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2 “THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1898. to locate this important cable from any point beyond the range of Spanish guns, so the St. Louis boldly steamed right to the mouth of the harbor. Shel was discovered by the Spaniards and | searchlights on Morro Castle played about the fearless American vessel for a long time. In making this desperate attempt to pick up the Kingston cable the St. Louis advanced to within 300 yards of Morro’s guns, and the men with the fleet outside momentarily expected to | hear the enemy open fire on the cruiser. | It would have been a simple matter to | have sunk the St. Louis at such close | range, but for some reason the Span- fards did not fire a single gun. This led Commodore Schley to express the opinion that the work done by the dy- namite cruiser Vesuvius in its recent night attack had so terrified the Span- fards that they since have deserted the batteries at night. After a long search the St. Louls returned to the fleet and reported that she had been unable to find the cable. One of the most important operations thus far undertaken by the insurgents is the effort to capture General Pando and his men, in which the Cubans are now engaged. General Pando is on his na to give relief to the Santiago. This relief party is p :ding by way of Man zanillo. Generals (Garcla, Castillo and Perez, with other Cuban leaders, have sent out a scouting party to intercept | the Spanish general. | Strong proof that Admiral Cervera | has abandoned the hope of escape with his fleet from Santiago Harbor was | furnished by his failure to make the attempt to-day. This seems to have | been his most promising opportunity to come out and fight if he ever Intend- ed to. Cervera would have found about the harbor only the Brooklyn, Massa- chusetts and Texas of all the American fighting ships. The New York was off to Guantanamo, while the Oregon and Towa were taking coal. Despite (hls_l great weakening of the strength of the | American fleet the Spanish admiral did y from Hav: in aniards [MANY COLLEGE GRADUATES | hour to-night Adjutant General Corbin CORBIN' NAMES NEW OFFICERS Selection of Seocond Lieutenants. RIGID EXAMINATIONS MUST BE PASSED. One Hundred and Ninety-Five Men to Fill Vacancies Created by the Reorganization Bill. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, June 19.—At a late made public the names of the 195 young men who have been selected for ap- pointment as second lieutenants in the regular army to fill the vacancies cre- ated by the act of Congress adapting the three battalion organizations of in- fantry and the addition of one second lieutenant to all batteries when filled to | war strength. Each of the 195 men se- [Iecled will be obliged to undergo an | examination that will be a thorough | test of his mental and physical qualifi- ;catiuns for the army service. Those | who pass the examination will be | named by the President to the Senate. To the selection of the men both the President and Secretary of War have | devoted time and consideration. Out of | the 195 appointed eighty-nine are | | |DR. JOHN BLAIR GIBBS, Who Was Killed in the Fight at not appear to accept a battle on even | known to be college grad es; five of terms. g them honor men of their classes of Heliographic communication between | colieges having military instructors; in Santiago ‘and Guantanamo by the | all representing sixty-seven different istitutions. Forty-eight are now in the This system has been used to advan- | volunteer or militia service and thir- tage by the enemy for several days, | {€€n are enlisted men in the regular but the Cubans have captured several | *TX:o 1 or o 1ag there been such intermediate signal posts and thus | vitality and new blood injected into the have put a stop to it. | military service. There is no sign of the arrival of the | with satistaction, and West Point men Spaniards has finally been Interrupted. American troops up to 10 o'clock, the ‘ more than all others, that sixty-seven hour at which I close this dispatch. | different college notions and methods & of West Point and army methods. More eagerness throughout the fleet. than 7000 applications for appoint- FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN | ment. | . Enlisted men who have been designated ter 8. Vollmar, Signal Corps (now second tenant, U. 8. A Signal Corpe) Corpor- rey W Ts Their arrival is awaited with great | 27,E0IDE to be put on trial alongside | ments were filed at the War Depart- Cuban Pilot Supplies Information as | If4i¢ SIP%E: Arnold, Troop F, F to the Strength of the Cavalry; Corporal William A. Cav E Company D, Twentieth U. nemy. | Corporal George M. Grimes, Troop KEY WEST, June 19.—Juan Santos, a | Second United States Cavairy; First Class Bat- Private Willlam Geiger, Company E, an pilot, Who arrived here this |talion U, . Bngincers; Sergeant Al morning on’board an American war- | W. Towtisend, Troop B/ Third U. . C . reports that he entered Santiseo | 8lFy: Corporal Robert O. Vanhorn, Con ship, reports that he entered Santiago | p v G Pwelfth United States Infantr, de Cub: Private’ Willlam K. McCue, Company B, a Spanish gar- rison ) men. He adds the ves- | Sixth United States Infantry; Corporal R @ sasalbapy King, Troop K, Fifth U. S. Cavalry; Cor- els of Admiral Cervera’s fleet 1ving at | poral’ Henry 8. Wygant, Company C. that port are the armored cruisers Cris- | Sixth U. S. Infantry; Sergeant Daniel | tobal Colon, Vizeaya and Almirante | Frank Kelley, Troop A, Sixth U. 8, C alry; Private Easton Ruttledge Gibson, | Company D, Twentleth U. 8. Infantry. Civilian applicants for appointments Oquendo, two small cruisers, two tor- pedo boats and the Reina Mercedes, 1 which has been stripped of her guns, |as second lieutenant, U. S. A, designat- which are used to re-enforce the land | fdv y }*}e P‘f‘?fl*?eefxf-sil‘;i\e:?e the fol- batteries. The masts of the sunken col- | °Salif 10 SHERET R Tiova, private, lier Merrimac were visible abdve the | Battery A, Connecticut Volunteers; Geo. W. Bauer, honor graduate University of says the Spanish war ves- | California; James Malcolm Graham, color fully manned, but the crews | Sergeant, Cadet Company, First Infantry, : . 3 | National’ Guard of California. ed and disappointed. He | “Colorado—Lyman M. Bass; Archie J. water. thinks Morro Castle is the only fort not | Hacee - ponot graduate Asricultural ol silenced by Rear Admiral Sampson, |lege of Colorado, who, he keeps a steady watch and | fdaho—Alexander 3. McNab gr. private, e % - A e/ Company D, First Idaho Volunteer In- opens fire a8 soon a8 work 18 attempted | FOBEMIN. Cos ) B aiibreth, honor gradu- by the Spanish on shore. Morro Castle, | ate, University of Idaho. e Lieutenant Hobson and the other | “ ijinojs—Campbell F. Babe private, nen of the Merrimac are now | First U. S. Cavalry Volunteers; James E. | Bell, private, Company C, First lllinois viu Volunteer Infantry; Robert B. Frith, Donald McNulta, John P. Olsen, privates, | National Guard of Illinois; Willlam A. Talbot Jr., private, Seventy-first New York Volunteers; George Williams, Ralph Brower, honor graduates University of Illinois. lowa—James Frederick Howell, gradu- | ate Cornell University, New York; Harry r the bluff into the channel. approaches to Santlago de v guarded, but the ar- | -ant. fon given by the pilot anish colonel and seven- n Other informa is that one 8 teen other men who were taken prison- | 51® (Phiney. graduste, cadet. captain ers by the Cubans at Santiago are on | Jowa State Normal School; P. M. Shaffer, board the collier Abarrando and have | honor graduate, lowa State Normal| been offered in exchange for Lieuten- [ School. Kansas—Thomas R. Parker, late ser- geant Twentieth U. 8. Infantry; Carlan- son Martin, civil engineer; Mark Wheeler, }wnor graduate Kansas Agricultural Col- ege. mong those from Maine is Henry Mc- Pherson Merriam, a student of Stanford University, California. Minnesota—John T. Jones, sergeant Min- nesota Volunteers; Willitin Keith Taylor, graduate Michigan Military Academy; Charles H. le Jr. ant Hobson and his companions. The hospital ship Solace has twenty wound- The health of the marines who have landed in Cuba is excellent and good health also prevails on board the ves- sels of the American fleet. The Amer- ican officers speak highly of the effi- clency and bravery of the Cuban sol- diers. Army officers view | FALSE NEWS TO BUOY THE SPANISH HEART. Private Telegrams Tell of the Enemy’s Shells Doing Great Damage to Our Warships. MADRID, June 19, 8 p. m.—Private telegrams received here from Cuba say that during the, last attack by the American ships upon Santiago de Cuba a Spanish shell struck upon the deck of one of the attacking ships, sweeping off all the men there. Another shell, according to the same authority, struck the funnel.of a cruiser, doing much damage. The Havana government is display- ing great energy. Fourteen university professors, who fled for fear of the re- sults of the war, have been dismissed. The blockading vessels, the telegrams say, continue inactive. Captain Aunon, Minister of Marine, refuses to give any information regard- ing the destination of Admiral Ca- mara’s squadron. The Spanish papers declare that the statements that the bodies of American marines killed at Guantanamo were mutilated by the Spanish troops and similar sentiments regarding the loss of the Maine are made with the object of inflaming the American populace. PHILIPPINE, REBELS TAKE ANOTHER TOWN They Are Now in Sight of the Manila Railway Station and Other Outposts. Copyrighted, 1838, by James Gordon Bennett. MANILA, June 14 (via Hongkong June 19).—The rebels took Caloocan last night, and advancing, are now in sight of the Manila railway station, Tutudan and other outposts. Malate, Santa Anna and Santa Mesa are still defended by the Spaniards. - Fired on by Insurgents. HONGKONG, June 19.—The British steamer Yuen Sang, which arrived from Manila on June 14, reports that a rallway -director who went out on the line on a locomotive was fired on by insurgents at the barracks, four kilo- meters outside of Manila. The Yuen Sang also reports that the rallroad sta- tion is being fortifled. The Spaniards, it is said, are demoralized and it was expected when the steamer left that they would retire to the citadel by the 16th inst. On leaving Manila the Yuen Sang sighted a number of vessels belleved 10 be American transports. Whip) graduate Shat- tuck Military School, Minnesota; Robert Rigby Hannah, graduate Univer- sity of Minnesota; Willlam B. Folwell, first lieutenant, Company L, Minnesota Volunteers. Missouri—Gaston Soulard Turner, grad- uate Western Military Academy of Illi- nois; Irwin Harrison, Woodson Hocker, privates, Third Missourl Volunteers; Ed- ward A’ Macklin, late sergeant Batter A, United States Artillery (Fifth); Josep Al Wickham Jr., John N. Straat Jr., honor graduate St. Louis University. Montana—Bryan Conrad, Fourth United Stateg Cavalry, lieutenant Montana_Volunteers! Nebraska—Frank 8. Burr, graduate Shattuck Military School, Minhnesota; W. S. Valentine, graduate Shattuck Military School of Minnesota; William H. Ourey, honor graduate, University o Nebraska. Nevada—Robert Brambila, honor grad- uate University of Nevada. North Dakota—Charles H. Foster, Quar- termaster sergeant North Dakota Volun- teers; Edward Robbins, honor graduate University_of North DakKota. Oregon—Willlam H. Jordan Jr., any H, Second Oregon Volunieer In- antry: Ralph W, Tertill; honor graduate Agrk‘uhurl College of Oregon, outh Dakota—Rush Spencer Wells, cap- tain United States Second Volunteer Cay- alry: Elmer J. Wallace, honor graduats University of South DaKota. Texas—Clifton Kinney, private, Texas Volunteers; Willlam 8. Simpson, corporal Troop D, First United States Volunteer Cavalry; Bdward E. Downs, one and a half years United States Military Acad- emy; "~ Charles T: Todd, honor graduate Agricultural and Mechanics College of exas. Utah—Philip Sheridan _Shaughnessy, honor graduate Riverview Militaty Asad. emy, New York; Charles A. Jensen, honor graduate Agricultural College of Utah, Washinton—Henry M. Boutelle, Ba. ward Kunet, honor graduate Washington Military College. = s sconsin—Henry G. West, late captain Fourth Wisconsin, National Guard; Harry T. James, three vears United States Mili- tary Academy; W. E. Haze, honor gradu- ate University of Wisconsin; Laurence A. Curtis, graduate Shattuck Military School of Minnesota. ‘ 7 Com- ‘Wyoming—George Gregory, lieutenant- colonel Wyoming National lauza.\-d; Herber J. oreel. onor graduate University of TWO ALASKAN VESSELS GIVEN UP AS LOST Schooners City of Sitka and Sloop Senorita Have Probably Gone Down. SEATTLE, June 19.—Two emall vessels and ten men are among the unfortunates engulfed by the Alaskan waters. The little schooner City of Sitka with three men aboard left Sitka for Wrangel on March 80. She never reached her destin- ation, and the steamer North Star has just picked up a plece of her spar, indi- ultt’“ that ‘t,léetve{'gell‘ Was loqu 5 was about Febru sloop_ Senorita left s«:'?e' to‘xz g?me&:: She has never been heard from since, and geven men aboard are supposed to have found watery graves. John | late private | Guantanamo a Week Ago. SATS MONTI)O IS A COWARD | Hongkong Paper’s Story [ of Manila. | ISPANISH ADMIRAL’S FLIGHT | WAS AMONG THE F¥IRST TO REACH SHORE. ;Archbishop of Manila Issues Pastoral in Which He Bitterly Assails the Ameri- cans. a Special Dispatch to The Call. { TACOMA, June 19.—The Oriental | steamship Olympia, arriving here to- day, brings Chinese papers which ac- cuse Admiral Montijo of cowardice at the battle of Manila. A spe | writes to his paper from Manila, say- ing that the Admiral did nothing more than flee from one vessel to the other during the engagement. He was | among the iirst ashore, and almost be- | fore the battle was over was at his | country villa beyond the city. He had | not even allowed his captains to know | where the Cavite anchorage was | mined, and ti's is given as a reason | why some of the mines were exploded | before the American ships approached | them. They were exploded in order to give Sranish vessels a chance to cross the line. Colonel San Miguel of the battery | committéd suicide when he found the supply of ammunition was not what had been revoresented. Frauds had been | committed which had disposed of the stock. The Archbishop of Manila has issued a pastoral in which he declares: “Very soon the country will see an insurmountable barrier placed between | you and -your masters; there will be | then for you no situation nor repre- | sentation, nor can you even participate |in the government of the towns. You | will be reduced to a separate clvil state, villified and degraded like those of the lowest caste, and like miserable labor- | ers reduced to the condition of coolies, and further to that of beasts or ma- chines, supplied or fed by a handful of | rice thrown in your faces as a daily al- lowance, simply to secure the fruits of your labor. This is not all. The worst is that you will see the . ruin of your temples or that they will be turned into Protestant chapels, where there is no altar. Oh, this is hard! God, the Vir- gin and all are gone and the cross will have disappeared from your ceme- teries, the crucifix from your schools and the ministers of the true God who made you Christians through baptism.” He urges the Spanish to resist with all their power the Americans. There is a strong anti-British feel- ing among the Spanish in Manila, who are of the opinion that the English peo- ple have shown their sympathy with the United States too openly. It is claimed by the Spanish that the Brit- ish Government even supplied a pilot to take the fleet into Manila harbor. | Captain Cobban of the collier Zafiro was accused of being the pilot. A dispatch from Canton tells of a pi- ratical raid sixty miles above the city. Pirates boarded the Chinese steamer ‘Wingsal at Canton as passengers, and, reaching a favorable point, attacked the crew, which resisted, and after sev- eral hours fighting drove them from the boat. The steamer drifted ashore dur- ing the struggle and had not been floated several days later. Serious rioting is reported from Shashi, in China. The customs sta- tion was burned and the Commissioner of Customs made away with. The Brit- ish consulate was attacked and the flagstaff torn down and the flag torn to shreds. The building was then burned to_the ground.. Reports from Canton state that the grave diggers are not able to keep up with the death list from the plague. There are reports of serious diffi- culty between the Chinese and French Governments, arising from the fact that French experts were employed to take charge of the Foo Chow arsenal. The French assumed too much author- ity and their contract was annulled and pay withheld. The hitch was re- ported to the French Minister at Pek- ing, and resulted in sending two war- ships to Foo Chow, taking a position where the arsenal would be at the mercy of the French guns. The Chi- nese directors were prevented from flee- ing for safety by a hint that flight would be a signal to seize the ar- e ST amount session of the arsenal al corre- | spondent of the Hongkong Telegraph | | | | | | SPARRING FOR - ANNEXATION Friends of the Scheme Harassed. CHANGE THE PLAN OF ACTION JOINT RESOLUTION INSTEAD OF A TREATY. Great Activity of the Opposition In- dicates That the Senate Will Take No Action This Session. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, “June 19.—The Ha- wallan question will again come to the front in the Senate during the present week, but under somewhat different circumstances from those which at- tended its presentation at the beginning of the session. The purpose was then, as it is now, to secure the annexation of the islands for the United States, but the effort at that time was to secure this result by means of a treaty, whereas the present:course was through the instrumentality of ajointresolution. On the first occasion the matter Was considered in executive session with the public excluded, while now the doors are to be thrown open and the world invited. ‘What the outcome of the question may be, or when the vote may be reached, no one will undertake to say positively. The leaders on both sides are full of prophecy, but there is so much discrepancy between their orin- fons as to render it necessary to discard one in order to accept the other. The friends of annexation assert there is no possible doubt of their ability to pass the resolution, and say they have forty-six Senators, or one more than a quorum, pledged to remain in the Sen- ate until the question can be decided, while the opposing leaders declare that forty-eight Senators have assured them they will vote to adjourn in pref- erence to remaining in session indefi- nitely for the consideration of the Ha- walian question. The supporters of the proposition ex- press confidence that action will be se- cured within ten days, while the op- position contend that it will be found to be impossikla to secure a vote dur- ing the present session of Congress. The advocates of annexation declare that they will not make any speeches, leaving the opponents to occupy all the time to be consumed by this means. "The opnosition say they are willing to make the sneeches if compelled to do so, but that if forced to do this they will insist that the friends of the meas- ure shall maintain a constant quorum in the chamber. They also predict that the annexationists will find themselves compelled to participate in the proceed- ings, as they expect to advance points which will demand refutation, or at least reply. In view of this generally contradic- tory condition one can only base a pre- diction upon general conditions. There is no doubt, in the first place, that the annexationists have a majority in_the Senate if a vote can reached. If a vote could be gotten now the result would be about 54 for exation to 35 agalnst in a full Senate. Of these fifty- four Senators there are, however, quite a number who are not zealous and in whose minds all doubt as to the policy of acquisition of outside territory has not been overcome. These Senators, as a rule, are indisposed to remain in ses- sion for any length of time during the hot summer months to consider Hawa- ilan annexation. Most of the Senators of this class are Republicans, and there are probably a sufficient number of them under normal circumstances to join with the Democrats to force an ad- journment. They find themselves con- fronted, however, with the request of the administration to remain and pass the resolution as a war measure, and some of them are disposed to sink their own preferences in obedience to the Presidential wish. 3 The gossip as to the probablility of a postponement until a fixed day in the next session Increases and many per- sons are predicting that this will be the outcome of the contest. A test vote probably will be secured Monday on the taking up of the resolution, as it will be necessary in order to get it up toddisplua other measures on the cal- endar. Millers’ Association President Dead. Qo prosidont o the. Nationat bin » of the Ni A ciation, died M.u. aged ll.m £ FLAMES AIDED BY HIGH WINDS Conflagration Rages in Tracy. BUSINESS SECTION BURNED THREE BLOCKS OF BUILDINGS IN ASHES. Having No Fire-Fighting Facilities, the Citizens Strive Vainly to Save the Town From De- struction. Special Dispatch to The Call. TRACY, June 19.—Three blocks of buildings—the entire business portion of Tracy—are in ruins. Fire started at 12:45 o’clock in a restaurant on Front street occupied by Mrs. Mary Mann. | It was caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove. The wind was blowing a gale and the efforts of the citizens to stay the flames were of no avaik The conflagration died out only when there was nothing more for it to con- sume. There was some hope of intercepting the fire when it reached the Odd Fel- | lows’ Hall, a new three-story brick building, but it burned as if it were a bundle of shavings. Some people lost their effects after they had been moved into the street. The residence portion of the town was saved by the hard work of the citizens. C. E. Rosin suffered the fracture of a leg by jumping from the second-story of Qdd Fellows’ Hall. Two switch en- gines of the Southern Pacific Company were brought into requisition, but were of no avail. The whole city front is now one mass of blackened ruins. The first two blocks which were burned faced the main street in a sort of half circle, the third block being built on a different line. After devour- ing the frame building where the fire started, the flames destroyed the Com- mercial Hotel, Maroon’s saloon, G. Buschke’s building, occupied as a gen- eral merchandise store, the Arlington Hotel and Fabian & Co.’s general mer- chandise store. The flames then jumped the street, leveling the Tracy Hotel, the San Joaquin Hotel, Buddworth’'s mer- chandise store, Ludwig’'s saloon and residence, the Odd Fellows’ building, Canale Bros.’ store, two unoccupied buildings and the residence of Mrs. Byrnes. Again the flames leaped a street and destroyed the residence of Mrs. Gaf- | fery, a bakery, the residences of C. O. Hill, John Hess, of E. Gieseke and Gieseke's livery stable. The horses were saved before the fire reached the stable. Eight windmills and tank- houses in the three blocks were de- stroyed. Following are the losses, with insu ance: Simpson & Gray, 3500, insure Mrs. Fairchiid, $5000, insured $1200; Mr Kohler, $800, insured $30 Silver- stein, $5000, insured $1000; Commercial Hotel, $2000, insured; O. J. Holland, $700, insured $300; P. Holm, $1000, in- sured $500; C. A. Douglass, $2500, in- sured $1000; Mrs. J. Cox, $300, no insur- ance; G. A. D. Bushke, $2000, no insur- ance; P. Fabian, $20,000, insured $10,- 000; Chris Ludwig, $10,000, insured $5000; George Budsworth, $1000, insured $450; Henry Ludwig, $1500, insured $500; Odd Fellows’ Hall, $14,000, in- sured $7500; G. O. Wilson, $3000, insured $1000; H. Stoteran, $700, no insurance; | C. Canale, $12,000, insurance $6000; Mrs. M. J. Byrnes, $2000, insured; Ernest| Gieseke, $8000, insured S$1 J. Hess, | $2000, insured $1300; Landsorff, §500, in- sured; C. Hansen, $500, no insurance; Mrs. Mann, $200, no insurance; C. O. Hill, $2800, insured $1200. PARK CITY SWEPT SWEPT BY A CONFLAGRATION | Flames Destroy Property Valued at About One Million Dollars. SALT LAKE, Utah, June 19.—A spe- cial to the Tribune from Park City, Utah, says: To-night the ideal mining camp of Park City is a mass of un- sightly ruins. The fire to which it suc- cumbed began at 4 o’clock this morning and continued with awful nearly eight hours. Main street, from .| and the daily ar fury for| Copyrighted, 158, by the Philippines except the NUURBRRRRURLLNRNNN KNS SOLDIERS HAVE A DAY OF REST Camp Thomas Observes the Sabbath. SERMONS INSTEAD OF DRILLS IDEAL WEATHER AND GENERAL GOOD ORDER. Recruits for Various Regiments Are Still Pouring In—Movements of Troops in Other Parts of the Country. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICKAMAUGA, CHATTANOOGA | NATIONAL PARK, Ga., June 19.—To- | day was an exceptionally beautiful one | at Camp Thomas and a cool breeze con- tinuously astir made park life a de- light. It was significantly a day of rest among the soldiers. All drills were omitted and the Sabbath was generally observed. In this respect the day was somewhat in contrast with many of its predecessors. The chaplains of the va- | rious regiments held services and the Y. M. C. A. and evangelistic cohorts were actively at work. The reverence | with which these services were listened | to and the general good order which | prevailed among the camps were sig- | nificant of the high moral tone which | pervades the entire army. The soldiers were forbidden to congregate at points | of amusement and practically all re- | mained in camp with the exception of | some who had permission to spend the day on Lookout Mountain. The efforts of General Boynton and | the Georgia authorities to restore order | at Lytle and rid the outskirts of gamb- | ling_houses have been productive of good results. At Lytle to-day all sa- | loons and gambling houses were her- | metically closed. | Six hundred recruits for various regi- ments arrived during the day, making a total for three days of nearly 1800, | ivals promise to in- | crease rapidly. Prominent among to- day’s arrivals were the following: Brig- | adier General Peter C. Hayes, Third | Division, First Army Corps; Brigadier General J. P. Sanger, Sixth Army lCorps, under General Wilson; Major { Clayton - Parkhill, Surgeon United | States, First Division, First Army Corps. Major Parkhill had been as- signed as surgeon in Merritt’s camp and was to have gone to Manila ac- cording to first orders. PORTLAND, Ore, June 19.—Early this morning a special train over the Northern Pacific arrived from St. Paul with 312 men and three commissioned | officers to recruit the Thirteenth Min- nesota Volunteer Regiment to its max- imum. They left shortly after for San Francisco in a special train over the Southern Pacific. In every seat of the train boxes of lunch and a paileof strawberries had been placed early in the evening by women of the Oregon Emergency Corps. The seats and walls of the cars were brightened with flow- ers in profusion. Twenty-seven recruits left here for | San Francisco to-night to join the Sec- ond Oregon Volunteer Regiment in Manila. WASHINGTON, June 19.—If practi- cable, the commissary branch of the | War Department will make arrange- ments for the supply or the troops which go to the Philippines with fresh | beef and fresh vegetables in reason- | able quantities. Those soldiers who | have started already to Manila have a { supply of canned beef, but the prefer- property of Germans, Swiss and Portuguese. has absolutely no idea of intervention. PR NNRENRERRRRRRRRRNRNNSY the point at which the fire originated | ence of the men naturally is for the to the Union Paeific Depot, is ruined. | fresh or refrigerated article, and it is Park avenue has sustained losses that | cannot be computed with any degree | of accuracy. The Chinese quarter is| completely wiped out and not a dwell- ing remains on Rossie Hill. The fire originated in the Freeman House or American Hotel. Twenty min- utes later great crowds of people filled the streets. The flames spread from the original structure and sped north- ward. The John Funk barber shop, Thompson & Jorgensen's butcher shop and the Ives & Keith srables were en- veloped. The wind swept on, urging the flames, that were now whipped across the street, where they attacked Dahlgreen’s residence, a weak but pretty structure, that succumbed like chaff. Then the grocery store con- ducted by W. H. Roy was consumed. Business blocks and dwellings were swept away alike. Through the busi- ness houses the fire gnawed its way and reached the residences on Park avenue. Here reside the aristocratic portion of Park City's population. One by one on the east side of this avenue the dwellings fell. No less than sev- enty-five residences, valued at from $500 to $3000 each, were reduced. Along Main street one business block after another fell, the entire Fire De- partment, re-enforced by thousands of willing hands, together with all ap- paratus, including three hose carts and a hook-and-ladder truck, was engaged in the struggle. Appeals for help were addressed to Salt Lake and Ogden, and at 10:15 o'clock a squad of Salt Lake's Fire Departthent arrived. Following it was a troop from the Ogden Fire De- partment. The fire at the time had reached the Crescent concentrator, the northern extremity of its course, which fell with a deafening crash. The aux- iliary department turned its streams to play around the Marsac Mill, making a desperate fight to save that historical structure. Three streams, fed by a reservoir above, were played upon it from 4:15 to 9:30 a. m. The estimated loss is about $1,000,000, with light insurance, which is distrib- uted among a large number of compa- nies. The actual figures cannot be ob- tained to-night. - = OPERA-HOUSE BURNED. Heavy Loss Caused by a Conflagra- tion in Albuquerque. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., June 19.— Grant’s Opera House, which was one of the finest buildings in New Mexico, ‘was destroyed by fire to-day. The lower and the second floor by the eater and offices. The loss is about $240,000; insurance $118,000. mxz was occupied by Ilfeld’s go s store probable if adequate room aboard the steamers can be secured the depart- ment will send a large quantity to the islands. Onions, potatoes and canned tomatoes constitute the principal arti- cles of the soldiers’ diet, and an effort will be made to seand an ample supply with each ship thzt goes to the islands that can accomodate them. PUEBLO, Colo., June 19.—Laden with flowers and with food tor & week, supplie.. by the Soldiers 'Aid Society, ninety-eight recruits for the First Colorado, now en route to Manila, left for San ITancisco to-night in com- mand of -..ntenant Bidwell. The armory and the Union depot, whence they took their departure, were thronged with cheering people. THROUGH A DANGEROUS SURGICAL OPERATION Senator Hanna’s Brother Gets a New Lease of Life After Great Suffering. BOSTON, June 19.—H. Melville Hanna, brother of Senator Mark Hanna, has re- cently undergone a serious surgical opera- tion in Boston, from the effects of which he is now slowly recovering. The oper- ation was performed at St. Margaret's Hospital, and was a most delicate one, successful results having been attained in only eight instances in the history of surgery. The operation was for an af- fliction of the throat, caused by the for- mation of a small sack behind the aeso- }:.ha s, which made the swallowing of 0od practically impossible. In order to reach the seat of the disease an openin rvas made gnt;lhe 1slde of theflneck. e:(en - ng aroun e nx and aeso through a multiple’ of small blood yest sels. Although attended with great dan- ger, the sac was successfully removed, and the opening closed by Dr. Maurice A. Richardson, Boston's foremost surgeon and an old-time Harvard athlete, who was the operating physician. —— SLUICE-BOX ROBBERS MAKE A RICH HAUL Several Thousand Dollars in Gold Taken From an Oregon Placer Mine. BAKER CITY, Or., June 19.—Word has reached here from Grant Bros.’ mine on the North Fork of the John Day river, forty-five miles west of Baker City, that sluice-box robbers made & heavy clean up in the mine on Thursday night. The property is one of the biggest pla- cer gold producers in Eastern Oregon. The night shift was laid off for repairs and the bold thieves must have secured several thousand , a8 theft $1200 was obtained from h:“vlnn” t{r‘; the owners. RBQ&&&&SQ&SQNES&QQ&QS88838389838353838888835838!2828233 GERMANY Hds 8 8 e ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA @ OF INTERVENTION & 4 James Gordon Bennett. g BERLIN, June 19.—I am expressly authorized by the 2} Foreign Office to repeat the assurances already given the .. United States Government that Germany has no object In g protection of the lives and Germany $ nRRRRLNS OUICK MOVE ON PORTO RICO lExpedition Is to Leave Early in July. PREPARATIONS ARE RUSHED GENERAL MILES ATTENDING TO THE DETAILS. It Is Expected Santiago Will Have Fallen Before the Army Is Ready to Start. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 19.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: Offi- cials in the War Department are of the cpinion that the Porto Rico expedition will leave the United States early in July. Most active preparations are be- ing made under the direct supervision of Major General Miles to hurry this expedition as rapidly as poesible. Or- ders have been issued to the chiefs cf the various bureaus connected with the fitting out of an army to rush sup- plies with all speed to Fernandina. It is hoped by the officials of the ad- ministration that by -the time the ex- pedition is In readiness to leave the United States the city of dSantiago and Admiral Cervera's fleet will have sur- rendered to the joint land and navel forces of the United States. If such is the case the larger part of the fleet can be withdrawn frc 1 Santi. 30 and sent to San Juan to shell the forts at that place and incidentally protect the land- ing army. Most extensive preparations for the embarking of troops are being made at Fernandina. Major General Miles, having himself seen the departure of the Santiago expedition, knows exactly the cause of the delay experienced getting off that army and does not i tend that there shall be any repe of the trouble in sending his command away. The army that will constitute the Porto Rican expedition will be s lected from the crmy at all points of encampment. he object of General Miles is to take with him the very best equipped and organized troops now in the United States, regardless of the present situation. CORBETT'S NEW PLAY, “A KENTUCKY HERD.” Written by a California Friend of the Ex-Champion and Praised by the Critics. NEW YORK, June 19. ‘A Kentucky Hero"” is the title of a military comedy drama which may be produced by James J. Corbett next season, says a local pa- per. The piece is by Robert Jefferson Fer- ral, son of ex-Judge Ferral of California, an old-time friend of the former cham- pion. Corbett has just finished a careful reading of the play and thinks very well of it. “Befora considerjng the play T read some criticisms on it, written by the wise gentlemen who try to mold the opinion of theater-goers on the coast,” said Cor- bett. ‘“Most of the opinions were partic ularly strong in favor of the piece, and I don’t think undue praise has been be- stowed. If Mr. Brady likes the piece as well as I do we shall certainly produce it next season. I am inclined to think, ho ever, that we might select a better titla for it.” The play is on the order of “The Heart of Maryland.” SRS Chal MKINLEY'S WARNING DISPLEASES SPANIARDS MADRID, June 19, 9 p. m.—The state- ment that President McKinley has sent to Admiral Cervera and General Pando messages saying that he would hold them personally responsible for the lives of Lieutenant Hobson and his men has produced a disagreeable im- pression here Tn military circles, as showing that President McKinley dis trusts the military honor of the Span- fards, who, on their part, despise all threats. Such messages, it is declared, render the future exchange of the pris- oners most unlikely. ADVERTISEMENTS. L oS LEADING CASH GROCERS. SPECIAL SALE FOR THE WEEK, BUTTER, Point Reyes— $100 COFFEE (Mocha aud Java), 3% Ibs $1.00 Creamery, fresh, 3 squares. ‘Whole or ground. BEANS, in Tomato Sauce— BLEACHING SOAP . .. .. .39 for $L00 Perfect large cakes. 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