The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1897, Page 1

. NO TRACE FOUND OF THE MISSING BOATS Searches for the Lost Men of FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, Call 1897. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 18 the Cleveland Not Succe Canadian Officials Will Not Permit Ameri- can Tugs to Rescue Vessels Stranded in British Waters---Raid of Indians Checked. '\ ALBERNI, B. C,, Dec. 17.—The steamer | Quadra, the Dominion Government ves- 8=l dispatched from Victoria for the relief of the Cieveiand survivor-, arrived on the scene this morning. Carr spondent on board questioned Captain | Hall on the missing boats, but he has no | good news to report. The captain has taken every means in bis power to find the missing members of his crew. Search parties were sent ont e comst and to the neighboring | but as yet no traces have been | of them, and no pieces of wreckage, | such as were to be expected if t e boats | had been da<hed upon the rocks. The captain thinks that they must have been | driven out to sea by the wind and are | eit er lost or pici ome vessei. | Lie Cleveland was found lying in | ten feet of water off w known Tue received © damage, and 18 strandea and with the apparent ! exception oi a few small holes, which as yetcannot be locat n good coudi- tion. The C.evela t go upon the reef which was the tof apparent dan- 1 Capiain Ha1l gave the orders to raculously avoid- which wouid reef drifte | corre- | at has vessel the party of the spector of hulls at the s ¥ littte damage the tite necessary lumber can it no furtver heavy intervanes. n Captain Hall went on board on Sunday he found down the nold a | e man, McCartby, who lives with the lians, and five Indians, all much under influence of liquor. McCarthy ex-| lained that he was there protecting the vessel from damage and cluimed salvage, but the captain promptly ordered them off, saring that he cou.d take charge anda protect the vessel. The marauders had aken everything movable, even to the chairs, tables and chandeliers, some of which were found in McCarthy’s house. | The materials had been ripped open sand the hair thrown about, the tatle dishes siolen and broken, the captain’s insiru- ments ap:ropriated and the team=n’s and passengers’ personal effects wnd bedding carried away. In the holi everything | portable had been taken and casks and | boxes broken open in search for whisky. Some whisky and other liquors had been found and with it the e Indidn camp had been made drunk. Oo Monday there | appeared on the vessel a man named | Leach, a Justice of the Peace of the neigh- borhood, who stated that he w ihere to protect inierest of his client. McCar- tay, who claimed 8 right to the vessel as the first man on the boat and as the pro- tector of the cargo, but Captain Hall sturdily retused to ailow him to take pos- session. Tue Indians, however, per:isted in an- | noving him and but for the timeiy assist- ance of Constable Cox of Alberni further | outrages might have been committed. In- dian Agent Guillod a#so arrived and heipea to control the savages. Tue cargo, how- | ever, has been almost entirely looted by | the Ind ans, about 200 tons beinz carried away bodily, and not content with takine what they cou.d, they wantonly destroyed what they were unable to carry, Fires broke out twice, once in the fore- castle and once in the hold, but were ex- tinguished before any great damage was done, although the fires could not be traced 1o any source. The Indians are | suspected as they were overheard by some white men of theisland to eay that after | they were through plundering the boat they should burn it. Upon thearrival of the Quadra, the Government officials trom Victor a instituted a strict investigation. Captain Walbran searched tue Indian iuts, and finding large quantities of the s cargo stored away ia them, arres ed McCarihy and several of the more prominent as the ringlesders. The offi- cials and others expressed great ind gna- tion against the ns, and 1t 1« felt | that ar example must be muds of the of- | ders, as looting of vesseis -0 often iven ashore on this inhospitable coast is | gular occurrence. It is said that such | outrages se.dom take place off the Amer- | can coast, as plunderers when they oper- ate nre much more severely dealt with. PORT TOWNSEND, Dec. 17.—The tug | Wanderer returned to-night from Bar- | cluy Sound, where the steamer Cleveland is ashore, bringing in ‘wo members of the c-ew who were in Captain Hall's boar. ain Bailey says the actual damage to Cleveland’s hull bas not yet been as- 2 It the weather is calm for a days, Captain Bailey thinks that she can be saved. | AR LOOTED THE VESTA. McDonald Was Also on Hand With His C'a'm for Salvage. VICTORIA. B.C., Dec. 17.—Lightkeeper Day irom Carmanah was nere to-day, alterhaving sufely delivered at Port Town- s the crew of the wrecked schooner Vesia. Ha tells the usual story of the at- tempt by Indians to loot the Vesia, and ra including the irance a ju t weather ie | | { | { / | end Mr. Milne has therefore wired orders | that this | ceiver, and in any event, very voyage un'il ssful. states thut a white man named McDonald actually removed some articles from her and made a ciaim for salvage, as the first to board the wreck. Collector Milne says the claim isabiurd. 1t his been reported to the Collector ihat an American tug has been sent to effect salvage from the Vests, is not to be permitted, as the wreck has been handed over to him as re- being in Canas- nnot be operated upon ng ves-el. OFF THE COLUMBIA. disn waters, she ¢ by a foreign wrec Seven Vessels Have a Perllous T m> for Several Days Dur- Ing the Gile. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 17.—The masters of the delaved vessels which arrived in late vesterday evening were on the streets and at the Consul’s office to-day, appa- rentiy very glad to get into port. Captain Anderson of the Linlithgowshire, 141 days from A.twe p, reported bad weather when coming around the Horn, and more or lesy bad weather all the way up the P, citic, ) mishaps were met with, how- ever, until arrival off the Columbia Ruver, where h: was deained six davs by the storm. Last Saturday he lost his main topgailant mast and a number of sails. Captain Smith of the Annesly, ninety- six days from Montevidso, reported fair weather, except off Cape Horn, where hesvy storms were encountered. Fair weather was had for tne rest of the reaching the mouth of the Columbia River, off which she had to beat about for seven days. The caplain says he became so disgusted at not being abie to geta pilot that be thought of going to the Sound. On arrival in port, however, be learned that the jilo. -chooner was stormbound in the harbor and could not get out. He said it was bis opinion that harbors like this and San Francisco should have steam p.lot-schoones. I: 58 south and 75 he passed through a lot ot wreckage, which appeared to be the bul- warks of a wooden snip. About 180 miles southwest of the Columbia he spoke the British ship Principality, whose captain re- ported ull well. Aiter crossing into the river vesterday he let nistug go so it could bring in another of the belated vessels, and the Anne-ly sailed up the harbor. | wes Captain Moban oi tie British bark Gal- | gorn Castle said that ne had nothing special to report on bis voyage of 107 days wnued on Second Page. QHEBBUBB‘;EZHSEBH’KfiUUBVHUV g NEWS OF THE DAY E Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco—Fair on Satnrday: iresh westerly winds, FIRST PAGE. No Trace of Lost S ilors, %2 Japan’s Attitude Unchanged. o Lunatic Boiled Alive. E Deats Ends a Joke. Yo E g Partition of China Feared. SECOND PAGE. Kid McCoy Whips Creedon. A Ban on Sealskins. Opposition to Page Bryan. Labor’s Hand to Cuba. THIRD PAGE. Try to Justify a Lynching. Wiid Scene ata Haneing. Mr. Stead’s New Book. Shipyard for Seattle. FOURTH PAGE. Congress Talks of Alcohol. Dr. O’ Brien Vindicared. Grand Jury’s Final Report. FIFTH PAGE. Siot Machines Again Clicking. Two Ancient Lawsuits Ended. s1 H PAGE. Ediorial Monum al Nerve. The New Era Edition. Chr.stmas She pping. Relief for Kiondiders. Where the Guiit Beiongs. Personals and Queries, SEVENTH PAGE. Storm-beaten Vessels in Port. EIGHTH PAGE. Sports by F ood and Fiela. NINTH PAGE. Races at Inglesiae. The New Holy Cross Church. Sugar Factories for Ventu:a. TENTH PAGE. Commercia! Intelligence. ELEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. TWELFTH PAGE. Election Commissioners War, THIRTEENTH PAGE. Biri 's, Marriages, Deaths, FOURTEENTH PAGE. Toils Tigaten Round Hoff. Sheriff Jobnson Disappers. £ E : E £ g E | | | 2 g é E = : a s a | paver this morning to PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA. JAPAN'S POSITION NOT CHANGED Minister Hoshi Has Not Withdrawn His Protest. Not an Active Opposition to the Annexation of Hawaii. The Asian Empire Will Maintaln the Attitude It Assumed at First. Epecial Dispatch to THE CALL NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The Herald’s Washington correspondent :elegraphs: Tne dispatch puviished in a New York the effect that Minister Toru Hoski yesterday precented a note 10 Becretary Sherman withdrawing on bzhalf of his Government the previous protests of Japan con tion of Hawaii ie without toundation. Mr. Hoshi called at the State Department yes- terday ‘or the first time since his return rom Japan, merely to formally pav bis respects to ihe tecretary of Siate. e re- mained only a few minutes with Secre- tary Sherman, and nothing was saia about the withdrawal of the Japanese protests. It is officially announced, both at the State Depar ment and at the Japa- nese Legation, that no note has been hled by Mr. Hoshi since his return. said to me to-night: “The relations be tween the United States and Japau re- gardineg the Hawaiian question are entirely unchanged. Mr. Hoshi's instruc- tions from tne imperial government are not of a nature to chanze the poiicy of his negotiations with the State Depart- ment. Jepan will firmly maintain the attitude she has assumed, whict is not one of unfriendliness tothe United States nor of opposition to the annexation of Hawaii.” ment in the report of Consul-Genera! William Haywood, at Honolulu, seem to subsiantiate the declaration of th Jap- an Government that the reporis that Japanese immigrants are flooding the Ha- walian ixlands are untr: The total num- ber of Japanese in the islands, Mr. Ha wood suys, 1s less than 25000, 11,199 of whom are employed on sugar plantat:ons There are 6361 Chinese employed on the sugar vlantation, 1902 Portuguese and 136 Hawaiians. MUTIVES ARE MiSUNDERSTOOD. So M. de fladays_Witlldra's From the Figaro Until the Greyfus Controversy Is Ovar. Convright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennstt. PARIS, Dec. 18.—Tna Figaro publishesy this morning a leading articie by Fernald de Rodays, in which, after justifying the course which the Figaro has taken in con. nection ‘with reopening the Dreyius case, M. de Rodays announces that since his motives huve Feen misunder<tood he will witharaw from active participation in tie mavagement of the paper until this con- troversy shall have come to an end. g Dead Whale Zowed to Shore. SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 17.—An 80- foot whale was ashore cn the beach near Naples this morning, The leviathan was towed there by fishermen, who found it dead in the chanael some miles fiom shore. et Goes Out of Commission To- Dan. VALLEJO. Dec. 17..—The cruiser Poila- delpbia will be put out of commis«ioa at noon to-morrow. No orders have as yet E E E E, mmm.uuuukmuxj i been received regarding repairs 1o be made. roing the annexa- | A high official of the Japnese Legation | < | For Figures presanted to the State Dapart- | | | | far as the nerves of feeling BOILED ALIVE | and a snort [N A BATHTUB Frightful Fate of a Helpless Insane Patient. Hot Water Turned On Instead of Cold, and Fatal Burns Inflicied. Of Course the A tendant Was Dis- charged for His Most Crimi- nal Carelessness. Epectal Dispatch to THE CALr BOSTON, Dec. 17. ful deatn have just leaked from within the galls of Meafield Insane Asylum, in Medfield, Mass. A helpless inmate, Wil- liam W. Spearing, 42 years old, of this ty. was bolled todeath, being taken from the scaiding water of a bathtub to die hor- ribly a short time later. through his negligence is directly respon- sibie is no longer connected with the place. On the evening of November 30 Spearing was place¢ in & bathtub at that place for the purpose of receiving a special bath. The water was turned on as usual, it was thought, tbrough pipes which united so a8 to mingle the hot and cold at even temperature. Spearing sat in the tub, time later it was discovered the water was beiing. The man was taken from the tub horribly blistered. twenty-four hours he suffered an then breathed his last. Spearing’s wife and friends were notitied of the deatn, which was due, the coctors’ certificate said, to ‘“‘shock from burns.” The body was buried and the fuil story of the affair did not come out till to-day, Dr. French, superintendent of the Med- | field Asylum, says that probably the hot water was turned on instead of both bot and cold. Hesays: “It was one of those acciden s that are liable to occur at any time. Idischarged the attendant assoon as he toid hisstory. The attendants have their rules togzo by in the matter of giving batns and these certainly were violated.” Dr. French states that the patient's physical condition was sucu, especially so in the skin were concerned, that there was absolusely no sensation 1 theskin. He did not fee! the heat of the water ana had no idea that it was too hot vntil the attendant | himseit discovered the tact. TWO BOLD 506B-RS Attempt a Daylight Hold-up in the Busiress Center of Boston. BOSTON, Dec. 17.—A bold attempt to rob the jewelry store of W. H. Maynard & Co., at 16 Bratile :quare, in the very neartof the citv, at the point of a pistol, was made at 2 o'ciock this afternoon, The attempt was made by two men be- tween 25 and 30 years old. the store togetber, and one of them stepped up to the -howease and asked to ee some gold rings. Mr. Maynard drew a tray containing about twenty-five rings trom the window. Suddeniy and without any previous warning the second man drew a pistol and shoved it into Mr. May- ’s face, 5 ive me your money,” he cried, Mr. Maynard threw ihe tray of rings into the faces of the two ro.bers amd aropped benind the coniter. There was a pistol, ioaded, Iying theie. A3 he dropp:d down ne seized the pistol and arose instan ly to his teet. He aimed the pistol atthe neads of the two robbers, The act cowed the men, and they turned without & word and bolted through the door, e:caping* The facts of a fright- The per-on who | They entered | DEATY RESOLTS -~ FROM HIS JOKE |Matt Hennessy Killed on a Ranch Near i Sacramento. | Shot by His Employer While Pretending to Steal Chickens. Ex-Assemb'yman Eb2nOwan Takes a Life While Gunning for Marauders. Epecial Dispatch to THE CaLL ®SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17.—Rancher Sben Owen, a prominent Native Son and ex-Assembiyman, is under arrest at Franklip, seven mi'e« from this city, for the killing of Matt Hennessy, his hired man. The homicide was the result of a practical joke, of wuich Owen was 10 have been the victim, and the affair is one of | the most peculiar that has ever come to | the attention of the officers of this county, | and is deeply deplored by the ex-A-sem- biyman’s many friends, | Forsome time past Rancher Owen has | suffered- losses from the deprecations of | chicken thieves. He has tried in various | ways to surprise and capture the culprits, | but without success. So much did this annov bim that he frequently expressed to his employes his desire 10 get the thieves 1nto close quarters. To-night Hennessy resolved upon a practical joke wherewith to ‘'get the laugh” upon his employer, with wiom he was on friendly terms. Hs csught a | ch cken, put it into a sack and climbed a tree, carrying the fowl with nim. Once | ensconced on one of the top limbs of the | tree ne caused the chicken to squawk in order to a tract the atiention of Owen. The treein which he was perched was di- rectly over the Lenhouse, znd it was evi- aent!v Hennessy’s idea that the farmer would believe that the cackling came | from the henhou-e and he would hav: a fine time watching proceedings from his high coign of vantage while Owen would be muking trips to the barnyard to see | what was causing the commotion among bis fowls, Hennessy’s plan worked far too well. Instead of rushing out to the henhouse with the idea of catchinz the thief the {1ancher crawied on his hands and knees stealthily toward the building. When | near the door he discovered that the | squawking of the chicken came from tac tre2 and he saw perched in the branches what seemed to be the fizur: of a man. Owen called to the feliow to come down. Receiving .no answer, he took quick aim and fired toward the fizure in the tree. Without uttering a cry Hennessy dropped irom his position, bounded from limb to limb and finally iell in a limp mass at the feet of his employer. He had been in- stantly killed by the charge of shot. When Owen bent over the corpse he found that the dead man was nisemploye. He was overcome by grief at the resu!t of his shot, and, after having the body of Hennessy carried into his dwelling and cared for, he at once surrendered to his brother, Henry Owen, the constable In | Franklin district, and is now held in the latter's custody. Sheriff Frank Johnson and Coroner Clark have left the scens of the Rirling. In this city, where ex-Assembiyman Owen is well koown, the unfortunate affair is deepiy regretied. —_— Destroys a Mode's Iseawty. PARIS, Dec. 17.—Tbe famous model, Lucie Hagerland, has had her beauty de- stroyed by vitriol thrown at her by another model, named Juidicelli, in a fit of jealousy. 'SHIPS ARE HURRYI NG TO THE FAR EAST The Cruiser R aleigh Ordered From Smyrna to the Asiatic Station. It Is Said the Adminis tration Anticipates the __Partition of China by the Powers, Led by Germany, but Secretary Long Will Not Admit This. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—A Washington special to the Herald says: The cruiser | Raleigh. now at Smyrna, under commard | of Rear-Admiral Selfridge, Las been | ordered to the Asiatic station. Instruc- tions were seut by cable to-day 1o Rear- Admiral Selfrid e. Secretary Long told me that the transfer was only significant in showing the purpose of the aaministra- tion to keep a large force in that section of the globe. Among naval officers the opinion is ad- vanced that the administration is prepar- ing for the gener:l partition of Chin which is now said to be under consider- ation by the European powers. It was also hinted that the authorities are | anxious about the safety of Americans and their interests on account of the | landing of the Germans at Kaio Chau, | Secretary Long told me, however, that | the German matter had nothing to do with the assignment of the Raleigh. The | Raleigh will have a seven thousand mile | trip, and is expected to cover the distance | within toree weeks, | The vessels which will be in Eastern | waters on the arrival of the Ruleigh will | be the Olympia (Hagship), the Boston, Petrel and Monocacy. The Helena will leave New York in a few days for the East via the Suez Canal, but her orders do | not require her to revort to the com- mander-in-chief at t e Asiatic station until next summer. The Marietta and Concora also soon procerd to the East. The Marietta is now at S:ika, A'aska, and upon being relieved by ihe Wheeling will cross the Pacific and join Commodore Dewey’s fleet. GERMANY IS SENDING ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO THE FAR EAST. The North Germuan Lloyd Steamer Darmstadt Pressed Into Serv- ‘ce as a Transport. KIEL, Dec. 17.— Befire leaving the cruiser Deutschland last evening Em- peror William, standing beside his brother, Frinte Henry, who was on the cruiser’s bridge, addressed the assembled crew. He | said he was convinced they wouli be ever | mindful of the hizch honor of serving on board a ship bearing the name of the com- mon fatherland. No other ship, his Majesty ndded, bore a grander name. [ Continuing, the Emperor reminded the | crew that they revresented all the German races, adding: ‘“‘But always stand to- gether and ao honor in the vessel’s name and in a crisis. I am confident that you will maintain eood discipline ana prove yourselves worthy of your honorable mis- sion.” His Majesty then wished the crew godspeed. WILHELMSHAVEN, Dec. 17. — The Nort - German Lioyd steamer Darmstads, having on board a deiachment of troops for China, sailed from here to-day. Sne | was cheered by large crowds of people. | BRUNSBEI1TELBROOG, Dec. 17.—The | German cruiser Deutschland arrived here at 3 o'cleck. Princess Henry of Prussia stood at the lockgates awaiting her ar- rival and waved her hand to her husband, who was on the briige. Prince Henry landed and then re-embarked with his wife and son Waldemar, who remained on board until 5 o'ciock, when the Deutschland resumed her journey, and the Princess and her mother returned to Kiel. BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The North German Gaz-tie, commenting on the departure of Puince Henry of Prussia for China, says: “It was a moving scene to see the two brothers on the bridee of the German cruiser Deutschland bidting ezcn other adien in a lingering embrace. The Em- P ror shook hands with a:l the oflicers be- fere he deparied.” The imperial speeches at Kiel are the subject ol much adverse comment, more especially Prince Henry’s phrases as to carrying “‘the gospel of your Majesty’s hallowed person” iato China, which greatly offends religions sentiment. The Tageblat® confesses that the phrase is beyond 1ts “*humble powers of compre- hension.” The Vorwaerts invites Cardinal Kopp and Arcobisbop Stablewski to ‘'solve the ridale of what this new gospal is,”” Replying in the Re.chstagz to-day to Herr Frohmes’ criticism of the military bill, Privy Councillor Ittenbach said, in introducing the measure, the Government bad not pretended to satisfy the social democracy. He said: “Our discipline is unconditional devo- tion to the Kin -, unconditional obeaience to our superiors and good comradeship, So long as discipline is maintained we do not fear the realization of socialistic sctemes.” - CHINA WILL CONSENT TO CIVE KIAO CHAU TO THE GERMANS Russla and France D> Not L'ke the Precipitancy With Which the Kaiser Actad. LONDON, Dec. 17.—A spacial dispatch acquiesce in Germany’s retention_of Kiao Chau. Russia and France are irritated at Germany’s precipitancy, thus prematuely disclosing her plans to England and Japan in a manner likely, says the dispatca, to defeat the object in view. ALL UP WITH ZaWoLl, The Weeping and Murderous Barber Fractically Confesses His Many Crimes. NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—Zanoli, the-bar- ber, suspected of at lesst seven murders, provably eight, practically confessed his crimes to-day. To Rev. G. C. Berkmeier he said: "I have lost. There is no hope for me.” Rev. Dr. Berkmeier is director of the Wartburg Farm School, near Mount Ver- non, where Znoli’s two child:en, Lottie and Charles, were piaced temjorarily in 1895. Mr. Berkmeier called on Zanoli ay in the tombs. The weeping barber wept more copiously than ever before, and then ackrowledged he had given up hope. He hud learned of the testimony of two physicans w o had attended his duughter Lottie, and knew thai he had Leeu caught in the lie at last. That lie was the one he told abcut Lot- tie dving from an injury. The doctor's testimony showes he had died from un- known caus s. The same doctor charged Zanoli w1th poiscning the girl. This and other points in evidence crowded Znolt to the wail to-dav, and when Dr. Berkmeier called at the Tombs, tiie barber broke down completely, and said it was all up with him. Ee—— CIVIL SERVICE REFIRM. o~ Car/ Schurz Is Once More Elected Fresident of the League, CINCINNATI Dec. 17.—The National Civil Service Reform League to-day re- elected Carl Schurz president by acclama- tion. The remainder of the officers se- lected are as follows: Vice-president —CharlesFrancisAdams, Boston; Henry ‘Hitchcock, St Louis; Henry C. Haslea, Philadeiphia; A. Mcs Donough, New York; Frankiin McVeagh, Chicago; J. Hull Pieasants, Baitimore; Rizht Rev. P. C. Potter, New York; Right Rev. P. J. Ryan, P niadeiphia. Secretary, George M. Carney, New York. Treasurer, A. S. Frissel, w York. Resolutions were adopted caliing on Congress and the country generally to stand by civil service reform. FRENCH STATESHEN UNDER ARREST Found to Be Implicated in tha Panama Canal Scandal. Result of the Report of the Parlla= ment Committee’s Racent Investigations. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. PARIS, Dec. 17.—In consequencs of the report of the Parliament committee which has been inquiring into the financial, and especially the Panama, dealing of mem- bers of Parliament, M. Antide Boyer, rapresenting the Fifth District of Mar- seilles, and MM, Planteau Laisant and Gei Iard, former members of the Chamber of Deputies, have been arrested. M. Boyer wasone of the leaders of the Socialist varty of Marseilles and took part in the communist:c movement in 1871 M. Henr aret, member of the Cham- ber oi Deputies, and M. Aimee de Draint- Martin, former memver, have been ar- rested in cornection with the Panama scandal. M. Maret represents the arondissement of San Cerii. He belongs to the extreme left in the Chamber, but is above all an independent. He first came into promi- nesce by his lively criticism of ths policy and personality of Gambetta, and in 1386 ae protested in tne name of liberty against the expulsion of ‘‘the pretender’ Leter. As editor-in-chief of L» Radical he combated the policy and dictaiorial methods of General Boulanger. - RELIEF FOR YUKON MNINERS. Army Officers Detailed to Attend to the Transportation PORTLAND, Dec. 17.—Brigadier-Gen- eral H. C. Merriam, commanding the Department of the Columbia, was in con- sultaticn this afternoon with a committee of the Portland Chamber of Commarce regarding the transportation of relief 1o the Yukon miners, General Merriam, in accordance with instructions irom Secre- tary of War Alger, will detail two officers, Who will provably leave hers for Dvea on the steamer Elder, which sails on D:cem- ber 23. General Merriam hasnot yer des. ignated the officers wno are to proceed to Dyea, but will probably issue the order to-morrow, The Klondike relief commit- tee has engaged eigh.y five men, whose services will be offered io the War Departe from Shanghal asserts that China will ment in transporting supplies 1o the ik