The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1906, Page 1

THE WEATHER. For San Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy Saturday; fresh west winds. Mayor Becker of Milwaukee, in i next Sunday’s Call, tells why young men should enter politics. . - PRICE FIVE CENTS. PARKINSONFINDS ROSENE'S TY A 600D REPUDIT CUSTOMER. BY CZAR New Bills Are Discovered | Warning lssued That Seattle Materials Sold by, Promoter’s Siberia Mining Palo Alto - Trustee| Rights Are Very Limited MUNICIPAL BOARD |RUSSIA EXPLAINS UNDER HIS RULE THE CONCESSION| for the More Than Fl\e Thousand Government Declares That Dollars Due Charity on a Pre-Election Promise OHN ROSENE has evidently fallen promoter been halted in but he gh Russian authori- berian sc me, is by the hi, misrepresentation to min- icing them to go to the for- gold land to dig for of Department Commerce and g has taken Paul Kosa- 1e what must e regarded ing. The warning Rosene’s representations as an exposure of wrong- is given to that as terms and location of auriferous ground are talse declarations of the Russian . Government come as a sensational sur- . prise. Rosene is one of the biggest £ P noters on the coast. He is inter- 4y ed in steamship lines, various laskan projects and was supposed to hold a very valuable concession from the Czar to mine in Siberia. He was supposed to stand very high with v there-ars| . which ernment. In his many journeyings to| o but prob- | St Petersburg, it was thought, he had | Kins their ad-|ingratiated himself into favor in a| fashion never equalled by a foreigner | before. ‘His winning of the Siberian | concession has been regarded as one| of the most brilliant exploits of the times in promotio work. CONCESSION SHORT-LIVED. Bu ardware and building Parki the - t now comes the 1is great scheme to ex: treasures of Siberia is virtua tered re the shat- has only four years more to run, says the Department of Commerce and In- dustry. Many restrictions have been imposed tending to obstruct the rying out of his scheme llowing is car- warning” ave out that the * E vester- Cons: the interests of all parties con- cerned, at San Francisco hereby vegs to com- nicate to you the following intima- on issued by the imperial Department of Commerce and Industry. sald department that the Northeastern Siberia Company, Limited, of St. Pe- | tersburg, Russia, whose director in Si- beria and Russia is John Rosene, 234- 235 Pioneer bullding, Seattle, Wash., offers to all companies or persons de- sirous of sending prospectors to Cape it was changed. nrs emanated from m Parkinson's | Chukotski, Eastern Siberia, for mining flice is the place. Parkinson does mnot| purposes, to obtain for them the lease - does | of one or more claims, same to be moSt. | chosen or located by them and to re- main in the possession of the lessee, his heirs and legal representatives, successors and assignees, until the mine is exhausted, If they comply with all the conditions of the contract signed | with the company. < | RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED. no informa- ¥ e e Sbins vtk ”'D’i Whereas, According to the Russian | sl g g en. | Mining laws, mining on the Chukotski Light and Pow. | PeInsula and in the whole of the Primorsk province is prohibited to for- m Parkinson o everything is e Municipal , nd $27.75. J.| : Jr. has a claim of like char. | ©'BRETS: g . e AEITHE R “Whereas, Under the contract signed | éh imemts. The city elec.|”'th the Russian Government, the Northeastern Siberia Company, while having the sole right, until 1910, to prospect for minerals and work mines {on the Chukotski Peninsula, east of the rivers Angeioma and Ennenkal, voucher claim from for $4 the -—————— FEAR OF DEATH EXPRESSES IHREE HOURS BEFORE DEMISE can transmit that right to other persons Good-by, Dearie; It May Be the Last | O0lY by special permission and in its Time,” Prophetic Words of | entirety, without parceling the con- on into separate claims, and Engineer's Wife. TLE. Aug. 10, — “Good-by,| ~Whereas, It will be possible for the . be the last time” sajd | COmpany, under the general mining| “ therine Lawler, wife of|laws and under the stipulations of the at mentioned contract with Russian Government, to transfer such claims only after the above mentioned term of exclusive rights in the whole of the peninsula shall have expired and after the allotment to the company of such separate localities which the said company may wish to retain, “The Department of Commerce and | Industry warns all persons who have already entered or are desirous of en- | tering into agreements with the North- eastern Siberia Company with a view Min v Agriculture to|of leasing claims on the Chukotski Pe- ted St has received notifi- | ninsula that the Imperial Russian Gov- rom the new Kossuth Ministry | ernment will not admit or recognize the his services are no longer needed | rights of such persons to these claims, He will appeal to the Hungarian courts | although the same be based on agree- for reinstatement and has engaged ments or contracts concluded with the 4rthur von Briessen &8 counsel labove named company.” first assistant engineer innesota, she daughter in her n Queen Anne ave- last night. In less Mrs. Lawler was dead rformed an autopsy was caused by fatty the heart JRMEEh S e A AT 1Y Dismissed From His Job. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Eugene Bo- | 1 commissioner of the Roya]j as e who ay de ation of . of He Cannot Fulfill Offers He Makes to Gold Diggers| from tk good graces of the Rus- | sian Government. He has fared badly in the shake up at St Peters Not only has the Seattle| leading officials of the Russian Gov- | announcement | Rosene’s right to dig for gold | the imperial Russian consulate | Russian | the | | LANAmerlcan Mine Promoters rab Slice of Old Mexico. in a Plot to % NVESTIGATION of the causes of the recent threatened uprising of Mcxicans against Americans has revealed a bold scheme to provoke a war between the two friendly nations, with the hope that a serious complication would force the southern republic to cede to the United States the rich mining district of Cananea in Sonora. - - * 424172272' “MII[ 7 NOT A SPORT HllT A HORSETHIEF. 1AL msm'rcu TO THE CALL. ER, Aug. 10.—Passing | | S| DE! as -8 .| wealthy horse owner and sport by day “It has come under the notice of the | |and following the occupation of steal- | ing horses from: the residents of fash- | fonable Capitol Hill by night, J. P. | Rogers, who has several other names | by which he has been known, is <Qld to | have carried on his nefarious tr: months and was only dpprenended Tthrough the clever work of men con- | nected with the- detective department | | which Sheriff Nisbet attached to his office a few weeks ago. Rogers, who is ‘uald to be an ex-convict, comes of a good family in the East. He is 25 years old. After Rogers' arrest the officers found that he had lived at 1324 Wash- _Ington avenue, where he had rented a | barn, claiming to be a dealer in horses. | 1t was to this Barn that he is said to have taken his horses after removing them from the stables of their owners. | It is suspected that the man had ar- ranged a hidden stall, could be concealed until he sold them. Y CONTRACT. BPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Indications multiply that the American Society of | Contracting Engineers intends to make an aggressive campaign for the build- ing of the Panama canal by contract. There is a general demand from them that the President let out the work on the waterway to private parties. Daniel Hauer, an expert engineer of Baltimore, today criticised unsparingly the meth- ods now employed in digging the canal. “President Roosevelt 18 making a mistake in continuing the present meth- o0d” declared Hauer. “Day labor work is. as a rule, much more expensive and consequently slower than contract work. Already more than two years have been given to work on the isth- mus, and it is ridiculous to find how little work has been done. One has only to refer to the published reports of the ' | where the horses | WOULD DI CANAL JC“M Commission to verify this state- | direction of the Missouri River. ment” ;fi” i | E PL CEDING OF CA\A\FA o A, _ Nor. s A\D \lE‘lCA\' OFFICIALS WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THE INVESTIGATION E THE TWO REPUBLICS IN WAR AND FORCE THE | semcas | OF TH | . GHANGE REUNITES CORTELYOU MEETS REFUGEE COUPLE. | SPECIAL DIS[‘ATCH TO THE CALL. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.—After four months of suspense, during which nei- ther knew the fate of the other, S. J. Van Zant and his wife have'been re- united in St. Louls, following thelr sep | They will make their home here. Van Zant, who is now employed as a decorator at the Southern Hotel, had lived in San Francisco for many years, and In the fire lost his home and all his belongings. When the flames threat- ened his home he took his wife and | baby to Golden Gate Park. During the confusion he becime separated from his wife, who held the baby in her arms. Van Zant searched the city, but could flnd no trace of his wife. He left for | Birmingham, Alabama, their former home, hoping to find her there. | In the meantime Mrs. Van Zant had | searched the ruined city for her hus- | band, butsconcluded at length that he | had been killed and went to a friend in Tampa, Florida. She remained there until a letter was received from her husband, who had gone to St. Louis | from Birmingham and had by' mere | chance learned his wife's whereabouts. e gl ZEPHYR IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY SMASHES HOUSES AND BARNS Leaves Mark Miles Long on the Surface of Missourl. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.—A high wind which cut a path about a mile wide and three miles long did damage estimated at $50,000 in St. Louis County tonight. Starting at Fernridge, thirteen miles west of St. Louis, barns, trees and a few. residences were demoliched in the loss of life has been reported. 4 aration in the San Francisco disaster.| Mile Wide and Three No | | ‘ | | National Committee, — | WITH LEADERS. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—George E. Cortelyou, chairman of the Republican spent three days this week in this city in secret confer- ences with the leaders of the party, with a view to bringing warring fac- tions in the organization in this State into complete harmony if possible, be- fore the opening of the State campaign. Among the men whom he consulted are Republicans of large influence, some of them not identified actively with either the Odell, Quigg or the Parsons-Hig- gins factions. Mr. Cortelyou had little to say him- self, seeking to becomie thoroughly familiar with the situation before un- dertaking to bring the various leaders together when the State convention is called. So far as could be ascertained he made no suggestions for reconecilia- tion before going to his country place on Long Island. He will return early next week and those in his confidence would not be surprised, it is said, if he presented a plan by which both fac- tions would be pacified. APAN 15 WAITING FOR A REPORT. TOKIO, Aug. 10.-—All facts recelved up to this time in connection with the Aleutian Islands incident point to a rald by Japanese poachers. The Japa- nese press is refraining from comment. It is generally belleved that the affair will not result in any diplomatic com- plications.. The Japanese Government, however, is still awaiting its own re- port upon the occurrence. Daring Conspiracy Haiched in New York City and San Francisco. ‘Hired Agents’ Rendezvous Here BOLD plot to involve the United States and Mexico in an inter- national difficulty and bring about the annexation of the State of 1‘the authorities of both republics and causing no end of anxiety among a Sonora to this country is at present commanding the attention of coterie of rich American mining men whose names have been connected | with the affair. With audacity that has seldom been paralleled in history,-this scheme that might have led to bloodshed and is still likely to engender bitter feeling between the two friendly nations, was concocted in New York and San Francisco and the agents of the plotters were selectéd here to start the project on its way. Briefly the plot was this: The Mexican miners of the Cananea district, and if possible those employed in other rich districts of the State of Sonora, | which borders on the United States, were to be quetly provoked into acts ‘lof violence, which the Americans in Sonora would be bound to resent and | trouble would ensue. The matter was to be agitated along the border of this country to a | point where the rougher frontier element would boldly cross the line and keep the trouble bubbling. }Hoped for Overt Acts on Part of Mexicans. By the time it was hoped that the feeling would be so intense on both sides that American interests in Sonora woufd be jeopardized and when this ‘hct had been demopstrated to the apparent satisfaction of the American people, the plotters would cause the matter to be brought to the attention of Congress by one of the territorial delegates, who could be depended on and then money and influence would be resorted to to force an issue that would, so the pletters hoped, end in the Mexican Government ceding the | State of Sonora or the richer part of it, including the Cananea district, to) the United States. Meeim of the plotters were held first in New York and later in this city. Strangely the meeting here was held a few weeks before the big fire, when Calonel Greene, the copper magnate was in San Francisco, a guest | of the ‘Palace Hotel. The fact that the Greene Consolidated Companies, of which Colonel Greene is the head, are the largest mining properties in Cananea, and that he came here from the south unheralded at a time when men weére being engaged to go to Mexico and stir up trouble, perhaps is responsible for his name being Mnked with a number of other big mining men in connection with this daring undertaking. Colonel Greene's friends in San Francisco, however, insist that he has | had. no hand in the affair, and that his hurried trip here from Mexico by | way of Los Angeles was simply to meet his manager on aibusiness engage- | ment. They were both at the Palace Hotel for several days, during which | Colonel Greene remained in seclusion while his manager held conferences with" various persons who apparently had previously made appointments with him. About this time there was a gathering of men, mostly Americans, in a saloon at 16 Third street. The latter were seemingly assembling in that place daily to await directions from one Frederick Dakin. The latter is a | native of San Francisco, who has been all over the world and is widely | known in connection with several “mixups” in the mines of Coolgardie, | Australia, the Boer war in South Africa, and later in carrying out the original plans of General Barillas to overthrow the Cabrera administration in Guate- mala. He also was involved in a plot about this time to kidnap the eldest son of Pfesident Cabrera, who was attending school here, but the treachery | of one of Dakin's band, 2 German with whom he had had trouble before in, | the city of San Salvador, prevented the kidnaping scheme from being car- | ried out. } | | i | But these undertakings were but side issues of the gigantic trick that Dakin and his fiends had already been planning to turn in Northern Mexico. Dakin and Followers Start for the Border. Dakin had hardly got his commission before he and his band were on their way south well provided with money and other material to further the plans of their employers. These fellows had barely reached Laredo on the Mexican border, before the United States began to hear reports of dis- content among the Mexicans employed in the mines operated by the Ameri- can and the English syndicates in Northern Sonora. Apparently the men behind the plot had had their agents secretly working on the Mexican side for several months before the Dakin crowd arrived on Mexican soil. Fate,-for a time, seemed to be aiding the conspirators, for just before Dakin and his followers reached Laredo, a strike of Mexican miners in the Green Consolidated Companies at Cananea began to take shape. It was an opportune time for the Americans, who were soon busily engaged circulat-! ing literature to inflame the minds of the Mexican miners with revolutionary' ideas. - Two of their own countrymen, one of them, F. Gutierrez de Laru, a lawyer, who.was formerly a resident of San Francisco, where he is con- nected with one of the best known Mexican families, addressed several gath- erings of ‘miners on the question of their civil standing, showing them that as natives of Mexico and being proficient in mining work, they were receiving less pay than the American miners beside whom they were daily employed: This agitation was fruitful, for it was followed at Cananea by a strike that for a time assumed serious proportions. In the strike it was strongly suspected that the lawyer. De Laru and his associates were quietly goading | the Mexicans on' to acts of violence. Contemporaneous with this outbreak Capanea and the- principal mining towns in the neighboring districts were flooded ‘ with a circular printed in Spanish and headed, “Death to the Grin- goes!” In this circular the Americans were bitterly scored as a2 menace to the future welfare of the native born and charged with bieng favored by the Mexican authorities at the capital. Colonel Greene’s Friend Make Denial for Him. The circular in fact was a proclamation of epmity of the Mexican toward the American invader, and concluded with a call to rms for the purpose of‘ rising on September 15 and driving the intruders from the country. By this time Governor Yzabel had awakened to the seriousness of the affair and had started for Cananea followed by 250 armed Americans. It has since been explained by the Mexican authorities that the armed force that accompanied the Governor on this hurried trip was not by amy par ticular prearrangement; that the Americans were preparing to go to Cananea when he starfed, and that in response to their suggestion that they accom-| pany him he responded, “Come along.” The arrival of the Governor of Sonora and his heavily armed American | companions did not tend to diminish the suddenly aroused hatred of his fellow countrymen, but it did have the effect of quieting the demonstration, ior the ‘excited Mexicans had no arms. Later the lawyer, de Laru and his' b Y |