The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1899, Page 4

THE SA FRANCISCO CAL L, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 899. RUSSIANS NOW RUN MANCHURIA Do Just About as They Please. FORCIBLY - ACQUIRING - LAND AND OPERATING THE MINES AND RAILWAYS. Meanwhile the Czar Is Massing Large Bodies of Troops at Im- portant Points to Boldly Aid the Grab. Special Dispatch to The €all. VANCOUVER, m the Far 1ip Empres: a correspondent B. of Japan state that of the North China Daily News give; me rem able in- formation regarding the Russian prog- s in Manchuria and the rthern provinces. the only British subjects who are per- ted by treaty to own lands outside treaty limits are missionaries, Russians in Manchuria are acquiring land as they please and are aiready worl mines. The railroad, tco, is obv a milltary one, and he asserts there are 30,000 Ru n troops at Port Arthur, 3000 at Talien Wan, 2000 at Kin- chou, 200 at L: 0 at Wa Fang- 200 at g, 200 at , 300 at Kirin, orth of Kirin, and, lien, chieng, 0,000 at Haipon, s are all aver are to be met witn way will not touch. ng the Russians have a shop and fortified. it by At Liao-yang they vards and mining 1 there. Outside ing land and ) sum- The Chinese officials and people re much afraid of the intruders, who ¥ are any re- As there is no railway at Kirin and the neh line which is projected will not ach there for two years, the presence f soldiers appears unnecessary. The F 0-Chinese Bank has opened a branch in Kirin, worked by Chinese, vith one foreigner, who is British, but | little beyond political work appears to be done. At Haipon, where the rallway will branch off from the main line to Vlad- ivostok, there are Russian settlements with 20,000 soldiers. It is instructive to compare this military occupation the railw in which British cap- ts are to have their money, a good road with stone embankments and work shops along the line, where car- riages and bridges are being built and not yet one British soldier to protect | the property. The agricultural and mineral re- sources of Manchuria are immense, and the Russians are working so as to ex- ploit them for- the rate of $10 a mow, and in the event of Chinese resistance a telegram to the Russian Minister at Peking overcomes it. EDGAR WOULD BE A PRISON DIRECTOR AN QUENTIN PRISON, April 5—| en Captain of the Yard J. C. Edgar confided to some of his friends a few months ago that he was tired of the oner- erous duties devolving upon an occupant of his officlal position there were many 5 for making u 3 nd ther not in e salary allowed a captain of . he has t putation of never satisfied unle mind and is are occupied in the transaction of work requiring care and forethought. In addition he and Warden Hale have not been on good terms si t trike of ago, when t out over n of pline, and the position gar. the favor of 2 Lieutenant ed too many opportunitie an enemy to be relinquished simply on account of a “tired feeling.” Common pr. te from »oard Edgar's overflowing. ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO IMPEACH A JUROR WILLOWS, April 5—The work of selecting a jury in the Murdock note case involving May Helen Murdock's claim for $100,000 went on to-day and but little progre was made. The ex- amination of talesmen was searching, both sides exercising great care. Four were passed, but none accepted. No perempto; challenges have been used v either side. At the close 6f the ses- sion Attorney Freeman for the plaintiff announced that he would produce wit- nesses at the opening of court to im- peach - Juror on, who declared while being examined that he had never discussed the case Pears’ It is a wonderful soap that takes hold quick and does no harm. No harm! It leaves the skin soft like a baby’s; no alkali in it, nothing but soap. The harm is done by alkali. Still more harm 1s done by not washing. So, bad soap is better than none. What is bad soap? Im- perfectly made; the tat and alkali not well bal- anced or not combined. What 1s good soap? Pears’, Allnorts of st 11§t especiall ailsorta of peopie wae . oY BN He points out that whereas | Hai- | their sole advantage, | Land is being compulsorily acquired at | ;Soldiers W WASHINGTON, April 5.—The two prin- | etpal witnesses before the beef inquiry t to-day were Professor Russell H. cnden of Yale College and Dr. Sam- uel A. Currie, who was lieutenant colonel | of the Second New Jersey: Regiment, | | which was stationed at Jacksonville dur- ing the war. Professor Crittenden is one of the chemists selected by the Govern- | ment to analyze the canned roast beef. | He presented his report, showing that the | | beef generally was good. No chemlcals had been found by him in its preparation and it was generally wholesome. He, | however, expressed doubt as to whether | the heat of the tropical climate would not cause the fat in the cans to liquefy and thus render the food displeasing to the sight. Colonel Davis stated that most of the cans from which the samples were taken for analysis had been exporad to the heat of tropical countries, some of | the eans being brought from Havana for | the purpose of the test. Major Lee presented more of the correspond- ence between General Miles and the court and in a request on behalf of the general that ¢ the 130 witnésses whose names he had ore suggested be called, saying that they testify concerning refrigerator beef and ically treated beef. The court did not in- | whether the request would be complied | | cou ant Colonel L. ffficer of the M. Maus, who as chief h Army Corps uthern States < 3 ere had been little complaint concerning the meat. At nville the men found it necessary to | tor meat as soon as received, | In one in an entire company of troops had been | k, as he believed, by eating the meat. | as a rule, the beef was carefully | n the warehouses. One consignment beef was very offensive and would | have been cremated, but that it was rescued | by the Armours, who had furnished it. They | overhauled it. | The one instance of sickness believed to have | been caused by the refrigerator beef occurred in a com y of the Seventh Illinois Regiment. | Many of the men were made violently sick. It was aleo noticed that an unusual proportion of | the men thus affected went down with typhoid fever. It was afterward developed that the | cook knew that the meat was tainted before he_cooked it Colonel Maus was on duty at Havana during | the past w! id the meat supply there actory. lieutenant colonel of | ew Jersey, was In charge of a | to construct a rifle range in | sonville in June and Ju! Often the men | were compelled to throw away the meat sent them for dinner. On one occasion there was especial trouble and the next day after eating | this meat only twenty-four men were able to | en as otherwise it became tainted. sta; TROOPS MADE SICK BY THE EMBALMED BEEF ho Partook 6f Meat - That Looked Well and Smelled | Bad Became Diseased. | not to_eat it. | pounds had been sold to the army. report for duty. He had tested a plece of this meat for salicylic acid, getting a decided re- action. On another ~ occasion he secured a boracic acld reaction. *‘One peculiarity of the meat,” he said, “‘was that it kept so well and smelled so badiy." When men would throw it up, often many hours after eating, it was still' found unde- composed. He had considered the canned meat unfit for his men to eat and had advised them Dr. Currie expressed the opinion that the re- frigerator beef had been soaked in some pre- | servative fluid, contalning salicylic acid, but he afterward faid his first idea was that the acld had been Injected. : Dr. Currle said he had discovered some ten or twelve years ago by actual tests that Swift & Co. uged salleylic acid to preserve their meats. Two months ago he had made a test | of beet furnished by Armour & Co. at his own home in Englewood, N. J., and had found that | | it_contained salicylic acid. Major Lee asked that some men of the rifle | range detall be summoned before the court, but the court did not respond to the request. Major Lee then read the reply of the court to General Miles' request for the summoning of 131 witnesses named by him and General Miles' reply asking that they be placed in the record. The letter to General Miles was written by | Recorder Davis of the Court of Inquiry. It dated yesterday and read as follows: beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 34 inst, inclosing the final list of witnesses. 1 am directed to say that such of the persons named, as appear from the statement submitted, to be In possession of facts not already covered by the testimony of witnesses, will be summoned to appear with the least possibly delay.” Genernl Miles' reply said in part> 5 ny bellef that at least 25,000 men, doubtedly a much greater number, would | confirm the testimony that has already been glven that a portion of the food supplied the army was unwholesome and unsuitable for use. I therefore request that the small number of witnesses—131—whose names have just been submitted, may be called upon to give thefr testimony’ before your court.” The general understanding about the court is_that the request will not be complied with. Henry Raphael, manager for Armour & Co., in New York, who had been called at the in. stance of General Miles to testify, sald that last May he had In stock 140,00 pounds of | canned roast beef. Later in the season he re- | cefved more, some coming from Chicago and some from cities in England. The beef from abroad had been there from one to two years. This he had turned over to Colonel Woodruff on the dock. Asked {f any of the meat sent abroad had been rejected there, he said: T know positively that none of it was rejected I know this from our firm In Chicago and from the condition of the beef."” The meat had been returned to fill contracts with the Government, some going to the army and some to the navy. Altogether about 430,000 Mr. Raphael ald the Government's purchases were a madé on samples selected gen- erally by himself. These were inspected, as was also the beef on'delivery. Only three cans of .the entire sale to the army and navy had been refused, and those had been replaced. DEATH'S SUMMONS ~ENDS A ROMANCE ‘wTale of a Rich Uncle and Fascinating Niece. | ghectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, April 5.—A love ro- | mance, in which a rich old uncle and a | fascinating niece were the Romeo and | Juliet, ended here this morning in the | death of John P. Conlon at the Grand Lodging House, corner of Second and | | San Fernando streets. Mrs. Abbie | Kinnes is the bereaved, and is left about a half million dollars in New York properties and securities. Several years ago John P. Conlon re- tired from the pursuits of business in New York to enjoy his fortune. He had y no other relatives than Mrs. Kinnes | and a nephew who bore his name. The | latter was a spendthrift and by his wild career had disgraced his uncle’s name. | About this time Mrs. Kinnes' husband | died. She was young and attractive. | he took up her abode with her uncls, | and the mutual relationship soon turned into love. The rich old uncle | at once legally adopted Mrs. Kinnes. Thelaw prohibited the marriage of per- sons of their degree of relationship. | Conlon at once divided his property | with his adopted daughter and fixed | the remainder-so his nephew could never come In for any of it. Mrs. | Kinnes was given everything she| wished and the couple enjoyed them- | selves to their hearts’ content. Several trips to Europe and a trip around the | world were made. It is sald Mrs. | Kinnes generally passed as Mrs. Col- | non. On January 10 last Conlon and Mrs. Kinnes left New York for California by way of Panama, arriving in San | Francisco about a month ago. Bicycles | were “rocured and they started to make | a tour of the State awheel. San Jose | was reached a week ago. Last Friday | evening, while dining in the Mercan- | tile Restaurant, Conlon was stricken | by apoplexy. He was removed to his | apartments and Dr. Frasse summoned. He rallied for a while, but yesterday he began to sink and passed away early this morning. Deceased had suf- | fered from Bright's disease for some time and the stroke of apoplexy re- sulted from it. Conlon was a native-of New York and 53 years of age. It is sald Mrs. Kinnes has deeds to some valuable New York property that | she wishes to place on record before | the “forgotten” nephew can file any | clalm to the estate. She starts East with the remains to-morrow. | |POPE LEO FOLLOWS | | USUAL OCCUPATIONS ROME, April 5.—Drs. Lapponi and | Mazzoni have issued another formak denial of the disquieting stories circu- { lated about the Pope’s health. They. declare that he follows his usual occu- pations, grants audiences daily and | celebrates mass almost every morning. | The Pontiff, on April 10, the occaslon | of the fete of St. Leon, will receive th diguiiasries of the ~sacred college and the pontifical court and will return | thanks for his coronation congratula- tions. Dr. Lapponi declares the Pope is now in the same health that he has en- joyed for two or three years past. His | Holiness received Archbishop Ireland | to-day in farewell audience. ARl e VICTORY FOR REPUBLICANS. PROVIDENCE, R. L, April 5—The State election to-day resuited in a Re- publican victory, though the Democrats made gains in many localities. The en- tire Republican State ticket was success- ful and the General Assembly will be Re- publican by a large mn&gflty. though not as large as last year. The Socialist vote is large in the cities and mining towns. Eighty districts out of 104 in the State ive for Governor: Dyer (R.), 16812; Ereene (D.), 9982; Herrick (Socialist La- ; Peckham (Pro.), 1043, Dyer's probable plurality this year is 9500. Every district in the State shows Democratic gains. | | | not | big storm was 1 row morning. e POOL ROOMS T0 BE SUPPRESSED Marin County’s Battle for Decency. Epeclal Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, April 5—The most perplexing problem that has confront- ed District Attorney Mclsaac since he has been an incumbent—a legal meth- od to suppress the poolrooms at Sau- salito and thereby save Marin County from the annual recurrence of scenes S0 _repugnant to the residents of a su- burban district—is at last in a fair way of solution. So confident i{s McIsaac that he has found a plan to circumvent the action of the Board of Town Trus- tees of Sausalito that he has alrpady conferred .with the Supervisors in re- gard to the matter, and it is predicted by those who claim to know the in- clination of the county fathers that they will give the District Attorney thetr united support in one more effort to destroy an evil that has so far laughed at every attack made upon it by the county officials. As Bausalito is an incorporated town the Supervisors are powerless so far as adopting an ordinance prohibiting betting on Eastern races is concerned. Those citizens of the town not directly profited by the presence of the pooi- rooms have frequently agitated the proposition to disincorporate, but have always been foiled by the attitude of the “water front,” where so many voters reside as practically to control municipal elections. H. H. Noble car- ried the question into the domain of the Superior Court by petitioning for an injunction to restrain the gambling, on the ground that It. constitutes a public nuisance. This plan signally failed, and now another determined ef- fort is to be made. According to section 25 of the county government act, a Board of Supervis- ors is empowered to regulate and li- cense all business or traffic in a county prohibited by law. Poolroom gambling comes under this head. It is further provided that any violation of an ordinance so regulating and licens- ing a business or traffic constitutes a misdemeanor and as such is punishable by law. According to Mclsaac’s view all the board has to do to suppress the evil is to exact a license of $10.000 a quarter from the poolroom men. which will really amount to a prohibition. When this section referred to was called to the attention of the Super- visors and its provisions explained to them they were much impressed with the simplicity of the method advocated by the District Attorney and took the proposition under consideration at once. ' It is expected that an ordinance will be framed and adopted in a short time. HEAVY SEAS WASH OVER THE VESSEL Little Steamship C. G. Cherry En- counters a Storm While Sail- ing Northward. VICTORIA, B. C., April 5.—The steamer C. G. Cherry, a small vessel with a big American flag at'her peak and the name San Francisco, her home port, painted on the stern in big white letters, put into this port this morning in distress. Some- thing had gone wrong with her boilers, and since Monday she had been running up the stralts under the scanty canvas she carries. : ' The Cherry left 8an Francisco last ¥ri- day, and had a trying voyage up the coast. On several occaslons big seas had washed right over her. Last Sunday a encountered, and’ it seemed as though the seas would engulf the little cannery vessel. On Monday the | boiler began to leak, and it was thought | advisable to bank the fires and endeavor | to sail to Victoria. After some difficulty | this was done, and the damaged boiler was repaired to-day. The Cherry expects to continue her voyage to Hln& Bay, Alaska, to-mor- ‘views have been in progress for the last ENGLAND YIELDS 10 THE GERMANS Concession As to the Samoan Conference. PRINCIPLE OF UNANIMITY DISCUSSION OF POWERS OF THE COmMISSION CONTINUES. United States Government Has Not Selected the Man to Represent It in the Coming Nego- tiations. Special Dispatch to The Call. + i + + 5 4 + + £ + + + + e 3 7 BERLIN, April 5.—The Foreign Office {s once more satisfied, for England has acquiesced in the general principle of unanimity to govern the commissioners in the coming Samoan conference. This is a concession to the wishes of Germany. The German com- missfoner will be Consul Schmidt of Caracas, who Is*well versed in the Samoan question. The dis- cussion continues on the ques- tion of the powers to be given to the commissioners. | 2% A * * * 3 * + + + + + * | b + 5 R T T R RO +| R R Rt R SR NEW YORK, April 5.—The Washing- | ton correspondent of the Herald tele- | graphs: Although active exchanges of% few days between the governments gignatory to the Berlin treaty relative | to the powers to be conferred upon the | commission which will be sent to Apia | it was authoritatively stated to-day that no agreement of a satisfactory character has yet been reached. | All that has been decided upon is that | the commission shall be appointed and | shall proceed to Apia to investigate the situation there and the entire Sa- | moan question. It was significantly added by a diplomat with whom I| talked that it was the hope of the gov- | ernments concerned that the commis- | sion would do more than make an in- | vestigation and report. 3 | It is the desire of the administration that an agreement be reached as the | result of the organization of the com- | mission which will prevent any contro- | versy Iin future growing out of the| election of a king or of the administra- tion of affairs on the Islands. No_decision has been arrived at by the President respecting the person | who Wwill be selected to represent this Government on the commission. No | official of the department has been as- | signed to duty, because the depart- ment needs the services of its entire force. COMING APPOINTMENTS BY GOVERNOR GAGE Plum Tree Will Be Snaken Before the | Executive Returns te the Norta. | LOS ANGELES, April 5.—Governor Henry T. Gage Is having a fine time on his Downey ranch. The Governor will not go north until early next week. He | will make public a list of appointments, including a successor to Adjutant Gen- eral Peeler, a member of the Board of Equalization in the Southern California district; a member of the Board of ‘Whittier Trustees, three Commission- ers to the Paris Exposition and a Deputy Labor Commissioner before he leaves. The Board of Whittier School Trus- tees soon will be solidly Republican, as” former Sheriff Willlam R. Rowland will | on Saturday resign. Rowland has for two years consti- tuted, with Mrs. Adina Mitchell, a ma- | Jjority of the board, and now that Gov- ernor Gage is in power and Mrs. Mitch- ell’'s term has expired, .Rowland, not | caring to be in the minority, desires. to | step out. Dr. Walter Lindley wid to-l morrow discuss Whittier affairs with | Governor Gage. | The selection of a Paris commis- | sioner from Southern California lies between Frank Wiggins, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and Ben C. Truman, the veteran editor. Truman's friends are insisting to-day that as| Governor Gage has never affiliated with | the Chamber of Commerce the resolu- | tions from the commercial bodies will | have but little effect in influencing his | appointments. THREE HUNDRED DOGS OF HIGH DEGREE BAN JOSE, April 5.—The third annual dog show of the Santa Clara Valley Poul- try and Kennel Club opened this evening | with a good attendance. About 300 dogs | were shown, the following countles being represented: Santa Clara, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda, Sacramento, San Bernardino. The judges were: H. T. Payne of San Francisco on Great Danes, setters, goimerm collies, spaniels and hounds, and J. W. Barrett of New York on mastiffs, St. Bernards, terriers, bulidogs, pugs, poodles, dachshunds and miscellaneous. "The following awards were made to-night: | Mastiffs—Puppy dogs, P. F. McGliligan, San | Jose, Major, first prize. | Bitches—Francis J. Smith's Evergreen Queen, first prize; P. F. McGjlligan's Belle second; W, F. Heckell, San_Jose, Teeds, third. Great Danes—Pups, H. A. Leigh, San Jose; Errick, second prize; dogs, Twin Peak Kennels, San Francisco, Defender, first; bitches, Frank Hall, San Francisco, Lady Londesburgh, first; Twin Peak Kennels, San Francisco, Lady Lir- | mine, second. §t. Bernard (rough coats)—Puppy- bitches, Mrs. C. A. Smart, Oakland, Golden Fairy, first, Novice dogs—Mrs, E. B. Thompson, Irving- ton, Prince Orange, first; Miss Tillle Lorraine, Angeles, Omar Khayyam, second; G. J. ers, San Jose, Raiph's Nym, third. Novice bitches—Miss Tillie Lorraine, Lorelle, first; Mrs. W. G. Alexander, San Jose, Flora Doy Mise T O Kh: ogs—Miss Lorraine, Omar Khayyam, first; 3. Turounit, San Jose, Tell, second. Bitches—C. A. ‘Smart, Oakland, Princess, first; Miss Lorraine, Los Angeles, Lorelie, sec- ond. . ‘Winner's dogs—Twin Peak Kennels, San Francisco, King Menelek, first. St. Bernards (smooth coat)—Bitches, Mrs. E. B. Thompson, Irvington, The Countess, first. Fox hounds—C. H. ley, San Franclsco, General Moltke, fir The show will continue through the week, pioesdit Bldbda, Indians Yield to the Law. LOS ANGELES, April 5.—United States | Marshal H. Z. Osborne, who went to Yuma this morning to take into custody | Patrick Miguel, the Indian accused o having burned the schoolhouse, accom- | lished his object without the slightest | ifficulty. The former chief of the Yuma tribe, ccused iguel, the father of lhqh man, had threatened to prevent his son’s arrest, but the arrival of Marshal Os- borne and his three sturdy deputies al- tered the chief's determination and the prisoner will be allowed to accompany the officers to this city in the morning without any wnusual demonstration upon | the part of the Yuma tribe. | et e Mary Baker Eddy’s letter to Chris- tian BScientists, in next Sunday’s 4 work here is ended. CROOKED W IN PRI AT STOCKTON Fight of Factions in the Repub- lican Party Indictments. STOCKTON, April 5.—To-day's de- velopments have not served to allevi- ate the strained relations between the factions of the Republican party. In- dictments will in all probability be re- turned within forty-eight hours against C. T. Eckstrom, Deputy Superintendent of Streets, and Charles Patterson, a prominent young business man. Both stand high in social and political cir- cles. Their friends are rallying to their defense in the hope of heading off the indictments. On the other hand, the leaders of the defeated faction in the Third Ward wiil press the charges, even though under | the Stratton law they come under the serious designation of ‘“felony.” Briefly stated, the trouble started in a personal flght for leadership in the Third Ward between John Collins and C. T. Eckstrom. Collins led the anti- A. P. A. faction, while Eckstrom's ticket was regarded as the one fav- ored by the A. P. A, Eckstrom failed of election, but the remainder went through. The A. P. A. had carried the heaviest wards .at ward meetings the evening before, and rallying yesterday in the Third Ward, put up an opposi- tion ticket and on the face of the re- turns won out by a substantial major- t Y. ‘When the election officers came to count over the ballots to tally them, they found that there were ten more in | the pile than the lists showed. It was found that ten ballots had been sur- }reptltlously or otherwise inserted, and’ they were declared fraudulent and so marked by all the officers. They must either have been laid on the table and other ballots piled on them or inserted | in the pile after it had been dumped out. The general opinion seems to be that it was a piece of foolishness not equaled in the calendar of fools. That the ballots could not have been counted must have appeared to any sane per- son, because it would® have become known just as soon as the number of ballots in ‘the box and those on the officers’ list did not tally. Then the ballots were not prepared for voting, that is, they did not have the slip con- taining the number torn off. Dick Garibotto declares that he saw Patterson handling election stationery about 6 o'clock, an hour after the polls closed. Presently, he says, he saw Pat- terson leave the voting place with something tucked under his coat, and when outside Eckstrom joined him. The latter saw Garibotto watching, o he asked him what he was watching for, and admonished him to move on. | Affer crossing the street he saw Pat- | terson throw something into a vacant building and go in after it. Garibotto | returned to the polling place, and a few | minutes later he went back to the Im- perial bar with L. E. Allington. While | there Garibotto asserts he ‘was ap- proached by Eckstrom, who asked him not to mention the incident he had wit- nessed. Garibotto declined to keep quiet about it. Allington corroborates his friend as to this. U. H. Mallory, of the defeated fac. tion, said to-day in an interview: ‘“Eckstrom and Patterson confessed to Mr. Qlark and myself, and asked for ORK MARIES May Lead to mercy. I first heard of it through young Garibotto, whom I met near the Imperial Hotel. He was so excited he could hardly talk. He stated that he | had seen Eckstrom and Patterson take some papers away from the table where the counting was in. progress, and that they were destroying them in a vacant building on the corner. I went down there immediately. They | were tearing up. the tickets they had | taken, but when they saw me coming | they gathered up the fragments.” | | There are said to be other material | witnesses. The Grand Jury was 1o session to-day, and just before the | close of the session it is understood a | | number of subpoenas were issued. It | is known positively that District At- { torney Ashley is Investigating. z\nd} will not pass the matter if the evi- | dence already offered is found to be trustworthy. Developments are ex- pected to-morrow. The first election under the Stratton law indicates that it leaves unlimited openings for contests on technical points. For instance, in the same ward where alleged criminal acts took place | the judges found on opening the ballots that in a score of instences the printed | tickets had become detached from the | ballot and were' under no particular | | party designation. The judges laid| | them out on the ground that it was not | | within their province to say whether | | they had been properly placei; that | they had no right to count them even though the apparent intent of the voter | discernible. As these ballots | thrown out did much to lose the ward | to Collins and help the A. P. A. faction | | the former prepared to contest. The | | carelessness of voters here in not fold- | | ing their tickets securely indicates how | easy it will be to defeat the evident will | | | was of voters under the arbitrary provisions | of the law. | The Democratic vote was light, and the Republicans charge that the op- | posing party mixed freely in their af- fairs, being protected by the secrecy | | of the ballot and the bringing together | of all classes at the polls, so that the | old-fashioned mode of challenging was | not possible or allowable. Seemingly the law allows a general .trade between | factions in both parties, practically al- | }lnwlng the interloping party to shape a delegation to the convention of os- | tensible opponents. The tightening of party lines was not observable either | | in the proceedings of the day or the | | final result: | { The City Council met this evening to | | canvass the returns. There was no op- | portunity for contestants to object to the returns here as the functions of the | Council gogno further than canvassing | the returns. The contest must lay in | the Superior Court. It seemed novel | | to the spectators to see this officiai | body pass on delegations to a straight party convention, marking the end of the good old times when contesting delegations won or lost through the | friendliness or opposition of those who | made up the majority of the conven- tion. There are rumors to-night that if| Eckstrom and Patterson are prosecuted some serious charges will be made against a man who has held a prom- | inent State office; because his offense | occurted at a ward meeting he could | not be prosecuted, but the charges | would be very embarrassing. TORTURED AND PUT TO DEATH Fate of Nine Natives in Korea. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C, April 5.—Among the mail advices received by the Em- | press of Japan from the Orient is the following strange story told by ‘the Seoul correspondent of the Japan Ad- vertiser: Outside the west gate of Seoul live | a number of mutangs or female exar- cists. Last year five of these women, with their “consorts” and children, went north into the provinces on a| tramp. After two months' working through Wanghal they passed into Ham-Kyeng, living on the earnings of the women in the villages and hamlets. The business of driving out evil spirits proved flourishing, and the men taking charge of the money accumulated over $200 each. This money the men took | into the magistracy of Kowon and tried to purchase orders on Seoul. The thing became known to the local police and they seized the men and the serv- | charging | ants with them, ten in. all, them with being robbers. Probably this was the first time pri- vate people had ever ventured into Kowon and exhibited such a sum of | The men, however, refuted the | money. charge of being robbers, but the entire ten were subjected to such torture by the constables that one of them died the next day, and another one the fol- | lowing day. The local prefect being absent and a neighboring official having jurisdiction the women appealed to him for help. He ordered the eight men living to be removed to his town. He saw they were in a hopeless situation, and, fear- ing to become involved in the unpleas- antness, he refused to do anything and sent the unfortunates back to Kowon. Here they were set upon again by their captors and so beaten that they became badly crippled. Their money was by this time all gone and when the new magistrate came to Kowon the matter was so presented to him that of the remain- ing men seven were executed on the 21st of the seventh moon, and a blind man left as the only survivor of the ten. About this time the women came back with their earnings, hoping to release the men. They also were rob- bed and badly abused. They escaped, however, and came to Seoul. Recently one of the runners from Kowon was identified in the streets of | Seoul by one of the women and placed under arrest. He acknowledged the killing, but throws the blame on the constabl Pastor Hemphill Resigns. BALLARD, April 5.—Rev. Joseph Hemphill, brother of Rev. John Hemp- hill of Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, who has faithfully served a pastorate extending over several adverse | seasons, has tendered his_resignation to the churches at Ballard, Los glivos and Santa Cruz. The reverend gentleman, who has the respect and &c\od will of his parishioners, refuses to offer any explan- ation other than that he feels that his [TALY WATCHED BY THE JAPANESE Jealousy Over Attempt. to Grab San Mun. Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., April 5—Ori- ental advices brought by the steamship Empress of Japan indicate that Japan | has watched with jealous eye Italy's | recent attempt to get possession of San Mun. Marquis Ito has been in direct com- | munication with Li Hung Chang and | has advised various reforms. He says the partition of China will be inevitable should China persist.in her present course of action. In view of the San Mun affair the Japanese are saying their Government must abandon the hold-aloof policy | | hitherto adopted and demand some sub- | stantial grant of land from China, probably a port in Fokien. Count Okuma, ex-Premier, advises the Government to so conduct itself as | | to induce China to rely solely upon’ the! “gallant” assistance of Japan for the maintenance of independence. The first | | measure to be adopted for that pur- | pose is to drill several hundred Chinese | soldiers by Japanese officers, secondly to encourage the dispatch of Chinese students to Japan for study. If the | situation should compel Japan to take | & final step it will be absolutely neces- sary for her to hold Amoy and the| railway between that place and Han- | kow. This phase can only enter into | Japan’s calculations when the mainte- | nance of China’s integrity is entirely | despaired of and there is no hope of | preventing a partition. In the mean- | | time Mr. Yano, the Japanese Minister | at Peking, has applied to the Chinese Government for five new settlements | for Japan’s exclusive use, to be opened at Foochow, Amoy, Inkaw (New- chwang), Shanghai and Chungking, | in addition to the Tientsin and Hankow | settlements, which have been conceded | already. It is stated that the Chinese Government has decided to entertain | the demands, with the exception of | Shanghai and Chungking. There appears to have been no truth | in the report that the Dowager Empress had recalled Li Hung Chang to Peking. | The latter has finished the labor of ex- | amining the Yellow River, but his rivalg in the Tsung Li Yamen are trying to | keep him out of the capital. They fear his influenc | Released From Custody. | 'WOODLAND, April 5.—Charles Quey. | the Chinaman arrested for h- ng opened the wrong g.'.ve at Davisville while searching for the body of a relative, has been discharged. 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