The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1898, Page 4

THE FRANCISCO CALL, ONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1898 SWITCHING YARD IN THE STREETS Southern Pacific Impo- sition at San Jose. OUTGROWTH OF GANG RULE CONSTANT MENACE TO LIVES OF TRAVELERS. Two of the Principal Thoroughfares of the City Recklessly En- croached Upon by the Monopoly. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOS. be: n the Aug. 21.—As a result of s of a corrupt political gang San Jose is being imposed upon by the Southern Pacific monopoly. Two of the principal str First and San yard at the & a detriment to th the value of pr besides being a to travelers. Teams are frequently frightened, and | hardly a day accident is not narrowly averted. North First street is one of the finest thoroughfares in the city. The same can be said of North San Pedro street. Both lead to the center of town and are the thoroughfares of much travel. Be- tween Julian and Washington the Southern Pacific Rallroad crosses the streets. Trains on the coast division and iles route cross these streets many times a day. But not satisfied with this, the railroad company switches cars across these driveways passes but some serious | | FRANCE FIRST-STREET CROSSING IN SAN JOSE, FOR A SWITCHING YARD. WHICH THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC USES RANCE OFFERED 70 AID HAWAI Incident of the Cable Legislation. CALL'S REPORT CONFIRMED all day long. A flagman is provided, | PROMISES MADE BY A FRENCH but even then there is danger from the continual switchi The street is blocked by teams waiting to cross, and First and San Pedro streets are virtu- ally pre-empted for railroad rds, North First street contain: the finest residences in the city, and but a bloc yond the railroad c the Hotel endome. The hoste: filled by gue! from all over the United Stat and that the cit main thor- oughfare should remain in such a con- dition is a disgrace to the municipality. People li hborhood have protested in against the condition > anything. s unanimous that the Southern should compelled to remove its freight yards It owns ample ground a r in the Polhemus tract, that r railroad purpose been report ss of the cor moved there, but the Te jlled City Councils Iroad imposition to con- ago the Board of Trade uit- m time allowed the r tinue unmole Some time took up the matter. It was discussed and a committee appointed to wait upon the company, but that was all that was done. The anner in which the street used condemned by the entire cit. but s gang-ridden condition San Jos powerless to resist this en- croachment of the Southern Pacifis NATIONAL SENTIMENT FAVORS EXPANSION President McKinley Deluged With Letters Urging Retention of the Philippines. ‘Washington correspondent telegraphs Secretal Al was much interested this morning as to the contention in different quarters as to whether the ca pitulation had included the Philippines. | United States Government had to be A very prominent and observant official | first considered in any negotiation for | said to-night that if the word “su-|landing a foreign cable on- Hawaiian s mentioned in the terms of n e > - ment was translated back into on three subsequent occasions did BEEah L e earar aIent e representative of the French Gov- panish g o nigk | ernment and the promoters appear be- formed. He was conversant with the | fore the Executive Council and plead fact that the Spanish word was pliant and many-sided and more may have been meant by what was translated into “suburbs’’ than is contemplated by our term “suburb.” And yet opinion here opposes the suggestion that the agreement was received with General Merritt's perfect knowledge of the word ‘“suburbs,” and that, there- fore, the claim that the Philippines were meant is out of the question. President McKinley and his Cabinet are being made aware of the fact that the sentiment of the country is strong- }y in favor of holding all of the Phil- ippin Each day the mail brings to the President and to each member of the Cabinet many letters from all over the country. Even before the capture of Manila by Admiral Dewey and Gen- eral Merritt a great majority of the writers of these letters u that all the islands should be held. Since that victory the proportion of the writers who favor retiring from them has grown much smaller. It cannot be said that the President has changed his views on th but as he is inclined to regard what he understands to be the deliberate judgment of the people of the coun- try he may, when the time comes to instruct the peace commissioners, give them to understand that he considers the situation in the Philippines to be such it will be the duty of the United hold them. er ntative Grosvenor, returned from Europe, was at the ju White House to-night and had a talk with the President about the situation. 1 saw him as he was leaying the White House and he told me he was heartily in favor of the retention of the Philip- pines by the United State ————————— PORTO RICAN EVACUATION. Bpanish 'froops Will Leave the Isl- and in September. LONDON, Aug. 21.—The Madrid corre- dent of the Sunday Times : The tion of Porto Rico will begin in September, but it is not expected that the disbanding of the Cuban troops will be Pears’ What a luxury Pears’ soap is! The cheapest soap in all the world be- sides. other | e subject up to this time, | who has | COMPANY. Sought in Every Possible Way to Prevent the Granting of a Franchise to an Ameri- can Corporation. Special Correspondence of The Call. BY HORACE WRIGHT. HONOLULU, Aug. 10.—As far back | which it h 7 | ence to a proposition for as February 11 The Call published in this co onden a French trans-Pacific cable connecting Tahiti and Honolulu, which created a nsation in the United States and ope and received the honor of an vocal contradiction from persons tion on behalf cally pending before the Govern- s of Hawaii-and America. In the throes of the dissolutjon of the Hawaiian republic and the personal unpleasantness thereby engendered, the true secret has reluctantly oozed out in spite of the secretive manner in s been handled by the mori- bund Cabinet. from reliable authority, It appeéa that The Call was correct in its s ment. The French warship Duguay Trouin at the same time that it brought | lar NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—The Hgmm-;”hun no special or exclusive franchise | | | | | tongue: | been made. |8 | from Europe. the proposition for making Honolulu a teamers of the ageries Imperiales Line brought quest to the Hawailan Government port of call for the Me be granted to any trans-Pacific cable company until a proposition for a French cable connection with Tahiti had been fully considered by the Ha- walian Government, even although the his cause and strenuously oppose the granting of any exclusive franchise to any Hawaiian, American or foreign company. It was this opposition that induced a section of the Cabinet and its supporters to make so strenuous a ht in the Legislature agains clusive franchise of the Pac! ser) cable bill, which won its fight in so extraordinary and mysterious a manner as to compel ad- miration of the ability which en- gineered it and comment on the sudden docility with which votes flocked to it. If I am correctly informed, there will not be found among the archives of the Government of the republic of Hawaii a single line of documentary evidence in the way of contracts, letters or even pleces of conversations to mark this in- teresting episode of the cable fight; but this not surprising when the se- cretive sympathi n the transaction of public affairs by the Gevehmgericht of, Hawaii become more fully appreciated, as they will be in course of time when become loosened in discussing reminiscences. It is even now intimat- ed *“on the dead quiet” that France stood ready to tender diplomatic as- sistance in aid of the preservation of Hawalian independence had the slight- est approach to an entente cordiale If this be so, then one can appreciate more fully the ~olicy that brought, upon more than one occasion during the annexation campaign, firm | but delicate pressure upon the Unitved States with threats of looking else- where for political alliances, and the motive which actuated the annexation | correspondents most closely allled with the syndicates in suggesting that un- less the United States took Hawail some other nation would. It also explains that lingering hope, which even now, on the very eve of the consummation of the marriage between gre th ter and the lesser republic, still ians—that rescue and restoration nal honor will yet arrive Unfortunately, perhaps, no arguments on the futility of the hope can for the present prevail against that deep-rooted sentiment of the peo- ple who conscientiously oppose an- nexation. They will drift down the tide of time like the Legitimists of Europe, whose thrones know them no longer as occupiers, but merely as transient ghosts of dimly remembered grandeur. FOR A PACIFIC CABLE. Conference of Colonial Officials Held at Sydney. SYDNEY, U. S. A, Aug. 21—Right Hon. Sir Hugh Muir Nelson, Premier of Queensland; Right Hon. Sir George H. Reld, Premier of New South’ Wales; and Right Hon. Sir George Turner, Premier of Victoria, met in conference on Satur- day and discussed plans for a Pacific cable. They decided to make the definite offer that if Great Britain and Canada collectively would guarantee flve-ninths of the cost of laying the new cable they would recommend to their respective Legislatures to contribute one-ninth each, asking New Zealand to contribute the remaining one-ninth. an item in refer-. | with | of rival schemes then | the semi-frozen breasts of the | FULL PROTECTION FOR CATHOLICS Archbishop Ireland Highly Pleased. Is| ASSURED BY THE PRESIDENT | ed within the town boundaries on that { | NO TROUBLE ABOUT OUR NEW | POSSESSIONS. | | Church Interests, His Grace Says, Will HRourjsh Better Under \ Our Flag Than Ever Before. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.—Archbishop | Ireland, who has been in the city for | several days, left to-night. During his stay he has had several conferences with President McKinley, with whom his relations are of the most cordial character. The Archbishop has declined to discuss the significance of his calls upen the President, but it has been gen- erally understood that he was acting in the interest of the Catholic church for its protection in our new posses- sions. Archbishop Ireland dismisses as without foundation the statements that church matters are liable to cause dis- | sensions. To the Associated Press to- night he made the statement which fol- | Jows: | “The church question in our new pos- | sessions ‘offers no difficulty whatever. Two principles are already settied by the constitution and laws of America: There will be no union of church and state, such as i established by custom or concord in certain Catholic countries | of Europe, but there will be complete | protection of all properties and of all persons. “With such principles Catholics in the United States are satisfled, and Catho- | lics in our new possessions will be sat- | jsfied. The so-called church guestion need not be considered by military or peace commissions. It is fully regu- lated the moment the flag of this coun- try is raised over a territory. The peo- | ple of our new possessions understand, I am sure, this matter very well and will loyally accept the situation. It may not be very easy for them at first to adapt themselves in all cases to this | situation, but the embarrassments felt | will be temporary. “The people will soon realize that it | is their duty to support religion by | voluntary and personal contributions. | In the greater number of parishes, | | moreover, church properties yield | | ample revenue to meet all expenses. The church everywhere in our new pos- | sessions is thoroughly organized: it wears no missionary or experimental | aspect, but has the full form and the | full “strength of complete organization and is well prepared to care for all her | interests without the help of state or | charitable aid. It demands no favor, no privilege—naught but liberty and | the legal protection of the natural and | | civil Tights of its members. | I “Certain people who talk of these ter- | ritories as fields for missionary efforts | | from the United States do not know | | what they are talking about. They | might with as much sense organize | missions for the conversion of the Catholics of Santiago, Havana or San | | Juan—and their labors would have as | much prospect of success in Washing- | ton as in those cities of Cuba and| Porto Rico. The separation of the| countries of South America from Spain | | and Portugal brought no change of re- | ligion, nor will the separation of Cuba | | and Porto Rico from Spain bring any. | | Indeed, the Catholic church will flour- | | ish better in Cuba and Porto Rico than | | in other territories formerly colonies of | Spain, because in Cuba and Porto Rico | | there will be the liberty and stability | | of order which our flag guarantees. “Cuba and Porto Rico form an ec- | clesiastical province, with the Arch-| | bishop of Santiago as metropolitan and suffragan Bishop of San Juan and Ha- vana. This province will take its place | in the American heirarchy, just as does the province of Baltimore or that of St. | Paul, making the fifteenth ecclesias- tical provinee in the United States, and | bringing to our Catholic population an addition of two and a half millions. not | to talk of islands in the Pacific; so, | whatever else will come to America from the late war, considerable in- | crease of numbers and power will come | to the Catholic church. As a Catholic | | T am very much satisfied with the way | things have been ‘going—and as ani American, I am, of course, thoroughly ‘sausfled, But if T were to speak at | length of my feelings as an American, | | the interview would be too lengthy and 1 stop at the religious feature of the SUICIDE AT OROVILLE. Despondent Traveling Salesman Cuts His Throat. OROVILLE, Aug. 2l.—A Swede named Stark, who was traveling for a tailoring firm in Sacramento, this morning commit- ted suicide. He stripped himself naked, took a small one-bladed, iron-handied penknife that was dull, placed himself in front of a laoking-fil‘ass and cut his throat from ear to ear. The cut was not deep, but he had severed the windpipe and bled almost to death before he was discovered. The blood had then coagulated, and he was taken to the Infirmary, where two ghys&clnns closed and sewed the wound, ut the man only lived until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He left a note to afriend saying he was sick and had not a dime, so he thought the easiest way to end his misery was to kill himself, 5 ! | crowd lacks the required amount. | fits are being sold in every direction, L@ boat through its shifting chanpels. DAWSON'S FIRST ~ OFFICIAL CENSUS Sixteen Thousand the Population. SUBURBS ARE NOT INCLUDED CROWDS CAMPED OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. Throng of Helpless Tenderfeet Con- tinues to Grow and the Long Arctic Winter Is Not Far Distant. Special Correspondence of Tho Call. BY SAM W. WALL. DAWSON CITY, N. W. T,, Aug. 6.— By order of Major Walsh a census of the city of Dawson was taken last ‘Wednesday and 16,000 souls were count- | The work was done by the mounted police, the city being divided up into small districts and the count was completed within | a few hours, so that, despite the un- | settled condition of things, the fact| that four-fifths of the inhabitants live | in tents and nearly that proportion are camped in such confusion as might be | expected to attend a stampede or the retreat of a beaten army, it is believed to be very close to the actual number | of people here. Five thousand more are camped at the mouth of the Stew- art River, a few hours by the river current from Dawson. Other thou- | sands are camped at Little and Big | Salmon and the Pelly rivers. | I have been here a few more days | than six weeks and the scene of this big bivouac remains un- changed. Thousands have gone out, but other thousands have taken their places. Building is going on at a tremendous rate, but in pro- portion to the number of people who, if they remain here, are yet to be housed, it is nothing at all. The days are shortening very rapidly. The long, cold and dark winter is rapidly ap- proaching and still this big crowd sits as in a trance, waiting for the Lord knows what. Every up-river boat carries away as many as its decks will hold, the passengers being stowed away in any old:way, for the five days’ trip, | there being no room for beds. The | earlier down-river boats are crowded, | but since the demonstration of the | practicability of the up-river route, | which is so much shorter, most of those hurrying homeward go that way. There are three small boats plying | from “here up the river. They run | from here to White Horse Rapids, where they connect (with a portage to above the canyon) with boats to Ben- nett. They make the round trip in | about ten days. . Their .best -efforts | from now until the river closes will scarcely make an impression on the camp, although they wiil be more and maore cro' d as the margin of the summer narrows.. Nine-tenths of this big crewd that is camped and idling here does not know ,what it is going to do. Being asked they will plainly tell you so. They came into this faraway, | isolated country with vaeue notions of | what they were to do and how they were to do it when they, got here; ar- | rived and face to face with the hard | conditions and the tremendous st.ruz-} gle for fortune that is going on here, | their uncertain plans * are dissipated and they sit in their tents and = cook | their meals and sleep, drawing their blankets a little closer about them as | the night grow colder and wait and walt. 2 With the first fleck of snow, less than six weeks hence, there will probably be another such sailing of the great flotilla as took place at Bennett and La Barge less than six weeks ago. The destination this time will be St. ichael. But it takes money to get ack to the States,” even from St. Michael, and a great proportion of this Out- auction sales are in progress in al- most every block, afternoon and even- ing, and the prices of the great mass of stuff that is sold is little if any above that at which it was purchased away back in some city of the States, and the dragging of it over that terrible | “summit,” over mountains and lakes | and rivers and through freight and | customs offices goes for nothing. This | sacrifice will go on and increase until the time limit for getting out is passed. The price of certain provisions re- mains high, these being scarce and especially desirable here, such as on- ions, potatoes and vegetables, that may be obtained fresh. Onions readily seil at $1 a pound and potatoes at 50 cents. Beef was offered to-day at 50 cents, it having fallen from $1. The run of salmon has begun and although the fish are not in the finest condition after their swim of 2000 miles from the sea, they sold readily for $1 50 a pound at first, but have since been bought at 25 cents. The price of meals at restau- rants s still kept up to $150 and $250. A meal may be had for $1, but it is scant and of a quality below that served for 5 cents in San Francisco. The Alaska Commercial Company's steamer Bella has made the run to St. Michael and return and brings little en- couraging news concerning the new boats upon which so many have under- taken to reach Dawson this summer. It is reported that there are twenty-two boats in various stages of construction at and near St. Michael, and that some twenty others are being built at Dutch Harbor or Unalaska. Some of the com- panies operating these boats are mak- ing blg preparations here to do busi- ness through them, but they do not come. The Empire Line and the Alaska Exploration Company are both building big warehouses, but the boats that were relied upon to bring the goods to store in them are not even reported in the river. Very many plans that were based upon the arrival of these boats have already gone to smash and it is freely predicted that very many of the boats will be unable to get their passengers | up the river, and that the experiences of last winter, suffered by the passen- gers of the Hamilton, Seattle No. 1, Merwin, Governor Stoneman, Hettie B, the Dwyer and others, will be suffered again by very many more this winter. It is almost a fixed superstition of the river that no boat can make the ascent above the flats from St. Michael at its first attempt. But four boats have done so this summer, demonstrating the ab- surdity of that saying. Two of them, the Monarch and the Sovereign, be- longed to a company wholly new on the river, the Columbia Navigation Com- pany, and the boats were in charge of men who had never seen it before. ‘White men were in the pilot-houses. Thus were destroyed at once all the set- tled beliefs of the river concerning the navigation of this treacherous stream, for it has long been held that only the TIndian who had grown familiar through a life upon it could be trusted to pilot | ner, Idaho. It was shown that all that was neces- sary was tc be ready to take the water while it was high enough and to put competent boatmen in charge. The fail- ure to do this by the men, who have enticed passengers to sail with them by false statements and accepted freight which they will be unable to deliver will result in great suffering and disaster and no doubt develop another big cloud of damage suits next year. The Seattle No. 3, which is long over- due, is not reported anywhere in the river, and the eighteen tons of United States mail which is in her cdre, or the care of the company, is causing great anxiety and disgust because of its non- arrival. On the little steamer Flora of the Bennett Lake and Klondike Navigation Company, which leaves for White Horse Rapids to-night, Major Walsh, Com- missioner to the Northwest Territory, is a passenger. He is the highest offi- cial in the Territory, and, going to Ot- tawa, he will make his report and re- tire from the service. Major Walsh has profound faith in the great richness of the Territory—believes it to be the rich- est camp in the world. He says that he will urge upon Parliament the imme- diate betterment of many of the con- ditions here. The waterway will be cleared, he says, of the rocks that have caused so many wrecks at White Horse and in Thirty-mile rivers. He thinks a telegraph line will connect Dawson with the rest of the world before an- other year, and that police posts at in- tervals of thirty miles will make it a comparatively easy matter to travel be- tween the “out” and “inside” this win- ter. He believes the camp is a fixture for many years. The departure of Ma- jor Walsh is very generally regretted. Before leaving the major commissioned D. W. Davis, Dr. Richardson, Captain of Police Sterns, Captain Bliss and Pro- secuting Attorney Wade to serve as a town committee, with full powers. The Anglian, a small steamer of the Canadian Development Company, ar- rived from Lake Teslin. She brought seventy soldiers, whom she landed at Fort Selkirk. She will now run regu larly on the upper river. The Viola, lhé‘i smallest of the fleet of steamboats, has‘ also arrived from up the river, and the | Vivian. They report the finding of the | body of George Mulhern near the Little Salmon. | Three Indians brought down from | Tagish have been tried and found guilty of the murder of Billy Meecham early in June. They will be hanged here on the 1st of October. A daughter was born on July 17 to Mr. and Mrs. “Jim” Wardner of Ward- They recently arrived in a All the fam- | { small boat from Bennett. ily are well and happy. — e LIVING SKELETONS CARRIED ABOARD Correspondence of the ~Associated Press. SANTIAGO DE'CUBA, Aug. 9.—To- the first of ‘our Spanish prisoners were put on board the transport we have hired to take them-home. Ten thousand of the men have been in camp for more than three weeks, Just | outside the city limits. They were | much nearer to the palace than our own men. They were our prisoners and we, one and all, avoided the roads that | led near their camps because of the vile odors that arose therefrom. To-day, as the Spaniards passed through the city on the way to the docks, we saw sights that brought tears to the eyes of men who are not readily moved to tears. Down on the docks, in the narrow strip of shade at a warehouse, some 200 Spaniards AUSSELL BAINGS THE CHILLENGE Represents Sir Thomas Lipton. EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK WILL BE BOURKE COCKRAN'S GUEST. Talks of the Motive Which Prompted an Irish Yachtsman to Seek to Win the Amer- ica’s Cup. Special Dispatch to The Call. QUEBEC, Aug. 2l—Hon. Charles Russell, the son of Lord Russell of Killowen, is here, the bearer of a chal- lenge from Ireland to all yachtsmen in America for the America’s cup. Mr. Russell arrived in Quebec on Friday and is the guest of Solicitor General Charles Fitzpatrick. He will leave to- morrow for New York, where he will be the guest of Bourke Cockran. The challenger is confident the details of the race will be speedily arranged. To the Associated Press repregentative he said: “The desire to challenge for the cup is not a new idea with Sir Thomas Lipton. Twelve years ago he made the proposition to the Cork Yacht Club to challenge with an Irish yacht, but at the time there were difficulties in the way and the contest was not brought about.” “Does Sir Thomas intend to put his own yacht into the proposed contest?"” My, Russell was asked. “No,” he said. “Sir Thomas does not own a racing yacht at the present time, but he has always taken a lively interest in yacht racing and is a mem- ber of several yacht clubs. In fact, he has always been in all forms of sports.” “What is his motive for issuing the challenge at this time?” “Sir Thomas®’ view is this: England and Scotland have had repeated oppor- tunities to compete for the trophy and have failed, but Ireland has had no chance. longer remain the Cinderella of the family, and, in yachting at any rate, should take her proper place among the nations of the earth. The yacht will be built in Ireland and she is to be called the Shamrock. Her crew | will be Irish and she is to be built in the yards of Harland & Wolf, Belfast. | Right Hon. W. J. Pierre, the chief part- ner, is taking the greatest possible in- terest in the matter. builders of the White Star liners.” SENSATIONAL LIBEL AGAINST THE NOYN Captain of the Steamer Charged With Attempting to Sink the W. H. Evans. SEATTLE, "Aug. 2L—In "the United Waited orders to move on to the lighter which would convey them to the much- talked-of Spanish hospital ship Ali-| cante. These men were of a sickly pal- | lo= hollow-cheeked, weak and thin. “We are the men who have brought| the sick into the town on litters,” they | explained. Down on the wharf, being loaded on the steam lighter Bessie, we-e long| lines of stretchers, each with its pitittl| burden—faces that looked like death's heads, every line of the skull marked | on the vellow skin, protruding teeih | over which lips would not close. One man grasped, in a claw that had crush- ed them, three American hardtac¢ks. Others had food hidden under their scant covering. Their weight was as| nothing, vet four well men staggered under the burden of one stretche Down the city streets came other processions of stretchers. Vanqulshedl and sick, moaning, staggering, they| drifted into the town all day long. ‘When the city surrendered the pros- pective return to Spain brought joy to | many hearts. The fulfillment of the| promise was sad. The American ambulances have been detailed to help carry those unable to | walk, and we have erected tents on the | docks where the sick can wait until the lighter is ready for them. “It was not a camp out there,” said a Spanish officer, “it was a graveyard. Between two and three hundred’ went into the hospital daily. It was not a hospital—there were no medicines, there was no attendance. ¥orty men were dying every day, and the trenches are fpll of the dead. We have saved you many a $20 for passage money to| Spain. There are 9000 out there yet— only a thousand came in to-day—but they won't last long. Dysentery—eamp dysentery we call it, and it !s worse than the plague—is carrying them off.” A white-haired officer, with stars and | bands on his sleeves, but so thin and weak and pale that he looked more like | a skeleton than a man, walked down the wharf, supported by his wife, who was as much in need of support as he was himself. Over a loose board they both tripped and fell. There are two young children in the party who cry almost continuously. Finally they all got on board, the women to spend ten days on a filthy, horrible troop ship. There are many women going thus, wives of officers, who cannot pay for a passage. These Spanish troop ships bid fair to rival old-time slave ships in the mis- ery and sufferings that will be con- fined within their sides on the voyage | back to Spain. ' Our own soldiers were sick, but the conditions of the Spaniards are many times worse than those of our men, who seem strong and heaithy compared with them. The Spaniards were not in this condition when they moved to their death camp just three weeks ago. Just how far we are expected to pro- vide care for a vanquished foe is a question now being discussed in this town. Every one admits and has ad- mitted that the Spaniard has been a good enemy, a good fighter, and the Americans who took off their hats to the Spanish on the 17th of July did so with true homage to brave men.. As the pitiful lines of Spanish prisoners stagger through the streets of the city for the next week or so, feebly step- ping out of the way of -edestrians, looking fearfully at rattling carts and in sad contrast to our strong men in brown, the Americans who see them will be inclined to again uncover their heads, prompted by the same feeling of homage to brave me POPE HOLDS A RECEPTION. Seems to Have Regained His Good Health ana Spirits. ROME, Aug. 21.—The Pope to-day held a reception in honor of his saint’'s day. Many prelates, nobles and representatives of Catholic associations were in atten- dance. His Holiress appeared to be in ood health and spirits, and in spite of the length of the rece&tmn. which lasted an hour and a half, owed no signs of fatigue. He was the recipient of a large number of gifts. | tract to tow to St. Michael. States District Cour, a sensational libel for $24,000 damages has been filed against the steamer Noyo, said to be owned by Kimball & Co. of San Francisco. The | Lewis-Klondike Expedition Company of Baltimore brings the action. The latter company owns the river steamer W. H. Evans, which the Noyo was under con- Captain W, H. Edgett, master of the Noyo, is charged with having attempted to sink the Evane at the mouth of the straits, again off | Dixons Entrance, and later cut her loose at Howcan Island, where she was badly damaged and has mot since been able to reach the Yukon. s e PROTESTS TO SPAIN. England Objects to Erection of Forts Near Gibraltar. MADRID, Aug. 2L.—In the course of an interview had last night ‘with a mem- ber of the Cabinet by a representative of the Associated Press, the Minister said England had presented a note to Spain asking for explanations on the subject of the fortifications being erected by Spain near Gibraltar which, the note de- clares, are unjustified, in view of the good relations existing between the two countries. Spain Is absolutely quiet. Don Carlos has given his partisans strict orders not to commit acts of rebellion, while the divisions among the Republicans render that party powerless. -— Mme. de MacMahon Il PARIS, Aug. 2L.—Marechale de Mac- Mahon, widow of the famous soldier, had a stroke of paralysis on Monday while visiting her son-in-law, Comte de Pierres, He thinks Ireland should no | His firm is the | NEW GOLD FINDS < ND STAMPEDES Rush From Dawson City to Forty Mile. THOUSANDS PULL UP STAKES OBJECTIVE POINT ON AMERI- CAN SIDE. Other Rich Strikes Reported on the East Fork of the Skaguay and Pine Creek Dig- gings. fef Ly Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Aug. 21 — Returning steamers from Alaska to-day bring news of new gold finds and stampedes. On the Dirigo was George Alexander of Dungeness, Wash., who has just re- turned by the rivers from the Klon- dike. He says: ; “Just before we left rich discoveries were reported from the north Iorl_c of Forty Mile Creek, on the American side. On August 2 and 3 a stampede of fully 500 men left Dawson in small boats for the new diggings. They were mostly newcomers, on the verge of desperation. They welcomed the re- port as a godsend and immediately set sail for Forty Mile. Itlis believed that several thousand men will leave Daw- son for the district that in 1896 was al- most deserted for the Klondike dis- trict.” i Passengers on the steamer George w. Elder bring the news of a new find at the foot of the glacier on the east fork of the Skaguay River, about 229 miles from Skaguay around the trail. A. W. Davis, formerly from San FPrancisco, says: “On August 1 two prospectors named Noyes and Patchen came into Skaguay with $1000 in gold of the highest qual- ity, and which they claimed they took out in a few days from the-east fork of the river. A stampede immediately followed among those left in Dyea and Skaguay.” Mr. Davis states that the most en- couraging reports are received from the new diggings on Pine Creek. The day before he left a miner came into Ska guay with $1400 in gold from the creek. — DEATHS AT THE FRONT. Shafter’s Daily !i;mrt on the Condi- tion of His Army. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—General Shaf- ter's daily report of the health conditions inf the troops at Santiago, received to- night, follows: SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. tant General of the Army, Washington: Sanitary report for August 21: Total sick, 1025; total fever cases : number new fever cases, 75; fever cases returned to duty, 129. Deaths August 19: Private Norman Mc- | Millan, Company M, Seventy-first New York Infantry. yellow fever. Private Frank E. Sharp, Company C, hird Michigan, typhold fever. Private Moseley Gaines, Troop B, Tenth | Cavalry, typhold fever. Corporal Walter C. Jarvis, Company A, Ninth Infantry, pernicious malarial fever. Private Richard Rique, Company C, Ninth Infantry, typhoid fever. Justice W. Harwood, civilian, acute dys- entery. 21.—Adju- { John C. Wright, civilian, perniclous ma- larial fever. F. Naftzger, Company D, Eighth Ohio, llow fever. August 20: Private August L. Johnson, Company E, Thirty-fourth Michigan, ty- phoid fever. James S. Smith, Company B, Second In- fantry, yellow fever. SHAFTER, Major General. - TWO VESSELS SUNK. FALMOUTH, Eng., Aug. 21.—The Brit- ish steamer Toledo, Captain Wishart, which sailed from Galveston on July 20 for Rotterdam, struck on Grim Rock, Slcily Islands, last night in a dense fog and foundered almost immediately in twenty-five fathoms of water. There was just time to launch a large boat, and all werd saved, many clad in their night- clothes only. The Toledo was built in Sunderland in 1882 for John Tully. Her net register was 1810 tons, gross register 2343 tons. She was 301 feet long by 42.1 feet in breadth and 28.3 feet depth of hold. ALDENBERG, Eng. Norwegian bark Nimbus, son, for Sunsfel, Sweden, was sunk oft here to-day in a collision with an un- known steamer. No lives were lost. 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