The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1904, Page 1

- - - | THE WEATHER l | | XCVII—NO. 26 ing midnight, Decem- | n Francisco for FRANCISCO, MONDAY, inee_to-day. Matinee to-day. CHUTES- FISCHE! MAJESTIC—"A THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"0Old Heidelborg.” Mat- CALIFORNIA—"Shore Acrves.” Mat- The Suitan of Sulu.” CENTRAL—"The Heart of Chicago.” Matinee to-day. Vaudeville. Vaudeville. GRAND-—"“The Darling of the Gods.' Matines to-day. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Contented Woman.” Matines to- day. TIVOLI--King Dodo.” Matinee to-day. DECEMBER 26, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WASHINGTON MAY HAVE“B[6 STICK” [CAMPAIGN A WHIPPING POST. R LA AR TG PHOJECT FINDING FVOR SUGGESTED BY THE PRESIDENT| e e by Special Dispatch to The Call AU, POST BUILDING forms of brutal- rd the weak pe of punish- for example, d by imprison- d be the most of meeting this kind of police ho come classes ent post Henry | v Satterlee, Bishop of Washington, 1 this form of contemptible crime be reached effectiv It is a matter of grave concern, the arguments r the present ., consisting of fines and 1t that fall far more heavily es and children of offend- ypon the offenders them- are true. By whipping I do not mean that the man who beats his wife hould be unmercifully flogged or into insensibility. I would | advocate for such a man a whipping, which, while it might not tear his skin and lacerate his body, would cut with stinging force into his sensibilites and shame him.” A great majority of clergymen in Washington favor the whipping post. Several preachers oppose the idea as | tending to brutality and Rev. Tunis Shamlin says w ping would be as unsuccessful as lynching. The sentiment, however, is so strongly in favor of trying the experi- | ment that it is likely a bill will be in- [ troduced in Congress when it reassem- bles after the holiday recess. DR. ABBOTT'S VIEW < HELD CENTURIES AGO H p ¥ brew Writers ¥ w First to Advance L beral Conception of God. e RN Special Dispatch to The Call 5.—*Liberal think-( & the conception of being who sits in state, bank of clouds. -The ich a personality, with t hand and a sugar one to be used to d the other to re- t an idea which is | which have ad- ance of the world.” G. Hirsch, in ex- the pantheistic ef in God as a con- ty, as enunciated by Dr. | ngregationalist, be- | fore the Harvard students last Sunday in a sermon which has caused general comment. Dr. Hirsch declared the idea of Dr. Abbott to be the literal theolog- ical view, and said he was in accord with it “Dr. Abbott is following the moderu school of liberal thought” said Dr. Hirsch, “and is saying nothing which will come as a surprise to Jewish theo- logians. While modern theologians hold the same views as Dr. Abbott, the ideas are really not new at all, for they were first suggested by Jewish writers about 700 years ago. Dr. Abbott may be said to be merely coming back to ancient Jewish doctrines.” GIRL KISSES CULLOM AND | BRINGS LUCK| | | <] ! CHICAGO, 2%5.—A Dec fortune of $20,0 & sweetheart are the Christ- mas git vhich have been brought to Mist rt of Abingdon, Il Miss Swigert made a heavy bid for| feme by throwing herself upon the of Senator Cullom and kissing | turously last Tuesday because obtained the discharge of her | sweetheart, John Pierce, from the Hos- | pital Corps of the United States Army Just as he was to be sent to the Philip- pines. Plerce was planning to marry Miss| during the holideys and had | d for a discharge on that ac- t, but early In the week he learned that he was to be sent across the Pa- | cific and wired to his bride-elect to that | effect. Bhe immediately went to Wash- ington and prevailed upen Senator Cul- jom to obtain the young man’s dis- charge from army duty. | At this time she knew nothing of the | fortune aw er, and only yester- ( day she was advised that about $60,000 | from the estate of her grandfather, | el G. Burner, was to be divided between her brother and herself. 1 —_———— REFORMS TO BE GRANTED BY THE CZAR OF RUSSIA Zemstvos to Have Voice in Council of | State and the Press to | Be Iree. ! Dec. 26.—A dispatch to a | from St. Petersburg says | 1 on relizble authority | festo on the subject of | ed by Emperor Nicho- | points as follows: | stvo shall send to e three representa- question of in- the press cen- LONDON ond l:’ | shed and the freedom of llowed, and tion shall be out the em- tersburg cer- | that the manifesto | issued December 26. POLISH WORKINGMEN BAVE | FATAL CLASH WITH TROOPS | Bezimental Commander Killed When | Soldiers Try to Put Stop to a | Demonstration. { n Poland, Dec. 25.— t mass at the Roman crowd composed | raded the streexsl | ags. TAe military au- in trying to disverse it were with shots.. A serious en-| counter followed in which the com- | mander of the Twenty-sixth Regiment | was killed wounded. was killed. and a gendarme was One of the demonstrators MILLIONS FOR DEPOT BUILDINGS| -— Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Dec. 25 dcllars is the sum which the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company is prepared to spend in constructing a new rail- way station in Chicago. Twenty mil- lions of this sum will be used in ac- quiring land adjoining. the present Union Depot, to make the site com- mensurate with the enterprise, and $10,000,000 will be expended on build- ings. When the work Chicago will have one of the largest railway terminals in the world. The site of the new terminal, as planned by the architects and engineers of the Pennsylvania Company, will oc- cupy seven square blocks of territory. In this territory it is the intention of the company to erect a group of sup- ply and storage warehouses and a| huge freight warehouse and passenger depot. Pennsylvania company surpasses that which has been carried out in the city of Washington, where more than $25,- 000,000 was expended. B S D — COLORADO AND WYOMING VISITED ' BY SNOWSTORM Feared That Great Damage Will Be Done to Stock on the _ Ranges. DENVER, Dec. snowstorm began ‘this afternoon In Colorado and Wpyoming. Following suddenly an extended period of mild weather, it is feared that considerable | damage to stock on the open ranges will result. No revorts of interrup- tion to traffic have been received at railroad headquarters and prompt ac- tion in sending out snow plows may ward off trouble of this kind. The storm was ushered in by a high wind, which soon died down, however. —————— PREPARING TO SHIP COAL FROM PITTSBURG BY BOAT Indications That Rise in River Will Enable Vessels to Carry It Southward. PITTSBURG, Dec. 25.—Pittsburg harbor was a lively place to-day. River men, in anticiphtion of a suf- ficient rise in the rivers by to-mor- row to take heavy coal shipments to southern points, have been busy pre- paring for it. Forecaster Ridgway is not positive, but the coal companies, encouraged by the continued mild weather and favorable reports from | up-river*points, have had steam up all | {day in every towboat in the harbor, { sypreme Court against himself, Sir preparipg for the down-river {rip. If the expected rise materialize it will be the first since early in July and at least 5,000,000 bushels of coal will be shipped before sundown to- morrow. There are about 15,000,000 bushels in the Pittsburg and Monon- Ig‘ahela pools ready for shipment and as fast as barges and boats can be rushed to this point they will be load- ed and returned south. 2id “By whipping only, I believe, can | system of | —Thirty million | 1s completed | In its magnitude the plan of the | 25. — A general | 10 STRIKE - AT CASTRO S R Uncle Sam Is Soon fo Curh the '1 Dictator, | | t i i e 'Burope Is Urging America to Assume the Role of Policeman. Foreign Fowers Rezch limit of En- i durancs and Are Ready for Drastic Measures Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Conditions bordering upon anarchy, caused by President’s Castro’'s despotic rule in Venezuela, are known in detail to the State Department. American interests which have suffered have importuned the department to take some radical action to assure them protection. For- eign interests have been so outraged that the use of force by one or more European Governments in behalf of their citizens depends only on whether or not the United States is disposed to act as policeman in Venezuela. P England, Italy and Germany, the powers which formed a special alliance to coerce Venezuela into the payment | of long-standing claims in 1902, are dis- | gusted with the attitude of President | Castro. They have made it known to the United State in no uncertain terms that they would welcome action by the | United States in bringing pressure to | bear upon President Castro. New England Society in New York on Thursday was regarded by many In ‘Washington as the forerunner of strong action against President Castro, possi- bly in the shape of warships in Vene- zuelan waters. Root's speech was dou- bly significant, as there has been more or less inspired newspaper comment re- cently regarding the obligation of the United States to keep turbulent repub- lics in order, instead of permitting Eu- ropean Governments to do it, at the risk of violating the Monroe doctrine. { It is admitted that the situation in Vgnezuela is extremely serious; that | European Governments are getting so | tired of wasting time and diplomacy that they are almost willing to adopt stronger means, but would prefer that the United States should do it. | President Roosevelt has declared re- | peatedly that he would rather take the i responsibility for making the South American republics live up to their ob- ligations than see English, | Italian or French warships | across the seas to do it. RICHES AWAIT A SAILOR LAD PETRETE S German, coming . 4 | Bluejacket Returns From a Crnise to Learn That He Is a Man of Some Means Speciul Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25.—William McCabe of Lompoe, whose whereabouts were unknown for many years, has re- turned to Santa Barbara to find that he is a rich man. When he left Santa Barbara his mother was living and owned a piece of land in Lompoc that was heavily encumbered with debts and supposed to be worth very little. He entered the transport service between San Francisco and the Orient and later | enlisted in the navy. In a few years his mother died and all efforts to locate the son were fruitless. E. C. Tallant was appointed trustee of the property and succeeded in clear- | ing it of all debt and realizing from the | property incomes something more than $2000, which is now in the bank to young McCabe’s credit. Just after re- enlisting in the navy a few days ago for another four-year period McCabe heard of the happy. turn of his for- tunes and made a quick trip to Santa Barbara. ‘When returning to San Francisco to replied: *“No, I'm getting $50 a month ;and find I can get along on that. Just Jet the lump accumulate until T get through with the navy and come back.” —_—— | CANADIAN DENIES STORY | OF ELECTION BRIBERY | Unsuccessful in His Efforts to Save | tillei : Finance Minister Ficlding States That the Accusations Are With- out Foundation. NAPLES, Dec. 25.—W. 8. Fielding. Finance Minister in the Canadian Government, arrived here abeard the steamship Cretic at 6 o'clock this evening. Concerning the petitions, filed in the Frederick W, Borden, Minister of Militie. and Defense, and other lead- | ing Liberals of Parliament from Nova | ca Scotia, asking that their seats in Par- liament be declared vacant on the ground of alleged bribery committed by agents on their behalf in the gen- eral election of November 3, Fielding said the reports of corruption in the election were absolutely without foundation. Eiihu Root’s speech on the Menroe | doctrine and the “big stick” before the. resume his duties in the navy he was asked if he needed any money and he @ FOR A T0GA IS BITTER Minnesota Legislator | Makes Bribery Charge. Claims He Was Ofiered Pay to Oppose Senator Clapp. e Governor Van Sant Deeply Angered by Insinuations Aimed at His Candidacy.. PRRBL 5o 4 | ) | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ST. PAUL, Dec 25.—On the eve of the convening of the State Legislature to elect a United States Semator to suc- ceed Moses E. Clapp, charges of brib- ery are rife and an intense and bitter strife is in' progress. Senator Clapp is a candidate for re-election. J. B. Gil- fillan of Minneapolis is also a candi- date. The formal annoumcement by { Governor Samuel R. Van Sant that he also is in the fight has created con- sternation. To make the situation more sensational Republican Senator-elect Frank Haskell says in a published statement: “I was offered $1000 to make a public | interview in repudiation of Senator | Clapp. I was offered an additional $1000 |if T would induce another Ramsey | County Repubican to give a similar in- terview. The party was a friend of mine and I cannot give his name. I do not want to cause him any trouble.” Governor Van Sant said: “I am mad- | der than I have been since the Clivil War, and I never felt more like fight- | Ing since that time. It is more than forty years sinde that great struggle ended, but I think there j& one more fight in me and "I would into this struggle if I = a forlorn ‘hepe. 1 Have y about the base insinuations ‘aimed at me. My record is an oven book. I am with the people and will even' go down to defeat, if necessary, fighting for good govern- ment and clean politics.” N Governor Van Sant i{s busy writin his message to the Legislature and strongly advocates the enactment of laws for the control of railroad freight and passenger rates. Of his fight against the merger he has nothing to say except a recital of the facts. It was owing to the fact that Senator Clapp has failed to satisfactorily de- fine his position on tariff revision and | tontrol of railroad rates and the belief | that he was the candidate favored by | the railroads that the spontaneous de- mand for a candidate with pronounced views on these vital questions should be brought forth. “We want a man who does things,” said the country press, and the Van Sant bpom was started. T s i o e e e BED FOLDS 05 4 200 POUD MAN Victim Survives But Few Hours After Ac_cid@L Special Dispatch to The Call. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 25.—Ed- ward C. Coke died here to-day from in- Isfolding bed last night- He weighed 200 pounds, yet the bed folded and broke his back. . Coke, whose family is visiting in Cal- ifornia, had taken a room for the night at a lodging-house and, according to his own statement, was just falling | asleep when the bed closed. The pres- sure was so great when the bed closed that Coke’s body broke through the woodwork and forced the springs and a broken back Coke wazs completely paralyzed and died a few hours later. S L e s CHICAGO STOREKEEPER BEATEN AND ROBBED l 1 Proceeds of Christmas Eve | Trade. & | CHICAGO, Dec. 2%.—Beaten into in-! isenslbmty by four masked robbers, who | men tried to avoid a collision, but both | Peabody; but it is proposed that about | entered the dry goods store of O. L. Larson & Co. early to-day, A. G. Krog- .sted, a partner in the firm, was com- Ipelled to lie with his hands and feet, tied while a safe on an upper floor was / blown open and $1800 in money taken. Aftor dismissing the employes Satur- day night, Krogsted, fearing that rob- bers.might be attracted to the store be- use of the heavy Christmas business transacted in the place during the day, decided to remain in the store all night and guard the money. While he was dozing in his office at daybreak, four men broke into the place and attacked XKrogsted with clubs. He was soon un- conscious from the blows and the men ransacked the store. X juries sustained by the collapse of a[ bedding to the floor. Besides sustaining. of the season's regattas of the Onon- VILLAGERS DROWNED ! ‘Starving Brutes Raid Coast Towns of . Kamchatka. LA [Tne Harold Dollar - Brings Account of War Between Men and Beasts. Inhabitants of One Seftlement Kill 150 Animals in a Day and Ship Their Pelts on Steamer. | Captain M. H. Thwing of the steamer Harold Dollar, which returned yes- terday morning from the eastern coast of Siberfa with a very valuable cargo of furs, tells of an invasion of the cities and villages on the east coast of the Kamchatkan Peninsula by hundreds of starving Siberian bears. The fero- cious animals, driven from the moun- tains by hunger, made their way to the inhabited regions of the coast and for | days kept the natives in a state of semi-seige. In Ustakamchatka, a small town near the city of Petropau- lovski, one hundred and fifty of the savage brutes were . shot in a single day, as they roamed among the houses | in search of food. | During this day, which was the worst of all, only one of the natives ventured to leave his house, and he was attack- ed and killed by the bears. After the brutes had been killed or driven from | the village, the body of this man was found partly devoured near his house. The hungry animals even tried to tear their way into the houses and but for the fact that the natives, who make their living by hunting, were well pro- vided with fire arms, many human lives would have been lost. In Petropaulovski, which is a large sea pert on Avatcha Bay on the the southeast point = of the Peninsula of KamchatKa, -the streets in one day and a young cub, captured alive, was brought to San Francisco on thé. Harold Dollar. For days there was a veritable reign of terrar in the city. The" school was closed, and women and children re- mained in their homes, while bands of armed men patrolled the streets night and day hunting bears among the houses. Many of the smaller towns and fish- ing villages along the coast were at- tacked by the starving bears, but at none of these places was the number killed sp large as at Ustakamchatka. Captain Thwing at his home in Oak- land yesterday gave the following. ac- count of the invasion of the bears, the skins of many of which are now packed in the hold of the Harold Dollar, await- ing shipment to London: These bears live in the range of mountains | which runs through the center of the peninsu- Ja o' Kamchatka, and they live for the most part on salmon which they catch from the rivers and streams. As nearly as I could learn, the natives think the salmon did not run far enough up the rivers this vear for the bears to lay in their usual store provisions, and as {he winter came on the animals were driven by_starvation to seek food on the sea coast. While the steamer was at Petropaulovski | the bears attacked a number of villages along the coast, and at Ustakamchatka one hundred and fifty’ were shot in one day from the win— dows of houses. These bears weigh about 900 or 1000 pounds. and when hungry are very savage. The skins of nearly all the bears that were killed at Ustakamchatka were sold to the company. and were among the cargo brought to San Francisco on the Harold Dollar. A rumor was started on the water front yesterday that the Harold Dollar had been chased and fired upon by a Javanese cruiser on the homeward voy- age, but Captain Thwing ridiculed the | story. He said: We left the Siberian coast on December 10, and did not even eée a ship of any kind untii we were within sight of the Golden Gate, In fact, we did not see any vessel whatever after we were two days out from Seattle on our voyage to the coast of Siberia. 1 have no idea where the story of our being chased by a Japanese cruiser originated, un- less it was told by some member of the crew as a joke. Had any Japunese vessel chased us we should have béen captured, for the Dollar is not a fast ship, and had we been caught the Japs would have got a rich prize, for our cargo of seal, sable and sea otter furs | is valued at about 000, —_—— COLLISION OF ICE YACHTS COSTS THREE MEN'S LIVES i 1 Going at Lightning Speed Two Boats Come Together on Onon- H daga Lake. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 25.—Three men were killed and three were serious- ly hurt in a crash of two iceboats speeding before a gale of wind at the rate of fifty miles an hour on Onon- | . daga e this afternoon. The dead: | iJA JACKSON. 1 | CHARLES MARKHAM. . GEORGE TODD. The accident occurred after the first daga Lake Yacht Club, which brought 1500 persons to the lake. over its sur- face a'fierce gale drove the fleet of ice | yachts at express-train speed. Toward | the close of the afternoon the Warner brothers, ‘with Fred Warner at the. r, bore up the lake with the wind ' abaft, the Blitz, with Caleb Boss steer- | ing, approached in the opposite direc- | tion. Each craft carried five persons. | As the yachts neared eacn other both | turned in the same direction. ———————— FALSELY REPORTED DEAD | PITTSBURG, Dec. 26.—A sensational rumor circulated last night that Vice President-elect Fairbanks had died, while on & train from Washington en route to Indianapolls was officially dis- proved upon the arrival of the train here at 2:30 o'clock this morning. Senator Fairl was seen by a - four beers were shot.in |- RAILROADS LINE UP AGAINST PRESIDENT MEARS%CUHUPBSS fo Be Battleground on the Rate Question. it e iRoosevelzf Wil N ot Yield + FORM PLAN FOR SEATING OF PEABODY Sebeme of (olorado Republican Legis- lators. DENVER, Dec. 25.—If the Fifteenth General Assembly of Colorado, which- is to meet on Wednesday, January 4, shall put into effect the plans formu- lated by the managers of the Republi- can post-election campaign, Governor James H. Peabody may serve as chief | executive for two years more, despite the fact that Alva Adams still has nearly 10,000 plurality since the votes of five Denver precincts were thrown out by order of the Supreme Court in con- sequence of frauds exposed in contempt proceedings against election officials. There will be a Republican majority | of thirty or more in the General Assem- bly, which will canvass the vote for State officers. It is proposed to have | the General Assembly appoint a special committee of nine to twelve members, to which will be submitted the evidence of wholesale election frauds. The Republican managers maintain that, with the fraudulent vote of Den- ver eliminat:d. Gevernor Peabody will have at least 7000 plurality in this county and 2000 in this State. i It is not intended that the legal votes | shall be sifted from the illegal and then counted, or that the Legislature ! shall reject the entire vote of Denver ! County, because to do this would not | accomplish the reseating of Governor 100 Democratic pgecincts shall be | thrown out on the ground of alleged frauds and that the vote of the Repub- | lican precincts shall be counted. They | assert that the Su has es- tablished a precedent a pro- cedure. . L ‘The Demaocratic Kk declare there | is a monstrous c behind the ! disclosures of fraud shown in contempt | proceedings before the Supreme Court. ' They state that the bunches ¢f spurious | ballots, all in one handwriting, found in the boxes from different precincts, | could not have been placed in the boxes on election day without having been | observed by the watchers and charge | that the boxes have been tampered RAILWAY MAN WHO DISAPPROVES OF ROOSEVELT'S POLICY OF FED- ERAL AUTHORITY OVER ROADS. _— CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Dee. 2i.—President Roosevelt and those members of his administration interested in railroad legistation along the lines of his mes- sage have begun to realize they have a big fight on their hands in trying to accomplish anything at the present session of Congress. They are prepar- ing accordingly; so are the railroac President Roosevelt has arranged his lines for a siege of Congress as soon as it assembles next week. Secretary Morton is taking the railroad side of the fight and urging important rail- road men to join in the movement and assist in framing legisiation. He has not been very successful up to date. Certain railroad influences have al- ready been feit in both branches of Congress and the plan of certain Semn- ate leaders to postpone legislation pending an investigation by a congres- sional commission, instead of being given up, is likely to be pushed harder | than. ever. ‘The railroads have been preparing already for a campaign on the rate question. Officlals of some of the great trunk systems have been writing sig- nificant letters to Washington. They have established a bureau of informa- tion and otherwise indicated that they would like to get their case before the public. President Marvin Hughitt of the Chicago and Northwestern led off in the publicity campaign In his speech yesterday before the Commerecial Club of Sioux City, Iowa, which was on a visit to this city. "Other railroad mag- nates throughout the country are ex- pecied to follow Hughitt's example. Hughitt contended that not only would the railroads suffer through the legis- lation proposed by President Roosevelt, but citles in all parts of the country would be restricted in their growth, be- cause of inability to reach out for trade beyond “their own little garden plots.™ In Hughitt's opinion, such legisiation as President Roosevelt proposed would produce uniformity that would be & death blow to competition. Some of the rallroad men are in- clired to aceept Secretary Morton’s in- vitation and assist in a settlement of the question. There is a firm bellef that the President is determined and proposes sooner or later to have a new Jaw, but a large majority, it is sald, have held aloof, while many are act- | ively fighting the proposition. It was thought that when Secretary Morton’s plan was announced, includ- ing legalized pooling, together with Government supervision of rates, the railroad presidents would at least fall fn with this, but there has been a dis- tinct disappointment in administration | cireles over this phase of the case, and the President is actively preparing his eampaign, knowing that he will face the almost united opposition of the railroads Father John Seriously Tl KRONSTADT, Dec. 25. — Father John of Cronstadt is seriously il and thousands of peasants are awaiting his recovery in order to confess. - +* with since the election, legal votes be- ing abstracted and spurious ballots substituted therefor. No proof in sup- port of these assertions has been pre- sented, but it is pointed out that the boxes were left unwatched for two days after being delivered to the Election Commission, and that for another day they were in charge of only two Re- publican watchers.