The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1903, Page 1

Tall, — VOLUME XCIII—-NO SAN FRANCISCO. FRIDAY. APRIL 17. 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SKULLS OF LATE MR. AND MRS. CHARLES L. FAIR TO BE USED AS EVIDENCE TO REFUTE THE STORIES OF FRENCH WITNESSES JVEGRO CRUM TAKES ISSUE IDITH GROVER CLEUVELAND ON SOUTH'S RACE PROBLEM a ND AS HE APPEARS y FROM HIS LATEST PHOTOGRAYVH. SULTAN HURRYING MORE TROOPS INTO THE WAR DISTRICT Peace Commission Fails to Pacify the Al- banians. | 1 end New York “1908, by the New York g Company 16.—A dispatch to the dated April 14, says ments have bound for Prisrend, Verisevitch, the last g the main point of con- a circumstantial re- s peace commissior the Albanians. In th clause of the soners have been perhaps doubtful supervisors passed al- been re- ch n - Von honest- ed o the Yildiz Kiosk decided to send Saad Eddin to Kossovo to @uell Albanian anatchy. | Colored Man Denies That His Race is Shiftless. EW YORK, April 16.—Former President Cleveland’'s recent speech, in which he declared that neither the emancipation proclamation nor the decree con- | ferring citizenship had made the aver- age negro less vicious, lazy and shiftless | than he was in the days of slavery, has provoked a reply from an unexpected source. The man who takes issue with Mr. Cleveland is Dr. Crum, who is now Collector of the Port of CI leston, by virtue of his recess appointment by Presi- dent, Roosevelt after the Senate had re- jected the nomination. The fact that Dr. Crum has taken it upon himself to “call down” the former President is- likely to | increase the indignatioh throughout the from | | Bouth over his appointment. Dr. Crum has sent the following to the World: “CHARLESTON, . C., April 16—To the Editor of the World: My admiration for Mr. Cleveland is of the very highgst and I think he is too great a man and good a friend of the negro to say any- thing that would, in his opinion, militate against him. There are slavery-bred im- too perfections that still show themselves in | | | the ignorant and could not be eradicated | by any act, but these evils are gra.d- uelly being overcome by tellectual education, together with indu: trial training, teaching self-respect, . re- sponsibility of citizenship and dignity of labor. “What is taken for laziness in the negro is in many cases discouragement, owing to the lack of opportunity. The negro is not by nature viclous, but con- sciousness of the failure of the law to s protect him has made him less en- ened and oftentimes vindictive and ssive. There is a thriftless set mg all people, but, according to the t census, the negro has largely in- one alw rece er his holdings of realty and his sav in banks, showing~pe is rapidly | learning to economize. A robationary period for the negro have been best for all concerned, would the Southern States have voted themselves back into the Union? “I think that with the Tuskegee idea, together with fair treatment and time, the negro will prove a blessing to the but moral and in-| | | boats operating between Duluth and Buf- | need IN THE NORTHWEST GEASE GRINDING Action of kake Trans-| portation Lines Is Resented. M O MINNEAPOLI April 16.—To-night flour mill in Minneapolis and prac- all of the tically m hant spring wheat and Northwest 1l shut and will turning out flour for an indefinite This act has been forced upon the Minnesota the down entirely, cease pe- riod. millers by the conditions surrounding the ufacture and sale of flour. For some owing to the price of cash wheat, high rates of freight and the de- the | s have been operating at a loss, but crowning disadvantage which has paralyzed the milling industry throughout the Northwest was the act of the line of time. the flour market, pressed state of the falo in to-day moving wheat on a basis of 2 cents per bushel, while the present pro- portionate rate in flour from Duluth to Buffalo is maintained at 9 cents per 100 pounds. The lines have told the millers that un- der the operation of the Elkins bill they not expect' any discrimination in rates against flour, but the action of the line boats in making this 2-cent rate on wheat shows that such assurance was meaningless. Until freight rates on the manufactured product are placed on a parity with those given the raw material, the millers will find it impossible to grind wheat. section of country where he is most nu- merous, W. D. CRUM, M. D.” The World also has the following, gliv- ing a Southern editor’s view: “Montgomery, Ala.,, April 16.—Editor World: The Advertiser heartily indorses the utterances of Mr. Cleveland, and it believes that the people of the South will unanimously approve them. The negro is what he is because of many thousand years of deterloration, certainly of stag- nation, in the wilds of Africa, plus a few hundred years of contact with civiliza- tion under conditions that recognized him as a child in intellect and character, to be guided firmly and kindly. As a whole, he made great progress under those con- ditions in this section, and it is not clear that the mass of the race has been bene- fited by the sudden removal of the guid- ing Torce. “A minority of individuals has unques- tionably progressed under the changed order, but the negro as a whole to-day saffers for lack of the direct, steady, firm control of the superior white. His fu- ture lies in the hands of a restored, rec- ognized sympathy for him on the part of the Southern people, a result to.be ob- tained only by the removal of his arti- ficlal legislative status as a citizen anld the withdrawal of a theoretical, senti- mental interference on the part of the North, which does not understand the ne- &ro and the proper methods of develop-, ing him. F. P. GLASS. “Editor Montgomery ,Advertiser.” Decapll‘atIOH IRIJ‘H CONUDENTION DOICES APPROVAL OF THE LAND BILL Performed Here. Matter Held Profound Secret. Millions May Hang on Relics. Developments of an exceedingly sensa- fonal character that are likely to prove a boomerang in the Fair case, now in pro- gress In New York and possibly may end in the arrest of several of the French witnesses on charges of perjury, have just become known in this city. They are most damaging to the testi- mony given a few days ago m New York by Lucien Mas and Alfred J. Morane, the Frenchmen, who were called to recount certain incidents attending the death of Charles Fair and his wife in France, which, if true, would strongly tend to es- tablish as a fact that Mrs. Fair survived her husband and thus left her own rela- tives the direct heirs to the fortune in- herited under these circumstances from her husband. Mas and Morane were brought to New York from France as witnesses for Mrs. Nelson, who is seeking to upset the pre- vious compromise effected between her- self and the rclatives of the late Charles Fair, wherein she and the members of her family were to receive a certain large sum of money in consideration of thelr agreement to drop all litigation over the distribution of the milllons left by the young Californian. MORANE'S QUEER S'I‘OBY Morane, during the course of his testi- mony several days ago, told a queer story of how he had viewed the bodies of the Fairs on the ground where they had fallen and died. He and Mas, so he said, were out riding on lheir bicycles when the automobile passed to my lefl Then I saw it come to a stop with a great noigse. My friend preceded me to where the automobile stood. T saw three bodies. The first one I approached was the chauf- feur. He was screaming and, trying to risa, Next I saw the gentleman. His | skull was crushed out of all semblance | to humanity. As 1 was examining the gentleman Mr. Mas said to me: ‘The lady 1s not dead.” I locked around and saw Mas lift the lady and place her with her head against a tree.” How near to the dia lady you ap- cach?’ he was asked. “T was within a yard of her. I re- marked that her nose and eye were wounded and that”a stream of blood trickled across her forehead.” Did you sec the lady move?” saw her lips move, the hands tighten and the chest move slightly. The lips moved as though she was breathing.” “Do you recollect what you saw after your friend put her down?" “For about a minute I saw her breath- ing gently. Her lips were still moving when I turned away from her.” “Dic the gentleman move at all?” “He did not. He was in the same posi- tion when I turned away as when I saw bim first.” MAS’ TESTIMONY SIMILAR. Mas' testimony was in substance the same as that given by Morane, and all efforts to upset it on cross-examination proved anything but successful. Hardly had the evidence been adduced, however, before the relatives of the late Charles Falr in New York were busily engaged in telegraphing to ahd receiving messages from San Francisco and giving evidence suggestive to many that they were pre- pared to add a sensational chapter to the hearing of ‘the case in that city. That their plans have been well laid i evi- denced by the fact that their startling secret has been well kept here for many weeks. Yesterday the secret became a matter of public knowledge and last night fur- nished an interesting subject for discus- sion among the friends of the dead couple. It was learned from one of those who is deeply concerned in the Fair case that the skulls of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fair, whose bodies were shipped back to San Francisco, after they had been relin- quished by the French authorities, have been preserved and are now in the cus- tody of responsible persons here, ready to be produced when the time comes for proving the falsity of the evidence given in New York. Whether they will be sent to New York or remain here is a mat- ter that is to depend wholly upon a move that is to be made shortly to have the case transferred to the courts of this city. If the effort fails the grewsome evi- dence will be sent to the East, where, with the aid of the cleverest of medical scientists an effort will be made to prove that the testimony of Mas and Morane is pure fabrication, Wwholly, unsubstan- tiated by circumstances t\u\‘. cannot be overcome. 3 FAIR HEIRS CAREFUL. ‘When the bodies of the Fairs were re- ceived In New York from France they were discovered to be in such a decom- posed condition, resultant from the neg- lect of the Parisian undertakers, who had failed to carry out their agreement to properly embalm the remains, for which work they were paid a large sum, that it was deemed advisable to hasten them on Continued on Page 2, Column 6. | — Loro MTayomr Trrro7HY HRRR 1GTor] o~ ovBLN * HEAD OF DUBLIN'S MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT AND PROMINENT IRISH {LEADER, WHO URGED HIS CO OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF THE LAND BILL. TRYMEN TO PLACE NO Nattonalzst Leaders .flre Intrusted With Task of Obtaining Desired Amendments. UBLIN, April 16.—By a unani- mous vote the Irish National Convention which met here to- day accepted in principle the Irish land bill introduced in the House of Commons by Mr. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and intrusted to John Redmond and his party the task of securing in the House of Commons that ‘‘serious amendment in various points of vital importance” which the National Convention may consider essen- tial. The convention to-morrow will out- line the shape that the amendments ghould take and on Saturday Lord Dun- ! raven, Lord Mayo, Captain Shawe-Tay- | lor, John Redmond, Willilam O'Erien and T. W. round conference table to discuss the landlords’ and tenants’ opinions on the land bill and try to arrive at a common basis of Parliamentary actlon. To-day's proceedings in the convention revealed discontent with various features of the bill, but nothing so serious as to indicate a danger of its ultimate rejec- tion. Even Michael Davitt, who had an opportunity of dividing the delegates into two bitterly opposing camps, and who, amid dramatic excitement, subordinated his own views, pledged himself to abide by the verdict. John Redmond and Willlam O'Brien tri- umphed over all objections; indeed, the objectors, save Michael Davitt, were scarcely given a hearing by the dele- gates. IRISH WIT IN EVIDENCE. Every available seat in the round room in the Mansion House was taken by the delegates, who surged up the aisles In a solid mass and overflowed the surround- ing rooms. For six hours, without a break, the delegates sat or stood listen- ing to speeches of their leaders, spiritual and political. Not for many a day has such a representative gathering been seen in Dublin. Irish wit and eloquence lived up to its reputation. Speaker after speaker brought the audlence to that pitch of enthusiasm where hats were thrown up and men stood upon chairs yelling with delight. When a platform speaker failed to please, comments from the audience supplied an impetus to the emotlions. The crowd was irrepressible. Old men, white-haired relics of the Land League: young farmers, rising factors in the United Irish League, fresh from the ficlds of Connaught and Munster; court couneil- ors, priests, young and old, arose con- stantly from their seats to hurl some in- terjection of approval or otherwise at the speakers.. The force of habit was far too strong to prevent the sons of the seil cheering madly when some speaker re- ferred to the landlords as “blood suck- Russell are likely to meet at a | f | | | | | | out Ireland. ers,” which not infrequently brought the responsé from the body of the hall, “To | hell with them!"” “Good man!” the audlence would shout when William O'Brien, Michael Davitt or me other popular orator volced the pre- vailing sentiment. LEADERS ARE SATISFIED. Throughout the day this gathering of Irish tenants, so picturesque, so terribly earnest, so swayed by the eloquence of the' Irish leaders, never ceased to make a fit setting for the herolc epithets in which the speakers described the conven- tion and the issues depending on its de- cision. Through all the various waves of emotion John Redmond sat in the chair, inipassive and” keeping order “like Par- nell,” as an old Nationalist said. His head was constantly endangered by the swinging hands and arms of the speakers. Willlam O'Brien and Michael Davitt were the heroes of the hour. T. W. Rus- sell, the Ulster member, who unexpectsdly appeared in the hall, réceived a great wel- come from his former opponents. Much significance is attached to his presence, as he is not a member of the Nationalist party. . After the convention ail the leaders ex- pressed their complete satisfaction at the proceedings and the practical unanimity of 80 many representative bodies through- ‘“Eager for peace, but ready for war .in case the English wish to continue,” was, to quote one speaker, the keynote of to- day’s convention. TWO THOUSAND DELEGATES. The national convention met in the his- toric round room' of the Mansion House. About 2000 delegates had assembled, and on the platform sat almost every Na- tionalist member of Parliament, with a scattering of pYelates. In the body of the rotunda was a gathering seldom equaled in representative capacity. Farmers from Clare In top ‘boots; laborers from Dublin County, 1#ndlords from Cork and priests from all parts, the latter's sombre cloth- ing and tall hats contrasting pleasantly with the bright homespun apparel of the majority. It- was essentially a conven- tion of the soll, though a lighter touch was given by the presence of the well- dressed women who filled the galleries. REDMOND THE CHAIRMAN. Lord Mayor Harrington and Michael Davitt inducted John Redmond into the chair, and the delegates arose to their feet, cheering and waving their hats. Ca- ble messages were read from various Irish organizations in the United States, wishing the , convention success. John e Continued on Pkge 2, Column 1, | amounted to 369 THO GRENT BANKS WILL BE MERGED Morgan Plans Pow- erful Financial Concern. Twenty-Five Million Dollars Its Aggre- : gate Capifal, Institutions to Be Amal- gamated Have Deposits of $144,666,409. Spe al Dispatch to The Cail. NEW YORK, April 16.— gotiations are under way which, if they be successful, will result in the formation of a great 325,000,000 -bank—an Institution which, when formed, will most powerful in this country. According to the plans of the financiers who have the project in hand, it is proposed to amalgamate the National Bank of Commerce, which Is familiarly known in Wall street as J. P. Morgan’s bank, and the Western National Bank of the United States in New York. These institutions have capitals of $19,- 000,000 each and rank among the flrst five of the powerful Wall street institu- tions. Their capitals will be increased. The merger of these two institutions, ‘when brought about, will result in draw- ing closer together the Mutual Life In- surance Company and the Equitable Lifs Insurance Society, Both of which interests now dominate the two banks. It is be- lieved the new bank will be known as the National Bank of Commerce and that the charter of this Imstitution will be adopted as_the one under which the mew institu*fon will be operated. @ It was belleved in certain quarters to- night that the preliminary arrangements, including the terms under which the stocks of the two banks will be ex- changed and purchased, had been ar- ranged at a meeting held to-day. This, however, was denied in official quarters._ George G. Hare, a trustee of the Mutual Life, who also is a director in both the ‘Western National and National Bank of Commerce, made the fgllowing statement: “I have heard that negotiations are un- der way for a merger of the two banks. but T am positive that terms have been agreed upon.” When the amalgamatlon as certain financiers belleve it will be. the new institution will be the most powerful in the United States from the standpoint of deposits. According to re- ports made to the Controller of the Cfiz- rency in Washington last week the ag- gregate deposits of the Western National 2, and those of tha Bank of Commerce to $74,738.7 The combined deposits of the two institutions amounted to $144,666,409. no is concluded, RANCHER IS CONVICTED OF MURDERING NEIGHBOR Martin Zidmair’s Plea That He Acted in Self-Defense Fails to Comn- vince Jury. LIVINGSTON, Mont., April 16.—Martin Zidmair was to-day convicted of murder for killing George Reidar on Trall Creek on April 10, 191. The erime-was not dis- covered until a few weeks ago. The slay- er and his victim werz neighboring ranch- érs. Zidmair claims Reider betrayed his (Zidmair’s) daughter and taunted her pa- rents with the fact until Mrs. Zidmair committed suicide. Later when they quar- reled over the matter Zidmair says Reider attacked him with au ax and he shot Reider in self-defense. Another neighbor persuaded Zidmair to bury the body and not to surrender himself, as he contem- plated doing. This neighbor later be- trayed Zidmair. i P S ARCHBISHOP FALCONI TO TOUR CALIFORNIA Papal Nuncio to the United States ‘Will Dedicate a New Church at Los Angeles. WASHINGTON, April 16.—Archbishop FWalconi, the Papal Nuncio to the United States, is figuring on a tour to Califor- nia and the Southwest. He expects to leave Washington on the 2ist inst. and will be away about a month. During his absence he will dedicate a ew Catholic church at Los Angeles, Cal Sultan’s Scheme Fails. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16.—It is now understood that the commission sent by the Sultan to appease the Albanians failed to secure their adhesion to the reform scheme of the powers, except on the con- dition that the Albanians be allowed to choose their own Governors and civil of- ficials and that other minor concessions be granted them. The Porte has decided to establish a military camp in Berizovitch, and has or- dered nineteen battalions ‘to concentrate there In view of possible operations against the Albanians. Great uneasiness has been aroused in Turkish government circles by the reports that the Bulgartans in Macedonia are pre- paring for a gemeral rising on April 20, the second day of the Easter festivities of the orthodox church