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| Lord Julian Pauncefote. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 18, 1901.
NICARAGUAN TREATY.
Lord Pauncefote Believes He Has Acceptable One.
READY WHEN CONGRESS MEETS.
He and Marquis of Lansdowne Are Conferring on Several Treaties Pending Between England and United States In Regard to Canada and West Indies.
LONDON, July 18.—Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador to the United States, made the following statement last night to a representative of the press: "I am having a conference with the Marquis of Lansdowne, not only about the Nicaragua, but also with regard to half a dozen treaties pending between Great Britain and the United States. These are chiefly concerned with West Indian reciprocity arrangements."
When asked if he thought there was any possibility of arriving at an agreement regarding the Nicaragua canal before congress reconvened, he replied: "Yes, I sincerely hope so. We are now in the middle of the negotiations which, although they have not yet reached any tangible result, show good promise. Naturally I may not disclose the details, but I may say that when I return to the United States at the end of October I hope to take with me a Nicaragua treaty that will meet the views of both President McKinley and the British cabinet.
"There is no use wasting time over treaties which the senate is likely to refuse. I really believe the differences of opinion between the two nations are capable of settlement in an agreement fair to both. If I thought anything could be done before October I would return prior to that date, but I do not believe that anything would be gained."
At this point Lord Pauncefote paid a warm tribute to the Americans. "They are the most genial people on the face of the earth," he declared. "At the first grip of the hand they take you to their hearts. So long as you do not try to deal in an underhand way, and so long as you do not assume superior accounts, they treat you as one of their own, and no one could say more than this."
Reverting to the report that a majority of the senate favored a neutral canal, Lord Pauncefote said:
"It would be good news if true. I happen to know that Mr. Hay consulted the senate both as to the section supposed to support him and the section credited with other motives. You may be sure that whatever is agreed upon between the two governments will meet with the approval of the senate."
He expressed the deepest sympathy with Mr. Hay in the loss of his son.
When asked if the joint committee was likely to sit again in Washington, he replied: "Yes, I think that it will, although this will not occur until after my return.
"The joint commission has threshed out many points of difference between Canada and the United States, although the inability to agree as to the Alaska boundary and the sad death of Lord Herschel appeared, perhaps, to nullify the commission's labors.
"I see that the Boston chamber of commerce has petitioned for reciprocity with Canada. This I regard as a most hopeful sign. It will be one of my aims when I return to the United States to foster this desire for a closer commercial relationship between the dominion and the United States. In spite of the attitude of Canada toward Newfoundland, and in spite of the trade difficulties of both Canada and Newfoundland in dealing with the United States, I by no means despair of effecting some sort of reciprocity scheme, which, when the Nicaragua matter has been justly and amicably settled, and the West Indian treaties have been arranged, will bring Great Britain and the United States even to a better basis of common understanding than exists today."
JAPAN WILLING TO LOSE
Rather Than Blockade Chinese Negotiations. She Makes Great Sacrifice.
WASHINGTON, July 18.—In a spirit which has aroused the keenest admiration of the state department the Japanese government has met the difficulty growing out of the preference of her request for an increase of her indemnity by withdrawing that request. The result is a substantial loss to Japan. She asked originally for $23,000,000. It was fixed upon the idea that payment was to be made in cash by China. Confronted with the bond payment, the Japanese government asked that her allotment be increased to $27,000,000 in bonds to make good the loss she would suffer through their sale.
As soon as some of the other nations found that the allotment as originally fixed was in danger of being disturbed they came in with increased demands and thus it is that Japan, finding that insistence upon her demand would blockade the negotiations at this phase, has withdrawn her request for the present at least.
Mr. Rockhill, our special commissioner at Pekin, has been instructed to give the assent of the United States to the discussion of the proposition to increase the Chinese customs dues in order to provide means for the payment of the international indemnity. Our government is still opposed to this project and the instruction is sent only in deference to the universal wish for a speedy conclusion of the negotiations at Pekin.
DISORDER IN PEKIN.
Much Lawlessness Since Chinese Authorities Resumed Control.
PEKIN. July 18—Disorder and lawlessness have greatly increased in Pekin since the policing of the city was restored to the Chinese authorities. There are nightly burglaries by large bands of depredators, while Chinamen in the employ of Europeans are continually beaten and robbed.
The German military authorities here have arranged for the withdrawal of all German troops in Pekin except the permanent establishment, early in August.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Allotting Oklahoma Lands.
The Kiowa and Comanche lands in Oklahoma will soon be thrown open to settlers. There are 13.473 homestead claims of 100 acres each, and something like 100,000 "boomers" are already camped along the margins of the reservations, waiting to get possession of these rich and fertile lands. As there are five or six prospective settlers to each quarter section, many are destined to disappointment. To avoid a repetition of the wild and disorderly scenes which have characterized former allotments the government decided to distribute these claims by a lottery method. All confusion could have been avoided by selling the lands to the highest bidders, but congress rejected this method at its last session and decided that the old system of free homesteads, with a uniform fee of $1.25 an acre, should be retained. In order to get the advantages of this liberal American system without the attendant evils of another Oklahoma stampede it is arranged so that the home seekers shall draw for their claims. The homesteads have all been plotted and numbered. The man drawing No. 1 will have first choice of a location, and so on to the last of the 13,473 claims. Those drawing, numbers above 13,473 will get nothing-
Naturally this plan is bitterly opposed by the men who have been camping on the border for several months or a year. They call it "Uncle Sam's lottery scheme" and denounce it as illegal. Many of them have explored the promised land and marked the choice tracts which they intended to race for when the signal was given. Now the man who has been waiting a year will have to take even chances with the later arrival.
This plan of distribution, however, is apparently the best available for the purpose. It is not open to criticism on moral grounds, since it is not a lottery in the usual sense. The government gets no money from it. It is simply a plan for leaving the distribution of these homesteads to the impartial decree of chance instead of leaving it to the unjust and demoralizing results of a wild race and the decision of unscrupulous brute force.
UNRULY PRISONERS
GET AWAY FROM OFFICER GOLDSMITH AT AUBURN, N. Y.
But Were Recaptured by Auburn Police—Two Big Fights With Prisoners, One At Prison Gate, Other on Way to Train—Deputy Sheriff Goldsmith Badly Knocked Out—Deputy Sheriff John Miller Finally Went After the Men.
As noted in these columns yesterday Deputy Sheriff Albert Goldsmith went to Auburn Tuesday night to arrest, yesterday morning, Frank Curtis and Frederick Dykeman when they should be discharged from Auburn prison where they have been serving time, having been sent there Nov. 18, 1899, for burglary in the third degree in robbing a store in Syracuse. They are wanted in Cortland to answer to the charge of burglarizing the store of Warren, Tanner & Co. in 1899. The officer had two struggles with his men, one at the prison gate and the other while on the way to the train in the afternoon. In the first instance Auburn officers assisted him in overpowering the men. In the second Officer Goldsmith was so badly knocked out that he was unconscious for nearly an hour, and in the meantime his prisoners escaped, but were recaptured by Auburn policemen. They spent the night in the Auburn lockup and this morning Deputy Sheriff John Miller went for them.
The Auburn Bulletin tells the story of the first rumpus and the Syracuse Post-Standard of the second. The Bulletin says:
Deputy Sheriff Albert Goldsmith of Cortland came to Auburn last night with warrants for the arrest of Frank Curtis and Frederick Dykeman, whose terms in the prison expired today. He got the men all right but it was only after a fight in which the deputy sheriff from Cortland got a welt on the jaw and a gash in the bead, Turnkey Hall got a kick in the legs and Constable Willard A. Hoagland strained a finger. Policeman John Anton was the only man concerned in the arrest who was not hurt. The fight took place in the prison yard and just outside the big front gate and while it lasted was extremely exciting.
When Deputy Goldsmith reached here last night he went to police headquarters for assistance and orders were given Officer Anton to be at the gate this morning at 9 o'clock. This morning the deputy went to the sheriff's office and asked for assistance there and Turnkey Hull was assigned the duty of aiding him. On the way to the prison they met Constable Hoagland and he accepted an invitation to take part in the arrest. Deputy Goldsmith wanted to arrest the men before they left the building, but Warden Mead advised him to wait until they got outside. As Curtis and Dykeman started down the iron steps for the gate, Deputy Goldsmith was waiting for them and he walked along at their side until just before the gate was reached, when he attempted to serve the warrants. The men had been whispering together and the result of the conference quickly showed itself. Gatekeeper Griffin had swung the iron door partly open and Dykeman went through it with Constable Hoagland with him. The man put up a fight but, it did not last long as Officer Anton went to Mr. Hoagland's aid and quickly put the ex-convict on his back and put the handcuffs on him. Within the wall Curtis, although weighing but 154 pounds, had proved himself more than a match for Turnkey Hull and Deputy Goldsmith, who is big enough to arrest half a dozen men. As the deputy took hold of him, Curtis squared away and with a right swing that landed on Goldsmith's jaw, and sent him backward at full length on the pavement. Goldsmith's head struck the stone and a gash the shape of a Maltese cross was made just above the right ear. The blood flowed freely from the wound and the shock dazed the big deputy.
Curtis was dancing about in true pugilistic attitude, feinting with his left and using his feet to good advantage. Hull after quickly locking the gate, had started to go to Goldsmith's assistance and had got a kick on the legs that made him careful.
Constable Hoagland went back inside and started for Curtis, who had jumped over a flower bed and taken a stand to the north of the main walk and beneath the trees. As Hoagland approached Curtis he made a move toward his hip pocket as though to pull a knife, at the same time warning the constable that he would cut him. Hoagland, unarmed, did not like the idea of going against a knife and was wary as he walked toward the threatening convict. Prison officials had come out and Curtis had decided that the odds against him were too great and he gave up to Hoagland without a further fight. Officer Anton had had no trouble with Dykeman and after Curtis gave up they were cuffed together and taken to the jail. Deputy Goldsmith was spattered with blood but he said he didn't mind that and when he got them down to Cortland he would "learn 'em not to trifle with me."
The Auburn correspondent of the Syracuse Post-Standard says:
Goldsmith then started with his prisoner to catch the 4:30 train at the Lehigh Valley railway station for Cortland. The prisoners were handcuffed and shackled together with leg irons. On the way Goldsmith and the prisoners stopped at a hotel. The neighborhood is not the best in the city and when the deputy and his captives again appeared on the street, they were surrounded by a jeering mob.
Incited by the promises of assistance from the crowd, Curtis and Dykeman made another attempt to get away. They attacked the deputy and some one in the crowd also struck him. Curtis finally ended the fight by sending a knockout blow on Goldsmith's jaw. He fell to the walk and lay like a dead man.
In the confusion the prisoners escaped into the foreign settlement a block away and found a hiding place under the stairs of a house occupied by a Polack woman, where they were found later by Chief of Police McMaster and Sheriff Wood. The woman stoutly denied that she had seen anything of them before her house was searched. The desperadoes were returned to the county jail, where they still remain.
No one offered to assist Goldsmith, who lay unconscious until Police Commissioner Cross and Postmaster Clark came along. They took him back into Brennan's place, where he was placed on a bed and Dr. Louis F. O'Neill was summoned. The physician worked for nearly an hour before Goldsmith gave any signs of returning consciousness. He was marked with a number of bruises and abrasions upon the head.
Curtis and Dykeman have an excellent record in the prison. They were employed in the furniture shop and during the entire time they were in the prison neither received a bad mark.
A telephone message from Auburn at noon today said that Deputy Sheriff Miller would start for home with the prisoners at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, arriving at 6:20 on the Lehigh Valley railroad. It was also reported that Officer Goldsmith was still in pretty bad shape.
Sheriff Overton is greatly chagrined at the outcome of this affair, but he and Deputy Sheriff Miller were both down in Pennsylvania after the horse in the Marvin case when it came to be time to send to Auburn for these men and there was no one else to send for them but this officer.
SOME CLOTHING FOUND.
Shows That the Tramp was in the Woods Near Sugar Camp.
J. Henry White of Cincinnatus has found in the woods near the [maple] sugar camp of Albert Rice, the shirt, duck coat and trousers which the tramp who worked for Mr. Rice bought of L. L. DeLamarter at Cincinnatus on May 8, the afternoon before the evening of the assault upon Mr. Rice. None of the garments had been worn. The shirt was wrapped up in the other garments and was not soiled in the least. Mr. White took them down to Mr. DeLarmarter who identified them by his private mark upon them. The only importance of this discovery is to indicate that the tramp was up in the sugar camp after he left the employ and premises of Mr. Rice in the morning, and probably went after the stick of fire wood from the camp which was found down in the barn and which seemed to have been brought there as a weapon.
The all important thing is to find the tramp, and that hasn't been done.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.
THREE MEN TRY TO ENTER PERLEE KEEFE'S HOUSE.
Run Away When Owner Gets After Them—One of Them is Belligerent—Two Men Arrested on Train and Held Under Suspicion.
HOMER, N. Y., July 18.—At 11:30 o'clock last evening Mr. PerLee Keefe who resides on Copeland-ave. was aroused from his sleep by a noise like some one endeavoring to get into the house. He arose as quickly as possible and called his brother Karl who came to his assistance. They went to the door and the intruders, of whom there were three, made their escape to the yard. Earl Keefe came by where one of them was in hiding, the burglar struck him over the head with a club, knocking him down. The three went east on the street. A telephone call was sent to police headquarters and Officers Downing and Davenport immediately set out to try and affect a capture. Their supposition was that perhaps the three had boarded a train which passed across this street about 12 o'clock. They then went to the station where the train had stopped and made a search. Two men were found on board, but the third had made his escape. The two were placed in the jail until this morning when they were taken under commitment of Justice L. Stone to the county jail to await an examination which will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The theory is that these are the guilty parties and by taking this train they expected to get away from the officers. If these are the guilty parties two charges will be preferred against them, burglary and assault and battery. The two gave the names of Eugene B. Avery and William Phillips.
BREVITIES.
—Harry Cashion is the new messenger boy at the Western Union Telegraph office.
—New display advertisements today are—Cortland Fish & Oyster Co., Fish, oysters, clams, etc., page 5.
—Harrington's orchestra of Cortland will furnish music for the hop at the Glen Haven hotel Saturday night of this week.
—The Tompkins House in Ithaca was yesterday sold to Melvin Crain of Moravia for $20,250. The name property was sold in 1874 for $2,500. Property in Ithaca is rising in value.
—The deal is completed except for the passing of the deed, and that is already drawn, signed and acknowledged, whereby Ryan & Hall are to purchase the lot at the southeast corner of Port Watson-st. and the Lackawanna railroad, and also a connecting lot in the rear and are expecting to remove their store from Railroad-st. to the new location to make way for the new Lackawanna passenger station. The lot was owned by the heirs of the late Mrs. Dorliska Tisdale.
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