The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1903, Page 1

Y The Chutes—Vaudeville. Tivoll Opera-House—“Ixion.” Columbia—“The Girl With Green Eyes.” SAN FRANCISCO, * WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1903. ' . PRICE COAST TROOPS MAY GO TO PANAMA TO REPEL A COLOMBIAN INVASION | \INHX APITAL 1N TNDER FIRE In\urgems Attacking, the Stronghold of Morales. MRS American Minister Powell Appeals for Another Warship. Seorpion Is n the Newport in PT?'.‘CIIUE the Interests of Foreigners, o3 VIENNA POLICE » ARREST FORGER Capture an American Who Fled From Paris After Cashing a Letter of Credit Worthless been arrested at Vienna, g forged a letter of on the Darmstadt erce and Industry, h he cashed in Paris. Palzer car- d ble foreign money and rchased sec rities amounting $8000. The Darmstadt Bank representative ed on the Boerse to-day that through the Palzer forgery unt to only $2000. so forged a letter of credit the Nice branch of the Lyonnais, which letter apparent. not been cashed. alzer recently secured a position in he Darmstadt Bank here, but as he proved unsatisfactory he was given notice that he would be dismissed. ——e——————— FOLLOWERS OF MONTALON HANG SECRET SERVICE MEN ) A NILA, Dec 2 230.—News has been reeived from (a\ne that on Decem- be 22 cajtured and hanged two members of the constabulary secret service. | Montalon’s band of ladrones ! 4 safely run over the cut-off. C ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The War Department, acting under the belief that there will be fighting soon he- tween Colombian invaders and Panama, has taken time by the forelock and issued orders for certain regiments in Pacific Coast States to hold themselves in They will not be sent unless their services there seem to be urgently demanded, and for obvious reasons the de- Tt is said that General MacArthur was recalled from Honolulu in order to supervise in San Francisco these preparations. \readiness for orders to proceed to the isthmus. partmint has avoided publicity of its plans. CaozolNEL < JHRLEE . HLRO ) MAKING I\T LAK Ogden LllClIl Cut-0ff Is Again Giving - SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. to a further settling in the two places the Ogden-Lucin ¢ the Southern Pacific 29.—Owing track in 1t-off of across lh( great E Lake will not be opened to regular traffic on New Year's day, as had been planned. It was announced that the new work was practically completed on Thanksgiving day, when President E. H: Harriman and a large party of in- vited guests, including many promi- nent railroad men, inspectéd the cut- off “Trains will be running regularly over the cut-off on January 1,” declared Harriman on that day. He was rely- ing upon the assurance of Chief En- gineer William Hood that the quag- mires had been conquered. | The hope has proved false, however. In two different places the roadbed has | sunk heavily since then, until the en- gineers do not dare permit the regular running of trains over the track. The trouble is worst between camps 128 and 20. A large force of men and | two piledrivers are hard at work there | trying to brace up the weak spots. The trestle is apparently solid, but the weight of the ballast in the solid road- | bed is pressing the soft mud out on both sides and allowing the track to | settle in the same manner, although not quite so seriously, as when an en- gine and several cars were thrown into the lake a few months ago and a num- ber of men were killed. The engineers in charge are quoted as hhving said privately probably several months would elapse before trains could U & U S TRararory SroRre f COMMANDER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, WHO MAY BE SENT TO PANAMA, TRANSPORTS SAIL AND WARSHIP THAT STARTS TO-DAY. OFFICER READY TO nited States’ Reply to Reyes Will Give Colombia No Hope. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Preparation of the answer of this Government to the communication from General Reyes, the Colombian envoy, is pro- gressing, but It is said that it will not be ready for presentation before Thursday. The death of Mr. Thomas, the translater in the State Depart- ment, has caused some delay in the work. No intimation can be obtained officially as to the character of this Gov- ernment’s reply, but it is said the continuance of negotiations with Gen- eral Reyes for some little time is quite likely. His frequent conferences with the officials of the administratian have enabled General Reyes to realize that the United States will not retrace a step on the isthmus. Whether Colombia may hope for relief from Congress, in the shape of an indemnity for the loss she has suffered in the secession of Panama, is a matter which can be left open for the present, it'ls said, as Colombia and the United States are concerned now with the broader question as to the inter- pretation of the treaty of 1846. Returning a visit of Secretary Root, made several days agn, General Reyes called at the War Department this afternoon and was with the Sec- retary for a half hour. General Reyes took oceasion to reiterate the great pressure he was bringing to bear on his people to remaln quiet until his mission was finished. The Secretary fully appreciates the delicate posi- tion of General Reyes, and it is possible will be able to give him some* sug- gestions as to how the Colombians may be made aware of the real situation here. General Reyes deprecates the publications which have appeared, pur- porting to give the substance of his note to this Government. He pro- nounces them to be incorrect. He does not want to discuss the matter at this time, but deems it expedient to make the statement that Colombla, in her initial note, has dwelt upon the several clauses of the treaty of 1846 which, in her opinion, the United States has violated. As to what if any redress the United States will offer, that is regarded as a matter for dlucu.l- sion in future notes. General Reyes has asked to be excused from attending the New Ye(r’- mflnnalm!’n‘ea,oo!m’md& s SLAER e b"_'—__——“‘——‘_—'—__—r Artlllery and lnfantry Ordered t Be in Readiness to Move. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406:G. STREET., N. W., WASHIN (,. TON. Dec. 29.—The general staff of the army h(‘uC\ es that, de- spite all reports to the contrary, Colombia may be able to land troops in Panama, and to prevent a conflict United States troops will be sent to the isthmus, if necessary. It is understood the following have been ordered hold themselves in readiness for transportation: The First, Fifth and Twenty-fourth batteries of field artillery, Presidio of San Fran- o the Eighth Battery of field artillerv, Vancouver Bar- racks; Troops A. B. Cand D, Ninth Cavalry Y colored), Mon- terey. Cal.: Troops I, K, L. and M, 'Ninth' Cavalry, Presidio; the Fifteenth Infantry. Monterev: - the Nineteenth Infantry, Vancouver Barracks; the Tenth Infantry, cantonment, San Fran- cisco; battalions of the Thirteenth Infantty at Fort McDowell, Fort Mason and Benicia Barracks, Cal.: four companies of the Sixteenth Infantry at Fort Slocum, N. Y., and eight companies of the same regiment at Fort McPherson, Ga. Lieutenant Colonel Shaler of the general army staff will make a reconnoissance of strategic points in Panama to be occu- pied by our troops. 1t is believed that the troops will be dis- patched from San Francisco to Fanama by the transports Sher- man, Buford and Crook. ' It has been known for wecks that every step necessary has been taken for dispatching to the isthmus ‘just as large a force of troops as exigencies might require, should the situation at any time cliange. This expedition was organized several weeks ago and the details were published at the time. Transportation was arranged for over various rai.roads to the nearest points of em- barkation, and arrangements also were made to provide trans- ports with full commissariats and medical supplies on twenty-four hours’ notice. “A high-army official to-night said: “Department and other commanders are preparing their men for whatever service they may he called on to’perform. A military force may be needed on the isthmus if the United States undertakes the work of construction of the canal, and for the pur- pose of assisting in preventing the predatory operations of guer- rilla bands, which- may result from the trouble between Panama and Colombia. The future action of the War Department will depend entirely upon the circumstances as they develop. If troops are sent they will go from New York and from San Francisco, twhile such animals as may be needed will be transported *from New Orleans, thus avoiding long passages by water. “Some of the departments of the army are.making prepara- tions, notably at San Francisco, in the equipment of the army for to ci Continued on Page 2, Columns 2 and 3. | 0| GOVERNOR NAY LOSE A PLUMBER Inspector Threatens an Arrest at Sac- ramento. L G S Sewer Gas or Bats a Ques- tion at Mansign of Executive, Official at the Capital Declares That an Ordinance Was Violated and £tirs Indignation, RLL il tch to The Call. Robert SACRAMENTO, Plumbi man de of 29, — E. Governor Pierce of Par Oakland, does over agai ernor's mans comply with the local plumbing nances The $State recen purchased the Steffens house c H street for a Gov- ernor’'s man t was renovated at considerab) nse to accommo- date the Governor's household. Recently the Governor detected what lw sup- rfePouag seéwer gas, and sent for { | Themas Scotta Toer* Jramber. Scott | | declared that there was nc sewer gas in the house, but that it was infested by bats, The announcement naturally shocked the inmates, and their nerves were not quieted when City Plumbing Inspector Chapman, w was next ealled in, agreed with Seott that bats had tafken possession of the executive The Governor was not conv sent for Fred Pier an Qakland plumber t once discovered the cause of auble tn | correet it s ith the local | Plerce aid | plumbing ordinance e matter and threatens "his arrest unless he comes bac s the work over again un- der his s Governor is indignant over the episode is said the Board of Health meeting dis- cuss the p aining an in- | spector whe 1 the difference hetween sew and bats. £ FOUR NEGROES ARE SUSPECTED nounces Arrest of Men Whe May Have Committed Crime SRR A BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 29.—A tele- | phone message from Kernville, received by Sheriff Kelly to-day, from Constable | McCracken, says that four negroes sus- | pected of a recent murder at Stockton | have been arrested in the mountain town. One of them id to answer a | description furnished by the Sheriff of San Joaquin County as one of the men wanted. Nothing is known here regarding the crime except that Sheriff Kelly had & message some time ago stating thed three negroes wanted for murder werne headed this way and were last seen at | Mendota. Dec. 29.—The Govern- MOSCOW, ment is considering a plan for making the sale of tea and sugar a state monopoly, as proposed by M. Witte while Finance Minister. There is much opposition to the proposal on the part | of the tea trade and the grocers, but | the growing needs-of the treasury and the exhaustion of other resources, as ‘polnted out in Witte’s last budget, are believed in well-informed circles to make the adoption of the proposition probable. | The present brandy monopoly yields |about a fourth of the revenues of the | empire and the monopoly of tea and | sugar is expected to be even more promahle as the expense of its opera- tion will be small. ———————— | Fear a General Hottentot Rising. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 20.—The Cape Times reports grave alarm throughout German territory in South Africa, say- ing that there are fears of a general Hottentot rising there.