The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897. MINISTER MWALL AS A MEDDLER | P Charged With Being Guilty of Peculiar | Conduect. Interviewed Parker in the Interests of the Ene- mies of Damon. Secretly Striving for Information | About the Return of Princess Kaiulani. FAILS IN THE ATTEMPT. And Now the American Diplomat and | Co-Conspirators Feel Very Srall Over the Affair. Correspondence of The Call NOLULU, Dec. 15.—A well au- ed item has been given to The Zall’s C correspondent which shows, if true, the deep interest American Minister Harold M. Sewall takes in Hawaii's internal affairs. His fre- quent * and unimportant” visits | to the iment House have long | since earned for him the name of the | fifth wheel in the Ministerial coach, but apparently he desires to be some- thing more and to play the role of a republican Warwick in the formation of governments. | The story that is told to The Call correspondent i ous one, and again, if true, clearly that President McKinley's representative here is not sufficiently conscientiously observant of the internationally ac- cepted rules of diplomatic action while resident in a sovereign and in- dependent country It is said that | it does not accord with the duties of an American Minister to the Republic of Hawaii to act as an interviewer or aid of one section of the Hawaiian binet against another, or in fact to erfere in any way with the domes- control of our affai And yet | is exactly what Minister Sewall | ged with doing. | The Call he at the Haw alre dy been informed | an Cabinet is not a ogenec body on certain mat- pol It has been ated that the Minister of ance -is not beloved by his col- ues and that his resignation at juncture would not be deeply d over by them. They have | - own views as to a very desir- | ssor and probably also as to a ban > them of the past | courtesies of Mr. Damon's bank, | which has so often aided the Ha- | waiian Governments to weather the | financial storms with “short” treas- uries and “long” credits. Now as to Minister Sewall's connec- tion with Cabinet-making. It is said that Minister Sewall interviewed Hon. | Samuel Parker in the interests of the political enemies of Hon. Samuel M. | Damon and did his level best to ascer- | tain the truth of an intimated fact | that the Minister of Finance was re- | sponsible for the return of Mr. Cleg- | horn and Princess Kaiulani to their | sland home and that he had paid r expe er has been a Cabinet Minister , and, as all know, is a man of and has traveled somewhat. He is not altogether “green” and as in his incident with Minister Stevens | can speak out very frankly, and con- | sequently Minister wall could ob- but small satisfaction from his | queries, except to the extent that | arker was not familiar with the | business nsactions of either Mr. J Damon or Princess Kaiulani, and that the proper source to obtain the ap- varently much desired information ld be from the parties interested and especially from Hon. A. Cleg- horn, who would certainly know and be only too happy to state anything of a personal or financial nature in con- nection with his daughter. It is said that the American Minis- ter and his co-conspirators feel very | small at their failure to ‘“rope in” their newly gained associate in annex- ation _into their pvrsonaLpoli!icall NEW TO-DAY. “At Sloane’s” Immense Assortment of ODD PIECES OF FURNITURE, Oriental and Domestic Rugs, CHOICE SELECTION. Many Novelties in OUR UPHOLSTERY DEPARTMENT. ‘We invite inspection of our stock and comparison of pricss . | house of the | to-day | the Government W | which the Premier concluded with ap- schemes. They are doubly alarmed lest this escapade should be published and an inquiry be directed from ‘Washington as to the exercise of his diplomatic powers by the representa- tive of one friendly power to another. ‘With sych proceedings going on here it is naturally asked with bated breath, “Are we already annexed?” Ilspionage is one of the strong arms of a government whose power is mnot based on the love or the will of the governed. We had hoped that our Government had abandoned the sys- tem entirely, and they did so partially nearly a year ago, but the information is that their fears have again com- pelled them to resort to methods for- eign to American instincts. It is even openly said that among those most closely “shadowed” are Damon and Theo H. Davies owing to their as- sumed friendly relations with those of royalist tendencies. The situation with us, while we are on the threshold awaiting the verdict of Congress, is briefly condensed in the remarks of an ex-Councilor of State and a very prominent annexationist, who said to The Call correspondent this morning: *“I honestly believe that the nearer annexation approaches us the more we fear and dread the possi- bilities of its being a failure in its re- sults.” On Monday the Government fur- nished another illustration of its good faith to the cause of white labor by granting the applications of a few planters for another batch of 800 Jap- anese for the sugar plantations. Ha- waii has expended many hundreds of thousands of dollars in experimenting on the labor problem for its staple in- dustries, and the only lesson abso- lutely learned and impressed upon us is the same as in Australasia, and that is that there is no class of white or European labor, except the island | Portuguese, who can compete with the Asiatics in the cane fields. Fitzgerald's | white laborers, if ever they come, will | learn this to their cost, and then the | | wages ranging from $10 to $23 a month and board themselves in unhealthy barracks. It is not a healthy outlook even for men who can brave the sun | in a torrid harvest field. BANFFY OUTLINES [IUNCARY'S POLICY for an Independent Cus- toms Regime. Considers the Compsomise Arrange- | ment With Austria More Ad- vantageous at Present. Special Dispatch to The Call. BUDAPEST, Dec. 22.—In the lower | Hungarian Parliament Baron Banffy, the Premier, speaking of the bill providing for a provisional prolongation of the Aus- gleich, declared at the outset that he could not accept the resolution of Francis Kossuth, demanding the es- hment of an independent Hun- garian customs regime by January 1, 1898, but, continued the Premier, he would accept a motion to publish as soon as possible the data necessary for the establishment of such a regime, or for the conclusion of a commercial treaty with Austria and the draft nfi a customs tariff, and to arrange tc ascertain the views of business men. He pointed out that Hungary had the right to establish an independent cus: toms immediately if it were in her in terest to do so, but he considered the compromise arrangement with Aus- | tria more advantageous, if it could be arranged with due regard to Hun- gary’'s interest. That, however, was doubtful. The Government, neverth s, the Premier continued, desired to give Austria 1 time to recover herself | and did not wish to create confusion, the harmful consequences of which | were incalculable. The present bill did not infringe upon Hungary's | rights and inter he added, | uld act vigorously | against attempts similar to those of | the Reichsrath to prevent its becom- ing law. | This remark caused an uproar, after pealing to the House not to create dif- ficulties, as Hungary’'s interest, he pointed out, far from requiring her to | loosen her relationship with Austria, required that her ties with the latter | country should be made closer and stronger. This statement was greeted with applause from the Rightists, but it caused an uproar among the Leftists. —_— Monterey Sails Southward. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 22.—The United States coast defense vessel Monterey sailed thismorning for Magdalena Bay, Lower California, for target practice, and will be gone about a month. The United States Fish Commission ship Albatross arrived this morning from San Francisco. The British gunboat Icarius sailed this morning for Victoria, after a three days’ stay to take on coal. HOLIDAY GIFTS .. / OPEN EVENINGS. W. & J. SLOANE & (0 Carpets—Furniture—Upholstery 641-643-645-647 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO. | crild, forced him to eat, and, | consulate, which was SAVED BY THE MATE'S HEROTSM Cleveland Survivors Owe Much to Durfee. Devoted His Time to His Men, Though Suffer- ing Himself. Aged Engineer O’Neil Prevented From Giving Up the Fight Against Death. CREW REACHES VICTORIA. Brought Back by the Cutter Quadra and Cared for in the North- ern City. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, Dec. 22—The cutter Quadra arrived this afternoon from the wreck of the Cleveland, having on board the survivors who were in too bad a condition to remain. Their names are: S. B. Durfee, first mate; Robert Deltrich, passenger; O'Neil, first assistant engineer; David Cowley, fireman; Robert Isbister, carpenter, and Peter Marin, Alfred Falkner and John Coster, sailors. All are still suf- fering from the effects of exposure and privation, but are rapidly improving. They were taken immediately to the Marine Hospital. On Sunday Dr. Wat- son of Alberni was taken on board, and ever since he has given his atten- tion to the sufferers and started them on the road to rapid recovery. Too much credit cannot be given to the men for the courage and fortitude with which they withstood their pri- vations or to the officers for their self-sacrifice and cool-headedness, es- pecially First Mate Durfee, who was in charge of the boat which was for five and a half days at sea, and who by his courage and thoughtfulness brought his men out alive. One man at least—Assistant Engineer O'Neil— owes his life directly to Mate Durfee. O’Neil is an old man, and the mate watched over him as he would over a wien he and gave up, became discouraged would not allow him to lie down to die, but aroused him and forced him to move about. When they were for three days on the deserted coast he took care of O'Neil, although suffering himseif, and kept the best of their scanty provisions for the old man. The offic and crew of the Quadra deserve special praise for the care they took of the suffering passenger: Nothing in their power was left un- done. James Tyson of San Francisco, man- aging owner of the Cleveland, and Captain Metcalf and D. Cartmel, gent for Lloyds, arrived at the wreck on Tuesday, and, after a care- ul investigation, ~declared them- selves convinced that the shlp could be floated without great loss. Mr. Ty- on was especially much pleased with the care which had been shown the suffering members of the crew. Of those who arrived on the Quadra to-day Engineer E. Thomas will leave { for Seattle in the morning and Peter Marin and John Coster will go to San Francisco by the first boat. They are looked after here by the.American represented on the Quadra by the Vice-Consul, and he has left nothing undone to help the distressed American seamen. ntain pens, inkstands, office calen- and fine stationery at Sanborn & Fou dars —_————————— SEEKS TO CONTROL- TRAFFIC. Mexican Gnyernmn;fieaching Out After Coastwise Trade. YUMA, Ariz., Dec. 22.—Through a concession lately granted to Captain Alonzo Smith, the Mexican Govern- ment appears to bereaching out for the control of its Pacific coastwise traffic. which at present is wholly in the hands of the owners of the several American steamship lines that ply between San Francisco and Panama. The object embraces the construction, at large expense, of a port at San Jorge, at the head of the Gulf of California, and the building thence of a railroad ninety-six miles in length to this point, here making conaection with the Southern Pacific. Only eighteen miles of the road will be within the United States. Captain Smith states that he will have his engineers at work within a month, and that the railway will be completed within eight months. The promoter states that he has secured ample financial backing in the East. Four steamers are to be put on thc route, with southern terminus at Salina Cruz. They will be operated under the corporate name of the Mexican Steam- ship Company. e g v SUFFERING ON COPPER RIVER. Hardships of a Party of Los Angeles Men Who Sailed in Quest of Gold. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22.—F. A. Mc- Greal, who left with a party of Los Angeles men three months ago for a trip to Copper River, under the direc- tion of F. N. Hardy, writes a letter to friends here from the Indian village of Eyak, thirty miles from Copper River. in which he tells of terrible hardships’ and dangers encountered. The vessel, which was advertised as a new one, was old and leaky, and dur- ing a trip of twenty-seven days two terrible storms were encountered. The men were constantly at the pumps, and several times were obliged to take to the rigging when great seas washed over her. Captain Hardy was in his eabin blub- bering like a scared child all the way, McGreal says. The Indians cared for them -when they landed. The country is very fertile and the Indians show large nuggets of gold. - e Civil Service Law Upheld. CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—The Supreme Court of Illinois handed down a de- cision to-day upholding the constitu- tionality of the civil service law of the State. The decision was rendered in a mandamus proceeding brough: by the Attorney-General of the State to com- pel Chief Kipley of the Chicago po- lice force to make appointments from the classified list furnished by the Civil Service Commission. The decision is sweeping in its nature and upholds the Attorney-General in all the claims he makes in behalf of the law. ROAST OF SAN JOSES CONCILMEN Creditors of the City Gather in Mass- Meeting. Appoint a Committee to Demand Payment of Their Claims. Speakers Intimate That the Of- ficials Are Simply Waiting “to Be Seen.” INSIST ON FAIR DEALING. Will Not Supply a Golden Key to Unlock the Vaults of the Treasury. Special Dis teh to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. 22.—Public indigna- tion over the manner in which the members of the Common Council have played battledoor and shuttlecock with the honest claims of a large number of citizens broke bounds to-day. It found vent in a meeting held to-night in Jus- tice Gass’ courtroom for the purpose of taking some definite action to secure the payment of all just claims against the city. A. ». McNeil of the well-known firm of McNeil Brothers was the leading spirit in the gatherng. He made an address, in the course of which he did not hesitate to frankly express his con- victions. He stated that it was his be- lief that a golden key would unlock the City Treasury, and that one of the members of the claims committee was simply making a pretext when he stat- ed that he wanted further time to con- sider the bills. McNeil gave it as his opinion that the gentleman was sim- ply waiting “to be seen.” He further charged that all the members of the Council were “hand in glove” in the matter of preventing the allowance of unpaid bills. As the result of the meet- ing a committee of five well known merchants was appointed to wait upon the members of the Council and the Mayor to urge favorable action upon the unapproved claims that were just and honest. While this meeting was in progress the members of the Council were in executive on in the City Hall on the floor above, wrangling over which bills should be approved and which not, and many of the creditors of the city, kept . themselves employed trot- ting up and down Stairs between the two meetings. The indignation meeting adjourned at about 8:30 o’'clock and most ot those who had been in attendance marched upstairs to await the outcome of the action of the Council. The Council- men finished their executive labors 10 o’clock, and it took them but a fe minutes to allow in open session all but a very few of the claims that have been hung up for so long a time. Dit- tus voted “‘no” to the very last. Among the bills that were approved by the Council are many which, the Mayor says, will not receive his ap- proval. He will begin the task of ex- amining, approving and vetoing these bills to-morrow morning. Between fifty and sixty creditors of the city attended to-night's meeting in response to the following call, dis- tributed broadcast in the business portion of the city this afternoon: Notice is hereby given to all creditors and friends of the city of San Jose to meet in Justice Gass' courtroom in the Hall this Wednesday evening, De- cember 22, at 7:30 o'clock sharp, for the purpose of devising plans for securing the payment or enforcing the collection of the just claims against this city, and for such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Let every creditor, whether he be merchant, labor- ing man or employe, and every well- wisher of the city of San Jose, attend the meeting. (Signed) COMMITTEE. A. B. McNeil of McNeil Bros., print- ers, called the meeting to order. Homer Prindle of Prindle & Woodward of the Citq Park Carriage Works was elected chairman and A. B. McNeil secretary. After Chairm: Prindle had explained the object of™ the meeting, McNeil made a talk in which he broadly inti- mated that certain members of the Council wanted “to be seen.” “That which is everybody’s busi- ness,” he began, “is nobody's business. I thought this afternoon that we would have plenty of co-operation this evening. I find, however, that when it comes to the subject of backbone it is mostly in the mouth, and that many people who have talked the loudest, many people whom we had been led to believe were the most anxious to se- cure the payment of their claims against the city are conspicuous by their absence. “It is not very gratifying to men who are interested in theé public wel- fare. It appears to me that there are men in this town—respectable mer- chants, honorable business men—who hold high rank in our-councils and. in this community, who have not the self-respect that they ought to pos- sess. We have men here who are evi- dently afraid of the gang, who are afraid of one man or of one another. 1 believe there are men here in town who are afraid of their own shadows. They have not the nerve to call their souls their own. ““This is a meeting of indignant cred- itor-citizens who have exhausted all of the means in their power to obtain the payment of just claims. We are men who have waited, many of us, six months to obtain our money for work honestly performed, for services faith- fully given, for material honestly fur- nished this city. Why is it we cannot obtain the payment of our bills when our city treasury is bursting with money? It is high time that some ac- tion was taken by our people for the purpose of inducing—to persuade, if necessary, to demand if necessary, to enforce if necessary—the payment of these moneys that are due us. Many of the men here are workingmen, who are waiting for their own money, not to use it for the purchase of Christ- mas presents, but to buy food for their children, and they can’t get it. “I believe there is a golden key to that treasury. I believe we can get our bills paid if we want to use that key, but I for one am not that kind of a man.- 1 don’t propose to work that way. I believe that every claim against the city would be paid if the proper inducements were offered.” A. Greeninger of A. Greeninger & Son of the Globe Carriage Works, said that the Council was asked to passonly legitimate claims, and that he saw no reason why such Bills were not paid. Chairman Prindle cautioned moder- ation and the use of persuasion. He suggested that a committee be se- lected to wait on the Mayor and Coun- cil and urge them to pass all proper claims. - T. C. Hogan of Popp & Hogan, printers, said it might be well to await the action of the Council, which was then in executive session, before any extreme measures were taken. He favored the suggestion of the chair- man. McNeil moved the appointment of a committee of five, including the chair- man, to wait on the Council this even- ing and make an urgent appeal to al- low all honest claims. The chairman appointed A. B. McNeil, J. B. Minor, T. C. Hogan and A. C. McKenney, druggist. Adjournment was taken with the understanding that if the Council’s action to-night was satisfactory no further meeting would be held. —_— KILLING OF TWO AMERICAN TARS BY THE JAPANESE. Very Disagreeable Incidents Are Now Being Investigated by the State De- partment. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The De- partment of State has undertaken an investigation of two very disagreea- ble incidents that may contain in themselves the germs of serious trou- ble in the near future. They are the killing by Japanese of two sailors at- tached to the United States fleet on the Asiatic station. The exact condi- tions under which the killing occurred are not known here yet, and the State Department is trying to learn details through the United States Minister at Tokio and the United States Consuls in Japan, preliminary to determining what steps shall be taken to secure reparation, if it shall be found that the killing was, as is expected, unjus- tifiable. The first killing was of a sailor named Montgomery, formerly attached to the Yorktown, while she was on the Asiatic station, and the last was that of Frank Epps, a sailor, native of New York, and an appren- tice on the flagship Olympia. He was killed at Nagasaki. The officials here have been advised of the bare facts only, but following so closely on the terrible assault at Kobe last Septem- ber of a Japanese mob upon the sailors of the Yorktown, these killings have aroused them to a determination to se- cure protection for our sailors in Jap- anese ports. SLEW AN ENENY WITH HIS FIST Jeremiah Denomme of Fresno Found Guilty of Man- : slaughter. Killed a Man in a Saloon Fight by Striking Him Over the Heart: atch to The Call. 22.—Jeremiah De- nomme was to-day found guilty by a jury in the Superior court of man- slaughter. He will be sentenced on Monday. In October the prisoner killed Chris Molbeck in a notorious saloon acrossthe track by pounding him over the heart and rupturing the vital or- gan. Molbeck, who was from the coun- try, had been drinking during the day and finally drifted into the saloon. He made some “offensive remark to De- nomme, whereupon the excitable fel- low caught him by the throat with his left hand, and, shoving his victim against the wall, with his right dealt him several® vicious. blows over the heart. Molbeck was vendered insensi- ble and was placed in a chair, in which he was hauled into a back room. Later in the night he was found dead there. An autopsy revealed the fact that the heart of the deceased was ruptured. At the first trial of Denamme, about a. month ago, the jury stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal. - CARRIED GIANT-POWDER BOMBS IN HIS POCKETS. Series of Explosions Cause Fatal Injury to a Woodchopper Near San Jose. SAN JOSE, Dec. 22.—Amazon Her- nandez, a Mexican woodchopper, was fatally injured near the Lilagas this afternoon. He was in the habit of car- rying giant-powder cartridges in his pockets, as he frequently used them for blasting tree stumps. While he was carrying the explosives about in this way yesterday he tripped and fell, a knife in his pocket struck against a cap and nine explosions followed in quick succession. Hernandez was ter- ribly mangled, part of his left hip being torn away and the hipbone broken. Near-by farm laborers has- tened to the wounded man's aid and succeeded in staunching the flow of blocd. Hernandez was brought to this city and his wounds were dressed at the Receiving Hospital. There is no hope of his recovery. —_—— A Brutal Mate. VICTORTA, B. C.. Dee. 22.—Nineteen men from the shin John A. Briggs, loading lumber at Chemainus, walked to the city to-day, a distance of fifty miles, having left the ship in a body. They say that on the way up from San Francisco the mate struck one of them and said he would make gt hot for them on the way to Sydney. A Trial Will Convince You. Wise men insist upon having the best of those things which cohtribwte to their highest physical welfare. It is doubtless for this reason that so many men are using O. F. C. Whiskey which is bottled under the direction of the gdov- ernment and suaranteed by the dovernment to be 100 per cent: proof- It’s Pure, That’s Sure. NEW TO-DAY. e A e The Fascinating Power Of our swell holiday creations for little folks and for their elder brothers, coupled to that prince of fascinators, our tiny prices, has broudht to owr second floor the lardest concourse of people that has ever assembled upon that big floor. We have made a deep lunde right into our very finest, and you know your little man dets his toys with every purchase on the second floor to-day and to-morrow. We'll prove his Santa Claus. e O i 0 J ) ¢ 4% J A Above we show yow a swell Winter Reefer made from that curly weave $7 drade of astrachan in a rich shade of blue : money can’t buy a handsomer one. We have taker. a pair of our $1.50 Fauntleroy Ledgins, and say for the two, that swell blue Reefer and that pair of Legdins, which amount to eight-fifty, the two to-day and till closing time to-morrow at -$55.45.-- The Last 2 Da\’ysn! Thursday and Friday witness the closing of that remarkable Holiday Sale of ours. It's the last 2 days, and we’ve added more fuel in the shape of even finer lines than those offered during the week. It's the last 2 days of those long warm Tweed Ulsters for lads up to 16 years. It’s the last 2 days of these at -~$2.75.-- It’s the last 2 days of those swell Blue Twill Cheviot Swits with their deep, generous sailor collar, hand- somely braided, with little buckle at the knee, for lads between the agdes of 3 and 10 —it’s the last 2 days of these in conjunction with those fine Scotches, the last 2 days, at $2.75. It’s the last 2 days of those real swell little jun- ior swits of ours, those sweet ones, those cute ones, with little vest, with deep sailor collar, Ilittle buckle at knee of trousers; nothing in town at &6 will hold & can- dle to ‘em —it’s the last 2 days of these at $2.75. It's the last 2 days of those swell Douwble-Breasted Suits in Scotches, in Fine Blue Twill Cheviots, for lads be- tween the agdes of 8 and 16, styles amang ’em up to $5 and $6. Ies the last 2 days of ’em, at And you know your little man dets his Toys— the right sort of Toys — fine ones. WERE OPEN ETVENINGS. (L1 9-11-15-15 KEARNY ST, 0,00,000000,0000000000