The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1898, Page 1

’ CVOLUME LXXXIIL—NO. SAN o FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE ANNEXATION STRUGGLE IS ON AT THE CAPITAL. MR R R R R R R P e R & B R PP g THE TREATY TAS MRONG OPPONENTS i | | | | | Grave Senators Re-| solved to Hold Se- cret Sessions. | The War of Conquest toi Be Carried On Behind Closed Doors. Short of the Votes Needed to Secure Ratification of the Convention. EXCUSE FOR SECRECY S Among Other T s the Asiati on an nroe Doctrine jed In. | | Special Dispatch to The Call }I MORRILL OF VERMONT Call Office, Riggs House, FE P44 2444444412122 1P 2204444444294 444442044400+ DR R e R e R R R e e R R P R R R R R R R R e T RECITES THE TRAGEDY OF A GOLDEN LAND IN FIRE AND SNOW SAMW. WALL WRITES FROM DAWSON CITY Telling of Suffering From Cold and Hunger. lsagy Of Wild Life and Quick Death in Arctic Wilds. !Of Evil Hap and Fair For- tune Found in the Klondike. [JOAQUIN'S BAD LUCK. | Livernash Gives Even a Yellower Tinge to the Atmosphere of the Mines. [ | BY SAM W. WALL. A VIEW IN KLONDIKE From a photograph by Sam W. Wall, n, D. C., Jan. 10. | e 1 | F | . . DAWSON CITY, N. W. T., . 9, “%%% 0 0 00 0 N0 e een 00 0 0 aeba T e One of the Most Prominent Leaders in the via Seattls, Jas. 10— Bince h‘:frdig et IR G | to-day. Atter the | Fight Against Annexation. patch, which left here in charge of J. A FROSTBITTEN POET. : ] : S D. Barnes and Harry Dobson, fifteen * Yavis of Minneso o R R R e e e R TR SR SRS . . Mir - e 2| ++ + Tttt b S W G T e (et et e it on Foreisn Relations, | china would form the basis of much ! man, Turpey, Vest, Walthall, Wh -ti 7 z e o : | rpey, . W . White. struction by the Klondike Church , Senate go into execu- | of the debate on the question of Ha-| The doubtful Senator Moras Fandi hdetae nonsl s DAWSON CITY, Dec. o, 1897. was agreed to. The | wai ‘\n anne -.‘u:vn{‘ :\hx v'nw’ g 1 '\\\ n Morrill, Roach, Smith and | occurred which destroyed the mos Joaquin Miller arrived yesterday from Circle City, having red e ors | to this phase of the question ms ellin Gy At B : 2 g R ks red and the. doors [to this ph e S b 2 prominent and st bulldings of th come up with a sled. He is in a badiy frozen condition. His s not taken up | fes : r 1 belief of Senator Davis, WMo | city and threatencd for several hours : 2 2 3 ruble time was | delicate and complicated one, and one || the fight on the Republican sic e ion te @ e left ear is sloughing off and he has lost a part of the great to it Bitiae shonia et 3 = P n side, ' its complete destruction. & & 2l € on A 47 were better shoulc > 1ti- d of Senator Go v i i f e I\.\” : |‘ h:‘\l IeCx ehonis S il .‘mem! l": v'm'.\n,‘ \rh is one I.\r ire occurred early on Thanksgiv- his left foot and both his cheeks are frozen. He also suffered nination | lated behind closed doc Vi the leading Democrats in favor of the | ing mos >y = 2 .| & . z : ¢ ice of | also intimated that the M« doc- | treaty, that all five of the men classed ::fu".'.r.'.n;,',‘:'D'a"“:,',,;l ".';:';d,"’;)'f_‘:;";;:f‘;;’l, s severely from falling on the ice. He was thirty-five days com- & | ¢ Court to suceced Field | trine would come in for & fair share of ' Joubtful will vote for the treaty, | the M. and M. saloor and g@hee hali |8 ing up from Circle City. He was unable to get to Fort Yukon .| s re ed to, and the chairman discabsion befo e © @€ | thereby assuring its ratification, | and the Dominfon s i -3 i : f | O g % . ’ and® gamb! & ; ¢ the Judiciary Committee, Senator Hoar | Pate, and it was asserted that 'h‘} b : Senator White, who leads the opposi- | house. These v:erv :«li'lmlnwo-clnxrvn;‘dillzf - and brings, no newsfrom that pofnt, ‘nothing having been heard . of Mass: it- had mot been vnl_quvsul;n‘\\ hich N:‘uhl !‘;1 lr;:“‘rl: reel x\‘ tion, has declared that if necessary the nesdithe Sotairy: beii coupiedias |83 at the time he left. He says that no less than 700 men without ”;? - :’-’rf\\lfi“ iy Sid el living rooms or lodging apartments. & provisions have gone there, 600 having passed down from there g ations to which | Sepator White w among n\n:c = = .mnrr;alm! at $150,000. o .: and abont 100 from Circle. SAM. W. WALL. o0 > | who replied to these statements. He h. a former partner of Pete o He said the | Who replied to t (0\1 0\ g \ i AR . 3 R would take up the McKenna | srfn'-l: sfmlr]umn\ and |r\\ sarcas ”\'v;(n 1 U] I AL :t;lh«“lrml/:.] mr:m‘»‘.p.l owner ;vfnnlhvl l\‘l, BBRRBRBRNRNS o,ggp‘g’ggggg"!ing:gsrsv.‘y,gqggog;;93”,3,333,3;.; 2 endsconsider St o mOrsow. s an i w0 e caniiat of , cion of having lighted the fire and re- The loungers in the saloon made a deserted and things that could be were | h gz exaon pw' y was theull L L e e ply to the sug- LF I\ORF ‘ leased on $15.000 bail. He was subse- | toward the dance hall to see the "";"5( taken out of it. ot pator Pettigrew of North | oction that the control of publicity in v i 421 | quently discharged, but has been again Of the alarm, and the dancers rushed| To be sure, I. Gordon Bettles, one of | § 0 18 0ppoked o amnexation o oo s oY o Hie Kreaties should be left to P S arrested, the second ti nly yester- | toward the saloon. In the jam men | the bonanza kings, did climb on a | ! ‘lhmfl‘:-.{ a x}f—Snllu;)un PTO- | ihe Executive, saying that the treaty day. Pete McDonald has sworn out the Swore and women screamed. The JAM | building with a bucket of water, but | s © treaty be debated in | .1t hag been made public, also the| T€rms of the Agreement Be- | warrant, Friends of ash, however, 'Was broken in a few minutes, and RN | that was because Mr. Bettles was ina| v".( 7 f‘ Tnm:(nh—nl his r-esol>u- [ President’s message on the subject tween England, Japan scoff at the charge, and declare that ard women made their way into the ;ma0q to be reckless. When he gn[‘ s \},]f,.l.“.:"'?:wz ;tme a8 | Mr. Morrill contended that the ques- 2 Nash has a complete alibi, in that he Streets. “ out on the roof, the ice slid him down =i e, "y, that the people | ;o of annexation was one of much and Russia. was seated at a gambling table for| Flames shortly came from the UWDPET | to the ground as though he had teen | vone preatly Interested in the question, | upic interest and said that on this oS hours before and until the cry of fire. | Windows of the building, and It WS shot from a catapult. He struck in | i n;lh;“lu l\ntn\\'d\\‘hat A8 | account the public should be fully in-| How the Customs Commissioners of The fir: broke out at 2 o'clock on the | Seen that it could not be saved. The |, <nowhank and was picked Sl lace from ; to day. e SR b - g nai v c 8 2 ay. formed of the reasons for and against the Three Grasping Powers Will morning of Thanksgiving Day, begin- | next building south was the opera tor Davis opposed the resolution Z | annexation. Be Distributed. e | Senator Mason took =advantage of ties in executive session, | pa opportunity to r a speech di- = 1S NOW no reason for de- | rocted against executive sessions. He | Special Dispatch to The Cail parting from this time-honored cus- | announce pport the| LONDON, Jan. 10.—According to a tom. | ‘motion for and said special dispatch from Shanghai it i Other Senators supported the reso- | e would take adv of all such said that the agreement between Eng- lutlon, declaring that the whole ques- | openings to ex influence to land, Japan and Russia with respect to had been discussed in the public | break down the Senatorial rule for se- | Korea involves a restoration of the pre that the people had become fa- | cret sessio status quo and the reinstatement of miliar with the terms of the treaty and Senator Davis announced his pur- McLeavy »wn as Chief Commissioner . there would be no new points exploited. pose to call up the treaty again to- of Cy with a Russian Commis- It<was said by other Senators that|morrow and press it as rapidly sioner at Gensan, the port of Brough- there would certainly be new questions | sible. 1%+ probably will make 2 ch ton Bay, on the east coast, and a Jap- presented, and that the situation in the | in general advocacy of the treaty at : Commissioner at Fusan, in the Chinese Empire would be discussed, | to-morrow’s session. utheast. and that this w a matter not for The annexationists now claim fifty- rt Hart, director of the Chi- cking only On the the to open discussion since it involved ques- tions of diplomacy of vital interest to the United Sta The debate on the Pettigrew tion continued for about two hours, | five votes. "*Gray of Delaware, Mason of Tllino -and, White of California being conspic- 2ous. White made a vigorous speech in favor of an open session. The speech f Senator Spooner of Wisconsin op- | posed an open session, but at the same time. its tenor clearly indicated that was strongly opposed to annexa- nine votes for the treaty, one of the number to ratifv it. other hand the opposit resolu- | ratifiers will fall short fr marine customs, is negotiating with the Chinese Government for a loan. The Emperor took the negotia- tions away from the Tsung Li Yamen in disgust at the previous failures. | R Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, First SENATE POLLED Lord of the Treasury and Government SHOWS THE TREATY e e IS SHORT OF VOTES. this evening. Turning to China, he said their interests there were commer- cial and not territorial. Except as the base for possible warlike operations, the territory would be a disadvantage, because it would involve responsibility and expense in money and men. He di- lated upon the fact that the extent of our trade in China gives us a special claim to prevent her pursuing a policy that would discourage trade. Five Doubtful Men in the Senate Whom | the Annexationists Claim, but was finally decided to consider the | Are Not Sure Of. aty in executive session. The ayes | ) )es were not called, and no | ¥ made of the vote, which 1 voce, it is impossible to give tanding of the Senators. The fact | Jan. 10.—The Herald's Washington correspondent telegraph As a result of a can 1 made of the Senate to-day it can now be positively stated that there are fifty-seven Sen- NEW YORK, it : 5 There was no objection, said Mr. Bal- 1 te ecided a- A caty S Mr. Ba ‘r‘] ;: i;i m' fa- | tors who will vote for the treaty of four, in conclusion. to Russia having 1018 1S not an in- |, ovation after an amendment has an ice free port provided England was not excluded; but the Government would do its utmost to prevent China ding to foreign pressure to make entiment on the ques- annexation itself. The opinion ssed among Sen- been adopted which will prevent the possibility of Statehood for the islands until after such time as the majority wo-thirds cannot be s e are twenty-seven | - e The opposition has at 10)1\ casian race. There are twenty-Seven | .;pe o dot the coast of China with 3 e e Senators against the treaty and five'are | foreizn stations by protectionist coun. re only 85 Sens doubtful. The advocates of annexation | tries who would raise customs or other White, in conver- | .aim all five of the doubtful ones, barriers to our trade ed a positive b which would give them two more than Lt VA Cruss pof that the treaty would be de- |ure mecessary to secure ratification. | McKENA'S CONFIRMATION Mirtam Micnetson. o ™ 2| wreckage of R e s featec ave. X el o the pon ] [& Stories Erom the | about the streets around the charre; iorman of Maryland is very active \?;,:fh'? e s e i DELAYED IN COMMITTEE. | o et et T | square. HEhaiaen “'h"’;" DAsltigess vy in favor of annexation. Morrill of Ver- ification: Aldrich, Allison, ~' B e ot ater ke interrupted have already found new mont, who is very influential, is ‘mi [ n:‘:‘:r' m;;:‘"rr“‘)::':‘ ,“fl'"“"m Carter, | The Report Is Mi% 0 "Depend. Princi- | $- oS At i WOt rent. quarters further down the water front paring a most exhaustive speech in op- | Chandler, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Deboe, | pally Upon the Stand of Hoar of | ® Rules of the Police Courts, toward the police barracks, and are fit- position, whick he will eliver i’ & | Blkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Frye. Gal- Massachusetts. S T s e St e sl ki ew day: oar of Massachusetts, de- er. Gear, Gorman, Hale, Hann = 3 [ @ Ischaiadi Cnisie s Coote by samelandjthe aanoe SO0 IR Ul reports to the contrary, willh:;"uishmugh. Harris, Hawley, Heit- “,-:5;1‘;‘;'1KIZ;)}:‘;_-(_I-;?n‘;fl}lln--":}lz_inbro_srs s < | few people who made their homes in the 1bly oppose the treaty. | teia,Tour, Jones of ‘Nevada, Kyle,| j2LU0E 08 Sbecls seve: Members of | G Death of A: E. Hecht, < | buildings destroyed, and these were ator Norgan was the principal op- | Lodge, McBride, McMillan, Mantle, A AR e e STt TV 4r€ | 5 New Bills at the Theaters. & | principally the proprietors or women ponent of the proposition for on open | Mason, Money, Morgan, Murphy, Nel- o5 R oS 4n opinion as| ¢ What the City Fathers Did. - debate. He talked at length upon the | son, Penrose, Perkins, Pettus, Plat? of | 17 (e outcome of McKenna's nomina- | =~~~ TENTH PAGE. © | readily found shelter elsewhere. jmpertance of obeying the Senate rules ( Connecticut, Platt of New York, | yor PUCH RAS beon '",'.‘J.’,‘.‘i‘."fl,,‘f.‘“‘ he | “TELEVENTH PAGE. b ussing this question, contending | Pritchard, Proctor, Quay, Rawlins, Se. | Semator Hoar (1) of Museoiyybon Broderick and Corner Signs. P that as the Senate was acting only in | well, Shoup, Spooner, Stewart, Teller, | who is chairman, and as Senator Hoap News From Over the Bay. & | was destroyed, the cache of Pete Mc- advisory capacity to the executive, it | Thurston, Turner, Turpie, Warren, has expressed a most profound com. sy EWELUTH L RAGE. ® A ould be an act of bad faith for it to | Wetmore, Wilson, Wolcott. tempt for the Ametican Protective As- | 3 R nomqn (rished by Fate. @ | Jargest of any individual in the city. | to his mother. throw open the doors to the public. Against ratification: Allen, Bacon, Sociation it is fairlysafetopredict that | THIRTEENTH PAGE. :( The loss is difficult to estimate, Alost of the Senators who spoke in | Bate, Berry, Butler, Caffery, Chilton, | IR 80 far a5 the ;"ble""““ to McKenna | Births, Marriages and Deaths, & | probably $150,000 would not replace it. ©oPpposition Lo open sessions referred to | Clay, Cockrell, Daniel, ~Fauli&r, | ;2:;;3“}? r;":?k—'n‘::‘;:";:ngel:""b‘m" e e b L @ | There was no means or method of com- the probability that the action of the | Gray, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, Mc- | bofore the committee about & money | S Lelier Lagan Talks of Durrant. © | pating the fire other than to remove in Buropean powers in their evident pur- | Fery, McLaurin, Mallory, Martin, | which is a most extraordinary delay | o e o & | advance what it might feed upon, and <e of partitioning the territory of | Mills. Mitchell. Pascoe, Pettigrew, Till- | for an appointment of this kind. D006 960000096066 6004666@ | the building once attacked was simply There was a masquerade ball in progress. The ball had been under preparation for weeks, and costumes had been rigged out of every available material. The dance hall was crowded with maskers, and the saloon with men and women. The cry of fire here had the same effect as in the M. & M., and in a few minutes salocn and dance hall were almost emptied. The thermometer registered 52 de- grees below zero in the street, but the ning in the private rooms of the pro- house. prietor of the M. and M. saloon on the floor above the danee moke- com- g threugh the rafters gave notice to the dancers. Two men rushed up the stairs, and turned back at once with the cry ci “Fire!” and panic foliowed. PPPOPP 900000 ¢ 2000000 ®! NEWS OF THE DAY. L4 Weather forecast at Sin Fran. | thinly clad maskers, men and women, ® clsco: Fair on ¥: continued leaving their furs and wraps behind P- ol weatlier Wit BeaVY trout i thé them, fled. There was little wind, but & morning: light northerly winds. & the flames soon created enough to toss | the torch that lifted itself above the big frame building first to one side and then another, as though in doubt whether to spring upon the Alaska | Commercial Company’'s big store and warehouses within half a block north- Maximum temp twenty-four hours San Francis: Portland ure for the past 48 degrees degrees FIRST PAGE. Fight on Annexation Be, Bitter Winter at 1 SECOND PAGE. Sleighride in the Kiondike. Senate Confirms Nomi THIRD PAGE Girl Bitten by a Mad Dog. Hired Man Murders a Family. Fight With a Wife-Beater. Yankee Fishermen Lost at Sea. Highwayman in Monterey, Snow it Esterha Herz Wants an Indemnity, FOURTH PAGE. The Great Batle in Ohio Foes of Civil and gambling houses southward. The opera house could not escape. | The gambling paraphernalia and portable furniture of all the buildings in the block were piled out in the snow | on the river bank as rapidly as possi- | ble, and then an attempt was made to break the path of the fire by blowing | up the Dominion saioon adjoining the opera house on the south. Twelve cans ® | of powder were placed in the building | and exploded, but their ohly effect was ® | to shatter and shake it up. It did not & |fall. The fire moved down upon and % | ate it up. @ | There was a gap between the Domin- 4 @ | and shack: PPPPPOH® the fire stopped, a number of dwellings in the rear of the big build- Editorial. Unsafe Leadership. A Chicken-Hearted Boodler. ‘The Fight for the Rivers The Los Angeles School Scandal. Something ¢ S The Hatpin' *“Dr. Chapman’s @ ® |is now a big charred square where was | a few days ago the business center and » | the center of the “life” of the town. Ta- bl@s, chairs and stoves, faro layouts and roulette wheels, and the general | frozen. | falling on the ice. | | | | ward, or go down the line of saloons | Eone there, £0) having passed down | | | ion saloon and next building and there | 4 | ings being destroyed on the way. There | | their way along shore to Circle and re- | and found the body doubled up in the | of the ice. | who were under their care, and who | While raising his revolver to shoot at | As in the fire at the Klondike church | let entered his neck just under building, a large quantity of provisions | chin and death was almost instanta- | Donald of the M. & M. being one of the | in which he makes frequent reference but | cated and refined. f | fering along the river by parties \th] carried to the Pioneer saloon, where he | soon recovered. The scene at the fire was a remarkable one, but it is dwelt upon in my diary some pages from which I shall add hereto as they pre- sent the details of the most important happenings of the city in their quence since my last dispatch. Joaquin Miller arrived yesterday | from Circle City, having came up with a sled. He is in a badly frozen con- dition. His left ear is sloughing off, he has lost a part of the great toe of his left foot, and both his cheeks are He also suffered severely from He was thirty-five days coming up from Circle City. He was unable to get to Fort Yukon and brings no news from that point, noth- ing having been heard from it at the e he left. He says that no less than 700 men without provisions have se- from here and about 100 from Circle. Since Captain Wray of the United | States army took a bargeload of forty | men from Circle, bound through the | Flats to Yukon, October 16, no com- munication has been had with that northern post. Very many people here, and especially among the new comers, have friends and relatives at Fort Yu- kon, where they were compelled to | send them for lack of provisions, and | they are, of course, very anxious about | them. | Mr. Miller brings a story of great suf- were caught in the ice on their way to Yukon, but who had not yet reached Circle. He reports also the death of Charles Anderson, a young man from | Brooklyn, N. Y., who accidentally shot himself while in a boat about fifty | miles above Circle. The body of young Anderson lay in the boat, the ice | jammed about it, and the boat was | carried far out in the stream with open water or thin ice between it and the | shore, so that the party consisting of | five, whose names Mr. Miller did not have, could not reach it. They made | ported the facts. A party returned | boat and were compelled to dig it out They carried it to Circle | where it was properly buried. Young | Anderson shot himself, says his friends, | a raven flying over the hoat. The bul- i his neous. The dead man Kkept a diary | He was evidently edu- | Numbers of men came or were car- | ried into Circle City frozen.” One man, | a.miner named Ryan, had to have his | feet amputated. When the ice jam came many were wet and some started | Circle ( | that he would himself follow | with forty | heard of them since then. CITY. to walk on in that condition. They were soon frozen. He found suffering all along the river. He says they passed one or more bc in the ice every day of their trip. Mr. Miller is in excellent spirits, despite his severe experience, He is stopping with Captain Hanson of the Alaska Commercial Company and is getting thoroughly rested up. He had intended going out over the ice at once, but has been persuaded not to think of such a thing for some time at least. Mr. Miller’'s companion on the trip up was Harold Canovan of Ottawa, lately attached to the coast survey. Mr. Can- cvan suffers from a frozen knee. Captain Geiger of P Sound ar- rived the same day with Mr. Miller in company with two Indians, Kitka and Zuriska, the discoverers of gold in the y district. Both the Indians had their cheeks frozen. Miller and his companion left Circle City for this place on the morning of the 2ith of "(umhpr. They were unable to buy dogs, because of the great scarcity of the animals and the large demand for them for freighting. They offered fancy prices, but were compelled to start away pulling their outfit on a lit- sled by hand. They fell in with freighters soon after their start and ecured assistance from them. They also hired Indians with dogs to help them on from camp to camp. The story of Mr. Miller’s trying experience I will tell further along under the date of his arrivel here, when he tells it to me. The steamers Bella and Weare, old liners, and the little new steamers toria and St. Michael, are at Circle City, frozen up in a slough. for the win- ter. The latter two were caught there on the way up by the ice and the other two on their way to Fort Yukon from this city for another cargo of provisions and could get no further. Nothing has been heard of the May West, the steamer built at St. Mich- ael during the summer, and which started up the river loaded with pro- visions by the passengers of the Ex- celsior—San Francisco people. Mr. Miller started to go to Fort Yukon in a small boat when his steamer stopped at Circle City, but the boat was caught v miles below Circle City and he and his two companions re- turned to that town. It was after that that 100 men were sent there for lack of provisions in two barge loads, the last in charge of Captain Ray of the United States army, the officer sent here with power to act for the Govern- ment. When the Weare stopped at Circle the “‘Pirates,” as they were call- ed, protested and urged the captain to g0 on. He thought it unsafe, however, in the condition of the river, and ran the boat into a slough, where she was quickly held fast by the ice. Then there came a spell of warmer weather, the river being free of ice and the boat nwas chopped out and the pirates declared if the captain didn't go on to Yukon and attempt to bring more provisions they would take pos- | session of the boat themselves and run | her down. That night, before any move could be taken by anybody, the mer- cury dropped and the boat was frozen in fast. Captain Ray then set himself the task of getting the surplus popula- tion to Fort Yukon. He sent the first barge of sixty men with the promise in the He did so a few days later men. Nothing has been next barge. Mr. Miller says they have plenty of moose and caribou in the vicinity of Circle, and he insists there gan be no fear for lack of provisions. A great deal of feeling has been aroused in this city and district in the | matter of the commission of three dele- gates to carry the miners’ memorial to Ottawa protesting a nst recently adopted mining regulations. One of these delegates is the representative of the Examiner-Journal, E. J. Livernash. He was appointed by the committee of ten, as the others were, but a bitter op- position to him has been active among the miners from the.beginning. He was openly and strongly opposed when