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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1899. w GENERALS MILES AND EAGAN ARE Fin din ] H refrigerated beet he . rooe bad secured con- be Tanie or prac- fon is expressed that it 'a\e be n impracticable to land | BOTH CENSURED ¢s of the Wade Court o‘ff nquiry on Beef Supplied During the War. sickness f r:l paign. but a nan’d !"‘ J&LN ot hies Speaking of some extent as ng the tronps Who were thus siarly subsisted. rt closes with the following with & deep sense of has -labored zen bilities dev inv wit Nl“:fi ‘mix l*e large number NrMed b the major general commanding. facluding ail e who have taken part In the operations of the war, ‘would only have resuited in a - nal testimony on the same lines ucd without throwing further lich Zuestion involved. Several witnesses fubpenaed to sppear before ot obey the summons. the Some of these ‘at the instance of the major general others at the instance of the not make it Dossible to punish . refused to testifr before a court- marttal or court of inquiry, the court took no steps to compel their attendance. The document ¢ knowledge of the fact that the | signed by J. F. Wade, | country for miles around. s Lieutenant b2 5 V.. president; General F Colonel, Davis, Judge Advocate General, re | 'w for-zo*r'g report having been sub—' | DR, HOGELSBERG'S LIGHT 1§ ENDED Pl g o d with the proceedings to the Presi- the foilowing are the orders Ge-zem‘ ng “Adjutant | Adfutant General. General Miles, when asked to-night if he © comment to make upon the re- that he had read it, “but P Swindler Captured at Los Angeles. obtained from 400 depositors upward of lars, was arrested in city at 6 o'clock to-night on a grand larc been shadowed for severai under instructions from Captain of the New York detective der » ;Uul ‘.h r would leave for n indictment has nce of E. Ma s that h deluged the country with ng lh..l by his plan of CYCLONE DESTROYS MANY FARMHOUSES Death-Dealing Twister Creates Hav- oc in a Portion of ! Oklahoma. ers !"uu‘l obtal that d $500 DELUGE THROUGHOUT EASTERN NEBRASKA In Cass County a Cloudburst Inun- cates Railroad Tracks and Grain Fields. traverses greatest dam- DR. A. J. HART DEAD. Suffersd for Two Years From Cancer SPOUTS A COLUMN OF WATER HIGH INTO AIR Remarkable Artesian Well Flooding a Section of Los Angeles handsome home. signs of a_ cancerous ar on his right ch ading rap- D' the Y:B.\l two COPPER STRIKE ON A &Huz SAN LEANDRO RANCH Iiic o= The deceased was in his funeral will take place ger the auspices of the P: Lodge of Odd Fellows. TURN VEREIN PICNIC. Enjoyable Sunday Outing in a Grove Near Marysville. MARYSVILLE, May T enth annual picnic of Turn Verein was held at Shelton's Grove to-da; The gymnastic classes afforded especially fine entertainment in building pyramids and wi allel and horizontal section hm{ed to make the e ous one. Not the t of the pleasing features was the distribution of y-r copies of The Sunday Call, which were passed around after dinner and read in Shady nooks of the grove. The prize winners in the shooting con- tests at Blue Rocks were J. H. D-vrq _of Wheatland and F. Stall, E. liam Bedeau. Wiley Steward, J. ard and Dr. J. L. Howard of t The prizes for turning went to Johr tram, C. C. Rubel and Chr! \Ln r Jr. Theodore Gier and Oakland Turn Ver this city were the Quartz Ledge Found to Carry Free Silver and a Trace of —Dr. Fred Sa Oakland, has 1 of copper and bearing s fruit ranch in North Lake Chabot. A min- the property last week on a drift was run fifteen feet. The three feet. The fl‘l apparently e stiver and expressed valuable deposit silver has been discovered. a rough assay shows that it | ut $ to the ton. | BUYS A MEXICAN ROAD. Funtington Acquires a Deep-Water Outlet on the Gulf Coast. ex.. May 7.—A dispatch re- ¥ from Monterey, Mex- states that it is announced there that lis P. Huntington and associates have ded negotiations that have been g for several months for the pur- of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf . which runs from Monterey to his road has been operated by a rs for the past five e the Huntington ™ obiains a deep water outlet on the £ Mexico, = POWDER m]’. WRECKED. Explosion Believed to Have Been Caused by Tramps. | POTTSVILLE, Pa., May 7.—The pow- ! der mill of the Pottsville Water Com- the Tebeau's Men Bat Out a Victory in the Ninth Inning. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. aamont A | Gncimu'n CINCINNATL May T.—Breitensteln was 1 vineible to-day until the ninth inningz, when two singles, an error and Blake's double netted pany, seven miles from nere, blew up to- u‘mlmnsral‘uifl‘:tfl S an Iuc]a.s’hll s | Powell safely five time: e first innine, day, destroying eighteen tons of powder. | D% T8 T ™ foublesome after that. Rain No workmen were about the plant at the | go;. the attendance down to 4132 Score: time of the explosion. A gang of tramps, | { Clubs— R H E it is believed, set fire to a magazine, | cypeinnati s i which contained fourteen tons of biast-| g Louis ing powder. Five minutes later there Was | Ratteries—Preitenstein and r'euz Pn'ell anad a second explosion, when the dryl fouse. containing. four tons of powder Ot went up. The two explosions wrecked| CHICAGO. May the entire plant. Debris was carried a|jand and Chicago Wwas posiponed on account of distance of a half mile. The loss amounts } rain. to about $10,000. i Racetreck Buildings Burned. WOONSOCKET, R. I, May 7.—Ali the buildings connected with the Woonsocket Driving Park were burned noon and fifty pounds of d; in the stables expiod Umpires—Swartwood and Warner. Won By the Rushers. SANTA CRUZ, May T.—Last evening | the San Francisco Rushers won a basket game with the local Young Men's | this after- | Chrl.nhn Assoclation team after a hard | amite stored | struggle. The score was 9 to 7. This was shaking the | the firet game of a series for the coast "Loss, SS(M champlonship. Dr. Hogels- | 9| Fourth—We as Americans take pride in | —The game between Cleve- | UPHOLD POLICY OF -~ AOMINISTRATION e | Three Mass - Meetings | Are Held in Chicago. RUSSIA’S PLAN TO . HANDICAP FRANCE Submarine Boats in Time of | !Scheme to Prohibit the Use of | S added ar Not dApproved. DUPED MANY INVESTORS PRESIDENT'S STAND INDORSED @ N Yonk Mer il et e b T O @ of the important questions which will be submitted by Russia to the % b s e e P S disarmament conference at the Hague will be that of prohibiting the use g | — 1 @ of submarine boats in time of war. This is expecied to evoke a stren- & WILL FILE A CLAIM HAU‘TAH‘ED HEADQUARTERS IN SPEECHE AND RESOLUTION g uous protest from France and a refusal to agree to any such prop "3 X AT NEW YORK. | EXPANSIONISTS ARE HEARD. & In some diplomatic quarters here there is a dispo: n to b 3 AGAINST UNCLE SAM | - B O e il = ubniion of the e Ty 3 — e o =t ¢ signed to take from her the most valuable means of defe b Captain Corning of the Howard D. |3 devised Troop Demands Damages for | Under the Name of the Guarantee | Prominent Orators Declare That the = No matter what is the attitude of France, the Ur His Arrest. Trust Company He Is Said to | United States Must Hold the & bea party to any CoMver m“"‘ : Or. May 7—A special to Have Obtained a Half \ Philippines and Put Down ey ‘;h(,,“;‘_fihp“ : o ALt e 7t s ne e ny prop Sem s ffl i Btk Million Dollars. | the Insurrection. <3 nent official, X bark Howard D. Troop | ; IS of the American people. to the British Em- | [ e vt & use of which will crush the ens gton »gqu &‘ué «?s.ix- ; |82 enemy’s resistive power is brok St s ch to The Call 13 Therefore the United States will use £ ;j LOS ANGELES, May 7.—Dr. Hans| CHICAGO, May 7.—Three big mass|& Proved satisfactory. Another official trial of the submarine be 2 Hogelsberg president of the | meetings were held in Chicago to-day | & 1and will be held soon. but the Department does g £ New York | to voice approval of the policy of the 3 boat has reached a point of de’ pment where it can Ao ged to have suddenly left his|administration with reference to mefo ployed for naval purposes. 2 v-appointed office in Lords | Philippines, and to protest against AT Court, Exchange Place, after having | the sentiments expressed last Sunday | | @NSNONINONING T DRONONONCD at the “anti-expansion” meeting u') as soldiers merits the lasting conm in Central Music Hall. To-day’s meet ings were held in the Auditorium, | Central Music Hall and the First Methodist Church. In spite of the in- | " 5 °0 at clement weather, the aggregate of | Philippi attendance\was probably over 10,000 Sixth—We regard the great issue of t The presiding officers at the three| tmur o were Judge Oliver H. Hor- n, ex-Judge John Barton Payne and Thomas B. B. Bryan. At the Audi- toriu as at the other two gathering every mention of President McKinley or D: brought forth thunders of applause. The speakers at the Auditorium were am Dudley Foulke Bishop Samuel Fallows, Congressman P. Dolliver of Iowa, ex- ngressman George E. Adams, Judge Richard Tuttle and Rev. Dr. P. S. Mo t of these also spoke at general itorium part: We are not here to consider ex committee, in calling the meeting to order, said in nsion meeting, it 'who are in favor -:‘! s ub dience of all the inhabitants the authority of the Uni g more than this is the defenders y's influence in the olutio) were read ously at all of n of lands be- recognize that a co in the Philippine Government of We believe such condition of insurrection has arisen from a course of events which when on instituted has moved in ir panish authort and entreaties g s amefloration of these dreadful conditions, and finally cul- minated in the destruction of our war i . the Maine, In the harbor of Ha- E\ ry step which followed has an inevitable sequence of the pre- s—war between the two Government _coll all the taxes, the fortific . appointed all Spanish v sh courts adm were proclaimed b: ernment and enforced by army ana navy. The sudd his sovereignty comp: of the sovereignty No other government vas competent to re ¥ surrendered by Spai Our Government had to accept and sume the responsibilities of the situat! and execute the duties devolved upo: led of e was to surrender the to anarch) or to foreign and selfish intervention. Neither course was compatibie with duty or with dictates of humanity. erefore, | er the conquest in the harbor of Ma- it was incumbent on our Govern-' ment to protect life and _property roughout tne archipelago. We recog- a d declare l’n— facts to be that 4 g‘ufl 1838, unt ce pr tion of Amer- in \lan.le, under the ican arms; that on th da\ last named force assailed our army .ca:tom anrl encampnfents under . and by this act hostilities, the ntended to b an insurgent its fortif with sorrow the fact that couragement extended to the . has been from some of our mi: fellow citizens, and to them must be as- cribed much of the bloodshed and ruin which has followed. We further declgre that the Government of the United States has sought in every honorable way to secure cessation of hostilities, as evinced by mission fully authorized to treat with insurgents and to offer them peace and amnesty, and by the action of our m: naval authorities. who have at imes been ready to protect those who ! would surrender their arms and cease their warfare against the Government of the United States. We point to the fact that these efforts of peace have been | m: rejected by the ur- became manifest even ¢ were waging a hopel to Second—We declare our belief in the high honor and just action of our army in the Philippine Islands. We and na believe that our Government has taken every step that it should take to secure peace and order. We believe that the ad- ministration representing the Government has hl"hl\ ang fully discharged its duty | in the premises. We consider it our part to share the burdens of our Government | rather than to embarrass its efforts and | | thus prolong the conflict of arms. Third—We know that at this very hour our soldiers in arms are face to face with | an armed foe, and until the close of hos:. tilities we krow only our country, ‘arm\- and navy and its executive. | pledge to them while our flnz shall be in | battle our unfaltering support. | the achievements of our army and navy. both in the war with Spain and in the | present military operations in the island of Luzen. The heroism of officers and | | men alike has shed renewed luster on American arms. The cause in which they have fought was and is a just one. l |They are now fighting for the security of | the lives of peaceable non-combatants | throughout the archipelago and tn just lrepnsal for an unprovoked attack. “We believe that the sending of !ed.\(lous geal« to the American troops enga, ostilitles is an act of (rea!onahle chnr- acter, and that every appeal to tbem m abandon thelr colors or disregard ths of Indiana, | | Benjamin Andrew . terms of unc Letters of regret from J Tree, United States Minister to Brus- Dr. Lyman Abbott and Dr. E , expressing sympa- thy with the purpose of the meetings, | Grain Shovelers' Strike Likely to Spread. | were read. | Morris Park bettin in | the appointment of a com-| | of the Capital Hon. William Dudley dianapolis d brood of malcontents the seed of discord among our people and paralyze the arm of our executive in dealing with the insurrection. He sal; [ meet many who are i artened at the vast are about Foulke of ‘In ounced the effort Y., May 7—Pr son uf lhc State Buarj of )I and Arbitration, H. D nd, attorney for s’ Association, repre: sociation, called c the Catholic dioces and asked him the grain shovele: sition made by Con Nearly all of t Irishmen and church. It is thou gestion coming fr. e propo- ractor.Conners. grain shovelers are hat if we are to have colo- nies they ought to be large enough, im- tant enough and hard enough to awaken wall and Porto R m» such a purp N an statesmi s ignore alike the cou broad and pessimists at home. us do ot as the pathway thy with the cau s and unanimously flx'mg (haL when- ‘t‘{':‘"imb;’f'“r that our j ever there are of grow to-day strength on the which it ¢ ners that a stri stand forem Conners is beginn: influence from other cities recognized the striking grain leader in the civ . Hon. George E. Adams said in part The only eff: i Hall meeting give aid and comfort the United Stat fect upon our tro its effect on the Tagals. understand our people. derstand that the Pr ing the American peop £ can be held and go with Of 150 men start. City Saturday night a enty-nine deserted. When the train reached Buf- falo h these a delegation of strikers appeared at the depot and enticed all but fifteen of the newcomers away. The fifteen who stuck were tak the Marone elevator in a2 ‘bu New York a detachment ited on the city ving the N returned at the expense of th Late to-night it w the grain shovelers will pre timatum to the Lake Carrier: tion. The substance of the u will be that if the strike is not ended this week the 1 all along 1 rdered out and that the ent tied up and th after that Mr. tract the Grain Sh add 50 cents to the contract p: union willing now to take tract for $2 flat HELLO GIRLS HAVE A SPLENDID TIME e v‘n\n(}hm;f the D he has beeu S compelled by the to adopt 3 lh“p“nhm rotion of party or sect KTAKE A DAY'S OUTING AT LAUN- we will gladly help him bear it. DRY FARM. S TALENT WAS T.N FORM. | Quarter of a Million Taken From the Morris Park Bookmakers. NEW YORK, May Sleep Had to Bs Lost to Make the Turn but ‘““Central” Had the Best Kind of a Day. SR enced such a scorching as the hands of bettors on S six favorites should win w: a novelty as that the six were all at good prices. Here rmnr‘»d it reason ber of the Metropoli- octation said that layer belonging to that body had quit the day a winner, while of the hu - dred and odd pen: A which inciudes the fie béfflrr‘ the fifth ated that more than $250.0 backers on Saturdar. ined by one firm wa lnr"hds Blumenthal and Frank nough upward of quoted prices in the fleld and many more on the *“dead line,” not single case of “welching” was reported. SACBA]KENTO‘S VICTOBY Stockton Wheelmen Beaten in the Hundred-Mile Relay Race. STOCKTON, May 7.—The Capital City Wheelmen relay team of seven men won the Weinstock-Lubin cup to-day in the interurban race for the third time from the Terminal City Wheelman. Hirsch, C Wheelmen. who had over a minute start on the last relay of ten miles, beat Barnes, the Terminal Cit: Wheelman, by only two wheel lengt best fellows It was l" ¥ pa. e to take himself and !he place of rendez\n Ye n: Laundry F and bound for there at 10 o'clock the in the morning thirty couples boarder boat and were borne out into the s in all the glc of their summer not a_whit fresh from the fact that they had plugged switches all of the night before. In their hearts was none of that jealousy which flows co t line operat the giris who work In the “lumber ¥ worrisome pa vernacular. The t'nrxm he Vi S sionisky feciing. Once at the farm the sang and lunched and repe The unofficial time for the distance, miles, 14 is 4 hours and 3 minute RAMENTO, May 7. 104-mite | 52 ey Woke the echo race between the Capital City | oo o e that nowe heeimen and Terminal City \Wheelmen arling’s of Stockton for the Weinstock-Lubin trophy, value $13, was run to-day for the (Ounh time, resulting in a vietory for the Sacramento Wheelmen by a very close margin. The start was made at the a Chip From They returned to the city at at $:3) were making liches e \Eorh they had been bred in hair s Among those in the part lice_ Powers, L tockton end of the route at 10:2) a. m. | HERREOCTY. A = 3 Tire riders on the sixth relay reached | Miss Wrede =~ Mollle ~ Ritchie, _?‘I;!sls Sacramento at 1:13. Sacramento leading | R“b‘, Comiey.: Mi Do ait “Fd‘ | by only two seconds. This half of the | RUPY Copdey, Thes MeDonald, —Edith e e mude fagaine: & tafer Sl Teenle Mulcahy, Miss Kentzell, M | wind. buf e return the men ha s Y e ntzell, in their backs. The time was 4 hours| Murphy. Bertha Bernstein, Miss Grifiin | and % minutes. The Capital City Wheel- | 2nd Miss Hill men have now won the trophy thr e Returns With Soldiers. | NEW YORK. May 7.—The United States Carrier Pigeons in a Race. | transport McClelland arrived to-day from : | San Juan, Ponce and Santiago with sev- LOS ANGELES. May 7—The second | 00 JC0 00e S0 S0 7 5 aischars: race of the yearly serles of pigeon races| .3 soldiers. Among the passengers were of the Los Angeles Fiying Clud was| Captain Reigh of the Signal Corps, Cap. flown to-day. The birds were liberated | tains Nolan and Reed of the Ninth at Fresno, 205 miles in an air line from | United States Volunteers, W. L. Moul- this city, and made the distance in 5 ton, George Powell, E. Jifkins, C. H. hours and 13 minutes, the fastest time| Hamilton, R. S, Caswell, R._W. Zm: ever made in Southern Ca.utomla. G. | merman, T. H. Mann. A. B. Neel, G. Young's Reliance arrived | Betancourt and T. all times and it becomes their property pe.-' manently. — -