The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXII —NO~ 1 D SAN FRANCISCO, TH JRSDAY MORN G, NOVE PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILL BE THE PORTION OF IMPRISONED WHALERS BEIE S STE RAMEMV RN EERE R B SGRNE R o hope of the imprisoned of the Aretic Four of them are in a dangerous position and the others eet getting out not very much better off. eight pplies months Each of the only three months’ rd, snd 53 1t will be at least reach them uation is a desperate one. steam whaler Alexander arrived - nt Barrow, vis Unslaska, as oniy with the greate: t Captain Tilton got his ves- B sels b before help can hix 5 he ice, and had the Alex- and not been an unusually stout vesse and Captain Tilton an able and deter- m master she would now be trozen in he otbers of the fleet. There are bound 10 be a great many n -the whalers this winter,’’ said reer M. McKiunon of the Alex- “Ihe sieamers and Beivedere and the o are in a very bad place. them they w and the chances are that ecome Wrecks next Spring. They can get neither to the eastward nor westward of the point and the vessels will be exposed to every w that biows. There were 10 provisions at Point Ba row. Captain Cogan of the Thrasher had to take men away from there because of that fact. There isvery little game at the pointand the Indian villages are miles away, 80 one can see that the 150 or 200 those fourVessels are in a tight box. h there is a small supply of ing to the North Pacific but it will go a very hong the imprisoned men. en caug! scharge the ice also. We had to me trade at Cape Smith and it Point Barrow before the Orca, Free- nan, Belvedere sna Rosario. Not one of Orca, | re anchored | red us or we would have | PUT TO DEATH BY CANNIBALS ON t mber 7 Smith. the Alexunaer left for Caje Continuing Captain Tiiton says: From the 8th to the 12th we w)rked against the floes and along the pack and then came 3 terrific battle for freedom frowm the frozen masses. Steam was on at full pressure and we com- | menced work with a vengeancs. We took the narrowest part of ihe grounded ice worked for eighteen honrs without ceasing to get four ship's lengths to the open strip of water beyond. On Seplember 17 the Alexander got clear of the ice and at Herald Island met the whalers Karluck, William Baylies and Jeanette. In conciusion Capiain Tilton says: he fizet we left in the ice has not enough provisions' to last through the winter, and tue men must make their way over the ice to the Indian villages or a great disaster may foilow. Albert Walters, one of the crew of the wrecked Navarch, came down on the Al- exander. Both his feet were frozen and will bave to be amputated in order to save his li‘e. Directly the whaler came to an anchor he was removed to the United States Marine Hospital. HIES AWAT T0 WED HIS FORMER WIFE ' James Leighton Leaves Fresno Suddenly With a Bride- . Elect. D'vorced Couple Seek a Mecca Where They May Be Lagally R married. Special Dispatch to THE CALL FRESNO, Nov 3.—James Leighton, a | well-known citizen of Fresno and part owner of the Excelsior stable, hasleft the _city with his former wifs, Mrs. Alice 1 thought that ice was closing In | and the result was (hat we had to fight our way inch by inch to safety. For| eighteen hours it was ‘lull speed astern.’ then ‘stop her' and then ‘full speed abead,’ followed by the crash as we struck the icefield. Back and forth we went and every succeeding crasn seemed to us down in the engine-room as though it would be our lust. It did not seem pos- sible that wood and iron could stand the strain much longer. Aftergetting through the pack we bad to fight our way througn 150 miles of young ice an inch and a half thick. Ican tell you when we reached Sea Horse Isiand and saw open water be- fore us we were a happy set of men. ‘The steamer Jeanie, Fearless and Newport and the bark Wanderer were all frozen In between Point Barrow and Herschel Island. When we left the latier place the only ve:sel left there ‘was the Mary D. Hume. The Narwhal, Balaena, Beluga and Grampus Liuve gone to Copper Mine KRiver to winter, Uhere would therefore be very little succor for the imprisoned fleet from that source. he four vessels to the eastward of Point tter in a case that is bad at the best. ey will have a chance of getting deer, ouse and rabbits by hunting, and they are not far from an Indian village. Tbe Alexander sailed from Herschel Inland on August 20. In ms report Cap- tuin Tilton savs: On August 30 we left Flaxmans Isiand for the west pack and passed along the pack until ptember 1 by Midway Island, the inding iu two fatnows to Harrisons Ba: ere was heavy ground ice on the west side 7 a b 2 B e harbor and the same off Cape Hackett, | was passed on the same day. The yack s grounded very heavily here, also at Bay, where we passed close inside of grounded floe. At 10.P. ., aftera hard afternoon’s work, we tie* up 1o the pack and found we had run up with the Orca, Beivedere and Jessie Free- pan. A northeast wina sprang up when we gstunder way, and for two days were in com- poy with the steamers, fighting toward the pem. September 5 fresh westerly breezes rang up accompanicd by snow squalls. Point Barrow was reached, and on Sep- steam whalers | rrow are in a better position than those | Point Barrow, that is if there is any | ice | Leighton. They left last Saturday for the north, presumably to seek the high seas or some other State where the bonds of | matrimony that were severed by the court | a few weeks ago may be reunited. Within | the past three months they had separated | and become reconciled again no less than three times. Finally Mre. Leigbton sued for a divorce. The husband wss willing that she should have it and allowed judg- ment to be taken against him by derauit. The love between the man and womuiin, who had lived together for over twenty vears, was not to be dissipated so easily, | Shortly after the divorce Leighton pro- ceeded to lay siege to the heart ol his former wife aguin. Experience had taught Lim how to wage his suit successiully and he won. Then that troublesome law psssed by the last L-gislature prohibiting divorced persons nom marrying again within a year presented itself in their way. 1t was fo overcome this iaw that the fiance and his bride-elect left Fresno. have goue is unknown and nothing has been ueard from them as yet. It is thought that they went 10 Nevada to get married. o — | SavED BY HIs Goon RECORD.| tllava/ Engineer Chambers, Guilty of | Scandalous Conduct, Gets Gff With a Scolding. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Passed As- | sistant Engineer W. H. Chambers, U. | | 8. N., was recently tried by court-martial |at Mare Islund on a charge of absence | from duty without leave and scandalous conduct. He vplead guiity to both charges, butshowed an excellent record and good character in other respects, so that the court contented fiself with sen- tencing bim to be publicly reprimanded | by the Secretary of the Navy. | The Secretarv has just approved the | proceedings and tndings of the court, but | has dizapproved the sentence as ina eds | quate and hss made a few pointed re- marks on his indorsement, which, never- the less, free the officer from the sentence, Whither they | and | | Cook, was not inclined to believe tae dis- | Captain Porter saying that he would not °d from the Arctic Ocean. The crew of the vessel fought their way to safety inch by inch, and only escaped being imprisoned in the icepack after four TIBURON ISLAND Captain Porter of San Diego and a Sailor Companion Slain and Probably Eaten by Fierce Seris Indians. S8AN DIEGO, Nov. 3.—George W. B-er- maker of this city, who is now a1 Hermo- | sillo, Sonora, wired to the Evening BSun | to-day as follows: ! HERNOSILLO, M exico, Nov. 3. | Captain Porter and a sailor named Johuson | of the junk World of San Diego were killed. | about October 27, by the Seris Indians on T:buron Isiand. They left the junk to kill birds and on their reiurn found the boat*in charge of Indians. The white men fired | twelve shots before they were killed. The sloop Juliette brought the news. The infor- mation is reliable. Captain George Porter left here on the schooner World slmost a year ago to | make & long cruise along the Mexican coast, and especially in the Gul o Cali- | fornia. He was a gatherer of curios and | shells and was part owner of the World sbellsiore in this city. His partner, Miss patch, as she had received a leiter from go near Tibuio, as the island was barren and he did not care to take chances against the Indians with only one com- panion. In order to verify the story, if possible, Miss Cook wired to the Ameri- can Consul at Guaymas and received the following dispatch this evening: “Such a rumor in circulation. tain facts and send by ma Captain Porter had lived in San Diego | about twelve years, and during all that time was in the shell and fishing business. He was well acquainted with the Mexican coast and well aware of the dangerous character of the Seris Indians, who in- habit Tiburon Island. Some weeks ago he wasat Guaymes with his little schooner, and was seen by Captain Lew B. Harris of theschooner Emma and Louisa of this city. He toid Capiain Harris that he was about to take another little run up the gulf, and would soon return to San Diego with a rich cargo of curios, shells, birds’ eges, etc. Miss Cook said the last consignment of sheils from Captain Porter came last Au- gust, and no word since then had been re- ceived. She expecied thut he would soon return from the south. | Captain Porter was 39 vears of age and unmarried. He leaves a mother and sis- ter residing at Cleveland, Obio. John | Johnson, his assistunt on the schooner, was a well-known water-iront character. He had been a sailor all his life. It was because he spoke Spsnish fluently 1hat he was engaged to go south on the World. Wwill ob—l | have been Captain Lew Harris, who visited Tiouron while on his recent cruise and learned much about the Indians by his own ob- servation and by conversation with Mex- icans, said: “If the bodies of Captain Porter ana Johnson were not recovered at once thera is little doubt that they will have been eaten by the savages on Tiburon. The Mexicans insist that those Indians are cannibals, and tell of peoule who have lost their lives and whose bodies have never been recoverd. Tne Indians are tull of a malignant cunning, and it would be one of their tricks to lure the prospectors into the interior and capture their schooner. I know Beermaker well, and have every confidence in his reliavility. If he sent such a dispateh Wwith those details it is to Le believed.” REVOLT In VENEZUELA, Troops Sent From Caracas to Quell Uprisings in Lara and Bolivar. NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—A special cable from C as, Venezuela, to the Herald says: Advices just received from the States of Lara an Bolivar report troubles of a revolutionary characier there. In Bolivar particularly tre troubie seems to be serious, as three companies of infantry ordered to leave Caracas to- morrow for Ciudad, Bolivar. it g BULGARIA’S THREAT TC TURKEY. ‘Will Declare Her Independence Unless the Porte Complies With a Certain Demand. BERLIN, Nov. 3.—The Frankfort Zeit- ung publishes the following sensational dispatch from Consiantinople: The Bulgarian Government recently delivered an ultimatum to Turkey threat- ening to declare the independence of Bulgaria unless the berats to the Bulgarian Bishops in Macadonia were granted by 10 o’clock on the morning of November 3. NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Francisco: A fair Thursday with a cloudy evening, FIRST. Disaster to Whalers. Eastern Elections. :aten by Cannibals. SECOND. Eastern Races. Cocos Island Treasure. THIRD. Eggs for Klondikers. Story of Shipwreck. FOURTH. McKenna on Union Pacific. Overtures for Reciprocity. Sacramento’s New Mayor. FIFTH. Wiped Out by a Big Blaze. Sternberg Is Not Pardoned. Teredoes Want the Universe. Polhemus Asks for Big Money. SIXTH. Editorial. Mirth. NINTH. Oakland News. Races. TWELFTH. No More Books for the Girl Hailed a Brand New Leader. SEVENTH. Court the Trade of Alaska. Menaced by Grave Danger. Gamblers on the Diamond. HANNA HAS WON, GORMAN HAS LOST, in Greater New York is 13 publican. cans to 68 Democrats. anti-Platt. jority. rality. He resigned to bec RN NN NN NN NN N RN N YN N RN RN BALTIMORE, Nov. 3 —State S2nator | N.rman B. Scott, chairman of the Repub- | lican State Central Committee, to-night | made the following stalement as to tne‘ Legislative situation: “It does not avail now,” said he, “to do any claiming that will not be substan- | tiated by the returns. We have sixteen Republican Senators to nine Democratic and one doubtful—the one from Calveri— although I am as- sured that both the Republican Senator and members of the House were elected there. 1f we:l-ct a Benator trom Calvert we will have a ma- jority of eight in the Senate. “In the House there are ninety-one members. It takes fortv-six of these to organize the House, which we have. This gives us a mejority of one in the House and either seven or nine on joiut ballot. This is my claim and it will be found that it will be substan- tiated. I must con- fess that the major- ity is a little too ciose for comfort, but IN THE ek g Ak ek Ak e ek e de ok sk ekt deok e sk e ke de sk ek ke ek ek ek ek ek ek ko ek : THE RESULT IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Returns from the State and city elections received to-day do not change the result announced by the Associated Press early lastnight. from all the counties in the State indicate a plurality of more than 58,000 for Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals. 3,058. Van Wyck, Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York, has 81,548 plurality over Seth Low, and 118,401 over General Tracy. The Senators hold over and the new House of Assembly stands 85 Republi- Ten of the newly elected Republican Assmblymen are said to be In the present Senate the Republicans’ majority is 30 ; in the House 78. The special election in the Third Congressional District of Brooklyn resulted in a victory for Edmund H. Driggs D. over William A. Prendergast R. by nearly 2000 ma- Last year Francis Wilson R. was elected in this district by more than 7500 plu- Prendergast suffered because of the bitter fight between the Republican factions of Brooklyn. ome Postmaster of Brooklyn. :ttt*iitti*kttt*tttttt*ttttti*ittttttttfit*tfi*ttit*mtttt*iit*ttttttttt the wisdom of having party in power. The State Legislature remains Re- the Republican ‘ OFF YEAR The Legislatures of Both Ohio and Mary- land Are Close, but the Republicans Have the Better of the Position. % NN NN Returns His plurality AN N NN NN RN NN IO KN R KN N NN COLUMBUS, Omnio, Nov. 3.—This bhas been a day of anxiety with the Ohio poli= The general declaration of the Demo- | ticians. It opened with the Republicans that the result that the crats is, however, triumph for Bryanism; next is a | and Democrats both claiminz the election | of their State ticketsand a majority of the House of Representatives wiill be Demo- | Legisiature. This afternoon the Demo- cratic. and that they will have a great lift | crats conceded the election of the Republi- toward the election of Mr. Brvan in 1900 Even those who fear that Tammany muy | were given use its power to the injury of Bryan be | these dispatches as TWO 'OF THE LOSERS. The Discredited Maryland Leader of the D2mocracy and the Beaten Candidate for Governor of Ohio. can State ticket by larger pluralities than last night in the earliest of the claims of the Republicans. To- night the Democratic State Committee an- vounced no definite claims on the Leég- islature and the Re- publican State Com- mittee raised, its claims to a majority of five on joint bal- 1o, a8 follows: Sen- ate, 17 Republi- cans, 19 Democrsts; House, 53 Republ- cans, 51 Demacrats; total, Republi- cans, 70 Democrats. Woods County had been conceded to the Democrats until to- night, when the complete returns caused the Republi- cans to claim it. On the returns complete at Repub- lican State headquar- 5 such a small working majority has some beneficial effec's, for 1t always results in cementing the party to- gether for good legi:lative work.” Tne chairmen ot both State committees dispatched trusted lieutenants to Calvert Ceunty to watch the count there. R e IS ALL ONE WAY IN OLD VIRGINIA. The Republicans Are Very Lucky to Have Preserved Their Organization. RICHMOND, Nov. turns from vesterday’s elections give the Democrats all the Senators elected and 94 and perhaps 95 members of the House, The Repub.icans get four, perhavs five, members o the House, and the Indepen- dents one member. Tne Democrats made heavy gains in the southwest and in the valley. NOT DEPRESSING TO REPUBLICANS. It Expected a Slump, and Might Have Been Very Much Worse. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A conserva- tive non-partisan v.ew of the election taken by a great many people is that the result is not a direct slap at the adminis- tration nor a vote of a lack of confiuence in tne Republican party, but largely the result of machine manipulation and boss- ism. The ovinion is expressed that the administration is involved in the defeat no further than it became associated with the machine in certain localities where there was a revolt. It is not conceded that any popular repudiation of Re- publican principles is indicated. Secretary Sherman arrived in Wash- | ington early this morning and was at his desk busy with the affairs of siate, look- inyg as fresh as if he ha! not voted yest day at Mansfield, Ohio, ana made the long trip back to Washington over night. The Secretary had not received any pri- vate advices from Ou1o, but said that he as known to him last night that the Rc- publicans had carried the State ticket and the Legislature as well, insuring a Re- publican Senator as a successor to Mr. Hanna. Senator Carter of Montana said that he did not regard the result of the election as depressing to Republicans. They ex- pected a slump in the elections following a Presidential election, and did not regard the slump in this instance as a bad one. 1t mizht be very much worse, he said, without being very depressing. He d:d not think that the adminisiration had been rebuked or that the people of the country bhad changed their minds as to 3.—The latest re- | was satisfied from the condition of affairs | , fore the nom ination of the nex! Presiden- tial candidate concede that he moral in- fluence of a victory now caunor fail %o help the par'y and thac Tammany will, of course, have to be loyal to the party when it comes to a national election. Withal they rejoice cenerily. Secretary Long fin's his only consola- ion in the returns from O :io and Massa- chusetts. *“I am very much rejoiced,”” said he ‘“‘at the prospects of Senator Hanna being returned to the Senate.” KANSAS LINES UP It Is a Clean Sweep in the Homsa of Jerry Simpson. © TOPEIKA, Nov. 3.—At a lata hour to- night the returns from Tuesday’s election in Kansas are still very incomplete. The indications are that the Republicans have elected eight of the thirteen D strict | Judges voted for. Repubtlicans claim to | have elected ten of the Judges and they concede tiree to the fusionists. On tae other hand the fusionists claim to have been successful in eight of the judicial | districts, but no figures are given out. In- | complete and unofficial returns from ninety of the 105 counties of the State would indicate Repuolican victories in alinost half the county elections. Thes: returns show that in forty-nine counties the Republicans have elected all or nearly all their candidates for county officers. In fourteen counties the fusionists have elected all or nearly ail of their candi- dates. In twenty-six counties the offices are about evenly divided between the fusionists and the Repullicans. In one elected. However, Taylor Ridale, chair- man of the Populist State organization, issued a statement to-night in which be | shows that the returns have increased the number of Populist ofticeholders from 194 to 350, and possidbly 375. | In Barber County, the home of Jerry | Simpson, the Republicans scored a clean sweep. — - |NEW JERSEY NOW IS ALL REPUBLICAN. Legislature Goes to That Party and Mr. Hobart Is Sus- tained. TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 3. —New Jersey Assembly will have s Republican major- ity of 21 on joint ballot. The latest fig- ures from the different counties show that | the Democrats have elecied Senators in | Burlingron. Hunter, Miadlesex, Passai and Sussex counties, and that Robert E. Hand, K., is elected Senator from Cape May by about 150 majority. With the hold-over Senators, this makes the Senate stand 14 Republicans to 7 Democrats, WITH TEE GUARD. county a straight Democratic ticket was | ters the Democrats will have a majority of 2 in the Senate |and the R publicans of 7 in the House. The fusionists from Cincinnati are all counted as Democratic. The Republicans | can organize the House without them. Senator Voight is the only one of the four Senators elected on the fusion licket in Cincinnati who is a Republican, and he now becomes a factor. If Senator Voight | should vote with the Republicans on the | organization of the Senate, or anything else, the vote would be a tie, with the Republican Lieutenant-Governor having the deciding vote. The Republicans now expect two mors | of the fusion Republicans to voie with | them for Senator, in which event they claim a majority of 9 on joint ballot, with 77 Republicans and 63 Democrats. i When it was thought to-day that control of the Legisiature might depend on one vote there was epprehension of trouble in some counties. Emissaries were sent out | irom State headquarters to close counties to watch the counting. The Ohio law provides that “‘not less than one nor mora | than five days from the date of election the depuly State supeiv.sors in each county shall begin the official canvass of the vote, and continue from day to day until completed.” In the event of protracted contests in the close counties the suspense of to-day might have continued until the Legisla- ture met next January. Since the change of the claims at Demo- cratic State headquarters on the com- plexion of the Legisiature, two important rumors have been vigorously circulated. One is that Jobn R. McLean will be pressed by the Ohio Democracy for the Democratic nomination for President in 1900, and the other is that Senator Hanna | will have opposition in his own party for | election to the Senate. It is claimed by | those advocatin: McLean for the Presi- “den\ial nomination that he deserves it for | the reduction of the Republican plurality | to less then half of what it was last vear, | and of the Republican majority in the | Legislature from £0 on joint bal.ot ¢ i And the Democrats claim that the m: ity on joint ballot would be 5 the other way if they had an equal chance on con- tests, There are tbirty-six members of the £tate Senate and there are only one or two of the Senatorial districts that are so close or doubtful as to admit of contests on which Republican Senators could be unseated. On the other hand there are 109 mem- bers of the House, in which the Republi- cans claim a majority of seven, while the Democrats have a majority of two in the Senate. And tbere are several counties so close on the vote for representatives that several seats couid be changed in that body. In the settlement of contested seats the Republicans would have such an advantage in the House over the Demo- lcrats in the Senate that it is not likely {