The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1896. —_—mm . AN EXCHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE Efforts of Great Britain and the United States To- ward Arbitration. FOR A GENERAL TREATY. Thirteen Communications Made Public by the State De- partment. OLKEY AND SALISBURY’S IDEAS. Various Methods Proposed for a Set- tlement of the Venezuelan and Other Disputes. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.—The efforts of the United States and Great Britain to agree upon a general arbitra- tion treaty for the setitlement of all con- | troversies through the establishment of a permanent tribunal, as well as the diplo- matic negotiations toward solving the Venezuelan problem, are set forth in thir- | teen communications made public by the | State Department to-night. While they constitute the first authori- tative disclosures upon these great ques- tions since President Cleveland’s famous Cnristmastide message to Congress, it will be found that previous reports of the United Press of the negotiations between | the two governments have accurately out- } lined the course of events. Little substantial progress toward a gen- eral arbitration treaty is disclosed by the £100,000, and in respect of all controver- sies not in this treaty specially deseribed. Provided, however, that either Congress or Parliament may withdraw the same from the operation of this treaty, or if Congress or Parliament be not in session, any mat- ters in dispute shall not be submitted to arbitration until these bodies have had op- portunity to take action thereon. In the ease of controversies the award shall be final if concurred in by all the arbitrators, 1f assented to by a majority only the award shall be final uniess one of the parties within three months of its promulgation shall protest in writing to | the other that the award is erroneous in | respect ot issue of fact or of law. In every such case the award shall be reviewed by a court composed of three Supreme Judges of Great Britain and the United States, who shall agree upon three learndd and impartial jurists to be added to said court in case they shall be equally divided upon the award to be made. The award of the court so constituted, whether rendered unanimously or by a majority vote shall be final. These amendments, Secretary Olna'y argues, make all disputes prima facie arbitrable and places where it belongs on Congress and Parliament the rest and power to decide whether they are arbitra- ble or demand assertion by force of arms. By the scheme as amended the contro- versy is finally ended whereas under the original proposition there would be an award only in the rare cases in whlch_ the six appellate arbitrators favored it, either as unanimously or by a majority of five to one, Mr. Olney thinks such arrange- ments would be dangerous. In all cases in which the arbitrators were equally divided or stood four to two, public feeling in each country would be aroused by the protracted proceedings and the chances of a peaceful outcome would be rather preju- diced than promoted. Itisalso pointed out that the United States having no European alliances has more to fear than Great Britain from the bias of foreign judges. Secretary Olney finally contends that to insist upbon an arbitration scheme so constructed that miscarriages of justice can never occur is to insist upon the unattainable, and is equivalent to a relinquishment altogether of the effort in behalf of a general system of international arbitration. An approx- imation to truth—results which, on the average and in the long run conform to documents. An outline in part of the posed procedure is laid down and tue | views of the two Governments are so ex- | plicitly stated that future discussion may | be confined towards narrowing the few | divergencies of method. The further fact is made apparent that the United States | has not relaxed its vigilance in demanding a just settlement of the Venezuelan boundary question, and has rejected the British proposals for arbitrating that dis- pute under terms involving the surrender of any part of Venezuela’s claims. The correspondence opens with a letter from Embassador Bayard to Lord Salis- bury, dated February 27 last, proposing | an entrance forthwith upon negotiations | concerning the Guiana boundary ques- tion at Washington between the British Embassador and the Secretary of State. Mr. Bayard added that Secretary Olney greatly aesired that there should be pro- | pounded a clear definition of the ‘“settle- wents” by individuals in the disputed ter- ritory, which 1t was undersiood Great Britain wished excluded from the pro- posed arbitration. Lord Salisbury in reply on March 3 said his Government readily concurred in the zgestion and sent instfuctions to Sir n Pauneefote, directing him to dis- cuss the question, and with the Venezue- lan representative or the United States, acting as the friend of Venezuela. He had asked the Secretary of State for the colo- nies for the precise meaning attached to the word “settlements.” Lord Salisbury’s instructions to S8ir Julian Pauncefote, dated March 5, form the third document, and are devoted to the system for general international arbitra- tious. negotiations of the establishment of which had been ruptured by Secretary Gresham’s death. Lord Salisbury submits a draft of a treaty for arLitration, which provides that her Britannic Majesty and the President of the United States shall each appoint two or more permanent judicial officers for the purpose of the treaty and on the appearance of any difference between the two powers which, in the judgment of either of them, cannot be settled by nego- tiation, each of them shall designate one of the said officers as arbitrator, and the two arbitrators shall hear and determine uny matter referred to them in accordance with this treaty. Be'ore entering on such arbitration the arbitrators shall select an umpire, by whom any question upon which they disagree, whether interlocutory or final, shall be de- cided. The decision of such an umpire upon any interlocutory question shall be binding upon the arbitrators. The deter- | mination by the arbitrators, or if they dis- agree, the decision of the umpire shall be the award upon the matters referred. All pecuniary claims amounting to more than £100,000 for damages or indemnity, all questions affecting diplomatfc or consvlar privileges, alleged right of fishery, access, navigation or commercial privilege, and all questions referred by special agreement between the two parties, shall be referred to arbitration anc the decision shall be final. In cases of questions of fact or of finter- national law involving territory or terri- torial rights, sovereignty or claims involv- ing more than £100,000, the decision of the board of arbitration shall be subject to re- view within three months by a court composed of three of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Great Britain and three of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and if this court shall de- termine by a majority of not less than five to one on-any issue the award shall be final, but in default of such determination 1t shall not be valid. If no protest is en- tered by either power against the award within the time limited it shall be final. Any difference in the judgment of either power affecting its honor or the integrity of izs territory skall not be referred to ar- bitration under the treaty, excent by spe- cial agreement, but any difference what- ever by agreement between the two powers may be referrea for decision by arbitra- tration with the stipulations that unless accepted by both powers the decision shall not be valid. In the iostructions 8ir Julian is told that all matters in dispute cannot .be re- ferred to arbitration upou issues involy- ing national honor or integrity, but within this wide range the United States desires to zo further than Great Britain. ) _Secretary Olney, 1n reply to April 11, de- clares that Lord Salisbury’s proposals are welcomed with the keenest appreciation of their value, and of the enlightened and progressive spirit which animates them. But by the direction of the President he Proposes as a substitute an amendmeat that arbitration shall also be obligatory in Tespect 1o all questions now pending or hereafter arising 1inyolving territorial rights, boundaries, sovereignty or jurisdic- right and justice, is all that the lot of humanity permits us to expect from any plan. In conclusion Secretary Olney says: “It only remains to observe that if theamend- ments should prove acceptable, no reason is perceived why the pending boundary dispute should not be brought within the treaty by express words of inclusion. " If, however, no treaty for general arbitration can be now expected, it cannot be im- proper to add that the Venezuelan bound- ary dispute seems to offer a good opportu- nity for one of those tentative experiments at arbitration which, as Lord Salisbury justly intimates, would be of decided ad- vantage as tending to indicate the lines upon which a scheme for general arbitra- tion can be judiciously drawn.” On May 8 Becretary Olney forwarded through Embassador Beyard a request from the Venezuelan Commission sitting in Washington for reference as to the claims set forth in the British biue book of English sovereignty over the coast be- tween Pomeroon and Point Barima, for which the commission said it had been unable to find any warrant, and on May 30 Sord Salisbury sent Mr. Bayard a mem- orandum on the subject, and took the opportunity to promise cordial assistance to the commission 1n its search for facts. Lord Salisbury, writing on May 18 to Sir Julian Pauucefote in rejoinder to Secre- tary Olney’'s counter-proposals, disclaims any intention to exclude the Venezuelan dispute, but holds that the system of arbi- He says he fears the first result of com- pulsory arbitration of territorial claims will be an enormous multiplication of their number, and he questions whether the beneiits of preventing war from such disputes may not be outweighed by a sys- tem generating a multiplicity of interna- tional litigation, blighting the prosperity of the border countries exposed to it, and leaving the inhabitants under the endur- ing threat either of a forcible change of al- legiance or of exile. Sir Julian Pauncefote on June 1 had a conference with Secretary Olney regard- ing the Venezuelan controversy, and ten days later sent the Secretary the instruc- tions from Lord Salisbury, upon which his visit had been based. In these, under date of May 22, the British Premier foresees the possibility of failure in the attempt to agree on the gen- eral arbitration system and proposed set- tlement of the Venezuelan dispute 1n which he declares from the first it has been objectionable to subject to the de- cision of an arbitrator, who in the last re- sort must of necessity be a foreigner, the rights of the British colonists who have settled in the country believing it to be British. A commission consisting of four members, two to be British subjects and two citizens of the United BStates, is pro- posed to report upon the facts which affect the rights of Spain and Holland at the date of Great Britain’s acquisition of British Guiana. Upon the report of such commission it is stipulated that Great Britain and Venezuela shall endeavor to agree ona boundary, but failing in this a tribunal was to be appointed, one British, one Venezuelan, and they to select a thira, who should fix the line of boundary. But with a proviso that it shouid not include as Venezuelan territory any territory which was occupied by Britisn colonists on or before January 1, 1887, or as territory of Great Britamn any occupied by the Venezuelans at the same time. Mr. Olney on July 12 writes that his Government was unable to treat this pro- posal as well adapted to bring the dispute to a speedy conclusion or as ziving due recognition to the just rights of the par- ties concerned, 4nd declares that iu the opinion of the United States Lord Salis- bury’s proposals can be made to meet the requirements and justice of the case only if ameuded along the following lines: The commission upon facts should be con- stituted by adding one or more members, that it must reach a result and cannot become abortive and possibly mischievous. That com- mission should have power to report upon all the facts necessary to the decision of thé boundary controversy, including the facts pertaining to the occupation of the disputed territory by British subjects. The proviso by which the boundary line as drawn by the arbitration tribunal of three is not to include territory bona fide occupied by British subjects or Venezuelan citizens on the 1st of January, 1887, should be stricken out altogether, or there might be substituted for ‘it the following: ‘“Provided, however, that in fixing such line if territory of one party be found in the occupation of the subjects or citizens of the other party, such weight and effect begiven to such octupation as reason, justice, the rules of international law and the equities of the particular case may appear to require.” On the same day—June 12—Becretary tim}. Or a pecuniary claim or group of claims aggregating a sum larger than Olney acknowledged the copy of Lord Salisbury’s dispatch of May 18, and prom- ised speedy consideration, but declared | | tration ought to be applicable to all civil- | | ized countries. that in the meantime he desired to again call attention to the fact that so far as the Venezuelan dispute was concerned ‘the position of the United States had been plainly defined, not only by the executive, but by the unanimous concurring action of both branches of Congress, and that a genuine arbitration finally disposing of the controversy would be cordially wel- comed. The correspondence ends with a letter June 22 from Secretary Olney to Sir Julian Pauncefote in' which he replied to Lord Salisbury’s of May 18. He finds that Lord Balisbury’s dispatch discards all general phraseology, and makes a clear distinction between non-arbitrable or territorial con- troversies and all others, The advantages of this sharp division line, he thinks, are very great, and the fact that it has been drawn shows that the progress of the discussion is eliminating all but the vita! points of difference. Secretary Olney then proceeds to show that if Lord Salisbury’s plan of reckoning an award could be permitted there would be no real arbitration at all. He insists that the acceptance should be in advance. The American plan is to reserve the right not to go into an arbitration if the territorial claim in dispute involves Na- tional honor and integrity. ' The British proposals also reserve this right. The vital difference, he says, is that under the British vlan “the parties enter into an arpitration and determine afterward, when they know tue result, whether they will be bound or not. Under the pro- posals of the United States the parties enter into en arbitration, having de- termined beforehand that they will be bound. The latter is a genuine arbi- tration; the former is a more imitation which may have its uses, but like ai! other imitations cannot compare in value with the real article.” The document then goes into a techni- cal legal discussion of international law as applicable to territory and closes with the following keen point: “By the original proposalsof Lord Salisbury con- tained in the dispatch of March 5 lasta protested award 13 to be void unless sus- tained by the appellate tribunal of six judges by a vote of five to one. “He bhas since suggested that suchpro - tested award may be aliowed to stand unless a tribunal of five Supreme Court Judges of the protesting country shall set it aside for some error of fact or some error in law. Without committing my- self on the point, it occurs to me as worthy of consideration whether the original pro- posals might not be so varied that the protested award should stand unless set aside by the appellate tribunal by the specified majority. Such a change would go far in the direction of removing that want of finality to the proceedings which, as has been urged in previous dispatches, is the great objection to the original pro- posals.” ’ Up to this date the Secretary has re- ceived no reply to the foregoing com- munication. LONDOK, Exe., July 17.—In the House of Lords to-day Lord Salisbury laid upon the table of that body the papers relating to the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela. Lord Salisbury stated that concurrently with the nego- tiations which were in progress. with the United States in regard to the dispute be- tween Great Britain and Venezuela, ne- gotiations were also going on between the British and American Governments con- templating the establishment of a scheme for general arbitration of questions which might arise between the two nations, This, however, he said, was a matter which required great care and circumspection. gaord alisbury said negotiations be- tween the United States and Great Britain | were still incomplete, but are advancing amicably. In the first and the smaller question with Venezuela, upon which negotiations had been carried with the United States rather than Venezuela, no conciusion had as yet been arrived at. The Government had never thought | that the question of the ownership of set- | tled territory ought to be arbitrated. In the question of unsettled country the | Government had always been ready to arbitrate, but 1t was necessary to distin- | guish between the two. 1t was impossible to proceed any faster than they had done, because they had not yet obotained tne full facts necessary to the adjustment of the case. SANTA CLARA EXPERIMENT, | Stosking the Woods With Game Birds and Nireams With Trout, SAN JOSE, Cav.,, July 17.—Santa Clara County is being well stocked with song and game birds by the Central California Acclimation Society. This society was organized in this city last December and is composed of San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. F. E. Spencer is president and J. D. Mackenzie secretary. It has a large membership. Over 100 pairs of New Zealand meadow larks have Leen imported and distributed throughout the distriet. The Zebia dove and the Plume dove of New Zealand have also been introduced. About sixty pairs of Japanese and Mon- golian phessants have been distributed among the society members. Other birds have been brought here, and the society is now endeavoring to acclimatize the night- incale of New Zealand. Last season over 100,000 trout was distributed among the streams of the county, ana the society hopes to secure about the same number for distribution this year. 3 Doves are rather plentiful this year, and bunting parties in the vicinity of Ever- green and the foothills have returned with large numbers. Al s FIGHT WITH A BEAR. Washington Farmer Terribly Lacerated, but Wins the Battle. TACOMA, Wash., July 17.—The fiercest bear-fight ever known in this section took place yesterday at Long Branch between Fedder Henrickseq, a farmer 60 years old, and a large black bear. It seems almost marvelous that Henricksen is now alive, as the furious beast cut him terribly with his paws and chewed his right arm in a frightful manner. Heunricksen met bruin in the woods half a mile from his home while hunting for some lost calves. Luckil, h; hb.d hu'gtgn gm{ d:g wm‘ninlm. He hit the bear at the first fire and the dog at- en the bear sprang at him the d rap toward his mlplur, the bear Iollo:“- ing. After putting two more shots into him Henricksen went at the beast with the stock of his gun. Then occurred a rough-and-tumble fight, in wnich Henrick- sen was all but killed. He finally fell over exhausted and bleeding, but not until bruin had laid down to 5ie. blood stream- ing from a dozen wouads. Three hours after the battle Henricksen’s son became apprehensive and instituted a search. He found his fatter lying unconscious a few rods from the dead bear. To-day he is about, but his arm may have to be amputated. Bruin has been skinned. —_——— VALLEY ROAD PROGRESNS. Will Be Completed to Fresno by the Mid- ale of August. STOCKTON, CAr, July 17.—The Valley Railroad will be completed to the city limits of Fresno by August 15. To-day the end of the track is only twenty-three miles from Fresno, for it has been cut down atthe rate of a mile and a half a day since the Chowchilla was passed. The gndinfls finished to the San Joaquin River, and between the river and Fresuo a large force of men is at work. The line is now 100 miies long, Two new engines arrived yesterday apd five more are on their way from the East. ————— IMPORTANT admissions. Sece Barry’s Star 3 . DISMANTLING THE COLOMBIA, All Hopev of Saving the Steamer Has Been Abandoned. STRIPPING THE WRECK. Everything Moveable Is Being Transferred to the Schooner Jewel CAPERS OF FIREMAN COLLINS. Vexing Tribulations of the Ship's Baker, Whose Bird School Was Broken Up. ON BOARD P. M. B. 8. COLOMBIA, wrecked off Pigeon Point (via Pescadero, Cal.), July 17.—To-night the ocean is calm, with a light wind coming in from the thin fogbank to the west. There 1s along, gracetul swell sweeping over the surface of the waters of the little cove, slightly rocking the stranded steamerand passing on to break and die away on tne beach. High over the waves that are peaceful now and over the land, redolent with the hay and over the wounded thing pros- trate on her bed of reef, the solemn white tower stands and sends its flame afar, afar to the ships at sea. The stranded vessel has settied down on the rocks and is await- ing the end, the furious incoming of the billows t hat will heave themselves against her strong frame and crush it with their irresistable power. Through the rents in her bottom the tides ebb ana flow, and the water stains on the bulkheads mark their rise and fall. A glass gauge in the fireroom that once told the level of the water within the boiler now tells its height without. The flood is washing through the coal-bunkers, and the hulk seems filled with ink. It tlows outside, and the vessel wallows in waves of Stygian blackness. There is about twenty-five feet of water in the for- ward compartments and somewhat less aft when the tide is high. But there will be no more so long as the rocks are beneatn her; they have done their worst and are hoiding her for the storm swell. It is a cruel, a fatal, but a secure resting- place the Colombia found in the fog that bewildered and misled her helmsman. While the sea is sull and the wind asleep they are stripping the steamer, and two schooners moored alongside are receiving the plunder. The cabin and stateroom furnishings went loug ago and now the heavy articles are being removed. Wenches, anchors, chains and all the machinery above the water are hoisted out aud sent away. The splenaid engines, which ran like a lady’s watch, cannot be moved now and must probably share in tbe general destruction that will overtake the hull. At present they lie in twenty feet of black, oily water, The donkey engine is alive and is being used to strip the hulk. However, its time of labor 1s limited to low water, as the rising tide floods its furnaces and the fires quenched. The genius of this forlorn hope is Fire- man Collins, and he is a hero. The iron floor of the apartment being submerged, he built a rude staging with a few planks. These are slung so that he can walk on them from the coal-bunkers to'the fur- nace. , There Coliins stands and fights for nis fire. He occasionally stumbles on his insecure perci and drops a shovel of coal into the water and sometimes he drops himself in, but Collins never minds a lit- tle thing like that. He watches flood marks on the bulkhead, and by this tide- guage, when it gets so high, knows when his staging will be covered and the waves will lap over the grate-bars. Then he re- treats to the deck above and waits for low water. The under part of the boiler is al- ways submerged, but he keeps steam on with the upper part of the water in the boiler and with Lis fire roaring to over- come the cold of the fluid that washes around him. This is the way Collins explains it, and he insists that he knows all about donkey engines. The check valves and other parts of the machinery are out of sight, but this invincible fireman rolls up his sleeves and hunts around in the water un- til he finds them and all is well. Collins? Collins is worth a column, but be has other troubles and does not hesi- tate to tell them. He has only one pair of shoes, Firemen in the Pacitic Mail are not gifted with many or expensive belong- ings and he wants to keep those shoes out of the sea water, so he pulls them off and goes barefoot when his tide eauge on the bulkhead marks the msing. Then, so he says on his honor, the crabs clinging to the staging nibble at his toes and bother him in his work. Often he grows d rate and drops hot clinkers on the mis- chievous crustacians. Yesterday Collins thought he saw a seal swimming around in the compartment. Visions of a new $750 jacket for Mrs. Col- lins floated through his mind and he pre- pared to secure the visitor. He called Chief Steward Rodell and wanted to know what kind of pait he could land the crea- ture with. That person informed him that there was a revenue officer on the deck above, and an arrest for pelagic seal- ing might follow any attewapt to capture one of the furry wards of the Treasury Department, Collins insisted that the seal was pow & partof the ireight of the Colombia, and that as it was of domestic manufacture it was not subject to duty and was out of the reach of the customs officers. b . Then he procured a boat hook snd went sealing in -his aquarium. He crawled carefully over the great engine’s cylinder, and after splashing around for some time captured the prize. It was a pair of his own .brown overalls, which he had lost from his locker when the ship went on the rock. Yesterday morning Collins thought he saw a big codfisk moving around a sub- merged brass steam gauge, as though it was examining the shining thing, with a view of having one made like it. That fish, Collins thought, would ba a tooth- some addition to the rather slender fare of the fireman's table, where leathery salt beef is the piece de resistance. Collins doesn’t think in such elegunt language, but that is about the idea running through his ingenious and lively brain. He procured several I'nes and hooksand with bait calculated to lure things finny from the vasty deep industriously fished all day. He could not attend to his tackle and keep his almost flooded furnace hot, so he made fast the lines to an electric- light wire and let them swing. No fish came to Collins’ hooks that day and the lines bung limp and idle while the fire- men’s mess discussed the strong old sait- horse. The indomitable Collins says that when the vessel hit the reef he was ina port bunker with a lantern alter coal and one of the sharp rocks pierced through close to him. He examined the projection and found it covered with shellfish, which he immediately began to nick off with his shovel. Collins is an easy narrator. Ship’s Baker George Borowsky says the crew of the schooner Jewel are pirates. On the might the men abandoaed the steamer he carefully carried his five par- rots away with him, and in the morning three of them had flown, He is sure the sailors on the Jewel had much to do with their flying. They were the most intelli- gent birds ever hatched in a Central Amer- ican tree, he says, and under his instruc- tion were learning to express themselves quite fluently. One of the lost pollies, the first and brightest pupil of nis bird sckool, would recite a whole chapter of Chammie F¥adden without a lapsus lingue. ‘So the indignant baker brought his otbher feath- ered phonographs back to the stéamer, and if they catch the language he uses re- garding the Jewel pirates, they will not be fit associates for nice birds or nice people. Borowsky was the baker of the Colima and missed sailing in her on her fatal trip. He went up the dock on an errand, and the steamer pulled out before his return. He doesn’t regret losing that job, as the man who took his place is somewhere un- der the Mexican seas. He says he lost the Colima by being stopped on the street by areporter who wanted to interview him, consequently he looks upon a newspaper man as his mascot. On the subject of mascots, Chief Steward Rodell of the Co- lumbia intimates that he is one, or was up tolast Tuesday. He has been at sea for almost forty years and was never before shipwrecked. His last vessel was an Atlantic steamer that for nine years had been in all kinds of trouble. If a storm came in her locality she caught it, and if there were no gales around her she hunted for one. He went aboard of her with his grip and mess books, and straightaway there wasacalm for that boat evermore. He admits, how- ever, that the Colombia’s disaster crosses just a corner of his mascot theory. ’ Captain Clark is beloved by his officers, and one and all express sincere sorrow for his misfortune. Nota man of the latter in the many interviews has uttered a word against the master of the lost steamer. Yesterday Vice-President Schwerin visited the lighthouse and carefully noted the bearings of Ano Nuevo Land from Pigeon Point, and also the deep indenture of the cove in which the Colombia lies. Two steamers were passing several miles west of the island and point and their dis- tance from the land was also carefully noted by the observer. Several persuns here well acquainted with the locality state that a strong current sets toward the land just south of Pigeon Point, and there is a possibility that the luckless Colombia was caught and driven toward the reef and with th- dense fog hiding all his land bearings Captain Clark lost all reckoning of Lis actual position. “Late this evening at high tide the steamer sits low with the water in her hull far above the between decks. She is almost on even keel and bhardly maves in her bed. The sea continues smooth and only a light wind is blowing. The large number of visitors to the scens of the wreck has not diminished, many coming from a long distance. They bring their lunch and make a beach picnic of their sightseeing. Tox GREGORY. LS RETURN OF THE CEEW. Chief Engineer Hurlie Thinks the Ma- chinery May Be Saved. The Spreckels tug Reliance returnea from the wreck of the Colombia yesterday with Chief Engineer Hurlie, the second and third mates, boatswain, quartermas- ters, some of the deckhands and some of the coal-passers of the doomed vessel. Only a baker’s dozen of the crew re- mained by the ship. The others simply put on whatever clothes they had and quit. ‘When they landed at Howard No. 3, they scattered in all directions.: The only complaint they had to make was. that there was nothing to eat but hardtack. ‘When the vessel went ashore and every- thing movable was being transferred to the steam schooners, they say that the chief steward cleaned out the pantry and storeroom and almost everything eatable was sent to San Francisco. Early yesterday morning the Reliance arrived with a store of provisions, but the men were all prepared to leave and they did so. Chief Engineer Hurlie came up on busi- ness. He is of the opinion that the machinery and boilers can be saved, and isup here to secure the necessary appli- ances. He says the vessel was resting easily when he left, ana tnat the chances are the Colomoia will remain in her present position for weeks. From present indications excursionists will havea splen- did opportunity of viewing the wreck either to-day or to-morrow. . When the Reliance leit the scene of the disaster all the silyerware, glassware, crockery, carpets, furniture and fixtures had been removed to the steam schooner Jewell. In future the men will live on her and no one will remain overnight on the wreck. Much may yet be saved from the Colombia, but sue will never leave the rocks except by piecemeal. ON EASTERN DIAMONDS. Standing of the Clubs and Scores of the Games in the National League Yesterday. Cruss. Won. [Lost.| Ber CincinnatL...... 83 | 24 | .68 Cleveland...". .. 47 | 24 | 668 Ba'timore. 47 24 | .662 Boston a1 | 32 | 561 Chicago. 43 36 | .b44 Pitaburg. 39 | 34 | 1534 Brooklyn. 39 | 39 | 1500 New Y 86 | 37 | 498 Philadelphia. 35 40 | .466 ‘ashi) 31 37 | .455 St. Loul 20 55 | 266 Louisvill 17 | 52 | 46 PITTSBURG, Pa., July 17.—Pittsburg won from Philadelphia to-day, but the game wound up in a disgreceful snarl. It was a close game, and the home teum was one run 1n the lead when Philadeiphia went to the bat in the last inning. They batted Hastings for three runs and took the lead with two to spare. In Pittsburg’s haif the Meal men filled the baseson & close decision, with only one out. Philadelphis kicked hard on the decision, ana while the.players were having it out at the homeplate with the umpire Ely scored from third. This further enraged the visitors, and they called Umpire Betts all the names in the category of toughs. Taylor struck the umpire and Clements was only prevented from doing 50 by Nash, who ran out on the field from the bench. Taylor and Clements were both fined and removed from the game. c-ru.{ then made a balk, allowing another run and tieing thileon. 3 the visitors all gathered about the um- pire ‘sgain and the pou"oe had to be called. When quiet had been restored Beckley singled and the winning run was scored. The Phila- delphia management and players swear to- might that they were robbed and that Betts will be removed. Score: Pittsburgs—S8, 12, 0; Philadelphias—7. 12, 2. Batteries—Hastings ;:d Merritt; Taylor and Gumbert. Umpire— tts. CLEVELAND, Omio, July 17.—Both pitchers were hit hard to-aay, but Young was the steadier of the two and was given better sup- port. In practice before the game Bob Lowe of the Bostons slipped and fell, dislocating his shoulder. Score: Clevelands—12, 16, 4; Bos- tons—7, 16, 6. Batteries—Young and O'Meara; Sullivan and Tenney. Umpire—Hurst. LOUISVILLE, KY., July 17-—The fielding of both teams t0-day Wwas very ragged. “Dad’ Clarke was put out of the game in the first inning and fined $10 for refusing to go o the bench when ordered to leave the coaching lines. Score—New Yorks, 16, 16, 3; Louis: villes, 7,11, 6. Batteries—Meakin and Zear- foss; Herman, Hill, Kostel and Warner. Um- pire—McFarland. CHICAGO, IiL., July 17.—Chicago-Washing- ton, no game., ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 17.—St. Louis-Brooklyn, 0 gAme. CINCINNATI, Omto, July 17.—Cincinnati- Baltimore, no game. BT EP LT L T RACING IN THE EAST, Fine Sport Marks the Close of the Cirouit Meet at Saginaw, Mich. SAGINAW, MicH., July 17.— Perfect weather and good fields furnished ex- cellent sport for the closing day of the grand circuit meet. The Manufacturers’ stake for the 2:24 pacing class was an in- teresting event, both Sherman Clay and Heirdat-Law being heavily backed. Clay won the first two heats, but was driven out by Geers’ horse, who won in a jog. Big Timber, the giant Missouri colt, won the 2:24 trot in his own time. He is 4 years old, 16.3 hands high, weighs 1200 pounds and has never been beaten. Summaries: 2:24 trot, purse §600, Big Timber won, Ker- econd, Lynn Bourbon third. Best time, pace, manufacturers’ stake, $1000, Heir- atLaw won, Sherman Clay second, Bessie Leach third.” Best time, 2:15. 2:12 trot, purse $600, Bravado won, New- castle second, Rifle third. Best time, 2:11}4. AQUEDUCT, N. Y., July 17. Five furlongs, Margaret Roth won, Con- tractor second, Braw Led third. 'Time, 2024, Mile and a sixteenth, Mirage won, Captain T second, Eclipse third. Time, 1:501% Six _furlongs, Premier won, Emotional sec- ond, Kennebunk third. Time, 1:16. One mile, Pearl Song woan, Buckeye second, Kalirhoe third. Time, 1:45. One mile, Volley won, King T second, Bal- maghie third. Time, 1:44. Five furlongs, Successful won, Slow Poke second, Florian third. Time, 1:02%4. CINCINNATI, Omuro, July 17.—Results at Latonia: Six furlongs, Mattie, Lee won. Miss Emma second, Fretful third. i Five furlongs, Ethel Lee me, 1:17%. won, True Light sec- ond, Alten third. Time, 1:081. Mile and a sixieenth, Judith won, Joe Clark second, Black Silk third. Time, 1:503;. Six furlongs, Dorothy won, Motil{a second, Cecil third. Time, 1:16%4. Five furlongs, Argosy won, Dominica second, San Juan third. Time, 1:113. Sl 2 4F PORTLAND SPUKTING NOTES. The Sharkey-Needham Pugilistic Exhi- bition Was a Frost. PORTLAND, O=r., July 17.—The local cricketers expect to visit Vancouver, B. C., during the carnival of sports there in Sep- tember. The pugilistic® exhibition of Sharkey, Needham and the local lights was a frost. It is thought the cause was a contem- plated raid by a Sheriff's posse} and the knowing ones, not caring to be hauled up in the criminal court, stayed awuy. The Portland Sailing Association and the Willamette Rowing Club are contem- plating the adyvisability of forming a sail- ing annex to the rowing club. The Orion Athletic Club has accepted a challenge from the Fert Walla Walla athletes for an athletic contest in the lat- bwr part of August or the first of Septem- er. The O. R. C. Cyclers made a run to St. Helens on the Columbia and returned in Captain Inman’s launch Hoo Hoo. he Portland Athletic Club gave an athletic exhibition Monday evening. Lee and Woiff rode an exhibition miie; Fla- herty and Kennard gave a three-round boxing exhibition, and Miller and Buck- man wrestled, Buckman winninz. The other events were: Piymale and Daly, boxing; Rosenthal and Stearns, boxing; Eiy and Evans, boxing. 'be wonderful ball game between the Fats and the Leaas of the railway men of this city will be played Saturday for the })en;fic of the battle-ship silver service und. b CIRCUIT BICYCLE RACES, Advertised Stars Fail to Put in an Ap- pearance at Detroit. DETROIT, MicH., July 17.—The Na- tional circuit bicycle races, under the au- spices of the Detroit Wheelmen, opened to-day on the Windsor Driving Club race- track, across the river. The professional events were rather tame, as neither Cooper nor Sanger were entered, although advertised to appear. In the mile professional Bald only had his front wheel ahead of Loughead at the tape. Summaries: One-mile open, E. C. Ball won; F.J. Loug- head, Sarnia, second; L. E. Johnson, Cleve- land, third. Time, 2:16 1-5. One-mile handicap, J. Blouin, Detroit (110 yards), won: Fred ks, Bay City (120 yards), second; Owen S. Kimble, Tndia apolis {50 yards), third. Time, 2:05 1-5. Tandem, one-mile, L. C. Johnson and Ran- dall wou, O. P. Berhand and F. C. Scherin sec- ond, Con Baker and Eaten thira. Time, 2:09 1-5. —— BALD BE+T CGOUPER, Broke the World’s Kecord for a Compe- tition Mile, Single Paced. KALAMAZOO, Micx., July 17.—The closing day of the State meet was marked by another defeat of Tom Cooper by Eddie Bald in the mile open. Cooper finished a quarter of a length behind Bald, with Sanger’srim at Cooper’s forks. The final was paced by a singte and was run in 2:07, which beats the world’s record for a com- petition mile, single paced. Summaries: One mile, Michigan chlmp(nn!hig. Ralph Samberg of Port Huron won, Glenn P. Thayer of. Grand Rapids second, W. B, Burhans of Ionia third. Tiwme, 2:45. ‘One mile, open, professional, E. C. Bald of Buffalo won, Tom Cooper of Detroit second, Walter Sanger of Milwaukee third. Time, 2:07. Half mile, open, best two in three, Ralph Samberg of Port Huron won, H. D. Eddie of Kalamazoo second, Jay Tinkham third. Best time, 1:01 1-5. Two-mile handicap, amateurs, L. C. Howard of Grand Rapids won. Time, 4:09." e GARDEN CITY CXCLERS. Elect @ New Captain and Are Preparing Novel Entertainments. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 17.—The board of directors of the Garden City Cyclers have elected Joseph A. Desimore captain in place of G. W. Poliard, resigned. The Garden City Cyclers will give a series of novel entertainments in the near fu- ture. The first of these will be a garden arty, which will be held Friday evening, suly 24. A fine musical and literary pro- gramme will be presented and refresh- ments served. On July 26 the club will hold a ioint. run with the Reliance Wheel- men of Oakland to Lake Chabot. The club is also considering the proposition of holding a twenty-five-mile relay bet ween three teams composed of its own members, (T RE ST e England’s Amateur Sculling Champion, LONDON, Exc., July 17.—The rowing race for the Wingfield sculls, which gives to the winner the amateur sculling championship of England, took place to- day on the regular Thames championship course from Putney to Mortlake. The Hon. Rupert "Guinness of the Leander Boat Club, winner of the diamond_sculls at the recent Henley regatta, beat Vivian Nickalls, the holder of the Wingtfield sculls, by two lengths. Under the rules govern- ing the contest he will hold the sculis for a year. HOWARD HANGED AT FOLSOM PRISON Met His Death Without an Evidence of Any Fear. DEFIANT TO THE LAST. Hoped That He Would Be Par-. doned by the Governor of the State. INDIFFERENT TO RELIGION. History of the Crime for Which the Tulare County Murderer Was Executed. SACRAMENTO, CiL., July 17.—With- out one sign of contrition, without one perceptible tremor of the nerves, John E. Howard, the brutal and cowardly slayer of Martin de Lavina, who met his death by a shot in the head as he turned away after an apparently friendly interview with his murderer, walked from his cell in the Fol- som prison corridor to the gallows in that institution this morning and fulfilled the Biblical law that declares that he who sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed.” While Howard was standing on the trap he cast his eyes over the assem- blage present and said: “Well, boys, the hide goes with the tal low.” Life was extinct in exactly thirteen min- utes after the drop fell. To the last How- ard protested that the killing was in self- defense, in the face ot the fact that the murdered man was shot from the rear. Shortly after his arrival at the p n Howard expressed sorrow for the killing and showed a desire for religious consola- tion, but after the Governor declined to interfere in his fayor he became defiant. Last night and this morning he manifested ndifference to the presence of the prison chaplain and dropped all pretense of re- ligious conviction. 2 W. H. Pierce, a cousin, was the only relative of Howard whe witnessed the execution. He took the body to Pleasant Grove, Sutter Coanty, for interment. John E. Howard, who was hanged to- day, killed an inoffensive Italian named Martin de Larina in Tulare in June, 1894. Howard at the time was Deputy Town Marshal. He asserted that he killed the Italian in self-defense. Since he had been in Folsom and since the murder, and because of his numerous threats to escape, the Tulare County officials placed an Orezon boot on him, which he wore for nine months. The close confinement and the weight of the boot made a physical wreck of him. He was reduced in weight from 150 pounds to barely 110 pounds. Since he has been in Folsom he had regained his health and been rather & cheerful prisoner. Last night he turred to one of the death watch and asked him if he wasa good hand in putting up a job. “Yes,” said the man. “Then,” saia Howard, “I want you to aid me in substituting a man for me to- morrow, and so fool Warden Aull I think that would be a splendid joke on him.” Yesterday Howard said: “I have no statement to make, If I did make one no one would believe me, W. J. Carlisle, the City Marshal of Tulare, under whom I served, will be here in the morning. He knows all the facts, and I refer you to him. Be sure and see him.- This trouble I am in grew out of a primary election. Carlisle will tell you all about it. What can I say, except that I am innocent? I have a good record. John Morrison, who visited me to-day, said I was a good man. I worked for him at one time. I never was discharged from an employment but once in my life.”” Howard had no religion. He refused all consolation of a religious kind. Up to the last minute the condemned man hoped that Governor Budd would | pardon him. ‘Warden Aull says Howard assumed the air of a hoodlum in carrying on as he did. The Warden has been told by a prominent ! citizen of Tulare that the murder of the | Italian was not Howard'’s first crime; that | he killed 2 man some years ago in Yolo County. The Warden has been unable, however, to verify this. On the English Turf. LONDON, Exe., July 17.—The twenty- first renewal of the great Kingston two- year-old race of 500 sovereigns, five fur- longs, took place at Sandowne Park to- day, and was won by the Duke of West~ minster’s Blue Water. T. Cannon’s Hy- laeus was second and the Prince of Wales’ St. Nicholas was third. 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