The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1899, Page 1

23 VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 151. SAN FRANCI /0, SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1899—THIR' Y-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BLOODSHED AND RIOTING AT WARDNER Masked Strikers Wreck Mining Property With Dynamite. e03CREENO O 8230006020000 20DOD I LIPINOS ARE - DEMORALIZED Peace Negotiations Fail and Aguinaldo’s Army Is Going WARDNER, Idaho, April 29.—One thcousand masked and heavily armed miners reached here at noon to-day on a Northern Pacific train they had stolen at Burke. They brought with them a ton nali of dynamite. Three hours later they departed on the stolen train, leav- ing the $300.000 mill, the office and the board- the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines a total wreck. The machinery and brick building had been shattered to bits by the explosion of immense charges of dynamite, and the frame buildings had been consumed by fire, the miners ing applied the torch to them. G00IHC00O036006000200000680 d off exulting and ing house of 9200000000000022900003%0 nother heir guns and gave utteranc and wa 1 mine m<0agement had early ng of the approach of the mot non-us10n miners left the mine ra] heurs t > the train arrive 2y K to the we re they re- until the r s departed. The d the desired ! company to € of Idaho is se- but is e W : certing him- G ‘ e situatic Early this N : he wired to President Me« | t Burk A him of the serious ¥ 1 the probable need o hours After learning of the blowing ' il oo foals 1 he made a ‘ormal call for TS 10 be s nt to the sceng-gf Beatty of the Federal Cc 2 t six ) ago ued a perpetual injunc training members of the Min- s he explos! Union from entering upon or inter- with the Bunker H r The viol: 1 one ground al ald to quell the ri ters. When t injunction was the was 1 the Twenty-fifth | e it long ri mained pro- , toct | To-night there arrived in Spokane a | number of refug: from Wardner. | They report tha ast seen Super intendent Burbridge of the Bunker Hill “hitting the tra ntly intending to ilroad at some remote point. refuse to talk for pub- a deadly fear of the ; have representatives S bring a number of shells cartridges fired by the strik- ». Curfously enough, they are used in Springfleld e of which were stolen company’s armory s ago and never r militia n two y One company of the Twenty o ¥ United States Infantr d) is sta- . tioned at Spokane r at Van- | Barracks have been ived here for the movement of the 1 the Bunker Hill 1 last Monday, when the , who were in the majority ist of the company's employes, ded an advance of pay and a of the They had 3 a ¢ and muckers. If-dollar advar company the and u ng lace over t mob t 1 wage, which w - advance in lead and s the mines produced, but de. ecognize the union. All the vere thereupon withdrawn, to s vded with gineer AT Was cr At Wall fon men were retained and ns being ma aged. On Tuesday and Wed- S Fiora ihe the union men walked up the : Oy 2 reiterate their demands and to ¢ joins regon d. |t t >n-union On Wed- n, on a similar visit, T. S. of the leaders of the strik: olver and others threatene They intimidated a_number the latter Vardner ched to ceeded to V aching that®city at about as sw : 3 2 into quitting. Thus the small party was dragged along until to-da two miles away, | When the other union miners in the | after a discussion | C02ur d'Alenes swept down from Can- Al stness, ipra reck, the hotbed of agitation and | 4 ) ndiarism, and started the trouble. | a half-mile he Last Cha 5 | e e : han , near the Bun- | party o nd Sulli which was | al that | union scale, but not | ted. The | Ing the union, closed on the commence- | : rstood by the main | MENt of the trouble on Monday, but be f ke who poured a volle 1though it did not re iite the U , \rly 1000 rifle shots into the un on, a di ation being made hillsides behind which | favor because it always paid th party was conceale Be- | scale. It will now have to cl g discovered Smith | cause of the destruction of the t. While | used in common by the two. x‘,\ ‘w ( | —_—— body to ¢ body © \DAHO MILITIA the riote | MAY BE CALLED ouTt BOISE, April 20.—The action of the union miners in taking the Bunker Hilj ain He ¥ nid the mill ma- charg chinery and ¢ the brick offic i L buildin fixed and light 'h was ap-|and Sullivan mincs at Wardner is 5 0 the f , ouse | 100ked upon as a very grave matter by | Ll 18 0S| the State officlals. Governor Steunen. NlACK 5 ! berg has been sick in bed three days to the hillsides, whence 2 view of the | ang inable to give Serious attentign expected explosions could had %0 the problem, though he keeps In con- Six terrific explosions followed, | sultation with other State off s. He causing the earth to tremble for miles | has sent Stdte Auditor Sinclair north | and breaking windows in houses at | With authority to represent him. The | Wardner, two miles aws The work | Governor declines to make any state- | by oy el he work | hont, but it is understood he is re- | of destruction was thorot v done, the | gpived to exhaust every resource in en- machinery being wrecked beyond 1 forcing the law. pair nd the buildings tota -| The enlisting of volunteers entirely | stroyed. Just three hours after their | Wiped out the State militia, but steps| prepare the rem- | being taken to | nants for service. The Governor has | notified President McKinley of the sit- | uation and that it may be necessary to call for Federal aid. arrival the rioters returned to the train and compelled the crew, which had been kept under guard, to take them back to Burke. Before leaving they |.with a guard and permitted them to has reached Marunco. { | clared that the Filipinos must be pers | bé given an increasing measure of self- | the to Pieces. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. ANILA, April 29.—Lieutenant Colonel Wallace of the Montana Regiment and Brigade Surgeons Shields and Adams, three volunteer hostages for the afety of the insurgent commission, have returned from Santa Tomas, the headquarters of General Luna, miles north of Calumpit. They report that General 1 the insurgents demoralized. the American advance are b 1g made. the Filipino commander, eight _una is greativ discoura&ed and préparations for reAstance ot runa said he General was astonished by the great valor displayed by the Americans in crossing the Rie Grande. He expressed 11gh admiration for Colonel Funston, whose daring ceseful. work ma<¢ the movement suc- Major General Otis and Admiral Dewey at a second con- ference with the insurgent comméssion this morning decided not to Thig mended ¥ grant an armistice. The Call-Herald pig of the battles, were I¢{ned by baco of Manila. ANILA, April 20, 3 p. m.—The| conference tosday eral between Gen- and Colonel Miguel | and Lieutenant Jose | who came from General ag of truce yesterday to | a cessation of hostllities, was | The Filipinos admit that they | n defeated and that they will | return with fresh proposals from Gen- eral Lina. Otis from General Luna were hospitably treated by General Otis, wh6 provided them with a house and | visit friends here. Returning to the palace this aorning the envors sax an | {llustration of American resources. A long train of wagons and packs was just starting for General bawton, who The conference at the palace lasted | three hours, Jacob G. Schurman of the | United States Philippine Commission attending and Admiral Dewey dropping in for an hour. The discussion was mostly between General Otis and Colonel Argueleses, who had been se- lected for the mission by General Luna because he had known General Ot Colonel Arguele: rved on the Fili pino Commission which met the Amer- n authorities before the war In an .ndeavor to smooth over the impend- ing troubles. Mr. Schurman emerged from the pal ace between the two shock-halred, half savage looking emissaries, and the three drove unattended to the office of the United States Philippine Commis- | sion, where they talked informally (urf about an hour. : Manila is divided between two opin- the majority believing that the s desire peace, while othe are sparring for time in h to rehabilitate their demoralized | army. The latter opinion gained color from the fact that reinforcements have been sent to the south, opposite thu1 American lines. Colonel Argueleses, who is a lawyer, aptly illustrated the Malay subtlety at words. While he declared with appar- ent frankness that the Filipino leaders want a chance to give up the struggle gracefully through the Congress, in- | stedad of surrendering ignominiously, he | asked for a fortnight's armistice, so that the Congress might be summoned on May 1. He endeavored to commit the | Americans to greater concessions and wanted terms guaranteed DY tromy,l He was told that the recognition of the | Filipino Government was impossible, | and he was told that a written guar- antee of amnesty for all insurgents was the utmost that could be given. Col- | onel Argueleses argued that Spain had given similar guarantees and broken them, and he laid much stress on the Spaniards’ honor. He persistently de. mitted to retire with honor. In conversation with Mr. Schurman, Colonel Argueleses revived the question of independence and was referred to the statement in the Commissioners’ proclamation that the Filipinos would government as soon as they proved asclves worthy of it. Mr. Schurman warned Argueleses that the longer war was waged and the more were killed, the stronger would be the animosities hindering an amica- ble co-operation between the two peo- ples for the prosperity of the islands. The insurgents have an insurrection on their hands. The Maccabebes, tra- ditional foes of the Tagals, are rising in the north, while the burden of thou- sands of hungry and discontented peo- ple who fled before the American army, and who are camping behind the Fili- pino lines, multiplies the troubles of the Filipino Government, the headquar- ters of which is now at Isidro, having been moved northward when Calumpit fell. s CLAIM NEGOTIATIONS ARE UNOFFICIAL LONDON, April 29.—Members of the Filipinc Junta here made the statement D e S e e SR e aa o to the Associated Press correspondent decision is universally com- ons, which have been bringing news the Compana General de Ta- JOHN . F. BASS. to-day that the peace negotiations be- tween the United States authorities at Manila and General Luna were unofti- cial in character. General Luna, the Junta asserts, does not represent Agul- naldo’s government. It is further as- gerted by the Junta that secret nego- tiations between Don C. Worcester of the United States Philippine €ommis- sion and a representative of Aguinaldo have been in progress since before the attack on Malolos. The following con- ditions, it is alleged, were proposed - R S e » after the capture of Malolos: “The Americans to issue a proclama- tion granting the Filipinos self-govern- ment and police, civil and religious rights similar to those enjoyed by the people of Canada; the Filipinos to con- trol international mercantile relations; Americans and Filipinos to enjoy equal rights in the islands; Manila to remain in the possession of the United States until Congress decides otherwise; the American flag to fly over the capitols of the islands, and in the most prominent positions along with the Filipino flag, except at Manila, where only the Amer- ican flag should fly; all vessels to fly the American flag with that of the Filipinos; the American and Catholic clergy to be under the same adminis tration.as in the United States; Span- ish clerical direction and intervention to be abolished; the status quo of rural property belonging to the religious or- ders to be maintained without return to the ante-bellum state of affairs; hos- pitals and schools formerly admini: tered by the orders to be handed over to the government, the orders to retain only their present town property; the secular clergy to retain their property.” The Junta asserts that Aguinaldo, in view of these proposals, withdrew from Malolos, but that General Otis’ procla- mation after the occupation of Malolos failed to grant self-government on the proposed lines. This, it is further as- serted, caused the hostilities following the capture of Malolos ANTI-IMPERIALISTS URGE WITHDRAWAL BOSTON, April 20.—The executive committee of the Ant{-Imperialist Union adopted the following resolution which was forwarded to the President: “To the President: We urge you to | | [ DHO40+0+0 40+ 0+ O +O+0+0+0+04C404040 | offer the Philippine Government with- drawal in five years, giving it mean- while moral support; Philippine Gov- ernment to reimburse our pavment to Spain, the United States to keep the | on the Hudson. HO4O4O+0404 0+ D4O+O+040 WASHINGTON, April 29. The following dispatch was received this morning from General Otis: “MANILA, April 29.—Ad- jutant General, Washington: Conference with insurgent representatives t e r m inated this morning. They request cessation of hostilities three weeks to enable them to call their congress to decide whether to continue prosecu- tion of war or propose terms of peace. Proposition declined and full amnesty promised on surrender. Believe insurgents tired of war, but seek to se- cure terms of peace through what they denominate their representative congress. “0TIS.” T4V T 4O+ 0O+ O 404040404040+ 0404 0 ‘ +4T4O4T4D4 T+ O4D+D404049 islands. RWIN WINSLOW. small Secretary.” COMBINE OF FLOUR MILLING COMPANIES NEW YORK, april 294‘—The Herald to-morrow will say: Articles of incor- T is-but a few day since the battle of Cardenas B: Americans the most disas engagement of thewar. y killed in the brief struggle with Spain fell men—more than the dead of Manila and Santiago combined. They were all killed by the explosion of a single shell, and | now the startling statement is' made that | the death-dealing missile came from | American ship of war, sped by an Ame can gun and sighted by some loyal but erring American seaman. There is bitter feeling between the enue marine service and the navy. rev- 1 3 e ] has smoldered for nearly a year, but the revenue service, aceording to its own peo- | ple, has not been given the credit due for the part it took in the war, and its offi- ir brothers cers see no reason to spare t of the navy or to hide the mis made. ‘“Bagley was killed by from the Wilmington,” is the direct state- ment of Lieutenant Hutchinson Scott, ex- ecutive officer of the Hudson during the eves of the doomed officer when the shell laid him and his shipmates dead on the deck of the little torpedo-boat. The statement has called forth vigor- JUST* PEEORE FHE ‘FATAL SHELE BURST. poration of the United States Flour Milling Company, filed in New Jersey vesterday, mark the consolidation of nineteen of the larger mills, including those in Duluth, West Superior, Wil- waukee and Buffalo and Syracuse, N. Y. The organizers of the trust have bought only such properties as they could procure at a reasonable market price. The nineteen mills included in the list have a daily capacity of about 40,000 barrels of flour. George Urban Jr. of Buffalo is to be the president of the company. The United States Flour Milling Com- pany is capitalized at $25,000,000, half common and half preferred stock, and $15,000,000 6 per . cent forty-year gold bonds It w hurn Milling Company, the Washburn- Crosby and the Northwestern Consoli- | dated Companies would go into the consolidation, but it is stated the Eng- lish shareholders wanted such exor- bitant prics for their holdings that these companies were left out of the consolidation. The bonds and stock of the company or combination already have been of- fered for sale, and it is said they have been largely subscribed The com- bination may result in a ruinous war between the trust and those milling companies which have not entered into the consolidatiol PRINCE OF SIAM WOUNDED BY A GERMAN Sensational Duel in the Gymnasium of the Military School in Potsdam. BERLIN, April 20.—A sensational saber duel has just taken place in the gym- nasium of the military school in Pots- dam between the Prince of Siam, who is at present receiving a military education in the German army, and a German offi- - 4 er. In the fifth engagement the Prince re- celved a severe but not fatal wound in the head. s expected the Pil]shury-“’:«sh-‘ - e e e e of the Wilmington and from the officers who were on board during the fight and from those who sympathize with them; his brother officers will not deny such a happening was possible. The ‘story caused much excitement in the East, and now interest has been transferred in part out here by the arrival of Lieutenant Meade, who was an officer of the Hudson during the fight. ‘The question has been considered by the Navy Department, but it has been de- cided to make no formal investigation. The denial of Captain Todd of the W mington and the added statements of Lieutenant Bernadou, who commanded the Winslow, that his men were killed by a Spanish shell have been taken as sufficient; but the revenue officers call at- tention to the positions of the three ves- sels during the engagement, to the cir- cumstances surrounding the death of the projectile, and then leave the matter to the judgment of those who hear. Secott is the only one who says outright that “‘Bagley was killed by a shell from the ‘Wilmington.” The battle was fought on May 12, 1898. For weeks before the American vessels | had been blockading the bay of Cardenas, | and they had been annoyed by the audac- ity of three small light-draught Spanish gunboats that would run out from the shallow harbor, dart around the cays until they sighted the waiting warships and then scurry in again like frightened chickens, while their pursuers, of heavier draught, could not follow them in the | shoals of the channels. It was too much for Commander Meade of the Mach the senior officer of the blockading squadron, and he ordered the Wilmington, the Hud- son and the Winslow into the harbor to find and, if possible, destroy the Spanish vessels. The Wilmington was a gunboat drawing nine feet of water; the Winslow was a torpedo-boat, armed with one- pounders and drawing six feet, and the Hudson was a converted tug from the revenue marine service, officered by offi- men and the fearful effect of the bursting | less than a year | | in'that fight, and with him fell four sea- | WAS BAGLEY SLAIN BY HIS OWN PEOPLE? Charge That Shell From the Wilmington Struck the Winslow. SCOTT OF THE REVENUE MARINE THE ACCUSER Positions of Vessels and Effect of Explosion Indicate That He May Be Correct. cers of the revenue marine and carrying two 6-pounders, one forward and one aft. The Hudson drew a few inches less than the Wilmington, or about elght and a half feet. Cardenas Bay is an irregularly formed | bit of shoal water with its opening near- 1y closed by a narrow neck. of land | stretching from what would have been an | fatal fight, and he was looking into the | L e T o In the Foreground Is the Winslow, With Ensign Bagley Standing Near the Rail After Having Hailed Scott The Wilmington Is Slowly Steaming Along in the Background. L B T T S D D R ous denials from the commanding officer | of the town is the best anchorage. but Scott adheres to his statement, and | has | | | | the western head of the bay to the east- ard. The channel should have opened to the north, but the narrow strip turned it to the east and in coming out it is near- to the east that a vessel must head. Sven then the channel is cut up by two cays into three passage ways, only one of which is considered fe. . This was the channel to the west, and this the Spanish ad thickly planted with mines. The pas- ge in the middle between the two cays was too shallow and there was a chance through the channels to the eastward. The three vessels t the chance and after carefully sounding the eastern chan- nel they entered the The ba about nine miles from north to south and as much from east to west. The town of Cardenas lies on its south- ern shore and to the west. From the east a shoal runs out into the bay almost to a point off the town and just in front R e e LU o o Sl ST SR S SRR U SRR SRR B SRR SRR Soie S S o A o A e e ale con Sta St Sl o o e e S ) Ons and three-quarter fathoms, or less than eleven feet of water is the rule off the o and this deepens to two, two and a half and three fathoms farther out in the bay. With the Winslow on her port bow and a little ahead of her and the Hudson in the same relativ n on her star- board bow, the Wilmington steamed slow- ly through the channel and then turning to the westward ran toward the center of the bay. Arriving there she turned te the south, and while she steamed still more slowly down toward the town her commander ordered the Hudson to run te the west and the Winslow to the east and, turning, to skirt the shore and both sides of the town in the hope of sighting the gunbo: The weather was mnot clear and the shere could not be reconnoitered from a great distance, so the two little vessels ran in to within two thousand the land and then worked round parallel to it, the Winslow DHassing close to the outer edge of the shoal that reached out from the east side of :he bay. The. task of the Hudson was nearly completed. She had skirted the shore from the western side of the bay to just oft the city, where, a mile -out, lay two merchant ships at hor. As she reached them she heard firing off to the other side of the city and immediately after the Winslow ran out of the haze with her one-pounders spitting viciously and the water all about her cut by the Spanish shells. She had found tI gunboats moored to the stone quays with nothing but bow or stern visible, and thus pro- tected they opened fire on her as soon as they saw she had approached as near as she dared. It was the fire of the gun- boats that informed her of their position, and being little more than half a_ mile from them she turned out into the bay and taking position at a range of about two thousand yards she came into action, In the meantime the Wilmington had arrived off the city and was lying out about thirty-five hundred yards. She could not distinguish the gunboats, but she could see the shore, and as soon as