The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII-NO. 85. SAN FRANCISCO. REGIPROCITY 10 BE FOUGHT 10 A FINIGH High-Tariff Advo- cates Declare War Serve Notlce That They Will Oppose the President. Refute His Claim That Pro- posed Cuban Treaty Is Popular. esolution, w e pass g t v w e P = - an e . by Payne is pre o) zations € st v e Pr One ¥ I e - streng =« .. A 5 A-meeting between President me e prominent membere ' ve I e was w ag are William nk W PARISIANS CELEBRATE OPENING OF CARNIVAL Students Parade the Principal Streets and Boulevards Escorting Grotesque Maskers, PARIE, Fet spite of the threa 5 weather Parisians celebrated the ening - nival with the usual he principal boulevards s L3 1e afternoc esco es . s represen top ect s s the interment of en Rouge, that once popular place me ing recently ceased to space in the procession was masquerader carrying a ce had forbldden the The space was to a grotesque repre- umbert family, but the ted to the subject levards were packed others, who car- le with confett!, while of the i onlookers DISASTER OVERTAKES FISHERMEN IN FINLAND PARIS, Feb. A dispatch to the Presse from Helsingfors says that the ice ong the comst of Finland suddenly oke yesterday. More t x 1 250 fishermen re on the ice near Somero and were ried seaward on drifting floes, Vessels were sent to their assistance, but returned aft many hours of fruitless search. feared that the men have perished. st RELIEF PARTIES REACH THE SNOWBOUND TRAINS ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 22— Reliet par- es with food ln day reached the trains which are snowbound in the interior and supplied them with provisions. The nearest train was freed to-day and start- od backward for St. Johns. The relier 1t LADRONES CAPTURE Roosevelt | w cafes were all | | bim indicted for contempt of court. SCOUTING PAR TIEJ‘ Inspector Mcllwaine and a Number[ of Men Fall Into General San Miguel’'s Hands, but Later Escape engagement the south eleven miles ea fort and_ captured of the constabulars r Mcll tabulary, Wi the hi surprised anc sixteen miles | rones_prom him I the constabulars ould surrender their arms. While the this_point MeTlwaine | | Montalban, a. The a ised to release were conferring on Ge a dash for liberty and he and all SHATE 30 g {aste the constabulary effected thelr gt S &5 When the news of the reappeara WHO BOLON RANICT | | RAL OF PHILIP- ched e "ABULARY. Ma rce of ladrones attacked a small de- : & ient of constabulary on Friday. The | e T abulary retre: but killed eleven and a few s enem) T= 1 of the Two vr the constabulary o They were, however, | y.ore : ,,.,, R i The zone of ladrone activity extends eral Allen and ( from « four miles north of Ma g the pyrsuit ar to |y t g b la, e ward to the mountains and released prisc skirting the north a police co-o ed in Satur- hundred troops and hundreds of corner emy re- | y s participated to-day in the un- op, in th ce of Gov- of the monument m the | "aft, requested G 1 Dy 't where Gene additional seouts San Mateo. ( s “See Rk, e made cehes, eulogizing General Law- scou rt to General Allen. Gen-| (s < A k : , , 3 Commissioner Henry C. Ide will sail for | ra s force is emall ar home next Tuesday on an extended v G s determined to speedil atic his health being bad. He i “up vis ifornja, Vermont and Washing- Ac news from Albay, Luzon, | ton. . fofertofosfofenfofes e e o e GURES NERVOU DIGEASES WITH CALGIUM GALTS Reginald Vanderbilt Dr. Jacques*Loeb Re- Not to Appear as ports Important Witness. Discovery. Sk to The Call. Dispatch to The C: NEWPORT, Feb. 22.—If District Attor- | CHICAGO, Feb.z Locomotor ataxia ney Jerome expects to have Reginald C.| gy vitus' dance, sleeplessness and muscu.. Vanderbllt appear before him to-mOTTOW | 1ur ang nervous diseases in general may morning he will be inted. Mr. " : q : | vield to treatment with calcium salts, ac- \_uderbn is going to stay right here in | oor5ing 5 Dr. Jacques Loeb, now con- Newport f')dr sor:( time to come, unless he | necred with the University of California, Dl;fiic: lho f} otherwise. % . | wh discoveries of the chemical basis of he youn, mi a 44 o-night & fonaire dined | yyc, glactrified the scientific world. with a party of friends at the home of | 1 blished by 1) Daniel B. Fearing, on Annandale road. 0 PUDGE S by - S Tt raruity Press in Chicago Dr. Loeb announces his To-day he assisted inentertaining a house | *’ party at Oakland Farm and the merry | discovery. Through scientific research in crowd cracked many jokes over the efforts | being made to cajole Reginald into visit- | biologist has discovered that the presen ing New York to be captured by one of | 0f calcium salts in the muscles prevents the District Attorney’s process servers, | muscular twitchings and that practically the afternoon he went sleighing. { all nervous diseases are caused by the ab- It is firmly believed in Newport that Mr. | sence of this calelum salt; Vanderbilt has been advised that the sub- pena issued for him to testify against David W. Bucklin was not legally served. It is understood it is for this reason that young Vanderbilt calmly remains away while the District Attorney hurls invect- ives at his head and threatens to have DEFIES JEADME D WILL STAY 00T OF GOURT Special disaj hence, as the diseases result from the absence of the £alt, a cure may be effected by introduc- ing into the muscles affected the right amount of such salts. Frogs and jelly fish were used in the ex- periments, but Dr. Loeb s positive that the results from these experiments apply as well to human beings. Dr. Loeb says: “Our muscles do not normally twitch @ il @ train is foreing its way forward, trying rhythmically, but they do so in certain to clear the track to enable the other |Ciseases. From experiments I have con- money woul |'that | could hardly be placed at the lr;wesz‘r | rates. the University of Chicago laboratories the | two blockaded trains to move east also. | Cluded that we owe it to calcium in the It is impossible to say when they will be released, as the drifts are very heavy. Llood that our muscles do not twitch or beat rhythmically, When we inject into PRICE FIVE CENTS. REQUEST BY STATE PRISON DIRECTORS : DIRTUALLY INDORSE JACKET AS MEANS OF PUNISHMENT THE KAISER Germany Reopens | the Venezuelan Dispute. Asks for First Pay- | ment Before It : Is Due. | Bowen Sends Prompt Rejec- tion to Baren Von Sternberg. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The German ! Government. through representative ere, Baron Speck von Sternberg. has | made a request of Mr. Bowen for the immediate payment of the % which it l slated in the protocol signed on 13 should be presented within vs from that date s a prelimi- uary thirty da to the raising of the blockade gzainst Venezuelan ports and the agree- ment to send the question of preferential treatment of the blockading nations to The Hague for determination. Bowen promptly declined to accede to the re- | quest, but informed Baron von Sters berg that, as provided in the protocol, the | to the German rep- which would be on March 13. | The reason that ammated the German | | Government in making the request is not | closed here, nor is Bowen aware of it. | The affair, however, has some signifi- | | cance, perhaps, in view of the fact that ] the ships taken by the Germans during the blockade have 'not vet been returned to Venezuela. During the Minister Bowen had | calls frem the French Emba dor, M. the Spanish Minister, Senor .Method of Torture o e st s |+ - INeosi . Exeite Moncheur, in regar o the protocols tha A :\lrf: x: |-rev;|ra1;-|vdfv:1- ‘(Iw Isel:ln‘m«*n‘l o:: the Boafd. desired to consuit Bowen. the claims of the citizens of thelr coun- | , | tries against \'(-mxu-m Rough drafts of | P < {these instruments are already ou their I do mot comsider the strait- { way by mail to the European gu\uu—l jacket cruel or imhuman, but ments, but there are certain provisions very severe, and I would not regarding them about which the envoys| | Xécommend the abolition of | | that form of punishment. In Ly r0ls the cases of Shaughmnessy and T rdiosol eRpmren ih o2 Thompson, the bad condition of their destinations the latter part of this | | the men’s blood had cenz week, pending which final steps for | | grysipelas to set in and this re their joint signature can be taken. | sulted in permanent disability. Solitary confinement iz mot . se- BELGIUM IS SATISFIED. | vere enough. The prison can- | not be run without the strait- jacket or some other severe method of punishment.—State- ment of Prison Physician Casey. | arc reach | no Secttlement of Her Claims Against Caracas Government. | LONDON, Feb. The correspondent | | of the Standard at Brusscls telegraphs | , Er e between Belgium and | the protocol HES Venezuela will be signed this wee Bel- | Special Dispatch to The Call. glum, says the corr \-;,.-m:: nt, has ob-| AN QUENTIN, Feb. The tained full satisfaction, The Belgium Directors, claimants will receive Anglo-German claims have $2.500,000 after been paid. vy, of wh the | | gation was the straitjacket FOREIGN STOCK MARKETS | dal, obtained from the prison offic SHOW LITTLE IMPROVEMENT‘ statements which were completely in ap- | proval of the villainous instrument of Mutual Statements of the Berlin | punishment, and by not ordering its aboli- Banks Are Not Satisfactory to the Boerse. | of its use. LONDON, Feb. 22.—The stock market| The Directors did not state explicitl opened and closed with a fairly £00d | tpat the method was absolutely nece: feeling. Consols struck the lowest point | ¢« “iyo adequate punishment of refractory | becau: alijed ye they have reached this year, home selling, but they American raflroads of | | risoners, but the apparent acceptance of sterday. | 1y views presented by Warden Aguirro 2t and Prison Physiclan Casey prafsing the wer: ad | l\:;"‘l([l“g:l" bc:"‘.r‘lh" '"‘,""'l‘: of trans-| o .ihod of torture indicated sufficiently Atlantlc deaiers. There is, however, a | i PWEVED, | 1o attitude of the board. | note of returning confidence in Ameri- ¢ % . s ia Chairman Fitzgerald, without reference cans, especially .ndustrials. ey s o i e e ure of the Zealand loans, of which the | COTVicts should not be P underwriters were forced to take 99 per cent. The bank rate remained unchanged and this was a discppointment and had a de- pressing effect on business, as it had been expected that it would be reduced. could not control the convicts the Direc- tors would take a hand in the matter themselves and help him out the 10:30 a. m. train and were at once BERLIN, Feb. The boerse had a|driven to the penitentiary In Warden | quiet week, no department showing ac- | Aguirre’s private equipage. Upon their tivity. German and foreign Government | arrival the meeting was immediately | bonds were traded in the u: and mostly weakened mode: mutual statements of the domestic banks have not wholly satisfied the market, hence the bank stocks have reacted from the high figures previously reached. Money was offered for the monthly set- tlement in the greatest abundance, but ual volume | cajled to order by Chairman Fitzgerald. After the reading and approval of the | minutes of the previousmeeting Secretary | paroles and pardons, accompanied by let- | ters from Governor Pardee and Henry T. | Gage in relation thereto. Chairman Fitzgerald asked that Dr. B. F. Casey, the prison physician, be called, and in the interim Warden Aguirre was iaterrogated relative to punishment used by him in the case of refractory prisoners. He stated that in the event that the convicts break the rules they were sent to the dungeon and placd in the straltjacket, and that while there were given food and drink. After their release a bath was given them. In response to a question by Dirctor Devlin, he sald that the length of time that the men were kept in that condition depended solely upon how long it took to malke them give up. Some were kept in the “jackets” for six, twenty-four, forty- eight or even ninety-six hours. The case of Harry Westwood Cooper was cited as an example of the ninety-six-hour term. Aguirre maintained that he had gong tnto @ it @ | (e dungeon’ at all times of the day and the body of an animal any salts that are | night, and that he had never seen a con- iiable to precipitate calcium, we notice al- | vict laced so as to harm him. He de- most immediately @ twitching of the mus- | clared that his orders had been not to cles v AT ‘| 1ace the men too tight. . *It seems, therefore, that the concentra- I There, My nothing. in. lacing, shem oo ight,” said the Warden, *and if they tion of calclum in the blood should be |‘ t all they are exami: taken Into consideration. It is possible | (S P & y are examined by the tor.” that abnormal conditions may arise in the i DR. CASEY’'S OPINION. body which lead to an increase of such Dr. Casey stated that he had several acids in the circulation and diminish the | times examined convicts who had been amount of calcium in the body. Muscular placed in straitjackets and had never seen twitchings then result.” a single instance where they were laced London exchange is again rising and it is believed that gold will go to London this week. e MOTHER IS SUSPECTED OF KILLING HER CHILDREN Authorities Charge That She Gave Them Poison After Quarreling With Their Father. EDDY, W. Va., Feb, 22.—Mrs. Walter Dykes is belng hunted by the authori- ties here, Her two children were found dead this morning, having been polson- ed: Rumor has it that she administered the poison rather than allow her husband to secure possession of them. She and her husband had been separated for a few weeks. i — chief subject of interest and investi- tion the board gave virtual endorsement | lin, des in any way, and told Aguirre that if he| The directors arrived at Greenbrae on | O'nex read a number of applications for | | ther stated that | haa | Shaughnessy and Thompson, but that the the method of | | thing of the kind at San Quentin. | further maintained that it was efficacious COMMISSION SRS PROMI SLATIVE IN AND PRISON T IN QUIRY. opinion result He said that it was his could d proper too tight. at no permanent from the straitjacket injury In response to a question put by Senator Devlin, Warden Aguirre said that in the event that a convict assauited a guard or committed any infraction of the rules that \ment, which he (Warden Aguirre) was called upon to The Ward ibed the straitjacket in prison and stated that it was the same as used in the State Hospitals for the In ton. request of Dev- | upon the use at the sane “When 1 first took charge of the pris on,” he sald, “I endeavored to break up the opium and morphine trs that was g carried on within the son walls and In order to make one t reveal where he had concealed the drug I was | compelled to keep him in a straitjacket for three days before he would give in.” | 1t was developed that the doctor did not | examine any convict who was placed in the jacket unless a request was made by the prisoner. used and de- clared that he did not believe in the tric ing-up or flogging methods or the bread | and water diet in the dungeon. He fur- | the only two men who - | permanently injured were | been doctor had treated them for a disease which could not be attributable to the | straitjacket. Senator Devlin asked the direct question whether or not the punishment in ques- tion was inhuman or cruel and received the reply from the Warden that it could be made so, but that he did not allow any- He and the prison could not be run without some form of punishment. “The hardest characters in the United | States are Lehind those walls,”” said the Warden, “and this is not a summer re- Bort, so if the Legislature abolishes the straitjacket they will not obey and there will be no discipline. The idea has spread through the prison that it had been abol- ished and it was only the other day that a convict flatly disobeyed the rules to as- certain whether or not the report was true. There are $M0 convicts in the jute mill who are guarded by twenty-two men armed with canes and if we did not have some form of punishment they would not work.” DEFENDS THE JACKET. Dr. Casey, in reply to Director Fitzger- ald, said that he did not consider the straitjacket cruel or inhuman, but very | are fit to repre: Aguirre stated that no other | | form of punishment was | |Clergyman Scores Brutal Prison Methods. s Think of men laced in the | norrible straitjacket—a device no less cruel than the hideous “Iron Virgin” I saw at Nurem- berg, which was used to torture prisoners of state. In thestrait- jacket in our prisons men were trnssed up until they could move neither hand nor foot and then were thrown into a cell to lie for days, finally to be Te- leased, maimed and crippled for life. The Black Hole of Cal- cutta can hardly match that record of cold-blooded cruelty.— Extract from Dr. Dille hat the legislative 1abled the pub the sighing of the e the Legisi: prob, m and that ever whether he ernor will an responsi will be pitehed neck and crop out of office and > be allowed to tyranniz over better me Such was the® déclaration made la E. R night by the Re Dille, pa the Fir st Church in Oakia in ax revelations made investigating committees from the State Legisiature into t stratior pena instit shed v with the t his address, which he em- bodied s ‘“‘Barparities in Our State Prisons. “I know it ed that the strait acket has bee: 1 * added Dr. Dille, “but the who say that it is no longer used defend its use, and any ma who will do that ¢ t 1 along with the straftjacke ent the pe of California In the course of his remarks sald: POLITICAL MACHINES. The beauty system of making o of our management. tals and prisons and refuges for pol will continue to dis A little while ago w closures about the sta patronag hacks these abuscs of things in the Home ded at Glen n, which e heipless wards of tha to the tender m for the Feeble-min went to show that t! State had been committe: cles of a man who by t ing and charac was entirely unfit for such a trust at 1§ matures should be pe brutalities upon these 1 to every 1 to contemplat. mitted to wreak their whose misfortunes appe tantn; what is to be expec when political servi and not mental moral qualifications ar considered in choosing the guardians of the wards of the State? And now a report of a Legislative commi tee reveals a condition of things tu our State Prisons at San Quent!n and Folsom—espectali the latter—that fairly rivals tl ages, barities gf the middle was meted out to of deterrent or reformatory mex: principle of retributive vengear then believed to require that a man Who eor mitted a crime should be punished with a verity and cruelty prcportionate to his crime and so torture by the thumbscrew, the rack and the cord were methods by which vengeanc was meted out, EFFECT OF BRUTALITY. And the prevalance of crimes of violence in those rude times was a confirmation of the adage, “Crime thrives on severe penalties” an axiom that finds confirmation to-day in the effect of the burnings at the stake In the South—for the flendishness of those mobs unly bruzalizes both the mobs and the negroes Whom they are meant to terrorize. It is against just such prison horrors as the Continued on Page 3, Column 2, Continued on Page 3, Column §.