The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1897, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. AHEAD IN THE FIGHT Capture the Turkish Garrisons on the Frontier and | Take Prisoners. THREE OUTPOSTS ARE BURNED. At Rome It Is Rumored That War Has Been Declared Between the Mos- lems and the People of the Hellenes. ROME ITALY, April 10.—It is rumored here that war has been ween Turkey and Greece, but reliable details are lacking LONDON, ENG., April 10.—The Greek insurgents who crossed | ana 3000 strong seem to have much the best of thvi y took three Turkish positions posts. last night they were reported to have attacked the Baltino and sent nine prisoners back over the frontier to) | , routed a Moslem garrison ncerned by the report that the Duke of York | p after leaving Lord Wolseley, commander-in-chief, at The English channel squadron has been ordered to Malta, | nt movement. | WAR IS NOT WANTED. uch ¢ | the peace of the world. Public and pri- | vate information from several sources, in- The Six Powers That Have Trled | cluding diplomatic authorities in Con- | to Aid Turkey Not £nxious |stantinople, agree that Emperor William | for Hostllities. bas secreily encouraged the Sultan to | adopt an ageressive policy. | Copyr 1896 by the New York Sun.] OSMAN PASHA, Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Sultan. Osman Fasha, known to fame as *‘the hero of Pievna,”” it one of the ablest soldiers in Europe. Heis a Turk by race, birth and education. His fi st active service was during the war in the Crimea. He was made a colonel for his services in aiding to suppress an insurrection in Crete a few years later, and for his gallantry in the Servian war he was created a field marshal, His beroic defense of Plevna, the surrender of which virtually closed the Turko-Russian war, is matter of history. Although 66 years of age he is still an active, energetic man. If bostilities shouid break out 1n earnest he wiil undoubtedly take the field in person. LONIX Europe Next week when the enormity of his | folly has becn brought home to him the | young Emperor will probably change his | April 10.—Once more 1ble and apprehension by e event everyb-dy has been ! ple a and timid pe e jumping at ihe con- a universal war. Public opmion had to g 10 the opposite extreme the past days, and slmost everybody began to regard the crisisasnearly atan end. To- day’s news seems to have destroyed all hove of peace in the popular mind. Pessimi-tic views wh:ch find pn ate expression in London and dis- are extreme beyond reason. It is true there has been fighting, and it isclear it crdiys Thore hias been Bight- | attitude and wili be satisfied to do Bnoth- between Greek insurzents and the | ing worse than sulk. But it is a great Turkish troops on the Thessalian frontier, | danger and then it may be too late to re- clusion that this is the first engagement in lic and patches from the continent this aiternoon | pair the mischiel. Quite likely the Turks and Greeks will then be at each other’s | throats and Europe will be compelied to | devote itself to the task of keeping the peace between its own members wkile the former fight itout. It will be a problem requiring consummate tact and skill. gland would sacrifice much rather | than be dragged into a war at the present | juncture; and no doubt the same spirit is dominant in the other five powers. News | from a variety of other sources on the bessalian and Macedonian frontiers i troops are concerned the Greeks have an advantage over the Turks that largely | makes up for the disparity in numbers be- tween the two armies. | with Greek army, and Volo, on Salonica, their base of supplies and com- munication with Athens, they can thrcw was used on both sides. Four Turkish ] by way of Konitya Goriiya to Monastir, pos were destroyed. | and thence by Fiorina t ot | THE GREEK POSITION. Elassona. The selection of a place for making this 1 first move across the froatier into Turkish territory was ordered with sn eve to mak- From a Military Point of View It Is | ing the most of the-'advantages which | | nature was ready to lend to the weaker | Much Supsrior to That of the Turks. As far as facilities for handling their | party. Few places along the whole frontier vresent such favorable conditions for such an incursion and such unfavorable ones artiliery and cavalry. By means of the railrond connecting Larissa, the headquarters of the the Gulf o neadwaters of the Salembria River; across the frontier to the north runs the dark, brackish waters of the Kora-Su or Indy River and between, turning to a height of for repelling an attack, especially with | Stagus Kalabak lies well up toward the | further than the eye can reach, the land- scape offers nothing to the view but mountain upon mountain. Itis in this locality, on these elevated spurs of the mighty backbone of the Balkan Penin- sula, thatare to be seen the ‘‘works of the gods,” the ‘“theoktista” of the ancient Greek. These works consist of isolated towers, crags and pillars, in whose shadow live | the descendants of the people who christened them and to whom love of Greek traditions and hatred of the Turk seem as natural as the rocks themselves. Christianity found .an early home with these people and hss alwavs been able to command warm and zealous advocates on both sides of tha frontier. DURRANT IS AGAIN 'SENTENCED Only Once Did the Prisoner Show Any Sign of Weakness. INCARCERATED IN SAN QUENTIN The Date of His Execution Set for June 11, Already Steps for Another Appeal Have Been Taken by His Attorney. The court having fully inquired into the facts, and there appearing mo legal reason or reasons why the judgment of death heretofore pronounced a st you, and still remaining full force, should not be executed according to law, there- fore, in pursuance of law and the order of the Supreme Court of the State of California, it now ordered that the Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, within ten days from date, deliver you to the Warden of the State Prison at San Quentin, County of Ma s State of Califor- mia; and that said Warden, after su ery, keep you in close comnfinement in said State Prison until the execution of the judgment of death heretofore promounced against you And X do now order that the dgment of death be executed by said Warden within the walls of said State Prisom om Friday, the 11th day of June, 1897, between the hours of sumn- rise and noon of said day, by hanging you by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul. William Henry Theodore Durrant, in | ting suit of mixed dark gray cloth. His the foregoing words, was yesterday sen- | hair was carefully combed, and his tenced to be hanged in San Quentin on | mustache neatly trimmed. His face was R e Blanche | Pale, BUt the clear gray eyes showed no {"d"-,:““ M yforSiamungeriat ® | sign of trepidation. The marvelous nerva amon .| which this young man has displayed from Every step of the proceedings which | t1¢ day of nis arrest two years ago to tha fisally placed the convicted malefactor, habited in & striped garb, in a cell in the | condemned murderers’ row at San Quentin prison o await his final doom, was | watched by a thronz of spectators tuat demonstrated that interest in the extraor- dinary crimes perpetrated in Emmanuel | Church was seemingly unabated. If any of the morbidly curious expected to witness any breakdown or exhibition | of weakness on the vart of the chief living | actor in the dreadful tragedy they were disappointed. Without doubt the stoical present time remained unshaken. His self-possession was unimpaired through- out the solemn scene in which he played the most prominent part. At 10 0’clock Judge George H. Bahrs as- cended the bench, accompanied by Judge Carroll Cook of this City and Judge Jones of Trimity County. The trial of Durrant took place in De- partment 3 of the Superior Court, in which ex-Juage D. J. Murphy was then When Judge Murphy relin quished his position on the bench his cal- endar was transferred to Judge Bahrs, who had formerly sat in Dopartment 12, | dicates that unfortunately the Turki r the auspices of the Greek Na- In Epirus and Upper Macedonia, as ¥, but war has not peen de- had been it by no means e of thealarmist warnings at war between Greece and ve ail the powers. 100 early to judge just what yester- agement portends. It may ply a certain amount of blood- :, which may be necessary to reduce fever in Greece. One s necessary in 1856 be- ling to submit to the powers' demand to disarm. On the other hana m: e an unofficial raid was under- taken in order to provoke the Turks 1o become the tec which the Greeks st desired. speedily d rs aguressors in a war bave apparently from he former case Greece avow the action of the ard means will be found to peaceful issue. view of the daugerous tension ex- siing not only on the frontier but at Con- ople and Athens the probability o between the re oops is 2. If that occurs warcan hardly the f £tant a collisic re Lus been a significant change this week, which alters the whole aspect of the ituation. lage of the powers Las been remarkabiy docile until within the past few days. The Bultan’s policy had been purely defeusive withregard to Greece and Moslem pas: throughout the emyire had been wonder- fully sestrained. This is complete change key is now eager for war and anxious to assume the aggressive, Greec: 1 the other hand, had been stituted the :ole d so.ution of the pro desires ficial G ity in the way of a About a week ago, however, of- ece began (0 show signs of be- confing amenable 1o the argument and pressure \( to bear upon her. The reason of the double change was oniy apparent within the iast day or two. It is now known that federated Europe has grown more conciliatory toward King George. The personal efforts of the home and foreign ministers, the Denmark royal family and the great power of the financial world sufficed to modify the atiitude of Rus-ia in some degree and to cause i, France and Italy to tak a more iew of the Greek ca ‘The Buitan was quite shrewd eno recognize and resent the re;a ded th- powe matier of fa ch to tenge. He had as six nilies, and, as a until the ms- 4 to the crucisl hdrawal of Turkish troops from Crete. Even then he might linve vielded but for the latest and great- est folly of the German Em peror. William protestd vehemently arainst any concession whatever to Greece, in- sisting upon the severest measures of coercion. Russia herself snubbed Wil- liam, notfying him that ss his interests in the East were less thaa any otber power he could not expect to force his views upon all the others. Then hap- pened what might have been expected from this hair-brained monarcn, who realy is the greatest incarnate danger 1o Greck poi Official Turkey under the tute- | the powers and con- | according 1o their | forces are superior in aimost all respects to tne Greks. The fortifications on the Turkih ‘side are also much stronger. The Greeks, apparently, can | hope to succeed only by an uprising at | the back of the Turkish army in Mace- donia. Sad e THREE WARSHIPS SAIL. Turkey Takes Steps to Re-enforce the Flset In the Dardanelles. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, April 10.—Three warships will sail 1o-morrow to | re-enforce the Dardanclies tleet. Latest reports from the front say th - fi-- | ing between Greek and Turkish outposts | |and Servia carries the direct re-enforcements up to Stagus Kalabak, the railway terminus within fifteen miles of the Turkish frontier in a few hours, while the Elassona by roundabout mountain roads. Turks must move their forces from | and difficalt | From Stagus Kalabak the Greeks can reach jthe frontier by any one of three | roads twentyfive miles. near Krania for the raid they came'ut on | the main road and the only passable one fro mJanina to Monaster, Servia and Blas- sona. at a distance of m fifteen to | By selecting thé point | This road by Metsovo, Gievena, Kosuni telegraph | line to Ealonica and Elassona, and the | service bas been interrupted. Communi- | has ceased. It is reported that artil.ery l cation with Janina can be had, however, [ some 5000 feet, are the limestone moun- tains of Kratrovo Khassia, which rise rapidly toward the west until they merge into the parent range, the lofty Pindus at Mount Lyzos; just northwest of Metsovo, and on whose slopes lies the village of Krania. Mount Lygos is nearly 6000 feet in height. “The frontier line coming from the east along the summits of the Khassi this peak preparatory to starting on its winding soutbwesterly course to the headwaters of the Arta River, which, starting from the southern side of a sister peak to Lygos, forms the boundary ex- tended down to the Gulf of Arta. A rougher country for movement of troops cannot well be imagined outside of Crete 1tself. In every direction for miles, climbs | well as in Grecian Thessaly, centuries of Moslem oppression and cruelty have but strengthened and confirmed them in the faith of Corist. What have they not e: |dured? Many monasteries ol the follow- ersof Simion the Stylite formerly existed in these hills. Perched on the tops of these natural pillars they offered at once places of seclusion for the monks and refuze for victims of barbarity. Bat in time they disappeared. Many were de- stroyed by the Turks and others were de- populated and abandoned. Now only about seven remaia, of which that o Metevia, a few miles north of Stagus, is the most interesting. In 1878, s in 1832, European diplomacy Continued on Fourth Page. was black with people, while the water was alive with small boats containing enthusiastic citizens, who cheered themselvss hoarse With yards manned and her rigging decorated with fla, first to pass out was the Messodieh. THE TURKISH FLEET PASSING THROUGH the Hamidieh, the Osmanih, the Azizieh and Nedjun-i-Schefket, with torpedo-boats and destroyers. THE GOLDEN HORN. Aifter twenty yearsof idleness, lying moored off the arsenal of Constantinople, the Turkish fleet got under way on the 20th of March Iast bound for Cretan waters. It had been announced that the vessels would sail on that day and every window looking on to the harbor, on both the Galata and the Stamboul sides of the Horn, the big ships came into view. The gs the great ironclad made an Inspiring appearance. She was followed by demeanor of Durrant throughout the try- ing ordeals of the day was the mostre- | tion to civil suits, and, consequently, does markable feature connected with his sec- | not need a large courtroom, he obtained ond and, presumably, final condemnation | Permission to use for these proceedings , the courtroom of Department 12, which, in to a felon’s death. 0 z > aadition to having large space on the Only once did_the doomed man flinch. | "0 P [ FUAE AT THACE OF A But the flaw in his extraordinary de- | dious galiery, meanor was physical and momentary | Judge Bahrs directed the bailiffs to keep only. It manifested itself in the arched = s passageway of masonry leading from the Continued on Teuth Page. atmosphers of freedom to that of his last | === vlace of rest on earth, a.ter he had parted | | NEW TO0-DAY. from his father, who had accompanied him to the prison. He staggered and nearly fainted, but, summoning all the power of his wonder- Most_torturing and disfiguring of itching, ful iron-like will, he almost ins:anta- neously recovered his strength, and there- burning, scaly skin and scalp humors is in- stantly relieved by a warm bath with CUTI- after was the same imperturbable Durrant CURA S0AP, a single application of CUTICURA that has been a sore problem to all who have coms in contact with him since the (ointment), the great skin cure, and a full dose of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood day of his arrest two years ago. purifiers and humor cures, when all else fails. His father, too, though fully realizing that he was escorting his only son to the Yssold throughoutthe world. PoTTER DRUG AND CHEM. Cox., Prope., Bostan. As Judge Babrs is now devoting his atten- meet an ignominious death, presented an equanimity -that clearly indicated the source of the son’s Inaian-like indiffer- ence. Durrant’s attorneys used every expedi- ent known to legal practitioners to defer the hour of doom for their chent, but without avail. It is generally admitted that the fight made oy General John H. Dickinson and Eugene Deuprey, counset e to Cu ; for the prisoner, was the most stubborn | [ERjJING HAIR Ploply Faces Baty Bl ever recorded in the criminal jurispru- | dence of the State, and they are not yet | done. Already an appeai has been filed WHY from Judge Bahr's judzment of yesterday. | With a view to the profit of his parent, | and with the latter’s consent and ap- | proval, Blanche Lamont's slayer be- queathed - some of his ideas and opin- ions to posterity by uttering them into a phonograph. place whence he would emerge only to | Ot to Care Salt Rhem, - free: Be bothered with inferior goods when you can get a first-class article if only you will call for it. 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