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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO 'CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1898. RUMORED DEATH OF AN ENPERDR China's Ruler Subject of Some Maming | bossip DOWAGER EMPRESS REIGHS Li Hung Chang Is in Power and Russian Influence * s Increased. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SHANGHA], Sept. 22.—A local rumor 1s current heretothceffect that the Em- peror of China is dead. No details are obtainable, but it is said that the gates of Peking are. closed. PEKING, Sept. 22.—An imperial edict just issued definitely announces that the Emperor of China has resigned his power to the Empress Dowager,- who has ordered the Ministers to deliver to her in future their official reports. 1t is difficult to obtain relliable infor- mation at the palace in regard to the proceedings, but the recent reformatory edicts probably caused the change. While the Emperor was subservient and a mere figurehead, the Dowager Empress allowed him to reign in peace, but as soon as he attempted to act on his own initiative his practical deposition was the result. His princi- pal adviser, Kang Yumoi, the Cantonese reformer, fled in spite of the vigorous attempt made to arrest him, and it is sald he is now on his way to Shanchai. The effect of the change must be great. In all probability Li Hung Chang will be reinstated in power and Russian influence will increase. The hopes of reform so ardently sherished by the intelligent factions of the Chi- nese are now impossible of fulfillment. The suddenness of the' coup is said to be due to the desire of the Dowager ‘Empress to prevent the mission of the Marquis Ito from being successful. The Japanese statesman recently came to Peking with the object of trying to bring about an alliance, offensive and defensive, between Japan apnd China. The new order of ‘things will undoubt- edly prejudice British interests in China. It {s reported to-day that the next edict will give the full reason for the change. The wording of the present edict is not yet obtainable, but it is to the effect that thé Emperor re- quested the Dowager Empress to as- sume power, this being the third time the request has been made. The Marquis Ito, In an interview be- fore the edict was issued, said the Emperor received him yesterday in the most cordial manner, and said he hoped to have the advantage of the advice of the Marquis in the reforms which his Majesty intended to undertake. The Marquis, even then, feared that the inaction and conservatism of the Chi- nese officials would nullify the reforms, although he, believed the Emperor was acting In good faith. REMAINS IDENTIFIED BY THE RELATIVES Miss Emma Gill the Victim of the Sensational Bridgeport Murder. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 22.—At an inquest held this afternoon by Coroner Dolen it was fully established by rela- tives of Miss Emma Gill. of Southington that the body found in Yelow Millpond was hers.. Her father and.three brothers fully identified the. remains, and the Coroner has issued an order permitting the body to be exhumed and taken. to Southington for interment. Undertaker Curtis of Stratford denies that Charles A..Plumb of that town, now under arrest for complicity inthe crime, has had the use.of any wagon or team owned by him for the last three months. Plumb is still in custody, but what evi- dence the police have to connéct him with the crime they refuse to divulge. Late this afternoon the police arrested Harry Guilford, son of Dr.,Nancy Guil- ford, as he was attempting'to enter the residence of 'his mother. Superintendent Birmingham refuses absolutely to say a word concerning the case. 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The line will be also so built as to form & connection with the Valley road. 000000000000000000GO0OCO00CO0000000D SAD DEATH OF A ON THE VERGE OF CALIFORNIA BOY, A GRAVE CRISIS W. H. Lockwood of| Military Against Civil Eureka Drowned. Law in France. 000000000000 000000000 0000000000000 000000000 CARRIED OFF BY THE CURRENT : ZURLINDEN AS A DICTATOR A FEW DAYS BEFORE HE TOOK IGNORES THE MACHINERY OF GREWSOME PHOTOGRAPHS. CIVIL COURTS. \ Special Dispatch to The Call. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 18.—Will H.| PARIS, Sept. 22.—The situation here Lockwood, a young man about 21 years | is generally admitted to be' grave by old, formerly a resident of Eureka, Cal., | both press and people. The conflict| was drowned on the flats at the head | between the-civil and military authori- | of Douglas Island, seven miles from tles is becoming acute. The sudden Juneau, last night. He was one of a | and unexpected action of General Zur- party which left Douvlas City last Sun- | linden, the Military Governor of Paris, day on a fishing trip. At the Indx_:m | In prosecuting Colonel Picquart on the ranch they learned there were no fish | charge of forgery and using forged | in Salmon Creek, and, anchorin~ their | documents assumes a grave aspect on | boat on the beach, walked to Lemon account of the circumstances attending Creek a few miles farther up the|this intervention of the military au-| beach. When they returned the tide thoritles in a civil court. was high. It was night and in the! At the present moment, when the po- darkness the boat could just be dis-|litical atmosphere is surcharged with | tinguished a short distance: out from %Engerous electricity, generated by the shore. Young Lockwood could not‘hrey!us case, General Zurlinden, who swim, but he took off his clothes and“flu just quitted the Cabinet, in de- I & %o wade out in the ice-cold |flance of civil authority, takes, without water to the boat. It was so dark he | Consulting his successor or the Premier, could hardly be seen by his companions | an important step. In ordinary cir- ashore. . .Once. they called out, asking | CUmstances the Military Governor is how he was making it. He replietl, ; po&v‘ered to act independently, but, “A1l right, but this water is awful cold | NOW that the Dreyfus question has be- and there's a Swift current; am up to | B mgm:‘n national matter, every my armpits.” A few seconds later gorf;g;c ng in the affair has state im- they heard a splash, a half-stifled cry Generg:l N for help, and that was the last of the v .tl‘ln en’s g{poflnz of this centuresome young fellow, He had s fact is very significant. He ‘f“ ra bewond his depth and was comes forward as the defender of the | . ?ppt down to his death. To-day the | army, the prosecutor of its supposed i“gl') vas recovered some distance from calumniators and the resolute opponent s oAraN of a revision of the case. From this “t;"e e Losc)ggood was formerly In to an appeal to the public, in the line chm?;: ® ¢ the telephone office here, but ‘l‘és:_’;el:“fiblf‘g‘"‘ent of a dictatorship, he had recently established a ph‘u_to- The S;;‘I)el“saesnte}?'( 2 graph gallery over at Douglas City. terday’s eventsym %.bow ng to yes- the free-for-all bicycle race 3 e Cal hlet at a for- s vlvont Fourth of July. His mother, mal conference discussed General Zur- here lant 4°a brother are now at Eu- | linden's action, and the Fronde even S ear® “The time for their leaving to 3?5",‘5_"‘3‘ the Premier, M. Brisson, T he father and son here was set | SAVOWS the measures taken against ggrnnext week. . Mr. Lockwood is now tutg;nwim“ tChhhe Lays. were insti- at Pine Creek, at the new. diggings.| ., out the knowledge of the R eh Satun fie‘i‘lfl"vi’;?' The| “The Radical makes a bitter attack on DOy ot days before his death young g;;gle;@;:“l;?fxf;mwhllch B chargia with v igzed an apparatus with a ral assassination gfif:s O:t%arc}i[f)em and took :.hpicture f;‘ifl‘{_“fl-" through a secret military ame oL m:.‘:;“b;n S‘ecog:;e &;uraemss he |1 lt“"“i Rochefort, in his paper, the }algtographefl himself in the act of be- | LTepsIgeant, declgrg? that Piequart xpng hanged. This last attempt to Intro- | oy s, snveylfi-e?rfig cate or by Ger- duce the morbid ant} renllst]l_lc in 2:1 Jaures, the Socialist Cent: b tnp Sinped S ey tient. that he could Petite Fepublique, malntaing that the ot reloase himself and the young pho- figf:ow‘eswl‘;e tthi ?“:’finlclhhatxr:ty can- tographer would certainly have hanged | yigion of the Drgtis cueg a re- himself but for the very opportune ar- S aaaus CaRe. <. rival of a lady friend at the gallery. —— SHAFTER MAKES A SENSATIONAL SPEECH Says When the Fleet First Left Tam- pa It Was the Intention to Attack Havana. CHICAGO, Sept. 22—A special dispatch to the Tribune from Constantine, Mich., glves a gpeech made by General Shafter at that place, where he went to attend the reunjon of the Nineteenth Michigan Regiment, of ich he was colonel dur- ing the civil war. General Shafter sald that when the fleet first left Tampa it was intended to land twenty-five miles from Havana and march on to that city. ‘When, however, the fleet put back be- cause of the reported proximity of a Spanish squadron, word was received from Admiral Sampson that Santiago could be taken in twenty-four hours, and the army sailed for that point. General Shafter then described in his own .char- aflefl:tle manner the campaign @t San- tiago. 30X 308 306 308 308 308 308 30X 30K 30£ 30¢ 06 308 306 ¢ ¢ & CHRISTMAS PACKAGES TO BE SENT Uncle Sam Will See That Boys at Manila Are Not Forgotten. ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The - families and friends of the Cali- fornia boys now at Manila ‘will have an opportunity to remem- ber them on Christmas. Nu- merous inquiries have been made of the War Department by friends of soldiers serving in the k=1 .| ment: 5 story, 26, mathematics, h; physics, 8; Philippine Islands in relation to facilities for sending the men packages in the event that the . troops will be ‘retained in the East until Christmas.’ In expec- tation that Major General .Otis’ army will be retained in the Philippines for several months the War Department has decid- ed to furnish the desired facili- ties for conveying to the men such Christmas packages as may be furnished by their rela- tives .and friends. It is pro- ‘- posed to send a vessel from San Francisco in the early part of November in - ample time to reach Manfla before Christmas, LR STANFORD'S NEW STUDENTS. Summary of Registration Completed by. Registrar Elliott. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 22.— A summary: of the registration of new students by major subjects was com- pleted to-day by Registrar Elliott. It shows the following department enroll- : 2Gréek. 3; Li'suniz i challlcal phil- ology, 2; German, 15; Romanic language, 13 *Engltsh, 6; blonomics, 1; educatian, ;. economics, 16; law, 27; chemistr; 18; 13; botany, 3; entomology hygiene, hysiology, 25; zoology, 10; geology, 13} rawing, 4; oivil engineering, 14; mechani- i:;.l enginesring, 8 electriogl _engineering, The men in the incoming class number 178 and‘ the women 149. The freshman class this year shows .a falling oft of which vessel will carry packages ' five students from the class of '96-'97, and ninety-four from the class of '97- h free of charge. A limit will be placed on the size and weight of packages to be carried, and no- tice will be given when arrange- ments are completed. Packages are to be consigned to an officer of the quartermaster’s depart- ment at San Francisco, who will attend ‘to the shipment to Ma- nila. ~ The department will, en- deavor ‘to secure a special rate from the overland ecarrying com-- panies for, all packages ad- -dressed to soldiers, and notice - will be given of the latest date for their reception at San:Fran- clsco. f f-3-8-8:3-2-3-2-8-2-8-2-2.3-8-1 . the decrease being due to the strict enforce- ment of the rule on special students. The number of regular students entering this year is 172, as against 141 last year. Of the 327 new students, California has furnished 216. B NEW CONDITIONS AQCEPTABLE. Archbishop Ireland Talks of His "+ Church in New Possessions. CHICAGO, Sept. 22—Archbishop Ire- Hiom Tokardiag the gy ofiba Ramaa n rej CGatholie Churoh in Subg, Borto. Rico and 5 “th adminimtration lan of Toaslhs. the lon lan of lea e e at the churcl n e 'fghnd: .will conform -to- new condi- o L o L bad o bed <& f= 323 =3 o e b= be3 o o Red fed o L o o = o o o3 fed L o L & b ped o b o & ped 2 o fed e b3 £ £ o o o b g ko k=3 X WILL PAY THE PENALTY N PUBLIC All Alaska to Witness the Evecution of Three Indians, T0 BE HANGED AT TAGISH Thrilling Story of the Assassin- alion of a Gold-Seeker by Greedy Natives. BY HAL HOFFMAN. Speclal Correspondence of The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 13.—Invita- tions to a wholesale hanging at Ta- gish House on Tagish Lake are being extended throughout the Yukon Valley and Southeastern Alaska by the Cana- dian police. Three Indians will alther have their necks broken or be stran- gled to death there, at the same time, in a few weeks. = They killed one pros- pector and would have murdered an- other but for miraculous circumstances which enabled him to escape. On this account the attendance of ingoing and outcoming Klondikers and Indians is | likely to be very large. Dawson, Dyea, Skaguay and Juneau will be repre- sented by delegations, Juneau especial- ly, as both the victims are old-time residents of this town. The crime of the Indlans was the most unprovoked and one of the blood- fest in the history of Alaska. The only survivor, George Fox, is here now. He tells the first particulars of the thrilling crime which was briefly re- counted in The Call last summer, a short time after it occurred. William Mehan and Fox left Juneau last winter. They sledded a fine out- fit to the head of the McClintock River, whence they intended to cross a por- tage to the Hootalinqua River and work some sand bars on that stream. McClintock = River empties into the lower end of Liwke Marsh, flowing from a northeasterly direction. It is the out- let of a small lake. But When the two men got to the head of the river it was along about the end of May, the por- tege was bare of snow and they could not sled their stuff over. As the eas- iést way out of the trap, they set about whipsawing lumber and build- ing a boat to carry them back down the McClintock and up the Hootalin- qua, The latter river is the outlet of Lake Teslin into the Lewis River. Near their camp was a small Indlan camp. The white men had potlatched “jctus” (tobacco and other things) with the Indians and otherwise been friend- ly to them. _When they were leaving camp with their stuff packed in the boat for down river, Fox took out his watch to note the time. He told Me- han that it was just 10:40. He had hardly dropped his watch back into his pocket and picked up his paddle when they were fired on by the In- dians from ambush in the rear. Fox sat in the bow. He was struck in the back. He fell partly over the; side, with one arm paralyzed and hanging in the water. He exclaimed: ‘“I'm done for, Bill; pull for your life.” But poor Bill did not pull. He was dead, riddled by three bullets in the back, like a dog; don’t lie down and die— don’t lie down—don’t lie down.’ ““And I 'kept saying this over and over to myself. I grasped the'branches of bushes and trees, and pulled myself along, saying first to one leg, ‘Come along here, old boy,’ and then to the other, ‘Come along here, old boy, don’t g0 back on me now.’ Thus I shoved, and pushed and pulled myself along through the foothill brush and bramble. “God! how I did want a drink of water. My tongue was cracking for it. Little rivulets were right before me, but I could not reach them. I felt that if I ever got down on the ground I would never be able to rise again. Once I tried it at what I thought was a favorable brook. But as I stooped over there was an. awful pressure on my head behind—the weight of weak- ness. I barely caught myself in time and straightened up. It is a thousand times worse to see cool water rippling before one’s lips without being able to sip it than it is to be cracked with thirst and no water In sight. Well, I finally got down the river some miles to a white man’s camp.” The police started right back up the river. They found the boat well grounded on the point, but no Indians were n sight. Indian, a young buck of about 21 years, had been taken sick when the four reached the point. He picked up Me- han’s bag and some grub and went back to camp with the load. Finding but one body in the boat the other three, as anticipated by Fox, started back up the river to find him or traces of what had become f him, The murderous redskins were divided in opinion as to whether Fox had fallen into the river or escaped. They found the broken log, they admitted afterward, and knew he had got ashore and was alive. In the meantime the police had ar- rived at the Indian camp. The young buck who had pleaded sickness was in his tepee. He had two squaws, a young one and an old one. He denied having seen a boat or even a white man in the vicinity. The handcuffs were put on him and he was taken down the river. The officers started on a hunt for the other natives, but they returned to camp soon after the police left and learning from the squaws that the old- est buck had been bagged they took to the woods instantly. The police en- gaged the services of another Indian and eventually all three were captured farther back in the mountains, making for the Cassiar. They had to depend on their guns for food and were thus tracked. The hired Indian went into their camp pretending friendship. He 'seized their guns at night and all were soon helpless in handcuffs and lariats. The youngest is only fifteen years old. The Indian captured with the squaws was taken before Fbx as he lay in bed. Fox had been propped up into a sitting posture. The Indlan’'s eyes bulged out as soon as he saw Fox, as though he was suddenl,/ confronted by an appari- tion. He swayed first to one side then the other, He thought Fox had been killed and that he saw his ghost. He threw up both hands and exclaimed: . “Klach!” Which, translated, means that he never saw Fox before. Fox identified all four of the natives at the trial in Dawson. The youngest one was recommended to mercy and will be imprisoned. The other three have been brought back to Tagish, near the scene of their crime, to be executed. The hanging will take place Novem- ber 1 next—three at once from ths same gibbet. - They are young renegades who captured the squaws and undertook the' murder in order to have a supply of grub to last them through the winter. The coming hanging is already having the desired moral effect on the Indians of the coast ‘and interior. They are all talking about it and there will be hun- dreds of them in attendance. Possibly there may be trouble, but it is not thought probable. It is expected to have enough police present to put down any outbreak. Fox will be there. Mehan was a hard-working prospec- tor, but he never had much luck., He sold his only piece of property in Juneau to Banker*B. M. Behrends last winter and started out with a stake. . Fox says he believes that something boat and pushed him along through the foothills when he ‘was about to give up, and that the shade of old Bill Mehan will be present at the triple h.nging. Had he not been able to escape, almost as a miracle, the natives wouid have destroyed the boat by fire, obliterated all other marks of identification and their fate would probably have never been known. This is the first case known of Indian: attacking gold-seekers for plunder. In the Lake Teslin basin and around the headwaters of the Pelly, Stewart, Big Salmon and cther rivers of the vast water shed of the Yukon are isolated parties seeking tle golden fleece. Results at Great Falls, Mont. GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 2%.—Results: First race, six furlongs—Croker won, Koote- nal second, Limewater third. Time, 1:17. Second race, mile and a sixteenth—Pat Mor- rissey won, Twinkle Twink second, Los Prietos third. Time, 1:45%. Third race, six furlongs—Highland Ball won, Masoero second Midas third. Time, 1:15%. Fourth race, six furlongs—Cipriano won, Joe Ricardo third. Time, 1 Cotton secon: one through the heart. . Fox could not see him, but his position enabled him to see the Indians running from the woods down to the shore. Fox moved involuntarily and they let' him have another volley, as he lay helpless and bleeding in the boat. One bullet had gone clear through his body and lungs. But by this time the boat had drifted into rougher water and the second vol- ley struck low. It found lodgment in a sack of flour and a case of corned beef. The current here set across the river against a point, about half a mile be- low. The Indlans ran back into the woods. The moment Fox saw them run he knew what they intended to do. They would catch the boat™ as it grounded against the point. It would be all up with him then, if he wasn't as good as dead anyhow. His paddle luckily lay balanced on the gunwale, with just enough of it inside to keep it from falling into the water. He tried to paddle back .to shore with his un- injured right arm, but was too weak. Then another idea struck him. To re- main in the boat and be caught at the point was certain death, as the Indians would certainly kill him, having.begun the job, in order to secure their outfit, the watch and their guns; on shore there was a chance for escape. In this critical emergency he placed the paddle into the water perpendicular to the boat and feebly turned it around toward the shore. Chance favored him, for in a few moments the bpat ground- ed on a small spot of sand’ near a grassv spit. There was a rotten log lying with one end near the water and the other up the banik. “I realized at once,” said Fox, “the importance of leaving no trail, and for all T could do I feared at least a few drops of blood would escape from my clothes and stain the; grass. My clothes were soaked with it. I stepped from grass tuft to tuft as well as I could, for I was rapidly beeomlns weaker. When I stepped on the en of the log it was so rotten that it broke away. But that was the only mark I left. I knew that when the Indians got the boat and found only one man in it they would start back to look for me. So I saw it would not do to stay down near the river, and I made for the foothills. 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CAPITAL. Amount of capitel stock, paid up in cash ,000 00 ABSETS. s Cash market value of all stocks and . $339,545 00 BN T | 9,849 61 1,247 08 Premiums in due course of coll 16,832 47 Total assets .. $267,579 84 LIABILITIES, Losses adjusted and unpaid.......... 183 Losscs i’ process ot adbustment or. T in suspense 1,000 00 Gross premiums on fire ri ning one year or less, reinsurance 50 per cent.. 38,028 81 Gross premiums on fire ning more than one year, $1,48 3 reinsurance pro rata.. 1,164 02 All other demands against the com- pany Total liabilities Net. cash act premiums Received for on bonds, stocl all other sources Total income EXPE] | Net amount paid for fire losses (in- cluding $3,157 03, losses of previous PMRER) 0T 854 11 Dividends to stockhol 2 ”:wd ) Pald or allowed for comi TOKerage ............ 4 8 Pald for selarids; fees and other ron 38 charges for officers, clerks, -ete..... 1,164 98 Pald for State, national and local taxes ....... . 204010 All other paymenf and expenditures. 081 15 Total expenditures ..,...... Losses incurred during the year. Net amount of risks writ- _ten during the vear....| $11,965,801 $110,627 58 Net amount of risks e pired during the year...| 8,379,110 84,608 18 Net amount in force De- cember 31, 1897 6,438,013 CHARLES SE A. H. 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