The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1899, Page 2

(] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1899. OWL TRAIN WRECKED |[DREYFUS INQUIRY BY A BAN D OF SHEEP Engineer William M. Wood Killed in a Railway Disaster Near : Los Banos. gomar to-night locomot smoker and ¢ "k at this pc night a fully equipped wrec two Pullmans to the scene. ferred to the Pullmans and a the pier at 6 o'clock, and wh TPOTATHO4 DHCHO4D4 THHOITHTIEIO4CH0 4 0404040+ O4THTH0O40+ 0 E+O40404040+ 04044+ 04D40 0404040404 0404040+ 04040+ A BILL AGAINST THE “|LLEGAL” TAX SCHEME HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- (), Jan. 11.—In the last six months unty in the State by its has signed a con- sco law firm of teeing 40 per rd of Suj tract with t R all m ¢ for taxes alleged to have been ille- by the commonwealth from after it up in all its de- Call. It was ounties that they obbing their own taxe g the attorneys to actions; that_their 2, and that | shown to the diff would be simply the counties tract. The San > board entered into the scheme after The Call's expose. Mayor Phelan was so impre with the sublime ne of the proposition that he made a personal to the board to withdraw from its contract. Here in Sac- contract was signed, every influence has to force its annnul- ral feeling against the ned such force that to- s begun agalnst tion introduced semblyman Owen h calls upon all Supervisors to with- | and warns them that | and the at- | The i 1 re POWDER EXPLOSIO WRECKS A CITY Fifteen Hundred Chinese Killed by the Blowing Up of a Factory. 11.—2 h ews of a occurred at 15 is brought by of Japan. On the morning date the powder fac- tory of the C ment situated in the center (Hang Chow 1s divided © parts—the low s) took f ter the flame: noticed there was an explosion which could be heard .for miles. Frightful lof of life property Ited. No le e and two > facto S wer than were wounded, many eds hund of a by houses were d the explosion of hundreds of barrels of newly-made gun- powder The whole of the lower city is in ruins, reet after street being nothin mass of fallen timbers. The upper middle cities were comparatively un- harmed. The factory is said to have been fired ¢ the mem v, who are rs of a Chinese secret so plotting against the govern- nt A umber of a been made by the ) many executions ‘will follow. WILL BAR AMERICANS FROM OTHER DISTRICTS British Columbia Determined to En- force an Exclusion Act. B. C., Jan. arently s are said to andarins, and VICTORIA Government out Its an aliens from t 11.—The new intends to carry cy of excluding and other British act to amend. the that it will bar reading in the s0 first srnoon. act ns passed » favor of the passage , th Government has | made the -exciusion of aliens—Americans being aimed at chiefly—one of the strong- est planks in its platform. That the bill will pass is certain. J. Fred Hume, er of Miners, said to- night to The Call correspondent that the urgency of bill was so great that ii there were any danger of it not ng would be passed to exclusion. The bill will not, ct Americans who already hold claim RUMORED DANGER OF FOREIGNERS IN CHINA Report That Troops Are Gathering for a General Rising Against Aliens. VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 11.—If the news received from Pcking by the R. M. S. Empress of Japan counts for anything foreigners residing in China outside of the settled cities and settlements are men- aced by a great danger. The Peking cor spondent of the North China Daily News says considerable additions in men and material to the troops, notonly of Peking and vicinity, but also of Mongolia and Manchuria, are being energetically and quletly pushed on, and the explanation given for the war-like measufe is that they are “to fight foreigners with.” 1In consequence of this the rowdy masses of the north are anxiously awaiting the sig- OAKLAND, Jan. 11.—A report was received from In- that the “Owl.” as the San Francisco and‘Los Angeles limited is called, had been ditched eight miles this side of the Los Banos depor. and that Engineer William M. Wood, aged 33, of West Oakland, was killed. News of the wreck was taken to Los Banos by a messenger, who had to go through the storm for eight miles to send word to the mole at West Oakland. ) The “Owl"” left the pier at 5:24 and was running at the rate of fifty miles an hout when it struck the curve at Ingo- mar. This was at about 8:30 o’clock to-night. While round- ing this curve the train ran into a band of sheep, and the bled on e into a boarding car. The locomotive and smoker w badly wrecked and the boarding car was smashed. Engineer Wood was so badly injured that he died in a few minutes. He lived at West Oakland and was a married man with a family. \ ‘king engine was at once sent to the wreck from Iracy, but it was unable to accomplish anything. At mid- ™ 1 waiting for the track to be cleared. The sentiment | ne car were thrown to one side. 1 the locomotive tum- int, in left the mole and took he passengers will be trans- ttached to the train which left ich is tied up near Ingomar nal certain officlals have promised to give r 4 general uprising against fore! and their Chinete friende s | NAGLE'S SLAYER CAUGHT. Perpetrator of an Atrocious Crime Arrested at Fresno. | FRESNO, Jan. 11.—Deputy Sheriff John White to-day arrested Frank Brend on a charge of murder, commit- ted at Paulsell Station, in Stanislaus County. The crime was committed last Saturda The man whom Brend is charged with having killed was Frank Nagle. They were both section hands on the Sierra road and had a quarrel on Saturday morning. After having it out it was supposed that the whole thing was over. That night, however, Brend entered the room where the men were asleep and fatally shot Nagle in his couch. He then escaped and the officers have been looking for him ever since. When taken into custody he ad- mitted his guflt, WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE. Intimates That Several Foul Blows ‘Won for Sharkey. NEW YORK, Jan. 1L.—The Evening World says: Kid MecCoy, In a signed statement to-day, intimated that his de- feat by Sharkey was the result of several foul blows the sailor landed on him. He | thinks he can beat Sharkey and wants to arrange another match. If the sailor will not fight him again, McCoy says, he will make a match with Corbett. Tom O'Rourke, manager of the Lenox Athletic Club, to-day satd thgt the re- ceipts of last night’s fight amounted to a triile less than $40.000. Sharkey's share of the purse is $15.000; the loser’s share is $5000. Sletngae Death at Vacaville. VACAVILLE, Jan. 1L.—Mrs. A. M. Stevenson, wife of the late A. M. Steven- son, died to-day after long illness. Mrs. s age was 6l. She was a native ansas and came to California in the spring of 1851, settilng fn Yolo county, where her husband was engaged In the cattle business. They afterward sottled in Vacaville, where Mr. Stevenson suc- ceeded in organizing a company and build- ing the original Vaca Valley and Clear | Lake Railroad, which was afterward ab- sorbed by the Bouthern Pacific Company. Mrs, Stevenson leaves a family of grown children, five daughte d one son. i e Hope That Dingley May Recover. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1l.—Greater en- couragement for the recovery of Repre- sentative Dingley is felt by his physi- cians to-night than for some days. This is based on the wonderful manner in which he has kept up in his desperate ill ness and -the remarkable vitality show: patient has been fairly comfortable , has taken nourishment freely and esting well to-night. | Bark B.'P. Cheney Leaking. PORT TOWNSEND, Jan. 1L.—The tug Rabboni arrived here from Cape Flattery thig evening, and reports having towed the bark B. P. Cheney to Port Angeles in a leaking condition, The Cheney is coal laden from Seaftle for San Francisco, and assed out of the straits last Sunday. On Monday she encountered a_severe gale, and when about 100 miles off Cape Flat- tery sprang a leak. B Given Hard Labor for Life. VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 1l.—Late ad- vices from China state that the trial of an American named Richard Toulmin at the United States Consulate Court of Canton for the murder of Cheng Lei San, a cum%radore of Dosing, was con- ed on ecember 13. Toulmin was scntenced to hard labor for life. - Japanese Statesman Bribed. VICTORIA, B. C., Jah. 1L—Japanese | advices state that a great scandal has been raised in Japanese political circles by the frank confession of Moyama Kiunosuké, M. P., that he recelved a | bribe of 2000 ven from the Government to vote for the land taxation bill which, however, he_oppose: DEATH OF W. B. LAMBERT. | His Widow Determined to Make & Stubborn Fight for His Fortune. With the death of W. C. Lambert, the | wealthy Guatemalan merchant who | passed away at the Waldeck Hospital on | New Year's day, have come many claims | upon his wealth from alieged brothers | ana others, who maintain they were re- lated to the merchant. As he died Intes- | tate they claim they are entitled to a por- tion of his property. Letters of adminis- tration upon the decedent’'s estate have been applied for by William F. Lambert, who claims he is a brother to the dead merchant. In his application' the peti- tioner alleges that hls brother left, be- sldes his widow, who-is now in Guatéma- la, two brothers—himself and Thomas J. Lambert—and a sister, Mrs. Jennie Bull of Chicago. Upon learning of this action taken by her husband’s brother the wife of the de- ceased left Guatemala immediately and is now on her way to this city. It is said that the widow intends to fight his peti- tion. It is understood that a will was made the day Lambert left Guatemala for this city and that his widow intends to present it before the courts in order to nullify whatever claim Lambert’s rela- tive might otherwise have had on his fortune. —_——— English Millionaire Lipton tells how he expects to beat the “Yan- kees,” in Next Sunday’s Call D4+04+04040 4040+ 0440404 OIOIOI0H0404040 404040404 O+040+H ALMOST FINISHED It Is Said the Court of Cassa- tion Will Grant Revision of the Famous Trial. PARIS, Jan. 11.—M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire, ‘the former presi- dent of the civil section of the Court of Cassation, follows up his at- tack on the criminal section of the Court of Cassation to-day in an article published by the Echo de Paris, in which he insinuates that Judge Loew, president of the court, went out of his way te appoint M. Bardo reporter of the Dreyfus affair because he was sure of his partiality, and that he also appointed ‘“Dreyfusite’” magistrates for other branches of the inquiry. Moreover, M. Beaurepaire says the rehabilitation of Colonel Picquart by Judge Loew is tantamount to an uncalled-for declaration of the innocence of Dreyfus. Furthermore, M. de Beaurepaire claims that Judge Loew displayed hostility and aversion to the generals when the latter were testify- ing, and expressed approval of the attacks on the general staff in the testimony of an ex-officer who was cashiered for intemperance. The charge is also made that Judge Loew in examining the chiefs of the army and the officials of the War Office put the questions with the object of confusion, and that otherwise he frequently showed bias. The Liberte to-day quotes “a personage closely connected with the Court of Cassations” as sayving that the inquiry into the Drey- fus ca is avout finished; that a decision may be expected early in February, and that it will be almost unanimously favorable to a re- vision of the trial. 000000000000 20020000000000000000 Q OCOO0C000000000000C0000000 Cooo0o0 0000000000000 DISCREPANCIES IN MKENZIE'S STORY Cook Inquest at Napa Resumed. | THE EX-SHERIFF RECALLED | PARTS OF HIS EVIDENCE ARE CONFLICTING. | The Stable Owner Admits That He | Voters Were Misinformed in Order | Sent to St. Helena for a Picture of Cook Previous to the Tragedy. Special Dispatch to The Call NAPA, Jan. 11.—The jury summoned by Coroner Kyser last Thursday nig to inquire into the killing of Al Cook the man shot that day by Jesse Wal- ters in McKenzie's livery stable, met this afternoon for the fifth time to take testimony. Ex-Sheriff McKenzie was recalled and the discrepancies found in the statements made by him at dif- GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CANAL Seeks Concessions From This Country. CITY’S FOR PERPETUAL NEUTRALITY THE WATERWAY NEEDED IN EVENT OF WAR. Faton, has some well defined ideas conducted according to his ideas. resofts that cater to the trade of a crusade. | By Reason of Negotiations to Abro- gate the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Pauncefote Is Kept at Washington. night, “but I want to improve the city. ter my careful attention. women are accommodated. ) I refer Spectal Dispatch to The Call. spreading.” | | NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A Washington | epecial to the Herald says: Sir Julian | Pauncefote, the British Embassador, | will remain accredited to the United | States for another year beginning in April. This unusual action on the part | of the British Government arises from’ its deep interest in the negotiations for the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and a new treaty guaranteeing neutrality as to the proposed Nicarag- uan canal, with which Sir Julian is so | familiar. Sir Jullan would naturally have been | retired last spring, but the British Gov- ernment, as a mark of friendship and because of the critical condition of re- lations between the United States and | Spain, determined to retain him here | for another year. Negotiations with | tention, and has called for all the disturbed over the determined sta ported Eaton, while many of the | tolerated. and he would rather run against It would not zens must contem He has so far committed himself has earned the title of the “Doctor B S R & Rk & B TN S S PP Sy Sy Sy S G S S S PSP Y Los Angeles’ Mayor to Begin Crusade Against Saloons That Admit Women. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11.—-The new Mayor of Los Angeles, Fred it is his intention to so use his influence that these places shall be “I am not opposed to the legitimate saloon,” said the Mayor to- the back door of the saloon is the greatest evil that confronts the Before trying to remedy any other abuse I shall =ive this mat- I am told that the numbgr of women in this city who get drunk every night is appalling, and the evil is The Mayor says that he is glving the saloon question close at- upon the subject in order to prepare a legal recommendation which he will present to the City Council During the municipal campaign the liquor dealers generally sup- the fund used by the Republican campaign committee. Baton regards the slot machines as an evil that should not be He declares that the percentage is all against the player his chances than to attempt to come out even with the machines. Eaton is in intense earnest In regard to these evils with which eciti- the caliber of the executive were the Council to receive a sensational communication from the Mayor's pen at its session on Monday next. O R R R R R R R SR R SR SR AR SR AN S P SRS SRR EATON THE ANGEL PARKHURST a as to what a saloon should be, and He has set his foot down on the women, and is now preparing for tone of the saloons. I consider to the back-door saloons where ordinances and statutes bearing The saloon element nd taken by Mayor Eaton. is much retail dealers donated liberally to the “Poker” Davis gang and take be surprising to those who know to this policy of reform that he Parkhurst of Los Angeles.” R R R R R N R R AR CONTRACT DECLARED ILLEGAL AND VOID Sacramento County Will Not Sue the State for the Collection of Back Commissions. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 11.—The Board of Supervisors this afternoon, at a special meeting held for the purpose of considering the request gf the Chamber of Commerce and others for the rescinding of the contract with attorneys for the collection of back commissions from the State, recelved an opinion from District Attorney Baker holding that the con- tract was illegal. The following resolution introduced by Supervisor McLaughlin was then adopted: Whereas, This Board of Supervisors did on the 10th day of September, 1898, pass a resolution employing two firms of attorneys, to wit: Rogers, Paterson & Slack of San Francisco and Devlin & Devlin of Sacramento City, to assist the District Attorney of Sacramento County to collect certain com- missions and charges supposed to be owing and unpaid by the State of Call- fornia to the county of Sacramento; and, ‘Whereas, It now appears to us that said resolution so adopted by sald Board as aforesald, and said contract, if any, entered into by this board with said firm of attorneys was, and the same is illegal and void, for the reason that the public interest of the citizens and taxpayers of Sacramento County will be prejudiced by permitting said resolution and contract to stand; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That said resolution be and the same is hereby rescinded. [ SO T uDeOeseeeaeeY MASKED MAN ROBS A SALOON-KEEPER Enters a Pleasanton Resort and Car- ries Away the Contents of the Till. PLEASANTON, Jan. 11.—Manuel de Vacas, the proprietor of the Cosmopolitan saloon on Main street, was alone in his sa- loon at 10 o’clock last night when a tall masked man entered and, covering De Vacas with a small shotgun, demanded of him what money was in the till. De Vacas lost no time in obeying, and handed the robber a gold Flec& The culprit then backed out of the saloon and disap- peared in the darkness. This morning Constable Lock arrested a vagrant on suspicion. He was arraigned before Justice Quinn, who held him for trial, with bafl fixed at $4000. HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR HUGHES’ DEATH VISALIA, Jan. 11.—The Coroner’'s jury has held Contractor Craycroft to blame for the collapse of the Seligman building last Friday, whereby Henry Hughes re- ceived injuries that resulted in death. Architect McCabe was censured for hav- ing failed to closely inspect the construc- tlon of the building, It was recommended to the City Council that an ordinance be gnsstd providing for strict supervision of uildings in course of erection. Craycroft may be charged with manslaughter. —_— CHOATE NOMINATED. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The President zo-d‘ny sent these nominations to the Sen- te: State—Joseph H. Choate of New York | T 4144ttt 444440 G444+ 444444444444 444444440 i reference to the Nicaraguan canal are now in such shape that it would be difficult for a successor to Sir Julian to handle them properly. In view of this fact, Lord Salisbury has directed that he be retained in Washington, and the embassy to-day received official word to this effect. I learned to-day that Great Britain does not propose to relinquish without compensation the rights conferred upon her in the proposed canal by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The conces- sions she wants have been outlined to Secretary Hay along with her an- nouncement of her willingness to com- ply with the wishes of this Govern- ment for the abrogation of the Clayton- Bulwer convention. But she desires it to be understood that the canal must be neutral in war as well as in peace, for she appreclates the importance of such a waterway in case of hostilities in_the far East. The administration is quite willing that the canal shall be strictly neutral and there will be no difficulty, it is ex- pected, in reaching a satisfactory con- clusion on this point. Great Britain will probably want concessions relative to canal charges and other minor points, but it is believed that neutrality of the waterway is with her the most important question. Pacific Coast Pensions. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original—Winfleld 8. Wal- lace; Artesia, $10; August Schubert, Los Gatos, $6; Charles H. Smith, Oakland, $3, Original widows, etc.—Thomas J. Patton, father, San Dlego, $12; Emma M. Lutz, gphlr. $8; Mary F. Davenport, Oakland, ferent times intensify the deep interest taken in the case since the shooting. McKenzie to-day admitted that he| met Doorman (Cook) at the train on | Friday night, December 80; also that he received a picture of Cook from a ht | |SKELETONS FOUND IN'A - % PLANTATION WELL | = ;Spnnish Guerrillas Accused of Being | in Cuba. ELECTION JUDRES AS WARD-HEELERS Politics at the Polls in| Sausalito. |CRAMER-CREED CONTEST OR WITNESSES ACOUSE ELECTION | | OFFICIALS. i That the Former Marshal Might Be Chosen Con- stable. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 11.—The suit of Eugene Cramer of Sausalito to oust ex- Marshal John E. Creed from the office | of Constable, to which he was recently | elected, on the ground that Creed is an ex-convict and therefore Ineligible and that the Board of Judges and Elec- i tion Board were guilty of misconduct, | occupied the attention of the Superior |Court to the exclusion of all other | causes to-day. Some of the testimony | | adduced was of a sensational nature | and showed pretty plainly that certain | election officials were guilty of “doing politics” worthy of a “Boss” Buckley. So far all the witnesses called, seven- teen in number, have given testimony for the contestant. It was proved by Adolph Meyers and others that instruc- tions were given to all voters to cast thelr ballots for only one person for Constable, though the election procla- mation and the ballots themselves spe- cified that two should be voted for. The facts as regards Creed’s sojourn at San Quentin Prison will not be presented until later. Richard Garrity, the Democratic can- | didate, received 318 votes; Creed, run- ning independently, 232; and Cramer, the Republican nominee, 151. If Cramer succeeds in getting the vote of Sausa- lito Precincts 1 and 2 thrown out the vote will stand for the remain- ing precinet: Garrity 135, Cramer 120 and Creed 117. Realizing that Cramer had a good case, Attorney J. W. Coch- rane, representing Creed, asked Judge Angellotti for leave to amend his an- | swer, so that he would be able to prove that both Tiburon and Belvedere “did politics” in the same way, but against Creed's interests. If they also sare thrown out the vote will stan G- | 72, Creed 77 and Cramer He | | was given until next Monday to amend | the complaint. | | The case threatens to develop into a | | wholesale exposure of the political | | methods employed in the southern part | | of Marin County, and is exciting a good | deal of interest. An incidental fact brought out, which brought forth ad- verse comment from Judge Angellotti, | was that the official returns on elections | | have been thrown carelessly around the County Clerk’s office. Noobody is blamed | for this, however, as no provision has | ever been made by the county for the care of the official returns. The envel- ope inclosing the returns from Sausa- lito Precinct 1 was not even sealed. the Authors of Terrible Cruelty HAVANA, Jan. 11.—La Discussion de- scribes the finding of fifty human skele- | tons in a well on a plantation near Man- guito. The writer of the story asserts that these people were undoubtedly thrown in while alive. He says that in some cases the finger bones are severed, St. Helena photographer on an order of Walters, authorized by him, but did | not recognize Doorman the night he | came as the man whose picture he had | received. The witness said that about | ten days before the killing Mrs. Caro- | line Walters asked him if he could givei employment in his stable to a cousin | of hers named Doorman. He didn't‘ remember what he told her, but when | Doorman came he handed McKenzie a | card of a stableman in Palo Alto, say- ! Ing his cousin had told him to come and take the job. The ex-Sheriff first learned that Door- man and Cook were one and the same on the day of the shooting. conversation with Walters prior to the time of getting the photograph of Cook, or Doorman. Walters never asked | him who was working at the stable. Lund, a saloon keeper of San Fran- cisco, testified that Cook 1 is at his place before he came to Napa, and said | he had been engaged to work in Mc- Kenzie's stable in Napa. Cuff, a Napa hotel man, testified to! the coming to his house of Cook with McKenzie. McKenzie introduced the | man as Doorman and said he would be responsible for his meals and lodging. The jury adjourned at 4:30 o’clock to meet again next Friday morning at 10 o'clock. CLAIMS MANY ISLANDS. England Gives Notice of Her Seiz- ures in the Pacific. HONOLULU, Jan, 4—The British Con- sul at Samoa under date of December 8, 1898, publishes this notice: Take notice that Bellona, Rennell and Stew- art Islands, the Santa Cruz and Reef groups, the Island of Tucopia, Trevannion, Anuda and Fataka Islands and the Duft (or Wilson group have been fncorporated in the Britle Solomons protectorate and that the jurisdiction of the court of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific_and the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council 183 and of the Queen’ regulations made in accordance therewith are extended over the said islands and places, as also over Pitcairn island, and let all persons within the Iimits of the sald Order in Council govern themselves accordingly. He had HOiGeneral Lagrange to Have Charge and the supposition that this is due to the efforts of the victims to ralse themselves out of the pit. The body of Senor Pedro Alayon, a preminent Cuban, who disap- peared mysteriously during the insurrec- tion, has been identified. La Discussion accuses Antonio Ries, the uerrilla chief, Sergeant Jean Peres and Vicenta Zalgo, & school-master, of being the authors of the terrible crime. All are said to be in Havana. La Discussion prints also a story from Matanzas of the finding there of the re- mains of from 100 to ZOOfpersonl in a well near the headquarters of the Civil Guard. ama i GOVERNOR OF THE HOME. at Santa Monica. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—General O. H. Lagrange will be appointed Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica, vice Smith, whose term of office expires March 30 next. Mr. Lagrange IS now in New York city. ‘Senator Perkins says he has a fine record as a soldier of the Civil War, and is in_every way qualified, for this position. Perkins has receivéd a large number of telegrams and letters urging this appointment. ENGLAND BLOCKS A RUSSIAN COUP Naval Demonstration in Chinese Waters. WARNING TO CZAR'S AGENTS IAD DISPATCHED TROOPS TO THE CITY OF PEKING. Ther Were Hastily Recalled When tie British Asiatic Squadron Steamed Into the Gulf of Pechili. Bperfal Dispatch to The Call. VICTOR:A, B. C., Jan. 11.—The R. M. S. Empress of Japan, which left Yoko- hama on December 30, brings a sensa- tional story trom Tientsin of how a naval demonstration by the British | Asiatic fleet inder Admiral Seymour caused the abindonment of a coup on the part of Russia. Had th: Russic plans been carried out, they would, without doubt, have caused war he- tween the t t powers struzzling for the ma the far East. The Tientsin correspondent of the North China Dalily Ne s of which were received by th has the fol- lewing in this regard: “A significant bit of information has just come to me, for the accuracy of which I am prepared to vouch. At the time of the demonstration of the 3ritish fleet off Shan Hai Kaun, in the Gulf of Pec , the Russians were pre- paring to send 5000 troops, mostly Cos- sacks, by forced marche: overland around the Gulf of Liao Tung to the Chinese capital. “When the British squadron steamed through the straits into the Gulf of Pechlili from Wei-Hai-Wel in two lines, orders were at once rushed to the 5000 Russians, who had already started for the Chinege capital, ordering them back to Port Arthur. The demonstration had prevented their dispatch. The meaning of all this unquestionably this: “That Russia knew what was prepars ing in the palace at Peking and wad sending these troops to the support of the Empress Dowager. The calling of the troops back from Shan Shi and other places in the early part of the season could not be explained at the time, ' but their massing within easy distance of Peking is now made plain by the coup d’etat. Possibly had the Russians reached Peking the native soldiers would not have been ordered to the capital, but, in any event, the forces would have co-operated against any other forelgn force that might have been sent to Peking in case the status of th in possession, which meant Rus: , was objected to by any other POW er. Peking correspondent interviewed Sfr Claude McDonald, the British Min- ister, at the Chinese capital in this con- nection, and he said that had Russi dispatch the 5000 troops to Peking that act would undoubtedly have precipi- tated a clash between Britain and Rus- sia.” “Russia is dally strengthening her po« sition in- Chinesé- waters,” says thg Peking and Tientsin 7 “‘She has now demanded the sion of the Miao Tao group of islands at the en- trance to the Gulf of Pechili and com- manding the entrance to the gulf in her Port Arthur sphere’ of influence. Great Britain will protest against the cession of th islands to Russia. Should Russia push her claim, it is un- derstood, Britain will make a firm stand, and, according to her Minister at Peking, flght if neces: A NEWLY WEDDED PAIR VICTIMS OF A JOKE “We Have Just Been Married; Han- dle Us Tenderly,” the Legend on Their Trunks. CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Nance, a newly wedded pair from San Franclsco, registered at the Auditorium Annex this morning and conducted them- selves in such a matter of fact way that they excited no suspicion in th: t minds of were not years' standing ved an hour later, s, which could be p e just been * and lavish- ribbons and clerks and bellboys tha man and wife of till their trunks labeled in large read a block V. married; handle u ly decorated with mottoes. white e Collum’s Case Goes Over. WOODLAND, Jan. 11.—The date of the retrial of Phil Collum, once convicted of incendiarism but granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, was to have been fixed to-day; but Judge Hart is still ill, and by consent the case went over to January 2. = To-Day Only.... - LILIUOKALANT'S PETITION. Former Queen of Hawaii Asks Con- gress to Restore Her Lands. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—A petition from former Queen Liliuokalani of Ha- wall was presented to the House to-day protesting against the United States’ as- sertion o Dwnerflhlr to the crown lands of Hawall as a taking of property with- out due process of law, and appealing to the President, Congress and the people for a restoration of these lands. he same petition was presented to the Senate. ———— MARIE BARNARD SAILS. California Prima Donna to Sing at the Beyruth Festival. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Marie Barnard the American prima donna, was a pas- senger on the St. Paul. She is a daughter of the late Judge Edward M. Barnard of the Californja Supreme Court, and for the ast year has been singing at the Court ‘heater at Coburg, Germany. Miss Bar- nard is to take leading parts in the Wag- nerian festival at Beyruth next August. Selis e Two Fishermen Drowned. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11.—During the storm yesterday Orlando Vidovich and B. Felands, Itallan flshermen, put out from San Pedro in the sloop Gnato to look after nets. The -!’oo» Was c&sllled and the two men were drowned. Vidovich was well Y to' be Embassador Extraordinary and Oregon: ' Original—Jesse 8. Newbill, | Minister Pleni tenun!l;y to Great gfitun Ballston, $8. Increase—James M. Leeper, | Treasury—Charies H. Brickenstein _of Oakland, $8 to $10. Colorado to be Surveyor of Customs, Den- ‘Washington: Original — Trumnfi. H. | ver. g Houghton, Kalama, $6; Thomas Haver- P TR A ;}‘ofl. VVEhvetre"' us;& Al;n!o M. W}glover. 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