The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1903, Page 1

Call, 113. FRANCISCO, MONDAY., SEPTEMBER 21, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UNGLE 5AM'S PROFITS NOW ENORMOUS Grows Rich at Rate of $1,000,000 a Waek. Revenues Are Far in Excess of Current Expenses ———— National Treasury Never Before as Opulent as at Present. e books. alance prior 1o 0, should be added g the grand to- 0 TINY FILIPINOS WILL GO TO ST. LOUIS F: the Northern Part of the Islands Arrive at Tacoma. —The steam- n \Ia— ldrm Filipino of the St t SINGLE WIRE USED FOR TELEGRAPH AND 'PHONE novation in Method of Communica- the New York Central. tion ibilbos b RUSSIAN OFFICER USES HIS READY REVOLVER Shoots a Jew at Irkutsk for Refusing Him a Match to Light His Cigarette. his cigarette n an insult- Baldwin’s Safe Robbed. Sejit. 20.—The safe in at Santa Anita wa night. Robbers first cksmith shop and got ¢ cut the bars ot rin into the x d the explo- e was partially wrecked about $400 in cash, three | | | | | | | | SOCIALIST LEADER ROUTS OPPONENTS Bebel Encourages Himself in Order to Demonstrate His Power With the GREAT DAM WILL RIVAL THE NIAGARA Agitation JAgainst Party in Germany RESDE} 20.—Herr has re-established his in the Soci party ing his resolution against the visionists by several hundred votes against eleven dissenting voices and having elected an executive commit- tee of his own choosing. It now looks as though the agitation against Herr Bebel before the convention was encouraged by him in order that his absolute leadership of the party should be demonstrated and the small faction opposed to him held up to the ridicule of the party. = CALIFDRNIA MAY PROFIT BY A WILL e Wisconsin Univer- sity Would Be the Loser. Call. Sept Bebel thority ar ist Special Dispatch to The MADISON, W 20.—The estate of | Dr. Charles Kendall Adams, former pres- ! revert to nine gold chains, a revolver | tamps. The authorities be- the work of professional safe —————————— Ro L bers Take Two Lives. le Fougere was day night in a villa A female other was 0 mal- her reason. Rob- for the crime. Figaro, the Fugene d at Aix-les-Ba.as was but @ woman of the same e - | tially dragged him from the car. servant also | Ac- | ident of the University of Wisconsin died in Southern California and willed his praperty to the University, may | the State of California or be The estate for the of consumed in a legal battle. was bequeathed to the university establishment of fifteen scholarships $10,000 each. The laws of hibit leaving money by will to institutions ide of that State. The executors of the will—former Sen- ator William F. Vilas, former C n Burr W. Jones and L. S. Hanke— seek to prevent reversion of the prop- rty to the State under the statutes of California and will contest, if necessary the constitutionality of the act, carryin to the court of last resort. and was respect. n e case was drawn by Colonel Vil ) ed to be proper in ever The executors declare they will be able to hand over the estate to the university. —_———————— DRAGGED BY THE FEET FROM INTERURBAN CAR Peculiar Accident Costs Life of One Militiaman and Another Will Die. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 20.—John | head was cut off and John Manni was fatally injured this evening by an accident on the Bridge street bridge. Both were members of the Michi- gan from rifle practice, riding on a Muskegon Interurban Line combination coach. The soldiers were sitting in the doorway of the baggage compartment swinging their feet, when the car ran on to the bridge. Delater’s feet caught in the iron work Delater's of the bridge and he was suddenly jerked | from the doorway and thrown beneath the wheels of the car. He was decapitated. In falling he clutched at Manni and par- Manni fatal injuries. received Injured Automobilist Is Identified. HAVRE, Sept. 20.—The American tour- ist who with his wife was slightly in- jured in an automobile accident in Bol- bre, seventeen miles from here, yester- day, and whose name was then given as Saddler, has been identified as James ¥Nan Fleet Scudder of Boston. .. who | who | alifornia pro- | ngress- | National Guard and were returning | (Chicago’s Plan to . Utilize Drain- . ageCanal. | Project Is Put | Under Way. | Channel’s Current Will Turn Wheels of Industry in { Many Cities. IR S | Special Dispatch to The Call. 1 CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—The business in- terests of Chicago, as well as of small | manufacturing towns along the drainage | canal, will be greatly benefited If the | plans of the Sanitary Board materialize. | The first step to bring this about was/ | taken yesterday, when the sanitary dis-| trict of Chicago filed a petition for the condemnation of land in Lockport Town- i | water power. utilizing the flow in the | Chicago drainage channel. | The Legislature at its last session au-| ‘ thorized the board to make such benefi- | | cial use of the waters of the channel as | | it saw fit. After years of planning by | members of the board they decided upon | the water power. | The work of bullding a dam on the ‘channels and the benefits to be derived | | from it are of large proportions. The | board is planning on the use of a flow of | water amounting to 35,000 horsepower, | | end will transmit this power to Chicago | | and towns along the course of the canal. It is the plan of the board to make use of the power for electrical, illuminating | and other purposes. | bers of the Sanitary Board, the dam will supply almost as much power as | Niagara Falls. | COLOMBIANS SCHEME i { \ EX ok i TO SAVE THE CANAL | { UNDISPUTED LEADER OF THE | Fresh Overtures to Be Made if Reyes | SOCIALIST PARTY IN THE | | Is Elected to the [ <==m=N EMPIRE. | | l | Presidency. | g - PANAMA, Colombia, Sept. fl'h—-Senntor‘ Obaldia to-day took over the functions of | Governor of Panama. The event was the | occasion for a great popular demonstra- | tion by all parties. It is believed the ap- pointment of Governor Obaldia will exert | influence against secessionist ideas, not ; because he is a native of Panama, which fact engaged for him the sympa- | thies of all, but because the appointment | is a part of a general plan, the result of | which will be the election of General Reyes to the Presidency and the approval | of a canal treaty satisfactory to the | United States. All of the speeches delivered at to-day’ ai | function, mot only by isthmians but by natives of the rest of the republic, dem- } onstrated that the inhabitants of Panama | | are in favor of the treaty. e GIVES DINNER IN HONOR OF OUR DIPLOMATIC AGENT | — | Prince Frederick Extends a Welcome | to First American Representative Sent to Bulgaria. SOFIA, Sept. 20.—Prince Ferdinand last night gave a dinner party at the palace in honor of J. B. Jackson, who in the after- | noon had presented his credentials as the | first American diplomatic agent in Bulga- " LIONS FAGE AT A BABE. -~ GHAFSTENING Child Is Named in| Wild Beasts’ Arena. Special Dispatch to The Call. | B NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—In the center of a cordon of snarling lions at Bostock’s, Coney Island, to-day the christening of the three weeks old baby of Harry Tudor of West Eighth street, Coney Island, took % - ria. The guests included F. E. H. Eliot, place. The crying of the child seemed |y, grtieh diplomatic agent, and the Bul- | to enrage the beasts and the trainer had garian Ministers and high officlals. Prince supreme test ml strange jungle | to put his powers to the control them while the | christening was going on. Ferdinand proposed the health of Presi- dent Roosevelt, speaking in English, and | the court band played a selection of | Captain Bonavita drove twenty-seven | s orican airs, lions into the arena. They were in a par-| Grear satisfaction is expressed, not only ticularly ugly mood and for twenty min-|n omecial circles, but also in commercial utes it was a question whether the chris- | tening would be possible. Peter the Great | | made a rush at the trainer and was sub- | dued only after a severe lashing. | | As Mme. Morella, with the baby in her | |arms, entered the band played “Amer- | |ica,” and the great crowd, thrilled by the \Er\((‘lar“.?. joined in the chorus. The baby. was dressed in a long gown made of a combination of American and British flags. | Just as Captain Bonavita stepped for- | ward to officiate at the christening the baby started to cry and this seemed to have a strange effect upon the lions. Peter the Great and a big lioness jumped from their pedestals. By this time the lions were roaring in chorus and among the spectators a panic was barely averted. Two women, overcome by the spectacle, fainted and were carried out. | When the lions were again subdued the ceremony of christening was resumed and went through without a hitch. The baby was christened Isla. —_———— More Railway Employes Arrested. LYNN, Mass., Sept. 20.—Two employes of the Boston and Northern Street Rail- way were arrested in this city to-day in connection with the extensive frauds perpetrated upon that company by means of bogus transfer checks, which were ex- posed in Boston yesterday. The men are Herbert Shawman, janitor at the Central Square Station of the company, and Her- bert Morris, a conductor on tne Lynn and Boston division. Shawman admitted hav- ing purchased about $4000 worth of the counterfeit transfers at -arious times, while Morris at the time of his arrest had four hundred of the bogus checks in his pockets- circles, at America’s action in establishing diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. Tho‘ Lelief prevails that a great opportunity exists for developing a profitable export and import trade with the United States. —_———— DANISH DRAMATIST DENIES THAT HIS HEALTH IS POOR | Henrich Ibsen Writes That the False Reports Emanate From His Enemies. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Mary Shaw, the actress, is in receipt of a letter from Henrich Ibsen, the Danish dramatist, in response to a cablegram which Miss Shaw recently sent to him condoling with him on his ill health. Ibsen in this let- ter accepts his correspondent’s condo- lences, but adds that the reports that he is in i1l health emanate from his enemies, the truth being that he is in better health than he has been for many months. Ib- sen says also that he is at work on a new drama, which he hopes will take even higher rank than his “The Doll'’s House.” His advanced age, he says further, is all that prevents him from visiting America, which he would like very much to do. —_— Joins Her Husband in Death. PARIS, Sept. 20.—James L. Ferriere, a well known newspaper man of New York, died here to-day as the resuit of a para- Iytic stroke. His wite in a fit of distrac- tion soon afterward took her life. Fer- riere was formerly for several years an editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald. He entered the service of the Associated Press in 1897, and at the time of his death was employed in its | Paris office. oz > _— ‘Mammoth Water Power | ship for the construction of a mammoth | | Accorading to the plans in view by mem- | | BESIEGED MELNIK'S GARRISON IS IN # CRITICAL CONDITION Handful of Turks Continues to Hold Out Against Fifteen Hundred Macedonian Insurgents, Dhile Reinforcements SAre Hastening to Prevent the Capture of the Town L = s ol BUEQY cMRSCHALL [ > | Y BrenmSIIN + OFIA, Sept. 20.—Some apprehen- sion apparently having been cre- | ated, owing to a misunderstanding | regarding the precise meaning of | Bulgaria's last note to the pow- ers, explanations have been glven to| some diplomatic agents here that the| memorandum was not intended as an ulti- | matum, but was rather in the nature of an appeal for the intervention of the| great powers before that intervention | | should be too late. The Bulgarian Min-| istry, it was stated, was determined to | maintain its attitude of neutrality up to | the last moment, but it feels the impos- sibility of standing by indefinitely while the Turks exterminate the Bulgarian ele- ment in Macedonia. The Government's position is rendered increasingly difficult by the attitude of the Macedonia population in Bulgaria, which, vigorously backed up by the rev- olutionary committees, is persistently en- deavoring to force the Government's hand and provoke hostilities with Turkey. | A special dispatch from the monastery of Rila, Bulgaria, says the condition of the Turkish garrison of Molnik, sixty-five miles northeast of Salonica, is believed to be extremely critical. It is besieged by bands of insurgents under the leadership of Yankoff, Stoyanoff, Davinghoff and Zografoft, all of whom were formerly Bulgarian officers. The fnsurgents num- ber 1500, while the garrison is believed to consist of only one battalion. Melnik is a very important strategic point in the mountains, commanding the road between Demir-Hassar and Razlog. The Turks have withdrawn nearly all their forces from the districts of Danaoumana and Razlog to send to the relief of Melnik. As a consequence unusual tranquillity prevails throughout the district of Raz- log, where the authorities, lacking the support of the troops, have ceased their policy of persecution and the beys are even supplying bands with food. The Turkish population is described as being in a state of great consternation. A company, of Turkish soldiers and Ba- - | the troops near Demir-Kapu, | miles northwest of Salonica. | lonica, — el i -+ FAMOUS RETREAT WHENCE COMES NEWS OF THE PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE OF MELNIK BY MACEDONIANS, AND THE GERMAN EMBAS- 1 SADOR TO THE COURT OF THE TURKISH SULTAN ‘ — + shi-Bazouks recently found the hiding ) which the Turkish atroef will seem place of a hundred familles of refugees | child's play from the villages of Dupeni and Echla,| “The banner of revolution,” my fn- near Resen. They captured the party.|formant says, “will be unfurled in all the attacked the women and committed other | border " cts. Every city and village, atrocities. habit s are friends or The united bands of Monassieff and | Michalilof have had an encounter with sixty-two The Turks k..ed, including two officers. R T SULTAN SEES EMBASSADORS. Regrets Turkish Excesses and Says Peace Is in Sight. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. had many 20—~In an| | audience with M. Zinnovieff, the Russian | Embassador, on Friday, the Sultan ex- pressed his regret at the excesses com- mitted by the Turkish troops in the vil- ayets of Monastir and Adrianople. He sald that orders had been sent to the au- | thorities concerned to prevent their repe- tition, and he gave the Russian Embas- | sador to understand that the gullty per- sons would be punished. The German Embassador, Baron Mar- shall von Bleberstein, also had an audi- ence with the Sultan, who showed him- self most optimistic. The latter declared that the insurrection was drawing to a close; in fact it already had been sup- pressed in some districts, and the Port therefore, would immediately issue proc- lamations announcing the resumption of the application of the reform scheme. After the granting of these audliences | an extraordinary council of Ministers was held at Yildiz Kiosk, and the deliber- ations were continued on Saturday. It is understood that the council drew up fresh instructions to the valis on the line of his Majesty's declarations. Offictal dispatches from the valis of Sa- Monastir and Adrianople report numerous encounters which resulted in favor of the Turks. AR GIVE SINISTER WARNING. Insurgents Threaten Wholesale Mas- sacres and Destruction. LONDON, Sept. 21.—The Ddlly Mail's | correspondent at Sofia telegraphs: One of | the revolutionary chiefs has informed me | that the revolutionists are massing thou- sands of men at various pointson the fron- | tier and. their laboratories are working incessantly to replenish their stocks of bombs and explosives. They do not count much on war between Turkey and Bul-| garia, but on the day they hear that the meeting between the Czar and Em- peror Francis Joseph has not had the desired result for Macedonia the world will witness the beginning of massacres, burnings and destruction compared with 1 be destroyed, and such a state r( i\narv‘h' will be caused that the Turks will step out voluntarily and leave the country to the Macedonian survivors. We have selected the these final operation frontier districts for so that Europe may hear the despairing cries of the dying na- tion, which the Turks would stiffe.” et Fghn SERVIANS TAKE THE FIELD. Evidence That King Peter’s Soldiers ‘Will Help Bulgaria. LONDON, Sept. 21.—The Balkan situa- tion presents few features this morning. The German Empveror's influence in Vie enna is said to ha been thrown in favor of allowing the Sultan the utmost free- dom .in suppressing the insurrection. Both Turks and Macedonians claim vie- tories in the daily encounters. A report from § says that Bulgaria's military preparations are reaching the stage of perfection that will enable the concentra- tion of 200,000 men on the frontier within a week, and the stocks of provisions, weap- ons and ammunition are rapidly becoming efficient. According to a dispatch from Constan- tinople to the Daily Telegraph, the Sultan is so firmly resolved to avold a war that, on the report that France was sending a fleet to Turkish waters, and again when it was stated that Bulgaria was mobiliz- ing, he drafted a decree forbidding mas- sacres in Macedonia and conferring more extensive local administrative privileges than had been demanded by the insurgents themselves: but, on each occasion, finding the rumors unfounded the decree was rescinded. It is believed, however, that should any power threaten a demonstration in Turk- ish waters the decree will be signed. The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives a similar report that the Sultan is ready to concede local auton- omy, but will not grant a Christian Gov- ernor to Macedonia. Instead he would propese a mixed commission, composed of Turks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks and Wallachians, l{ administer the provinces. The Servian newspapers are discussing the probability of a reconciliation with Bulgaria, on the basis of free trade be- tween Servia and Bulgaria and a de- fensive aluance against the Turks. A dispatch from the Monastery of Rila, adds the Daily Telegraph's correspondent, says the Greeks are joining the revolt in R S A Continued on Page 3, Column &