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| Major General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, March 8, 1901.
FILIPINO TREACHERY.
MacArthur Reports Cases of Murder and Treason.
LAWS OF WAR GROSSLY VIOLATED.
Presidente of One Province Professed to Be Friendly While at the Same Time Keeping Insurgents Informed of Americans' Strength and Movements.
WASHINGTON, March 8.—The mail from General MacArthur includes the record of many cases of murder, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors on the part of native Filipinos.
A native named Lucino Almeida was convicted by a military commission of flagrant violations of the laws of war and was sentenced to hard labor for 20 years and to pay a fine of 20,000 pesos. General MacArthur commuted the sentence to deportation to Guam.
It appears from the evidence that Almeida was provincial chief or president of La Union at the time of the occupation of that province, holding office from the insurrectionary junta. In that official capacity he called on the officer commanding the American forces and offered his services to aid in the work of pacification of the province. His offer was accepted in good faith and he was allowed to continue in office. While thus acting the role of a friend of the American cause the presidente and those under him in authority were with a common and secret understanding actually administering their offices under the orders and direction of the insurrectionary chiefs. Whenever they collected lawfully imposed taxes they also sought to impose and collect a like or larger amount of tax for the benefit of the insurgent forces, and in some instances they diverted the public funds derived from taxes legitimately collected to the same treasonable use.
Another cause of treachery reported by General MacArthur is that of Catalino Landayan, who was convicted by a military commission of violating the laws of war and giving intelligence to the enemy and sentenced to 15 years confinement at hard labor. General MacArthur says that the evidence in the case shows that the accused accepted the office of president of the pueblo of Guiguinto from insurgent authority at a time when the office was lawfully filled by a president appointed under the authority of the United States and that while the accused was acting the part of an "amigo," he was by letter advising the Commanding general of the insurgent forces in his vicinity of the number and means of defense of the American troops in Guiguinto.
RICE WAS DEFIANT.
Insolently Replied to American Officer at Manila and Was Deported.
WASHINGTON, March 8.-Tho latest Philippine mail has brought a copy of the official order for the deportation of Editor Rice of the Manila Daily Bulletin to the United States, for the publication of "certain charges against the honesty and integrity of the officer of the insular government." In stating the immediate cause for Rice's deportation the order says:
"Investigation having been made and the complete falsity of the charges made apparent and the result communicated to Rice, he replied in a defiant manner that he would reiterate these charges whenever he saw fit. He is, therefore, regarded as a dangerous incendiary and a menace to the military situation and will therefore be deported as above ordered."
BETTER THAN MARCONI'S.
Secretary Wilson Has a Wireless Telegraph System That May Suit the Needs of the Navy.
WASHINGTON, March 8.—Since last autumn the navy department has suspended the experiments in the employment of wireless telegraphy as a means of communication between naval vessels and between vessels and the shore. Up to this time none of the warships has been equipped with a permanent plant. While it may be true that Marconi is coming to the United States and that he may while here communicate to the navy department some proposition looking to the installation of his own system of telegraphy on our naval vessels, the navy department has not yet engaged him to do so.
Rear Admiral Bradford, the chief of the equipment bureau, which naturally would install any such means of communication, has had conference with some of the most eminent electricians in the United States as to the availability of the wireless telegraph for naval use. But so far nothing like the ideal system has been found. The latest proposition has been broached by the department of agriculture.
Secretary Wilson, hearing that the navy was casting about for a serviceable system of telegraphy, has written Admiral Bradford to notify him that the agricultural department has been experimenting for some time with wireless telegraphy and has attained remarkable results. His experts assert positively that they have evolved a system radically different from Marconi's and of far greater efficiency. For obvious reasons the details of the process are kept secret, but it is probable that within a short time a practicable exhibition will be made on board of a naval vessel. The bureau of equipment, fortunately, has a considerable appropriation made in a lump at its disposal to cover the expenses of installing all kinds of electrical appliances, aside from those connected with the mechanical department of the ship, and when Secretary Long gives the order a part of this will be spent in trying Secretary Wilson's experts' devices. The outcome will be watched with the greatest interest by all naval men, particularly in view of the announcement that not only England but Germany and the other European maritime powers have ordered the installation of wireless plants in their navies.
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| Benjamin B. Odell. |
NO STATE CONSTABULARY.
Governor Odell is Opposed to It—No Bill Can be Agreed Upon.
ALBANY, March 8.—There will be no state constabulary bill passed by the present legislature despite the assertions of Senator Platt to the contrary. Gov. Odell is unalterably opposed to the passage of such a measure. The Republicans have been unable to draw up the bill which would be constitutional and until such a measure is devised there is little prospect of a state constabulary bill being taken seriously. The state cannot use property belonging to municipalities except by condemnation proceedings, entailing an outlay of millions of dollars. Gov. Odell does not intend to go to New York to-morrow to consult Senator Platt as has been accepted. He expects to go to Newburg.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ Delaware does not seem disposed to part with her unique mode of punishment, the whipping post and pillory. Early in the present session of the state legislature a movement was made to reduce the scope of their use, and certain bills looking to that end were passed through one branch of the legislature, but these efforts have ultimately resulted in an enactment in precisely the opposite direction. Not only has the other house refused to pass the bill abolishing the pillory, but both houses have now passed a bill, which awaits the governor's signature, prescribing public whippings for wife beaters, who are to receive from 5 to 30 lashes. By a general consensus of judgment wife beaters are among the most despicable of characters and ought to receive severe and humiliating treatment. Imprisonment is hardly a fair penalty, for the wife suffers from the lack of the husband's services. Fines scarcely reach the evil, for the vicious man is seldom cured by a mere stroke at his pocketbook and, often the fine reacts upon the wife. Public humiliation and physical suffering, giving to the offender his own medicine, used to be found most effective in the days of drastic treatment in the name of the law.
◘ Minister Conger's objection to the immediate execution of Prince Tuan and General Tung is likely to prove effective in view of the fact that these two distinguished Celestials are 1,000 miles distant from Peking and at the head of a well equipped army of 100,000.
A LIVELY RUN AWAY.
Team Aimed by Driver at a Telephone Pole to Avoid Collisions.
There was a lively runaway on Main-st., at about 9 o'clock this morning. Lucius Corl and his son Bert, both employees of Cornelius Judd's who lives south of the city, were coming to town driving Mr. Judd's big pair of bay horses attached to a pair of heavy bobsleds with a platform top and no box. There was nothing on the sleigh except a pair of blankets wrapped about a large basket of fresh eggs. When crossing the Lehigh Valley tracks near the railroad station the horses were frightened by an engine blowing off steam which stood on a switch near the Wickwire mills. They began to dance and jump and plunge and finally broke into a dead run. There was nothing upon the sleigh upon which Mr. Corl, who was driving, could get a good brace, and though he pulled as hard as he was able he could not hold them. His son seized him about the waist from behind and steadied him and also pulled back as hard as he could, but to no purpose.
A number of teams were in the street, but they got out of the way with some narrow escapes. North of the Messenger House the street was crowded with teams and Mr. Corl realized that it would there be impossible to avoid a collision. So he determined to force a stop at any cost.
There was a big telephone pole in front of the residence of M. F. Cleary on the east side of the street and Mr. Corl headed the team straight for it. The tongue of the sleigh just missed striking the pole and slid by on the left hand side. The neck yoke struck the pole and broke near the tip in front of the near horse. The whiffletrees broke and the off horse went by the telephone pole on the right aide with scarcely an instant's pause or a break in his run. The shock of the collision with the pole and the uncertain footing of the near horse, for he was in the gutter next the curb, threw this horse flat on his side. The sudden stopping of the sleigh pitched both men forward and they landed in the snow of the street and the horse fell upon them. The horse struggled and enabled them to get out from under him. They were both decidedly lame from the blow of his fall but they secured the horse here. The roll of the tongue in the front bob sleigh was broken out and the iron braces badly bent.
The off horse left a bit of hair and skin on the lower iron climbing step of the telephone pole and raced up Main-st. with dangling neck yoke. In front of Brogden's drug store stood one of E. C. Rindge's milk sleighs. The driver, William Rindge, saw the horse coming and turned his team upon the sidewalk. He had the sleigh almost out of the street and at right angles to the sidewalk, when the loose horse sheered toward the walk and jumped straight over the sleigh. A milk can was upset and sixteen quarts of milk poured out in the snow and the dashboard was splintered. The horse continued up Main-st.
At Railroad-st. he turned to the east, with speed somewhat slackened and ran straight into the outstretched arms of Chief of Police Smith who stopped him. Chief Smith had a bottle of bicycle tire cement in his left hand when he decided to tackle the horse and he forgot to drop it. As the horse swung around when the chief settled back on the rein, which he had caught as the horse passed him, he\ came in contact with the bottle and smashed it. The cement ran all over the chief's overcoat and it took him a good half hour with benzine to clean up his coat.
The total amount of damages includes some bruises on the two men, some slight scratches on the horses, a broken sleigh and harness, a basket of broken eggs, a policeman's uniform covered with tire cement together with the spilled milk and splintered dashboard on Mr. Rindge's sleigh—decidedly fortunate considering the chances for damage that were offered.
The Snow is Deep.
Dr. H. J. Bali of Scott was in Cortland to-day. He says he has never known the snow to be so deep on a level or the roads so bad between Cortland and Scott as now. Most of the way there are two tracks, the first having become so bad that a second track beside the road has been broken out and now one is very bad on account of the pitchholes and the other is worse. Whichever track a person is in he is sure to wish he was in the other.
It's the Other Fellow.
Paterfamilias—"Tommy, stop pulling that poor cat's tail."
Tommy—"I'm not pulling it, pa. I'm holding on to it. The cat's pulling it."—Tid Bits.
COMMON COUNCIL
Resolution for the Paving of Groton-ave.—Assessments on Property.
A meeting of the common council of the city of Cortland was held at the office of the clerk of said city on the 20th day of February, 1901, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. There were present Mayor Chas. F. Brown and Aldermen E. M. Yager, E. R. Wright, Geo. F. Richards, T. C. Scudder, R. S, Pettigrew and Vern W. Skeele.
Miss Bates, in behalf of Joseph T. Bates, came before the board and complained of proposed pavement assessment opposite his premises on Groton-ave.
On motion of Mr. Skeele, seconded by Mr. Scudder, and declared carried:
Resolved, That the following preamble and resolutions be and the same are hereby adopted by this board:
WHEREAS, The board of public works of the city of Cortland, N. Y., has heretofore of its motion decided that Groton-ave., in said city ought to be paved from its intersection with Main-st., on the east to Otter Creek bridge on the west with sheet asphalt, and
WHEREAS, The owners of more than one-half of the total feet front of the property abutting upon said street upon which the improvement was to be made, gave consent thereto in writing, and
WHEREAS, The common council of said city of Cortland did, by resolution vote unanimously to concur with the board of public works that such improvement was expedient and necessary, and
WHEREAS, After a due public hearing thereon as required by law the said board of public works finally determined to make such improvement and duly recorded an order therefor in its minutes, and duly appointed and employed Henry C. Allen, C. E., as city engineer of the city of Cortland, N. Y., a competent engineer to take charge of such improvement and engineering work thereof and supervise the same to its completion, and
WHEREAS, The board of public works of the city of Cortland has ascertained the whole cost of such pavement or improvement and determined it to be the sum of $26,318.44 and apportioned it upon all the real estate fronting upon the section of said street paved or improved in proportion to the frontage of the respective lots and parcels thereof and in proportion to the benefit which each owner of said real property is deemed to receive first deducting the sum of $9,939.99, the share thereof imposed upon the city, and the share of any portion thereof which any street or other railroad company may be able to pay for the pavement between its tracks and on each side of them, and that the residue of said expense of $16,378.90 be apportioned upon the real estate fronting upon the portion of said street paved as aforesaid. And the board of public works having reported such apportionment, and that no street or railroad company is liable for any part thereof, and a list of all the lots and parcels of land liable to assessment with their respective frontage and a description thereof to this common council.
Resolved, That this board has and does hereby ascertain and declare the whole cost of the paving of Groton-ave. in said city of Cortland to be the sum of $26,318.44 and has and does hereby determine and declare that of said sum of $26,318.44 the sum of $1,750.09 thereof is the expense of such aforesaid improvements as are made along and border upon and are contiguous and adjacent to property owned by said city of Cortland including crosswalks and intersections of streets, and that the remaining expense thereof and the remainder of such improvements, exclusive of the amount charged to any railroad company is the sum of $24,568.35, one-third of which is the sum of $8,189.90, in addition to said sum of $1,750.09 making in all the sum of $9 939.99, shall be paid by the city of Cortland at large from the general and special public works improvement fund, and further
Resolved, That the sum of $16,378.90, the residue of the expense of such improvements, shall be paid and become a charge upon and shall be and is hereby assessed against such real estate and real property fronting upon that portion of Groton-ave. improved or paved as before specified. And the common council of the city of Cortland does hereby assess and apportion the same upon all of the real estate fronting upon the portion of said street above specified. And hereby makes as a just and equitable assessment of the several amounts hereby fixed by this board against the said owners and occupants, and upon such lands which it deems to be benefited and which are actually benefited thereby as provided in the charter of the city of Cortland, N. Y., assessing each parcel as near as may be in proportion to the benefits which each owner of real property is deemed to receive therefrom, as follows:
Resolved, That said assessment roll be filed in the office of the clerk of the city of Cortland, N. Y. and that a notice be published in the official papers of said city that the assessment roll has been filed with the city clerk and that the common council will on the 12th day of March, 1901, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. at Fireman's hall in the city of Cortland, N. Y., proceed to confirm said assessment, at which time and place, or at any other time and place to which the common council may from time to time adjourn said hearing, any person interested may appear before the common council and apply to have said special assessment roll altered or corrected as he may deem just.
On motion, duly seconded and carried,
Resolved, That the sum of $17.54 be refunded to Thompson Peck, tax on erroneous assessment, and that the sum of $17.64 be refunded to Mary A. Meldrim, tax on erroneous assessment. Where paid by her.
Mayor Chas. F. Brown nominated and appointed Lyman H. Gallagher as acting city judge.
Moved by Mr. Scudder and seconded by Mr. Richards and declared carried.
Resolved, That such appointment be confirmed by this board. Declared carried. All voting aye.
On motion meeting adjourned.
BREVITIES.
—The Daily STANDARD is nine years old to-day.
—Mr. T. N. Leach sent another Scotch collie puppy away last night, this one going to M. G. Byers, New York.
—The city's street employees are hustling to-day to dig out all the gutters in anticipation of a considerable thaw.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer & Co., Special prices, page 4; H. R. Cone, Groceries, page 5; M. A. Hudson, Crockery, page 6.
—The Science club will meet at the Hatch library to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The theme will be "Evidences of Glacial action in and about Cortland County."
—The regular monthly meeting of Tioughnioga chapter of D. A. R. will be held at the home of Mrs. Geo. H. Smith, 6 East Main-st., Monday afternoon, March 11, at 3:30 o'clock.
—A meeting of the Baseball association will be held this evening at the Emerald Hose parlors to make arrangements for placing $1,250 worth of stock on the market at once. The movement appears to be a very popular one.
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