The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1903, Page 17

\ VOLUME XCIN—-NO. 140. MAY WWORJIT ENEMIES OF THE CANAL Marroquin Adheres to Ratification Scheme. MZN.‘\'[APOLiS MILLERS CHARGE DISCRIMINATION Every Flouring Mill in the North- west, Big and Little, Ceases op r o ¥ £ e to sl 1 4 = . ARRIVALS OF CHINESE NUMEROUS AT MOBILE Government Officials Believe a New Orleans Company Is Engaged in the Traffic, Ala., April 18.—The sus us arrivals here of late of socas del Toro, Costa Rica, rern ports and an investi- Several weeks arrived in Mo- ro destined for New romptly gathered in als and lodged in jail efore the local United nese meToERINBArD the Government of- | ficials company in New Orleans eng g Chinese to t y from E el Toro and t New Orleans, is 3 the past n no less than Loubet at Sidi Bel Abbes. ABBES, Alg Apri ubet to-day entered Sidi Bel the heart of Old Algeria, 1g through extensive planta- and towns built up by French cole- During his stay here he made a the interest which the Govern. n the important work the col- in extending French in- he left for Alemcen. > Hugh Bryson Is Acquitted. | EMPHIS, Tenn., April 18.—The Bry.\ case, which has been fought | from Tennessee to the Pacific | came to an end this afternoon | when Hugh Bryson, who was charged | with having kidnaped the illegitimate | child of Miss Precilla Howell, was ac- quitted by unanimous verdict. The testi- mony tended to show that the child of the Naintiff was dead. 18— te vigorously Coast, HARRINAN' " COMBINATION THE WINNER First Skirmish Oc- curs in Los An- geles War. { | l Southern Pacific and Clark Purchase a Railroad. Huntington Makes a Large Offer, but It Arrives Too Late. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, April 15.—Doubt longer exists in local railroad circles that man of the Southern Pacific Clark no of Montana and of the propoesed new road to Salt Lake City have formed an alliance, aggressive and defensive, for the purpose of thwarting | if poseible the ambition of H. E. Hunt- ington to gridiron the counties of South- ern California with electric lines which would come inta direct and powerfui com- petition with the steam roads. That such time an effort wes made to secure an ighty-mile railway franchise over the treets of Los Angeles several weeks ago was more than suspected, but it was strenuousiy denied at the time that the Southern Pac was Interested in the Now it has become known that the franchise application was prepared in the office of Frank Flint of the law, depart- Southern Pacific, and that uthern Pacific and Clark were the 1 movers in the game. 1f additional confirmation were needed be found in the fact that the ark syndicate has secured an the property of the Los An- Traction Company, the only line geles which now competes with the Huntington lines in Los Angeles. HUNTINGTON TOO LATE. This deal has not been fully completed, t known that J. Ross Clark, her of Senator Clark, has given his check for $100000 to W. S. Hook ef the Traction Company to the option brot bind e price of the property will t $2,000,00. Within an hour after k had. been accepted an agent | gton offered Hook a sum f1‘ of what his vpponents had but it was then too late and tlroad magnates won the first gton-Heliman syr 5a Pectric Yiloe & a, Riverside, Colton, San Ber- nardino, Pomona, and among the projects s a contemplated line to Santa Barbara On the lines which now exist and which are in competition with the steam roads this syndicate has anmounced its inten n of running cars to Long Beach 1 San Pedro this summer on a five-minute | basis and at the rate of s:xty miles an see what and Salt Lake roads will do such service,” declared a vesterday he face of representati The ixsn"iaws of Senator W. A. Clark, mining magnate and president of the Salt Lake road, now admit that Harriman is | ust as much interested in the blanket | franchise application as Clark. This has been evident, despite frequent denials, ever since the circumstances surrounding the preparation of that document becams known BATTLE OF SYNDICATES. All the power of the Southern Pacific and Salt bear to by follow up the advantage gained the purchase of the Traction road. The battles of the millions will be stren- uous. Benator Clark is one of the rich- est men in the United States—a million- aire among millionaires—and 1t is said that he cannot tell within many millions the amount of his fortune. His assoclates in the Balt Lake rallway enterprise are men whose individual fortunes run into six figures. Behind E. H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific, and a man of great wealth, are men very rich and very powerful in the financial affairs of ‘the country. Henry Huntington of the local syndi- cate is reported to have received $20,000,- 000 for his holdings in the Market Street Railway In San-Francisco, and this is only & part of the fortune which the nephew of Collis P. Huntington can command. His associates are men gf means and are strongly intrenched in the local trolley fleid. In Well street as well as in Los Ange- les, the warfare between the steam roads and the trolley fornfa will be fougHt. Huntington has thrown down the gauntlet by resigning the vice presidency of the Southern Pa- cific, and the armored giants of finance have not been slow to pick it up“and of- fer battle, Miss White Is Not Engaged. LONDON, April 18.—Henry White, sec- retary of the United States embassy, states that there is absolutely no founda- tion for the statement published in New York of his daughter's engagement to Lord Howard de Walden. The report caused the' family much annoyance, as Miss White has only the slightest ac- quaintance with Lord de Walden and as the same unwarranted announcement concerning her and another gentleman was made with equal positiveness a year ego. . an alllance existed at the business the South- | Lake road will be brought te | lines of Southern Cali- | SAN FRANCISC 0. SUNDAY. APRIL 19, A all. Dages 1710301 1903—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. lREUOLU TIONARY COMMITTEE SAYS ALL IS IN READINESS FOR BALKAN INSURRECTION | | | | | (. || A Fopararir 2= 770 7 GABIBRLIPL ‘L‘UPPEH KING SAYS - HE NEVER WOOED MARY MNELLIS, Clark Admits He Found | | Her a Very Pleasant | ‘ Young Woman. £ Lt NEW YORK, April 18.—Senator Clark at the office of the United Verde Copper | | Company, 49 Wall street, made the fol- | lowing statement to the correspondent of | The Call to-day: “I.want to deny as em- | phatically now as I did when I testified | before the referee that I never promised to marry Miss McNellis, or ever made love to her or induced her to believe that, | I was going to marry her. I met her in 1896 at the Chicago convention. I found | her rather agreeable and a very intelli- | gent young woman. “You will notice that she waited four years from 18% until 190 to bring this suit. In the meantime, through her law- yers, efforts were made to induce me to pay her some money in settlement of her | alleged claim, but I refused. Repeated demands were made and the amounts | asked for were trom time to time reduced. 1 would rather stand publicit; than to put | up a cent in a suit of this kind, when I am In the right. The application for a | reteree did not come from me and I am | | ready at all times to meet the case again if need be and before a jury, as I know [ am innocent of any wrong.” | Miss McNellis declares under oath that her attorney. Mr. Kneeland, informed her in April, 1902, that “the referee had de- | cided against her,” and stated to her inbout the same time that arrangements | were pending between him and Senator Clark to interest the Senator in the pur- chase of some mines in British Columbia in which he had a part interest, and that she “‘was to recelve a substantial sum out of-the money received by Mr. Knee- land on account of his dealings with Sen- ator Clark after he purchased an interest in a mine through Kneeland.” She says she repeatedly applied to Knee- land to return to her the original letters, photographs, cards and documents which were used in her case, but he refused to deliver them. She believes he was in col- lusion with Clark. Funeral of Major Best. ‘WASHINGTON, April 18—The remains Special Dispatch to The Call. | | of Major Clermont L. Best of the artillery corps, who died at Fort Monroe a few days ago, arrived here this morning and ‘were interred in e National Cemetery at Arlington with military honors. b3°% P HEAD OF "BRITIEH NAVY, ITALIAN PATRIOT AND AL~ BANIAN VILLAGE SCENE. - Rtsmg will Be Gen:- eral Throughout Macedonia. OME, April 18.—Private advices from the revolutionary commit- tee in the Balkans state that preparations -for an insurrection are ready. The revolutionary ccmmittee peserts that the whole of Mac- edonla will rise, and asks for the sympa- thy of Ttaly. In Government circles here Iittle faith is expressed in a geéneral in- surrection, while partial outbreaks are re- garded as attempts to compel European intervention. Ricciotti Garlbaldi, the leader of the Itallan volunteers in Greece during the war with Turkey, publishes a lstter in which _he says that in the Balkan ques- tion Italy’s programme must be to pre- vent Russla-and Austria advanding and helping the spread of Hellenism and to insure the freedom of the other nation- alities under a federal government. IR e INSURGENTS USE DYNAMITE. Exploding Bombs Kill or Wound Seventy 'Turkish Soldiers. SALONICA, European Turkey, April 18, —A sanguinary fight has occurred at the village of Opela, between revolutionists from Palanka and Turkish troops. After the encounter had lasted some time and the revolutionists were getting the worst of it, a dozen of them being killed or wcunded, they resorted to the use of dy- pamite and hurled bombs among the Turks, seventy of whom were killed or wounded by the explosions. In the panic which followed the revolutionists broke through the Turks and escaped. BRITISH BATTLESHIP SAILS. Victorious Starts From Malta for the Balkan Waters. VALETTA, Island of Malta, April 18.— The British battleship Victorious, which has been ordered to sail for Greece owing to the threatening aspect of/iffairs in the Balkans, left during the night for Velo, Greece. The naval review and other cere- monies planned for to-day in honor of the visit of King Edward to Malta were coun- termanded in consequence of bad weather. '| { 1 SPRING EPIDEMIC OF SUICIOES AAGES IN GREAT BRITAIN Love, Jealousy and Fi- nancial Worry the Chief Causes. | [ LONDON, April 18.~With the return of | spring the increase in the number of sui- | cides in the United Kingdom is again ap- | parent. Recently there has been an epi- | demic of seMf-destruction. In the first | seventeen days of April no fewer than | forty suicides have been committed in England, Wales and Scotland. Of this number seven people ended their lives with revolvers, while the means adopted in the other ‘cases were as follows: Drowning, seven; hanging, four; throat- cutting, five; suicide on rallway, four; opening of artery, one; polsoning, four. One-third of the sulcides were of wom- en. The motives were varied. At least ten cases are traceable to love and jeal- ousy. Four were the result of financial worries. Three of the suicides were com- mitted on. the eve of marriage. It is re- markable that within two weeks of Sir Heetor Macdonald's death eight persons followed the general's example and shot themselves, having in at least two In® stances previously declared ghat they would follow “Fighting Mac.” The number of military men who have committed suicide lately traordinary. Within two months twenty soldlers, including commissioned officers, have been responsible for their own deaths. Attempted suicides have during the last three months increased 60 per cent. Along with this epldemic of sulcides there has been an epidemic of mysteries. Police officers are still investigating about fifty mysteries. Descriptions of twenty missing people and of unidentified bodies have been circulated broadcast. It ie estimated. that at the present time 120 doctors, dentists, lawyers, authors and journalists who have made wrecks of thelr lives are finding a haven in cheap lodging-houses at 14 cents per night. A short time ago an' unofficial census was taken of professional men staying at the King’'s Cross House. It showed that the lodgers included two clergymen, ‘thrde Special Dispatch to The Call. the confiding and eager investors depo: | ti has been ex- | | the work of reform, and, barristers, nineteen solicitors, thirty clerks, twenty actors and music. hall artists, fifteen medical men and eighteen journalists. INVESTORS GLAMOR FOR THEIR GOIN Get-Rich-Quick” Mine Concern Collapses. Thousands of Vietims Bemoan Loss of Savmgs California-Nevada Company | Suspends Sixty Per Cent Dividends. lal Dispatch to The Cal NEW YORK, April 18.—From Albany to Los Angeles farmers and small merchants are bemoaning the cupldity which led them to invest in something that was widely heralded as better than: United | States bonds, for it was scheduled to pay 6 per cent interest yearly. Now they a veritably rivals in a race in their efforts to deposit their stock in the “California- Nevada Mining Company” with brokers ia this city, who hope to make disgorge hundreds of thousands of dollar somebod fted with promoters. A firm of lawyers with offices at 71 Wall street has been in structed to bring suit in Albany on Tue day against the company, and a former Surrogate of Albany County has been re- tained as counsel, while out on the Pacif Coast still other lawyers are said to be | re to fight r. the ass Investors all over the country were at- tracted to the California-Nevada C pany by glaring advertisemen ¥ month ago the dividends, which the com- pany had been paying at the rate of 12 to 60 per cent a year, ceased. This cessation of the ‘income from such a “sure thi came as a bolt from a clear sky to thou sands of investors. : RAPID RISE IN SHARES. The company had been organized under the laws of Nevada only last May. Its capitaiization was placed at the modest sum of $4,000,000, divided into as = hares of the par value/of $1 each. inally the shares sold for as low as 20 cents, but those whe ‘dld not “get in on the ground floor” nad to pay more, as the price fncreased as regularly as dividends | distributed, or every four w were. Six weeks ago the stock sold en the curb at $1 50'a share. it. Now there is no sile for A firm of promoters who own a ine aid to be adjacent to the holdings of the ifornia-Nevada Mining Company set to work to obtain the prettily engraved cer- ates of stock held as mementoes by | rural investors who had followed the | vice to “get a mine.”. Stock worth about $700,000 was sold, according to an estimate. About sixty-five shares have already been garnered by the reorganization promotors. In behalf of the men and women who own these shares Iz will go into court and ask for an accounting from the vyers original promoters. It is asserted that two men can fell where the bulk of the money is, if they will. One of these is W. H. Baldwin, head of the firm of Bald- win & Co., with offices in the Volckert building in Albany, and the other |is Charles S. McKelvey of Los Angel who | was described In the circulars as “prest- | dent of the California-Nevada Mining Company, leading mining lawyer of the West.” LOS ANGELENOS IN DEAL. The articles of incorporation and by- laws provided that forever non-assessable and to paid. Besides McKelvey, be fully who was put | down in the prospectus as owning large mining interests in Arizona, California and Mexico, the following citizens of Los Angeles were named as officers: J. F. Bandholt, paper dealer; J. B. Keeler, min- ing engineer, and J. W. C. Lancaster of Wells-Fargo Express Company. The State Bank and Trust Company of Los Angeles was the depository of the stock. McKelvey seemed to be the head and front of the enterprise. Baldwin is sald to blame McKelvey for overestimating the value of the properties. McKelvey is un- derstood to make recrimination. The many agents of concern are besieged by clamorous inves- tors who want their money back. . De- velopments are awaited at Albany and in Los Angeles. RUSSIA WILL NOT !gTEBVENz €Confident That Tm-key ‘Will Suppress | Rebellious Albanians. BERLIN, April 18.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg, of semi-official origin, in the Cologne Gazette to-day says: “The Rus- sian Government is convinced that, act- ing in conjunction with Austria, it will be able to prevent further complications in Macedonia. Both governments are confident that the Porte will carry out if necessary, actively suppress the rebellious Albanians. There is no indication of military prep- aration in Russia, as reported, and at present there is no cause for anxiety. As tc the politicians who are advocating Rus- sian military intervention, clearly they have .no connection = with the Russian Government, which, like the Austrians, desires peace and maintenance - of the status quo in the Balkans.” SHSBR L R Agent at Caracas. 'WASHINGTON, of New York has been appointed by tke President as agent of the United States to present the American case for the mixed f:omnhuon at Caracas. the stock was to be| the - California-Nevada April 18.—R. C. Morris | BOLIVIANS RENEW WAR OUER ACRE g | | | i i | I Comam S L ] CHIEF EXECUTIVE. NDING AN ARMY | Brazil Dispatchesan Army to Repel Invaders. 10 DE JANEIRO, April 18.—Gen- eral Pando, President of Bolivia, at the head of 500 men, recentl left Riberalta, on the frontier of Acre, and marched in the direc- tion of Acre territory, the title to which is in dispute between Bra%il and Bolivia. A Brazilian emiss: left Riberalta to warn the Brazilians. The Bolivians, whose advance- guard is at Empresa, have been notified by the Br: that | they must not advance beyond on the right bank of the river. Colonel Montes, the Bolivian War Min- zilian commander Albuna ister, with 500 Bolivians, Is in the vicin- ity of Porvenir. north of Riberalta, | marching on Orton, which s in Acre te ritory. Colonel Platrido Castro has star ed with about 1500 Brazilians to pre the entry of Montes Into the. disputed te: ritory. | It is probable that Bolivians already the Brazillans and have come into contact. AUTOMOBILE COLLIDES WITH AN ELECTRIC CAR Wealthy Los Angeles Attorney Re- ceives Injuries Likely to Prove Fatal. 8, April 18.—E. W. Bene- attorney who came here cently from Topeka, Kans., and became a member of a leading real estate firm probably was fatally injured to-night iding an automobile along Broad- between Fourth and Fifth streets. ! crossing the tracks his ma- chine was struck by a rapidly moving car of the Redondo electric line. It was completely @emolished and dragged nine- ty feet, and when the car was stopped Benedict was found under the car, his | legs between the wheels of the forward trucks. | One of the wheels had passed over his | right foot at the ankle, crushing it | that amputation nearythe knee was neces- | sary. He also sustained numerous inju- | ries about the body and a wound in the | head which caused concussion of the brain. Owing to the high rate of speed of the car the motorman was unable to stop after the collision until the car had gone nearly 4 feet. Benedict's injuries are so serious that he may not live until morning. — et DENIES STATEMENT MADE BY COUNSEL FOR MERGER Attorney General Knox Is Not Will- ing Decree Shall Be Tempor- arily Modifled. WASHINGTON, April 18.—The Depart- ment of Justice to-day gave out the fol- lowing: “The Intimation in a dispatch from St. Paul made by one of counsel for the Northern Securities Company the$ the Attorney General privately expressed Limself as willing to have the decree in | the Northern Securities case modified temporarily or suspended and iristructed | the United States attorney to the contrary merely for public effect is utterly without foundation. The Attorney General has consistently and unaiterably held that the decree enjoins the violation of a penal statute and that to mitigae or suspend it in amy respect would amount to a license | to continue to violate the law. The in- | struction to the United States attorney reflects on its face the positiveness and earnestness with which this view will be maintained before the court and the re- ported statement by counsel for defend- ants is beyond all the facts and proprie- ties of ‘the case.” P M Cordova Under Martial Law. MADRID, April 18.—Martial law has been proclaimed In Cordova in conse- quence of the rioting of agricultural la- borers, who are on strike there. The riot- ers compelled the shopkeepers to close their stores. Several collisions took piace between the rioters and the author- itles. The latter eventually quelled the disturbance, B he was I