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N The Call VOLUME LXXXIIL—NO. 386. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IS ENGLA ND BACKED BY AMERICA? Claims This Country’s Sup- port in Troubles in the Far East. Strong Pressure Bear Upon the Being Brought to Administration to Take Action Against Partitioning China. D R a e e e E LONDON, Jan. 5.—The Times, commenting editoria liy E + this morning upon the statement of the Cologne Gazette that | + since Thursday last negotiations have been proceeding in Lon- 4 | ¥ don for a Chinese lo upon the proposed security of the land : 3 tax and accession of territory, denies that England has any ¢ $ intention to demand territory or take the lead in the partition § < of China 5 € + It says: * gland’s policy, on the contrary, aims at main- + 3 taini he C se empire as a growing concern and a vast + 3 field for the extension of trade. In pursuing this policy we are 3 $ glad to note that England enjoys the powerful support of the : $+ United tes Government as well as the public sentiment of $ + that portion of the American people which is not swayed by + 3 blind nunc s 3 1 al considers that the Government would be justi- $ T in incurring *‘reasonable financial risks which might $ T 3 properly regarded as outside the scope of Govern- 56 ent action’ in order to combat measures restrictive of trade : ¢ which Russia and Germany are seeking to obtain from China T > in the shape of railway and mining monopolies and the like. + i R e e e e e e e R e S S S S NEW YORK, Jan. 4—The Herald's Wa ton correspondent sends the following: Strong pressure is being srought to bear upon the Administra- sion for some official declarations showing that the United States does not view with unconcern the move- ment of the powers in China, and that any occupation of the territory in vio- lation of the favored netion clause in our treaties will meet with an earnest protest from this country. It is the opinion of a num of Senators who have recently t d with the Presi- dent on the subject that the powers at present are playing their cards for Chi- nese commerce rather than for Chi- and that it is the duty tration to see that noth- nical to our interest in respect. Hung Chang’s appeal was. touched upon at the Cabinet to-day, and will come up again at the next meeting, when something definite m be de- ided upcn as to the attitude of the United States. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States, s that just as soon as China can raise the necessary funds she propc to commence the execution of a shipbullding programme which will place her navy in a better position than it was before the Japan- ese war. His Government now has five cruisers and torpedo-boats under con- struction in Germany. According to ad- vices received China contemplated the construction of six large battle-ships, twelve armored cruisers, twenty second and third-class crulsers, several 32- knot torpedo-destroyers and a number of torpedo-boats. It 1s understood at A the Navy Department that this pro- gramme cannot be piaced in effect for some time, as China s without suffi- cient money to pay for the ships. 1 talked to-day with Lieutenant- €ommander Jose G. Sobral, naval at- tache of the Spanish lezation, in regard to the Eastern situation. His views are based on observations he made while stationed in the East. He said: “Just as America was once divided among the European powers 8o will China and the rest of Asia be partitioned. In spite of the opposition of the yellow people, European -civilization will be spread over the Eastern continent.” e oot P MONEY IS WANTED BY CHINESE STATESMEN FROM THE ENGLISH. It Begins to Look as Though the Situation in the East Would Turn Upon the Com- mercial Pivot. LONDON, Jan. 4.—The News says it is reported in the city that the negotiations for a Chinese loan of £16,000,000, guaranteed by the British Government, are concluded. The Cologne Gazette on authority from *he best-informed quarters in Paris, announces to-day that since Thursday last important negotiations have been proceeding in London for a Chinese loan, the attempts made in Paris and St. Petersburg to arrange for it having failed. China has offered to contract for £16,000,000 in London, at the same time asking the good offices of the British Government. China, it appears, contemplates offer- ing as security the land tax, under the control of Englishmen, and agrees, fur- thermore, that an Englishman shall succeed Sir Robert Hart as director of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Cus- toms. In addition, Great Britain will insist upon a concession of territory, relative to which secrecy, according to the informant of the Cologne Gazette, must be temporarily observed. The Cologne Gazette adds that it is Evening | practically | understood Russia has renewed her TW0 YOUNG ROBBERS RAILD THE EXPRESS iI_.oot a Car Within the “ Limits of Kansas ‘ City. They Surprise and Soon | Overpower the Mes- senger. safe | | Break Open the Loecal and Carry Off the Contents. | |THEN LEAVE AT A SIDING. | | Nervousness of the Pair of Bandits Indicates That They Are Novices at the Business. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 4—After | about three months’ inactivity Kansas | City’s train robbers scored another SENSATIONAL SCANDAL IS DEVELOPED Ohio Senatorial Fight Takes a New Turn. Alleged Indignities Of- fered to Representative Griffith’s Wife. Sequel to the “Flopping” of the Speaker Pro Tem of the House. HANNA’S MEN EXPLAIN IT. They Tell What Oceurred at an All- Night Conference at Which Mrs. Griffith Attended. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 4.—To-night, | 1t is alleged, the Hanna managers lost brilllant achievement to-night. This time the Kansas City, Pittsburg and | Gulf road is the sufferer. The com- pany’s Port Arthur express, which left the company’s depot here at 6:40 to- night, was robbed before it had pessed | beyond the city limits. | Two men, whom no one but the ex- press messenger seems to have seen, | climbed into the express-car as the | train left the depot. They overpowered the messenger, bound and gagged him and rifled the car before the train came to a stop. When the train slowed up at a raiiroad crossing known as Air Line Junction, near the southeastern limits of the city, they climbed out of the car and disappeared. Nothing was known of the robbery untfl a negro train porter entered the car and found the helpless express messenger. After the train had been stopped and the two doubtful members that they | had gained to-day, €0 that it is said there is no material change from that of yesterday, when the House stood 58 to 53 against Hanna. This would give | the Sepator only 70 votes on joint bal- lot, or three less than enough votes to elect. In connection with the change of Representative Griffith back to the anti-Hanna camp there are most scan- dalously sensational reports in circula- tion. Mr. Griffith has been on both sides several times, and so pledged himself in writing. In these dispatches vesterday was an accdount of the Han- na workers spending Sunday night with Representative Griffith and of his sending at 3 a. m. for his wife to come from the Great Southern Hotel to the Neil House to join him in a conference | with the Hanna peaple. | At a m. the Kurtz people saw Mrs. offer to China to include a loan in Ger- | Others of the crew had come forward | Griffith and the all-night work of the many on more favorable terms. than | and released the express messenger, ltl Hanna men was undone just before are obtainable in Paris or London. According to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Rome, €ignor Crispi, the distinguished Itallan statesman and former Premier, has said, in the course of an interview there, that events in the far east have proved that Rus- sia “‘only sought the French alliance to hamper France in this important matter, and that Italy would get noth- ing by supporting England in Chinese affairs, while she might expect much from supporting Russo-German ac- tion.” Captain Rosendahl, commander of the German warship Friedrich Karl, has been appointed commander of the German forces ashore at Klaochau 3ay. It appears that Monsignor Anzer, bishop of the province of Shantung, China, in his recent visit to the Pope, at Rome, not only discussed the de- velopments in China, but had an un- official mission from Emperor Willlam | to enlist the aid of the Pope on behalf Continued on Second Page. DeleDelelv Dele Dol lele el ) QC00C0000CC0000000000 NEWS OF THE DAY. 8 Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: Cloudy on Wednesday, prob- ably without rain; southerly winds. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours: San Francisco Portland Los Angeles San Diego C2000000 4 degrees 6 degrees 2 dekrees degrees FIRST PAGE. England Backed by America. Loot of an Express Car. Bitter Fight Against Hanna. French In Abyssinta. SECOND PAGE. Help for the Klondike. French Bikers Claim Fraud. Niearagua Friendly to America. THIRD PAGE. Prisoners Taken to British Sofl A Big Swindler in Custody. Old Man Tortured by Fire. Ralding San Jose's Treasury. Los Angeles School Scandal. Tramp Shot by an Officer. Oppose the Judge's Typewriter. FOURTH PAGE. Bouthern California Farmers Meet. A Blow to Arbitration. Weds an Indlan Prince. Pictures Sent by Wire. Loud Names Postmasters. FIFTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. SIXTH PAGE. Editorfal. Two-Faced on Annexatio= Flippancy in Court. Taxation Exemptions. Not Up to Expectations. The Disgraced Bulletin. The Right Spirit. Poem, “Give Me the Sea.” ‘The Sins of the Children. Queries. CCO0000C0TOCOO000C00CO000000000000000000000000C0000C00000000Cs SEVENTH PAGE. The New Stevenson Block. Salvation Army Rally. The Examiner Fake Advertisements, EIGHTH PAGE. The Police Judges' Difference. Those Curbstone Brokers. Police Capture Taucht. No Money for Corner Signs. At Outs Over the Dow Killing. NINTH PAGE. Steelheads Seined by the Ton. A Woman Crushed by a Car. Durrant Tries Again. Jubllee and Mining Falr, TENTH PAGE. Commerctal News. ELEVENTH PAGE. News From Across the Ba: TWELFTH PAGE. Ractng at Ingleside. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. FOURTEENTH PAGE. The Bulletin in Its Fall OCO 0000000000000000L000! 0000000000000000000000000000900000900000000090000000000000000000000 | | was found that the robbers had rified | the local safe, taking from ft every- | thing of value. They had made no ef- fort to disturb the through safe, which is protected by a time lock. From Alr[ Line Junction a telegraphic report of | the robbery was sent to this city and | | the train proceeded south. The Wells- Fargo Company control the express on the Pittsburg and Gulf Road. At | the express company’s office here, C. R. Tease, the local manager, stated | | that there was not much of value in the local safe, and that $200 or $300 would probably cover the company” loss. In police circles, however, the impression prevails that the robbers secured several thousand dollars in| money and jewelry. | The report received at the express company’s office here states that the | robbers entered the express car as the | | tratn was pulling out of the yards, hav- | ing forced the rear door with a jtmmy. | E. N. Hyde of Kansas City was the | | express messenger. Upon turning from | | his work he looked into the barrel of a six-shooter. The messenger offered no | resistance, though he was well armed, | and after the robbers had bound him, | | one of them stood guard over him while the other rifled the safe. The robbers are described as smooth | faced young men and the fact that both | were extremely nervous while In the | express car is taken as evidence that they are new recruits to Kansas City’s | force of train robbers. At 7 o'clock a speclal train was sent to the scene of the robbery with a force of policemen and marshals, and these men are now scourine the coun- | try along the river banks in search of the robbers. Though to-night’s robbery is the first that has occurred on the P. & G. line, | it is the elxth crime of the kind per- | petrated In Kansas within fifteen months. There have been scveral ar- rests of train robbers during this time, but there has not been a single convic- tion. DREYFUS CHAMPIONED BY | GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS. American Veteran of the Opinion That the Frenchman Should Be Given a Rehearing. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4—General W. S. Rosecrans is a strong champion of | Captain Emil E. Dreyfus, the French officer who is serving a life sentence |on L’Isle du Diable for revealing | French military secrets to the Ger- ! mans. In response to a request Gen- | eral Rosecrans has written the follow- | ing as his views of the case: The case of Captain Dreyfus is one | that appeals to the sympathy of every | true American. A rehearing of the case under impartial influences would cer- | tainly do no harm, were he gullty or in- | | nocent. If guilty, a second conviction | | would accentuate the majesty of the law | more forcibly. If innocent, a great in- | justice would be at least partially atoned | for, a gallant and efficlent officer would be restored to the service of his beloved country and his many friends and sym- pathizers throughout the world would re- | joice in his vindication. His gallant and patriotic conduct when his sword and insignia of rank were torn from him, when his sentence of dismissal | from the army was being carried out, his devotion to his country, manifested by his cheers and the cry of “Vive la | France” in the midst of this scene of ob- loquy and degradation, appeal to every loyal soldier and certainly do not bear the marks of treason to his country. If guilty, would he not have cursed those who_were thus heaping disgrace upon h tm? In the interest of truth and justice I ‘work of ol ing a rehearing o of this unfortunate officer. | me with | love and honor will uphoi | her husband went to the State House Speaker pro tem.'with Be other can- didates of “the combine.” After the Legislature was organized Mr. Griffith had another night of conferences on both sides of the Senatorial case and this morning he gave the Hanna men a written pledge over his own signa- | ture that he would vote for the Sena- tor. Later In the day he was seen by the opponents of Senator Hanna, and to-night he gave out the following: To the public: It is due to the pubilc | and elf that T make a statement of | my position in the Senatorial matter. While it is true that the convention which nominated me passed a resolution requesting me to support Senator Hanna, | and while I at various times during the | campaign and since declared my inten- tion to follow that request and even | promised a dozen or more of my constitu- ents in Mr. Hanna's headquarters on | Monday of this week that T would do so, | I have, however, since learning the par- ticulars of the Indignities heaped upon my wife Monday morning, reached the conviction that I would be untrue to my manhood should I cast my vote for a man who either uses or employs such methods, and shall resent the indigni- ties and insults heaped upon myself and friends, and also do a service for my State and country, by voting for a Re- publican other than Mr. Hanna for United States Senator. Notwithstanding the threats that have been made to me that I cannot return | and live in Union county if I do not vote | for Mr. Hanna, it 18 my hope and belief that good people who have honored thetr confidence and whom I A me in this de- termination, that cannot under any cir- cumstances now be changed. J. E. GRIFFITH. When a copy of the statement pur- porting to come from Representative Griffith was shown to Senator Hanna this evening he sald: “I do not believe Mr. Griffith ever made this statement, because it is not true. It is represent- ed to me that he is an honorable man, and therefore I shall not believe with- out some further evidence that he ever made or used any such statement.” Notwithstanding that Mr. Hanna re- gards it as untrue that Representative Griffith himself published the state- ment, yet it is known that the docu- ment is in Griffith’s handwriting, whether he prepared it himself or not. The last letter of Griffith has caused not only a sensation, but the most bit- ter feeling and the worst of charges on the part of rival workers. A signed document was given out to- night by George McPeck, a personal friend of Representative Griffith of Marysville, Union County, in regard to Mr. Griffith’s statement that his wife had received indignities from Mr. Hanna and his friends. He states that during the all night conference at the Neil House on Sunday night between Grifith and the Hanna leaders Griffith requested that Mrs. Griffith, who was stopping in the hotel, be sent for. Act- ing upon this request, Mr. McPeck says, he and Mr. Chapman secured a cab and took Mrs. Griffith to the Nefl House. Continuing Mr. McPeck says: “Mr. Chapman accompanied her to her room. Afterward she came to room 15, where her husband was. Her hus- band returned to the Great Southern Hotel and left her in room 15, in com- pany with Mr. Chapman and Jerry P. Bliss. As Mr. Bliss did not seem in- clined to leave her room and give her a chance to retire, we invited her into the public reception room, with the expectation that Mr. Eliss would then leave the m. T also had some con- versation at the same time. At all times while at the Neil House Mrs. Griffith received the most courteous on Monday morni-7 to qualify ul much concern in England, others continued to escape. therein. induced the natives to return. slaves to carry our loads. treatment on the part of Senator Hanna and all his friends. “I will say further, that for many years past the relations between Mr. Griffith’s family and Mr. Chapman and myself and our familles have been of a very cordial character and that Mr. Chapman and myself have been very warm political as well as personal friends of Mr. Griffith, and if any in- dignity had been offered to Mrs. Grif- fith by any person while she was in our presence, we would have resented it. It is not reasonable to suppose that Senator Hanna or any of his friends would offer any indignity to any lady, especially the wife of a mem- ber who had promised to vote for Mr. Hanna for United States Senator and whose vote at that time, as he had through the entire campaign, fully ex- pected to receive.” General Grosvenor stated that he had to be in Congress on Thursday to take part in the debate, and that he was leaving for that purpose and would be back the la=t of the week. J. Park Alexander of Akron, a trustee of the Ohio Imbecile Asylum, to-day resigned because of Governor Bush- nell’s course on the Senatorship. The four Republican clubs of Columbus to- night resolved not to participate in the inauguration of Governor Bushnell next Monday. REPUBLICANS DECIDE NOT TO HOLD A cAuCUS. They Will Fight the Senatorial Struggle to a Finish on the Floor of the Legislature. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 4—The po- litical future of Senator Hanna is cer- tainly to-night in a closely poised bal- ance. While there are now reported to be only nine dissenters among the eighty Republican members—one in the Senate and eight in the House—yet the really doubtful list is limited to two or three. Some of the dissenting Republicans are not likely ever to be reconciled to Senator Hanna. They have burned the bridges behind them and openly admit it. Representatives Griffith of Union and Joyce of Guern- sey, who voted with “the combine” on twenty-four white men and 500 riflemen. “ The native carriers give much trouble. to escape at every opportunity. Sometimes the whole population fled. From a photograph by M. Bouglaer. .fn&Ammu PARIS, Jan. 4.—A letter from an officer of the Marchand expedition—which, according to the authentic news received here yesterday, had arrived at Rafai, in the Tambura district of the Nile Basin, on September 17, and was proceeding to occupy Rumbek, in the territory of Bahr-Ei-Ghazeel—published in the newspaper of Toulouse, savs the French force consists of Describing the hardships endured, the writer says: We seized them forcibly, and they attempted We vainly shot or hanged those who were recaptured, but Many were recaptured, but several succeeded in getting away. We were obliged to enter villages with a few riflemen and seize all the men and women found Then we burned a few huts, which generally We then seized the chief and compelled him to give us the This is the only way to deal with these brutes, whom we have seen quarrel over the bodies of their shot comrades for food.”” the organization of the House, stated to-day that they would vote for Sena- tor Hanna, This gives Hanna fifty- four in the House and seventeen in the Senate—a total of seventy-one, or two short of the necessary majority. Droste of Hamilton, who voted for Boxwell for Speaker, announced at the time that he would support Jeptha Gerrard, a silver Republican, for Sena- tor, so that the net gain for Hanna to date over the vote on the organiza- tion is only one. The Hanna men say they expect to get the votes of Scott of Fuller and Rutan of Carroll, who were instructed for Hanna and voted for the “combine’” on organization. The doubtful members are being of- fered their choice of chairmanships and given the opportunity to make all other selections they want. The power of the organization of the House is cer- tainly being used to the greatest pos- sible advantage, and its influence is not to be underestimated in connection with the support of the State adminis- tration. While Mr. Kurtz and his as- sociates will make no statements, yet they are holding back the appointments on the committees and other patronage in anticipation of gaining several votes on the Senatorial ballot. In holding their men In line the “combine” is having trouble with some of the sixty-five Democratic members. It is believed that Mayor McKisson will give way to Mr. Kurtz for the short term for Senator, while Governor Bush- nell has all along been regarded as the candidate for the long term. Letters and telegrams poured in to- day on Governor Bushnell, the dissent- ing Republican members and others, protesting against the action of the HRepublicans who are co-operating with the Democrats. In reply, thoge about the headquarters in the Great South- ern Hotel revived the talk of the Amer- ican Protective Association, the-work- ingmen and others being opposed to Senator Hanna. The announcement to-day by the Republicans that they would have no joint Senatorial caucus to-morrow night or at any time previous to the balloting for Senator will compel all to continue in this guerrilla warfare for another week, but with the result de- pending on the action of two or three doubtful members neither side could show its hand without exposing the recruits or the deserters to terrific fire for at least a week. It was expected by the public that there would be de- cisive results at the caucuses to-mor- row, but there will be no caucuses, and the steering committees will try to l THE FRENCH IN ABYSSINIA. M. Lagarde, Embassador and Minister Plenipotentiary from France to the court of Abyssinia, setting out from Harar with Ras Makonnen to meet Negus Menelik at Adis-Adaba. To M. Legarde is due the credit for establishing the present friendly relations and understanding between the two powers which is causing so In making the visit to the court he left his com- panions at Harar, confiding himself entirely to Ras Makonnen. WEGUS MENELIK. have all members located before bal- loting begins. The Senate and the House will ballot separately next Tuesday for Senator. The Senate will stand 19 to 17 against Hanna by Senator Burke voting with the Democrats. The House on Monday stood 56 to 53. It is now 55 to 54 against Hanna. This would settle the contest if “the combine™ in both houses can concentrate on any one candidate against Hanna, and when the two houses meet on the following day, Wednesday, January 12, to canvass in joint assembly the vote of the previcus day, as cast by each branch separately, there would be nothing to do-except to announce the total result as 74 to T1 against Hanna. But if Senator Hanna has not a ma- Jority a week hence it is doubtful whether any opponent will have it, and ‘the general prediction is for a dead- lock. In the event that the balloting next Tuesday does not show a major- . ity for any one the General Asssembly will proceed on the next day to ballot- ing in the joint assembly, and continue to do so until there is an election. The balloting a week hence may not do any more than compel the contestants to show their names on rollcall, and after that the same fight may be continued for an indefinite period. The “combine” claims that he has been an ex-Senator since the Legisla- ture met yesterday. As Senator Hanna was appointed when Secretary Sher- man went into the Cabinet, article 2, section 2, of the statutes is being quoted. In the House all sorts of bills were introduced against corporations. The ‘measures were regarded as thrusts at Senator Hanna, whose affairs are of varied interests. An amendment to the Nicholas law, which taxes the earnings of express, telegraph, telephone and other companies was introduced so as to include street railways, electric light and power equipments, artificial and natural gas, pipe-line messengers, sleeping-car and all other corporations. There was also a bill introduced to repeal the law for a new State House. This was regarded as returning the compliment to the Columbus people, who have expressed their protests at the course of Governor- Bushnell. ‘While these measures were being thrown in a delegation of 350 from Springfleld, the home of Governor Bushnell, marched into the State House wearing Hanna badges and with banners bearing severe inscriptions and called on Governor Bushnell. Congressman Weaver, the spokes- man of the visiting delegation from Springfleld, said: “I had the hones t&

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