The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-NO. 89, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, all. 1903." PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICAN UICE CONSUL IS SLAIN BY ASSASSIN, AND WARSHIPS STEAM TO THE COAST OF SYRIA OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug. 27.—President Roosevelt to-night issued orders that the European squad- ron, under command of Admaral Cotton, should proceed immediately to Beirut, Syria, to be in read:- ness to support any demand made by the Umnited States on Turkey, on account of the assassination of | —_— MILES 3AY3 THE CAVALRY 15 OBSOLETE FormerCommander in Favor of the Auto. ————— Last Report of General on the Army Con- ditions. Value of a Gorps on Wheels Explained for Notice by Congress. utenant General communication to public to- the War form of a let- Root. In it are r the improvement of made sources in the the army service, TTe geners! vegards-the-cavilry ‘af ob- | solete ng the automobile will take | horse in the mext war. e advises reducing the he minimum and the s of strategic the country in al Miles’ jetter says: € ement of the Spanish ell trained, thorough- ed and experienced was compelled to ganiz s were sent to the front. r all wrong or the of the army with reto is un- subject re- the serious hed t at- MOUNTED MEN PLENTY. t th are tens ry who killed who can t formid- In fact, in our t in modern and quick- he battlefield, obso- lete rful developm the use of motor power and electric pliances has rendered the horse important than formerly. These facts are doubly significant and should be recog- nized by the military authorities and the Government AUTO CORPS NEEDED. “There is, however, a corps of force re- quired in our army that could be re dered of great utility, not only to t militery, but to the people of this coun- This power is being recognized by European Governments, and I have se: times recomwiended it to ours. It e utilized in the next war and prep- for its use by our army should onger be neglected. I have reférence the bicycle, motor cycle and the auto- | bile, which they have developed to the they have become a most able means of communication and portation. Five regiments of cav- | be dircontinued and a corps should be organized, trained and constantly em- ed in the use of these modern appii- es “The modern appliances of road build- ing are vastly superior to those formerly | d—in fact, the work is now done prin- pally by machinery—acd this corps | should be supplied wita all the recent in- | entions and improvements for that pur- ose. “The millions of dollars that are now selessly expended for one-third of the iounted force could in this way be util- zed in bringing about & great Improve- ent in the army, conferring a great ben- it upon the country, at the same time training & most important corps for mili- | service, and I urge that this measure ‘, be recommended to and authorized by eral giments Villiam C. M its place newly | | agelssen, U. S. Vice Consul at Beirut. - , Gty GA. LEgsrray ‘ 775 IS TER 10 TURKEY. NOTABLE PERSONS WHO ARE TO THE FORE ON ACCOUNT OF THE BEIRUT ASSASSINATION, AND UNITED STATES WARSHIPS OR- DERED TO PROCEED TO THE SYRIAN COAST. NS e State »Depart'ment Takes Immediate Meas-‘WflMAN ["[5 : ures to Compel Explanation by Turkey. S ASHINGTON, Aug. 27. William €. Magelssen, United States Vice Consul at Bei- rut, Syria, was assassinated there last Sunday evening. An attempt has been made to burn the Eu- phrates American Missionary Col- lege at Harput, Turkey. Rear-Ad- Special Dispatch to The Call ian waters, was ordered by the| President to-night - to sail for| Beirut immediately. | These are the portentous devel- | opments of to-day which may | possibly draw the United States | into the troublous vortex of the| Turkish crisis, although with the’ cluded in the same category as the trouble in the Balkans, which has | set all Europe by the ears. When the acting Secretary of | State, Mr. Loomis, arrived at the State Degartment this morning he found awaiting him a cable- ’Confinue’dforn VPVlgAa 73? Oovl Y BISHOP CONATY MAKES CHANGES IN HIS DIOCESE Sends Two Clergymen to Ministetr to the Indians at Pala Colony. SAN DIEGO, Aug. 27.—Bishop, Conaty left here this morning after a brief visit, during which he was the guest of Father Ubach. The Bishop's business had to do in part with certain contemplated changes at St. Joseph's Sanatarium. What these changes are he did not feel at lib- | erty to state, as he has taken the matter under advisement for a couple of -weeks Bishop Conaty has not yet set the time for his official visit to confirm the class at St Joseph's Academy. The following announcement of changes of priests are authorized by the Bishop. Father Thomas King of this city will go to Santa Inez; Father A. Eling, recently ordained, comes | to this city to assist Father Ubach at St. Joseph's; Father Lack of Santa Inez goes to Rio Grande; Father Lapointe and Father Gramman go to the Pala Indian colony as resident priests. A new priest will be appointed this week to.fill the place rgcently held by Father McManus in Sacred Heart Church, Coronado. —_—— . .Sexton Is Taken to San Quentin. PLACERVILLE, Aug. 27.—John E. Sex- ton, sentenced to two years' imprisonment for extortion, was taken to San Quentin this morning by the Sheriff. Sexton made an unavailing plea . to- Governor Pardee for a reprieve pending the result of an appeal to"Phe Supreme Court. SHINGLE MANUFACTURERS TO RESTRICT THE OUTPUT Agree on a Plan of Action in the Hope of Being Able to Up- hold Prices. TACOMA, Aug. 27.—By apportioning or- ders from the Eastern States among the | shingle mills on the basis of their cutting capacity the shinigle manufacturers of Western Washington to-aay decided to prevent _overproduction and maintain prices. The manufacturers and dealers are 'to be brought together in a new and stronger association to be formed as rap- idly as practicable. The reduction of the otutput is also to be in proportion to the capacity of the mills. These are the chief teatures of the. plan proposed by & com- mittee appointed by the State Lumber- men's Assoclation to aid in overcoming the, difficulty heretofore experienced by the shingle manufacturers in getting to- gether and upholding prices. The meeting of the shingle manufactur- ers was attended by representatives of more than half of the State's shingle mills. They have agreed to the plan out- lined. The project involves four hundred shingle mills, and several months’ time | . will be required to get it in complete working. order. The output will be par- tlally Testricted at once in order to pre- vent the piling up of shingles during the. car shortage period while the wheat crop te heing movad European squadron, now in ‘Ttal 1 Tarr Lreariczsco. P VW-- “K‘W | | 1l | | | il | agent for the IMID PERIS I KLONDIE Tragic News Comes From the Far North. Starvation the Fate of Mrs. Edith White of Dawson. Diary Is Found in the Snow and Tells the Story of Her Agony. Special Dispatch to The Call. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27.—Edith White, former wife of John A. White, general International Harvester Company, dled of starvation in the Klon- dike country and her body has probably been devoured by wild beasts. Such is the information contained in a special dispatch from Seattle, which gives detiifls of the fmdmg of the unfortunate woman's diary, containing a history of her life from the time she left her former home in Mankato, Minn., until she died of exposure and lack of food in the heart of the trackless Copper River country. Mrs. White was a graduate of the Den- tal School of the State University and | was practicing dentistry in Dawson City | two years ago. She wrote to her relatives here saying she was going into the in- terior and probably would not be heard of for some time. In a letter written from Central Alaska July 29, Willlam Shafer, a petty officer In the employ of the Government Signal Corps, related the story of the finding of letters and a diary tending to show that Mrs. White perished from cold and hunger under eircumstances most pitiable. While trying to make her way unaccom- panied to an interior camp in the Copper | River country, Mrs. White says in the diary, that she was lost in the moun- tains for days. She wandered through canyons in a vain endeavor to find some human habitation. Twice she had narrow escapes from wild beasts, once she escaped from viclous mountains lions by | wading into a& small lake up to her neck, where she stood in the lcy water, while miral Cotton, -commandifig - the | sparse information .now _obtain- able these ‘events cannot be in- PRESIDENT TO CONFER WITH HAY M e Government Active at First News of Crime. OThe President manifested anxious interest in the announcement of the assassina-| tion of Vice Consul Magelssen. He received from Acting Secre- tary of State Loomis a telegram comnwmicating to him Minister Leishman’s cablegram concerning the murder, and advising him of the steps already taken by the State Department. The President to-night isin close communication with the department, and will be kept fully advised of the details of | the incident as they are ascer- tained. For several days President Roosevelt has been | following YSTER BAY, Aug. 27.| | the ravenous beasts crouched on the edge | of the lake. { More dead than alive,’ Mrs. White | emerged from the water and lay down | exhausted. With her remaining energy | she scribbled with indelible pencil let- | ters and the diary which recorded her wanderings and sufferings up to the time that hunger had deprived her of strength to write. Shafer took possession of these letters and the diary and also made a diligent search for the body. This he did not find, but forwarded copies of the letters and the diary to the address given, that in this manner White might be informed of his wife's death. @i ‘ closely the developments of the situation in Turkey. With the country in such a turmoil as now prevails almost anything is likely to happen. With a view to consid- ering the subject the more care- fully, the President and Secretary | of State Hay arranged for a con- ference to-morrow at Sagamore Hill. The Secretary-is now en route to Oyster Bay. At the conference to-morrow the President and Secretary Hay will consider the Turkish situa- tion carefully and probably will reach some conclusion as to the attitude of the United States as re- | specting the late serious phase of the matter. In the absence of definite infor- mation concerning the assassina- tion of the Vice Consul the Presi- dent will take no decided step be- yond that already taken in order- ing the European squadron to Bei- rut. This action is viewed now as a precautionary measure. It is the Continued on Page 3, Column & °