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— THE mr‘tln. Forecast made at San Pran- cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, December 15: San Francisco and vicinity— loudy, unsettled weather Sat- urday, with showers; i high southeast winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. brisk to NO. 19. C - e “The Girl I Left Be- hind Me.” Matinee To-Day. California — “Foxy Grandpa.” Matinee To-Day. Central—“The Scout’s Revenge.” Matinee To-Day. Columbia—“Dolly Varden.” Mat- inee To-Day. Pischer's—"I. 0. U.” To-Day. Grand — “The Bonnie Bush.” Mrtinec To-Day. Orphenm—Vaudeville. Matinee ‘To-Day. The Chutes—Vaudeville. Matinee Brier FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1903. OLOMBIA MAKES BOLD DECLARATION OF PROSPECT OF WAR w ENEM ASHINGTON, Dec. which was received ar Ad: from oonis, at League Island will be the last that ill be sent to the isthinus, 1 s he inference 18.—1It became plainly apparent to-day that the administration belicves the situation on the isthmus is rapidly approaching an acute stage. al Coghlan this mornping at which the sending of troops to the isthmus weas discussed. Isthmian affairs were discussed long and earncstly at the Cabinet mecting. It was stated that a battalion of marine. 1g that troops will be sent if it is concluded that the American force there necds further strengthening. An important dispatch cas sent to the State Department and brought about an immiediate conference between Secretary Root and Acting Secre- s IES OF PANAMA 'LOOT ARMS FROM ARSENAL OF HAVANA GRAND JURY WILL INDICT MAHONY Brady, Pierce and | Davidson Must Answer. French Makes Some Startling Admissions. thre iined ves evidence y afternoon, He was Fr P2 French's story Mahony when he first a raise s of the of- 3 Cassidy of He made these and in return salary warrants, which were ¢ by Broker Regensburger. For this, Cassidy will have to appear before the Grand Jury and explain. DREW GOOD SALARY. John The next tness called was Alonzo Davidson, th lkman, to whom Ma- hony s of money and paid with s nts, the latter's name e book as a regular h he never did any In all Davidson re- rants from the Coun- ceived $700 y Clerk Davidson admitted that he did not the office. He was and the County rge bill. He was lary list at the office and en a position at $100 a month, al- h he never worked in the office. testified that he was ig- £ f the fact that he was required work in the office in order to become E na fide clerk. He testified that he c jttie work on the books of the L t that he performed it all at and not at the office, as law of all city employes. further admitted that the erformed was not at all val- the city. He stated that it v be accomplished by an or- clerk in three weeks at the zlthough he was kept on the t for a d of seven months ed salary warrants for $700 . which were cashed by Reg-nshurger. Davidson Jr. corroborated the ente made by his father in the er of the work performed for the Clerk. The son stated that he had done several pages of ng for his father at his home and the father never worked in the of- fice of the County Clerk. his residence, Continued on Page 2, Column 1. assessments on the em- | For a starter the | of $2000 | ch swore to | elf collected | 1 ON FELONY CHARGE A DB /TR Y FLiTE PHOTO | NG WHO, WITH TWO OTHER INDICT: BY THE GRAND 4 Steamer Sends Ves- sel to Bottom in Collision. il The steam schoorer Del Norte ran down and sank the schooner Mary Buhne yesterday eight miles off the Humboldt Bar. None of the &ew of the schooner were drowned, but one of the sailors of the Del Norte lost his life. But meager reports of the accident have been received. All the informa- tion that has reached ‘this city came late yesterday afternoon to .the Mer- chants’ Exchange. The Del Norte res- cued the crew of the ill-fated schooner and proceeded to her destination, Cres- cent City, where she reported the wreck. The name of the sailor who was drowned is not known, The Mary Buhne left San Francisco on December 11 for Eureka, in charge of Captain Dannebig. She was owned by Charles Nelson & Co. and is well known by shipping men along the coast. The vessel was built in Eureka in 1876 and her net register was 139 tons. She was 102 feet long, 29 feet 5 inches breadth and 7 feet 5 inches deep. The Del Norte left this city on De- cember 16 for Cresgent City in charge of Captain C. Green. Her net tonnage is 280. She is owned by Hobbs, Wall & Co. of this city. — Death Claims Oid Republican. BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Dec. 18.—W. C. Hodge, one of the organizers of the Republican party and a member of the first Republican convention in Califor- nia, died to-night, aged 78 years. U 2 Riches of Pope Leo Given Into Care of Pius. A o ey | ROME, Dec. 18.—According to the Tribuna, the Vatican had sudden wealth poured into its coffers to-day. For scme time certaln sums which were known to be possessed by Pope Leo were looked for without result, the search toward the end becoming some- what feverish | Cardinal Gotti, Prefect of the Propa- ganda, accompanied by Mgr. Marzo- lini, one of the late Pope's secretaries, {drove up to the Vatican to-day and, getting out hurriedly, began tugging at a heavy object in the carriage. sistance was offered, but it was re- fuged, and Cardinal Gotti and Megr. Marzolini between them carried {he mysterious object to the apartment of | Pope Pius. They were immediately ad- | mitted and remained ror two hours. BUNDLE§ OF BANKNOTES. intense curiosity was aroused by this act, as it was believed to have some relation to the missing wealth and the wildest rumors w circulated. Itsoon became known, however, that the bag contained 45,000,000 francs ($9,000,000) in bank notes. When Cardinal Gotti en- tered the presence of the Pope he sank to his knees and, peinting to his bur- den, said: “Your Holiness, the lamented Leo, just before his death, confided to me the money which I now lay at your feet, saying that if I succeeded him I was to use it as'T thought best, but that if an- other took his place I was to turn the money over to him after a period of || FRANK €. As- | GIRLS LEAP 17 | ~ FROM FIRE T0 DEATH ‘Terrible Catastrophe, - at College for Women. |Negro Students Caught in ' a Blazing Building ‘ at Night, Four Bodies Have Been Recovered and; at Least Fifteen Persons Are | Fatally Injured, PRBE AN | | NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 18.—Four | | | persons are known to have been Kkilled | { and perhaps thirty others injured, fif-| teen of them fatally, in & fire here to- night which consumed the Central Ten- | nessee College for Young Negro Women, !a department of Walden University. It is possible that the rdins may con- | tain the bodies of other:yictims. The | property loss is estimated at $25,000. | The known dead ar | STELLA ADDISON, £Port Gibspn, Miss. | MATTIE MORRE, Huntsville, Ala. SALLIE DADE, Hopkinsville, Ky. NANNIE JOHNSON, Hattiesburg, | | Miss. | Among the fatally hurt are: | ANNA HAM. Birmingham, Ala, | ELLEN VAUGHN, Columbus, Ky. | | BLANCHE BURR, Chicago. | JANIE DOUGLASS BESSIE ELLIVER WALKER, Huntsville. LULU CAVOTTE, Macon, Miss. One student, name unknown. | <af The severelv injured are: Eleanor | Moore (white). preceptre Chicago; | Lucy Knox, Greenville, s.; Minnie | Alston, Covington, Ky.: Bertha Mon- | | fora, Chicago: Lulu Terry, McKinns- | Tenn.; Lulu Miller, Covington, | y.; Ernestine C. McCleary, Fernan- | | dina. Fla.; Leona Miller, St. Louis; | | Nannie Harris, Clarksdale, Minn.; Min- | | nie Booze, Marysville, I7y. | The fire broke out about 11 n'(:!m'kj | in the top of the building, which was | four stories high and without fire[ escapes. It was occupied by about| | sixty students, who were asleep when | | the alarm was given. The wildest panic ensued, women and girls rushing | screaming to the windows, from which | | they jumped in droves, thc dead and \injurml lying in heaps where they fell, { to be fallen upon by those following ! them from the flaming windows. | Every ambulance in the city was| soon on the scene and the injured were | hurried to hospitals. When ths flames | wete first discovered they seemed to ! entirely envelope the building and it is considered almost certain that some of the terrorized occupants were over- | | I | come by smoke before reaching the | | windows. —e——— s Steamer Amur Is Long Overdue. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 18.—The long trip of the Canadian Pacific-Lynn Canal liner Amur from Skagway is causing a great deal of speculation along the water front. The Amur has been out from the Lynn Canal port since Saturday and was due here Wednesday noon. The oaly feasible explanation seems to be that she has encountered rough weather in the north and been forced to lie up in shelter. 4 e four months had elapsed. This I now do in the presence of Monsignor Marzo- lini, who has been the only other per-/ son to share the secret.” The Pope was much affected. The Tribuna goes on to relate that just about the time this scene was be- ing enacted in the papal apartments an electrician, while removing the hang- | ings in the late Pope Leo’s chamber in | order to get at the electric light wires, found in a hole in the wall several bags which were carelessly tied. These bags when opened were found to contain 9,- 250,000 francs ($1,850,000). PARIS, Dec. 18.—The Rome corre- spondent of the Figaro says that Car- dinal Gotti, Prefect of the Propaganda, and one of the executors of the will of Leo X1II, was received by the Pope yes. terday and informed his Holiness that he held a large sum of money confided to him by the late Pope with the mis- sion that he should hand it to the new Pontifi four months after his election. The alleged reason for Pope Leo's course is that he wished his successor to learn how difficult it would be to rule the church without money, there- by impressing .upon’ him the necessity. for economy. The sum left by Pope Leo is said to amount to $7,000,000. , Huntsville, Ala. Tuscaloosa, Al N | Benson. 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. Benson, a wealt estate operator, charged by the Interior | Department with being the head of the alleged land frauds extending over a | dozen Western States and Territories, to which Secretery Hitchcock referred —John A. y San Francisco real | vigorously and at length in his annualf report, was arrested here to-day at the | ‘Willard Hotel by Secret Service Offlcer; Burns just as Benson was preparing to | leave the city for New York. | The charge on which the arrest was | made was bribery, it being alleged in the affidavit of Burns and in the war- rant that Benson had paid $300 to Woodford D. Harlan, formerly chief of the special service division of the Gen- eral Land Office and now a clerk in that office, on March 15 of this year for the purpose of extracting from him information regarding the investiga- tion of his overations at that time be- ing made by United States Commis- sioner Anson S. Taylor. As soon as Benson had been appre- hended by Burns he was taken before Commissioner Taylor. He wished to have a preliminary hearing of his case postponed, and the date for such hear- ing was fixed at Wednesday, December 30. He gave bail for his appearance on that date, when the Government attor- neys will ask to have him held for the Grand Jury. ARRESTS WILL FOLLOW. The statement was made by an offiter of the Government to-night that the information obtained regarding the ai- leged conspiracy implicates a number of persons at present employed in the Interior Department at Washington | and elsewhere.. Numeroys arrests are expected to follow that of Benson in short order, and some employes who may not be arrested will be dis- missed from the service. It is said that Secretary Hitchcock and the special at- torneys in the case have considered it absolutely necessary to the successful working of the case that no action be taken with reference to any of the oth- Continued on Page ’-Am-l".. i Jtflm&fififi@fifid{z\fl\ FRICIALS | 2 l ACCUSE HIM | \ el OF BRIBERY = R A”'C”‘zolzzuzrom.._- » Interior Department | e DT ISTRATION'S ATTITUDE TOWARD COLOMBIA AND PANAMA. £ — Representatives of the Central American Republic Announce in Paris the Plan for Action. PARIS, Dee. 18.—The ‘United Colombian Committee” here gave out a statement to-day saying that Colombia would first seek through a commission to induce the United States to recognize (olombia’s rights under the treaty of 1846 ; see- ond, if the commission fails, Colombia will ask for the sub- mission of the question to The Hague arbitration court; third, if its submission to The Hague court is refused, Colom- bia will go to war and rely on the Latin republies to come to her aid. The formal organization of the “United Colombian Com- mittee’’ was announced from Paris Wednesday. It was re- ported to have a membership of Colombians throughout Eu- rope, and its purpose was said to be to infopm the European public of Colombia’s rights in the Panama affair. CONSPIRING FRIENDS E)F COLOMBIA LOOT HAVANA GOVERNMENT ARSENAL GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 18.—The Fort Worth (Texas) Record this morning prints a special cable from Havana, Cuba, in which it is stated that a Colombian plot has been unearthed there and that an emovloye in the War Department of the island has connived with other Colombian sym- pathizers and looted the arsenal of the city of Havana. More than half of the contents have been moved to islands adjacent to Arato River, near the boundary line of Colombia and Panama, conveniently accessible to whatever point the conspirators may wish to remove the arma. This was taken on vessels secured from the semi-piratical Haytien and Jamaican craft. Now that it has been discovered that the arsenal was robbed it may be that further plans for the removal of the remainder of the war implements will be defeated. ‘The cable also says that an expedition of Cuban sympathizers with Colombia has gone to the Isle of Pines as a rendezvous, prepared to sail at a moment’s notice to assist in whatever marching orders the Colombians may give. DANIEL IN THE SENATE ATTACKS GOVERNMENT FOR PANAMA POLICY WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The relationship of the United States to the new republic of Panama continued the leading theme in the Senate to-day, but the discussion was confined to one Senator and was not so exciting as that of yesterday. Continued on Page 2, Columns 2 and 3,