The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXV—XNO. 140. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOLUNTEERS TO RETURN IMMEDIATELY Secretary Alder Is the Au- thority for This State- ment. ASHINGTON, ening that son pines will s ecretary Alger said this ev- f volunteer troops in the Philip- once for San Francisco on the trang- 1st what organizations will be sent y does not know, but expects to 1 Otis within a day or two. ports now at Manil > at this et tment is ignorant as to whether any of the vol- s will re-enlist for the six months’ service au- reorganization act, but knows some of the SV s to the United States immediately by ( 1as been ted the widest discretion in deal- Secretary Alger is also authority for the statement that ali ‘ 1 rr 1ents now in the Philippines would be or « way home, by July 1. Whether any more e sent to the Philippines to take the place of the i as not been determined Suggestions < army transports, the Centen- ke, Sheridan, Tacoma and Valencia. Four rive there shortly from San Fr. The iich sailed on March 30; the Cleveland, on March of Puebla, March 24, and the Zealandia, March 28. ) these three transports are in the Philippines, the gros, the Pennsylvania at Cebu and the St. NEED MCRDERER WILL OUIT | SHOT DOWN PUBLIC LIFEf BT A Mo cisco. >aul To Enter Upon the Practice| The Last Act of the Patter- of Law at New | son Tragedy Has Been York. Carried Out. Sec { CLINT morfning b enacted th Patterson December 13, terson lost his 1 n of his wounded April 18.—Yesterday d 2 o'clock was al scene in the terrible hich took place on n which Hugh Pat- ind several other 18! 1bers y A mob of citizens took. the law into i 5 nay resery their own hands and shot Will Har ne ment of his intention until after | one of the Patterson murde }','udc?o' death in the cag e Mil once it the County Jail. prominent young man Vs a to lynch v an attempt > part of thelr friends to liberate them from jail resulted in a gua o e A 3 ed in a guard b e Pt { Ing killed. . Mills was convicted on : o nen H n’s testimony and he paid the | R hu:‘ death penalty several months ago. aker’s chair, Harden was convicted at the Septem- tened ]I ber term of court and the case was ap- pealed to e S eme. icl : S bl 1t ed to the Supren urt, which granted new term he was | *d to hang May 9. No appeal was ken, but a commutation was asked of = Governor and granted. When the people learned that execu- tive clemen had been granted there was much excitement. About fifty well-armed masked men went to the jaller and commanded -him.to- go and unlock the' jail, - which he did under cover.of a shotgun. The Jailer and Nolsecyatitne lhen a trial. - At the March made ¢ off that a very tempting held open to him in New Yo time, It ikely that his delay in announc- ntention is in the interest of ative rman and for -the a protracted | inning ‘through 1 disturbing the other things de- administration his epresen peakership of e seriously | again convicted and sen- | GERMANY IS ANXIOUS T0 KEEP PEACE Consul Rose Will Be Ordered to Help His Fellow Consuls. HOW TROUBLE BEGAN A Friend of Mataafa Says That Chief Was Willine to Re- A PARTY OF DEWEY'S MEN AMBUSHED BY THE TAGALOS R O S SR SRCSE SRS Sy [ e B R e o S ) + | e >eoed DISASTER ON EAST COAST OF LUZON D AR SR SR SRS | @+ eo e V/\/ASHINGTON, April 18.—The Navy Department has given out the following dispatch from Admiral Dewey: MANILA, April 18.—Secretary of the Navy, Washington: The York- town visited Baler, on the east coast of Luzon, on April 12, for the pur- pose of rescuing and bringing away B O SR SR SO SRC OSSR ] main Inactive. 3 & * . 3 Speclal Dispatch to The Call. . e ‘: + - 4+ |+ LONDON, April 19.—The Ber- + ® | + lin correspondent of the Stand- 4 ? 4 ard says: The proposal to par- + L 4 + tition the Samoan Islands, said 44 . |+ to have been revived in the 4|4 & + United States, will be accepted 4| . | ¢+ by Germa only if no other so- 4| 3 | + lution is possible. +lé + B¢ 4 ? ear e i e g onal U + | D ERLIN, April 18.—The corre-|J e | Bspondenz here of the Associated | 4 5 Press hears on authority that the & B German Consul at Apia, Samoa, Herr | ¢ B4 Rose, will receive cabled instructions, | ¢ )i to be conveyed to him by steamer| ¢ & from the nearest cable station, to join | ¢ + |in a tripartite proclamation calling | ¢ & | upon all the inhabitants of Samoa to | 'f (; | immediately desist from all hostili- i L 3 . D¢ ties and agitation pending the arri- © Naval Officers Leaving the Yorktown in a Small Boal Off Baler, on the East Coast of Luzon. + val at Apia of the Joint Commission 2 2.8 of the powers appointed to settle the affairs in dispute im the islands. | CHICAGO, April 18.—A private letter | received here to-ds rom H. J. Moore, * American merc 1t in Samoa, who r years has Mataafa's close 1d and adviser, related some in- | ing details of the troubles in tlwl | | \ The letter, written March 23, When I recefved, in advance of its post- ing, a_copy of the proclamation decided | upon by the British and American sides | and fssued by Admiral Kautz, I thought it a very moderate document and one | that might well be obeerved. T sent word | | twice to the natives on Mulinuu that I| thought they should tbey it, and I think | they "so intended, as Mulinui was soon | deserted and the prisoners liberated, while | the royalists went to Utila for those who were up there. I promised Captain White of the Philadelphia that I would | do all T could to facilitate a quick and satisfactory arrangement, and sent word | to Mataafa and the chiefs that no sailo would be landed and no guns given to the prisone that they ought to go to | | their homes and observe peace while the powers deliberated. I am sure Mataafa's followers would | have done dmiral Kautz wanted and as 1 was sing, when British Con- | sul Maxse commenced arming the re- | turned prisoners and they began to boast of what they were going to do with the tance of the warships. This news ar- | rived when Mataafa was speaking in the | midst of a meeting in wh! e was dismissing the people. At once a great | number arose, crying: “The weak cannot | | govern the strong; our slaves shall not | rule us. We shall fight,” and the meeting | was broken up. It is a singular fact that these wild sav- | ages, as they frequently resented | to be, have not up to now destroved a single white man‘s house, though all over | the islands they are in full possession of them evervwhere, the back part of Apia While the guns an now be heard blast- ing habitations the homes of Gurr and | Carruthers, who have caused all the | trouble, remain unmolested by Mataafa's | followers. | "o subjugate this count than 10,000 troops fes, and then a great los and casualties must be co i on. The | Samoans are not cowards; taey are fight- | ing in a just cause and God knows I hope | this will soon be recognized and appre- clated. | BALDWIN RENEWS TWO HEAVY OBLIGATIONS | will require | with accesso from exposure | | | Los Angeles County Ranches Again | Mortgaged to a San Francisco Bank. LOS ANGELES, April 18. — “Lucky" Baldwin, the famous landowner and rac- ing man, has been compelled to renew his mortgage on a part of his magnificent estate in' Los Angeles County known as the Rancho la Puente and Rancho Cienega | del Paso de la_Tijera to secure a loan of $400,000 advancéd by the German Savings Bank of San Francisco. ~A- - trust- deed conveying: the pledged property to B. A. Becker and George Tourny. trustees for the- soclety, was to-day flled with the | which L e e S SEOSY SO SO TS W S Y THE PLAGUE [ET RAGES IN BOMBAY | A Thousand Deaths Weekly, but Government Hopes to Control Disease. Special Dispatch to The Call BOMBAY, April 18.—According to statistics gathered regarding the bu- bonic plague it is established that there have been 250,000 deaths recorded in In- dia since its beginning. These figures, however, are undoubtedly far below the actual total, as the natlves are known to have concealed quite a number of deaths. Bombay Presidency suffered the most, being responsible for 134,000 deaths, without counting those which occurred in the city of Bombay, which, with Kuraccho, were the chief hotbeds of the disease. The deaths in Bombay presidency are still about 1000 weekly. With the re- turn of hot weather the plague; which is now the third epidemie, is again rapidly disappearing. The mortality, was 250 daily in the city of Bombay five weeks ago, has now sunk to. 100 per day, and the Government has dropped the rigorous repressive meas- ures which, it has been found, it is im- possible to maintain indefinitely in the face of the fatalist resignation of the | natives. The Madras Presidency is.fairly free | from the plague, its climate and soil, it | is argued, not being favorable to the spread of the epidemic. The Bengal Presidency has suffered to some extent, including Calcutta, but the situation has not been grave, and the spread of the plague is now de- creasing. The Haffkine fluid has been very successful. {DR. HARRIS FAILS IN THEATRICAL VENTURES mbered that Mr. Sher- night guard were marched inside the jail, when one of the mob, who had acted as spokesman, emptied the con- NEW YORK, April 18.—Another benefit for Rev. James H. W. Harris, formerly pastor of the Bpiscopal Church of the County Recorder. To the instrument.was affixed $200 in revenue stamps. Both of the % v ould not agree to remain in Con- 5 n ' I ; tents of a double-barreled' shotgun into & > purpose of opposing Reed | 3 gen's head, blow it almo 1 kership, and it was an-j| 0SS ARG ‘"1“" aimp; nounced that he would certainly retire| o .o 2vay. The mob then i e e the jailer and guard in the jail and left snd a eral Appr: as silently as they came. No demon- to whi 1 been appointed. It | seration of any sort was made sy ¢ s = il after he had .met Mr.| was some time before the town Knew what had occurred. The Coroner’s jury returned a ver- dict that Harden came to his death by gunshot wounds at the hands of parties unknown. GOMPERS ON THE NEED ner with some of the lead- York that he reconsidered rmination to leave Congress declined the apprais ment It was intimated that time that this action was sult of something said by Mr. Re and that Mr. Sherman had hopes ! & Speaker of the Houde | ‘y'h"" thebe ‘will B 1 Says It Is the Greatest Safeguard of for the Speakership the Trade Unions of 1 nnounces To-Day. 1 Congress, | wASHINGTON. April 18.—Samuel Gom- ance inf. pers, president of the Amerfcan Federa- tion of Labor, was the principal witness the tion but b considerable ad- P ababiy he ealeld | hetora the industrial commission to-day, AL Y P Sherman | Mr. Gompers' statement touched chiefly rk, s of Tlinois. Heo® | on the trade unfon “‘defense fund,” meth. : of Onio reP- | ods of organization, the general theory of Por b )f Ohio and | girikes, the incorporation of trades unions D. of Pennsylvania will be candi- | and the use of the boycott. dates, and it may be that Henderson of | He sald the defense fund was the great- ,_Cannon of Illinois and Payne of | est_safeguard of the lrades union. The York will make a contest for the | Federation of Labor was now accumulat- ations from their respective States | mxhzrrxe-th;i%“t;d&lg\'zi %, ‘1‘;‘32,‘{‘,2“ th t Hepburn, Hopkins and Sher- | fofige tund of any trades union the betier and stronger was its organization and the | less lable was 1t to be forced into an aot- | ual strike. Briefly, he said that an em- | ployer would engage In a fight with 100,- { 000 men & good deal quicker than he would T CITY. April 18.—Three dis- of earthquake were felt last | fight $100,000. early this morning, The last| The question of laws to provide for the, 4:40 o'clock. None were as | incorporation of the trades unions did not severe as that of Sunday last. dmeet with Mr, Gompers’ approval, OF A DEFENSE FUND| tp!edzcd .estates are within the confines of this.county and comprise about 20,000° acres. ' The properties: are sald to be worth $3,000,000. - . The creditor society had a’mortgage of $350,000 on the same ranches for a number of years and the.new and enlarged obliga- tion is the successor of that debt. Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch 15 said to be mortgaged, and the Impression {is abroad -that unless he ‘soon parts with some of his valuable land holdings in Southern. California interest and taxes will have a tendency to absorb the equi- ties these lands once possessed. - BOOTHS REMOVED. AND SIDE ENTRANCES CLOSED Los Angeles Police Enforcing the Ordinance Regulating the Saloons. LOS ANGELES, April 1%—The Police Commission, at its sessions. to-day, offi- cially determined to take out of saloons the private booths they. contain. The question of enforcing the closing of side entrances to any and all saloons was finally decided, and Chief Glass was in- structed to carr;" out the provisions of the ordinances. In presenting this ques- tion to the board Mayor Eaton said: “In many of these saloons there are stalrwa leading to basements, which are used almost exclusively by young irls and their escorts, who are on the own roid. They drink liquors in such basements procured from the saloons above. I have convinced myself by per- sonal observation that this is the existing state of affairs. Many proprietors say they do not desire such custom, but that they are in no E.mlltlon to prevent it. To ald them we will close these side and back entrances and remove the booths and curtains that hide and shelter unseemly conduct,” 2 1 Redeemer in Oakland, Cal., is in course of preparation. The last one was to have been given a week ago last Sunday night, | but it did not take place, owing to .the | failure of Mr. Harris to make the required | deposit for rent. - He went to Edwin Knowles, manager of the Fifth avenue | Theater, a year ago and arranged to rent | the theater for a serles of ““Sunday Even- | steamship Belgica; and M. Dobropolski, Ing Patriotic Concerts,” the proceeds to | assistant in the meteorological service. be given to ‘‘women’s sanitary work" and to *“purchase portraits of the Maine for our public schools.”” Subscribers were to have their names printed in the newspa- pers, and among the names of the ‘‘pa- trons” were given those ot C. P. Hunting- ton, George Crocker, A. N. Brady, J. Pierpont Morgan and former Governor Flower. Mr: Harris did not rent the theater. Mr. Knowles ‘sald to-day he understood the affair was to be a ‘‘subscription benefit,” and that money did not come in. Mr. Harris, when told to-day that com- Kla.lnls had been made of the failure of is theatrical enterprises after subscrip- tions had been pald in, said: “Some one who Is envious of the work 1 am doing is trying to prevent it. For the last year I have been doing non-sec- tarian work in New York Oity. I am somewhat in debt and am perfectly will- ing to pay every dollar if I am let alone. This is a benefit for me personally, inas- much as I have done everything and re- ceived nothing for over a’ year. I have nothing to hide. This is simply a matter otn ers;!cutrl_lon.;' fomiRs r. Harris is about to give up all thought of the stage and ntfi’m wpreu. glous work. Three Yolo County Deaths. ‘WOODLAND, April 18.—Death was busy among the old settlers of Yolo County esterday. Mrs. A. L. Belshe died near adison and Mrs. Martha Daniels near Woodland. This morning William BElbert 4 Woods died near Woodl BEEF COURT SRE T0 FIND AGAINST MILES The Preparation of the Find- ings Has Already Been Commenced. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, April 18—The army court of inquiry has begun the framing of its report. While a few minor mat- ters remain for examination they are not such as to affect the main facts. It is regarded as certain that the court will find that General Miles’ charges that embalmed or chemically prepared beef was sent to the army have not been sustained. = The position of the court is believed to be that the testi- | mony 1is conclusive that both the re- frigerated beef and the canned beef were in good condition when delivered to the Government and continued so until issued to the troops, except that portion damaged in transportation or affected by tropical conditions, and to these causes of injury and these con- ditions the chief causes of trouble will be attributed. It will be shown that the refrigerated beef after being taken from the ice in the tropical climate spoils quickly unless well cared for and that the canned beef, after being opened, because of the great heat, be- comes repulsive in appearance and soon unpalatable. But the court will hold, as the result of chemical investigations by experts, that the canned beef is wholesome and nutritious. will be called to the fact that it was used throughout the war by our navy and is still used by the fleet. It is be- lieved that the court will criticize those officers who have testified that they be- came aware that bad beef was issued to the troops and failed to report their observations until after the war had closed. ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS REACH "MONTEVIDEO Danco the Name Given to the Land They Discovered Near the South Pole. Special Cable to The' Call and the New York ilerald. Copyrighted, 1889, by James Gor- don_ Bennett. MONTEVIDEO, April 18.—The follow- ing members of the Belglan antarctic ex- pedition arrived here to-day on their way back to Europe: Henry Artowski, natur- allst; Roald Amundsen, an officer of the They are reticent regarding the result of the expedition, but it is known that it advanced to 71 degrees 36 minutes lati- tude south and discovered land previously unknown, which is called Danco. Captain Adrien de Gerlache, chief of the expedition, is still at Punta Arenas. He intends to go_to Buenos Ayres to repair his ship, the Belgica, returning thence to | Europe. Licutenant Danco, who had charge of the magnetic observations service for the expedition, died In June, 1898, as already told In a special cable dispatch to the Herald, and the new land was probably named in his honot. STEERS TORPEDOES FROM A DISTANCE NEW YORK, April 18.—A cable from London says: Axell Orling gave a private demonstration in° London to-day of his marvelous invention for steering torpe- does from a distance. The principle of the invention consists in the transmission of motor force by waves of light similar to Roentgen rays. fixed u; In one room Mr. Orling a model of a torpedo fitted with a rudder like a fish’s tail, controlling it by ‘means of an apparatus in an adjoining chamber, through two partition walls between the two objects. Spectators -were astonished to see the rudder of the torpedo turning to the right Lor to the left at the will of the operator, Attention | O SRR SO S MAFTER SAYS - KILL HALF OF THE FILIPINOS That the Other Half May Be Lifted From Semi- Barbarity. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, April 18 —Major General Shafter passed through Chicago to-day en route to his brother’s home in Syca- more, 111 Discussing the Philippine war he said: If General Lawton says 100,000 men are necded in the Philippines in order to effectually end hostilities and bring the natives to terms I should say that undoubtedly an army of such pro- portions is required. We of the army have supreme confidence in General tice to underestimate rather than ex- aggerate when passing upon existing conditio “I don’t know Otis—never saw him,” the gencral added. “I think Lawton had a right to critjcize the tactics of the commancing general if he believed them to be unwise. “The Filipino is a suspicious fellow, just like the Cuban. He can't see the good intentions of this Government and he never will until we subjugate him with powder and ball. “I heve said before that it may be necessary to kill half the population maining half may be lifted from their semi-barbarity to the civiliza- | tion we are ready to give them.” “And let me tell you,” General Shaf- ter concluded, impressively, “that I do not believe our troubles in Cuba are over by any means.” SYCAMORE, Iil., April 18.—General Shafter is at his brother’s home in this city suffering from an attack of ma- larial fever. tack is not serious and hopes to see General Shafter well enough to go to San Francisco in two or three days. Lawton's judgment, and it is his prac- | of the islands in order that the re-| His physician says the at- | RSl s e Sl e o e o o e e Y ) the Spanish force, consisting of eighty soldiers, three officers and two | priests, which were surrounded by | 400 insurgents. Some of the insur- | gents were armed with Mauser rifles. | With a landing party Lieutenant J. | C. Gilmore was ambushed, fired upon and captured. The fate of the prison- | ers is unknown as the insurgents re- | fused to communicate afterwara. The | following are missing besides the offi- Il cer previously referred to: Chief Quartermaster W. Walton. Cockswain J. Ellsworth. Gunner's Mate Edward J. Nygard. Sailmaker’s Mate Vandoit. | Seamen W. H. Rynder and 0. W. Woodbury. Apprentices D. G. A. Venville and bert Peterson. | Ordinary Seamen S. Brisolese and | 0. B. McDonald. 1 Landsmen L. P. Edwards, F. An- derson, J. Dillon and C. H. Morrissey. | DEWEY. The disnatch caused much excite- | ment in naval circles as soon as its con- tents became known. Tt was received late in the day, and considerable de- lay was occasioned by the blindness of some of the cipher words. It was im- possible to completely decipher it, but the general sense of it was plain. Lieutenant Gilmore, the officer re- ferred to as captured, is well known in Washington, having béen stationed here for some time, and hig wife and | family live here. He was born in Phila- | delphia July 10, 1854, and was appointed a naval cadet from Arizona in Septem- ber, 1871. He reached his present grada of lieutenant in 1891. His main service | has been on the Monongahela, Marion, ‘ Bancroft, Vesuvius and Machias, be- | sides considerable service on the naval | boards. Just a vear ago he reported to | the St. Paul, then commissioned an uxiliary cruiser, and served on that vessel under Captain Sigsbee through- out the war. On January 14 last he | was ordered to the hospital ship So- i lace, which was about to sail for Ma- | | a1 | nila, and on arrival there was assigned by Admiral Dewey to the Yorktown. The others mentioned in the admiral's dispatch are shown by the naval rec« ords as follows: William Walton, chief .quartermaster, enlisted at Cheefoo, China; born at Man- heim, Germany. Relatives none. John Ellsworth, cockswain, entered at Mare Island, California; born at Ports- mouth, N. H. No relatives Lyman Paul Edwards, landsman, enlist- ed at Mare Island; born in Peru, Ind. Next of kin E, B. Edwards, father, Mex- ico, Ind. John Dillon, landsman, enlisted at Flon- |POLICE SEARCHING FOR PASADENA ORPHANS Chicago Authorities Aid an O0ld ‘Woman to Find Her Two Grandchildren. CHICAGO, April 18.—Mrs. Van Buren of 2021 Arch street this morning requested the police to find her two grandchildren, a girl six years old and a boy three years. The father and mother of the children died. in Pasadena, Cal., a year ago and the little orphans were left in charge of strangers. Mrs. Van Buren, in telling her story to Captain Colleran, dated her trials and troubles back tweaty-nine years, when she gave birth to a girl. Ghe kept the child for nineteen months, when she turned the baby over to Mrs. Anna Graves for adoption. Nearly twenty | years ago Mrs. Graves moved to Califor- | nfa and took the girl with her. When 29 yvears old May married 4 lumber dealer of Pasadena named Charles Burns. Two children were born to them. When the parents died a year ago of consumption, Mrs. Van Buren claims. a brother of the | father brought the children to Chicago. “I had not seen my daughter for many years,” sobbed the old woman. ‘‘She never both she and her husband are dead I want my _children.” The police will enlist the aid of the Pas- adena authorities in tracing the children. ke EDMOND ROSTAND INSANE. Sad Affliction of the Author of “Cyrano de Bergerac.” - NEW YORK, April 18.—A special cable to the World from London says: A Paris dispatch announces that F.dmond Rostand, the author of *“Cyrano de Ber- erac,”” has become mentally deranged, ollowing prolonged insomnia. knew me to_be her mother, and now that | olulu; born at Gateway, Ireland. Next of kin George Cavener, Honolulu. Paul Vandoit, sailmaker’s mate, enlisted at Mare Island, California; born in France. Next of kin P. Vandoit, father, San Luis Obispo, Cal. Charles Herbert Morri: enlisted at Mare Island, Nebr. landsman, : born Mrs. J. listed at Mare Island, Californ: Carmel Valley, California. tere P. McDonald, father, M Willlam H. Rynder, coc! at Mare Island, California; sterdam, Holland. Next of kin Mrs. | H. Nyhouse, cousin, 520 | street, San Francisco. | Silvio Brisolese, ain, enlisted born at Am- M. Connecticut ndsman, enlisted at San Francisco; born at San Franc | Next of kin Nocolo Brisolc fathe: }M on street. San Franc Albert Peterson, apprentice, third class enlisted at San Francisco; born at land: next of kin Louis Peterson, Third street, Oakland, Cal. Orrison Welch Woodbury, seaman, en- sted at Gloucester, Mass.; born at Lynn, Mass.; next of kin John' G. Woodbury father, 143 Maple street,, Lynn. M g | Densell George ; | tice, second class, enlisted at Mare | and’ Cal.; born at Dudl England; next of kin E. Marsh, Sellwood, Oregon. Fred_Anderson, landsman, enlisted at New York; born at Buffalo, N. Y.; ne of kin Christiana_Andersen, mother, Bristol street. Buffalo, N. Edward J. Nygard, gunner’s mate, third class, enlisted at New York: born at Warsaw, Russia; next of kin Sophia Ny- gard, wife, 1631 Atlantic avenue, Brook- Iyn, N. Y The misfortune was felt with added keenness, as the navy has prided itself Athus far on Immunity from reverses. Os 1015