The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1903, Page 1

FI6Eh PN ILL READY Oh CONRLET War Preparations| Reported to Be Completed. Russians Build Fort for Struggle at Yongampho, Lloyd's Makes a Significant | | Raise in Far East In- surance Rates. - h the rumor he Japanese > evacuate has ed from t and say made for ts rece! e purpose of op) nded by Japan Wh e there is no 1 tension, it is the army and navy war apan have been finished o, Korea, has by the pres- rore warships. Practical which is expected to precipi- st for control of the s deemed of first importance, en planned for the winter. RUSSIANS FORTIFYING. YDON, Oct. 23.—In & dispatch to the per at Yokohama reiterates a statement ade October 14 that the Russians are ng Yongampho, and declares that to- he has authentic information that have bullt & fort and are preparing it heavy guns there. spondent continues, is conferring with representatives of all Jupanese railroads with the view of effecting the most #peedy mobilization of the army whenever this becomes necessary. The Tie ent of the Daily Mail says 1 dispatch that Japan has warned China that she will occupy some points o ese territory if Russia fails 1o evacuate Manchuria. DEMANDS ON EKOREA. The correspondent of the Times at Seoul cables that the Bri and Japanese Min- isters to press the Ko-| rear open Yongampho as to neutralize Rus- ve commercial factli- Foreign Minister, the & Baie correspondent ds, expresses complete willingness t mply with these requests but his attempts s direction are neg- a state flicting T his y pro- rates that armist riters at tic view of Since yes- e rates to risks it war is three months, have been —The conference Russian Komara the con- he elected statesmen of Japan, o take place to-morrow. n Viceroy of the Far East, ] Alexieff, is expected to go to St g early in November, which e expected crisis. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAISES FREIGHT RATES ON LUMBER Announceséan Advance of Fifty Per Cent on Shipments From Portland to San Francisco. RTLAND, Or., Oct. 22.—The Southern fic announces that next month it will on lumber shipments from to San Francisco 5 per cent, or to $7 60 a ton. This rate will ap- nly to lumber shipped from sawmills ve access to water transportation. the interior will continue to ship e of $310 a ton, 1n force before made its last increase in its The new tariff is prohibitory to y water to San Francisco and ete with interior mills for business this Californian point. But for southern r ma this method involves extra expense for loading on cars at the Up to three months e rate from Portland was 33 10. The was short of cars and in order > to water the rate was s gave the interior mill ng stock, but there i the raise announced is the result. ——————— MISCREANT TURNS CANAL INTO BOISE CEMETERY Large Number oanvu Damaged by Flood From an Irrigating Ditch. BUTTE. Mont., Oct. 23.—A Miner special rom Boise, Idaho, says that an unknown niscreant last night turned th ‘rom an irrigating canal into l‘n:fl:‘!:lel: temetery, flooding a large portion of gt ind dolng great damage to the graves. The authorities are making every effort © apprebend the gulty party. i1 the correspondent of that pa- | e Japanese Government. the corre- | from Portland. Local mflls | i HON,WILLIAM CLANCY CLANCY DECISION MAY BRING CRASH Fifteen Thousand Men Idle and All Montana Affected. FAUGUSTUS MONTANA JUDGE WHOSE DECISION CASE CAUSED CLOSING OF AMALGAMATED COPPER COMPANY'S MINES, AND MAN TO WHOM PROPERTY' WAS AWARDED. IN MINNIE HEALEY MINE 7 S R UTTE, Mont., Oct. 23.—Accord- ing to every indication to-might, | the Amalgamated Copper Com- | pany is preparing for a - long h shutdown_ as many of the pumps in the big mines have suspended opera- tions. The Amalgamated officials are reticent as to expressing an opinion as to the probable length of the suspension, | saying it may be of six or eight months’ duration and perhaps a greater period. | An effort will be made by leading citi- zens of the State to have the Supreme Court advance the hearing on the ap- peal from Judge Clancy’s decision in the case in the hope that a reversal of the judgment by the tribunal will induce the Amalgamated Copper Company to re- sume. Indignation among the Amalga- mated people is rife and they are loud in denouncing the present state of affalrs and declare that all business on the part of the company will remain at a stand- still until the Boston and Montana re- ceivership matter is finally settled. F. Augustus Heinze's sensational state- ment attacking H. H. Rogers, declaring that the present suspension of the Amal- gamated properties was due to an at- tempt on the part of the Standard Ofl magnate and his associates to affect the | price of Amalgamated Copper stock, and also offering positions to all married men | formerly employed by the Amalgamated Copper, doubling the forces in the mines of the United Copper Company, was fol- lowed by an official statement this after- | noon by Willlam Scallon, president of the Anaconda Company and one of the lead- | ing Amaigamated officials in this State. Scallon denounced as “malicious false- | hoods™ the statements of Heinze regard- ing Rogers. DECLARES ASSERTION FALSE. | “Mr. Rogers,” declares President Scal- | lon, “gave no order to close the mines, | and the assertion that the suspension of | the Amalgamated properties is part of-a | stock jobbing scheme is unqualifiedly | taise.” Heinze also @id that Judge Clancy's | decision yesterday was in line with the | Northern Securities decision. In answer, | President Scallon said: “To lawyers and to laymen allke who | happen to be acquainted with the North- | ern Securities ase, to which Mr. Heinze refers, his assertion that the provisions of Judge Clancy’s decision are ‘very near- |1y 1dentical’ with the order issued by the Circuit Court of Appeals in the merger | case indicates either gross ignorance on | Mr. Heinze's part or a desire to pervert he facts. In the Northern Securities | case the order directed the retransfer of | the stock to its original owners and recog- | niged the property rights of the Northern | Becurities Company. Judge Clancy’s de- cision, on the contrary, so far as it goes, declares that the adverse party has no rights whatever, prob.lmp any trangfers end simply proposes to’ wipe out the property rights.” ‘With the exception of small crews man- ning the pumps, all the mines are desert- ed, and as soon as the furnaces can be cleared of charges and fires drawn the four smeiters of the Amalgamated will shut down. This will be accomplished some time to-night or to-morrow morn- Aoz, and by to-morrow night it is exnsat- — ed "all Copper €ompany will be at a complete standstill. Ore ‘shipments have ceased, and the Great Northern and Butte, Anaconda and Pacific raflroads are reducing their crews. The Northern Pacific and Oregon Short Line are Vut little affécted by the shut- down. BUSINESS MEN APPREHENSIVE. It is comservatively estimated by the Amalgamated Company officlals that be- tween 14,000 and 15,000 men are made idle. This caleulation includes all the men em- ployed by the Amalgamated Company throughout the State of Montana. Business men fear the worst should the suspension continue any length of time, as the army of Amalgamated employes is the principal sustaining factor of Butte's industrial life. In Anaconda the town Is practically dependent on the big Washoe plants for its existence and the closing of the works is the worst blow in the history of that city. Business men of Great Falls are already urging that the case of the- Amalgamated Copper Company may speedily be brought before the Supreme Court for considera- tion, as the closing of the electrolytls smelters means a body blow to the busf~ ness activity of Great Falls. Throughout the State generally a state of depression is reflected and In Butte business is prac- tically paralyzed, with fear of a crash in the event of a prolonged closedown. Business men are canceling their orders for winter supplies. As yet no acts of violence have been reported to the police, though it is feared some difficulty will be experienced in hold- ing the big army of idle miners in check any length of time. To-night the prin- cipal streets are blocked with miners and indignant mutterings can be heard on all sides. Extra police have been sworn in, with orders to prevent the gathering of large crowds. To-night it is reported that the pumps of the Leonard mine of the Boston and Montana group will suspend. Should this cccur the flooding of the Minnle Healy mire, yesterday awarded to F. Augustus Heinze by Judge Clancy, is consldered in- evitable, as the working of the two prop- ertles connect and there is no apparent way to prevent the draining of the Leon- ard by the Minnie Healy, @ ieiiieiririnii - @ INSURGENTS CAPTURE AND DESTROY A FORT Turkish Garrison ,at Merkez Seeks Safety in Flight, Offering No Resistance. LONDON, Oct. 24.—A dispatch to the Times from Sofia says that on the night of October 21 a band of {nsurgents under the commsdnd of Nickoloff captured and blew up the Turkish fort at Merkaz. The garrison, the dispatch adds, fled without making any resistance. —_———— Pittsburg Shops Are Burned. PITTSBURG, Oct. 23.—Fire to-night de- stroyed the big repais shops of the Pitts- burg and Western Railroad, Alleghany, Loss, $100,00. Five hundred workmen are thrown out of work | | operations of the Amalgamated | SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 24. DURAND MAY FILL LIND FAALD BEACHES AR IV WILLIONS Interior Officials Tell of Giant Scandal. —_— Hitchcock Withholds Deeper Secrets of the Inquiry. —_——— Names of Implicated Sena- ors Said to Bein Secre- tary’'s Hands. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—According to the admissions of officials of the Depart- ment of the Interior, mad® for the first time to-day, the investigation of the pub- lic land scandal now going on in the | States of the Pacific Coast involves the most tremendous of all Government “grafts” and causes the “hot air” affair in the Postofice Department to pale to absolute insignificance, Persistent inquiry has developed the in- formation that the present investigation | has been going on more than four months, is entirely independent of the Indian land | scandal and involves money making trans- | actions to the extent of between $15,000,- 000 and $20,000,000 and collusion between organized grafters and State and Federal | authorities in the matter of land allot- | ments in some ffty-four forest reserves | which cover altogether 60,175,765 acres of | 1ana, BIG MEN INVOLVED. Sacretary Hitchcock alone knows the full extent of the frauds now under investiga- | tion and says he will divulge nothing un- | til the whole inquiry has been completed | under his direction. This reticence by the | head of the department has spread &) sorts of alarming rumors, in which names of men in high public places have been mentioned here and in States in which the Investigation Is going on. It is re- ported that five United States Ben- ators haye already besn reached by the investigdtions and are serlously involved. Oge story had it that officlal reports al- | ready in the hands of Secretary Hitch- | cock 'had naméd these Senators. ‘While it is generally accepted that no | United States Senator is belng Investi- | gated, 1t is not denied in the department | that some Western represenatives have already been found to be suspiciously con- nected with these land scandals and be- | fore the inquiry is finished some railroads | and their counection with great forest re- | serves may receive unpleasant mention, | SEARCH OVER RECORDS. | Just as in the postoffice scandal a large | part of the investigation conducted by Mr, Bristow cevered the doings in the admin- istration and department of the former First Assistant Postmaster General, the present land investigation on the Pacific | slope covers the administration of Binger Hermann, former Commissioner General of the Land Office and now a member of the House from Oregon. The forest reserves of the United States | Government embraced only 18,000,000 acres | five years ago. The annual report of the Commissioner for 1902 gives fifty-four re- | serves, including 0,175,765 acres, showing | that more than 42,000,000 acres were pro- | claimed during Hermann's term of office. Since this report was made a few more re- serves have been added, bringing the present acreage up to about 62,000,000, The States in which reserves are located and in which Investigations are now go- ing on are California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Da- kota, Wyoming, Utah, Washington and the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The method of “graft” has been very simple and in large part consists of advanced information through collusion with Federal authorities in ‘Washington and land offices in the States concerned. METHOD OF POLITICIANS. ‘Whenever a forest reserve is proclaimed by the President, according to the gen- eral land law of Congress, all persons having land allotments thereon are en- titled to receive from the Government a similar amount of territory outside of the forest reserves or on what is known as “good land.” The forest reserves are wild territory and the land sells at $125 an acre. The land outside ayerages between $5 and $6 an acre. The belief of the Interior Department officials that many men in the West were locating on land which they had reason to expect would soon be proclaimed, in order to exchange for better land, led to the present investigation. Political Influence and Congressional pressure is brought to bear to have certain reserves proclaimed. The United States Senators whom rumor connects in an Indefinite way with the present land frauds are said to have used such pressure. One Representative has been found to have more direct interest. He was among the petitioners for certain forest reserves on the Pacific Slope less than a year ago. It was found he had many land allotments in the territory. He not only petitioned for a proclamation, but used his influence as a Representative to this end. N . The exact relations of the Santa Fe Rallroad with Government officers and that railroad's sub-selectlon of lieu land in Arizona will also soon become known. TEACHERS AS “DUMMIES.” Syndicate Sends Seventy-Five West to File on Homesteads. ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 23.—A row in the | | 1903. POST OF HERBERT British Embassador at Madrid Is JSlated for Washington. ONDON, Oct. 22.—The Exchange Telegraph Company says Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Embassador at Madrid, will probably succeed the late Sir Michael Herbert as Embassador of Great Britain to the United States. At the Foreign Office this evening a cor- respondent was informed that King Ed- ward has not vet approved of any one to fill the vacant post and that therefore any announcement is premature. The best in- formation obtainable here, however, points to the ultimate selection of Sir Henry Durand. Sir Hepnry Mortimer Durand has been and ,Consul General at Madrid sinee 1900, T {5 & B0 0F fhe | = ——— late Major General Sir H. Durand, R.'E., and was born in 1850. He was educated at Blackheath school and Eton House, Tonbridge, was a barrister at Lincoln’s | inn in 1872, and the following year entered the Bengal civil service. He was political secretary to Sir Frederick, now Earl Rob- erts, during the Cabul campaign in 1879. From 1884 to 1894 he was Foreign Secre- tary in India, and a year before his re- tirement from this post conducted a mis- sion to the Ameer of Afghanistan. From 1894 to 1900 he was Minister at Teheran. He has devoted guch time to literary work and has published several notable volumes. L e el MGR. MERRY DEL VAL'S SELECTION NOT POPULAR Members of Sacred College Are Not Pleased by Appointment Due to Linguistic Abilities. ROME, Oct. 23.—Cardinal Satolli assured the correspondent of The Call to-day that neither himself nor Cardinals Agliardi or Vincenzo Vannutelli had ever been offered the post of Papal Secretary of State. Monsignor Merry del Val had been ap- pointed to the office on the recommenda- tion of Cardinals Oreglia and Vives y Tuto because of his linguistic abilities and notwithstanding the dislike of a ma- jority of the members of the Sacred Col- lege to his selection. SHOOTS :rwa OFFICERS AND THEN RIDES AWAY Bicyclist in Ogden Inflicts Probably Fatal Injuries on Watchman at Railroad Yards. OGDEN, Utah, Oct. 28.—While patrol- ing the railroad yards here to-night Spe- cial Officers Clark and Snipes were shot by a man riding a bicycle. Without a word of warning the bicyclist fired several shots at the officers and then rode away. Clark’s injuries are not considered serious but Snipes was shot in, the stomach and it 1s belleved ‘'he will die. L e o e e i Minneapolis Board of Educationihas dis- closed a sensation in connection with timbeér frauds in Washington. During the early summer, under contract with a Minneapolis man, the Great Northern road sent West in one week seventy-five school teachers of Minneapolis to file on homesteads containing timber. They filed principally in the Chelan district. The matter was kept quiet. The teach- ers returned, but a few were dissatisfied. They did not resign their positions in the schools. Within a few weeks teachers have applied for an absence of two weeks, offering substitutes. This resulted in an inquiry. Finally thirty were allowed to go on the representation that they had valuable Interests at stake. Now it is openly assertéd that the school teachers were employed by a lumber syndicate, the intention being to commute the home- stead to a pre-emption claim at the end of the fourteen months and deed the land to the syndicate for premiums ranging from $500 to $1500 each. It was because some of the teachers secured the $1500 claims while others did not that the dis- closures occurred. Advices from Washington to-day are to the effect that warrants are on the way and wholesale arrests of lumber kings and their tools will be made in a few days. The land in question is valued for its timber at from $0 to $40 an acre, L 1l il ! BRITISH DIPLOMAT WHO MAY BE EMBASSADOR AT WASHINGTON. e NAVAL CONS USELESS, IN HEAIY SEAS Amazing Criticism From Admiral Bradford. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Startling rev- elations of the inability of some of the best United States battleships to fight their turret guns and even their broad- sides batteries in a heavy sea jire made in a report in which Rear Admiral R. B. Bradford, recently relieved as chief of the bureau of equipment, dissents from the designs for the 13,000-ton battleships Idaho and Mississippi, approved by the naval board of constructioh. The elevation of thelr heavy gun port sills above the load water Iine is so little that in a heavy sea they must be closed and the guns thereby rendered inoperat- ive. Some of the members of this board contend. that foreign battleships labor under equal disadvantages, but the fact that the thirteen and eight inch guns of the Kearsarge, flagship of the North At- lantic squadron, were worthless during sixty-one days of her last summer cruise will be a disagreeable message to the bulk of the American people, who fancy that American battleships can fight any- body anywhere and come off victorious. FINZEN WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Bjornson Will Divide Honors in the Literary Section. LONDON, . Oct. 24—A special dispatch to a news agency here from Copenhagen says that Professor Finzen of Denmark has been selected to receive the Nobel prize in the medical section. Henrik Ib- sen, the dramatist, and Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwegian novelist and dramatic poet, will divide the literary Dprize. —— SHOT FROM HORSES BY UNEKNOWN NEGRO Two Residents of Alabama Fatally ‘Wounded and Posse Pursues the Assassin. LETCHATHIE, Ala., Oct. 2.—J. B. Mitchell Jr. and his clerk, Willam Da- vis, were shot from their horses to-day and fatally wounded by an unknown ne- gro. Two negroes have been pursued and ace surrounded by a large posse, PRICE FIVE OENTS, FELONS PLA THE WA O ) RALADID Montana Conspir- acy Hatched in a Prison. Convict Confesses Part in Dynamife Outrages. Woman Is Known to Have Been Implicated in Ef- fort at Blackmail. a SN Special Dispatch to The Call. HELENA, Mont., Oct. 2.—It is now known that the conspiracy to blackmail the Northern Pacific Company was hatched in the State penitentiary. Sus- picion was directed for some time against the cellmate of Isaac Gravelle in that in- stitution. Gravelle was released from prison only three months ago. Soon after he obtained his freedom the Northern Pacific officlals feceived their first letter, demanding $25,000. That letter, it has developed, was written by a conviet in the penitentiary named Harvey Whit- ton, who is serving an eight-year term trom Gallatin County for murder. Whit- ton has made a confession to the part he took in the plot. REVELATION IN LETTERS. Northern Pacific Attorney Wallace has in his possession certain letters recovered from a satchel belonging to Gravelle, which was obtained by Chief of Police Travis. These letters, some of which show the handwriting of Gravelle, have been compared with the writing of the letters sent by the blackmailers and it is claimed that the writing in some cases is similar. The story of the confession of Convict ‘Whitton that comes from Deer Lodge is to the effect that he wrote the first let- ter addressed to Superintendent Boyle, demanding $25,000. That letter was writ- ten In the penitentiary and is sald to have beenm carried out by Gravelle when “he. was, dl and mailed at Butte. ‘Whitton not only implicates Gravelle, but another comvict, whose name has not been disclosed. SCHEME OF THE PLOTTERS. The second letter, in which 350,000 was the least sum for which the blackmatlers would be satisfied to cease efforts to dy- namite the Northern Pacific moving stock, was written in Butte by Gravelle, according to the statément, and the sta- tionery on which it was written was pur- chased in Butte. Gravelle was the active agent In the plot, being the only one of the trio free to harass the raflway com- pany with the giant explosive. He was to receive 330,000, while the remaining $20,- 000 was to be used to secure pardons from the Governor for the two prisoners at Deer Lodge. It is known that a woman was impli- cated to some extent in the plot, althoush her connection with it may be extremely distant. This woman lives in Bozeman and she was the agent through whom Whitton hoped to secure his pardon. Her name was found among the papers taken from Gravelle's satchel, which was locat- ed by Chief of Police Travis. Gravelle's hearing was to-day set for Monday by Judge Smith. He was unabie to furnish bail. —_——————— TEMPERANCE WORKERS CLOSE THEIR CONVENTION Miss Belle Davis of San Jose Is the Successful Competitor for the Diamond Medal. VALLEJO, Oct. 23.—The sessions of the State convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union closed to- night with the dlamond medal contest in Farragut Theater. The contest was open only to candidates who had previ- gold medals ontestants jvis of San 8f the gonvention bere show that there the State, embracing The developmi during its sess are 125 unions a membership of 330. years $2600 has been expen by State order, of which $500 wa¥ used in the na- ture of a promotion fumdé. The reports of the superintendents, which were sub- mitted during the day, contained many interesting statistics. That of the flower mission dwelt upon the good ac- complished in the hospifals and other public institutions by the distributions of fragrant gifts. Mrs. Murphy, who is in charge of the work in San Quentin, made an appeal for old school books, readers in particular, for the use of prisoners. Mrs. Frank Lee and Mrs. D. J. Spencer, in charge of the school savings banks department, told of several Instances in which really remarkable results had been secured. In Grass Valley, where there are 347 con- tributing children, $2300 has been saved in less than two years, and.in Boulder Creek eighty-seven children have put aside nearly $800. After many discus- sions the W. C. T. U. finally concluded to continue the publication of the Pacific Ensign as a weekly paper for another year. The members of the convention responded readily when called upon for aid in this particular cause. Contra Costa received the “Y" banmer, present- ed by Miss Anna Chase to the county which shoyed the most effective work on the of the Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union. King of Spain to Visit Paris. PARIS, Cet. 24.—The Echo de Paris to- day announces that the King of Spain will visit Paris next May. The paper fur- ther states that th¢ Spanish Embassador and Foreign Minister Delcasse discussed | the visit of the King yesterday afternoon,