The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1897, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1897. not need renewing, and is just as good as when put on four months ago. She is said to have been followed as far as this port by the cruiser Montgomery. Telegraphic orders were sent for her through Mobile last night, and the Col- lector was notified to be on the lookout FLEE FROM DAWSON AND for fillbusters. United States Marshal Simmons l went on board the tug to-day and had the boat searched, but nothing was Rt found on board. Brazzell, who is with Continued from First Page. s there is no intention of and that she is merely r repairs. The cutter Seward d down the river this afte' noon ne to anchor just opposite the from the marine ways, and lies there with steam up and keeping an on the Smith. Persons from the er bay report that the crulser Mont- | gomery has been off the bar for the past twenty-four hours. - NG BIG DEMAND FOR INDEMRITY YET HADE. here fo dropy large number of men en route to tide water. Most of these men who were leaving the land of pebbly gold expect to return In the spring. They realize the suffering and probable starvation that a large proportion of the miners will be subjected to unless aid is =ent them, and as a consequence prefer to coma to a land of plenty. The miners who reached here to-day are unanimous In the expressed opinion that already there is a short- age of provisions in the Kiondike dis- trict. Some of them predict actual starvation unless food is sent in, while | others believe that by going on short | rations and dividing up ‘the food | | very few if anv deaths will result. | | exit eve The State Department Does Mot Know Any- thing About the Alleged Claim for $8,000,000. Dec. 26.—Secretary, rman was seen to-night cabled from Madrid | t the United States of Spain $%,000,000 i American traders for dam- hrough the rebellion ry stated that 2d been made he Between Pelly River .and Dyea, the party passed hundreds of camps where snow and ice-bound Klondikers have | camped for the winter. These in many cases were tolerably well sup- plied with provisions, and by paying $2 per pound, it was possible for them | to procure flour and other necessaries. | 4In speaking of this, it was said by all | that the mounted police were kind and | t Secretary of 1s 1 know there | obliging to those who were in need of in the story. | help. : trempted to foot vi s that have even on that suppos t attempt to say their rect.” egation it was said 4 been received he legation had of the filing but it was any claim in From Five Fingers, the Yukon is a | frozen mass of ice bowlders running as | high as twelve feet, blocking the can- von from wall to wall and mnkmg' traveling difficult and very slow. Thln; will have to be cut through by the Gov- ernment relief expedition that pro- poses to reach Dawson from the coast. Frank Ballaine states that an exo- dus of between 800 and 1000 men from | Dawson to Fort Yukon and to points | | on the coast has somewhs »ved the | situation at Dawson. Mawny of these | men had sold out a portion of their | supplies of provisions to others in the | camp who were not so well supplied. | | Of course the reduction of the popu- | | lation by so much as 800 would tend to | reduce the amournt of food consumed | WILL SOUND THE CUBAN COMHANDER-IN-CHIEF. | Valuable Information May Be Received From the Insurgents by Consular Agent Madrigal. NEW YORK, Dec. 26—A Washing- |, " 1po camp and make that which was ton special to the Herald says: Valu- | 1%t camb anq maxg ihet whow Fas formation as to the strength and |y, ) gy 4y Mr. Ballaine's opinion, fon of the insurgents will prob-| ) o;0 i) be many miners who will be | be obtained by the authorities without food and-others who will be| forced to subsist cn short rations be- | | fore the supply boats reach Dawson in | | the summer. | Mr. Ballaine says: “After the freeze a i in October the river cpened again and Thespondent who was killed | there were two weeks in which it 1 are in the hands of Gen- | seemed certain that some of the steam- | The opportunity for | ers would get into Dawson from Fort ation which will be Rafael Madrigal, United ular Agent in Sancti 8pir- Mr. Madrigal’s mis- ge the affairs of the| b; of the Cuban Yukon. The trading companies sald | e O p e o7 | that bevond doubt food would be | i condition, will be a | Prough up before the final freeze. The | it is belleved that | river rose considerably, so that fit| ports will contain in- | seemed possible for the steamers to | egard to these varlous| cross the bars, but they never came. p reason to believe | Negrly all travel is now stopped on the | and President | rantage of the pres- river, except on the part of the Cana- | ar representative of | dian police, who are taking in supplies | to lay before the | for the relief of Major Walsh and party | ts which they at Big Salmon. We met the relief ex- pedition with about forty horses at e Lake Linderman. They were making and ;\mflrll'nn officials. T'n- good progress and had over twenty | ing, as he does, the reforms tons of provisions. There are hundreds Spain has adopted for Cuba, Mr. Mad- of men camped for the winter along | = cted to talk with General| the river from Fort Selkirk, a point 100 apd o them, and the dis- | 1jjeg from Dawson, up to the lakes. bans will adops. - | The people will help all who are short | e | of food as long as they can. The Cana- | dlan police are doing much for the able. meeting with the Cu- will be the first hela Blanco Gives a Banguet. HAVANA, T 28.—To-night Cap- | miners who are coming out. tain-Ganeral BI gave a banquet| ‘“The weather was extremely cold to the officers of the German corvette | COming out. We started with sleds and We the | Stein. Forty guests were present, in- | 126 pounds of grub to the man. uding ths Spanish Admiral, the | walked along the shore ice until Mayor of Havana and other naval and | river froze over and blocked on No- civil authe m;.sW‘”, = ot vember 17. Then we discarded our and- h‘::rr?e enry King of | 1o4s and putting our food in packs on | our backs started out. We made good 2\T Ty time after reaching the lower lakes, }‘\GL &\D where the ice was smooth. Climbing | 44 al FIRM STAND | N FAR EAST over the ice gorges was slow and very ! tiresome, however.” John Lindsay, a resident of Olympla, | who left this city August 9 last for | Dawson, via the Chilkoot Pass, be- lieves that -certain death stares hun- dreds of residents of the Klondlke square in the face. He asserts with | emphasis and with all the positiveness the he can command that statements | indicating that no danger threatens the tions in China. He announced that the | people of the Klondike camp are untrue Government intended to submit fresh |and told with a purpose to discourage taxation measures, the character- of | relief expeditions and the like so that which is known to have united the |those who do take In supplies will make three chief political parties in oppo- | fortunes for themselves. sition and to introduce 2 bill amending “It is my deliberate opinion,” sald the codes, civil and criminal. Lindsay this evening to The Call cor- respondent, “and that founded on CARNCTEREMALY nctfi?fl observation made in Dawson, COMPLACENT VERY LONG. | that unless food is taken into the Klon- dike district before the suppiy boats can get up the Yukon, actual starva- tion will reign there. I make this statement, not intending to needlessly alarm any one who has relatives at NEW YORK, Dec. 26—A Washing- | Dawson, but the simple truth of the ton special to the Herald says: Senator | matter is that there is not enough food Morgan of Alabama, of the Committee | o feed the people there this winter. on Forelen Relatlons, said to-night| «I peljeve that a rellef expedition that it would be impossible for the | such as is proposed by the War Depart- TUnited States to remain (‘Umnla(‘ent\ment can be gotten into Dawson in should Buropean nations undertake| e to relleve hundreds of men from | the dismemberment of China. i dire necessity. A hundred men, divid- Senator Morgan sald: “If the partl- | o3 into squads, ocould cut a trall tion involves the abrogation of treaties z 4 from First Pags. The United States May Be Compelled to | Interfere and Protect Its Rights | in China. | terms again with each Furopean na- | g quick passage from the lakes to Daw- ton separately in the territory to|gon Over the lakes it s good travel- Which its soverelgnty extended. There- | jng’ From the, Hootalinqua River to fore, unless the powers now ambitious | Dawson the, ice is piled up in great for territorial extension take into ac- | mggees, making it out of the question count the {mportance of American | to take even an empty sled along. But commercial relations with China 1t will | with a trail cut through dog teams be necessary for. this Government to ought to make the trip from the pass intervene in self-defense. to Dawson in twenty days.” “If the cession i8 absolute, then Dr. F. Bradley, & physician of American interests must be taken care | Roseburg, Or., found that he could not of through the treaties between Ameri- | practice his profession in Dawson ca and the countries to which the ab- | without first undergoing an examina- solute. cesslons are made respectively. | tion before the Medical Board of Brit- If the territory is glven up merely for | ish Columbie. He sold his outfit of 1200 a time, there will be a mixed responsi- | pounds of provisions at $1 25 a pound. bility, and it is a good time for inter- | He will return in the early spring with vention and the exercise of American | a stock of drugs and a big supply of diplomacy. The German occupation of provisions. Dr. Bradley says that as a part of China and the prospective oc- | yet the shortage of food 1s not dis- cupation of other parts by various Fu- | tressingly apparent, but it would be ropean powers is an effort tocompletea | later on unless large quantities are cordon of offense to American com-| taken in over the passes or brought mm;.» lr_x-:;n L‘Yladl‘r;tl)stc:lr:: to ]l\iar- from Fort Yukon. He states that there se] 'S O iverpool. e cord Leing stretched (o contract a gt R ek it ey ,000,f of people who Vi , = trade and intercourse with the Faeigs| “They Will prospect there this win- Ocean. There is a great deal in the | tek and when the ice breaks in the Chinese problem that vitally interests | SPring many of them will go on to Americans and which seems to demand | Dawson. During the first fifty miles immediate consideration from the | this side of Dawson, at Five Fingers, State Department and Congress.” we met from four to five parties every ST day, camped ealong the river bank. From the mouth of Big Salmon, where Finlaaina e, S, Tab AL | Major Walah is camped, o the lakes o. The genuine hes Ia B. Q. on each tablet. | it 18 almost a continuous settlement. A To Cure a Cold In One Day ‘ | sack of flour. Lake Bennett and at Lake Linderman there are good sized villages of Klon- dlkers walting till spring to go downto Dawson. “I left Dawson City October 27 with Pat O'Leary of Juneau, Robert Hughes of Los Angeles and Frank Brunndage of Roseburg. We walked on the shore fce till the river froze over at the mouth of the Pelly, 200 miles from the Klondike. Then we discarded our sleds and came out along the river bank as best we could, finding traveling hard until reaching Lake Tagish. We were well treated by the Canadian customs authorities on the way out. For miles the ice gorge makes fast traveling impossible. It is just like climbing over great bowiders. We ran short of food when we got to Big Salmon River and ob- tained a fresh supply from Major Walsh. The ordinary price for flour from the campers !s $2 per pound and for bacon $1.” Robert Gwynn says that though miners at Dawson expect soon to see actual want, he added: “They say they expect to have to pay from $3 50 to $5 per pound for flour if it can be brought from Circle City or Fort Yu- kon. They are told that the team- sters would charge at least $250 for freighting provisions over the f{ce from Fort Yukon and that they would have to pay from $1 to $2 50 per pound for it there. This would bring the cost of food from Fort Yukon up to the figure named. When I Dawson, November 2, I was told by the mounted police that 350 men were preparing to come out over the ice to Dyea. Many more were getting ready to go down the river over the ice to Fort Yukon. I have no doubt that miners will be coming out to the coast up the river nearly all winter.” - MISERY INCREASED BY THE EXTREME COLD. Aged Dr. Van Sants Offers a Gold Watch for a Sack of Fiour, but Fails to Get It. SKAGUAY, Alaska, Dec. 17 (via | Seattle Dec. 26).—Latest advices state that the people of Ddwson, believing that there were not ample food sup- plies at Fort Yukon, refused to go there, preferring to remsain in Daw- | son. Not more than 300 or 400 people took advantage of the transportation company’s offer to take the people to | Fort Yukon free of charge. When the miners at Dawson found that no more provisions would reach town by the river rqute they an- nounced that a meeting would be held to take steps for apportioning the pro- visions in the town. Those that had plenty, they said, must share with those who had none. Captain Con- stantine of the Northwest mounted police interfered and told the miners that no such thing would be per- mitted. The meeting was not held. The output of the mines will be greatly curtailed this winter because of the scarcity of food and light. Coal | oil sold for $45 a gallon and candles are as high as $150 per box of 100. Even.if men were able to work their claims they cannot get light to do so. These statements are borne out by | all returning Klondtkers, quite a num- | ber of whom have reached here the past week. As an instance of the scarcity of food in Dawson the case of Dr. Van Bants, formerly of Spokane, Wash., is related. Van Sants is an elderly man, and being without provisions or money, he offered a gold watch for a He could not get it, and he remarked to Lindsay, “God only knows how I am to keep body and soul together.” Phe weather about the Stewart and | | Big Balmon rivers has been bitterly cold, 70 deg. below being recorded at | Major Walsh's camp, twelve miles be- | low the Big Salmon River on Novem- ber 17. The Yukon River between Dawson and Fort Pelly froze completely over on November 10. The river is piled full of ice In great ridges as high as an ordinary house, and a roadway will have to be cut through It before dog or horse teams can operate upon it The outlook, therefore, for taking sup- | plies down to Dawson in the immedi- ate future is not good. Inspector of Mines McGregor left here a week ago with a number of dog teams and horses to make the at- tempt to reach Dawson with about | twenty tons of provisions, but nothing | has since been heard of him. g GREENHORNS FLEECED BY PSEUDO CUSTOMS OFFICERS Unsophisticated Gold-Hunters Operated Upon by a Crowd of Sharpers at Lake Linderman. SEATTLE, Dec. 26.—In a letter re- cetved to-day by The Call correspon- dent from J. A. Strong, a newspaper man at Skaguay, it is stated that cer- tain alleged Canadian customs officers have been operating upon the un- sophisticated at Lake Linderman un- der the guise of authority. It is re- ported that they have been collecting customs duties and issuing therefor a printed receipt, to which, however, no signature is attached. Mr. Strong adds: “It is needless to state that the only Canadian Customs House in this region is located at Tag- ish House, on Lake Tagish. where a force of officlals is stationed, and that those alleged customs officials who have been levying duties on tenderfeet are swindlers. Just what the extent of their operations have been is not known, but it is said quite a harvest has been reaped. “Collector of Customs Godson of the Tagish customs district has been in Skaguay this week. He states that few people are making thelr way down the lakes. He is strongly of opinion that mutual arrangements should be made whereby American purchased goods can be bonded through Cana- dian territory to Alaska points In the interfor and a like plan adopted for passing Canadian goods through from this point to the boundary line. “Bkaguay’s new council of seven or- ganized by electing Colonel H. E. Bat- tin president. It is sald that the coun- cil will take a hand in the regulation of lot jumpers who are beginning to get rather numerous, and that a strong attempt will be made to abate the lot Jjumping nuisance. This will probably meet with strenuous oppo- sition from the local lawyers, who are reaping & harvest upon the litigation which arises from lot jum-ing cases. “‘Another promising source of trouble which is found here is the influx of Japanese. Many of the little people, male and female, are coming in, and it is openly stated that ‘the Japs must g0 There is & strong feeling against them, and it is not unlikely that an left | | Dawson City with Government | strong, [ 11y | | | | anti-Japanese crusade will be begun. ‘Where 1t will end is another story. “Sam Wyckoff, whose parents reside in Healdsburg, Cal, but who was a resident of Tacoma previous to com- Ing here last August, died suddenly on Saturday evening from congestion of the brain. The remains will be taken to Tacoma for interment.” Among the passengers down on the steamer City of Topeka this afternoon was J. H. Hendrick of Juneau. He is the foreman of the Juneau Gold Min- ing Company, which has just stopped its 10-stamp mill for the winter, owing to lack of water. Mr. Hendrick brings the report that the big Knoll Mining Company has gone into the hands of a receiver. This company {8 composed of Boston capitalists and has been op- erating extensively about Juneau for eight or ten years past. Dissatisfac- tion in the management of the com- pany’s affairs has resulted in the court naming E. F. Cassell, a former Au- ditor, to act as recelver. There is a Men Who Held Com- 40-stamp mill at Berners Bay, a 20- % A stamp mill at Sheep Creek, and a 20- missions. stamp mill at Silver Bow Basin, as . well as varfous mining properties, which Mr. Cassell will have to look af- ter. Mr. Hendrick states that un- doubtedly the company will come out all right. At Berners Bay the newly discovered Kensington ledges of sixty feet show ore that mills $400 to the ton. This is near the surface, and if there is any great depth to it Mr. Hen- drick says it will be the richest quartz mine in Alaska. oAt SERVICES OF ASTORIA" REINDEER-DRIVERS DECLINED. Secretary of War Alger Telegraphs That He Had Already Made Arrangements to Secure Laplanders. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 28.—In reply to its telegram offering the services of 100 reindeer drivers from Astoria for the Klondike relliet expedition the Pro- gresslve Association received the fol- lowing from Secretary Alger: “Reindeer are being purchased and drivers employed in Lapland. I did| not suppose there were any to be had in thls country, therefore I fear it is too late to change. It is going to be the policy of the Government to send some of its military along as a guard. But on account of the expense of subsist- ing them shall send as few as possible. Many thanks.” To this the assoclation sent the fol- ONE YEAR'S CHANGES IN THE NAVY Number of Vacancies Have Been Created by Death. Resignation of Forty-Eight Rear Admiral Kirkland Now the Ranking Officer of Uncle Sam'’s Ocean Force. PROMOTIONS IN SIGHT. During the Twelve-Month Death Has Claimed Six Retired Rear Admirals. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Dec. 26. Many important changes of stations, promotions and retirement are shown to be issued soon after January 1. Forty-eight officers resigned their commissions during the year, forty- three of whom were naval cadets. The others include Lieutenant C. A. Stone, retired; Ensign S. R. Hurlbut, As- sistant Paymaster Willlam P. Braw- ley, Passed Assistant Surgeon F. G. Brathwalite and Chaplain M. M. Good- has determined to appoint the Rev. lowing: : “Hon. R. A. Alger, Secretary of War, | B- O. Sikes, a Methodist Episcopal Washington: clergyman of Pennsylvania, to fiil the “Our reindeer drivers are all Ameri- can citizens. Can you use a few? “ASTORIA PROGRESSIVE COM- MERCTAL ASSOCIATION, AL- BERT DUNBAR (President), E. J. SMITH (Secretary).” Further developments are awaited with interest by every Astorian. JACK DALTON'S ADVICE TO GENERAL MERRIAM. Belioves That Horses Would Be of More Value in Taking Supplies to Dawson | Than Reindeer. TACOMA, Wash.,, Dec. 26.—At Van- couver Barracks to-day Jack Dalton strongly advised General Merriam not to use reindeer in attempting to reach sup- plies. Horses, he says, are better | than reindeer, mules or dogs. With hardy horses the expedition could move forward rapidly and eas- As to routes, Dalton advises go- ing over Chilkoot and White passes and thence down the lakes and rivers. The ice forms the best footing obtain- able at this season. However, it does not furnish sustenance and retndeer could not, as some suppose, find suf- ficlent food under the snow and ice along the upper river. Dalton gays the trail known by his name is a summer trall. It has many low places where the snow drifts and is impracticable at this season as evi- denced by the fact that Cameron’s party which started In over the Dalton trail six weeks ago is now snowbound 110 miles inland. Dalton says there are a number of horses and cows at Dawson, but thinks they will all be eaten before spring. He feels sure there will be no starvation, but be- lieves miners will need food by the time it reaches them. After ending his conference at Vancouver Barracks, Mr. Dalton will vistt San Francisco, com- ing thence north to prepare for another trip to Alaska. RO PR A EXPECT TO DRIVE THE CATTLE OVER THE SNOW. Managers of the Humbert Yukon Supply Expedition Deny the Reported Failure of the Enterprise. PORT TOWNSEND, WASH., Dec. 26. —Colonel Smith and L. Watson, two of the managers of the Humbert Yukon Cattle and Suppply expedition for the Yukon are here today on a business trip, having just arrived from Pyramid Harbor. They deny the reports that their expedition will not get through this winter and assert that they are sure of making the trip as soon as the snow hardens so that sleds can be hauled over it with teams. The expe- dition consists of sixty men, six teams of dogs, eighty head of cattle-and 275 horses, with 300 tons of provisions. The backers are Boston capitalists and they are also surveying a raflroad route from Pyramid Harbor and Haines Mission to Dawson City and Fort Selkirk via the Dalton trall. The survey is completed to the summit of Chilcat Pass, a distance of thirty miles, and locations are all completed for wharves and necessary buildings at both the Mission and Pyramid Harbor. This expedition is headed for Fort Sel- kirk, where a trading post will be es- tablished. THREE CRACKERS FOR THEIR CHRISTMAS MEAL. Sad Condition of a Sacramento Family De- serted by Husband and Father. BSACRAMENTO, Dec. 26.—The Boclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren to-day investigated a case just called to its attention and found that several days ago James Gilman, a rail- road employe, had abandoned his family and left the city in compapy with the wife of a neighbor named James Ray- man. He left his wife and three chil- dren so absolutely destitute that their Christmas dfiuur consisted of three crackers. e had so long neglected them for the Rayman woman -that the | house was destitute of furniture except three old chairs. Yesterday wagonloads of turkeys and ot.h:lx; good minn t:m distributed among the poor, but the case of Mrs. ting Gilman and her children had not beer | Dad been designed as a fit (9008 reported. Mrs. Rayman also leaves | 8ion for the announcement that Miss three children, but their father is able | Xatherine Clemmons and the host of to support them. the evening were engaged to be mar- vacancy caused by Mr. Goodwin's resignation. Forty-two officers of the navy and four officers of the marine <orps were placed on the retired list during the year. Among them were Rear Ad- mirals J. G. Walker, F. M. Ramsay and_George Brown, and Commodores R. L. Pythian and R. R. Wallace. Thirty-nine officers of the navy and two in the marine corps died, among them being Rear Admirals J. L. Wor- den, 8. P. Lee, E. R. Colhoun, J. H. Russell, J. 8. Skerrett and R. W. Meade, ail on the retired list. There were two dismissals—Pay- master John Corwine and Naval Cadet R. F. Turner. The ranking officer of the navy, ac- cording to the forthcoming register, is Rear Admiral W. A. Kirkland, who commands the Mare Island Navy Yard. Commodore C. S. Norton heads the active list of commodores and will receive his promotion in February next, on the retirement of Rear Ad- miral T. O. Selfridge. Captain H. B. Portsmouth, N. H., is senlor captain. Nine commanders will be promoted to captains during the coming year. Commander T. F. Jewell is senlor com- mander. Flifteen officers who hold the rank of lieutenant in January will be placed on the lieutenant-commander’s list in the new register. There were twenty-two officers promoted from lieutenant, junior grade, to lieutenant, and twenty-four ensigns promoted to the next higher rank. Medical Director C. X. Kleburne is senior medical officer of the navy and W. K. Van Reypen surgeon-general. G. F. Winslow is senior medical In- spector, O. D. Norton ranking past as- sistant surgeon and R. K. Smith ranking assistant surgeon. C. H. Hl- dredge heads the list of pay directors. J. E. Tollfree is ranking pay inspector, A. W. Bacon ranking paymaster, H. R. Sullivan ranking past assistant paymaster and H. E. Biscoe ranking assistant paymaster. In the engineer corps Chief Engineer Philip Inch is the senior officer, R. T. Hall ranking past assistant engineer and W. H. Mec- Grann ranking assistant engineer. ‘W. O. Holway is still senior chaplain, Profesor William' Harkness senior pro- fessor of mathematics. Chief Naval Constructor Philip Hichborn the rank- ing naval constructor and P. C. Aser- son ranking officer of the éivil engineer corps. The new register will show that there are fourteen vacancies in the line, fourteen in the engineer corps, seven- teen in the medical corps and one among the professors of mathematics. It is considered likely that there will be enough vacancies on June 30 next for the graduates of. the naval acade- my. Secretary Long is making an ear- nest effort to secure more physicians for the medical corps, and has recom- mended to Congress that the age limit of admission be raised. OVER MOUNTAIRS SWAMPS OF ASIA MINOR. Hazardous Journey of Commissioner Hep- worth in Proceeding From Bitlis to Diarbekir. Copyright, 1507, by James Gordon Bennett. DIARBEKIR, Asia Minor, Dec. 26.— ‘We left Bitlis last Sunday morning and reached Diarbekir after six days’ jour- ney on horseback. This is the finest town we have yet visited.. Its build- ings are of old Arabian architecture. ‘We came straight across the country, and picked our way over mountains and swamps, struggling through blind- ing snowstorms and fording torrents— in fact, almost swimming them. Ex- cept for our extraordinary luck we might have been delayed for weeks. ‘We spent the nights in Kurdish, Ar- menian and Turcoman huts. The scen- ery is magnificent. The people are poor in condition, and will take twenty years to recover. We traveled by a route never before taken by Europeans, and heard reports of brigandage in the Kurdish country, but met with no trouble whatever. The region seems settled down. We start on Sunday on a ten days’' journey on horseback to reach the seacoast. G. H. HEPWORTH. —_— DEPENDS UPON THE CONSENT OF THE FAMILY. But the Engagement of Howard Gould and Miss Katherine Clemmons May Be Soon Announced. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—It was stated to-day that Howard Gould’s unique dinner at the Holland House last night AND in the Naval Register of 1898, which is | win. It is understood Secretary Long | Robeson, captain of the navy yard at | ried. But the announcement was not made; that is, it was not made for- mally In so many words, although there was not one of the guests Who did not thoroughly understand the situation. Still, the announcement was expected, and that it did not come oc- casioned surprise and a shade of dis- appointment. Howard Gould himself appeared to regret it, although he did not explain why he had changed his mind in this particular. No one cared to ask him, but the absence from the dinner of his elder brother, George, the head of the Gould family, was a thread that ran through every fabric of conjecture woven by his guests. The attitude of George Gould is recognized as having an important bearing on the love affairs of Howard Gould, because of the peculiar will of the late Jay Gould. The old financier, in apportioning his millions among his children, stipulated that nome of them should marry without the consent of the rest of the family on penalty of losing a half of his income. Hence it is | necessary for Howard Gould's brothers | and sisters to welcome Miss Clemmons | into the family if he wishes to continue to draw the income on the capital of ten millions. “She and Howard Gould thoroughly understand each other,” said one of the guests to-day, “‘and, although the announcerent of their engagement was not made at that time, it will be very soon, you can take my word."” e G STRIKE FEELING AT FALL RIVER ON THE WANE. Factory Operatives Adopt a New Plan to Be Submitted to the Manu- facturers. FALL RIVER, Mass.,, Dec. 26.—The strike feeling among the operatives to- | night is not as strong as it was last week. It is believed careful considera- tion of existing conditions has done much to change the sentiments. The conference committee of the operatives (in which are representatives of all the textile unions) held another meeting to-night, when the wage question dis- cussion was resumed. The meeting | adjourned, subject to the call of the | | committee's secretary. The only infor- | mation given out was that a new proposition to the manufaéturers was | proposed and the plan unanimously adopted. Its details were not divulged. A meanufacturer to-night volunteered the opinfon that the new proposition | might offer an acceptance of the cut- | down, provided the present schedule was restored when a margin of profit, | to be mutually agreed upon, shall war- rant such action. BEARS CAPTURE AN EXPRESS C4R Escape From Their Crate and Put the Messenger to Flight. Dine on a Shipment of Apples and Create Havoc Among the ‘Way-Bilis. Special Dispatch to The Call. MILWAUKER, Dec. 26.—When the | Chicago train on the St. Paul road | pulled into the Union Station at 1:45 | o’clock Express Messenger C. W. Robe of the United States Express Company | steppéd off the platform of the express | car and informed his superiors that two | big cinnamon bears were in full pos- | session of the car, and had for twenty- | five miles been conducting the affairs |of the express company in a high- | handed manner. The messenger said that at Western Union Junction he had been invited to vacate the car by the bears, and he had promptly complied, for fear that the bears might lose their temper and do him harm. Since that time, he sald, he had contented himself with standing on the platform listening to the bears while they made an inspection of the company’s books and everything in the car that pleased them. On Christmas eve the United States | Express Company at Leavenworth, Kans. received two large crates, each containing a full-grown cinnamon bear. The crates were made af hard wood and contained openings, whith were Barred with steel rods half an inch in diameter. The shipper was sending the animals to Ringling Bros.’ circus at Baraboo, Wis. All went well until Western Junc- tion was reached, when Messenger Robe was suddenly tapped on the shoulder. Robe was not aware of the presence of any other human being in the car and naturally was surprised. He looked around, suspecting to find some train men behind him, but when he saw 400 pounds of bear standing on its haunches and resting a front paw on him he began to hear angels sing- ing to welcome him. Messenger Robe understood that the bear wanted him to vacate and he promptly ran out of the door. ‘The car was full of Christmas freight, and the bear, failing to get out, began to make an Inspection. Among the packages were consignments of apples, and these the bear ate. The way bills were all on the desk, and these he de- voured for, his Christmas dinner. For twenty-five miles the train sped on as fast as the engineer could send it, and during that time the bear enjoyed his experience immensely. Then he tired of playing express messenger and went back into a corner and lay down for a nap. The bear was resting comfortably when the train pulled into the depot here. As the weather was extremely cold the messenger suffered greatly from exposure. As the blind baggage is be- tween the express car and the coaches and no stops were made, he had no re- course but to stand out in the wind without hat or coat. L PEARY'S SHIP TO SAIL SIX MONTHS HENCE. The Windward Will Start for the Arctic in the Latter Part of July. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—A dispatch to the World from Washington says: Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, the Arc- tic explorer, who returned from Eng- land on the St. Paul, immediately.upon his arrival in New York, took the train for Washington. Lieutenant Peary, when seen by a reporter to-night, was enthusiastic over his reception in Eng- land and the gift to him by Alfred C. Harmsworth, the wealthy Englishman, of the Windward, a fine ship, which the explorer will use in his trip to the Arctic regions next year. Mr. Harms- worth also furnished funds for the ex- pedition. Lieutenant Peary said that the Wind- ward would be sent to New York early in the spring and he would start north the latter part of July. Lieutenant Peary started for New York to-night to finish work on his narrative, which is in the publisher’s hands. | material. ONETRAGIC DEATH LEADS T0 ANOTHER Miss Wells Follows Miss Herbert to the Grave. Strangely Affected by the Suicide of the Ex-Sec- retary’s Daughter. Closes Christmas by Sending a Bullet Through Her Heart. DEED IS UNPREMEDITATED Like Miss Herbert, Miss Wells Had Been Confined to the House for Months. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ( Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Dec. 26. The recent tragic death of Miss Lella Herbert, the daughter of the ex- Secretary of the Navy, is given as the reason for the suicide which occurred to-day of Miss Annie Virginia Wells, an accomplished young society wo- man and daughter of Mr. Lewis S. Wells, a well-known attorney. The young woman shot herself through the heart with her brother’s revolver at the residence of her father, 1311 N street, N. w. Miss Wells had met Miss Herbert a number of times, and was'very much attached to her. She herself had been confined to the house for four months by illness, and this, combined with the shock caused by the death of her friend, brought on melancholia, which resulted In suicide. The deed was appareartly entirely un- premeditated and coming immediately after Christmas festivities in the house completely prostrated her aged mother, Miss Wells was 33 years of age and very beautiful. DEATH PROVES MERCIFUL TO A STRICKEN HUSBAND. Passes Away Without Learning That His Wife and Family Had Just Been Incinerated. LONDON, Dec. 26.—Mrs. Jarvis and her nine children, the youngest a baby, ‘were burned to death at 5 o’clock this morning in a four-room cottage occu- pled by the Jarvises and two families on Fife street, Bethnal Green, Lon- don. The family occupled the upper floor. By a strange coincidence M Jarvis, the woman’s husband, wh had been suffering from consumption died in the workhouse infirmary thiy afternoon without having heard of the disaster. Mrs. Jarvis earned a scant liveli- hood by making match boxes ard her rooms were filled with inflammable SCHOONER HARLEQUIN BECOMES A TOTAL LOSS. Goes to Pieces After Striking on a Reef Near One of the Bahama Islands. NASSAU, New Providence, Dec. The schooner Harlequin, which, previously reported, went ashore the reef near Rumcay, Bahamas, the 12th, became a total loss. The crew and materials were saved. The vessel was owned in New York. The British man-of-war Partridge went to her assistance and spent several hours in a vain effort to float her. The schooner was in ballast. ilegne w0 Colonel George Whitney Dead. ROYALSTON, MASS., Dec. 26.—Col- onel George Whitney, a prominent member of this town, died today after a month’s {llness. He was born here in 1817 and for fifteen years drove a stage coach between Royalston and Boston. The opening of the Fitchburg railroad put an end to the stage business and Colonel Whitney turned his attention to other pursuits. After some years engaged in the lumber and chair busi- ness he became Interested in the manu- facture of woolens and continued it until his death. 28. as on on NEW TO-DAY. LEADING CASH GROCERS. H0, FOR THE NEW YEAR! 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