The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISOO GALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1898. ARE 0N THE VERGE OF A CONFLICT Costa Rica and Nica- ragua Are Now Near War. Outcome of the Revolu- tion in San Juan Del Sur. Prospect of Most Serious En- counters Between Central American Republics. TROOPS ON THE FRONTIER. Fresident Zelaya Prepared to Strike a Blow at a Moment's Notice. Copyright, 1888, by James Gordon Benmett. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nica- ragua, Feb. 13—Everything here is quiet now and revolutionary trouble seems to be at an end for the present. Large bodies of troops are now on the Costa Rica frontier to cut off the return of rebel invaders, whose flight be- fore Government forces took them into the futerior of Costa Rica. Many prisoners have been sent to Rivas for trial, and it is probable that several of the most prominent will be shot. 00C00000COO0CC000000 W YORK, Feb. 13.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: There is & general impression among Pan- rican diplomats here that Costa dca and Nicaragua are very near ar. Both Governments have assumed erent attitudes according to in- | formation which has reached Washing- | it is the expectation of Central s city that President a disavowal of ibility in connec- the revolution in San Juan 0000000000000 0000000000000 er the President of Costa Rica mply with President Zelaya's and whether Nicaragua will | demand | severed in, no results of the previous BRANDING THE SEALS A SUCCESS It Promises to Settlei the Long-Standing | i Question. | Lieutenant Berry Tells of the Valuable Work | Done. | Through Proper Marking the { Herds Will Be Thoroughly ‘y Protected. ‘ | HOW FASHION F]GURES.:‘ Women Would Not Care to Wear | Jackets Adorned With the Gov- ernment Brand. By Lieutenant J. G. Berry, U. 8. R. M. | UNALASKA, Alaska, Dec. 23 (via| Seattle, Feb. 13).—Colonel Joseph | Murray, United States Treasury Agent | in charge of the seal islands, Messrs. | Redpath and Johnson and Dr. Chap- | man of the North American Commer- | cfal Company, with a boatload of na- | tives, came out to see us upon the ar- rival the Bear. Colonel Murray gives us the first positive information with regard to the success of the ex- periments conducted during the last | two years in branding the female seals. | It was feared that the rough treatment that necessarily goes with burning a | great brand into the backs of the ani- | mals would drive them away from the | rookeries and cause them to seek some other breeding place. During the summer of 1896 a number of female seal pups were branded with red-hot irons in such a manner as to forever destroy the value of the skin. Different designs were used in order to dis- tinguish the pups from the several par- ticular rookeries and from the different islands. All during the present season, al- though the work of branding was per- vear's work, so far as was known at the time, were apparent. But it ap. pears that, late in the fall, the s t of Salvador and Hon- as in cs ar are questions | h Pan ns are asking each | ich with the Costa | on in this city express the | at Government will not | rective demand ient, and in this v to follow. tion as to wheth- ve the support of E ador the event h Costa Rica. in of war w These three countries form the greater republic of Central America. Pan-Americans here | that Salvador may not feel “jus- ed in embarking in war. Besides, ident Gutierrez of Salvador is not iendly toward President Zelaya, and he might exéert his influence with Hon- duras to prevent her from lending as- sistance to Zelaya It is 1 tood here that the forces | of Costa Rica are stationed on the | frontier ready to spring into Nicara- | guan s at a moment's notice. | PA 1A, Feb. 13.—The latest dis- 1 the Herald's correspond- | Guatemala, Guatemala, state | A v reigns throughout the s a direct result of the | President Barrios and g of leaders to get into pow- e republic. | General Mendizahal, who was called | ipon by th the | is now marching iuatemala City, troops. Besides the military, | dizahal has prominent and | on hind him. General Morale who, with General Fuentes, was at the head of the rebellion in Sep- tember, has b City by President Cabrera to take a position in the new Cabinet. General Morales has been in the City of Mexi- co. Reports received here state that with a party of friends General Morales | has started for Guatemala. | 1 am informed by the Herald's cor- | respondent in Managua that two Brit- | ish war ships are now in Nicaraguan waters, and two more are expected. | One of these now in Nicaragua is at Co- | rinto, and the other at San Juan del Sur. LONDON, Feb. 14.—A dispatch to the Times from Montevideo says: The new State Council was installed on Satur- | day amid popular enthusiasm. Dr. Juan Cartesa Blanco was unanimously | elected president of the council | SEVERAL RAILROADS ‘: " ARE ENJOINED., Prevented by a Court Order From Carrying on the Boycott on the Lone Star Line. GALVESTON, Feb. 13.—David E. Bryant of the United States Court has issued an order restrafning the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, International and Great North- ern and Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- s from putting Into effect the notices they served on the Lone Star line as a re- sult of the New York conference that they would, after February 15, cancel all divisions with the Lone Star line and ac- cept no freight from it without the pre- pavment of all charges. The news came in the following telegram from M. C. McLemore, attorney for the Lone Star line: “JEFFERSON, Texas, Feb. 12. “Ts Daniel Ripley, Galveston, Texas: Judge Bryant sets case down for hearing February 21, and has entered the follow- g order: ‘In the mean time respond- ts are directed to maintain with com- ainant the same relations with respect to rates, divisions and freights as are by them granted to the Mallory iine.” " It is assumed tHat this will put a stop to the boycott; at least until the injunc- tion is finally passed upon and either made permanent or dissolved. poibedly=resa HARRY L. GAMBLE DEAD. Bacramento Politician Succumbs to Consumption at Nogales. NOGALES, Ariz., Feb. 13.—Harry L. Gamble of Sacramento died yesterday of Consumption. He was a Mason and prom- number of the yearlings, last pups, branded at that time, returned to | the rookeries on St. Paul Island. Two | were killed and skinned, in order to | send their pelts, one to Professor David | arr Jordan, head of the seal expert | | commission, the other to the Secretary | of the Treasury at Washington. | The seal question now stands in a fair way to be settled with or without the help of Great Britain or any other | nation. For, with the female seals branded in such a manner that the | skins are valueless and with the bach- | elor seals herded in the salt lagoon on St. Paul Island until the weather be- | comes too bad for pelagic sealing, | there will be no profit in the business for the sealing schooners. And we can | s protect the herd from raiders on | the islands, within or without the six- ty-mile prohibited area. | The fur question is more or less a | matter of fashion, however. We may | on that account be beaten yet. Sup-| pose Mrs. Grundy should declare In fa- | vor of wearing branded fur sealskin | cloaks? All our trouble would have been in vain. No woman would look at one that is not branded, and the Victoria sealers would be in their | glory. | In the skins under consideration the | brands are clear and distinct. Not a | vestige of hair or fur remains in the | wake of the iron, although the mark is at least a year old. Colonel Murray is delighted with this excellent result, as | branding process, besides having done | | The next morning at 6:30 o’clock we got under way and headed for St. too high for a safe landing. They sig- | naled, “Try Garden Cove.” So around | and anchored off the beach. Lieuten- | ant Hamlet went into the landing in one whaleboat and, anchoring outside of the surf, veered In toward the beach. - When near enough he threw them a line attached to a keg contain- ing mail for the island. In the other whaleboat I lay just outside of him, in order to pick him up should his boat capsize. We ha@ orders to land on the beach on no account, so we could not get their mail. On our return to the ship, and I re- gret to state that Hamlet's crew beat mine in an impromptu race to the ves- | sel, we got under way at 2:35 p. m. and | squared away for Unalaska. Yester- day, December 22, at 12:50 p. m., we | made fast to the wharf at Dutch Har- | bor and landed Mr. Baldwin. GLOUCESTER'S TRIBUTE TO LOST FISHERMEN. Memory of Nlnéiy-six TUnfortunates Honored in the Massachusetts Town_ GLOUCESTER, Mass., Feb. 13.—Glou- cester's annual tribute to lost fishermen was made to-day. The annual memor- ial service under the auspices of the Glou- cester Fishermen’s Institute was held in the First Baptist Church this afternoon | before a large audience, many of whom were relatives and friends of lost fish- ermen. Practically all of the clergy of the city were present and participated in the services, which opened with select scripture sentences by the chaplain of the institute. The memorial list, which was read, shows that ninety-six fishermen lost their lives during 1897, their average age bein 31. There are seventeen widows an forty-seven children left to mourn their loss. A large percentage of the unfor- tunate fishermen were natives of = the British provinces. ek AT Father and Child Drowned. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 13.—0. P. Ran- dall, a Southern Pacific Company section foreman at Woodville, and his little granddaughter were drowned this after- noon while attempting to cross Rogue River on a small en’? boat. They were seated in a cart. heir horse became unmanageable and backed off when about half way across. Randall leaves a widow and three children, two of whom are married, and a brother who resides in Los Angeles. 'inenl in California politics. = __Arizona Ex-Official Dead. TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 13.—A. J. Halbert, one of the Territory’s leading Democrats, wi® clerk of the District Court at Tuc- Poriied in that city last night -after a Jort lliness. He will be buried at Tempe, °k:::“-’:z Years of age and & native of —_—— Placer County Pioneer Gone. AUBURN, Feb. 18.—C. C. Sanders, a ploneer and one of the most substantial clitizens of Western Placer, died suddenly last night of apoplexy at his home in Lin- coln. e was a member of the first board of mutem of L}n:oln; :ngl helg‘ mln.ny other jons of trus luring his lo Mdenpe?ln Placer County. i ks iIIIIIIIIHIIIIII.I—II—I. ‘| ment for several HAS THE CO GONE DOWN IN LOMA NORTH PACIFIC? Last December This Old Bark Sailed for Alaska With a Cargo of Lumber and No News Has Since B From een Recelved Her. attle for Dutch Harbor on January Captain Mattson In command, with Or., and the Orient eight years ago, Alaska. Mr. Cloak brings the news that Harbor over the reported discovery : . E - SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—The steamer Lakme arrived in port at 4 o’clock this morning from Dutch Harber and Unalaska. which brought the news with reference to the rellef expedition, left Se- river boats now belng constructed there for the North American Trad- ing’and Transportation Company are now about ready for the boilers. Chief Engineer Harry B. Cloak of the Lakme reports that fears are entertained that the bark Coloma has gone to the depths of the stormy North Pacific Ocean. This vessel sailed from Tacoma en December 26, signed to the Alaska Commercial Company at Unalaska. 1s a very old vessel, and was a trans-Pacific packet between Portland, was established north of SBan Francisco. coma Mill Company from the agents, C. A. Hooper & Co. of San Fran- clsco, to carry a cargo valued at $4500, and which was fully insured, to Nothing has been heard of the Coloma since she left Puget and the length of time she has been out to sea warrants the bellef that she may have been wrecked and gone down. Captain Tuttle of the Bear when the Lakme left to crulse about the Pa- cific in the hope of hearing something of the long-overdue bark. states that a Mr. Coley, a mining man from Montana, found an outcrop- ping of what is generally considered good quartz. The steamer Lakme, 13. Bhe reports that the various a cargo of 680,000 feet of lumber con- The Coloma before any line of Oriental steamers She was chartered by the Ta- Sounq, It was the intention of there is little excitement at Dutch of gold quartz in that vicinity. He L e o o e e e e e e e e e CARRIES FOOD AND-SOLDIERS Steamship Oregon Sails With Supplies for Dawson. One Hundred Tons of Provi- sions for the Relief Ex- pedition. Battalion of Regular Infantry Taken Northward for Duty at Skaguay. Spectal Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, Or., Feb.13—Thesteam- ship Oregon sailed to-night for Dyea | and Skaguay, Alaska, with 500 passen- | gers and 1200 tons of freight, Including 50 dogs, 41 horses and 34 burros. One hundred tons of supplies for the Gov- ernment relief expedition are sent north by the Oregon. General H. C. Merriam, commanding the Department of the Columbia, pected to sail on the Oregon to-night, but important dispatches received to- day from Washington compelled him to postpone his departure for a few days. Captain D. L. Brainerd, who is the disbursing officer of the Govern- ment relief expedition, was among the passengers. He has orders to go to Dy- ea, and there await the arrival of the Government reindeer and the snow and ice locomotives, both of which will be used in transporting supplies to Daw- son. Captain Bralnerd expects to be able to start the expedition from Dyea by March 1. The first battalion of Fourteenth In- fantry, consisting of Companies A and G, will leave Vancouver Barracks on Tuesday via Tacoma for Skaguay. All its property and paraphernalia, includ- ing rations amounting to 250 tons, have been loaded on the river steamer Un- e military to assume the he was one of the first advocates of the | dine for shipment to Kalama, where they will be reshipped by rail to*Ta- with a large | the branding with his own fair hands. | .o ma over the Northern Pacific. Lieutenant Colonel Russell, who was to have commanded this battalion, will caders, such as General Na- | George Island. At 11:30 we stopped off | remain at Vancouver Barracks owing Prospero | the vlilage landing, but found the surf | to poor health. Lieutenants Learned and Cabell joined their regiment to-day from detached service, and Captain Ma- °n called to Guatemala |to the other side of the island we went | tile, commanding Company G, expects FEUD WAGED 0N THE GILL RIVER A Bitter Strife Between Fac- tions of Stockmen in Arizona. Two of the an Attempt to Assassinate Participants Accused of a Foe. special Dispatch to The Call. PHOENIX, Feb, 13.—John M. Mullen, a wealthy and highly respected cattle man, with ranges on the Gila River, and Thomas Davenport, a prosperous farmer, have been arrested, charged with the at- tempted assassination of Josiah Ander- son several days ago. Davenport will be discharged, but Mullen will be ex- amined before a Justice of the Peace to- w. mx‘:doerson‘l story, to account for a sh&- tered hand, was that he was called to his gate in the early dawn and shot by a masked and mounted stranger. The tale of Mullen’s friends is that Anderson and several others were caught by the ac- cused and his neighbors in the act of stealing some of Mullen's cattie, and that Anderson was wounded in a sharp-shoot- ing affray that promptly followed. The Andersons were driven from the fleld without further casualties. Further trouble is looked for, the fac- tional feeling being bitter. Anderson and two of his sons have been under indict- 5 mo('llth{! for fl'le lhi’“ ty head of cattle from a farmer's %Lsfi'?;‘fe? and are also defendants in a criminal action of a year’s standing, wherein they are chnrgid with_unlaw- fully branding & number of Mullen’s calves. pelialet ol PERRIS DISTRICT LITIGATION. Important Decision to Be Rendered by a Riverside Judge. RIVERSIDE, Feb. 13.—Judge Noyes will on Monday hand down a decision that will be of great importance to the Perris people, vhlch‘sverb way It goes. ecision will n the case of the B s he Bondholders of the Perris i District. The acti m': fl! ?ag 2 e Irrigation E which was brought in the State for the land owners of the district to test the validity of both the district in question and the issued and sold by the district. U n de- pends much for lhcpfll’-;rfll V',llu ex- | FAIR WITNESS SPIRITED AWAY Sensation in a Lawsuit Involving Land at Everett. Miss Maggie Black Has Dis- appeared and Cannot Be Found. As the County Auditor's As istan She Could Give Startling Testimony. Spectal Dispatch to The Call SNOHOMISH, Wash., Feb. 13.—A sen- sation has developed as a feature of the big Hart-Rucker lawsuit which has | been transferred from here to the Su- perior Court at Seattle. It is nothing less than the mysterious disappearance of Miss Maggie Black. Miss Black has been the County Auditor's assistant since 1890, when the city of Everett was booming over the location there of pa- per mills, foundry, nail works and barge works. In that year occurred the appraise- ment and sale of a school section on the outskirts of Everett. The purchaser was Wyatt J. Rucker, an Everett bank- er, who supposed he was representing | James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Rallway, which was just building into the town. Hill failed to furnish the money for the property, and in consequence John F. Hart's claim of $40,000, the assessed valuation of a saw- mill he had built on the section, was never paid. Hart sued Rucker, and the case now, including casts, involves some $60,000. 2 Miss Black, having been in the Aud- itor's office during the whole time, is said to be in possession of knowledge which, if promulgated before the court, would convict some one of tampering with the records relating to this land. Accordingly, it is said, this guilty per- son has had Miss Black sent on a se- cret mission to some distant State, or probably to Canada. At any rate, Miss Black has not been seen about Snohom- ish since about Christmas time. Aud- itor Headlee does not know where she is, and her friends either do not know or refuse to tell. The attorneys for Hart say that Rucker was instrumental in spiriting Miss Black away. The attorneys for Rucker make a like charge against Hart. Probably when the case is tried at Seattle some sensational charges will be made. The case has been to the Su- preme Court five times during the last six years on minor pcints, and is now to be tried on its merits. PROMOTED AND PLACED ON THE RETIRED LIST. President Rewards the Services of a Lieutenant Incapacitated for Duty. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Second Lieu- tenant James Hamilton of the Third Ar- tillery, having been found by an army recruiting board physically incapacitated by reason of disability incident to the service, is by direction of the President retired from active service as a first lieu- tenant of artillery, to date from Febru- ary 10, the date from which he would have been promoted to that grade by rea- son of seniority, if found qualified. He will proceed to his home. By direction of the Acting Secretary of ‘War the follocwing officers of the Four- teenth Infantry are relieved from duty with the National Guard of the States designated opposite their respective names and will proceed without de- lay to join their regiment at Vancouver barracks, Washington: First Lieutenant Henry C. Cabell, Oregon; First Lieuten- ant Henry G. Learnard, Idaho. Captain’ Reynolds, assistant surgeon, will report in person to the commanding officer at Vancouver barracks, Washing- ton, for duty at that station and by letter to the commanding general of the De- partment of the Columbia. By direction of the Acting Secretary of War, Captain Paul F. Straub, assistant surgeon, is re- lieved from duty at Angel Island, Cal., and will' report in ~erson, without delay, to the commanding general of the De- partment of the Columbia for ment to duty. £ SR SENATOR LINDER SUED. Action Brought "to Recover on Two Promissory Notes. VISALIA, Feb. 18.—A suit to recover a large sum of money has been brought in the Superior Court here agalnst R. Lin- der of Tulare, State Senator from this district. The San Jose Safe Deposit Bank of Savings {s the plaintiff and the judg- ments asked for amount to $56,766 on two notes _given Linder in 2 The notes ai cured by 184 bonds of e tion Dl the Tulare Irriga- , each having a par value of $500. The plaintiff also prays for K"mh' sion to purchase the bonds when they are ordered sold by the court. 8. F. Leib of LBan Jose is the attorney for the plaintift. ANARCHY PREVAILS [N FRANCE President Faure Is Called Upon to Put a Stop to It. Le Gaulois Editorially Warns the Chief Executive. Noted Journalists Speak of the Crisis Novw Before the Nation. REMEDIES ARE SUGGESTED They Declare That the Jury Will Be Compelied to Find Emile Zola Guilty. | Copyrighted, 189, by James Gordoa Bennett. PARIS, Feb. 13. — Numerous meetings were held in the prov- inces to-day in connection with the Dreyfus agitation. In some cases resolutions against the Government were adopted, but there were no serious disorders. 06 306 208 308 108 108 0 08 308 0 306 X0 X0 508 308 30X K PARIS, Feb. 13—"What will be the upshot of the whole business?” is a question that may be asked with some profit at this juncture of the Zola trial. The gravest anxiety obtains and the Gaulois goes so far as to complain ed- itorially that “anarchy prevails in the army and law in the street,” and calls upon Felix Faure to exercise his con- stitutional power and put a stop to this state of things. The following views of well-known Parisian journalists experienced in reading the signs of the times will be read with interest: Gaston Calmette of the Figaro said: “A fault has been committed, a fault which should bg¢ attributed to the course of affairs father than to the men who have brought about this campaign of revision. The proper position to take is a strictly legal one, and to ask but one question in parliament, which communicated against Dreyfus with- 00 300 30 308 100 30 0 5% 00308 208 308 300 X0 00 0 30F ©0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000C0 f=d o out his knowledge, to the court- martial. If he has been convicted in connection with a document which he knows nothing about, and of which his counsel knew nothing, then the law, no matter what was the fault of Dreyfus, has been violated, and the matter should be revised. The whole question is wrapped up in that. Every- one could associate himself with this campaign so far as justice is concern- ed, but no one could do so properly be- fore the revision takes place, nor with certainty have set in motion the ques- tion of the innocence of Dreyfus. If the matter had been viewed in this light, France would have avoided one of the most terrible crises she has un- dergone since 1870. I speak of the re- public, and this is the first danger to the republic which can involve such incalculable consequences. I refer to the danger of antagonism now spring- ing into existence between the judicial system and the army, between the gown and the sword, the antagonism between the political world and our army staff.” Henri Rochefort says: “Zola will be convicted. There is so great a pressure of public opinion acting on the jury that one cannot expect anything but conviction. On the other hand, Zola does not seem to be well defended, and his counsel seems to bé dragging the affair out as long as possible. I don’t think Zola will go to prison, nor do I think he wtll be obliged to pay a fine. After the trial is over its conclusions will be considered by the court of cas- sation; but suppose Zola is acquitted, he will not be able to show himself in public in Paris, or, for that matter, anywhere in France without personal danger to himself. He could not very well live in Paris with a body guard continually about him.” M. Judel of the Petit Journal said: “T consider the present situation grave, and this gravity is owing to the weak- ness of the Governmen! ENDS LIFE WITH AX AND KNIFE Suicide of Rancher John Rog- ers at His Home at 014 Gilroy. Takes s Tragic Method of Gaining Relief From Continued Tllness. Special Dispatch to The Call. GILROY, Feb. 13.—John Rogers, a Por- tuguese resident of Old Gilroy, aged about 55 years, committed suicide this morn- ing at 8§:30 o'clock. Rogers had been sick with a stomach affection for many years, and it is supposed that a tem- porary fit of despondency induced the act. Rogers seemed in his usual good spirits this morning, and left the house presum- ably to hitch.horses to a wagon to bring his family to church. Instead he went to the granary a Short distance away and struck himself four times on the head with an ax. He then took out a pocket knife and cut his throat from ear to ear. His wife, having dressed her- self and the children, went in search of her husband andfound him lying dead with blood streaming from his wounds. The news was broTght to town and City Marshal Rives and Dr. J. W. Thayer went at once to the scene of the trag- édy. There was no doubt that it was a case of suicide. Rogers was the owner of a tract of rich land at San Felipe. He was living on rented land at Old Gilroy. He was known as an honest, good-hearted Por- tuguese, devout in his on. four children are rs. Rogers and the at loss for a cause for the tragedy, other than that he was despondent from his long suffering. . Flannelly Wants a Delay SAN JOSE, Feb. 13.—When the case of Thomas Flannelly, charged with the mur- der of his father at Redweod City: 1a O S el a1l (o Bupotior Court o ‘ morrow, the defénse will' for a con- XX 4] e important SPANIARDS TAMPERING WITH MAIL Reason the Cushing Was Sent to Havana. Offlcial Communications to the Maine Are Intercepted. Will Hereafter Be Carried by Torpedo-Boats From Key West. MADRID’S HAUGHTYSTAND Has as Yet Falled to Disavow Re- sponsiblitiy for the De Home Laetter. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The Herald’'s Washington corre- spondent telegraphs: It is now known on the highest authority that the real reason for sending the United States torpedo-boat Cushing to Havana was that the Spanish authorities have been tampering with mail sent to the battle-ship Maine in Havana harbor. This resulted in Captain Sigsbee of the Maine sending a protest to Washington, with the suggestion that regular service be established between Key West and Havana by means of torpedo-boat. On the strength of this protest the Cushing was dispatched to Havana. It is stated that the Cushing will return' to Key West from Havana in a day or two, bring- ing dispatches. After remaining at Key West for about a week she will go back to Cuba’s capital. Although it has been frequent- 1y reported that official mail has been tampered with in the past, Secretary Long told me to-night that he had received no reports from Captain Sigsbee saying that the Spanish authorities had interfered with his letters in any way. “The dispatch of the Cushing to Havana,” he continued, “was in line with the department’s ac- tion in sending the Maine on a friendly visit to that port and the Montgomery to Santiago de Cuba and Matanzas. I expect she is now or will be soon on her way back to Key West.” The De Lome incident is stiil un- settled. A cipher dispatch received from Minister Woodford late last night and translated this morning was not entirely gatisfactory. It was taken to the President by Assistant Secretary Day this afternoon, and after a short conference between them Mr. Day sent another cablegram to” Minister Wood- ford. Officfally nothing will be said about these two communications further than that the incident is not yet en- tirely closed. I am reliably informed, however, that Minister Woodford's cable was a report of his interview with the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, which showed that no direct disclaimer had been made by Spain of that feature of the De Lome Iletter, which has been interpreted to indicate the insincerity of the Spanish Govern- ment in the matter of autonomy and in negotiations for a commercial treaty. The absence of such a disclaimer is not entirely satisfactory to the Presi- dent. Accordingly, Minister Woodford has been given further instructions on the subject. Without making any ex- press demand for a disavowal, Minister ‘Woodford is required by his new-in- structions to impress upon the Madrid authorities the importance to all par- ties concerned of some distinct repudia- tion of Senor de Lome's declarations, which the President cannot telieve cor- rectly represent the position of the Spanish Government. Mr. McKinley believes that when the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs fully appreciates the interpretation which has been put upon Senor de Lome's letter in some quarters in the United States he will hasten to dis- avow it. Minister Woodford has been told in a positive way what the Presi- dent would like to have domne, but he has not been told anything which would justify him in making a demand for a disavowal. In other words, it is assumed that he will use delicate diplomacy to secure the end desired, and the President is sincere in the be- ilef that another interview between Minister Woodford and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Madrid will end the whole trouble. ol WILL SPAIN APOLOGIZE? Contradictory Reports Are Received From Madrid and Wash- ington. NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—A dispatch to the World from Madrid says: A formal statement of regret and censure of Dupuy de Lome's conduct, coupled with an expression of sincere desire that the Canalejas letter incident shall not impair the present friendly relations between the ©00000C0000000000000000000000000000C000000000 overnments of Spain and the = United tates, or interrupt the negotiations for a commercial treaty, will made by For- elgn. Minister Guilon immediately follow- ing the gazetting of the royal decree ac- cepting Senor de Lome's resignation and appointing his_successor as Spain’s rep- resentative at Washington. On the other hand the Washington cor- respondent of the World that Spain has not disavowed rufinfl( lity for the utterances of Senor de Lome and does not consider that any disclaimer of that character is necesln.lz. From Spain’s point of view the incldent is closed, not only as to De Lome's reflections upon the President and the American people, but as to his declaration that autonomy is a mockery and fraud. Such e‘:l ‘t’l!lemunlal tisfactory eénfmmt“ ation contaln e long-expected statement !rom‘-llr. ‘Woodford received late last 2 —_— STOLEN BY A CLERK. De Lome's Letter Taken in the Havana Postoffice. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13.—The Press ‘will print to-morrow what it asserts to be the true version of the acquisition and publication of the. letter of Minister de Lome to Senor Canalejas. The authority MM}’MII“!‘MWHA”OIMOI the highest standing in the councils of his party, who received his information from headquarters in New York.” The story proceeds to say: The letter was not stolen from the Unit- ed States mails, but was secured by an agent of the Cuban Junta in the postoffice at Havana. Don Jose Canalejas, to whom the letter was addressed, never saw the original. He did not know until eight days after the letter reached Havana that sucn a letter from Spain’'s representative at Washington had been written him. De Lome wrote the letter in his private resi- dence in Washington instead of at the Spanish legation. The paper, however, was marked with the official tvpe and read in the corner “Legation de Espana.” The same inscription was upon the left- hand upper corner of the envelope. Senor de Lome did not mail the letter from his house. In fact, he had not quite completed it upon the morning it was written and carried it to_the legatio: Where It was first seen and noticed by gbrson Wwho is in the employ of the e assy, acting in a sub-official capacit The letter lay upon the desk of the min- ister in his inner office, the outer office being his place of reception to visitors. During an absence of a half hour from the inner office of de Lome the clerk in question saw the open letter and read some of it. The next day this same person sent word to his Cuban associates in Wash- ington to the effect that he had seen a letter from De Lome to Canalejas, in which President McKinley was vilified and autonomy called a eme. The letter reached H na five days after its postmark in Washington. An agent of the Cuban party, who is an employe of the Spanish postoffice, knew that the letter was on the w; and when it came into his hands it was carried from the postoffice and a copy was made of it. Word to this effect was sent to the Cuban leader in Jacksonville, Fla., ‘who at once asked the secret Cuban junta in Havana to secure the original letter —that a copy was not what was desired. The Havana postoffice clerk was not wills ing to do this at first, but afterward consented, as he was obliged to acs count for it to the other employes of tha department. The original was then taken, several blank sheets were substis tuted in place of the paper upon which De Lome had written, and the letter fin~ ally postmarked in the Havana office and sent on its routine way. Eight days from its arrival in the Ha« vana office, the sealed envelope, prop- erly addressed to Senor Canalejas, was delivered at the Hotel Inglaterra. Senor Canalejas did not regard the matter ser- fously "at the time, although the hotei boy who brought him the letter and the postoffice employe who had charge of it were arrested. 8o, also, was the hotel employe who went several times daily to the postoffice for the mails. All three were discharged after an examination. —_—- ELUDES ALL THE SPIES. Large Expedition Sails From the Florida Coast for Cuba. JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 13.—A special to the Times-Union and Citizen from Tampa says: Almost under the nose of Bdward Gaylor, superintendent of the Pinkerton and Spanish spies, a large Cuban expedi- tion left Tampa last night and to-night, sailing from a point on Pease River. The men, about seventy in number, walked Q\ronfih the streets of Tampa about 3 o’clock this morning and boarded a spe- cial train, which quickly bore them to a point near where they were to embark, and there they remained in hiding untii to-night, when a tug took them out to the steamer which bore them away to Cubt Colonel Emilio Nunez being in charge of the steamer. It is segd General Sanguilly is the real commander, and color is given this ru- mor by the fact that when the men left here they were in charge of Colonel Le- chuga, who was first lieutenant of the personal staff selected by Sanguilly when he failed to get away from Jacksonville. Superintendent Gaylor, his son, and ane other Pinkerton man have been here look- ing for Sanguilly, they believing he was somewhere near here. It is alleged the Cubans have sent Sanguilly away on his trip to get rid of him in the United States, The detectives are totally ignorant of the departure of this expedition. It is understood that 5000 rifles, 6000 pounds of dynamite, 200,000 rounds of cartridges, and a’large lot of supplies made up the cargo. b R Arcos May Succeed De Lome. MADRID, Feb. 13.—The Cabinet will discuss to-morrow the choice of a suc- cessor to Senor de Lome at Washington. The candidacy of Senor Polo-Ber- nabe appears tc be abandoned. Seve- ral members of the Cabinet favor the nomination of the Duke of Arcos, Spanish Minister to Mexico, because he conld take charge of the Spanish legation at Wi - ington this week. i Aoy Fire Destroys a Cement Plant. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Fire destroyed the plant of the Chicago Portland Cement ompany at Hawthorne to-day. 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