The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1903, Page 21

Pages 21 t0 32 e 2 VOLUME XCIV—NO. 49. The + SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1903—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. Eall, P PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICA WILL KEEP THE TaLES Claims Right to Territory Off Borneo. Unequivocal Answer Awaits British Inquiry. Under No Will the Possessions Be Given Up. WASHINGTON, July 18—No communi- | hed the State Depart- cation has yet rea: ment from the British Government about several islands off the coast of Borneo, now in possess of the United States, which some bers of the House of belong to Great ate Department, however, is pre- o> give a prompt and conclusive ensdowne's inquiry leaving Washing- v Hay looked per- and satisfied Government had on the islands iry reaches ry Loomis, in reply- ntion of the London treaty of 1835 Germany and amed nation he islands out- ance of the the treaty which ted with the rchase of cer him, a drag-net ming for the e islands which ain by the treaty When Secret Rear Admiral ean of 4 maps showing seven islands in con- ., Taganao, Bakkun- Booamw, Sibeung and =e is1a’\ds are clearly e leagde of the Bor- erefore, under the terms ng to the United the office of vy Department that , knowing these facts, re sent one of the Philippine gunboats slands to survey them mark territory. s exy he islands have wt a and for this reas er no cir- cumstan e PASIG RIVER INFECTED WITH GERMS OF CHOLERA tal Experts Say Natives + Disease by Drink- Water. the eport from 1 Service olera cases ng in the The re- hat the y near the The times r wash- Hosp ave been only who suspected wa- rsons nd ships have been report- 1 cholera since leaving s the islands oughout that at this time to rantine, which s of the resort to s & hardship to the b YOUNG KING OF SPAIN IS WITHOUT A CABINET and Premier Sil- vela Declines to Name Their Ministers Resign Successors. MADRID, July 18.—After & lony discus- glon on the navy vote in the Coviicll this mdered their resignations ‘Io Prime . la, who lald then; before e latter thereupon requested mier declined and the 'Marquis e, formerly Minister of ¥inance, moned to the Palace. N, July 18.—A Central Mews dis- Madrid says the ministerial result of dlflerencu;of opin- the reconstructio? of the raising its strength to ap- t s was prior toi the war States. —— e MANCHURIAN QUESTION IS STILL IN THE AIR Ports to Be Operned> Have Not Been Selected Nor Any Details Arranged. ST. PET BURG, July 18.—The For- elgn Office states that ‘the Manchurian question tifying 2 forma t vet reached a stage jus- statement at this time. It points out that the pourpailers are continuing, that neither the ports to be opened nor the detalls have been ar- ranged. Nothing has yet appear:d in any :.::Im peper ou either side of 1his ques- “alue 1s | @ll the members of the Cab-| ela to form a new Cabinet, but | SOUTHERN JUDGES HOLD DIDORCE LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL SAN DIEGO SUFERIOR JUDGE WHO PASSED ON THE NEW DIVORCE LAW. | WL LS o INGHE e Violent Storm in Southern Col- orado. TRINIDAD, Colo., July 18.—A violent haflstorm this afternoon, followed by a cloudburst one mile south of Trinidad, | caused thousands of dollars damage and | compelied a number of families to flee for their lives. Hall covered the ground to a depth of six inches. West of Simpsons Rest a large arroyo was flooded so quickly that the occupants of 100 houses abong the bank barely had One house, a man named Gray, Wwgs washed away a moment after Gray had rescued his wife, who was lying 11l in bed. The Santa Fe depot was inundated to a Gepth of nearly two feet and the base- ments of many business houses were flooded. The Commercial River rose three feet in thirty minutes and many culverts and small bridges were washed out. Part of the Denver and Rio Grande bridge east of El Moro was washed out, compelling that road to use the Santa Fe tracks. The water soon subsided, but left drift- wood piled so high about the Santa Fe depot that buses were unable to reach it with passengers. It is belleved that the tracks will be cleared by noon to- morrow. PUEBLO, Colo., July 18.—A special to the Chieftain from Vineland says: One | of the heaviest hail storms ever experi- enced in this county visited Vineland this afternoon accompanied by a high wind. | The hallstones were as large as walnuts and the ground was covered by ice to a depth of three inches. The alfalfa crop was beaten into the ground and trees were stripped of their fruit. The area of the storm was only about three miles, but the damage done is considerable. —————— FALL FROM HORSE CAUSES ABSENCE FROM FUNCTION General Brugere Explains Why He | Failed to Attend President Loubet’s Luncheon. PARIS, July 18.—Considerable surprise | has been expressed over the fallure of General Brugere, commander in chief of the French army, to attend the lunch- | eon given by President -Loubet and the | dinner givgn by War Minister Andre on the occasion of the Fete Nationale, July | 14. It now transpires that General Bru- gere was the victim of an accident on the day preceding those functions. While returning on horseback from an inspec- tion, accompanied by his son-in-law, both horses fell, throwing their riders. Gen- eral Brugere's hand was caught under his son-in-law’s horse and was badly hurt. The general was advised to take a fort- night's rest and he is spending it upon his estate near Orleans. : —e——— Ontario Has Drowning M PORT STANLEY, Ont., July 18.—The body of a woman @bout 25 years of age was -washed upon the beach this morn- ing. The body was stylishly dressed, with beautiful underwear and high heeled French kid shoes. An ugly looking cut was on the right temple, which gives rise to & suspicion of murder. time to run for their lives. occupled by % | Test Case Will Go| Into Supreme Court. | AN DIEGO, July 18.—Judges Conk- | lin and Torrance of the Superior | Court, sitting in bank to-day heard | arguments for and against the con- | stitutionality of the divorce law passed by the last Legislature. Five out of the six attorneys argued that the two new sections added to the | civil code are not constitutional. Judge Torrance held that the law is not consti- tutional, calling attention to the problem involved in the granting of a divorce, followed by the re-marriage of the par- ties divorced and the birth of children to | the latter marriage if. at some future | time the Supreme Court should decide | that the law was not unconstitutional. | Judge Conklin also held that the law | is unconstitutional. It was argued that | the law is special legislation in that a| final judgment cannot be entered for a perfod of one year after the court de- termines by an interlocutory decree that | one of the parties is entitled to a divorce, | whereas in other civil actions, such as| sults for foreclosure of mortgages, etc., | final judgment is entered immediately | upon the conclusion of the trial, or as soon as the Judge has determined the rights of the parties. 1t was practically agreed to make a test | case, application for divorce being de- | nied and the case carried at once to the | Supreme Court on a writ of mandamus. | @ il @ | MRS. VAN NORT’S ESTATE GOES TO HER DAUGHTER — | Its Final Distribution Ends Liti-| gation of an TUnusual | Character. | NEW YORK, July 18.—With the distri- | bution and payment of an estate of more | than $200000 to Mrs. Isabella Keegan | Duffy of Tyringham, Mass, which it has | been found she is entitled to as the only child of Mrs. Susan H. R. Van Nort, lit- igation of an unusual character, involy- ing a woman with a remarkable career, is concluded. Mother and daughter had not seen each other in more than a quarter of a cen- tury, the daughter having been left in Ireland by the mother when she was an infant. Mrs. Susan H. R. Van Nort died on July 25, 1900. She left a net personal estate of $182,000, in addition to real estate. She was 70 years of age at the time of her death and had been a woman of unusual beauty. Mrs. Van Nort had been married sev- eral times. She was Mrs. Susan Roberts when, at Saratoga, she men Mr. Van Nort some years ago. He had married Emma Irene Beemer in San Francisco and they came East to reside. After meeting Mrs. Roberts he separated from his wife and she brought an action to recover damages from Mrs. Roberts for alienation of her husband’s affections. That suit was never tried. —_—— GIRLS CLIMB POLES AND WORK AS LINEMEN Fair Telephone Employes in a Wash- ington Town Are Undis- turbed by Strike. SPOKANE, Wa:h., July 18.—Two young women shinning up a telephone pole with the paraphernalia carried by linemen cre- ated a mild sensation in Republic, Wash., last evening. It becameg necessary to place & new cable fuse in a box forty or fifty feet above the ground. Owing to the strike of linemen no men were about who knew how to do the work. Miss Alice Mullen and Miss Minerva Foley, respectively business manager and operator in the Paclfic States Telephone Company office here, undertook the job and ascended the pole like veterans, per- forming their task with neatness and dis- patch. A curious crowd gaped at the young women but no disrespect was shown. —_———— Shoots Enemy and Iills Himself. WICHITA, Kans., July 18.—Dr. George Doyle shot and killed George Verner to- day. He tHen took poison and was dead fifteen minutes later. The tragedy was the result of a feud of long standing and it arose over Doyle grazing his horses on parking under the care of Verner. They met to-night and quarreled bitterly when Doyle went and got his shotgun. Ver. ‘mer was an old soldier aged 64 years. Dr. Doyle was about 60 years of age. * | Cardinals Rampolla and Gotti will com- POPE LEQ'S PHYSICIANG TIKE HOPE Pontiff May Pass the Present Crisis. His Indomitable Will Yet Triumphs Over Death. Attendants No Longer in Daily Dread of Final Collapse. — OME, July 19, 3:035 | | a. m.—The Pontiff has dropped off into a sleep | | which seems half coma. When he awakens Dr. Lap- poni will insist that he take stimulants and nourishment. After last evening’s bulle- tin had been issued Dr. | | Mazzoni informed regort- ers that if the Pope main- tained his present condition three or four days longer | | there was no reason why he ' should not live for several months. Special Dispatch to The Call. ROME, July 18.—It is now nearly a fort- night since extreme unction was admin- istered to the aged Pope, but his vital | powers still refuse to yield to his fatal | malady. Pope Leo's case begins to pre- sent physical marvels quite as remarka- ble as the interest attaching to his last days. It & krown, Humanly- spoaking, that he cannot recover, yet none, even among his own medical attendants, now ventures to phophesy when the last hour will arrive. The wasted frame of the sufferer is searcely more than a skele- ton, but it contains a spirit as indomita- ble as ever and his intelligence is still keen and active. Meantime the great institution over which Leo XIII presides, taking cog- nizance only of the ordinary fate of mor- tals, is preparing for his successor. It | has been a week of great actlvity in all matters affecting the papal succession. Little has been allowed to transpire re- garding the most important developments, but the general tendency of the situation is not difficult to follow. It is now clear, as was foreshadowed a week ago, that the sympathizers with bine in suppor of the latter. The finan- cial interests of the church, as represent- ed by the Bank of Rome, and the head | of the Jesuit order also indicate their sympathy with Cardinal Gotti’s can-| didacy. FRENCH INFLUENCE WANING. The French opposition to Cardinal Gotti seems to have been overcome. This is partly due to the fact that there is a| growing feeling among Italian prelates | that, considering the rapid decline of the | influence of Roman Catholicism in | France, that country is no longer entitled | to its former power in papal affairs. Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli is unques- tionably the strongest rival of Gotti. A Cardinal who is a leader in liberal views is Agliardi, and he probably will have the full support of Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore. But his elevation to the Papal chalr is deemed impossible. Nev- ertheless, as representing the progressive section of the church, he will have some supporters in the conclave. A large force of servants is busy pre- paring rooms on the ground floor of the Vatican for the use of the Cardinals and their servants at the approaching con- clave. Each Cardinal is entitled to a sec- retary as well as a servant. One hundred and eighty rooms will be necessary for thelr accommodation. The attendants have also prepared & great pit, which is capable of roasting a half-grown bullock. This was used at the conclaves at which Gregory, Plus and Leo were elected. It will be necessary to administer ex- treme unction when death again ap- proaches, according to the rules of the church, because the sufferer in the mean- time rallied sufficiently to again partici- pate in mundane affairs. CANCER RUMOR IS REVIVED. The correspondent of an English news- paper met a prominent Rome physician with Dr. Rossini, one of the Pope's doe- tors, to-night. The physician, who Is a friend of the correspondent, remarked: “It seems that the Pope's disease is cancer of the pleura.” The correspondent asked: “How do you know this?” “That,” the doctor smilingly replied, “is asking too much. %t The journadist then asked: ‘“Have you deduced it from the bulletins?” The doctor replied, still smiling: “You dre too inquisitive.” The physician then introduced the cor- respondent to Dr. Rossini, who threw up both hands and exclaimed in mock hor- ror: ’ “I am besieged: I cannot stand it any longer,” then fled. To-night's bulletin, while it showed that there had been some retrogression, was not interpreted as alarming. : Great interest is felt In the fact that Continue | on Page &2, Column 1. i L +! ARREST OF TWO WITNESSES IN THE FAIR CASE STIRS NEW ROAD T0 THE CITY - OF MEXIGO Railway Will Be Built From Texas. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 18—The Kan- sas City, Mexico and Orient Railway is to have an air line from Kansas City to — Up PN = Lovrs (50057 30 4 the City of Mexico, according to advices received to-day at the headquarters of that company in this city from President Arthur E. Stillwell, who+is mow in Eu- rope. ‘W. W. Sylvester, vice president of the road, said to-day that it had been the desire of the Orient Rallway to mot only have the shortest line to the Pacific Ocean, but to the City of Mexico and Port of Tampico as well. ' He would not indi- cate the exact route, but eaid that it would be from a point in Texas to a con- nection with the Mexican International; that it would make the distance from Kansas City to the City of Mexico only 1700 miles, or forty-eight hours’ ride, against eighty-five hours now consumed; that it would be the shortest line, not only from Kansas City, but from Denver and the Northwest; that within eighteen months tHe line would be in operation from Kansas City to San Angelo, and be running through trains to the City of Mexico, and, within two years and a half, to the Pacific Coast. —— e ¢ | AMERICAN TOURISTS VISIT EMPEROR WILLIAM’S YACHT Kaiser Welcomes the Passengers of a Commercial Liner Aboard the Hohenzollern. BERLIN, July 18—A dispatch from Molde, Norway, announces that the Ger- man imperial yacht Hohenzollern' and the Hamburg-American line steamer Auguste Victoria, from New York, have arrived there, the latter having many American tourists on board. Emperor William pey- mitted the passengers of the Auguste Viec- torta to visit the Hohenzollern, and races occurred between the boats of the two steamers. The Emperor rewarded the vic- tors with money prizes. Amcrg the guests who were invited to dine on board the Hohenzollern was Gen- eral Draper, former United States Minis ter at Rome. —_——— SAYS MAGAZINE STORY HURT HIS REPUTATION Skipper Identifies Himself 3s Villain in Shipwreck Yarn and Wants ‘Heavy Damages. NEW YORK, July 18.—A sea captain, Axel Simonson, has begun suit for $10,000 damages against a publishing company of this city for alleged libel growing out of a magazine story. The yarn, as publish- ed, described a shipwreck in which the captain was the first, to reach shore in the breeches buoy, leaving his crew and a woman passenger to care for them- selves. Simonson says he is captain of a ship of the same name; that the boat ran ashore not long ago, and that he was not the first one to get to land. He declares the story, although it figures as fiction, has set him down as a coward and da'mued his reputation as a reliable seafaring man. ASSOCIATE OF EDISON . DIES IN THE SOUTH Luther Stieringer, a Famous Elec- trical Engineer, Answers the - Call at Pasadena. X _PASADENA, July 18.—Luthier Stieringer, one of the most eminent electrical en- gineers of the world, died' her® to-day of consumption, aged 38 years. He came here from New York City last December. Stieringer next to Edison, his friend and assoclate, was responsible for the inven- tion .of more electrical appliances than any other man. He had charge of the electric lighting of the Pan-American Ex- position. 3 . ‘ CON Newspapers Take Sides in Bitter Quarrel. + oy e WITNESSES IN FAIR CASE AND PRINCIPAL WHO AL- LEGES PERJURY. + Special Cable to The Call and New York ‘Herald. _Copyright, 1003, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ARIS, July 18.—The newly resur- rected Fair case, with its very tangible millions, keeps FParis lawyers busy. Columns are de- voted by the newspapers to the latest developments, viz., the arrest upon a tharge of perjury of the Frenchmen, Louls Mas and Frederic Maurane, who testified that they witnessed the automo- bile accident. They made further decla- ration that Mrs. Charles L. Fair outlived her husband by an appreciable interval. Acting upon a complaint made by Mrs. Vanderbilt, Maitre Ganneval, the investi. gating magistrate, charged ‘M. Lamard, the chief of the detective service, to ar- rest the two men. The arrest was made at their residences in Paris on Thursday morning, the incriminated couple now be- ing in the prison De la Sante, liberation on bail having been refused up to the present. A newspaper sensation has been created. Naturally two camps have been formed, for French journalism loves to espouse one side or the other of any cause celebre. The Petit Parisien may be taken as rep- résenting the camp which regards the case against the two prisoners as very strong. The Intransigeant, Henrl Roche- fort's paper, is the leader of those who picture Masse and Maurane as victims of the tyranny of the French authorities, whom it accused bluntly of being influ- enced by the wealth of the Vanderbilts to commit “a scandalous violation of 1ib- erty.” % All of the papers—the Journal, Eclair, Gaulois, Figaro and Echo de Paris—are filled with the controversy. Although these men asserted that they witnessed the accident while bicycling, they said nothing for six days. As prov. ing the falsity of their sworn statements, Mrs. Fair's heirs advanced the declara- of Mme. Nourdet, gatekeeper of the Chateau du Buison de Mal, before which the accident occurred. ‘Mme. Nourdet insists that no bicyclists were anywhere near when the Fairs were E3 TROUERSY IN PARIS VAST LAND FRAUDS N THE WEST Millions of Dellars Lost to the Gov- ernment. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 6 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, July 18.—Wholesale Government land frauds, involving vast sums of money, have been unearthed in the Land Office by an inspection which has lasted several months. Within a few months more than a dozen prominent pol- iticlans, oeccupying positions as Land Commissioners in Western States, have been dismissed from office or compelled to resign. United States Senators are in- volved. Indictments have been obtained. | by the Department of Justice. Millions of acres and probably more than 350,000,000 are involved. During no previous year in the history of the Government have sales aggregated such a large figure as during the last fiscal year, according to returns soon to be published by the Department of the Interior. Public Jand frauds have been disclosed for many years, but recent in vestigations conducted by Commissioner of Public Lands Willlam A. Richards have revealed wholesale disposal of Gov- ernment timber, mineral, coal and. other lands which was not suspected when the investigation began after the resignation of former General Land Commissioner Binger Hermann. ¥ The disclosures have led to the suspen- sion of many entries, grants and titles. Entries in California, Oregon and Wash- ington have been gengrally held up. Evidence gathered George F. Pol- lock, chief of the special service division of the General Land Office, resulted in the dismissal of a group of local Land Commissioners and showed systematic frauds which cost the Government many millions of dollars annually. As » re- sult of the proof obtained of fraudulent transfers of Government -timber, mineral and coal lands in California Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Mexico, Louisiana, Jdaho, Kansas, Minnesota and other States special effort will be made by offi- clals of the Department of the Interior to bave the timber and mineral law re- pealed. At least two United States Senators are reported to be involved in the disclosures made, although officials of the General Land Office are reticent regarding their identity. ® LJ Killed. Speaking to The Call correspond- ent, she sald the road was completely deserted when the accident occurred. Her testimony on this point is supported by the fact that as the telephone from the chateau was not working well she had to ask a girl who passed, driving a farmer's cart, to hasten with all possible speed to Pacy and send a doctor. 1t is certain, as she says, that she would have asked one of the bicyclists to do this service if any had been in sight, particu- B4R 25 S R o S o L cutlnudonrmlsfl,colml-