The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1899, Page 1

The SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899. NATIVES OF SAMAR ISLAND ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR OLUME L3 THE POPE GROWS VERY DESPONDENT Says Rejoicing at Recovery Is Mockery When He Will Not Live a Week. PRICE FIVE CENTS. @ | | \ o T ONDON, March 23—The Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: The Pope is beginning to suffer from depression. During the service on Sunday he asked one of his personal attendants how many in the congregation he (the attendant) thought really rejoiced in his recovery. Then he added, despondently: “What a mockery it is—this thanksgiving for my re- covery. I shall notlive a week.” The exclamation was followed by a prolonged and alarming fainting fit. NEW YORK, March 22.—A dispatch to the World from Washington say Apos- tolic Delegate Martinelli, who is in constant receipt of news from private sources in Rome concerning the Pope’s condition, believes that the Pontiff's extreme age renders it extremely probable that his end cannot be far off. A recent letter from a Vatican official quotes the Pope as saying since his last attack: “When I die I shall not give much trouble to the doctors, nurses or servants. I am only skin and bone, and my life will go out like a lamp which has no oil to feed it D O S e S S e R o o e e o o e ol B S i ok e Church officials here think that it is just the way the Pontiff will go to his rest, and that 4 already he is nearer the end than is believed in this country. ¢ ¥/ ® 'Y 'Y 8008 1} 00 9060 0" o8 : ;-}5" 2 &‘ > : o THE DOWNPOUR 1TO PRO[ECT ! California Troops Going Down the Pasig to Embark on the HAS DEVELOPED BEET SUCAR 12 Transports for Negros. [ B2 OO -34S MINDANAO MORROS HOLD AMERICAN SAILORS AT BAY Not a Man Has Yet Been Landed B e e INTOADELUGE % iiSTRY|HEY WL BIE "R Rainstorm in Call- "oy e BEFORE YIELDING the Rainstorm in Cali- Ji son’s Plan May Yet Be | Aguinaldo Does Some Wild Talk fornia. Carried Out. 25 R OROR LROLES WONGWORON SORORORT g | SO ORT »ared with those of the same date last season and rainfall in last twenty-four hours: Last This Last £ Stations. 24 Hours. Season. Season. & 0.52 29.07 § 1.16 16.45 ) 1.08 12.71 8 2.15 2.99 3 z o S 0.03 = e 0.10 g SRS 0.00 g & i e 0.00 & o g g Yuma . ..ok e R 0.00 g < AR & P WOONORO %O SORORORONG HONOORONR ORORORORHLOROROE March 22—This © AN RAFAEL, March 22.—For enced to-day the twenty-four hours Marin County fall of the season. has witnessed one of the great- 4 during the night, est rainstorms in its history. No has been an incessant particular section seems to have At 6 o'clock the precipi- been favored at the expense of an- three inches. The other, but as regards injury this city juntains has been and Sausalito seem to have taken renzo River is at precedence. The marshes are flooded d a flood from San Quentin Point to San Ra- Driftwood and cordwood fael and the waters reach nearly to| the stream. Logs the depot of the North Pacific Coast et in diameter a Rallroad. Cellars are flooded and a n length are amo: high tide at an inopportune moment . Chicken houses with chick- might cause immense damage. The and logs on which rabbits floated down. , which is a very d the highest ance of the as am The water ents of a number foot of Garfield stream to t ba the reached the of houses at street. The outgoing narrow gauge train was compelled to return this after- noon on account of a landslide. the a The following are the seasonal rainfalls to date as com- e es e e S A e AR AR AR ARt e a eSS breakwall at Sausalito is badly dam- aged and there are several places where bowlders have been torn loose and carried across the roadway. The house of a laborer came near being carried out into the bay near Alameda Point and was prevented only by use mber of of ropes. Fences were blown down as in the far north i vhile at San were torn Quentin the chicken farm came near 1 went down losing its roof. Tt is rumored that a good deal of preperty has been dam- aged in the region of the golf links. Up to a late hour it was still raining in torrents and it is expected that before the rainfall ceases consider- able damage will have been done. .M‘O*O‘O*MOW.&MO#O*OvOOOW. inches had fallen. The t Co a and oun s evening 1 v an abundant harvest. yet, but ver: ATTRers W4 0+04040404 OODLAND, March 22.—For nearly four hours there has been wuous shower, but the been so gentle that| rainf: the precipita not yet aggregated | has inch. The oidest inhabitant cannot re- member a rainfall under more favorable | conditions. There is no longer any &p-| prehe of a dry season. All doubts| on this score have beeen dispelled. The | | for the storm has been 3.74 inches | and for the season 12.88 inches. Advices | of this date from Capay Valley say there| 18 no truth in the report that the last| frost killed the, fruit crop. The grain 1d hay crop will require nothing more | usual spring showers to insure | of the best crops ever raised in the | The fruit prospects are very flat- | carly varieties espectally are as- the recent rains. However, all rom frost is not yet passed. The crop of 1506 was killed by a heavy rost on April 20. MARYSVILLE, March 22.—It has been g e steadily since 10 o'clock night. The prospects are that it will to-night and to-morrow. The untry is getting a great soaking, an inch and & half of rain having fallen al- dy in the present storm, making the season’s rainfall 13.25 Inches. REDDING, March 22.—Rain began fall- ing here at 10 o'clock last night. Over a half-inch fell during the night, the total precipitation for the season up to 7 o'clock this mornipg measuring % COLUSA, March 22.—Rain commenced falling here last night be- tween 9 and 10 o’clock and has continued steadily. Up to 7 o'clock insures to Colusa commenced to rise This almost river has not v high water in the next twenty-four hours is expected, n the tules are becoming anxious on account of the great t of hill water that has commenced to come in upon them. © + *QMO’QOQOOOOMO’OWO‘O‘OQOQOW. | inches. fell all day and to- night it g hard. SUISU rainfall for twenty-four hours up to 5 o’clock this evening was 2.55 inches, 177 falling dur- ing the last ten hours. The total since the | 14th is 6.41 and for the = ) inches | The dam of the Suisun City Water Works is full to overflowing, which means a two years' supp! jrain prospects through- out Solano Coun e HOLLISTER, | day.” The gauge at 6 gistered .70 of an inch, making a total of 2,50 Inches for March. 1t is still raining. Hollister will have 25,000 tons of hay for shipment &s a result of the re- o’clock re | cent rainfall HEALDSBURG, March 22—Two. inches of rain has fallen here since yesterday morning and the precipitation continues, Crops in this vicinity are doing well and an enormous yleld is looked for. The Vineyards look very promising and the vintage for this year will be tmmense. YUBA CITY, March 22.—The rainfall since_yesterday was 168 inches; for the month, 4.59; for the season, 13.89 inches. NAPA, March 22.—For eléven hoursend- ing at & p. m. 157 Inches of rain had fallen; for the month of March 5.44 inches. It is still raining. CHICO, March 22.—The heaviest storm of the season commenced here early this morning. Up to 6 o’clock to-night 1.48 inches of rain had fallen, making 14.37 for the season. It is still raining very hard. SAN JOSE, March 22.—During the past twenty-four hours .57 of an inch has fallen, making 4.12 inches since the $th inst. and 11.91 inches for the season. 8 sky is cloudy and more rain will fall to- night, ¢ TARIFF WALL NEEDED | Future of the Growing Product Is Assured by the Operations of Claus Spreckels and Others. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 22.—A Washing- ton special to the Evening Post : | When James Wilson entered the Cabi- | net as Secretary of Agriculture he ex- | pected to identify his name in history | with the beet sugar industry in the | United States. He had long belfeved this | country should raise its own sugar and | pay the bills. Just as the tin plate | busin has recently been established | here he hoped that this administration would mark the complete establishment | of the beet sugar industry. Such may} yet be the case. Pt R R R S SR SR R Sy S AP Epe ++ But by the peculiar irony of fate it also fell to this adminis- tration to acquire a vast amount of tropical country of which su- gar cane is the leading product. According to the obvious intent of the constitution’ cane sugar would have come in free and the beet sugar industry been given a knock-down blow. T T ) bbb bbbt R R R R TR Y But as Mr. Wilson and those who | agreed with him in the councils of the | President were not willing to give up the beet sugar idea they have given an impetus to the notion that in some way a tariff wall against our tropical pos- sessions would be maintained. When the historian comes to write of the se- | quences of the Spanish war and this probable change of our tariff policy he will find the key to the economic change in one word—‘'sugar.” Thus this great product is making history. Although Secretary Wilson has felt sure the products of Porto Rico and the Philippines would not be admitted to our markets free he has no little cone cern over the future of his favorite in- dustry. Some time ago he requested C. F. Saylor, who is the special agent in charge of the sugar experiments of the United States, tc go to Porto Rico and there investigate the sugar prob- lem in its relation to the beet sugar problem in the United States. Mr. Say- Ior has just returned. He does not talk | politics and will not discuss the consti- tutional and revenue side of the sugar | problem, but from his findings of fact it is very easy to draw positive conclu- | sions. He says that the Porto Rican can raise sugar for 2 cents a pound and the American beet growers can raise sugar of the same standard for 314 cents a pound. In this light it looks as if a tariff would continue to be nec- essary to keep up cur beet sugar in- dustry. Mr. Saylor believes that this | disparity In cost of production in the ftwo countries will lessen as time goes | on. | In the course of an interview Mr. | Saylor sald: “In this country we are now producing yearly 289,000 tons of cane sugar, 41,000 tons of beet sugar, | 5000 tons of maple sugar and 3000 tons of sorghum. In the last year we have doubled the number of beet sugar fac- tories and more than doubled the ca- | pacity of their output. “Claus Spreckels, who is a good judge | of the future of the industry, has | erected a factory at Salinas, Cal., which has a capacity for working 3000 tons of beets daily. This would make a freight | train laden with sugar beets more than | & mile long. “Henry Oxnard has built a huge fac- | tory near Hueneme, Cal, and other fac- | tories are in operation in California, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Minnesota, Nebraska; Michigan, Illinois and New York. BEight factories are now building in which six are in Michigan, | . leader, is | of the Americans. About Leading an Advance Upon Manila. March 22.—Ad- * vices have been received | from Catbalogan, island of | Samar, showing that trouble with | the natives there is certain to oc- The headquarters of Gen- Lukbani, the insurgent| at Catbalogan. The| place has been fortified to resist attack, the women and children have been removed from the town to safe places in the in- interior, and General Lukbani de- clares he will never surrender, but will burn the place if necessary to prevent it falling into the hands ANILA, cur. eral The situation of all foreigners in Catbalogan is precario as the insurgents are ugly, and taere is danger of the natives attacking them. It is impossible for Otis to send troops from Manila to the island, the situation here precluding any such action. There is great need for all the troops now here and those on the way, and the small- ness of the American force ren- ders extensive military move- ments, particularly in the outly- ing islands, practically out of the queshon. Advices from Cebu report everything quiet there, but an uneasy feeling pre- vails. The British gunboat Plover, Captain Cowper, sailed from Cebu March 14 for Ormoc to rescue a British subject named Cogan, who had been taken prisoner by the natives. TUpon arriving at Ormoc the Plover found that Cogan had been removed by his captors from that place. The Plover then proceeded to Catbalogan, where it wag learned that Cogan had been taken to the island of Leyte. ;A native offi- cer, under orders from General Luk- bani, went on board the warship to as- sist in securing Cogan’s release and the Plover sailed for Leyte, where the pris- oner was found. His release was ob- tained, but a fight with the natives was narrowly averted as he was being taken aboard the Plover. Captain Cowper found that the na- tives had three Spanish prisoners and offered to take them aboard ship if they were released. The natives refused to surrender them. Trouble is also threatened at Malit- bog, on the island of Leyte. The na- tives there imagine all forelgners are plotting against them and there is much uneasiness on both sides. The naval transport Solace and the troopship Sherman arrived to-day. The troops aboard are in excellent health, the only sickness among them being a few cases of measles. One child, two gailors and two privates died on the voyage and one man was drowned in the Mediterranean. ‘While apparently inactive since Sun- day, really the opposite has been the S case with the American forces. A re- organization, entailling many. changes, J has been in progress. Since the aban- Acnment of the fiying colwmn General Wheaton’s and General Hale’s brigades have not been assigned. but the Ore- gon regiment, the Minnesota reghment and the Twenty-second regiment have been concentrated at the camp on the Luneta, on the water front, in readi- for immediate transportation when the plans of the military leaders have been formulated. Our troops are entrenched and the situation is prac- tically unchanged. The enemy has refrained from mak-- ing any attacks recently and it would appear that the rebels are saving their ammunition for a decisive movement. ‘According to a prisoner captured by our troops, Aguinaldo has announced that he will personally conduct the re- serves at Malolos and march into Ma- nila within twenty days unless the Americans withdraw in the meantime. The concentration of rebel forces in the vicinity of Malabon gives color to the statement of the prisoner. One hundred persons arrested here on suspicion of aiding the rebels have been released, there being no evidence to show that they had assisted the in- surgents in any way. AUTONOMY PROMISED T0 THE FILIPINOS NEW YORK, March 22.—A Journal cable from Manila says: The procla- mation to the Filipinos which is about to be issued by the Philippine Com- mission will assure the population of the islands of the intention of the United States to endeavor to develop among the natives the power of self government. This manifesto will also clearly ex- plain that the American Government has assumed international obligations which make it responsible to the whole world for the establishment of a stable government in the archipelago, and that it cannot divest itself of these re- sponsibilities. The Philippine Commission will in- terpret to the people the purposes of the President, and will also suggest a form of government which will suit the present necessities and the capac- ity of the Filipinos, consistent with the interests of the United States. The commission will assure the peo- ple that the President only desires to establish a' system under which the Filipinos will become capable to ad- minister their own affairs under Amer- fcan control and protection. It will be made clear to the Filipinos that no spirit of tyranny or vengeance pos- sesses the United States. Having de- stroyed the Spanish power peace is bound to be restored, provided the sov- are returning to Spain. which is long overdue. ed from the cruiser Boston. The Spanish commandant. tude is determined. boanga. ! : " $ ! from the southern islands, are at Zamboanga When the Romulus sailed on Monday no Americans had been land- Provisions Moros, who freely enter the town armed with knives and spears. General cans not to land, except in small numbers, because the natives threat- en a conflict and iftend to take possession of the town. The Romulus brings Spaniards and natives whence they fled upon the abandonment by the Spanish garrison. A passenger says the Boston was grounded for two days at Zam- at Zamboango From the Cruiser Boston. ILOTLO, March 22.—The coasting steamer Romulus has arrived here grom Zamboanga, on the fgland of Mindanao, with upward of 100 pas- sengers, including Spanish officials with their wives and families .who They report that 2000 Spanish troops, collected awaiting a transport, are purchased from the Montero, advised the Ameri- Thelir atti- returning to Cebu, is accepted. The insurgents will be in- vited to lay down their arms and to trust in the Government that emanci- pated them from oppression. It is now evident the majority of the members of the Philippine Commission are inclined to grant to the Filipinos a sort of tribal or provincial lecal au- tonomy, under a central American re- gime, which shall be of a military char- acter until a purely civil system can be introduced. The address of the commission will be printed in all the dialects of the archipelago and will be posted on all the islands. It is hoped that a great majority of intelligent natives will at once desert the cause of the insurgents, a result which the commission confi- dently believes will surely ensue should the insurgents suffer another defeat. 0TIS WILL BEGIN FORWARD MOVEMENT NEW YORK, March 22.—The Wash- ing correspondent of the Herald tele- graphs: It was officially stated at the State Department to-day that the proclama- tion issued by the Philippine Commis- sion is In accordance with instructions given to President Schurman and his associates. officials here that within forty-eight hours General Otis will recommence active work against the Filipinos by fol- lowing up the proclamation of the com- mission. In this manner, the officials say, he will impress upon the Filipinos the purpose of the United States to end the insurrection and the hopelessness of further resistance. e BENNINGTON CAPTURES SOME FILIBUSTERS MANILA, March 23.—The ' gunboat Bennington arrived here this morning, THE TAGALS USING BRASS-TIPPED BULLETS ald telegraphs: Reports received a medical officers serving with the tr § : : ; can find. They have no governmen NEW YORK, March 22.—The Washington correspondent of the Her- Aguinaldo’s army is using brass-tipped bullets. Several American soldlers have been wounded by these poisonous projectiles, and in consequence the wounds are more difficult to heal than those caused by the ordinary bullet. Of course the authorities can do nothing to prevent the insurgents using any kind of bullets they Their action in this respect, the officials say, is another indication of their utter unfitness for self-government. SRR SR ORIERn t the War Department to-day from oops in the Philippines show that t to which an appeal can be made. | | SO It is the understanding of | o000 90 0 000000090600 06060 900 ereignty of the American Government | towing two small steamships and a brig, which were seized on suspicion of being filibusters. They were captured at Sorsogon. The transport St. Paul has returned from Iloilo. She confirms the news of fighting between the Americans and in- surgents at Jaro and Molo last week. The American loss was one killed and fifteen wounded. - WEYLER’S JOURNAL SLANDERS QUEEN MADRID, March —The Govern- ment has ordered the prosecution of General Weyler's organ, El Nacionale, and of several Republican and Carlist newspapers for publishing, with of- fensive comments, a report that the Queen Regent was about to abdicate and to marry an Austrian A chduke. The offending papers huve been seized. The affair is regarded as part of the campaign against the Silvela Government in view of the coming parliamentary elections. Don Carlos, the pretender, is said to have given his adherents carte blanche to act in their own discretion in the matter of voting or abstaining from the polls. . SR i SOLDIER'S ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING In an interesting letter descriptive of the early fighting with the Filipinos at Manila Sergeant H. L. Leffmann of Company L, First California Volun- teers, who carried the colors during the battle, writes: Company G put a patrol on the road leading to the firing line and was fired upon by the enemy from behind houses. Immediately we pitched into the houses, capturing fifty-three prisoners and killing seven natives. Alter that we set fire to the whole place. Nearly every house con- talned guns and ammunition, so we had to ‘““make ourselves scarce,” as shots were flying in all directions. During all this time the boys on the firing line were pumping lead into the natives at a great rate and the natives were doing the same to us. The boys were falling rapidly when the order for a charge was given. With a whoop and a yell they jumped up and made a grand charge. The enemy could not stand it, and. became demoralized. They retreated, with the Idahos, Wash- lrl:g'lons and Californians after them red- 2 ot. General King was there, looking as cool as a cucumber, giving directions to this regiment and then to the next one. Rid- ing up to our boys he yelled to them as they were charging: “Give them —, California boys: give them —!" He was answered with three cheers and a_tiger and away they went, across fleld after fleld to the town of Santa Ana. Tere were two Krupp guns in a sort of fort, but this did not stop them. They contin- ued on and burned the town. After the Insurgents retreated from Santa Ana a party In a church in the rear of our headquarters commenced firi) on us, at the same time flying a whltenslu“. Our company deployed and wg bauged