Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 19

October 21, 1900, I'NE ILLUSTRATED BEE. 7 0 < 3 [] Al . to give shelter and protection to the two . N ~ | v A ] China’s Conspiracy ==~ A Aol sl S B would be with them at the time they came | - He labeled the lotter important and sent it Y P 2@ DY oo messenget An answer did not come . A Ll plied that he did not know Kang Yu Wel y e X / | \ : (Copyright, 1000, by Frank . ) use his best efforts to help China conserve and Liang Cho, and that he could not re . SHANGHAL Sept. 7, 1900, (Sp its empire if it will suppress the Insurrec. C€ive them. His ignorance in this case wa respondence of The Bee.)—The evidence of tion and rescue the foreign ministers probably diplomatic. and o the a great conspiracy to drive all foreigners How the Conspirney Origin : '(' ngl 3 ” e Lty ) by I8 steac . \ . ister admitted the cmperor wation 1\)\11 uf“llh country | teadily ac umula I'he beginning of this conspiracy, so it is he would Kave made Bt sl Ing. This conspiracy seems to have been pujjeved, was shortly after the close of the g wower i Chitn BAFLY « organized by the Chinese government It Japanese waf The empress dowager, ol Al oy i S { was headed l{\ the ..nun lowager and pripnee Tuan, Kang Yi. Li Hung Chang and WAt A5t Tkee, (ETed to. REve dof most of the high officials are implicated in Gipeps saw that something must be done : | ‘h‘ ‘\ g '-‘ ! l.’» \ il i fi spirac 0t () ‘hina upon ¢oempm n the Kolsl [y 1o it. It 1s a conspiracy t ust from China ¢ gnee or they would be ousted from Rl to folt tt HHHor t e . |‘\(‘II'_\|'III\L: foreign and every foreigner power AL over China the thinking classes o glish minister. Mr. Richards nest sent o It is a conspiracy which has been hitch- were discussing the result of the war and o o A I i R e A, | « Ing since the cloge of the Chinese-Japa- possible reforms. A reform party sprang pened to be away at his summer Home in ! f nest war, and which, had it not been pre< ypo about thirty newspapers were estal e 11T i by Ahi L o cipitated by the Boxer uprising, might Jished and tracts proposing the western ”"\ |H ! ;“‘\ " 8 Ldbiibt ‘]‘ " s . have resulted in the massa foevery jzing of China were distributed in many fave & ne of the dow \ ‘ I foreigner and the destruction of every guarters. Some of the reformers got to i " % bbbt vy J " iece of foreign property in the empir rekit A seve e 5 g nust be remembered it oa . ! I 1 I I I l»v.l‘.|>n| oV ml. ven to the -.n||nv‘| him emperor was the de tasto ruler of China self. The head of these was Kang Yu Wei, 0" 10 ot OnTied: 8 would the man who is now in hiding outside of pice vuined a predominant influence by s 4 China with a reward of 100,000 tacls ($75 upporting him g B — I 000) upon his head. Kang Yu Wei had per ' ." - War ; i \ suaded the emperor to adopt the new civili : 33 FOREIGN OFFICE OR TSUNG LI YAMEN AT PEKIN RECENTLY DESTROYED b W ottin . 1 1 troubie I zation, His majesty had planned to intro China ha .‘ ”] Betting I' 'I‘ ! : BY BOXERS duce i i of e beb i o Over since the close.of the Japancse wa : l.'l' il : rts of medern methods dnto 0 0Tl Tr0 1 had an interview on the volver carteidges up to great shells ot and aid the Chinese in sweeping the empit ving cluding a thorough rec zation ' V']Il meluding |I h 'x ugh recrganization ftuation in China with Yang Yu, who is, 1 steel as high as your waist, are turned out free of all foreigners [ 10 empire ‘ o MPpress o aeer 3 { FaR AT ";‘ S I' RER '1“']' lowager, 0 how Chinese minister to Germany, i1 great quantities, and the different kinds 1 have this ediet before me. Two hun caring the result, cause depesitio .t wring the resu m 18 depesition oo G preceded Wu Ting Fang as min- of shot and shrapnel numt about 2000 dred thousand coples of it were distributed and imprisonment in the palace and again ' T T ister to the United State 1t was Just The work is all done by Chinese under cne in Tien I'sin just ore the troops came took the government into her own hand { 3 Mrer the war and he warned me that the or two foreign superintendents there It states that the Catholic and She organized a reign of terror not only in " . vinsul The god Pekin, but in all " f ) \ Chinese army would be reorganized after pimnking e o Koww. Protestant religions are insults to the gods . s PR lna, and since o oq4oon methods. He satd that the country and enraging both heaven and earth. 1 then the official who has said anything in ' h Many of the weapons with which the oo 0 fn et innont of the 8,000,000 spirit favor of foreigners or forelgn methcds has MOUd have new ships, new forts and Ws cpipese are armed come trom Hankow. FATIE W CEIE L TGS GE e of for 1 streng ould be so cas g k4 amd bids all to spread the doc o had to work hard to keep not only his of- ' illtary strength would 1 5 1BOR e phe great viceroy, Chang Chi Tung, has an ! that 1t conld defend itself against any na eign expulsion far and wide, stating that ficial but his physical head on his L bl 3 b arsenal there upon which he is spending th mun who convert n \ thsolved " e ook a pe an e oo 0 converts one e absolved ilroiideie tion or all natiot :1 took o pencil and 500000 taels a vear The guns turned ! ““ PR A el " 2 Il ) » wsEsih [ ‘ . ‘ "0 i . nistor o { o ] Fhe Usurpntion of (he Downge MBUFSE D) CHE PUBAILCILICE (0L RS (GHIEEE: ot nkuln ort-of s MAUNEE AHALTHS WUBHI e U T n e Tith. GHBI0 TS A ) . ¢ sule a could converts five o his ole i The usurpation of the dowager causeq °FMY of the future. He suld China could 464 trom the steel works at Han Yang = ‘ put twice as many men in the field as any . and if ten his village. 1t states that those great excitement in China It was un & ¥ just above Hankow here are large iron ted other nation referred to 1he wonderful who make no converts shall be decapitatec favorably commented upon, and protests mines in the vicinity and coal mines, to 4 N be - m wealth of the country and s mineral and predicts that there wi wono o rain in came in from many other cities They soon which a railroad has been built h i al Nl \ v bee) sources, saying thas it could make its own " China until all the foreigners have e | stopped, however, for the old empress ? it i Iwas at the city of Hang Chow not fong i 000 H ¥ '3 s anc ( [ H [l § [ . '\t H ‘ threatened ad sorts of punishments. One :‘]”” '”‘I iiitiall “I‘ll o = lI“Il ago and had a chance to see the (roops I i of the objects of her rage. for instance, wa l"' i 1“”“1””“ il A De hare undergoing their drill, They did well, Chung Chi Tung " Wos | Kin Yuan Shan, the head of the telegraphs ;'! s ‘”I" 4 1“ “'I""' I‘ il b the ShOWIng the effect of thefr rigid training 1t seems dmpossible (hat - the sharp old here at Shanghai. When the news came 1018 BIOPROCY A0S ycen borne out by t1e wince the war with Japan hang Chi empress dowager could hold such supersti i of 'tHe imprisonment de theNemperor wieii o SUie S ab ) ANON s troops have been deilled by Ger- tions. She s a Chinese woman, however : sent a petition, signed by himselt and 1,000 ™ "““'“ ‘1"\" ";v"' JUSY: S0 lll "“ " mans, and this ds g0 Tam told, with most and the Chinese are saturated with all Kind ¥ other Chinese, to the dowager, asking that ”L] \"”l‘ RAA 'l ‘l" IARNAND aveenal, f“ Il‘l of the armies of the viceroys. In the mill- or crazy ideas as to spirits and the spirit [ the emperor be allowed to resume the reins o Shanshal. s - ""';"‘I‘ O o8 B ofal ey and naval schools Germans, Belglans world. — Oneof the chlef causes of he of government, and stating that this only "“l'l"",‘l_'l""‘ b “"l‘""‘ (% and Russians are employed trouble is, 1 am told, the hatred which the + empress dowager has been im j Ay Woidl syl : would satisfy the people. When this ! M SO A Modern guns have been introduced as people have for foreigners bhecause they memorial was presented o the empress PNE "“l" 'l" '”:‘ ‘“'”"‘: 2 "‘“’ rapidly as possible, 160,000 Mausers having pose o put railroads through the an dowager she is said to have fairly hopped I'“ "”'l § : ‘l ”“ e “'l“v “:»\‘“' been recently bought. The arsenals have tral graveyards and thereby spoil th . up and down in her rage. Her officials were HC1OTH \1 1R Y8 \"“_ ol "I‘;' nis here tying Loy been turning out o number of quick- ek of the Chinese and anger the spirits terrified and they trembled lest her anger '¢ Introduce American rifles firing mountain guns and some native- of their ancestors ‘ . » T AL > should be wreaked upon them How We Lost o R Order, made rifles of one-inch caliber, each to be The Chinese believe every one has a spirit CHANG CHI Tl THE VICEROY 0O “Who has dared to send such a telegram?* The Chinese think well of our guns, and manipulnted by two men. This weapon 18 which controls him. ‘Take for instance HANKOW AME I | which n s h ANKOW IEVES HIS SOUL CAME g4, ggked. the viceroy of Canton not long ago asked pine feet long and is fitted with o home- Chang Chi Tung He is one of the greatest l‘,““‘“ A '§|‘11Nl}l-,\_ ‘.“\‘I*“f ro B “Kin Yuan Shan and over 1,000 others,” Consul General Goodnow for the name of made breech mechanism of the Mauser gcholars of China, o man who rules, |1 FRIENDLY TO FOREIGNERS was the reply the best American gun and of the most order venture, half as many people as President & “Very welll” answered the old emp responsible of the American firm It ha e B pan nd the Hovers, 4 P ) & i ' ans » d empress espons ) i § ap . . i W spends millions a year Such s the beliet of many of the oldest o 0070 e € € y " b “'I S g A ; i ,.I : MeKinley, and who '". ‘ : ; B ° residents of China, foreigners who are ¢ ' S10W them now we deal with traitors pened that one of our gun factory agents From what 1 can learn of this alleged He is scholar and an author waving acquainted with foreign methods —business who cross our path was in Shanghai at the time, and at the copgpiracy it was not the intention of the written a hook on the modern movement At this time Sheng, the director of all the suggestion of the consul general he went to telegraphs of the empire, was in Pekin. He see the viceroy and offered to fill his ordr (he powers should begin before the year Now, Chang Chi Tung believes in the at once wired Kin that he had better leave at 15 taels per gun, or 150,000 taels for all. juog She had no idea that the Boxer g(rpusmigration of souls, and he is a to and Kin fled to Macao, where he is now The viceroy replied that he would give him jpovement would develop as it did and when jmagine that his soul came from a monkey under Portuguese protection The protest the order, but that he must have the stufl ghe £ began to encourage the Boxers it According to tradition, when Chang Chi was followed by others from all parts of at once. The agent then cabled to the was with the idea that they would stir up Teng was born there was a monkey in his the empire and the United States, and these, United States and in reply was told that (he anti-forei sentiment among the brother's house This mysteriously dis added to the sbjections of the powers, kept the guns could not be furnished within less s and help along the conspiracy I appeared the same day that his hirth took her from putting another boy on the throne. than a year the meantime the hratality of the Germans place, and, according to the Chinese theory, Minister Conger's Lost Op nity. Upon this the viceroy ald that this goward the Chinese at Kino Chau and the jrg goul passed into the new-horn child It is not known that the United States would not do, he must have the guns at giarvation there, which was attributed by Whether Chang really believes this or not was practically offered the control of the once He then applied ‘o the Germans, the people to the wrath of heaven against [ cannot say, but his friends tell me that Chinese empire just before the usurpation of who told him that they could give him (he Chinese allowing the foreign devils in when he is accused of foolishness or of the dowag but I am told that this is the what he wanted in sixty days and that at (heir country, so accelerited the growth aeting improdently he replies fact. The emperor realized his danger. He 11 taels each. They got the order, but the of the Boxers that they got beyond her “How can | help it, that is the way 1 was feared for his life, but he was very anxious guns sent were a lot of old weapons hardly and the rebellion broke out At first she porn? 1t must be the monkey in me men as well as missionaries. They think empress dowager that the action against for China that the powers are being deceived by the Chinese diplomats and laugh at the idea of the Boxers being the cause of th trouble. Said an American who has been con nected with Chinese matters in a diplo matic and business way for more than twenty-five years to me the other night “Ther re two things about the situa “we tlon which you must bear in mind. The first is that this crusade is not anti-mis- siona but anti-foreign, and the second that it is a war and not a rebellion, as our government would have us believe, The Chinese so recognize it. The Boxers wer L olganized by the empress GOWAZEr 68 & ¢o do the right thing and would have fought worth their frelght had hoped that she might bring them into g gpe o Tereified Chnng. ’ l‘ i ¢ g I. for his rights could he have had any hope At the arsenal at Shanghai the Chinese the army and at last she did so, uniting m HRNRAQE tHG AOROB WILD tich she hoped 1040 gupnopt, Timothy Richards, the seeretary are making guns almost as large as any with Prince Tuan in directing their move Speaking of Chang Chi Tung, he I a 11y sweep all foreigners into the s "l They of (he Society of Christian Knowledge of made in the Washington navy yard. Some ments. Like all Chinese, she is super- D& evidence of the terrer inspir I:\'llln were paid out of the imperial exchequer, ¢hina was in Pekin at the time. He was of them are thirty-five feet long, with pro- stitious to an extreme and it may that empress dowager's anti-reform ideas. Prior they were armed from the imperial ar ’ A 4 = E issociated with Kang Yu Wei and Liang jectiles weighing 1000 pounds. Armstror senals and Prince Tuan and Kang Yi were, ¢y, in an imperial edict, appointed the leaders of what some would have us call ‘this rebel band.’ : she actually believes in the edicts which to this he has held the |.|.,....|.»-| opinions W at their instance wrote Mr. Box rapid-fire guns are made and also modern the Boxers put forth stating that 8,000,000 ©f # modern civilization for China. He ha the English minister, asking him rifles Prejectiles of all kind from re pirit soldiers will come down put up an enormous stecl plant at Han Yang and has been making steel rails for a rail road which he propesed to bhuild - from Hankow to Pekin. He has opened iron and coal mines and has gone into all sorts of Ironside rom heaven - “Documents have been found in the vice regal yamen at Tien Tsin which inerim nate the imperial government beyond all hope of escape. Among these are lists of Boxers, receipts of awards paid to Boxers for foreign heads, receipts for arms, am munition and stores supplied by the gov ernment to Boxer leaders imperial edicts of June orde modorn enterprises Among other new thing propored by him was an agricultural experiment college to teach his people our methods of farming He sent to Cornell for American professors and made three-year contracts with them at high salaries to come out Wl take charg of this school. When they arrived they were given a house and told to go to work In the meantime the old dowager issu her edict and Chang Chi Tung began to draw back He refused to give the pro vogrors farms on which to work, putting them off on one plea or another from month to month until the time of th i 1 almost expired At last the young men would stay no longer Thenr galaries were being paid, but they would not consent to remain withcut they wor given a chance to carn them, so they have thrown up the job and gone back to th United States and also the 21 and August 2 ring the extermination of all foreign ers in China Were Japn we din It? The extert of the conspiracy has not yet been disclosed. The leading viceroys, in cluding Li Hung Chang, were probably in it There is evidence that Japan may have i S been a secret party to it and that it was ready to act in concert with China at the | contract vroper time. It was incensed at the treat ment it received from the continental pow ers at the close of the Chinese-Japanes war and especially at their support of Russia. Since then its relations with the Russians have bhecome more and mor strained It has been insulted and re « stricted in Corea and just before the Boxer rebellion a Russo-Japanese war wias every where predicted The rebellion precipi tated matters and Japan shrewdly changed s attitude Chang Chi Tung had ordered all kinds o! agricultural implements in connection with thig school. The latest mowing machine plows, harrows and cultivators were shipped out to him. They arrived in good order, but are rusting away unused He had ordered a modern carriage in order that he might ride about in state and a tonish the Chinese in a region where our carriages are unknown and where the only conveyances are rude carts and sedan ‘hairs. The carriage came, and, though Chang Chi Tung has plenty of horses, he does not use the carrviage. If he did he vould be looked upon as a modern inno vator and a friend of the foreig sticks to the s Ameng the straws which show how th wind has been blowing between Japan and China was the appeal of the Chinese em perer on July 3 last to the mikado, asking him to jein forces against the foreigners In his appeal Kuang Hsu states his belief that the powers wish to swallow up Japan s owell as China and that the Chinese nd Japanese, the two cat nations of the east, should join to fight the we To this the Japanese emperor replied diplo matically and kindly, saying that he would IR VAR QR IIAGNAN AR a1/ rs, 50 he an chair and the cart FRANK G. CARPEN