The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1903, Page 1

ay, cisce- for to fresh southerly. at“San Pran- bouras midnigkt, November 7, 1903: San FPrancisco and vicinity— ! Cloudy, unsettled weather Sat- day; probably light showers; light northerly winds, changing A. G. McADIE, District Porecaster. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, ian Band. California strels. THE TEEATERS. Alcazar—“Too Much Johnson.” Alhambra—Ellery’s Royal Ital- — Haverly's Central—“At Valley Forge.” Grand—“Ben Hur.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. The Chutes— Vaundeville. Tivoli—Grand Opera. 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS, U ‘4! TED 5 TATES RECOGNIZES PANAMA REPUBLIC; GERMAN WARSHIPS WILL SPEED TO SAN DOMINGO X‘: [ ILINTE K E PRINGE IN THEATER “Cupid” of Hawaii Ordered Out of to Congress taken for a Negro. ), T Royal Islander Has Unpleasant erience but he the em He was envelope with t and bearing , Germany. He notification Wh‘ are . & legacy e sent back the neces- pepers to establish a requ part SPOEANE MAN LOSES ROLL OF BANK NOTES | Finder Gives Them Away to Ac-| quaintances Believing the Bills to | Be Counterfeit. A. B. Mareschault le in Nelson, B. C., to-day of fifteen $100 bank notes his pocket. A few min- were picked W by a being perfectly new were terfeit. He gave them ces, most of whom no one wishing to have por n of a supposed counterfeit bill unt. Some of the bills times. During the discovered his loss e. The bills were ered by the police, sors guessing the real SPOKA kane whi e co s five BEXESE L APPEALS FOR HELP FOR | THE MACEDONIANS | ine Said to Have ‘ Called Upon Europe for Aid. { 6.—It is rumored at So- nd’s mother, Prin- Cleme soverelg acedonian refugees, the the N Emperor Fl‘l'I- cis Joseph has sent §2000 for the aid of the refugees. ‘ to leave | | +- "HINGTON, Nov to join the »f recail American republic is too weak t | Kaiser’s Ships | Are Ordered to San Domingo | THOMAS, D. W. L., Nov. 6. — The German warships here coaling, | and it is reported that they have been hurriedly ordered San Domingo, owing to the seriousness of the situa- tion there. are || to biplomat J'ends Warning of Trouble. spatch to The Cali Special GTON, Nov. Minister anto Domingo 6.—United Powell, at City, has in- ned the & Department t the revolutionists’ army marching on the capital of the Domini- lic and that there’ is immediate there of an ASHI States te at for the presence ship Newport has already been Savannah, Ga., to Puerto r course will probably be di- to anto Domingo City. The Baltimore was due to-day at Pla rders await her di- her to go direct to Colon, Panama, isthmian revolution. »v. 6.—The Clyde the blockade and scharging her cargo here. The ment gunboat had orders to sink tried to force the blockade. e Government at Santo Domingo had that the cargo which was de- for Puerto Plata and Domana 1 be delivered at the capital, so that ernm could get the duties. The the G capt; and protested to United Btates Minister Powell. Now that the Cherokee is dis- the revolutionists will get DENIES THE STORY OF A HEAVY RANSOM Wentz’s Father Says That the Letter Demanding Money Is a Forgery. BRISTOL, Tenn., Nov Wentz said to-night that a letter re- ceived by his family purporting to be from their son, Edward L. Wentz, and esking that $100,000 be pald for his ransom, was not written by the young man. added that no new clew had been found during the search for his son. He also says that the man who brought the letter to the family from the mountains is an impostor and the letter a clumsy forgery. The prevailing opinion among the citi- zen here is that young Wentz is held somewhere for a heavy ransom. S — ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION ARRIVES AT BEIRUT Consul General Sk'ivnner and Marines Aboard United States Gunboat Machias. SHINGTON, No 6.—Secretary y to-day received a dispatch an nouncing the arrival of the gunboat Ma- chias at Beirut on her way to Jibutl, French Somaliland, with Consul General Skinner and the other members of the Abyssinian expedition. The Machias stopped at Beirut to takc | aboard a detachment of marines from the Brooklyn and the San Francisco which is to escort the Consul General's party into the interior of Abyssinia. s already assembled there | n of the Cherokee refused to do this | 6—Dr. John §. | Dr. Wentz | Pr o declare war. ident Roosevelt to-day gave recogni lower, with Rear Admiral J. B. Coghlan and H. seven other warships already en route to Colon and Panama. two Chinamen has been the only bloodshed. od when the Colombian Government receives the note sent to-day. ion td the de facto government of Panama. A. Gudger, United States Consul at Panama, aboard, and the cruiser Baltimore, now in Dominican wa- This force is considered sufficient to cope with the situation in which the accidental Dr. Herran, the Colombian Charge d’Affaires here, has his books packed in expectation of being immediately The relations between the United States and Colombia are severely strained, but the South YOUNG FIGHTERS ENLISTED IN THE ARMY OF COLOMBIA WHO MAY EN- GAGE IN A DESPERATE WAR ON AND TYPES OF MARINES SCENE OF PANAMA, WHO ARE AT THE TROUBLE, Orders were issued for the President’s yacht, TH QUICK- RING GUN J‘oldzers Hurry to the Scene of Massacre. ERLIN . 6.—A dispatch from the Government of German Southwest Africa, dated Wind- | hoek, November 5, says: “The majority of the colonial troops, including a mounted battery, to- gether with 300 men, have started for Warmbad. No further news has been re- ceived from the scene of the fighting.” | It is said that the Bindetzwar tribe, which massacred the garrison of the fort at Warmbad and the German inhabitants lof a neighboring village and took the English families prisoners, numbers about | 500 fighting men. | CAPE TOWN, Nov, 6.—Official advices lrecelved here fully confirm the massacre at Warmbad, Damaraland, German South- | west Africa, by the Bindetzwar tribes- men. The Germans gallantly fought to the end, but were overwhelmed. It is | belleved that none of them escaped. | Warmbad was burned, 3 Reports of isolated murders of German traders are also coming in. The rebellion in Damaraland is officially attributed to distress caused by the drought. A German missionary from Damaraland reports that Lieutenant Jobst, command-.| ant at Warmbad, ordered the Bondel wartz to deliver up their rifies for regis- tration. A deputation of the natives met the commandant to discuss the matter and an altercation arose. The command- ant, béing incensed, shot the Bondelz- wartz chief, killing him. This led to a | general attack by the natives, in which it | is believed that fifteen of the soldiers in the garrison were killed and that few escaped. The German, Consul here de- | clines to give any information. LONDON, Nov. 7.—The Cape Town cor- respondent of the Daily Mail reports that | the German police post of Usibis has been surrounded and the garrison murdered and that the German garrison of sixty | white soldiers at Keetmanshoop has been | attacked. BRUSSELS, Nov. 6.—Natives have.at- tacked and plundered the post at Lulura- burg, on the Upper Congo. The Euro- | peans at the post escaped. | T H Herbert Spencer Honored. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 6.—Herbert Spencer has received one of the Alfred Nobel prizes. “America comparatively easy and speedy. | ! = J‘ecretary of J‘tate Explains the flttztude of the American Government. ASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The Secretary of State to- day made the following statement in regard to af- fairs on the isthmus of Panama: “The action of the President in the Panama matter is not only in the strictest accordance with the principles of justice and equity and In line with all the best precedents of our public policy, but it was the only course he could have taken In compliance with out treaty rights and obli- gations. By our treaty, entered Into with New Granada in the year 1846, New Granada guaranteed that ‘the right of way or transit across the isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be free and open to the Gov- ernment and citizens of the United States.’ “This {8 a right which we acquired by the treaty, not gratuitously conferred, but in return' for an important com- pensation, for in the same article the Government of the United States guarantees ‘positively and efficaciously to New Granada by the present stipulation the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus.with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupt- ed or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty ex- ists; and Im consequence the United - States guarantees in the same manner the rights of soverelgnty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the sald terri- tory.’ “The close connection this created between the two gov- ernments was well set forth by President Polk in his mes- sage transmitting the treaty to the Senate. He said: -“The importance of the concession to the commercial and polit- ical Interests of the United States cannot be overrated. The route by, the isthmus of Panama is the shortest between the two oceans, and from the Information herewith communicat- ed it would seem to be the most practicable for a rallroad or canal. The vast advantages to our commerce which would result from such a communication, not only from?the west coast of America, but with Asia and the islands of the Pa- cific, are too obvious to require any detall. Such a passage will save us from a long and dangerous navigation of more than 9000 miles around the Horn, and render our communi catfon with our,own possessions on the mnorthwest coast of The treaty does not propose to guarantee a treaty to a forelgn nation in which the United States wiil have no common interest with that nation. On the -contrary, we.are more deeply and di- rectly interested in the subject of the guarantee than New Granada herself or aay other country.” “These considerations, the . controlling nature of which were at once recognized so long ago, have become more and more important in every vear that has elapsed since the treaty was written.. Our acquisition of Hawali and the Philippines has given them a greatly enhanced validity. The control, f the interest of commerce and traffic of the whole civilized world, of the means of undisturbed transit across the isthmus otPumhnmmflmmtlmmmma United States, 2 s I | “The right to this control we have never forfeited by any laxity of our own, either in the assertion of our rights or in the performance of our duty under the treaty.. In 1853 Mr. Everett assured the Peruvian Minister that we should not hesitate to maintain the neutrality of the isthmus in the case | of war between Peru and Colombia. In 1864 Colombia, which has always been vigilant to avail itself of its privilege con- | ferred by the treaty, expressed its expectation that in the event of war between Peru and Spain the United States would ecarry into effect the guarantee of neutrality. | “There have been few administrations of the State De- | partment in which this treaty has not by either one side or the other been used as the basis of more or less important demands. It was said by Mr. Fish In 1871 that the Depart- ment of State had reason to belleve that an attack upon Co- lombian sovereignty on ithe isthmus had on several oceasions been averted by warning from this Government. In 133, | when Colombia was under the menace of hostilities from | Italy in the Cerruti case, Mr. Bayard expressed the serious | concern that . the ited States could not but feel that a | European power shduld resort to force against a sister re- | public on this hemisphere, as to the sovereign and uninter- | rupted use of a part of whose territory we are guarantors under the solemn faith of a treaty. The United States has | not only constantly protected Colombia from foreign | invasion on the setrength of the rights and duties cre- ated by the treaty of 1846, but has time and again intervened to preserve the freedom of traffic from disturbance in the course of domestic dissensions. In these cases we have in- tervened sometimes at the suggestion of Colombia, some- times on our own Impression of the necessities of the case, | but always to tHe profit of Colombia as well as universal commerce. The position of the United States was clearly set forth by Mr. Seward in these words: UNCLE SAM WILL BE NEUTRAL. “ “The United States have taken and will take no inter- est in any questiorn of internal revolution in the State of Panama or any State of the United States of Colombia, but will maintain a perfect neutrality in regard to such domestic controversics. The United States will, nevertheless, hold themselves ready to protect the transit trade across the isth- mus against invasion:of either domestic or foreign disturbers of the peace of the State of Panama.” “There has never been any doubt of the validity of the treaty of 1846 to guarantee free and open transit either for | American citizens or for the Government of the United States. We have used the isthmus for the transit of troops and of fugitives from justice, and a protocol was signed at Bogota oh the 22d of February, 1879, acknowledging this right of transit for troops and extradited fugitives belonging to the United States, a right as is declared In the protocol, ‘which is established in compensation for the guarantee of the sov- ereignty and property of the isthmus, to which the same Government is bound.” | court-martial of having hazed 1 | men at the Naval Academy, “It must not be lost sight of that this treaty is not de- “Continued on Page 3, Columns 3, 4 and 5. MIDSHIPMEN ARE QUSTED FOR HAZING Secretary of Navy Dismisses Them in Disgrace. Takes Drastic Action in Cases of Three Young Officers. —_— iHopes to Stamp Out Practice of Making Life Miser- able for “Plebes.” Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, ov. 6.—Convi Midshipmen Joseph Drummond Little of Ohio, John Henry Lofland of Iowa and Worden Chaf. fee of Wisconsin were to-day ordered dis- missed from the service by Secretary Moody. They will never be eligible for re- admission to the Naval Academy, though their offense was mild in its ef- al- fect on the “plebes” who were hazed. Captain Brownson, superintendent of the Naval Academy, who brought the record of the court-martial to the Navy Department this afternoon, expects this drastic action to have a signal effect In exterminating hazing at the academy. The unusual part about this case is that the midshipmen dismissed are all members of the first or senior class, members of which generally hold themselves alcof from “running” underclassmen and whose assistance In the preservation of disel- pline has been so great during the past year that the anti-smoking rule was ab- rogated in their favor. It was evident that these seniors, how- ever, were unwilling that the academy should be robbed of the traditional hazin practices when the second and third classes were both pledged not to annoy “plebes."” e ok TAR AND FEATHERS FOR HOTEL CLERK Angry Mob Punishes Its Victim in the Middle of the Street. CHARLOTTE, Mlch.,'.\‘nv. 6—A mob administered a coat of tar and feathers to J. Ward Copeland, the clerk of a lead- ing hotel h: in the middle of the main street of the town at § o'clock this even- ing. Public indignation had been aroused by charges that he was responsible for an attempt made by Mabel Sturtevant, a guest at the hotel, to hang herself in her room Sunda ing. This attempt at suicide nearly succeeded and she is sflil in a critical condition. Copeland’s clothing was torn from him. Members of the mob adorned lapels of their coats with shreds as souvenirs and then liberal quantities of tar and feath- ers were applied to his body. The ring- leader then warned Copeland to leave town within twenty-four hours on pain of a second application. —_— ADVISORY BOARD MAY ASBIBT WAR OFFICE Premier Mom Makes Important Recommendation to King Edward. LONDON, Nov. 6.—It was officially an- nounced to-night thet” Premier Balfour, with King Edward’s approval, has, after consultation with the Secretary of War, appointed a committeé to advise concern- ing the creation of a board for the admin- istrative business of the War Office and the consequent changes .involved. The | committee named are Viscount Esher, Ad- miral Sir John A. Fisher and Colonel Sir George S. Clarke. —————— RABBIS CHARGED WITH CUELTY TO ANIMALS Denver Officer Makes Serious Accusa- tions Against Prominent Hebrews. DENVER, Nov. 6.—Oliver E. Tufts, an officer of the Humane Society of Color- ado, to-day swore to information against several Jewish rabbis of this city, charg- ing them with cruelty to animals in their method of butchering beef cattle. The matter is now in the hands of the District Attor;;ey. No arrests rave as yet been made. S — Papal Exhibit for the Fair. ROME, Nov. 6y—An official note has been written by Monsignor Merry del Val, Papal Secretany of State, under in- structions from the‘Pope, accepting the invitation to be represented at the St. Louis Exposition. —_——— Chilean Crisis Near an End. SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Nov. 6—The Ministers of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance aad War have withdrawn their resignations tendered October 31, and the crisis is expected to end soom,