The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1903, Page 1

N VOLUME XCIII—-NO. 129, SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS, ENE POOL 5 READY T0 | JURRENDER Losses of‘Ifié Mem- bers Run Into Millions. Pact Will Expire by Limitation Next Friday. Slum Southern Pacific Weakens the Entire Market . & in owledge market vint lower T elling wa TER LION SEEKS UMAN PREY AT NIGHT People Southern California Town rorized by a Wild Beast S. A armed e animal succeeded s from the side efore it was driven away arge party went hunting succeeded in finding cks, which are of im- | ting that the feline $s N ARCHBISHOP MO!\"I"GOHEBY THINKS REPORT IS UNTRUE Gives No Credence to the Statement That He Is to Go to Manila, ) Apr The Most Rev. George > oa Archbishep of San s beer T nted Archbishop 1op Mont- spatch to the pointed to go ty mot true had received no informa- nt, and that he does removed from the office w oceu > REBEL MOORS ATTACK FORTRESS OF FRAJANA ADRID, April 7.—It is announced in a | from Melilla, Morocco, that 4000 | rs recently attacked the rajana and that Muley Am- tan's uncle, has fled to Me- | the garrison of which has been or- ) be readiness for all emergen- | from Tangier says 15 men | have been killed in a tribal fight in thel Lida district. St A dispatct | to-day. '[ELECTIONS IN MANY CITIES WHERE PARTY ISSUES FIGURE RESULT IN REPUBLICAN GAINS i DEMOCRATIC MAYOR OF FOURTH TERM, AND R GLY GOOD RACE A CHICAGO, WHO, H/ PUBLICAN FOR THE PLACE. ELECTED FOR | : WHO MADE A | NOMIN Carter H. Harrison Is Again Elected to the May- oralty of Chicago, but by a Greatly time, cial count Republican e was: Har- ) Stewar sice (1 I..), 499; Breekon (S.) Haines (P.) g election the total Hancey llins (8.) Stewart - ar but t cut down ahead stea publican private conversation admitted < t about 66%0. In the Precinet of the Twenty-first Ward, ch both Harrisc nd Stewart re 41 Stewart, the Harrisor Mayoralty Hanec m the vote was n e was: Harris 51 The chief issue in Lign the traction question, both candidates fa- ring ultimate municipal owenrship of the street raflways. Stewart advocgted an immediate improvement of conditions, making the best terms possible with the companies. Harrison recommended a de- lay until the city had obtaiped what it desired from the companies. Mayor Har- rison said to-night: “ regard the present election as less of a personal victory for myself than as a S T Abe Bt ion was the c | victory for municipal ownership—a vic- tory which should lead to the develop- ment public—national as well ‘as municipal—utilities. Partisan lines were cast aside to a great extent, but the re- sult is, at the same time, a substantial indorsement of my administration.” The Republicans elected John F. Smul- ski City Attorney by 9700 plurality and Fred C. Bender City Clerk by Democrats elected Ernest Hummel City Treasurer by 21,700. The new City Coun- cil will be Republican. LARGE REPUBLICAN GAINS. Liquor Question an Issue in Many Kansas Cities. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 7.—Elections were held in all the large citles of Kan- sas to-day. The liquor question was an issue in a number of cities, notably To- peka. The result as a whole shows large Republican gains. Kansas City, Kan., the largest city in the State, turned a Demo- cratic plurality of 2000 two years ago into a Republican plurality of more than 2500 Thomas B. Gilhert, Republican, was elected Mayor. In Topeka W. S. Bergundthal, Republi- | can, was elected Mayor by more than 50 plurality. He was the “dry” candidate and received a large majority of the wo- men’s vote. One year ago a Democrat was elected Mayor. In Wichita B. F. McLean, Republican, Reduced® 3700. The | Plurality. was elected Mayor by 300 plurality. D, R. Antbony Jr.. Republ was elected Mayor of Leavenworth by,a majority of n 1000, overturning a Democratic majority of 500. Lawrence elected A. R. Selig, Re. publican, Mayor, and Pittsburg chose N, Price, Republican. Emporia elected its first Democratic Mayor, John E. Martin 150 majority. Atchison el artisan ticket, headed by James %90 plurality. Congdon, Repub- elected Mayor of Fort Scott by plurality. The results in the all cities and towns had no political sig- ving small nificance, > S J ELECTION IN SAN DIEGO. | Frank Frary, the Republican Chief Executive, Is Re-elected. N DIEGO, April 7.—After one of the osest municipal contests, as far as the head of the ticket is concerned, that San Diego has seen for a long time, Frank H. Frary, the present Republican Mayor of | San Diego, was re-elected by a majority | of about 12, there being one precinct yet to hear from, which will not change the result, though it may change the ma- jority. If so, it will increase it. The Democrats elect R. V. Dodge to the office of City Treasurer and Tax Collector on the ground of personal popularity, he hav- ing held the same office in a Republican city for the past two terms. The Board of Aldermen: will remain solidly Republican as it has in the past two years and the Board of Delegates, which is the lower branch of the city | Legislature, will have sixteen Republicans | to two Democrats. About the same ratio holds on the Board of Education, in which the Democrats will elect one member out | of eighteen, and in the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, which is solidly Re- publican, with one Democrat near enough to “get in if the missing precinct gives him a majority BALM FOR DEMCCRACY. Only Three Third-Class Missouri Cit- ies Lost to the Party. ST tory gs won in to-day’s city election, the majorities ranging from 860 to 10,000 on the vote for six Councilmen, twenty- eight members of the House of Delegates, members of the Board of Education and the Inspector of Weights and Measures, At midnight almost complete returns showed that every Democrat had been cected. The Republicans declare that gross frauds were committed at the polls. Throughout the State the Democrats lost in three third-class cities that they for- merly controlled, but made enough gains in others to fully preserve their plurality. In St. Louis interest was centered in the Council ticket, which was headed by the so-called reform ticket, on which the rames of Republicans or independent can- LOUIS, April 7.—A Democratic vic. | LARGE a5 ARE LOGT ON CONTRAGTS Postoffice De- partment. | | jInquiry May Bring to| Light Gigantic | Frauds. | |Inspectors Heeding Presi- | dent's Order: “Go to | the Bottom.” to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. WASHINGTON, April 7.-What at first was sald to be only a personal quar- Special Dispa rel in the Postoffice Department now | | promises to become a scandal of great | proportions. | “Go to the Lottom,” were the words | which President Roosevelt used in a con- versation just before his departure with Joseph L. B Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, who has charge of the investigation. As a result the entire Postoffice Department will be overhauled, stow, regardless of the political outcome. In an interview to-night Robert J.| | Wynne, First Assistant Postmaster Ger- | d that the house-cleaning in ent was not a matter of poli- departm > various parts of the country. The or- der for the investigation, signed by (he Postmaster General, apvlies to the divi- sions of salaries and allowances, at the | { head of which was George W. Beavers, who recently resigned; the division of postoffice supplics, in charge of Superin tendent M. A. W uis, who, by the way, dia not obje to any inquiry, and () division of free delivery, of which A. W. | Machen is general superintendent LIBERAL WITH SUPPLIES. Postmasters h, to be a scandal an: Pastmasters with Corgespondence developed what appears in the supply division. M havo tten #bat unnecexk v supplies | have been forced on their offices against !lnolr protests, Some of the chaiges | ietter boxes and | phiernalia in all parts of the country. F. L. Bingham of a Philadelphia firm of rubber stamp manufacturers to-day filed a charge against this division. declares ths there is collus between Superintendent on Disclosures Shake A dozen inspectors are now at work | zainst this division involve contracts tor | other. postoffice para- | Alexander Makes Himself Absolute Monarch for a Few Minutes. | | | | | | | | | He ! e - | KING OF SERVIA SUSPENDS CONSTITUTION LONG ENOUGH TO REVISE COUNTRY’'S LAWS Sultan Complains to Powers of Acts of Macedonian Leaders. IN BORIS SARAFFOF, HEAD OF THE MACEDONIAN INSURRECTION, WHO FOR YEARS H HIS COUNTRYMEN IN PREPARATION FOR A DECLARATION OF THEIR INDEPENDE SOVEREIGNTY OF ABDUL HAMID OF TURKE N ORGANIZ- CE OF THE S BEE N Louis and local firms which have for vears been furnishing | rubber stamps for the department. The | contract amounts to about $10,000 each | vear. Although Bingham does not charge directly any officlals with receiving money. he insists that there is an under- standing with local firms of such a char- acter as to exclude all other firms from receiving consideration in the bids, PAINTING PROVES COSTLY. Tn the free delivery div | made that cheap and in s have been substituted for strong and well con- structed boxes on which bids were made | and accepted. In one case in the Southern States the Government paid 97 cents for | the painting of each of the rural free de- | livery boxes, and the work was sublet to a contractor who did it for s. The effort of the investigators is@ow to find just who obtained the difference. As contracts are let for painting thousands of these boxes, the possible profits from such operations are manifestly very large. High officials in the depariment fear the scandal will reach large proportions, L e e e e ) didates took the places of some Demo- cratic candidates for the House of Del- egates, in an effort to eliminate from the lhouse the so-called “combine” element. In several strong Republican wards the Democrats elected their men. So far as returns show at midnight not an inde- pendent candidate was elected. But in many wards where both Republican and Democratic nominees were exceptionally strong men and the reform ticket carried the names of the Democratic candidates, the Republicans elected are considered as good reform candidates &s the Demo- cratic nominees. While the action itself of the new membership of the House of Delegates will alone determine the result of the reform movement, it is considered that to-day’s results have leen for the purification of the law-making body of the city and have swept out the ‘“‘com- bine” element. Municipal elections were held in most of the Missouri cities to-day. The Re- publicans carried Jefferson City, An in- dependent ticket won at Sedalia. In Jef- ferson Clty the Democrats attribute their defeat to the enforcement of the Sunday closing law by the present Democratic administration. LIS RETURNS FROM WISCONSIN. | Siebecker Has a Walkover for Su- preme Court Place. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 7.—The ju- | dicial election in Wisconsin passed off quietly to-day. Robert Siebecker of Mad- ison, Judge of the Ninth Circult, was elected to the place on the Wisconsin Su- preme Bench made vacant by the recent death C. V. Barden. There was com- paratively little interest taken in the elec- tion and from many lpcalities it is almost impossible to obtain complete returns. However, Judge Slebecker seems to have received four-fifths of the votes. William on Page 3, Column 5. that enough is already known to warrant | the prediction that before the end comes | ! ELGRADE, Servia, April King Alexander to-day exe- cuted a coup d'etat. sued. two proclamations, first decreeing a suspension of the constitution adopted on April 19, 191, repealing objectiosable laws the | and Councilors of State. dissolving the Skupshtina and re-emacting the laws as | of 1901 The second proclamation restores this constitution to its former, validity. | In the first proclamation the King says the Senate and the Skupshtina’ created under the constitution*granted by him in 131 passed laws which proved ‘impracti- cable. Furthermore, the constitution, b: tending to fan political passions, preju- diced the interests of the fatherland and | hindered its development as a state and | nation. Affairs in the Balkans, the King | aads, are very serfous, and Servia needs [ | order, unity and peace. She should offer a bright example of a peace-loving state and at the same time always be ready to defend her own true interests should this become necessary for the purpose of restoring the unity, strength and order of the country. ANNULS CERTAIN LAWS. The King then suspends the constitu- tion of 1801 and declares the mandates of the Senators to be null and void, and the proclamation goes on to announce that the Councilors of State are retired and the Skupshtina is dissolved. Several of the laws, including the press laws, the communal law and the act governing the electoral system, are annulled and re- placed by laws pseviously existing. Immediately after this proclamation or- dinances appointing new Senators and Councilors of State were issued and the King issued a second proclamation in which the constitution of April 19 191, | was restored to its full validity. All of the Ministers, who resigned sim- ultaneously with the suspension of the constitution, were reinstated with the ex- ception of Foreign Minister Lozanico, wh will be succeeded by M. Denics, Ministe: of Public Works. SOMETHING OF A COMEDY. | of the Senate twelve are old Liberals and | supporters of the former regent, seven were formerly .members of the Proges- sive party and five are neutrals. King Alexander’s political jugglery with the Servian constitution is regarded as a dangerous experiment, but does not oc- casion any great surprise here, as the King's desire to curb the power of the Radicals has long been manifested. The manner in which the coup d'etat was effected partakes of the nature of a comedy. During thé few minutes that the constitution was suspended King Alexan- der was an absolute monarch. These mo- ments sufficed him to dissolve the Skupt. shina and abolish a half dozen law: passed thereunder, retiring the Senators they existed previous to the constitution | Of *the newly appointed life members | He is- | chiefly | | | i | which, he said, undermined the authorits of the crown to the suffrage and will be re- The obnoxious laws relate | f OFTA, April from Co effect that —Mail advices rtinople are to the the Porte has pre- placed by measures calculated to render pared a circular to the powers the ;election of Radicals . extremely complaining of obstacles placed difficult. The press law of 1991 gives place | in the way of reforms by the to .the more stringent measure enacted Macedonian committees. A telegram from in 1322, the frontier reports that another rallwa SENATOR CLARK BEHIND STREET RAILWAY PLANS Magnate Wires From the East to Have His Identity Made Known. NGELES, April Senator Wil- liam A. Clark of Montana, mining ma nate and president of the Salt Lake Ral road Company, is the mysterious backes of the eighty-two mile, three-cent street railway fran Senator Clark to- wired from New York to W. A. Garland permission to announce his interest in the LOS A bridge has been blown up. | Advices from Salonica state that | Albanians are becoming quieter. A bat | talion of nizams and a battalion of rediffs have arrived the »m Smyrna and pro- eeded to Mitrovitza. orts from the vic of the latter town are that clashes between revolution ary bands and Turkish troops continue. The action of King Alexander in pending the constitution of Servia while he deposed certain officials and changesd ich displeased him is not regarded bearing on the situa- It is possible, how- the ity sus- laws w | here as having any | tion in the Balkan application, and to say that it is his | ever, that the King suspected certain of bona fide intention to install an indepen- | the officials of sympathy with the move- dent electric line in competition with the | ment against Turkey and took the op- Huntington system. In view of the strong showing that the Southern Pacific was interested in the ap- plication and that the franchise routes | were first prepared in the office of Frank | P. Flint, local counsel for the Southern | Pacific, it 1s regarded as significant that Clark has recently reached an agreement with President Harriman of the Southern | Pacific. relative to the control of raiiroad | lines between Los Angeles and Salt Lake. | From. this fact is deduced a possible com- | bination of steam roads entering Los An- | geles to throttle the interurban electric | rallway business and to prevent the con- struction of the elaborate system planned by Henry E. Huntington. Senator Clark had designs on the local electric rallway field a year ago when he had an option on the tractlon road, the competing local electric _system, and the engineer charge of the proposed new line was at one time a trusted employe of Senator Clark at the United Verde mines in Ari- zona. P A5 A BONILLA'S FORCES TAKE THE TOWN OF CHOLUTECA General Daniel Wins a Victory From Sierra’s Adherents After a Nine Hours’ Battle. PANAMA, April 7.—Advices from Hon- duras state General Danlel, one of the generals of Senor Bonilla, President-elect of Honduras, in the latter’s struggie against the retiring President, Sierra, captured the town of Choluteca, sixty- | elght miles south of the capital, Teguci- galpa, yesterday after a nine-hour battle, and is now besieging Nacaome. Wind Too Strong for Shamrock. WEYMOUTH, England, April 7.—The two Shamrocks were made ready early to-day for their first racing trial, but the wind was blowing so hard the skippers decided not to risk the yachts' gear and o await a moderation of the weather. tn | portunity of depriving them of power so that they could not involve the Govern- ment. RUSSO-JAPANESE DISPUTE OVER CHINESE CONCESSION ] Subjects of Both Countries Lay Claim to Valuable Timber Lands in Manchuria. PEKING, April 7.—A report has been on foot for some time past that France 1s preparing to intervene and suppress tb insurrection in Kwangsl province, wh: borders the French colony of Tonquin and where 100,000 rebels are said to be in | arms. The foreign Jegations here are inte: ed In the outcome of the Russo-Japa: dispute over a concession in Manchuria at the mouth of the Yalu River, whic | has resulted in the dispatch of Russian ops to that point. A former Russian | agent In Korea claims to hold timber | concesstons on both sides of the Yalu, ! and recently sent his agents to opers | them. They found the Japanese in tl | territory, and the latter refuse to vacate. { The Russian concessionaire appealed to the Russian authorities, who have taken | the matter in hand. ‘»ms OoN R SCAFFOLD DENYING HIS GUILT Saloon-Keeper Kloshowski Is Hanged in London for the Murder of Three Women. LONDON, April 7.—Kloshowski, alias Chapman, the Southwark saloon-keeper who murdered by poison three women who.lived with him as his wives In Jif- :f:’l‘tfl! parts of London, was hanged in Wandsworth jail to-day. He was in a state of complete collapse and had to be supported by wardens. He protested his innocence to the end. declaring his real rame was Chapman and said he was an American by birth.