-ATTORNEY GENERAL HONOLULLU. Feb. 2 | San Francisco on January 3 District n also In it is a vote by committee that | judgment was not | It is understood that the vote In com- 2 Republicans, | nd Black- | burn, Democrats; to confirm—Simon, Mc- | Comas and Depew, Republicans, and Ba- | con, Démocrat. | Byrne was appointed District Attorney as a Republican He is an elo- quent political orator of great influence. After fighting Addicks for several years Byrne became involved in a political fight anti-Addicks leader, who was elected to Congress in 1900. As a result of this quarrel Byrne men and when Ball was renominated last fall by the, anti-Addicks or regular Republicans Byrne accepted a nomination for Com- informed him he liam N. Nields, a prominent Republican, e President Roosevelt denied that he was | pol- itics or that he was alding Addicks, but he declined to withdraw the nomination had poiled DOLE SUES FOR DIVORCE Ex-Attorney Gen- eral E. P. Dole has filed a suit for di- vorce against his wife, alleging iricom- of the blockade, derstanding would end when tI ington had r It is understood being t ne hed an \greement tha using this | 1ast prope tted by the Br | Emba of the allle en takes the that he ca - princ and bombz cept blockades the women or alliance | ment at the It is claimed that ers and the blockading powers such a principle they would ir in the law of nations a doctrine in con- flict with the temets of all modern day ethics. AMERICANS WANT PEACE. Moreover, Venezuela, it is stated, re- gards the preferential demand of the powers as objectionable because it would | engble the continuance of the triple al- liahce of “Great Britian, Germany and Italy for'a period of six years or more, and In accepting it Venezuela would conseque and f powers to p hands of a ci should the pe: = would have to resign as District Attor- | encouraging and abetting the main- ney. It was the Intention of the President | tenance of hostie alffances against to réappoint him if he failed of election. | S¢!f- The British Embassader is Byrne resigned and was defeated. | formea in the note that Americans norta President Roosevelt appointed Byrne | 279 snn(: \\?":z i kny a L not altia District Attorney and sent his nomination | ¥ CocZucia has takenm special exception to the Senate on the reassembling of | to the action of the British vernment Congress. The appointment caused a | " lnlltallngl‘(hv tase peoposition, by great outburst of indignation in Delaware | i "r;aln ;rvnnn can I J ast to Ger- and throughout the country. In appoint. | Many and Italy in their alliance against | Venezuela until the last ceglt of the claim is pald. The prediction is made in her sponse that surprise and regret of the | keenest sort will be felt - throughout the Americas when it is known that Great itain has even proposed contihuing present alliance with Germany and Italy one moment longer than is necessa | ticularly in view of her pr sentations to the effect that she ious to end the Venezuelan di | call off the alliance at the earliest poss i time. | In suggesting that the question of pref- erential payment referred to The Hague, it is understood that Bowen so in view of the fact that the qu the only-one that remains in di rer vio ible be patibility. resulting in great mental suf- | The allies are advised that Ven fering. His wife has a suit pending | desirous that all negotiators sh against her husband for maintenance, but | by what has already been agreed on it is said that this suit will be with- HAY AND BOWEN CONFER. arawn. Mrs. Dole is now on her way to : 3 San Francisco on board the steamer | The British Embassador declined to- China, which sailed from this port for | — e 1 Contmued on Page 3, Column a