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

VOLUME CIII-NO. 158, PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ENTERS THE FLOWERFUL SOUTHLAND:; CALIFORNIA’S GOVERNOR WELCOMES THE EMINENT VISITOR; WO NATIONS MAKE READY FIR COMBAT Japan and Russia Rushing Their Preparations. e LR ¥ Island Empire Is Soon to Take a Deci- sive Step. Arsenals Are Working Day and Night With In- creased Staffs. | that r Dalise ssia secured From Port nese are re ort RUSSIA'S BROKEN PLEDGE. Official Co! Man spondence Relating to huria Is Pablished. May 7.1 tic exchangés STON the om reign Relations, text of ume of F pow prese, is given t a com- m ressed by Embassa o tan Foreign Office rela- tive ement that China was agreement with the ese Bank by which valuable eges were to be secured The note brought declaration from er of Foreign Af- Russia purposed to restore ria to China, and would recall her t province and that there to Interfere with the ngement. Tower's note o— BROTHER OF McKINLEY’'S SLAYER ARRESTED IN LOS ANGELES MASKED MEN STOP NEGRO MAIL BEARER ‘Tennessee Affair Stirs Postal De- partment. *Colored Carrier and His Subordinates Are ; Threatened. 1Free Delivery Is Suspended and Federal Troops May Be Sent. | WASHINGTON, May 7.—The Postoffce | | Department was notified officially to-day that John C. Aligood, a colored rural fres ‘ | delivery letter carser, while making his | regular trip near Gallatin, To was stopped by men armed and masked and he and his colored sub-carriers were warned not to continue in the service ur | der penalty of death. Postmaster General | | Payne has suspended service on t | | pending investigation, of the affalr be confirmed summary tion will follow. The Incident may come a second Indianola case. The reperts | reached the Postoffice Department to-day | |in the following telegram from the Post | master at Gallatin: | “Carrier rural route No. 1 while making | trip to-day held up by masked men. Or dered not to make another trip. Advise.” The next dispatch came from Special | Agent Condon, in charge of the rural free | deltvery service, with and if the repurt ac- headquarters at | Nashville, Tenn., as follows: | *“Rural carrier No. 1, eolored, Gallatin, Tenn., in an fnterview with me to-nignt | advises that he was stopped on route to- day by armed masked men and his life | threatened if he continued in service. | Threat also applied to colored sub-car- | rfer. Warned not to divulge cause of his removal, but to assign other reasons. No time allowed to wait upen appeintment of | successor. Believing it hazardous, he will [ not serve route to-morrow unless assur- | ances are given him that no violence will be committed. Please advise me what ‘n structions will be issued in the premises. | An immediate answer will be greatly &p- | preciated.” | This rural route was put in on Marea 1 | last. There were five applications under the civil service rules for appointment as carrier. The three men passing the hign- | est on the list wers all colored. Under the ivil service rules the Postmaster Gensral says there is no option with the depart- ment except to appoint the person wio | stands highest on the list. Therefore Al- | len F. Dillard, was appointed | He resigned about three weeks ago, anl | on the 26th of last month the Civil Service | Board certified the second man on the | ist, John C. Allgood, colored. Postmaster General Payne to-day tele- | graphed to Condon as follows: “Investigate fully the case of John C | Aligood, rural free delivery carrier, who | was stopped by armed masked men and fiis life threatened if he continued in the | service, and report. In the meantime service on the route will be suspended un til your report upon the facts in the case | is received.” Postmaster General Payne later said if the facts ‘were as represented only two | courses of action would be open, namely, | to abolish the route and leave the people thereon without that service, or to send soldiers to the sqene to protect the car- rier in the performance of his duty. Payne said the former case was the more He called attention to the Civil colored, Bl SRR R T R ¢ 3 . Rus tinister for Forelgn Af-| fo——— -— probable. fairs folic part: 11 « | | Service statutes of the carrlers and said S - AR R CALIFORNIA RAPTUROUSLY RECEIVES THE EXECUTIVE OF THE NATION IN THE GLOWING SOUTH. | {that the eppointments were obtatned yecelved from the ent of the United | 4+ — — 5 |through the Civil Service Commission, Flates 1 bave the honor to inform your Ex- | . o their selection therefor not being optional » ’ . . “ ot e ameican wimeier 10 oo | COUNEry’s Executive Speaks Interestingly |* O besple: of -ihe *| Young John Czoigosz Is Taken to a Prison |+ nm. ey L . clegram recently received | LR ARE % éé of this S It is sald at the department fhat the - Prince Cuing has agresd | to Rejoicing Thousands in Red- new land have by the Federal Authorities as a penaition praxided by Tw for Tuch of- 1 convention and also & | 2 |fenses are covered in sections and ve with Russo-Chinese lands and Riverside. been fortunate | | Matter of Precaution. | 3955 of the revised statutes. The former v fleges of in- enough to set examples reads as follows: a t Manchuria are to be e P s i s AR “Every person who willfully and mali- - | BY JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE, ;;’”d’ "tt' “ ‘”’[dib" well for Special Dispatch to The Call clously assaults any letter carrler who is ey that the Govermment | ie cities and countries b RN i | in uniform while engaged on his route in of onl 1n | | y b nly with | Staff Correspondent of The Call. of older lands to fol- 05 ANGELES, May 7—The |sessed with the same spirit that caused | the discharge of his duty as a letter car | Caimrs ; precautions which are being | the lamentable tragery of September, |rer, and every person who willfully alds . | {VERSIDE, May 7.—President’ gladdened his eyes, for no one loves loy- low, because, fundament- taken by thé local suthorities | 190 | or assists therein, shall for every offense o et ‘ant % 2ol o Roosevelt's first day in Cali- alty and Industry better than the strenu- ally, we must remember | | and secret service men for the [ Information came from Washinston sev- | be punishable by a fine of not less than §1% poc S o | fornia was & memorable one ous man who occuples the highest office Hu;t much though climat protection of President Roose- | eral days ago stating that Czolgosz was | 2nd not more than $1000 or by imprison- belief of the Government of the | for himself and for the State. in the gift of the people of this nation. ! B oMot velt from cranks are not all | here and since that time officers have been | ment for not less than one year and not . s A i L He came from an arid, scorch-| He took well with the crowd wherever | | and soil can do, it is man | |veing made public, as a matter of course, | searching the city for him. About the |more than thres years. - O s ot ing desert into a garden of he went to-day. He speaks trom the| | pivcIf quho does most, [ | |Put some idea of the extent of these pre- | time that the hunt began the young Pole| The other section provides that “any " the mv..ne. .Irh h it r;. .n.u,,m. | green, sprinkled with flowers of many shoulder in an earnest and direct way | | 7 cautions may be had from an arrest | changed his place of abode. The omcergiperson who shall knowingly or willfully it with foreign powers ana wenty | Prilliant hues and set in a turquoise sky. that does not fail to reach the core of the congratulate you upon your made here to-day. were keener than ever to capture him. |obstruct or retard the passage of mail iajure the rights of Americas eitisen ‘.“U:,J, Loyalty found he here, and warm hearts popular heart. In him is embodied the astounding PVO.\‘fil'rit\u I John Czolgosz, brother of Leon Czol- | In every movement that he has made | carriers shall for every such offense be stricting nate trade; also that such ge. | —8% Warm as the brilliant sunshine of'the cosmopolitan feature of the American cit- ) o & gosz, the assassin of President McKiniey, | since his older brother killed Pres{denr ; Dunl:hab!e by a fine of not more than tion ® ad to the impairment of Chinese | SUMmMerland by the shining Pacific. | izenry. His face is Teutonic and his fig- congratulate you Upon Your | |iq in the City Jail. He was arrested at | McKinley he hu‘;obeen nhadov:d. Never | §100. S Pl rovereig tend to diminish the abilty | Peace and prosperity, twin sisters of Ure is built on similar lines. Looking at frmt fa"’l‘f, your GVchard:, 1:30 o’clock this afternoon in Los Angeles | once have the vernment officers lost| It is pointed out that the difference be- of China to meet its obligations. | the higher civilization, greeted him on him, not knowing who he was or the po- 3 TR - on information and orders from the Se- | Sight of him. tween the penalties hinges on the wearing I am further instructed to convey to your | his entrance from the siroccoswept Bition he occupies, you would size him up 3{"}7 ranches, P_ n _xa{:r cret Service Department at Washington, | He left Cleve‘l-nd, Ohio, where his folks of the uniform, and also that the word Dmcetien e sentiment of the United States | Mojave through the barren gates of El 2% an athletic professor of German or a cities, upon your industrial The prisoner came to this city over live, a little over a year ago last Easter, | “assault, wn_hln the meaning of the law, Sovsibaias ot the moquiring of any one | CAJon into the emerald valley of.San Bc,_'hoxlng instructor with a taste for litera- icult 1 devel thirteen months ago, has been employed and came West by easy stages. He could | contemplates just such an offense as that power of exciusive privileges in China for sts | Nardino, where the air is burdened with fure. His tkin is nut-brown from ex- and abgft!fub ks i e;e 0P~ | | hero at nis trade, the butcher's, and for O o e ot ftiaios. . Bk e ke " posure’to wind and sun, and in the well- t ut above all, con- been cookin; 6 news wa ¥. o . . PSR D e { 10 D Dt ot bevec - o :’:‘:‘;‘; molded head, with its ample breadth be- mments % ) ::":',::r"‘ m:’;;";:;:,‘;" ™ COOKINE | Mcers knew what his employment was, | Will Represent America in Siam. trar RSN SRS - gtvpn - by | v plcturesgue Loaturen; SRy tween the ears and good helght above gratulate you upon the qual- o - who his associates were, and, more than | WASHINGTON, May 7.—The Stats the Imperial Nuseian Ministry for Foreign Ar. | ing instance of the genius of man in re- the ears, in the broad back and square y 2 itizenship.”. The arrest of young Czolgosz—he is only that, what he was doing etly. 'He| Department to-day announced the aps faire 10 (he United States of the intention cf | deeming from waste and sterility a land shoulders, one can see the promise and ity of your citizen. "P- | |®—was more of a precautionary measure | that, Wie’ Be FEP CF S w‘“"m bt |t F Hamition King af Michigan the Russian Government to maintain the policy | that has now become the fairest in the the fulfillment of great Intellectual and President Roosevelt in his than anything else. It was thought that ;rmmam McKinley, and told about his|as Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe S nation. He saw a population, new and Pbysical power. £ Rl as he has in his veins the blood of the - g Plenipotentiary to Stam. King was Min- . old, built up of many races, but ali n,‘ address at Redlands. Czolgosz that murdered President Me- & ister Resident in Siam, and his elevation Continued on Page 2, Column 3:'_“ one in loyalty and industry, and the sight | Continued on Page 4, Column 2. o~ . |Kinley, he himselt might become pos- | Continued on Pag= §, Column ! is in accordance with an act of Congresa ¥