The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 128. SAN FRAN CISCO. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1903, PRICE FIVE CENTS. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MACEDONIANS WILL TAKE UP ARMS AND PROCLAIM A WAR HUNTINGTON ADDS TO HIS LANDED ESTATE NEAR Eleven Hundred Acres Bought by the Active Railway —p IMMENSE LOS ANGELES ne Company. Magnate From San Gabriel Wi D 7 Ty ScEre 1~ rres K o Sa~N GABDRIEL —_— GELES RAILWAY MAGNATE WHO HAS PURCHASED A VAST DOMAIN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ONE OF THE ORIGINAL OWNERS OF THE TRACT AND SOME OF THE ATTRACTIV CONTAINED WITHIN ITS LIMITS. E. HUNTINGTON has just|scntative of the corporation and disposed | Newlands, a delay was caused by 2dded 1100 tand tc % shares at par to English investors. | necessity of gaining Fred g Los Angeles boom followed and ti sced in value to $150 a share. BRITISHERS HOLD SHARES. ish investors, however, declined believing that the price would go $200 a share. In due time the comp. immense in South. | 9€cided to establish’ a winery on the RIS premises. Investment of $250,000 in build- ""u ings and general equipment was the next ste The business of winemaking was alley. Tt al- Hotel grounds rded as of great value. T} t was sli in ex ntington truly owns a fon of Los not as successful as the promoters pr | dicted. The land, fair to behold, was found unscuitable for the growth of wine producing grapes. The stock began to de- in value. season, or the perlod of reaction follow | the overspeculation in land, continued to decline. | A few months ago H. E. Huntington, who had surveyed the beautiful valley of the San Gabriel, determined to acquire nderful beau paid for the t s of $300,000. H cline g the stock f the San Gabriel] Wine Com- with a review of the r ® ch culminated tr this tract of 1100 acres. 1. W. Hellman Te stock of the corp to of the Nevada National Bank of 3an i £ r e the neisco and the Farmers' and Mer- v the wine | chants’ Bank of Los Angeles was author- cor s ed the shar ized to conduct the negotiations for the L g ed on the mar- | acquisition of a majority - of the, 00 ke e 0 a share. Evar zres of stock. The Sharon estate was ’ S, in this c'*y, | found to be the owner of a considerable < f the ers of the enter- | number of shares. After prices had been e went to Lor Londe n as the repre- | adjusted to the satisfaction of Frank G. FUNDS ARE MISAPPLIED | covered that the affairs of the division IN POSTAL DEPARTMENT ©f salaries and allowances have been s0 manipulated that there are many Inquiry Reveals Frauds in the Em- ployment of Too Many High- Salaried Clerks. more high salaried clerks on the rolls of the Postoffice Department than Congress ever intended there should be and not nearly so many low salaried clerks em- BUR U. 146 G STR W.. WASHINGTON, April §-Direct vie. | P _».xr as Congress has made appropria- of the law were to-day unearthed : Congress authorized a definite number salaries and allowances div in the ion of sioflice’ ‘department. the chier of of clerks in each grade, ranging from Ml fovcotecs B Jivin B acliop g a year. It has been discov- signed Aer Diis SR of s & ters that Ih'e number of clerks S Postomiee cio, 1 the higher grades is much in excess - . of the authorized number. Those in| ut the United Btates may suffer | charge of the saary fund so controlled tha . of %1% in their anuual sala-| sitnation that only as many clerks were i gty 8 “f';" {avest-| employed in the lower grades as there e 3 PW i Pro- | was money enough to pay after the fav- gress indicate that frrcgularities border- | ored ones in the higher grades had been ing on the criminal will be proved. Of-| paia. f ial scalps are sure to pay the penalty Postoffice Inspector Waters, who has temporarily succeeded Beavers, has dis- | The appropriation for all grades was made in a lump sum. It appears that this manipulation of the salary fund was During the languishing | the | Sharon's con- | sent to_the sale of the stock. Mr. Shardn | resides in P; John C. Kirkpatrick, manager of Sharon estate, adjusted affairs on behalf of the absent owner. 'I | Exglish stockholders were also appris of the negotiation and after inquiry cluded to sell their holdings. GAINS AN ADVANTAGE. Barry Coleman, as the executor of the estate of Evan J. Coleman, deceased, yes- terday filed m the probate court of Sun Francisco a petition for the confirmation of the sale of certain shares of the stock of the San Gabriel Wine Company to H. E. Huntington for $60 per share. It fs presumed that the same price was paid to the representatives of the Sharon estate. In conducting the negotiations Mr. Hell- man requested a deposit of the stock on the condition that if it was not returned within ten days a sum equal to $6) a share should be sent to the owners. Last Thursday the stockholders received th money instead of the stock, and H. I. Huntington is now the king of San Ga- briel Valley. In his contest for railway supremacy in the region of country adja. cent to Los Angeles and Pasadena the ownership of this vast tract of land will give him many advantages over his ad- versaries. the d on- | CARNEGIE OFFERS TO PAY STUDENTS’ MEDICAL BILLS Anxious to Settle Indebtedness In- curred by Them During Epidemic at Cornell University. ITHACA, N. Y., April 6—President Schurman of Cornell University to-day announced that he had recetved from An- drew Carnegie, who is a trustee of the University, a communication in which Carnegie begged to be allowed to pay all bills ncurred by students of Cornell Uni- versity on account of sickness during the recent epidemic, in all cases where the students or their parents will permit it. e @ made that favored clerks would receive higher salaries, aithough there were no vacancles in the superior grades. In the $1000 grade there are 500 clerks in excess of the number provided for by law. In higher grades than $1000, the excess jg not so large. b | 'bombs will be under the Christians of Okhrida Are Slain. Turks Defeat ' Stoyanoff’s Band. All Bulgaria)| Eager for 7 ' War. Special nlspLh(n The Call. PARIS, April 6.—A dis-| | patch from Monastir, | | Macedonia, to the Paris| Nouvelles Agency, an- nounces that the Revolu- }tionary Committee will |proclaim a general insur- |rection in the vilayets be- tween April 25 and 29, when 100,000 men armed |with rifles and dynamite |flag of independence. A |similar report has. come |from Constantinople. SOFTA, April 6.—A newspaper here as- | serts that large numbers of Albanians have attacked the town of Okhrida and acred the Christian inhabitants. The tement cannot be confirmed. A fight which lasted three days is re- | ported to have occurred in the Melnite | district between Stoyanoff’s band of in- surgents and a Turkish force which was accompanied by German officers. The band lost heavily. | Matters are daily becoming more seri- | | ous in the vilayet of Adrianaple, where the situation threatens to rival the state of affairs in Macedonia. | Numerous Insurgent bands are operat- | ing in the vilayet. One band after a con- | flict with Turkish troops burned the v lage of Jubriel and then escaped to ihe mountains. | BULGARIANS WANT WAR. LONDON, April 6. A dispatch to the Times from Sofia declayes that the Mace- donian Bulgarians have got out of hand | and that no foreign influence will avail | | st | | to arrest the progress of the revolutionary | | movement. The Bulgarian population no | | longer listens to the counseis of the Rus | | sian representative. The ¢ | rrespondent | quotes an informant, who has just re- | L | turned from visiting the districts of Mon- f astir, Uskub and Istib, as saying that | there is the utmost exasperation among | the Bulgarians. Greally as the people have suffered from the extortion and tyranny of the committees there is still | strong sympathy for the insurgent bands which, but for the aid they obtain from the peasants, could maintain their | | ground. | The Albanians, on the other hand, are determined to fight for their anclent privileges, which are more valuable to them than any bribe the Sultan can offer their chiefs. Even the presence spector General Hilmi Pasha to- tranquilize the country. | are excellent. He | a free agent, and receives his orders from the Yildiz Klosk. He is convineed of the inefficiency of the reforms. RISING OF CHRISTIANS. LONDONX April 7.—The correspondent | of the Daily Mail at Constantinople tele- | raphs that a serious disturbance has broken out among the Catholics at Dur- azo, fifty-two miles south of Scutari, on | the rocky peninsula of Pelia, in the | \ | | | | | | | not PROJECT ROAD 70 RUN BETWEEN THREE TOHNS ‘Millionaire Charles W. Clark Is Behind Enterprise. of In- failed His intentions reformer, but not | Adriatic, as a result of Turkish exactions. | Several houses have been burned -and | some persons killed. A general insurrec- tion in the valley is feared. BELGRADE, Servia, April 6.—The gen- :ilam:i'hfld l};’l ‘}“'ff‘fl;l(’d out to suppress | By the acceptance of the formal peti- e Tlotihe which 100k place here yester- | o, for the opening of bids by the Town day as the outcome of a demonstration | s against an objectionable police regula- | Trustees of San Mateo last night a pro tion. In the riot two rioters and two gen- | 3¢t h","""",‘gh',hr” ¢l>r :h,e Cme’,‘xol i‘;‘fi | darmes were Killed and many weurdeq | Mateo County by an electric car line on both sides. One hundred and thirty | °f Stablishing a pleasure ground on the arrests were made, | bay shore of proportions to ri\’alaC‘Dflf.\' 1 | arles o | is definitely inaugurated. The Cabinet has decided to refrain from | 114 i calling out the reserves until the necos. | W+ Clark, son of the millionaire Senator sity for strengthening the frontier guards | ©f Montana, at present residing in San becomes more apparent. @lateo; Francis J. Carolan and Henry P. Bowie, two capitalists of the same PREMIER OF FRANCE { town, are behind the scheme with unlim- DENOUNCES RUMORS ited funds. aiby It is the purpose of the three promoters | Opposition Press Hints at Corruption | in High Government | | of the monumental trolley scheme to Circles. | establish a car line at San Mateo first, | and then to extend branches up to Bur- ' PARIS, April 7.—The opposition papers | : recently have been hinting that a person | ingow Bay. lingame and over the mountains to Half- At Coyote Point, a lofty point | of 1and jutting into the bay two miles in close relati Db . o e 'had oftered e semnh the | gistant from San Mateo, extensive pleas- authosization to remain In France for | Ure &rounds are to he located calculated the monastery of the Grand Chartreuse | 10 D¢ @ strons attraction to San Fran- if the latter paid $200,000. cisco’'s pleasure seekers. The editor of a paper, Le Petit Dau-| N° intimations of the extensive scheme i | DISTINGUISHED STANFORD PAS- TOR WHOSE REPORTED RESIG- YAQUIS CROWN THEIR CRIMES BY MASSACRE Five Prospecting Ital- ians and Guide Are Killed. Special Dispateh to The Call. | @eclinea positively | Professor J OF INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE TURKS PASTOR OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY SAID TO HAVE RESIGNED HIS POST Report Astonishes Féculty and Students and Dr. Newton Declines to Give an Explanation. it Gt TANFORD UNIVERSITY, April he students and a large pe centage the faculty of the versity ve that Dr. R. Heber Newton has resigned the rate of Memorfal Church which he ccepted only months ago, yet n a position t to a son for the when the pulpit ef All which he hac¢ core of years, to accept his dia tion, th trol of that bei so with the und has caused his resig! ton had expect- ed to make work and had emtered _ heart 1to a fleld of eat possibilities. Another rumor, ation than the first, that Dr Newton had resigne of a erse criticism from Fathe: - cisco and of some of the San Jose clergy- men. Dr. Newton, however, is a man of such a high type that it 1s altogether im- probable tha or Mrs. Stanford would have e slight- est degree by f0o slent attacks. Dr. Newton when to-night would neither deny nor affirm the report that he had resigned. He said “I do not care to discuss this matter for the newspapers.” He was deeply moved by the fact that the students were so much interested in the matter, and stated that if the rumor were true his resignation would net take effect Immed Mrs be; seen atels Stanford was equally reticent and to discuss the matter. Chaplain D. Charles Gardner stated that he had nothing to say in regard to the report, and that if the report were true it was a matter in which only Mrs. Stan- ford and Dr. Newton were concerned. M. Stillman, acting president of the university in the absence of Presi- dent Jordan and Vice President Branner, | said the report did not corcern his office, ax Dr. Newton is not a professor in the university, and that if the pastor had re- | signed it was for purely personal reasous, ! in | which concerned only Mrs. Stanford and the Rev. Dr. Newton. MRS. TOWNSEND'S SUICIDE DUE TO RELIGIOUS MANIA Unfortunate Woman Was About to Be Tried in Court for Al- leged Assault. LONDON, April 6.—The police, who are possession of the room and effec's of Mrs. Mabel Townsend, the former San Francisco actress ‘who committed sufcide on the doorstep of her sister's home here vestorday, that Mrs. Townsend re- cently returned from a visit to the say United States and has since been living | alone in | shop in | | a single room over a baker's Fitzroy street, a squalid neigh- borhood. though it s sald she was not destitute. Mrs. Townsend is have been suffering from religious mania, and said to | cently'had a disagreement with her sister, STRIKE WILL NOGALES, Ariz., April 6.—A dispatch | from Torin, Sonora, states that the mur- derous Yaquis have been committing more of- their deadly work in that vicinity. On Saturday, near Corcorit, a small place in | the Yaqui River country, five prospectors and a Mexican gulde were surprised and murdered by the Indians. The murdered men were well-to-do Italians who come to Sonora to engage in mining and had organized an exploration party at Guaymas. The party was composed of seven Ital- ians and a Mexican guide. They were well equipped and started out to hunt for valuable mineral deposits in some of the remote and unexplored sections. entire party hut some distance from Corcorit, when the assault was committed. They were not many miles from the spot where Fliberto Alvardo and his family were at- tacked and murdered by the hostile In- dians a short time ago. The prospecting party and its guide were taken by surprise shortly after day- break when the Indians fell upon them and began their work of slaughter. The two men who escaped were a little dis- tance off at the time the assault was committed, and being unarmed could not g0 to the assistance of their brethren, nor did they dare to reveal their pres- ence. There were not more than ten In- had | Mrs. Rowe. An inquest on the body be held to-morrow. Mrs. Townsend had been summoned to appear at Marlborough street Police Cofrt to-day to answer to the charge of will alleged assault on her brother-m-law, William Rowe, and when the case was called in court her suic was an- nounced. The dead we executed a will five days ago, leaving her property to her two nephews . SPREAD TO CUMBERLAND MINES Recognize Federation Prom- ises More Trouble. VANCOUVER, B. C., April 6.—The coal miners’ trouble on Vancouver Island is extending to Cumberland. When the 1600 or more miners employed at the ex- tension mines voted to join the Western Federation of -Miners, James Dunsmuir, the owner, closed the mines. On Sunday Baker, organizer of the federation who came to Ladysmith in consequence of that | action went to the Union mines and or- | About 100 men have joined. The | was camped in a deserted | ganized a branch of the federation th These men will undoubtedly be discharged, as Duns- muir is determined not to recognize the federation. There are 50 men empioyed there. If the other men join the federa- tion the mines will be closed down as have those at Ladysmith. @ i @ Then the two horrified men escaped to Medano, a small town on the Yaqu! River, where they told their story and were brought into Torin. The Indians in the mountains nofth of the Yaqui River have been committing many dbpredations of late and some de- termined step will have to be taken to check them. The murderers of Alvarde were never captured and since that time several parties of travelers and miners have been attacked, but succeeded in es- caping with their lives. pinois, alluding to this allegation, recently | of the three San Mateo capitalists escaped asserted that two persons whom he named had made him this offer on behalf of a personage whom he called “Mon- sleur X.” In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday Premier Combes took occasion to declare the whole story to be false and charac- terized it as an infamous accusation like all of those made since he had become head of the Government. M. Combes also has written to this morning's papers to 1 tha same effect. them until last night when they present- | ed their petition for a franchise giving a right of way for an aggregate of about four and a half miles of track within the town limits. The petition created a stir among the Trustees, but a motion to advertise for bids was passed without a dissenting vote. June 1is the day named i for the opening of bids. As it is understood that no bids other |~ Continued on Page 7, Column 4. dians in the attacking band, but the small party in the hut was not able to withstand the onslaught. Although sur- prised, the white men rushed to their arms and made some defense, but were soon overwhelmed. The report says that the Indlars, not content with killing them and purloining their effects, mu- tilated their bodies in a horrible manner. These parties of murderous Indians a different from the ordinary Yaqui who works on the ranches and in the mines. | It is these men who instigate the peace- ful members of their tribe to take teo the war path and they are a remnant of the bands who escaped from the last re- bellion and took refuge in the mountans. They are a last vestige of the Yaqui war- The survivors succeeded In keeping | riors who refuse to be subdued. In other their presence a secret until the Indlans | parts of Somora the Indians are more had ridden away with their plunder. | quiet than in years 4