The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1899, Page 1

Tall VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 124. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LIPINOS CANNOT FIGHT MUCH LONGER J R e e e e e e e e s ] * ¢ + 6 5 ¢ J D¢ . : ¢ ¢ < + - pS o 3 g ¢ D $ + + $ @ - * P R4 . * DS @ P * . * 2 | & P + s \ : : + 3¢ | 3 3 pe * + 2(d| G i . 3 bt o @ . & LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRENCH, Who Succeeds i \' Colonel Egbert to the Command of the é . Twenty-Second Infantry Regiment. + Qoo e et eieieiededeisieiedetededel® mericans Believe Back- bone of the Enemy Has Been Broken. 3 S s ANILA, Apr —Repeated efforts to locate the insur- s <3 B gent army in front of Malolos have been unsuccessful, 5 d the American forces are therefore still resting in the for- g Filipino capital. ] attack on the forces under General Hall at Mariquina 8 gests that the enemy is concentrating in that direction. Colonel Denby’s arrival makes the earlyissue of the procla- mation of the Philippine Commission probable. NRRRRY m.—The |of unarmed men supposed to be war- ral Mac- s, came to the outskirts of Malolos | A de of the city and afterward s -d away, carrying all the goods o far me |they could. limited | There has been no little gnod-natured ’ ¥ yv_four hours to an | Tivalry as to which regiment—the First hote between | MOntana or the Twentleth Kansas—is titled to the honor of having raised its flag first at Malolos. Colonel Funs- ton and twenty men of Company E, Kansas Volunteers, claim the distine- tion, on_the ground, as already cabled, of having entered the town at double- | y auick and raised the company’s flag, but the first flag to be recognized of- | ficially was that of Company G of the | Montana Infantry. | TAGALLOS HOFE TO BE AIDED BY ‘RAIN AND FEVER PARIS, April 2.—Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo, in the course of an inter- | view published to-day in La Patrie, ming the and. General works hooting has to make the 1 to ches ssi- General Lawtor ) repel 1 hecoming in- are early eir | says: be The capture of Malolos & important natives, re 1lion is 3 They declar is not as as the Americans are try- T re - |ing to make it appear. The Fillpino ke their defeat at Ma- | Government had already ~determined 088 0 ”‘-*; v upon removal to San Fernandino, and a chment of the troops was left ers to burn the town and thus | Americans inland. Two months of rain and fever will On t predict that near the Wer American A the Filipinos their ammunition in force d od deal of trouble, and the war oLk eE Rl will 1 1 while a single Filipino re- ards say. | mains to bear arm L season | Agoncillo charges Major General Otis icans to be housed | with opening the hostilities, and holds ind then the Filininos | the Americans responsible fof tha reoccupy such towns | transfer of the Spanish prisoners ool troops do not gar- | for preventing the Filipinos from nego- | on a rep- the present s will | Time alone will show how much this theory, but, as against in mind that the ir domination gave the inhab- ation of power com- s to that given tiating a treaty with Spain. Agoncillo is confined to his room with | | the influenza. |CRUSHING DEFEAT OF THE | ENEMY SOON EXPECTED | Phil ts a NE & YORK, April 2—The Herald’s Washington's correspondent sends the following: Major General Otis is expected to renew early this week his and two members of the so- Cor who hid them- \ \ | b | selves.in the woods during the fighting | offensive campaign against the wjr. | which pre 1 the capture of Malolos, | pinos. The authorities are hopeful it | returned thers morning and de- | will be short and decisive. While | d that 2000 of the Filipino soldiers | General Otis has not (‘Ommunit‘flted‘ anxious to give up fighting and | his plans to the War Department, Act.- | would do 8o but for their officers., who | ing Secretary Meiklejohn told me to- eep them under arms, | night he was quite content to let the | The whole country between Malolos ‘ matter rest entirely in the general's aloocan is now full of “friend- | hands, believing that the best result s, women, children and old people, | would be obtained by permitting him who are returning to their homes car- | to proceed along such lines as he him- | rving white flags. The Americans are | self mapped out. trying to'gain the confidence of the in- | The authorities would like nothing | habitants by proving to them that if | better than to hear that Aguinaldo’s | they will return and attend to their or- | troops are concentrating at Mariquina. ‘ y work peacefully no harm will | It was in accordance with General | them. Two hundred and fifty | Otis’ instructions that Brigadier Gen- ilians came back to their homes in | eral Hall, with three battalions, moved lalolos last evening. Two thousand |out from the camping station on Fri- women and children, with a sprinkling | day last, captured Mariquina and pur- 2 S S S S D S e e BATTLE OF TURKS AND BULGARIANS IENNA, April 2.—A secrious collision has taken place between Bulgarian and Turkish frontier guards at Kozyl-Agob, between Jamboli, Eastern Romelia, and Adrianople, on the banks of| the Toonja, fifty-six miles south of Jamboli. | . According to a dispatch from Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, the| Turks attacked a weak Bulgarian outpost, but the Bulgarians, aided by armed inhabitants. repulsed their assailants after a| Both sides suffered losses of killed and wounded. | The Turks, the dispatch says, were seeking a position hith-| fierce fight. erto held by the Bulgarians. Kozyl-Agob is the railway station nearest the Turkish fron-j tier, in Bulgarian territory, and it would be an important stra-| tegic point for the Turks if they desired to send troops into| Bulgaria. | sued the enemy until afternoon, when he returned to his station. The ob- Ject of this move was to make a dem- onstration in order to prevent rein- forcements from reaching Malolos. It was successful in the way of a demon- stration, and it also gave General Hall and his troops an opportunity to ac- | has convinced the I | raphy of the country | Mariquina, which v quaint themselves with the topog- 11 be of value in case the insurgents should give battle to American troops at that point. The fact that General Otis has not cabled to the War Department to-day | officials that the sit- | the rainy season it will be impossible | | | | uation is quiet, and that he is merely ir the vicinity of | continuing his preparations for an act- | | ive campaign. | The authorities know that the proach of the rainy season makes imperative that the American troop should promptly gain a victory, as in | ap- | it HAWAIIANS CLAIM TO HAVE HEARD THE SPIRIT OF PRINCESS KAIULANI 23 Hoe e - & > - ) i 3 4 + S| % AINAHUA, the Country Home of the Late Princess Kaiulani, Where Spiritual Manifesta- + | 3 tions Are Said to Have Been Heard Since Her Death. The Cross Marks the Room ® T Occupied by the Princess. :} L e e e i 006-0A6: HONOLULU, March 25.—It is a | (meaning “Tioctor, doctor!”) the two women mentioned had no right | habit among the natives of the | Of course, this may all be the im- [in that position. The natives were very | Hawaiian Islands that for nine | aginings of excited minds, but it.1s nev- | much incensed that they, being deveid days after the death of a chief | ertheless a strange fact that nearly a | of even a drop of roval blood in their | or chicfess their thoughts must | dozen yeople should tell almost the | veins, should be placed ahead of the be of the dead. During these days |same story. The noises may have been | Queen Dowager’s carriage and that of they relate the mysterious happenings that always seem to come to pass after one of-royal blood has departed this life. Tt is with an idea of giving to the world some of the uncanny happen- ings after the death of the late Princess Kaiulani that this article is written. It was midnight on the 10th of March, 1899, that a solemn procession passed under the palms and spreading trees of Ainahau and wended its way slowly toward the Waikiki road to town, and then into the large gateway of Kawaiahao. 1t was the hearse bear- ing the body of the Princess Kaiulani, followed by the mourning father and others. » Kajulani had left her beauti- ful home for the last time and her body was placed on a catafalque in Kawala- hao church, thereto lie in state through the next day. Miss Robertson (left behind at Aina- hau on account of illness). together with a number of native and Japanese servants, were the only ones remaining in the house after the departure of the body for the church. This young lady had just taken a reclining position on one of the “hikieis” or divans that are to be found all over the house, | when, it is asserted, she heard | noises that made her biood run cold. Transfixed to the spot, she listened for their recurrence, and in a very short time they were repeated. The room on the upper floor that had been occupied by the Princess seemed to be in an awful state of unrest. The sound of a myriad of bodies passing | through the room and tossing furni- ture about, it is said was what met the ears of the frightened people. Then came a rush of wind. The door of the room leading out into the hall opened with a burst and something came down the stairs with a rumbling sound. Then the door leading to the walk that con- nects the main house with the lanai opened in the same mysterious way and closed again with a slam. The chairs and tables on the walk were overturned, and a voice which was, ac- cording to the people in the house, un- mistakably that of the dead Princess, was heard to cry, “Kauka! Kauka!” caused by the strong wind blowing that night. However, the story, when heard by the natives, was believed, and they gave to it all a meaning. It is a well-known fact that the Princess hated the idea of dving, and held to the hope that she would recov- er, even to the very last moment. When she was dying and her father stood at the bedside, his hand clasping the wasted one held out to him. she still fought for her life. Kaiulani had the greatest faith in her physicians, and trusted fo them to nurse her back to health, but the rheumatism finally attacked her; heart and her fate was sealed. The natives say that the voice heard at midnight was truly that of the Princess| protesting against her death .and calling upon her doctor for aid. Another peculiar happening was at Washington Place, the town home of ex-Queen Liliuokalani, which has not heen occupied since the Queen left for the States. On the night of the death of the Princess Joe Heleluhe, who went to Washington as the secretary of the Queen while she was' fighting against annexation, walked into the yard with the intention of speaking with some natives living in the rear. He noticed a lamp in the room on the upper floor that used to be occupied by the Princess when she was staying in town for a few days. Thinking this unusual. he went closer to the house and, he declares, saw a figure stand- ing near the lamp, evident- ly in deep contemplation. When it turned he saw distinetly the face of the dead Kaiulani. Then the light went out and nothing more was to be seen. The last and perhaps the strangest of all the happenings in connection with the death of the dead girl, wit- nessed as it was by hundreds of peo- ple, was at the gate to the graveyard in Nuuanu Cemetery at the time when the hearse bearing the body of the Princess entered. The first carriage was that of the father, Governor Cleg- horn, accompanied by Mrs. J. W. Rob- ertson and Mrs. J. H. Boyd, daughters by his first wife. The father’s place next to the body was undisputed, but -5 | e B e R e B B B B B B e R o the two Princes, David Kawananakoa and Cupid Kalanianaole. All the way to the cemetery, it is| said, the horses acted queerly, and two or three times the driver | was forced to call for assist- | ance from people in the proces- | sion. As the carriage was about to en- | ter the cemetery gate the horses began to back away and refused absolutely to enter. The occupants became very much frightened, but remained in their places, thinking that the horses would soon be got under control. In this | they were mistaken. It was not long before a well-known Hawaiian stepped to the side of the carriage and suggest- | ed that the occupants alight and walk | to the mausoleum. They took heed of | the advice and got out. The horses im- mediately became quiet. Then the car- riage of the Queen Dowager., Kapio- lani, drove up and went into the ceme- tery without mishap. Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Boyd were forced to enter later on. The natives say that had the two women persisted in remaining in | the carriage some terrible accident would have happened to them. They had said previously they would never enter the gate ahead of the peonle of royal blood. Many who stood around | while this thing took place say that the head of the nigh horse was held to- | ward the right hand kahili of state on the catafalque, and that the head of the off horse was held toward the left hand kahili, indicating, as the natives say, the cause of their stubbornness. Of course, to many these tales seem to be the merest nonsense. Not so to the native Hawalians, who believe in omens and who see in very many of the happenings that pass by the ma- jority of people unnoticed some direc- tion from the spirit world. They are as a race very superstitious, a fact that can be readily proved by a glance at the books written about them in the olden times, and yet it is a remarkable fact that a great many of.their pre- dictions, brought forth by various hap- penings, really do come true, and that white people who have lived in the isl- ands for many years come to look for the same signs as the natives MILITIA TO | GO IN QUEST OF MOORE B +00 0600606060606+ 0600000+0+0+@ & et SECE SR -+ - D R R SR S D R g * PS . & ® 32 2 ® @ * * o $4 . + & he 4 5 )¢ { WILLIAM H. KILROY, the Brave Policeman Murdered ¢ $ by Ed Moore, Whom He Endeavored to @Arrest : ‘ at Nevada City. + e R e o i S e S e e e e e aae e e ot 44)—0—‘ Company C of Nevada City Will Search for the Murderer. EVADA CITY, April 2—The |Kkind—with his boots on. An additional officers of the law are close on | price has been set upon Moore's head. the track of KEdward ore, | The Board of Supervisors of this and before another day shall | county has announced that it will pay have passed they expect to tak an extra $1000 for the outlaw, dead or him into custody. Hemmed in by rugged mountains, with the roads to n to the Sheriff’s posse. | the lower country carefully guarded ers of Company C, National by the author! the fugitive has lit- alifornia, under command, of tle chance of escape. R. R Iker, will march out into the For the first time since the murder | hills to-morrow to search the aban- of Officer Kilroy definite information | doned mini shafts and nyons back regarding Moore’s whereabouts has | of Banner Mountain. This step has been received. At dusk last night he | been deemed necessary by the authori- was seen about two miles from Grass | ties for the reason that the country in Valley, near the North Star mine, by + is supposed to be hiding wooded itive Taunt is a ranche and mountainous might hide there for will go out equipped, carrying William Taunt. and has the reputation in Gra Ie > militia be and months fully armed of being a truthful man. aid positively to The Call corres ent to-day that he had not only seen | provisions enough to last several davs. Moore, but had held a lengthy con- authorit ve already com- versation with him. menced prep: to land Moore “I could not be mistaken,” said|safely in jail event of his being Taunt. He and I were in the County | taken alive. They entertain grave fears Jail together in March, 1896, I servi that Moore will be su ted to vio- for disturbing the peace and he for as- | lence at the hands of a mob when sault with a deadly weapon. We |brought to town. If Moo 2d been recognized each other immediately | arrested to-night there is little- doubt last evening and shook hands. He said he was going o the lower country on a little trip. He had a bundle of blan- kets and looked travel-stained and weary, but had no gun and I saw no | pistols on him. He seemed glad to see that all the Sheriffs and deputies from here to him, Sacramento could not protect 0 intense is the hatred of the cit- 2 for the cowardly murderer. “William Kilroy was an officer who - new his duty, and because he had the me, and there was nothing unusual | ve to perform it he died the death about his manner. After a pleasant |, 3 qog. When his epitaph is written chat he started leisurely down the | ¢ wijl be: “He was faithful to his duty.” road toward Auhurn.” | He was murdered because he repres This morning Taunt heard for the first time about the killing of Kilroy by Moore. “Do you mean Ed Moore, the half- deaf prospector up at Nevada City,” he asked his informant. “Yes, was the answer. Then he told of having seen the fu- gitive last evening. Sheriff Getchell was immedijately notified by telephone of Taunt's story. Officers immediately started toward Placer County. Offi- cers at Colfax, Auburn and all other down country points were notified of the clew, and Placer County's Sheriff began arranging a cordon of regular and special deputies, so as to effect- ually close every avenue of escape in that direction. | sented the hon and law-abiding peo- ple of this city, and there is no man not a hoodlum or a rogue who does not mourn for him to-d-y.” These were the words with which Father Clyne opened his tribute to the memd of the dead policeman at the fun 1 in St. Canice Church afternoon. The great edifice was ed from chancel to entrance, and 2000 people who were unable to get in | stood ar outside. The holy father spoke briefly. and indignation and sor- row struggled for mastery in his voice | as he echoed the sentiment man, we -2n and child in the gregation. The funeral cortege was one of the 7 longest ever seen here. Two hundred Sheriff Getchell and his posse are | ONSCSt ever S ik L e ooy . o | 228 37 memirs ot Noradn i fugitive, and when they find him the |10 %03 after the & se and the car- citizens here expect to receive ‘details of a battle. Moore is known to be a dead shot, and he will fight like a cornered rat. | riages containing relatives came the police officers and City Trustees of this | city and Grass Valley in hacks. besides Tt is certain he will offer resistance, | the county officers. Every flag in town and, in that event,.it is quite prob- | was at half-mast and all the fire and able he will die like the rest of his church bells tolled. to continue operations on the same | the destruction of Iloilo by the Fili- scale as is possible in the dry season. | pinos before General Miiler captured Upon the administration of a crush- | the city. Stev n & Co., an English ing defeat the American Philippine | firm, estimate its loss at $140,000, con- Commission will be able to issue its| sisting chiefly of stored hemp. Other firms had warehous and stoeks de- proclamation, from which the authori- A stroyed. English insurance companies tles expect great results. will be the chief losers. A French firm Steps are being taken by General .f joy F lla del Norte— Otis » suppress all future filibustering | lost $300,000 worth of property. When expeditions which may be sent from | the destruction began the firm's em- ployes filled their monds and jewel to’ refuge barge they got away them and took ev pockets with dia- hoping to escape the bay. Before the Filipinos caught ything. RELEASED PRISONERS JOIN THE TAGALLOS NEW YORK, April 2—A special cable to the Sun from Madrid says: LOSSES SUSTAINED BY FOREIGNERS IN ILOILO | Prime Minister Silvela cays the Govern— e T | ment continues to meet with great dif- TACOMA, April 2.—Fogelgn business | ficulties in its efforts to obtain the re- houses lost over a million dollars by | lease of Spanish prisoners in the Phile the coast of China to Luzon'in the in- terest of insurgents. I understand that the thirteen gunboats obtained by General Otis are to be manned by offi- cers and men of the navy stationed along the coast for the purpose of in- tercepting any filibustering expeditions that may get by the naval vessels.