The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1903, Page 21

| be ta&en fron UME XCIV: AN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1908—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. Pages 21 to3 Call. ! PRICE FIVE CENTS. CITY OF WISMAR WILL PASS FROM THE CROWN OF SWEDEN 7O OWNERSHIP OF GERMANS SIATESMAN'S NEPREW DIES N MYSTERY - Relative of Little- - field Vietim of Poisoners. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. LAKE, Utah, June 20.—Investi- George H. Littlefield, ew gressman Charles E. L fleld of Maine, has been murdered. his stomach a An ysis of the contents of fiows that poison had been taken into his em. Other ecircumstances in connec- his death have convinced the was given some drug, buf s a mystery. There is a sug- the intent was robbery, as s pockets had been emptied, but not enough can be learned of the events pre- eding his death to substantiate to any theory. found back of a down- t early in the morning of " He was lying unconscious on a e of lumber. Physiclans worked over five hours, but he did not recover to tell even his name. orming the autopsy the physi- iscovered that he had a chronic pneumonia, and that there was a n of the right lung, together Jus consolidation in the apex that side. This, however, nt for his death. The bas been found was the that abra poison Giscovered in his stomach by the | payment of the loan, with interest at the chemist. who completed his analysis to- Zay. The authorities decline to give details of the report as to the nature of the poi- gon, but admit they are mystified as to how it could have been administered. So ; the authorities have led to the | far as can be learned, Littlefield had not | been drinking nor visiting any resorts where he might have been given “knock- | out drops.” He carried 52000 life and ac- cident insurance. His wife lives in ‘Wash- ington, D. C. The Coroner's jury will hear evidence in the case on Monday. Not much is known here about Little- fleld. He was in the army in the Philip- _pines, and it is believed he remained there some time after being mustered out. He came back to the United States and worked at Mare Island for a while in the employ of a dredging company. He then went to work for the Southern Pacific, going to Ogden and thence to Salt Lake. On his person was found a pocket Bible containing instructions to notify, in case of death or accident, Mrs. Lyman Little- field, Springvale, Me.; Miss Susan Fagan, Wilmington, Del., or Mrs. George H. Lit- tiefield, 1535 Fourteenth street, Washing- ton, D. C. While in Vallejo he joined Vallejo Tent, No. 46, Knights of the Mac- cabees. —_——— Denies Railroad Merger Rumor. DETROIT, Mich., June 20.—Pregjdent Ledyard of the Michigan Central Raflroad to-8ay denied the story sent out from Cleveland last night to the effect that he was to retire as president. of the road on August 1 and that the road was to lose its identity and become part of a consol- dation of the Vapderbiit lines west of Buffalo. < | | - | [ MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF WISMAR, WHICH WILL PASS FROM l SWEDISH TO GERMAN POSSESSION AND 18 LIKELY TO BE MADE GERMANY'S MOST IMPORTANT NAVAL STATION. — | Transfer of JSovereignty QOver 20,000 People as Result of Mortgage. ERLIN, June 20.—On Friday next, June 26, there will occur a most unique transaction in real estate, involving a transfer of sovereign- | ty over some 20,000 people, the in- habitants of an important city and sea- port, session of one crown to that of another. On that date Wismar, one of the old Hanseatic ports, will be solemnly trans- ferred by the crown of Sweden to that of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and ‘thus become de jure as well as de facto a part and ap- purtenance of the German empire, The transfer comes by the foreclosure of a mortgage executed 100 years ago— twelve years before the whims and guns of Napoleon had ceased to set up sover- eignties, pull down kingships and wipe out boundary lines in Europe. In 1803 Gustavug IV, King of Sweden, being much pressed for money, borrowed from Frederick Francis 1 of Mecklenburg- | Schwerln a sum amounting to a little over $1,000000, giving as security a mortgage on the city and seaport of Wismar, situ- ated on the coast of Mecklenburg-Schwer- in, just north of Schwerin, the capital. By the terms of the contract, which is known in history as the treaty of Malmo, it was stipulated that the crown of Swe- den should have the right for a whole century from the date of its signing to resume possession of Wismar on the re- rate of 3 per cent per annum, and that on the failure to do so on the part of Swe- den on the expiration of the 100 years the ruler of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ' should nave the privilege of foreclosing the mortgage and assuming full possession of and sovereignty over Wismar. The 100 years’ time expires on Friday next. King Oscar and Emperor Willlam have already discussed the situation and which will then pass from the pos- | | agreed on the proceedings to be had. Swe- | den, for good reasons of her own, will | | not redeem Wismar. It would require, | principal and interest, over $30,000,000. This | sum Sweden does not care to pay for even |such a holding on German soil, from which she would be driven in quick time | at the first rumble of war. | - So King Oscar’s Cabinet prepared and 4thr- Swedish Legislature passed a law pro- | viding for the cession of the Swedish city and port of Wismar and the island of Poel, which lies in front of it, to the | Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. | Wismar came into the possession of | Sweden by the treaty of ‘Westphalia, Otto- ber, 1648, by virtue of which her King, as | Lord of Wismar, was accorded several votes in the Dict of the German empire, | with the view of protecting the interests | of the German Protestants, for which he | had been for over thirty years battling | hara. So, though only in nominal possession of Wismar since 1803, the formal surren- der of the right and title thereto evoked much sentimental feeling in the Swedish Chambers, and the closing address by the Minister of Foreign Affairs was heard by the entire house standing. The Kalser will, of course, at once pro- ceed to make Wismar one of his naval strongholds on the Baltic. In fact, it may scon rival Kiel in that role, as it Is a far better seaport and far better adapted by nature for protective and defensive pur- poses. To the inhabitants of Wismar the change will be most welcome. For a cen- tury. they have had no rights of repre- sentation in either the Swedish Legisla- ture, the Mecklenburg Diet or the Ger- man Reichstag—in fact, have had no voice in anything except thelr own municipal government. @ -ttt @ ANTI-CLERICALS SACK A CAPUCHIN CONVENT | Fighting Between Friars and Social- ists Occurs in a French City. ST. ETIENNE, France, June 20.—The appearance of the Capuchins in the police court here to-day was the occasion of serious rioting, and sharp fighting oc- curred between the Catholics and Social- ists, in which several persons were badly hurt. Fines were imposed on the Capuch- ins, who on leaving court went to the of- fice of their counsel. A party of eighteen anti-clericals bioke into the office and se- riously injured two sympathizers of the friars. During the evening the anti-clericalz sacked the Capuchin convent on St. Barbe Hill and broke the windows of the Chris- tian Brothers’ school. —_——— Ten Persons Burned to Death. VIENNA, June 20.-It is reported from Aspang that ten persons were burned in a fire lt“: _?;:Nu:h‘t ::um.d the great- er par vi m Kirche: Tover sudiie 0 g THINKS ELECTRICITY MEDICINE OF FUTURE French Specialist Demonstrates Its Utility in the Treatment of Some Diseases. PARIS, June 20.—The famous electro- therapeutic specialist Dr. d'Arsonvale, lecturing this week on tifé effect of elec- tricity on living beings, expressed the be- lief that the world was on the eve of a therapeutical revolution, electricity being the medicine of the future. He said also that a’strong continuous current through a patient could produce local anaesthesia, permitting a light surgical operation | without narcotics. Dr. d'Arsonvale demon- strated the utllity of electricity in the treatment of skin diseases. ——————————— Postal Treaty With Cuba. WASWGTON. June 20.—A treaty with Cuba continuing the present postal ar- rangements between that republic and the United States was signed to-day by the President and Postmaster General Payne ugd,'thtn transmitted to the State Depart- ‘ment for the s! ture of Secretary Hay. S BOLD FIELDS WILL HAVE A RAILWAY Alaskan Central Is to Be Built at Once. Contracts for Con- struction Are Awarded. Road Will Tap the Great | Tanana River Dis- triet. | ! —— | CHICAGO, June 2.—The gold output of | | | Alaska., which is now $30,000,000 per year, will be greatly increased by the early |’ | building of a new railroad from the south- | ern coast of Resurrection Bay northward | to the Tanana River, definite announce- | ment of which was made here to-day. The Reward Construction Company of Chi- cago has secured the contract for the | buliding and cquipping of 412 miles of the | Alaska Central Railway from Resurrec- | ’llon Bay northward through the Cooks | i Inlet country and up the Sussitna Valley to Tanana River, 150 miles above its junc- tion with the Yukon. i The construction company is made up | | ot Tilinots, Michigan and Ohlo capital- | | ists. Its general manager is John Dow- | | dle of the contracting firm of Nash & | [Dowdle. The president is George A. | | Skinner, a Michigan banker, and the | treasurer is George H. Ford, national | bank examiner of Cleveland. The com- | pany has placed an order for seventy- | pound steel rails, which will be shipped | via Seattle and Vancouver. Locomotives | | and cars also have been secured and will | be forwarded with the rails. Construction must start before July 15 and be pushed | with all possible speed. | COAST MEN THE PROJECTORS. | The new railroad is projected by prom- GODERANOR SOLDIERS PEACE IN DUBUQUFE Fear of Rioters Is Cause of Appeal for Aid. UBUQUE, Iowa, June 20.—Militia companies from Independence, Waterloe and Maquoketa arrived to-day and are now guarding the property of the streetcar com- inent ot¥he Pacific Coast. The head- quargers are at" Secattle and the financial | office is in Chicago 'The president is| George W. Dickinson, former general | manager of the Northern Pacific. F. Augustus Heinze also is heavily Interest- | ed in the raliroad company and is one of | the directors. | chairman of the finance committee, ed. The Central Trust Company of II- linois is trustee for the stockholders. w. directly behind the enterprise. charge of large railroad construction in New York, New Orleans and Chicago, clearing yards of Chicago. The terminal of the Alaska Central is open every day of the year. Owing to the influence of the Japanese current, the ter. The route of the raflway, which was surveyed last summer, is through a country rich in gold and copper. The northern terminus is in the new Tanana gold flelds, many times more extensive than the Klondike. WILL OPEN .UP INTERIOR. The road will make interfor Alaska ac- | cessible every day in the year and save three weeks of travel now necessary to interior points by the circuitous routes up the Yukon River. The projectors say that the building of the Alaska Central will increase the annual gold production of Alaska from the present output of $30,- 000,000 to $200,000,000, and attract an in- creased immigration of scores of thou- sands. The Agricultural Department of the United States Government has carried on experiments for the last five years in Southern and Central Alaska and has demonstrated that any vegetation cgn be grown successfully there which can be grown in the Northern States of the Union. The climatic conditions are about the same as in England and Southern Nor- way. The shores are tempered by the Gulf stream, similarly as Southern and Central Alaska are tempered by the Jap- anese current. In addition to the re- sources of gold, coal and timber, the new railroad will penetrate a copper belt, which has been pronpunced by Govern- ment and private mineralogists to contain the most extensive and highest grade cop- per deposits known in the world. . Dowdle will'leave Chicago with his con- struction equipment next Wednesday, via Seattle, en route to Seward, the south- ern terminus of the Alaska Central. Bal- lain left for Seattle to-day. —_——— Compels Thief to Return Rings. VALLEJO, June 20.—An elderly man called at the residence of Mrs K. Caspar to-day and asked for a palr of old shoes. ‘While Mrs. Caspar was getting the shoes the beggar walked into a room and stole three diamond rings, worth $350. Mrs. Caspar soon afterward discovered her loss, and, overtaking the thief on the street, compelled him to return the rings. She then telephoned a description of him to Chief of Police Stanford and he was arrested. He gave his name as Charles Johnson. —— it John E. Ballain of Seattle, | has | been in charge of the financial arrange- | | ments, which are now definitely conclud- | The chlef englneer of comstruction is | A. Swanitz of Chicago, representing | some of the financial ‘interests | He has been in | having recently completed the terminal | weather there never falls to zero in win- | valley heavily timbered and opens a vast | the midst of | pany. Operation of cars wiil be resumed to-morrow. People thronged the streets to-night, but there was no demonstration. DES MOINES, Iowa, June 20.—Governor ‘r'ummm, upan receipt of advices, that a crisis was approaching in tha street_rail- way strike in Dubuque, issued oulers 0 day mobilizing three additional cumpanles of militia at that polnt. Governor Cummins’ action was based upon numerous messages from the Mayor, | Sheriff and leading citizens of Dubuque, expressing a graye fear that to-night would witness an outbreak on the part of the street rallway strikers and their sym- pathizers that might culminate in setting | fire to some of the leading places of busi- | ness. The situation was reported as ex- | tremely critical. The strike was instituted May 7, since which time all efforts to operate street- | cars in Dubuque have precipitated rioting. Early this week a determined effort to resume operations caused the most seri- ous outbreak, resulting in the destruction of much property and serious infury to a | number of persons. Since then repeated urgent appeals have been made to the !Go\'ernor to send additional troops, the Sheriff and Mayor declaring that the local police and Sheriff's forces, even. when supplemented by the local ‘company of militia, was helpless in the face of the mob of strike sympathizers. The Gov- ernor refused to do more than hold the first battalion in readiness to rush to Du- buque upon demands of a fresh outbreak. To-day, however, alarming advices con- cerning a secretly planned outbreak to- night impelled him to act. He telegraphed to the Dubuque authorities that the troops are not there for the purpose. of assisting the fight against the strikers in any way other than to preserve peace at all hazards. - L e e o ] ROW BETWEEN MINERS ENDS IN A SHOOTING Ed Holtz Is Severely Wounded by George Moore in the Union Rooms at Jerome. JEROME, Ariz., June 20.—At a meeting of the Jerome Miners’ Union this after- noon George Moore shot Ed Holtz, the ball entering the cheek below the right eye. Holtz may dle. The injured man is one of the best- known miners and union advocates in the Territory. George Moore is equally. well known in mining and labor circles. After the shooting Moore ran from thke union hall and attempted to reach his home, but was caught by an-officer and lodged in jall. Moore stated that he had been a member of the union until last August, when he took his withdrawal card and left Jerome. He returned later and re- entered the employ of the United Verde and was solicited to again become a mem- ber of the organization. This he declined to do because of personal feeling be- tween himself and officers of the local lodge. Charge2 were preferred against Moore and he was asked to appear before a committee of the union. Holtz and Moore were in the room when the former accused him of being a “scab.”” The shooting followed. —_———————— Modern Woodmen End Conclave. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,, June 20.—The No Hope for Frey’s Recovery. SEDALIA, Mo, June 20.—J. J. Frey, former general manager of the Santa Fe Railway, was no better to-day, and all hope of recovery has been abandoned. His physician says the patlent may live two or three days. thirteenth .annual convention of the Mod- ern Woodmen of America closed to-day. The officers recently elected were in- stalled and the report of the law commit- tee was considered in detail. camp clerks will hereafter recetve per month § cents per member. . Head Con- sul Northcott "lu n a member of the head camp for life. i SENDS TO KEEP GOVERNOR WHO HAS SENT TROOPS ° TO PROTECT DU- BUQUE PROPERTY. | THOUSMNDS ME KLLED IN BATTLE e Rebels Surprise the ‘Sultan’s Army in Morocco. . MADRID, June 20.—According to a dis—! patch from Tangier, El Metmetsh, the Moorish War Minister, has lost 6000 men | in a battle fought with the rebels at Am- niedinna. “The Correspondencia’s representative at Tangier telegraphs that the Senhaya and | y Ergunba tribesmen yesterday surprlsed\s the Sultan's army, inflicting a loss of 6000 | men. The pretender to the throne, the Correspondencia’s representative adds, Is | as yet ignorant of the victory of his sup- porters. e — STATE HOSPITAL EMPLOYES TO RECEIVE BETTER WAGES Commission in Lunacy Acts Upon the Authorization Made by the Last Legislature. SACRAMENTO, June 20.—An important conference of the State Commission in Lunacy’ with the superintendents of the various State hospitals was held at the Capitol this afternoon. Governor Pardee, Attorney General Webb, Secretary of State Curry and W. S. Melick, secretary of the State Board of Examiners, were present and participated in the meeting. It was decided that the board of man- agers of the Agnews Hospital should re- ject all bids for the cottage building au- thorized by the last Legislature, it having | been found that the lowest bidder had | previously done unsatisfactory work. The commission decided to acquire 247 acres of land near the Mendocino hos- pital in order to control the water supply | of that institution. The commission unan- imously declded that the salaries of the attendants at the various State asylums should be increased 1214 per cent. _ The last Legislature authorized an in- crease, but there was some question as to the most equitable way to put it into ef- fect. P R T Honduras Must Explain Seizure. ‘WASHINGTON, June 20.—The State De- partment after considering the questions arising. out of the seizing of the railroad between Porto Cortez and La Plmienta by the Government of Honduras has re- ferred the subject to Minister Combes, who will request an explanation. | —_—e————— ‘Attorneys Fight in Court. ST. LOUJS, June 20.—Willlam H. Hen- derson, a former Judge of the St. Louis Probate Court, and John D. Johnson, a »minent attorney, after a war of words | pleted i 188. in the courtroom to-day, came to blows and. Ji Hendergon knocked At- prostrate and caused DPPOSING THE TREATY WITH CUBA Tariff League Is Confident of Victory. Leaders Say the Meas- ure Will Fail in the House. —_— President Roosevelt Will Risk Defeat in Exira Session. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 20.—With new force, but with the same arguments, the American Protective Tariff League has resumed its campaign against Cuban re- ciprocity. The presence here this week of Charles A. Moore of Brooklyn, presi- dent of the league, and his repeated calls at the White House mark the beginning of the final stage of a tremendous fight kept up for two years against reciprocity with -Cuba. All effoxts are now concentrated upom President Rosevelt to prevent, if possible, the calling o!jm extra session of Con- gress early in November. Both in person and by letter the officers of the American Protective Tariff League have been argu- ing with the President against such a course. So strong is the feeling that Moore was urged to come here and make a personal effort. An answer to all of the appeals is found In a semi-official statement made to-day —stronger than any other intimation yet | given out—that Congress will be called to meet in extra session on November 9. President Roosevelt is still firm for reci- procity with Cuba, and now that action by both branches of Congress has been found necessary to complete the treaty | negotlations, he wishes this to be done as early as possible and before the regular session begins in December. President Roosevelt has been plainly told by Moore that the feeling among the member- of the Protective Tariff League | against Cuban reciprocity s stronger, if | possible, than ever before. Furthermore, the President has been told that if he per- sists in calling an extra session to com- plete the negotiations he will alienate many of his prominent personal support- ers in New York. This had no effect on the President. The Protective Tariff League is so con- fidentsof defeating reciprocity that its of- ficers have told the President that final action will fail in the House and that if this failure comes in extra session, it will be all the more marked and a mare seri- | ous blow to the administration than if it occurred during the regular session. _———————— LAND TITLES IN NEEDLES ARE SERIOUSLY CLOUDED Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Claims That Town Is Built on Its Grant. LOS ANGELES, June 20.—The local Government Land Office has received in- structions from Washington to take up the case invelving title to lands upon which the town of Needles s built. The | land was Dart of the grant to the Atlan- tic and Pacific Railroad, which was com- Some time ago a commit- tee of Needles property holders went to an Francisco and it was subsequently reported they had come to an agreement that would give clear titles to all those holding property there. Instructions received at the local Land Office to-day from Washington say: “In the case at bar the date of filing the map showing the line of road con- structed opposite this land January 7. 1855, must be taken as the date the right of the road attached, and if this land was actually occupied and claimed by the petitioners under the township laws at that date It would be excepted from tne operation of the gramt. In order, therefore, to afford the petitioners an opportunity to estab- lish thelr claim to the land you are here- by instructed to cite the parties to a hear- ing to determine the status of the land January 7, 188.” Register Crookshank and necvlver Kin- ney will hear the case. —_—————— ' DEWEY AND HIS COWBOYS ALLEGE SELF-DEFENSE Text of Their Petition to Supreme Court for Writ of Habeas Corpus. TOPEKA, Kan., June 20.—Chauncey Dewey and his fellow prisoners, Clyde Wilson and W. J. McBride, will be brought to Topeka at once and given a hearing before the Supreme Court on an application to admit them to bail. Sherift Lucas of Shawnee County has been sworn | in as a special marshal and sent after the prisoners. The habeas corpus petition before the Supreme Court will be heard probably on Tuesday morning. If it is refused, the prisoners will be kept in the Jail here. The petition of the Deweys, filed with the Supreme Court, contains an interest- ing statement of their side of the case. The Berrys are charged with doing every- thing In their power to annoy the Deweys, and on the day of the murder are sald to have attacked the Deweys first. Self-defense, therefore, is alleged as the reason for the killing. —— Asks for a Recount of the Ballots. SANTA €RUZ, June 20.—W. A. Trafton, defeated candidate for Mayor of Watson- ville, has petitioned the Superior Court to have a recount, charging irregularities in the count. Mayor R. P. Quinn was elected by five votes.