The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1898. GERMANY CLOSELY WATCHED Her Interest In the Philip- pines Due Mot Other European larly England, the Kaiser Is Restrained. Copyrighted, 1838, by James Gordon Bennett. PARIS, June 16.—People here and in Londo: re wondering why Germany is ing such a strong val force off With the arri there of the ip Kaiser she will have four e water There is a red men on : n to a force hundred men to be dis- > st of next th German Lloyd has at- 1 England’s interests not does influence in be com- and com- n in the 't regarded ind or Germany. contemplate the dis- s to the Philippines £ power of An- out clearly, is rish the hope interference. 1 be purely cere there Is over. The only - to get will be narling at one American vie- ot ch Germ it w TO PROCURE AID OF THE DREIBUND Spanish Newspapers Declare That Every Sacrifice Should Be Made in That Direction. PARIS, June 16.—The Temps to-day points out that the Spanish newspa- which only yesterday talked arity of the Latin races d for help to France to- sacrifice should i of the Drei- Temps says: ot ade to T . Continuing, vish to draw blatant and the to Selfish ives. Nations, Particu- Will See That | Franco-Spanish alliance to the changed mood of the Spaniards.” Caspengsmety WILL NOT PERMIT GERMAN TROOPS TO LAND | United States Embassy Reported to Have Made Such a Declaration at Berlin. | LONDON, June 16.—The Berlin cor- ondent of the Star telegraphs from | the German capital to-day as follows: | The United States Embassy declares to > that the United States will not per- troops to be landed in the slands. The Germans, the | ns added, have as little right | 0 occupy any part of the islands as hey have to occupy New York. Ma- | iila and the Philippine Islands, they | joint out, are now United States terri- Ao NO TRUTH IN THE ‘ PERSISTENT RUMORS | The German Embas;ador Makes As- | | surances to the Secretary of | State. | WASHINGTON, June 16.—Herr Von ‘:Hulla-nhen. the German Embassador, | called upon the Secretary of State to- day and assured him that there was no truth in the persistent rumors from | London to the effect that Germany in- tended to interfere with the American Government in the Philippines. The German Embassador stated further that his Government was fully deter- mined to maintain an attitude of the| strictest neutrality toward both bel- ligerents during the war. |TO PREVENT DEWEY | FROM_BOMBARDING JA German Admiral Said to Have| Gone to Manila on a Ticklish | Mission. | LONDON, June 17.—According to a special dispatch from Shanghal Admi- | ral von Diedrich, it is officially stated, | |left Nagasaki, Japan, for Manila on re- celpt of instructions from Berlin to pre- | vent Admiral Dewey from bombarding | the city and also be aptain Gen- | eral Augusti offered the German Con- | sul the Caroline Islands as a coaling station, in case operations should be | | undertaken against Manila. | S e ! Sailed for Manila. | BERLIN, June 16.—Advices received | here to-day say that the German trans- port Darmstadt has arrived at Ki u Bay and that the German second- iser Princess Wilhelm sailed from Nagasaki for Manila. | | | LAKE BENNETT ALIVE WITH WHITE SAILS Five Hundred Boats Take to the Water. ON THE WAY TO DAWSON SOME “ SOONERS” CAUGHT IN ICE AND VESSELS CRUSHED. No Less Than Forty Boats Wrecked at White Horse Rapids and An- other Suicide Occurs There as a Result. BY SAM W. WALL. CARIBOU CROSSING, FOOT OF LAKE BENNETT, Tuesday, Meay 31 (via Seattle, Wash., June 16).—The flo- tilla sailed from Lake Bennett yester- day. Fully five hundred small boats took to the water and ran before a lively breeze to Caribou Crossing. The general movement really began on Sun- day from Bennett. For several days preceding the fleet there had been hourly added to by arrivals from Lin- derman. On Sunday the river was practically cleared from Bennett, and a hundred or more boats spread sail and went down the lake. Yesterday the whole lake was. allve with white sails careening before the wind. The ice had completely disap- peared from the upper lake and the little boats ran the narrow channel di- viding the upper and lower lake suc- cessfully and without accident and then spread away over the long and narrow expanse to the lower end, where is the still narrower channel called Car- ibou Crossing. There the ice had gorged and there the old familiar scepes of last fall were repeated—the grinding up of boats and the loss and scattering of provisions. The too eager, reckless or witless pressed Into the crush, and in a twink- ling the labor of months was lost as the cakes of ice came together upon them. A dozen small boats were ground up to-day and several are reported to been -~ Saxa | terday farther down. The police here report that no less than forty boats | have been wrecked already at White Horse Rapids and that another case of suicide has occurred there as a result. The passage out of the lake is entirely | barred by the jam here. The ice in Marsh and Mud Lake is said to be still fixed and solid, but it must certainly ! give way in a few days under the warm | sun that is shining every day. Then Ilhe big fleet will move down the river. The Upper Yukon Corpany’s new steamer, A. J. Goddard, made the round | trip from Bennett to the foot of the | lake, carrying the superintendent of the | company, A. J. Goddard; J. A. Calvert, | secretary; Major J. M. Steele, com- | manding the Tipper Yukon post of the | Northwest Mounted Police; Captain J. | W. Raut, government agent at Lake Bennet; Captain Z. G. Wooi, North- | west Mounted Police; Thomas McMul- | | lin, assistant manager of the Canadian | | Bank of Commerce, Dawson, and Charles King, special agent of the North Pacific Railroad for Alaska, They | took aboard from a small boat in the | |lake A. F. King of New York and J. | Willison, Crown Timber Agent. It was | the trial tr.p of the Goddard and was | entirely successful. The boat is de- | signed to run regularly from Bennett to Miles Canyon and return. The company is building another boat to run between White Horse Rapids, the lower end of the canyon, and Daw- son City. With the railroad or tram- way now about completed around the canyon and White Horse these boats will make it possible for persons to travel as mere passengers and with- out encumbering themselves with tents, stoves and such things from Bennett to Dawson and back again during the season when the river is open. Not everyone should count on this, how- | ever, for the Coadard carries but about | fifty passengers. The Goddard is ex- pected to make the round trip to the canyon and return in ten days. The | steamer being built here for the lower | end of the run will have no difficulty, it is thought, in ascending Five Finger and Rink rapids. Many Yukon and other mining celeb- rities are here, prominent figures in the great spring stampede, among them “Nigger” Jim, Mr. and Mrs. 1. J. Me- Kay, J. D. Barnes and wife and Harry Dobson, all of whom save Mrs. Barnes came out over the ice during the winter. McKay is taking down two barges with provisions and horses. “Jim” Wardner, for whom Wardner, Idaho, is named, is also taking down several barges with gixty tons of provisions. The ice is liable to give way any day and admit of a passage of the fleet anchored here. The Call's big war edition, comprising a solid ton of paper, is safe and in the front. To Bridge the Niagara. WASHINGTON, June 16—The House passed a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River at Grand Island. psd S A5 S Read the thrilling story, “How I Helped Lieutenant Cushing Destroy the Confederate Ram Albemarle,” by one of the survivors of that heroic loit, in next Sunday’s Call. | ment he had made after his arrest, in | brother and sister. | casion no word of the affair appeared EXECUTION OF FRANK BELEW Dixon Poisoner Hanged at Folsom. CALMLY ACCEPTS THE NOOSE MAKES NO STATEMENT ON THE | SCAFfOLD. Brief Sketch of His Crime and the i Important Part Played by The | Call in Bringing Him to Justice. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, June 16.—Frank Be- lew, the Dixon poisoner, was hanged at | the Folsom prison at 10 o'clock this morning. He was dead in exactly eleven and one-half minutes after the trap was sprung. He made no confession on the scaf- fold, but yesterday reiterated the state- on him, and there was a quaver in his volce. He did not know then that the chain of evidence had been riveted about him, and that to hope for escape was folly. It never entered his mind that his own fatal admissions had been recorded, and that next day the world would look upon him as a wretch fit only for the scaffold. The Call had laid the testimony be- fore the officers, and demanded action only when the last question as to its wefght had been swept away. Two days later Belew made to District At- torney Devlin, in the presence of wit- nesses, a declaration that himself and no other had been implicated in-the killing of the brother and sister. He had previously told the same story to the newspaper man who had been pres- ent at the time of his arrest, ks There was nothing more to be done than to let the law take its course, and no obstacles were placed in the way of its doing so. The prisoner acknowl- edged that he deserved to be hanged, and looked forward to the event with almost the calmness which had char- acterized the commission of the crime. He never expressed the least bitterness toward The Call for having caused his arrest, recognizing the fact that it had done nothing not in the interest of jus- tice. ANNEXATION 1S NOW BEFORE THE SENATE Resolution Adopted by the House Is Referred to the Foreign Re- lations Committee. WASHINGTON, June 16.—After devot- ing an hour to-day to the discussion of the bill restoring the annuities to the Sis- seton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux In- dians, the Senate resumed the considera- FRANK BELEW. which he owned to the murder of his{\ He added the as-| sertion, however, that his brother-in- law, J. W. Bird, of Sacramento, who was instrumental in his arrest and con- viction, was an accomplice in the | crime. This statement, however, is not | seriously entertained by the law offi- cers. A Bee reporter had a conversation with Belew ten minutes before his ex- ecution. He was perfectly calm and in- quired after the welfare of his wife and children. The reporter told him that | his brother, Arthur Belew, would come over from Dixon this afternoon and meet the train bearing his body at Brighton. Belew seemed to be satis- fied with this arrangement. He men- tioned the fact that his brother, Tommy Belew, had refused to have anything to do with him, and had ob- jected to his burial in the family plot at Dixon. Belew made no remarks on the scaf- fold, except to recognize and speak to Sheriff Rush of Solano County, whom he questioned relative to the health of Mrs. Belew and his children. He had made a will in which he gave what he owned to his children, naming his wife as the trustee of the estate. Belew died without apparent suffer- ing. The body will be buried in the Helvetia Cemetery in Sacramento. A few hours before his death Belew professed religion to a Methodist min- ister of Auburn, Placer County, who visited his cell. The history of Belew’s crime is so familiar that no necessity exists for setting it forth in detail. The poison- ing of a brother and sister, a deed to which he confessed, has been related | many times since suspicion first fell on | the man who yesterday yielded to the | law his forfeited life. At first his sor- row had seemed sincere, and in a meas- ure he was able to avert the tide of condemnation, peing assisted in this by a fair record for morality and by the absence of apparent excuse for an act abhorrent and unnatural. Yet he never came from under the cloud, and when arrested last February he soon saw that his case was hopeless. After a brief season in the Solano County jail he proclaimed his guilt, and further than an effort to have the court sen- tence him to life imprisonment did nothing to escape the penalty. The arrest of Belew was a notable triumph for The Call. All newspaper readers will remember that on that oc- in any other paper while The Call pre- sented a graphic narration, extensive and complete. The achievement con- stituted one of the greatest “scoops” ever scored in Western journalism. There have been few murders more shocking than that of the Belews, brother and sister. At the hour of ar- rest the fact had not been known that clews pointing to the guilty man were being followed. The first intimation was when this paper published the story of the arrest and the evidence which was destined to take the cruel assassin to the gallows. It was a sur- prise to everybody, but to other jour- nals a positive shock. Some of them sought to assuage grief and wounded | pride by declaring the tale bogus. But the tale has been vindicated finally by the fall of the trap. X Belew was arrested at a ranch eight miles from Dixon. The arresting party was headed bv Sheriff Rush. With him ‘were Deputies Robinson, Fitzpatrick and a representative of The Call. The night was beautifully clear, The party, leaving teams several rods from the gate, approached the house cautiously. It was thought that Belew might re- sist when aroused, but he calmly sub- mitted. He sald repeatedly that tha wrong man had been taken and that he would prove his innocence. He trembled wi the lcuffs were put tion of the bill to incorporate the Inter- national American Bank. A test vote clearly Indicated that a majority of the Senate favors the measure. A final vote on it is expected to-morrow. Five minutes after the openi Senate’s s n to-day, the me: of the Ho of Representativ ered to the Senate the Hawailan annexa- tion resolution passed by the House last evening. On the suggestion of Davis of Minnesota the ri ution was laid before the Senate and was then referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. After the Senate adjourned Chairman Davis of the committee said that he would call it together to-morrow morning to con- sider the Haw resolution. Davis stated that he committee to dispose of the m sitting, and that he had no doubt the decision would able to annexation. e {s not disappointed in his expecta- tion, he will report the lution at the beginning of to-morrow sion of the Senate, and will for immediate consi: eration, resisting any movement that may be made to secure an adjournment until { Monday. Davis expressed the opinion that the bk for action by t Senate before t is improving. The present intention is t ler the ques- tion in open legislative session. - - Nicaragua Canal Feasible. WASHINGTON, June 16. — Professor Haupt of the Nicaragua Canal Commis- sion was before the Senate Committee on the Nicaragua Canal to-day. He expressed the opinfon that the canal as proposed was entirely feasible and placed the cost of construction at between $%,000,000 and $95,000,000. - An Oregon Customs Collector. WASHINGTON, June 16.—The President has nominated Isaac L. Patterson to be Collector of Customs for the District of Willamette, Oregon. ADVERTISEMENTS. ‘Woman may crown herself with good health if she will, By so doing she wi insure her own af tractiveness, make her husband and ber home happy, and Totect the ), health of Z N II:X" babies. PV N ealth is the N “” most glorious crown that a woman may wear. To wear it she must take roser care of herself, and see to it that the delicate organs that are distinctly feminine are always healthy and strong. Thousands of women fall short of good health in this one respect, and as a result soon become but wrecks of their former selves. A woman cannot long retait her general health who is suffering from weakness and disease of the orgams that make wifehood and motherhood possible. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription acts directly on these organs. It makes them well and strong. It preparesa woman to be & wife and mother. It does away with the discomforts of the expectant period and makes baby’s advent easy and almost pain- less. All good druggists sell it. “Iam " writes M. Loulsa Arthurs, Ostwalt, lgrl?ideh Co., N. C., “'to express my grati- tude to you for the benefits I have received from medicines, _After the birth of my second child I wae stricken with derangement of the stomach ;nd liver and ':x!\xll line of fo&a‘emk- csses, For seven Bul untold misery, Fen my hulhnd,’rs. Arthurs, sent fora your Common Sense Medical Adviser.' The khmb:g mo* "“fié’.'-'m'fl pl!:lnly that I el es v e Prescri] g z:d 'Gold;: Medlczlo“l)l ' and a of Our doctor prong %Il proved hnfiefl nl my life, My @umend your taki r medicine TEeiR Your medicine say NEWTO LOOMS., ADVERTISEMENTS. CHOICEST THE VER . PRODUCED - -~~~ Ours is one of those houses with that characteristic American restless energy that never waits for a season to be over, but nearing the close of the season becomes relentless and wses the pruning-knife to effect a clean-up. We are right now, commercially speaking, at the close of the season. It’s been a highly successful one for ws. The styles we have handled this season have excelled any of our former efforts. The men folks of our city are so familiar with the high-grade of clothing we carry that it is needless for ws to enlarge upon the in- dividwal merit of each and every darment, but sufjice it to say that we offer you the cream and pick of our finest spring stock, embracing suits from $20 down to $15, and to effect an immediate clearance we say for pich— ELEVEN DOLLARS! " There’s a whole lot of swell dressers in town who will more than appreciate this sale, for among the swits yow will find those very swell i i serdes in the dowble- breasted in black and blue: some satin-faced to the edge. You know these are $20 garments. There’s those awfully swell heather mixtures, with their fine lining and their fine {irimmings. They need no plumade at our hands; they pro- claim their $20 worth on sight. These are $11.00. A pretty Top Coat in black, silk-faced. Youw know how swell these are; $20 ain’t they ? $11.00 Now. A natty Top Coat in the tan shades, silk-lim;d throughout and the very best grade of silk at that. You know what a tailor charges you? $50 for such a coat. These are $11.00. Any more said would be simply superfluous—only this, youw will learn that this is one of the swellest events of the seasomn. We mean: to close out our entire spring line and the prettiest that was ever brought to San Francisco. A pick from styles that have sold from $20 down to $15 now at -z-m%$] 1.0_0.%%@ Sale begins this morning, and of course the lines are complete this morning, and the earlier youw come the better it will be for yow. —i—N—N—a—-a—u-a-u SEE & WINDOW DISPLAY : OF I THESE GAMEJV‘TS; ({1 9-11-13-15 KEARNY ST, THE FRISCQ BOXS.