The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1897, Page 1

% ST NS v LUME - SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TO CHECK THE SCHEMES OF JAPAN No Longer Any Doubt as to Measures of Precaution. WARNED BY A MESSAGE FROM MILLER. The Admiral Sent Word of the Peculiar Move of the Naniwa Kan. POINTED INSTRUCTIONS TAKEN BY THE WHEELING. An Order to Miller to Closely Watch the Mikado’s Men at Honolulu and to Hold the Islands Against SR All Opposition. ASHINGTON, D. C. That the he monitor to go on the drydock for a | ng, and by the time she is ready for | in itis expected thata crew will | been sent to her from one of the n stations. Inspector Edward Billows, formerly arge of tie navy pay office in San , and more receatly paymaster wport station, has been ordered us fleet paymaster on He s now in 8an Francisco and has appointed W. J. Cor- | win of Vallejo, Cal., as his c.erk, but the | appointment of fleet clerk has not been | hade vet | Orders will undoubtedly be issned in a| day or two for Chief Engineer Kirby, now Sept adminis ave fears ‘hat J precaation 1o | is no tern empire there at the to the Baltimore Admiral Miller's staff. in command of the is now at Honolulu adelphis, believes that ho to prev. the islands to the the annexa nited 8 rtment to tha ates, bt up on the m San Fran- . e in San Francisco, to join the Baltimore. t it caused consid- dered to the command of e Navy Depart- timore has not been decided upon. ling the Wheel- rned taat although the new gun ste. According etta has taken on her stores at nd, no orders have been issued a and none wiil be until trial unless the next olulu brings news that ive for her to join the y Departmeny | ead as follows: anese cruiser ~ left this po under ders to veiurn at a stated time. e Soon to Be Ready for Sea. VALLEJO, CaL. Sept. 26.—Two days have wrought a ful change in theap- pearance of the Baltimore, and there is no longer that she will be ready the firsi of the month. Con- San F.ancisco were sent for take the necessary measure- ts and put in bids for carpets, rugs ains, elc., for the officers’ quarters, and the contracts will be let Monday or Tues- day. The coniractors were given posiiive notice that tie firnishings must be deliv- ered before the 1st of O tober. t such a move as the 1892, at the time of | i ana the | es on th od any aoubt a by ciors f.o. Saturday a Kan was i.me, but orders, ostensibiy for but instead of re- went to one of t is, whe:e she remained for weeks, when she returned to t of everybody plans were was tooq, but it was the ier movements were can Minister me e neigh- THAIN-ROBBER BLUVYDER. that row the Amer : off their guard, and it the | /ntended to Lut the Express Car opportunity presented 1o either give aid | G 1o the exationists or take forcible | Away From the Train, but possess the islands in the name of | Missed it. the Japanese em or. The oppo ver oocurred, butthe| "MOORHEAD, Mrsx., Sent 26— The ent lias not forgotten the | Westiound passenger train on the North- ispatches the Wheeiing is | ern Pacific was held np three miles north Miller will again pre- | Of here at an early hour this morning. her scheme of | The express car carried a large sum of | money, which the robbers failed to secure home. gove aff d b 10 Admirs vent Japan from car preventing annexat It is sta sputed authority | ®Wing to a biunder in cutting off the cars. that the d hes irom the Seciet~ry of | The robbery was the coolest piece of work the Navy 1t Admiral Miller 1o | imaginable. Engineer Hoover, justafter pulling out of Elydon, noticed a man on the front platform of the mail car. A few moments lat r the robber climbed over the tank and at the point of a pistol told the engineer to apply the Lrakes. The other robbers came forward, bringing in the con- ductor and brakemen. Ail mounted the engine, which was again startea west. The robber saton the tank and ordered the engineer to keep her moving. Not until the train reached Moorbead was it known that the engine and mail car had been cut off from the | balanc: of the train. The other robbers discovered that they had not cut deep enougn into the train to secure the ex- press safes, and they rapidly despoiled the crew of their waiches and money and made their escape. g g e SHUT 10 SAVE LIFE. ciosely wal ry move made by the Japanese, and at ths very first sign of any unusual step 1o hoist the siars and stripes | over the islands again and to hold them 15t all oppos 1is, in effect, is the order to the he naval forces there. The Wheeiing also conveys di »m the Siate Department to Sewall, but al- | though their exact terms are unknown | outsi £ of the ment, it is certain that the Minister is given practicaliy the ame instructions as those to the ad- iral. ‘The Navy Department is kept fully in- ed of the progress of work on the | s undergoin revairs ut Mare Island an¢ Commandant Kirkland nas been in- structed 10 have every ship ready for sea P iexly possil.le. 8o far the efforts of 1he commandant have been directed to getting tue Baltimore ready to sail for Ministe. m Probably a Justifiable Homicids at Ber- Honol by the 1st of October, and he | Avk. has notifiec the department that this will PARAGOULD. 4rxk., Sept. At Ber- be done. The Baliimore will relieve the | tig, a litle s.ation on tte Paragould Phil upon reaching the islands, and tue laiter will go to Mare Island for uverhau'ing as soon as Admiral Miller ue is justified in permitting her The detail of officers for the Baltimore has not been completed yet, but it is probable that most of those on ihe coast delense vessel Monterey, as weil Southeastern Railroad, nine miles east of this place, W. R. Worth shot and almost instantly killed A. C. Hopkins, a promi- nent citizen of that place, at 3 o’clock this afternoon. Hopkins end his wife recently separated. Hopkine returned this after- noon and assaulted his wife with a knife. Worth interfered to save the woman’s life a Naniwa Kan. opposition. v 1! t i ! } REAR-ADMIRAL JOSEPH NELSON MILLER, U. S. N. This fearless officer in command of the Pacific squadron, who is now at Honolulu, duly warned the Navy Department of the peculiar movements of the Japanese cruiser The new gunboat Wheeling, now speeding to Honolulu, carries instruc- tions to Admiral Miller to watch every move of the Japanese, and at the first sign of any unusual step to hoist the stars and stripes over the islands and to hold them against all WILL NOT RETRACT UNE WORD Sarah Pratt Carr’s Reply to thé Press of California. SAYS SHE HAS BEEN MISREPRESENTED. Her Letter Criticizing San Joequin Morals Wrongly Interpreted. SOUGHT ONLY TO INVITE UNITARIAN AID. “The Call” G ven an Exclusive Statement Tersely Deflning Her Position. HANFORD, CAL., Sept. 26.—Mrs, Sarah Pratt Carr, about whom so much has been said and written within the last few days, is the pastor of the Unitarian church here, and resides at Lemoore, a small place ten miles from Hanford. An unusu- ally large congregation was in attendance at her church this morning, all expecting her toexonerate herself from the “‘roaster” now being hurled at her by the press of and, drawing a pistol, shot Hopkins as he was about to plunge the knife into his wife’'s body. Worth surrendered and is at Paragould. her crew, will be transferred to the flagship, while the Monterey will go out of commission for a time. It is necessary as the State, and of the S8an Joaquin Valley in particular, but she spoke only a few words about the affair, ber defense being that she was misquoted by alarge num- ber of the papers, and that her original meaning was vadly distorted. When seen at her home in Lemoore to- night she talked freely about tho ephe- meral notoriety thrust unon her because of the letter appearing in the Christian Register of Boston. Mrs. Carr says the notoriety is rather unde-irable, but that she will not retract one word of her origi- nal letter. Her main point is that the .letter was not written for publication, but that it was written as an appeal to Unita- rians in the East for help in ihis field. Mrs. Carr has been an active worker for the bettermentof mankind.in this com- munity for the past three vears and has said many thin 8 much more startling than what was said in her letter. She is well known and universally liked in this community, although her article has been the subject of much animated discussion here. Mrs. Carr’s husband, B. O. Carr, the Lemoore banker, declared that his wife had said much harsher things before State conferences, but that nothing was ever said about it. Mrs. Carr would not be interviewed by representatives of other papers, but said she would talk for THE CALL because it had ireated her so fairiy. She said that the other papers published only the bad side of her story, but that THE CALL published a full and authentic articie. She gave the following signed statement for exclusive publication in THE CALL: LEMOORE, CAL, Sept. 26.—Tv the San Francisco Call: Will you allow me space in your paper to reply to some of the various comments which my letter to the Curistian Register has cailed forth from the California press? That letter was a denominational one, written to a denominational paver for the purpose of arousing the interest of East- ern Unitarians in a work which I consider especially their own. Before Hanrord, Fresno, Tulare and many other San Joaquin towns were ever heard of and even when a part of what is now Stockton was a swamp 1 was a resident of Califor- nia. Almost my entire life has been spent in this State, and California’s fame and good name are my own. I have spoken at every Unitarian conference for three years previous to this year, telling the same facts in a more extended way than Itold them in the letter quoted, and re- porters from all the large San Francisco dailies sat by and did not even mention the matter. The bright side of California life nas been described many times in the Christian Register, as well as in other papers, but o enterprising correspondent hard pushed for news saw fit to telegraph the same to his home paper. The statements [ made are true, not only of the small towns in this valley but of all rural communities of the West, and the conditions appear to Eastern eyes just as I described them. From my childhood I have worked for the good of the com- munity, wherever my home might be, to the extent of my ability and strength. No one can be more proud of the vigor, en- thusiasm, enterprise and achievements of Caiifornia. But religious workers and reformers cannot rest at ease upon past attainments. It is no disgrace that towns ten, twenty or thirty vears old have not all the refining influences of older places which have, per- haps, eliminated some of their objection- able elements by sending it west. But it would be a disgrace if we, who lived here, did not make continual effort to send to our homes the best influences of the best places in the world. It was to push that laudable effort that I made my appeal for help to my own church people. I have no quarrel with any church. Each has a piace and a work and all are working for the same end; their means, only, diffr. But if I disagree with some of the doc- trines taught in other churches—if some of their methods seem old-fashioned to me—I have a perfect right to «ay so in the paper of my own denomination. Those differing opinions are what make mea Unitarian instead of a member of an evangelical church. The sharp distinc- tion between ball-zoers and church mem- bers which I mentioned is certainly drawn in the fifteen or twenty towns of California that I know well. And it is for those people who are especially the care of a liberal church that I made my appeal. As long as it is true that the saloons—one to every 200 or 300 people—are wide open seven days and seven nights in the week; &s long as stores are open on Sunday, and no art galleries, sacred concerts or temper- ance saloons offer counter attractions to the Sunday baseball game; as loag as our teachers have to pursue their work of ed- ucation without the many valuable helps of lecture courses, literary clubs, natural history societies, geographical societies, art associations and other eimilar fnstitu. tions, some or all of which exist in nearly every eastern town, we do not have here the restraints which check license and Continued on Third Page STORIES OF CANNIBALISM REVIVED What Lieutenant Peary and Party Found at Camp Sabine. GHASTLY RELICS BURIED UNDER SNOW. Alleged Evidence That Gree- ly’s Men Existed on Bodies of Dead Comrades. MYSTERY AND RETICENCE NOW MAINTAINED. Some of the Members of the Returned Ex- pedition Pledged to Secrecy---Sutvivor Connell Tells the Story of Ter- tible Suffering. thousand to one against his finding the north pole. “The statement that we had discovered some grewsome things about the hut of the Greely expedition,’”’ says Peary, *‘is all nonsense. We found no graveyard belongings. We found conditions such that we could reach the place where the Greely expedition had made their camp, and although it was Aungust 23 we found things inside the hut covered several feet with snow. Our party began to dig around and picked up several buttons and a piece OSTON, Mass., Sept. 26.— The steam bark Hope, the vessel whichearried Lieu« tenant Peary morth, re-| turned to Boston to-day with | the famous meteorite and rel- | ics of Greely’s lost camp on board. Among the latter, it is declared by a member of the Hope’s crew, are evidences of cannibalism to which it was said at the time of Greely’s | of wood marked ‘Norman,’ the name of b <y g | one ot the Greely party, and several other rescue, the members | things. Those are all the ‘grewsome tinds’ party were forced. W S | we made.” statement, it will be remem- | bered, was made by one of the sarvivors and denied Greely. | When Lieutenant Peary arrived in Bos- ton last week he was azked about his visit to Greely's camp. He refused to discuss it, further than to say that the most im- | portant finds of the trip were made there, l\nowmgly E;it Any Of the giving as a reasou for bis refusal a state- > ment to the effect that it was not a plea:- | Bodies of Comrades. ant tiing to talk about. A few aays later | » members of his party came here and, while refusing to talk over the matter, said that the discoveries were of a very at Such Price,” Says One of grewsome nature. : " To-aay a sailor on the Hope said that | the Six Survivors, Peary found positive evidence of canni- | o balism, but that the lieutenant had given | RE) BLUFF, CaL., Sept. 2 —The dise strict orgers to everybody not to discus- | paiep from Bosion statiug that tue arrival the matter. The sailor wes most positive | of the Hope brought eviderces of canni- in his statement, and adaed that the finds | paiiem on the part of the Greely party at consist in part of human bones found | Gape Sabine in 1884 was shown o Maurica stowed away in snowbanks and 8 Partial | se———— set of surgical instruments that bore evi- dence of most severe usage. Artist Operti, who went north to make studies for Arctic scenery, admitted that | Lieutenant Peary’s find was of a most important nature and that it wasof a most unpleasant kind, but he would not give details. He would not deny that it was proof of cannibalism, but begged to be excused from further questions, as Peary had exacted upon his word of honor not to discuss the matter with reporters. Dr. Robert Stein of the United States Geological Survey was also seen. He de- clined to siate what Peary found in Greely’'s camp. He, however, would not deny that proofs of cannibalism were found. *I’drathernottalk about Greely's misfortunes,’” said he. Lieutenant Peary, when seen at the Par- ker House, denied that he bad found evi- dences of cannibalism in Greely’s camp, addmg: *I personally did not search the snowbanks outside the camp.” This is where the sailor says the proofs of man-eating were found. The following isa list of the Greely relics brought back, which Mr. Peary admits is not complete: Two old army hats, a num- ber or tincans, set of instruments, consist- ing of a pocket-needle, wire case, scalpel, scalping-knives, lot of old rope, spectacle- case, cartridge-sheils, pieces of wood, leatner and sealskin-boats. Greely’s camp was found covered with snow. It is situated between two hilis and is surrounded by a granite wail twenty by thirty feet square, three and a half feet high and eighteen inches thick. The heavy snow made the work of search- ing it very laborious. Lientenant Peary’s intentions now are to take the Hope to New York Wednesday morning and anchor her off the Brooklyn navy.yard. He has already secured the permission of the Navy Department to use the largest lighter at the yard in taking the meteorite ashore. 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