The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1897, Page 1

SEPTEMBER 00 =, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TREATY OF | ANNEXATION RATIFIED Hawaiian Senate Approves the Measure by a Unani- mous Vote. | are to-day the center almost of our western | NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS TO; 4 VOICE .A. PROTEST. Call for a Monster Anti-Annexation Mass-| Meeting for the 18th Inst.-—-Latest News of the Islands Brought by the City of Peking. The Senate of the Hawe held in the Hawaiian Islands. Some of u vote, e annexationists boped to be able to| et g bave denator Mor-an ad l'(‘sxllhe meeting th the objee 2 the ser 2| Senator ) n hesreact ; Bot e sonpmaat e patives, but there was little likel will endeavor to convert the mative and | ;504 of their pian meeting with success. for population to the theory of an The following translation of an icle | The larter, however, a vublished in the Luso, the organ of the! in their opj ac- | Por shows the alarm re-idents, with whi n regards a ation : ‘-Some of our countrymen appear sur- prised at the attitude of this journal with relation to the annexation of Hawaii, and not oniy our atiitude but also that of dif- from H of the population | periect est ad siands up to | ferent memvers of the colony, who, like The Senate | us during the last four years, have studied ving to | the situation and arrived at the same con- clusion. Know the foreig 1re, adjo most interested have latterly employed Has e Thoesaithior different means to convince some of our thanibwo Hours bat countrymen nbt only by arguments, but Bk biaty was i by representations less worthy of ] without a dissenting vote. | en. As to that number of b en e precedented | '10us countrymen who do not com- e Upper Chamber the Luso of | Prehend the situation, we mers h said |ly remind them tsat the per- ons who technicaliy £ght for annexation | without any conditions which may assure | to us the privileges to which we have a right, are the same who cansed some of our t fellow-countrymem to be| ¢S behind the bars of a jail after reet riot. estion is simple, and if they wiy gave notice the Sen- | republic of Hawail bas unani- ratified convention whicn o theUnited States, not only innocen vd tying up privileges w sof the Portuguese ¢ enj have enjoyed and wi.ic i only vered if the Congress of the | Were sincere in their promises they U es § ought to answer it without circumiocu- | equity, ~hall concede 10 P tion: What is the reason that in the | which we have a right. T..e sessior treaty of annexation wi 1s Just been ! cinsed on the 10th to be convened again | ratified by the Senate of Hawatl the con- { ditton ans, P ers shal not reversed, that the Hawa uese and other European vot- obtain the same privileges as any other American citizens? “If perchance the annexation shou!d | is next March in regular session.” ite the action of the Senate the ma- tive and foreigh population, b the ex- | n of the few Americans who are ad- | 2 annexation, are continuing their | fight against the plan with increased en- | be consummated, which wa doubt, the | and the leaders of the movement | Pirtuguese cotony as a political factor s the utmost confidence in their | ceases to exist, because in the foreign | to defeat annexation. vress, both here and in the United States, re the Peking left & call had beeu | it ha been indicated with suffic ent ciear- issued for a nmense mass-meeting to | ness that they fear the influence of the | be held on the 18ti;, and the lications | Portuguese vote in case this privilege were th it would be one of the lzrgest if | should be conceded to them. | Dot the greatest political gathering ever | “Independeucc and a good government | | | commercial | relation to our own growing commerce of Hawail means prosperity for the col ony, but annexation without the privi- lezes which we speak of means ruin.” The steamship Austraiia, hcving on board Unitea States Senator Joun T. Morgan of Alabama, Conzressmen A. S. Berry, J. G. Cannon, H. C. Loudenslager and J. A. Tawney arrived in Honolulu on the 13th. They were accorded a warm Senator Morgan stood the voy- sge exceedingly well and was 1n excel'en health. The Hawaiian Siar of the foliow- ing day published this interview with him: *I have nothing of a definite nature to weicome. | say to the newspapers now, as I must first hiave an opportunity to study the situa- tion from a new point of view. You may say that I am predisposed in favor of an- nexation. I have been an annexationist practically for thirty years, ever siuce the question has been agitated. *“My attention was first directed to these islands through their civilization by the missionaries and their developmentin a way. Tueir importance in came to me later, and 1t grows upon me the more i study the question. Tnese islands empire, and much nearer to us in’every | way than our outlying Alaskan nosses- sions. Aside from their commercial value their importauce to us as a uaval station | to guard and protect our rapidly growing commerce on the Pacific is, I think, a matter for thoughtful consideration. “During my stay in Honolulu I hope o re such data as will ensble me to act in the matter intelligently. It has never been mv good fortune to meet any natives, and I desire very much tomeet and converse with them. We are not disposed to do anything that will bring pain or degradation upon them because of our superior strength. All these things must be considered 1n deal- ing with so important a question.”” The dele American Union party convention have comnpleted their platform, which was to be pre-ented for adoption at the conven- tion to be held on the evening of the 1 The vlatform, as arranged, was sho ana applied solely to island affairs. One of the planks pledged the party to an- nexation, first, last and ail the time. J. | A. Kennedy, chairman of the central | thatis ragin committee, was selected to call the con- | vention to order. According to the pro- mme as arranged in advance, the first business was to select & “temporary com- miitee, a mmittee on credeatials and one Aiter these had on organization. | made their report permanent organization | was to be affected. This was 1o be fol- lowed by the adoption of the platform and the selection of legisiative candidates. T. B. Murray had issued a call for a meeting of the American League on the 14th. It was the purpose to reorganize the league. Mr. Murray had announced his aetermination to retire from the presi- dency. - PASSENGERS ON 1HE PEKIMG. Eeturn of the Wife of Hawaiian Min- ister Hatch. Among the passenygers who came up on the Citv of Peking from Honoluin was Dr. H Hoyt of Sacramento, whe has ! been supniying the Central Union pulpit | ! during Rev. D. P. Birnie’s absence Japan. Mrs. F. M. Hatch, wife of the Hawaiian Minister at Washington, re turns to the United States for the winter. She will visit her mother in Oakland before proceeding to Washington. Dr. | Stephen D. Brooks of the United States | Marine Hospital Service is on his way to Boston, having completed a tour of China and Jupan, where he made a thorough in- vestigation of the quarantine condi- tions. The other passengers were Miss Annie H. Parke, C. M. Pep- per of New York, Mr. and Mr: H. H. Wilcox of Kauai, T. A. Taylor, Mrs. V. Johnson and F. E. Brown. Th Peking brings the following passenge: from Yokahama: Miss Vesta Atkinson Hon. U. W. Mclvor, Helen E. Mclvor, Carliste C. Mclvor, A. Waley, Miss Koka, Mrs. N. W. McIvor, Henrietta F. Mclvor, Mr Ah Cheong, G. 0. Muca Yanna, N. age. es who were chosen to the | i | Igarasha and 289 in the steer- | ST LOUIS SITED B THE PLAGUE | = At Least the Yellow Fever Scare Reaches | That City. |A SUSPECT QUICKLY | QUARANTINED. | | | jPhysicians Declare, However, | That the Reports Are Exaggerated. DREAD DISEASE SPREADS NORTHWARD. | NIne New Cases Reported to the Health Authorities at New Or- leans, but No Deaths. S8T. LOUIS, Mo, Sept. 21.—Thiscity has a yellow fever scare to-day, but there seems to bave bezn but little foundation for it according to Health Commissioner Starkloff, who made an examination of the suspected case and declared it showed not a singie symntom of the dread disease n the Sonth. The suspect is Witliam Tripl, 30 vears hed the Marine Hospital Monduy night. He had a high fever ana said he came from the Government | drelgeboat Alpha, encased in revetment work near East Cairo, Kv. of age, who rex Dr. ( Decker, physician in charre of the Marine Hospital, became interested in the case when he was told by Tript that he had been working on the Alpha, for that bost had been usea in transporting several cases of yellow fever to the Marine Hospital at Cairo, 1ll, Thinking it a case for investigation telephoned Health Commissioner Starkloff, but it was 10 | o’ciock before the doctor cou.d get to the | | bospital. He examined Tript and then returned to his office in the City Hall. In gard to the case Dr. Starxloff said: “1 have made a thorough examination | of Tript with Drs. Jardan and Decker. | The analysis vresented to we makes the | case look like one of ordinary intermittent fever. 1f itis yellow fever it is of a very mild type. Thereare none of those alarm- ing symptoms, such as suppression of the kidney funciions and constipation—the | two things that kill in yellow fever. Tript | says he boarded a boxcar on the Iron | Mountain road in the Cairo yards early on Monday and came here. When he left the boxcar he went directly to the Marine ( Hospital, Ishall have the patient sent ] 10 quarantine, where Dr. Woodruff is in | charge, and take all necessary precau- ions.” Two hundred clerks with their families, employea in the general offices of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company at Mobile, Ala., arrived here to-night, tem- porary headquarters of the road baving | been established in this city until after | the yellow fever nas died out in the South. | Dr. Paul Sequin, secretary of the State Board of Health, received information to- | day that two cases, supposed to be yellow tever, had developed on a dredgsboat at i Point Pleasant, Mo., 100 miles below Caire. THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF PEKING Entering the Harbor Last Night Bearing the Ne\;vs of the Signing of the Annexation Treaty by President Dole at Honolulu on September 9. many people die. and there was no indication of life. wife from the room as all was over, in this condition--the chest sunk in griet-stricken wife rushed in and cl and began rubbing and working ov and came to. “Oh, who brought me back? E so happy !’ San Francisco for nearly thirty SANTA MONICA, CAL., Sep have seen many people die and stood by him and watched his strug over, and | was there through the return to life. I can say that Mr. Graham’s particular. E g while, as he believes, out of the bod It is by no means certain thattbe patients have yellow fever, but the Marine Hospi- tal surgeons are proceeding on the assump- tion that they have. Dr. Paquin sent the following telegram to Dr. Walter Wyman, supervising sur- Hosnital Service: “What facilities has the Marine Service to deal with yellow fever in St l',ouln? Do you recommend any action by the | State Board of Health o' Missouri to co- operate witu your efforts? Do yeu think the preseat regulations will prevent fur- ther spread of yellow fever?” Surgeon-General Wyman replied as fol- lows to Dr. Paquin: “Recommend same course in St. Louis as was taken in 1878. Buggest that yo‘!ook alter Point Pleas- ant, Mo., with reference to dredgeboats there. Acting Assistant Surgeon Guiteras has left Cairo for Point Pleasant to inves- tivate and take immediate measures. You should assist him.” There was much indignation at the health department over the report from Chicago that there were ten cases of the fever in St. Louis. Dr. Starkloff, who received a long-distance telephoue inquiry trom ©hicago sbout it, said there was no foundation whatever for such a rumor. A special from Cairo, Lii, to the Post- Dispatch, says: Dr. Guiteras has diag- nosed two more cases of illness as yellow fever, John Miller at St. Mary’s Hospi- tal and M. Stevens on the dredzeboat at East Cairo, 1ll. Physicians claim the cuses are only swamp fever and the peonle retuse to believe that yellow fever is here. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 2L.—There were nine new cases of yellow fever re- ported to the Board of Health this after- the phys cians ended. There were, how- ever, no deaths recorded, and the doctors all agreed this evening that the situation was steadily improving. The fever at present, instead of developing into a malignant type, is as mila if not milder than when it first appeared, as witness twenty-seven cases in two days without a single death. To-night the inspectors of the Board of Health reported that most of the cases that had come under ther observation were progres ing most favor- ably. There are nearly twenty cases which g ve the attending physicians any reason for alarm. Up to the present time there has been little dread of tue iever. Sporadic cases are appearing about town, but the Board of Health thus far has been. enabled suc- cessfuily to quarantine each case that has appeared. Confidence, locally, is steadily increasing. There never measure of apprehension in New Orleans, but the city seems now 10 be settled down to the belief that there is absolutely no danger of an epidemic, and that within a very brief space of time, even before frost, the physicians will have succeeded in completely stamping out the sickness. A number of cases were discharged yester- day and to-day, and the total number of cases receiving strict attention to-day dees not exceed ten. Half a dozen towns to-day, by telegraph and telephone, notified the authorities here that they bad concludea to with- draw their restrictions against the receipt of freight from New Orleans. The circular issued by President Oliphant and Dr. Carter, of the Marine Hospital Service, seems to bave reached all sections of the State, and authorities in the smaller towns seem to have decided that there is no danger in receiving from New O:leans properly fumigated freight. MOBILE, ArA., Sept. 21.—This was an- other day of favorable reports. There was only one new case reported to-day, a child named Willie Goodloe, living in the affected districi. One case was discharged. There have been but three deat:s and none since Saturday. Dr.T. Q. Summers, representing the Tennessee Board of Health, has spent two days here. He made two trips to the persons sick with the fever, and his opinion is that there is an exceedingly mild type of yellow fever here, all the charactgristics bejng present, LI L IR LR A R LR R L R LA R L L R A L L LR R R R AR R “FOR IT WAS DEATH.” Thomas Graham Certain That His Son’s Spirit Had Fled, but Returned to His Disease- Racked Body. SANTA MONICA, CAL., Sept. father, and am in attendance upon him in this his last present when he died—for it was death—as | can testity’ who have seen He had ail the sy agony, the sweat, the labored breathing and the last gasping. When the breath seemed gone | put my ear to hi William Graham will be 25 years old the 1st day of next January. I think I know death when I see it, for | serv=d in our civil war four vears in the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. | foundries, and am well known there. Saw His Death Struggles. neighbor, died on that eventful night to the best of mv knowledge. 1 consifer it the most wonderful experience | have known. Seemed to Be Actual Dissolution. SANTA MONICA, CAL., Sept. 19.—I was present at ths time of the supposed death of Wiiliam Graham, and | have seen death a number of times, and this was or seemed to be actual dissolution. gasping breathing and the death struggle, and saw the subsequeant re- suscitation, and to me he related afterward his exp and his subsequentsuffering at being brought back into 5029999992222 929992229292 2229220299299 209229223 | geon-general of the United States Marine | noon at 6 o’clock when te day’'s work of | was a large | am William Graham’s illness. 1 was 19.—I mptoms of the end of mortality—the mouth and_chest 1 told one of the friends to take his and for fully fiftzen minutes he was and body tecoming rigid—when asping the body raised it ia her arms er him. After a time | | h he shivered verything was so beautiful! I was have lived in years, where | worked in different t. 19.—I am nearly 65 years old and can say that Wil'iam Graham, my 1 gles. - I told his wife when it was afterward wondz=rful miracle of his account is correct and true in every I heard the lence or sensations hat he saw s physical body- y—the beautiful coun:ry 200029922292920920209220222222222222022020222020922R9220222222229229999229982822992922922009928288022 JUUUULR,QD but in exceedingly miid form, so mild, in- deed, that if there had not been the sus. picion raised by the outbreak at Ocean Springs the svmptoms would probably { bave passed unnoticed. Traffic1s picking up daily despite the rigid quarantine maintained. The Mo- | bile and Birmingham road to-day got through a train with thelocal and throuzh | cotton and some through ireight for the | first time since the 12th inst. The first lot of refugees from the Missis- | sipi Sounl coa<t got in this morning per | | stenmer Georgia, which had been quaran- | tined at Fort Morgan. in the lower bay. | There were eleven passengers, 3 Rev. Father Murray parish, reported to be fever, died to-night. CHICAGO, IiL, Sept. 21.—The report that two ca<es of yellow fever have been di-covered at Cairo, 111, has not alarmed | the Chicago health officials. Health Com- missioner Reynolds doubts the cases at Cairo are yellow fever and believes they are either malaria or ‘‘breakbone” fever. He has no intention of rescinding his proclamation welcoming Southern refu- gees to Chicago. EDWARDS, Miss., Sept. 21.—Thirteen new cases of vellow fever are reportea, mak ng a total of seveonty-eight bLere and in tue country around. Colonel R. Robb died to-day of yellow fever. BOMBS AsE FLYING IN SPAIN, of Si. Vincent’s sick with yeilow | | Palace of the Marquis of Lois /s Destroyed during the #bsence of the Family. ! | MADRID. Spary, Sept. 21. | to telegr; According | ams from Oronso, capital of the | province of the same name, on the river | Minho, the palace of the Ma-quis of Lois | has been destroyed by a dynamite bomb. The outrage was perpetrated during the absence of the family, and no one wus in- jured. N g FIERCE FIGHTING I\DIA. General Woodhouve Severeln Wounded in an Engagement, SIMLA, Ixnia. Sept. 21.—The Haddah Mullah, with a large and well organized | force of insurgent tribe-men_ atracked the camp of General Sir Bindon Blood at 9| o’clock last evening. Fierce fighting, which lasted five hours, followed. Gen- eral Woodhouse was severely wounded. a Denth of @ ' ot-d Hivtorian. BERLIN, GER » Sept. 21.—Professor | | Withelm Wattenouch, the German his | torian, 1s dead. He was born in 1819 and | was the author of many valuable voiumes of history. | T ere is no question of mc | of absor | playing in | comiorts D HE SEE BETOND THE ARK VEL? William Graham’s Tale Given Credence by His Relatives. STATEMENT MADE BY HIS FATHER. Insists That There Can Be No Doubt as to the Young Man’s Death. LIFE RETURNED TWENTY MINUTES LATER. Others Who Were at the Sick Man’s Bedside Corroborate the Parent’s Story. SANTA M ONICA, CaLn, Sept. e importanc nce—not only o the individuality of thatexistence; ther when lite isended the spirit is d with a common sourc: the most high, or reiains its know and is nitted to go on in a higher ate and prove the inherent :as prompted its Therefore, the strange story of Wi Graham,who, according to those at his by side, died, and after ny minutes—from fifteen to twen vas called back to earth by the insisient griet of his wife, must be ng interest. Grabam: is not a sen- time . but a practical, b t younyg man, with more than tue ordinary intel- ligence. He made a brave strugsle for his life, home and happiness, he knew that the progress of his disease (consump- tion) could not be stayed he heroically than that of a fut of exis:ence, b re e wi even opes and a and when | worked as long as his will could force his weary body to do its bidding. Then he calmiy faced tue inevitable with a philos- optiy and patience rarely seen, but doubiy saddened by the fact t he must leave bis little family utterly unproyiced for. If Granam’s story comforts one poor doubting soul whois longing to know if there is a chance to ‘meet ioved cnes here- after 1t will have accomplished mach good, for that haunting question i s0 many who submit to life’s problems with the ever present hope that ihe future will atone. William Grabam has no fear now. is longing for his release. He For mouths he has been a sufferer, graduaily losing his splendid ality, but resolutely and bravely facing the inevitable. Months | ago he had to give up his cornet, which must bave been a serious deprivation, for he was a fine player, with a true m cian’s love for it. He resigned his po. tion in the bana at the Nat.onal Soldiers' | Home at this place, and went to Oakland two years ago. le worked there and in- San Francisco in diiferent position: rchestras in the evening, hop- ing to provide a fuad for his little famil A year thers demonstrated the fact that he must come to Southern California again. The family settled in Pomona, where he obtained light employment, but in a few months he had to give up even that. They came back to Santa Monica, where they both have many friends. The littie wife, who was Miss Ne Heath, had alsu | lived here since childhood. Still Graham struggled to care for his famiiy. A braver fight was never made, He has shown a wonderful heroism, but buman endurance iz limitable and the past few weeks of terrible suffering since he has been confined to his bed haye made him long for his release. When he was told there were buta few hours before him he seemed glad to be relieved from further suffering and when he came back, as from the erave, his first words were: “Oh, who brought me back? Why did you do it? Everyihing was so beauti- ful!” And the coming back was accompanied by further suffering; the cramped and shrunken body was contorted. One of the women present said to-da “I shall never forget that awful sight. It was harder than his death.” Grat.am said to his father, “You went little way with me, father,” and this the old man to think that his boy clung to him in memory. To one of the women preseat Nelson, wha isone of Sant known and respecte! raham described in detail as muchas his strength “ | THE GRAHAM HOME AT SANTA MONICA. _ |