The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1897, Page 1

AUGUST 25, 1897. STUBBOR 18 FIGHT THE TRIBESMEN British Forces Are Battling Against Overwhelming Odds in India. TWO FORTS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN ABANDONED. Three Hundred of the Troops in the Gartison of Ali Musjid Killed During a Sortie. Fort Maude in Flames. BOMBAY, India, Aug. 24.—! re licate Fort no over Ali Musiji whelming odds. n of An v e a sortie, in which they lost doned the fort and started for Lowrag. n warr to hold themselves dia, Aug. 2. e has been severe figh Jp to a late hour to-night reliable ws from the frontier had not been received. Reports from Peshawur iting in Khyber Pass and the garri- , a few miles west of Jamrood, is stubbornly inconfirmed report says the garrison 300 kilied, after which they aban- The troops at Quetta have in readiness for hostilities at the —Advices from the scene of the native re- volt report that Fort Sadda, in the Kurram Valley, was attacked by rebels After preliminary skir Tne garrison, sub A dispatch from Quetta, Beloochistan, says : hed the southernmost point of the frontier. mishes the rebels were repulsed by | ugation of the Swati tribesmen is now com- ¢ Sedition has now Three of the principal fs of Beloochistan arrived in this city and were found attempting 1o pervert the natives. Westmacott arrived at the mouth enemy at a distance of 3200 yards. n to be in flames. The gar cover of artillery,” vas They were arrested.”’ A dispatch from Peshawur says : ‘“ Relief column under General of Khyber Pass and shelled the The enemy retired. Fort Maude rison of the fort withdrew under the AFRIDIS PROPOSE TERMS They Are Willing to Cease F'ghting | Under Terms the British Wil Not Accept. LA, IxDIA, Aug. 24 —After the fight- 1 occurred yesterday the Afridi esmen retired to the hills about Pass, where they are virtually t by the Bri To-day g was quiet and the Afridis sent n to General Wesmacott to est conditions, which, being accepted, would return to their homes. ese conditions provided the with- e British from Swat Val na Mountains, the surrender of all of the Afridi women on the Indian side of the frontier an. revision of the alt re_ulations. The ot the Afridis proposing terms is regarded as showing a mosisublimeaudacity and is evidence that they do not appreciate the gravity of their offense in the eyes of the Indian | Government. The Government will un- doubtedly pursue operations until the power of the Afridis as the leading clan of the Peshawur frontier is completely broken. The fate of Fort Ali Musjid hasnot been definitely learned. It was reported to-day that the whole garrison of 300 Bepoys had bean massacred and all arms and ammunition seized 0¥ A TOUR OF CUBA. Fishback and Consul-General Lee to Gather Information for the Administration. HAVANA, Cusa, Aug. 24.—The report o! Fishback’s arrival in Havana, intrustea with a special miesion from the adminis- tration, is confirmed. Fishback wiil ac- company Consul-General Lee upon a tour of inspection throughout the isiand. They will visit all the consulates and consular agencies of the United States in Cuba. By this means Fishvack will be able to study the real situation on the island in all the six provinces and report to the American Government the state of war in Sunta Ciara, Puerto Principe, Santiago de Cuba, as well as Havana and Pinar del Rio. Up to the present the American ad- ministration has bad only the scattered reports of consuiar agencies sent 1o Lee. The most official information concerning Cuba in Wasbington is chiefly derived from Spanish sources. Fishback’s mission will resultin placing an important official report in the hands of McKinley and will undoubtedly be of great service to Woodford in carrying out his instructions in Spain. The Spanish Government cannot make the least ob- jection to Lee and Fishback’s visit to the interior and eastern part of the istand. Furthermore, it is the undeniable right of the American Consul-General to inspect consulates, There is a worthy precedent for this in the visit to British consnlates in Cuba about eight months ago by the British Vice-Consul, who availed himself of the opportunity to make a report on the war to the Foreign Office in London. The most important matter for investigation is the situation in eastern provinces, as the state of the war in Matanzas haz al- rcady been personally studied by Lee. Up 1o this time all American consular re- porte have confirmed the news previously sent to the American press, There is little doubt that this inquiry | will also officially confirm the information already published, that the situation in | the east, where the revolution is, is | stronger than in the west, as confessed | by the Spanisn Government itsel’, ! The report of the cruel orders Weyler | directed against the town of La Esper- | anza, whose 5000 inhabitants were doomed to s'arvation by the captain-general, has had a disagreeable result for the Mayor of that town, D. Pedro Goicoechea. Weyler J has fined him $1000 for having made pub- lic the communication. Goicoechea sent | to the Governor of Santa Clara asking | for the withdrawal of the captain-general’s | decree forbidding the sale of food to in- | babitants of La Esperanza. | The Mayor of Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Santa Clara province, has also been fined $1000 by the captain-general because he | couid noi prevent a raid on the town by | the insurgents. | A report comes from Cienfuegos of the | arbiirary arrest in the town of Arriete of | the station-master, Agustin Villegas, and the weli-known citizen, Emilio Alvarez without any known charge against them. They were sent manacled to Cienfuegos, and have been liel. incommunicado since Aucnut 16. General Weyler has prom- ised to pay $1 1n Spanish paper money for every head of cattle seized by the troops | in the country. The average price in the market is $2 1n gold. S Leco to Urue Clemancy. ROME, Irtarny, Aug. 24 —It is under- stood the Pope will recomm=nd to the Queen Regent of Spain that special clem- ency be exercised toward Senorita Even- gelina Cossio Cisneros, the Cuban girl in prison at Havana. He has taken a very deep interest in the fate of the fair young Cuban girl, and the Vatican will lose no time in making a Papal recommendation of mercy to the Queen Regent of Spain. e | sEVERITY OF NCH JUSTICE. FRE Bentences for Thosa Responsible for the Charity Bazaar Fire. PARIS, FRANCE, Aug. 24.—The trial of Baron Mackau, one of the principal pro- moters of the charity bazaar, which burned | on May 4, when upward of 100 lives weres | lost, together with M. Baiac and M. Bugrachof, operators in the cinematograph department, in which the fire star:ed, was concluded to-day. Defendants were charged with homicide through neglecting to tuke proper precautions. Baron Mackau, whose wife was one of the victims of the disaster, was found guilty of im- prudence and sentenced to pay a fine of 500 francs. Bailac and Bagrachof, it was decided, were responsible for the fire, and they were sentenced respeciively to one year in prison znd 300 francs fine and eight months imprisozment and 200 francs fine, T GOLD STANDARD Uwing to the slump in Sileer Salvador Changes I's Currency. PANAMA, CoLoMBIA, Aug. 24.—Salva- dor has been forced bv aslumpin silver to adopt a gold standard. Owing to the financial straits of Salvador President Raiael Gutierrez convoked an extraor- dinary session of Congress to consider the monetary crisis. He sent to Congress a message urging the necessity of a speedy change in the currency, and yesterday the bill passed. Tue President was also authorized to negotiate a foreign loan for $2,500,000. The new loan will go into effect within two months. Afier it becomes operative ail customs will be payable in gold. ADOPIS THE WHAT THE “EXAMINER” CALLS “AN ORDINARY BUSINESS TRANSACTION.” ERITABLY A THORN IN THE FLESH The Pass Episode Daily Adids Tribulation to Bryan's Friends. MEMORY VERS FORGETFULNESS. Between Foote’s Lack and Law- lor's Surplus of Recollection a Story Gets Out. MILLS USES NAUGHTY - LANGUAGE. The Land Agent Feels That Silence Is Now His Only Hope in the Future. Friends of William Jennings Bryan, and even that distinguished gentleman bi 1f, seem to have a glimmer of real- ization that open conlession is good for the soul. They have given up attemnts to conceal that Mr. Bryan rode on a pass, but they h: not yet reached the point of admitting that as a statesman of re- nown and a hater of railroads he made a mistake when he did so. At first they were reticent. W. W, Foote declarea with due legal solemnity that he did not know anything about the matter. Concerning passes for Mr. Brvan his mind was a comfortaple blank. Yet Mr. Foote, at the request of Mr. Bryan, had himself secured tiie pass which has incited inquiry, and a published letter to him from Bryan isevidence of the fact. Mr. Foote perhaps might refresh his mem- ory by reading the letter, which pessibly was turned over by him for publication while he was in a trance. . Still, the art of forgetting is not unknown. The letter requested that the pass be issued on World-Herald advertising ac- count, and added that a telegram from that paper had led to the issue of a ticket from Ogden to San Francisco. A vpass across' Utah, Nevada and Cali- fornia. Where, oh, where was that stern determination ‘to clutch the railroad tyrant by the threat? Forone cannot well eat bread and stick the breadknife into his host. And where was that venerated statute—the’ interstate commerce law— before which' even Mr. Huntington bows when he feels like it, a statute barring railroads from ‘1ssuing passes from one State into another? As to the pass issued from Sacramento to Portland for William Jennings Bryan, it was cheerfully given by Mr. Mills, who is stated by Mr. Hearst’s paper to have re- garded the episode asan ordinary busi- ness transaction. Mr. Mills is less cheery now, since a prattling conductor babbled the snap, if so vulgar a term is permissible, into a listening ear. In faci, the repre- sentative of an Eastern paper, visiting Mr. Mills yesterday in quest of information on the subject, received some to the effect tbat the land agent didn’t have a darn thing fo say, and that he didn’tgivea whoop in hades what the visitor wired to any Eastern paper, - The visitor had not been looking for this information par- ticularly, and realized that Mr. Mills was doing his whooping right here, albeit, perhaps, with a feeling of beinz in hades. And Mr. Mills did not use the. word “*darn.”” What he really did say has been modified, so as not to imperil public morals, nor shock the sgnsitive, To make a bad matter worse W. P. Lawlor of the State Bilver Committee, anxious to save his friend Bryan from the effects of a bad break, had to open a mouth, and with an 1mmediate kerplunk he put his foot in it. He said, did Mr. Lawlor, that Bryan had told him that the | only way to get what they (the Southern Pacific) owed us (the World-Herald) was to take it out in transportation. There were reporters present when Mr. Lawlor made this statement, and it speaks well for their breeding that not one of them winked nor was heard to say *“Rats!” The statement was calmly taken down. and Mr. Hearst's paper published it, ana says inferentially that it is so, and there you are. The ability of Mr. Lawlor to re- member, coupled with the Foote ability to forget, constitute a8 combination fitted for ar emergency. Interest just now centers upon the right of Mr. Bryan to employ in speaking of the paper on which he formerly worked that broad and comprehensive ‘‘us,’”’ and being as one of *‘us” entitled to ride with- out putting up a cent nor a line of adver- tising. Bryan Is all at sen. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 24—W. J. Bryan bas written that 1t will be impossible for him to visit the State fair here. He has decided 1o abandon his pronosed trip to Mexico this fall, where he had decided to study the financial and economical conditions of that country. e e Hanged in the Presence of His, Fietim. FAYETTEVILLE, W. Va., Aug. 24.— Jerry Brown, a negro who assuuited Mrs. Isaac Radford on = February 19, was hanged this afternoon in the presence of his victim. (OLISANS CLAMORING FOR A LIFE Pretty Florine Poirier Shot by a Vagrant Choreman. PEDRO VINELLI'S AWFUL CRIME. Mortally Wounds the . Girl, Then Turns His Pistol Upon Himsslif. TRIVIAL GRIEVANCE LEADS TO THE TRAGEDY. The Capltallst’s Only Daughter Had Taken an Airgun From Vinelli’s Son. COLUSA, CAL., Aug.24.—Miss Fiorine Poirier, a beautiful girl of 16 years and the only daughter of Richard Poirier, a Colusa capitalist, lies on a bed of agony with a bullet in her breast and another in her hip. The girl is breathing and that is all, for it is not likely that she will sur- vive her wounds. In a cell at the town jail Pedro Vinelli, 8 choreman who has beretofore made a precarious living by doing odd jobs around the town, istossing about in pain, with two bullets in his breast. He may recover to suffer the penalty for the wounding of the young girl, but the chances are against it. Miss Poirier was the victim of an awful tragedy, which occurred at 2 o'clock this afternoon near the Colusa House, where she lived with her parents. Because of a petty grievance she was set upon by Vinelli and mortally wounded. The crime was so unwarranted that the people of Colusa are enraged beyond measure, and angry threats against the life of the wounded prisoner are heard on every side. Vinelli has a 10-year-old son. About three months ago this youngster shot at Miss Poirier with an airgun, and theyoung lady took it from him. Ever since then the boy has annoyed her whenever he found the opportunity. Evidently he had tol | his father of his grievance and magnified it tenfold, although the inci- dent was so trivial that Miss Poirier had almost forgotren in what way she had incurred the lad’s hatred. To-day the younglady rode in the hotel omnibus out to the well at the bridge near town. She had left the 'bus for a minute and was about to re-enter it when the elder Vinelli sprang from under thebridge and seized her. Heaping imprecations upon her head, he held her with one hand while with the other he drew a re- volver and fired at her. The bulletentered her breast. She tore from his grasp and, screaming, started to run away. He fired again and the bulletstruck her on the hip. The girl ran to the Bridge House and there fell from exhaustion and loss of blood. Proprietor Graham of the Bridge House heard the shooting and came out to see what it was about. When he ap- peared on the scene Vinelli directed the pistol toward his own breast and fired twite. The bullets entered the right side of the breast, a half-inch apart. The wounds will probably prove fatal. Vinelli was taken to the town jail, where his wounds were attended to. Hisonly ex- planation for his crime was that Miss Poi- rier had ill treated his son. Miss Poirier, who was taken to the quarters of her parents at the Colusa House, is hovering between life and death, with the chances against her re- covery. BShe isthe only daughter of the capitalist, and is a beautiful girl, highly accomplished and popular in Colusa so- cial circles. The rage of the residents is intense, and should Vinelli recover suf- ficiently to be removed he will be hastened to some neighboring town to prevent an attack upon him by lyncbers. MAY FORFEIT ITS CHARTER, The Southern Pacific Company Contin- ues to Ignore the Kentucky (ficials. FRANKFORT, Kv., Aug. 24.—General B. W. Duke, attorney for the Lousville and Nashville, and who is also attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad, called on Auditor Stone, secretary of the Board of Valuation and Assessment, and held a long private &nierence this afterncon. Both Sione and Duke refused to make public the nature of the conference. The Southern Pacitic Company has not re- established an office at Louisville, and the board is awaiting a reply from the home office of the company before proceeding further. Memuvers of the board are clearly of the opinion that unless the office is re- established it will work a forfeiture of the charter, and will probably autborize At- torney-General Taylor to bring suit to in- validate the charter if the company per- sists in ignoring the board. LUXURIDOS TRAVEL IV THE NORTH Electric Sleigh Service to Dawson City Is Projected. COMFORTS PROPOSED IN AN ARCTIC WINTER. Gold-Seekers May Travel in Upholstered Berths Heated by Steam. PLANS MADE FOR FXPLORATION OF COPPER RIVER. There Is Sald to EBe Plenty of Gold on the American Slide of the Boundary Line. SEATTLE, WasH., Aug. 24.—In a letter received in Seattle to-day the information is contained of a project that if carried out successfully will make winter travel to the Kiondike more of a pleasure than a hardship. Prominent business and raile road men propose to inaugurate an elec- tric sleigh service capable of traveling sixty miles an hour on a smooth surface. The Pullman Palace Car Company has by this time completed a model of the sied that is to make travel to Dawson practica- bleand easy i1n the middle of an Arctic win- ter. The details of the proposition reached Seattle this morning in a letter from Wil- liam Forbush of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company to a prominent business man. The company backing the proposition is the Great Northern Mining and Transportation Company, which will shortiy open offices in the Great Northern Hotel Annex in Chicago. Prominent railroad and com- mercial men are interested in the com- pany, as is the Pullman Palace Car Com- pany. The letter states that the sleichs will be built by the Palace Car Company, fur- mished with upholstered berths and heated and lighted with electricity, so that the coldest weather will not trouble the trav- eler. They will have a speed ot from ten to sixty miles an hour, according to the condition of the river. On the first trip through it is proposed to take a number of men who-will smooth over the rough places, and after the pilot becomes ac- quainted with the road a fast trip will be possible. Passengers, baggage and freight will be carried at a reasonable rate. All the plans of the company are patented. , The transportation scheme is not the only one patented by the company. They will build smaller sleighs which will be disposed of to the individual prospectors. These sleighs will also be propelled with motor, and with them it is expected that a prospector can go anywhere he may de- sire on the ice. The sled will be fitted with a diamond drill which can be driven by the motor fifty feet through the ice, and in this way bars and placer ground only accessible in the suramer and at low water can be prospected in midwinter. If the diamond drill indicates gold in quantities the prospector can stake off his claim. The company will send out men thoroughly competent to run the sleighs and all or as many as possible of the small streams will be prospected. Mr. Forbush states in his letter that there is nothing about the scheme that bas not been tried, and that they know it will work successfully. The company ex- pects to put the sleighs in operation dur- ing the coming winter. An expedition of far-reaching import- ance is being organized to explore the Alaskan gold field tributary to the Copner River. Atthe head of it is A. Joseph Kin of Port Townsend, ex-Superior Court Judge, and William H. White of Seattle, ex-United States District Attorney and at present Democratic National Committee- man from Washington State. The inten- tion is to organize fifty men, each to put $1000 in a common fund, purchase outfits and supplies for two years and to charter a steamer to sail from Seattle to Prince ‘William Sound about the middle of Oc- tober. The gentlemen referred to will accompany the expedition, and they want forty-eight other equally courageous and able-bouied men to join them. A dozen or more have already been secured—five of them to-day. Prince William Sound is about 400 miles northwe;t of Sitka and parties have fre- quently entered Copper Liver from tha Sound, aithough not without some diffi- culty. Boats can ascend the river during high tide, but they cannot go farther than a point some forty-five miles from the Sound. Here thé glaciers are found. ‘When once the glaciers are passed tie river becomes navigable fora distanc> into the interior for all classes of light river boats, the stream being wide and sha!low and not very swift asarule. The soil is of the nature of a black muck on the sur- face, soft and yielding. 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