The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1897, Page 1

) \-()L['\[L LXXXIII.—NO. 28. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1897. T PRICE FIVE CENT RUSSIA WILL HELP CHINA TO THE CZAR'S ADVANTAGE AGAINST THE ROBBER POWERS HARBOR OF WEI-HAI-WEI. RUSSIA TAKES ANOTHER PORT. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27.—The Russians have oc- cupied Kin Chau, north of Port Arthur. ODESSA, Dec. 27.—It is reported that two first-class cruisers, with a large num- ber of extra marines, -have been ordered to join the Rus- sian squadron in Chinese waters, QOOCCBOOTOO0TO0OOOOOOO0 Eorrw—" | % % NEW YORK, Dec. —The Herald’s "ashington correspondent sends the 1. According to official ad- vices received at the Japanese legation, the report of the occupation of Port Ar- thur by Russia is untrue. I was in- formed by an attache of the legation | to-day that information received to- day from Tokio is to the effect that the Russian squadron now at Port Arthur Is there in accordance with the terms of a secret treaty in force between Chi- na and Russia, which permits the lat- ter to station its ships in Chinese waters during the winter. “It is, of cou impossible for Rus- sia to keep her ships at Vladivostok during the cold season;” said the at- tache, “because they would be frozen in the greater portion of the year. I have no doubt that in the spring the Russian fleet will take .its departure from its pr anchorage.” This agrees with what the Chinese Minister said to me several weeks ago. It is admitted in diplomatic circles that if there should be a general partition- ing of China within the next few months Rus! son of the pres- ent location « val force, would be in a highly advanta sitfon and could without troubl sion of a large slice of territory in a :ction which her interests particularly ire her to either keep neutral or hold in her own right. Nothihg is known at the Japanese le- gation of the reported entente between Great Br d Russia, and it is said Japan is on good terms with Great Britain and France and Germany. It is believed, however, that Japan and Great Britain understand each other, just as the German move is understood by European governments. Significance is placed upon the visit of Prince Hen- ry of Battenberg to Queen Victoria, with a letter from his brother, the Em- peror William, and the placidity with which Lord Salisbury views the situa- tion is regarded as evidence that there is no present danger of a general grab for Chinese territory. An official of the Chinese legation speaking of the situation said to-day: “If the European powers, Germany, England and France, undertake to par- tition China or to colonize the Eastern portion, Chjna and Russia will stand shoulder to shoulder and prevent it. Russia has no reason to desire a parti- tion. The Czar has already obtained ailroad and other concessions which make him potent in Northern China, the part of the Celestial Kingdom he s been credited with coveting. Now it goes without saying that should the Czar annex forcibly or oth- erwise that part of China, he could not object to his European neighbors also taking possession of Chinese territory. I believe the Czar will, at the proper time, give Germany notice to evacuate Kiao Chou, and, secure in his own con- cessions, peaceably attained, try to re- main the only dominant European fac- tor in China.” B ! SENATOR MORGAN TALKS OF AMERICAN POICY ‘ IN THE FAR EAST. No Part of the Scheme of This Government to Make Acquisitions of Terri- tory in Asia. WASHINGTON, - D. C., Dec. 27.—A patch was received at the Navy De- rtment to-day saying that the Ra- leigh left Port Said yesterday for Aden and that the gunboat Machias sailed from Colombo, Ceylon, for New York. The two vessels are to meet at Aden and exchange some officers and men, and then the Raleigh will proceed to China. Senator Morgan of Alabama, a member of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee, to-day gave The Call corre- spondent an interview concerning the significance of the attitude of Euro- pean powers toward Chinese territory, and the importance to this Govern- ment of the steps they appear to be about taking. This subject in- volved the policy of the United States in regard to the acquisition of foreign territory. Senator Morgan's view was that the action of European powers with relation to China was of . interest to this Government because of the effect upon the readjustment of the situation in China in restricting Ameri- can commerce. In his opinion the United States could have no concern in the controlling influences in China, the policy of this Government being averse to meddling in European and Asiatic countries that do not affect our treaty rights. “My view is that no sane American expects wé will ever establish any pos- sessions of the United States anywhere on the Eastern hemisphere,” said Sen- ator Morgan. “Our plan of the acqui- sition of territory—if we have any plan—excludes the idea of coloniza- tion and of conquest, unless a conquest might become a proper indemnity for a just and inevitable war. - Any terri- tory that we might ever acquire within the limit of the American geographical system will come to us through their adoption of our institutions, and will be accepted by us from some necessity that is so important we cannot avoid the results, “Our history in this respect is very clear. In the case of San Domingo, a treaty of annexation was rejected for no justifiable reasons except that we were not compelled by the necessities of the situation to acquire the islands. ‘We have rejected a similar overture for acquisition from Honduras, and for like reasons. We have declared that no other Eutropean nation should ac- quire the dominion of Cuba, but we | have retained our respect for the claims of Spain in the midst of temptations, perplexities and wrongs that would have forced almost any other nation to take Cuba in order to secure the peace and safety of our own people. If Cuba had been as near to England as it is to the United States, no one can doubt it would have been a part of the British Empire. Our-nearest approach to the policy of colonization was in Li- beria, to which we were driven in order to make a home for slaves captured by American ships when in transit across the ocean to America. That policy was founded on a necessity of our Govern- ment, and was justified by the highest motives of benevolence. Yet, having planted that colony, we have religious- ly abstained from any interference with its government, and have even refused to prevent the aggressions of other na- tions upon those people. It is there- fore clear both in the theory and prac- tice that the United States never has extended and never will extend its jurisdiction beyond the sphere of the | American geographical system. What- ever we may find it necessary to do, therefore, in respect to this new move- ment of European states to take pos- | session of the Asiatic cdast of the Pa- | cific Ocean, the idea of occupying any | portion of that country with our flag or extending the jurisdiction of the United States over it is simply absurd. ““The movement for the occupation of the eastern coast of China and.Korea, following the occupation by Great Britain and France of the southern coast of Asia, must have some great and emergent cause. That cause is not merely the acquisition of territory, for every nation concerned in this move- ment has already more territory than it can govern and take care of with proper regard to the welfare of the people. I can find no reasonable solu- tion of this problem except thdt 'the western states of Europe, including Russia, intend to interpose a barrier at the great commercial seaports between the United States and the Orient for the purpose of effectually intercepting the trade of the 600,000,000 people wha have access to the Pacific Ocean on the eastern hemisphere, sending it through European ports and preventing it from coming to us on direct lines across the Pacific Ocean.” Mr. Morgan further said the policy of LI HUNG CHANG IS AGAIN OUT. LONDON, Dec. 27.—The Daily Chronicle asserts that the negotiations with Ger- many on behalf of the Chi- nese Government are no longer being conducted by Li Hung Chang, but by Chang Yin Huan, who. rep- resented the Chinese Empe- ror at the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen. g the United States being not to interfere with the arrangements of KEuropean and Asiatic governments, this country had nothing to do in regard to the pending changes in China further than to see that treaty rights were not in- terfered with. He said he did not ap- prehend that any such direct interfer- ence would be made by this Govern- ment. He thought this Government had nothing to do but stand by and protect itself if occasion should arise. Lgags e HENRY OF PRUSSIA RECEIVED IN STATE BY ENLGISH OFFICERS. On His Way to China He Pays a Friendly Call at the English Fortress of Gibraltar. GIBRALTAR, Dec. 27.—The German warships Deutschland and Gefion, un- der the command of Prince Hemiy of Prussia, have arrived here on thelr way to China. Prince Henry, on landing, was re- ceived by a guard of honor of the Grenadiers. He immediately paid a vigit to Sir Robert Biddulpr, Governor of Gibraltar, with whom he dined. B A THE KING OF KOREA HAS NO LIKING FOR THE JAPANESE. A Ruler of Little Character Who Must Have Some One Stronger Than Him- self Upon Whom to Lean. The King of Korea is not a man of strong character. Russia has always some one handy to support the King whenever his Majesty feels the need of a helping friend. For some time the Americans were strong in the favor of the court of Korea, but of late years the Russians have carried every- thing to their own satisfaction. The Japanese are not regarded with favor in the King’'s palace at Seoul. The opinion is held by Koreans as individ- uals that the Japanese were in a meas- ure responsible for the murder of the Queen, if they were not actually con- cerned in the crime. No official ex- pression is given to this opinion, but the court gossip is to that effect. The Queen was a woman of character and influence, but she was strongly in sym- pathy with the Chinese. She sprang herself from an ancient and powerful Chinese family, and was regarded as hostile to Japan. In a contest between Russia and Japan on Korean soil the troops of the Czar wpuld have the sympathy and support of the native population. It is the judgment of men familiar with af- fairs in the Orient that Russia will not surrender at the bidding of England and Japan any foothold that she has gained on the peninsula of Korea or any port she has occupied on the Yel- low Sea. The work of extending an arm of the great trans-Siberian rail- way to open water near Port Arthur was begun with the consent of China, over whose territory the road passes. It is in the possibilities that the road may be extended on the peninsula to Chemulpo, the seaport of Seoul. The United States has an able repre- sentative at Seoul. The American Minister, Dr. Allen, has lived in Korea for twenty years. He was the court physician when General Lucius H. Foote of this city was the American Minister to Korea. Subsequently he served as secretary of the legation and THE 'RULER FIENDISH LYNCHING OF A MURDERER Joe Hopkins Burned to Death by His Captors. Suspended by the Heels and Oil-Saturated Fag- ots PutUnder Him. There is a Question Whether Death Was Caused by Fire or Strangulation. CRIMES OF THE NEGRO. Deliberately Killed Two Men at a Plantation Store in Order to Commit Robbery. Special Dispatch to The Call. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 27.—A tele- phone message from Glendora, Miss., e D S L R S T B ST R OF KOREA. received his appointment as Minister in the regular line of promotion. = INHABITANTS MASSACRED BY A BAND OF RAIDERS. Eight Hundred Christians Slaughtered in a Persian Town by a Blood-Thirsty Gang From Koordestan. CINCINNATI, Dec. 27.—Jacob Sar- gis of Ooramiah, Persia, now in this city giving talks on Persia and Ar- menia, has just received a letter from friends in his Persian home informing him that a band of raiders from Koor- destan had massacred all the inhabi- tants of a Persian Christian town, 800 souls, near Salmas, Persi SEREREERLRER R SRR R RRRRRRRRHE * * % % % NEWS OF THE DAY. * * * FER ; % % Weather forecast for San Fran- X * eisco: Increasing cloudiness on * Tuesday; light northerly, chang- % Ing to easterly, winds. i Maximum temperature for the * past 24 hours: San Francisco Portland . 60 deg Los Angeles . 82 deg. San Diego .. FIRST PAGE. Russia Will Help China. Negro Murderer Burned Allve. Suffering on Dawson Trail. Starvation in Cuba. SECOND PAGE. Pardon for Christmas Gitt. To Build a Big Raft. Mormons Still in Politics. Death of Ned Buckley. Row inSan Jose Council. Retired\Divine Dead. THIRD PAGE. Liltuokalani Against Annexation. Bids for Klondike Supplies. Burt President of the U. P. Civil Service Foes Divided. Hoff Twice a Murderer. Change of Venue for Flannelly. FOURTH PAGE. Mystery in Cuban Affairs. New Bills at the Theaters. Tracey and Wolcott Draw. FIFTH PAGE. Convention of Teachers. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Now for a New Charter. The Teachers' Convention. Our Mining Counties. A Lost Key. A Larger Navy Needed. The Woman and the Dogs. Personals and Queries. SEVENTH PAGE. Election of City Freeholders. EIGHTH PAGE. Commercial News. NINTH PAGE. Literary Ladies Entertain. Durrant Tries a New Dodge. News From Across the Bay. TENTH PAGE. Progress of the Golden Jubilee, Racing at Ingleside. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages, Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. Welburn's Friends Not Alarmed. % % % % * * * * * * * * * * * * * % * * % * * b * * & * * * s * * s * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * % * * * * * * % * * * * * * * IR RN RN RRRXRN RRRERRBRRERRRRRRERERLRRXRRRERERRXRRERRRRERRRRXX XXX RR Ea 222 L L 2 ’**ilfllfl*liiiifiiflfiimi{' says Joe Hopkins, a negro, was cap- tured by a mob this morning and lynched in horrible fashion for having murdered two plantation managers. The murders occurred yesterday about three miles from Glendora. Hopkins did the killing in order to rob his victims, John W. Luckie and Sam Eskridge. He entered a plantation- store and called Luckie into a rear room. Suddenly he knocked Luckie on the head with the butt end of a shot- gun, dashing out his brains. Then he re-entered the main part of the store and shot Eskridge. Hopkins’ booty amounted to only $40. Both Eskridge and Luckie were prominent in their section. As soon as the news of the double murder got out a posse of citizens was organized to pursue Hopkins, All night the man-hunt continued. This morning the fugitive was run down and hurried to the scene of the crime. First a pile of faggots and dry kindling wood was procured. Then Hopkins was tied to a tree, head downward, the sus- pending rope being fastened to his heels. Faggots were saturated with oil and then fired. Hopkins was burned | to death. It was claimed by some that | strangulation occurred before the flames reached the murderer, but other accounts of the lynching show that Hopkins had scarcely been suspended before the pile of wood was lighted. —_— JAPAN WILL PROSECUTE THE MURDERER OF EPPS. This Will* Close the Incident Unless the Apprentice’s Mother Puts in a Claim for Indemnity. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The ‘Washing- ton correspondent of the Herald tele- graphs: Japan has taken measures to comply with the demand of the United States thatthemurdererof Frank Epps, an apprentice attached to the cruiser Olympia, be punished for his crime. A cablegram received at the Navy De- partment from Rear Admiral McNair, commander in chief of the Asiatic sta- tion, states that the murderer of Epps has been lodged in jail in Nagasaki, and will be prosecuted in accordance with Japanese criminal procedure. Minister Buck has been instructed to watch the proceedings to see that there shall be no miscarriage of jus- tice. I obtained. to-day this official statement concerning the Epps murder, prepared- from the cable advices sent by Rear Admiral McNair: “Epps was granted liberty from the Olympia and went ashore at Nagasaki, where he remained some hours. At a quarter past 8 P. M. he toock a sampan to return to the Olympia. The water was smooth and the moon was bright. As the boat was passing a British merchantman cries for help were heard, and three men on board the British ship saw a Japanese strike the American on the head and throw him overboard. The British vessel pur- sued the sampan, but being slow failed to overtake the fugitive. The body of the apprentice was recovered three days later. The department has since learned that the murderer has been arrested.” The action of the Japanese in prose- cuting the murderer will end the inci- ldem.. unless Epps’ mother should sub- mit a claim for indemnity. 1 November 13, reached Skaguay before MANY MEN FROZEN 1N ON THE TRAILS Forty-Three Parties on the Way Are Ice-Bound. The Returning Klondikers Had to Beg Food at Different Camps. Rafts of Beef Carried Past Dawson by the Floating Ice on the Yukon. TWO DARING ROBBERIES. Latest Advices From The Land of Gold Show That the Situation Is Very Alarming. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 27.—The steamer Tees, which arrived to-night from Skaguay, brought down five Klondikers, Richard Shaw of Victoria, who left Dawson on November 16, three other Victorians and T. Han- | bury of Seattle, wha started on their tramp on October 27. The party leav- ing on the latter date ran out of pro- visions at Fort Selkirk and had to beg their way along, getting food at differ- ent camps; or when it was not to be had, living on anything they could shoot. Shaw came out by dog train, leaving Dawson after the ice formed. He passed fifty-one men along the river bound outward. They were all com- ing along with just enough food to last them. At Stewart River forty- three outfits bound for Dawson were frozen in. Two_ of the three rafts of beef which were on the bars just above Dawson were carried down the river right past the town on the floating ice. On the night of November 15 Jim Cary’s saloon at Dawson was robbed of $20,000. Ed Lord, the bartender, and two other men were arrested. At Fort Selkirk a man named Keeler was R R e R L s et robbed of $8000. Ed Jackson was ar- | rested on suspicion. A report reached Dawson of a rich | strike made on Hunker Creek. The | dirt went $3 to the pan, and there was | five feet of gravel. Dominion Creek is also turning out well. Americans complain bitterly of having to pay duty on their outfits at Tagish Lake. J. W. McKay, who left Dawson on the steamer Tees left. It is stated he brought out $75,000 In dust. Shaw says none of the men on the trails will get down until the ice goes out in the spring. Just before he left claim own- ers reduced wages from $15 to $10 per day, and the men were threatening to g0 on strike. RAISIN MEN MAY FORM A COMBINE An Effort Being Made to Con- trol the Seeded In- dustry. There Is Some Opposition to the Scheme, and Improved Machinery Will Likely Defeat It. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The Journal of Commerce to-morrow will say: The latest development in the seeded rafsin industry is an effort to form a combin- ation. It was learned on good author- ity that a well-known and influential Pacific Coast raisin-grower and packer, who has been in New York for a week past, is here for the declared purpose of forming, in connection with several prominent capitalists, a seeded raisin combination, amounting to a complete amalgamation of all the seeding inter- ests here and on the coast in one com- pany. By some of the people in the trade a decided opposition to the scheme was expressed, while others claimed that they knew nothing about it, but were of the opinion that the amalgamation of the large and growing interests as proposed was out of the question. Op- ponents of the plan held that it would raise instead of lower prices, as an open market, with improvements in machinery and the multiplying of pro- cesses, promises to do. It was reported to-day that a number of prominent merchants in this city, anticipating the organizing of a combination of capital- ists and seeders to control the business, have secured the option on a new ma- chine, which, it is believed, will do the seeding as effectively as the seeders controlled or sought to be controlled by parties to the proposed combination. If the new machine fulfills expectations, it is held that it will be impossible for the projectors of the combination to succeed in getting control of the busi- ness. el L s Death of a Naval Veteran. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.—Captain Horace T. Draper died to-day of paral- ysis at his home in Landsdowne, a suburb of this city, aged 83 years. Cap- tain Draper was born July 4, 1814, at Brookfield. At an early age he entered the merchant marine, and he also serv- ed in the navy during the war. COLONIAL CABINET FOR CUBA CHOSEN Men Who Will Try to Inaugurate Au- tonomy. Jose Maria Calvez Is the President of the New Counecil. Heartrending Distress Prevails Among Many Thou- sands. STARVATION NOT STAYED So the Administration Is Greatly Con- cerned in the Alleviation of the Suffering. Special Dispatch to The Call. | z [ SRS AR S AR AR RA SRR Ra S SRR s R e S S S e S S S S R s s HAVANA, Dec. 27.—It is as- serted that the following have been accepted by Governor- General Blanco as members of the first Colonial Cabinet under the regime of autonomy: President of the Cabinet—Jose Maria Galvez. Minister of Finance—Senor Rafael Montoro, Marquis of Montoro. Minister of the Interior—Senor Antonio Govin. Minister of Education—Senor Francisco Zayas. Minister of Commerce—Senor Aruro Amblard. Minister of Posts and Tele- graphs—Senor Rafael Fernan- dez Castro. It is understood that they will take the oath at the palace on Saturday next, after attending the celebration of mass. The under secretaries will then be nominated, together with the chief subordinates of the per- manent staff. | i WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The most profound distress prevails among many thousands of peo- ple in Cuba. Starvation not only impends, but is an actual fact. The President has been informed of the condition of af- fairs from sources whose cred- ibility cannot be doubted. He has gone to the length of his constitutional power in calling the state of affairs to the atten- tion of the American people. The State Department has used all of its authority to mitigate the conditions there, and the letter to the public sent out by Secretary Sherman the day be- fore Christmas pointed out the way to further alleviate the miserable conditions of the con- centrados. To-day the sum of $5000 was re- ceived by Assistant Secretary Day from certain charitably disposed per- sons, whose names are not disclosed, and this sum will be remitted by tele~ g;-aph early to-morrow morning to Consul-General Lee for disbursement among the more pressing cases. It is hoped by the Department of State that the American people will come to the relief, and promptly, by subscriptions of money, clothing and supplies of various kinds. The newspapers arq expected to lend a generous aid im carrying forward this movement. The machinery for distribution has been provided by the State Depart= ment, and Consul-General Lee has un- dertaken, with the aid of the American Consuls in Cuba, to give personal at- tention to the alleviation of distress by the distribution of gifts of the Ameri- can people. One line of steamers ply- ing between New York and Havana bas undertaken to forward any contri« butions of goods to General Lee at Havana, and it is believed American railroads will do their part by carry- ing the goods to the seaboard. The Spanish authorities have consented to remit all duties on relief supplies so forwarded. The State Department di- rects that they be sent to Consul-Gen- eral Lee either money by draft or check or goods. Consul-General Lee to-night cabled the State Department just what is wanted at this juncture, and his list is as follows: Summer clothing (second hand or otherwise), both for women and chil- dren; medicines for fevers, including a largé proportion of quinine; hard bread, cornmeal, bacon, rice, lard, po- tatoes, beans, peas, salt fish, codfish, any canned goods and condensed milk for the starving children. Money will also be useful to secure nurses and medicines and for many other necessi- ties. e e AMERICA’S ATTITUDE CORRECT. Spanish Government Does Not Approve the Lurid Utterances of the Madrid Press. MADRID, Dec. 27.—According to an official announcement, the Government considers that the Spanish press at- taches too great importance to the ‘Woodford note. The Government, says the announcement, continues to regard America’s attitude as correct, despite