The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1898, Page 1

Call PRICE FIVE CENTS. SIR KNIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA AT PITTSBURG Received in Myst Royal Style. ESCORTED TO THEIR HOTEL PENNSYLVANIANS CHEER CAL-| FORNIA'S DELEGATION. One Sad Incident of the Templar Pil- grimage Is the Death of Past Commander Starr of Balti- more Commangdery. The Call. 8. San Fr tion Pitt nth a M lifornia h ch —seve Herman tsburg clt W to I-‘xfl?; of stel. Thousands the walk vith enthu stic ain pulled into the incidents or adventures to say what I So far as my observations are con- say, though, that we have but Pittsburg for the hs and the splendid ac- own pers cerned, 1 c: hegw nc past few and a great deal of rning the 1N Mr. Lloyd said that other candidates appear. will tell,” he said. have No Spe: slates, and we can- who the lucky their rooms g the Hotel of California No. 1 he Car- shes 1d visited ge, well-lighted ve been Monday appear- between , Opposite of ( eiving the nd Mas- H. Lloyd, and the other of the G arge the purpo v pilgrims to the plac electric sign with the words “Califor- ) 17 will be placed ov door. | adquarters centrally located among the best in the city fornlans made rapid ontinent. On all divis roads used the best enginec B ed on the fastest engines for accommodation of the special train, i at the end of each division the en- who had finished his work was ith & case of wine. With was Adjutant General Bar- alifornia, who is going to ington to collect from the Gov- nt $180,000 due California for the equipment of her soldiers mustered United States services some the ra; eer conclave the members of No. 1 will make pilgrim- various parts of the East. 4 former residents of 1d that section of the . t most of them. C ptain iam R. Heckert, who has charge of the commandery drills at Schennly Park next Wednesday, an- nounces that there will be no competi- ition, the late war with Spain having called many Knights into the volunteer service. This fact comes as a great disappointment to Knights, as the competitive drills have always been a feature of every con- clave. The programme for the Schennly Park exhibition next Wednesday will be as follows: Drill by bicycle corps; Swift's brigade of Allegheny; Detroit, 1; St. Bernard, No. 35, Chicago; ville, No. 1; Handleman, No. 12; innati; Damascus, No. 18, Detroit. '0 other drill corps may take part. Three drill instructors from West Point will act as judges. To each com- nandery will be presented handsome 5. The commanders are the t expert of the order. St. Bernard cago has captured prize after As the hs - reputation of being the most perfectly handled body of Knights in the United States. Boomers for Louisville as the meet- ing place of the twenty-eighth con- clave are perfecting plans for a Vvigor- ous Pittsbure campaign. Two large rooms in the City Hall will be devoted to the use of the Bourbon State Knights as ‘“boom headquarters.”” The Grand Commandery of Kentucky will have the support of De Molay and Louisville commanderies jointly and the assist- ance of other representatives from all parts of the State. Los Angeles Commandery No. 9 1Is egcheduled to arrive at 9 o’clock to-mor- row mornine. the | 1 drills all over the country and | WILL MOVE TS TERMINALS FROM NEW ORLEANS Southern Make a Transfer. |STEAMERS TO SABINE PASS BUSINESS INTERESTS STIRRED | UP AT THE CRESCENT CITY. | Quarantine Regulations Owing to Yellow Fever Given as the Reason for the Raile road’s Action. Dispatch to The Call. New Orleans New are Or- thor- al interests ) over the n tran: steamships from this owing to the 1 er scare. practical abandonment of the Mor- just across Manager Thornwell | Fay a the shipping men of this | city that e is only h-mpnrur)‘.‘ | that it the result of the Texz Ith authorities refusing to freight ded from But for all tt uation is regarded a thing in the commerc ity and of Galveston. n, and which »wns everything in and ad- jacent to Sabine Pass, h made great capital over the movement. They are roclaiming that Sabine Pdss, Texas, is now destined to become one of the st important shipping ports on the Gulf of Mexico. York ¢ ASSUMING VERY | GRAVE PROPORTIONS MEMPHIS, Oct. 8.—The situation throughout the souri is assuming grave vellow fever tate of Mi proportions. The infection may be said to be ge eral, as there is no section that has aot | been visited. Three interstate railroads have prac- | ically suspended business and several | rt lines are on the verge of a tem- ‘ ary shut-down, due to the lack of Twenty thousand or more peo- | | ple have hurriedly left the State andare refugees in Nor n clties, eagerly awaiting the approach of cold weather, The disease continues to increase steadily in Jackson, the State capital. Since Septembe there have been forty-four cas there, twenty-four of the tients being negro Only five since the be- | fo considerably *| RAPID SPREAD OF 1 THE YELLOW FEVER | ~In Jackson increasing. | JACKSON, Miss., Oc | the area of infection is There is now one case within 100 yards of the State Capitol. The State Board | of Health to-day issued an appeal for | ald from the general Government, the Governor telephoning his approval from Brandon, where he is transacting public_business. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8.—The faculty and | tudents of the Mississipi Agricul- | and Mechanical College, located Starkvilie, have arrived in St. Lous. | They are yellow fever refugees, and will | 1ain in this city until frost stops the | ravages of the fever. The president of | the collewe is General Stephen Lee. a | cousin of General Fitzhug fort will be made to carry on the school at least for the present. Ala., Oct. 8—The board of the committee on public cen: of ealth of Dallas County has established c h the States of against | EVACUATION WILL BEGIN AT ONCE Special cable to The Call and the New York Jerald yrighted, 159, by James Gor- | @on Be HAVANA, Oct. 8—General Clous and | Colonel Hart called on Colonel Girauta | | to-day to ascertain the boundaries of Manzanillo, which will be formally | evacuated on Monday, leaving Ameri- | cans In possession of the whole eastern end of the island with the exception of Hoiguin. Colonel Girauta told General Clous that General Parada had received cable | dispatches from Madrid stating that the demands of the Americans for evac- uation by December 1 cannot be com- plied with. It §s now believed that the Mmatter will be settled by an agreement | for the evacuation December 1, or as soon thereafter as possible,” leaving an opportunity for elasticity. I am not able to give the ex-| act language of the communication sent to the Spanish commission ter- day. Bach paragraoh began, “We in- | sist,” and to this phrase exception was | taken. After insisting upon December 1 as the final date for evacuation the com- | munication continued: “We insist, too, | that the evacuation shall be more than | a military measure. It must be com- plete and mean the relinquishment of Spanish sovereignty over Cuba, regard- less of the date of peace as arranged by the Paris Commission. We insist that while Spanish soldiers may carry their arms and all movable property belonging to the army all immovable property shall remain. The immovable property shall mean all movable prop- erty having to do with that which is immovable.” The Monserrat is expected to arrive here from Spain to-morrow and will ijmmediately take on board many offi- cers and soldiers, and will then proceed to Gibara, where she will take on a full load of soldiers and proceed at once to the peninsula. This will make the beginning for the evacuation of West- ern Cubar ett 1 Pacific to|| \ANT TO HIGHT | about the scene of the disturbance near | ninety | Third — | FFIES BLANCD 10 FREON THE AERICAN FLA Captain Eaton Calls Down Dons. PLAZA IN THE OLD =. « = CITY OF MANILA. “)l | ONE CORNER OF THE WALL AROUND MADE TO RELEASE ALFREDO MANILA.. | OFFICIALS HELD THE YACHT ON A TRUMPED-UP CHARGE. But When the Commander of the Resolute Threatened to Take the av-Filibuster in Tow Clear- ance Was Granted Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gor- don Bennett. Ll HAVANA (via Key West), Oct. 8.— | The Spanish censor has received in- | | structions from General Blanco to be ZONE OF THE GATEDIN THE WALL AROUND THE \&Lomyos MANILA LB SCENE S IN MANILA. 5:':.\:—2527:{\&3 /fi;fiy S exceedingly strict during the crisis MANILA (/, - brought suddenly about by the unex- | Algin ity the pected show of determination by | American Government in the demand for the immediate evacuation of Cuba. All dispatches were vigorously cen- THE SOLDIERS, NOT CITIZENS Pillagers Yet Causing ! | Uneasiness. | CLAIM THEY DEFEATED BACON BIG FORCE OF REGULARS IS PLACED NEAR LEECH LAKE. Owing to the Vigorous Stand o® .ulin- nesota’s Governor Seftlers Will Be Given Ample Pro- > tection. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 8.—Nearly 200 additional troops will be scattered | Leech Lake within a few hours. Two batteries of National Guardsmen were ent up to-day by the Governor for the protection of Cass Lake settlers. At midnight a special train with additional regulars from the Regiment at Fort Snelling started for the north. They will be there by morning and will be placed by General Bacon where they can best pro- tect the country. This will make 400 regulars in and about Walker and Leech Lake. Reports from the scene of the trouble to-night indicate considerable uncer- tainty. The dancing in Bear Island is kept up and it is looked on as one of the principal causes for apprehension. Many Indians have been seen going from other parts of the reservation toward that island. Whether they will join with the comparatively small number of the Bear Island Indians is not known. The Bear Islanders are claiming a victory over the soldiers and this may bring recruits. Some of them un- doubtedly are going peacefully to the | agency, as ordered to, for they are ac- companied by their families, which would not be the case were their in- tentions hostile. However, a small number of Indians could do much dam- | age before being captured or Killed, for | the swamps and lakes are so numerous | and the general conditions such that soldiers unacquainted with their sur- roundings would be unable to cope with the savages. An Indlan is authority for the state- ment that their loss in the fight of Wednesday was six killed and two mor- | tally wounded. This same Indian says they want to fight the soldiers, but not the citizens. S GOVERNOR CLOUGH ANGRY. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. §.—The Govern- ment has notified Governor Clough that it has revoked the order putting the com- panies of the Fourteenth Minnesota Vol- unteers at Duluth and at St.' Paul un- der his orders.. He had all preparations made to send the Duluth companies to the front at once and protect the settlers, and was arranging to mobilize the re- maining companies at St. Paul. He sup- poses - the revocation Is due to-Generat Bacon's message saying that the troublc was over and that there was no .more danger. He added: “I ghall pay no more attention to the War Department. If necessary, I will | issue a call for volunteers, arm them with | such guns as I can pick up and let the | Government go to the-devil. I am tired of doing business with Washington. Thes is too much red tape about it. Or- ders are issued one minute and revoked the next. 1 am not an alarmist, but it is the safe thing to be prepared. It will reassure the settlers and perhaps prevent an outbreak.” The Governor has received a message from Mayor John H. N-vers of Brainerd, saying: “I have just returned from Walker. In- dians are concentrating at Leech Lake in large numbers. ‘whink they held a council last night. Situation looks grave.” ‘W. F. Street wires the Governor from Bemidji, west of Cass Lake: “While I do not regard the situation here as alarming, our people are much dfsturbed. If you cowd send the author- ities 200 stands of arms they would be gratefully received. The Red Lake In- dians are meported irritable. i The following telegram was sent by Governor Clough to- “H. C. Corbin. adfutant general: No one claims that reinforcements were needed at Walker. I have not been asked for assistance from that quarter, though I do not think that General Bacon has | won the victory he claims. The people | generaliy say so. The Indians claim that they have won, and that is my opinion. The people all along the Rosston branch | of the Great Norther flroad are very much alarmed and are asking for the pro- tection asked of the ar Department. The soldlers are here and are willing and | ready to go, but you have revoked | your order of yesterday, you can do what | ou like with your soldiers. The State of Minnesota will try and get along with- out any assistance from the department in the future. “A. CLOUGH, Governor.” WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Upon re- ceipt of ‘Governor Clough’s message General Corbin visited the White House and showed it to the President. An order was sent to General Bacon, directing him to confer with Governor | Clough and to station troops along the line of the rallroad, in the vicinity of a the recent troubles, in such number as | will prevent any danger to the-people | and to allay their alarm. Commis- | sioner of Indian Affairs Jones left to- day for the scene of the Indian trou- ble in Minnfsota. He will have a per- sonal talk pth ihe dissfected men and endeavor t¢' induce them to disperse quickly and submit to the regular pro- cess of law. _—— OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—The Inte- rior Department officials toak an opti- mistic view of the Indian situation in Minnesota to-day and Secretary Bliss and others asserted their confidence that the uprising is practically over. No dispatches have reached the depart- ment since last evening, but the feel- ing of assurance is based on the devel- opments as reported in the published official dispatches to the War Depart- | ment and the press dispatches from the scene of the trouble. The private dis- patch that reached Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones last night, indi- cating that the Indians on the warpath hardly numbered more than twenty- five or thirty, is considered authentic. - INDIANS NOT YET WHIPPED. ST. PAUL, Oct. 8.—A Walker, Minn., special to the Dispatch says: General Bacon has placed sixty men of Com- pany No. 1 for guard duty in town. Bacon says that while the Indians re- treated to Bear Island after the fight, | he is not at all satisfied that they have had enough. In case of a general upris- ing he will inaugurate a winter cam- paign against them. He says that it South Sea massacre. The Sea O . % "o Gont of all loyal Spaniards. ® Ghost, a sixteen-ton cutter in @‘ s 4hls Lo the AtNciG: Hadt tio @ charge of Captain Kolshorn. and @ cooner poked its nose between Morro it bk st s 2| and La Punta before it was boarded by @ tacked by natives of the German ©| ‘o o5 ", dea to And ds @ Solomon Islands at Buka. O ;} "d“ s‘l“l °5‘;°“?e Cl 0‘1“ g”’j““ Captain Kolshorn was mor- C-,*fi“p 5}""‘;’8 ng the vessel and assessing a tally wounded and four of the ®‘ r‘T’he Aolf.redo had been detained nine eyl ieca, T 8: days when it was learned that she was O metan 75 e After the ©|DPeing held on a charge of having en- BN, L0 oI Pels tered the harbor with improper papers. © . vessel had been looted the eap- @ | An appeal was made to Captain Eaton, @) tain’s body was thrown over- :y‘. 5 s ' I beara and the remains of thefour - & e D e A © natives were taken to the vil- @] ro. T gwu s s ‘;l"ng © lage for' a cannibalistic feast. O . " "o e Lower as a Consul, @ The German Government will ©h' ~° 5 m‘; = & oy © send a punitive expedition to the @ YIETPHPOR o0 g = lfi:g“ 2”:‘%2 of lnjand 2 illegal detention of the Alfredo. o i = | General Blanco referred the matti | PP EO® er to QPOOPCPOOOOOOOOOOO sonor Montero, secretary-treasurer of | 1 sored last night and one intended {or‘ the Herald and The Call was stricken An appeal was taken, | @O out ccmpletely. ©| but the censor was upheld in refusing ® | to allow anything to be said about an [CXOKC] EA SOUTH s o | incident which ended when Captain © MASSACRE- ©| Baton of the Resolute defied General © S € | Blanco and Admiral Montero to fire | ®© . @‘ upon the American flag. The matter is | © German Sea Captain Cub ©| now several days o1d, but was oniy @ . . @® | heard of when the Resolute returned o to Pieces by Natives @ vesterday. The trouble all arose over ® ©| the steam yacht Alfredo, which brought ® at Buka. {.)‘ Benjamin F. Guerra, treasurer of the | ® VANCOUVER, B. Oct. 8.— @‘ Lvul)an .’Iunm.“ir:nm ?lh“’ York to HZ-’.-; © The Warimao arrived to-day ©|Yana. The Alfredo is alleged to have| © trom New South Wales and New @ | Deen engaged in several flibustering | Zealand. She brings news of a ® expeditions previous to the declaration | of war and is one of those vessels hate- | | | the Autonomist Cabinet, upon whom | Captain Eaton called. Senor Montero, with many shrugs, said he was sorry to cause so much trouble, but the Al- fredo had offended the laws of Spain and would have to suffer. Captain | Eaton promptly replied that the Alfredo was a private yacht, her papers were | correct and her detention an outrage. | Moreover, he declared, unless ciearance | papers were ~ranted at once he would | go immediately aboard the Resolute, | which would tow the Alfredo out of the | | harbor. If Morro cared to fire on the | American flag General Blanco would be held responsible. Senor Montero asked for time for consideration, which was not granted. He then said he would send clearance papers. Captain Eaton stood firm, say- ing he must either have a remission of the fine and clearance papers at once or the Resolute would take the Alfredo in tow. Senor Montero ordered clearance papers drawn and the incident ended without burning powder. e e THERE IS MUCH FEVER may take a thousand men to finally subdue the savages. He believes that the Indians would not put up much of a fight during the cold weather, and that they could be then subdued or cap- tured. PRAISE FOR THE SOLDIERS. WALKER, Minn., Oct. 8.—General Ba- con speaks in the highest terms of praise of the conduct of his men in their fight with the Bear Island Indians. “No soldiers ever put up a gamer fight,” he said, “‘and, considering that four-fifths of the men were recruits, their showing was one of which every American soldier may feel proud. The new men wera en tirely unfamiliar with the Krag-Jorgen- sens, and when we were attacked it de- veloped that many of them actually did not know how to load their pieces. But they fought like veterans. Of the entire company but twelve or fif- teen were old soldiers. The men are full of praise for their officers as the offi- cers are for the men. @ COLONEL T. J. SHEEHAN, UNITED STATES PILLAGER IN HAVANA HARBOR One Great Reason Why American Warships Should Not Be Sent There at Present. Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1598, by James Gor- don Bennett. HAVANA, Oct. 8—The Scorpion ar- | rived at noon. Lieutenant Commander Turner went at once to report to Ad- miral Sampson, but was unable to do so on account of the latter's illness. Ad- miral Sampson was better to-day, but is still unable to see any one. On the French gunboat Fulton in this harbor are sixteen light cases of yellow fever. There have been two deaths. The | NR city is growing healthier every day, but | \ ¥ there is much fever in the harbor, which | is one of the great reasons why Ameri- can warships should not be sent at this time. CONSTRUCTOR HOBSON’S WORK. ‘Will Make Another E£xamination of the Vizcaya. Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 183, by James Gor- don Bennett. CAIMANERA, Cuba. Oct. 8.—Naval Constructor Hobson, accompanied by sev- eral divers, left last night to make an- other examination of the Spanish cruiser Vizeaya. It is rumored that efforts to raise the vesel will be abandoned be- cause her bow plates are destroyed. Sev- eral more carpenters and additional lum- ber have been taken to the camp near the wreck of the Cristobal Colon. Mean- while work on the cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa is being rapidly pushed ahead. R CHARGED WITH MURDER. WALKER. Midn,, Oct. 8.—At the In- dian council held at the reservation a de- mand was made by the Government, through Indian Agent Sutherland, that the men concerned in the killing of sol- diers near Bear Island be given up to answer the charge of murder. Marshal O'Connor and 250 troops com- manded by General Bacon will move to the agency on the reservation at 10 o'clock this morning. Boats were char- tered last svenlni and another effort will be made to apprehend the twenty Indlans, for whom the Marshal has bench war- rants. D () Al 5 A0hs Death of Princess Maria. BERLIN, Oct. 8.—Princess Maria, the wife of Prince Albrecht of Prussia, the regent of Brunswick, died this afternoon at Kamanz Castle. She was Duchess of Saxony, and a daughter of Duke Ernst of Saxe-Altenburg. She was born MARSHAL, WHO WAS WOUNDED IN THE REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE THE NEXT CONGRESS Leaders in Conference in New York. DID SOME CLOSE FIGURING MAJORITY IN SENATE WILL BE FROM SIX TO TEN. The Sound Money Issue Expected to Counteract the Customary Apathy in Off Year Elections. NEW YORK, Oct. 8 —There was an important conference of Republican national leaders in this city to-day in regard to the election of the next United States Senate and House of Representatives. Some close figuring was done, and it was the opinion of those who participated in the meeting that they could insure the continuance of Republican control in the National Legislature. Senator man of Committee; Mark A. Hanna, the Republican Representative Babcock of ‘Wisconsin, man of the Republican Congres- sional Committee; Representative J. A. T. Hull of Towa, secretary of the committee; General Charles H. Gros- venor of Towa, political statistician of the administration; Vice-President Hobart, and Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska took part in the con- ference. From the figures set forth by the Re- publican mandlers it is deducted that the next United States Senate will be Republican by from six to ten votes; that the next House of Represontatives will have a working majority, but not so large a majority as the present one of fifty-one votes, and that New York s a doubtful State so far as the Legis- lature, which will elect a successor of Senator Murphy, is concerned. “Speaking generally,” said Chairman Babcock, ‘“the situatfon from our standpoint is much more satisfactory than it was a few weeks ago. We ex- pect to elect enough Republican Repre- sentatives to give us a good working majority in the House. We figure on , chair- National Jori Wi chair- | losing_samg of the present majority o2 | Atty-one. Our losses will be in the Eastern, Middle and so-called border States, and will result mainly from local causes. We do not anticipate any loss but instead are figuring on galins on national issues. The Democratic at- tempt to make capital out of the criti- cism of the conduct of the war will be futile. ‘On the sound money issue we will gain. The trouble in off year elections when times ‘are good has always been that the people are apathetic, and the party in power has suffered. This year we believe that the importance which the people see in the maintenance of sound money will remove this apathy.” RAN INTO THE REAR OF A PASSENGER TRAIN Serious Railroad Smash-Up at Omaha Owing to the Inability of an Engineer to Stop. OMAHA, Oct. 8. — A “double-headed" Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley freight train ran into the rear end of an Omaha_passenger train in the yards, three blocks north of Locust street, at 10 o'clock this morning. The last car on the passenger train was the dining car “Delmonico,” and it was split almost in_two lengthwise. Harry Jones, a waiter, residing in Chi- cago, was killed. Otto Homedale, cons ductor of the dining car, was scalded and injured about the body and will die. He lives at Boone, Iowa. The seriously injured follow: J. Wi terheld, Omaha, internally injured; A. W. Brandt, engineer freight engine, inter- nally hurt; Mike Smith, engineer freight engine No. 67, Internally injured: Frank Speck, fireman engine No. 200, cut about face and body and probably internally injured; — Madden, fireman of freight engine No. 67, hurt about head and shoulders; D. F. Danner, Pullman car porter, hurt by falling glass: Otto Par- sons, waiter in dining car, crushed and scalded and will probably die. His home is in Omaha. The following waiters and caoks in the dining car were more or less injured about the hands and face by flying glass and splinters: T. C. Madray, Chicago: Fred Leonard, Chicago; Henry Jones, Chicago; Thomas Robinson, Chicago. The accident was due to the inability of the engineer. Mike Smith, of the head engine No. 67 of the freight, to stop his train. RUSSIAN COSSACKS A PERMANENT ESCORT China Protests Against the Extraor- dinary Precautions Taken by the Czar. LONDON, Oct. 8-—The Peking corre- spondent of the Times says: There is good reason to fear that the Russian Cossacks, who have arrived here to pro- tect the Russian legation, will be retain- ed as a permanent escort. Chen Rao_ Chen, Governor of the Province of Hunan, who is the most en- lightened Governor in China, and has been active in introducing foreign im- provements, has just been cashiered. PEKING, Oct, 8—The Chinese Foreign Office has protested against the excessive Russian escort, pointing out that it is twice the strength of the detachments of the other powers. NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—A cable message, dated Peking, October 7, to Thurlow Weed Barnes in New York, sent by H. H. Lowry, president of the American Uni- versity in China, denies the truth of all the recent stories as to the suicide or as- sassination of the Bmperor. “No one has been killed in Peking ex- cept six natives, who were beheaded for attacking Buropeans. The Emperor has been deposed. The Empress Dowager reigns.” SCANDALS AT DAWSON. Yukon Administrator Ogilvie to Make an Investigation. OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 8—Willlam Ogilvle, Yukon Administrator, has been appointed b?' the Canadian Government to inquire into and report upon tha alleged scandals among Government offi- 2, 1854, and was married to Prin brecht BATTLE, at Berlin on April 19, ctals at Dawson. e Commis~ sioner- Mr. Fawcett, bas been removed.