The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1904, Page 1

thirty bours ending ber 8 San Francisco and v G Temporarily in Charge. THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for Saturday; fresh southwest wind W. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, 3 midnight Octo- {cinity—Showers 130 VOLUME XCVI—NO. | Egi : the 15 Library.+ E2 - LUMBIA— CALIFORNIA—'‘The Tenderfoot.” CENTRAL—"Dealers in White Wom- CHUTES—Vaudeville. ‘The Office Boy."™ SAN PRICE FIVE CENTS. : vesfigaton Of the Conduct of the Quartermaster's Departinent May Cause a Complete Change of Officials mn the Local Transport Service — COMPLAINT OF IRREGULARITIES AND APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF INQUIRY. FIRST—Complaint has been made to Brigadier General Humphrey, quartermaster general, that irregularities exposed by the Chamberlain and Maus reports two years ago still exist. | ducted on a strictly business basis. THIRD—A board of inquiry consisting of three officers has delved into the accounts of drsying ccmpanies and other concerns patronized by | the War Department with a view to determining whether the Governme=nt has been imposed upon. ANGRY MOB | GOES AFTER THE AGENT Threatened to Lynch Man in Charge of | Foundlings. —— Babies Taken to Arizona Are Being Returned to New York. } Indignant Citizans Meet and Refuse to| Permit Mexican Families to Adopt the Little Waifs Oct. 7.—G. Whiting | s of the New York um ana several Cath- took a carload of chil- a a few days ago for the ng them in homes at are on their way | f the d d Morenci ne unfortunate he sisters h a mob They also d t Morenci. | to fact that | aced in the homes | scribes his ex- ew to-day as fol- | the mob threatened to I did not expect to get bat brought back € from the excitement d the nurses are al- = As for myself, I am a to foor. It is a dis- | g I saw no peace | nothing but mob law. | well until we reached | zona. 1 g pertain for the bab! igT of the priest of the parish. It de- was newly ar- | country, having come even months ago. s left at the homes | hree days between and were preparing to | h places were up in| i, al- ment man- ) were ring ke, and went out and ¢ the ba- again, placing them at the hotel n, which i r mining fully a armed with revolvers and guns gathered at the public library and neld an indig- na meeting. They afterward en- tered e roome of the nurses and in-! su the n, who have always beer in caring for the coun- | th worr foremost try’s sick and afflicted. They threaten- ed to lynch me and I was lucky to es- cape h my life. there took nineteen chil- | placed them with American | e know mothing about. They sed t listen to any explanation we are compelled to leave them bring the others. We will have, rse to the law to get posseseion m. The little ones we secured at | ken back to New | AGENT ACCEPTS MONEY. Mexicans Claim They Paid for New York Foundlings. SOLOMONVILLE, Ariz., Oct. 7.—Dis- L. Rawlins of Graham v gave out the following account of the troubles at Clf- | Morenei over the alleged sale dlings sent out from New York | option by Mexican families: { hen > train arrived at Clifton ng the babies those in charge of le ones read from tags attached children the names of the per- ns te whom the children were con- ned. In every case these were Mexi- and not of the better class either. Sixteen of the children were given out t Clifton, and the agent then proceed- | to Morenci with the others. After ¢ had left Clifton a feeling of indigna- tion arose in the American population and a meeting was called. A commit- tee of twenty-five citizens was named to recover the children from the Mexi- HOME RULE PARTY NGW HOLDS e Chamberlain Cannot Expect Help From Nationalists, e Must First Change Views Concerning Irish Seli- Government. His Proposed Determination to Adopt | a Hostile Attitude Calls Forth a Note of Warning. Special Dispatch to The Call. DUBLIN, Oct. 7.—It has become clear that if Chamberlain hopes to win the support of the Irish party for his fis- cal campaign he would better hasten to conciliate Nationalist opinion with reference to” home rule. To-day's Freeman's Journal says: “There w a good many protectionists in | America this year who will want to know free why into Canadian wheat can come the United Kingdom thousands of miles of ocean and yet cannot cross the border between the dominion and the price of heavy imposts. over “This situation is not one that either | in America or | the Republican party the Chamberlain party in England can contemplate with efithusiasm. The toil- ing millions of England have reason to congratulate themseives that they are still able to get untaxed flour from foreign countries. be remarked by Irishmen that Cham- berlain’s proposed protection could in no way benefit the agricultural inter- ests of Ireland, as in any event both wheat and meat would be admitted un- taxed from Australia and Canada.” 1 the republic except at | wheat and | It should | | | | Treaty b0 Include 'King Lecpold Is Scored by. !dnnn all possible to stop the cruelties. Such a note is beginning to be sound- | ed throughout the country. It is the Irish Nationalist’s reply to Chamber- lain’s proposed determination to adopt the Times’ attitude of hostility to Irish self government in any form. —— e ACCUSED HIGHWAYMAN ENDS HIS LIFE IN CELL Stockton Man Charged With Robbery Prefers Death to Disgrace Fol- lowing His Arrest. STOCKTON, Oct. 7 Charles Simms, arrested for complicity in the holdup of the Hubbs roadhouse north of Stockton a few nights ago, hanged himself in his cell in the County Jail some time last night. He was found dead this morning by the jailer. He bad taken a chain off his bed, fastened it about the grating of his cell and with the aid of a piece of his sus- penders had looped the other end | about his neck. He then jumped from a projection and was strangled to death. The deceased leaves a wife, from whom he separated some time ago, and a daughter about 14 years of age. Simms was well known here, and though he got on occasional sprees he bere a good reputation otherwise. - S — ———j Mexican huts and demanded the babes. In every case the Mexicans were willing and glad to give them up. Several Mexicans claimed, however, that they had paid the agent for the white chil- dren and desired the return of their money. The claim of the Mexicans that money had been paid the agent is cor- roborated by several citizens of Clifton and Morenci. “At Morenci the following morning the agent proceeded to give out the re- maining babes to the Mexican families. Agent Swayne was asked to consent to the adoption of the children by Ameri- can families who were worthy and able to care for the little ones as they should be cared for. This Swayne positively refused to do, declaring that they must go to the Mexican families or back to New York. “Tuesday afternoon the citizens of Morenci met and decided to give the children into the possession of the sis- ters, provided they would take them direct to New York and not again at- tempt to place them with Mexicans. This was assented to, and yesterday ‘» | for the sake of wealth and self ag- | | one race to show a greater degree of ANK POWERY 10 JOIN IV PEACE PACT All Nations Is Proposed. Delegate to the Inter- national Congress. ‘ —— Held to Be in & Large Measure Re-| sponsible for the Cruelties ‘in the Congo. BOSTON, Oct. 7.—King Leopold of Belgium was assailed for his policy as sovereign of the Congo Free State by E. T..Morell of England at a public ireeting this afternoon in connection with the session of the International Peace Congress. Morell charged that the King was personally responsible, in a large measure, for the cruelties practiced on the natives of the Congo Free State in the terrific endeavors of monopolistic commercial organizations to obtain from the country all the ivory and rubber possible. The King was defended by George Herbert Head of Cambridge, England, who submitted that King Leopold had The Government policy in the Congo was also bitterly denounced by Rev. William Morrison, for seven years a missichary in Africa. The congress to-day accepted a re- port of the Committee on Propaganda, recommending that the congress in 1905 be held at Luzerne, Switzerland. One of the first things which the congress did to-day was to adopt res- olutions, recommending that all na- tions enter into a treaty, insuring, in case of dispute between countries, that the differences would be submitted for settlement to a court created by a union of all the powers. A dinner was given to-night at which the foreign delegates were guests. Speeches were made by Bishop Perci- val of England, Baroness von Suttener, Booker T. Washington and others. R BELGIANS ARRAIGNED. Washington Condemns the Outrages in Africa. BOSTON, Oct. 7.—In a briet a(ter-[ dinner speech, delivered before the Peace Congress to-night, Booker T. Washington arraigned the Belgian Government for the outrages in the Congo Free State, and stated that he had evidence of abuse and cruelty and said that a state of affairs existed that was a blot on modern civilization. “And these atrocities are committed Booker grandizement,” said the speaker. “Eu- rope should set a better example to my people in Africa. I speak for them; ves, as I speak for the black of Africa, =0 do T speak for the white of Europe, for no man can abuse another without necessarily lowering all humanity. “There is another condition, concern- ing which my race should have the sympathy and help of such an organi- zaticn as this. There exists in our own country mobs of men who are given to lynching and burning men for sup- posed or real crimes without due process of law. Nothing in the last ten years has so rejoiced me as the senti- ment of certain parts of the South within the last few weeks against this form of outrage. < “Race hatred never settled any problem upon this earth. The way for superiority over another is by a greater degree of kindness and of brotherly | love. No race is free indeed so long as | it is ruled by passion and brute force.” ————— Parker at His Esopus Home. ESOPUS, Oct. 7—Alton B. Parker reached home from New York this aft- ernoon and at once drove over his farm and inspected the progress made in the fall plowing: He then worked on his correspondence until dinner. ————— French Cruiser Reaches Gotham NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—The French cruiser Jurif de la Graviere arrived to-day from Sidney, Cape Breton, to cans. Accompanied by a large crowd | the sisters departed with twenty-four | join the other French warships which of citizens, this committee visited the babies.” have been here for several days. Vigilance of the Administration | Its Action to Protect the Country’s Interests SECOND—The War Department has ordered many changes of clerks and heads of depar{ments, being determined that the service shall be con- Is Demonstrated PORTLAND GAINS BIG ADVANTAGE PORTLAND, Oct. 7.—A direct rail route for the Northern Pacific from Portland to the East, a bridge across the Columbia River at Vancouver, more large docks on the Portland water front and probably another steamship line for this city—all of which leaves Seattle and Tacoma on branch lines of road, many miles to the north of through transcontinental line—will be the result of the final settlement of the Northern Securities merger case. These are the inevitable results of the Jast year's manipulation of trans- continental railway interests. For some time it has been known that the owners of the Milwaukee road were determined to tap Oregon and the North Pacific Coast. The president of the Milwaukee has been over the ground and his surveyors have been in the field. 5 The best route possessed by any transcontinental line lay open, running along the Columbia and Snake rivers to. the Clearwater, then up that stream, through Lolo Pass and east- ward to the nearest present terminus of the Milwaukee in Nebraska or the Dakotas. " This would have given the Milwau- kee road the best and shortest route in existence from the Pacific seaboard to the Mississippi River. It would have been hundreds of miles shorter than the Northern Pacific’s route and cut off a day of the time now required from Portland to St. Paul. ‘With the Milwaukee owners in con- trol of the Northern Pacific it is pre- dicted that they will not only proceed with the Vancouver-Pasco -cut-off, making the main line from Portland to the East much shorter, but they will not lose sight of the tremendous ad- line at some SAYS S WAS CURED Y PRAYER CHICAGO, Oct. 7.—"“It is prayer that has cured me. I would be a cripple to- day instead of a perfectly well woman had it not been for divine power. Hun- dreds of prayers have gone up from my friends in every State, from the Atlan- tic to the Pacific, and God has heard and answered. Faith is everything.” In these words Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, president of the Woman's Temperance Board of Chicago, is answering her friends and the physicians who knew of the accident which befell her last February, when she broke her hip by a severe fall in the street near her Sheri- dan Park home. Mrs. Carse returned two days ago from her brother’s home in Riverdale, N. Y., where she went to recuperate from her injury. She has entirely re-| covered and walks without the slight-| est limp. She left Chicago on crutches and had to be carried to and from the | train. “My case- is considered miraculous by physicians,’ said Mrs. Carse. “The sur- geons in New York and Chicago agree that my perfect restoration is marvel- ous.” ““What method of healing did you em- ploy?”’ was asked. “Was it the faith cure?” “It was the prayer cure,” Mrs. Carse replied promptly. “I prayed and my friends prayed. All the Women's Chris- tian Temperance women from coast to coast united in petitioning God to make me perfectly well, and he did. I can walk as straight as any one.” e € R PRA BE R TR ST 2 s vantage of a further straightening of the line by building the Lolo Pass route and connecting with the present main t in Montana. — o el — The old days of the army transport service tangles have their aftermath in the recent change of officials of the quartermaster’s department of Califor- nia, and in the subsequent develop- ments following two special secret in- vestigations of the service by officials appointed as a special board of in- quiry by Secretary of War Taft through Quartermaster General Hum- phrey at Washington, D. C. The keynote of the policy of the quartermaster was: “I want the truth, and if necessary I will change every man in the service who has been at the head of a department that I may assure the people a faér administra- tion of the services that has to do with the sending out of ships and the handling of commissary ‘and quarter- master's supplies for the Philippines.” Since this declaration of War De- partment independence there have been many changes in the depot quar- termaster’'s office in this city and there are likely to be more before the administration gets through with the handling of evidence that is now in its possession. Several months ago the first court of inquiry was appointed to investigate the alleged irregularities that are said to have occurred through the negli- gence of heads of departments of the Pacific Coast. This board was com- posed of Major Carroll A. Devol, de- pot quartermaster; Captain Stanley, now of the Department of California but at one time the aid to General Young, and Captain Charles T. Baker, assistant depot quartermaster. “What is the result of the findings?"” queried the quartermaster general. “I will have forwarded all testimony by mail,” answered the local depot. FUN BEGINS. Then the fun commenced. Baker was transferred to Manila, many clerks were shifted from local posts to l s HEAD OF WAR DEPARTMENT WHO HAS ORDERED AN INVESTIGATION OF TRANSPORT SERVICE AT THIS PORT, CHIEF OF QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT AND HIS LOCAL REPRES ATIVE. 3 eastern stations; the game of change is still going on. The word was sent forth from Washington that the better policy would be to have the heads of the local depot transferred to outside stations as the evidence presented to the War Office was not pleasing to tha Taft administration, which has been doing much toward putting all branches of the service on a strictly business basis. The first intimation that there was laxity, if not criminal carelessness, in handling the affairs of the Government in certain branches of the quartermas- ter's department came through a clerk of the local depot who made an es- pecial trip to Washington to offer evi- dence that the Government was very glad to recéeive. The quartermaster general sent word to this city that a board of inquiry should be appointed to look into the matter of draying ex- penses for the army transport serv- ice, and other things of less import- ance. Repeated complaints were re- ceived from Manila concerning the quality of goods that were being shipped to the islands by the Commis- sary Department. Complaint was made that goods shipped there were of an inferior quality. It developed that the complaints did not eriginate with the Commissary Department, which has tried to use care in buying goods, but with private shipments that have been received indirectly for Government employes’ uses. A highly important phase of the situation i§ that Manila is warning San Francisco through Washington to be more careful in sending merchandise to the islands. Imitations—goods un- der spurious labels—have been forced on the island markets and the result has been that orders have been di- verted to foreign sources of supply. The local board of inquiry ques- tioned Chief Clerk H. W. Bennett, a Continued on Page 3, Column 4.