The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1898, Page 1

The Call VOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1898. PRICE FIVE COENTS. SUNK IN BERNER BAY WITH CREW AND PASSENGERS Alaskan Steamship Clara Nevada Re- ported to Have Gone Down With All on Board. e SEATTLE, Feb. 14—Meager detalls of the steel steamer Clara on the los: Nevada have been received here from ra Nevada Jur n her home trif d when off er Bay, about thirty miles south by the resi- ablaze, Whi the was crowd- wful scene, which re- and eyward C , 8 flames. ner B the heard, . ed with spectato: a loud report ¥ sembled the explosion of boil nothing more wa 1 of the ill-fated steamer. the unfortunate forty and the entire crew are se could be found of them veach of Berner Bay. The ugh furi gale ¥ It is thought the vessel wa r Bay for shel- and Islander, for Victoria, nion, whence Captain vs of the dis- 1 that the Clara Ne- been on fire great crhood The beac syward 1s strewn with e, freshly paint- ork of the Clara Ne- age was seen by Cap- an of the steamship m Skag- Coleman, late uay. On the evening of February 5 George Peck and wife of Seyward City saw a proceeding slowly small steamer against a head wind well out in the channel, and while they watched its efforts to make headway the vessel broke out into flames. This vessel was unquestionably the Clara Nevada. The sea was very rough, so that those on board would have had very littlechance to make shore anywhere in boats. The fire was seen by many other residents of Seyward City. This was the first trip of the Clara Nevada, and she was due to leave Seattle last Saturday on her second trip, with all berths sold. The steamer Rustler had left for the scene, but no report from her is obtainable. The Clara Nevada was formerly the steamer Hassler of the United States foast Survey Service, and was sold last August to McGuire Bros. of this city, who refurnished and overhauled her for the Alaska trade. She was on her way from Skaguay to Juneau and 1 forty passengers on board. She s a three-masted schooner, rigged hout gaffs. She was of 319 tons bur- feet long, 24 t beam and 10 She was butlt in 1872 When inspected the den, feet deep depth. at Camden, N. J. boilers of the Clara Nevada water pressure of 146 pounds, equal to 200 pounds steam pressure. She had a steel hull fitted with five transverse air-tight bulkheads. She cost the McGuires $15,000 and they spent $15,000 more on her alterations. She was considered entirely seaworthy and was given a first-class rating. cold stood a | THE STEAMER CLARA NEVADA. -B-8-5-5-§-5-3-0-8-0-8-8-uER-N SOME OF THE LOST. SEATTLE,:. Feb. Clara Nevada were as follows: o Captain, C. H. Lewis. 2 Second mate, —— Smith. Purser, George Foster Beck. i Steward, —— O'Donnell. i Freight clerk, George Rogers. Pilot, Ed Keely. I Chief Engineer, David Reed. " The entire crew numbers twenty-eight, in- m cluding six sailors, five cabin-boys and three m Chinese cooks. ®m passengers on board. 14.—The officers of the First mate, Mr. Smith. The vessel is supposed to have had forty D R R L T ¥ ¥ PO SO U I U U PLACED IN FALSE LIGHT BY A FOOL, Grieved by De Lome’s Letter. Condemn the Vile Utterances, in Fitting Way to Minister ‘Woodford’s Statement. merce, Appointed Minister to the United States. Spanish Ministers Are Sagasta and '’ Associates They Have Decided to Reply SENOR DUPUY IS SCORED. Luis Polo Bernabe, Director of Com- Copyright, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. B R R R R R R e + PARIS, Feb. 14.—The Figaro says: No state could make such an apology as the United States demands from Spain witheut the loss of dignity. If the United States should attack Spain under such a futile pretext as the De Lome incident the whole of Eu- rope would support the latter. P R T R R R PP MADRID, Feb. 14.—As a result of the meeting of the Council of Ministers it has been decided to reply in a fitting way to Minis- ter Woodford’s statement about Senor de Lome’s letter. I have just had a conversation with one of the Ministers present at the council, and he said: “You may say openly, as coming from Senor Sagasta, and from each of us, that we entirely condemn, in a most absolute manner, Senor de Lome's letter. ‘We are ashamed, grieved and sorry thereat. The Ministers feel more aggrieved than President Mec- Kinley can possibly be. We are honest men, who Hawve been placed in a false position by & fool.” In reply to further questions the Minister said: ‘“Canalejas’ journey was absolutely private and in no way possible did we trust him or use him."” The council has appointed, to replaceSenor de Lome, Senor Luis Polo Bernabe, now Director of Commerce in the Foreign Office, who has lately been engaged in preparing a treaty of commerce with Senor Moret.” He is, there- fore, especially fitted to take it and put it in shape in Washing- ton. His father was Spanish Minister in Washington in 1872, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Actuated | by a sense of honor and a strict idea not believe it pgssible for the Nevada to have left on the 5th. There does not being lost, he says, but there is a pos- sibility that it may not be the one re- ported. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 14—Captain C. H. Lewis, of the steamer Clara Ne- vada, has been in the employ of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com- pany and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for twenty years. At differ- ent times he has commanded steamer George W. Elder, the Willam- ette, the Idaho and the Michigan. Last August he attempted to take the stern- wheel steamer Fugene from this city to St. Michael, but met disaster on Vancouver Island. G. Foster Beck, the purser and one of the owners of the Clara Nevada, was | one of the best known young men in | this city, having lived here the greater portion of his life. He was about 28 vears of age and was the son-in-law of | Mrs. R. L. Hawthorne, probably the wealthiest woman in Portland. | SECRETARY SHERMAN ‘ HAS NOT RESIGNED. Although Suffering From a Bad Cold He Will Soon Resume His Official Duties. NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—A Washington special to the Herald Sherman is confined to his home suffer- | ing from a severe cold. His physlcian, Dr. Frank Hyatt, told me his condition is by no means serious. He confidently expects that the Secretary will be able | to take up his work at the department again In a very few days. Mrs. Sherman to-night demied emphatically the report | that the Secretary has resigned from the Cabinet, and said that he entertains no | intention of doing so at present. She de- clares that there is no foundation what- ever for the rumor. It is also stated at the White House and at the State De- partment that the Secretary is not known to contemplate Withdrawing from the Cabinet at this time. ———— New Cannery for Hanford. HANFORD, Feb. 14.—At a meeting of fruit growers and citizens to-day 1000 tons Secretary In the reports of the loss of the Clara Nevada it is stated that the steamship left Skaguay on her return trip to Se- attle on February 5. W. W. McGuire says that he has positive knowledge that the steamship had not reached Bkaguay on February.4. McGuire does of fruit for canning purposes was guar- anteed to Fontana & Co, and a site for their cannery to be built in Hanford was pledged the company. Fontana was pres- ent and accepted the guarantee and said that operations would begin at once to erect & plant to cost $25,000. The cannery will employ between 500 and 600 =4rsons during &o canning season. the | au. | seem to be any doubt about a vessel | Continued on Second Page. 1 & SHOT TO DEATH | BY A ROBBER Dennis Connors, a Teamster, |* > Murdered at the Head of 1 Kootenay Lake. “Fire Away,” Said the Viectim, and the Bandit Carried Out His Threat. Speclal Dispatch to The Call, NELSON, B. C., Feb. 14.—The Nelson arrived this evening from slt(e:.?:: nook, a new town at the head of Koote. nay Lake, formerly Goat River Landing, and brought the body of Dennis Connors, who was foully murdered on sunday' night. The facts of the case so far as learned are: The murdered man, who was a teamster in the employ of con- tractors for the Crows Nest Pass Railway Construction Company, was sitting in the barroom of Erickson's Hotel, when a man known here as Doyle and in Ross- land as Sullivan entered the place. With- out any provocation Doyle drew a re. volver and pointing it at Connors said: “Dig up or I'll shoot you. Connors replied: “Fire away.” immediately fired. Connors fell dead without a groan, with a smile on his face. Doyle fled from the house. Constable Ford, who is acting in Con- | stable Jarvis' absence on special duty in | Nelson, arrived on the scene about five minutes later and at once started out in search of the murderer along the toll road to O'Leary’s place, along the route of the Crows Nest Pass Construction road. Although a strict search was madé no trace of the murderer could be found. MORALES CAN RETURN, BUT MUST COME '~ PEACE. | . PANAMA, Teb. 14.—Advices by cable from the Herald’s correspondent in Guatemala, Guatemala, say that Presi- dent Cabera refuses to see any one ex- cept the higher state and military offi- cials. Senor Auguiano, Minister of For- eign Relations, says in'an interview that the Government has no candidate for the Presidency to succeed Senor Barrios, who was assassinated last Tuesday. The present Government, he says, is only striving to_preserve peace throughout the country. Senor Auguiano also says that General Prospero Morales will be re- ceived in a friendly manner if he returns to Guatemala in a peaceful way, inas- much as he is inciuded in an amnesty decree which was issued yesterday. Gen- eral ‘Morales has many friends in Guate- mala, who have already taken steps to advance his candidacy for the Qency. & =] 2 ® POP0PP0PPVPPP9PPOPPVPVPPVPPPPVIVIPPPDPPEVIVVVPPOPPPOPPPPIPPPOPOOOW @ |9eeos0000000000000 NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco: Falr on Tuesday, probably fog In the morning; northwesterly, changing to southwesterly, winds. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours San Francisco Portland ... 80 degrees Los Angeles . 6 degrees San Diego . degrees FIRST PAGE. Awful Tragedy of the Sea. De Lome's Successor Named. Sentiment Changing to Zola. Defective Shells in Congress. SECOND PAGE. Chief Dwyer to Enforce Law. Braly Escapes Prosecution. Kansas Pacific in Congress. Republicans Ready to Battle. THIRD PAGE. Blizzard Sweeps White's Pass. Laws to Favor Americans. Il Luck of the Oregon. Protection for A'merican Miners. Annexation a Crime. Chinese Hatred of Foreigners. FOURTH PAGE. San Jose Scandal to Be Probed. Son in Jall, Mother Dead. Drink Leads to Suicide. Flannelly Given More Time. San Jose May Not Be Looted, Lawyer Jailed as a Firebug. Perished in His Family's Sight A Tragedy of Bakersfield. FIFTH PAGE. Grand Jury After Pugilism. Official Choice of a Fender, SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Out of Towne. Put Up or Shut Up. Branded Seals. Rellef for the Whalers. Perverted Justice. The Dread Menace of Ophthalmia. Corridor Storles. Answers to Correspondents. SEVENTH PAGE. Off for the Klondike. Hospitals for Insane Consumptives, Slapped a Recreant Lover. Dogs at the Mining Fair. EIGHTH PAGE. Water Rates No Lower. Reported Famine at Dawson. NINTH PAGE. News of the Water Front. The Bostonlans Are Here. Library Trustees in Danger. TENTH PAGE. Commerctal World. ELEVENTH PAGH. News From Across the Bay. Death of A. D. Wilder. Lieutenant Peary Here. TWELFTH PAGE, Racing at Emeryville. THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. 'FOURTEENTH_PAGE. Rotten Harbor Board Wharves. ~ Twice Robbed One House. $000000000000000000000000000000000000000066000000000000000000000000000008000005® R O e e e R R R R R RS A R R R R R b4 'G‘.O.QQO..‘AQ.‘..‘@l PUBLIC CLAMOR AGAINST ZOLA IS UIETING DOWN M. FERNAND LABORIE, Counsel for Zola. AROUSED BY THE EXPOSE - IN THE CALL Hilborn Will Cause a Thorough Investigation of the Defective Shrapnel Scandal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — Representative Hilborn to-day introduced in the House of Rep- resentatives his resolution di- recting the Committee on Mili- tary Affairs to make an investi- gation into the matter of defec- tive shrapnel furnished to the army by private contractors. This matter is creating great interest in army and navy cir- cles and in Congressional cir- cles as well. Copies of The Call containing accounts of the fail- ure of the shrapnel at the Pre- sidio have been brought to the attention of Congressmen and army officers. Members of Congress believe it to_be a very serious matter and are in favor of an investigation. Congressman Hil- born said to The Call correspondent to-night “The results of the tests of the shrapnel at the Presidio, when 50 per cent of the ammunition was found to be unserviceable, cannot be passed by without notice. It is too serious a matter. It is true that war is not im- minent, but ‘in time of peace prepare for war.’ And in no way-can we pre- pare for war more effectually than by devising means for certain delivery of perfect ammunition and stores in case of war. “It appears that we have purchased and paid for a considerable amount of shrapnel which is worthless. This means either that the inspection by our army experts was faulty, at the time of delivery, or that the materfal has deteriorated in a very brief period so as to become useless. In either case there should be a thorough investiga- tion. If the army officers are careless in making tests of material received from contractors they should be taught to be more vigilant, and if the ammu- nition we are accepting is manufac- tured according to a faulty formula and lacks stability so that it becomes worthless in a few years we should know that also. If war comes we do not want to be in the condition in which France found herself when her war with Germany commenced. Her army marched to slaughter instead of war because of the insufficiency of the war material furnished by dishonest contractors. “Whenever practicable the Govern- ment itself should manufacture its war material. Then there will be no temptation to furnish unserviceable ammunition. The cost may be a little more, but it will pay in the end. We recognize this in the manufacture of our navy guns and make them at our ordnance shop in Washington, with our own skilled men. They are not only the best guns in the world of their kind, ‘but they are made so cheaply that no private contractor thinks of competing for the work. “In the matter of powder, our posi- tion is peculiar. When we used the old black and brown powders made of sal- neter, sulphur and charcoal, PPPPPPPPOPOOOPO®OSOS PPPPPPPPOPPOPIPOOGOS the Gov-" | open market from some of the hun- ernment purchased its powder in the dreds of manufacturers of that pow- der in this country. When, however, we required a special kind of brown and black prismatic powder for our high-power guns, which had to be made under great pressure, we had trouble to get contractors to bid for its manufacture. “Secretary Long in his last report complains of the lack of competition in the manufacture of powder by pri- vate manufacturers. We have now, however, reached the point when the brown and black powders must be abandoned, if we propose to keep up with the other nations. Smokeless pow- der is the powder of the future. It has 45 per cent more power and is not so destructive to the gun; if does not foul the gun, and the operation of swabbing is dispensed with. But its great ad- vantage is that it is smokeless. The | ship using brown powder will after the first fire be fighting in a cloud of smoke, while her enemy, using smoke- less powder, will not have her view obscured. The ship enveloped in a cloud of smoke must necessarily shoot wildly and become an easy prey to the torpedo, “which she will be unable to discover and avoid. Our navy experts have worked out the problem at the experiment station at Newport, and have obtained formula for a smokeless powder of great-energy, which is stable and will not deteriorate for years un- der any cohditions of heat or cold, dry- ness or moisture. This was a great tri- umph and reflects credit upon our na- val officers. This smokeless powder is equal if not superior to any powder in the world for ship use. It has no nitro- glycerine in it, which makes it a desir- able powder for ships. The powder used by the army, called Payton pow- der (in honor of its inventor, Bernard | Payton, superintendent of the Califor- nia Powder Works at Santa Cruz) has| forty parts of nitro-glycerine. The | army officers do not object to this and | find this safe on the land. But there | is some volatilization of nitro-glycerine | from the mass, resulting in a deposition | of free nitro-glycerine upon the cooler surface of the powder mass. The vola- tilization will be accelerated in the hot | magazines of the ship. “The army powder of which nitro- glycerine is a component part is deemed unsafe to use in ships. The smokeless powder adopted by the ordnance de- partment of the bureau is made wholly of gun cotton of high nitration. It is called pyro-celluloise. This powder possesses remarkable properties. A splinter of it may be lighted and when in full flame may be blown out with a breath. But fired in a high-power gun it takes on another character. Two powder manufacturers in this country have undertaken to produce powder ac- cording to this formula, which has only been perfected within the last year. These companies are the Dupont Powder Works of Wilmington, Del., and the California Powder Works of Santa Cruz. The California company has turned out a product which is pro- nounced fully up to the standard, but has as yet delivered none to the Gov- CHANGE 0F THE FRENCH SENTIVENT Greater Regard Shown the Perse- cuted Novelist. Is Some Fresh Sensations Sprung Daily at the Trial. Disappearance of Document Upon Which Dreyfus Was Convicted. TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS. One Declares That Friends of the Convicted Captain Offered Him a Big Bribe. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordoa Bennett. PARIS, Feb.14.—A remarkable change is manifest to-day in the demeanor of the public toward Emile Zola. In the crowds of people who collected outside the Palais de Justice there could not have been more than a dozen or so at most who went with the intention of making demonstra- tions in favor of or against Zola. The impression obtained by the Herald correspondent, who was present outside the court from the time of Zola’s arrival until his departure at half-past 5, was one of calm—such absolute calm that one almost wondered if hos- tile intentions had ever been shown by the public toward the novelist. At 10 o’clock there were few people In the Galerie de Harley facing the Place Dau- phine, and when Zola arrived at 12 o'clock at Quai des Orfev- riers the number was not percep- tibly increased. He was greeted with a few cries of “A bas Zola" and “Vive Zola,” with an accom- paniment of whistles from a small body of anti-Semites, but it is a notable fact that there were no cries of “Vive I'armee” when the military witnesses ar- rived. As the day wore on the num- ber of people increased, and there must have been at least 20,000 on the various quays and Place Dauphine. To-day being a Paris workmen’'s holiday, a great part of these were arti- sans, who sauntered along the boulevard with glances of curi- osity through the large gilded gates at the main entrance to the Palais, then along Quai de I'Horloge, where a company of soldiers were on picket duty, back to the Place Dauphine, and thence to Quai des Orfe- vriers, thus making a complete circuit of the Palais de Justice. An incident in the afternoon pro- vided a matter of much gossip. Prince Henri d'Orleans pre- sented himself at the court, but was refused entrance because he was not provided with a special permit. As Zola left there came from Quai de la Messagerie the sound of whistles. About a dozen anti- Semites had taken up a position on the parapet of the quay and did not lose this opportunity of demonstrating, at a distance, against Zola. Now the question arises to what can we attribute this change from the vociferous demonstrations of last week? It is suggested that the answer can be only one of two things—either the police previously employed agents or provocateurs who are now withdrawn, or the public feeling toward Zola has been in- fluenced in his favor by the reading of the reports of the trial. PARIS, Feb. 14—When the trial of M. Zola and Perreux was resumed to- day M. Jaures, the socfalist member of the Chamber of Deputies, was recalled and reiterated his belief in the culpabil- ity of Major Esterhazy. The examination of M. Bertilion, the handwriting expert, was then resumed. He said he thought it impossible to ask the Minister for War for the incrimi- nating documents seized at the resi- dence of Dreyfus in 1894, which, accord- ing to the testimony of the witness on Saturday last, would enable him to prove that Dreyfus wrote the border- eau. ul‘;‘ Laborie, counsel for M. Zola, thereupon protested, and twitted M. Bertillon with being unwilling to tes- tify in court, while giving interviews to newspapers. M. Bertillon said the interviews were “{a’:{ng pressed by M. Laborie to tell how, unless he had seen the secret doc- uments, he was able to prove at court- fe3egogagogoRoRegeRogogegagageRugogeteg et eTegeRogeyoReReRuguReReFegeFoFugagoRaRegePegegopegegegeFugogegegaBuyeyeFeFegugagoyot-FotoFoFogagegegagaFegegegagagats] feg=2cgeFegaRegrgageFegegeReRegegogegeFogagFuRegeReoRuFogagegageFageFaFuFePeFugugegeFoReFageFaFeRugegeoFaFegeFogeprieFeagagegugotegeug=FeRaRugeyoFugagegess] Continued on Second Page. that Dreyfus wrote the border- Z”.fl Bertillon answered that he