The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1899, Page 1

Call VOLUME LXXXV—-NO. 169. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. “HIGH TREASON” OF TRANSVAAL PLOTTERS D 0eDei et eieiedeteiedeseieieied o0 +-0-0 S * . . P e edeDe e o ORTA Transvaal Republie, loafers, , charged with high treason. d for a fortnight. nrolled for iilitary service, intended to arm them Rand. and. hold the twenty-four British for jovernment re- an unfortunate ill not affect the Th Gov- repo that President ape Col- 'ms the etween rnor Commissioner of South Afri- d Milner, for a meeting at apital of t Orange arly The d T be will to the The expected dent Kruger blic and Sir Al- of Cape Colony > TOWN, May 17. 3 n Pr 1al Repu 3 d. The p = rican League re- e tion with the en- of men Any purpose. was the only prisoner who did r to-day at the Pretoria court streets were 1g guard from the nd was grant- ere returned to were s ECHOACH DELEGATE ARE ALL AT THE HAGUE e Men Who Will Participate in the Peace Conference Ready to Proceed. e G Spectal Dispatch to The Call. THE HAGUE, May 17.—All the dele- to the International Peace Con- v arrived. To-day 1 a general exchange of visits. The 1 ferer Embas kead of the R honorary chair proceedings, President of the ( of Foreign Affa of the Netherl The city is brilliantly decorated with foreign flags denoting the various na- tional headquarters. This evening M. 1 M de Staal, Russian at Britain and the an delegation. The be M. de Bauford, uncil and Minister f the Government Van Karnebook, former Dutch Minister | of Foreign Affairs, gave a dinner to introduce the foreign delegates. The reporters will be admitted only to hear the inaugural address of M. de | Bauford, but will be excluded from the opening discussion of the Czar's pro- ject. Three commissioners will then be named to arrange programmes for dis- cussion. The first relates to restrictions | of armament and military expenditure. The second-deals with the laws govern- ing civilized warfare, and the third with mediation and arbitratien. A great number of diplomatic docu- ments will be submitted on these sub- jorte—documents including the memor- ardum of Prince Metternich of Austria . 1516 regarding the suggestion of the 1 rince ander First of Russia, for an ternational peace conference; the opinions of David Dudley Field of the United States, as to fixing a permanent limit to military forces; the argument of M. Merignhac in favor of simultane- ous disarmament; the proposals of Na- lleged revolu- | sented the appear- | were ar- | d that 2000 men | CECHOHCHONCONT HOEOR rmanent president of the con- | n, who will open the | Regent of England, supported | R o |$ rLonDON, May 17—The im- 3 4+ pression is gaining ground here % + that the alleged plot was pre- § { pared by President Kruger's + + agents to discredit the South + + African League. 3¢ : The officers of the Liverpool <4 3 regiment and an artill regi- + | 4+ ment, who were to have left to- : $ morrow under orders to proceed 3 4 to the Cape, were stopped at the « 4 last moment. + + + He+ 4444444404400 4444044+0 the jail. Te excitement here is som what abating. LONDON, May 17.—The Consul of the Transvaal here has received the fol- lowing telegram from his Government, dated Pretoria, May 16 Richard Nicholls, describing himself as a colonel; George Patterson, a captain; Edward J. Tromlett, Charles Elils and John A. Mitchell and" Fries and Hooper were arrested yesterday morning on the sworn declaration of three Englishmen, on the charge of high treason in connec- tion with the alleged object of the en- rollment of the troops to create a revolu- tion, selze Johannesburg fort and hold possession of the town untfl the British troops from Natal could come to their as- S o R R R e Y 1 ? R e e e S e S S e i SRCES s A STREET IN JOHANNESBURG. 2l et | nent South Africans connected with the leading concerns of Johannesburg. | | They declared they had not received a word from their own agents in Cape | | Colony, the absence of advices indicat- | ing that the affair was “trumped up” by the Boer police, and that in any case | the men arrested were irresponsible | ncbodies with fictitious military titles | »d by the Boers with the object of | | discrediting the British in the eyes of | | the Continental powers. It is now be- | lieved Tromlett was formerly a cap- tain of volunteers in Cape Colony, and that he is now a mining agent; Patter- son is described as a butcher and a la- bor agitator; Mitchell is said to be a| storekeeper; Cooper is classed as a car- | pente: llis is alleged to be a private | detective, and the occupations of Fries | and Nicholls are unknown. A prominent Ultlander said to the representative of the Associated Press: | “My cwn view is that a few irre- | sponsible men met together to discuss means of defense in case the necessity for such action arose. Those who are acquainted with Johannesburg know that such precautions are necessary. | There was the greatest unrest and fer- | ment there when I left. But the state- | ment that there has been a conspiracy | One of the prisoners alleges that he | was acting under instructions from'the British War Department. In response to inquiries made on the bject in Government circles the cor- yondent here of the Associated Press that the report that the men arrested at Johannesburg had acted under instructions from the British War Office ‘“‘were too absurd for refutation.” A representative of the Associated | Press lay saw a number of promi- BCOEC | poleon 111 to convoke a ¥ | conference at Paris in 1563, and similar papers. | The second commission will consider | the declarations of the Congre o } Paris, 1850, and the Geneva convention, | | re was told to-day 1864, the unratified clauses of the Ge- neva convention of 1868, the acts of the 5t. Petersburg convention prohibiting the use of certain projectiles by civil ized nations, the minutes of the Brus- sels conference of 1874, the suggestions of the Oxford manual regarding the laws and observances of war; the rules for the bombardment of cities adopted by the institute of international law in Venice in 1896, the declarations of France and Great Britain rega the unadopted rules of the Geneva con- vention, the views of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, approved by succe ters utes of the Brussels conference of 1574 dealing with the laws and observances of 'war which-did not lead to the con- clusfon of any convention, and the cir- cular of the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1871 relating to the adoption | of the prineiple of inviolability of pri- | vate property and urging a clearer defi | nition of the term “‘contraband of war. | “The third commission will | to a recourse to force, | Signor Mancini in the Italian Chamber | of Deputies in 1 arbitration tribunal; the propo an arbitration tribunal for the Central and South American States, adopted in Washington in 1890; the Marquis of Salishury’s letters to Sir Ju- lian Pauncefote in 1896, relating to the . conclusion of an arbitration treaty be- States and the terms of the ratified Anelo-American treaty and many sim- ilar documents . M. de Staal will open the conference by summarizing the objects of the | gathering and expressing the confidence | of Emperor Nicholas that the powers | will support the beneficent work of the conference. After the appointment of the commis- sions the conference will adjourn for a|cyar Declines to Accept Peking’s week. The American delegates, it is under- stood, will carefully abstain from mix- | ing in purely European questions, but will take an earnest part in the discus- sion of the application of arbitration and improvements in the Geneva rules for the protection of field hospitals, giving also special attention to the emption of all private property from seizure, except contraband of war, this | churia. policy heing the same as that adopted | Unless supported by some other power by Benjamin Franklin in negotiating the treaty with Frederick the Great, successively urged by Presidents James | Monroe, James Buchanan, Benjamin ‘Harrison and Willam McKinley, CHOECECECECECRCEOECRONON iropean peace | sive Netherlands foreign minis- | irging the adoption.of the min- | ('r-nsld‘}r{ the proposals of Lord Clarendon at the | Paris convention in 1856 for the inter- | mediation of a friendly state previous | the motion of | in favor of arbitra- | tion; the acts of the Berlin and Zurich | conference on compromise and media- | tion; David Dudley Field's plan f]nr tfin | American commissioners from the lists s for | o orth, | tween Great Britain and the United | abolition of privateering and the ex- | concession to connect Peking with Rus- ~- during the past four months, and that the South African League was con- nected with it, is untrue. No Uitlander | is allowed to possess a rifle, yet at every | corner are policemen armed with rifles and revolvers. The feeling of alarm | on the arrival of the Boer artillery can | be conceived. | “It is a significant fact that the men arrested are practically unknown, showing that the feeling which in 1895 | limited to the capitalistic class has now gene lower down and has reached of the ordinary working class keepers of Johannesburg.” shop- | MOEY FOR -~ CUBINSTO BE ~ DISTRIBUTED SIS o ‘Brooke's Latest Decree Is‘ Satisfactory to General Gomez. Special Dispatch to The Call. HAVANA, May 17.—General Brooke | submitted to General Gomez to-day a | new distribution decree. It proved satisfactory to Gamez. Every effort is being made to avoid another hitch. Brooke’s decree and Gomez's manifesto will be issued to-morrow simultane- ously. Gomez states that he will not take an active part in the distribution of the money, which will be made by the submitted. I have had many interviews with | Cuban soldiers. All are willing to give | up their arms. The feeling is strong among both officers and soldiers that they should be given work by the United States. They assert that a large majority of the cffices in Cuba are now held by men who were not active in the war. They think a protest will be made on that ground. |CHINA LIKELY TO j YIELD TO RUSSIA | Refusal to Grant a 'B.nilwuy Concession. LONDON, May 18.—The Peking cor- | respondent of the Times says: M. de Giers, Russian Minister to China. de- clines to accept the refusal of the Chi- nese Government to grant the railway sia's present railroad system in Man- He will insist upon the grant. | China will yield to Russia. She is sur- rounded by calamities brought upon her by Italy, France and Germany. while England’s hands are tied by the Anglo-Russian convention, S | Failing to Negotiate a Loan the | fornia and one of the best-known | | bert Pilse. for the term _ng:mmenclnx in m‘{, L. J. ROSE TAKES HIS OWN LIFE e Suicide of the Well-Kown Viticulturist and Turfman. e IAD LOST A FORTUNE e Former Millionaire Takes Poison. e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. 0S ANGELES, May 17.—Worried by numerous debts, L. J. Rose, the pioneer viticulturist of Cali- | It turfmen in the United States, endel | his life to-day. Rose swallowed a large dose of morphine while stand- ing in the chicken yard at the rear of his mansion at the corner of Fourth street and Grand avenue. In spite of the efforts of two physicians | he died at 11:300’clock this forenoon, | one hour after he was found. vs ago Mr. Rose went to sco to obtain a loan. He | ful and returned to Los | erday morning he went to Ventura to borrcw money. The sum he wanted v a large one and he could not obtain Mr. Rose returned from | Ventura last night, apparently in his sual health and spirits. Developments 0w, however, that he determined last night to destroy himself. Mr. Rose wrote a letter tc his wife in which h said he was “swamped financially” and would not be alive much longer. | “You will find my remains in the | chicken yard,” were the concluding | words of the letter. This letter was found by a member of Mr. Rose's household soon after 10 o'clock this morning and search wa at once instituted for Mr. Rose, who was found lying unconscious in the chicken yard. { Mr. Rose was carried to his bedroom and Drs. W. W. Hitchcock and David- | son were hurriedly summoned. The | physicians worked over Mr. Rose for an hour, but did not succeed in reviv- ing him. Several members of the fam- ily were at his bedside when he died. Coroner Holland, who was notified of | the sulcide at noon, went to the house | and viewed the remains. Mr. Rose's relatives were anxious to have the in- quest held immediately, and the Coro- ner said he would hold it this evening. Mrs. Rose is an invalid and the news | of her husand’s death was a severe blow. She is prostrated by grief. | In the history of California and of | racetracks there was no better-known | man thar Mr. Rose. To him is due the | credit of developing the wine industry | of Scuthern California. He came to Los Angeles in 1860 and acquired the Sunny Slope ranch near San Gabriel. Under his management the ranch be- came famous as a vineyard and the | choicest wines were made on the place. The dead man was a great lover of horses and he had'a large staple. Mr. Rose bred Stamboul, one of the greatest trotting stallions that ever lived. He also bred Alcazar, The Moore and other famous trotters. Mr. Rose turned his attention to running horses and had a string which was known all over the United States. He was well known at Saratoga, Long Branch and other racetracks. Mr. Rose spent his money like a prince and was knocwn as a man who would not “hedge” on any proposition. He won and lost thousands of dollars on the racetrack, but no one ever heard him complain when fortune turned against him. Mr. Rose sold the Sunny Slope ranch to an English syndicate about ten years ago. It is sald that the property brought $1,000,000. Soon after he sold the Sunny Slope ranch Mr. Rose built a home at the corner of Fourth street and Grand ave- nue. The house was then the most costly and beautiful in Los Angeles. Mr. Rose spared no expense to make his home luxurious and he imported | fihe woods for the floors and staircases. He dressed the walls with rare paint- ings and bric-a-brac and poured out his money toc make his home comfort- able and beautiful. Mr. Rose leaves a widow and eight children. Five married daughters and three sons reside in this city. The daughters are Mrs. Nina Wachtel, Mrs. Annie Sanderson, Mrs. J. W. Montgom- | ery, Mrs. George Easton and Mrs. Al- | The sons are Harry Rose, L. J. Rose Jr. and Guy Rose. No arrangements for the funeral have | yet been considered. L | Leonard Jchn Rose was born in Ba- | varia, Germany, in 1827. His parents immigrated to the United States when he was 12 years of age. The family re- sided at Waterloo, Ill., while Mr. Rose attended Shurtliff College in Alton. After leaving school he settled at Quincy, where he engaged in the dry goods business for a number of years. Then he removed te Van Buren County, Iowa, where he continued in the same line of business. Mr. Rose started for California, and after many hardships he finally reached and settled in the old city of Santa Fe, N. M., where he engaged in the hotel business. During the two years that he managed the hotel it was financially successful and when Mr. Rose and his family removed to Los Angeles he was comparatively a wealthy. man. He bought the Sunny slope ranch of 2000 acres and in a few years increased its annual output of wine from a few hun- dred gallons to 750,000 gallons of differ- ent kinds of wine and 125,000 gallons of brandy. Mr. Rose first served the public as State Senator from Los Angeles County SAN ISIDRO IS EASILY TAKEN Lawton and MacArthur Hammer Tagdallos to Pieces. [ R e R O S C R O R O R e SR SRR S S ) . ® - D SOy LR T R e S S S e PRIVATE RALPH COATES, Company K, First Cal- ifornia Regiment, reported missing by General Otis, was a prisoner at Paranaque, according to the press dispatches or Saturday last, and was on that day transferred to Pampangas. B e e S S R | e D . + A el e ae ae e e e e ol o i o e et ot o ) ANILA, May 17.—Little resistance was met when Gen- eral Lawton’s advance column captured San Isidro to- day. Colonel French, leading the Twenty-second In- fantry, the Thirteenth Minnesota and the Second Oregon Regi- ments, attacked the town early in the morning and forced an en- trance into the place at 9 o’clock with small loss . The American troops afterward drove the enemy far into the country. In a battle yesterday at a river one and a half miles from San Isidro General Lawton had forced the Filipinos back into the fortifications of the town. ANILA, May 17.—Although the ) taken San Isidro, the second insurgent rebels still threaten San Fer- nando in considerable for large numbers of natives, a ma- jority of them having families \\'I.(h their household goods, are moving daily to the towns inside the American lines, at Apalit, especially. Many of the richer Filipinos are com- ing work in the rice fields. The latter show their respect for American sover- eignty by removing their hats to the passing trains carrying troops. Owing to the bad condition of the ng to Manila and laborers are resum- | | surgents. wagon roads the work of repairing the | railroad is being actively pushed. All the broken bridges have been trestled and only a few excavations remain to be filled up. Trains will undoubtedly be running through to San Fernando in a few days. The only natives there are some Filipinos from Macabebe who are trading with our soldiers. At daylight to-day Lieutenant Hill, who, with twenty-five men of the Fourth Infantry, was concealed in the trenches near Pasig, was attacked by a force of rebels who evidently imagined they could capture one of our nul‘pnsts because only a few shots had been fired by the American force. A few volleys put the enemy to flight, the rebels los- ing five men killed and a number of wounded. The army gunboat Napidan has re- turned here from the lake, having been disabled hy a cannon shot from a rebel position near Santa Cruz, which broke rudder post. heI\rIANILA, May 18.~Major Kobbes’ column reached San Luis, eight miles up the Rio Grande, yvesterday, meeting with but slight opposition. One man was wounded during a brush with the rebels. At daybreak to-day the American began a further advance toward Can- daba, about six miles up the river be- yond San Luis. The insurgents along General Mac- Arthur's front evacuated their posi- tions during the night time, presumably moving further up the railroad. The Twenty-third Infantry has sailed on the transport Leon XIII for Jolo Isl- and to relieve the Spanish garrison there. 3 Aguinaldo and his Cabinet are report- ed to have met at San Isidro before the Americans arrived and captured that place, and decided to send a commission to Otis to accept the terms of the proclamation. General Lawton was un- aware of this decision when he ad- vanced upon the city. The Filipino leaders then retired, but a commission bearing Aguinaldo’s submission is ex- pected to-morrow. \ il LAWTON DRIVING THE ENEMY TO THE MOUNTAINS WASHINGTON, May 17.—That the insurgents are disintegrated and de- moralized is perfectly manifest from the press dispatches and the cable news from General Otis received to-day. General Lawton, who was pushing the line of the rebel retreat along the Rio Grande, has flung his advance, which at Jast advices was resting at San Miguel, northward about twelve miles, has | | capital, and when General Otis’ dis- | patch was sent was still pressing the enemy northward. The fact that he is sustaining few losses in his forward movement, although in almost con- tinual contact with the enemy, is an- other proof of their utter demoraliza- tion. Acccrding to General Otis’ cable they continue to throw up intrench- ments, but General Lawton’s strategy outflanks each position in turn, keep- ing them in full retreat and giving them no opportunity to reorganize their scattered forc It will soon be the mountains cr the sea for the in- ported by sea to the mouth of the Agno and a new base of operations estab- lished there it would be folly for them to take that course. Scattered, demor- alized and disheartened it is almost certain that the rebels in desperation Will retreat into the fastnesses of the mountains, where they would be safe from pursuit and where the: ould keep up a guerrilla warfare indefinitely until their leaders came to their senses. Over fifty e miles, as the crow flies, the rebels have been forced back. The situation of ¢ne insurgents is desperate. MacArthur's division drove them back along the line of the railroad toward Dagupan, on the bay of Lin- gayen, as far as Calumpit. All efforts to impede his progress by the destruc- tion of bridges was frustrated. ' The in- surgents were forced out of their strongest position Simultaneously General Lawton moved to the right in a wide detour toward Norzaga Bay, the eastern limit of open country, with the intention of turning the enemy's position and crushing him between the two columns. Although unsuccessful in this, the enemy, to make good his escape, was compelled to abandon his line of retreat along the railroad and retire up the Rio Grande. The insur- gents by this move displayed consider- able adroitness in the art of war, as it made it incumbent upon the Americans to get their supplies to the front along a new line. This had been comparatively easy aleng the line of the railroad, which had been repaired as the troops ad- vanced. The change in the line of re- treat of the rebels stopped Lawton’s advance for several days, it is pre- sumed, as no movement until to-day had been reported since Friday. Mean- time, it is presumed, supplies were sent forward up the RioxGrande in cascos (native barges), under the escort of the gunboats commanded by Major Kobbes. The latter was reported to have 1500 men with him designed for the rein- forcement of Lawton. The supplies probably having arrived at a point op- posite Lawton, whose column had ad- vanced along a_line several miles east and parallel with the river, were deliv- ered to him during the push to San Isidro. This cleared the province of Bulacan. East of Norzaga Bay is a wall of mountains extending to the sea. These mountains run directly north on the left flank of the rebel retreat along the valley of the Rio Grande to about ten miles north of San Isidro, where they trend westward and ferm the source of that river. It is into the foothills of these mountains that Lawton is now driving the scattered and demoralized force of the insurgents. Lawton has with him the Third and Twenty-second Infantry, one battalion of the Seven- teenth, the Second Oregen, First North Dakota, Thirteenth Minnesota and a squadron of the Fourth Cavalry. No information has vet been received as to the Twelfth Infantry and Light Bat- tery E of the First Artillery, which Continued on Second Page. As our troops could be trans- | CONVICTS ON THE VERGE OF REVOLT ——— Officials of San Quentin Pen- itentiary Marked for Assassination. e EDGAR WILL NOT ACT e | Marin'’s Sheriff Swears in Depu ties to Prevent the Lynching of Oppenheimer. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. Tuesday's tragedy at San Quen- tin Prison is, it woula seem from the indications, but the forerunner \of a series. Desperate convicts in the prison, in a state of almost |open revolt, are threatening the lives of guards and prison offi- crals, and no steps have been taken to restrain them. | On the other hand, the stabbing of Guard McDonald by Oppen- heimer has so stirred public feel- ing in Marin County that the citi- zens have already organized a vig- ilance committee to lynch the con- vict when he is taken to San Ra- fael for trial. AN QUENTIN PRISON, May 17.— When Guard James McDonald was assaulted with a knife and stabbed seven times by Convict Jacob Oppenheimer it was prophe- sied by those familiar with the circum- stances that only the most drastic measures would prevent others iosing their lives. This prophecy was seen to be true to-day, the indications of a re- | volt being so plain that even a blind | man might realize that a was | near at hand. Five men are in con- ]‘stant danger, among them being-Dr. Lawlor, the prison physician. | Guard McDonald's condition is such to-night that it is deemed a question of only a few hours when his life will be at an end. The knowledge of this fact has so infuriated the rest of the guards and the friends of McDonald in San | Rafael that it is a serious question | whether Oppenheimer will ever be tried for the murder. A number of men are | already banded together for the pur- | pose of lynching the murderer when he | is taken to San Rafael for trial, and Sheriff Taylor, who became acquainted with the condition of affairs this even- ing, has sworn in twenty-five men in order to be in a position to cope with the would-be lynchers when the time arrives for the Marin County authori- | ties to take the case of the desperate | criminal in hand. It is now known that the murderous assault on McDonald was planned two weeks ago, the chief conspirators being crisis Oppenheimer, “Jack” O'Neill. a life-timer, and John Phillips, alias | “Frisco Slim Oppenheimer and | “Frisco Slim” were in the dun- | geon together and both were re- | leased at the same time, about ten days | ago. While incarcerated in the dungeon Oppenheimer was overheard to sav that he intended to kill McDonald upon the first opportunity that was presented, while Phillips said that the man for | whom his knife was intended was a guard from San Rafael, named Henry | Moller. That the convicts generally were acquainted with the intention of these villains was evidenced vesterday when the word went through the jute | mill that a guard had been slain. | “‘Frisco Slim’ has killed Henry Mol- ler,” was the sentence that passed from breaker to breaker, and many of the convicts openly expressed their sur- prise when they learned that instead of Moller it was McDonald who had been stabbed. | The convicts in the jute mill were so surly to-day and obeyed orders so | grudgingly that the slim force of guards became alarmed, and after s consultation decided the condition waas S0 alarming that unless something were done it would be really a suicidal pro- | position for them to remain on duty. BothyO'Neill and “‘Frisco Slim” were so open in their threats that several of the “trusties’” became cognizant of the danger ahead for the guards and ac- quainted them with their perilous posi- tion. . The chief man threatened is Dr. Laws lor. Only two months ago “Frisc@ Slim” made a savage assault on him 1@ | the hospital department, and but fe® the interference of another convict murder might have been committed at that time. Dr. Lawlor was lucky | enough to extricate himself from a dan- ‘gerous position and his assailant was incarcerated in the dungeon. In view of his intractable nature and the trou- ble previously given by Phillips, the Prison Directors ordered him placed in the dungeon. He was kept there until ten days ago, when he was released by order of Captain of the Yard J. C. Ed- gar. As soon as Dr. Lawlor was ap- prised of the release he went to Captain Edgar and told that official the man was desperate and had threatened to kill him (Lawlor) on the first oppor- tunity, and he should be kept in the dungeon until he became humbled. Director Devlin was quoted as saying “Frisco Slim” deserved six months’ solitary confinement. “Oh, that's all right,” retorted the captain. “You go and see the fellow and have a talk with him and things ° 1