The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1897, Page 1

<+ VOLUME AN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MOR i’RICE FIVE CENTS. HISTORIC OLD DOVER CASTLE ALMOST TOTALLY DESTROYED IN A FIERCE CONFLAGRATION en due to » as some tting water and the e tire ing v paratively rst expectes poruo to have been commenced by Great, f keep i ated with Dan- auiph, Rochester, about the year 1153 The castle covers a of ground. features are a « nance, cast ut Utrech feet long, and know beth’s pocket pistoi 1 m the ground rom which The ifamous well, 4 an important je.tur is now arched over for the of the public. There are a Roman church and the P Louse, and Cocklecrow s gate. The barracks accommodate about 2000 men, light and air bei conveyed into the different departm apertures cut in the chalk ana by otber openings carried to the fs of the cliffs. Dover Castle is officially governed by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, at present the Marquis of Salisbury, who is supposed to have maritime jurisdiction as e the Admiral of the Ports over Dover, Hastings, Romn Hythe and Sandwich, the original Cinque Po 1o which were zfterward added the ‘“‘ancient towns” of Winchelsea and Rye. The Cinque Ports, up to the reign o Henry VII, had to furnish the crown with n 7 all ships and men needed for the stat The oldest charter now on ecord belongs to the sixth year of the of Edward I, and it reiers to pre- documents of the time of Edwara the Confessor and William the Con- queror. "The present Warden of 1he Cinque Ports, who succeeded the Marquis of Dafferiu, was installed on Auzus 15, 1895, ceeding, in aadition to Lora Dufferin, iry VIII, among the kinge, and Pi Weliington, Dalhousie, Palmerston, Gran- .d others among state men. HEMA'INLS" iN AMERICAN HANDS. Sir William firmstrfing Will Not Pur- k chase the Newport News Ship- Building Flant. | NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—The plan of Sir William Armstrong of Armstrong, Whit | worth & Co. of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng,, to purchase the large plantof the Newe port News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Virginia, according to Collis P. Huntington, its owner, has probably fallen throuzh. Sir William Arm-| strong, more than a year ago, 1 oked n| the properiy with an idea of purchase | and obtained an option upon it !rolu] Huntington. - The shipyard extends for a E LR L R L R R R R R R L L L L L R R R A L L R R R I A R R R R R L R R R L L R L R R R R R R R L R R R R L N R R R R ] UW‘O’Q 1yt ington ed at $3.000 00C en. Iti: Hu prove the proy g CHILEAN CABINET RESIGYS. Collapse of thz Short-Lived Coall Ministry Causes a Profound Sensation. LIMA, Perv, via Galveston, Dec. The entire G n Cabinet has resig T ecvent has caus~d a sewsation, hing said ) and ng- erty Si ition 14— ned. The Cabinet which has just resigned <hip of Orrego Huco, whic ucceed ed the Antunez Cubinet ed on June 23 »out eight mon Antunez Cab v Liberal, retired because Senor tunez was unable to carry out many of | e leadi but its su ju-t orm features of nis proerar were coalition mi ood in each wi e appro of the Conservs who haa biocked the efforts of Senor tusez. appointed last August to succeed the v formed on August 9 unier the 8 in that ast, after an existence net, which was en- An- nme, ccessor and the Cabinet that has 4 le: e NEWS OF THE DAY Weather forecas: for San Fran- cisco—Fair on Wednesday; prob- ably showers; decidedly cooler. FIRST PAGE. Fire Damazes Dover Castle. Train-Robvers Caught. Labor Against Annexation. SECOND PAGE. Opposes Contract Slavery. Corbett Burs the Veri<cope. THIRD PAG Mother McKinley Baried. Cubans Reicct Autonomy. More Trouble in Hayti. Fierce ¥ig 1g in India. FOURTH PAGE. Congress Is Sympathetic. Red Tape in Arizona. Daw-on Needs Help. Los Angeles School Gage's N FIFTH PAGE. s Jose Treasury. ce f Torphine-Fiends, Death of John Sneider. Gilson Hus a Bo u:rd, Dr. Hirshfelder Under Fire. Drummer< May Go o Law. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Governor Budd’s Duty. Bryan in Mexico. I'he Alaskan Trade Campaign. Silence Is Confession. rofessor Mahaffy’s Letters, ving-off Place of Disea-e. Personals and Q eries. SEVENTH PAGE. Magee Telis of tne Kiondike. Sharks 1 riers With Sealers. The Cleveiand Stiil Missing. More Ye low-Buseballi Troub'e. EIGHTH PAGE. Racing at Oakiund. The Hospital Denounced. Hawkins-Connelly Fight, NINTH PAGE. Gossip of the Canron Wiil. Hot Meeting of the Regents, Married to a Senator. TENTH PAGE. Uommercia! Intelligence. ELEVENTH PAGE. Opposite Scenes in Court. News From Across the Bay. Sne k Thieves at the Minstrels. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Biru s, Mar es, Deaths, FOURTEENTH PAGE. Dr. Brown to Be Hear? Again. Examimer Libels Voters. GWIM mnmflfnzsmnmug 3 o t&umuumuum 2009920200200 2002020222020200220202020202220202200222202022R22R2020020222222200220202R22828088R22 ROBBERS CAUGHT ON THE BORDER Marshal Griffith's Possz Surprises the Gang of OutlawsThat Stopped the Sunset Limited in Steins Pass. TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 14.—A special to the Star from San Simon, Ar.z., says: This morning a Deputy United Siates Marshal arrivel from near the Sonora line, bringing the five train robbers who held up the train at Stein- Passon Thurs- aay night. The robbers were captured in train was held up. On Sunday morning, after the bold- up, United 8 ates Marshal Wiliiam M Griffith started to hunt for the robbers | with two deputy marshels and ten picked men. The posse got to Texas Canyon at | iey’s ranchbouse and surprised the bandits, Three of the bandits surren- dered in a short time and the other two Cc'me to the house and walked into the trap and were captured. A deputy with five men brought the prisoners to San Simon. They were then taken to Silver City, N. M, for examination. The cap- ture of the gang was the best and quick- est piece of work of its kind in the his- torv of Arizona. Atthe timeof the Steins Pass hold-up the posse, which bad been anticipating xas Canvon, fifty miles south of ! uthern Pacific Railroad, where the | ight Sunday morning and surrounded | 1 the bar,” said Gilwert, addressing ' the | court and introducing his son. Chief Justice Doster began asking the boy the usual questions. Hc answered them so rapidly and so correctly that Judge Doster gradually led him into in- tricate questions of law. Young Gilbert, however, did not siumbe on a single quas<tion; be did not ever hesitate, | At ibe conciusion of the examination. the court ordered the clerk to issue a certficate to young Gllbert. Gilbert said bis son hud for some time displayed apti- | tude for legal subjects and had devoureu | profound iegal works with eagerness. TROUBLE MAY YET RESULT. | Chinese Viceroy Denounces the Peking | Authorities for Yielding to | Germany. BERLIN, D:c. 14—Emperor William to-day received in audience Herr von Brandt, a tormer German Minister to China. The voiunteer corps which is going to Cti.na exceeds 1200 men in num- ber. They hav: been drawn equally from all the army corps. Herr Eugene S. Wolff, the well-known an attack, was congregated at Bowie, | German explorer, cables to the Tageblatt | about thirty-three miles from Steins Pass, The trail of the robbers was mmediately taken. When the posse surrounded the Cushey ranchhouse the three outlaws in the building were taken comp etely by | surprise, and surrendered without firing ashot. The two men who were later en- trapped were also taken by surprise, and offered no resistance. The names of the outlaws have not been ascertained, but they are cowboys who | 11i#S and making Kiac-C have been working in the viemnity of the San Simon Valley and have no connec- | tion with the notorious Black Jack gang | of border bandits. The penalty for train robbery in New Mexico is death. When captured the robbers were en- deavoring to mak= their escape across the { line into Mexico. REGARDED A5 UNFRIENDLY, Japan Frotests Against Australia’s Froposed Extension of Her Chi- | nese Exclusion Act. [ SYDNEY, N. S. W., Dec. ]‘t—Tlue} Japanese Consul has formally protested | to the Premier, G. H. Reid, against the | unfriendly character of the proposed | legilation us to aliens. According to a | tispatch from Sydney to the Associated Press tast month, the committee of the Legislative Assembly to which measures were referred passed the bills extending | fortnigh from Shanghai, saying that China is wholly indifferent to the seizure of Kiao- Chan The German merchants in China and Japan ist upon the establisiment of a v steamship line between Ger- many and Asia. LONDON, Dec. 14 —According to a spa- | eial dispatch irom Shanghai, the German Government contemplates colonizing the province of Suan Tunz with German fam- 1auan open port. On orders from Peking, the Chinese troops have been withdrawn stil! further from Kiao-Chuu to prevent a conflict, Viceroy Chang Cneh Tung denounces the cowardice of the Peking authorities in yieliing to Germany, and declares his own readiness to lead troops against tne Germans. Lo e THE DREIBUKD U¥SHAKEN. Baron von Bulow, German Foreign Minister, Says It Is in the Best of Health. BERLIN, Dec. 14 —The Minister for War, General von Gossler, in the Reichs- tag to-day, T p ¥INg to the criticism of the army by Herr Ricker', the Freissinnige leader, declared that thie Government did not propo-e 1o change the system of two | years’ service, nor increase the infantry, | but he explained it was urgent to reorgan- ize the field arullery. Baron von Bulow, the Foreign Minister, revlying 10 questions o the subject, said | the Cuinese restriction act to “‘other col- | it wasabso:utely unirue that the Dreibund ored pzople, except British subjecis,” and | was shaken. On the contrary, it was, he restricting immigration by an educational | test. | lawyer of —_—— LAWYER SEVEN YEARS 0OLD. Legal Prodigy Admitted to the Bar by the Kansas Suprems Court. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—A Herald special from Topeka, Kans, says: Kansas again breaks all records. This time she comes to the front with a lawyver only 7 years old. Tuhe name of the legal prodigy is Bryan Gitbert, ana he 1s a son of J.G.W.Giibert, a Arclison. The Lilliputian lawyer was subjected to a severe examina- tion by the Kansas Supreme Court this afiernoon. He successiully passed the examination and = certificale was awarded 10 him. The Subreme Court was in ses- sesion when J. G. W. Gilbert and his son entered. “l have a candidate for admission to declared, in t.e *‘best of bealth.” The visit of Emperor William to Budapest | had he.ped to consolidate Germanv’s re- | lations with Austria. So far as the in- ternal situadon in Austria-Hungary was concerned, the Germans, who did not | wish foreign Governments to interfere in their affairs, were bound to ob erve a similar attitnde toward other powers. This was especially true regarding Aus- tria-Hungary, the head of which, Baron von Bulow said, was a ruler to whose wis- dom ali his people could look up with complete confidence, ——— OWENS A MURDERUR. Wifs of the Modesto Man Tuccumbs to Her MWounds. MODESTO, Dec. 15.—Three-quarters of @«n hour after the arrival of her sons from Los Angeles this afternoon, Mrs. George Owens, who was <hot by her hus- vand yesterday, died. The daughter of the couple, Mrs. Tiedemaun, who was aiso shot through the: breast by Owens, is resie ing well and will recover. i\ | | Asiatic exclusion im- general ; EHAKARAARFE AR AR KRR AR HEAARARARAR AR A KR AR R AR RAKARRRAR past year. The reso- against Hawaiian posed by T. J. El- general secretary of Seamen’s Union, and Andrew Furuseth of speech, which gates to a high When President supported th= reso- it was carried unani- cheered loudly. Mr. stands high in the ation, declared that less, except for com- which latter depend ence of trade with and are amply con- ent reciprocity rela- | tance of the islands | States will necessi- | of large sums for ivwing. That the the tropic zone and for maintenance of That the present la- are almost exclusive: working under asys- tracts amounting to | That annexation to the admission of a representatives of sarily work and vote of labor in general. would add to the United States 50,000 besides providing a the influx of large would make all That the acquisi- lying beyond the labor is contrary to will prove a danger inasmuch as the la- lacks the power of On motion of was ordered that the council appear before test against annexa- A direct appeal the President in the labor, which it is on the same level labor from Asia. annexation schemers. FEDERATION OF | OPPOSED TO ANNEXATION AND CONTRACT SLAVERY e de ek e e e e ek e et e A ot okt ke e ik ke A ke ke e o ek sk ek ek ot A Ao Ak ek ko THE ‘VOICE OF LABOR IS AGAINST HAWAII'S COOLIES NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. ‘“‘Resolved, By the American Federation of Labor that we disapprove of annexation, and ‘‘Resolved, That we urge the United States Senate to re- ject the treaty of annexation and to take such other steps as may be necessary to maintain amicable relations with Hawaii.”’ et R S e R e e S R SR R T TR R B T PSSR S S savivivipepogvpvpvpupvpgvguges LABOR '- 14.---*“Whereas, There is at present pending in the United States Senate a treaty providing for the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, and **Whereas, Annexation would be tantamount to the ad- mission of a slave State, the representatives of which would necessarily work and vote for the enslavement of f= labor in RN XA IO XN SR XA K KOO K NASHVILLE, TFNN., Dec. 14.—The American Federation of Labor, assembled in annual convention this afternoon, adopted resolutions herewith protesting against the annexation of Hawaii. One hundred and ten delegates were present, representing every one of the trades and industrial unions in the United States. Federation of Labor is over 1,000,000 and is constantly growing. Over forty new trades unions have been added during the The total membership of the American lution protesting annexation was pro- derkin of Chicago, the International was supported by San Francisco in a aroused the dele- pitch of enthusiasm. Gompers, who also lution, declared that mously the delegates Furuseth, who councils of the feder- the islands are value- mercial purposes, upon the conveni- the United Stat, served by the pres- tions. That the dis- from the United tate the expenditure guarding and forti- islands lie within are climatically unfit American labor. borers of the islands ly Asiatic coolie tem of penal con- practical slavery. would be tantamount slave State, the which would neces- for the enslavement That annexation population of the Mongolian laborers, stepping - stone for numbers, which further attempts at possible. tion of the territory zone of Anglo-Saxon American policy, and to our institutions, bor in that territory self-government. Delegate McNeill it incoming executive the Senate to pro- tion. will also be made to interest of American proposed shail be put with contract coolie The leaders in the federation are thoroughly in earnest in thes matter, and the recent manifestation of public sentiment on the question of annexaticn led them to conclude that the American people are with them. delegates to-night that the treaty of annexation is already doom:1. It is common talk among the Th: point now is to block the alternative moves of the NASHVILLE, Dec. 14.—At the opening of 10-day’s session of the American Feder- ation of Labor several protests were made against credentials, but after some dis- cussion it was declared that the delegates should be seated and the matter referred 1o the grievance committee. Letters from 'TO REVIVE SLAVERY UNDER CONTRACT LAW, the Mayor of Denver and the officers of | \7p 0¢ the Annexation of Hawaii Will Mean to the White Labor the Chamber of Commerce of that city, inviting the federation to hold its next of the United States. convention there, were read. Congratu- latory telecrams received {rom New Jer- NASHVILLE, TENN., Dec. 14.—Andrew Furuseth sends the following signed i To‘:;k-)'\hl":::: Lv;?; n:;‘fe?;:nw:;: statement to THE CALL: ““My home is in San Francisco, and being a sailor I have :\.:1::.1' w. eC. T. U., expressing | more opportunity than the average American citizen for gaining facts about the sympathy with the labor movement and | Hawaiian Islands. I urged the convention to express itself strongly against annexa- urging that a stand be taken by the con- | jon on the grounds that the laws there to-day are almost identical with those in the ";:?"c:;';::e:'?:';tlu recommended | Statutes in this country before the war, especially in regard to the fugitive slave law. that the convention meet at 9 A. M. and “‘Laborers in Hawaii, whether they be black or white, male or female, especially adjourn st noon and reassemble at 2 ». M. | in the sugar indusiry, are compelled to sign contracts for a term of years, and any and adjourn at 5 P. M. Other rules were | uiojatjon of thess contracts is punishable by imprisonment, and under the provisions ::;::t‘;“gf r;i::::;’:_ th;n:r(:-:;::? ":’:; of the contracts a laborer, if he seeks to leave the country, can be arrested and taken adopted. back to his master. Isaac Cowan of Canada was invited to ““The introduction of white labor has been tried in the canefie'ds in the Hawaiian :::iix';;l:::z::::;:: li: g]’_‘::’ };:;‘:i':" Islands at different times, resulting invariably in failure. Scandinavians were and responded. He explained the situa. imported in 1882 and Germans in 1884, but with small success. tion. He said it grew out of an attempt ‘‘Seamen sailing to Hawaii have at times assisted a great many fugitives to escape by hiding them among the sugar sacks in the holds of vessels in such a way Continued on Second Page.