The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1897, Page 1

' “ N VOLUME LXXXIL—NQ, 115¢ SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VIGOROUS WAR THE FEVER| UPON Still the Yellow Scourge Is Spreading in the Cres- cent TWELVE NEW CASES AND TWO City. FATALITIES. Record of Twenty-Four Hours at the Health Office—The Late st Outbreaks Scat- tered—Many More Are Looked For. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 22.—The official record in the Boara of Health office at 6 o’clock showed a total of twelve cases since 6 o'clock yesterday evening and two deaths. The new es are for the most part widely scattered, and sev- eral of them at least do not seem to have been the come of local infection. 1tis rent t the microbes brought over om Biloxi and Ocean Springs bating and that many more ver are to be looked for. The system of quarantine and sanitation in vogue here is unquestionably showing good resuits, and .whatever spread there 13 of the sickness is confined to houses in which yeliow fever already exists or on premises immediately adjoining. The | cases terminating fatally to-day were: Dr. Joseph Lovell, aged 2 Charles avenue. Miss abeth Mussbaum, years, 1300 Gales street. Dr. Lovell’s aeath has been expectad for four days. -He contracted the disease while attending a number of patients who were suffering with the Ocean Springs jever. He overworked himself, and when siricken, his constitution has been so shattered that the chances were against his recovery. Members of the Board of Health this safternoon paid 2 visit to the camp of de- tention at Oaxland Park. They found everything in excellent condition and the refugees comfortably situated. This morning wagonettes went down to the Italian quarter camp a largs number of people. A first the Italians, many of whom are unable to speak English, were decidedly mutinous and declined to enter the ve- , but the Italian Consuland a num- of policemen soon convinced them that it was to their interest to go to the camp of detention and they finally yielded. 7 years, 7717 St. aged 17 It is expected that by to-morrow might | there will be a couple of hundred refugees in camp. Strict military discipline will rule the camp and there will be guards | stationed at all avenues of approach and exit. At 6 o'clock to-night the physician i of the refugees in camp were well. Mayor Flower convened the finance committee to-day and after a consultation with the city’s financial agents succeeded in securing an offer of $25,000 of imme- diately available money, to ve placed 1n the hands of tne Board of Health, to be used in prosecuting a vigorous war upon the fever. There were seven new cases reported at Ocean Springs to-day and seven patients who had been ill were discharged. There are still fifteen under treatm-nt. At Biloxi Michael Levy, aged 17, died ihis morning of the fever. J. W. Sweetman, a prominent druggist of Biloxi, and his wife, are among the new cases of sickness reporied to-day. There are now 200 whites and negroes at the Fontainebleau detention camp. People are constantly arriving and a special train js making frequent trips between the in- fected towns and the camp. The patients in the Marine Hospital tents are doing well and are understood to be in nodanger. S Ee A CONSTERNATION AT HOUSION. Death of the Lovejoy Boy Causes Rigid Quarantine. HOUSTON, TEx., Sept. 22.—The death of the Lovejoy boy at Beaumont to-day has caused some consternation in this city. The town is rigidly quarantined. A number of Health Officers met here to- day for a conference on the situnation. | The following telegram was received : ORA | TEX., Sept. 22.—Mayor Rice and the conyention of beiltn officers in Houston: In Missisgippi and Louisiana science has made s gallant struggle to suppre ana has signally failed. I have tried to in- urate & quarantine of like kind in Texas, £nd I pelieve ] have the best line of aelense ever raised ageinst an epidemic, but I think | too, will fail, and therefore have declared <olute quarantine aud intend to instruct my rantine inspectors. 'R. M. SWE. After this was read the conference re- solved to await the coming of Dr. Swear- ingen. who will arrive to-night, and to- morrow just what will bedone in Texas will be decided upon. CUOMING FROM COLON. S'eamship Finance Brings Iwo Cases of a Mild Type. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 22.—The Co- Jumbian line steamer Finance, Captain Daily, arrived this morning from Colon with eighteen cabin and five second-cabin pasaengérs. There were two cases of sick- ness during the voyage. On September 18 Pat Keating, & fireman, was taken ill and removed to the ship’s hospital, and John ndeman, a student from San Jose de Gautemala, aged 20 years, was taken sick. Endeman was isolated from the rest o and moved .out to the | cbarge of the camp announced that all | vellow fever, | | the passengers, and on arrival at Quaran- | tine the health officers had both patients | removed to Swineburn Island Hospital. | They are suffering from yellow fever in mild form. The steamer will be detained until noon | | for a thorougn disinfection, and the pas- | sengers will all be transferred to Hoffman | rvation. —— SITUATION Al I<land for obse MUBILE. | Stight Increase in Number of Cases, but | | No Deaths. slight increase in ‘the number of new cases of yellow fever during the twenty- four hours ending at noon to-day, but this was offsei by the announcement that there were no deaths to record, that five patients were discharged and that all the patients were doing well. There have been no deaths bere since the third one on Saturday last. Total number of cases, thirty-four. The new cases are four in number, namely : Father Daniel Murray of 8t. Vincent's parish. John H. Matthews, Uhurch street, near Marino. MOBILE, Ara., Sept. 22.—There was a | be no apprehension about the yellow fever finding its way into Los Angeles through | shipments from that city. Special quar- antine officials of thecompany are located | at Algiers, across the river from New | Orieans, which is not an infecied pors, | and there by authority of the State offi- | | cials freight is placed on boara of the Morgan steamers and seng to its destina- | | tion without the slightest detention. g | FUMIGATING THE MAILS. Message of the State Board of Health of | BMlis cissippt. i VICKSBURG, Miss., Sept. 22.—The State Board of Health wired the following mes- | sace to Superintendent Terre.l of the Ra! way Mail service at Atlanta this afternoon, in reply to his message concerning infor- mation from infect-d points: Mail is properly fumigated at all infected points except at Edwards, and wiil be recsived | is feared it will become more malignant owing to the warm weather. There are more than 100 families inside the lines unaffected, with a total of about 500 souls, and inaications are that noth- | ing but killing frost can allay the disease. Dr. Purnell has applied to the Howard Association oi Vicksburg for more help, doctors and nurses. The Sistersof Mercy, five in numvper, from Vicksburg, with Father Prendergast, are doing noble work. Rev. Mr. Galioway and Rev. Mr. Colmery are both reported convalescent. | TRIBESMEN FIGHT DESPERATELY. Fierce Onslaughts Upon Three Sides | of a Square of British Soldiers. PESHAWUR, Ixpra, Sept. 22.—A dis- | | | PRESIDEN T LOLE. £rom a photograph by Dav y, taken two wecks since.] | | GRABBING MORE OF THE FRONT Southern Pacific Wants More Oakland Tide Land. ALL THE COURT LEFT FREE. Fences Being Erected Along the Shores of the Estuary. FROM THE TRESTLE TO THE MILL. Citizens Fear It Will Be a More Im- i passable Barrler Than Existed Before. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FrANCISCO CALL.} 908 Broad way, Sept. 22. Not since the celebrated water-front war of four years ago has there been such gen- eral interest and excitement shown in re- zard to the estuary as there was to-day. The report was circulated all over the city that the railroad company was build- ing a fence and grabbing the whole of the water front that was not covered by the recent decision of the Supreme Court. A crowd quickly gathered at the eastern shore of the arm of the estuary that leads to Lake Merritt, where a force of men was at work ariving stakes and erecting a fence. It was the general opinion that the railroad company has no right to erect clearly declared that all that property had never been in litigation and that its title had therefore never gone out from the State. From the lake east, including Session’s | basin, was regarded as the only piece of the whole water front north of the estuary that was absolutely free of the company's claim. It was claimed by the water-front company in its suit, but the claim was completely upset by the Supreme Court, and Oakiand congratulated itself that there was one clear stretch of warter front any fences east of the lake, as the decision | property they are now fencing in entirely shuts out all communication with the water front, and erects a more impassable parrier than ever existed before. Meny acres of valuable land have been filled in around Session’s basin, and ail sorts of claims are made as to what was originally the tide line, but the fenceinow being erected wiil undoubtedly include jall that might by any possibility be claimed by the company. W. R. Davis, senior counsel for the water {ront, said to-night: “‘The railroad company claimed every- thing along the shores of East Oakland to the tidal canal and around throngh the Alameda shores. That has been their stronghold ail along. - The State has never relinquished its ownership to that land and | is now the sole owner of it. By the recent | decision of the Supreme Court the entire water front along the Brcoklyn shoreis given to the State. “Iam not sure but that includes the grounds that the tracks are on, still that may have been marsh land. Only a Gov- ernment engineer can tell that. If they are fencing in the tide land it cannot do them any good. The fight now is with the State. They cannotdo anything that will affect the city’s interests. Engineer Leconte of the United States Government Surveying Department has been engaged for the past three or four days in running lines over that property. Iam sure I do not know for what it wasdone. If the railroad proposes to muke a grab there they will accomplish nothing by fencing that which does not belong to them. It may be that they are erecting a fence along the line of property they claim under the recent decision.” SOUND-MONEY CoMMISSION. Future Work Outlined at the Initial Mesting of the Grgani- zation. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 22.—The monetary commission appointed under the authority of the Indianapolis Sound- Money Convention heid its opening ses- sion at the Arlington Hotel in this city to-day. All the members of the comm sion except Stuyvesant Fish of New York and L. A. Garnett of Sun Francisco were present. The afternoon meeting was devoted to preliminary discussion of the scope of the investigation and the methods to be pur- sued. Ex-Senator Edimunds was chosen to preside over the deliberations of the commission and G. E. Leighton of St. Louils was elected vice-chairman. A spe- cial committee, consisting of Messrs. Leighton, Patterson and Fairchild, was appo nted for the purpose of considering the question of what expert help the com- mission may need in the prosecution oi its work and of suggesting methods to be followed in disposing of the questions presented. This committee will recommend that two experts, with salaries, be appointed to collate in proper form the suggestions that have been received for reference to the anpropriate committees. The persons 10 be recommendea are L. Carroll Root of New York and H. Parker Willis of Chi- | H. Waterhouse. J. N. Wright. F. Northrup. H. B. Cooper. H. W. Schmidt. F. 8. Lyman. W. H. Rice. J. A. King. 8. M. Damon. w. W. J. Homer. W. C. Wilbur, Cecil Brown. President of the Senate. —————— 0. Smith. H. L. Holstein. J. F. Ciay. S. Kauhane. 6. Wilcoz. H. P. Ba'dwin. J. McCandcss. ‘ THE HAWATIAN SENATE, Taken Immediately After Signing the Ratification of the Annexation Treaty. From a photograph by Davey. | John Shea, Charles street, near Selma. | Paul Violette, a child, corner of Frank- lin and Augusta streets. All these are in the disinfected districts. There has been no spread of the disease | from the cases in other parts of the city. Father Murray, whose illness was an- | nounced to-day, came here from Moni- gomery ten days ago. He celebrated mass | and preached at St. Vincent's last Sun- | day and took the fever th s afternvon, his | fever being high. The ‘‘Can’t Get Away Club” of Mobile | isdoing great work in relieving the sick | and distressed. The noble organization has performed great deeds in the past | week here and in the neighboring cities. | The amount of distress in the city is not yet great, but itis growing, very many of tbe families having had their means of support taken away by the general stop- page of business. s RIS SOUTBRERN PACIFIC PRECAUTIONS No Danger of the Fever Finding Its Way to Lov imgeles. | LOS ANGELES, CaL, Sept. 22—The Southern Pacitic Company makes the an nouncement that it is shipping no freight either into or through the plagne-infected city of New Orleans, and that there need at all points in Missiesippl. An inspection was made at Edwards in order to have any mail service at all in that line. J. F. HuxTER, M.D, W. D. KIGER. At the request of the Louisiana State | board the Mississippi board will send Dr. | Frank Nailles, a yellow fever exvert, to investigate suspicious cases at California, Tallulah and New Delphi, La. He goes by special train. Last night two guards near Vicksburg halted ihree men coming in, who at once fired on the guards. The latter returned the fire, when a scream m one of the assailants was heard. The identity of the attackinz party is not known. Headquarters of the State Board of | Health were established at Jackson to- day. Dr. Kiger went over this afternoon, but will return, ————— EDWARDS CALLS FOR HELP, Eight New Cases and an Appeal. for Dociars and Nurses. EDW ARDS, Miss., Sept. 22 —Eight new cases of yellow fever are reporied. Total to dat~, eighty. One death to-day makes a total to date of three. The disease is rapidly spreading, and 'while it is regarded as'a mild type, yet i patch from Lakarai says that the attack which the Haddah Mullah made at 9 o’clock last Monday evening with a large and well-organized force of insurgent tribesmen on Camp Nawagai, where Gen- eral Sir Bindon Blood is in command, was marked by several fierce rushes upon three sides of the British square simul- taneously. . The enemy was #o determined in the attack that the bodies of the tribesmen were found a few yards from the muzzies of mountain guns. The forces of General Blood and General Elles have not been combined at Lakarai. General Blood will give General Eiles one of his brigades and will take the other to support Ganeral J«ffrays, who is having further trouble with the Mahmunds. [ Shutting Down Lobster Factorirs. S8T. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 22.—There is intense indignation on St. Georges Bay over the action of the British warships in closing down the lobster factories of residents and confiscating the products A repetition of this proceeding is threat- ened all along the French shore. The naval officers say that the factories in- erefere with those of French fishermen,, that was not the property of any one but the State. The company, however, has a different opinion, and the fence it 13 now construct- ing is to reach, if the orlers be carried out, from the eastern end of the Seventh- street trestle clear to the cotton-mills and Twenty-third avenue. The order for thi« amount of work has been given at the vards and much of the material has already been delivered at the water front. The property to be fenced in includes the cotton-mill’s wharf. Miller’s wharf, Dorly’s tannery, J. 8. Kimball's wharf, Session’s wharf, Derby Lumber Company’s wharfand S ssion’s basin. Some of this property is supposed to be held by what is known as tne Stratton title, and about six weeks ago a transfer was made by Mr. Stratton, father of Sena- tor F. S. Stratton, to other parties, pre- sumably the Scientific Improvement Com- pany. ‘Stratton derives his title partly from squatters’ title and partly from State’s patents, and so far as marsh land is concerned such titie is probabiy good. The, tide lands, however, are declared to be the proverty of the State, and asthere is not a single street open through the entire water front from the lake to the cotton 'he people threaton to resist the marlnes, | mills, the claim of the company to the | deputy lisutenant of Suffolk, cago. The appointment of three general committees will also be recommended on zold and currency, on United States cur- rency and on the banking question, to which the suggestions rece.ved will be re- ferrad. The decision reached by the specia commitiee will be laid before the commis- sion ‘to-night. Hon. H. H. Kohlsaat and Geor -e Foster Peabody, who are members of the Indianapolis executive committee which appointed the commission, are sit- ting with the members of the general body in the preliminary stages of its work. To-night the commission agreed to the selection of Messrs. Root and Willis as collating secretaries. Nothing else was accomplished. aRE SEL Cardinal Bishop Guarino Dead. ROME, Irary, Sept. 22—A dispatch from Messina, 8icily, announces the death of Mgr. Guiseppe Guarino, Car- dinal Bishop of Messina. He was born in Sicily in 1821 and was created a Car- dinal in 1893. Em S Fiaron Huntingfi-ld Dead. LONDON, Exa., Sept. 22.—Caarles An- drew Vanneck, third Baron Huntingfield, is dead. He was born in 1818, a; NO RELLEF FOR THOSE Wil HONGER Project to Send a Food Train to Dawson Abandoned. |MINERS MUST SAVE THEMSELVES. Men of Juneau Argue That the Klondikers May Yet Flee From Famine. SACKS OF GOLD FROM FORT WRANGLE. Seven Sald to Bringing Out Sevsn Hundred Pounds in Dust. Prospectors Be JUNEAU, "Araska, Sept. 17 (via Seattle, Wash.), Sept. 22 —The pro- ject to organize an expedition to o to the rehef of the hungry hordes at Dawson City was considered by a number of business men here. Aftera careful examination it was abandoned as impracticabl-—in fact, as quite impossible. It is expected here that all the men who have not provisions enough to last them until supplies can get in nex: summer will leave Dawson of their own volition or be compelled to leave by a town organiza- tion formed to meet the emerzency and 2o down the Yukon River to St. Michael. Thousands can get out of Duwson in canoes and small boats if thev will seize the opportunity within the next twenty days. In case a relief expedition got through with 2 large quantity of provis- ions there would not, aiter the exodus to 8t. Michael, be enough people leit to buy provisions et & price sufficient to recoup the expedition for its great expense in carrying food through, even if it were physically possible. RBeturning Klondikers say that packing is over at Dyea and Skaguay for the sea- son—that is, until next January or Feb. . ruary, when ‘spring’’ travel mdy be began on ine snow. There is notonly snow on the mountain passes, but on the trails. Those Klondikers who have not already built cabins are doing so with all possibie speed. A large spring rush is expected to go in over the snow. Many are expected to come down irom St Michael and go in overland if there is any way that they can leave the island post. It may seem curious to the uninitiated why, if there is snow now, the Klondikers caanot proceed on their way now as well as in the spring. Briefly, it 1s nit on account of the snow; solid ice, or, rather he lack of it, is the obstruction. It takes the lakes and rivers until January or February to freeze thick encugh to stand travel. The Kiondiker must stick to valley and river. He cannot get over the mountains. The wind disturbs the ice so much and piles it up in so many hummocks and unstable ways that it is impossible to attempt to pass over it until it is known to be solidly frozen, and that time experience has shown to be not be- fore January as a rule. Even then a trail has to be made over, around and through the ridges and hummocks of ice. At Skaguay business is decreasing, Sa- loon-keepers and gamblers are complain- ing, and a number of others of the sport- ing element have left. A considerable portion ot the town is built on piles about six fee! high over the water at high tide. Small icebergs and floes which fill Lynn Canal in the winter are expected 1o re- duce this portion of the city to a state of complete wreck. The nimble thimble- rigger is still on the trail and reaping a harvest. ‘W. J. Rogers of Tacoma, who returned here yesterday from Skaguay, says that $40 a sack is offered for oats at the sum- mit of White Pass and berond, and that they are not to be had even at that price. He says there isa corresponding scarcity of all other horse-feed, and that 1000 suf- fering, halt-starved beasts will never get out of the interior alive. They must starve in the snow or be shot outof mercy. A little story which illustrates the scar- city of feed is that a horse, smelling oats aiar off, broke into a pile of sacks and ate his fill. The owner of the oats claimed the horse in payment for the oats eaten, and got him. Then the horse foundered an'| died. Rogers says that scores of horses have chilled on the summit and died from pneumonia. Theft of provisions is increasing on both Dyea and Skaguay trails. So many are touched with suspicion that the number of guilty ones has greatly decreased the probability of hanging. The long expected and now overdue overland mail from Dawson City has not vet arrived. It is known here, the news having come around by way of S8t. Michael and Seattle, that the mail-carriers left Dawson City on August 15 for Juneau. W. T. Beveridge of Portland, Or., came up on a steamer three days ago from Fort Wrangle, arriving here just after the steamship Rosalie sailed for the south. He says seven men were at Fort Wrangle when he left, who had come out of the Klondike with 700 pounds of gold over the Stickeen trail. The miners were waiting for the next steamer for Seattle, which would in all probability have been the Rosalie. Beveridge soberly and earnestly avows that he saw the gold in the sacks and tried to lft it. Havr HorrMax. A A RUSHING 70 THEIR DEATH, Alaska’s District Attorney Deplores the Klondiie Excitement, nd "...lmSEATTLE, Wasn., Sept. 22.—“If men e from starvation and exposure in the