The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1898, Page 1

all SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1898. o RICE FIVE CEX DAWSON CITY PROBABLY SAVED FROM FAMINE BY THE EXODUS OF MINERS RIVERBANK AT KLONDIKE CITY. Showing How the Ice Has Formed About the Boats of the Adventurous Gold-Scckers. From a Photograph The latest arrivals in this city with news and and Dawson are Harry Dobson and J. D. Barnes, who are at the Palace Hotel. These rugged gentlemen—who very easily comport with the idea of t al miner on his return to civili- ation on business or pleasure or a | combination of the two were inter- | wed yesterday and they gave an account of their experi of beauteous yellow in and the condh)ons | mail direct from Skaguay | er of this out- | nes. “You get | 11 keep it up till | nt or I stop him. king for the two of us, t things straight started a you get He'll do t and if I'll call him down Dobson at he once evinced a dis- te his partne; ded to sup- = palpable evi- the and traveled ¢ > Yukon River— which was frozen, of course—and then over the many lakes—also frozen sol- | idly—in that region. Our journey was, as you may imagine, full of hardship and danger. We were frequently obliged to cut our path through the ice and snow. At night one of us was obliged to keep awake to keep the fire going, in order to prevent our freezing to death. “There would have been famine at Dawson with awful suffering if so many men had not got away down the river. There will be a shortage of food as it s, but with care all who are on the Klondike now will pull through. The pressure of mouths to feed has been lessened by the exodus “Sam Wall, The Call's correspondent at Dawson, is occupying our cabin and ] 0 @ looking out for our claims. San a thoroughbred, apd no mistake! Dur- ing the short time he has been there he has made hosts of friends by his gen- | ial, kindly nature and no end of ad- | mirers on the score of his daring voy- age up the river. Yes; Sam’s all right | —they swear by him up there. | “Mr. Wall's statements of the condi- tions existing throughout that country are invariably fair and reasonable. In this connection, I will say that when he was writing his last ‘story’—the one we brought through to Seattle—there was danger of starvation, but since then many have left for Skaguay and Circle City, and the danger is now reasonably over. Joaquin Miller left for Circle City with the rest of the crowd as soon as the ghost of hunger commenced to make its gloomy threats. He started off at the head of a procession consist- ing of himself, a couple of dogs and a sled, bravely trying to keep up his part in a whistling duet with old Boreas, interspersed with pathetic snatches from ‘Home, Sweet Home.’ “Dawson is the most peaceful mining camp ever known. Only two men have . been killed this season, and they in- vited death in an attempt to rob caches. The mounted police have nc difficulty hand, Sam W. Wall. no one can complain of the | treatment received from the represen- | tatives of law and order. “Sickness has been unknown this | | winter. In fact, we are beginning to } think of booming Dawson as a health | resort. The air is very invigorating, | and everybody seems full of life and animal spirits.” | Asked as to the chances prospe: Dobson encouraging. best cl of mnew ctors in Alaska next spring, Mr. | replied that they were very He stated that all the laims had been taken up, but | that there was no doubt of many more discov eries being made in the near future. “The country is full of gold,” he de- S000000000000000000000 Tu Cri Sh Sul X1 Loy Thy Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: southeasterly wind. Maximum temperature for the past Tw San Francisco. Portland .. L San Diego. Dawson City as it Is. Weyler Is Acting Strangely. England’s Hand in ‘China. Sanger Postoffice Blocked. Land Mayor of Sacramento. State Board of Education. ‘Worden Must Hang. Hanna Ecores a Defeat. ‘Warehouses on Fire. Stowaways in an Ice-room. Crocks in the Tanks. Laborers Score Fitzgerald. Society at “‘Columbia. ‘The Bulletin in Hot Water. At the City Theaters. SIGHTH PAGE. A Los Angeles Lothario. Volunteers Love and Wed, Racing at Ingleside. Trouble for Officer Harrison. NEWS OF THE DAY. Cloudy and probably rain on esday; northeasterly, changing to enty-four hou degrees. degrees. 66 degrees. 62 degrees. o8 Angeles. FIRST PAGE. SECOND PAGE. . it Robinson Married. THIRD PAGE. ips of War for Esquimalt. bsidies for Ocean Liners. lied by a Collapsing Floor. FOURTH PAGE. s Angeles School Scandal. FIFTH PAGE. e Harry Morse Overdue. SIXTH PAGE. tuguese in Hawall. e Dutiful Servant's Reward. son for Wage Earners. vil Service Debate. norant Boodler, nd for Olives. ganizing the Personnel of tha SEVENTH PAGE. NINTH PAGE. Robbers Use a Blackjack. MoKinley and the Jubilee, TENTH PAGE. Commercial News. ELEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. Dow Tragedy Unsolved. TWELFTH PAGE. Police Put on Pensions. Rowling School Directors. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Crusade Against Curbstone Brokers. Durrant's Hope Dying. COOCCO000000000000000000CT0TCO0000COC00000CO0000000000000000C00C00V0TOOTOD! 00CCCCCCO0CCOCO0000000COCOCO00000CCCO00000COTOCO00O0000000000000000000000C — Taken for The Call by WEYLER'S PECULIAR BEHAVIOR Government Is Defied to Take Action Against Him. As He Is a Senator a Spe- cial Vote Is Necessary to Prosecute. i Shuffling of the Ex-Cuban Butcher to Straighten Out His Utterances. NOW HAS SMALL SUPPORT. Only Three Spanish Generals Are in Sympathy With the Blustering Soldier-Statesman. Special Dispatch to The Call. MADRID, Jan. 3.—General Weyler | has defied the Government to take pro- ceedings against him. As he is a Sena- | tor, a special vote is necessary to de- prive him of immunity from prosecu- tion, and the Cabinet is embarrassed, as the army appears to side with Wey- ler in his attacks on the subject. General Weyler’'s behavior, which is | classed here as “shuffling,” in apolo- gizing to the Queen Regent and hastily explaining to the Premier, Senor Sa- gasta, that he was not responsible for | the publication of his protest, has alienated many of his supporters among the Carlists, who hoped to en- tangle the General in the revolutionary meshes. They are especially disap- pointed at the fact that the Govern- | ment appears to be satisfied that the so-called Weyler bubble has burst, and that the Spanish army is not gan- grened. It is said that only three of the Span- ish Generals are in sympathy with General Weyler. The Government will send 5000 troops to Cuba at the end of January and further troops up to 14,- sary. COUNT ESTERHAZY TO0 BE TRIED BY COURT-MARTIAL. PARIS, Jan. 3.—General Saussier, the military governor of Paris, has de- cided to try Major Count Esterhazy by court-martial behind closed doors on | January 10. FRONT STREET, DAWSON CITY." From a Photograph Taken for The Call by Sam W. W clared, with the familiar emphasis of his manner of man on this sort of theme, “and the near,future will see many millionaires as Alaska’s ‘natural product.” “There is no doubt,” continued Mr. Dobson, “that a great many men will g0 to the mines who have no business to go there, nor anywhere else outside the confines of civilization. Some of them are men who are physically un- able to bear the rigors of the climate, and others are men whose moral na- ture will make it hard for them to thrive in that climate. It's the un- healthiest place on earth for crooks. Some way or other, they can't stand the climate—they are of riecessity short lived in that section. “Then, again, doubtless a great many men will go poorly equipped with provisions, clothing and many other necessities, and they will surely suffer. All that go to that country should take in at least a year's pro- visions and a full complement of the various articles absolutely indispens- able to a miner’'s life in that region. Those who make the pilgrimage in the future will have a very great ad- vantage in being able easily to ascer- tain just what is needed—thus bene- fiting from the hard experience of the in maintaining order, and, on the other 10000000000000090000000 ploneers in Alaskan mining.” Messrs. next two months and to depart their Dawson home early they are the acknowledged pioneers. - PICKED NUGGETS FROM THE BED OF A CREEK IN THE KLONDIKE LAND. Tale of a Golden Y;;un Trove Which Is Given Upon the Word of a Cape Fox Indian. TACOMA, Jan. 3.—Gold in guantities beyond the fancy of the most frantic Klondiké adventurer is reported among Alaska Indians, according to L. T. ‘Watson, a member of the Saxman In- dian Council, instituted by the Govern- ment to civilize the Cape Fox tribe, on the Alaska coast. Mr. Watson and an- other white man are the only members of the Saxman Council who are not In- dians, and the influence Watson has gained among the tribesmen gives him confidence of all the Indians. “Last fall, while the Indians were all engaged in packing for miners Klon- Continued. on Second Page. Dobson and Barnes expect to remain in this warmer zone for the for in March. They will return over the same route by which they came, and of which Count Esterhazy is the French offi- cer on the retired list who, at the time of the Dreyfus agitation, was brought into prominence by the publication in the Figaro of a number of letters, of which he has admitted the authorship, reflecting most severely upon the French army and upon France. It has also been alleged that Count Esterhazy was the author of an anony- mous note which played a prominent part in the court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus, the former captain of French artillery sentenced to imprisonment for life after having been convicted of sell- ing important military plans to agents of a foreign power. S S AUTHENTIC NEWS OF THE 'lflc‘lllflfl EXPEDITION. PA_RIS Jan, &—Authentlc news of the Marchand expedition as late as September 18 has been received. At that date it had arrived at Rafai, in the Tambura district, and was pro- ceeding to occupy Rumbeka, in the Bongo district, in the territory of Bahr-el-Ghael. This disposes of the rumors of the massacre of the expedi- tion in that section last August. All were well at the time and fortnightly mail service was working regularly be- tween Tambura and Banghi, on the Ubangi River, to the west. 000 will be sent to that island if neces- | MAY men Th MANCHESTER, Jan. 3.— The Manchester Guardian to-day says: The Govern- ment has categorically stated that Great Britain wiil re- fuse to recognize any special rights granted at any Chi- nese port to any particular power. Any port opened to one power must be opened to all or open to none. If Rus- sia has been granted the right to winter ships at Port Arthur, Great Britain wil] enforce her rights to the same privileges and her ships will winter there whether China concedes or does not concede the right. G900 0040 0400000000000 00000000000 5 | § | i D e aaaasa s o LONDON, Jan. 4—The Shanghai cor- respondent of the Daily Mail says: “The Russians tricked China into con- senting to an occupation of Port Arthur | by representing that the British fleet | was coming to captire {£." They also | asked the Chinese to prohibit the Eng- lish from landing. The latter refused, but the Englishmen going ashore at| Port Arthur are shadowed by the Rus- sians.” There is considerable activity in the | defense department. Lord Wolseley, the commander-in-chief, came unex- | pectedly to London to-day from Brighton and spent several hours at | the War Office. HONGKONG, Jan. 3.—The British warship Powerful has arrived here. The Powerful is a first-class cruiser of over 14,000 tons displacement and 25,000 indicated horse-power, with an estimated speed of about twenty-two knots. She carries a crew of 840 men. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 3.—No- vosti publishes an article strongly urg- ing a Russo-Japanese alliance as the | best means of guaranteeing the mu- tual interests and the maintenance of the political equilibrium. It is reported this view is favored in Russian official circles, where it is felt | that such an alliance would contribute to avert such complications in the far East. PEKING, Jan. 3.—The Chinese au- | thorities spent three hours at the Ger- man legation yesterday discussing the | ENGLAND FIGHT THE CZAR British Ships Wherever Russian Are Anchored. Will Go Li Hung Chang’s Appeal to the Justice of the Western World Has Set States= inking. recall of the commandant of Tsao Chou, province of Shantung, who is charged with having used threatening language to a German missionary, and finally consented to summon him to Peking for explanation, also prom- ising that he should not return to Tsao Chou. LI HUNG CHANG ARQUSES THE WORLD IN CHINA'S BEHALF. The 0Id Diplomat’s Able PresentAtion of the Case of His Nation Gives Statesmen Food for Thought. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—A Washington special says: The strong presentation of China's case by Li Hung Chang through the columns of the Herald this morning attracted wide attention in official Washington to-day. No phase of this great international prob- lem yet presented through the medium of the newspapers has been read with deeper interest or has received more serious consideration than the appeal of the Chinese Minister of Foreign Af- fairs to the sense of justice of the Western World. It has been read and discussed by State Department offi- cials, the diplomatic corps and mem- ber of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Congress, and I understand will be the subject of discussion at the Cab- inet meeting to-morrow. “That is a very good presentation of China’s case,” said Secretary Sher- man to me to-night, when he had fin- ished reading the exclusive interview with Li Hung Chang published in the Herald this morning. “The fact that Germany has occupied Chinese terri- tory shows again the military weak- ness of the Peking Government, a weakness first made apparent in its recent war with Japan. I do not think there is any present danger of dis- memberment of China by the Euro- | pean powers. While we have no im- portant official information regarding its occupation of Kiaochau we under- stand that all Germany proposes to do is to establish a commercial post at that port. She has large interests in | China and has desired a port at which they can receive protection. The es- tablishment of a commercial post at Kiaochau will be advantageous to the commerce of the United States, just as the possession of Hongkong by Great Britain is beneficial to our shipping. It opens up a new point for the recep- tion and distribution of American goods where Americans may obtain protection. “We have been given to understand by the Russian Government that the SAM W. W riting in His Cabin at Dawson. WALL