The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1899, Page 1

Call VOLU \;l LXXXV—NO. 159. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HELPED IN THE DREYFLS FORGERIES —e Woman Desires to Testify on Behalf of the ‘ Exile. [ELLS QUEER STORY N Assisted Colonel Henry in Preparing Bogus Letters From Kaiser William and added that with/Adjutant suicide on er brought ral fmvort- he burial aid that to ng the magis- Paris job- r e a \ REFERR DUBOIS, AND NOT TO DREYFUS ED TO TVice 8.—M. De Blov of the Tim ement of Charl « from the Dupuy Cabinet s His resignation "~f the War Of- rtfolio) was due to his tempera- h n than to his will. It is s what will or will not be his suc o S t that ¥ can h * upon \FFRAY OF CHINESE AT SERSTOPIL o The Call. - —An affray oc- colony Sebas- evening, Ah Yun another Chi- ¥y Weber Lou Mon in the result of { iment over $300 which the | d Chinaman won in a lottery ems that Jim Gee claimed an in- | st in his brother's winnings, and he d demanded 3 refused to portion of his winnings v became involved in a quarrel, rded in a murder. Both men i and several shots were ex- | fore Ah Yun Gee fell to the | 11ly wounded. The shots. | fired in_rapid succession. | the town, and residents quickly | to the scene of the shooting. | rer was disarmed and taken into custody, together with Lou Mon, who was an eyewitness to the tragedy. BACOLOR NEXT -TO BE CLEARED OF | juncture. | city, supposing | the city before them, as well as hun- | dreds of Chinese, to prevent their help- ILIPINOS DO SO SR 2 - e A try. donga, by Which Communication Will D AR AR RO S . Qe P e e T e e edetsd tieieie e e ei e ¥ 7, 8:40 P. M.—To ¢ pitfalls fn the roads, with sharpened | the Filipinos out of Bacolor, about five [ bamboo. Fortunately .the Amer\c&ns‘ miles southwest of San Fernando, will | have :d the latter. ; ext task of the Americans. The| In vamps near San Tomas, | where Wheaton's troops did | their hardest fighting—the men sinking to their waists in mud—are many bod- ies of Filipinos, smelling horribly. The army is 1ly enjoying life an Fernando, which is the most pic- General Mascardo has a force e avell armed and pc v of ammunition. His have never met American sol- and they think, according to re- S they at | arried to n Fernando, vhip the whole lot Bacolor is |t and wealthiest town the| vell intre 1 thousands of Americ have entered since the oc- | cupation of Manila. It is mainly built are wor of stone, the river is close at hand. and and high hills almost surro 1it. Many su- | | e | gar factor: iic hriving indus- | ghting only, but compels the Bolomen | M‘! factor indicate a thriving indus- 1d Chinese and even the women to| UV in that respect, and there are nu- r ince ntly. The rebel « | merous fine residences. General Mae- bout a mile beyond - San F | Arthur’s permanent headquarters is with a trench that holds betw | established in the best house in the .:nd 300 men. From that point severa ‘l\\’\l\‘}n, hiny s volleys were fired last n upon the | he troops are encamped around in | the suburbs, and are beginning to think | they may be quartered there during the | wet on. | After Bacolor has been cleared water | camp of the Twentieth Kansas Re ment. ar there Major-C :neral MacArthur | Major-General Lawton moved to- ! communication with Manila may be es- | although each reconnoitered the |y iicicq ™ Along the roads to Cam- | country in his vicinity f jue "“"""i ulpit the fuel wagons and bull teams. | from headquarters, dey | carrying provisions, have to be ferried, presence of small forces of th | one by one, across two rivers, but the In the vicinity of Laguna de Bal the | pyjipinog have several launches in the rebels are extremely active, but the| joor gelta. The Americans are much lines of General Ovenshine and Colonel exhausted by the campalgn, except the ‘holley, who has be 2 : commanding | 15ca troops, which are comparatively 3 King's brigade during the lat-| ¢ocp The regiments of the division ter's fllness, have been materially| ,yorage less than fifty men to a com- engthened and there is no danger in | ;a5 gnd all have a weather-worn ap- ection. The armed steamers Laguna de Bai | and Cavadonga, under Captain Grant, | have gone to Guagua about five miles that d pearance. Senator Beveridge of Indiana is here studying the Philippine question. Brigadier General Charles King has southwest of Bacolor, presumably to | ailed for the United States on board establish a base of supplies for the | tne Pueblo. troops engaged on the northern cam- | £ et SRR ) RETURN OF HEROES 8 rumorec at Mabina, Presiden of the Cabinet and Minister of Foreign FROM MANILA BAY Affairs ek in the so-called Filinino Go ernment, who 15 a radical, is to be suc- ceeded by Patreno, the framer of the Spanish treaty of 1896. This change is regarded as significant at the present NEW YORK, May 7.—Flying a home- ward bound pennant 236 feet long. the cruiser Buffalo came into port morning after a record-breaking run from Manila. She brought 596 officers and men from Dewey’s fleet, more than half of whom patticipated in the battle of Manila Bay. The men are those whose terms of enlistment have ex- pired. Among the officers were Paymaster John R. Martin, Captain Dutton of the marine corps, Lieutenant A. G, Rogers of the Monadnock, Lieutenant S. S. | Robinson of the Boston, Surgeon E. Rogers of the Monterey, Surgeon R. S. Blackman of the Boston, Ensign Ste- phen Douglas of the Monadnock, En- had walked across the bridge into the | sign F. 8. Wilson of the Monadnock, the Americans were | Ensign Lang and nine naval cadets there. They encountered no nativ, who came home to take the spring ex- The few Spaniards and Filipinos who | aminations at Annapolis. left there welcomed the . Captain Hemphill, who took the cans and opened their houses to them, | Buffalo out to Manila on December General MacArthur accepting the en- | 7th with more men for Dewey, brought tertainment at the hands of Signor | the cruiser home in forty-four days, Hizon, a sugar magnate, including stops at Singapore, POll'l If the inhabitants of the Fernando re- | Said and Glbrattar, S “;:‘;'s e zion are to be believed, the s ing time was _thirty-seven s, ;\'mpmhv with the inS\lrr‘:‘-uTn‘lnli:‘l;: average speed for the trip of 13 1-4 ¥ knots an hour. Fine weather was had quarter. Before evacuating the city | a]] the way except after leaving Gib- the insuTfgents burned the church and | raltar, when the Buffalo ran into a the public buildings, and looted the | series of southwest gales, which made Chinese quarter. Thev drove many her roll heavily. rich Filipinos with their famlies out of | The entrance of the Americans into San Fernando was virtually unopposed. The Filipinos, who expected the invad- | ers to approach from the sea, had that | side of the town strongly guarded, but | there was only one line of trenches be- | ond San Tomas. Two battallons of | the Fifty-first Iowa Regiment, which | swam the river north of the city, were | smartly peppered while in the water but the rebels disappeared as soon as the Americans reached the shore. In the meantime the hospital squadron were Captain Hemphill said that_he ran | from New York to Manila in fifty- three days after the two breakdowns on the start, and that was considered a big feat. He could have brought the Buffalo home in thirty-seven days, but the bottom became fouled and this de- layed her, with the added detention of three days In docking at Singapore. ing the Americans. They cut the| throats of some. Many Chinese hid an roofs or in cellars, and some escaped | by cutting off their queues. There are GENERAL MacARTHUR'S NEW BASE. View of the Town of Guagua, the River Port of Bacolor, Which Will Be the New Base of Supplies for the Western Division of the American Army in the Pampanga Coun- In the Foreground Are the Light-Draft Gunboats Laguna de Bai and Cava- Be Kept Up With Manila. Guagua Some Three Miles Is the City of Bacolor, With the Town of Santa Rita to the Left, and in the Distance to the Right, Six Miles Away, the City of San Fer- nando, General MacArthur’'s Present Headquarters. R the service, is enthusiastic about Ad- miral Dewey. On th e Buffalo are forty-nine seamen v on Dewey's flagship, the when Montijo’'s fleet was ' y-five from the Baltimore, seven from the Concord, ninety from the Boston, fourteen from the Petrel and forty-two marines. Some of these men have served twelve months or more since their term of enlistment ex- pired. There are men on the Buffalo who have not been in the United States for five or six years., To-morrow all of men will be at the navy vard. The men on the Buffalo brought home a choice collection of mascots. including monkeys, pigs and goats. The Buffalo -inch guns from the Reina tina, Montijo's flagship, which intended for the Smithonian Institu- tion, as well as the wheel from the the same ship, the bell of the Isle de Cuba, some torpedoes and a great quantity of guns and old brass can- non, all captured from the Spanish. e DETERMINED TO BRING HOME COLORADO VOLUNTEERS DENVER, May 7.—Governor Thomas | has announced that within a few da; | if President McKinley and the Secre tary of War continue to ignore his com- munications on. the subject of the re- turn of the Colorado regiment from the Philippine: view to securing the immediate recall of the troops. “I can not, as yet, say what course I haust every resource at my command to bring those boys home. T have tried quiet, peaceable means and have falled. Now I will be obliged to resort to some- thing more forcible, and it will be made American, but I do not propose to si idly by and see the volunteers from Colorado fighting and dying in the | Philippines in defense of the policy | the movements of our armies abroad. “In the first placd the volunteer | troops are being detained illegally and in deflance of the constitution. They enlisted for the Spanish war. That war is over and still they are detained in those far-off islands. volunteers would be perfectly justified in laying down their arms where they are and in returning to the United States. that probably they could martialed and punished. under the strict law of military rule, but in that event this same military rule would be placed above the constitution of our Republic.” It is regarded as possible that in the event of the failure of any “public at- tempt” which may be made to bring about the return of the troops the Gov- ernor will resort to legal proceedings. If such proves to be the case the Su- preme Court of the United States may be called upon to decide a test case re- garding the powers of the President and that provision of the constitution relating to the purposes for which vol- vice. - DEWEY SATISFIED TO REMAIN AN ADMIRAL NEW YORK, May T7.—Commander Hemphill of the cruiser Buffalo, which arrived from Manila to-day, when asked “What about Admiral Dewey and the Presidency?” said: “It was in the Paris edition of the Herald, I think, that I saw how Ad- miral Dewey expressed himself on that fifty fresh graves in the. churchyard. The cruiser was in Manila Bay about The country beyond Calumplt is full | six weeks and left there on March 23. of all sorts of Ingenious trenches and | The captain, like every other officer in subject. I have mo. information, per- sonally as to the matter, although I -G *O*G P -He e scharged and paid | he will take steps with a | shall follow,” he said, “but I will ex- | { public. Of course I do not des to take any action that will unjustly ham- per the administration, for I am an | 1€ | which is actuating those in charge of | this “Under-the constitution the Colorado | If they should do anything like | be court- | unteer soldiers may be called into ser- | ¢ | the. lodg Just Beyond i eoe fancy that Admiral Dewey may much as General Sherman did. General Sherman, you will remember, alway maintained that he preferred the army to any other public duty, and it may | be that Admiral Dewey feels the same | way ahout the navy. Ensign Douglass of the Buffalo said: “It seemed to be the feeling among the men at Manila that Admiral Dewe: now occupies a position entirely to his liking. He is a naval man, and the| feeling there is that his place in his- | tory would not be more secure if he | were to serve as President fifty times. | For that reason it is felt that he would not accept the nomination if it should be tendered him.” | DEWEY ACCEPTS A BANQUET IN HIS HONOR NEW YORK, May 7.—Admiral Dewey | | | { | | | | | V2 il 7 A B O R R S O R SHCSRS | D R e has cabled to this city his acceptance | of an invitation to a banquet to be given in his honor by 100 prominent | citizens. | I | LOS ANGELES, May 7.—National Pre: ident Mrs. Stevens of the Women's Chrls-? | tian Temperance Union spoke on tem- perance work before an immense audl- ence in the First Baptist Church here | to-night. An overflow meeting in the Lutheran church was addressed by M Anna Gordon, national secretary. In (he afternoon Miss Gordon spoke before a large audience of children in the First Baptist Church. o LOSSES I THE FIRE AT SINTA CRUL e get | Burning of the 0dd Fellows | Block a Hard Blow to Lodges. Sgg s PARAPHERNALIA GONE| e Undiscouraged Pythians Preparing | to Entertain the Grand Lodge. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | | \ | | gt | | | = | SANTA CRUZ, May 7.—Crowds have | been around the Odd Fellows' building all day viewing what remains of this fine structure. It was 5 o'clock this morning, after over five hours of fight- | ing, when the firemen quit work. Most of this time five streams of water had been turned upon the building. The | town clock, which was in the tower of the building, struck for the-last time at | 1 o'clock. The clock had done service | since 1875 What remains of the building is a | wreck. Nothing remains of the roof, | nor of the elegant banquet room that | oceupied the entire third floor and which has been the scene of many a feast and social gathering. In the new portion of the building—three stories in | ight, of brick—the fire raged the hot- Not much of the furnishing wa: Here is situated the main lodge | e of the finest out- 0. The other lodge room also is a complete wreck. Nothing Wi ved except the charter. Many of s lost their records. San Lo- ) Lodge of Odd Fellows and Bran- Lodge of Odd Fellows are the losers as regards parapher- d. sav room, considered side of San Franc ren ciforte heaviest nalia. The Knights of feel their loss, as they are to entertain the Grand Lodge next wee! Despite the fire they will be in readine to en- tertain their visiting brethren on an tensive scale. They had .recently p chased a new set of regali This. v saved. The silver water service won as a trophy at Stockton some years ago by | | Avalon Un orm Rank ih the competi- tive drill was destroyed, together with all the richly-engrossed resolutions pre- sented by the Grand Lodge after the session in this city some vears aeo. The Rathbone Sisters had only left the hall a short time before the fire. They had been drilling for the Grand Temple, which: meets here next week. They lost all their paraphernalia. The Ancient Order of United Work- men, Violet Lodge, Degree of Honor; the Portuguese Union, the Italian Benevolent Society, Madrona Grove of Druids, the Red Men and the Lustde Cameons, which met in the halls, suf- fered losses. [ The losses are summarized as fol- lows: Odd Fellows, $30,000; I. Fleisig, $12,000; Dr. B. A. Plant, $200; Dr. C. W i $200; Dr. T. W. Drullard, $25: J. jrazer, stationery store, $2000; Bixby's rug store, $2500. This morning the Knights of Pythias E d met to make arrangements for the Grand Lodge. The armory has been rented. Ban an e i o (4444444444444 444+ Pythias especially | 0 UNION MEN T0 BE EMPLOYED T Martial Law as Laid Down by General Merriam at Wardner. e MINE OWNERS L AGREE Eagerly Acquiesce in the Order Issued by the Head of the Military Force. gt Special Dispatch to The Call. B R R RS S e SPOKANE, Ma Not to be outdone by the military authori- ties at Manila, and West Indian points, General Merriam has es- tablished press censorship = at Wardner. Lieutens Bennett, General Merriam” id, been detailed as military ce To- day Lieutenant Bemmett refused to permit newspaper correspond- ents to send out the names of strikers who have turned State’s evidence and exposed the ring- leaders in the recent rioting. + > Rs “ + i e + + + + + + i s + 2 i s i 5, o i ke i g o e g 0 i i SPOKANE, May T7.—The mines of Shoshone County, Idaho, that propose to operate during the reign of mardal law may do so only on condition that they- do not employ members of ihe Coeur d’Alene miners’ union. This i3 the martial law as laid down by Gen- eral Merriam and Attorney General At a meeting of the Hayes of Idaho. mine-owners in this city to-day Mr. Hayes presented this mandate. The owners ‘cheerfully promised to obe: 'We are going to clean up thz Coeur d’Alenes,” said Attorney General Hayes | prior to his departure for Boise. “I | have seen some of the mine-owners to- day and they have been infurmed by the proper authorities that they can- not employ any one connected with a criminal organization in the county. The miners’ union in Shoshone County | contains® many desperate characters and criminals who have, under the pro- tection of the union, perpetrated crime and outrages. Twice k-~ it been ne sary because of these men and their or ganization to put the country under martial law. We want to put a stop to that sort of thing. “The owners living in Spokane allow the union to run t.ings, and when property is threatened or riots occur as a result they wire to the Governor or Idaho to send troops to protect their property. Some of these mine-owners know who the men were who left their mines to go up to Wardner for the pur- pose of blowing up the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mi l. They allowed the men to go out of the mines to destroy the prop- erty of.another and then to return to work. “We have undertaken as large ~ job { -9 -S040 . * + D S S O S S SR > - * @ +* L 4 * “ * @ @ * - L 4 ® * . 4 | & * * & & + & * + & P + 3 Scene During the Burping of the Odd ¢ s * : Fellows’ Block at Santa Cruz. 0