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Highest Temperatnre Testerdar. 6£. Lowest Than
day > ssrht. 5«. For detail* of the Weather See Page 1
BAROMETER OF BUSINESS
The bank clearings of San Francisco
for the week ending July 24 reached
$47,350,000.
VOLUME 114. —N0. 56.
SECURITY OF PACIFIC IN PLEDGE BY DANIELS
To The San Francisco Call:
"When the Canal is opened and the Atlantic fleet comes through it is not
coming to the Pacific on a visit-IT IS COMING HOME TO STAT'-
WASHINGTON
FRAMING UP
NEW POLICY
FOR MEXICO
Administration Indicates It
Is About to Take a Defi
nite Stand Before Events
Reach Critical Stage-
First Step Will Be Made
Today, When Ambassador
Wilson Will Bring First
Hand Information of Sit
uation in Border Republic
SENATE COMMITTEE
TO ASK QUESTIONS
Secretary Bryan to Appear
Before Foreign Relations
Body to Present Plan for
Protectorate in Nicaragua
—Expected to Outline At
titude to Be Adopted To
ward Huerta Regime and
Constitutionalist Revolt
■WASHINGTON. July 25. —While ad
ministration officials here believe that
the crisis will not be reached In Mex
ico until the northern rebel armies
press closer to Mexico City and the fed
eral strongholds, indications tonight
w*»re that an effort would be made by
tbe Washington government to pursue
a w*»ll defined policy before events
reached a critical stage.
The first step in the formulation of a
p"o!h-y will be taken tomorrow when
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson will
bring to the president and Secretary
Bryan first hand information of the
situation there.
Mr. Bryan announced tonight emphat
i-rally that there was no disposition on
the part of the administration here to
Interrogate Ambassador Wilson about
the numerous reports alleging activity
on his part in connection with the
downfall of Madero and the establish
ment of the Huerta regime. He added
that the ambassador had been called
merely to throw light on present con
ditions in the troublous republic.
MAY HO BEFORE COMMITTEE
After Ambassador Wilson has con
ferred with Secretary Bryan, he will
talk further with President Wilson
and probably will be asked to appear
before the senate committee on foreign
-nations.
That Ambassador Wilson had ex
pressed on his arrival in New York
opposition to the proposals for media
tion and had Indicated his sympathy
with the desire of the Huerta govern
ment to be recognized, were communi
cated informally to Mr. Bryan, who
made no comment.
Immediately after his conference
with the ambassador, Mr. Bryan is
scheduled to appear before the senate
committee on foreign relations fur
ther to present the administration's
plan for a protectorate over Nicaragua,
but on the same occasion It Is expected
that he will be asked to outline the
developments toward a Mexican policy,
WOULD tiIVE EVEN BREAK
Members of the committee, as well
as the senate generally, are strongly
Inclined toward some, executive action
by which all factions In the Mexican
dispute can get arms from the United
States.
It was apparent that the present pol
icy <->f the administration was to pre
vent all shipment of arms to either
• 'de pending a final determination on
.his point.
It is believed that after the presl
lent and Secretary Bryan have ob
tained from Ambassador Wilson his
own ideas and interpretations of the
political situation in the Mexican cap
ital, the American government in a
measure will reiterate views expressed
in the Latin-American statement made
by President Wilson shortly affer his
Inauguration in which he proclaimed
that the United States had nothing to
»eek in Latin-America but the welfare
of its sister republics.
With this in mind, the recent sug
gestion of an American offer of media
lion may be followed as an evidence
of the good intentions of the Washlng-
Yon government.
MEDIATION UNWELCOME
Information from federal as well as
constitutionalist sources today, how
ever, was to the effect that neither side
tvould consider mediation by a foreign
government.
The national pride of the Mexicans,
Continued on Page 3, Column 5
CARS IN CRASH;
SEVERAL INJURED
Valencia Trolley in Rearend Col
lision With Castro at Eighth and
Market After Midnight
Several persons were injured when
a Valencia street car crashed Into the
rear end of a Castro street car at
Market and Eighth street shortly after
1 o'clock this morning.
Both cars were crowded with men
and women returning from theater and
dinner parties and the wildest confu
sion reigned when the two cars came
] together with a splintering of wood
! and shattering of glass.
According to eyewitnesses the Cas
tro street car had come to a full stop
when the Valencia street car, approach
ing from the rear, collided.
Several persons who were hoarding
the Castro street car were thrown to
the pavement sustaining minor bruises
which they declined to have treated at
the emergency hospitals.
E. F. Hunter, residing at I*ol San
chez street, was treated at the central
emergency hospital for lacerations
about the head caused by flying glass.
James Phue of 310H Valley street
was thrown to the floor of the car,
breaking his left wrist.
Two other passengers, Mr. and Mrs.
A. L Marribello of 2511 Jones street,
who were on their way to visit a young
son hurt in a street accident yester
day, were badly shaken up, but they
declined medical treatment.
MYSTERY IN S. P.
BUILDING FIRE
Dog Gives Alarm and Inspector
Then Saves Animal; Loss
$15,000
The ways and means department
building of the Southern Pacific at
Fourth and Kentucky streets was
destroyed by fire of mysterious origin
at 1 o'clock this morning. The loss was
$15,000.
The building was a frame structure
s ft by 250 feet in length, and contained
supplies for stations, bridges and other
railroad structures. Three alarms were
sounded and an army of fire engines,
hose wagons and ladder trucks was on
the scene, but too late to do more than
prevent the fire from spreading to lum
ber yards in the vicinity.
Noticing the barking of a dog In
side the building. Inspector W. H. Hill
investigated and then he and a fellow
inspector, L. D. Stanley, saw the fire
breaking through the roof.
They turned in an alarm, and Hill
then went in after the dog, rescuing
the animal before it had been injured.
CAMINETTI-DIGGS CASE
CAUSE OF FILIBUSTER
Kahn Intrndur'n New Resolution Call-
lag for Telegram, and Endless
Roll.nil. Follow
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Shackled by
a republican filibuster against all busi
ness—organized to force the reopening
of the debate on the Camlnetti-Diggs
case—the house dragged along today
through four hours of rollcalls and
finally adjourned until tomorrow be
cause enough members to make up a
quorum had gone to the baseball game.
Representative Kahn introduced an
other resolution relating to the Caml
nettl-Dlggs white slave cases.
It would direct Attorney General Mc-
Reynolds to give the house "a copy of
hia telegram dated May 16, 1913, di
recting United States Attorney McNab
to take no further affirmative action
against Caminettl and Diggs under
white slave indictments until further
directed by the attorney general."
The resolution was referred to the
judiciary committee.
GOLD PIECES ROLL RACE
IN STREETS OF CITY
Two Hundred and Fifty $20 Boys In
Merry Sprint Down
Hill
(Special nispatrh to The Call)
SEATTLE, July 25.—Two hundred
and fifty $20 gold pieces rolled merrily
down Yesler way from the city hall
steps at Fifth avenue nearly to Sec
ond avenue this morning when a sack
of money to pay city employes broke
while being unloaded from the police
patrol wagon. *
Some coins caught just right started
their little gravity aided trip down
toward Pioneer square.
Others, with inanimate orneriness,
rolled straight toward the slot of the
cable line, but they were all headed
off in time.
UNCLE SAM PAYS HIS £ENT
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The first
payment of $250,000 to Panama for
the annual rental of the canal zone
was made today. The payments are in
addition to $10,000,000 paid in cash to
Panama nine years ago.
THE San Francisco CALL
"The People's Sews paper"
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1913. —PAGES 1 TO 8.
TROOPS GUARD
COPPER MINES
FROM RIOTERS
Union Leader Asks Michi
gan Governor Personally to
Investigate and Serve
as Mediator
DISORDERS OCCUR IN
OUTLYING DISTRICTS
Storm Center, Officials Be
lieve, Will Remain in
Calumet Region
CALUMET. Mich.. July 25.--Reports
that Governor W. N. Ferris would come
to Houghton ' tonight to help arrange
a settlement of the strike of 15,000
copper mine employes in the northern
peninsula brought out an unofficial
statement tonight from the mine man
agers that they wouM welcome the
governor's presence.
Any plans for arbitration under the
direction of the governor were soon
dispelled, however, by the announce
ment that the governor had no present
intentions of coming to the. copper
country or of withdrawing tho militia,
which is protecting the mines against
any further outbreak of the strikers.
The following telegram was sent to
the governor's office in Landing this
afternoon by C. K. Mahoney, v cc presi
dent of the Western Federation of
Miners:
MESSAGE IS PROTEST
"We respectfully request that you
come here and investigate the indus
trial dispute in the copper mining dis
trict and use your good offices to ef
fect a settlement and to dlrec that the
troops be used to preserve teace in
stead of to operate the mines, as seems
to he the present intent."
The company managers staled unof
ficially that they, too, would welcome
the governor, but would give no in
timation that proposals to arbitrate the
strike would be accepted by them. They
said this would be construed by the
strikers as a tac-it recognition of the
union.
Disorders occurred spasmodically In
the outlying districts of the mining
country today, but in no case did the
union members manifest the spirit
which appeared in the attack upon
Calumet and Hecla properties yester
day.
TROOPS NOT SENT
A call for troops came from the
South Range when union sympathizers
drove away the sheriff's deputies at
the Baltic, Tri-Mountain and other
mines, but an investigation by militia
commanders convinced them that the
situation was not serious enough to
require the presence of state soldiers.
It was the concensus of opinion
among the officers of the three com
panies already here that the storm
center would remain in and about Cal
umet Accordlnglj', company electri
cians strung wires all about the Calu
met and Hecla shafts and shops with
60 candle power lamps depending
there from every 60 feet. The militia
commanders were convinced that the
Illumination would prevent any possi
bility of "planting/ explosives about
the buildings at night.
DEFENSE OF STRIKE
Guy E. Miller, Colorado member of
the executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners, issued a state
ment in which he compared conditions
in the Calumet district with those In
other copper producing sections.
"The cause of the strike here was a
deep rooted unrest whose extent the
company managements failed to real
lie," he said. "In asking recognition
of the union, an eight hour day, aboli
tion of the one man drill, and improved
conditions generally, we have simply
tried to pnt the miners and surface
workers of the L>ake Superior mines on
a par with men doing similar work in
other parts of America."
Militia to Remain
LANSING, Mich., July 25.—Governor
Ferris will not order the removal of
the state troops from the copper coun
try until he is assured positively that
lives and property are not in danger.
He believes an early settlement will
be brought about and that the labor
troubles in the upper peninsula will be
over in a comparatively short time.
Martial law will not be declared In
the copper country until the chief ex
ecutive and his advisers are certain
the situation demands such an extreme
measure.
However, the governor is fortified
with an opinion from Attorney General
Fellowes that it will be possible for
him to take such action if the civil
authorities are unable to preserve
order and protect life and property.
SHANGHAI IN
FLAMES; WAR
SKIPS ARRIVE
Foreign Population Gathers
on Housetops to Watch
Fighting About the
i Arsenal
HOMELESS CHINESE
CAMP IN STREETS
Outbreak Dismays Commer
cial World—President
Urged to Action
SHANGHAI. July 25.—Despite the ne
gotiations made for an armistice, fight
ing -was resumed at 9 o'clock tonight.
The southerners, reinforced by 500
Cantonese and 1,000 Hunanese, again
attacked the arsenal, but were defeated
with considerable losses.
The forces at the mouth of the river
now have joined the loyalists.
The city presents an extraordinary
appearance. Fires are blazing on the
outskirts of the native city and thou
sands of homeless Chinese refugees are
camping In the streets.
The roof gardens of the hotels are
crowded with foreigners watching the
fighting. Search|ghts from the British
warships are trained tonight on the
customs house and the ammunition
magazine.
It is reported that the rebels are
falling back throughout the Tangtse
valley and that the government stead
ily Is gaining the upper hand.
The British warships Hampshire,
Monotaur and Monmouthshire, the
French cruisers Dupleix and Montcalm,
the Dutch cruiser Holland and the Jap
anese cruiser Suma arrived here today.
Marines were landed from the French
vessel.
A yamen in this city, which was used
as a prison, was set on fire today and
200 convicts escaped, including Yung
Kwei Shlng, the instigator of the
murder- of General Sung Chiao Jen,
former minister of education, whose
taking off was the chief cause of the
present rebellion.
Looting continues here.
Marching on Nanking
PEKING, July 25.—The situation In
the fighting centers remained un
changed today except for a weakening
in the southern forces by desertions
from and dissentions in the ranks.
The outbreak is causing dismay in
the commercial world and numerous
telegrams from commercial bodies
continue to urge President Yuan Shi
Kat to suppress the rebellion and dem
onstrate that he has not lost his hold.
Rebel leaders steadily are winning
over half hearted officials, who are
awaiting the Issue of events. Parlia
ment, meanwhile, is quietly transact
ing only unimportant business. The
opposition members are afraid to pro
claim their sympathy with the rebels
as they desire to retain their member
ship should the rebellion collapse.
May Behead American
Charged with intriguing against the
Chinese government, Fong Chee Tow,
one of the two American senators of
the Chinese parliament, has been ar
rested in Peking and may be beheaded,
according to a telegram received in
San Francisco yesterday by the Chi
nese Republic association.
Vow was associate editor with Tong
King Chong of the Chinese Free Press
of this city. During the" time of Sun
Yet Sen's power Vow held many im
portant Chinese posts and held a gov
ernment position at the time of his
arrest.
Tong King Chong has been allowed
his liberty by Yuan Shlh Kal as long
as he remains in Peking. With Vow
six other members of the Chinese Re
public association of San Francisco
have been arrested, according tp the
telegram, and it is feared that they will
be beheaded by Yuan Shih Kal.
FORMER PRESIDENT OF
PERU AND SON JAILED
Arrest Follows Riot In Which Six Per
sons of Crowd Threatening
Howe Are Shot
LIMA, Peru, July 25.—Augusto B.
Legula, former president of Peru, and
his son were arrested today and sent
to the penitentiary.
Their arrest followed a riot last
night during which six persons were
wounded by shots fired from the win
dows and roof of the Legula residence.
The crowd had threatened to attack the
bouse.
The affair has caused a great sensa
tion and probably will bring about a
ministerial crisis.
"An Independent Newspaper"
I «
Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels, v>ho is here
on art official visit.
MASKED ROBBERS
HOLD UP COACH
Fight Follows and Shots Arc
Exchanged When Second
Stage Comes on Scene
RLATRSDEN. Cal.. July 25.—Two
masked highwaymen, armed with re
volvers and rifles, halted the Blairsden,
Gold Lake and Green Camp stage near
Gold Lake today. A second stage that
had been following the first came upon
the scene while the robbers were re
lieving passengers of valuables, and the
two beat a retreat under a fire of bul
lets directed at them by "Happy" Jack
Harris, driver of the second stage,
which was bound for Sierra City.
There were 10 passengers, four of
them women, on the stage that was
held up. One of the victims was A. J.
Boehmer of San Francisco, who yielded
a gold watch and a sum of money to
the robbers.
The robbery today is the first stage
robbery that has occurred in the mem
ory of residents of the district.
A posse is searching the woods near
Gold Lake for the two robbers.
PAROLED AFTER 15 YEARS
Life Tenner for Murder Leave* Peal-
tenflaxy Under New Ruling;
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July 25.—
John Fitspatrick, serving a life term
In the United States penitentiary here
for murder committed in Alaska, was
released today on parole, under a re
cent ruling- of the department of jus
tice that prisoners sentenced for life
are eligible to parole after serving 15
years.
OWN GUN SHOOTS VETERAN
Chico Rough Rider Wounded When
Pistol Falls From Pocket
CHICO, July 25.—Edgar L. Richmond,
son of T. W. Richmond, recorder of
Humboldt county, was accidentally
shot today when his revolver fell from
his pocket. The bullet missed his
heart about an Inch. Richmond was
one of Colonel Roosevelt's Rough
Riders.
SOCIAL LAWS CONSIDERED
National Child Labor and Women's
Eight Hoar Bills Up
WASHINGTON, July 2.—Legislation
designed to prevent the employment of
children under 14 years of age in mines
and factories and to prevent the em
ployment of women in manufacturing
establishments for more than eight
hours a day, was considered today by
the house labor committee. -
BABY SCALDED TO DEATH
CHICO, July 25.—Jacob Rudkin is
dead as the result of burns received
today when he pulled a pan of scalding
milk off a table. The accident occurred
while the youngster was playing with
his first birthday toys.
WEATHER FORECAST:
today, breaking during; day; northwest wind*.
Isold for the mint
"
Nevada sent 3,848 FINE
OUNCES OF GOLD to the
San Francisco Mint in June.
PACIFIC COAST WILL BE
NEW HOME OE ATLANTIC
FLEET, DANIELS ASSERTS
Navy Secretary Declares Giant War Dogs of East Shore
Waters Will Make Permanent Headquarters on This
Side After Canal Is Opened—Easiness Leaders Cheer
Announcement, Which Means a Greater Naval Base
DREADNOUGHTS TO BE IN BAY
DURING PORTOLA CELEBRATION
"When the Panama canal is opened and the Atlantic fleet comes through
it is not coming to the Pacific waters on a visit—it is coming home to stay."'
I ighty guests of the board of directors of the Panama-Pacific Exposi
tion Company heard Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, reiterate the
foregoing statement made to The Call, as a climax to a brilliant speech at
the Fairmont hotel yesterday.
They waited a minute while the full significance of the cabinet member's
calm utterance sunk deeply. Then every' man left his chair and such a cheer
ing as followed has not startled the colonial ballroom at the Fairmont in
Years.
The cadet band from Yerba Buena island swung into the strains of "Dixie"'
AUSTRIA DEMANDS
THAT WAR CEASE
Roumanian Army, Acting as
Mandatory of Powers, Ex
pected to Check Greeks
BULLETIN
LONDON, July 25.—A dispatch to the
Dally Telegraph from Bucharest, timed
9 o'clock Frldfty night, aayst
"News has been received from Sofia
ef ■ terrific battle between Servians
and Bulgarians near Trarevoselo on the
river Brogalaltra la which the Bulgar
ians were victorious. The Greeks
helped the Servians, whose casualties
were 10,000."
LONDON, July 3&—A dispatch to the
Dally Express from Rome says the
powers have Authorised Russia to oc
cupy Armenia m order to compel Tur
key to withdraw behind the Enoa-Mldla
line, the new frontier between Turkey
aad Bulgaria, t*s fixed by the treaty of
London.
LONDON, July 25.—The important
development today In the Balkan sit
uation was a demand presented by the
Austrian representatives in Athens and
Belgrade for an immediate cessation
of hostilities, together with a warn
ing that Austria would not allow Bul
garia to be too greatly humiliated.
It was declared in Vienna tonight
that should Greece and Servia still
oppose an armistice, a Roumania army,
acting as a mandatory of Austria and
Russia, will prevent any attack on
Sofia, and that Austria will take even
more energetic steps if necessary to
stop the war.
Should it be true that Austria and
Russia thus have agreed to co-operate,
the pressure exercised doubtless will
be effective.
On the military side here the princi
pal news is that the Servians have in
vested the ancient fortress at Viden,
Bulgaria, 130 miles south of Belgrade.
The fall of the fortress can not long
be delayed—in fact, a Belgrade dis
patch reports that General Kutun
chefTs troops already are beginning to
surrender. Viden, which has a popu
lation of 15,000, will be Servla's big
gest capture in the war.
TO RECALL A SUPERVISOR
Petition Filed Against Harry IVelee of
Glea Ellen for Misconduct
SANTA ROSA. July 24.—Guy J. K.
Big-low of El today filed with
the county clerk a petition demanding
the recall of Supervisor J. Harry Welse
of Glen Ellen, who was elected last
fall and took his seat January 1. It
is charged that Weise has been guilty
of misconduct in office in his failure
.to confine the issuing of liquor licenses
to the minimum and uphold the anti
< road house ordinanc
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
in- honor of the distinguished North
Carolina guest and Daniels was hidden
in a crowd of enthusiastic business
men eager to show their appreciation
of the announcement which means the
greater naval base for the Pacific and
"home" In "battleship row" for the
greatest dreadnoughts that fly the
stars and stripes.
rOtRS VERBA ni'EXA STATION
The "managing editor of the navy,"
is he called himself, had no idle mo
ments. In company with Mrs. Daniels
and Lieutenant Leigh C. Palmer, his
naval aid, Secretary Daniels reached
San Francisco at 9:45 o'clock in the
morning from the south.
His first trip was to Terba Buena
Island, where he Inspected the naval
training station and reviewed the cadet
battalion. Captain Charles A. Gove,
commandant, piloted his superior of
ficer about the island, but the stay of
the distinguished guest was so short
that Captain Gove got no opportunity
to broach the subject of improvements
to the secretary.
Captain Gove will ask Secretary Dan
iels to consider tearing down all of the
present frame buildings on the island,
which, he says, are deteriorating rap-
Idly, and replacing them with perma
nent steel and concrete structures.
President Moore of the exposition
company met Secretary Daniels' party
at the wharf on the return from Terba
Buena island and conducted him to the
exposition building.
ADDRESSES WOMEN'S LEAGUE
After a brief stop there, they took
an automobile ride about the city
which brought them to the Fairmont at
12:30 o'clock. Following the luncheon
a trip of inspection over the exposi
tion grounds was made. Secretary
Daniels returned to the St. Francis
and addressed a meeting of the San
Francisco center of the Women's Clvie
league at 4 o'clock.
At the St. Francis last evening Sec
retary Daniels was the guest of the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
This morning Secretary Daniels will
go to Mare Island on the torpedo
boat destroyer Hull. He will return
from his trip of inspection to the navy
yards in time to attend the banquet
given in his honor at the Hotel Oak
land by the Oakland Chamber of Com
merce at 7:30 o'clock.
The Daniels party will leave San
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