The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1897, Page 1

) The Tall :]. ' to b the his Paper not | e taken from Library.++++ VOL;'\[ E L3 34. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1897T—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES, PRICE FIVE CENTS. LOSS OF LIBUSTER Steamer Commodore Goes to the Bottom Near an Inlet. FILLS WITH WATER AND SOON SINKS. Failing to Pump the Vessel Out the Men Take to the Boats and “Escape. CUBANS ‘DOWNHEARTED OVER THE DISASTER. This - Increases the Suff:ring and Dangers of ‘the Expedition on No Name Key. JACKSONVILLE 2.—The ner Commodore twenty athoms of water twenty miles northeast o lilet at 3 o’clock this morn- of ‘the men. on board were res- ve of them reached Jackson- Fri., Jan. sank in of Mosqu All y of the accident, as told by one , is as Tollows: amer crossed the St. Johns bar afternoon and at mid- One nt into the hold for some- g and found it" half full of water. Great prevailed, but the ad every one on k bailing. The water and at 3 o'clock the déserted, R. A. Delgado tak- 1 of one boat with eleyen n it and Captain Murphy ding the othe exc pumps. were board- put to. wor eadily, teamer W comm, nded on the beach 1« . M., but Cap- tload did not land until The boat is said to sverloaded with ceal ‘when it i it is thought that she sprung when she grounded on Commo- ot in geing down the St. Johns. tephen Crane, tbe govel was ‘on rd and was in Captain Marpby’s boat. e Cubans here downhearted over accident, and ‘especially as the Com- xpected to carry the men Three Friends on No Name was e by the er of the Dauntless, rom the commander :untless rescued a lerge | a cargo from No Name were in a helpless | itless will wait and 1d deliver the men cargo to h report as per sig- s seén at Miami, and will return as s we meet the Commodore—prob- o t the Comn night, stating that the ored off No Name Key taking on men and bans here are very much con- over the report that many of the pless condition. It is not men believ y of them were wound-d when fired 1 by the Spanish patrol- boat off the Cuban coast, but ‘that their condition sult of exposure on No key is a desert and the 10 -protection from. the ten d weather for the 1 S MACEO IS YET ALIVE. Sald “to Be Recovering From thHe Wounds.Inflicted Through the Treachery of Zertucha, HAVANA, CuBa,-Jan, 2 (via Key West, Jan: 2).—Reports (hat' Maceo is alivé-are conming constantly from the fietd and all tend iG” show ther he recuperating rapidly. Letters received in Havana from his medical attendants explain the nature of his wounds and -confirm ous re- ports and repeat the story of Zettucha's treachery. They. fay.that Maceo, with his siaff, came to meet Ahumada under a flag of truce and that.Cirajeda and his forces wére ambushed. As soon as Maceo appeared the Spaniards opened fire. Maceo being in fell from his horse, Gomez also feli at his side. The rest of ghe staff, some of winow were wounded, managed 10 escape and reached Baldomero. Acosta’s camp stantly gathered all its small forces and rushed to their tance. They made a zbt and jeda into va, recovered the bodies and carried the apparently dead Maceo With them. He remained unconscious for four days d five nights and when prepared for irial it was found that he was still alive. As soon as he was able to be transported he was carried with the greatest care and ong eseort 1o the Cienega hos: pitals, though others say to Siguana. ,° It appears that the object of the Cubans as soon as Maceo is abje o move is to send bin to. the United Stated, and a. steamer under as has already Been ordered for the vurpose | and thus personally prove that he is alive, Greatexcitement prevails in Havana over the news. It is wideiy discussed and éven of -his being.alive. - A thémb:r of the oduce exchange created a sensation the " other -day when he announced the- fact and a commotion followed. Weyler's positien is critical and the arfiards are highiy indignant at his con- s stant deceptions. Threats aré freely made that if Maceo is alive Weyler will Le dragged through the streets. Reports'say there is much excitement over the Guanapacoa butchberies. George Hyatt, anpther American citizen residing at this place, has asked for protection irom thie United States consulate. Other rds are-talking ef the possibil- | T [ Wn Arimated Scene at the Oakland Mole During the Departure of Legislators for Sacramento.- | foreign residents did the same of their re- | speetive consulates. The butcheries continue, although it 13 |caid that orders have been sent to Fon- | devia to stop them in view of the pub- | licity given them. A reiga of terror pre- vails in the towns. Mauy residents who are unsble to move into Havana nightly | come to sleep in the city. Numes and de- tails are unobtainable, as people fear to speak. Itisonly known thaf the victims are taken from their homes at night and carried to the outskirts and macheted. It is said that the number now exceeds 30,000. There is reported friction between Gen- eral Arolas and Weyler on account of the former refusing to carry out the order for the wholesale extermination of the hap- less people of the district unless Weyler assumes the responsibility by reporting the same for publicity, which Weyler re- fuses to do. ST Ay EDICTS BY WEYLER. Trylng to Starve Sympathizers With Insurgents by Closing Stores in ‘Smail Towns. HAVANA, Cousa, Jan. 2. — General Weyler has issued irom his camp at Baye- te two edicts bearing date of yesterday. | One of them prohibits the storage. or sale | of horses, saddlery, clothing, provisions or medicines in unfortified towns. - It also | absolutely prohibits the removal of such gooas from the towns in the provinces of | Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas, without a military permit. It is ordered that eight days after the date of the edict all stores in unprotected viliages and hamlets ‘must be closed and their goods removed to stronger plac This applies also to stores on the un- fortined estates in the provinces of Santa Clara, Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba. Those™ persons who violate the edict will be considered rebel sympathizers and will be tried and condemned as such. The other edict orders tne formation of zones of cultivation around the towns, and allots for the cultivation of vegetables, etc., a piece of ground free of cliarge to each family concentrated in the towns under previous edicts. These persons will be allowed to hold the land freé of all charges for six months after -the insurrection shall have been suppressed. An exception is made, how- ever, in the case of those families which have a brother or husband in the rebel ranks. To these noiand will be allotted. It.is rumored that the rebel Jose Maria Aguirre has died from pneumonia. An engagement has taken place at Blan- quizal, province of Pinar del Rio, bstween arebel party and a detachment of Span- ish troops. | The rebels were defeated after losing twenty of their number killed. The Spanish loss was a major, a lieutenant and two privatesseriously wounded. pac s e o SHOULD STOP THf" WAR. Senatd; ‘Cullom Says it 15 thas Duty of the United States to Protect the Cubans. CHICAGO, Inn, Jan. 2. — Senator Shelby M, Cullom arrived in Chicago to day. The Senator refused to discuss the present Senatorial contest in Illinois.. He believes the Cameron bill will be pressed for passage and go through, if not in its present shape, then slightly modified, but deprived of none of its force, Senator Cullpm expressed views on other matters of general interestand forgot conservat- | ism when he spoke of Cuba. “It is the duty of some strong nation to puta stop to the warfare.in Cuba,” he de- | clared. *“It is brutal. It not only out- | rages humanity, but violates the spirit of | the Monroe doctrine. The United States ought not to allow the Spaniards, a com- paratively strong nation, to oppress a de- fenseless coramunity almost within its | borders. Effort has been made to take advantage of the vacation to change the opinion of some members of the Senate, but it will not avail. I do not know whether the present administration will do anything or not, but it should. If humane interests are not to be considered, the damage done among American com- merceought to provea factor in influencing the proper authorities to use the best .meansin their power to stop the war. The Canieron resolution will be pressed for passage. Unless it develops & more violent opposition than already shown, I think it will be passed.” L TO CHECK FILIBUSTERS. Increased Vigilance In the Florida Coast Patrol Ordered by the Government. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 2.—In- creased vigiiance in the filibuster patrol along the Florida coast is to be exhibited by the Government 2nd no effort is to be spared 10 prevent the violation of neu- trality. Notonly have thc crders for the return north- of the cruiser Newark at Key West been countermanded, but others have been issued for the dispatch-boat Dolphin, heretofore utilizea wholly as an executive yacht, to proced to the Florida coast at once, and she is expected to leave the Washington navy-yard to-night for her new duties. As soon as shecan be made ready the dynamite gunboat Ve- e o~ A\, T, m BN R 4""‘): ¢ 7 It Moan of the| santa of the Patriot Gover Provinces ofl Espuritv Santo and part of SantiagoDe Cuba win Cultas the Capital Clara nment, Torigana I Baisidt i amade 7[¢° Flre <3 s C Jocas < AR % W LA AR A PN/ QT I XN suvius will be sent to supplement ,the naval and revenue cutter force, and if necessary, the torpedo-boats Cushing and Ericsson will speedily follow them. All these vessels are admiraply adapted for the work, particularly the torpedo vessels, which can enter all tie lagoons and cruise among the keys. ‘Rhe Dolphin. should reach Jacksonville Monday aud the Ve suvius will ‘reach Key West about Jan- uary 15. e e CAPITAL OF THE CUBANS. Pen Plcture of the Mountain Stronghold Where Insurgents Maintain a Government. That the Cuban patriots have an active | and fully establisked Government, with a fixed place of abode, can no longer be gain- said. From the heightsof the Sierra Cu- bitas their standard waves, and from the Matanzas line on the west to Cape Maisi at the eastern extremity, throughout ' the whole breadth of tbe island, with the ex- ception of theflarger towns,it is recognized as the emblem of authority—the fidg of the people of Cuba: Sierra Cubitas is within Jess than twen- ty-five miles of the city of Puerto Principe and less than that distance from the strongly fortified port of Nuevitas, within sight of the great camino, or highway, from Havana to Santiago de Cuba. Yet here witnin a day’s march of the Spani h garrisons the Cubans have established and have maintained for fifteen months their seat of Government. To the east lies the town of Zanjou, where the Cubaus were duped into sign- inga treaty of peace, the conditions of which the Spaniards never meant to ob- serve, and thus lost ail the fruits of the ten years’ struggle from 1858 to 1878. Southeast, near the boundary between Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba, is Guaimaro, where the first constitution was promulgated. Southeast of Manza- nillo lies the town of Yara, where the first republic was proclaimed. The present move ment for irdependence was first declared on February 24, 1895, at Ybarra, in Matanzas, by about two dozen men, but the first real organization was made farther east in the province of San- tiago de Cuba. Marti, the organizer of the revolutionary movement, issued a call during the summer for a const:tutional convention to meet on September 13. Delegates from all the provinces, except Pinar del Rio, were present. Three days later a constitution was adopted, and on Sentember 18 the conventioa elected State officers and the government of the repub- lic of Cuba was inaugurated. Salvador Cisneros, who had been Presi- dent of the former republic from 1873 till the peaces of El Zanjou in 1878, was chosen as President, and with him Bar- tolome Mazo of Manzanilla, Vice-Presi- dent; Raphael Portuopdo of Santiago de Cuba, Secretary of State for Foreign Afs fairs; Carlos Roloif of Santa Clara, Secre- tary of War, and Sivero Pina of Espiritu Santo, Secretary of the Treasury. Maximo Gomez was at the same time chosen as commander-in-chief, Morti having been kiiled shortly before, and Antonio Maceo as his lientenant-general. Laws were also passed dividing the island into Btates, districts and prefectures, es- tablisning nvpostoflices, regulating mar- riages and providing for the imposition and collection of taxes. Local officers under the new Government were soon after instailed in many places in the three eastern provinces. The seat of the Government was foon after established on the top of the Sierra Cubitas just north of Puerto Principe, where it has since been kept and practi- cally unmolested by the Spanish army. This place is naturally most difficuls of access, and with but a handful of men can be held against any sized force. In places Over a Scors of Republican. _ Legislators Will .Act - - Independently. THEY ARE BOUND BY. NO PLEDGES. " Opposition to Senator Perkins : Now Crystallizing at the . : Capitol. - BE DELAYED. . Kenyon iWiII B>. Chosen S_pba!{qr' Pro . Tem. and ‘Coombs Permanent Speaker. £ "SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jon. 2.—THe op- position to Senator Perkins’ attempted - walkover is crystallizing., Every train,_ brings legislators -who say ‘that they [are'not ‘pledged for Mim, the district coriventions which nominated them not It is currently reported that.more than twenty Republicans will refuse to take - part in the Senatorial caucus, amd that this failure of the friends of the Sen- ° ator to get a caucus will be icoked upon as-an evidence of fatal weakpess by him provided that he stood a good chance of re-election, = .': . 5 Governor Budd and the: representa- tives of five State asylums for the in- | same-ail in California—had an execu- tive session to:day, and emerged thére- [ from in the full possession of their fac place the asylums under control of th State Board of Examiners. 5 SACRAMENTO, Ca: of the Legislature came in very slowly tos+ day, and it was not until After the arrival® of the last-train that the lobbies of the, hotels began to wear an animated appear- ance. During the day but little. was spoken of but the organization of the two hpuses, and the mierits and demierits of i ecandidates for the various positions. There was some talk as to the most feasi- ble means of preventing Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Jeter from appointing the Senate committees and giving the patronage to the Democrats, but the discussion was not held on the liousetops nor eudibly in the . lobbies, for there are a few Democrats left in the Legislature, and it would not be pursued. * Thefe will be no difficuity, . however, in the matter, for the Senate dnd. the Assembly can appoint their owncom- mitteps. The President of the Senate ana the Speaker of the Assembly have been, allowed hitherto to appoint the standing committees only through courtesy, but courtesy may be dispensed with on this.. occasion. . ; ; Brewster C. Kenyon of Long Beach will be Speaker pro tem. of the Assembly. 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