The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1897, Page 1

I1.—NO. ) VOLUME LXXNX 159. G, NOVEMBER 6, 1897. PRICE FIVE CENT MLS PRESDENT | HRAVY IS BIRDEN An Attempt Made by a|Rumors in Wall Street Soldier to Murder as to Huntington’s Moraes. | Intentions. EXECUTIVESAVEDBY |MAY DEFAULT THE HIS BROTHER. INTEREST. t the Daring Rescuer Re- L ceives Wounds That Will [oF: s Death. Plans to Precipitate a Settle- ment of Government’s Debt. BETTENCOURT, MINIiSTER OF WAR, SLAIN TONPUTSAN-END 30" THE UNCERTAINTY. Relgn of Terror and Insubordina-| aog 5 Last Resort the Clever Mag- tion Attributed to the Renewal nate Expects to Secure Re- of a Revolution. funding Leglslation. o THE CALL Special Dispatch to THE CALL. 7. S Whe Bereiisl natyy! weRE oy 5 Bumon fiw Janeiro telegraphs: e to-day b, the Pr effect that Collis P. Huntington will de- | fault the interest on the first morigage Central Pacific bonds in January for the purpose of precipitating a settlement of the debt of that property and bringing uncertainties to an erd. He is said to be still convincea that he can induce Con- gress to pass the Central Pacific refunding bill, butin his view he is practically aione. er to sinate Machiado who was shot and W was ster of party, w under martial law, g been ordered toarms, t another revolution is ington road is $61,885,120 fund amounts to $7,44f 9, leaving a net indebtedness to Uncle Sam of $54,3 S. Huntington contended that so long as he keeps up the interest on the first mortgage bonds the Government cannot foreclose, and he has kept the property in | that position up tonew. If he should change his poiicy at this late day it would and the sinking { i tokill the President and | f the Minister of War it is be- | e the acts of monarchical sym- ‘ CENTRAL HANNALS FIGRTING - INCOURT On the Returns the Re- publicans Carry Ohio. thick and fast in Wall street to-day to the | The Government ciaim against the Hunt- | TECHNICAL POINTS RAISED. They May Reverse the Political Complexion of the Legis- lature. | BOTH SIDES ARE ON THE | ALERT. | | | Nelther Will Find That It Can Take | Any Advantage of the | Other. Special Dispatch to THE CALL | COLUMBGTS, Nov. 5.—The Ohio Legis- lature stands 74 Republicaus, 70 Demo- | crats and one aoubtful on the official re- turns received up to to-night. With a dozen or more of the eighty-eight coun- ties close, there have been no material | changes except in Wood County, which will be claimed by both parties until the courts pass upon the action of the Super- visors. | There have been no unusual | | ings bofore the returning boards of any | of the counties, except that of Wood, al- | though both parties had have their repre- ! sentatives and attorneys in their county scat, wherever the vote was close. , Chairman McConnville of the Demo- | cratic State Committee has not changed | bis claims of a Democratic majority on joint baliot and will not do so until ths proceed- | PLANS | official returns of all the counties are in SHUT M N Y i FOR THE RELIEF OF IMPRISONED WHALERS BY ARCTIC ICE IN Winthrop are the only others expected this winter. WHALERS JUST DOWN FROM THE ARCTIC OCEAN. The steamers Jeanette and Karluk and the barks Gayhead and Alice Knowles all reached port yesterday. The steamer William Baylies and batk John and arou: feeling prevails In the city e heard on al eral in certain f Antonio Con- fanatical move- killed in Canudos, d Ric Janeiro to strike their | e. | AR i N or rever he day set apart by President es and his Cabinet to do honor to Admiral Barboza, one of the con- | troovs, who several weeks | d shot down thousands of | the fierce Conzelhiro, | red his forces in Car ved then that the crus s there and the death put an end to Brazil's rs of sons gathered to-day foraes and his Cabinet ” t f the repub- RNIL za and his W 2t o ~£\ ; &l steamer from f ' sress and persons | and ecclesiastica o were the dip- | | several foreign | roops were passing ir Moraes at ten min- | dashed out | A REINDEER CARAVAN. g toward the Presi- ing a er as he| is in on and unable | in thinking that ne can successfuily pro- brothe mote funding legislation or that he has put bimself in shape to abandon the line. The latter theory has many believers. There is little left of the Central Pacific a streak of rust extending from Ozden to S:cramento. r, Colonel Moraes PRESIDENT MORAES OF BRAZIL. eitber indicate that he is really in earnest | and show tn ® final results to differ from those he has at hand. Chairman McConnville and others from the Democratic State headquarters went to Cincinnati to confer with John R. Mec- Lean and other party leaders regarding the contests that are to be made in the close counties. Chairman Nash insists the Legislature stands 75 Republicans to 70 Democrats ana that the majority on joint ballot for Senator will be iess than tive. He says he is to-night satistied with the eituation in Wood County.t}What he feared was that the official count might wipe out the small Republican plurality in that county. Bince the official tally sheets show a plurality of 31 for the Re- publican representative, Judge Nash says | he is willing and ready to have any court pass on the case. He says that the law provides that the members of the boards of election cannot go behind the returns and the SBupreme Court has held that they have no ministerial powers whatever and cannot hear evidence or use their dis- cretion in throwing out any votes. That is left to the courts and to each branch of the Legisiature in passing on the creden tials of its members. In Wood County to-aay Norris, the Re- publican candidate for Representative, filed a protest against the board counting the vote of Freedem Township, because the ballots had been tallied im blocks of five. This precinct gave Norris 151 and Mears, the Democratic candidate for Rep- resentative, 263. If the vote of the town- ship had been thrown out it would have increased the olurality of Norris by 112, but it was counted. The Republicans in- sist that Norris will be declared elected in Wood County and that the Legislature stands 75 to 70. | Itislearned here to-night that counsel for both Democratic and Republican com- | mittees agreed to-day to submit the Wood County case at once to the Circuit Court und that the lawyers on both sides went to Toledo for that purpose. The court will be asked to decide whether the election board can go behind the returns. Of course 1t will be left for proceedings in contest in the House to de- cide whether the vote of Center Township stall be counted. 2 Information has been rece.ved at Re- to-night that | jublican headquarters of protests to the Soldiers’ Home vote at Dayton, on the ground that the voting precincts were not in the proper place. If that vote should be thrown out the Democrats would gain two Representatives Jrom Montgomery County and one Benator, enough, on the claims of the Republicaus, to make the Legislature stand 73 Democrats to 72 Republicans on joint ballot. Chairman Nash says there are about 40 precincts in the State where these technicai points on the location of the pollscan be raised, and it it is made an issue of contest it will work both ways, with no one knowing the final result. —-———— THE OHIO ELECTION TAKEN INTO COURT. A Wood County Judge to Pass Upon the Legislative Ticket. TOLEDO, Nov. 5.—A close vote in Wood County on the election of a representative to the Legislature has resulted ina con- test which was begun in the Circuit Court to-day. The official count of the vote for representative gives Norris R. 4842 and Mears D. 4811, thus giving Norris a piu- rality of only 3L Center Township’s vote if thrown out would give Mears a plurality of 11 votes. Nominee Mears protested the vote of Center Township on the ground that the voters of the township outside of Bowling Green went out of their precinct to vote. The question was argued before the Super- visors. This morning the board heard nnal arguments and divided politically 2 to 2 on the question of admitting the vote of Center Township. In such an event the law provides that the matter be re- ferred to a Judge of the Circuit Court, so that the case was brought here and sub- mitted to Circuit Judge Parker. Con- gressman G. E. Burton of Cleveland repre- sented the Repuviicans and Frank Bala- win ot Bowling Green representea the Democrats. The hearing was held in chambers and the arguments resolved themse ves into a mere statement of the facts and theright of an election board to establish a voting booth in a convenient piace. Decision was reserved until to-morrow. PLOTTING TO STEAL REPUBLICAN VICTORY. Maryland Democrats Trying Desperately to Reverse the Result. PRINCESS ANNE, Mp,, Nov. 5.—There is a serious legal controversv among the Continucd on Sccond Page. NLY two vessels of the whaling fleet that can be expected this winter are now to arrive. They are the steam whaler William Bay- lies and tbe bark Jobhn and Winthrop. The steamer is on her way here from Unalaska, and may be expected at any time, while the bark went to the Sea of Okhotsk and has not been heard from for several months. The steam whalers Jeannette and Karluk sot in from tle Arctic yesterday and the barks Gayh-ad and Alice Knowles from the Sea of Okhotsk, via Fox Island. The Jeannette is high book with ten and a half whales to the Karluk’s seven. The for- mer brought down 14,500 pounds of bone and the latter 12000 pounds. The Gay- nead brought in 3650 rounds of bone and 300 barrels of oil and the Alice Knowles 1800 pounds of bone and 460 barrels of oil. The captains of all four vessels agree that there is no cliance of the imprisoned whalers escaping before next July. They are also very indignant over the closing of the Government station at Point Bar- YETETETTE TSI IS SEETT NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: Probably fair Saturday, with unsettled night. FIRST PAGE. Relief for the Whalers. Murder of a Siatesman. Mr. Hun tington plotting. Hanna’s Fight in Court. SECOND PAGE. Major Handy a Winner. He loved Many Maidens. Durrant Writes His Life. THIRD PAGE. Colonel V/alker Was Sorry. Spain in Deep Water. Snould Have Hanged Ebanks, To Save the Fur Seals. FOURTH PAGE. Panic in Wall Street. A Murder on the Sea. Yellow Fever Spreading. FIFTH PAGE. Races on Eastern Tracks, Politics in Sacramento. An Old Man Left Homeless, Burned Mother and Child. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Relief for the Whaling Fleet, Committee on Public Morals. Government in Sacramento. A Lie Well Stuck To. Transfusion of Blood. SEVENTH PAGE. Transfer of Regiments. Reaching ‘or Yukon Trade. Two Banks to Change Names, EIGHTH PAGE. Genera! Sportin: News, NINTH PAGE. Local Races. A Judge'’s Ink in a Will. Victory for Fair's Heirs. To-Morrow's Baseball. TENTH PAGE. Commercial News. ELEVENTH PAGE. News ot Oakiand. Civil SBervice Not Desirable. Military Inspector Here. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths, FOURTEENTH PAGE. A Chinese Cen:ral. ’ Grand Jurors After Pilots, The League Drawing Racers. ] : g 3 E : g : g : 'g : g 3 = E 3 E i row, and assert that if Uncle S8am had not sold the provisions the lives of hundreds of men would not have been placed in jeopardy. “The Point Barrow relief station shouid never have been abandoned,” said Captain | E. W. Newth of the Jeannette yesterdav. “Even if it was never required by the whalers, it was of use every winter in sav- ing the lives of scores of Indians. Now, unless some relief reaches the imprisoned men during the winter, I do not know what the outcome will be. The outlook is bad—very bad. *The winter started in very early in the Arctic *his year, and it was only by a scratch that I got my vesdel out. We had killed a whale, and after securing the bone, were lying at anchor, when I saw the Narwhal under full steam, chasing whales as I thought. I followed, and that night anchored near Smith Point. The next morning I got up very early, and climbing to the crow’s nest took a good look around for whales. “What I saw made me get the vessel un- der way in a hurry. The ice was closing in on me on all sides. While the Jeannette was fighting her way out I looked back, and there, about ten miies away, was the imprisoned fleet still at anchor. Our fight for liberty took us through 150 miles of new ice, and I tell you we were glad to reach open water again.’’ The perilous situation of the impris- oned whalers was thoroughly discussed by the captains of the returned vessels yesterday. They were one and all of the opinion that now was the time for the Government to make some use of its rein- deer stations, and that if supplies could be sent from St. Michael to Dawson by means of the deer they could certainly be sent to Point Barrow. It was pointed out bv the different captains that last winter Mr. Lopp, the teacher at Norton Sound, had made the trip over the ice 10 Point Hope and back just for pleasure; that Superintendent Schelmann of the deer s, tion, in order to test the endurance of the animals, had made the trip from Port Clarence to Nushagak and back, and that Lieutenant Stoney, while surveying in the vicinity of Kotzebue Sound, had made several tripe to St. Michael and back with dog teams during the winter. “What I would suggest,” said the old- est whaler in the group, “is this: Let the Government instructColonel Randalitodo the same for the whalers that be is to do if necessary for the miners in Dawson City. Then the revenue-catter Bear should be fitted out and Cap ain Healy placed in command of h:r. I'll gamb'e on it that he will take the cutter as far as Nunivak Island. From there the relief party cou.d reach the deer stat on on the north side o: Norton S)und with the aid of dog teams. At Norton Sound Charlis, the Indian keeper, has about 200 deer, and they could bs used to take the party to Cape Prince of Wales, where there is an- other herd of 350 or 400 reindeer. “From that p ace to Point Hops would be the bardest part of the journey, but when Mr. Lopp made it for pleasure surely the rescus party could make it when human life 1s at stake. Of course there 1s no certanty. that the venture would be a success, but still it woald ba infinitely better tnan making no venture at all.” Lieutenant George M. Stoney, United States navy, believes there i succor the icebound whale: is a slim chance and a desperate one. But for humanity’s sake, hesays, it ought to be undertaken at once and by the Govern- ment. Lieutenant Stoney has had much expe- rience in northern latitudes and has tra- versed a large portion of Alaska, during which he made several long journeys over the snow and ice, the longest of which being of filty days’ duration. He was one of the officers on the Rodgers, that was sent in search of the Jeannette | in 1881 and was burned in St. Lawrence Bay. He lived among the natives for eight months and was afterward sent north by Congress to distribute presents among the Esquimaux for their kindness to the officers and crew of the Rodgers. He is at present on speciat duty in this city, having been detailed to establish a naval rendezvous for the enlistmeat of sailors and marines for the service. In addition, he is under orders to organize and head an expedition to Alaska in the spring, to establish stations along the Yukon and patrol the river with a lig t- draught sternwheel gunboat, which he will build after reaching St. Michael in the spring. When seen last evenine Lieutenant Stoney outlined a plan that he considers the only feasible one by which the im- periled whalers can be reached. “‘An expedition should be dispatched by the Government without an hour’sdelay,” said he, “‘with instructions to proceed as far north along the American coast as the ice will permit, taking care to reach some point where the relief ship can safely winter. In my opinion either Golafin Sound or Norton Bay, or even Port Clar- ence, can be reached if the expedition starts immediately. *The whalers, if they succeed in reach- ing land, will naturally {ry to work their way south, following the coast, for it is utterly impossible for anybody, white or native, to make the journey through the interior. It would be equaliy impossible for a relief expedition to pack sufficient food the entire distance to tne whalers, so it would be necessary to send one, and perhaps two, men on ahead as rapidly as possible 1o inform them that assist. ance was on the way, and to urge them to get as far south as they could. The main expedition would push on with dogsand reindeer, es- tablishing relay stations atintervals along the route. *'In this way, if the whalers should suc- ceed in saving what stores they had aboard their ships, they might be assisted back to the point where the relief ship was stationed. “There are many native villages scat- tered along the coast where the men can obtain soms assistance, but at the lowest estimate they will have to travel 500 miles over the snow and I fear they will suffer more from the cold than they will from lack of food. It is necessary to have the heaviest clothing to undertake a journey in the northern latitudes, and as as a ruie whalers are poorly equipped in that respect. Moreover, there is bound to be an entire lack of discipiine among them, for once they get ashore every fore- mast hand is as good as the captain. ‘As I said before, it would be impossi- ble to carry sufficient food the entire dis- tance for so many men and the only thing that can be done is to get a courier to them and urge them on till the main ex- pe ition is met. “The distance is so great that the chances of rescuing them are decidedly against success, but the attempt should be made at once and I believe if the mat- ter is laid befors either the Secre- tary of the Navy or the Secre- tary of the Treasury, an expedition will be dispatched as soon as it can be made ready. Unfortunately, the only ship in the navy that would do for the purpose, the Thetis, is at Mare Island, and in need of extensive repairs, while the last heard of the Bear, the only cutter of the revenue fleet capaple of undertak- ing such a voyage at this season, she was at Minook Island, and therefore out of the question. “It seems to me that one of the steam whalers would be best suited for the pur- pose, and I have no doubt the Govern- ment could obtain one of those that are now in port.” Lieutenant Stoney evinced the greatest interest in the fate of the poor fellows, who will surely perish unless aid reaches