The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1903. MILES REPORT RENEWING ACCUSATIONS OF CRUELTIES BY SOLDIERS IN PHILIPPINES IS GIVE TROUBLE DINS WEDDIAG DAY OF YARMOUTH Constables Swoop Down | on Earl at Behest of Creditors. rother Next Adds to »ry by Failing Materialize. -— nsequently Long Overdue i Reaching Church and Pitts- | burg Society Is Given a Shock. Painful M Y. orated AGNIFICENT DISPLA D. marck th Many noth- i - ¥ and was Imost 1o was be- | £ Ke aw, the bride's . er, who was to have n her | ed t it in an appearance and | performed | ony, while Dal- | e of Joslah Thaw | rom these wedging pro- o the letter. there was a Thaw resi- house was d the collection of cent. The bride ts diamond and ame- couple left this even- soon trip before Earl Yarmouth's of Hertford, and his England for the London at on H K d the visiting Union Club. ADVERTISEMENTS. Why don’t you get mad at food adulterations? Schilling’s Best arec the money back remedy. ~! | of | nothing p: Imperialist At- tacks. Warrier Predicts Famine in the - Archipelago. The .Cal Special Dispatch ALL B N. ¥ In reply imperialists STRE , April 27 charge by anti- he dared mnot show to the the allegations cruelty to Filipin by Lieuten- eral Secretary Root to-day on of General Miles report. It contains but REAU WASHINGTO? the that w \ s made ant Ger s, red the publics ippine in rticularly new, Miles' co because 1t rmation of the itie regarded of ammunition for the The War Department that its prosecution f the water-c uelties will ism Mi arch is Gener 1ppily ti-impertalists. howeve urt-martial e pract and re- with wed cri General in the s spent more than a month elago and 1| ected nearl post. The opinion of most army of- General ration vigorously in- water-cure and kindred more th ago. Miles' to be a houghts. Poli- ers, his ment, when tricted in his uttera 1 not become a more of the anti-imperialists. har cruelty h comment he nt that the Phil! fended now th recommendation for a naval station at rediction of a terribl. y short time on t and disease amc have also attracted ve: ug nimals, ution of be , and there from some of was | SIERRA DIES AT HANDS OF HIS CAPTORS ‘ ‘ o "‘ NEW ORLEANS, | ! April 27. — The | | steamship Breakwater | | from Puerto Cortez,% Honduras, brought news to-day of a sen- sational climax to| the revolution in | | that country. Accord- 3 |ing to information | | received at Puerto | Cortez, former Presi- | dent Sierra was cap-‘ | tured by the revolu-‘ tionists on the Salva- | dor frontier and sum- marily executed. URDERERSVEILCAINE 1N MYSTERY, Page 1, MURDE Continued From liams answered an ad he took the key. tisement for the Later he tele- and phoned that he would take the place, but he did not in appear. On Friday Robert Allen went to the house and, finding the front door open, locked it, thinking Williams had carried off the key. He made no examination of the place, however. To-day he took an- other prospective tenant to the house, and when they entered they detected a peculiar odor in the house. All of the doors were open except that of an up- stairs bedroom. STRUCK FROM BEHIND. Looking through the keyhole, Allen saw the body of a man lying on the floor. He at once notified the police and the owner of the house. Hailf an hour later when the room was entered the body was found. The furniture in the room had not been disarranged and the position of the body indicated that when Mills entered the room he had been struck from behind and after he fell he had been struck six additional times and then tied up. The man who gave the name of Wil- liams is the person for whom the police are looking. It must have been his key or a pass key which admitted the mur- derers and their victims to the house and his disappearance and fallure to occupy the house after he had engaged it lead the officers to belleve that it was he who on last Wednesday afternoon took Mills into the house where he was murdered. On a dresser near the body were found certaih papers which were known to have been on Mills” person when he left his office. Mills, himself a divorced man, married a divorced woman _three months ago. Before his marriage’he 1s known to have been on terms of intlmacy with several women, one of whom had been causing him some trouble since his marriage. Who she was and whas was her claim upon him is not known by the detectives. It is known that he had received certain threatening letters, but they were more about money matters than other things and it is not believed he was slain by the persons who sent these letters. It is believed that Mills was sent for on the pretext of advancing money on the furniture in the house; that he was taken there and killed while looking at the fur- niture and that his body was then triced up in the ropes with which it was bound when found. No accurate description of Williams has been secured because he was seen but once and that nearly a week ago. It is believed, however, he knew Aills. — 'May Revive Anti- an | by | Miles’ ce | Weston | recom- | N TO THE PUBLIC | | | [ { | W/ General Makes Recom- | mendations for Better- ment of Army. | ASHINGTON, April 27.—Be- sides its se tional features, dealing with alleged cruelties | | by American troops in the [SENER AL ROBERT P HUGHES (mETiIRED) = Philippines, General Miles | report, made public, contains much of in | terest concerning the army in the archi nd a number of important recom- Of the Moros General Miles D VED IN HIS SEN: ARRAIG ATION ago mendations RANKING OFFICER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, RETIRED GE T OFFICIAL WHO HAS ANSWERED SOME O NERAL, | AND WAR DEPART- THE CHARGES. AL REPORT The problem of reducing or controlling these people in case of continued hos appear to be a difficult one poc rmed and have no means ing « antain artillery and flel Of the road to Lake Lanao, At the time o Tells of the Murder of >t wit i mortar he said: my visit there were six hun- dred of o en at work on this road. Ti heat was and there w at the t seventy men s nd some 200 men on sick y ASHINGTON, April 27.—The, War Department to-day made the re- report performance public that portion e port of General Miles which contrary to law i refers to misconduct of officers The more important observations and soldiers in the Philippines. Secre- recommendations of General Miles are as | Root has received several requests follows: | for this report, some of them from per- The general condition of the troops in the | Sons in Boston, who sald that it con- pelago was creditable to themselves and | d much matter that never had been 5 the country | A . The effect of the climate is a most s | brought in the investigations. The | @etriment to the service. The men go there in retary has held that such reports were | perfect health and in the prime of manhood, | > | body are seriousty affected in thé | confidential, in ordér that the officer mak- of two or three years' service, V | ing the ght be free to make such | tew escape e majority are debilitated 10 m migh | As the mil’ stations, with but few ex- | comments as he desired, but as it was | capt are very remote and the troops are | Jearned that General Miles had no objec- required to be in communities that afe nei beneficial nor congenial to them, the service is | tion to the publication of the report, it I did not se ence of liquer single goldler under the influe The following shows the exact - | nd to some tent has a demor- | has been made public, with a brief com- There are scarcely any amuse- | g 4 | Tents or recreations for the soldlers. During | ment by General Davis, judge advocate my visits to the garrisons it g0 happencd ihat | general, who has charge of all matters | pertaining to the subjects referred to in ‘;:fln]'fl‘a}nvdt‘”\':l:’l’:‘flnllllii(-;?l:‘rr-‘-‘rlrttmy—l he | this portion of the report. The state- A avenber 23, 1002 Sope o “aity, | ments made by General Miles are the re- 4; sick, 1416. | sult of his tour of inspection in the Phil- OPPOSES ARMY CANTEEN. | !ppines last autumn and winter. | As the result of my observations it is my | General Miles' report on his Philippine | | judgment th discontinuance of the liquor | Observations is dated February 19, 1903, Teature of canteen has been beneficial to | and ddressed to the Secretary of War. | | the army He says that in going from Calamba to number of troops that will be required Philippine Islands is still prob- ile it is claimed the people ere published in both Batangas in November last, he noticed that the country, appeared devastated and that | the people were very much depressed. | | i Engl ain almost daily ac- jostilities. Against these armed | NATIVE BURNED TO DEATH. , ivil government wploying the | Stopping ot Liva, he says, a party of | e e opartion of the teops oc- | Citizens, headed by the acting Presidente, | cupying church property, sterfes, colleges | met him and said that they desired to and convents. This I believe to be entirely | make complaint of harsh treatment of | nd it should be discontinued without ! the people of that community, saying t is a serlous detriment to the prop- and it will simply result in claims millions of dollars being brought against United States, which usuaily will have to be paid Of the supplies furnished the troops, he | they had been concentrated in towns and had suffered great indignities; “that fif- teen of their people had been tortured by what is known as the water torture, and that one man, a highly respected citizen, aged 6 years, named Vicente Luna, while suffering from the effects of the torture - While the supplies, as a rule, have been abundant and of good quality, there is, in my | and unconscious, was dragged from his opinion.. too much .cold-storage meat used for | house, which had been set on fire, and the good of the t Its constant use be- | (OF0 Tt death. They stated that comes very distasteful, mdny eminent physiclans it is not the most healthful In my opinion it would be advis- able to send Government steamers to Australia and have them loaded with livestock, which can be ributed in small quantities near the different garriso: General Miles renews a recommendation made prior to his visit to the Philippines, that at least one strategic position be for- tified beyond the possibility of capture by any foreign fleets. Of the conditions gen- erally, he says: I do not think there is to-day a people so sorely afflicted as the eight million inhabitants of this archipelago. Thelr country has been devastated by war. In some places locusts have destroyed the crops. Pestilence has pre- lled, resulting in the reported death of nearly 000 people, while it is estimated that the number not reported ls fully as large. PREDICTS A FAMINE. On November 29, 1902, General Miles sent the following cablegram to the Secretary of War: In my judgment each, infantry and and in the opinfon of these atrocities were committed by a com- pany of scouts, under comand of Lieuten- ant Hennessey, and that their people haa been crowded into towns, 600 being con- fined in one building.” A doctor of the party said he was ready to testify that some of the 600 died from suffocation. General Miles says he looked at the building, which was one story in height, eighteen or twenty feet wide and possibly sixty or seventy feet long. He asked for a written statement to be for- warded to him at Manila, but says he never received it, and add: 1 have no reason to disbelieve their state- ments; in fact, the instances of torture in the case of the man Luna having been tortured and burned to death are confirmed by other reports. Concerning the failure to receive the in process of defense is because Congress has &0 willed it. Surgeon General O'Reilly says: five regiments, 1500 men cavalry. should be sent Yearly. Four transports wiil transport them with all needed supplies and take returning | The bad effect of the climate on the health Tegiments. The remaining transports shouly | of the army is a simple fact. Just as the froops serving on the Texas border aiways have shown a greater sick rate and a higher percentage of deaths than those in the Rocky Mountain. district or the Northern United States, so in a greater degree will the army 1 the Philippines always exceed in sickness and death the army at home. : It is understood that a reply has been recelved from General Hughes, who was commanding in the Philippines, and is one of the officers to whom General Miles re- fers in his report. It was not made pub- lc at the War Department. be used to bring out wheat and corn and then used to bring carabaos and cattle to replace 50 per cent destroyed. These people are suffer- ing from effects of war and pestilence, and famine must prevall In six months unless prompt. and efficlent measures are taken. Portions of the report of General Miles were sent to the different chiefs of bureaus to which observations referred and replles from several officers have been received. General Miles’ recommen- dation that beef on the hoof be supplied to the troops in the Philippines was re- ferred to General J. F. Weston, commis- sary general, who in reply says: The Rev. Tobias Larsen. TACOMA, Wash., April 27.—The Rev. Toblas Larsen, prominently identified with the Pacific Lutheran University at Parkland, near Tacoma, is dead, aged 73 years. He had been in the ministry in Wisconsin and Minnesota for twenty- eight years before coming to Washington ten years ago. e Your Own Good Taste 1s what makes vyour room pleasant to live in. We have an immense collection of beautiful pictures framed in the latest In my judgment it is not a feasible or eco- nomical plan, and there should be no de- parture from the present system of supplying frozen beef. General Weston sums up the objections to the plan in the following: The supply of cattle on the hoof for the military service in the Philippines is not prac- ticable, would involve enormous expense an entail ‘useless loss of animal life and would serve no useful purpose either of administra- tion, economy or health. At least 50 per cent of the cattle would not survive the trip, so that the Government would not only lose half of the cargo, but would actually pay freight on of Priests and Other Non-Combatants. | island of Li B e e e i i e o e e e e e what was lost, General Gillespie, chief of engineers, says: That Manila harbor or any other harbor in the insular poesessions is not defended or is not styles. Parties furnishing new houses can find here thousands of artistic pictures to ctoose from and at the most reasonable n!rlce:. Sanborn, Vail & Co., Tl erk‘et street. Prisoners and Torturing | | precedented. th Mentions Names of the Guilty Officers. Death by Fire the Fate of One Victim. ARMED CUMRDS FORCE DOORS " OF CONVENTS Capuchin Monks Are Arrested and Thrown Into Prison. 3 & manders as Generals Lawton, Wade, Sumner, Lee, Baldwin and others 1 'found that with certain officers the ssion prevails that such acts were justifi. | e 2na’T Telt 1t my duty, in order to correct such erroneous and dangerous impressions, and to prevent the possibility of such acts being committed in the future, which must impair the good name of American arms and bring diseredit to our service for all time, to address to the division commander the following letter of instructions: ANTI-FORTUNE ORDER. Then follows an order addressed to the commanding general of the Philippines, | 4 Tt o b 8Ty pt to Defend 3 ¢ 18, 1903, in which under date of February I n whic e e e Bt Clhecls General Miles calls attention to the re- ports of atrocities, and directs that any’ by Large Bodies of im- Serious Riots Take Place in the Interior Provinces of France. AR LR orders or circulars of personal instruction | Troops. which would ingpire or encourage any act ‘ 4 — - of cruelty be annulled. The order says he excuse that the unusual condi- that “t usual condi-| PARIS, April 27.—Crowds made demon- Haps s x'fv"w‘:}:gm"“:?::;;fm“ - ™" | strations at different points to-day over Gemuet ws the dispersal of the congregations. T& Continuing his report to the Secretary, General Miles directs attention to the acts of reconcentration by General Bell vi latest dispatches from the provinces in- dicate that the trouble is becoming:more nd claims that they were in direct late jon of law. He says that the law was| Tne disturbance at M violated also in handling and buying large pLrsesn gt s quantities of rice, which was sold at a | g > Brofit o people who were in the re- | With much violence this afternoon, owing concentration camps were, says General | to the attempt of a party of oblate fatk Miles, “‘considered prisoners of war, but |ers to visit the convent, in which the were compelled to buy food from those | puchins had barricaded themselves, r who held them at a large profit.”” | fusing admittance to the officials. The General Miles characterizes this as un- He spedks of the magnitude of the transaction, which involved 20,000, 000 pounds of rice and other supplies at a |3 to sight of the of the enemies of n attack was the assistance visitors aroused the anger the congregations and Clericals hastened a made. 4 the fathers and cost of He says that “an ex- traordinary feature of this transaction is | pitched battle between the two partie that the action was approved by a divi- | rollowed. Sticks and stones were used sion commander, who assumed command | ¢ coiv and injuries were inflicted upon and who turned the matter over 1o he |, ;. poreons, among whom were two civil authorities, and that it has been - o ) carried on under an act of the Philippinc | Women. while onlockers from window Commission.”” joined in the fray by throwing all kix of missiles. The police finally rescue DAVIS' REPLY. foregoing portion of the | GENERAL A reply to the the oblate fathers and the fighting ceased A crowd of 3000 persons, however, remal report has been prepared by Judge Advo- | ed in the neishborhood of the conve . e b ¢ itself for and against tI cate General Davis in a letter to the S xpressing i r 8 etary of War, in which he says monks until dark, when the police at B O s e .. |succeeded in dispersing them. The monks at La Roche Sur Foron w arrested to-day. A strong force of | funtry and cavalry surrounded the mo tery and held the crowd of angry peas closed spe ject of spec have d their finc g in check while the door of the build lesignated g was being battered in. The monks & mener offered no further resistance and were |-at of seh "~ | piaced in prison at Bonneville. by the par- | At Nantes to-day seven Capuchins were | ties cc sdiction: In other | sentenced by the court to pay small fines bmitted te = statement, General Miles says: Whether any influence was brought to to prevent their statement, either by persua- sion or coercion, I am not prepared to say at the present time. MURDER OF PRISONERS. eneral Miles then refers to other cases, ving that on the island of Cebu it was reported and published in November, 1902, G “that two officers, Captain Samuels, Forty-fourth Infantry, United States vol- unteers, and Lieutenant Foster, Eight- eenth Infantry, had committed similar atrocities against the people of that island. He continue It is also reported that at Laoag, on the | n, two natives were whipped to death. At Tacioban, Leyte, it was reported that Major Glenn ordered Lieutenant —Caut- field, Philippine scouts, to take eight prie- oners out into the country, and that if they did not guide him to the camp of the insurgent | Quizen he was not to bring them back. It was | stated that the men were taken ot i they either did not or could not do directed. | One of the men who had a son among the scouts was spared, but the others were sepa- rated into two perties, numbering three and four respectively, and while tied together were all murdered by bein ot or bayoneted to | death, some being In kneeling position at that | time. The pretense was made that they were killed while attempting to escape, but so far | a as I know no official report was ever made | of the circumstance. These facts have been reported by Major Watts, who investigatea the case. Besides Lieutenant Cautfleld, C ian Scouts Ramos, Preston, Corn and McKeen were participant At Calbayog, Samar, it was reported that several men in that district had heen subjected to the water torture. I saw three men who ad been subjected to this treatment. One was the Presidente of the town, Mr. Rosales, who showed me long, deep scars on his arms were caused by the cords with which he was bound cutting into his flesh. The second man was named Jose Borfa, and_ the third was Padre Jose Diaznes, who stated hs | was one of three priests who had been sub- jected to torture by the troops under command of Lieutenant Gaujot, Tenth Cavalry; that h: front teeth had been knocked out, which was apparent; that he was otherwise maltreated and robbed of $300. It was stated that these priests had been taken out to be killed and were only saved by the prompt action of Majo Carrington, First Infaniry, who sent out for them. ~Licutenant Gaujot was tried. pleaded guilty, and was given the trivial sentence of three months’ suspension from command, for- feiting $50 per month for the same period. His pleading guilty prevented all the facts and circumstances being developed. MAJOR GLENN’S OPERATIONS. It appears that Major Glenn, Lieutenant Conger and a party of assistants and native scouts were moved from place to place for the purpose of extorting statements by means of torture, and it became motorious that this party was called “Glenn's Brigade.”” Whether it was possible for officers to be engaged in such acts without the personal knowledge of the general upon whose staff they were serv- ing at the time, namely Brigadier General Hughes, I leave for others to conjecture. These facts came to my mnotice in a casual way, and many others of similar character have been reported in different parts of the archipelago. In fact, T was informed that it Was common talk at the places where officers congregated that such transactions had been carried on either with the connivance or ap- proval of certain commanding officers. It is, however, most gratifying to state that such atrocities have been condemned by such com- WILLIAM R. HEARST WILL BECOME A BENEDICT TO-DAY Newspaper Pmpfie;or Is to Marry Miss Millicent Wilson of New York. NEW YORK, April 21.—William Ran- dolph Hearst, proprietor of the New York American, the New York Evening Jour- nal, the Chicago Examiner, the Chicago American and the San Francisco Ex- aminer, w¥ be married to-morrow after- noon. The bride-to-be is Miss Millicent Wilson of New York and the ceremony will be performed by the Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, D. D., Bishop of New York. Immediately after the wed- ding Mr. and Mrs. Hearst will leave for the West. —_—— Surpasses Pontificate of St. Peter. ROME, April 27.—If the Pope is alive to-morrow he will have surpassed. the to close and leave their cor wd of 2000 persons escorted from the court, cheering houting “Long live the broth 1 “Long Mve lberty!” The Ben- at Landernau who caused tro ere dispersed to-day and locked up their convent. A n at already taken ‘a yesult | company of infantry preserved order. such investigati rmine At Annecy a Capuchin establishmen when inspectfon reports are received at the | was closed and the members of that or po rikT er were arrested for resisting the RICE PURCHASE SCANDAL. horities. A squadron of dragoons pre- General Dav xplains that the inqui- 'vl_\h"d\?rfl*‘f“e o e . ally g G e Versailles in y was ries are especially difficult because the | o lF TR o etween & ma dents complained of were not made |jrocting crowd and the officials, who were e e time, and officers and sel-| oscorted by a brigade of gendarmes and & diers of the volunteer army have been |iquadron of drago g hgme named to be discharged. | made by the civil and military authori He discusses at some length the distri- | ties. The latter strongly guard the streets bution of rice in the provinces of Batan- | surrounding the establi: gas and Cavite, which is a matter that 1as been considered in the departmen- is explained that in order to restore YOSEMITE NOW OFEN. vil order and to provision the people in | The Floor of the Valley a Veritable the concentration camps it was detcr- 7 8 mined by General Bell, with the approval Garden—' Campers’ Paradise. of the commanding general, that pur-| Yosemite has never known so many vis- chiases of rice should be made by the sub- | itors as are going this year. Besides sistence department, the latter to be re- | thousands of tourists, Californfans from imbursed by the military government. |all parts of the State are sending in in- says: cuiries and reserving seats on the stages Upon thig point G The military the appre ocal military com and we lculated to meet. an emers pending famine in such a wa The Santa Fe expects to handle the I: est travel that has ever gone into the |ley. "A free illustrated folder telling | about the best way to make the trip may ¢ | be had for the asking at the Santa Fe of meas: dictated ne b rtaken wit al actual distress without pauperiz! the native | fice, 641 Market street. . population and without casting the burden —————— of the the treasury | when publ and the | New Tug for Mare Island. cont provinces S5 Giui As the | VALLEJO, April 2I.—The construction distress in after the m occupa- tion had terminated and the demand for relief | department at the navy yard received i continued without substantial abatement, the | structions to-day te prepare designs for > ce of profits n 01 e 4= - e C < e balance of profits accrulng from the sales of | 5 new tugboat for the Navy Department, rice by the m government was trans ferred to the insular treasury and applied by | the civil government to the relief of the wide- | will cost $25,900. The tug when compleiad spread distress occasioned by the prevalence of | cholera and famine in the provinces of Southern | Wil be run between San Francisco and and Southeastern Luzon. | the training station at Goat Island which will be built at Mare Island and Suspenders As a rule two-bit suspenders are all of about the same quality, but we have some at twenty-five cents that are dis- tinctively different—they contain a good uality of rubber that makes them very gurable as well as elastic. They come in a variety of patterns and have leather cast ends. ith ordinary wear they will last four to six months. 25c a Pair Japanette handkerchiefs, borders, bright new designs, ceived: special 3 for 50c. Out-of-town orders fillsd—write us. famous pontificate of .St. Peter. His Holiness was elected Pope twenty-five vears two months and seven days ago. He has already received many econgratu- lations on the event. —_—— WASHINGTON, Aprl 27.—Mr. Tower, the United States Embassador at Berlin, has an- ticipated the State Department’s request for an investigation of the complaints made by Mormon missionaries In Germany. He has already made a thorough Investigation ‘and Sne e e 18 no just ground for com- pla