The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1898. WOULD RETAIN THE EIGHTH REGIMENT Governor Budd Preference to Expresses His the War De- partment. - o Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Sept. 1. o o The duty of selecting volunteer regiments to be mustered out of & & the service is now engaging the attention of the War Department. ¥ Yesterday the Secretary of War telegraphed to Governor Budd of & £ Californla, asking the Governor to indicate his prefernce as to what & & California regiment should be first mustered out. o o The information is obtained to-night from a source deemed au- & & thentic that the Governor replied by wire, stating that he preferred & ¥ that the Eighth Regiment of Volunteers, Colonel Park Henshaw, & ¥ should be retained. =3 ped o egegel & fe¥cReRoRaFaRepegegagaFagegegeBoReF R FoR R - eB oot uReBogr] 0T READY FOR ; I CONTROVERSY | = Shafter Very Guarded in |Cubans Favor Speedy| His Utterances. WANTS TO READ UP F!RST?WOULD END THE DISORDER TROUBLE BETWEEN MILES AND ALGER ANCIENT HISTORY. ‘ [ Refers to the “‘Acting” Commanding General of the Army, and Says | He Will Be Allowed to Do His Own Fighting. Special Dispatch to The Call. | ¥ YORK, Sept. 1.—The Herald's | rrespondent sends the al Shafter, when - I h him to-day, was sitting in is tent in the detention camp to which the adjective " scarcely does justice. ' I said, “can you tell me g about the trouble between and Secretary Alger? made a part of it, for ile the Secretary of War to you in Santiago, tell- u were in supreme command, ‘ 1 Miles had orders to take hai (O] 0] ® ® (O] @ @ ** replied the general, “I really t history yet. I t about this matter or | s you call tt. I never heard | affair until about | n the substance of a member of my | gave me several newspapers. | rst knowledge that anything B t going wrong between neral Miles was | 100n newspaper | e on board the | a paragraph | > was some sort e acting com- y and the s consider- 1 to look up the oroughly go over f I am interested | they have put me in it | 1 shall inform my- ble and as quickly | question at issue, st how to act.” ke a statement then,” reference to the rela- urself and General fore you started g0 and about to you and Gen- that I cannot very at the facts. I get into the con- I am a firm : e the public. 1e in the principle that every man L d do his own fighting. I think I let those in t case fight it out tween thems JGUNALDD HOT | THKEN SERIDUSLY Appeal to Powers Causes No Concern. EUROPE WILL NOT. INTERFERE | DISPOSITION OF PHILIPPINES ~ LEFT TO UNCLE SAM. Dewey of the Opinion That This Country Should Be Modest in Making Demands on Spain. NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Herald sends the following: Aguinaldo’s ap- peal to the powers to recognize the in- | dependence of the. Philippine republic or the belligerency of the insurgents causes no concern in administration circles. No expectation is entertained that any power, either in the east or Furope, will glve consideration to Agui- | naldo’s @ppeal. An official with whom | 1 talked to-day pointed out that all the | powers of Europe have tacitly agreed | not to inferfere in any way with the disposition of the islands by the United | Btates, .4 any such intérference been con- g id, “it would have oc- ore the protocol was signed n could have lent support-to srence.”” iral Dewey, I was told to- that the int Rear Adm day, is not of the opinion United States should keep all of the Spanish islands in the far east, but‘ should be modest in its demands. It as authoritatively announced at the avy Department to-day that no or- ders have been given any vessels to proceed to Manila. The present inten- tion of the department is to put all of the armorclads in the best possible con- dition. Eventually a couple of ships will be sent to the far east, one of which will certainly be the Oregon. | 11ttle more than nominal, yet far sim EAGER TO COME INTO THE FOLD Annexation. BETTER ELEMENT DESTROUS OF AMERICAN RULE. Opposition Is Confined to Those Who Would Have Nothing to Lose by a Continuation of the Present Conditions, :Spevilal Correspondence of The Call and New York Herald ~ ‘Gordon - Bennett: HAVANA, BSept. —Nothing could be further from the truth than to as- Copyright, 1898, by James sume that an éasy problem confronts | us in the pacification of Cuba and the establishment of a stable and just gov- | | ernment. Among those who have any- BIDS OPENED FOR NEW BATTLESHIPS What Each Vessel Will Cost Uncle Sam. NEARLY THREE - MILLIONS THE UNION IRON WORKS MAY GET A CONTRACT. To the. Enterprise :of the Successful San Francisco Builders Is Due the Use of Water Tube Boilers. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. Call ‘Officg, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Sept. 1. ‘A notable feature in the bids for con- structing battleships .opened to-day is a feather in the cap of the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. .- The plans ;submmed some time ago by Engineer- | in-Chief Melville: involved the use of water tube boilers, but as these would | cause a change of trim his plans were rejected; - His plans also provided for | an increase in speed and in radius of action, but the necessary increase gof space was secured by reducing that al- lowed for coal. . ‘As there was opposi- tion - fo_ increasing the size of ships these plans were also rejected. It was, of course, practically certain | that if any of the builders offered de- signs of their own for. greater 'speed and radius of action, Without any de- crease in the amount of coal carried, | water tube boilers would be used. The alternative designs submitted by the Cramps, which are for vessels that will | be duplicates of the Russian ship there | | building, provide ‘for the use of - Ni- |.clausse boilers.. . While this will be the | first use (if these plans are adopted) of water tube boilers in battleships of | the United States navy, it is mnot the first use in armored vessel of the navy, as the Monterey has had water tube bollers of the Ward type ever since she was built in 1890, where they . have given excellent account of themselves. It Is recalled that when bids for the Monterey were recelved the Cramps were nominally the lowest bidders, but it was only with certain changes. in the Government specifications,. .and with a distinct refusal to guarantee a | performance of the water tube boilers. [OFOXCAOJOROJOXOXOXCROXOROXOXOXOXO] NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—The He telegraphs: Appreciating the nec early retirement, orders have beel directing the gunboat Bennington the Philadeiphia, which has been o cisco. . The Philadelphia will und ship of the Pacific station. The partment. will desire the post, in which eve ble for appointment. [CIOYOOXOY OXOIOIOXOIOXCYOXOY ® [CXOXOFOROJOJOJOXOXOXOXOXOJOROXOJO] SCHLEY OR HOWISON WILL SUCCEED ADMIRAL MILLER. miral Miller from command of the Pacific station on account of his has not been selected by the department, but Rear Admiral Schley's name {8 prominently mentioned in gossip in circulation at the de- It is not belleved, however, that Rear Admiral Schley senior officer without sea service, n his present grade, will be eligi- It is proposed by the department to event- ually Increase the Pacific squadron by the addition of a battleship. [OXOJONOJOROXOJORORORONOJOXOXOXTKO] rald’s Washington correspondent essity of soon detaching Rear Ad- n given by the Navy Department to proceed to Honolulu to relfeve rdered to proceed to San Fran- oubtedly be retained as the flag- successor of Rear Admiral Miller nt Commodore H. L. Howison, as [OJoXOJoIOTOIOYOYOTOIOIOYOXOYOYOOJONORORONOKO) O OROXORORONOROROROONONOXOROKO} thing to lose—among those who had property and have at least been able to cling to their own homes in the withering storm of Spanish oppression —among the Cubans and Spaniards of that class alike there is an ardent de- sire to see speedy annexation to Amer- jca under strong army occupation in preference to a temporary protectorate with the Cuban Government -as an ‘ul- timate result. Now that I am allowed ashore and have had an opportunity of inquiring I am only more convinced that annexa- tion is undoubtedly the preference of all who represent the wealth and in- dustry of the desolated island. It is true, indeed, that comparatively few of those who actively sympathized with or participated in the insurrection have yet found their way into this city, but it has been possible to gain an ade- quate idea of thelir feelings from those thoroughly familiar- with - thelr aims and the conditions under which they sought them. American tobacco dealers, without ex- ception, assert the entire unanimity of all with- whom they have come in con- tact In the preference for absolute dom- ination of equitable Anglo-Saxon Amer- ican principles to replace the crooked and corrupt methods of defeated Spain rather than an unstable government of Latin impulsiveness, ~as - disastrously exemplified in Spanish-American re- publics, with their constant insecurity and ever-recurrent revolutionary ef- forts. From all that can be ascertained, the opposition to annexation, avowed by | those Cubans who have nothing to lose | by further disorder, thanks to the rob- | bery and corruption of Spanish rule in | peace or the sacrifice of Cuban patri-| otism in war, arises rather from a mis- | interpretation of its meaning and a devotion to a long cherished dream than from any proper conception -of. the comparative material advantages of American or Cuban rule. It seems now that, given genuine autonomy, similar to that of Canada or Australian colonies, Cubans of -the most irreconcilable type . would . wel- come union to the United States under a condition which left them their own flag and their own country intact, un- der the = sovereignty of. Washington, Jer and safer as a guarantee of perma- nent peace and security than any. mere protectorate avowedly undertaken for the moment only.. This there can be lit- |- tle doubt “would satisfy also those Spanish and Cuban’ repre-entatives of business interests . who threaten a hegira in the event of unalloyed Cuban independence as a result of a tempo- rary protectorate. CONSIDINE_ TALKS OF CORBETT-W'COY FIGHT NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Georgs F. Con- sidine says that the Corbett-McCoy fight will probably be set for October 15, though it.might take place earlier. ““How about the story telegraphed from San Francisco to the effect that Corbett would insist upon its postponement until November 17" he was asked. “Well, I don’t. think it came from Cor- bett,” was the reply. “McCoy and the officlals . of the .wthorne Club have shown a disposition to act very decentl in arranging the date of the fight to suit Corbett, and it Jim asked for a postpone- ment he would simply be taking advan- :l‘:‘e 9f a suggestion which came from ! The Union Iron Works of San Fran- | cisco, which built the Monterey, re- celved the contract because they were willing to guarantee the working of the | water tube bollers, so that this firm | really deserves the credit, as far as | builders are concerned, for being the | | first to install water tube boilers in an | armored vessel of our navy. |- Four firms offered bids for the three | new battleships authorized by the last | | Congress. The lowest bid of each for | any type of one vessel follows: New- | port ~News Shipbuilding Company, | Newport News, Va., $2,580,000; Cramps, Philadelphia, $2,650,000; Union Iron Works, San Francisco, $2,674,000; Dia- | logue & Co., $2,840,000. | _The detailed bid of the Union Iron | Works follows: One ship under class 1, for $2,674,000, in 31 months; one ship under class 2, with a speed of 17 knots, for $2,725,000, in 31 months; one 12,200 | | ton, 18 knots, in 33 months, for $2,899,- 000. The act of Congress allows the | department to make an allowance of not to exceed 4 per cent in favor of the Pacific Coast bidders, so that brings | their bid within line. In the case of | the 18-knot ships, both Cramp.and the | | Union Iron Works submitted stmilar | | plans. The Newport News' bid for | the 18-knot vessel s original with | them. If it should not be satisfactory to the department, then the Cramps would probably get two of the ships The bids have been taken under: ad- visement by Acting Secretary Allen. SUPREME LODGE ADJOURNS, Pythian Enights Fix the Per Capita Tax at Eight Cents. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1—The Bu- preme Lodge Knights of Pythias closed its session to-night at 7 o’clock after the new officers’ had been installed and ad- fioumed. The per capita tax was fixed at cents. SAN JOAQUIN TO | eriminals in all parts of the country re- FUSION A FAILURE IN SAN JOAQUIN Charles A. Wetmore Withdraws His Name as a Candidate - for Assemblyman. fusion. ‘Wetmore for the Legislature. -The come down, on the ground that' he mittee began all kinds of tactics to Ject. lutely withdraw my name. from the through your committee. 10JCI0I0I0I0I0I0I0[0 O OYOXOXOJOYOXOXOFOXOXOJOXOXO)] R 6000000 ITOIDE CEOEEOHIEOOOOO O STOCKTON, Sept. 1.—The Democrats and Populists are having a difficult time In this county to.make the.fusion job go: the campalgn their county'¢ommittees met and agreed to. terms of One provision was that the Populists were to have two As- semblymen from the county. The Democratic convention - forgot there was such a party on earth as. of the delegates did not return-until after they had nominated C. A. and the two committees have been wrangling ever since as to. who was the simon-pure fusion legislative nominee. vention whose act the committee had no power to review, the com- became angry, as the following characteristic letter will show: STOCKTON, Aug. 3L.—To. the executive committee of. the Democratic County Central Committee—Gentlemen: tee have taken upon.themselves to glve to the public false statéemerits eon~ cerning my relations to your action in the Assembly ‘nomination,. which make it unpleasant for ‘me fo have any .further connection. with:the. sub- 1 prefer to retain the independent privilege of. criticizing the acts of men: who_assume to express the popular wishes,” and therefore now abso- should-hot now accept the nomination, however, even if tendered to me Yours: respectfully; Early. in the - Populists, .and the memory Populists also put up a candidate, When Wetmore refused to received his nomination in'a con- get him’ out. - Wetmore evidently Certain of. your County Commit- candidacy for the -Assembly. I CHARLES A, WETMORE. fololofololalolorolojoloroYoroYorc YoYoxclolototololo) ® ® GET HIS MUSEUM Cunningham’s. Collec- tion of Many Years. GREWSOME RELICS OF CRIME NEARLY EVERY WEAPON USED | BY CRIMINALS. Finest “Rogues’ Gallery” in- the| State also Given to the County by the Retiring Bheriff. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Sept. l.--—Sheriff ’l‘umI Cunningham retires at the first of the | year after having served continuously | in his present office for twenty-eight | years. His record as a peace officer is too well known to require comment. Much speculation has been indulged in since the veteran announced he would not run agaln as to what he would do with his valyable museum of articles connected with the history of many of the greatest crimes on this coast. The museum occupies one en- tire room in the Courthouse. Every- thing from a counterfeiter's layout to a coat of mall, worn by a Mexican ban- dit, may be found there. All told there are 900 weapons or articles connected with crime. Besides this Cunningham has a “rogues’ gallery” declared by many officers to be better than the one at San Quentin. On this he has spent $10,000 of his own money during his in- cumbency, buying photographs of gardless of expense. The entire affair is the personal property of the Sheriff, and he to-day answered the frequent Inquiry 'as to what he would do with the property by saying he would present it to the county, to be managed not by his sue- cessors, but by the Board of Supervis- ors as trustees of county property. The peace officers of the State will readily recognize the value of Cunningham’s collection and the generous nature in which he will dispose of it. DROWNED WHILE TRYING TO RESCUE SAILORS Lieutenant Morgan of the Engineer Corps and Private Smith Die Like True Heroes. BAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 1.—Lieutenant H, 8. Morgan, United States Engineer Corps in charge of the fortification work on Tybee Island, and Henry Smith, a regular, were drowhed in Calabogue Bound Wednesday afternoon in an-effort to rescue the crew of the ill-fated Nor- wegian bark Noe, which went ashore and was lost on Daufauskie bea#h. They had reached the rim of breakers in front of the wreck, when a tremendous sea came down .on their boat, swamping it. All were thrown into the sea but man- to regain the boat. Morgan was in his uniform and wore a heavy mackin- tosh. Although a iood swimmer he was weighed down with clothing and sank. A moment later he reappeared and selzed the boat, but was torn loose by a wave and disappeared. A few minutes later Smith met the same fate, z Morgan was a West Pointer and was assigned to the work in the Savannah dis- ,mct as assistant to Captain C. E: Mil- $144,651,879; average value of each the Rebellion were granted during lowed during the entire four years entire administration of President pald for army and navy pensions 30, 1898, was largely in excess of as much as was paild during the Hayes' administration. ©000000000000000000000080000000000 ©000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000 RAPID GROWTH OF . 'THE PENSION LIST Last Year’s Outlay Exceed- -~ ed That of Any Four Years - . Since the War. = . WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—The forthcoming -annual ‘report’ of the. Commissioner of Pensions will show that.the number of pensions allowed during the past fiscal year, Including the war of 1812, was 56,737,. of which 54,862 were for goldlers and 1885 for sailors.. . The number of pensioners on the rolls June 30, 1898, was 993,714; amount paid for pensions durihg the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, Comparison shows that more pensions for services in the War of first or second term of President Grant’s administration and almost Dension, $131 79. the last fiscal year than were al- of Grant's second term and the Hayes; that the amount actually during the fiscal year ending June the amount paid either during the entire four years of President 0000000000000C00COROO00000000000000 GATHERING OF THE IRRIGATORS Opening of the Congress at Cheyenne. COAST DELEGATES DELAYED STUDYING WATER STORAGE IN A WASHOUT. Governor Richards’ Entertaining Ad- dress of Welcome—List of Permanent Officers Elected. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 1.—Dele- gates to the National Irrigation Con- gress continue to come in, but the bulk of them will arrive this afternoon and to-night. Indications all point to a very successful meeting. Cheyenne’s pretty little opera house is tastefuly decorated with the products of irrigation in ‘Wyoming. It was learned this morning that a bad washout on the Southern Pacific would delay the arrival of the Cali- fornia, New Mexico and other delega- tions froms the Southwest at least one and perhaps two days. Nevertheless, the congress was called to order by President J. M. Carey at the hour scheduled. 9 An entertaining address of welcome was given by Governor Richards, who briefly outlined the work which the congress might take up. Irrigation on a small scale, he sald, had always been successful, but large inyestments of capital, backed up by scientific skill and strong hope, had not yet succeeded in paying a dividend. The reason for this must be determined by these gath- erings of irrigators, for all the waters of the smaller streams were already appropriated. Land was exceedingly plenty and the water in the larger streams had as yet hardly been touched. The problem was one in- volving not only the settlement of the arid West, but was one of great inter- est to the more densely populated East, which must have an outlet for its surplus population. The following permanent officers were elected: President, . Joseph M. Carey, Wyoming; first vice president, Dr. 8. B. Young, Utah; second vice president, 8. A. Cochran, South Dakota; third vice president, 8. M. Knox, Illinois; O. A. McCutcheon, Michigan, national lec- turer; G. H. Maxwell, California, as- sistant national lecturer; Frank Bond, Cheyenne, Wyo., press clerk. President Carey then delivered a very instructive address and thanked the convention “for the honor conferred upon him. Professor Beeman of Cali- fornia was elected assistant minute and recording clerk. MRS. STANFORD A PEACEMAKER By a Personal Visit to Vina She Al- lays a Threatened Labor Riot. VINA, Sept. 1.—Mrs. Stanford visited Vina recently on account of labor trou- bles .on ‘Stanford ranch. - She is now at Palo - Alto, attending the opening exer- cises of the unliversity. Superintendent G. M. Downs reports that the work of p..xing grapes is pro- ceeding smoothly and that he has all the help required. %There are now about 400 men employed on the ranch, a fifth of whom are Chinamen. There was some trouble at first in securing white men at 60 cents a day, out of which the men were required to pay their Sunday board. The men kept quitt y and the numerous complaints brought Mrs. Stanford here. The wages were afterward raised to 75 cents a day and board for the entire week, and now more men are applying than can be employed. This year the crop will amount to about 800 tons of g{al?es, a fourth of which has now been picked. There was a fire on the ranch ten days ago which destroyed 200 tons of hay, plows, cultivators, harrows and all the vineyard implements. It was believed by many that this fire was the work of white men who had been dissatisfied with their’ employment with Chinese in pick- ing grapes. = A number of Chinese houses were located near by and it was probably goped they would burn, but they did not o so. 3 .Vina is very quiet and orderly. Hard- lx 2 man is to be seen on the streets at 10 o'clock to-night and there is nothing to éndlcate 4 strike or trouble of any nd. ——— - PRESENT LAWS HOLD. Commiuioner B;og’s Ruling as to Internal Revenue in ITawaii. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1L.—A ruling that persons engaging in business in Honolulu affected by internal revenue laws must comply with the Hawalian laws now in force is lald down in a letter sent to-day by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Scott in response to an Individual in- quiry. ——— ‘“Australia’s Greatest Kangaroo Drive of the Year,” in.next Sun- day’s Call. ADVERTISEMENTS. One Steady Str FOR cam of Nuggets Friday and Saturday, The Days That Dollars Will Talk=== and We’ll Make ’Em Talk Louder TI han Ever. VALUES. Speeial tickels go on 200 long pants Sailor Suits, new fall season’s goods, in blue rough twill cheviots; a swell, dapper suit, ladies ; the collars are very prettily braided in many _color- ings of silk sou- MONEY AND tache; detach- able shields; a swit easily worth $6. Friday and Satwr- day at $2.98. |AS PRETTY AS A PEACH. And yow'll say 80, are these swell Middy Swits; judge not by the price we’re going to name for them, but gaze wupon them in our Ju- venile Depart- ment; you’ll see the prettiest of Middy Swits, designed and tailored by art- igts. For these values Friday and Saturday only we say MILITARY CAPES. Not many of ’em; in blue yacht cloth, lined with red opera flannel ; a swell cape; win- ter weight; worth double. For Friday only at LADIES’ COLLARS. Many new shapes in Lagies’ Collars, hfrom 0 the very highest shapes to the happy medium; coliars that can't be equaled wunder £6c; you know it, ladies. On sale to-day at 10c. THE DEWEY HAT. The. swellest Alpine, full of style, all colors, including the pearl, with black bands, worth at least double, at - 98c. The new fall blocks are in— the swell Derby, the pretty Fe- dora, in all colors; a great leader, for Friday and Satur day, at . $1.35. CONTAINS A NUGGET. A nugget of valwes that tall lowder than pen or tongus oan describe. A swell line of suits at the price, valwes that can’t be equaled at 812 or $15, in single-breasted sacks, double- breasted sacks, in blues and blacks, inneat plaids and fancy mixtures; not last season’s stock, but new Fall styles, ele- Santly tailored; yowr dollars will buy valwes to-day. These suits at $7.50. PANNING EN OUT. The finest of nuggets, the cream of our stock, the chotoest cloths the tailor ever put shears to, brand new Fall styles; the garments in this sale to-day, the artistic manner in which they’re tailored, cannot be equaled again under $18 to $20; they’rein our big cormer window; yow can sve ‘em; we intend that your dollars shall count to-day ; yow shall have & lavish bargain feast. For these suits we say - $10.00. ERGOATES) Grocery Burned at Santa Monica. SANTA MONICA, Sept. 1.—Fire de- stroyed the Pacific grocery and severely damaged the cottage of Charles Kiggins adjoining, this morning. The grocery, owned by C. Chambers, was completely consumed, together with the stock. Losa about $4000.