The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1903, Page 1

be take VOLUME xcxv-x&. 9 i 2 s gl 3 "SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER ¢, MACEDONIAN REVOLUTIONISTS SOUND THE CALL FOR BATTLE 1903. .PRICE FIVE CENTS. ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE TURKISH SULTAN'S ACCESSION AND WAR’S DREAD.ALARM NO WR]NGS THROUGH THE BALKANS OFI A, Sept the-members distri The new ; C“ of the insurgent general staff.: ct TINE LIWIT UPON CANAL TREATY ENDS Exchange - of Rat Terrible - Fate of ifications Im- - possible. s Extension Necessary if Project Is Not Abandoned. Attitude of Colombia Senate Disturbs State De- partment. from Bogota. s days, whi atives are to. make the mun.q. now it- must- be of time. A re- must come nment, as -the k s trom Panama that the tude of>Secretary’ Hay and Minister an infi ed much com- andif g i pe in the 'C nt Iker, chairman of.the d-a leng conference and. at ope that to build oceur it through.. Df. oking for profits tha to. Panama . erself. day ‘the’ ombian pressed a news independénce. -SOme. time ago a se- . was fofmed to cut -loose -from seek. the -protection of the If “that_had’ been done- Uncle Sam would have got the canal for nothing.™ The feeling is so strong there now that the breaking off of negotiations for the canal treaty will precipitate trou- ble & Government sup-, per ‘that dared to speak cret ple Colombis " and United States. T B L TR STARTS TO SWIM ACROSS . THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Montague Holbein Emulates the Late Captain Webb—Has Already Failed Three Times. * 2, England, Sepf. 1—Montague started from bere this eévening swim across the channel. The weat is clear and water conditions favor- ble. Holbein has made three unsucces ful attempts to swim the English Chan- Holbein left Dover on a tug for the Foreland, where he went ashore tered the water on his cress-chan- nel swim at 6:50 p. m., starting upon a | od tide, with a quiet sea and no wind uld these favorable conditions last jolbein expects to reach the French in from sixteen to elghteen hours. ast will be accompanied at a close dis e by the tug and several small bo; m which nourishment will be admin- | istered to him ‘ ———————————— 1 SAN FRANCISCO VESSEL | HELD UP BY JAPANESE[ PEKING, Sept. 1—A telegram has been received here announcing that the steam- Stanley Dollar, formerly a Danish | t mow owned by an American, | t by « Russian company from Tientsin | Yongampho, at the mouth of the Yalu | ver, Korea, for a cargo of lumber from | Russjan concession on the Yalu River, | was prevented from entering the port of Yongampho by a Japanese gunboat, whose commander said Yongampho was not an open port and that foreign mer- chant vessels had no right to ‘enter. to | | thinks |"in its | | pleasant developments. Wl]MAN e IFTER LYING IN A GOFFIN Patient in the South. Doctors Declare Her Lifeless, but She- -Recove_rs{ Death Puts End o Her Agony Soon After the Casket: Is Opened. ‘Twe CHof orn prepmamr\ , but b@‘h'n they knife e pparently ‘dled: to ra: -wese certificate - that -heér death re- n heart fatlure! The body was for - urial, placed " in .a ‘coffn ard put cn a ‘raflroad frain for Tacé, ‘accompupied by her nephew, Heywood: It was. fecgssary to changé cars at Deh: nison. Jurc(wn and the body was urrled ation, there to awalt tramsfér. was sitting {n the station whén hé thought hie heard groans.- He spoke o the station agent, who quiskly traced the.| groans te the coffin. Help was’ sum- moned and the case and coffin. were opened. *Mrs. Stanfield was fournd ‘glive, grasping -at She mowed and tossed her hands after the coffin-was opened, but in a few momerits she .ceased to struggle.and died. "It was phain that the woman had 'made a’desperate: struggle’ for air in-the coffin. had- turned -on her side and her fece and she had clutched them with her hands. After it was found that life was- really extinct, Mrs. Stanfield’s body was’ sént | on to €unningham -and buried. e AGED COUPLE SLAIN BY UNKNOWN. ASSASSIN Cruel Double Murder- in Missouri and - Adopted Son’ Is Suspected. . 3 NTON. Mo., Sept. 1.—Mr: and | aged respectively. 6)-and 31, found muyrdered ‘at théir home on 3" few miles. out hy ‘officers and ighhors ‘who went to the hduse to-day. Inférmation of the murder was found: by e, rural. mail--carrier: in ah anonymous [ letter left in. & box in front of the farm Hotse: The- carrier at first thought the létter a hoax and did bt invéstigate at once. The bodies when found were. badly mu- tilated and: indicated that there had been a teéarful struggle between the aged.cou- ple’ and their. assassin. Suspicion .is di- rected’ against Williant E. Charch, an adopted son of the murdered couple, who has disappeired and the most diligent search has’ failed to disélose any trace of him. -AH his personal effects have been remvved.from the -house. The handwrit- - ing on the anonymous. note is belleved to be his. e e DIES FROM JOY: WHEN 5 FREED FROM LE?EB COLONY Porto Rican Beleued as Result of | Investigation Has “Brief En- * joyment'of Liberty. SAN JUAN, P."R., Sept. l—José Mgr- rero, a non-leprous_patient who.-was lib- erated from the leper colony as a result of the recent investigation, died yester- day of heart digeage superinduced by joy retease. The probing into the lep- | scdndal ‘continues to produce un- The public-report of the committee of the Executive Coun- cil investigating the matter will, be made next week. . — J. PIERPONT MORGAN THE VICTIM OF AN A€CIDENT: His Driver Drops Millionaire Irto. an’ Excavation- and Banker - Takes to Cars. NEW YORK, ‘Sept. 1.—-J. P. Morgan, on h1~ way from his yacht, the Corsair, to- night, wis the victim of a carriage acci- dent. At Tenth avenue and Thirty-sixth street the driver of -his brougham drove the hovse and vehicle into an excavation. Mr. Morgan was not injured. He left the carriage and proceeded in a car. —_——— Treaty Between Cuba and France. HAVANA, Sept. 1.—Negotiations have been begun between Cuba and France for a treaty covering the general rela- tions between the two countries. It is expected that a similar treaty with Spain will be conciuded later. the ‘woman cdl-{ - The :doctors | | ! her throat with ome hand. | oat were torn and scratched where | — »——.y - Hundreds of Men % {nsurgents ‘Threaten| | .a Terrible. Retali- 10l atiom. B of severe:fighting is still ‘comirig in: --At the vilr dav s fiahtmg, the - Turkisk troops in the night time massacred ‘the L entire’ population of. 180 meri and 200 women. The Turkshave also miassacred. the mhab{tanes of the village of Veleso. donia, refises to leave his head- quartersin the Konak at Monas- tir. The insurgént leader, Grueff, in‘a letter ‘to: Hilmi Pasha de- manded that he prevent.the bar- and ‘Bashi-Bazouks, otherwise the the Turkish inhabitants. surgents have occupied the mottir- line from Salonica to Uskub, and dislodge hem. The town of Malkotirnova is reported to be in-.a state of an- houses and committing unspeak- able atrocities on the' women. A’ strong foree of Tirkish in- fantry, cavailry and .artillery fe- cently ‘attacked.the village of Stoi- lovo, northward of Malkotinovo, which had been occupied by in- surgents. - The latter retired, after| - which:the Turks entered the place,. massacied the entire’ population and destrowed the:village.- Prince Ferdmand of Bu]gana ] has arfived at Euxmograde, But- gatia, where ‘he was- joined by Premier Petroff. The Prince is expected to remain there for some: time. ? i — gt ELEMENTS PLAY HAVOC . Efforts Are Being Made -to Pre- . serve Tomb and Mansidn at - Mount Vernon.. ° % WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—Time has 1aid siege to the ‘tomb and mansion of- Georgé Washington ‘at Mount Vernon, and efforts on the part of those.in charge. ‘| are being made to save these relics frosir further destruction and to preserve them for many years to come. °A° force.of working men, on Monday, under the di- rection of H. H. Dodge, Superintendent of Mount gVernon, commenced the .work of treating the limestones that form ‘the materfal of which the tomb is bufit, with a vulcanizing process to make them waterproof and imperishable: /Some time ago Superintendent Dodge rioted that the stones of the old tomh’ built by General Washington a hundred years ago, was in such a condition of decay that with a penknife one could easily scrape away the surface of the stones. They became decayed owing to the damn alimara. Turk:sh Troops Slay ' OFIA, Sept. 1—~—-N'ews iage of’ Armensi, after.a’ It is reported that Hilmi Pasha, | the - inspector ‘general for Mace- | barcus-agts of the Turkish soldiers | revolutionists ‘would massacre all | The in- | tain pass of Gergele, on the ‘miain | Turkish troops have been sent'to | ———— e REIGNING ‘PRINCE- OF: - BUL-' GARIA, THE.PREMIEZER AND A GERMAN.EMBASSADOR. Abdul Hamid Enjoys Celebration on Eve of War. - ONSTANTINOPLE, { . of the Sultan's accesslomr pass- | ed. off without:.any untoward incident. The-Sultan Held the customary . reception - and ceived the congratulations of the' repre- sentatives of the powers and 'the state dignitaries. This evening the city s bril- Mantly flluminated. ; Official reports say “that 300 ‘insurgents | were killed or- woundeil’ during the fight- re- | yet of- Monastir. . The Porte has sent a memorandum to the Austrfan’ and Russian- Embassadors here: pointing out that -at the recent mass meeting of Macedonians in Sofia, bulgaria; it was .decided- to send fresh bands. into. Macedonia and also calling. attention to.the' fact that committees in Bulgaria were -supplying the insurgents ‘with- arms -and ammunition by means of ships which land their cargoes' on the coast in the wicinity of Iniada. PILLAGE OF VILLAGES - Consular dispatches from Prlshtma. near the Servian.frontier, confirms’‘tne reports that nearly dll the Christian vil- lages in the districts’-of Dibra, fifty-four miles from -Monastir -and Cicevp, have been- pillaged and burned and that .the inhabitants have fled. It {s not stgted whether - Albanians of Bulgarians -were the perpetrators of the outrages. . In spite of.the apparent gravity of (he genernl situatian optimism prevails in Turkigh. ‘oficial circles: In the course of the ‘audiences which the German Em- bassador, Baron Mefshcal stein, and thé Russign Embassador, M. Zinoyieff, who have_ been with the Sul- tan :for - the :purpose of: recommending more energetic- actlon and intrusting to the Turkish commander in chief full di- rection ovér-‘the military operations, the Sultan replied that he preferred to retain control at Constantinople. £ . The Governiment has linposed a person- .al or land tax on the entire populstion ‘of the empire over the. age of eighteen years. The tax is only for the classes and ranges from about eighty cents to 3% each’ annuaily. This is regarded in some quarters as being in the nature of a provision for _wlr. 5 ARRESTS AT BEIRUT. . The Porte has notified Minister -Leish- man that five arrests have been made at ‘Beirut in connection -with the shooting, which led ty the feport that Willlam C. ‘Magzelssen, the United States Vice and Deputy Consul there had been assassin- ated. The Turkish officials continue to insist that no attempt was made on the Continued on Page 2, Column 5. .|can fleet Sept. 1:— The celebration here in honor- | Ing_ which occurred last: week in the vila- archy, the Turks plundering thel von -Bieber-" s B A1l rcxwlvmum»h (n\‘med rhe anniversary of the SuItan s accessnon -to’ procla:m the long-antxcxpatcd gencral msurrecnon in Nonhem \faccdoma the proclamanon oi w hxch was issued. to-day, signed by The new o :tbndk is-headed b\' the. famious ’\/Iacedoman Jeaders, Genzral Zentchieff, president of ‘the Macedoman committee, and. Coloncl _Iankoff who was w ounded in the rising of 1902. sin"the valléey of 11,e erumn at the I)a\e of the Rhndope ‘\Iountam cham an(L to the north of the river Vardar., Colonel. ]ank@ff is. directing ‘the movements of the bands in “the ‘soutliern part. 1/‘.Afln,i"stéi" of -Sultan ' Explains ‘Beirut. Shooting ' ] Amerlcan Command— cer May Get Orders ' of Recall © Spectal Dispatch to The l:m “Asm\xc-ron Sept: 1. ' —Chekib. Bey, the .Turk- ish"Minlister, called ‘at the . Tesidenoe of Séeretary ‘Hdy td-night and: ieft a cablesram recéived * from ‘)\l- Go\emmen( showing that -the: Amer- is “not at_.all’ -necessary at Belrut: 2 : - This is the first important official infor- mation Chekid Bey has recelved from his - Government -concerning the affair. The cablegram stated’that the news of the assassination’ of the .American Vice: Consul s absolutely false. Perfeci order and tranquillity prevail ‘at Beirut. A man returning from a wedding party having fired, according to'jocal custom,’his’ gun into. the air, the Vice Consul,- who =was passing by in a carriage, thought- the shot had been aimed at him. The man who fired has been arrested.. .. 3 In view of (hese officlal ‘advices, it. now seems. altogether probable that new or-] ders will be awaiting Rear Admiral Cot- ton”when ‘hie .arrives at” Beirut with the Brooklyn and San Francisco. And should the Thrkish Government ekpress. a de- sire that the ships be qrdered from Tyrk- ish waters on ac¢ount of the new. de- velopment in. the sftuation -and because. they are no longer .needed to ‘protect American citizens it i¢ thought hére. that | President Roosevelt can do mothing less ‘| than grant the-request of a frierdly na- tion, The acting Secretary of the Navy, khew ng erders recnlllnz the ‘ships were-|. &t present in contemplation. DETAILS ARE SCARCE. . Secretnry "Hay haq waited another. day in vnh; Yor a sufficient expldnation from Minister Leishman of the error on account |- of wblch the ships were dispatched., His oy cammunlcnuon Was rathér an un- satisfactory cable from Mr. Ravendal, United .States Consul-at Beirut, which simply reiterated prewvious advices that falled. -Expression of ofl!c(nl oplnion here is necessarily guarded, but it cannot be de- nled a strong feeling exists since the fleet was sent on erroneous information and in ¥lew of the efforts of the Turk- ish Government to afford proper protec- tion to American citizens there is.every reason for withdrawing the fleet,. inas- much as the ships .were. sent with the avowed purpose of enforcing demands. With the false rumors corrected by the |- American representatives themselves and with thie demands it was. proposed to make already practically granted, it ap- pears to be the well grounded opinion here that the necessity for our ships at Beirut no longer exists. MESSAGE FROM CONSUL. ‘The first official dispatch coming di- rectly from Beirut regarding the Mag- elssen affair-was received by Secretary Hly. ‘It is dated August 31 and is signed by Consul Ravendal. It say: “The attcnpt on Magelssen's life failed utterly. A narrow escape, but the Vice Consul suffered no injury.” " The conference which a committee of | ~AUSTIN, Tex., Sept: however; said to-night that.so far as he |. an. attempt on Mr. Magelssen’s life had |- COWBDY LIFE SUITS WEARY - COLLEGE MAN Mlssmg Graduate of Harvard Is Located \Escapes Effete East| and Abandons All Lux_urles. Seion of Prominent Family Conceals 1dentity on “Texas-Ranch. 'specm DJsp.lch,!:o The Call. —A ‘man who is 8. Whitewell, the graduate | sajd to be W. | [ ot Harvara Uhiversity ‘whose disappear- | ance. from his. hgme th New: York about | & year ego cfeated a. sensation among his collége friends dnd acquiintances, and | who.has a wealthy family, is said to be [¥ing on‘a ‘ranch near Aue station, sit- uated about- thirty mnu ner!bwen of | San “Antonio. weil refuses to make anhy statement that will make. dositive his identity, but the sutroundihg circumstances indicate ihat he is the person for whom his family .| have been scouring the continent .ever since his mysterious disappearance. The first trace of Whitewell. was op-1 tained at Waco, Tex,, about aight months ago. He appeared thers shortly after his disappearance had created a furdr in ‘the.. newspapers. of the country and .admitted to’ a citizen thers whose acquaintance he had formed that he was the man'. for | whom search was.being made. To’ this acquaintancé he stated.that e was sur- teited .with society and the- East, and that he was on his way to-a ranch in Southwest Texas, where he expected .td spend- the remainder-of his days.in per- fect freedom. He declared’ that ‘he had _cist off his relations and friends. . No. turthef trace of the man_was' ob- talned until: about six weeks 'ago, When a bronzed and’ appeared: in ‘San- Antonio -and registered. - at the Ménger Hofel as W, S.- Whitewell. Texas.. ‘To the clerk of thé hotel -he said | ‘that” he was- going to Califordia_on-a pleasure ‘trip: The news of his appear: ance in -San Antonio_was. telegraphed to thé missing man’s anxious relatives in New. ¥ork, :and his grandfather arrived | at’ San -Antonio’ five .days later on - the ‘hunt for ‘the’absept one.- He found that the young man had leff for the West four fdays before: Whitewell feturned to. the Aue" unch | thrée: weeks. ago ‘and js regularly em- ploygd as a cowhoy on the pluce s — e ESTmA‘IBS SUBMITTED FOR NAVY YARD WORX Three Million Dollars Will Be Ex- ‘pended on’ Puget Sound " Improvements. WASHINGTON, Sept. '1.—Estimates have been submitted to Rear Admiral .Endicott, chief of the Bureau of Yards and ‘Docks, for the improvements and ex- .penditures at various navy yards for the fiscal -year ending June. 30, 1%05. These estimates are made by, the civil engineers ‘attached to the various navy vards. ‘ The total amount fér New York is $3,624,714; for Pensacola, $2,545.515;.for Port Royal, S. C., $4,863,216; for New Orleans, -43,516,19; for Puget Sound, $3.09.054. The Puget Sound estimates include the fol- lowing items: New drydocks. $1,600,000; repairs to timber drydock, $100,000; pur- | chase of land, $350,000. Braiohay i R VTR ACCIDENT TO OLYMPIA CAUSES A SERIOUS LEAK Rear Admijral Compton Reports on the Injury to Dewey’s Old B Flagship. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—A report from Rear - Admiral Compton on the accident to the Olympia during the joint maneu- vers, received at the Navy Department, _says that the injuries are slight, but that | the ship is -leaking quite badly. The Olympia left Provincetown !D—dly for the Vineyard Sound. < @ ieistnieiimideiefefoeeliminieiei @ the Foreign Missionary Society last week arranged with Secretary Hay will not be held. The Secretary to-day received a letter from Rev. Mr. Barton of Boston, -representing the socfety, announcing that the action already taken by the Govern- ment in regard to the protection of for- eign missionaries in Turkey rendered in- terviews with the Secretary of State on this subject unnecessary. The nfan- who -is’ believed to be White- | athlefic young: ranchmanh{- WOULD MKE LIBOR UNIONS - OBEY THE LW Gltlzens at Fort Bragg Form a League. —— Novel Organization ' to Prevent Disastrous Strikes. { Trouble in the Lumber Mills | of Mendocino Has In- l teresting End. ] | Special - Dispatch to The ' Call FORT BRAGG, Sep( 1<Tg". ‘compel labor..unions ‘tG _obey -the laws™ ‘is-one of the objects -of -an’ assoclation formed in_ this. town by ‘a. number-.of ‘Fort Bragg's | Fepresentative ciiizens.. Fort’ Bragg is the |‘first- communiiy “on "the -Pacific Slope in |'which tlie citizéns as such, have com- bined for rautual .protection from the or- | ganizéd forces iffjo which labor and capi- | tal_ "have’ merged " .theif réspective re- | sourees. : In. the. vonflicts between these two' the unorganized’ public.-has suffered | most ‘of tHe -hardship and. Fort Brags. | ke other -trade Tentes; has had its | share of these. industrial battlés. There is one’ waging, now -between the lumber | interests and-the men engaged in hand- | ling-the pfoduct. The.” employers are | probably not makirg as’ much money as under more gettléd conditions:and the éarnings .of the men have been decreased | by.-a substantial.percentage cipal sufferers by the Fort Bragg strike; however, have.been’ those orly jndiFectly interested *in thé issues of - the conflict. Thé -property owners,- business men and professfonal men. have suffered in the disturbance .of mm-mum just gs vitally as -thé prinaipal the Aght and up to the present_thei have been compelled’ to stamd by 'idly while the.Contestants, . with- out-a -thoukht beyond’ their ‘own selfish ends,”. have. batfled .in whatever' mode seemed mast Hkely to achieve _the results | they “sought, g In. their - \mcr«:‘m\zed condition the prin- C!p;\l sufferers were individual otests passing-aw; o much light ir. Realizin force could .cope with force, the fon-combatant citizens of Fort® Bragi have formed themselves into a secret “organization ‘kiown as “The Féttizens! Lesgue of Fort: Brags. No. 1. Incorporaged.” “Thewdea for this league was obtained frnm ]ndianaxmlh where; .in March of this year, -was formed- the Independent Ameflcaq Mechanics’ Uniop, _ Ineorpor- | ated.” This Indidna organization has be- |.come" natignal-in its scope”and the Fort Bragg league has affiliated "with it Branches: of the.organization- have been formed in many _cities . of" - the, middle West-'apd although ‘Fort Bragg is ' the first. 'in the ‘far West, so-much inquiry has been received by the Tocal officers from other points that there is little doubt that all the larger cilies of the coast will beforé long support leagues. The Fort Bragg league has availed it self' of the incorporation laws in order that it may have a legal existence and be in a position to protect its members as well as attack its adversaries; its legal identity " giving it a standing in court that it would not have otherwise. The objects of the league are thus set forth in the articles of incorporation on file at Sacramento: The purposes for which it is formed ‘are to encourage industry,- economy, honesty and | truthtulness among its members; to maintain amicable relations between employes and em- ployers of labor: to assist its individual mem- | begs in obtaining the highest wages, shortest hours and best conditions consistent with the general good of all concerned by an intelligent application of energies: to gromote all forms of productive Industry and gemeral trade and | increase the-employment of labor at geod wages: to prevent all unjust and unreasonable discrimination against any of the members by | any person, combination or conspiracy ‘o pre- vent such members from securing employment | in any branch of industry: to protect and de- fend its members against any and all attempts by any person or combination of persons fo abridge the inalienable rights of all mankind to work for such wages as shall be matually satistactory to the individual workman and his employer; to protect the Independent workmen in their independence: to promote and encour- age an earnest co-operation with employers and legitimate business methods; to oppose strikes, lockouts, boycotts and blacklists, and to compel labor unions to obey the laws. The directors of the Fort Bragg league are appointed for one year. Those that will act for the first year are: John E. Weller. Edward Banker, F. C. Jackson, W. A McCornack, H. F. Milliken, H. Holmes, Ira H. Carlisle, Frank Sandelin, Thomas Bourns, all of Fort Bragg, Men- docino County. The league has already more than three hundred members and of these not a few were recruited from the ranks of the unioms. The organization is popular with the citizens who have lllfltf.fl from the strike and is ing in strength every day. 1