The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1897, Page 1

\Sorons SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MOR PRICE FIVE CENTS. SANISE | REPLY NOW SUBMITTED Mr. Woodford Reserved Asiito Its Exact Tenor. WILL BE SSENT T0O] WASHINGTON. 1 ngthy Document Setting Forth the Pcsition of the Madrid Government. NOT MUCH DOUBT OF THE STAND TAKEN. Spaln Will Accuse the United States of Not Acting in Good Faith. to THE CaLL Dispatch NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The World's cor- respondent at Madrid cables: Spain’s answer 10 the Americ Government's communication expressing a wish that in Cuba may e:d soon covers pages. It the State Department at ely written shington as soon as it is translated. Ministier Wood reserve regarding i tm ains content Contrary t receive it until to- to da he report Le did & when Senor Gullen, Minister of For- fairs, sent it to | rench Embassador, the Marquis of Reverseaux, gave a splendid lunch to- aay to General Woodford, the German, English and Russian Embasszdors, sev- im. he | | eral foreign Ministers and Charge d’Af- fa and the Spanish Ministers of For- eizn Affairs and of the Colonies. General | Woodford sat nex: to and conversed ani- | matédly with Senor Moret, Spain’s Colo- nial Mini WASHINGTON, Oct. It is not bt mong oflicials that the basis of panish reply to Mr. Woodford’s note I be the charge that the United States has not observed the requirements of in- ternational law 1n the mattar of prevent- i ibustering. In this case the State cpartment will have some pertinent | o present, b its offi-ials believe | wiil completely ienate from Spain | a sympathy that bave | contracted from any an pa- tions on that score asserted positively thatin Spa autk no single case where the brouzht to the | atten of our Government the fact that an illegal expedition was abuut to start from our snores for Cuba has it neglected 10 use all the means mitted by our laws [t has been so in- espect as 10 accapt state- the S b cfficials, not ac- | panied by proofs of the lacts alieged, | | il mere susgest t they had rea- son to believe expedition was formed In cases our Gove ment has proceeded 10 lengiis in restraint «f | American commerce on insufficient evi- dence iurnished by the Spanish Govern- | ment that has resulted in the preference | of large claims American ship-owners for i detention of iheir skips. Then the expense of maintaining the patrols along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts has been very he. Every time the State Department has been obliged to call upon a collector at a port the resuit has beeu a | of expenses jor tucs, special nd other charges, while the At- eral’s office, and, in fact, most xeculive departments, have been | less tiouble and expense, Depsrtment especiaily has mbarrassed, owing to the necessity for diverting vessels from oth-r places for the disagreeable Ylorida patrol. On the official estimates the exvense the United Stastes has been to 10 protect the Cuban coast of Spain is about $2,000,000, This is prebably a large estimate, but one naval officer who is thorougn y cognizant of the strain put upon the department by the patrol stated thuat it would really be cheaper for the United States to send a fleet to Cuba and blockade the coast there against incoming filibusters than 1o try to 510D them on our own extensive coast line, Altogether the oflicials here are con. fident of their ability to show that the Government has more than complied with the requirements of international |aw which as faid down in the Alsbama arbi. | tration simply demands th:t a nation | ‘‘use due diligence” 10 prevent the de- parture of bostiie expeditions. On this phase of the question the cor- respondence may be kept alive belween the State Department and the Spanish Government until Congress meets, bat it | is expecied that unless some resultsin the direciion of the zestions of Mr. Woodford are forthcoming by that time the President will refer the entire matter to Congress and await its orders. Swmee PLIVATEERS, APANISH A Ihreat to Desiroy the Commerce of the United States. LONDON, Oct. —The Times' Mairid gorrespondent telegraphs: “On the ole, the prospects of General Wood- i obtaining any satisfactory arrange- 1N¢nts are not brignt. Farthermore, it ~would b: a dangerous error to imazine that the Spaniards are playing a game of bluff. They know they would be beaten, but Castilian pride is willing to ‘"cenl!])e consequences.’’ This is the burden of official talk here, with this addition: “We never signed the declaration of Paris against piivateer- ing, and we ou:ht o be able 10 destroy American commerce all over the world. Let the Americans do their worst. We are ready 1o accept the consequences.” e strictest | Details the river. ~ N N\ fop T} AN ON THE NILE ABOVE BERBER DERVISHES RETURNING HoME FRoM A Ramp WiTH THEIR CAPTIVES AND PLUNDER. CAIRO, Oct. 25.—A column of troops commanded by General Hunter, as is announced in a dispatch from Berber, on the Nile, has started to drive Osman Digna, the great Dervish general, from the Atbara River. not wait for the troops to attack him. st obtained of the revenge of the Dervishes upon the Jaalin tribe, causéd B¥'the refusal of the latter to join the forces of the Khalifa against the British, show it to have been terrible in the extreme. Motneh was practically depopulated. The Dervishes butchered every male mamber of the offending tribe, and took the pretty women to their hawm:, after sending 150 selected virgins to the Khalifa. But, the dispatch adds, Osman Digna will The left bank of the river between Berber and The Dervishes also threw many women and children into Fook Jed kAR Rk kk ok Xk kok k¥ THE DROWNED. Morric Petersen, first mate Mats Matersen, second mate. George Offerman, chief engi- neer. John ¥, gineer. John dacobson, fireman. A. C. Cunlac, fireman. Charles Stark, seaman. N. C. Halversen, seaman. John A. Andersen, seaman. Louis Bruce, seamn. Andrew Andersen, seaman. Christopher Larsen, semman. Fred Calspech, cook. Martin Partelsen, cabin-bov. * Fokdok dedede ok koo sk sk ok e ot POINT AREN rescued none of the crew of the ill-fared Kuhn, assistant en- ek Jok e A Ak kA kA P T TR T R R TR TR | Caspar, lost on Saunders Reef, and so all hope of the thirteen men washed off the vessel’s dzck, with Captain Anfindsen ani Seaman Jansen, has been given up. Captain G inderson of the steamer Al- cszar said inan interview to-day: **We lay oft Greenwoed all Friday n-ght, and the wind biew a gale and a heavy sea the southeast and the rain fell in torrents at times, “On Saturday morning we went into Greenwood and began loading. At 1 o'clock a telegram was received by Mr. White,the owner, of the L. E.White Lum- ber Company, and ta whom the Alcazar belougs, and I was ordered fo steam to the rescue of the wrecked seamen as fast as possible. At 1:30 we were headed south and at 4:20 were off Iversens Landing. 1 wentas close inshore as possible, then lowered the ship’s boats and searched all through the kelp until satisfied that no living men were 10 be found. “We found ihe top of the house and other wreckage, and picked up the wheel, steam-gauge and bell. Ofcourse, not being at the scene at the time of the wreck, I would not like to offer my opinion, but I know there was a strong current setting inshore, for as I was coming up the day before this current made it very dange: A, Oct. 25 —The Alcazar | an from | THIRTEEN LOST WHEN THE CASPAR STRUCK THE REEF | De'egates Mest in Secret | doctor’s care at Coronado. No Longer Hope for Any More of the Unfortunate Seamen. ous for vessels running 1n close to the shore.” CINFERENCE AS 70 SEALS. Session and Hear the Testimony of Experts. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—The Inter- national teal Conierence met again at the State Department to-day, with ail the members present. The proceedings are secret, in the sense that no one but dele- gates are allowed in the meeting-room, save certain per=ons who are calied upon to give expert testimony as to the condi- tions of seal life and the state of the mar- t for sealskins. The conference will be in session some time. In the meantime Professor Thompson, the chief British expert, and one of the delegates selected by Great Britain to rep- resent it at the special conference between representatives of the United States, Can- ada ana Great Britain, has arrived in Washington. Yesterday he calied upon ex-S-crefary Foster in company with Mr. Adams, of the British Emba: Y, and later had an informal conference with President Jordan, oue of the American seal experts. Mr. Macoun, the Canadian Minister of Marine, who is to be Professor Thowpson’s colleague nn the conference, has not yet reached Washingion, ai.d un- til be comes it will not be possible to make any arrangements for this special con- lerence. Sl e iy SENATOR MORGAN VERY ILL. From a High Fever at Hotel Coronado. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 25.—Senator Morgan arrived here to-night il', and is under a The reception to have been tendered him has been post- poned. At 1 o’clock this morning a ‘e’ephone message from the Coronado Hotel stated that Senator Morgan had a high fever. —_— One Thousand Killed and Wowundrd. SIMLA, Ixpia, Oct. 25.—The losses of the tribesmen at the storming of Dar;ai ¢ idge were 1000 killed and wounded. TACOMA, Oct. 25.—The steamer Olym- | pia, from China and Japan, brings advices as follows: phoon that has swept that part of the Chinese coast in twenty-five years oc- curred at Hoihow, China. It swept up the low coast in the form of a tidal wave, causing the aestruction of scores of small boats and many good-sized junks ana other craft. which were smashed to pieces. Three hundred peoble, mostly natives, lost their lives at Hoithow. The steamers Hongkong, Hailan, Frejor and Else were damaged and the Chinese gunboat Kwong Yok carried ashore, and, five days after the storm, was still stuck in the sand. The day following the typhoon was spent in burying the dead. All day cof- fins were being carried throu -h the streets and dead bodies floating in the river were being picked out by friends and charitably disposd persons. Sickening odors from the dead animals washed ashore, as well as from human bodies, are described as something awiul, and some of the foreign residents were compelled to move back into the hitls temporarily. Many who endeavored to escape were buried under the roofs ‘and walls of fall- ing buildings and arowned. Others climbed on the roofs, ouly to find the foundations giving way, causing the en- tire structures to fall into the foaming waters which swept the ¢ ty. The damages to property at Hoihow are estimated at §300,000, and as much more property was destroyed at fishing villages along the coast. The water began rising in the streets of Hothow at 2 p. M., and by 16:30 o’clock it was from three to five feet high, though the town is built six feet above the ordinary hizh-tide line. After | that it rose so fast as to sweep everything in the lower poriions of the city before it like a tidal wave. The wind sent tile roofs and chimneys flying in every direction. Junks were huried from their moorings into the houses along the water front, knocking down wall< and smashing them- selves to pieces. Others were carriea alongsiae streets, and when the waters subsided were found over a half mile in- land. The postotfice was destroyed, the cus- tom-house unroofed and two junks were carried into the residence of the Customs Commissioner. The house of Dr. McGan- ldlin. attached to the American Presby- Late in September the most severe ty- | 'TIDAL WAVE DEALS . DEATH ALONG THE COAST OF CHINA ‘Three Hundred Lives Lost in the Single Town of Hoihow. terian Mission hospital, was badly dam- aged. On September 30 a heavy rainstorm spread all over Javan and up to the time the steamer Olympia left reports were coming in of terrible havoc done. The Government railway was washed away in several places between Hologaya and Kambara. A partof the tunnel between Hodogaya and Totsuka collapsed and fell on five trucks of a train that war passing through at the time. Parts of the line between Oiso and Koizu, Kodzu and Mat- suda, Yamakita and Oyama and Okitsu and Kambara were submerged and the railway people are now busy repairing damages. A Kobe dispatch states that numerous floods have occurred in that vicinity— Akaski being under water, with seven houses swept away—and traffic has been stoppea on the Sanyo Railway. From Neagoyva, Gifu, Hiroshims, Okayama, Kazawa, Kagoshima, Kioto, Chiba and other places comes news of bridges and embankments having been swept away and enormous damage done. Many peo- ple were killed in the several districts. At Musasi twenty-two houses collapsed. At Akashi twenty houses were destroyed ana twenty-two badly damaged. The Mainichi states that 65000 houses are floodea at Na oya. According to an official report from Aiichi prefecture there are forty-two vil- iages, altogether coniaining 10,000 houses, still submerged in the Kaitto, Kaisai, Nakashima and Haguri districts, while 60,000 peasants are at present dependent | on the rations of food issued by the Gov- ernment. The damage to tne rice crops s estimated to be not less than 1,500,000 yen. The Tokado railway was blocked by the collaspe of the Sattatoge tunnel. At Ashigara, Shimogori, a landslip oc- curred and water gushed ont from a hili- side and swept away eleven houses, be- sides damaging some others. At another place—Fajiya-Mura, on the Arakawa River—seven houses were destroyed and tne whole district was under water. The Fujiki River was in flood and carried away fourteen houses at Urawara, besides damaging numerous others, and the well- known mineral springsthere have been buried and have totally disappeared from view. Along the Atami bridges were washed away as well as other damag done, but fortunately no loss of life is re- ported. The late rice crops are reported to have been aimost completeiy ruined in many districts. | zoes aground also shortly aftersward. FAMINE MADE TO ORDER BY THE TRADERS Alaska Companies Accused by Men Back From the Klondike. ATTEMPT TO STAMPEDE MINERS TO AMERICAN SOIL. By Compelling Them to Cross the Line Into Alaska Payment of Duties on Provisions Would Be Avoided. SKAGUAY, Qet. 19 (by steamer City of | Seattie to Port Townsend, Wash., Oct. | 25).—Reports of plans to control the crowd are the latest from the Klondike. Julius Trippe of 336 West Seventy-eighth street, New York City, is the father of the idea that there has been all alongz a concerted scheme to limit the supply of provisions | at Dawson City for commercial purposes. He saia: ‘““‘Every steamer which comesup theriver | has an Indian pilot. I had noiiced that when one steamer goes aground another | steamer belonging to the o:hsr compeny The two companies which control the business | in the interior Yukon country are the Alaska Commercial Company and the North American Trading and Transporta- tion Company. I am not the only one who thinks that these Indian pilots pur- posely run the vessels aground. I have heard considerable talk among old-timers at Dawson on the sama subject. The In- dian packers on the river, when a ship is aground, have the opportunity to charge what they like for packing the goods to Dawson or any other point. I would not waut to say that the trading companies are & party to this scheme, but ihere isa widespread suspicion among the men who talk less and think more that the present shortage in provisions ai Dawson has been planned from start to tinish.”” I had some conversation to-nizht with | Stuart Woods, a prosp>ciorof three years’ experience on the Yukon. What Mr. Woods said supports the iaea expressed by Mr. Trippe. “The commercial companies at Daw- | son, which 1s in British territory,” sai he, “‘must pay duty on all the supplies which are brought into the Northwesl Teriitory. It they could get the crowd aswn around Forty-Mile, Circle City, MinookiCreek and other tributaries of the Yukon in American territory, they would do the same volume of business and he released from duty charges. It looks to me that the whole scheme o! the shortage of grub in the Kiondike region is the scheme toget the crowd inls American | territory and save the duties. The com- mercial companie, in consideration of the ; large quantity of whisky which they have carried to Dawson, to theexclusion of pro- visions, would not dare to allow the peo- ple to suffer from starvation. There is plenty of food at Forty-Mile, Circle City and Rampart City, and before the winter is over an exodus of several thousand peo- ple will be engineered from Diwson down the Yukon to the places where the grub is. Asther- is no reason to believe thatall the gold in the Yukon interior isdaposited in the Kionaike and its tributaries, the | result will be that a great deal of prospect- | ing will be done this winter in American territory, and I expect to hear of justas | good strikes within the next year as have been made around Dawson. ““It is even s=id at Dawson that Aleck | McDonald. the Berrys, Antonio, the Ital- | ian, and other bonanza kings of the Klon- | dike stand in with the commercizl com- | panies in a scheme to run the crowd to | whatever Iccality they like. Iam not on | the inside and of course 1 do not know, as | a matter of lact, whether there is any chicgnery to control the crowd or not, but to the man who will stop and size up the situation it looks as though there had been some scheme hatcied to limit the grub supply and raise the price. After all, | any job tolead the crowd to rich diggings | in American territory would be a vastly popuiar one because there is a great deal of aiscontent among miners at the high and exacting percentage levied by the | Canadian Government on the output of claims in the Northwest Territory.” Young Trippe ana Dave Thompson bring out the news that “'Swiftwater Bill”" ison top again. The last reports from Dawson were to the effect that Bill had run up | against a faro bank and gone “broke.” If Bill became “busted,” he got on top again playing 'he game. As before stated in these dispatches, | “Swiftwater Bill"” wanted to play the roof | for the limit one night on the queen of | hearts. The ‘“lookout’’ objected and Bill got mad. He said he would have a faro game of his own and that the altitude of | the amount of bets that any man wanted | to make would be limited only by lhsi perpendicular extent of the atmosphere, which scientists say is about forty-five miles. So Bill bought a faro bank and dealt the cards himself. He came out $20 000 winner, sold his interest for $10,000 and for $25,000 rebought an interest in | his original claim with his old partners. | **Swiftwater Bill”’ again throws gold rug- gets around over the bars of Dawson with | the utter disregard of a man throwing dice at craps. W. H. Gates, otherwise “Swiltwater Bill,”” has more diamouas than any man | in Alaska. He wears two or three dia- | mond rings on each finger of both hands. He has made it his particular business to buy all the diamonds in sight at Dawson, | hundred. so when Bill sits behind a faro layout at night his hands twinkle like a constella- tion in the heavens. “Swiftwater Bill” is as much a charac- | ter and product of fortune in the Yukon as Barney Barnato was in South Africa. He spends more money around town than Barnato ever did, and he thinks no more | of letting from $1000 to $10,000 2o per | night than many peorle wouid of “‘blow- ing in”' 5 cents for a Hamburg steak at a | sidewalk restaurant. There is an ill-concealed jealousy be- tween “Swiftwater Bill,” Aaleck McDon- ald, Antonio the Italian Prince and Clar- ence Berry’s brothers as to who shall set the pace in Dawson’s tenderloins. They strive for precedence in the largest amount of money that they ‘blow in."” If one man spends $2000 to-night another one of this coterie will go him $500, $1000 or $2000 better to-morrow night. Julian Trippe brought outthe first story of “‘salted” placer mines. He says thata number of claims on creeks tributary to the richest discoveries have been pur- posely plugged with dust, and that the salted claims have been sold at fabulous prices on the sirength of several rich pans | having been taken out in the *salted" | spots. The reason that there has not been more Loise about'this ‘‘saltea’’ work is that when the men got bit they said nothing, with the idea of selling the claim toanother *‘sucker.” It has got to be so now that any man who contemplates buy~ ing a claim in the K!ondike will sink a shaft and cut out several drifts before he will put any money into the prospect. Aleck McDonald has taken to buying up all the locations that he can.. He now has 1nterests in twenty-eight ciaims. He has paid for all of them with money taken out of the grouna on bis other claims. An- tonio, the Italian Prince, is close to Me- Donald as a bonanza king. He owns claims 4,5 and 6, El Dorado, and two claims on Bonanza. Itis almost literaliy true that upon two ef the Kl Dorado claims this son of Italy can shovel out coarse gold and find that each shovelful is half gravel and haif nuggets. Antonio has raised the salary of his housekeeper to $500 a week pin money, and she has in addition to the pin money a written agreement for $40,000 per ane num for her services. The name of this housekeeper is Miss Violet Raymond. Miss Raymond has in ber wardrobe nearly all of ths heavy gros-grain silks in Daw- son, aud satius of more varied and radi- ant tints than there are in the spectrum. The Prince can “blow in’’ half a million and then come out of the Klondike with | a million and a half in his inside pocket. Two years ago the Prince did not have enough money to buy a salmon from an Indian. Gus Bakke, formerly a Juneau resident, owns the lot on which the new Dawson Opera-house has been built. The lo, sur- rounded by shanties, huts, tents, dugouts and numerous nondescript habitations pitched on a ‘“moose pasture” almost within the Arctic circle, is valued at $40,000. Before the discoverv the Kion- dike was called a moose pasture. Pros- pectors who have grown gray hunting for gold in the Yukon have walked over it season after season. It remained for a tenderfoot to scratch a little on the sur- face and find gold, and the farther he went down the more gold he dug up. Many people are now idle in Dawson, The supply of labor exceeds the- demand. Wages are down to $10 a day. Most ot the big mine-owners have ample supplies of provisions, the value of which ranges from $10,000 to $15,000 each. Aleck Mec- Donald’s supply is worth $22.000. Suger has risen in price to $25 per hundred weight and flour $12 a sack. Last w.ekat Five-finger Rapds flour sold for $52 a There was very liitle of it to be had at that price. These are the latest quotations from the Klondike. When coming over the Skaguay trail Dave Thomp:o1 said he walked part of the way upon the carcasses of dead horses. Havu HoOFFMAN. - HAD NO PUMPS ABOARD. When ths El'za Anderson Began to Leak, H r Carpenter Was K=p: Busy. SEATTLE, Oct. —Thirty men, the majority of them the alieged victims of a San Francisco transvortation company, arrived in Seattle this morning ou the steamer Navarro from St Michael, ut- terly disgusted with Alaska in general and themselves in particular. So dis- heartened and chagrined are they that they bound Captain Higgins of the Na« varro by a solemn promise not to give out the list of passengers, as they desire notto ba known in connectivn with the unfor- tunate voyage. A majority of the Navar- ro’s passengers went to Alaska on the schooner North Fork from San Francisco. The latter vessel towed up the boat Mare Island. The Navarro brought down five dise