The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 1

Call. VOLUME XCIII=NO. SAN FRANCIECO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1903. PRICE TIDAL. WAVE ENGULFS TEN THOUSAND NATIVES H0CKE PROFFERS NO EAPLANATION Jeclines to Talk Anent Those Telegrams Generous Senators Say They May Have Been Forged. Exposure Makes Certain the Passage of Anti-Trust Bill nox 8 House a ere sig “John D. SOME OF THE “INSTRUCTED S A n, Aldr Seied g ¥ ke er’'s nan e Rocke - e Trepc f the ED TO PUBLICITY ma jard Oil blicity fea- mmerce bill h altke ists he rep- had alread . When was sat were not 1 be set- 14 erests rest- istorian Judge Cummings and v 8 rd Oll men an almost unanimous vote. e aw e fact that | There s some objection on the ground e of the Preside ongress | that the resolution might be construed as E he t of | political. The resolution suggests that ’ mind a3 Morgs: ermined | the Texas repre atives in Congress | » | support the Hanna measure to the e = = tent of rewarding all ex-slaves who re- The D uke of Tetuan Dead. mained at home within the ages set forth ADBID, Fek > of Tetuan, { in the bill, or those who went with their il Stiniabe Yairs, whe | PASIers in the Civil War, but that those be excepted who were enlisted in th I for some time past, died to- | I'nited- States volunteer service and are at the i the newes the French schooner Excelsior. Hundreds of other survivors, tw ! / w of these latter will be rescued. he loss-of property is total. It i. md the whole pulace in M This disaster is the /nu’//l of LLER" 'GOLOMBIAN REBEL CHIEF ENDS COLOMEIAN REV! HO Rlsmg May FoLlow Washi says he ¢ conceive of no reason why there d be a revolution- ar ement He ald he could not re- alize how it could be the | Uribe-Uribe’s Suicide. ————— INGST 'ON, Jamalca, Para s Feb The A arrived whi ombian re to awalt the lapsing of T 194, which the canal. the Para indi- 1ther revolution anama Canal tre; 8—The report » had committed Feb, slombia ble servi induclng chieftains to desist in the Government he went to He f age, was & bril- a thorn in the 2 performed va Government, and bsequently talls all received also are sur- at reports of a threat- Dr. Herron, Colombfa in fals here 1 grieve Colombia. @"Affaires on account of anal negotiation the treaty for that wat not been ed by the erican Senate, much by the Colombian Congress, which | not yet been elected CON: FEDEBATE VETEBANS Texas Camp Passes a Reselution Fav- 4 o FORT WORTH, Tex. . 8.—At the | regular meeting to 5. Lee Camp, United Confederate Veterans, a resolution indorsing the n ex-slaves was introduced | INDORSE HANNA'S BILL ring the Granting of Pensions to Ex-Slaves. Senator Hanna d aiready on the pension list. rof LIFE WITH TURKEY: n Government a swept over the Tuamotu Archipelago. al hundred miles Es uriting. The resulting loss of life is said to be /rnm 5000 to 10,000. 'ho had temporarily saved their lives by climbing to the tops of cocoanut trees feared that thirty schooners engaged in interisland trade vorld-wide, iln[mrlmm‘ within tew months, and one n[ the greatest 1n all history. Four hund were in the PREPARING - FOR A GLAGH Partial Moblhza-g tion of Austria’s | Forces. R > Macedonians Are Re- ceiving Aid From || Bulgaria. -— Joint Note to the Porte‘; Will Be Presented This Week. 0 The Call t is persistently as- s preparing a partial military forces in nts in che Balkans. has been attracted hore‘ made in the Bulgarian| Sobranjo on Friday by M. Strachimiroff, | mber the opposition, that the nian movement did not result from | Turkish oppression® but was the ontcome to the statemen of the growth of national sentiment among the Macedonians. The epeaker | declared that there would be a revolution whether the reforms were introduced or e given by Bulgaria rather thun advance the | : | Prime Minister, in denying that| | + had aided the Macedonfans, said | { jovernment would dissolve the Macedonian committees in| | Observers who recall the official state- ments that were issued when the coup 5 was belng prepared in Phil- - that the denial of obvious e suspiclous than the facts ippopo facts is m Feb. 8.—The Aus- n Embassies will present | to the Porte this week the plan of the | proposed reforms in Macedonia. l | | e |ENGLAND WOULD SUFFER IN THE BVENT OF WAR|. - - - '>° S 53kas Investigating Committee Says That OR the fourth time Bread Would Command Practi- within a period of ten 3 ot A o i months the world is LONDON, Feb. §.—The influential com- | e mittee headed by the Duke of Sutherland, | shocked with the tale of Lord Strathcona, Lord Charles Beresford | an appalling disaster, in which and a number of members of Parliament, 3 admirals and other prominent men, which | thousands of human lives are lost | was formed February 1 to agitate the | and an almost incalculable amount - | question of the security of Great Britain's | g 0 | supply in time of war, issued a state- ()t ])r“pell.\ £ C"lr”} ed. Jne (.' ment to-day In which the opinion is ex- | the most terrible tidal waves in ed that in the event of Great Brit- s F 2] 2 & Sy s T11z oming involved in a European war | 1iStory has swept over the Tua- motu Islands, in the South Seas, leaving a chaos behind. Multitudes of natives food pre: ain b the country must be prepared to see bread at practically famine prices. Varlous rea- | are glven as a basis of this opinion. The chief reasons are that the greatest source of Great Britain's food supply is : S Y s 2 the United States, where the m"lf»: :s\\epl aWay: 10fever s the wheat can be ralsed artificlally, and that | Ing waters, others perished | the corn trade on both sides of the At-| |y from hunger and thirst | lantic would expect to make profits on a ’ a ‘ ate with the war risks. FORMER CROW'N PRINCESS IS NOW IN A SANITABIUMy Refusal to Allow Her to Visit Her Sick Child Upsets Her Nerv- | ous System. | GENEV. Feb. 8.—Counsel for the | former Crown Princess of Saxony an- nounces that owing to great physical and mental depression caused by the refusal tc allow her to visit Salzburg or to her sick child, the Princess to-day 1 sons were seeth- horri- at the | tops of cocoanut trees, where they tr)und a temporary respite f!nl) | death, and the few who survived the awful experience face life de- i prived of everything they owned. The news of the reached this city yesterday on the Oceanic Steamship Company’s Mariposa. It is related that 400 of scale commen en- | tered the sanitarium at Nyon in order to the quietude and medical attention necessary in her delicate condition. Nyon [|< situated on the shore of Lake Geneva, ir the cantonment of Vaude. The sanita rium is well known for the treatment of mental and nervous disorders. £ 27. The occurrence on January uary 13. about 500 miles to the east of Tahiti. There are between sev- enty and eighty islands in the group. All were commercially valuable on account of their products of pearl, | ARMED MEN ARE CLOSE TO FUOITAVE MURDERER Elliot Lyons Who Killed an Oregon Sheriff, May Be Captured This Morning. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 8~Word was re- from Irving to-night that Elliot Lyons, the fugitive murderer of Sherift Withers, was tracked by a posse to with- |in seven miles of that place. A large number of armed men are on the outlaw’s | trafl and it is expected that he will be captured by morning. i | | celved the Samoan Islands. { mother-of-pearl and copra. =Dur-| ‘ ing the winter months the popula- | disaster ' | refugees had reached Papeete and | that aid had bc'en sent to sgme of | the islands in the affected group: . average height of the land above took place Tuesday morning, Jan-| { The Tuamotu archipelago is! SAN FRANCISCO DENTIST AND HIS WIFE ISLANDS WAS SWEPT BY% A TIDAL WAVE, ' TOGRAPHS OF SOUTH SEA ATOLLS WHO WE WHICH ND NATIVES. IN PAPE DESTROYED TH formation that there had been a terrible hurricane in that section of the Pacific which stretched away toward the east. On the day archipelago is of coral formation, and from six to eight feet is the the sea level. The vegetation consists principally of palm trees and tropical grasses. following and two hours before the Mariposa sailed for this port Beyond. the fact of the visita- the French steamship Excelsior | tion of the tidal wave and of the arrived in the harbor with 400 desolation - which was left in its survivors aboard. J. E. Short, Jwere inhabited and | tgpn is usually heavily augmented | the French schooner Eimeo on by an influx of pearl fi<l1ers from | January 26. The crew of that. January 11, and that the inhab- The entire | vessel brought to Papeete the in- | were available at the time of the to see the refugees and get their wake the news of the occurrence purser of the Mariposa, with com- is ‘'meager. Almost no details mendable forethought, sent a man sailing of the Mariposa. first advices were received from‘ The story. They stated that the sky began to assume a peculiar aspect on itants of the islands were all| Foriy Feet High a Roarmg Wall of Water Crashes Over the Tuamotu Islands in the South Seas, Leaving Death and Ruin in Its Seethmg Wake. [ | WHEN A GROUP OF ADJACENT OUSANDS OF LI AND PHO greatly alarmed. The air 5 very oppressive something strange seemed pending. T! wind commenced blowing fierce ly from the southeast. Hour I hour it increased in violence, and every wave was h r than it predeces ives on sev- Prrl} HKIJAIK ent 1 'l’“'l!'\"l m Hikueru elevation making their o which has the g of any in the gre When J: a hurricane never bcinrc been seen was est lawned h 1e like bf which had rag- Continued on Pnge 38, Colm‘ L