The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1903, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for 20 hours ending at midnight, November 26: San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Thursday, possibly rain by ‘A Matinee California—*"A “Iris.” Matinee to-day. Fischer's— Rubes and Roses.” Poor Relation.” t the Old Cross tinee to-day. ::h; l::::::mn“:?d" —- or'::‘—""nn HEur” Matinee * A G. MCADIE, Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matinee District Porecaster. n‘:—dc.‘httn—vndnm-. 3 s — : E 2 :\;CIV—NO. 179. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COLOMBIA | INCREASING HER ARMY One Hundred Thou- sand Men Will Bear Arms. L Panama’s Subjugation the Summit of Bo- gota’s Hopes. Made to Bribe ip Captain to port Troops. 8 h 8 s Tran n the messenger canal treaty ber 1, to have a transport him where e signed The waiting, ed, its back to Colon. , scheduled to New York, will essenger grrives, 1 the Yucatan, ork on the day meeting with some s the its terms United that e .. ACTIVITY AT NORFOLK. ene at Navy Yard Is Like One in Time of War. —Not since ty been observable Yard. Almost ar and political ve from Panama, Co- ! Domingo, work is rus sed vigor. T 00 more men em- yard than ever before, these are kept at night work Especial ef- get the cruiser as Admiral St possible lers at the yard being rushed » % et WILL PROTEST TO FRANCE. Colombia Looks in Vain to Paris Government for Support. N 25.—The French Foreign ed notice from Colom- er representatives here, b t a protest against 1 States in con- No action fa- will be taken by ernment. Senor Pa- Consul here, in said that if the ure a settlement hon- ymbia he was certain Co- would " strenuously defend her | Other members of the b n colony here say that Co- ds to fight to the last ex- hundred thousand men, nd equipped, they assert, the field. inte +Epegs First Duty of Durand. Nov. 25.—Sir Henry . the new British Em- rive in New York s expected to come at gton, and his first work ging of the protest of the which already has odged against the hes- ma government to re- me a pr share of the Colombian ————e——————— Royal Mines to Close. LTON, No The Royal Consolid- mines have decided to close their s at Hodson, Calaveras County. This | 2 will throw meh out of employ- | e The m recently formed had sented demands to the con which the latter felt unable to conyly with. 5 D YNAMITERS PLOT THE BLOWING UP OF S Life of the Governor of Colorado Is Threatened. DENVER, No —Startling discov- eries have resulted from the investiga- tion into the blowing up of the Vindi- cator mine, in the Cripple Creek dis- trict, tant General Bell. He says that those ion which killed who caused the explos Superintendent McCormack and Mel- vin Beck also plotted to blow up the Gold Coin, Findley, Golden Cycle, Strat- other ton’s Independence and several properties General Bell learned that the revolver found at the scene of the explosion was one sold by the manufacturers to the San Juan Hardware Company on Octo- ber 2. A partial deseription of the man who bought the revolver was obtained. Generel Bell is sure that the man is one of the sixteen now being guarded in the military lines at Camp Goldfield. He is certain that all of cerned in the Vindicator affair, with one exception, are in custody. One of | the .men wanted succeeded in getting out of the district before a cordon of | thrown around the camp way to Seattle, according soldiers w. and i$ on to informat ered since his departure. | that he will escape. M’KINNEY GIVES INFORMATION. Of the sixteen men now being held at Camp Goldfield about a dozen are charged with having been principals or accessories in the Vindicator affair. The remainder are held in connection with the attempt to wreck a Florence and Cripple Creek train a few days age It is generally believed that Charles McKinney, the alleged train-wrecker, who was spirited out of the district to the penitentiary for safe keeping, is.the person from whom the authorities have obtained much incriminating evidence. One proof that violence was plotted |is the fact that non-union miners at work on the properties said to have been included in the doomed list have been receiving mysterious warnings not to work upon peril of bearing the con- sequences. GOVERNOR IS THREATENED. Governor Peabody and Adjutant Gen- eral Bell have received threatening let- ters within the past few days. One of the communications to General Bell | says: | *You will be popped off if you ever come to Cripple Creek.” Another 'letter warns the officials of the existence of a plot to blow up the | wing of the Capitol where the Gov- ernor's and adjutant general's offices are located. All such letters are turned over to the Pinkerton agency as fast as received. No attempt has been made to guard the military offices, because no fears are entertained that any vio- lence will be attempted in Denver. General Bell was in communication | with the Sheriff of Las Animas County for more than an hour to-day, and the report was in circulation that troops were being placed in readiness to move to the coal fields. The reserve force numbers 500 men, and they will be fully | equipped within the next few days. General Bell called his stenographer into his office this afternoon and dic- tated the following statement for pub- lication: “We will fight it out in Colorado if it takes every able-bodied man in the State, and some who are disabled, to the end that law and order be main- tained and socialism, anarchy and Moyerism are wiped off the earth and | there isn’'t a grease spot left to assas- sinate, dynamite, molest, disturb or in any manner interfere with the commer- cial conditions and the peace of illus- | trious Colorado.” !~ General Bell has given orders to have { two more regiments formed in the Colo- rado National Guard, and in the course of the week he expects to recryit 600 It is believed ! men. *General Bell received to-day from the United States arsenal at Rock Island, I11.. 1000 Krag-Jorgensen rifles and 100, Confinuad;; F:Ee 2, Column i. those con- | n which has been gath- | £ | tions have prevailed since the institu- | tion® of the strike a week ago“ last on Saturday, according to Adju- | | | 3 S PIirIATT 2 - Jaron COMMANDER OF MOUNTAIN | MILITIA | LABOR AND A CHICAGO LEADER. MANY COAL MINES e the Streets of CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—Although a ba- Chicago. | Peace Is Restored on sls of settlement of the strike of the employes of the Chicago City Rallway Company was decided upon at 1:30 o'clock this morning and the agreement was ratified by the men a few hours later, not a single car is in service on the entire system to-night. The only cars operated to-day were manned by non-union crews and the same condi- Thursday. For some unexplained reason the |; management of the Chicago City Rail- way was not officially notified until to- night that the strike had been declared off. While the men were ratifying the agreement decided upon early this morning, by which the men were to return to work, the company continued to operate its cars under police pro- || tection on the five branch lines that had been opened for traffic since the | y beginning of the strike, and as no offi- cial notice of the cessation of hostili- ties had been received by the officials of the road at 5 o'clock to-night, the usual time of abandoning the service since the trouble began, arrangements were made for the cars to run to-mor- row, guarded by the police. To-night, however, Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler, who has had charge of the police. who have been guarding the cars, was notified that his services and those of his men would no longer be required, as word had been received by Manager McCullough from President Mahon of the strikers’ union that the strike had been declared off. The trainmen have been ordered to between Louis formal charge of fraud. GOVERNMEN MAY JOIN N THE INQUIRY Shipbuilding Dis- closures Invite | Probing. 'Armor Plate Bids a Subject for Inves- | tigation. blchottns) | Bondholders Threaten An- | other Suit Against " Promoters. NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Should J. P. Morgan & Co. by any chance succeed in effecting the compromise so earnest- ly desired with the United States Ship- | | building Company contesting bond- | | holders, a new suit is to be begun that| | will place all further suppression of | facts out of the question. James B. Dill | | will conduct it. | This was the report current to-day | | and it was accompanied by rumors of | | an arrest soon to be made in the ship- | | yard case. | The idea that Morgan & Co. should | | effect any compromise was ridiculed by | attorneys for the bondholders. Sam- | | uel Untermeyer, who, with Henry | ‘Wollman, is conducting the case for the | bondholders, stands un the statement | | made by him two weeks ago that no | money consideration can ever effect a | | compromise, but that only an honest | plan of reorganization can stop pro- ceedings. Wall street discussed with dismay | to-day the disclosures of high finance | made at the previous day’s hearing be- | fore United States Special Examine H. D.'Oliphant. Preof of the absolut | ) | ] Special Dispatch to The Call. | | the Bethlehem Steel Company brought much inquiry as to what affidavits had been made by the company on bids for armor plate in Washington in “‘compe- tition” with the steel trust. | There seems no escape from Congres- | sional plate bids, it is said. The agreement Nixon and Daniel Le | Roy Dresser in behalf of the shipyard trust and C. M. Schwab for Morgan & Co. was brought out in the testimony for the first time and confirmed the re- port of Morgan ownership Much was made to-day also of proof of misrepre- sentations by C. M. Schwab when he sold the Bethlehem Company for Mor- gan & Co. into the armor: investigation He turned it over, claiming t had a surplus of $4,000,000. The testimony showed that a month before its sale he received a report from Jones, Caesar & Co., his own account- ants, telling him the surplus was $250,- 000 less than the $4,000,000 claimed. month after the sale this $250,000 was formally written off, and two months A ater the surplus was reported to the Stock Exchange as still $4,000,000. This will, it is said, be made the basis of a —_—— SALT LAKE RAILROAD FILES SUIT AGAINST HAYS Commences Action in the Federal Court and Ties Up All His Property. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.—Because H. T. Hays failed within the limit allowed him $12,000, which he gave to secure the Salt Lake Railroad Company for money he is said to have secured by question- able means while acting as their con- fidential agent, to make good the transfer of an attachment suit return for duty at 4 o’clock to-morrow | tying up his property was filed in the morning. The electric linemen, firemen and engineers, cable splicers and coal teamsters returned to work to-night United States District Court Fearing that Hays would transfer his property the company placed a special to-day. and to-morrow the road will be ope- | train at the disposal of the United rated under normal conditions. President Mahon of the national or- ganization of street car men to-night wired Congressman Livernash of San Francisco, asking him to represent the employes of the Chicago City Railway Company in arbitrating the wage scale. | t — . Paper Mills Shut Down. GLENS FALLS, N. Y., Nov. 25.—The superintendent of the International Paper Mills at South Glens Falls and Fort Ed- ward received orders to shut down the mills untli further orders. It is stated that all the mills in the combination, twenty-eight in_number, will be shut down until next Wednesday. Overproduc- States Marshal and a deputy went at once papers. covered he executed a deed to company and agreed to deliver it to a trustee mutually agreed upon. to Riverside and served the ‘When Hays’ grafting was dis- the Since hen Hays has delayed the delivery of the deed, and until delivery it was, of course, not binding. The sult was the result. States court because the Salt Lake Railroad Company is organized under the laws of Utah. The suit was filed in the United A R Sue to Recover on Stock Deal. NEVADA CITY, Nov. 25.—Peter Mc- 4 ownership by Morgan & Company olT tion is given as the cause. —_———— TURKEY’S ANSWER IS PLEASING TO POWERS Porte Accepts All the Points in Pro- poséd CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 25.—The Austrian and Russian Embassadors here have received the reply of the Reform Scheme for- Macedonia. Porte to the Macedonian reform pro- posals of the powers, accepting in prin- ciple all of the nine points of the re- form scheme. The acceptance is qualified by the reservation that in the application of the reform scheme everything calecu- lated to humiliate Turkey shall be avoided. The Turkish reply has pro- duced a good impression in diplonmatic circles. 3 ~ 5 Auslan began suit in the Superjor Court to-day against C. J. Schuester, Joseph Schuester, La Vinia Schuester, C. Haible, E. J. Gautier, George W. Darby, J. A. Reed, F. Hammer Jr.,, F. J Castlehun and the Grizzly Ridge Mining Company, operating near Co- lumbia Hill, to recover the sum: of 7650, the balance alleged to be due on 51,000 shares of stock which he claims to have sold the defendants in 1893 at 30 cents a share, on Which he alleges they have paid him but half the pur- chase price. 3 —————— Tug Tyee Has the Meteor in Tow.. SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—The disabled teamship Meteor wlll probably reach this port in tow of the tug Tyee from Dutch Harbor during the first week in December. disabled vessel by way of the inside ——~—_ ! passage, a distance of 3000 rulles, The Tyee will bring the MAJOR J. W. McCLUNG SHOT WHILE DEFENDING WOMAN A. L. Garnett Seeks Revenge for Fan- cied Wrong. Tries to Kill Woman and Shoots Down Defender. Wounded Man Lying Near to Death at Sanatorium. Crazed by the prospect of losing the friendship of a womar: of whom he had for many years been a beneficiary, and with his mind maddened by drink in- dulged in while brooding over his trou- bles, A. L. Garnett, a relative and former business agent of Mrs. Lillian Hitchcock Coit, yesterday afternoon made an attempt to take her life, and failing the desperate man turned his weapon on the woman’s protector, Ma- Jjor J. W. McClung, a well-known club- man and broker, and shot him down. The tragedy, which may result in the death of McClung, occurred shortly af- ACE ——— IN HER ROOM AT PAL B o+ MURDEROUS ATTACK. — ter 5 o’clock in the apartments of Mrs. Coit on the third floor of the Palace Hotel and was witnessed by the fright- ened lady and her maid. Immediately after the affair Garnett hurried from the scene of the shooting and slipping out of the hotel made his escape in the darkness of the evening, which was rapidly enshrouding the city. SURGEON ARRIVES. It was several minutes later before the two women recovered sufficiently from their fright to fully realize the situation, and then they quickly turned to the unfortunate victim, who was Iying on the floor, apparently in a life- less state.s Their first thought was for Major McClung’s comfort, and a hur- ried summons for medical assistance was responded to by Dr. George F. Shiels, a resident of the hotel. A quick examination of the major's wound, which was at the lower end of the breastbone, satisfled the surgeon that °| the case was serious, and at his sug- gestion an ambulance was telephoned for and the injured man was hastily conveyed to the Waldeck Sanatorium. Strangely the tragedy did not be- come known to the other guests and the management of the Palace until the hospital stewards, bearing the body of McClung, quietly carried it on a stretcher down the New Montgomery street side of the hotel and placed itin the ambulance awaiting them on Jessie street. It was then that the assistunt manager of the hotel instituted an in- vestigation and, failing to glean a sat- isfactory exvlanation of the affair, promptly summoned the police, who took charge of the case. One of the first moves made was to obtain from McClung at the Waldeck hospital a statement of the shcoting and the name of the man who was guilty of the murderous assault. Then the search for Garnett was begun, but up to an early hour this morning the de- e L { =) L h& , BRYAN TELLS STORIES I TC ENGLISH s'u-rnsm‘ MRS. LILLIAN HITCHCOCK-COIT, IN WHOSE DEFENSE MAJOR J. W. McCLUNG WAS SHOT AND PROBABLY FATALLY WOUNDED AT THE PALACE HOTEL, AND A. L. GARNETT, WHO MADE THE — MUST GO BACK TO TEXAS TO FACE MURDER CHARGE Embassador Choate’s Guest From Ne- | Arizona Prisoner §t;n§f.ufly Asserts braska Is Entertaining to , Londoners. LONDON, Nov. 25. — Embassador Choate gave a luncheon to Willlam Jennings Bryan to-day. Among the[ distinguished persons invited to meet Mr. Bryan .were Premier Balfour, the | Earl of Onslow, Charles T. Ritchie, Sir | Robert Giffen, Sir Gilbert Parker, Mor- | ton Frewen, Lord Denbigh, Lord | Mount-Stephen and W. L. Courtney. The luncheon was informal and no | speeches were made. Mr. Bryan's pow- | ers as a story-teller quite delighted the | English guests. Whether it was donei on purpose, or otherwise, there was a | touch of grim humor in the fact that Mr. Choate placed Mr. Bryan between Mr. Balfour and Mr. Ritchie, who had not met since the Cabinet split. Bryan has arranged to address a meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, where he will be the guest of the Lord Mayor. No date for the meeting has been decided upon. ————— Lumber Carriers Still at War. SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—Little hope of | a settlement of the fight between the | Pacific Coast Steamship Company and | the steam schooners in the lumber car- | rying trade is entertained by the offi- ’ clals of the former company. A promi- nent Northwest lumberman has been sent to San Francisco to select a site fcr lumber yards and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company has made ar- rangements for securing all the lum- ber required to enter into a hard fight for the control of the California lum- ber trade. A fleet cf steam schooners will be put on the run and the company believes it can force a settlement on its e | Texas That He Is the Victim of Mis- taken Identity. SOLOMONVILLE, Ariz., Nov. 25.— The Sheriff of Brown County, Texas, has arrived with requisition papers for Thomas Bell, one of the ploneers of Graham County, who was recently ar- rested- by Captain Thomas, Rynning and Lieutenant Ellison of the Arizona Rangers for a murder committed in twenty-three years ago. Bell was arrested at his ranch, seven miles west of Fort Grant. He was located through descriptions placed in the hands of Captain Rynning by Texas officers. Bell declares that some mistake has been made, that he is not gullty of the crime of which he is charged, and that he is willing to go back to Texas and stand trfal. He says that he never made any secret of the fact that he came to Arizona from that section of Texas where the murder was com- mitted, and his friends uphold him in this statement. It is said, however, that the evidence which tends to identify him as the man who committed the crime is very strong. He will be taken back to Texas immediately. S PR L 2 Ready for Dunsmuir Will Contest. VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 25.—The case of Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress, against James Dunsmuir of this city, claiming $3.000,000, her mother’s interest in the estate of the late Alexander Dunsmuir, who married her mother in California, is set for Wednesday next in the local courts. The action is taken on the ground that undue influence was exercised in making *the will of the late Alexander Dunsmulr,