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VOLUME LXXX3X-%0? 325.
TWO CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS
ARE IN THE THROES OF REVOLUTION
In Guatemala the Forces of Dictator Barrios Capture the City of Quezal
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tenango Without Firing a Shot —In Costa Rica President
Iglesias Is More Than Likely to Hold His Own.
BARRIOS
HAS BEATEN
THE REBELS
His Arms Are Reported
Victorious in Every
Direction..
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QUEZALTENANGO IS
SURRENDERED.
Without Firing a Shot His
Troops Have Taken the
Chief Insurgent City.
TATONICAPAN TAKEN ON
SUNDAY.
General Socorro de Leon Is a
Prisoner 10 the Victors,
Awaiting Death.
NEW YORK, N. V., Oct 5.— A special
-. ,to the Herald from Guatemala City, via
) Galveston, says : Official reports from
*, .--■ • pii?r.ls today give accounts of .many
victories of Dictator Barrios' arms, and
now it begins to look as if the tide of war
had turned strongiy against the rebels.
According to official reports just re
ceived, the city of Quezaltenango, which
has been held by the rebels for several
I days, was occupied this morning by the
• Federal forces without firing a shot. The
rebels in the city fled toward San Marcos,
leaving a large quantity of arms, ammu
nitions and several field pieces in the
plazas and streets of the city.
General Socorro de Leon and several
' other rebel officers were captured.
General de Leon at the beginning of the
rebellion was sent with a battalion
J against the rebels, but instead of attack
ing them, he turned his command over to
the rebels. He will be immediately court
\ martialed and probably shot.
The Government's advices from the
city of Totonicapan report severe fighting
there on Sunday, with complete triumph
for the Government arms. The fighting
began at half past 11 o'clock in the morn
ing and continued until late in the evening.
I Commander-in Chief Mendizibal, in his
dispatches to Guatemala, says the defeat
si of the rebels was complete. They were
f repulsed and twenty-two were taken pris
oners. A quantity of arms and ammuni
tion was also captured. The number of
dead and wounded is not reported. On
the Government side Colonel Lino Pala
cios was killed. 1
It is stated that the banks of Guate
mala are arranging for a loan of -£400,000
to the Government
CALLED BARRIOS A LIAR.
Lopez. a Wealthy Guatemalan
Refu.ee, Comes Here From
Paris.
Mariano Lopez, the latest addition to
the little local colony of Guatemalan
revolutionists and himself a very wealthy
merchant of the big firm of Mariano
Lopez, Pacheco <£ Co. of the City of Guate
mala, is a guest at the Occidental Hotel,
having just returned from Paris, whither
he went several weeks a o, supposedly in
ths interest of General Morales, the leader
of the revolutionary forces.
Lopez is tbe man that publicly de
nounced President Barrios as a thief and
then proceeded to advance proofs oi his
charge. That was several months ago
when Lopez was a member of tbe Guate
malan Congress.
Referring to the occasion Lopez said
yesterday: "As soon as Barrios heard of
my speech in Congress Ue sent some of
his men to watch me. He sent one man
to my servant with an offer of a large re
ward if be would murder me.
■ "I took shelter in the house of Senor
i j Toledo until the first steamer left the
/ country."
f c Before Lopez left the country he took
the precaution to sign all his property
over to his American partner, and it has
not been confiscated.
' Lopez discredits the statements and the
sincerity of Consul-General Carrillo, who
he asserts was not so very long ago a pro
nounced supporter of General' Morales,
while now he is defending President Bar
rios and belittling the revolution. :*. iif ;
Lope* says that he has just received a
The San Francisco Call
Quezaltenango, Plaza Cuartel, Where the Recent Fight Took Place.
cablegram apprising him that Mora is
in possession of the towns of Tierra tflanca
an I Cochan. '•'.•""'
He declares that the reports given out
by the Consulate here should not te be
lieved. Vyt •'■■".. yz
A rumor which has been circulated that
a decisive battle is now ravins* in Guate
mala and that Morales' forces are strongly
intrenched near Cochan is forcibly denied
by Consul Carrillo. „__;„..;- '.*•'.' "'•* "fi*.
"A more nonsensical statement was
never uttered," said Consul Carrillo last
evening. . "The whole trouble in Guate
mala is so insignificant that it Is a waste
I of breiub to even mention it. - ,
"L received information yesterday of the
state of affairs in my country, and I can
state officially that there is no decisive
battle raging, nor will there be, for the
country has all rebels under complete
submission in the towns where tiie little
i quarrel is taking place. I consider the
I statement concerning an American citi
zen being imprisoned a falsehood, and
I whtre these reports spring from is more
than 1 can understand. There is no
American held prisoner at the present
time, nor has there ever been one impris
oned in Guatemala or other of our cities
or countries. Tne whole story of this up
rising is too insignificant even to notice."
SPAIN'S NEW CABINET
SEVERELY CRITICIZED
Much More is Going On Be
hind the Scenes Than Ap-
pears on the Surface.
It Is a Question Whether the Lib
erals Are Sincere In the Home-
Rule Policy.
NEW YORK, N. *„ Oct. 5.-A World
cable from Madrid says: The newCabinst
is certain not to come up to the expecta
tions of public opinion in Madrid or the
provinces, for already have the press and
politicians criticized it sharply. Every
body, supposed Sagasta would have been
ready for the present critical times. Peo
ple question whether the solution of he
crisis does not show Sagasta could not
control the old standing rivalries among
tbe Liberal front rank of politicians in
this crisis. Like all Spanish ministerial
cries much more is going on behind the
scenes than appears on the surface. One
thing, however, must be said, and it is
that both Sagasta and the Queen Regent
show much sincerity and determination
in the approaching Cuban question. It
remains to be seen whether the Liberal
party will promptly assist Saga sta, Moret,
Mauret and Gam^zo in the sincere execu
tion of the home-rule policy.
But Sagasta seems quite confident tha!
he will -hurry the party along with him.
Several Madrid papers state the new Min
ister of Foieicn Affairs, Gueleon, on tak
j ing * ffire, iound in the State Department
' two copies of the note General Woodford
handed the Duke of Tetuan at San Sebas
tian on September '23, placing on record
officially the verbal communication
Woodford had made on September 18, in
virtue of the written instruction of Pre I
dent Mc Kinley. According to this Spanish
version Woodford intimated there was no
objection 10 the Spanish Government pub
lishing the text of said note, as the Amer
ican Government would do so when it
deemed it convenient. The same papers
say all rumors attributing the Govern
ment's intention to send to the power* a
! memorandum are premature, as it intends
first to study all the aspects of the Cuban
question.
Senor Sagasta, tbe Premier, was the first
visitor at the United States legation this
morning. His interview * with General
Woodford was cordial, but absolute re
serve is maintained as to what passed in
the conversation. . *-* ?
Tlenth of a Stockton Attorney.
STOCKTON, Cap.. Oct. s.— Robert Bald
win, Assistant District Attorney, died at
his home here at 8 o'clock this morning of
Bright disease of the kidneys, from
which he had suffered for several months.
He was 26 years old. -
SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1897.
A VICTORY
ASSURED TO
REPUBLICANS
That Is the Outlook in
the Sacramento
Fight.
THE LEADERS FEAR
NO COMPARISON.
This Will Hold Good for Every
Place on the City
Ticket.
RUSS STEPHENS TO BE IN
THE FIELD.
His Petition Has Upon It the Names
of Many Prominent Men of
Both Parties.
I SACRAMENTO, Cau, Oct. s.—"Democ
racy has never vet been known todo the
right thing at the right time," observed
a prominent Democrat to-night 10 The
Call correspondent. -'Whether it be an
event of a national character or one in
volving the election of township justice
the Democratic jarty, either through blind
prejudice or blundering stupidity, never
takes advantage of a situation when pre
sented to it. *
"Tatce our recent municipal convention,
for instance, what did they do? What
did they do, I'm asking you? Simply Jet
an opportunity go by that may not come
again for forty years. Everybody knows
that Leonard stands no more show of
being elected Mayor of this town than I.
and I'm not a candidate. 1 tell you, my
friend, when the people in general think
that a man's been nominated just to help
another man along they'll not vote for
him. and you can just bet your life on it.
"I've been a Democrat for forty years
and I've voted the ticket straight in this
town for thirty-nine, and I honestly be
lieve I have done more to elect repub
licans than half the men who affiliate with
that organization. lam dead tired of it
and don't propose to cast ray vote any
longer for _ dummy candidate. I will
vote for a Republican out and out, first."
"D > you think Leonard strong?" asked
Thk Call correspondent. j-**;.-. .».". -:*'
"Strong? No. Leonard is a good fellow
and all that, but he is not the man the
people wanted to run against Land, and
you know it."
With this the good old Democrat
brought his observations to a close but
bis declaration*-, nevertheless, placed the
present political situation in Sacramento
in a nutshell. ; "f-* • *=;'; 'V.'sji-H'
While Leonard may have received the
nomination from the hands of a duly or
ganized and accredited convention ,of
Democrats, the delegate* • were appointed
by the city central committee, and many
hints are heard to the effect that the nom
ination of a Democrat of strength was
never intended. There is great disgust
and upon this tidal wave of indignation
the weather-beaten bark of Russ Stephens
is about to be launched, through the will
ing hands of those who are now 'being
asked to sign his petition.
For years ' and years and years ■■; Russ
Stephens towered above his fellow Demo
crats in caucus, primary and convention,
and for years and years and years hi
word was law and his personality domi
nated in everything Democratic, but last
yeaV Russ proclaimed himself as opposed
to free silver and Bryan, and on' election
day placed a little red cross after each and
every oneof the McKinley electors. , ;
The question now arises among the
Democrats, if Russ is elected 'will bis ad
ministration flavor of his rirst love or take
the complexion of bis more recent affilia
tion-? Wbatever maybe tbe tone of bis
call for the boys to come in ont of the wet
Mr. Stephens is going. to run, and his pe
tition 5 has* already upon: ii*""-.*, s- >ianl-»;s of
good prominent citizen oi i.oiJ.* parties.*.
His candidacy is being urge i by those
who at tirst thought would naturally
stand back of Hubbard, and* their deser
tion of Hubbard is attributed to the fact
th:it the Citizens' Association is now
headed by Dr. Dixon. At any rate the
force-- of Leonard are weak, the Hnbbard
contingent is fast dissolving, the Stephens
wave has not gathered, and away off to
one side stands a gray-haired. venerable'
old gentleman who views the conten
tions and strife going on with compla
cence, and his name is William Land.
Every day that passes strengthens him
in his intrenchment of honor, and Integ
rity. Every day that passes brings many
Republicans to the realization that
the party that has just brought a great
nation out of despondency and decline
can safely be trusted in the healthful pro
motion of municipal affairs.
In the various districts wherein trustees
are to be elected the same rule holds good.
Everything else being equal, the Repub
licans are going to set the best of it. and
as in eac case the Republican nominees
will profit from any. Kind of a comparison,
there will not bo one of them defeated.
,I'a«-»»fc .-»«-/«» in I hreuteneei
MONTREAL, Quebec, Oct. 5.— A great
schism is threatened among the Masons
of Canada. A new lodge has started, com
posed of French and Italians, under a
charter of the Grand Orient of France,
which does not believe in the Bible.
Other lodges disown . them and have
written to tho Prince of Wales for in
structions.
MRS. W. .E. HADLEY.
BLOODY
RIOTING IN
COSTA RICA
Why Iglesias Declared
Himself Dictator of
the Republic.
FIVE KILLED, THIRTY
WOUNDED.
Fight Between the Partisans of
the President and His
Political Foes. •
HE IS A CANDIDATE FOR
RE-ELECTION.
Accused of Squandering: the Public
Funds When He Only Fostered
Public Improvement.
NEW YORK, N. V., Oct. The first
details of the internal disorders which
have resulted in President Igleaias of
Co*: \Rica^<lo'jJCarfr.s* -himself -dictator
were received to-day from Harrison 11.
Williams, who until recently was United
States Consul at ban Jose, Costa Rica, and
who arrived hero to-day on the ateamer
Alene, from Port Limon.
Th 6 agitation against President Iglesias
culminated at Santo Domingo on Sunday,
September 12, in a bloody riot, in which
five men, three of them ricn and tbe
others more or less well known, were
killed and more than thirty others
wounded.* The riot was between influen
tial partisans of President Iglesias and his
opponents. President Iglesias some time
ago was announced as a candidate to suc
ceed himself. The election is to be held
next month, and he is at the head oi what
is known as the Civilist party. There
arose very bitter opposition to him. Its
strength has been chiefly in the cities,
where the business men are deeply op
posed to him and denounce him, because
he changed Costa Rica's standard to that
of gold exclusively. They say the change
is foolish . and impracticable, and will
worm groat harm to the country.
They also speak bitterly of his Pacific
Railroad scheme, which will coat $3,
--800.000. President Igiesias is building a
railroad across Costa Rica from shore to
shore. The men of the cities say that the
cost of the road is excessive.
On the other hand Mr. Williams says
Freiident Igls»ias is popular with the
Continued on Second Jtoge.
SHATTERED
HEARTS AND
PROMISES
Lessons Drawn From
the Noted Melcher-
Hadley Case.
SEVERE COMMENTOF
THE TRANSCRIPT.
Getting Engaged Anew While
Morally Bound to Another
Not a Joke.
STIGMA OF SOCIETY ON
FICKLE VOWS.
It Is Not a Trifling- Matter to Kill the
Life of Love In Man and
Woman.
BOSTON, Mass., Oct. s.— The staid old
Transcript astonished the natives to-night
by the following leading editorial, entitled
"BroKen Hearts:" f"f
"No doubt the man plaintiff in the ex
traordinary case of breach of promise
against the daughter of a distinguished
family of Maine just finished with a ver
dict and damages for plaintiff will be
come, notwithstanding the vindication of
his case r.y the jury as the representative
of public opinion and the common con
science of society, the butt of no end of
funny paragraphs in tbe press; and yet
the case is one to make the student cf so
ciety and morals hang bis head in erief
at the shallowness of our most sacred
covenants. If tbe setting engaged anew
while* already morally, bound be a joke
then. the marital st- pis a joke also. For
although loVe or passion itself may be a
sickness and* madness which passes in a
few years or a few months according to
hard-headed common-sense people, a fever
of inflated and false sentiment to be sup
planted by calm kindness, toleration or
indifference, if not something worse, the*
institution of marriage is a very sacred
and important institution, and, as the
Judge In , this cas>» rules, the preliminary
state before marriage is a recognized part
of it. ._'..".. .
"The verdict of ♦he jury for damages, if
it had been only for one cent, would have
been intentionally to set the stigma of
society's disapproval -upon the conduct of
a woman who, after engaging a man's af
fections, suddenly turns from him to seize
the opportunity offered her of a more ad
vantageous match. :
"In this case the California winner of
the prize has had opportunity enough to
feel the full force of the legal > maxim,
'Caveat emptor,' and no public sympathy
need be extended to his future domestic
affairs. The case is interesting only as
helping to settle the degree of social and
moral turpitude in what is too often treat
ed as a trivial matter. Of course, people
who have no more imagination than to
find it a laughing matter that a man's
heart is broken by such treatment cannot
see any baseness or cruelty or danger to
society in the mere jilting of a man. This
insensibility to even so glaring a breach
of honor must be very widespread in the
community, or the numerous engagements
of the 'society girl' and the 'summer girl'
would not be the staple for the same sort
of newspaper pictures and jokes as those
trifling with the marital infidelity with
which the vocation of typewriting women
is associated. ' *f
•'Most of the funny men have discarded
at last the typewriter girl and false hus
band as a source of gay ety, and in the
course of time we may also remove from
the humorous column and place only in
the broad category of dishonor the woman
who turns a short corner on I he lover who
still loves her. The counsel for the plain
tiff in his argument used the word 'brutal'
with reference to that conduct, remarking
that it is a brutal nature that will kick a
dog, and how much worse must be the
conduct of a woman who would so abuse
a man of admitted good character and
affectionate and confiding and trustful na
ture; a man who had to suggest to her
the delicacy of postponing his engage
ment and marriage, and a woman, who
after beginning witn a trumped-up quar
rel to turn her lover away, even accepted
his invitation to ride and take nim to the
cemetery and decorated the grave of his
wife, "a fitting act for lovers, but almost a
sacrilege if they were not,' as the counsel
says. Whatever lessens the sanctity of
engagement tends to loosen the ties of
marriage itself, and the woman who can
play false to the former proves herself to
be merely deterred by legal penalties, not
by principle or character, from breaking
the latter. That is tho law's ground for
interference. In the higher court oi
philosophy and morals nobody has stated
the wickedness of betrayal of a loving
heart with the strength of Ibsen in his
latest play of 'Borkman,' where he makes
one of his characters say, 'You are the
murderer.' You have committed the one
mortal sin. You have killed the love life
in me. The Bible speaks of a mysterious
sin. for which there is no forgiveness. I
have never understood what it could be;
but now I understand. The great unpar
donable sin is to murder the love life in a
human soul. With that you deserted me
and turned to Gunhild in-dead. I took
that to be common lic^teness on your
part. I almost think I despised you a
little, in **pite of everything. But now I
see it. What you held dearest in the
world you were ready to barter away for
gain. That is double murder you have
committed the murder of your own soul
and of mine.' "
I nrthqunne Jar, tuaton.
STOCKTON, ( al., Oct. 5 —This city had
a slu-ht shock of earthquake this evening
at 7:44. Many people felt the shock and
in some places, chandeliers -*■ shook per
ceptibly. - ■;>?--■? * i'> ; :-: : -
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NO LIMIT
FIXED AS
TO PRICE
Open Bidding- the Plan
at the Sale of the
Union Pacific.
ALL INTERESTS WILL
COMPETE.
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There Is No Agreement What
ever With the Reorgan
ization Committee.
THE ATTORNEY- GENERAL
SO DECLARES.
—
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At Least $6,000,000 More Than
Provided in the Cleveland Con
tract Will Be Received.
Attorney - General McKenna
said to-day thai, while the Gov
ernment had received no bid for
the Union Pacific from an Eng
lish .syndicate, he did not be
lieve British and American capi
talists would see the property go
for much below its real value.
Tbe Government, he said, had
entered into no agreement or un
derstanding with the reorganizi
tioh committeemen or anybody
else by which they were to have
the road at $45,000,000 or any
othe*- sum.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. s.—Attor
ney-General McKenna' had another ex
tended conference to-day with ex Gov
ernor Hoadley in regard to the pending
Union Pacific foreclosure sale. With ref
erence to the statement cabled irom Lon
don last night, to tlie effect that an Eng
lish syndicate had forwarded a bid for
the Union Pacific property, in competi
tion with that of the reorganization com
mittee, the Attorney-General said that
aithoueh no foreign bid had vet been re
ceived ii was a fact, that the Government
had received inquiries from foreign sources,
and be had no doubt the capitalists of
this country and England would see to it
that the property is not sold at a price
much below its value. The Government,
he said, had entered into no agreement or
understanding with the reorganization
committee, or any one else, by which they
were to have the road at $45,000,000, or
any other sum. . i
The property, he said, would be sold
under foreclosure proceedings to the
highest bidder, and the only connection
the Government had with the reorganiza
tion committee was that tho latter guar
anteed that if the Government would join
in the foreclosure proceedings the com
mittee would guarantee that a bid of nt
least $45,000,000 would be received for the
Government's equities. Under this pledge,
the good faith of which was secured by a
deposit of $5,000,000, the Government
joined in the suit, which resulted in an
order by the court for the public sale of
the property on November L
CHICAGO, 111, Oct. 5.— A special to
the Post from Washington" says: It can
now be stated by authority th.it the Gov
ernment wiil realize about $51,000,000 from
the sale of the Union Pacific, which is $6,
--000.000 more than the figure named in the
terms of the contract entered into on be
half of the Treasury by Mr. Cleveland.
It appears thai the principal leverage ex
erted by. the Attorney-General was to
Omaha bridge. He claims .hat the Gov
ernment mortgage covered this prop
erty, which had been held by th reorgani
zation committee to be an outside asset.
Attorney-General McKenna. positively re
fused to give way to permit a clear title to
the property sought to be bought under
foreclosure, except at the price of sur
render on this point and tie was equally
unyielding in other directions. Inasmuch
as the success of the reorganization scheme
de pended absolutely upon a clear title no
other, course was open to the would-be
purchasers, except to raise their bid.
Attorney-General McKenna believes
that other bids will be received hi her
than the offer by the reorganization com
mittee, but he does not say from | what
source the offers will come, and there is
a suspicion that the expectations of the
Government's representatives are not well
grounded.
Ex-Senator Brief- and some associates
had. an ambition at one time to obtain
possession of the Union Pacific, and it is
barely possible that they may be again
moving in the matter. If they are .hey
have kept the mutter very quiet, as Wall
street is in ignorance of my such purpose.
Representatives ol" the reorganization
committee say that matters are too far
advanced for new parties to mix in, and
that they have no fears of anything of the
sort occurring." Just the >ame they will
be very glad when the deal is clo-ed up
and they can take their property with an
unclouded title to the money kings for
such backing as may bo needed." It is
estimated that $20,000,000 will be needed
to put the -Union Pacific upon a paying
baMS and to develop it as it should be.
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