The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1899, Page 1

The Call the r are the buil n Con 1it Company, s though these a fire, but a hucket 1it v's product is handled 1it packing company. ed in the coop- Patrolmen Marcen and West San Jose Hose Com- work, but they had not tus to handle it. It y and then to Cas- on the rted is & my: done in the ear. It looks, how- was d by he el ry t iing cost $25,000 when A. Zicovich. allons of wine. belting, etc < of cooperage, | A conservative nd conten In | t £1 75,000, ne of the wine I rty of H. H. Koosev. On ing and contents were about rance. On 10th of thjs L & Co. wrote a polic the Home Insurance | J. A. Clayton & Wooster & n & Orvis ated > wareho 1 I._G. Knowles, his at $10,000, with no at in- rotected packing of dried m his resi- bout $1500. ich ha nd fore d up agzinst him nother mys close proximity to that hg, when some half a do selonging to Zicovich were de- At that time his loss was from b 1su About fous fire oc- of £15.000 to $20,000, with am: insurance. re Wwe two mortgage€ on the winery property. Julian Reis had one $20,000 and Mre. Rhefeldt another Besides there was a chat- ortgage of $18,000 on the machin- | the place. Zicovich stated this g that he was satisfied the fire the work of an incendiary. He had been in San Francisco negotiating of the captain of the German cruiser Falke by a party of Brit- ish biuejackets, brought to Vic- toria by the Australian liner Ao:angi to-day, carries its own refutation. The Aorangi does not stop at Samoa on her trip from Wellington, N, Z., to British Columbia, but does call at Suva, Fiji. The distance irom Samoa to Fiji is only about 500 miles. Giving the interisland steamer two days to make the run of 500 miles from Apia to Suva and the mail | boat 14 days to make the run from Fiji to British Columbia, that would make the news from Samoa bear date of April 1, or, giving =n extra 24 hours for the doubt, say March 31. | Thus the Upolo, leaving Apia on | the afternoon of April 1, should reach | Suva on the morning of the 3d, and | the Aorangi (a 13-knot ship), pick-| ing up the news on the afternoon of | April 6, on her arrival there, should | reach Victoria on the 20th. | The Oceanic Steamship Company’s steamer Alameda, which carried to Auckland the cablegram in which The Call beat the newspaper world, | giving the story of the ambush of Lieutenant Lansdale and party, left Apia on April 6, the same day on which the Aorangi left Suva. The Alameda also carried to Auckland Rear Admiral Kautz’s official account | of the ambuscade. It is more than incredible, it is impossible, that both The Call’s correspondent and the ad- | miral would have failed to mention so important a matter as the arrest | of the captain of the Falke. | ICTORIA, B. C., April 20.—A| queer yarn comes from Apia, via | Suva, by the steamer Aorangi. The story was brought to the | Fifian capital on April 3 by the interisland steamer, Upolu, which runs | between the Samoan and Fiji groups. | It was said that the commander of the | German man-of-war Falke is now in | a position where he will make no more | trouble at Apia—at least for some time to come. He has, the tale goes, been made a prisoner by the British, and despite the protest of his compatriots, | | both on the Falke and ashore, is held captive on the British warship Por- polse. Own Refutation. mander of the Falke Carries Its | > = DeD e e DeD e be o sie e ev e e = B L S S 2 ° 3 ? Commander F. C. D. Sturdee of the British Cruiser, . Who Probably Does Not Hold the Commander of the Falke Prisoner. The story, as told to the Suva and | gaged, like a common filibuster, Honolulu papers by the late arrivals | landing rifles and cartridges. from Apia, is that the captain of the The Upolu’s passengers say the Falke Falke is charged with having supplied | was, when they left, moored between the rebels under Mataafa with arms |the American cruiser Philadelphia and and ammunition, having, the Upolu’s | the British ship Porpoise, and was passengers say in interviews given to | likely to remain there, for it is said the Fiji Times, been caught while en- | orders were sent aboard her that if nhej A D A S R A R S S e e e SO R e in | parted to the | the line of march the charm of fresh- to disre the endeavor to make the visitors feel that they were heartily welcome. The main feature of the day was the parade this afternoon of the command- For such an occasion thesweather simply perfection, the being from a single cloud and a sc breeze cooling the air. Thou women, dressed in summer atti rowded sidewalks along and it is doubtful marched if through a ness and colo; the Knights ev city which be enthusiasm. The spirit of the day caught the musi- cians, the plumed Knights - and the populs visitors who is not glad of the chance of having seen Sacramento under such favorable conditions. The procession was headed by Chief Dwyer and a platoon of police in uni- form, Then followed, in order, the right eminerit grand commander; grand commander’s staff; grand captain gen- eral and his chief of staff; bugler and orderly; Second Infantry band. Then followed the first battalion, Sir T. B. Reed battalion commander, compr 2 ing Sacramento Commandery No. four cempanies. The second battalion, in command of Sir Thomas B. Hall, was made up of Pacific Commandery No. El Dorado Commandery No. 4, Oroville Commandery No. 5, Nevada Command- @eliefielie e R NN Sl made any attempt to move she would be blown out of the water. The Falke’s commander, according to a copra trader of Levuka, who reached Suva on his way home from Apia by the Upolu, had gone into a small wooded cove about two miles below Apia in one of the Falke's launches, and had, by preconcerted arrangement, met a number of Mataafians, to whom he was doling out stacks of rifles and boxes of cartridges when a squad of British bluejackets suddenly sprang out from the plantation near by and sur- prised them. There was no fighting. The natives fied and the Germans sur- rendered without resistance. They were placed in the launch, with the rifles they had intended to land, and hur- riedly conveyed to the British warship Porpoise, which lay out in the stream some few miles from Apia proper. The German commandant vigorously protested against his arrest, but when the Upolu left he was still held on the Porpoise. His scamen were allowed to return to their ship, but the launch and the arms and ammunition were con fiscated. Realizing the gravity of the tion, Captain Sturdee hastily moned Admiral Kautz from the Amer- jcan ship Philadelphia. The American admiral at once went abroad the Por- poise, and the situation was discussed between the two officers at great length. The result of the conference was a decision on the part of the two situa- rd all other considerations in | med such a cheery hos- | pitality or invited more irresistibly lo‘l e all at once, and- there is no- | | body among the hundreds of sum- | was watched by thousands. Along Capitol Park the review by the grand ’ VOLUME LXXXV-—NO. 14 N 2 / 2 AN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. - T T | | HTS TEMPLAR IN | 1 gmm@+@+&@+wwwww&»@+@rw~ e SR SO o e o ] | . | ¢ | | | e —— 'A Sensational Development Believes the Maine Man Is ! Dewey Has Several Thee| " PlRin e T s Basrte ; at Fresno. White House. )4 ries as to the Fate o s ! e 5 . Special Dlsmtri to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call. + Gl“mOl‘e S Men. o FBESNO, April 2—HI Rapelfl, the| NEW YORK, April 20—Thomas B.|$ | eputy sheriff who acquired fame | Reed’s change of residence from Maine | '@ > k Lhrnughnut the State a few years ago | to this city has created um:asinesxswQ ! T e v his capture "f N*tmafl :"dl Evans, | among the friends of President McKin- :: > o . B tion to-night by con- jey. They suspect that instead of |7 1 Cable to The Call and Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by t';f-“mx_ to - District Attorney EVerts| apandoning idential ambition | ¢ ? James Go Bennett. at he had shot and killed Leong Tung, | Reed has merely shifted his ground to | ¢ * one of the victims of the highbinder | e in a better position to attack the |% > Sl A g . > : riot in Chinatown last night. sonventic Xt ves ® ANILA, 2 imiral Dewey, in an interview Rapelii is now employed as a watch-.| :;V:‘;'? "T:l\‘[wr‘;r” ot 180 | ¢ It T expedition of the sunbeat Yorktown | manin the Chinse voilexter annewas!, Seopnte BRSHHEL EREGE Soie ‘ 5 g the Aret-wii - z are not overjoyed at having a Repub- | ¢ ) to rescue Spanish soldiers 1 e first white man to reach the scene | ;.\ ¢ Reed's importance invade the | ” to Bale to rescue Spanish soldiers and | of the excitement after the shooting | con @ T0C8 O Rt B 1 : : blgheci - = 3 : State. They fes may stand in the § + PRI B cing besieged in the church there. The sol- |commenced. During the melee . he ] MLl : e e - g - ceght a- Chinaman named Wong Dajgk | 8y 0f thelr favorite, When the ftims) L T ers s er when ordered to lay down their arms | ana turned him over to Deputy Shertte | SOmes for New York to select candi- | J b by Cehelil e end of the Paris Peace Conference. Walden. At the time he claimed that | dates. Shils it o | & ? St he had seen Wong Duck shoot and kiil| - Senator Platt's friendship for the|¢ ¢ \ vey said he did not know what had become of |Leong Tung. j formex Spealier ds flogked pon st an |if 3 = X 4 R ins | €lement of danger in the situation. i I \ fourteen men in the Iz : £ At the Inquest held over the remains | © !0 2 18 : S 3 e ; ieilannch. CThey ] o A e e e Rapelji | While ostensibly supporting Governor | ¢ s e mouth of the river, but went beyond | denieq tHat he had seen Duck kill Tung, | Morton for the ‘“""‘,‘“"“““ 1 ‘" fi,f 1o ) : gat : 5 5 i : § vas secret that he was really for E of the Yorktown. = His subposition is they |DPut claimea that be simply caneht him | W8 5o C= s ally & : 2 : PI s they running in the alley during the shoot- | Reed. Though he has made his peace | ¢ + v the Spaniards or by the 400 insur- |ing. Rapelji’s testimony was regarded | With President McKinley and is now | ¢ 2 esieg the szmiih Sartion as rather peculiar and was a surprise | 00 an intimate footing in the W hite | ¢ - g oty oo House, the President’s friends have not | 4 5> vey declined to say what steps he would take | To-night District Attorney Everts vis- | forgotten the bitter assaults which he | ¢ . | ited Chinatown in company with At-|made upon President McKinley before | ¢ & : : > | torney W. D. Crichton and together | the St. Louis' convention. |4 3 R h commander, when interviewed, | they proceeded to cross-examine the| They are disinclined to credit the | ¢ 8 3 : T APt watchman. The latter told a number | financial reason given by Reed's friends | ¢ t k the garrison at Baler knew the war De- 5 i 3 STetL g of conflicting stories, but was finally | for his removal to this c They say | + § ! ( es and Spain had ended. He had sent an | cornered by the attorneys and admit- | he was réceiving a comfortable in- |6 § )¢ T IS oS o s The omrp. | ted that he himself had fired the bul-| come, and that he would not have ¢ § & LRSI € BATHISOR ‘”_'f“"“r' : The garri- |25 (}ich killed Leong Tung: | withdrawn from his position of power | & * S€ either not believing the officer or fearing they When he entered the alley after the|ang influence in Washington merely for | ¢ Pt ) SE i SR s .Y | commencement of the shooting Rapelil | the sake of increasing it. They sus ¢ pped by the insurgents. Since then General Rios W & Chinaman Iyine prostralein fe| o oo, ST ADSISSE g Pt Bii . A o o e PN T e \d and being held down by another | Pect bttt it b B > Y : h the gz S is is the S Eird man Stood & few | 1ts between him and Senator Platt | s he has had that the Spanish flag is still fiying at and was discharging his plifcenys the Hentowhish weadlonn i 5 e tol at the b on the ground. The! 1896 will be renewed next year. ! man who was .![""f‘,’]'f'ii“p{{n:q\':f:?ld.iffv\n;.} With the seventy-two delegates of 3 ught the Americans were shot at by the insurgents, Wwho is now In the Morgue, and the | :y‘:ll ‘h"’;: 2 :“"’ ::‘1 ‘l““‘ : d‘.‘;;‘:""‘“ fh: + Q e themcelves arethe=ic 5 e hooter wast «Iieong Tung.: cRapelji2:much more formidable, CAICGALS: 20 © l emselves are besie ged and have no way of ushed up and struck Tung, who | the Presidency than he was as the can- £ > to seneral Rios said he had not been con- |turned to run into an adjacent door-| didate of the twelve delegates from g t1 goid S e R gy He was ordered to halt and upon | Maine. Moreover, his strength in ? the expedition to the relief of Baler. | his ({-—fus"' fo do a0 Rapelfi fired, Kill- | England would probably be at hi * 3 5 S, | ing him antly. | ks “ome the can- Té S ting General Rios’ last appeal to | '™fne watchman then turned around|Pesal even should he become the can ) 1 id the release of the Spanish prisone and saw Wong Duck in the act of run- | didate of New York. . ic : 1 th lez €opanisit DRSONC ming away from the body of the dead| Should there be a change of senti- | { ¢ ynd of sympathy between the Filipinos and |Chinaman. He caught the Celestial by | ment in regard to the results of the | | gIit ok - the queue and held him until the ar-| war with Spain it is even feared by | 4 © S rival of the Deputy Sherift. after the| president MoKinley's ‘friends that|{ el e + oo e B shooting Rapelji declared that the man 5 3 Wt e , — o B et S vt 0 MASONIC TEMPLE AT SACRAMENTO. ¢ DI AL 70 | for the sale of his wine. He placed | jumped up .and bolted. - His dead body | fréedom from responsibility for the new | 4 & )4 \ e his loss at $15 , but this is unGoubt- | on a slab at the Morgue is a mute con- | Policy would make him strong in the | ® 5t % 5 g S ?l 1 edly too hig! | tradiction of this story. | convention. (5000000800008 081 0T 0IT ot tR 00t E+EI000¢0+6 40600000+ 0 e tietieti et oot etietietiotie etiotietietie e N et e Netietenere eIt N s UGN 2 RGN INGQY ACRAMENTO, April 20.—The en- [ ery No. 6, Marysville Commandery No. | stainless statesman, and who. whether in & o e campment of the Grand Com- | 7%, four companies. t 1 or in the forum, on bench or 4 | | mandery and department con-| The third bat was fui chargs of (.St fbe ber, bis always bl | ave of the Knights Templar of | Sir J. W. Guthr ol frmedgor | e OO ‘ California opened in this city this Elon Chmm s der NoE T Ton A e SR e o = | 9 | morning with a short session devoted Commandery Chico Cor He stands before us to-day a 1 h the presentaticn of reports, followed | mandery No. 10, La Commandery | cent up on the Al | by the annual parade and review. The | No. 13, Red Bluff ( No. 17, | pedestal | city never looked more attractive than | Woodland Commande Colusa | American of heroic ‘ |it did to-day, garbed in ' the Templar | Commandery No. 24, V Zpictjji oo eameas : i . colors of white and black, relieved by | ery No. 2 Gog | Swiey, Teeglet tnitaStae J i { the Stars and Stripes. On all sides the | Mount Shasta Commandery No. 32, four | The address of tf nder decorations were in evidence, and in|compan: Was-followed by el N JOE A strous = | many instances they 1ted the | The parade proceeded through the | t0 Sacramento by b : =it . expenditure of much labor and money, | principal streets, over more than two | C0mmander of Sacrame: | »-night the held its annual ba | comimander itodk ‘placerand theistent] Lomund C. Atkinson " iof 8z les . an':immroasive’ one . when the | COmIENAEry Seting as taastmasicr. | Kights marehed along in the shadow | Rumber of addresses were made relat- | of the.palms that sentinel the outer | ing to the work of the order and ex- | edge of. Capitol Park. ' Even,upon’ the | Pressive of the amenities of the oc- | balconies of the Capitol itself ‘people | casion.” Among the persons chosen by \d" atationed. themselves to: catehl an | Mt Atkinsonitoideliver the toasts wers Reuben H. Lloyd M. Pow- sion. advantageous view of the proce |~ The forty-first annual session‘of the | ¢T® John F. Merrill, E. M. Preston, Grand Commandery of the Knights|James A. Foshay and J. C. Campbell. Templar of California opened this| Masonic Hall is again illuminated to- | night witk 2000 colored electric lights morning in the Masonic Temple, which = i 3 and the city looks as if it were in the had been rendered a thing of beauty 0 f by the handiwork of the decorator.and | height of a spring festival | fioriati’ The' commandery ‘was calied to|| . The following is @ list, of the officers L orden by the erand commander, Robert{ or i (Galden (Gt Commandery and | & Powers of San Dieko. who nro. | the members of the drill corps who are | ' to read his annual’address. - Re. | Particioating in the eyents hon ferring to the recent war with S0 ’;')""[f‘r::‘r‘,\l.f:::"fjj“"]“'"'M St following the biowing up of the Maine, | FATPE r;u':mn S eRerat i i the grand commander sald: [1and, senior warden; R. B. Moore, These events are matters of recent his- tory and familiar to you all, and I men- tion them only to show that in this rec- ord-making epoch our fraters, whether or junior warden. Drill corps—William Edwards, com- mandant; R. B. Moore, senior warden; Robert McMillan, junior warden; C. S. land or sea, nobly performed their part, | Benedict, paymaster; G. Armstrong, adding greater luster and greater mean- | commissary; J. G. Spaulding, adjutant; ing to the term “‘American.” Sirs R. Ash, R. B. Hale, A. S. de Guerre, J. M. Wilkins, W. S. Miller, C. Toohey, L. E. Spear, R. son, E. We had gallant Sir Knight MacArthur at Manila, Sir Knights Gobin and Moul- ton‘in Cuba, and at the front on the fight- | B. Cutter, G. M. Franks, W. C. Wise, ing line at San Juan Hill and El Caney | J. R. Aitkin, William R. Phillips, A. F. could be found the modern Coeur de| Waterson, S. J. Hendy, L. C. Hunter Lion, our honored frater, “Fighting Joe” | T. V. Harris, G. L. Darling. W. Wheeler. Gage, H. T. Emery, H. P. Umbsen. C. H. Murphy, H. D. Loveland, H. M. Fir- man, T. Frolich, C. V. Manner, Dr. A. W. McKenzie, Dr. T. J. Fraz M. r- rish, W. H. Smith, C. L. Ha: But as Knights Templar and as citizens of this great republic we recognize one | grand, central figure, who had previously | proven himself a patriotic soldier and L R R R R R R R 2 R AR R S S S ST g ambuscade, Britishers planned the with the above-told result. WASHINGTON OFFICIALS DISCREDIT THE STORY officers that, -there being ample evi- dence of the guilt of the Germans. they must stand by the action of Cap- tain Sturdee. Both ships got under way, and af- ter thev had taken up positions on either side of the German ship, orders were sent on board the Falke to re- main at her moorings under peril of | WASHINGTON, April 20.—The state- immediate annihilation by the War-|ment that the commander of the Ger- ships on elther side. The senior of | man cruiser Falke had been arrested the ‘same time’ by the' joint command- | 2t Apia by the British naval com- ers of the British and American ships | mander was at once outed by the of- that they were prepared to back up |ficials to whom it was referred here. their action. | Both Secretary Alger and Secretary The German officer sent letters pro- | Jong expressed their disbelief in the testing against the action of Captain | zacyracy of the report. Attention was De- pivilesand Aamital Kauls, but made | girected to the fact that the Nav | "With the issuance of the orders to | partment heard from Admiral Kautz | “lie still” to the Falke, communication | by cable from Auckland at a later date with the German ship was to all in- | than that upon which the steamer just tents and purposes cut off, and no one | arrived at Victoria must have sailed | was allowed to leave or go aboard ihe from Suva. Admiral Kautz' dis- | Falke without permission written and | patches were dated April 4 and were | signed of either Admiral Kautz or Cap- | forwarded from the nearest cable sta- | tain Sturdee. tion, Auckland, April 12. The position is, the Upolu's pussen-} It is pointed out in official German | gers said in their reports to the Suva | quarters that the arrest of the com- papers, greatly strained. The Ameri- | mander of one warship by the com- cans and British have come to a tacit | mander of another is an absurdity, and | agreement that the flagrant acts of tha | moreover, cable advices have reached Germans in encouraging and aiding the | the Embassy much later than those which a steamer had brought to Vic- rebel chief Mataafa had gone far toria. No such action was disclosed. enough, and when news was brought to them that the Falke’s commander | The British Embassy also is without intended to put more arms ashore, the | any information of such an occurrence. |