The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1898, Page 2

(] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1898. itors, including many public men, came to the hotel to ex their condoi- ences. President McKinley manifested his sympathy by sending a suitably worded let and Vice President Ho- L card. Among those who [ A called were tors Foraker, Money, Proctor and ( dler and Majors Gen- | eral Lawton and Wheeler. | General-Garcia leftalarge family, only one of whom, Justo, just of ageandcap- tain on hig staff, was with him when he died His widow and Mercedes, a Conf'agration Doing Great GABILAN HILLS DENUDED WALL OF FLAME Damage on Ranch Land in daughter 17 ars of age, are at| S . Thomaseille, Ga. where _the w1 18 the Vicinity of Salinas. quite {1l Mario, a son 19 years of age, | is with the mother at Thomasville, and | ¥ SALINAS, Deec. 11.—A conflagration is raging in the Gabilan # Colonel Carlos € , another sgon, is| * hills, four miles from Salinas. It is spreading with extreme rapidity. #* in Cuba. A dau r, Leonora, who The fire started early this afternoon on Carr’'s ranch and spread married an American, is living in Paris. over a portion of H. Bardin’s ranch, destroying shrubs, trees, fences # General Garcia’s mother is still alive and what little feed remained. It was started by men clearing away ¥ and resides in Havana. undergrowth, and owing to a sudden rise in the wind soon was be- ¥ ral Garcia, whose name will be vond all control. The sky here is obscured by dense clouds of smoke. # nked with those of ‘other patriots | Fremont’s Peak has been burned over and is covered by ashes, * have fought against unequal odds which from Salinas looks like a mantle of snow. Over 700 acres have * r the freedom of his country, has had been burned over and the fire is increasing in range. The dam- active and varied life, much of age will be great. has been spent in fighting for the L d of Cuban liberty, which he had| %% % # 3 % %3 % % % 5% % # % % % % ¥ % FH KKK KR E KRR REEER satisfaction of seeing accomplished ) short a time before his death. He | of culture and refinement, this atriot and a soldier wno tressed to hear Cuba has lost a of splendid education and came from a | ¢an never be reMlaced. The admiration I 4 s R 5 fquani. of | Bave always had for him has been great- d ished family o aiquani, of |}y incre by my too brief personal ac- Santiago de Cuba Province. He was | quaintance. No one (iouldlkn;‘n\' him with- e e 339, and | Out a genuine regard and affection. The ra in Colgnin. October: 1% 15 and | ime of Garcia will be forever revered in was therefore in his sixtieth year. Gen- | Free Cuba, along with those of Marti and eral Garcia was educated in Havana | Maceo and many others who have given Sna their lives for their country. I beg to i Spai 86 e as F: e in Spain. 1In 1864 he was married | jeror s e AR to Is Velez. | your associates in this irreparable al Garcia was the original con- | Yours faithfu JOHN HAY or in the uprising of the Cubans Headquarters t S| 1868, and in that war, | o Washingto der G HETR, s pank o on. Horatio S. Rile 5 SRR attained the rank of | y'is with the deepest reg arn al. In Octob of 1868 | of the death of the distinguished soldier, | he captured the tov of Jaiquani and | Patriot and General Garcia who 50 nobly use of his country for the past twenty-four yea B re and recruited many hundreds of patriots. He had command of the east. | He would have been an ornament {o any rectieilan, TR volution, | country, and his loss will .- great to the I epar ts during that revolution, | cayse or which he has lab so0 lon, after 1873, and won many notable vie- | and so earnestly Very Sincerely vours, including those at Melonez and NELSON A. MILES While the revolution was in a | 2faJor.General Commanding, U. 8. A. 1 state in the other provinces and United States Senate, utcome was uncertain he main-| 2 jWazhington; Dec. J1, 1888, Fy S R e on. Gonzales de Queseda, e Ral- tained it with viger in the territory | eigh_iy Dear Sir: It have just heard of | under his command. In- 18 while | the death of General Allow me, reconnoitering with his escort, he was | through you, to tender my heartfelt sym- rrodbdet e 3000 G ‘ds.’ Prefer. | Pathy to his family, his friends and hi . S R Spaniards. Tefer- { country, on accou th ring death to capture and subsequent | have sustained. on re execution at the hands of his enemies | leed 2 he attempted'suicide by placing his re- g count it good e persons that, just volver under his chin and firing. The | met him. It seems hard, indeed ] ullet came out between his evebrows, | 8 the cause for which he did o much is bullet came out between his eyebrows. | {yiumphing he should have been called For months he lay between life and | from lire. It w his great ambition to th, but was saved finally by Span- | Seen Cuba free and indenendent, With a h surgeons, who possibly had ceq | Bovernment chosen by the people of th Rt et DRI S g nd, and he would have done more than their own lives to his mer: The Span- :|lbmnu :}u\_v ‘nm‘ ese to bring all (]l\l.( fards’ belleving he Wwa a : about. For his death to occur at such a fards, belleving he was about to dle, | e snust be a hard blow to all of you. gave him a pardon. The hole which the | Very truly, etc., bullet made when it entered the chin __J. B. FORAKER. and came s alway: out between the evebrows S| The arrangements for the funeral of nd shows plainly | General Garcia have not been com- in the ath. pleted. The expectation is that ser- For his parti in the revolu- \\:Ices will be held in one of the Catho- tionary movement General Garcia w“si'fix l’utru'~k s, ‘ngll: " e > remains wi sent to Spain, where for four years Y pain, where for four vears he|jq piaceq temporarily in a receiving was confined in castles and fortresses, | vault pending final interment in Cuba. remaining there until the peace of Zan | There having been as vet no official Jon. He then returned to the United | recognition given the commission by States, and together with Jose Marti| the President it seems unlikely that attempted another revolution. He | there will be any official participation R PRkt vt 5 ollowers, | s such, although it is expected that Janded I b e T o~ | members of the Cabinet and members s e by % 2" 70 | of Congress may attend in their indi- wanted to try the home rule offered by | vigual capacities. Spain. He capitulated to the Spanish| The members ¢f the commission feel forces in order to save his few remain- | keenly the blow which has befallen ing followers and was again banished | them in the death of their leader, who, to Spain in 1880, where he remained un- | they say, was a man of intelligence, der survelllance - until 1895; when. the | Y21OT, energy and probity, in whom the T majority of le h: e he escaped to France and later to New | say, will continue without interrup- York. tion and the ideas.and views held by His movements since that time and |§eneral Garela will bf impressed on all t e atic R hat is done. While it is possible that actiye participation in the War &re |4 \o(ne ' Chairman may - be chosen by hi familiar to many newspaper readers. | sy Y niyon'Accebiv Wet the commis. After coming to this country he en-|gjoners say that it is not essential, as deavored to get an expedition to the | those now here are thoroughly equip- nd of Cuba in the steamer Hawkins, but this met with shipwreck in a storm and the cargo was lost. General Garcia ther | : THE CUBAN PATRIOT cia made another attempt to ship stores | for the insurgents, this time obtaining He was intercepbed, | 0 & RpaiB e it the ship Bermuda. however, by the United States authori- | H o e et o enuree ¢ |General Garcia Was Regarded filibustering, but was released on $3000 | 4 H St e ML S As-the Liberator of Hiis People. | ped to take up the work where their | leader laid it down. final attempt landed on the eastern shore of the island with ope of the largest expediticns that ever reached | Cuba. After landing he succeeded Gen- | oo eneral Antonio Maceo in command of | % the troops of the eastern department, holding the rank of major general, Gen- | cral Maceo marching west with his|Teduested by the members of the Cu- men. | ban eommission to start at once for At Maceo's death Garcia was elected | Washington. He was unable to comply lieutenant general of the Cuban army, | With the request, because he has a which position he held to the close of | child ill at the Astor House, and be- the we During this command he as- | cause he, together with his sons, was saulted and took by siege Tunas, Guisa | the host to-day of Mrs. Ruis Rivera, and Guaimaro and cleared the interfor | the wife of General Ruls Rivera, the of his department of Spanish. Cuban exile just liberated from a Span- After the declaration of war between | ish penal colony, who arrived on La the United States and Spain General | Champagne yesterday. Miles, commanding the Amierican army, | Treasurer Benjamin J. Guerda of the gent his representative to General Gar- i delegation was delegated to go to cia, and subsequently the American | Washington and represent the junta in and Cuban’ generals co-operated in |the arrangements for the funeral. their movement against Santiago. All| General Palma gave the following the officers who participated in the ac- | statement as his tribute to the mem- tive work around Santiago bear testi- | ory of his comrade in arms: mony to the great aid, assistance and “The Cubans will always consider loyalty manifested by General Garcla | General Garcia one of the liberators during the campaign. ‘When the Cuban Assembly met at the | ory in grateful veneration. I was his close of the war General Garcia was one | personal friend since our youth, in my of the principal advisers and was | native town of Bayamo, and we have elected chairman of the commission di- ‘ kept our friendship through all the tected to come to the United Slaleslsurflns events that have occurred YORK, Dec. 11.—After the news of the death of Calixto Garcia was received here General Palma was and confer with the authorities here | Since the '68 war. I feel the loss of a v companion and friend. with reference to (hgv work in hand. “A sad coincidence in connection Letters of condolente were received with the death of General Garcia is from Secretary Hay, General Miles and | the fact that his youngest daughter, Senator Foraker. Secretaries Hay and | Mercedes, who is but 16 years old, is Alger and Postmaster General Smith | now ill with consumption in Georgia, left their cards, as did Assistant Secre- | whence she was to go with her mother tary Meiklejohn and Generals Miles | and father to Cuba to enjoy for the re- and Gilmore. The several letters of | maining months of her life the liberty ‘tondolence were as follows: | and old associations which the sacri- Executive Mansion, | fices of General Garcia had helped to Washington, D. C., Dec. 11, 188, ' { make realities.” | lamentable news. . | caption of the island, and will keep his mem- | My Dear Sir: I have heard, with deep | regret, the melancholy news of General Garcia’s death. beg to offer my heart- felt sympathy in your sorrow and the tribute of my sincere admiration for ms eminent qualities as a patriot and soldler. The people of the United States will join with the people of Cuba in mourning the loss of one to whom the cause of Cuban liberty is deeply indebted. Sharing in your grief, I am sincerely yours, WILLIAM I&CKL\'LEY. Senor Juan Justo Garcla, ete. Department of State, Washington, D. C., Dec, 11, 1598, My Dear Mr. Queseda: 1'am deeply dis- [ T Pears’ .was the first maker of sticks of soap for shav- ing. Pears’ Soap es- tablished over 100 years, B. J. Guerda, in an interview, said: | “General Garcia was the highest type | of the true patriot. He devoted his | whole life to the welfare of his country. | There was no sacrifice he did not make for Cuba. He dies in Cuba’s service, {and his death brings deep mourning | into every Cuban home. CHINESE LITTERATEUR SENTENCED T DIE Imperial Decree Punishing a Native | Who Threatened a Foreign Missionary. LONDON, Dee. 12.—The Peking cor- respondent of the Daily Mail say: *“An imperial rescript, just issued, sen- tences to death a Chinese litterateur who wrote threatening letters to a foreign missionary in Kiang 8i, and confers high Chinese honors on the missionary for his tact and forbearance in the matter. The edict astonished the Chinese, and the ac- tion of the Empress Dowager is likely to have a salutary effect.” -—— Sea Casts Up Three Bodies. EUGENE, Or., Dec. 11.—Three more bodles: of the crew of the wrecked ship Atalanta wsere found on the beach near Fl‘i:tence thi: h:vteehk.‘ making ahumfll of el bodies ave come 0] Ince wreck & mont Fhere s mohth i fncans of identifying the bodics,® 1_ CITIZENS OF CHICAGO PROTEST AGAINST FRANCHISE EXTENSIO Continued from First Page. | “Be Moderate,” has this ed- itorial: These are days of superlative rhetoric. For instance, Mayor Harrison character- | izes the Allen law as ‘‘the most damnable e of the century.” This is the cen- tury in which Lincoln and Garfleld were assassinated and in which the secession of n States brought on a terribly de- structive civil war. Here in Chicago— and Chicago is not yet much more than archist outbreak in Haymarket. | seen the nation of Mayor Carter Harrison, who now asserts that the boodle measure ; at Springfield, atrocious though it be. was the most damnable crime of the century. The Mayor, when he makes an exagger- ated statement of this kind, is merely | beside himself with intensity of feeling, and men in that condition do not speak words of truth and soberness. They run | to superlatives, and therein they make a serious mistake. In another under the caption “No topes Necessary” it says in part: The traction company extension ordin- B going to be defeated by a suf- icient number of Aldermen sustaining the Mayor's veto. It will not be beaten by a | to produce results in future that will b extremely unpleasant and undesirable. The sooner we have an end of thes better it will be for ti * Just now we are tremen sly and righteously indignant at the prospect of corruption and_bribery tri- \xm]!g\lng over the rights of the people. | They believe themselves ready for any- | thing: but, brought to the pinch, not one | in a thousand would have anything to do with lynching. Their wrath is simply causing them to talk fustian. They are, however—these respectable but {ll-bal-| anced citizens—furnishing ‘a precedent for | men who will not only talk lynch law but execute lynch law in future unless the power of real law interposes to prevent them—perhaps at a great cost of life and | certainly with great disturbance of public | tranquillity. If it becomes respectable in | this city for men to threaten ‘“boodle” | Aldermen with ropes it will shortly be- | come an accepted doctrine that the rope i the proper means of adjusting all dis- putes involving real or fancied injustices. | Once let it be admitted that law is to be | | set aside in favor of mob violence, even | in a single instance, and we open the door | to lawlessness in general. The respecta- | ble citizen who is going around to-day | |with a miniature hangman’s noose on the | gapel of his coat will be debarred from "nzprphr*mflng members of the mob which $eeks to lynch a murderer, an unpopular | employer of lahor, a defaulting banker or .some other person who has incurred | the disapproval of any considerable sec- tion of the community. When it comes to lynch law there can be no distinctions. | If one man may be lynched any other man may be lynched, provided his ene- mies can muster sufficient strength to do the job. * * * Above the Common | Council stand the courts, which will de- feat the consummation of any robbery of the people through the combined efforts of unscrupulous wealth and corrupt pub- | lic servants. No Tropes are necessary. The Times-Herald, too, editorially | pleads with its readers to be moderate and to do what they can to allay the | spirit of lawlessness at work among | the people. The Tribune alone issues | no warning. It is said to-night that the proposed | plan of having committees of citizens | wait upon Aldermen to-morrow at their | homes to plead with their wives and | children may be abandoned, as it fs| | feared trouble might follow. | ———— WILL NOT PROSECUTE YERKES FOR LIBEL| Chicago Editors Say the Charge of Blackmail Is Not Worthy of Notice. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Joseph Me- dill, publisher of the Tribune, was | asked to make & denial of the charges | made against Chicago publishers by‘ | Charles T. Yerkes in an interview with | | 2 representative of The Call. He said: | | “Deny the charges made by Yerkes? Of course I won't. Why should I deny | anything Mr. Yerkes chooses to say? | | No denial is necessary. I am an old man, and have for fifty years been | identified with journalism. If in that time I have not acquired a reputation for honesty 'a denial now would avail nothing. I am not fighting Yerkes. As a citizen of Chicago I am working for the interests of the city and its resi- dents. I am opposed to granting to traction companies an extension of franchises for fifty years. I am op- posed to giving street railroads priv- ileges without adequate compensation to the city, and I am opposed to the Allen law. Iam in this fight to prevent a great wrong, not to injure Mr. Yerkes, and I will remain and continue to work for the defeat of the extension ordinance to the last. Every newspa- per in Chicago except the Inter Ocean, which is the property’ of Mr. Yerkes, and is edited to suit him, is opposed to the franchise extension ordinance. These newspapers simply represent the people. They have no personal feeling against r. Yerkes. Perhaps Mr. Yerkes believes he can divert the press from its fight on his plans, but he is mistaken. If he thinks he can further the intepests of his corporations by at- tacking the proprietors of the newspa- pers he is at liberty to take that course, 1 do not care what he says. His charges are ridiculous. He may say I am a thief; that does not make it so. He may say I am just out of the peniten- tiary, and then only on parole. He may say I murdered my great-grand- mother or his great-grandmother and he saw me do it, but the public won't believe him, will it? ‘“‘What good would it do me to také action against Mr. Yerkes? Shall I sue him for libel? I may go into the courts and secure a heavy judgment against him, but that would not prove, unythi;g‘.;u\d 1 don't want and. don’t need .~ Yerkes' money. ippose I . were a young man like you and went to his office and secured personal satisfac- | half a century old--we have seen an an- | We have | r of the young gentleman | {about the charge against the Tribune | wild and reckless talk about ropes and | lamp posts, and such talk is very likely | | met death. his nose—would that prove me inno- cent? Not at all. i “What do I care for Mr. Yerkes? He |is not a resident of Chicago. He moved, to New York four years ago and is & citizen of that place. He has only an office and business interests here. He does not care for the welfare of the city. All he is after is to secure a mo- |nopoly on the streets. Why should I, Who have lived here over half a century iand have done my best for the city, at- tempt to defend myself against the | charges of a man of this character? | “I will fight the ordinance Mr. Yerkes is backing and will defeat it. I will | fight the attempt to make the provis- fons of the Allen law effective until that | obnoxious measure is repealed by the State Legislature. I will continue to | demand that the city receive fair com- | pensation for privileges granted to| | street railway corporations, and I will not be diverted from my purpose by ! any charges which may be made by Mr. Yerkes. i “I deplore very much the excitement | | created by the past few days of agita- | | tion. Al the talk of ropes and of hang- | ing Mr. Yerkes or Aldermen is ridicu- | |lous and should be stopped, but the | charge that newspapers are responsible i for it is equally ridiculous. The editors {of the Chicago newspapers are not an- archists nor are the people of Chicagoc. Obnoxious ordinances can and should | be defeated without any recourse to ;vlolence. The cry ‘La Lantorne!’ should | never be raised in this city. I don’t |look for any trouble Monday night.” Victor F. Lawson, publisher of the Morning Reccrd and Evening News, re- fused to deny the charges made by Mr. Yerkes. When seen by The Call cor- | | respondent he said: “I will only say this in regard to the charges made against me by Mr. Yerkes | in his interview of yesterday: There |Is nothing new in the accusations of | Mr. Yerkes, He has been making simi- lar statements for many months. The character of Mr. Yerkes is such and | his antecedents are so well known in | Chicago that it is beyond his power to accuse any man.” Mr. Lawson declined further to dis- cuss the matter and would not say Wwhether he would proceed in the courts against Mr, Yerkes. | H. Kohlsaat, publisher of the! Times-Herald and Evening Post, said: | “Mr. Yerkes, I see, doeés not implicate me in the charges which he makes against the newspaper proprietors of | Chicago, but he does accuse the editors | of the Tribune and Record and News. Now I happen to know something people. It dates back ten or twelve years. At that time Mr. Yerkes was on very friendly terms with the pro- prietor of that paper. He was trying to secure from the City Cocuncil the right to use La Salle-strees tunnel un- | der Chicago River for his North Side| | cable line. During a conversation in | the office of one of the heads of the | Tribune, I understand, the question of he policy of that paper came up and the gentleman referred to made a jocu- lar remark about there being nothing | n it for him. Mr. Yerkes and others | present never dreamed at the time of | taking this seriously and it was not | meant that way. In later years, when I met Mr. Yerkes abroad, he related this incident to me, and, I believe, took the | same view of it as I did. He probably refers to this matter when he says he was offered the columns of the Trib- une for a price. The idea is ridiculous, and no one will credit Mr. Yerkes' charge for a moment. ““As to the charge against the pro- prietor of the Record and News I do not think it worth notice. Mr. Yerkes claims he was approached by an agent of Mr. Lawson and offered the columns of the papers controlled by him for $50,- 000. If some dishonest agent of Mr. Lawson ever approached Mr. Yerkes I am positive it was without the knowl- edge of Victor F. Lawson, who is as honest as the day is long. There is not enough money between this city and San Francisco to buy that man. Why, Mr, Lawson’s papers are worth $800,000 every year to him. His income from | them is over $75,000 per month. Is it reasonable to suppose -that he would sell his influence for $50,000 or any other sum? I do not believe the charges | merit denial. | “Will there be any disturbance in the city Monday night? Nc. The exten- | sion ordinance is put off for at least | six weeks by the action of the commit- tee of Aldermen appointed to investi- gate the books of the traction compa- nies. The Legislature meets in_ three weeks, and I believe will immediately repeal the Allen law. The majority of the, members of the Legislature are pledged to this. Whether the Governor will sign the repeal is another matter. “The charges made in the Inter-Ocean | that the editors of other Chicago papers and Mayor Harrison are anar- chists and responsible for the present high pitch of excitement throughout | the city and country is of a plece with | other wild claims made by Mr. Yerkes. | It is true there has been much wild | talk indulged in by irresponsible ora- | tors, and it is to be deplored, but the | people have been driven to frenzy by the shameless attempt to override their rights. There should be no appeal to the passions of a mob to bring about the defeat of the traction ordinance. That end can be attained by appeal to reason and wiil b FATAL FIRE IN-A BROOKLYN FLAT Three People Known to Have Met Death and Four Others Are Reported Missing. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—By a fire to- night in a flat at 124 Prospect street, Brooklyn, three people are known to have | Four others are reported missing. The dead: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Noblitt. Mrs. Mart Stedborn, Noblitt’s mother- in-law. Missing: ‘brother. The house was occupied by five families and a boys’ club had rooms in the base- ment. It i{s supposed that in some way the boys accidentally set the place on fire. The bodies of the Noblitts and Mrs. Stedborn were found on the fourth floor after the flames had been extinguished. Noblitt's body was hanging across the windowsill, burned beyond recognition. i iy DUC D’ORLEANS IS SEEKING A DIVORCE Fact That He Has No Heir the Al- leged Ground for His Action. PARIS, Dec. 11-The Duc d'Orleans is said to be seeking a divorce on the ground that he has no helr. I give the report for what it {s worth, but in royalist circles the Duc d'Orleans is sald to have already approached the Pope on the matter. Napoleon's misfortunes, it seems, be- gan with his divorce from Josephine. Will the Duc d'Orleans have better luck? et STEAMER WYOMING SUNK. Cut Through by the Ice in a Jam Near Menominee, Mich. MENOMINEE, Mich.,, Dec. 11.—The steamer Wyoming of the Lackawanna line is sunk in eighteen feet of water off Peshtigo, having been cut through by the ice. She was run into shoal water and lies with her lower deck a foot under the surface. Her cargo consists of 2500 bar- j rels of lime and much general merchan- dise for Green Bay City. The tug Monarch has gone from Escanaba to her with steam pumps. The water in the hold was lowered several inches to-day. gMHURSTBU’BG. ntarfo, Dec. 11— ere was a solid jam of fce’ at the mouth of the Detroit River, and no hoats got through to—dfl, flmu;h. a number out into the lake tl tmorning. A. Frank, wife, child and tion by blacking his eyes and breaking R.Issed ‘en_steamers h st T e a‘::. in sight off Colchester, ACCUSED OF HAVING ACCEPTED A BRIBE SUPERVISOR C. W. GARRETT OF FRESNO. Supervisor Garrett was arrested at Fresno on Wednesday of last week on an indictment returned by the Grand Jury. firm which sold a road sprinkler to the county taken $150 from the agent of a for $900. Garrett admits having received the money, but d He is charged with having eclares it was a loan and that he already has paid back $40. DISPUTED POINTS LEFT UNSETTLED Anglo American Com- mission to Adjourn. WILL REASSEMBLE IN MARCH TREATY MAY THEN BE RATI- FIED BY CONGRESS. Canadian Members Given to Under- stand That the Tariff on Lum- ber Will Not Be Re- moved. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Dec. 11.—It is re- ported in official circles here to-day that the Anglo-American joint high commission having under consideration, the questions in dispute between Can- ada and the United States will adjourn on Thursday next, to resume its sit- tings next March after the expiration of the present Congress, when a special session of the United States Congress, then under Republican control, will be called to ratify a treaty. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—It has been agreed by the high joint commissions of Americans and Canadians, which has been in session here several weeks, to adjourn at an early date. This has not yet been formally announced, but it is understood that the day fixed for ad- journment is December 20. On the evening of December 19 the Canadians will give a banquet to which the Amer- icans will be invited. The understanding is that the ses- sions will not be resumed until after March 4 next, when the American Com- missioners, who are members of the| House and Senate, will have leisure to | Whether | devote to the negotiations. the sessions will be resumed at Quebec, where they were begun, or in this city has not been stated. The decision to adjourn has grown out of the developments of ' the past week. While there are several proto- cols in the proposed treaty, notably the Bering Sea, the North Atlantic fisher- ies, reciprocity an@ questions affecting the great lakes, reciprocity is the one great subject in which the Canadians are interested. Last week the High Commissioners came nearer than they have ever been before to the discussion of that subject. The Canadians had submitted proposals, and on Wednes- day the Americans submitted counter- proposals. These counter - proposals showed that the Americans were dis- posed to be very unyielding, and «hat much smaller concessions would really be made than had been expected. The negotiations of last week also con- vinced the Canadians that free lumber, a consummation they and all their peo- ple have devoutly wished for, was im- possible. The American Commission- ers not only told the Canadians so, but the latter were invited to the Capitol, and while there met several prominent members of the House and Senate, who impressed the fact still more firmly upon them. It is sald that the Amer- icans have agreed to a small reduction of the duty on live animals and have intimated’ that they may agree to a small reduction in the duty on lumber, now i$2 per thousand. The Canadians had hoped for much larger concessions. This condition of things and the ap- parent impossibility of reaching an agreement before Christmas are said to have led to the declsion for an adjourn- ment. The Senate may be called in ses- sion after March 4 to transact business, when there would be ample time to present any treaty that may have beeh framed with Canada. At present the outlook for an agreement is not bright. STOLEN GOODS IN AN ACTRESS' TRUNK ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11.—At the conclusion of the performance at the Grand Opera House last night, Miss Catherine Camp- bell, an actress af considerable note, was arrested by detectives at the instance of the St. Nicholas Hotel management, she being accused of systematic robbery. She was taken to her room in the hotel, where her trunks were found to contain chinaware, table linen and silverware be- loilfllng to the hotel. ss Campbell broke down and con- fessed that she had taken the property and had packed it in her trunks ard was reparing to move from the hotel. She ged to be released, offering diamonds and money, but Manager Chapman of the hotel was obdurate. Wrapped in_ paper were three new napkins recéntly bought by the hotel. The kage, which hi tge appearance of &"fim ready for m.?l? 1 h.:-u ,?‘ddmsed to Mrs. Grooms of R R g ourts ares will commit suicide it convicted. s INDEBTEDNESS OF PACIFIC ROADS ‘ Government Preparing to Foreclose. |GRIGGS AT WORK ON PAPERS PROCEEDINGS MAY NOT | ACTUAL ‘ BE NECESSARY. Central and Western Companies Like- ly to Bubmit Satisfactory Prop- ositions Within Time Limit. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The Washing- | ton correspondent of ‘the Herald tele- | graphs: Although five months have | passed of the twelve allowed the Cen- tralmnd Western Pacific Railroad com- panies by Congress to settle their in- | debtedness to the Government no defi- | nite proposition has been received from | the companies. Until such a proposi- | tion is received or the timé limit ex- | pires nothing can be done by the ad- ministration; but it is proposed by the Attorney General immediately upon the | expiration of the period allowed to | foreclose all liens now held by the | United States against the companies | and to collect the indebtedness. | In view, however, of the advantage | to the companies of submitting satis- | factory propositions it is believed fore- | closure proceedings will not be neces- | sary. Attorney General Griggs began last spring the preparation of papers | to foreclose the Government's lien. Be- | fore they were completed Congress created the Secretaries of the Treasury and the Interior and the Attorney General a commission with full power to settle the indebtedness to the Gov- | ernment of the Central Pacific and | Western Pacific companies. The principal of the Central Pacific debt amounts to $25,885,120 and the in- terest to $36,636,163 98, making a total of $62,621,283 98. There is due from the United States on judgment and allowed | claims and on bonds and uninvested cash in sinking fund $8,999,609 28, leav- ing due the Government $53,521,674 70. The balance due from the Western Pa- cific is $5,415,409 94. SACRAMENTO ,GLARLES. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 11.—Burglars last night entered the store of Albert Elkus on J street and attempted to break open the safe. They got through the outer door by breaking off the combination lock. and could easily have completed the job, but for some reason abandoned ic. There was no money in the safe. To-night, while Lewis Wagner and fam- fly were at church, thelr house was en- tered. The family’s return drove the burglar away before he had obtained any- thing. ENGINE CRASHES INTO PULLMAN Disaster on the Oregon) Railway. FOUR PASSENGERS INJURED ONE OF THEM JAY ADAWMS op SAN FRANCISCO. Fast Mail, Compelled to Stop by 5 Horse on the Track, Is Run Into by a Freight That Is Following. Special Dispatch to The Call. PENDLETON, Or., Dec. 11.—A rear- end collision oceurred this morning on the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s main lines, seventeen miles east of here, between the west-bound fast mail and freight train No. 21 Four persons were seriously, but mnot fatally injured. The injured are: Jay Adams of San Francisco, general agent of the Nickel Plate Railroad, cut and scalded. David Felger of Manunk, about head and scalded. Louis Plechner, traveling salesman of Guiterman Bros.,, St. Paul, slightly cut and scalded. Fireman Harry Burrows of feirght train, cut on the forehead. The passenger train stopped near Cayuse Station to remove a horsa which had been caught in a cattle guard. A brakeman was gent back to flag the freight train, which was following, but before the freight engineer could stop his heavy train it crashed into the Pullman sleeper. The Pullman was crushed to splinters and several freight cars were piled up in the ditch. There were nine passengers in the Pullman, but all escaped injury except those named. Felger, Adams and Plechner, the passengers who were in- Jjured, were dressing at the time of the accident. The steam pipes of the engine burst and the escaping steam scaled the three injured men. CANAL BILL MAY COME. UP T0-DAY Morgan Hopes to Secure Action. I, cut tha ‘WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—The course of proceedings in the Senate this week will depend upon the disposition that is made of the Nicaragua canal bill. It is Senator Morgan's intention to call up this measure Monday, and he has ex- pressed the hope that he will secure ac- tion at the Monday session. Few of his most sanguine co-workers agree with him in this opinifon and the best Indica- tion is that unless an agreement can be reached for postponement, several days at least will be consumed in its consideration. The opponents of the measure will meet its supporters with a proposition to defer consideration un- til after the Christmas holidays, and they will give as their reason for this request the fact that the report of the Government Commission appointed to investigate the feasibility of the canal has not yet been made, urging the im- portance of receiving the information which the commission will be able to furnish before acting upon so impor- tant a question. If the bill be taken up in earnest it will consume the great- er portion of the Senate's time until finally disposed of. Beyond the first three days there is no programme manned out for the House this week. To-morrow will be devoted, under the rules, to the con- sideration of business relating to the District of Columbia and on Tuesdav the District of Columbia appronriation bill will be taken up. This is in pursu- ance of the determination of the lead- ers to give the appronriation bills the right of way whenever one is ready. There is nothing in the district bill this year to attract opposition, and, unless the unexpected happens, the bill ought to pass on Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest. The appropriation sub-com- mittee on pensions will commence work on the pension appropriation bill to- morrow, but it can hardlly be ready be- fore next week. It is confidently ex- pected, however, that the bill will be passed before the holidays. e g Was Only Surviving Member. NILES, Mich.,, Dec. 1l.—James Shaw, the only surviving member of the State Legislature of 1847, when Detroit was the &apitol of Michigan, died last night, aged ARGE ESTAB. s HER ropriate gifts at Feather Goods, Bum‘men‘r. . Articles—in fact, presents at the Fight s to the country “We Cut the Prices”—Not ths Qualities Quantitizs. Presoriptions Filled at the Right Prices. DOLL DAY! 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