The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897. “‘Are you opposed to any further annexa- tion of territory “No. Now, I'd fight for Cuba. She’s near to us for cne thing. Besides we wouldn't be wroneing a lot of peacefu’, intelligent nauives.” «If the natives prtition, as they say they in- tend to almost unanimously, will the adminis- “tration it? “Ob, a pubiican will do anything!” I looked up—one has to !ook far up to meet Mr. Berry ye—and reminded the Kentucky giant that this was Inquisition Poimnt. “] don't care,” he said. “Our Government isfot for Liliuokalani’s dethronement—no question about it. The least we can do is to in- demnify her; pension her and the next one in line of succession. “For annexation will come sure. A man of Sena Morgan’s character, with the reputation he has for sincerity, will have a mighty influ- ence in determining ihings. Arnd Morgan's as devoted to annexaion as—asa Kentuckian is to—to that which Kentuckians are said to be ndest of.” I have not beer able to decide whether the H J. G. Cannon of Illinois looks like the older, more respect ints of Uncle Sam or like the poet Wh:ttier. faceis shrewd but kindly. - H~ speaks deliberately—very deliber- ately—but gracefully, and he made by far the best speeches on the trip. He isan animate Congressional Record, with the immaterial things left out and the material ones brizhtened and made man by quarter century of Washington public life and by his pnilosophical, kindly temperament. Mr. Cannon has talked to me about annexa tion, ard be is cne of the few men I have.met whose 1ent e matter is unbiased, ori- “annon and I met at Inquisition n a purely formal spirit, be was in favor of or opposed to annex- Ot course, [ knew, but I didn't know of- whethe ed thoughtiul. question,”” he began. *“Itin- entire change ot the policy of our Gov- w. But are you in favor of or a change?” . Cann n's rosy f: ame q , but it was interesting, u the Clau- dine, and we all went ashore to look at planta- Mr. Cannon and I met at Inquisition Point, and he there told me a delightful little romance s boyhood amonz the Quakers. When the ry was finished he noted regretfuily that the dinner-gong bad sounded. Another time we would We did. the exciting We met again, and I heard about scene in the House (Mr. Cannon talks learnedly of the ‘forty-ninth” or the ty-third.” and all one can do is to look wise,) »eaker Reed, who was not then Speaker, came so near being taken into custody by the Sergeant-at-Arms for resisting au‘hority in de- clining to resume his seat at the Speaker's command. I must have heard all the gems in the repertoire of the chairman of the Appropriation Committee before I realized that crafty Mr. Cannon was not going to talk for publication, for very'good reasons, which he explained to not for publication. “But, you know, Mr. Cannon,” I protested “when you were delivering that speech n the Australia’s saloon that last night at sea before we reached Honolulu, Senator Morgan imiy as he nhs red, watching you closely, and he said, ‘There go-s Cannon com- mitring himself to annexation.’” smiled I never should have told- Mr. Cannon this haa I anticipated the result; for it shattered all my lofty, patriotic ideals, it shocked niy sense of the Congressional fitness of things, and it ap- Mrs. Emma Nawahi, Secrctary of Hilo Branch, Hawaii Women’s Leagu:. preciubly flatiened my bump of reverence. The gentieman from Illinois said not a word in rerly. He winked. MiriayM MICHERSON. A S EISTENED M@ A SINGLE FACTION How the Visiting Congressmen Conducted Their Hawaiian Investigation. Provisional Government Officials Gave Them no Opportunity to Feel the Popular Pulse. HONOLULT, quiet in Honolulu Hawarr, There Sept. are 2ni—All no exciting is ele- ments in politics or diplomacy to disturb the calm leisure of our lives. the We have quite # pow- harbor—the United States steemsnips Ben on and Philadelphia, H. M. 8. and the French cruiser Du Guoy Trou n—but they take more interest in regattas and plessure than in politics. 8o far the honors erful fleet in Comas and to-day the Philadelphias and Ben- ningtons try conclusions in a cutter race. It was intended 10 have bad an international mass-meeting last evening in opposition to an- nexation for the benefit of the visiting Cong! ess- men, but it was wisely decided to postpone it on account of the numerous engazements these gentiemen bad to fulfill. Senator Morgon and thev have had no leisure moments since their arrival. It has been one succession of hasty in- spection of everything in sight from sugar and rice planiations to public buildings, schools, churches and museum. They have seen every- thine there is to admire and everything that shews up Hawaii’s progress in its brightest phases. But they have not seen the people nor have they had the opportunities of ascertaining the undercurrent of oppositian. Ithasthrough- out been a one-sided inspection control'ed by Government officials and the moneyed leaders of the annexation party. The most memorable events durine their sojourn here have been the handsome recaption tendered to them by the ever-hospitable United States Minister, and their visit yesterday to Pearl Harbor and its neighborhood. The rec:p- tion was not as largely attended as was antici- pated, and even the efforts of the Chief Justice and vernment officials failed to induce the Hawaiians to attend in any number. It was not even spontaneous on the part of the annex- ationists, but it was undeniably a very pleasant affair for our visitors, who, after discharging their social duties adjourned to a famous water- ing place to continue theirevening’s enjovment. It is unnecessary to say that tne visitors en- joyed themselves immensely, and while they were loud in their praises of 1he country and all that pertained to it, and extremely affable in corroboration, thev were aiscreetly reticent in regard to their personal convictions and future action on the most interesting points at issue. On their return in the evening from sundry inspections and receptions a band concert and dance were tendere! :o them at the Hawaiian Hotel, but they were tempted from those honors to the more congenial delights of a genuine Hawaiian luan and a well-regulated huta kui at the banasome residence of Hon. John A. Cum- mings, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs under the monarchy, and ar Hawalian gentleman famed for his princely hospitality in the good old days when dollars ebbed away as rapidly as the riplets of the sighing Pacitic stip from the coral sands at Weikiki. Senator Morgan and Congressman Berry haveestabliched themseives as favorites in many ways. The Senator carries his years becomingly and pleasantly, even to those who disagree with his outspoken advocacy of a closer unton. It was amusing, however, to note his zeal on Sun- day last, when in conjunction with some “missionary” anneXxationists he visited the sunday-school chiidren of Kawa the oldest and principal church of the Hawaiians. He earnestly poured forth to the wonder of the little dots of Hawaiians the sterling vantages of annexation to the United § They gazed open-eved at him, but failed to ap- preciate the value of this Sunday-school lesson. Their parents were dumfounded and astonished at the political effuston on a Sabbath day, and unfavorably compared the political Senator with their ancient teachers who had taught them to honor and reverence the Lord’s - ay and keep it holy to him. They at once summed up the Senator as an insincere Christian, and one, who like a lawyer, is more interested in his special ca-e in band than the very strict rules of law and equitv. Congressman Berry has gained the hearts of the Hawaiians, not merely on account of h handsome and manly siature alone, but princi- pally because he openly admitted to the Ha- waiians at Hilo that he wasa versonal friend and warm polliical admirer of President Clev 1and and a sterling Democrat. Now, it 1s haps unfortunate that the political incidents of the past have made Grover Cleveland a demi-god to the Hawaiians and the Democratic party their political party shou.d they ever be annexoed and ever be given a vote. It is this desire for a vote that worries the Hawaiian. He has been in- trustea with it and he valu:s it, and he does not wish to lose Ivis not improbavle thatif he Mrs. Nailima, Fresident Hilo Branch of Hawaiian Women’s League. annexation he would return the compliment by voting aye if he could be cleariy convinced that he would be regarded, as he was formerly and is to an extent now, as the equal of the white man socially and potitically. Congressman Cannon -has aiso won the re- spect of the Hawaiians, for thev have an idea that whatever may be his personal convictions he will act impartialiy an! straightforwardly for the best interests of both countries. Horace WRIGHT. B BOEERS EOSING HIS FOLLOWING Gradual Falling-Off in the Num- ber of Voters Who Take the Oath of Allegiance. Proof That the Masses Will Never Become Reconciled to the Present Conditions. HONOLULU, Hawam Sept. 22.—Itis very unfortunute that an impartial judgment has been prevented in regard to the annexation of Hawaii through the missiatements of the news- papers and correspondents personally inter- ested in annexation. By beclouding facts and harping on tbe great gain the union of Hawaii will be to the United States they have practically people, the majority of the foreign eiement, as well as the authorities. Itis not exactly just that because Hawaii is an exceedingiy templing morsel to be gobbled up by a superior powerit should be taken surreptitiously and without due consideration of the rights, interests and senti- ments of its lezitimate owners. Even an unfor- tunate mortgagor has an equity of redemption of his fee-simple. It is as unjust, as it will prove to be unwise in future considerations of the Hawaiian ques- tion, to accept a3 true the statements made by the annexationists and their press that all Americans in Hawaii, the majority of foreigners and a very large proportion ot Hawaiians are incorruptible and staiwart annexationists at heart and that the only anti-annexationists are a few foreigners hungry for lost offices, influence and patronage and an uninfluential number of ignorant and misguided natives misled by mischief-makers and misinformation. Itisineorrect also to allege that all anti- annexationisis are royalists scheming for the restoration of the monarchy, for quite a num- ber of them are in favor of an independent re- public on the basis of the American republic until such times as the people have been edu= catea up to the value of a closer association wita the great republic. Then, agein, it must not be assumed by those who desire to judge impartially, that the fiat of the Government of Hawaii, as to-day con- stituted, represents anything approaching the will of the Engl h-speaking cosmopolitan popu- laton of Hawaii, in which is includea the Hawaiians themselves, as well as the larger pro- portion of the Portuguese, Itmust al-o be remembered by the impar- tial that as this is a one-sided fight of the enor- mously wealthy against the comparatively powerless and poor, it is very unwise to accept the capital of Honolulu, with its central- ization of influence of Government patronage, its political press leagues and clubs, as the mir. ror of the sentiment ot the nation, By the census of 1890, taken in the late King Kalakaua's reign, the vopulation of the Haw aii- an Islands was 59,900 and the registered voters 13.593. In 1894, with an incressed propulation and under the Provisional Government, at the election for delegates to the constitutional con- vention the registered voters had decreased by two-tnirds, amounting in the aggregate to y 4477, and why? Simply because only that num- ber of men qualified to vote would take the oath to openly support the Government of the day, it being regarded by the other 9000 voters as being agovernment bas:d on fraud and established in power by the iliegitimate acts of an American diplomat and the power of naval forces of the United States. Then came the greater test vote in 1896 for the general election and with a largely mcreased population. Oue woul! naturally suppose that 4 government, uncer a republican form of con- stitution, modeled expressly for themselves and the people of the country by men most inti- mateiy acquainted with the requirements of their own peopie, would have a stili stronger support than before, more especially as the con- stitution had created a special class of voters Wwhbo were practically the gun-carriers of the infant repuplic, being specifically termed *‘special service” men. But the result showed a still further decrease of supporters instead of an increase, for upon this oceasion only 3196 regis- tered, and of these only 2017 were eligible to vote for Senators; or, in other words, be pos- sessed of unincumbered property of the value of not less than $4000, or be in receipt of a money income of not less than §1200 a vear. And this election, too, it must be borne in mind, was for the express purpos: of consummating annexa- tiun, and the Legislatureelecied thereat passed resolutions in favor of annexation and paved the way for the reappearance of the treaty of unnex- ation, and it was the Senate then elected that the other day ratified it But what shall be sald of the last registra- tion for the election for representatives, which will take place on the 20 h inst? The property qualification for a voter for a representative is only unencumbered property of the value of $1000 or a money income of §600 a vear, i. e., $30 a montbh, less ihan the pay of an average white had ministration of the Dole and his Cabinet, with the fight in favor of annexation waxing botter and h and apparently more nearly reach the Government and lost 500 supporters, from their immediately previous registration, and 1790 votes, or about one-third, from the Provisional Government registration of 1894, Mr. John Richardsor, Maui, H. L special efforts made, only tered throughout the width and length of the seven islands. 2687 votes were regis- imate e ad- President So that 1t is perfectly le to assume ihat aurine the two vears of t Government by otter each day its end, the cause of annexation or about one-sixth, But perhaps these figures, showing the diminution of the supuvort of the Government as a Government, and more especially the “people’s” chainpion for annexation, become more remarkebie and jorceful in their sugges- tion Annexation Club nform that there are upward of 6000 names on the rolis of the Annexation Club, and third of that number tound it su esting or patriotic analysis of the ment officials, tak: Tesistering as merf officials, 800, and’ the average vor keeping his name on the register whether Islanc of Oahu, including Honolulu, could ouly raise 8.6 votes, so that ernment employes, tion is stated that an official of the 1 me the other day when it et scarcely one ien " A fair enough to i voters would be: Gov: 1g the oath of allegiance and n duwy bound, 1900; the Govern- Annexation Club men, non- desirous of army, he votes or not, ‘the other large number of Gov- milita en and Annexa- must have peen derelict (0 Club members and of granting autonomy to Cuba Imme- fac ory early in the present month. His but the river was not expected to remain stand y between the Bennineton andthe were granted the right 1o vote on the question of ignored the true sentiments of the Hawaiian laborer. With a population of 109,000, and with their daty. Horace WRiGHT 7 SR 5 i = ! i i 1 R = 2 R !m;a the members of the United States | of the Cabinet officials here are com- {Cerrl;i"}z metacarpal, sessamoid and tem- | | from Dawson after the tus :ailed very lez)az_mn- : X pletely in the dark. Secretary .hermxr;xii | “Previous to Dr. Allport’s testimony hl'hf will bedbr:hb::l‘ mvtxxl I‘L‘f«‘m the | Owing to the Cabinet crisis the Cuban | does not believe that it will materially | Professor J. A. Weisner gave evidence in river opens and the boats get down next pour parles have been postponed. | affect the relations of Svain either | support of Dr. Riese’s testimony in con- June It js said that Senor Sagasta 1s in favor | toward the United States or to| | pection with the experiments with buman | Travel from St. Michael up the Yukon of superseding Captain-General Weyler | Cubs, which seems to indicate an ex-| | bodies made in the vat in the Luetgert was still going on when the Holyoke left, DABINET REMGNS Azcarraga Requested to| Temporarily Hold His Post. ‘ SUMMONS TO SENOR SAGASTA. Believad the Libaral Leader Will Be Asked to Solve the Crisis. | CONFERENCE TO BE HELD! TO-DAY. | Weyler’s Racall and Cuban Auton- omy Talked Of—Woodford and Tstuan. MADRID, Erarx, ish Ministry to-c but ber Majesty asked General Azcarraga | to continue in cffice untila solution of the | cri-is is found. | Her Majes immeon the leaders | of the v sand the presidents of the chambers to-morrow to consult as to the situation. Senor Sagasta hus been telegraphed for, and it is believed that | the Liberal leader will be asked to form a Cabpinet. | The Ministry, whose resignation has just been announceu, was constituted as | iollows: Prime Minister and Minister for War, General | Marcello de Azcarraga. Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Duke of Te uan. Minister of Marine, Rear-Admirel Don Jose jeranger. Minister of Finance, J. Y. Don Juan Revector. Mitister of Commerce and Agriculture, Don Aurcliano Lineres Rives. Minister of the Colonies, Don Tomas Cas- tellan, Minister for the Home Department, Don Fernanio Cosgayon. United States Minister Woodford, the Duke o: Tetuan and the President of the Senale, the Marquis Paso de Lamarrezed, held a ltng conterence to-day and General ‘Woodford presented to General Azcar- ous part M. Navarro | 20 | tue diplomatic corpsin Washington. i diately Senor Gamozo will probably be Minister | of Foreign Aftairs in the new Cabinet. | SOLUTI0N OF THE CRISIS. Upon the Policy ZToward Unitrd States. LONDON, Exc., Sept. 30.—A dispatch tue Daily Mail from Madrid says: The ition of the crisis depends upon the toward the United States. Liberal | ians declare that they will stoutly resist America’s pretensions. ! General Azcarraga, in a long interview | with the Queen Regent to-day, explained the situauon. It is believed that he asked ber Majesty if she was ready to confirm | e Government in necessary powers in | view of the attitude of the United States? In the interview he summoned the Cabine:. The me:ting was aitended by Senor Reverter, the excommunicated Mizister of F nance, and Senor Coscavon, | Minister of the Interior, both of whom tendered their resignations. Shortly after the Premier tendered the resignation of | the entire Cabinet. e s e i WAMBINGION. Depends the { | | | to po politi SUKP Ihe Importan: Incident Ditcussed in 1 Its Bearings. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20 —The news of the Spa Cabinet crisis was rst broughkt to tbe attention of the offi- of the State Department and diplo- ofti throu h the Associated Press builetin from Madrid, and up to a late bour to-nigit from no other source was any information on the subject forth- | coming. Itis surmised that Minister Woodford’s failure to cable the department was at- tributable to the fact that it was after nightiail in Madrid before the news be- came known It cannot be. said that the event caused surprise among the officials of the State Department, or among ihe members of A careful inspection of the cable news or the past few weeks had lefi the general mpression that the Cabinet erected in iaste after the assassination of Premier Canovas could not be expected to survive long. There were several reasons for this ex- vectation, but perhaps the principal one wes the belief that the dissensions among the supporters of the Government caused by the personal encounter between the Duke of Tetuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and one of the leaders of the dissident Conservatives, had mnot been hraled, but had been bridged over only tem porarily. The dissident Conservatives at the time insisted upon the resignation of the Duke as a condition of their further support of the Government. As the Government depended not upon a homogencous party,but rather upon a union of various eements generally op- posed to liberal ideas for its existence, this was a Lureatening condition, and a crisis was averted only throngh the stren- uous efforts of the Conservative leaders. As to what is to follow the resignation | | to pectation on his part that when the Cabi- net is reorganized it will be found to be still of a Conservative tendency. On the other hand, high officials in the administration expect that the Liberal Sabinet, under the leadership of the veteran Sacasta, will be erected on the ruins of the Azcarraga Cabinet. If this should be the case, the future is heid to be full of promise for Cuba. for it is recalled that the Liberals have not hesitated to express tlieir opposition to the great expenditure of human life and | vast treasure in the effort to carry out tbe repressive Conservative programme for the conduct of the war. It is not believed that the Liberalsare prepared to go te the length of promising Cuba freedom, but from the expressions of the leaders of the party it is hoped that they are willing to grant so liberal a measure of home rule and auton- omy to the island that of Span- ish sovereignty nothing would remain save a shred in the way of a few prefer- ential duties and, perhaps, the power of appointing some officials corresponding the Governor - General of Canada, named by the British crown. - CURAN FILIEUSNTERS CAPTURED. 1wenty- Etght of the Party Said to Have Bern Fwecuted. NEW YORK, N. Y,, Sept. 29.—A special from Havana, via Key West, says: Cap ain Jose Monasterio and a com- pany of marine artillery embarked se- cretly in the gunboat Nueva Espana some days ago and left Havana in the night. It was rumored that the authorities had beard of the destination of a filibustering expedition and was quietly preparing to seize it. The greatest secrecy was ob- served. Tne punboat waited quietly in the Bay of Corrientes, Pinar del Rio. It is impo=sible to ascertain how the ex- pedition was caprured cr the name of the filibuster, but the Nucva Espana returned to port last night, brinzing in une Hotch- kiss zun, 190 shells and cartridges, twelve cases of Mauser cartridges, six cases of ammunition for tne Zailenski gun, 808 cases of cartridges for Remington and Mauser rifies and four boats. The officials assert that the expedition was only intercented when the cargo was landed and that the m-n escaped. Ow- ing, however, to the evident knowledge of the authorities some days betore the gun- bout was dispatched and the unusual official reticence concerning so great a Spanish coup it is feared the whole cxpe- dition was massacred. From reliable authority it was learned lasi night that wenty-eight of the party, including several American artillerymen, sent down with the cannon, were taken prisoners and summarily executed. It is impossible to veriiv the laiter statement, though many things combine to show grounds for believing the siory. ESiery e Want a Recerver for a Town. CHATTANOOGA, Texw., Sept. 20.—A number of residents and properiy-owners made application in Chancery Court here to-day for a receiver for the town of Lookout Mountain. The applicants in a sensationa! bill charge insolvency and mismonagement and fraud on the part of the offic.als. No election for town ofticers hus been held in sight years. i Fighting Over the Bone Found in the Luet- gert Vat. | One Declares It Is That of a Hog, Another That of a Human. | Prosecuting Attorney Says He Will Settle the Issue to the Jury’s Satisfaction. CHICAGO, ILv., Sept. 29.—Hog or hu- | man? That is the issue in the Luetgert | case at present, and according to the view of the case adopted by the jury is the fate | of defendant like y to be. If bog, he will, in all probability, go free; if human, there is no telling wnat wiil happen to him, or rather what may not happen to him. The defense proved to-iay that the bone which | | Dr. Dorsey, the osteologist of the Colum- | | bian Museum, declared was the femur of a l | human beingz, of a woman and of a woman of delicate physical struci- | ure, as was Mrs. Luetgert, is noth- ing but the bone of a no: It came from a hogof deiicate orsanization, so | said the expert for the defense, but it was | nothine but a hog for all that. The femur | was rather small for the usual run of | hogs, butthis was a smali-bonel hog, and there was no doubt of the origin of the bone. g The witness who declared all this for the defense was Dr. W. H. Allport, pro- fessor of descriptive and comyarative anatomy in the Northwestern University. He declared in the most positive manner hat the femur was that of a hog and that there was no chance of his being mis- taken in the matter. Dr. Dorsey, who proved for the State that the femur was that of a woman, was | in the courtroom when Dr. Ailport was on the stand, and bis face flusbed when the | expert for the defense deciared that the bone came from a hog. The declaration of Dr. Allport clearly defines an issue between himself and Pro- fessor Dorscy. They ar: the respective leading experts of tie defense and the prosecution. Both pride h - mselves on their reputations, and a battle royal will be the resuit. Dr. Atlport drew pictures of what he said represented a human femur and a hog’s femur, and explained to the jury the difference betwean them. Thne differ- ence was principally in the socket of the hip joint, according to the witness. He declared that the kuob or joint end of the femur in evidence was much smaller than that of the average person, and that un- doubtediy the bone was the femur of a small-boned hog. ‘To-morrow Dr. Allport will be cross-ex- amined after he has testified further con- | State | lames. testimony was of u corroborative char- acter. State’s Attorney Deenen smilingly de- clared to-night that Professor Dorsey would settle the question as 1o the iden: tity of the bones beyond a question when next he appears on the witness-stand. Luetgert and his lawyers were well stied with the showing made, and ex- | Jutge Vincent said he could not see the necssity of Lueigert's yoing on the wit- ness-staad. BAY SIAT: REPUBLICANS. Meet in Convention and Renominate Their Cld State Ticket by Acclamation. BOSTON, Mass.,, Sept. 29. — The Re- publican State Convention of Massachu- setts nominated candidates for State offices to-day. There was a large attend- ance of delezates, and the plans of the Committee for the conduct of the session as perfected at prev.ous meetings were earried out. Tue toliowing nominations were made by acclamation: Governor—Roger Wolcott. r t W. M. Crane, William Olin. P. Shaw. ohn W. Kimball. Attorney-Genera.—Hosea M. Knowlton. Tue joregoing are all renominations. Colouel A. H. Goetting of Spr.nzfield wa the temporary chairman. In th: perma- nent orsanization H. B. Hopkins of Worcester wa made chairman. Colonel Melvin O. Adams, chairman of the committee on resolutions, pr-sented the committee’s report, which was adopted. The platform stands for a firm but mod- erate foreign policy, an extension of the merit sysiem of civil service and more | stringent immigration and naturatization laws. The declaration ot the financial plank is by inference in favor of the vold standard ani consists of a rhetorical ar- raignment of Bryan, Debs and Altgeld as “‘exponents of free si ver.”’ Fire in Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, CaL, fept. 30.—Fire robbed Sacramento of two of its big build- ings and about $17,000 worth of property early this mornin The fire started in Adam Bergman’s { pickle factory on L strect, near Seventh, and within a few minutes the whole build- ing, a two-story frame structure, was in 8o rapidly did it bura that Burg- man and his wife and child barely es- caped with their Lives. Tren it spread to M. F. Bmith’s brick stable, and that was soon in ruins, with 150 tous of hay bnt recently stored tnere. Oune bundred and fifty vehicles, all the norses aud all the harness were saved, however. Bergman's loss will reach $7000, all of which is covered by two recently issued policies. Smith lost nearly $10,000 and had no insurance. The building was destroyed and the flames licked up the factory stable in the rear, with all the horses, two wagons and alol of harness and hay. The los. of this property drove Smith out of bis mind, and he was taken toa saloon near by where he had to be put under réstraint. The fire started a few minutes after 1 o’clock. No one knows the cause. At2 o'clock it was under control. | Tug Holyoke Arrives at | During a Storm. AT ST. MICHAEL Port Townsend From the Yukon. i Brings Denial of the Report That Much Bullion Came Down the River. Grave Fears for the Schooner W J. Bryant, Lost by the Tug PORT TOWNSEND, Wasu , Sapt. 20, The tug Holyoke arrived to-night from St. Michaels, having leit there on Septem- ber 11 with the schooner W. J. Bryant in tow, On the 2Isi of the month, while off | Kodiac Island, a heavy storm prevailed | and the tug was forced to heave to for a | veriod of twenty-eight hours. | During the storm the hawser which connected the schooner to the tug parted | and the schooner went adriff, nor couid | those on the tug afterward see her. | While it is not thought the Bryant has | been lost, grave fears for her safety are | entertained. She carried a crew of seven | men and two passengers, the latter two | being Engineer Tarner and wife of the | Eliza Anderson. The reason given for the probable safety of the Bryant is that she was known as one of the best sea boats of her tonnage in the North Pacitic waters. She is of fifty-five 1ons measurement ana for many years was used as a pilo:- boat off Cape Fiattery and the Columbia | River bar. Captain Clinger of the Holyoke says the Bryant may be expected to sail up the straits at any time. Captain Thomas Powers of the Eliza Anderson returned from Dutch Harbor on the Holyoke. He indignantly denies the report that the Eiliza Anderson will leave her bones where she now lies, but says ths old craft will be on the Sound and A aska run next season, and that a scarcity of tuel is ail that prevented him bringing her back to the Sound now. He says the Anderson never leaked enough water to drown a rat, and that all the passengers who went north in her wili verify his story. The Holyoke people say that the report that there are three tons of goid at St. Michael awaiting shipment to the Sound in the steamer Portland is nntrne; that unless tie eold arrived Most Compiexion Powders have a vulgar glare, but PozzoNr’s is & tru beautifier, whose effects are lasting. open longer than between the Ist and 10th o1 October. 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