The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 162. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1896—_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FREDERIC SCORES CECIL RHODES. England’s Name Is Stained With the Foulest Dishonor. ERUGER’S REVELATIONS Proof That Thieves Fell Out Over the Division of Plunder in the Transvaal. CHARTERED COMPANY'S ACTS. Instead of Facing the Disgraceful Dis- closures Chamberlain Shields the Plotters. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, ExG., May 9.—Almost every commentator on yesterday’s debate in the House of Commons brings mention of ‘Warren Hastings into his remarks. It is a natural enough allusion, for there is no other passage in the big story of the British empire that has been made which so fits with his modern instance. Apparently the similarity has to extend still further, for the famous impeachment proceedings against the Governor-General of 1ndia lasted, in one form or another, for seven years, and, judging by the glimpses vouchsafed us into the Ministerial mina, the Cecil Rhodes affair is planned tostring itself out over a scarcely shorter period. From the point of view of oratory, which is all any one thinks of now with referenee to the Hastings trial, I fear the nineteenth century will come out badly in comparison its predecessor. There is no Burke, Fox or even Sheridan now to snatch im- mortality for himself out of this morass of stock-jobbing treason. 0O1d Sir William Harcourt made the best speech of his life last night, and now that Gladstone is gone there is no other man in the House who could have risen anywhere so near to the plane of parliamentary usages of a hundred years ago; but when he took his seat the debate was brought down with a jerk to the most up-to-date of modern levels. Tkere it will remain. Chamberlain’s glib defense of himself rather puzzled the House that listened to it. Now, upon reflection, it is seen to be a'so the defonse of Rhodes and Lis fellow- conspirators, and it is not liked. By Mon- day, I imsgine, it will come to be hated by the men who to-day are still wavering in judgment on it. It will not be surpris- ing if, before the end of next week, it should be practically repudiated by the acts of the Government and explained away by Chamberlain himself. He began last January by resolute action against Rhodes and the chartered com- pany. When it could not be proved that they had done anything literally culpable, even while he accepted thei- assurances of personal innocence, he insisted that they had forfeited public confidence and he pledged himself by speech and deed alike to see justice done. Now we are in May, and these men are admittedly proven to have a guilty knowl- edge of the plot against the Transvaal, to have organized and paid for Jameson’s raid, to bave lied to her Majesty’s Gov- ernment and to have been false to every obligation as subjects and as men. Cham- perlain, however, has quite outgrown his stern midwinter mood. Although the Commons contains now no orator like Burke or Fox, it contains 500 or more men who do not sit for rotten boroughs, and who have constituents who read the papers every day. These constitunents have read during the last week with astonishment Kruger’s first batch of revelations as to the base- ness, venality and disloyalty of the chartered company leaders who were rep- resenting Great Britain in South Africa. To-day comes another installment of these extraordinary proofs and next week we are promised more, showing conclu- sively how the thieves fell out about the division of their expected plunder and how this alone prevented the comsum- mation of the crime which they all nad in mind. These things are being read, dis- cussed and digested by millions of Eng- lishmen. They are rejognized everywhere as staining the English name with the foulest kind of dishonor and consciousness of this cannot be allayed by subsidized press pleadings or obscured by ministerial indirection. Cecil Rhodes should bave been stricken from the Queen’s Privy Council eight days ago, the charter of the South African Company and its assets should have been impounded and every one of its agents and officials should have been suspended from official place. That would have been the very least that the Government could do in the face of these disgraceful dis- closures; yet we see instead Chamberlain urging people 1o remember how good a man Rhodes used to be, naming remote dates for a possible inauiry into the scan- dal, which will make the whole thing a farce, and meanwhile moving not a finger to remove this blot from the national escutcheon. If I know anything aboutthe Englisb people, they will not submit in patience to this. Iam told that Rhodes and Beit, the latter a Hamburg Jewish- . German subject, whose prominence in the conspiracy gives it a quaint turn, are to plead that it was all done for the expan- sion of the British empirs, apd they are also said to have offered the Transvaal authorities $12,500,000 to quash the trial at Pretoria and let all go free. QOur understanding here is that the ag- gregate of tines ultimately imposed will not reach anything Jike this sum, bnt Kruger properly declined to make money in this way or to deal with anybody ex- cept the British imperial authority. Rumors of Lord Salisbury’s ill-health are about again, and I have even heard a circumstantial story that the Duke of Devonshire is going to take over the For- eign Office, but I am quite unable to say what likelihood there is that the report is {of the international outlook. true. For the moment the new situation in Persia is occupying the attention of Downing street, and of Asiatic aspects generally to the exclusion of other aspects The new Shah is known to be in Russian hands, and it is assumed that Persia, under him, will become a sort of Russian Aighanis- tan, while England’s practical supremacy in the Persian Gulf will be called in ques- tion by France. It is whispered about that very disquiet- ing reports have come from the British political resident at Bushire, on this gulf, not only as-to the general situation, but as to the actual safety of himself and his suite, for they are again menaced with per- sonal violence. There is no way of verify- 1ng these reports, but all the old Indians I know say the position there is critical. Unhappily, British relations abroad are critical at so many points that one added cause for alarm hardly counts. The preparations at Moscow for the grand ceremonial now so near at hand, be- gun perforce solong , have been so com- prehensiveiy described beforehand that little is left 1o the correspondents, who are léaving to chronicle the event itself. Considering the ditlicult relations ex- isting between England and Russia, or rather between the foreign offices of the two countries, people both here and else- where are much mystified by the state- ment that the Czar has accepted an invi- tation from the British Embassador to a banquet during the coronation festivities. It is contrary to Russian etiquette for the Czar to dine out when"in the empire, and the late Czar would never have dreamed of snch a thing. It is the knowledge of this presumably inflexible rule which pre- vented the French Embassador from sug- gesting the idea on behalf of his own country, but this does not prevent the French now from regaraing with amazed disgust the fact that this extraordinary exception is to be made in favor of the British. The Parisian journals cling still to the hope that the report will be denied, al- though it seems to be authentic enough. What it means is most probably that the young Czarina has succeeded in getting her husband to accept the invitation of Sir Nicholas O'Connor as an offset to Prince Lobanoff's vigorous anti-British foreign policy. Her own sympathies are fervently on the side of an Anglo-German combina- tion, and it is safe to suspect in this epi- | sode the assertion of her personal influ- | ence. French republicans of the old school must be learning with mixed emotions the fact that the two magnificent carriages to be used by the representatives of France in the state processior at Moscow are bor- rowed by the republic from the ex-Empress Eugenie. They were built for the christening of the Prince Imperial forty years ago, and were never publicly used thereafter. When the Emperor fell they happened to be at a coachmaker’s for renovation, and there they have remained ever since, till the emergency of the Czar’s coronation re. called attention to them. Eugenie refused to sell or let them for hire, but said she would be pleased to lend them gratis, which tbe republic accepted with the added remurk that though it would be necessary to paint out the imperial em- blems on the carriages, they should after- ward be restored to their original state. To this Eugenie replied that she begged no such renovation would be thought ‘ossemiul_ as after their return from Mos cow it was her intention to have them broken up. This incident of the carriages attracts the more notice as there are vague stories that Prince Louis Jerome, who is now 32 years old and a Russian otficer, is to be at Moscow during the ceremonies and is to ve stch marked notice paid him under his new style as “‘General Bonaparte” that tne French people will be led to imagine that he is very high in Russia’s favor. | Incidentally it may be mentioned that three orthodox Jewish rabbis have at the last moment been invited to witness the coronation. Cardinal Galimberti’s death was so un- expected and withal involves such im- portant consequences in European politics thatitis only natural the Italians should leap to the conclusion that he was poisoned. This report is openly discussed in the Italian press, but there is no reason to suppose that it has any foundation in fact. As often said before in tbese dis- patches, Galimberti was a most powerful restrainiug influence in Vatican politics. He was the tireless advocate of the policy of not butting the Papacy’s head against a stone wall, and of recognizing the exist- ence of obvious facts. His strength and value lay not only in his clear perception of the importance of leaning on the triple alliance and coming to an intelligent, permanent understanding with the Italian monarchy, but also in the fact that he had a great deal of personal influence with the Pope and was thus often able to block the plans of Cardinal Rampolla and his ultra- montane following. ‘With him gone, however, the liberal ele- ment in the sacred college is left without a natural leader, and may very likely 8o to pieces as an organized force, and cer- tainly the chances that it will elect the next Pope are greatly lessened. It is not believed in German commercial circles that the Federal Council will give its consent to the Reichstag’s prohibiting dealing in grain futures. I understand that the Hamburg bourse leaders have taken the initiative in warn- ing the Government that if such a pro- hibition shouid be enforcea they will sim- ply transfer their whole business to New York and Chicago, and buy and sell there as before. To meet this the Agrarian pro- moters of the bill say that it will be suff- cient to add a clause declaring such trans- actions not valid in Germany, but this will involve an infraction of existing commer- cial treaties and thus afford the Govern- ment a legitimate pretext for putting its foot on the measure as a whole. Probably most Americans will be sur- prised to learn that by order of the Home Secretary the principle of separating juveniles in prisons from adults is for the first time officially affirmed in Englund. To some extent it has already been adopted in practice, but hereafter it is to be the universal rule. Unfortunately as the laws stand 16 is the age limit, beyond which offenders become adults, so this ad- ministrative reform misses altogether a large class of youths of 17 and 18 who per- haps need it even more than their juniors, but it would need a statute to alter this, and Parllament is already so clogged with work that it is impossible to expect that this will be done during the present year. 8ir John Millais, I am told, is in such a precarious state of health that his death may be expected any day. He still works | apparently as a result of public comment | — e )}W_«.- cose= SAN JOSE'S CARNIVAL QUEEN AND HER ATTENDANIS AT THE GRAND BALL. a little and still gets about some, but he is under a medical warning that his tenure of life is merely from week to week. James Tissot’s great plan of illustrating the Bible is now on the point of comple- tion and it is understood that when the work is definitely finished, perhaps next Test of his days as a Trappist monk. Holmes,” published here to-day, gets long reviews in most of the morning papers, made from advanced copies. Th re all tenderly appreciative of their subject and are pretty unanimous in praise of the book as well. Paget’s memoirs are also enjoying an immense critical success. Harorp FREDERICK. HERE'S A NEW OCTOPUS. It Will Control All Traffic Between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Coast. CHICAGO, Iri, May 9.—A morning paper says: It was reported yesterday that the near future would see the birth in Chicago of a new and gigantic traffic asso- | ciation, that woula have for its object the i general control of all trafficaffairs between | the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Coast, and contain within its limits all the roads now members of the Western Freight and Passenger Association, the Joint Traffic Association and the Southern States Association. The new organization is to be nothing more nor less than a blanket association that will dominate the other bodies, which will be subject to its jurisdiction. As yet itds impossible to learn the plan to be worked out, but it is definitely known that the headquarters of the new and all-powerful octopus will be in this city. The object of the association is the simplifying of opposition work, the reduc- ing of the tremendous expense incurred in maintaining such organizations, and the retiring of some of the expensive army of commissioners, chairmen, boaras of man- agers and secretaries who now dominate and rule without any great benefit to the stockholders of the railroad companies. An official conversant with the matter said that the task of putting into active operation such a vast traffic association was so great, and involved so many deli- cate questions, that it would probably be months before anything definite or tangi- ble could be said about it. About the only subject so far decided was that the boards of directors of all the roads would have a representative, who in some manner would act directly for it, and that all earnings would go into & common pool. TRIED THE SECOND TIME Mrs. Iren Leonard Yet Held for the Murder of Her Husband. Evidence That She Conspired With a Divorced Spouse to Commit the Crime. WICHITA. Kans.,, May 9.—Mrs. Irene Leonard is bejpg tried the second time for the murder of her hushand, H. L. Leonard. The murder occurred in this city on the night of November 17, and Mrs. Lebnard. her divorced husband, F. M. Williamson, and their son Norville Williamson, were arrested for the crime. Williamson was tried and acauitted. The jury in Mrs, Leonard’s first trial disagreed, and the son’s case has not yet come to trial. The murder was one of the most brutal ever committed in this part of the State. Leonard is presumed to have veen killed whilein bed in his own home. His body was then dressed and carried into the alley back of the barn. He carried a $5000 insurance policy in favor of his wife, and it was brought out in the evidence at the former trials that Mrs. Leonard and her divorced husband were seen out riding the day previous to the killing, and that Williamson was read- ing Leonard’s insurance policy. The theory of the State is that the insurance policy furnished the motive for the crime. A jury was secured with the greatest diffi- culty. The evidence of ex-Coroner McCollier was given this afternoon. He identified the bloody relics of the tragedy, detailed the finding of the body and described the sickening scene at the Leonard home so graphically that the defendant broke irto a flood of tears. There is intense interest in the trial. SpEt ey De Oro the Champion. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 9.—Alfred de Oro of Cuba won back the world’s cham- ionship in pool-playing from William H. learwater of Pittsburg to-night, the score of to-night’s game being: De Oro 189, Clearwater 151, and the total for the three nights, De Oro 600, Clearwater 544. S ki Treasury Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D, C., May 9.—The Treasury gold reserve at the ciose of busi- ness to-d: x“-mod at $117,775,499. The day’s withdrawals were $18,600, year, he will leave the world and pass the { Morse’s “Biography of Oliver Wendell | MUST BE GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL, Uncle Sam Takes a Hand in the Competitor Case. |TO PREVENT EXECUTION War Not Improbable Should the Hasty Sentences Be Carried Out. PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. | | Defense and the Attendance of Witnesses. 1 - | WASHINGTON, D.: C,, May 9.—It is stated here that the enforcement of the death senteace on the men caught on the filibuster sch ooner Competitor is liable to bring about a crisis in the relations be- tween Spain and the United States. Itis | understood that this Government will not | allow the execution to take place without | a vigorous protest. Secretary Olney several days ago sent in- structions of no uncertain tone to Consul- General Williams. These formea the basis for the representations made by Wil- liams to the court-martial yesterday. Every effort is being made to prevent the execution of the sentence until this Gov- ernment can make a thorough investiga- tion on which to base its appeals or de- mands. it is understood the friendly offices which the State Department 1s exerting in behalf of Owen Milton of Kansas, sen- tenced by court-martial to be shotin Cuba, are limited to the complaint that the verdict was reached in a summary man- uer, without giving any opportunity for defense, and too hastily to examine into all the circumstances of the cases. The effort now being made at Madrid and Havana is, therefore, to be in the line of securing a delay of execution for a suffi- cient time to permit such an investigation of the Compatitor incident as is demanded in the interests of humanity. be made to secure a civil trial for Milton or any of his associates who may be found to be bona-fide Americans,the treaty under which such transfer of jurisdiction has been hitherto made appearing to have no bearing in the present instance. The first article of the protocol between the United States and Spain, signed January 12, 1877, concerning judicial procedure, provides as follows: Spain, her adjacent islands or her ultra-marine possessions, charged with acts of sedition, treason or conspiracy against the institutions, the public security, the integrity of the terri- tory or against the supreme Government, or any other crime whatsoever, shall be subject to trial by any exceptional tribunal, but ex- clusively by the ordinary jurisdiction, except in the case of being captured with arms in hand. Under this article many Americans resi- dent in Cuba the past year had their cases transferred to civil courts through the in- tervention of Consul-General Williams, but there aoes not appear to be the slight- est ground for claiming Milton to bea “‘resident’’ of Caba and the article cannot, therefore, be made to apply to him. The same protocol, however, which was negotiated by Caleb Cushing, further pro- vides that those taken with arms in hand, as excepted in the article quoted, shall be tried by ordinary council of war, shall have counsel to defend them and the right t compel the attendance of witnesses. This clause also relates only to residents. * RS SRS DELGADO'S CLAIM. DR, On Bis Way to Washington to Interview Secretarv Olney. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 9.—A Herald special from Washington says: Dr. Jose Manuel Delgado, upon whom Spanish soldiers committed an outrage on March 4 in Cuba, has filed a claim through Consul- General Williams for $200,000 damages. The claim is now being considered by the State Department authorities, and as soon as the Spanish Government makes apology for. the occurrence the department will probably present the claim to its attention. The claim is in part for personal injuries inflicted. on Dr. Delgado. According to the investigation made by the State De- partment officers in Cuba, Dr. Delgado was badly mattreated, and had it not been | An Article Requiring Counsel for the | It is not thought that any attempt will | | No citizen of the United States residing in | | for the prompt interference of General Weyler, as a result of the protest of Con- sul-General Williams, he would probably have been killed. As it was, bis head was cut by several sword blows, and he received a bullet in his thigb. In addition, some of the men employed on his estate were killed, and his property was ruined. His father, also an American citizen, and who as well has a claim against the Spanish Government, was on the estate at the time, and it was he who advised Consul-General Williams of his son’s peril. Dr. Delgado, the State Department offi- cials have been informed, left Cuba for the United States, and he is expected to ap- pear before Secretary Olney and person- ally acquaint that official with the out- rages committed upon him and his family. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Massey, who is look- ing out for the legal interests of Mr. Del- gado Sr., is also interested in the son’s case. She declares there is no doubt as to the citizenship of the Delgados, both hav- ing been naturalized in New York and having resided there. ety THE CONDEMNED FILBUSTERS. Were Unarmed When Captured and Of- fered No Resistance. MADRID, Sparv, May 9.—A cablegram from Havana says that the filibusters cap- tured on the Competitor have been sen- tenced to death. They are: Alfredo La- borde of New Orleans, Owen Milton of | Kansas William Kinle, an Englishman, and Elias Bedia and Isador de la Maza, Cubans. The trial began at the Havana Arsenal yesterday morning. The accused pleaded not guiliy, and witnesses admitted that when the men were captured they were not armed, and offered no resistance. The prosecuting officer demanded their con- viction and condemnation to death, and United States Consul-General Williams made a written protest against the trial. Laborde speaks fair English, is a nat- uralized American citizen and acted for quite a time as Deputy Sheriff under Sner- iff Spencer of Tampa, Fla. He was in command of the expedition. The schooner Competitor was captured by the Spanish gunboat Messagera near Berracos, on the northern coast of the provinee Pinar del Rio, the latter part of April. e MILTON A CORRESPONDENT. The Kansas Lad Sentenced to Death Not a Filibuster. JACKSONVILLE, FraA., May 9.—1In ref- erence to Milton, the Kansas boy con- demned to death by the Spaniards, the following dispatch was sent to Secretary of State Olney to-da; JACKSONVILLE, FLA., May 9.—Hon. Richard Olney, Secretary of State, Washington: Milton, who was captured by the Spanish authorities on board the Comipetitor and condemned to death, left Key West as a newspaper corre- spondent. hoping to consummate plans for furnishing reliable news to the correspondents of the Florida Times-Union at Key West, who in turn were to transmit such reports by cable to the Southern Associated Press'and the United Press through the medium of tais-pa- per. He must have had with him at the time of | his capture credentials showing his connection with the Times-Union as its duly authorized representative. Such a letter was furnished him by me. Isend you this information to assist you in your efforts in behalf of young Milton. T. T. STOCKTON, General Manager Florida Times-Union. PROHIBITION ~ FACTIONS, There Will Be a Lively Time at the Convention at Pittsburg. Sentiment Appears to Favor Joshua Leveriny for the Presidential Nominaticn. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 9.—Interest in the National gathering of Prohibitionists in Pittsburg during the week of May 26 is becoming more marked as the time for the convention approaches. That there will be a lively time over the adoption of the platform is indicated by the almost even division of sentiment among the various State delegations elected, over the ‘‘broad” and “narrow gauge” issue. The Prohi- bitionists are divided into two factions, the one which favors free silver, protection and other disputed polictes, being distin- guished as *‘broad gauge.” The other faction, equally strong, favors a narrow-gauge platform, which compre- bends bat one thing—the indorsement of prohidition. While it is uncertain, owing to the size of the field of candidates for the Presidential nomination, who will be successful, sentiment appears to be grad- ually veering toward Josbua Levering of Baltimore, a_narrow-gauge man and one of the prominent prohibition leaders of the country. R N DON M. DICKINSON'S REPLY. Explains That Office-Holders Did Not Control the Convention. DETROIT, Mics., May 9.—Hon. Don M. Dickinson to-day gave out for publication a reply to the charges made in the United States Senate Thursday by Senator Vest in regard to the control of the Michigan State Democratic convention by office- holders. Mr. Dickinson says that Senator Vest is in error in all of his state- ments about the Michigan convention, as are the other Southern Senators who have been making threats of Senatorial investigation of the campaign culminating in that convention. He as- serts that neither Chairman Stevenson nor anybody else issued any circular to office- holders in connection with that conven- tion. Office-holders favorable to the adminis- tration were outnumbered in both county and State conventions by office-holders with free silver proclivities. Mr. Dickin- son declared that the Chicago convention will not favor the policy of free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. < AR OL “SILK STOCKING"” REPUBLICANS. They Will Carry the Fight Against Fil- ley to the Convention. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 9.—As a protest against an arbitrary action of the Re- vublican Central Committee at the city convention two weeks ago, at which the Kerens-Frank-Walbridge faction was ig- nored in the choice of delegates, a mass- meeting of *silk stocking’” Republicans was beld at the courthouse at 1o’clock this afternoon. It was the intention of the promoters to elect delegates to the State Convention at ‘St. Joseph next Mon- day who would repudiate the dictation of State Chairman Filley and contest the seuts of the recently elected delegates. When the mass-meeting had assembled, it was found that the TFilleyites had packed the meeting. There was a great deal of disorder, but ex-Congressman Frank finally read a list of eighteen dele- gates as named by the anti-Filleyites and made a motion that they be declared the ‘‘regular’’ delegates to the State Conven- tion. The motion was declared carried amid ahowl of protests. Collector Zeigen- heim (Filleyite) then came to the front with a speech, and the mob, in response to his appeal, ratified the action of the city convention two weeks ago. The con- test will be carried out on the floor of the State convention. 2GRl Silver Leads in Iowa. OTTUMWA, Towa, May 9.—Returns to Secretary Waish of the Democratic State Central Committee to-day are to the effect that thirteen out of fourteen county con- ventions instructed delegates for Boies and free silver. At present a total of tifty-three counties give silver 389 and souna money 105 delegates. The same counties last year gave silver 2483 and gold 315} votes. et ast HUNDREDS MADE HOMELESS. A Fire, Supposed to Have Been Started by Strikers, Sweeps the Vil- lage of Lanse. MARQUETTE, Mrcn., May 9.—The vil- lage of Lanse, on Keweenaw Bay, seventy miles west of Marquette, narrowly escaped destruction by flre, which started this afternoon in the mill of the Lanse Lumber Company. Yor several daysthe millhands have been on strike, and it is believed some hot-headed strikers applied the torch to the mill. The mill was destroyed and the high winds carried the flames into the business center, where they were con- fined by hard work to six buildings. The loss will approximate $600,000. The fire destroyed the lumber docks and three million feet of lumber belonging to the Lanse Sawmill Company. The ore docks were also burned Many residences were also burned. So far as is known no lives have been lost, but more than 250 persons are homeless. e FOUR LIVES WERE LOST. Men Perished During the Burning of Milling Property. ASHLAND, Wis.,, May 9.—Half a mil- lion dollars’. worth of milling promperty | and lumber went up in smoke here to-day, and four lives were lost. The Shores Lum- ber Company’s mill, the largest on Che- quamegon Bay, is in ruins, and several thousand feet of its lumber dock, which contained about 19,000 feet of lumber, is burned to the water’s edge. The fire started on W. R. Durfee’s lumber docks. It was not a very extensive loss of prop- erty, but it is reported at least four lives were lost in heroic efforts to beat back the flames. At 11:30, when the flames burst from the lumber-piles into the sawmill, it cut off retreat for several men who were at the outer edge of the mili, fighting back the flames. All the men succeeded in reaching the tramways except one, Jbhn Nolander, who was enveloped in a sheet of flame, then, jumping from a spile into the bay, was seen to drown by thousands of people who lined the shore. Three other men, whose names ars un- known, also lost their lives. Three bodies have been recovered. . I Loss Siwty Thowsand. CINCINNATI, Onro, May 9.—The five- story brick building on Evaus street, near Eighth, occupied by the United States Bung Manufacturing Company, was gut- ted by fire this morning, Loss $60,000, ptnh{ly insured. JOLLY KING COLE RULES SAN JOSE, Maskers Capture the City of Flowers and Fair Maidens. A PAGEANT OF FREAKS. Eccentric Subjects March to the Fanfare of Horns and Cowbells. ALL MINGLE IN A DANCE. 0ld Sol Brightens the Eastern Skies Before the Revelry Is Brought to a Close. SAN JOSE, Cir, May 9.—Old King Cole, the jolly old soul, came into posses- sion to-night with a steam-beet smile and stage strut, and much royal purple, and fiddles three, and''a dragon, and a long and wonderful retinue, and a clatter and crash of the populace, accomplished by means of many bells, not one of which jangled in tune, and tin+horns and a thou- sand strange devices for splitting into jagged fragments all the atmosphere of San Jose. Truly Old King Cole made a wild night of it, and if there be one of his sabjects to-morrow who may not boast of a remarkable headache it will be because he has overdone the thing and is dead. Queen Lillian gave over peacefully, for her mission wassimply merry-making and a display of the beauty of her realm. At the approach of riot she fled. All day the minions of the King gath- ered and increased in the streets, hidden behind masks and cloaks, and when the sun went down and before the lights were lit they came in crowds out of every shadow in the street. BSan Jose has not seen the like before. The city is crowdea to-night beyond any previous experience, and it was only with the greatest diffi- culty that people made progress through the streets in the early part of the even- ing, while swaiting the coming of the merry monarch and his army. The riot- ous and noisy subjects held possession of the middle of the road supposed to be re- served for him. With his approach they fell back and with their frightiul crash of horns and bells made way for him. The King was late. He gave his people | notice that he would come among them at | T1n the evening, but it is understood that | he stopped outside the gates to.take an- other bumper with a few friends and for- got his date. At any rate, it was running on past 9 o’clock when his Majesty swag- gered into First street. Throughout the whole day there had been plotting and counter plotting in and out of the royal family. There was even a scheme to kidnap his Majesty and hide him away from his people in the midst of his brief reign. But the King heard of it and the plotters were placated with posi- tions in the cabinet. The tardiness of the King made his people very nervous, in view of the rumors that everybody had heard, and they blew their horns and jangled their cow bells more discoraantly as the time passed. 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