The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1903, Page 1

southeast winds A G. District TEE WEATHER. . Fcrecast made at Sanm Pran- cisco for thirty hours emding midnight, December 16: £an Francisco and vicinity— Rain Wednesday; brisk to high McADIE, Forecaster. XCV—NO. 16 PANAMA WILL SHARE WITH COLOMBIA -MILLION-DOLLAR CANAL FUND THE TEN EN {BER 16 Fischer's—"I. Bush.” [ | '0-Day. [ The Chutes—Vaudeville. Ld California—“Foxy Grandpa.” Central—“The Scout's Bevenge.” Columbia—"Dolly Varden.” Grand — “The heum—Vaudeville. - 0. U.” Bounie Brier Matinee FINANCIAL KNGS WILL )0 BATTLE Rockefeller - Cassatt War Breaks Out Afresh. etween looms ts great capacity m are expecte: s reached the n- e driven to straits pendents hit hard- vania Steel aged by the Pennsylva pany. The old enm between John D. Rockefeller Cassatt, made a live thing through The Rockefeller- Carnegle-Gould ¢ ation controls has its individual » has not steel and wit the fight tre h assatt tired, as ek 1o do, and he has not been frightened, epparently, by the threat to build a Southern Pennsy raflroad from Pittsburg to Philade a. The Penn- sylvania Raflroad far as can be shows no disposition to be forced , submission to Rockefeller. Aemoralizing reduction in prices can be expected if open war breaks | out. The first cut is scheduled next week, when prices, it is said, wi be cut to 326 a ton. The effect upon the Pennsylvania Steel Company will be most severe, however. The steel trust will throw all its power of comn against this company and will ; ree it to manufacture steel rails at a | rate permitting of little or no profit. | —_——— BELIEVE INCENDIARIES STARTED ROCHESTER FIRES | ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 16.—111 ie estimated that the losses by the fires | that last night destroyed the plants | of the Foster & Armstrong Piano Company, the Hoyt Shoe Company nd the Wendell Piano Company will reach a total of $500,000, with about 50 per cent insurance. It is believed the fires were started by incendiaries. The plants were located in different parts of the city and the fires started within a st=xr* time of each other. organ and his ally, | re- | lers ordered him | H UNITED STATES WARSHIPS WHICH HAVE .BEEN HURRIED .FROM NAVY YARD FOR OVERHAULING BEFORE VOY- MARE ISLAN AG! TO PANAMA TO PREVE e COLOMBIAN TRESPASS. FUR SEALS FOR LAKE SUPERIOR g Plan to Establish aAustria Again Asks| Colony on the Inl;mgl Sea. Special Dispatch to The Call ASHLAND, -Wis., Dec. 15.—Steps have ‘been taken for the formation of a Lake Superior Seal Propagation So- | clety, the object being to stock Lake | Superior with fur-bearing seals. head of the socieiy will be Seben Malaroff of Ashland, a retired Rus jence as a sealer; former Lieutenant | Governor Fifield and J. S. Robins of Rhinelander. It is figured that ten males and forty female =eals in the lake will increase to 1000 in twenty years. Apostle Island, or Isle Royal, together with the rocky shores of Lake Superior, would be an ideal breeding place for the seal, it is held, and Malaroff says the climatic conditions are perfect. Efforts will be made to obtain gov- ernmental regulation by agreement with Canada. The projectors figure large profits. | RSN TS Sl | ATTACK ON OUR CONSUL .DUE TO TURKISH MALICE CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 15.—The United States Legation has received an | exhaustive report of the recent inci- dent at Alexandretta, fully convicting the Jlocal authorities and police of having made an unwarranted attack on Consul Davis; of arbitrary inter- ference with him in the pursuit of his duties, and showing that although At- tarian, the naturalized American, had been ten days In Alexandretta, he was not molested until he attempted to embark for Egypt under the protec- tion of the Consul.. The legation has transmitted the report to Washington and is awaiting instructions regarding the measures to be taken to obtain satisfaction. The | | | | T GIVES LAST WARNING T0 KING PETER for Punishment 0f Assassins. Special Digpatch to The Call. VIENNA, Dec. 15.—According to the Neue Wiener Journal Emperor Francis Joseph, in receiving M. Vuitch, the Servian Minlster, - severely criticized the coatinuance of the murderers of King Alexander ard Queen Draga at | the Servian court and In the Govern- sian sailor, with thirty years' experi- | ment and army., His Majesty declared that until they were punished or at least removed from King Peter's suite cordial relations between Austria and Servia would be impossible. The 'Emperor added that the con- science of Europe demanded stern treatment for the murderers, even at the risk of jncreasing internal dis- orders. Austria had shown her dis- pleasure in a comparatively inild man- ner by glving leave of absence to her representative at Belgrade, but this would be followed by graver demon- strations by the powers if the regicides were allowed to retain their influence. —— Sl T Cruiser Medjidie Off on Trial Trip. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15. — The new Turkish cruiser Medjidie left Cramps' shipyards to-day for a tweo days’. builders’ trial off the Delaware Breakwater. The contract calls for twenty-two knots an hour. —_———— Bryan Is Proceeding to Moscow. VIENNA, Dec. 15.—Willlam Jen- nings Bryan arrived here to-day from Venice.. He made no stay in Vienna, going on to Moscow, by way of War- saw. —_————— Noted Persian Coming to America. TOKIO, Dec. 15.—Mirza Asghar Khan, the former Grand Vizier of Per- sia, has arrived here on his way to the United States. Young Republic to Heed Secretary Hay's Advice. —. Spactal Dispatch to The Cail. WASHINGTON, Dec. ernment of Panama is willing to allow Colombia a portion of the cash sum to | be paid by the United Statss for' the | canal right-of-way. The amount so donated must be applied to paying the | foreign debt of Colombia. It has been the contention of Great Britain, Holland and someé other Euro- pean powers that the new repuklic of Panama, should aSsumeé a purdbn of 15.. Colombia’s foreign debt. It became known to-day that all of Minister | Bunau-Varilla's recent visits to the State Departmerit have been in con- | nection with this question. A point has | been reached where the Minister an- | nounces himself ready to sign an agree- | ment that one-third of the $10,000,000 | paid for the canal zone snall be turned | over to Colombia for the payment of | | her foreign indebtedness. | In reaching this de Varilla has been largely ir the advice of State Department | cials, who have urged him tq | such concésslon. | | Minister Beaupre cabled the State | Department to-day that he would leave | | Bogota on December 20 and ed that | a warship be ordered to meet him at | Cartagena to bring him to the United | States. He expects to reach Cartagena | by December 26 or He will lea\'e‘ Secretary Snyder in charge of the lega- tion. Regarding the report about the d(s-‘ patch of troops to the isthmus of Pan- ama, the press is authorized to make | this statement: Until the Senate shall | | have ratified the Hay-Bunau-Varilla | treaty the administration wilt look to | the marines to protect the isthmus and keep order there, unless, in the mean- time, it is learned that a considerable force of Colombian troops is to attack ) Panama. In the latter event the pro- | | tection of the republic could be best | accomplished by the army, and troops | would supplant the marines. It may be | stated, however, that this Government | does not expect such an emergency to | arise at present, and has prepared to | | retain the present force of marines in | isthmian waters until after the ratifi- | | cation of the canal treaty. | Rt ¥ <oz DHOLDERS. APPEAL OF BO} Creditors of Colombia Ask President to Protect Thelr Rights. LONDON, Dec. 15.—A lengthy let- ter from the counsel of foreign bond- holders, personally addressed to Pres- ident Roosevelt, putting forward the British bondholders’ position anent Panama and Colombia, has been for- warded by the Foreign Office to Em- bassador Durand, who has been in- structed to hand it, unofficially, to the President. The letter recites the his- tory of the Colombian debt and asks | the President to use his good offices to secure an equitable assumption of a portion thereof by thé Panama Gov: ernment. The statement telegraphed from The Hague to the Morning Leader of this city that both Holland and Great Britain insist that Panama shall as- | sume liability for $15,000,000 of the Colombian debt is emphatically denied | by the counsel, who points out that no such large sum was ever dreamed of as Panama's share. Arbitration at The Hague or the personal decision of President Roosevelt would be quite satisfactory to the bondholders. EEE Y RUSH WORK ON BOATS. | Hulls of War Vessels Scraped and Painted and They May Sail To-Day. The torpedo-boat destroyers Paul Jones and Preble arrived here on Monday night and were placed in the drydock at the Union Iron Works early yesterday morning. The man- agement of the works at once began Continued on Pasa 2. Column 4. | PREPARES 10 STRIKE LAST BLOW AT CHURCH DESPERATE MR BREAR FRON JAIL BERALS BEATEN I3 ELECTIONS French PremierCom- Outlaws Make Dash Chamberiain Winner pletes Text of His Drastic Bill, - Even the Associations Now Authorized Will Be Abolished. to Freedom in ' Arizona. i (Cutthroat Band Rides Furi-| " ously From Tombstone | | to the Border. in Two British Districts. Conservative Candidates Triumph Over the Free Traders. Measure Frovides for the Sequestration | Notorious Burt Alvord Leads Nine Position of the New Fiscal Policy’s of All Properties of the Re- ligious Congregations. ——e PARIS, Dec. 15.—Premier Combes to- day communicated to the Council of Ministers the text of a bill forbidding all teaching by the even those now actually authorized, which will be presented in the Cham- religious orders, ber of Deputies on Friday next. The | purpose of the measure is to ab- |rogate the existing legislation per- mitting teaching by the author- ized religious orders. The bill pro- vides for the dissolution, accom- panied by the sequestration of prop- erty, of such congregations as exist solely for the purnose of teaching, and for the partial of the property of those congregations which, in addition to teaching, also conduct tals for the indigent. ive years are allowed for the com- plete carrying out of the proposed law, the adontion of which will entail the closing of 1299 .schools for boys, 2195 school buildings where girls are taught and all the schools conducted by the Christian Brothers. The bill also pro- vides for the enlargement of the pub- lic schools conducted by the state. It is estimated that the complete opera- tion of the Premier’s plan will cost the stat: $5,000,000. The session of the Senate to-day was devoted to an interpellation attacking the action of M. Pelletan, Minister of Marine, in canceling the trial of mutinous sailor by a special naval court, on the grounds that the court was illegally constituted. The inter- pellator claimed that the Minister him- self has acted illegally. The Senate, however, upheld Minister Pelletan by a vote of 154 to 94. ——— STABLE STALL FOR LADY MACKENZIE sequestration Her Coming, Supposes Message Re- fers to Thoroughbred Mare. ALICE, Tex., Dec. 15.—The an- nouncement that La y‘Constance Mac- kenzie would arrive on a certain date led to an amusing mistake. A tele- ‘gram informed R. J. Kleberg of the| Santa Gertrudes ranch of Lady Mac- kenzie’s proposed visit, the dispatch having been sent by a Northern Texas ranchman, whom she had béen visit- ing. Kleberg was absent and the boss of | his ranch received the telegram. The ranch boss is not up on titles of no- bility and he concluded that Lady Mackenzie was a thoroughbred mare that Kleberg was sending, so he tele- phoned to J. B. Ragland, a livery stable man, that Lady Mackenzie would arrive, and that, as she was a high-bred animal, Ragland would be expected to take especial care of her until she could be forwarded to Kle- berg's ranch. A fine stall was pre- pared and the mistake was not dis- covered until the train arrived. —_———— PLACE SOLDIER IN STATE PRISON FOR SAFE KEEPING Utah Prevent Lynching of Man Accused of Attacking Miss Gill. SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 15.— Thomas R. Fuller, the Fort Douglas soldier accused, of having attacked Miss Edith Gill on Sunday night, has been taken to the State penitentiary for safe keeping and placed in solitary confinement. This action from the discovery that nearly 200 sol- diers at the post were planning to come to, the city and storm the jail and Iynch Fuller. When the post of- ficers learned of this all permits to leave the post were summarily sus- pended, extra guards placed on duty and many of the men locked in the barracks. The feeling at the post against Fuller is very bitter. Fuller to-day - was positively identified by Miss Gill as her assailant. —_—e——— Buried With Mohammedan Rites. LONDON, Dec. 15.—The body of Lord Stanley of Alderley, who died December 10 of pneumonia, was buried according to Mohammedan rites in Alderley, Shelford, Cheshire, to-day. Such an occurrence is unique in the history of the British peerage. The strictest secrecy was observed. —_———————— Cruel Army Officer Is Sent to Jail. METZ, Alsace-Lorraine, Dec. 15.— Lieutenant Schilling, charged with maltreating his subordinates, was sen- tenced to-day by the military court to fifteen months' imprisonment. Schill- ing was charged with 618 cases of maltreatment. .l Officials Take Precautions to resulted | | Fugitivis, Who Are Being Eotly | Pursued by Rangers. Special Dispa to The Call. | TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Dec. 15.—Burt Alvord Stiles, train robbers and veradoes, 'together with e ners, made their escape from the old jail at Tombstone at 6 o’clock to-night by cutting a hole through the wall. They at once made their way to a thicket on the outskirts | of the town, where horses, arms and | ammunition had been concealed by confederates, vaulted into their sad- dles and headed for the Mexican line, | thirty miles away. | Alvord, who was sentenced to a term at Yuma in the United States court two days ago, was to be taken away shortly after 6 o'clock, and when the Sherift went to get his prisoner he dis- covered every man confined in the jail had flown. He at once gave the alarm and, summoning together six of the best officers in the place, set out in pursuit. NO QUARTER TO BE SHOWN. In the party are Forest Hill and Jack | Foster, both deputy United States Mer- shals and former members of the Ari- | zona Rangers. They will shoot the desperadoes at sight, taking no chances at night with such desperate men as | | both Stiles and Alvord are known to be. | | With the notorious outlaws are | James Bennett, who was indicted for | smuggling, was released on bond and thrown into prison again for smus- | | gling tools to Stiles and Alvord to be | used in making an escape. Bennett | served six vears at Yuma for highwajy robbery. Louis James, indicted for a | daring murder committed at Bisbee, was also among the prisoners and is | no doubt with them. Jack O'Brien and | Bob Depriest are also members of the party, both of them highwaymen and as desperate as their confederates TOW RUSH PURSUER:! | United States Marshal McCord, who is at Tucson, has ordered all line towns to sernd out patrolling parties. Captain Rynaing of the Arizona Rangers wired at 9 ¢ »ck to-night that he was about to leave at the head of a posse, while custom-house officers and local officials at Naco, Nogales and other border towns have wired that mounted in- | pectors, rangers and officers have gone out to endeavor to prevent the jail-| | breakers from crossing into Mexico. United States Marshal McCord said to- i “T confidently believe that both Stiles | and Alvord will be dead by morning luntl possibly others of the band who | broke jail. The men in pursuit are determined, the criminals are desperate | |an‘! I don’'t see how they can avoid a | fight with the officers, for they will| never give themselves up again alive, as they have many times boasted if they ever escaped again. Everything ble has been done to prevent them g the line and I hardly see how they can elude our men. I am hourly expecting news from one of the pur-| suing parties.” | JAIL NOT GUARDED. Alvord was turned over to Sheriff Lewis of Cochise County this morning | by the Government officer, who has maintained a guard about the jail while | he was in their charge. This guard was withdrawn this afternoen. Stiles, | against whom eleven indictments had | been returned, was to have been tried | at Phoenix and in the meantime the | United Stages Aftorney had permitted the Territory to prosecute him upon | the charge of shooting Jailer George Bravin when Alvord and Stiles broke out of thé Tombstone jail after Yhe Fairbank robbery and escaped to So- nora. Alvord there remained in hiding un- | til the first of this year, when Stiles, who had turned State's evidence, be- | trayed him into the hands of the offl- cers. Stiles afterward refused to tes-| tify against Alvord and was himself | thrown Into jail to be tried for his| many crimes. Alvord had been kept in | jail at Phoenix and Stiles at Tucson pending trial and were taken to Tomb- stone only a week ago. — ee———— FORTUNE IN THE VEST | OF SOLDIERS' HOME INMATE | Wealth of a Veteran Is Discovered After His Death From Heart Dis- ease in Santa Monica. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.—When | the body of Joel Venable, an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Santa Moni- | ca, who was stricken dead with heart disease yesterday, was taken to the hospital, there was found sewed up in the lining of his vest $2675 in green- | backs. Venable has no known rela- -tives. He was formerly a member of the, Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery. Champion Greatly Strengthened by the Vietory. LONDON, Deec. 15.—Bye elections | were held to-day in the Dulwich divi- | slon of Camberwell and at Lewisham to fill vacancies caused by the deaths of Sir John Blundell Maple and John Penn, both of h whom their consti < the Conservative interests In the of Lev Ccates, Conservative, was elected by a majority of 2012, At Dulwich E borough ham Major Rutherford Harris, Conservative, was cted by a major- ity of 1437. Few bye elections of recent years have evoked a tithe of the interest Dr. con shown in to-day’s contest. Conservative, who agent of the late Cecil Rhod F. G. Masterman, Liberal, Dulwich, while Major Coates and J Cleland represented the Conservativ and Liberals, respectively, in the Lew- isham borough. The fiscal question been prominent throughout the cam- paign and Joseph Chamberlain inter- vened with letters in support of the Conservative candidates. The question of the importation of Chinese labor into South Africa has been used by the Lib- erals at Dulwich as an anti-Harris slogan. while the Conservatives even dragged in the King's name, attaching the words “Edward, Rex,” to po in such a way as to create the impres- sion that the King was a supporter of Chamberlain’s flscal policy. NOT AUTHORIZED BY KING. The Liberals telegraphed to the King on the subject and promptly received a reply authorizing the statement that no permission had been given to use the King’'s name in any way. Hundreds of motor cars toured ituenc bringing voters to Harris ntial was and ( ntested w as the coni es, the polls. Joseph Chamberlain expressed him- self as delighted with the result of the elections, and the protectionist dallies claim the results as a complete triumph for Chamberlain’s polic Both constituencies polled very heav- ily. Lewisha which is largely a \\"l»rkin; class district, shows a reduced of about 400, compared with ed election of 1392 In Dulwich, whica is inly the home of the city clerk, a er reduction is shown, the majority for the Conserva- tives in 1895 having reached 3000. These ns are of small significance, er, in the face or the fact that the Chamberlainite candidates obtained large majorities where the free tra party undoubtedly hoped to win. TRIUMPH OF CHAMBERLAIN. This double victory will be of great advantage to Chamberlain, who will sume his campaign to-morrcw night Leeds, when he will address a big meeting. The Liberal daillies confess dis- couragement and urge the free traders to redouble their efforts, since, as the Chronicte rem s, “Mr. Chamberlain {s a power in the country which it would be most serious not to estimate highly.” The Daily News discusses the prob- ability of the Government being en- couraged by yesterday’s results, ap- pealing to the country without delay. The Daily Telegraph boldly suggests that the result must dispel Balfour's doubts as to whethef the country ls ripe for a preferential policy and pro- poses that “Mr. Chamberlain should be invited to proceed personally to the colonies and see what practical ar- rangements can be made to secure a majority the last co | complete commercial union within the empire.” e ——e—————— FOLK NOT DISCOURAGED BY RULING OF COURT Missouri Circuit Attorney Says No Person Guilty of Boodling Will Escape. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15.—Circuit At- torney Folk said to-day regarding the Supreme Court ruling declaring that informations issued by prosecuting at- torneys were not valid unless accom- panied by affidavits by them or some other person: “So far as the boodle cases are con- cerned, they will continue to be tried and sent to the Supreme Court. What- ever the effect of the decision may be it will not permanently release any boodler now under charge.” ——————— Boers to Exhibit at Exposition. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Among the passengers on the steamer Umbria to- day was General Benjamin Viljoen, & Boer commander, who comes to ar- range for an exhibition of Boer life at the St. Louis exposition.