The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1898, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1898. PLANS FOR CAPTURE OF PORTO RICO Miles’ Departure Briefly Delayed by Failure to Get Orders. Owing to Complications With the Cubans All of Shafter’s Army Is Needed at Santiago. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Because of | number of these auxillary craft were | a failure on the part of General Miles purchased. They have been distrib- | to recelve the orders the President pre- Uted along the coast from Maine pared late yesterday to take command of the military expedition against Porto Rico that officer rt as was expected from mistake was corrected g, and as a result of some sh ic corre- | spondence that foll g the day 1t was gathered at the department that the Yale would start to to the first intention, without Gene! Yale is to be co sel that Admiral making an effective coast patrol. There is felt to be no further need of this patrol, so that, with the exception of a few important points, the auxiliary craft will be withdrawn for service in Cuba. Bids will be opened to-morrow in New York in the presence of Colonel | Hecker, chief of the Transportation | Bureau of the War Department, for the conveyance home to Spain of the Spanish army captured by General | Shafter. Meanwhile, in advance of | the opening, a bid has come to the de- | partment from one of the big fore!gn‘ lines, proposing to carry 18,000 men | rom Santiago to Cadiz for the lump | m of £125, Any increase or di- | ition in e number will be charged for.in the same proportion. This bid is being held up subject to the formal opening to-morrow. Src Ay MILES PROBABLY AWAITS CONVOYS WASHINGTON, July 18.—It ) probably the and seeking, a naval ve has been in- what, as Sampson the Yale. 1s re- | rded as certain bv the officers of the War Department that General Miles | and the first contingent of the Porto | Rican expedition are now en route from ago to the point in Porto Rico a landing is to be effected. Sec- - Alger said this evening that he bed and expected that General Miles, his forces from Cuba, would get away to-night. At 8 o'clock Lw-mgm General Miles | was still in Cuban waters, but so far as the icials here are informed, the vanguard of the Porto Rican e pedition was finally prepared to leave. | The War Department exchanged sev- eral c: ages with General M ' oon and early ng regarding t details of the ex- tion, but in none of his dispatches d the general indicate the precise his departure. The impression that he was awaiting the sels which are to act as con- is stated definitely that General s has no intention to await the ar- | f the several parts of the expe- fre Un States before It is, in fact, with such troops as he now nd on the island for that will arrive later from His landing will be ef- necessary, under the guns of s of the navy. It is not an- t serious resistance will ed, as the Spanish force | entire island is only slightly | T than the force which accom- | Arrangements for the departure of| troops from this country, which are | comprise the greater part of the ex- diti are being ed with the ut- i is being experi- | —er transports, | but that in a measure has been over- come. Within a day or two. 10,000 men, i expected, will be afloat for Porto 0, and the remainder of the expedi- ‘“]121 be sent forward as rapidly as sible. This afternoon and evening the com- | missary department of the army was ged in making preparations for the | ence of the Porto Rican expe- | on. It is an enormous task, and| ral Egan, the commissary general, | still busily engaged in perfecting his plans. Practically! all the necessary | supplies, except fresh beef, have been | provided fof | NO REPAIR SHIP FOR f THE PACIFIC COAST Belief That the War Will Be Over | Before the Vessel Could Start for Manila. NEW YORK, July 19.—A Washing- | ton special to the Herald says: Sec- | retary Long has determined not to ac- cept the recommendations made by En- eer-in-Chief Melville for the pur- chase of a steamer on the Pacific Coast | to be fitted up as an engineer repair shop, like the Vulcan. This action is due to the Secretary’s belief ¢hat by the time the ship Is ready to start for | Manila the war will be ended. I un- agreed t primaril; tment is rapidly of auxiliary active duty at Porto Ric coast of Spain. | derstand the Secretary feels that if | were sent any of the ships should sustain dam- them will {age it will be an easy matter to send opping t Norfolk to have strengthened. out a large them to Hongkong, where they can be | | Britain permitting ships requiring re- pairs to enter a port for that purpose. 0000000000000 000000000LO00O0OC0O000UOO INTERIOR GARRISONS WILL NOW SURRENDER o0 repaired, the neutrality laws of Great | NATIVES MAY MAKE TROUBLE Insurgents Feared More Than Germans in the Philippines. Washington and Berlin Govern- ments Said to Have an Amica- ble Unde NEW YORK, July 19.—The Herald's to | Washington correspondent sends the |ments are fostered by the interested Florida, at some forty or more points, | following: Officlals of the administra- | tion are now in greater fear of trouble in the Philippines from the insurgents than from Germans. Germany has so strongly impressed her sincerity and friendship upon the administration that the President and his Cabinet have no longer any reason to doubt the presence | of her warships in the Philippines is in favor of ths United States. simply due to her desire to adequately protect German citizens and German interests. On the authority of a high officlal I am able to say that through officlal channels this Government has been in- formed that the acts of German officers attaeched to warships in Manila are un- | | authorized and are deprecated by the Berlin Government. These assurances have had their effect upon the officials. They frankly declare there is no longer ny fear of Germany interfering in any way with American operations in the Philippines, but that the insurgents are likely to seriously annoy and embar- rass Major General Merritt and the troops under his command. When I asked Secretary Long to-day if he had received dispatches of any nature from Rear Admiral Dewey he positively stated that he had not heard from that officer, thus denying the re- port that news had reached Washing- ton. It is sald by International lawyers that Rear Admiral Dewey has a right to prohibit German men-of-war from ! continuaity passing in and out of the | harbor, and credence is placed in the | report that the McCulloch overhauled the German warship Irene. Before passing upon the correctness of Rear | Admiral Dewey’s action the authori- | ties are waiting tq hear from him. The Secretary's instructions state ‘“men-of- war of neutral powers should as a mat- ter of courtesy be allowed passage from | and to a blockaded port,” and in view of the instruetion the authorities ap- preciate Rear Admiral Dewey had some excellent reason for dispatching the McCulloch to overhaul the Irene. In sending the McCulloch the author- ities see an act of courtesy, designed probably to impress the German offi- cers with the idea that Rear Admiral Dewey had no intention of using force in requesting them to observe tne laws and customs prevailing in blockaded ports. In the Herald’s announcement this morning that Aguinaldo would not at- tack Manila until a sufficient force of Americans had arrived the authorities find some ground for their fears re- specting the insurgents. This an- nouncement means that Aguinaldo, notwithstanding innumerable intrigues which he doubtless has set on foot, and concerning some of which thé€ authori- ties have been addressed, well appre- ciates that Rear Admiral Dewey is master of the situation and will comply with his wishes. These wishes, as com- municated to Aguinaldo, are that noth- ing shall be done looking to the reduc- tion of the city until Major General Merritt with the third army expedition reaches Cavite, early in August. It is the desire of the administration to have a sufficient force of Americans | at hand to obviate the necessity of for- eign men-of-war landing marines for the protection of the interests of their respective governments. As soon as Manila has capitulated, Major-General Merritt will issue his proclamation de- claring the Philippines a military pos- session of the United States, and here will undoubtedly come a clash with Aguinaldo, if it comes at all. Like the Cubans, he and the men under his com- | mand, desire the possession of Manila | and the control of the islands under a | government republic of which he pro- claimed himself President. Any inter- ference with the American troops by the insurgents will result in operation= againgt them, as it is the principle of | international law that it is the right and duty of the conqueror to secure his conquest, and to provide for the maintenance of civil order and the rights of the inhabitants. General Mer- ritt is empowered to take such action against any person or persons resisting | | his authority as the rules of martial | law permit. e il ARE DIFFERENCES BERLIN, July 19.—All official infor- mation as to the incident in which the rstanding. |ica, asserts that the unfriendly senti- nglish press. It proceeds to declare that Germany | has always stood by America, and re- |minds the Americans of Germany’s | friendly attitude during the civil war. | On the other hangd, it says Germany has | suffered many petty annoyances from | Spain, still she cannot help her ad- | miration of Spanish valor. The article | reflects the general veering of the press 'MOHAMMED TORRES NOT | TO BE INTIMIDATED | Will Neither Proclaim Moroceo’s | | Neutrality Nor Allow the i Cable to Be Cut. | Spectal cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 153, by James Gor- don Bennett. i TANGIER, July 19.—Mohammed Tor- res refuses to make an official declara- { tion of neutrality. For him neutrality Lmeans not interfering in any way. The Ministers met to-day and decided to make fresh representations. Mohammed | Torres, however, refused to be moved. | The Russian Consul, therefore, reck- | oned prematurely on his moral influ- | ence over him. The Spaniards held a | meeting and threatened to cut the| | cable. ~ Representations were conse- | | quently made by the British. Minister, | | and Torres sent a guard of fifty soldiers to protect it, with orders to fire at the first attempt to cut it. STRENGTHENING THE /DEFENSES OF CADIZ iobsolete Guns Replaced by Modern Ones—Fishing-Boats Under Restrictions. Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 153, by James Gor- don Bennett. CADIZ, July 19.—Since I last tele- | graphed the fifth battery on Torre- | gorda, which had been directed north, ;has had its guns turned toward the {south. The guns are 30-centimeter Hon- | torias. The Cortadena battery has a {100 ton gun. The Governor has had his Carraca quarters evacuated to ppovide | lodgings for officers. Several obsolete | guns have been replaced. Fishing boats | have been forbidden to go out at night | | to avoid naval surprises. e |ADVICE OF LEO TO CUBAN CATHOLICS | The Pope Said to Favor an Au-| tonomical Regime for the | Island. MADRID, July 13.—The Rome corre- spondent of the Imparcial telegraphs | that if a plebiscite is resolved upon to | fix the fate of Cuba the Pope will ad- | vise Cuban Catholics to vote for an {autonomical regime under the joint pro- tection of Spain and the United States, | both nations guaranteeing a loan for | | th> organization of the Cuban adminis- | tration. | The Embassadors of Spain and Aus- | tria held a long conference to-day with Cardinal Rampolli, who afterward con- sulted with the Pope. BRYAN GETS AN OVATION. CENTRALIA, 18.—The I, July | Establish Themselves in a Town Near | Bryan regiment reached Centralia, in the home county of Colonel Bryan, at 10:30 p. m., three hours behind time. A crowd of 5,000 waited for the train and gave the soldiers a rousing welcome. The near relatives of Colonel Bryan gathered here and gave him an affec- tionate greeting. A magnificent floral emblem, a wreath surrounding a pic- ture of Bryan, with a horseshoe suspended underneath the picture, was presented by the citizens of Marion county. The presentation speech was made by Rev. J. L. Waller and a brief | response was made by Colonel Bryan. | =it Washington Volunteers Coming. | VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash, | | July 19.—The Third Battalion, Wash- | ington Volunteers, will leave here for San Francisco to-morrow to join the First and Second Battalions. The order | from the War Department was read to | the troops at dress parade to-night. The | regiment is fully equipped for field ser- | ! vice, and it is believed it will go to the Philippines. | Too Close Construction of the Neu- | FAMINE PRICES STILL PREVAIL AT 'CUB A’S CAPITAL Story of Three Spanish Deserters Picked Up off Havana Harbor by the Terror. FROM THE CALL-HERALD SPEC- | IAL CORRESPONDENT, on board the United States monitor Terror, off Havana, July 14. While cruising off the entrance to Havana harbor at daybreak this morn- ing the Terror pidked up a small boat in which were three deserters from the | Spanish gunboat Aguila which is in- side the harbor. They rowed out to us under the cover of darkness and dur- | ing a heavy rain. They were Jose Fer- nandez, Antonio Gonzales and Antonio Capellastegin. They brought with them their arms and considerable am- munition and told Gs many interest- ing things about the effect of the block- | ade. | According to thelr story the price of rice in Havana now is 20 cents a pound, and there is only one shon where it is sold. The supnly will be gone in a week. There are no potatoes in the city, and other vegetables are very scarce and very dear. Beans cannot be had at any price. Meat is 30 cents a pound. Bread in small quantities is sold at a price be- yond the reach of common people; a loaf which is issued to soldiers, weigh- ing less than a pound, can be bought in some places for 50 cents. There are no crackers in the city. Fowl are in the reach of the wealthy at $4 each. The three deserters told me that Car- denas, Matanzas and Cienfuegas are starving and cannot Hold out more than a week. These are the warships that are ac- tually in Havana harbor: First-class cruiser Alfonso XII, second-class cruis- ers Marques de la Ensenada, Conde de Venadito and the Infanta Isabel; tor- pedo boats Marques de Molins, Martin Alonso Pinsos, Vicenta Yanez, Pinzon and Neuva Espana; gunboats Aguila and Flecha. The transport boat Le- gaspi, the merchant ships Vivina and | Madrileno, belonging to a company of Serra, from Bilbca, the Julia Cosme Herrera, Aviles, Rita and several sail- ing vessels are also there. About the fortifications the deserters told a long story, but the officers of the fleet do not think they have told all about the defens The entrance to Havana, they said, is fortified on both sides, on El Chivo with two cannon of 80.5 centimeters, two of 57 millimeters, Nordenfeld style, and some old cannon | of smaller calibre. In Morro are two cannon of 12 centimeters, two rapid-fire guns, two of 24 centimeters, old style, | and others of smaller calibre. At La | Punta there are two cannon of 40 centi- meters, Nordenfeld style, and many others of older style. Besides the bat- tery of La Reina, which is very| strongly fortified, there is that of Santa Clara, with two cannon of 32 centi- | meters, and that of La Chorrera. At| the entrance to El Morro thirteen tor- pedoes have been placed. MINE OPERATORS TALK OF IMPORTING NEGROES | | | | Strikers in the Penwell Coal District | Seem to Be Masters of the | Situation. i PANA, TIL, July 19.—An attempt to-day | to resume operations at the Penwell coa! mine failed. A force of armed deputies and police were on hand, but the plan of conveying the miners in carriages to the mine to work was abandoned by the op- erators for the reason that no miner | could be induced to return, almost all the non-union miners having joined the union. | It is said that the next move of the op- erators wiil be to try to import negroes | to operate the mine: INVASION OF ECUADOR BY PERUVIAN REBELS { | the Frontier as a Base of Operations. | PANAMA, Colombia, July 19.—The Her- | ald’s correspondent in Guayaquil, kcua- | dor, telegraphs that the Government has received news of an invasion of rebels from the Peruvian frontier. The insur- | rectionists have established themselves in | a town near the frontler as a base of | operations. | ———— DANISH WEST INDIES TAKING NO CHANCES 2 s | trality Laws Ties Up a Coal- | Laden Steamer. ST. THOMAS, D. W. L, July 19.—The | American auxiliary cruiser Yosemite has | sailed for Key West. The Danish Gov- ernment refused to allow her to tow out | the steamer Southard, whose cargo of coal, it is claimed, was purchased prior to the declaration of war between Spain and the United States and is, therefore, not subject to the neutrality laws. Signal Corps Fully Recruited. WASHINGTON, July 19.—The seven- teen companies of the volunteer signal corps have now been recruited to their full strength. Each company consists of sixty-three persons, including officers and men, and a company is to be assigned to each division of the army. i Alleged Swindlers Taken. LOS ANGELES, July 19.—Frank A. Marcher, the jeweler who is accused of having assisted in a brass watch swindle, in which H J. Loomis, a Cucamonga | | | | MEN WHO ARE | heat in their yesterday's race—the | ahead of Rubenstein. | third. Time, 2:21%. 4040404040404040404040404040404040404040404066040404040404¢04040¢04040 rancher, lost $1200, was captured here to- day, and it is learned to-night that De-| tective Gard has arrested also Charles A. | Gove, alias Gould, alias Jackson, who is said 'to have been the principal in the | shady transaction and who was supposed | to haye gone to San Francisco and Seat- tle. - Marcher was hiding in his home on Maple avenue. T e Detroit Harness Races. DETROIT, July 19.—Shortly before noon | an unusually heavy rain soaked the freshly harrowed track, and the drying- out process was not nearly completed during the afternoon. Frank Bogash, Ru- benstein and Bumps paced the deciding 20 Bogash went under the wire a L Bumps was a poor pace. 2:15 pacing, purse $2000—Redinda won first, fourth heats. time, 2:14% Best 1145 Omer won third heat in 2:20%. Journey- man " third. Minnetta, Rhoda Farrand and Bowery Boy also started 2:16 trotting, purse $2000 (unfinished)—Mattie Patterson won third and 0 fourth heats. Time, -2 . Judge at Law won second heat in 4 Askey distanced in the fourth heat, wen first heat in 2:16. Sister, Alino, Belle M., Ellert and Tudor Chimeés also started. e AMERICAN ENERGY IN KOREA. About to Build Roads, Bridges and Other Public Works. YOKOHAMA, July 19.—The Government has notified the powers that the new commercial code went Into operation on {July 1 and that the Civil Code became | operative on July 16 16, 1t is reported that the United States | Minister to Korea, r. H. N. Allen, has | concluded an agree: at Seoul wnh‘(k;? | Korean Minister for the engagement of American experts to survey the country with a view to building roads, bridges | and other public works. ZOLA GOES INTO EXILE T0 ELUDE ARREST Rather Than Be Returned to Prison | the Novelist Quits His Native Land. ile Zola, who, Aurore, r's im- the by the officers of ti tial, has gone to avoid arrest. EfLI dote Seaside Laboratory Closed. PACIFIC GROVE, July 19.—The regular six weeks' term of the Hopkin Seasids Laboratory of Stanford Unive: y closed on Monday, and =a large number students returned to-day = Some of the students and all of the pr fessors are yet here, however, doing lines of ori research wi some of the ra: forms of the waters of Monterey Bay. | oratory will be open for worl out the present season, but no classes will be conducted after August 1. special work, afnd several ADVERTISEMENTS. Goes far-you remember it all day Schilling’s Best coffee—at grocer’s +0+060404040404040404040+ MACKAY’S SEMI-ANNUAL REMNANT SALE OF CARPETS LINOLEUM Comprising about 5000 yards, choice patterns in all grades, in lengths of 3 o 30 yards, at these extraordinary low AXMINSTER .... 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IT ADYOCATES SENT BY HOME MAIL, SL.38 INDUSTRIES A YEAR. e 1 ‘Chisheater Local Droggises. | German cruiser Irene figured at Subig O‘ Bay, Philippine Islands, in regard to o the shot fired across her bows by the | United States auxiliary cruiser Mec- { Culloch and regarding Admiral von | Diederich’s interview with Captain © | Chichester of the British warship Im- © | mortalite as to what the latter would O/ do if the Germans interfered with the | bombardment of Manila, Captain Chi- chester replying that only Admiral | Dewey and himself knew that, is re- | fused here. The werman officials will only admit that differences of opinion between Admiral Dewey and Admiral von Diederichs as to the right of WASHINGTON, July 19.—General Shafter, in a dis- patch to the War Department, says he will send officers and men to receive the surrender of garrisons in the interior, es- timated to be about 2000 soldiers. He will also send forces to receive the surrender of the coast towns of Baracoa, Guan- tanamo and Sagua de Tanamo. Ten thousand stands of arms, he said, were taken at Santiago. Following is Shaf- ter’s dispatch: Playa, 9:30 a. m.—Headquarters near Santiago, July 19.—Adjutant General, Washington: My ordnance officer reports over 10,000 rifles sent in and 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition. Will send officers and troops to-morrow to re- ceive the surrender of the interior garrisons. There are about Coxpuctor: I don't know how I would get along if it wasn't fop' Ripans Tabules. We men here on the road are always in such a “hustle,” and get so little timg to eat and have to swallow our food so quickly, " mo wonder we have dyspepsia. Iknow I suffered with it for nearly two years before I got “oato ™ the Tabules, and 1 was in misery all the time. 1 constantly had painsin my stomach and chest, and a dizzy feeling about my head. My bowels didn't work regularly, and I felt “mean ™ all the time. I saw Ripans Tabules advertised so much I bought some, and after taking them for a month felt like anew man. Ihave a boy who was troubled with Indigestion, and gave some to him. They proved 0 be just what he needed, They are those who do not feel weak They are those who have no weak nerves. Are you one? If you are not you ought to be. Why not be a man again? You were as well vitalized by nature as others. But you are not strong, full of vigor and power to-day. Have you over- taxed one of your big powers? If 30, and your knees feel weak some- times and you see spots before the eyes, ask about »Hudyan" H it is true that *Hudyan" has cured 20,000 men, why will it not cure YOU? Send to the glv_;:: Institute and ask what it has done for the others who t the Germans add Admiral von ineder- | ichs refused to allow German warships to be searched. i 2000 troops at these places. Will send officers to receive the l surrender of the coast garrisons at Guantanamo, Baracoa i P : 3 and Sagua de Tanamo. S BERLIN, July 19.—The Vossische I'.'°'°. P“L"g' : d"'!:l":: two cents if you live out of the city. If you Zeitung in a much discussed article, o city-and will I, it will cost nothing. Manhood is surely | pretaced by the statement that some| ~ Worth such a smail tifie. VEERING OF THE “W. R. SHAFTER, Major General” rectification is needed of the errors re- . KUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Stockon, Market asd Ells Sts, San Frascisca, | 00000000000000000 00000000000 0000000000000000000000 searching warships, have occurred, and | GERMAN PRESS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAMM German feeling toward Amer-