The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1897, Page 1

\\ VOLUI(IE i’RICE FIVE CE S. EVANGELINA ARRIVES AT NEW YORK Said to Have Reached Jer- sey City on Sunday Morning. MISS CISNEROS HIDDEN BY HER FRIENDS. ' Strong Denial of the Fact of the Atrival Is Made by the Representatives of the Paper Which Claimed to Have Rescued Her. :Qtfiit R AR A KA A ARAAEA IR ARA A AR A KA IR RAARAREA KRR The Cabinet M A0 de e e e e e e ek Ok NEW YORK, Herald to-morrow will say: Senorita Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, the Cuban who escaped from Caso de Recojidas, Havana on Wednesaay night last, arrived in this city yesterday morning. American frienc accompanied her by train from New Orleans. On resching Jersey City Miss Cisneros .iwas taken in a ciosed carriage to the | beadquarters of the Cuban sympathizers | in this city, where she was joyfully re- ceived. ter a short reception she was “taken away, and no one was allowed to | see ber until this evening. A epeciel edition of the local Cuban | hewspaper was< published this aiternoon asking all loval Cubans to assemble at the office of the junta at & o’clock to join in a | torchlight parale in honor of the youn: woman's del.very. All theemployes of the New York vaper | which rescued Miss Cisneros emp aly deny to-night that the yourg woman was in the city, and a tour of all the rooms in the office proved the falsity of the rumor that she was secreted there. It was stated at that office at midnight that all rumors comcerning the presence of Miss Cisneros in the city are unauthor- ized and untrue. The Bun says: Miss Evangelina Cosloy Cisneros, the girl who escaped from a Spanisk prison at Havana, arrived yester- day in thiscity. A demonstration of wel- cowe to Miss Cisneros was pianned by the Cubans and for that purpose the most prominent members of the Cuban colony were asked to meet in the evening in the | office of the Cuban Juntaat 56 New street. Atout 5. M all tle persons invited to | the demonstration received word that for | some reason it was put off until further | | notice, | It was learned afterward that the | Cuban Consul, Horatio S. Rubeni, | bad a conference with some persons | interested 1in Miss Cisneros’ fate on acconun! of rumors that either Spain would ask from this Government the extradition of Mi<s Cisneros or that the Spanish | Government had already asked for it. It | ~was thought prodent to conceal Miss Cis- neros in some <afe place until her rights | should be decider. Tae offen-e for which Miss Cisneros was | awaiting trial Havana, aecording to Wegler and the Spanisn, renders her lia- | ble to extradition. The friends of Miss | Cisneros do not want to take any chances. Miss Cisneros was smuggled out of town by them yesterday. WASHINGTON, D. C,, Oct. 11.—State Department officials make light of the prospect of any international trouble fol- lowing the escape of Miss Cisneros. They say that, presuming the girl and her res- cuer have reached the United States, they cannot be surrendered even if ciaimed by the Spanish authorities. The case is covered by two principles of law that are never deviated from, according to the State Department people. As far as concerns Miss Cisneros, she being a political refugee, she cannot, un- derour law, be surrendered, and there is mo clause in the Spanish extradition treaty that would s rve as a basis for a clzim for her surrender. The circum- stances under which she may have reached che Unite! S ates cannot affect the force of this doctrine. As for the newspaper agent who securad the escape of the eirl, his case 15 expressly covered in the follow- | ing article of the exiradition treaty be- tween Spain and the United States, con- cluded in 1877: | “Article 8—Neither of the contracting | parties shall be bound to deliver up its | own ciizens or subjects under the stipu- Iztions of this convention.” This treaty was amended in 1882, but is particular article was not touched d remains in full force. Moreover, it s been the general policy of the United (ates to refuse to deliver up its own ci zens to a foreign state, even when they were accused of crime in such state. At the last cession of Congress President Cleveland sent to the Senate a draft of the 'IWO treaties which bad been negotiated and submitted for its approval. These were the extradition treaties with the Argentine Coniederation and the Orange Free State. In each case an arti- cle was 1nserted permitting the surrender of the citizens of a state to ancther state MADRID, €raiN, Oct. 11.—The new Captain-General of Cuba had a tico have cabled the Government, assuring it their support. e message has been received from General Weyler savinz that he embarks for Spain on October 20, the first steamer sailing on that dute. isters at the meeting hela to-day discussed the ques- tion of financing the Cuban and Pnilippine isiands mititary operations. long conference with the Queen Regent to-day. Cuba, the Commercial Association of of Porto A cat FRR RN IO R N A N KRN RN ARER KN N. Y., Oct. 1L—The The Spanish party of Havana ana the Independent party NN NN upon the charging of a crime. These ar- ticles were inserced by express direction of the President. The treaties were taken up in the Senate, and the new form was discovered and the Senate very promptly Cut out the two arliicles, the debates very strongly asserting the decision of the L gislature to countenance nosuch princi- ple. President Cleveland was so firmly convinced of the value of the articles and so determined in his opinion that this country could no longer be permitied to shield criminals, even though they were Americans, that he refused the negotia- tions, although neitber of the contracting varties cared pariicularly ior tue reten- tion of the articl ol M THE TOLON CLAIM. State Department WIil Insist That the Spanish Government Satisfy It NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 11.—The Her- ald’s Washington special savs: Instruc- tions to Minister Woodford are being pre- pared at the State Department for presen- tation to Spain and a demand for the immediate payment of the claim for in- | demnity made by Samuel T. Tolon. The original demand for $50,000 was presented to the Madrid Government by Mr. Tavior, who has just ret:zed from the office of Minister. Spain’s reply was that it was under no obligation to vay Tolon, and this has been followed by an- other statement, which declares tuat the action of the Spanish authorities in Cuba was a gubernative measure, and that Spain would be unjust to herself shouid she indemnify Tolon The State Department officials insist that the claim is a just one and will con- tinue to pressit. Tolon was naturalized in New York City. e THEY SHOOT THE SICK. How the Spanish In Cuba Get Rid of the Troublesome Invalids. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 11.—The Sun’s Havana special says: The Cuban Tomas | Pieterra, imprisoned at Matanzas City, | will soon pe executed for helping the { revolution. Many efforts have been made 10 obtain his pardon, but it has been refused by General Weyler and the Madrid Government. In Havana the reformists are attacking General Weyler. The Captain-General summoned to his palace on Saturday the editor of the Diario ae la Marina, the organ of the re- formists here, and commanded him to publish an editorial in his favor. The editor, Senor Rivero, refused to do so, and then Weyler said to him: *Well, I am still Captain-General. If Iseein your vaper a sinele line against me you will be exiled to Ceuta.” The reformists are now very indignant against the Marquis of Montoro, leader of the autonomists, whom they greatly praised a few days ago. The cause of their wrath is that the Marquis has pub- lished in El Pais an articie in favor of Weyler. Hisfew followers, not more than a dozen, are als0 stanch supporters of the ‘Butcher.” In the towns of Rodrigo and Santo Do- mingo, SBanta Clara province, the inhabhi- tants are a!l starving to death. As in toe case of Cimarrones and Matanzas, the Spanisa garrison gets rid of the sick by shooting them. Severaldesperate appeals have been made to the Governor, but have been of no avail D:NA GROWS WORSE. HKothing to Indicate Dissolution, but He Is Sinking From Day to Day. GLENCOVE, L. I, Oct. 12.—Charles A. Dgna, the venerable editor of the New York Sun, is slowly sinking. His condi- tion is growing gradually worse, but so slowly that it is hardly noticeable from day today. There 1s nothing in his con- dition which indicates immediate dissolu- tion, but his death may occur at any moment. RIS Military Attrohe at St, Petersburn. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11.—First Lieutenant G. 1. Anderson, Fourth Artil- lery, has been appointed military attache 1o the legation at St, Petersbug.~ 4 STARVATION AND P OF NUGGETS LENTY Last Bc;ats From St. Michael‘ Fail to Reach Dawson City. THE WATER TOO LOW ON THE YUKON BARS. There Is Some Sickness and Will Be Much Suffering, While in the Hills a Graveyard Is Already Started. JUNEATU, Arvisga, Oct. 6 (By steam- ship City of Seautle, via Tacoma, Oct. 11).—The steamship Uity of Seattle tied | ap bere from Skaguay at 11 o’clock to- night, and will sail for Puget Sound at 2 o'clock in the morning. She brought the last party of Dawson men flesing from the famine 1o come, and a number of letters from Kiondike miners to friends in | gan, manager of the Alaska Commercial | Company s store at Dawson. Mr. Morgan writes: “This campis truly a hot num- | ber. In fic', it is wonderful to see the ;I.u':e acks of gold that comeintot e Alaska Compiny’s s ore each day irom the mines to purchase sauplies with or | put in the safe for shipment. The rich | creeks run abuut as follow-: E: Dorad -, 2 CEaA k' rrepe—t | PIAZZA COLONNA, Where the Rioters Gather in the Streets of the Eternal City to Threaten King Humbert's Govzmmcnt‘ WORKMAN SHOT DEAD | i i MARGUIS DI RUD NI, Premier of Italy. Juneau. All reporis hold up the previous ones of threatened starvation but plenty of gold. The last party which came out comprised C. A. Brown of Chicago, James Clark of | | Seattle, John Smith of Toronto, Ont.; Robert Anderson of London, England; and John Piehe of Quebec. They ieit Daw- sonSeptember 6, ten days after the Maloney party, and came over the Dalton trail. The bundls of letiers which were brougat here to-night were carried out by them. 1 bad time to talk only with Mr. Brown, the leader of the party. He has been in the Yukon three years, and has an interest in one of the most profitable claims on El Dorado. The most important news brought out by him is that no steamboats had arrived up the Yukon at the date their party leit Dawson. Mr. Brown said he thought the last boats that left 8t. Michael would not get up the river this winter. When asked why, he said the water in the Yukon is unusually low, and unless heavy rains occur the steamer Hamilton or any other steamer cannot get over the Yukon flats at Fort Yukon. The Hamul- ton was ten days overdue when they left Dawson, and the people of the K ondike meiropolis bad begun to lose hope that she would ever arrive tnere. The fever and sickness was not as bad as reported, but the graveyard had already been started at Dawson with a number of simple headboards. He said that even 1f the boats now due at Dawson arrived there would not be enough 1ood to supply the inhabitants of ihe region already there by one-balf. As to (he new discoveries Mr. Brown said the latest was on Sulphur Creek, and before that on Dominion Creek Neither of these latest finds has been well pros- pected, but the discoverers thought, from the surface ind.cations, that they would develop as well as El Dorado and Bonanza. Mr. Brown's party intended to escape from the threatened hardsbip of the win- ter by the river route, but their failure to arrive within anything like the time set forced them to abandon that route and come over the inland trail if they would get out this winter. Hundreds were ex- pected to come out after them. They had met Dalton on the trail putting, baek after a second party at most urgent request. Mr. Brown thinks there will be famine in the Klondike this winter, Among the letters received to-night was one by Olds and Orton, dated at Dawson City, September 6, from George W. Mor- Bonanza, S8kookum Pup, Hunker, Domin- ton and Sulphur, the last two being new strikes, but the indications are that they | arerich. A few days ago I was out on the creeks and I saw some handsome work on Skookum Pup. A man and his wife by the name of Ferguson owned a hali ‘nierest in Nos. 1 and 2 and during the day I saw Mrs. Ferguson pick up $299 in nuggets ranging in value from 50 cents to $166 40, In six box lengths Ferguson cleaned up $32,000. I heard yesterdav that he had sola out for a large amount ot money, $40,000 or $50,000. ‘““Boys, [ am of the opinion there are too many peopie coming in here at this season of the year. Any one in hers on the 15th of September is completely locked in until next June. We estimate there will be about 4000 people to winter here, and while we nope there will be no suffer- ing from hunger, we do not hesitate to say there will be no surplus of provisions. Make this known to as many people as possible, for I write these facts n the in- terest of humanity. IthinkIam in a po- sition to know whereof I speak.” Another letter was received by Joseph Jordan of Juneau from his friend P. B. Tyler, dated Dawson, August 23. This letter says that board 1n restaurants is $25 a week or §150 a meal. Another letier received,by Mrs. Belle Geddes of Juneau, dated September 4 from her husand, says thal be :hinks this will be the last mail out of Dawson this winter. No steamboats had arrived and every one was feeling much disappointed. He thought he had secured two of the best claims on the latest discovery—Sulphur Creek. Hav Horrman. - HUNDREDS WAITING FOR NEXT YEAR. There Will Be a Great Rush From All Over the World Into the Klondike in the Spring. JUNEAU. Arasga, Oct. 6 (via steamer City of Seattle via Tacoma Oct. 11).—The last packers e left the trail and are re turning to their homes by way of Juneau, A party that arrived to-day, having lost all the r horses by starvation on the in- land side of the White Pass, stated that not to exceed 800 persons, all told, had succeeded in getting: over the Skaguay trail to Lake Bennett, and they with only incomplete outlits. Oune of this party has ‘| been packing Jon the trail “all summer, or | to put it in more accurate language, try” ing to pack. Hundreds on the trail, who were well over the summit, expected to get through, but were prevented by the | tast sp21l of weather. There have been no other parties out of | Dawson City overland since the last dis- | patches two days ago. The Chilkat Pass and Dalton trail has been the popular route out of Dawson so far. It avoids much bad water on the Yukon. The trail comes down to Lynn Canal, about twenty miles south of Dyea and Skaguay, and parties coming over it do not go through either of those places, The men coming up the river and over the Chilcoot Pass -are due here in strag- gling parties any day, and they are ex- pected to keep coming in all winter long. A large party from Salt Lake City ar- rived on the last steamer with a fearfully and wonderfully constructed small steam craft, with which they expected to navi- gate the Copper River. They were told that none of them would live to bring a piece of it back, and they finally aban- doned the attempt. They may go into the Kiondike next spring. Steamboat men here say ther: are half a miilion peo- ple coming this way beginning early in the spring, and the greatest possible preparations are being made .here to bhandle the crowd. Every incoming steamer brings Kiondikers, who are di- vided between wintering here and mak- ing the foolhardy attempt to get in at this | time of the year, Char.es Hoopar, a local architect, has just received a letter from his brother at Johannesourg stating that many are leaving there for Aiaska, and that nundreds are preparing to aban ion the Trausvaal and see if fortune will not smile on them in the Yukon country. Iasked W. F. Churchouse of Portland, Or., who left here recently, to write me as to the actual condition of "things on the/ Stickeen River route. A letter received from him at Fort Wrangel says a boat has just returned which delivered at the head of navigation on the Stickeen en- gines, boilers and machinery for a steam- beat now being constructed on Teslin Lake for traffic on that lake to the outlet of the Hootalinqua tiver; that Mr. Duns- muir of Victorta, B. C., is building three light draft steamers for the service on the Stickeen, that the trail frcm Telegraph Creek may soon be in good order, and that the Canadian Government has to date spent in all $5000 upon it; that the people of Wrangel anticipate a boom | Otterson, only made seven miles in four { Portland bring in the girls. | volume of commereial business of Juneau. | It is a good outfitting point for the Yukon | ot exceptional selling at from $500 to $1200; that it is seemingly authentically reported that the Canadian Pacitic Railroad Company have in transit the material for a narrow-gauge railroad from Telegraph Creek to Teslin Lage. | Wrangel is at present also Lhe resting | place ¢f many weary Dawson City pil- grims. The latge party of thirty people irom Honolulu headed by George W. days on Telegraph Creex and have re- turned to Wrangel from Glenora, the head of navigation. The river current was too swift. He chartered the steamer Alaskan for $2000 for a second trip. Mr. Otterson | has written me that it will be useless fur any one to try to get through by the Stickeen till the river freezes up, which will basome time in December. A num- ber of men who tried to get over the Skaguay and Dyea passesareat Wrangel. Junean is crowded and has assumed her old-time appearance, as the metropolis of Alaska. Twenty-three young women ar- rived here in one dayv recentiy from Porte land, Puget Sound and Skaguay. Theyv | will ornament the dance halls. A great | crowd of men went down to the wharf| after midnight to see the steamer Irom" A new dance hall was opened that night. At 3 o’clock | in the morning several parties were wash- | ine their hands in champagne. The out- | look is that Juneuu will come in for her share of notice as oue of the “*hot towns’’ | in Alaska next winter. Easterners ' would be ‘astonished at the | to the extent of its capacity. Theé storm, wnich is only one of many that occurin the winter, is still raging in and at the head of Lynn Canal. The steamship Willamette, which passed up seven days ago, has been forced to put out iorseasome three times from Skaguay, and the steamship Georze W. Elder has not | been abie to make the landing at all. ' The steamship City of Seattle has also been hovering around the outside seeking shel- ter. The storm is very severe, but it s for Alaskan waters. Every ship which at this season comes into the Alaskan passages is likely to meet tnese terrific winds coming down from the mountains at any moment. | Serious mishaps are anticipated by 2x- perienced navigators (o unsuitable boats, | which run up here this winter. The worst weather usually comes in December and January. Harn HorryMAN. SNOW IS FLYING ON THE KLONDIKE There Will Bs S:arvation In the Camp If the Boats Do Not Get Through. JUNEAU, ALAska, Oct. 7 (via Victoria, B. C., Oct. 11.)—Mr. Roucko of the firm of Rudolpb & Rocko, proprietors of the saw- mill at Lake-Bennett, has arrivea here with the latest facts concerning the pres- | ent situation at the headwaters of tha" Yukon. He states there is a heavy snow- | fall and that it 13 steadily getting colder there. On the morning of October 3, the | day he left, the thermometer showed eight degrees beiow zero. The river, which runs between the sawmill and the side of the lake on whick the trail comes down from the mountains, froze up so that the boats had to be cut out of the ice. Mr. Rocko says the Yukon is likely to freeze any night and that be would not give much for the lives of those now on the river with insufficient provisions. The McKay pariy, which left here in August, is still at Lake Bennett. The party was made up of aboul thirteen women and several men, and they had about 2000 pounds of provisions. Most of the grub was left on the trail, and the day Mr. Rocko left the lake they were about to start down the lake for Dawson in the barge, with insufficient cloihing on the women and a few sacks of flour and a few slabs of bacon, bardly enough to last the party during an uninterrupted sail to Dawson.: The old-timers at the lake pro- tested aganst the attempt. When that failed the several Canadian police had about made up tneir minds to stop the party, considering that ithe attempt to next spring and that business lots are now | Lontinued on Sccond Page BY THE ROMAN POLICE TAX RIOT DISTORBS THE CITY Thousands of Trades- men Gather to Make a Protest. ARE JOINED BY THE LAWLESS. March in Procession to the Ministry and Rudini Speaks to Them. OFFICERS ATTEMPT TO DIS- PERSE THE MOB. Citizens Show Fight and There Is One Man Killed and Several Are Badly Hurt. Special Dispatch to THE CALL ROME, 1raLy, Oct. 1L.—One citizen was killed, about forty hurt and several police- men badly injured in a riot in the streets of the Eternal City to-day. A large procession of tradesmen, headed by tbe Pro-Syndic of Rome and the presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce, marched to the office of the Minister of the Interior this morning to confer with the Government regarding the increased taxation and to protest against it. Premier Rudini, who is also Minister of the Interior, received a committee repre- senting the tradesmen, and promised that everything possible would be done to pro- | mote friendly relations and greater equity between the tax collectors and the tax- payers. in the meantime a large crowd of people had collected around the Ministry, angry shouts were heard and some of those present tore up paving-stones and otherwise assumed a threatening attitude. This caused the police to attempt to dis- verse the violent portion of the crowd, and in the conflict which followed six policemen were injured and one rioter was killed. The mob raised revolutionary cries while the fighting was in progress, re- volvers were freely used, many persons in the crowd injured and twenty leaders of tne disturbance were arrested. The condition of three of the wounded police- men is serious. It is estimated that there were atleast 20,000 people in the procession that es- corted tie deputation to the Minister of the Interior. The authorities, it was evi- dent, had failed to make adequate provi- sion for maintaining order in such a vast assembly. The people were irritated at being ex- cluded from the building by the car- bineers, and presently a second detach- ment i1ssued with fixed bayonets and tried to clear the piazza. The crowd then re- sisted, the stone-throwing began and the conflict speedily became general, until an infantry detachment appeared on the scene and by repeated charges drove the crowd into the adjoining streets, the mob still showering stones. Some of the soldiers became infuriated, fired in the direction of the crowd, and the streets were only cleared after a desperate struggle, a second resort to fire- arms becoming necessary to dislodge a particularly determined group. It is be- lieved that nearly forty were more or less severely injured. Hints are thrown out in some quarters that the disorders were fomented by agents-provocateurs, as, until the sudden vutbreak, the crowd had been quite peaceable. Placards were posted on the walls throughout the city this morning inviting all tradesmen to close their shops in the afternoon from 2 o’clock until 4 in order to lend imposing character to the demon- stration. The suggestion was almost universally adopted, and the result was a spectacle unprecedented since the death of Vietor Emmanuel, except that each closed door bore instead of the legend '‘Closed for National Mourning” the inscription, Clased for Fiscal Reasons.”” The griev- ance is that this year the assessment of incomes by the Government agents for income tax has been doubled throughoul the country. At a m=eeting held yesterday it was decided to make to-day’s demon- stratiou. It is said that many anarchists and pro- fessional rioters mingled with the crowd and started cries of “Down with the taxes!” and “Down with the Ministry!” and greeted the soldiers with the cry, **We are all brothers; down wita taxes!" The streets tave been quiet this even- ing. Aspecial detail of police is patroiling the district that was the scene of tne dis- turbance. Inall there have been twenty- nine arrests. The rioter who was killed has not yet been identified, but appears to have been a workingman, The Prefect of Police has ordered the dissolution of the Roman So- cialist Union. To-morrow the Pro-Syndic of Rome and the president oi the Chamber of Com- merce, who headed the procession, will be received by the Marquis di Rudini, who will discuss the application cf the income tax. Secratary Goge heitirns. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11.—Secre= tary Gage returned to Washington to-day after nearly a month’s absence in the West,