The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1897, Page 1

Y;. - VOLUME LXXiYI L—NO\ 157 SAN FRANCISCO, ATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1897. — APRICE FIVE CENTS CREWS OF WHALING VESSELS ICE- BOUND IN THE ARCTIC HAVE NO HOPE OF RESCUE THE Captain James McKenna, her owner, has had a run of bad luck for the last three vears. to the eastward of Point B w and the Jame2s A'leaon Fox Is 1. » crew of the for several weeks in the Government relief station until taken off by the Fearless. In Clarence while deliverin way home. Captain M STEAM WHALER FEARLESS. In 1894 he lost the bark Reindser Reindeer reacned Point Barrow and lived 1896 the bark W. H. Meyer was lost in Port supplies to theReindeer station, and now tie Fearless is supposed to be cauzht in the ice while on her sKenna is in command of the Fearless. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. maker, chief of the Revenue Cutter ser- vice, r’ consuiting with the Treasury Department officer Captain C. L Hooper, who is here aitending the seal conference, has decided that nothing can be done to relieve the unfortunate crews of whaling vessels who are icebound in the Arctic Sea. Captain Shoemaker said to THE CavLL correspondent thisaiternoon: We can do nothing. It would be a ess and mad undertaking to send »ue of our vessels into those waters at tols season of the vear. The vessel could get bevond St. Michael. Point Bar- is 1200 m les farther e not a vessel in the service stanch zh for such a hazardous un tertaking. afraid they pastall buman aid, ess some of ihe steam whalers mayv be Captain Shoe- north, and we | | Referring to the report that the pro- visions at Point Barrow nad been sold to private parties, Captain Shoemaker said: “The Point Barrow relief station wa utte seless, and, as it was maintained at considerable expense to the Govern- ment, was abolished, This step was rec- ommended by Senator Perkins, Captain Hooper, Captain Healy and a great many | shipping men on the Pacific Coast. The parties to whom the provisions were sold said they intended to establish and con- | tinue a irading post in tbat vicinity, and | the provisions were sold (o them with that | understanding. I do not see how anything can be done until next sprine. You may say to your veople. through THE CALL, that the Bear will be sent to Bering Sea as early as possible in the spring, and she will be well | | more, that the Bear is one of the stanch- est and most useful vessels in the Government service,”” Captain Shoemaker here quoted with some pride the following tribute paid the | vessel by Governor Brady of Alaska,in his annual report, as follows: The service of this vessel has been going on for yesrs and 1t bas been & coustant blessing | to 21l who have anything to do In Bering Sea and the Arctic. She nas kept run of the whaling fleet and has rendered every possihl. id when any vessel has been wrecked. She us brought out over 1500 of these wrecked | mariners. Wherever she calls her pnysician is always besought to adm inister treatment to the sick. The missionaries always look for- ward to her annual trips with gladness, for | she brings their mails. The oflicers have kept after evildoers and especially those who wish to peldle firewater to tne Esquimau. At this Michael is all that preserves order among 1000 | spend the winter 2000 miles from the Klon- { dike. Itis tobe hoped, therefore, that such valusble service will be continued and that | the vessal shall be kept up to the highest pos- ! sible standard of efficiency. -— IN DANGER OF STARVATION. Total Number of Imperiled Men on the Whalers Placed at Three Hundred. SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—The steamer Port- land, which arrived here this morning from St. Michael, brings additional par- ticulars of the whaling fleet of eight ves- sels that is imprisoned 1n the ice in the Arctic Ocean. The total number of men | on the vessels is 300. Itis known that all the vessels were short of provisions, as they had expected to return te San Fran- cisco this month. The steam whalers Orca, Belveaere, Jesse H. Freeman ana the schooner Rosario were last heard of on September 13, when they were solidly imbedded in a mass of ice cakes along the shore at Point Barrow. The crews were seen sledding to shore such small provisions as they had. Thereisa hope that they may be able to procure a sufficiency of food at | Point Barrow, as there is a trading post there owned by the North American frad- ing Company. The supply, however, is not supposed 1o be very great, and largely consists of flour. The men who have mostly to fear starva- tion are those on the steamers Newport and Fearless, the bark Wanderer and the Pa- | cific Steam Whaling Company’s tender | Jeannie. They are !arther to the eastward | and are supposed to be ice-bound about | 250 miles from Point Barrow. Tney were | last seen about the first of September, and it is thought they are between Harrison | Bay and Demarkation Point or Herschel | Island. | The Alaska whale catch for this year, | according to aavices from Dutch Harbor, is considered to be a very good one, con- | sidering tie number of vessels engaged. | The total amount of hone will aggrezate | about 90,000 pounds, taken from fifty-four | whales. The steam schooner Karluk, now on her | way 1o San Francisco, has 12,000 pounds | of whalebone. The Orca hasa catch of four whales—three spring and one fall— while the Rosario has one caught in the spring. As these vessels are implanted in ice their catch wiil not be available this year. 1 The catch of the other vessels is as fol- | lows: Kariuk, seven fall one spring; Wil- | liam Bayliss, eleven fali; Alexander, nine | fall, three spri Jeauneite, ten fall two sprin +; Thrasher, four fall two spring. On board the Karluk is Second Officer Egan and a sailor, who were among the | angry men who see that they are doomed to | HENRY GEORGE DIES UNDER THE STRESS OF HIS TITANIC BATTLE He Lays Down the Burden, While Friend and Foe Alike Cease Their Clamor to Mourn for His Untimely Taking Off. near enough to give them assistance. moment of writing, her presence at St | wrecked crew of the lost hark Navarch, I provisioned; and 1 want to say further.!| WEYLER EMBARKS | ON THE STEAMER BOUND FOR SPAIN WAS DECLINED He Wil Not Leave Havana Until His Successor Comes, but He Must Clear Out of the Palace at Once. N EW YORK, Oc vana He er em rrat sho 29 —A dispateh from d seys: General he steamer Moni- to the arked \ 3 r4 o'clock tnis after- on; but, under instructions from Madrid, the vessel will not s il until afier the arrival of Marshal Blanco, the new Governor-General of ( being prepared for the latter's reception. and it is officially stated that the accom- modations there will be “‘insy botn.” General Weyler want on foot to Cabal- leria wharl. Crowds thro he went, the men, according to the official account, cheering him shaking him [ Y4 the hand and the women embracing and kissing him. The wharf was crow.'ed and the vessels and boats in the ha:bor were zayly decorated. General Wesler embarked on the tug Jose Gonzales, accompanied by the Mar- auis Ahumada, General other officers, and of the Montserrat. As a precautionary measure he assigned The palace is ed his path as 800n on the deck an officerand twelve privates as a special | guard for the American Consulate, In anticipation of his embar! preparztions for a demonstration begay about noon. All the business-bouses and shops were closed, and amid the firing of rockets the public began to assemble to bid farewell to the retiring Governor-Gen- eral. General Weyler, 1n the course of his acknowledgments of their sympatie- in reference to his approaching with- drawal, said he fully understood that their praise was for his policy and not for himse f He declared he had always done his duty and would leave Cuba with a “'serene conscience.”” He had never cared, ke said. for the criticism of sympathizers of ation yne rebellion, because he had always felt | his policy.” His temporary prohibi- ‘;urrd of the *‘real kindness and wisdom 1w in connection with the last sugar crop was only iniended to prevent the | rebels from raising a loan in the United States. “My release from my post and its re- =ponsibilities,” he «aid, *‘did not surprise e. Ihad expected 1t from the death of Senor Canovas, not believing any political Jeader would be strong enough to sustain me when the United States and the rebels were together constantly demarding that Spain should come to a settlement. 1 Moncada and | countitan honor to be identified with the ocal Spanish party.” In a farewell proclamation made public 1o-nizht General Weyler’s tone was peace- ful. H expres:ed great regret for the loss of life and the <uffering of the reconcen- trados and reusflirmed his assertion that four provinces of Cuba were pacified. A Herald correspondent in Havana province, under date of October new ministry came into power, are com- mitting many deeds of cruelty. As an example, he cites a case he witnessed in tihe mountains near El Carmen, where | several families who bad fled from the towns 1o seek food had congregated. A hut, in which lived Jo-e Gonzales and his family, was attacked by a small body | of Spanish iroops. The husband was tiei #nd dragged by the neck until unconscious | and then macheted. Two sons were also tortured to death, and the wife and two daughters were then killed. On the same day a ncspital established | | by Juan Dalgado’s command was raided | and all the inmates macheted and burned with the house. Wherever a Cuban is found, wheiker under arms or nor, he is killed. CONGHATULAIES GROVER. Queen Victoria Sends Her Felicita- tions on the Birth of a Son | and Heir. | NEW YORK, Oct. —The Journal to- | morrow will say: Ex-President Cleveland, in his Princeton home to-nicht, received | the following message from Queen Vic- w0 | WINDEOR CASTLE.—To Grover Clave- land, ex-President of the United States, Trenton, N. J.: Felicitations on this day, the day of your happiness, and may your heir bring you j VICTORIA. et Leaps From a High Bridge. OAKDALE, 0 —A stranger, ap- | parently a workingman, jumped from the county bridee across the Stanislaus River near Oakdale into the river, a distance of eighty leet. The water being shal- ow, he struck in the sand. Both legs were broken and the man was injured internally. He is still alive, bnt wiil die. His name is either Hayes or Hogan. He was not intoxicated. 13:h, | writes that the Spanish soldiers, since the ENGLISH OFFER FOR THE ROADS M:., McKenna Did Refused | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —THE CaLL | representative has received irom a high | Government official information that there will be no chanze in the plan concerning *he sale of the Union Pacific and Kansa« Pacific roads. The offer of Coates, Son & Co. of London will not be considered, for the Government has no means of know- ing whether the firm would carry out its promises. NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—The staff corre- spondent of tne World telegraphs from Washington that Attorney-General Mec- Kenna to-day made this careful and sx- plicit answer to me in reply to the cable dispatch in yesierday’s World that Coates, Son & Co., London bankers, were ready to buy the Union Pacific lines: 1 have no specific knowledge of the London brokerage firm of Coates, Son & Co. I understand that it is a respectable bouse. The first intimation I received that Messrs, Coates desired to bid for the Union Pacific was on Saturday last in the evening. an individual representative of the firm. “The proposition suggested involved a bonding scheme aiged by the Govern- ment. This I rejecied, it being beyond the powers of the Government to enter legally into further bonding lu the case of the Union Pacific. “The representative of Messrs. Coates, 1 presume, cabled this to bis principals, for another proposition was submitted 1o me. The second proposition asked for a postponement of the saleand it was stated that the full amount of the Government’s claim in the mam fine and the Kansas Pacific division would be paid. “My answer to this was: Mesers. Cates agree to care for the first lien on the roads?” The Government's interests, as you are aware, are repre- sented by a second mortgage. The Gov- ernment has no authority to exercise in the case of the first mortgage and tt.e sale could go on without regard to the Govern- ment. “The Messrs. Coates’ could give no specific information on this point. Again cabling, I assume, to hs principals, the third and last proposition was received Monday evening. It was a moditication of the second proposition, but was not of the nature the Government could accept. The Government is hamp- Lered by various restrictions. It has not representative 1did not receive a cable direct | from London, but I was approach-d by | ‘Will the | Not Like the Terms Offered by the London Syndicate and to Deal. | the liberty of action of a private concern. | T could not consider the mere assertions | or disposition ana intentions of a foreign business house, unless something tangible | were offered. Nothing wes offered by the | London firm that would justify accept- an 'he Kansas Pacific must be sold sepa- rately from the Union Pacific. It makes no difference if the sale were to occur as originally intended; scparate sales are fixed by legal requiremenis of the mat- ter.” LOST <IX HUNDRED MEA, | Dervish Forces Suffered Severely Dur- | ing the Eritish Bombardment i of Metemmeh. CAIRO, Oct. 29.—Dispatches from Ber- [ ber, the southernmost point reached by the Anglo-Egyptian expedition on the Nile, says that according to the report of spies the Dervish commander at Metem. | meh, the Dervis: po-ition between Ber. | ber and Khartoum, has announced in the mosque that he lost 600 men during the bombardment of Metemmeh by the Brit- | ish gunboats on Ociover 20. Lhe Brivish shelled the town and retized alter inspeci- {ing 1t with a view of ascertaining its | strength and defensive works, The spies report also that the Dervish commander had asked the Khalifa to send | him re-enforcements. Lived Almost a Century, STOCKTON, Cct. 20.—Anderson Davis, one of the oldest California pioneers, died to-day at the home of his daughier in this city at the age of 95 vears and ten months. He was born in North Carolina and was a pioneer o/ Kentucky, Missouri and of California, coming to this State nearly forty years ago. His livingch dren are Mrs. Cornelius Swain and Mrs, | M. A, Bissell of Stockion and Joseph | Davis of Fresno and the third, fourth ana | ifth gensrations number well toward a ! half hundred. | The Sealing Agreement. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Complete offi- | cial connrmation was given to-day to the exclusive announcement made in these dispatches last night that the Bering Sea conference nad reached an agreement for the complete suspension or material limi- tation of pelagic sealing. THE: LATE HENRY: . GEORGE. * * * consummated. again. e R e NEW YORK, Oct. 29 —Henry George, author of “Progress and Poverty,” and candidate of the Thomas Jelferson Dem- oeracy for Mayor of Greater New York, died at 4:10 o'clock this morning in the NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Henry George died as Abraham Lincoln died. Lincoln was assassinated just after his great work of saving the Union was It was said that he was mercifully spared the petty an- noyances and bickerings of the reconstruction period. struck down by fate in the zenith of his powers. inaugurated will go on. As a2 man and a philosopher it will be long before his like will be seen His goodness and gentleness singled him out among all men and with others, I almost worshiped him. Q:*tt*thit**fitii**‘kt*fit*ii*‘ktt!tttfittittttttttt'ktttti*tttit*tt*tti*;: He spoke at Whitestoneat 8 o’clock and made a speech at College Point an1 Flush- ing before returning to New York to speak at the Central Opera-house. Mrs. Georze went with him. Union Square Hotel, from cerebral apo- | which he spoke were well filled, and a: plexy. In his great Cooper Union speech, when he accepted the nomination for Mayor, College Point and at Flushing crowds were turned away. At drove from the railroad station to the less than a month ago, he said: *'I'll make | meeting-ball ata gallon. this race if it costs me my life. call to duty, and as a good citizen I have | no right to disregard it on account of per- sonal consideration.” To-day the cheers of the workers have suddenly been chanced to sighs, for, true to his words, Henry George, the apostle of the rights of men, died he wished (o die—in the harness, fighting for the cause —toward the close of the greatest muni pal political contest the worid has ever seer. The end was peaceful, and he died with- out pain. This man of mighty brain and undaunted courage was physically frail, and the strain of exciting campaign requiring speech-making at points many miles apart, night after night, was more than nature could stand. He kept it up to the ead, and on few nours before the dread messenger cried “‘halt” Henry George had addressed enthusiastic audi- ences in three of the towns of the borough of Queens, and a still larger assemblage in an uptown hall here. Thisis a | 1 To the cheering crowds he sii be- lieve that all the needed reforms are ummed up in thet philosophy—the right of every man to eat, to drink, to speak, as he sees fit, so long as be does not trench on the rights of any other man. I believe that God, the Father, can take care of his iaws—there is no need for us to get into trouble trying to meddle with vod’s laws to enforce them. If Iam elected, and I believe that 1 will be eiected, I will en- force the law upon the rich and poor alike. “I have pledzed myself to search ont the charges popularly made against Rich- ard Croker. IfIam elecjed these charges shall be investigated. Ii they shall be proved untrue let him go unscathed back 10 England or 10 uny land ‘he pleases, But if they are true” —Mr. George’s voica rang out in menacing tones that visibly excited his audience—'‘let the iaw be en- forced. Let him go to the peni tentiary He shall go there.” Mr. George picked up his hat, saying The great work that he EDWARD McGLYNN. All the halls in | Whitestone he | anaa e s S S T PR R R Iavvpsop g oy HE DIED AS LINCOLN DIED. Henry George was 3 * kA KA KRR A ek ok Rk kA Ak AR ok & good-by, and started for the door. The crowd rose cheering and elbowed, and fought to get near him. They reached out their hands to touch his clothing. At College Point there were 1200 com- mon iabocers, a rough crowd closely packed in the hull. Mr. George was in- troduced as the iriend of the workingman, He began: “I have never claimed to be a friend of the workineman. I do not now make any such claim. [There wasa pause of dead silence.] 1 have not and do not intend to advocate anything in the special interest of the laboring-men. [An- other dead pause.] Mr. George walked the full length of the platform and let out his full voice in a shout: I am for men. [Tue crowd set up such a cheering and stamping that the room was filled with a choking dust.] 1 am for men, the equal rights of all men. Lot us be done with asking privileges for the laboring-men.’ There was much cheering and shouting as the speaker pushed his way out of the ball. He drove to Flushing, a long ride, at the end of which he spoke to 1800 people, who baa waited an hour to see and cheer for theiridol. Off again, and this time to a hall in the center of Man- hattan [sland. Here there was prolonged cheering. *I hear above your shouts the rooster’s crow,” he said. ‘‘Next Tuesday you will hear that rooster crow again and the