The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 189 ARDS FOR THE SEIZURES Findings of the Bering Sea | ‘Cornmission Have | Been Filed. } Prospective Damages Not Al- lowed by the Latest Ar- | bitrators. Including Principal and Interest the | Amount to Paid by Uncle Sam Is $464,000. Spectal 1 ch to The Call | Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Dec. The findings of the British-American Comn chosen to s the dam- ures of British ships in have been received by the nent and the British Em- rictest reticence is main- however, on the general char- the findings, though it ad- d that the total of the award inst the United States is $464 ite statement of the award into principal and interest is sefused at this time. In order ould to avoid misapprehension it understood that the finding against this Government is no surprise, that ty under the find- ing e court of arbitration that the United States had no right to | close B ng Sea against foreign ships. international commission’s only > assess the amount of the nly statement that could be se- | cured here of the judgment reached by the commissioners is contained in the following announcement given out at | the State D partment this afternoon: | “The award of theBeringSea claims | 1 has been filed in the De- of State. The claims as pre- 2 British Government tc sion account of Cana- | sels seized in tt | with intes | luded, under the cl: s not embraced in the roposed by Secretary award now made amounts to ich is to be added in- will incre: the total nt. The award is final s be it. Pay- must be made , it is as- once to pr re imendment to one of the propriation bills, for sub- , covering the ne- to pay the judg- aty not only ndered but Govern- > the re- an gnificz ins nt 3 entirely. While t officials will make no ¢ t to this effect, that the small- iven Alabama ed the prace could not nt that re- be included t award is to the aw ised at the re- aind having of- 4 that$425,000 was a just equitable sum in settlement, and | appointed as the | r to adjudicate aims a close personal and polit- | ical friend, it could hardly be expected | the latter would strenuously con- ard of a I E was absent fr Japan when Congr on President C n, but he r s the proper method ofreach- ing ng a settlement and the only one which would y the country. Not- | standing the seizures, which gave | to the award, were initiated un- | Democratic administration, y, he thought, | scommend Cong! vide for payment, and he and felt sure that Congress | would make *he necessary approp tion to discharge the treaty obliga- | tion and the Canadians receive inte t up to date on their deferred claims, the result should be accepted on both si in good spirit. : - SATISFIED WITH THE SETTLEMENT. Now the English Realize That Protestations of Bad Faith Were Not Well Founded. LONDON, Dec. 23.—The Times in an editorial this morning expressing sat- isfaction at the Bering S lement, which it anticipates Congress will not object to, and takes occasion to pro. test against the “loose insinuations of | d faith on the part of the United ates Government, which have been thoughtlessly and unjustifiably made in England.” It points out that there could not be a question of bad faith, because no agreement had hitherto | been arrived at as to the amount of compensation. Dealing with the general aspect of | ealing question the editorial con- clude: The American Government must either air and business like proposals the present condi- tions of s fishing must continue. They are mot, after all, so utterly de- structive of the fur seal as interested sons represent them to be. - Canadian Owners Dissatisfied. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 23.—The own- of the Canadian sealing fleet ex- | ;- themselves as being much dis. jed with the award of the arbi- | announced yesterday. They unite in saying the lowest amount they expected was $500,000 with interest. HANGS HIMSELF WITH A SUSPENDER AT WAPA. ( 2 \Frederick Martens, a Patient at the Insane | | Asylum, Eludes the Vigilance of His Keepers. NAPA (Cal), Dec. 23.—Frederick Martens, a patient at the Napa Insane Asylum, committed suicide early this morning by hanging himself with a suspender in his room. The deceased a native of Germany, about t.’.fl s of age, and his mania was of a fcidal turm, He was committed to institution November 18 last from Marin County, and leaves a widow in Mill Valley. At the inquest held to-day by Coro- w | returned to New York to-day and e ner er of Napa, the fact was ascer- tained that Martens attempted to kill himself by the same means the first night after being brought to the asy- lum. The body will be shipped to Mill Valley. WILL INCREASE THE DUTIES ON IMPORTS. Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies Adopts a Retaliatory Tariff Against the United States. Copyright, 1897, by James Gordon Benmett. VBUENOS AYRES, Dec. 23.—The Chamber of Deputies to-day adopted \he_ bill authorizing the Government to increase the duties on imports from any country, when necessary, as a measure of protection to the inter- ests of their country. This bill em- bodies the principal features of the re- taliatory tariff against the United States which was defeated a few days | ago, giving, as s, the right to | m‘?} President to increase duties at will. _ The maximum increase provided for in this new measure is 50 per cent on the ordinary tariff and 15 per cent on goods now on the free list. The duty on agricultural machines and imple- ments was not altered by the Cham- ber. Under the provisions of another measure which has passed the Cham- ber foreign insurance companies do- ing business in Argentina must depos- it certain sums in bonds in the treas- ury. AVERICLY FLAG The Detroit Ordered to Visit Ports of Hayti and San Domingo. No Ulterior Object, but Incidentally an American’s Claim May Be Collected. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: Cable instructions weresent Tuesdayto Com- mander J. H. Dayton, commanding the cruiser Detroit, now lying at Port au Prince, directing him to visit other Haytian and Dominican ports. These instructions indicate that the authori- have no further apprehension of a lution in Hayti growing out of Germany’s recent n; in fact. ad- vices received from Minister Powell show that the condition of affairs in the Black Republic is peaceful. The Detroit has specially been in- structed to visit Domingo, which as the place amana Ba: in will be remembered at which Rear Ad herardi recommended that a co: station be established, and Mr. S Minister Powe predec e of the Detroit to v 3 play the American flag In that and that there is no ulterior ob} view. It will be recalled that the President recently considered the advisability of dispatching an Amer} to San Domingo to collect the Nathaniel Kay of this Ity of the failure of the Domini ernment to car ut the provisia a contract entered into with the Ame ican tizen for construction of the bridge. That V! ment recently greed to submit the claim to arbitr: tion, but it is believed that the p ence of the Detroit in Dominican wa- ters will expedite the negotiations r.c on foot. Tinister Leger told The ( dent to-day that so far ‘all corres- as he kr this Government had not replied to : proposal that the Campbell referred to arbitration. It generally believed that the partment will ¢ nt and Government or person will be nated as arbiter Camphell American who was maltres au Prince and in whose beh lution was re Senate. the alf a reso- ently introduced in the e ROOSEVELT DECLARES | BRYAN A GENTLEMAN And Denies That the Newly Appointed Min- ister Asked for a Warship to Con- vey Him to China. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23 sistant Secretary Roosevelt denied this | morning that Charles Page Bryan, re- cently appointed Minister to China, ap plied to him for a man-of-war to con- vey him to his pos . “My relations with Mr. Bryan,” he said, “have been very pleasant. This story has been attributed to me. It is nonsense. I have never felt the nec of mak- ing a denial before. I gave Mr. Bryan a dinner when he first came to Wash- ington. He is a gentleman and in. capable 0f making such a foolish re- quest.” JULIA MARLOWE IS IN A SERIOUS CONDITION. So Sick That She Has Had to Cancel En- | gagements and Remains Behind Her Company. CINCINNATI, Dec. 23.—Julia Mar- lowe is seriously sick in this city, hav- ing been confined to her hotel since last Sunday. None of her engagements have been filled this week, and the Grand Opera House has remained closed. The members of her company forts have been made for two or three days to remove her to New York, but she is unable to make the trip. She is so hoarse from cold that she cannot speak. Her engagements for Colum- bus and Detroit have been canceled. et Portuguese Massacre. LISBON, Dec. 23.—An official dis- patch from St. Paul de Loanda, Portu- guese Lower Guinea, says that the na tives of the Humbo Plateau in the Portuguese colony of Angola have massacred a Portuguese officer, a ser- geant and twelve men. Re-enforce- ments have been sent from St. Paul de Loanda. Angola is south of the Congo Free State. The colony has been held by the Portuguese since 1486, and they have a number of forts and commercial establishments at different places, in some instances several hundred miles in the interior. It long possessed an infamous notoriety for the extent of its slave trade, but this traffic has been | greatly abridged by the Portuguese since 1877, when the colony was en- larged by a treaty with the Congo Free State. Bulwarks and Stanchions Started. LONDON, Dec. 22.—The Norwegian bark Olivia, Captain Ganufsen, from Pensacola December 9th, for Diappe, has arrived at Falmouth with bul- warks and stanchions started. n | ANNAPOLIS CADETS. ted in Port | THAT GREAT GAME OF WHEAT | It Now Seems to Be Shift- ing From December to May. Elevator People Evidently Making Room for the Expected Arrivals. | Within Ten Four Million Bushels Have Been Loaded Into Ships. Days Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Dec. 23 on the Board of Tr | game being play repre: elev | 3 . | —In the wheat pit de to-day the great d between the clique 'nted by Joseph Leiter and the tor people under the lead of P. D. Armour seemed to be shifting from December to May. There was some al wheat—sixty pounds to the bushel | and every pound calling for money— presented to Mr. Leiter attention. Chartering of vesels to take out a’large | amount of grain was believed to indi- | cate that the elevator people had some 2,000,000 bushels more wheat so near | that it was time to make room for it. What the clique is to do with all this wheat has become of vital importance | to sel men and to the elevators | elves. On that point it was cer- | t nobody yet knows what is to{ of the accumulation of wheat | the tap of the bell on Decem- navigation on the lakes about 4,000,000 bushels of grain have been taken out g0_elevators and loaded Vessel men never wit- to get grain into | Nearly sixty boats | loaded with grain. The apacity of the winter fleet | 12,000,000 bushels, and thus, | to Vi nessed before the last vessel of the season had | reached its dock at Buffaio, a third of | the fleet here had been taken care of. | The rush for boats came to an end | during the da Agents did not find | anybody who wanted to load grain into thei They at once came to the conclusion that the elevator ca- pacity esented by the 4,000,000 bushel ken out was about what the elevator people expected to fill—largely with wh fore the end of the year. » receipts since the grain began ng into the boats would fill about half of the vacated room. This would | leave room for about 2,000,000 bushels more grain, and was taken to be a certain indication of the amount the | | elevator people expected to bring in before the end of the deal. INSUBORDINATION OF Seventy-One Restricted to Quarters for | | Yelling at a Goverring Officer Who Is { Considered Too Strict. ANNAPOLIS Md., Dec. —Seven- | me cadets of the third class are restricted to quarters for insubordina- tion. morning, when the was in the quarters of the third ss, a number of the adets broke into loud yelling in re- ntment of the rules with which the officer rns the cadets in char; them. The affair a crisis when the cadets heid meeting Monday night, in or- to inform the superintendent who were the guilty parties. No one would tell on himself, and nobody would tell on the culprits. Then the cl com- | when re: municated to Captain Cooper that at | their meeting they could not discover | who had done the yelling. This was all C; tain Cooper, the su- s waiting for before | s. He issued an or- | the | perintendent, he took heroi | us cadets of the | rintained an_insubord nate spirit by refusing to tell who we | guilty of the disrespectful conduct while the officer in charge was in the | quarters, quarters, Christm of & o'cloc would be re: ted to | order to be in force on | | v, except from the hours in the morning to half- past 9 at night. | 1 LAKE TAHOE REGION I AS A FOREST RESERVE.| | United States Agent Allen Submits a Re- | port in Which He Favors the | | | Project. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 23.—B. F. Al- | len, United ates Special Forest Agent, who w recently deputed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to examine the region in the vi- | cinity of Lake Tahoe, with a view to | the setting aside of a Government for- | estry reserve in that section, to-day | filed a copy of his report with State | Surveyor Wright. Agent Allen’s report recites that he has made a careful ex- | amination of the Lake Tahoe region, and recommends that a forest reserva- tion_be made, to include townships 10 | | to 15 north, inclusive, ranges 14 to 18, east of Mount Diablo meridian. | The townships recommended for the | proposed forest reserve include and | | take in the headwaters of the Ameri- | | can River and its tributaries, the | | Cosumnes River and its tributaries and | the Upper Truckee River. The report | was filed to allow all parties interested | to submit their views by petition or | otherwise to the General Land Office. | i 2, | CONSTERNATION IN THE i STOCKTON COURTHOUSE. ‘Wficials Badly Scared by a Natural Gas Explosion, but Luckily No One Is Injured. STOCKTON, Dec. 23.—The city and county officials were badly scared this morning by the explosion of a natural- | gas stove in the County Clerk’s office, on the second floor of the courthouse, The gas had been burning, but owing to a momentary intermission in the flow the flame went out. The gas then continued to escape for some time, but as it is odorless it was not detected. R. C. Minor, the attorney, started to light the fire again, and when he applied a match near the stove a terrific explo- sion, which was heard all over town, occurred. The stove was blown to pieces, but fortunately no one was in- jured. | —_———— Brought Back From Arizona. FRESNO, Dec. 22.—Constable W. M. Spencer returned to Selma yesterday with William de Lashmutt, the ab- sconding marshal of that town, whom he brought back from Arizona. The prisoner was arraigned before Justice E. H. Tucker at once and his bail was fixed at $2000. De Lashmut was unable to give this amount and was ordered to the County Jail. | SCREAMS AND SHOTS HEARD Some Light on the Dark Riverside Murder Mystery. Story of Two Boys Residing Near the Scene of the Tragedy. Searching for a Stray Horse They Find Kour Men Battling in the Brush. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. RIVERSIDE, Dec. —Now that the body of the man found murdered in the river bottom, near this city, two weeks ago, has been buried some tangible clews begin to show up. The officers to-day received a report that two boys named O'Day, who reside near the scene of the tragedy, were searching for’ a horse near where the dead man was found, two days before the oc- currence. The boys say they saw four men in the brush, and after proceeding down the river bottom for some dis- tance they heard screams and shots fired. This frightened them so that they gave up the search for the lost animal and ran for home. Three of the four men seen passed them on a run. The boys give no reason for their failure to report their experience to the authorities, but ignorance and a fear of being implicated in the affair doubt- less kept their lips sealed. This story of the lads is corroborated by George Young, who lives near by. He says | that he was driving along the road, close by the river, just at night, a day or two previous to the discovery of the body, when there came running out of the bushes three men. One of them asked him for a ride, saying he wanted to catch the train to Los Angeles. Another clew was unearthed to-day, when. Mrs. Reinhuber, a laundress, notified the officers that a package of soiled clothes had been left at her place on the Friday or Thursday pre- vious to the finding of the body of the murdered man on the river bottom, and it had occurred to her that it might be a clew as to his identity. Mrs. Reinhuber describes the dead man exactly. The man left his name and address with the laundry, but it has been lost. She identifies the dead | man’s picture as being that of the man who visited her place. The clothes found on the dead man were exactly similar to those in the laundry bundle. The officers now have hope of soon identifying the dead man. How to Vote on the Charter. Read to-day's Star. Jas. H. Barry, editor. 5 cents a cop: ‘ e Apples From lone Condemned. LODI, Dec. 23.—Fruit Inspector Shidy condemned and destroyed a big load of apples here Tuesday. The fruit came from Ione and was badly infested with both the.San Jose scale | and the codlin moth. This is the sec- | ond lot he has confiscated in a few weeks. N AWFUL FA NEW TO-DAY. MCKENNA FIGURED AS PEACEMAKER One Round Fight Takes Place in the Justice De- partment. Now There 1s an Effort to Maintain Secrecy and Clerks Who Talk ‘Will Be Discharged. _— » Speciai Dispatch to The Call. . NEW YORK, Dec. —A Washing- ton special says: Fragmentary .de- tails of a carefully suppressed story indicate that Attorney-General Mec- Kenna was the unwilling referee of a one-round fist fight in the Depart- ment of Justice Tuesday last. It is said that the principals were a Re- publican Senator from the Pacific Slope and a prominent lawyer from | the East. As the lawyer entered the Attorney-General’s office the Senator was departing. The latter was in an ugly mood because he had failed to secure an appointment, while the for- mer was jubilant over one expected. “Hello, John,” said the attorney to the Senator, “you've been robbing the Christmas tree, I suppose?” “You go to — " re Senator, ‘“and let my The response of the a righthander on the jaw, which floored the Senator. Judge McKenna ran between the combatants and attorney im- plored them to save him and them- selves from scandal. All jarties agreed that secrecy was the only way out, and Judge MNcKenna notified the clerks who saw it that if one said anything about it he would summar. the | ily discharge the whole number in or- der to get the guilty man. Senator Wilson of Washington was said to be the Solon who dusted the Attorney-General's carpet with " his form, but it is claimed by his friends that he can establish a complete alibi. | The Attorney-General will not talk nor | permit his clerks to talk, yet i* has | leaked out that it really. was Wilson, and that his antagonist was John Richardson of Baltimore. | RECEPTION AT THE | VATICAN WELL ATTENDED. Many Catholic Dignitaries, Including Twenty- three Cardinais, Are Addressed by the Pope. ROME, Dec. 23.—The reception at the | Vatican to-day was largely attended | by Catholic dignitaries. Replying to | the greetings, the Pope deplored the conflict between the state and Holy See, | which impartial minds desired to end. | The majority of Italians, his Holiness | continued, were against it, and it was wrong to fight the will of the people, who understood that political unity did | not suffice to give them prosperit: | Therefore he desired the independence | of the papacy and the restoration of its | rights. Peaceful citizens should not be | confounded with the subversive fac- | tions whose aim was to set the cause |of Ttaly and the rights of the papacy in conflict. It has never been unworthy | and the state should make just repara- | tion. The Pope, who was in excellent health and splendid voice, blessed all | present, including twenty-three Car- dinals. = Afterward every guest passed | the throne of the Pope and his Holiness | said a few words to each of them. S mdil Death of Explorer Joest. BERLIN, Dec. 23.—The National Zei- tung to-day announced that Wilhelm Joest, the explorer, died r Australi 2V Some foolish boy dropped a banana peel on our sidewalk yesterday—that was the cause—the picture represents the effect. We have now but a few days to stocktaking—our prices take an awful fall—another case of cause and effect. Our salesmen were taxed to their utmost yesterday to serve the eager and pleased crowd which thronged our store To the ladies who wish their taste to aid their husbands’ we say: COME EARLY, especially as and besieged our counters. to-morrow is XMAS DAY. All those dressy Suits in Tweeds, Cheviots, Worsteds and Cassimeres, in browns, grays, fancy mixtures and blacks, the latest New York styles, single and double breasted sacks. Worth $10.00 and $12.50—taken afall to. . .. ......... $7.50 Too near stocktaking time to keep them. Good-by, Decem- ber stock; welcome January. Dressy, swell goods, made by white labor. they wear, and for one year we keep them in repair FREE. - Money back gladly if dissatisfied; we have built our business up on these terms. LADIES, DON'T FORGET! We have an extremely choice assortment of Mufflers, in Hands—Hats, Gloves, Collars and Cuffs. We know how We thank out patrons for their favor in 1897—our stores show you a merry Xmas and a prosperous ’O8. e PP P P VU IR S VS S =an A Ties—in Puifs, Imperials, Four- our success. We wish S. N. WOOD & CO COLUMBIAN WCOLEN MILLS 718 & 722 MARKET ST POWELL & EDDV