The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1905, Page 1

pIS » e 3 Francisco and morning, bec H M1 XCVIII- NURDERERS NTIHIATE ) WITNESS Reign—c;f-Terror at a Theological | Seminary. | Culprits Who Bound Student to Railroad | Are Desperate. | NO. { { Assault Youth Who Testified‘ to the Facts at a Cor- oner’s Inquest. Special D spatch to The Call i night s Brooke, Oklahoma. ves. His then he d Policeman Lewis r from Mount Ver- was found and they igation, which up d developed trousers, not been s to believe that the men Plerson’s death committed the hope of intimidating yet to be taken in the UNDDNTES. | SING CARRIES THE FLECTiON Defeats the Opposition’s Entire County Ticket. Special Dispatch to The Call BEAVER, Pa, Nov. 12—J. A Mitchell, candidate for Register and Recorder, was defeated last Tuesday by argest Democratic majority ever :p_against a Republican candi- ate in Beaver County. A little song, Everybody Works but did the trick and it practically defeat the entire Republican ticket has been in office four years. to be re-elected. He is re- ve filled the office with his til every one of his sons | 2d other near relatives positions. | ratic candi- | 1, had made It the | ign that Mitchell er § C ldren In office, but not g Everybody Works but d did he make any | It is said that des defeating the whole ket ned the county Treasurer. | e NORWEGIAN PEOPLE VOTING { FOR KINGDOM OR REPUBLIC Future of the Nation Depends the Rewult of the Present Plebescite. Upon —A plebe choice of P as the new to-day King under | ons. The peo-, g in, large out of a total | ,000 have ' 1l be con- the public and are decorated The polling me All ; e buildings the culmination of a itation in a storm of b party leaders throughout for and against & republic. THE WEATHER. ast for November 13 District Forecaster. 1.“: | was made to-3ay that James Speyer of | | New York has given to the trustees of | | and institutions in.the University of Ber- ) 1905 vicinis o WILLSON, Prints More News Than Any her Pape ORPHEUM—Va TIVOLI—Grand ALCAZAR—"The Little Minister.™ CALIFORNIA—Tiger Lilies. CENTRAL—"The Darkest Hour." CHUTES—Vaudeville, COLUMBIA—“The Prince of Plisen.’* FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—‘Buster Brown. MAJESTIC—"The Matinee. Light udeville. Opera. Bternal.” L 166 SA 7FRANCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS BIC CIFT T0 EDUCATION MADE BY JANES SPEYER OF NEW YORK Germany and United States May Now Exchange Professors. — OV‘I & 12.—Announcement | | NEW YORK, Nov. Columbia University, New York, the sum | of 350,00 to endow the Theodore Roose- | velt professorship of American history lin, in accordance with a plan approved by the German Emperor, who received President Butler in audience at Wilhelms- | hoeke in August last. Incumbents of:the professorship will be | appointed by the Prussian Minister of Education, with the Emperor's sanction, upon the nomination of the trustees of | Columbia University. The term of office | of each incumbent will be one year, and incumbents will be so chosen that in suc- | cessive years the field of American his-| tory, American constitutional and admin-{ istrative law, American economic and so- | clological problems and movements, | American education and American contri- | butions .to science, technology, the arts| and literature will be the subjects of in- | struction. It is proposed in this way to| present in a series of years to German | university students an outline of Ameri- | can history and institutions.. Nominations | will not be confined to the members of the staff of -Columbia University, but professors in any American institution of | learning or scholars unattached to any| university are eligible for nomination. | The German Government in return will establish at Columbia University a pro- | fessorship of German history and institu- | tions, to the incumbent of which the same | general conditions will apply as for the| incumbent of the Theodore Roosevelt pro- | fessorship. The appointee to the chair in, Columbia University will lecture in Eng- | iish. | President Roorevelt assented to the re-| quest of Mr. Bpeyer to atfich his name | to the cheir, and the German Emperor promptly gave approval to the suggestion. | The trustees of Columbia University have | nominated as the first incumbent of the | chair John Willlam Burgess, Ph. D., LL. D., Ruggles professor of political sclence and constitutional science and dean of the faculty of political sclence in Columbia University, and it is expected that his ap- | pointment will shortly be made by the Prussian Minister of Education. Pro- fessor Burgess will enter upon his dutles at the University of Berlin in the winter of 1806-07, and will give instructions in American constitutional history. In meking the announcement President Butler of Columbia said in behalf of the trustees: “Mr. Bpeyer's gift seems to us both striking in its originality and splendid in | its possibilities. We are not without hope that before long Columbia University will be put in a position to make similar ar- | rangements with the University of Parls and with an English university, possibly the University of London.” i —————————— i POWERS SOON TO REMOVE | TROOPS FROM CHILI, CHINA | Withdrawal, as Suggested by Emperor | William, Will Begin Next | LONDON, Nov. 12.—It is= said at the Foreign Office here that the withdraw- al of the foreign troops from the province of Chili, China, to which it | has been announced from Berlin all the powers have agreed, is expected to begin in Mareh, 1906, ~and continue gradually. Many details are awaiting arrange- ment, but all the powers are thorough- ly in accord in regard to the proposal, which was made by Emperor Willlam. et e 8 Fear of Trust In Wheat. EL PASO, Tex. Nov. 12.—Notwith- | standing the reduction of the duty on | wheat frontythe United States none is going into ‘Mexico and complaints are frequently heard that a trust op- erating in both countries is holding bhack the supply in the United States. . NEW_YORK BANKER WHO HAS MADE BIG GIFT TO CAUSE OF EDUCATION. = L ) o G FAMILES D FOVERTY NN CRINE Sociologist Says Poor Raise Too Many Children, A Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Nov. 12—"I am not an ad- vocate of race suicide, but in the poor quarters there are too many births. We are now suffering from toc much pros- perity among the rich and too much pov- erty for the poor,” sald Lester Bodine, superintendent of compulsory education, at a meecting in the Municipal Museum last night. “Large famllles that drag down the finances of a wage-earner are responsible in a great measure for wife abandonment cases. In other instances desertion fis taken to avoid alimony payment, but whatever the cause the mother that must bend her back to the task of caring for her children cannot properly raise them and eventually thousands of boys and girls find their way Inio the juvenile courts. “An investigation of the West Side has shown that there' are 6000 women there deserted. In the whole city there are nearly three times as miany whose hus- bands have deserted them. “Large families are compatible with large incomes, but the trouble is that the poor are producing too many Nothing can be done to alleviate this ex- cept education. This education is radi- cally different from that advocated by our worthy President. “I wish to honestly declare that the poor have no right to large families.” ——— HEART BEATS FOR SEVEN HOURS AFTER HIS DEATH Peculiar Case of a Young Man Who Dies of Abscess in Mis-> wourl. FRANKLIN, Mo, Nov. 12.—Harrison Weldy, a young man of this city, diea from an abscess in the back of his head, and, according to the physicians in attemfiance, his heart continued to beat for seven hours after he’ had ceased to live. chil N children. | @ ade whereby Colonel Backus was to ! pay to Mr. Arocha $420,000 for “La Ven- EXTORTION TTEMPTED B CISTR) Charges Now Made by the Asphalt Company. Concern Says It Could Obtain Protection for Money, aEmadRaL L Sum of Four Hundred Thou- sand Said to Have Been Asked by Dictator. NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Allegations that high officlals in the Venezuelan Govern- ment deliberately attempted to extort from the company the sum of $400,000 are made in a statement given out to-day by the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company in reference to thessuit brought by the Venezuelan Government against the asphalt company for $11,000,000 dam- ages for aiding the Matos rebellion. The means used by these officials, ac- cording to the allegation, included black- mail, confiscation of the company’s prop- erty, the manufacture of false testimony and the making of decrees without re- gard to law. The allegations made in the statements are based upon letters which, it is declared, were received from A. P. Carner, now receiver, holding the company’s property for the Venezuelan Government, but who in 1900 was the com- pany's agent at Caracas, and the repre- sentative of Colonel Victor M. Backus, who was sent to Venezuela In 1900 as an independent agent by the asphalt com- pany. The statement concludes with an exhaustive review of what it describes as ‘‘the asphalt company's actual rela- tions to the revolution.” FOR-THE RESELS,” - In this cbnnection, it is explained that $100,000 was given ‘to General Matos by the officlals of the National Asphalt Com- pany on the general's request. Further sums, aggregating $30,000, were pald the revolutionary leader soon afterward. This money was paid, the statsment says, to guarantee protection of the company’s property at a fime when the territory in which the company's property is located | was in the control of the revolutionists. The statement maintains that the com- | pany at all times observed absolute neu- trality, even going to the extent of pay- ing customs duties to both the Govern- ment and revolutionists when the custom houses were controlled by the insurgents. One of the letters from Carner to thes| Bermudez company, dated December 23, 1900, when he was the company’s Caracas agent which is quoted in the statement in support of the allegation of extortion, says: “They (the Governmen't's agents) are after money. That Castro is behind it, I am morally convinced, and, little by lit- tle, I am getting closer to it. It is now only a question of money and we can have all the justice we want.” EXTORTION BY CASTRO. Another letter dated December 29, 1900, quotes Carner saying: ““1 have recefved a plump offer from an agent (well known to be such) of the die- tator, to the effect that he would guar- antee to put our case through exactly as I wanted it and in such a way as to in- sure us against any future difficulties in the matter of our rights and property, all for the sum of $400,000." While things were going on this way, the statement says, the company sent to Venezuela Colonel Victor M. Backus of Indianapolis as an independent agent to ascertain as far as possible the true con- ditions there. “To this end,” the statement -says, “Colonel Backus represented himself as the representative of American capital- ists who were seeking investments in Venezuela. One of the fraudulent titles to varfous parts of the company's prop- erty most actively used as a club to ex- tort money from the company was ‘La Veneuzuela.' Colonel Backus therefore entered into negotiations with Senor Figuera, one of the guarantors. He promptly found that Senor Figuera was only a stalking horse for persons higher up. Senor Figuera professed to act not only for himself, but also as the representative of Senor Felipe Aro- cha. Senor Arocha was a foster brother of - Mrs. Castro, wife of the President, and resided at Miraflores, the President's palace. “On January 17, 1901, Senor Arocha wrote to Figuera a letter suggesting ! that Colonel Backus come to Miraflores for a conference. Colonel Backus then had an interview at the palace with Arocha and General de Nazarres, Mrs. Castro’'s secretary. During the inter- view the two latter persons were in constant consultation with President Castro, who occupied the adjoining room and who once appeared in the doorway.” DEALINGS WITH MATOS. As a result of the conference, statement says, the agreement the was ezuela” mine. tinues: “The execution of the conspiracy to extort money from the company and despoil it had reached this point when General Matos arrived in New York in the midsummer of’' 1801. TFor a long time affairs in Venezuela had been in a revolutionary condition. The region in which the company's asphalt lake situated was constantly swept by revo- lutionary bands and the company w: often forced .‘n self-defense ‘to supply food to them 'in small quantities and sometimes to do other services. Prior to Geferal Matos’ arrival in New York. neither the officers of the. National Asphalt Company nor the officers of the The statement con- DECLARES STATE OF WAR EXISTS IN POLAND. — —_— - AT > RUSSIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, WHO IS SOON TO RETIRE, AND FORMER LEADER OF REVOLUTIONISTS, WHO IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION TO RETURN FROM EXILE. 1 New York and Bermudez Company had any relations of any kind with him. “When In New York General Matos called on the officers of the Natlonal Asphalt Company and represented that he had, after much negotiation, united all the partfes and forces opposed to General Castro. General Matos asked for a sum of money. “The company was confronted with a formidable revolutionary movement, which would be friendly or hostile ac- cording to the company’s action on General Matos' request. The company was also threatened with certain de- struction of its rights by, General Castro and those conspiring with him for its spoliation. The officers of the National Asphalt Company therefore decided to give to General Matos the amount which he asked. “The money was paid for the pro- tection of the company's property dur- ing the continuance of the revolution and for the protection of its just rights thereafter in case the revolution suc- | | ceeded and without any understanding or obligation with respect to its use. During the. c..tire continuance of the revolution the company, and. so far as it is advised, all its agents in Vene- zuela, as they were instructed to do, maintained absolute neutrality.” A copy of the Venezuelan newspapes, El Constitucional, received here by the Venezuelan Minister, announces the ap- pointment by the Federal or Cassation Court of a commission consisting of an engineer and two lawyers to ascertain the damages claimed by Venezuelans to have been done by the New York and Bermu- dez Asphalt Company in an alleged breach of contract. RATS PLAY HAVOC WITH TITLE DEEDS Italian Officials Call Atten- “tion of the Pope to the Destruction. Epectal D.sputch to Fhe Call ROME, Nov. 12.—Italian Government officials have called the Pope’s attention to the fact that an immense number of documents are stored in some rooms of the Lateran Palace. Many of these papers are of great importance in settling dis- putes of succession to estates which are brought by descendants of old inhabitants of Rome and of pontifical estates. 1t seems that soon after the occupation of Rome in 1870 the notarfal archives of the city of Rome were entrusted to the care of three notaries who were in sym- pathy with the papal views of the right of the Pope to temporal powers. These notaries were direct descendants of an- cestors who had held the same positions for centuries under the Popes, and they continued to exercise their rights as papal notaries and kept the documents which had accumulated in their offices for cen- turfes. It is said that rodents have played i8! havoc with the collection, and that be- cause of this the Italian Government of- ficials have thought it advisable to notify Pius X. It is probable that the Pope will order the immediate classification of the collection, and that the notarial archives of the Holy See will now be formally in- stalled ‘in the Lateran Palace, under the Jurisdiction of Cardinal Satolll. . NEW CLERICAL CHANPION OF NCKEFELLE High Prices Are a God- send to the Nation, Says Pastor. ——— Speciai Dispatch to The Call WILKESBARRE, Pa., Nov. 12.—Rev. C. E. Mogg of the Centraf Methodist Eplsco- pal Church of this city to-day in a sermon approved of the increase in the prices of oil and steel, because, he said, it provided extra money for churches and libraries. He sald: . ‘“Whatever the people say about Mr. Rockefeller, he is the greatest passer of the hat In the country for the extension of education. When he wants a million or two for the Chicago University he sim- ply puts another half-cent on the price of oil and we all contribute for the good work. “I am glad he does this and uses the money as he does. If I were able I would do it, too, as long as my method was within the law. . ‘“‘Andrew Carnegle is another man for whom we should be thankful, as he col- lected money by charging a good price for steel and is now using it for establish- ing libraries all through the country, and is doing good in this way. We should be thankful that there are not very many men like Russell Sage, who since he has been unable to get to his place of busi-| ness has every check for rental brought to him that he may scrutinize it before passing it over for deposit, and his wife even has to render an account to him of all she spends.” —_————— NEW CABINET OF FRANCE © SELECTED BY PREMIER ER. Thomson Retaing Marine Portfolio and Dublef Becofes Minister of * Interior. PARIS, Nov. 12.—The Council of Ministers reassembled to-day and made the following alterations in the new Cabinet, which was rearranged yest day: M. Thomson, upon his personal re- quest: so that he can continue his work in the execution of the new naval pro- e, keeps the marine portfolio. .M. Dublef, Minister of Commerce, be- comes Minister of the Interfor. Otherwise the new Cabinet remains unchanged. = The Journal official to- morrow will publish this ultimate min- isterial combination over the signa- tures of President Loubet and Premier Rouvle: Russian Government Issues Warning to People. SUSPENDS ALL THEIR RIGHTS Force Will Be Used to Put an End to Revolt. » { ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 13—Poland |is mot to be permitted to become = | second Finland. ment The Russian Govern. serves mo- tice on the Polish Nationalists that, for good or ill, the ancient Kingdom of Po- Ian mow become an integral part | of the Russinn Empire and that, while the Government | serve the national rig! any attempt to wrest Poi f the Emperor would be consl an act of revolt and would lead the Poles into the sorrowful paths trodden by them in 1531 and 1S63. The Russian authorities recognize the gravity of the movement in which two antagonistic parties, the Nationalists and the Soclalists, under the leadership of such Poles as Henrik Sienkiewicz, the novelist, have joined. forces, and | they declare that none of the benefits of the emancipation can be conferred on “a country In revelt.” The omicial communication issued this morning recalls the fact that the | imperial ukase of December 25 last es- tablished a basis for the gradual remo- vation of the civil life of Russian sub- jects and points out that the measures adopted in pursuance of that ukase affected equally the Polish people. The ukase says: “In accordance with the ukase the exceptional laws hindering the free de- velopment of the nation were abro- gated and the Poles were given the same rights as the Russians. Educa- tional, municipal and judicial reforms | were introduced. as stipulated by the decisions arrived at by the committes of Ministe; op June 13 and by the ukase of Aprfl 30 regarding religious liberty. The general measutes adopted by the Government were extended to Poland, which also was given the right of participation in the Douma and free- dom of meeting. Finally, on October 30, the Poles were recognized as free citizens, thereby obtaining full epper- tunity to prove. their capacity. By participating in a great creative work they would consequently have gradu- ally attained the ulterior progress of the Polish nation, with the end of the electoral institutions, which naturally would have sympathized with their fate. ) | “Forgetting the painful lessons of the past the politicians who are direct- ing the national movement in the Kingdom of Poland are making at- of the empire. Rejecting the idea of working in common with the Russiaa people in the Douma, they are demand- ing in a series of revolutionary meet- ings the complete autonomy of Poland with a special constitutional Diet, thereby aiming at the restoration of the kingdom of Poland. “Two political groups, one Socialist and one Nationalist, who are opposed to each other, are united in this aspira- tion, which is upheld by many writers, publicists and popular orators, who carry the people with them. | “In aifferent districts of the Vis- | tula there have been numerous proces- | tons, the participants in which carried | Polish flags and sang Tevolutionary songs. At the same time there has | been begun the arbitrary exclusion by | the Poles of the state language, even | in governmental institutions, where its | employment is provided for by law. In certain localities bands of -vorkmen and peasants are pillaging the schools, the state spirit shops and communal buildings, destroying all correspond- ence in the Russian language. Repre- sentatives of the local authorities, in defending order and public safety, have | been watering the earth for a year past with thelr blood, by falling victims to political crimes, and the reasonable part of Polish soclety is impotent dgainst the growing pressure of revo- lutionary organizations. “"Tha Government will not tolerate attacks on the integrity of the empire, insurrectionary plots or acts of vie- lence. It declares in a decisive man- | ner that as long as the troubles in the i Vistula districts continue and as long | as that part of the population adhering I | to litical agitators continues its pre-::t sway these ricts shall re- eive none of the benefits resulting from the manifestos of August 13 and October 30, 1905. S future of the Polish people thus dmn'rh:- upon t! ves. The Govern- ment, having a desire to eontinue safe- guarding the integrity and national rights of the Polish people, extended by recent legislative acts, expects the | people to recover from the political in- toxication which has come over the kingdom of Poland, the of | which- has become a prey to the agita- | tors, while at the same time It is put- ! ting the people on guard against en- tering a dangerous path, which, un- fortunately. they have not for the first time trod.” H DE WITTE FIGHTS ON ALONE. ‘With each day's developments it ba- comes more apparent that Russian re- formers have learned little of the les- sons of history and that Russia is des- tined, like other countries before her, to travel a thorny path to freedom. She determined to pay the heaviest Continued on Page 3, Columa &