The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1898, Page 1

Call B VOLUME LXXXIIT.—=NO. 37 SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6,_'1898. mIE oS Snammm s PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANY MAKES A LEASE THE PRETEXT FOR TAKING THE PORT OF KIAOCHAU b i) l]’filh i J FORORORCHO LR OHORCEC of heavy caliber. Russians. {aZuinincnse f terday at a conference of the Tsung Li Yamen, which made the % ‘necessary concessions. * % Z’f dated Wednesday, says Germany has taken a lease of Kiaochau ¥ for fifty years. fi French occupation of Hainan Island is imminent. EE 2 22 22 2 2o BERLIN, Jan. ger this evening cording to a teleg understanding has been reached be- and China regarding to the 5.—The Reichsanzei- announces that ac- tween Germa the cession of Kiaochau Bay former. The arrangement, it is added, is substantially follows: It is intende the cession torender posstble for Germany the ful her just wish for the poss same way as other powers, of a base of trade and navigation in Chinese waters. The cession of Kiaochau Bay to Ger- many takes the form of a lease for an indefinite time. Germany is at liberty to erect on the ceded territory all the necessary bulldings and establish- ments and to take the measures re- quired for their protection. Continuing the Reic nzeiger says: “The ceded territory comprises the PEKING, Jan. 5.—The Kiaochau difficulty was settled yes- LONDON, Jan. 5.—A dispatch to the Times from Peking, It says also the report is current there that a rom Peking an | | land need not be ruffled, because | GIBRALTAR OF THE Principal battery on the shore of Talien Bay, fifteen miles from Port Arthur. This fortification is on an elevation overlooking the bay and is defended by ordnance It controls the entrance to the Gulf of Pechili and in the hands of Great Britain would render harmiess the occupation of Port Arthur by the It was captured by the Japanese in the late war with China. officers who have inspected the forts of Talien rate them superior to those of Aden, Gibraltar or Cronstadt. The picture is drawn by a Call artist from a photograph taken by an officer of the engineer corps of the Japanese army. * * * * * % = * * * * * * * * - &********************5********************I as now, which was interpreted to mean that they should be in the hands of an Englishman. The paper believes that England would not accept Herr Detring as Sir Robert Hart’s successor. The Standard says editorially: Sng- she can claim exactly the same privileges as Germany. This is the logical and unassailable position the Government has taken up; and it is not astonishing to find that it has made a profound im- | pression in Europe, as well as had a whole of the inner basin of Kalochau | Bay as far as th larger headlar north of the entrar point where they 1-water line, the situated south and e naturally bound- ed by mountain ranges, and also the islands situated within and front of the bay. No obstacles are to be ralsed by China to any measures Germany may deem necessary for the regulation of the watercourses. China has trans- ferred to Germany for a period not stated in the telegram a lease of sov- ereign rights over the ceded territory. “If for any cause Kiaochau Bay should prove unsuitable for the objects ce of the bay to the | Germany has in view, China, after ar- | riving at an understanding with Ger- many, will cede another piece of terri- tory on the coast which Germany may regard as more suitable for her pur- | { pose.” LONDON, Jan. 6.—The Times edi- torially, says this morning: “It would be simple to assume that the Reichsan- zeiger's dispatch tells the whole story, for it quite omits to say what China | gets In return. To the world at large, the material fact is that Ger- )y physi val station. This is the fact that t guide other powers in determin- ing their own policy. “The talk of a lease is a mere sav- ing of appearances. that both Germany and China aware that it is a practical cession in full sovereignty. It provides further argument In favor of an English guar- anteed Chinese loan.” The morning paper editorials general- ly are in the same strain as that of the Times. They point out that the con- tract is ope in which Germany appar- ently gets everything and China noth- ing, while the question of the safety of the missionaries is entirzly dropped. Nothing is said about railways or mines. The question has been raised here as to Herr Detring’s right to succeed Sir Robert Hart as director of Chinese imperial maritime customs. The Daily Chronicle says: “The agreement upon which the last Chi- nese loan was floated in England cof- ‘tained a clause declaring that the man- &gement of the customs should remain al force, has obtained a | There is no doubt | are | |and it is reflected on the stock satisfactory reception in America. Whatever Mr. Sherman may say, the mercantile community is well aware that England. in claiming equal rights for all, is fighting the battle of the American merchants and traders as well as that of her own subjects.” The Daily Mail, commenting upon the “fact that the United States and Japan are openly on our side in the Chinese affalr,” says: “For once we are getting some recognition for our generous com- mercial policy.” There is a general feeling in England ex- change that the situation in the far East is improving. It is believed the proposed Chinese loan of £16,000,000 will be guaranteed by the British Govern- ment. The. Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon refers to the “ascendency of money over the mailed fist,” and says: “Great Britain’s vessels are anchored off Che- mulpo and at Port Arthur. This is quietly implying that Great Britain will have a voice in future arrange- | ments. Further, the latest telegrams clearly indicate that she has plenty of | friends.” The Pall Mall Gazette -continues: ‘Aside from Japan, nations like the United States, whose interests are purely commercial, are well disposed toward our Government and are op- posed to trade exclusiveness.” Ernest Terah Hooley, who negotiated with China simultaneously with the J. Pierpont Morgan and other syndi- cates, is not concerned in the present loan. Special dispatches from Shanghai to- day say that J. McLeavy Brown, the British Corean Customs Agent at Seoul, maintains a firm hold on his post, and that M. Alexieff, the Russian Agent, who has been endeavoring to supplant him, has been unable to ob- tain control of the finances, owing to the fact that all the funds are vested in Mr. Brown's name in the Hong- kong Bank at Shanghal, which insti- tution honors Mr. Brown’s ‘signature only. The negotiations between Sir Claude | McDonald, the British Minister at Peking, and the Tsung L! Yamen with reference to the questions arising from the Russian occupation of Port Ar- thur, are proceeding. The idea of an alliance with Great Eritain is reported to have excited in- tense enthusiasm in Japan. The Mar- quis Ito’s Cabinet, it is added, will en- deavor to promote an Anglo-Japanese alllance. PORT SAID, Jan. 6.—The German i i CHINESE | warships Deutschland and Gefion, un- der the command of Prince Henry of Prussia, have arrived here on their | wi Chii | { way to Chbina. ‘ THE AMERICAN FLEET IN ASIATIC WATERS TO BE STRENGTHENED. The President Has Also Determined That He Will Send a Strong Man to the Chinese Mission. NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—A Washington | special to the Herald says: Tele- graphic orders were to-day sent to Commander A. Walker, commanding the gunboat Concord, directing him to proceed with the vessel under his com- | mand to the Asiatic station and report | to Commodore George Dewey, its commander in chief. The Concord will stop at Honolulu en route and ought to arrive in Japanese waters within a month. The American—force on the | Asfatic station at the time of her ar- rival will be composed of the Olympia, the flagship of the station; the Boston, | which is at Chemulpo, Korea; the Ral- | eigh, which is now en route to the | Aslatic station and is expected at Aden in a few days; , en route to Canton; the Monocacy, which is at Woo Sung. The Helena, which sailed from | Bermudas on December 30 for Funchal, is not expected to reach the Asiatic | station before next fall. Captain A. 8. Crowninshield, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, told me to- day that with the addition of the Ral- eigh and the Concord he thought the naval force of this Government in Aslatic waters would be ample to pro- tect American interests. The muddle the administration has got into over the Chinese mission will, according to the present plan, be solved by the transfer of Dr. James B. Angell from Constantinople to Pe- king and the appointment of Charles Page as Minister to Turkey instead of China. | Mr. Bryan, I understand, has been sounded on the question of acepting | the Turkish mission, and says that he will accept it in view of opposition which has develcped against his ap- pointment to China. The fact that Mr. Bryan’'s nomination was formally laid before the Senate to-day and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations | was something of a surprise to the President. As previously stated in the Herald, it was sent to the Senate be- fore the holiday recess, but before it was formally laid before that body the President received such strong protests from Senator Frye and others that he asked the Vice-President to temporar- ily withhold it. Some days afterward, during the recess, the President decid- ed that notwithstanding the opposition he would carry cut the promise he had made to Secretary Gage, Senators Cul- lom and Mason, and other friends of Mr. Bryan, and would allow the nomi- natfon to take its course. Since then, Ihowever, the question of the transfer was taken under advisement, but prob- ably through an oversight the Presi- dent failed to inform the Vice-Presi- | dent of that fact. | Now that it is known the President is considering the transfer, the commit- tee will delay action, and when all ar- rangements have been made it will be just as easy to recall the nomination from the committee as from the Vice- President’s hands. The increased importance given to the Chinese mission by reason of the at- titude of the European powers toward that country is the main reason for the desire of the President to make the transfer be has in mind. COAST. Foreign ABOUT 10 DOCK THE CLEVELAXD Will Soon Be Running Again Between Tacoma and This Port. | Indians Tell of Wreckage Beliovea | | itles made every preparation to follow t> Be From the Second Mate's Boat. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Jan. 5—The steamer Cleveland arrived at Quartermaster Harbor drydock to-day and will be docked Friday. To-morrow the steam- er Skagit Chief will go alongside her | and take aboard her freight for Taco- ma and Seattle. A large part of this is floating around in the hold abso- lutely worthless and will be dumped overboard. Captain Hall reports that on Sun- day, just before he left Barclay Sound, Indians reported to him the finding of what is believed to be wreckage from Second Mate Henderson's boat, which 1s still missing with six men. The In- dians claim to have found rgrt of the boat, a cracker box and some clothing on the bheach two miles farther north than Captain Hall and his men search- ed for the missing boat. The tugs Czar and Tyee were then fastened to the Cleveland ready to tow her to Victo- ria, and he had no chance to person- ally investigate. He considers the story plausible. Neap tides were so high where the steamer Cleveland was beached that plates had to be bolted over the holes in her bottom by a diver. Her beach- ing and repairs here, it is estimated, will cost $15,000. She is accompanied here by Mr. Tyson, her manager; Cap- tain Metcalf, Lloyds’' surveyor at San Francisco, and Captain Cartmel, Lloyds' engineer and surveyor at Vic- toria. It was reported to-day that the Cleveland had been sold to the Cana- dian Pacific Navigation Company for its Victoria and Wrangel route. Mr. Tyson to-night denies this and says she will again run between San Fran- cisco and Tacoma. 2T Sy FALLS SIX HUNDRED FEET DOWN A SHAFT. Frightful Death of Captaim* Hall, Superinten- dent of the Leroi Mine at Rossland. ROSSLAND (B. C.), Jan. 5.—Captain Hall fell from the surface to the 600- foot level to-day in the Lerol mine. His body was crushed almost beyond recognition. He had been making his daily inspection of the mine and com- ing to the surface stepped from the skip to a narrow beam dividing the double compartment shaft. He lost his footing and plunged down to death. Captain Hall was a native of Ire- land, aged 61 years. For seventeen years he was superintendent of the Alice mine, near Butte. He leaves a widow and five children in this city. The remains will be taken to Butte for burial. The only witness of the tragedy was the engineer. He saw Mr. Hall stumble and fall, catch desperately at the tim- bers and vanish into the pit. A man working on the 300-foot level, near the shaft, heard a cry and saw a fleeting glimpse of the falling form. The alarm was given and men descended imme- diately to the 600-foot level. The body had fallen across a skip and was man- gled beyond recognition. |Spanish Plot Foiled |Sought to Make of Con-| | talking this morning of the frustration | | nocents instruments. | | ago has proved himself an enthusiastic, | come resistance by the rebel chiefs. PLANNED THE CAPTURE OF ARANGUREN by the Caution of a Guide. gressman King an Innocent Tool. He Was to Have Been Fol-| lowed to the Insurgent Chief’s Camp. WAS VERY INDISCREET. Had Arranged a Secret Rendezvous but Spies Learned of All His Plans. Copyright, 188, by James Gordon Bennett. HAVANA, Jan. 5.—All Havana was of a plot to kill or capture General Aranguren, in which General Lee and | Representative King of Utah were in- Mr. King since his arrival ten days | but most indiscreet investigator. He made no secret of his intention to com- municate with the insurgents, and ex- | pressed a particular desire to meet | General Aranguren. He succeeded in inducing General Lee to provide a | guide, who agreed to take him to Gen- | eral Aranguren, but insisted that the proposed expedition be kept a close se- | cret, for fear the Spanish authorities would take advantage of it to learn of General Aranguren’s location. In spite of this, the story not only leaked out, but Mr. King was offered assurances by the secretary of General Congosto to the effect that no opposi- tion would be made to his passage through the Spanish lines. All was ar- | ranged for Mr. King and his guide to pass the lines this morning, and go to the rendezvous where he was to meet General Aranguren.and.- Colonel Del; gado to-night. The guide became alarmed last night. Noticing that Mr. King was closely shadowed by Span- ish police agents, he watched and about 10 o’clock discovered Mr. King and Secretary Congosto in earnest con- versation under a dark colonnade in the Prado. Fully realizing the danger, the guide started for the country, and in a half hour was on his way to warn General Aranguren. It is openly asserted that the author- Mr. King to the place of meeting and to have a force on hand ample to over- A train of seventeen cars filled with troops left this morning, going in the direction in which the meeting was to take place. Mr. King’s first intimation of the failure of the proposed expedi- tion came this morning, when he learned that his guide was missing. — Buried in New York. PARIS, Jan. 6.—Mrs. Ayer's body will | | | | | | | | It*‘*******#*********;******fl!********************************************** * % be embalmed and is going to New York for Interment. Funeral services will be held at Holy Trinity here on Friday. HEEREE RRRRXE RRR XA RXHRD NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- clsco: Cloudy and unsettled weather on Thursday; probably showers in the afternoon or at night; light northerly, changing to southeasterly winds. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours: San Francisco .. Portland .. Los. Angeles .. San Diego .. 60 degrees FIRST PAGE. Germany Takes Kiaochau. Plan to Capture Arrenguen. Buried in a Chilkoot Avalanche. Colonists Reach Soledad. SECOND PAGE. Jack Dalton Leads Rellef. Farmers Close Thelr Work. The New Monetary Bl Women War on & Woman. Lett a Widow to Starve. Find a Thief in the Fold. THIRD PAGE. Congress Talks Civil Service. Struggle on Annexation to Begin. Coolles Preferred to Whites. FOURTH PAGE. Still Fighting Hanna. Los Angeles School Scandal. Burglar Filkins Caught. Plea to Save a Murderer. Ratcliffe’s Double Life. FIFTH PAGE. Election Commissioners in a Row. First New Year Wedding. Schoolboy Manacled and Whipped. An Oakland Soclety Sensation. SIXTH PAGE. Editortal. Spectal Laws for Hawaii. Going New York One Better. The Rush for Alaska. The Ohio Contest. Corrupt Journalism. A Los Angeles Accomplishment. Music and Musicians. SEVENTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. A Party for Buds. Police Judges Rest Easy. Personal Mention. EIGHTH PAGE. A New Hack Inspector. Ralsing Cash for the Jubilee. Freeholders in Politics. NINTH PAGE. Dow Mystery Polnts to Suicide. Durrant Loses All Hope. TENTH PAGE. Commercial News. ELEVENTH PAGE. Blythe-Hinckley Repudiation. News From Acrose the Bay. TWELFTH PAGE. Racing at Ingleside. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Merchants Denounce the Bulletin. o sie ok ok ok ok ok o ok ok ok ok sk ok ok ke e sk sl ok sk ok sk sk ok sk ok s ok sk o ke ok sk ok ok ok ok s ok sk ok ok sl ok ok ok sk ok sk ok ok ko | away * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FRBRFEEXRERERERRRRRER BURIED BY A CHILCOOT AVALANCHE Miners Lose Their Sleds and Pro- visions. Icy Masses Rush Down With Tremendous Force. The Burns Tramway Snowed Under Many Feet of the Slide. ALEX McDONALD'S STORY. Perils of Himself and Two Compan- ions While a Furious Storm ‘Was Raging. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 5—On De- cember 23, while coastbound miners | were crossing the summit of Chilcoot Pass in the teeth of a biting blizzard, an avalanche of snow and ice came thundering down the mountain side above the narrow defile through which the miners pass. It covered the Burns tramway and several sleds and tons of provisions, all of which will probably be a total loss. On the other side of the summit, near Crater Lake, a glacier broke while the storm was at its height, burying in its icy grasp two sleds and part of the outfit of three | Scotchmen, who were coming out from Stewart River. Their loss was nearly $1000. The losers are Alexander and James McDonald- and J. Kenneth, three men who went into the Yukon to test an electrical ground-thawing ma- chine. Alexander McDonald deseribed the slide of snow and ice to-day as fol- lows: “It came down the mountain side with a roar and with terrific force. The Burns tramway was cov- ered up under a pile of snow several feet thick, while the provisions and outfits awaiting transportation to the | lakes beyond were buried out of sight. An immense quant of snow shot down the hillside. e tramway was dnm%ged so badly as to be of no use till the snow can be cleared away and repairs made. Much worse than that was the loss of provisions which were covered up by the ice and snow. “The storm was raging so that travel | We | was difficult and dangerous. found it impossible to get the sleds laden with our outfits over the pass without lightening them and doubling over the summit. We had made one trip and went back for the remainder of our outfit. When we got back we found that the glacier had covered our sleds and provisions clear out of sight. Our loss was approximately $1000, but I don’t belleve that will nearly cover the amount of damage done by the snowslide on the summit.” Frank Burns had just repaired his tramway and gotten it in running or- der for the winter work. During the summer his wooden whim, the most important part of the outfit, was cut up by Klondikers and used for fire- wood. He was then in the interior. On his return he set about replacing | the whim at an expense of several thousand dollars. He had taken a few | outfits over, and had contracted to take a large quantity of supplies over from the Scales to Crater Lake, part of them being provisions badly needed at Lake Bennett. Their transportation will be delayed until the immense quantity of snow and ice brought down by the avalanche can be shov- eled away. Some damage was done to the other tramways now building, but the amount is yet unknown. HAULED DOWN BY AMERICANS Stars and Stripes Not Lowered by Mexicans on Clipper- ton Island. No Resistance Offered When the Democrata’s Force Demanded Possession. Special Dispatch to The Call. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 6.—A high official of the Department of Foreign Relations said to-day regarding the Clipperton Island incident: “The sending of the gunboat Demo- crata on a visit of inspection to por- tions of the Mexican territory was de facto, attended by no conflict or diffi- culty with the individual Americans found there,and in no event should that visit have given rise to international questions, inasmuch as the occupation of the island, if occupation it may be called, was the act of private persons having no official character. “The American flag was found flying there, but the Americans themselves, on hearing from the lips of Mexican of- ficers that the island was Mexican ter- ritory, hauled it down and allowed the party of Mexicans to run up the flag of this country without the slightest op- position, either in act or in word. There was no ill feeling or ditterness between the Americans found on the island and the expeditionary party. On the con- trary, nothing but good will and friendly disposition was displayed on both sides. “The claim made in behalf of France by La Liberte of Paris is regarded as a canard. France never held the island.” ———— Death of Edward Harford. LONDON, Jan. 5.—Edward Harford, one of the delegates from the British Trades Union Congress to the American Federation of Labor Congress held re- cently at Nashville, Tenn., died yester- day of pneumonia, while returning on the American liner St. Paul, which ar- rived at Southampton COLONISTS ARRIVE AT SOLEDAD Accompanied by an Escort of Salvation Soldiers. An Enthusiastic Reception Given to Commander Booth-Tucker. In Festooned Carriages the New-Comers Are Conveyed to the Tract. ENTER HAPPY HOMES. | | | Bright Outlook for the Future of the | New Co-operative Common- ‘wealth. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | SOLEDAD, Jan. 5.—An experiment | was begun here to-day of extraordi- | nary moment to the entire country, in- | asmuch as its success will solve the problem of congested populations in | the cities and prove a long step in the | direction of minimizing the evils of | municipal poverty and pauperism. It | was the practical intentlon of the plan of General Booth and his corps of en- | thusiasts in matters of social and re- | liglous reform to capitalize the surplus | labor of the commercial centers and | colonize it on the most desirable arable | lands of the West. | Commander Booth-Tucker, to whom | was assigned the task of bringing into existence the first tentative settlement, arrived this afternoon from San Fran- cisco with a group of colonists for Fort | Romie and a full-uniformed escort of | the Salvation Army. The little town turned out to give the new-comers a cheering reception. Festooned car- riages were in waiting to convey the officials of the enterprise to the site of the colony, anl larger vehicles were provided for the settling families and such household effects as they had brought along. Fort Romie, thus named in honor of the Californian who contributed most to the undertaking, is west of Soledad; | it is a mile and a half, as the crow | files, on the opposite side of the Sall- nas river, and three miles distant by the county road. The settlement con- sists of a 500-acre tract segregated from the Romie estate, one of the larg- est in Monterey county. The form is that of a V, resting on the west shore of the Salinas, and extending more than a mile to the foot of the gently- sloping Coast range. The inner sur- vey of the plat is a triangular reser- | vation for parks, townsite, creameries, public works and such other uses as ithe incorporation may deem advisable to the progress and interest of the com- munity. Encompassing the triangle, on the opposite sides of two broad avenues that start from the county road at the west and converge to a point near the | river, are the ten acre lots intended for | apportionment among the colonists. The dwellings on these are to sym- metrically front the avenues. Thirty of the intended fifty are nearly com- | pleted. Ten are of four rooms each, | for large families, twenty of two rooms | each, for small ones. The buildings, | though unornamental, are neat and of | various designs of architecture. The !first comers have preference of selec- | tion. | In the center of the townsite a large two-story-and-a-half co-operative store is going up. Twenty-eight men have been employed for weeks in breaking | the land preparatory to individual cul- | tivation and erecting the buildings. This force will be dismissed at an early day, and the continuance of the public or general work will become the first duty of the colonists who are in evi- dence, as soon as they have chosen their lots and installed their families. Mr. Romie placed his horse herds at the disposal of the colony, and thirty. of these are already broken to plow and harness. Within forty days the irrigation plant and canal system are expected to be in operation. At the junction of the Arroyo and Salinas Rivers abundant water has been tapped at a depth of eleven feet, a half-mile from téwn. Here an exca- vation 40x40 feet will be made for a reservoir, with a centrifugal pump and a 90-horse power engine. The colony canal will be supplied with a water flow at the rate of from 6000 to 9000 gal- lons a minute. In the colony tract are embraced two old lessee estates, comprising many useful buflding improvements and two excellent orchards, one of twenty acres and the other of seven. It was to one of these that the colon- ‘1515 were taken on their arrival to- A day.| The swift transformation of the scene was inspiring. The laughter of the happy mothers, vieing with the boisterous shouts of the little children, who were plainly overjoyed to be spir- ited into this favored spot of nature from the streets of the city; the boyish interest and enthusiasm of the fathers, the haltering and breaking of horses which was going on, the myriad chick- ens scurrying about out of reach of the youngsters, the ten-horse gang plows moving steadily down the open, the echo of the click of the carpenter's hammer on the uprising buildings, and amidst it all Booth-Tucker and his men vainly trying to repress their gratification, formed a picture of an- ticipation and happiness not to be for- gotten readily. Here is food for yomantic reflection