The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII-NO. KAISER TURNS FROM DENEZUELA TO THE COERCION OF OTHER WEAK GOUERNMENTS OF SOUTH AMERICA SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ! STEANSHIP " 5 SUNK BT SNOW STOPS ML TRAINS A TORNADD (N WYOMING, Virginia Disaster Railways in Moun- Costs Seventeen = tain Region Are Lives. Blockaded. Vessel Careens and Wa- Rotary Plows Break| ter Pours Into Down in the Huge Cabins. Drifts. ers Below Decks Cavalrymen En Routeto San No Time to Rush Francisco Are Storm- for Safety. Bound. Passeng THE DEAD. I o JACOB LASEITER, aged 325, t r bome Rich Syuare, N. C.; sales- v man for Carlin & Pulton, Balti- more hardware dealers. MRS. BENNETT, Franklin, Va. 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER of Mrs. Bennett. MRS VAUGHAN, Pranklin, Va. FRANK HUNTER. GEORGE BUTT. W. E. EDWARDS ANDREW VAUGHAN, colored deckhand. AERAHAM COOPER. JOEN PRESCOTT SCOTT, | colored fireman. ESTHEER WILLIAMS, colored Lara ok JOEN MARTIN, colored por- ter GEORGE WHEITE, colored 3 Tt preacher A 49 in 8¢ le,” a few miles south large gang of shovelers badly in what is FOUR UNKNOWN MEN. » sent "to refdase them. During the on the snow drifted back glmost as it was shoveled out. At sun- the v d away and’ it is e und i sy Valley road is having trouble, two train « 4 th Cavalry, en rou o 1 th car Lusk. The soldiers v 3 e Cheyenne and Nort f o A pe feature of the block: has fallen for twent pt between Laramie and Another storm is now in ear Medicine Bow and also in of Rock Spri | Preptis i sive FIVE LIVES LOST IN STORM. tor Falling Trees and Chimneys Kill her | School Children in South Carolina. LUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 17.—Fuller re- from Monday afternoon’s storms w that considerable damage was done throughout Western South | s. CONFESSES TO COMPLICITY IN A RAILROAD HOLD-UP. property = g least five. The chief destruction was Puspess Arresied in. Bultimors Says Honoa Path, in Anderson County, | Ee Assisted to Rob a Northern re Earle McGee and Bertie Austin Pacific Train. e killed outright and A. C. Stone and Edgard Donald severely injured. The four were youths returning from school and, with two others, they took refuge in a store which toppled over when the ne struck it. | County two children were killed ing tree and one by a falling NGTON Jose May alias h Meyer, alt r in whict e sum of $11,000, w ait in the Drove hicago. He ad $6000 to enak where the hold-up o ety COAL SUPPLY IS SHORT. < Widespread Suffering Is Reported | in Western Counties of Kansas. | TOPEKA, Feb. 17.—The cold to- | day mad cord in Kansas, the | Government thermometer this morning | & The | ate for the past three | days 1 aged six inches. Near Clay Center a woman was frozen to death. ‘Re- ports from western counties show a great | Kan ew Butte, and s wife under the from 10 degrees below zero. the registeri snowfall MITCHELL V(IL;. DECLINE TO ACCEPT THE PURSE : shortage in the coal supply. The rail 3 2 roads have not been able to deliver coal | e e % cars on account of the storm, and as a re- | . 3 sult the suffering has been widespread, | m ! FIRE DESTROYS A HOTEL AND ONE MAN IS MISSING Guests Escape in Their Night Clothes, all | ntion plan But Lose All Their Wear- | g e cannot ing Apparel { e = to de-| pORT HURON, Mich., Feb. 18.—The §t, | T s S 4 it will be | ciair Hotel, one of the largest hotels in .y > ©f the unjon. | tpis city, was destroyed by fire at an eariy hour this morning. A man named | British Steamship Goes Ashore, 10 DE JANEIRO, Fe teamsh Worthy, employed at the hotel as a yard- Brit- man, is_missing and is believed to have of | been burned to death. Milton Campbeil, a fireman, was fatally crushed under the | walls, All the guests made their escape, | many of them rusghing out in their night | clothes when they awoke. The property " 1oss is §100,000 the ry Island: f Victoria. th She was bound It is a total loss. New York w BIVES RIGHT OF WAY T0 THE TREATY Senate to Act on | Canal Project at Once. Its Consideration Will| | Precede All Other Business. | Friends of Statehood Bill | Make an Impottant Concession. WASHINGTON ERICAN NTERESTS to reached the hat after the morrow Sen- irnment was was made lose of routine bu iness t ator Quay would move to go inte execu- tive session. that none of. the Republicans | would oppose the motion and that consid ——— eration of the treaty would continue until & Tt Coverament s tormany accentea| MO WATSNIPS ATO the offer of the Pa: na Canal Company to sell to the United States the canal prop- and alt of the right therein for $40,000,0 to Ordered to Hon- | duras. company’s t only ratification of the p republic of Colombia ing t The eff, extend the life ot N DINGER 1'7//,,/",‘-‘ { Parliament Hears a“ Speech From the | | Throne. ;’ ‘ £ B ONDON, Feb accompanie 17.—King Edward by Queen Alexandra and surrounded by the court and option held by the Government beyond | g Skt March 4 next and until the treaty now e =4 before the Senate has been ratified by EET, N both cou Advices re- Department to-day SENATOR TELLER SCORES from the United St sul at Puerto DEPEW FOR HIS REMARKS Cortez, Honduras 'w that the condi- e tions growing out revolution there Says the American People Were In-| ;.4 the unrest ti ades the Central sulted by the Representative American republic Salvador, Costa kil Toaks Rica Guatemala are threatening to WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The Senate to- i\mm ar ata. Az 1 result the N s agreed to the conference report on | DePartment contemplat ordering o B e g the entire West Indian division of the army appropriation bill. Discussion | e i 3 Lo the statehood bill was resumed and e ”“:“ gt 1 fieg oty Depew continued, his remarks in opposi- | ‘ppe ‘aicturnances are ot s el s tion to it. Toward the end of the session| ~1° 9isturbe TROLEe Y . 2 A the entire fleet, but Rear Ad- Teller declared that himself and the coun- ; k e it R v % vlor, chi Bureau of Nav- 1ad_been insulted by some of De- tion_ is somewhat averse to splitting up | pew's references to the unequal repre- AR | z the division at this time. Inasmuch as sentation in the Senate. 4 %Y bave Hetenea t 14 Puerto Cortez affords an excellent place a e 2 good deal of mon-| ;. winter exercises, the entire squadron sald Teller. “I have listened to a doubtless will be ordered there to keep L::md 1\1 um\—i\:m beneath the dignity | . eve on Americ interests, and, inci- : giow re, a8 a4 Jen-| .jceq which are at present being indulge ator citizen of the United States, | i, Tpe Pacific squadron was recently or- tkat I feel insulted and I feel the Ameri- | goreq to Amalapa. the most important can people will feel the insult from the | ort on the Pacific coast of Honduras Senator from New York.” | Most of the American interests, however, Replying, Depew sald he regretted that | 5rq %on the Atlantic coast, several lar Teller felt insulted, but “when you add t9 | ¢ry1¢t companies having been established the minority representation in this Sen- | ipere. ate,” bo said, “and take it further away | pyplomatic representatives of the Cen- from the people you are calling attention | tral American republics have been fre- to a condition where you cannot tell what | quent visitors to the State Department the people may do in the discussions of | ang desplte the many rumors of impend- ing war from Central America they all the future.” UNICIP. express the belief that the trouble will be MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS peaceably adjusted. HELD mi‘?EN'NSYLvai It was at Puerto Cortez that Charles Philadelphia Gives Usual Republican | CUtI°T 274 @ Party of ten business men < g were arrested Majority, and Citizen Demo- ment when they were making an expedi- crats Win in Pittsburg. tion up the Patusa River. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17.—The municl- pal election passed off very quietly. John STORM ABOUT TO BURST. Weaver (R.), the present District Attor- Fr ney, was elected Mayor by the usual large Armies Gather on Frontiers of Guate- Republican majority over . Francis H. | mala and Salvador. Kane (D.). For Magistrate James Fealy | The steamship Peru, which arrived yes- (R.) was elected by a large majority and | terday from Panama and Central Amer- John O'Donnell (D.) defeated 'David jcan ports, brought more war rumors, all Hart, the Municipal League candidate, as | of them vague, but all pointing in the the minority representative on the Board | same general direction and indicating the of Magistrates. close approach of the end of Central PITTSBURG, Feb. 17.—Pittsburg re- | American harmony. Guatemala appears turns show the election of W. B. Hayes | to be the storm center and on the bor- (Citizens'-Democrat) as Recorder over |ders of this repubilc and Salvador troops John C. Haymarker (R.), by a majority of | are sald to be masing with rapidity and about 7000. In Allegheny James J. Wy- |in great numbers. Salvador is certainly —_—— man_(Citizens'-Democrat) has defeated | goIng to attack Guatemala, and, from the Dr. 8. S. Woodburn (R.) for Recorder by | indications, will have plenty help. 5000, | U. A. Dodge, a railroad engineer, who % | has been employed on the Guatemala SEARCH WILL BE MADE | Central Railroad and who ecame up on FOR DISABLED COLLIER |the Peru, says that President Cabrera —— | ; bed at th WASHINGTON, Feb. IT.—The coller | is greatly disturbed a e war signs and | £ llying troops to the support of Lebanon is preparing to go in search of e “. S 2 - o the colller Alexander, which ables | cause with all haste. It is rumored in P s was disabled | G, qremala that General Toledo, who was a few hundred miles north of Porto Rico | yoinicter of War of Guatemala under e P e sha“‘ernus aspires to the Presidency. To- n the night of the 10th inst., an 2 :‘ ce been helplessly driftin; T: d has | ledo is at presentgn Salvador and rumor s & eTe are | .o it that he is gathering an army with forty men on u:e vessel. Including Cap-| Uyioh he will shortly invade Guatemala. tain Gove. They are abundantly supplied | In Guatemala City, Dodge says, three v.ith provisions and water, so that there « " to wealthy Guatemalans are said to have 24| by the Honduran Govern- | all the officers of state, opened Parliament this afternoon. | Early in the morning the vaults of the houses were searched for imaginary con- usual, by the yeomen of the guard, carrying ancient lanterns and use- less halberds. The movements of the | trcops taking up positions along the route | ¢ the procession followed, so the crowds | { which had been attracted by the fine| weather and desire to witness the royal pageant did not lack entertainment dur- ing the long walt. The royal procession, consisting of six state carriages, escorted by Life Guards, | | et Buckingham Palace at 1:30 p. m. The | I‘Kinz and Queen werg seated in the last | carriage, which was drawn by the eight | Hanoverlan horses which have figured in | | all the recent royal ceremonies. The King | and Queen reached the Victoria Tower | | through the Mall, the Horse Guards and | Whitehall. All the great officers of state | in varied uniforms were assembled at the | roval entrance of the House of Peers to | receive the King. The procession, whlchl was identical with that of the previous | similar ceremony, formed and, headed by { the pursuivants and heralds, marched to the robhing-room, the King and Queen be- ing immediately preceded by the sword of | state, carried by the Marquis of London- derry. After the robing the procession re- formed and with a blast of trumpets ad- vanced to the peers' chamber, the Duke | of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council, preceding the King and Queen | with the imperial crown, which he car- | ried on a cushlon. SCENE IN UPPER CHAMBER. The scene in the upper chamber was | very striking. On the woolsack fronting | the throne were the Lord Justices and | | War Lords In blue and red robes, respec- | tively. To the right of the throne was the space reserved for the diplomats, | | among whom was Embassador Choate. | On either side of the house the two front | Abenches were occupied by peers, some of distinguished bearing and others of qulln[i | appearance, Behind them sat the peer- | esses, all in full court dress, glittering | with jewels and wearing their coronets. The side galleries were filled with dis- tinguished visitors, apparently from all| countries, including a man of color in uni- safety except in the possible event of an is no occasion for alarm as to their unusually severe storm 1 Continued on Page 3, Column 6. Continued on P‘g-e 5, Column 4. | | - N | | VENEZUELAN UMPI ANCE AND THE R } 1 PARLIAMEN |German Warships, Operating Against Brazil and Colombia, Will Create Serious Complications. Special Cablegram to The Call and N ew York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ERLIN, Feb. 17.—Germany has no intention of withdrawing or reducing her fleet in South American waters with the abandonment of the Vene. zuelan blockade and a peacef latms against that republic. On the contrary, representations will now: be made to enforce the payment of debts from Brazil and Colombia. Barely has the cloud of the Venezucla affair passed away when another s in the form of German demands upon Colombia, which may bring about special complications owing to the negotiations for the construction of the Panama canal by the United States. Germany is prone to regard with jealous eves the acquisi- tion of the Panama canal route by the United States and fears the successful commercial competition of the Yankee when that waterway Is controlled and completed by the Washington Government. Instead of modifying its aggressive South American policy the German Gov- ernment proposes to make it still more vigorous. I had a talk with an official of the Foreign Office, who spoke frankly of the intentions of Germany toward South American countries now that the Venezuela campalgn has been forced to a con- clusion. He said: “We belleve the German-English demonstration against Venezuela has ef- fectively proved to other South American countries that the Monroe doctrine of- fers them no protection against the paying of debts and does not shield them in violating the rights of our citizens. “Germany needs and intends to hold and increase its trade relations with South America. The presence of a large German fleet there i3 necessary to insure German commercial interests being properly guarded The bad precedent estab- lished by President Castro frightened off German investors from South America, but we belleve the recent naval action has injected a strong spirit of confidence once more-into those circles which had been financially and commercially inter- ested in developing German trade in South America.” 1 settlement of German ARACAS, Feb. 17.—A decree has | chief, has been defeated mear Calaboza, | been issued by the Government in- | and is fleeing in the direction of the creasing all import duties 30 per | Colombian frontier. cent. The increase became ef-| The Venezuelan gunboat ~Mirande, fective to-day. An export duty of 40| which the German warship tried to eap- cents per 100 pounds will be levied on| ture in Lake Maracalbo, and which all coffee and $1 20 per hundred on cocoa. | was the cause of the shelling of Fort These extra duties will be used in settling | San Carlos by the German vessels,whas the claims - of foreign powers against salled from here with 1200 men and 2,000, Venezuela. | General “Fernandez. the revolutionary | Continued on Page 3, Columa 1.