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

JLUME LXXXII — SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDA MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, PRICE FIVE CENTS. SEIZED CANADIAN OFFICIALS Steamer Eugene Overhauled for Violating Customs Regulations. BUT THE VESSEL ESCAPES NIGHT. THE When the Boat Reaches Dawson City An- IN other Attempt Will Be Made to Collect the Fine---Hardships | of Klo Sept. B —The pas- VICTORIA, B. C., gengers on the steamer sailing had arrived at an ol before standing to seize the tender Eugene on arrival at lichael if meals were not furmished em on the trip up the Miine stepped ahead of the pas- r ers, and had the steamer seized at on, B. C., where both vessels called to mrosing a fine of $400 for coming to coal. Victoria and leaving again without report- ing to the customs authorities. On Tuesday the Eugene came over from | Port. Angeles to meet the Bristol. came within the Victoria customs district and failed to report to any officer. Yesterday Collector Milne was apprised of the case and immediately telegraphea to an officer at Union to seize the boat, as Lie had imposed a fine of $400. The boat was seized all right, but this morning word came that the hawsers had been cut during the night and that the vessel was on her way to St. Michael The Sub-Coliector asked for authority to charter & boat to endeavor to overtake the Eugene. The authority was reifunsed, for, althongh it will take longer, thereis another way of overtaking the steamer. Word will be sent to Dawson City, and when Sae the Eugene reaches there, either this fall or next spring, the Dominion authorities will step in and take charge of ber. e PROVISIONS ARE SCARCE. Hal Hoffman Describes the True Condition of Affairs at Lake Linderman. Augist 22 — At the old at the oot of Lake Linderman s iuto a toat from a rock as he ld into a gondola in Veniee and is d'séven and a half miles to the head lake for $2.- My gondolier was young “Doc” T. T. Dowdall, whose brother keeps -a drugstore in San Francisco at Nineteenith and Valencia. He quoted a little of »*Marmion” and fang a iew bars from “Nancy Lee.” Provisions are not to be had at Lake Linderman either for love or money. The man who arrives there without grub on his back must go bungry till ke is in im- minent danger of dying from starvation, when he will be taken in and filled with food, whisky and sleep. A town of seventy river, but Col- | ndikers. yodd tents is pitched on the lake shore. Everybody is engaged in boat-buiiding. The timber here is six miles from the lake in one direction and must be floated down a mountain stream. In anotuer direction At the latter places the trees are | whipsawed on the ground and the boards packed to the camp and lake. Several Klondikers there get their boats finished, pile in their outfits and start down the lake on their way to Dawson City every | day. Thisshows the difference in progress made over the two trails. The evening I came up the lake a vast | forest fire was raging in the best timber nearest the head of the lake. Miles of the | country was on fire and the red glare was reflected in the still waters. Some mis- creants, careless of the scarcity of timber, had set fire to the forest the day before. A »light shower at night had subdued the flames, but they broke out afresh under a | stiff breeze the next morning. This is a catastrophe to the Kiondikers. It will | drive them many miles further into the | mountains for boarda to build boats. | On the day before my arrival, in the | ved o a small creek, back of the camp, a | Klondiker pznned out $750 in gold. [ Down at Lake Bennett they say that the | Lake Linde:man people are trying to get up an excitement to knock out the Klon- | dike. A box of condensed milk belonging to | | another man was found in the possassion | a Klondiker at Lake Linderman five | | days agzo. A miners’ meeting was called | insitanter. The culprit was taken out| under a dead tree, a rope put around his neck and he was given his choice of being | hanged on the spot or leaving the campat once. He preferred to leave aud was escorted several miles out on the trail to Dyea by a Mr. Fiizgerald, who was for- ly a policeman at Seattle. At the foot of Chilcoot Pass on the Yu- kon side lies Crater Lake, the first of a in of three lakes, with narrow por- tages, on which the Yukoner may have his outnit carried in smalil boats to witnin ee m.les of Luke Linderman, for from 1 1 o 12 cents a pound. When I came h supplies were being slid down rom the summit in tarpaulins over a long d of snow to these boats. The trail from Lake Linderman to with- in a mile of the foot of Crater L ke is dry and good traveling. Men and pack-horses are moving over it easily all the time, The trail along Crater Lake runson the | slope of ridges of rock much of the dis- jtance, and must be proceeded over care- f is timber from two to four miles | | hips, must be forded, | the foot of the summit, is sofi, muddy, | marsby, good, bad and indifferant. | are many short, sieep climbs, but no long pensable in moving heavy arti against the sun is illustrated in N N 3 THE MOUTH OF KHYBER PASS, From the British Advance Camp at Hurri Singh Ka Bomj, Eight Miles Southwest of Peshawur. In the distance to the left are seen the snow-capped White Mountains, and in the center the tall point of Tartara, which stands four miles northeast of the summit of the pass, with a height of 6800 feet. seen one of the forty-pound Armstrong guns belonging to the Elephant Battery, and two of those animals, whose services are indis- On the edge of the camp in the foreground is lery through such a rough country. Their sagacity in covering their heads with straw as a protection the picture. fally. Isaw Indian women packing from 50 to 100 pounds over it. Indian men take from 75 to 200 pounds, the latter weight being as much as is put on a pack horse |on a smooth trail. I met a continuous | procession of packers on the Yukon side of the Chilcoot Pass. They were cheerful and contident. | A ship’s cargo of outfits is piled up pic- | turesquely on the summit of the pass. It | is about 1000 feet higher than the White | Pass. The climb to the summit of the Chilcoot on the coast side is 1000 feel, | seemingly straight up. From below it | looks impossible to scale it with a pack on | the back. One must pull himself up un | | hands and knees in many places. | The effort to reach the summit is ap- palling to a white man, yet it is being ascended every day by scores of Klon- dikers and Indians, Alofi they look like ants crawling from rock to rock. The wind howls throgh the snort, narrow can- yon at the top. Horses without a pack have gone over the summit of the Chil- coot and are being used for packing on the other side. From the ferry on the trail just above Dyea to the foot of the canyon the trail follows the river bottom, and is level, but rocky. Several swift streams, deep to the | The tra:l from the foot of the canyon to Sheep Camp, near | There ones. Streams on this stretch are crossed on fallen trees, the upper surfaces of which are hewn flat. Horses ford. There is one bridge over which a toll of 50 cents is| charged for each horse. | The distance from Dyea to Sheep Camp is fourteen miles, and from Dyea to Lake | Linderman is twenty-eight miles. Res- taurants at Sheep Camp furnish meals at | 75 cents. Several hundred tents are pitched at Sheep Camp, which is the most important and populous relay post on the trail, Over 300 Indians are packiug on | this trail. | Cuief Donabauk hassent word to all the coast tribes of Alaska to send more In- | dians. Donabauk is the big chief of the coast. The price for packing from Dyea to Lake Linderman is now 32 cent-, occa- | sionally 35 cents, per pound. Along this Continued on Second Page. CAMP AT LAKE L'NDERMAN. (From a i hotograph taken three weeks ago.) (NTEP | HOLD THER GOVERNMENT General Collazo Writes of the Election in Camaguey. FIFTEEN THOUSAND VOTES CAST. Proof That the Patriots Can Act in the Midst of the Strife. TWO SIDES TO THE CASE OF MISS CISNEROS. In Prison the Girl Is Treated More Kindly Than Has Been Represented. TAMPA, Fra., Sept. 2.—Brigadier-Gen- eral Enrique Collazo of the Cuban army has written several letters to his family in this city on the situation of affairs in Cuba. The letter, though greatly delayed, contains some new features. Under date of La Puz, June 26, 1897, he writes: “We have just passed the electoral period with tranquillity and the exercise of our rights of liverty. There were 15,000 votes cast in Orienta, the eastern dlivision, which is composed of the provinces of Camaguoy, Puerto Principe and Santiago. The official board met at Malanoche on the 24th of June and declared the results. “The final meeting to select the new Government will ‘be held scme time in September. 1 think we will change the Government without any difficulty and in conformity with the law, so that the out- side world can see that in the midst of this terrible struggle we can live together as a free people in the exercise of our just righte, “There has been but little doing in the way of operations recently. The excis- sive rains and the sickness of the Spanish soldiers have really paralyzed all opera- tions on their part and we can do but nttle.” e WELL IREAED IN JAIL, Ihere Has Been Much Emaggeration in Micx Cisneros’ Case. NEW.YORK, N. Y., Sept. 2.—A speoial | to the World from Havana (via Key West, Fla.) says: I saw pretty Evangelina Ci neros to-day in the Casa de Reo prison. The jail is full of women and children, black and white. . The children are with their mothers, because they have no homes. Political prisoners are kapt in one big room on the second floor of the miserable buiiding. Rations are distribuied each day either out in the vard orin the rooms. I was allowed to pass through the outside iron gate into a small room with a stone ' floor, on one wall of which was painted in large letters, *‘Sala de justicia. Evangelina was sent for upstairs. Ina few minutes Evangelina came tripping downstairs and walked gracefully across the end of tne courtyard and out through the gate into the reception-room. Bhe is pretty beyond. question. Her black hair was brushed back from her forehead and bhung in a plait down her back to her waist, : Her face is pale and thin. It has lost its tullness of a year ago. Her eyes are brignt and even defiant, and they flash under half-closed eyelids whenishe speaks of ber persecutors, and then soften with the sweetest expression when the sym- pathy of the American public is referred to. She is petite of figure and graceful in all her movements. Her manners are perfect and her self- poise wonderful. She saysshe is 18, but 1ogks as though she might b~ 25. She said she did not receive her meals from the outside because she was afraid of ireach- ery.. She does not have to scrub floors or do any manual labor and is in no way ill- treated. She has a very ciean-looking cot, with white sheets and coverlet, and a trunk in which to keep her clothes. There are about eight or ten other women in the same room. Evangelina is ‘most animated. She is the star boarder, receives more attention and has more visitors. She told me that the letters which she received from Colonel Berris on the Isle of Pines and which evidence his guilty inientions ioward lier were sent to her friends in Spain, and are in the hands of the Queen Regent. She says if they could be pro- unced before a fair court his conviction would be certain. The colonel says that he never wrote her but one letter, and in that granted a permit to her father to travel as a peddler. There you have a conflict of testimony. She said the prosecuting attorney had said she would be sentenced to twenty years’ banishment. She said she knew Colonel Berris was coming to her house one night, because his secretary Lad told her so. Sheopened the door when he knocked. As to how he was seized or by whom she would not say. She escaped from him, but was arrested the following moruning and brought to | Havana. She says the greatest iavor any one could do for her would be to secure for her an interview with Generai Weyler. She says: ‘I could convince him if he would only hear me.” I dare say the General does not care to be exposed to these eyes and winning ways. A society belle could not have enter- tained callers more gracefully nor with more vivacity. A careful examination of the case of Evangelina Cossio shows there are two sides. There has been much exaggeration in the reports of her case. She is not ill- treated. 4 She 1s not forced to scrub floors, nor to do any work. She is not made to sleep in a filthy dormitory with vile women. She is not compelled to eat bad food. Sheis not sick and consumpiive, and she has not been tried and sentenced to be banished to a penal settlement. Furthermore, the jailer told me he knew she was going to be pardoned within a short time and releasea. However, the other side of the question is bad. From July, 1896, to February, 1897, she was kept downstairs in this miserable jail with al] the low women and criminals. - Therefore althoug: there has been ex- aggeration, there has been ample cause for a protest against the Spaniarus’ treat- ment of this young woman arrested for political reasons. In Government circles nothing has been heard from Madrid in regard to trans- ferring Evangelina toaconvent. Opinions differ as to whether such achange would be of benefit. If her case is let alone for a while I am confident she will be released and'perhaps ordered to leave the island. et S INSUKGEMNTS SURPRISED, Spanish . <uthorities Hepart the Usual “ Viotories” in Cuba. HAVANA, CuBa, Sept. 2—It was offi- cially announced to-day that a fores of Spanish infantry, commanded by Captain Cesaro Ponton, at sunrise yesterday sur- prised an insurgent force camped on the heights of Joro, province of Pinar del Rio; killing twenty-six of the enemy and wounding several others. The Spaniards captured several prisoners. Another Spanish column, while recon- noitering in the hills of Rubi and La Guna, province of Pinar del Rio, killed twenty-four insurgents, the official re- ports say. Captain-General Weyler, escorted by a detachment of 150 cavalry from Madruga, passed through Sun Antonio and San Nicholas yvesterday and camped for the night at the sugar plantation of Amistead, nea: Guines, this province. On nis wav through San Nicholas the captain-zeneral fined the Mayor of that place $100, and imprisoned the military contractor as San Nicholas, both oi them having been coucernad in delivering in- complete rations to the troops. A severe earthquake skcck was felt at Santiago de Cuba yesterd R ST Niek Boldiera demt Home. HAVANA, Cusa, Sept. 2.—The last two steamers which have sailed for Spain car- ried 1600 sick soldiers. Captain-General Weyler received from Spain to-day $2 000,000 in silver to be used in defraying the expenses of the warin Cuba. R DT Irritation of Spaniards. MADRID, Sparx, Sept. 2—All thenews- papers of the city published strong pro- tests against the mission of General Stew- art Woodford, the new United States Min- ister to Spain, thus causing widespread irritation against the United States. EXPLANATIONS DEMANDED, Germany Wants to Know the Full Extent of Franco-Russian Alliance. BERLIN, GerMANY, Sept. 2.—It is as- serted upon reliable suthority that the German Government will demand from France an explanation’ of the dispatch sent by M. Meline, the French Premier, in reply to the message of congratulation of the Alsace-Lorraine Society upon the signing of the Franco-Russian alliance with the French republic. Germany, it is announced, also will de- mand satisfaction for the excesces com- mitted before the German embassy in Paris on the-evening of President Faure’s return from his visit to Russia. G S n Workmen Buried in EKuins. GENEVA, - SWITZERLAND, Sept. 2—A dispatch from Montreux, fourteen miles from here, announces that an asylum for the insane, which was in cours: ot erec- | tion there, has collapsed; burying a num- ber of workmen in the ruins. Up to the time the message was sent the bodies. of seven men had been recovered and seven others, seriously’ wounded, removed trom the wrecked buildine. . Siam’s King Visits Bismarck. FRIEDRICHSRUHE, GErmany, Sept. 2.—The King of Siam paid a visi: to Prince Bismarck to-day. H!s Majesty lanched with the ex-Charnicelior and they remained in conversation for a long time. | CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE ~ TRIBESMEN British Forces Will Now Take the Offensive in India. BIG EXPEDITIONS TO BE SENT OUT. Twenty Thousand Troops Will Proceed Into the Afridis Country. | THE EXPECTED RAIDS ARE CHECKED. Meanwhile There Is Severe Fight= Ing in Which Rebellious Natlves Are Defeated. SIMLA, Ixpra Sept. 2 —Colonel Abbott, with two guns and a equadron of the Eighteenth Bengal Lancers and the First ! Regiment of Sikhs, has attacked 1500 of the enemy at Doabakdo, on the road from Hangu to Thiei. The Orakzais fled, the cavalry failing to cut off their retreat. The rumor that the Indian Government is about to send fresh letters to the Ameer of Afghanistan regarding the allezed com- plicity of Afghans in the frontier upris- ings proved to be without foundation, | The Ame:1’s first reply to the Govern- ment is regarded as satisfactory. News has been received that the flying column unter command of Colonel Richardson has reached Sadda, thus ren- dering the Parchinar headquarters, in the Kurram Valley, safe, as Sadda commands the only route from the Orakzai country. The news from the Kohat side is satis- factory also, thej Orakzais having with- drawn from their territory, though a large | force of them is still facing Samana. The authorities have sanctioned the im- mediate concentration of two brigades un- der Colonel Elles at Shabkadar, to ad- vance as a punitive force direct into the Mohamand country and check an ex- ! pected raid by Haddah Muliah with 2000 tribesmen. This decision has given great satisfac- tion, and the knowledge that the British forces bave at least taken the offensive will probably have a deterrent effect upon the tribes all along the frontier. It is reported that a punitive expedition consisting of 20,006 men will shortiy be sent into the Afridi country with orders to push on to Tirah. BOMBAY, Ixpia, Sept. 2.—The British post at Gazarbund, Beluchistan, which was held by natiye levies, was attacked on Sunday night last by a number of Bra- huis, who murdered and robbed the levies and some travelers who had soughtrefuge there. There is no decisive news from any- where zlong the frontier this morring. The centers of interest are Hangu and SBhabkadar, where serious fighting is im- minent. The Second Regimentof Gourkhas, with Brigadier-General Yeaiman-Briggs and his staff, have arrived at Hangu. There the camp, which was opened and scattered, has been formed into a defensis ble vposition surrounded by sheltered trenches and breastworks of earth bags. AU “J ¢ ;«"‘;"4( W ,/V) SR\ ) ) i!/lx‘ LORD ELGIN, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. Lord Elgin, Governor-General of India, will have his hands full now that the uprising 1n that country has reached such dangerous proportions. The post of - Viceroy is one of immense rasponsibility, but it is believed that the British noble- - man now at the head of the Government will prove equal to the task. Heisa man of high courage and ability combined, and.is just the kind of man to meet the crisis that now confronts him. Elgin was educated at -Eton and Oxford, and on leaving the university spent several years in travel. treasurer of the Queen’s household and many minor official posts with much cre In 1886 he was appointed first commissioner of work: He held dit, and when in 1893 he was made Viceroy of India the appoiniment was received with general approbation. Since he took up the reins of government he has had many difficuities to contend with. Lady Elgin, who was the daughter of the ninth Earl of Southesk, and whom he mar- ried in 1876, has busied herself with the uplifting of the women of India.