The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1899, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 177. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE NEW PLACERS EXCITE LOS ANGELES O i ol S S s G RUSIE 10 LOWER B! e Men in Southern Counties Getting Ready to Cross the Border. { COLD 1S VERY HINE Diggings Reported Rich, but There Are Many Drawbacks to Be Overcome. e s > The Call. 0S ANGELES, May 25.—The | L excitement over the San Roque Cerro Pinta placer gold ines in Lower California has reach- | city. Many men have already left for the new Klondike and others are preparing to go. The Santa Fe Railroad Company officials say they | . have hundreds of inquiries from all over the country regarding the route country and other facts about the where the strike was made. SAN DIEGO, e ed el « Ge Db ed e e DD ebe e b e>e .. St. Denis retur PS * : which is known ) P ted Mount n . s was received at i ¥ ay, but much has } ned n men lately at Cerrn | 3 ? d in | hough | T ? ; - ability | ¢ s ! b t : are now | 7 THE CERRO PINTO PLACERS. b ¢ supnlles and at 2 ¥ 5 S St o Map of Lower California Showing the Location of the & Iioe" iy DGRy 2 New Dry Placer Mines and the Several Routes ! . B 2§ Leading Thereto. : s th head- @e s et esedeiedsietsioisiosisissisieiesio® 3 a civil engi- st visited the pl te T: attract atten- among the extends itheasterly | ght FEELING THE Newspaper at Wardner Sup- pressed for Printing So- Called Seditious Matter. — Spectal Dispatch t WARDNER, Idaho, May 25.—To- day the publication of the Mullan Mirror was stopped and its editor, W. H. Stewart, arrested on a charge | of publishing seditious matter. All the saloons in Mullan, Gem The Call. f ricans uthern ( he remain- and bei nglishmer Mexi g ricans on Saturday | and Burke have hcen closed by the ing of that day | military authorities. ! hohe ‘H '1 ‘| Four hundred and seyenty-seven per- SRR b or employment have been issued 2 dner. The Last Chance mine sions. Burros are at a premium | oo, up with a small force this morn- Unsenada, but a supply, s, being |, ne of the mines above Wallace ered up in the surrounding hills ted, but many men are com- 1 and they will soon start. Taidey Fisidol Merriam left to-day for Den- de BETQNEIE Sur Brorery. e ving Major Smith in command city are doing & good | 0 “niedy States forces in the Coeur ) selling gold pans and oth- | e e : D th- | g Alenes. and one firm is aving | .yceq of rioting confined in the new m just completed here. umber of dry washers | [ mand | The Ccroner's investigation into the 11 at from $10 to $15 gold at En- | arfes Lxt that. water.ly 1f"u‘l’ | cause of the death of two men during E : 4 et o1 About | the riot on May 9 is still in session and $125 erican money. Emiliano Ibar- | iy brobably last a week longer. Three ra and other Mexicans are sald to D€ | pyngreq witnesses have been examined devoting t ittention to SInKing | ,ng gome very damaging evidence is i) L a 800d SUD- | 4iq to have been sccured against the P overnor Martines ot 1o Paz and | alleged rioters. Examination of the twenty-five rura reported to be | records of the Miners’ Unicn, which on their way 1o the camp, the placers | were seized by the miiitary authorities, being ur th sdiction of the | show lists of the men who were to be | ;;’n:;er};_rul_.gm e ithern District of | rup out of the country. donegLailiomls. nta Barbara, | MOSCOW, Idaho, May 2.—Governor Steunenberg was by a reporter on the southbound train cn his wa Boise, and in answer to the charges made by the Silver Bow leaders and the Labor Assembly of Butte, Mont., to the effect that four of the Wardner miners had died since their imprison- ment said that, like many other state- day from ments made by symvathizing orders, Denis confirms the reported large | there is no truth in it; that not a single shipment of gold from the new plac- | prisgner had died and only one had stating that the Governor of Low- | paen seriously ill and the physician in lifornia told him personally that | cparge stated he was much improved, s een which took sur Emiliano Ibarra return with the diggings. The next Monday from smaller vessels have part of two or three within a day or two. A Tribune reporter who returned to- ion for to expected to the est news from hoor ho will sail the first consignment of $138,000 in having been sick of typhoid fever. The b 1 :m‘vl’ ;:us‘w” '1‘ In;-‘;n ”w»m Lo | Governor stated that startling evidence suaymas 10 be i rded ‘to the 3 v i iven before the Coroner's Smelting Works at San Franci wagpone inquest, and when made public, as it would be, the world could then deter- mine whether the condition at Wardner demanded the strong and uncompro- mising course now pursued. gold was taken La Paz and shipped by the Martinez steamer line to Guaymas. Two schooners are fitting out here to leave in a day or two for San Pablo Bay, near the p, and cannot carry th people asking passage. The large copper mines at Santa -Rosalia have almost shut down, as their force of about a thousand have stamveded. Gold from these placers has been quietly received here for a year past in considerable quan- titles. overland to McKinley’s Contribution. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Acting Secre- tary Cortelyou to-day called upon Assist. ant Secretary of the Treasury Vanderlip, chairman of the Dewey home fund, and viaced in his hands a check from the ‘resident, constitutlag Mr. McKinley's _Lcontribution to the fund. IS ARE CALIFORNIA BOYS MAY | ennes to the effect that the trouble | ! o s> e>eo 0@ o - L R S T S R SOy | ANILA, May 25.—The First | California Infantry has as | yet been unable to leave for home, owing to a typhoon, the violence of which smashed four cascos, which were engaged in load- ling the transport with supplies. | They will sail to-morrow if the storm | abates. | The Filipino Commissioners have re- turned to the insurgent headquarters | to report the result of the mission to | Aguinaldo. They expect to come back | to Manila soon. Before leaving here Gonzaga, presi- dent ¢f the commission, said: “We greatly appreciate.the courtesy shown us. We have spent some time with vour Commissioners, incidentally con- sidering the American constitution. Its principles impress us profoundly. The plan of government offered for the Philippines seems, in theory, a gocd colonial system, but why should a na- tion with your constitution seek to make a colony of a distant people who have been so long fighting against Spain to secure the same rights your constitution gives? You fought the same battle in America when you fought against England.” The Oregon volunteer troops on the | | & | keep their arms is calculated greatly GENERAL KING AND STAFF ON FIRING LINE BEFORE PACO. D O O Cam A O O Y THE CUBANS WILL KEEP THEIR ARMS * —— (¢ 3 Leaders of the Opposition |+ b . s | & | Gain a Victory Over |, 1 General Gomez. T ’ | AT MAY LEAD TO WAR 2 \ | | 25 | & —_— . | ® 01d Liberator Thinks He Has Been ? | Shamefully Treated by the + | People He Helped. ¢ | Yt : Whether their purpose be only to . render a rebuke to General Gomez, | thereby gaining a political advantage lin the possible Cuban republic of the .future, or whether they |are designedly seeking to break | the Americans, the attitude of the Cuban leaders opposed to the old general in adwising the soldiers to to embarrass the administration at| | Washington, and may lead to the gravest consequences in the future. With war on our hands in the east, and a threat of war in the West In- dies, it would really appear that the | Spanish war had been fought by the | B R SRR JRCam SXCRL = i and was attended by anti-Gomez offi- | cers in the Cuban army. Strong anti- | expressed l United States to small profit. | American sentiments were | and Gomez was called a “traitor to able to The Call < | Cuba libre,” and severely scored for | Bl ph il entering into the last negotiations with = General Brooke without consulting the | \(-\.vp\\y\i e l": The | cpresentatives of the army. His a T T oaroneral GOIMCZ | yjong were construed by the speake ]'”_", phie ol AssemblY | ;¢ an effort to further his own politi- | e A ! | cal aggrandizement. | st i ssuedto | “oypan soldiers are vot looking for the old soldiers to-day requesting them | ..\t ST B G Shtes they to.give up their swns Mg fetirn Paace | said, and General Brooke had no right | wbly to their homes will be met to-|, a5k them to give up their arms, as | morrow by a strong manifeste. from (% ) Loy ST L0l d army. The Span- | the majority of the Cuban chiefs urg- | ;o co1ntoars in Havana still hold | | ing the soldiers not to accept of 2ny | 3 . afay TR | H e > 4 their Mausers, they asserted, and the {of the $.000 8 o%cred. by #he United ! soldiers who fought for indépendenc o [ States, but to dishand .and keep their | 31135 0 pormitted to retire from the 1A with their arms. By unanimous | A meeting was held this afternoon at | 1o : the home of General Mayia Rodriguez | Continued on Second Page B e oo SECE SR SRR S 2 SR SR SR T aaan an e e ol ol e ol o oot B o S R e | north line returned to Manila to-day. Other volunteers are gradually being withdrawn, leaving three regiments of regular troops, the Third, Seventeenth | from the party of American troops en- and Twenty-second Infantry, to guard |countered a body of insurgents at Santa the north front from Balinag to San| Rita, and the Americans being rein- Fernando. | forced by Brigadier General Funston He says he is suffering from a bayonet wound. MANILA, May 26, 11:20 a. m.—A scout | In the fighting at San Fernandc ves- | with the South Dakota Regiment, a terday fifty Filipinos were killed and|warm fight efsued. | many were wounded. The Ameri-| A lieutenant and five men of the | cans had two men Kkilled and twelve | American force were wounded and ten wounded, | General Lawton is at Malolos with | practically his entire command. He is | withdrawing to the railroad, as the re- gion where he has been is difficult to hold during the rainy season. The roads will be impassable in a few days. As | supply bases small garrisons will con- trol navigation at points on the rivers Rio Grande, Bagbag and BSan Fer- nando. General Rios, the Spanish representa- tive in the Philippines, is preparing to visit Baler to negotiate for the libera- tion of the Spanish garrison, which is besieged there by the Filipines. David Brown, a Canadian, who has been imprisoned by the insurgents since his capture at Malolos last January, has communicated with the American authorities through a Filipino friend, begging the Americans to rescue him. of the insurgents were killed and sev- eral captured. i General Hughes, who has been ap- pointed to relieve General Smith as Governor of the Visayan district, will be succeeded as provost marshal by Brigadier General Williston, who re- | cently arrived here in command of the troops of the Sixth Artiller: ANTI-TRUST BILL APPROVED. The Measure Goes Into Effect in | Texas Next January. AUSTIN, Tex., May 2.—Governor Say- ers to-day approved the anti-trust bill. It | will go into effect January 31, 1900. Many inquiries are being received here from all parts of the country for information as to the drastic provisions of the bill. Man- ufacturers of steel rails in the East have refused to accept cash orders for such material from parties engaged in railroad building ip Texas on account of the f ture of the bill which seeks to prevent them from doing business in the State, ! L R e i SR SO R SR S e i e aaoae e HON. BARTLETT TRIPP. Q@+ ebebeiebebeieieie | sanction the acts of the treaty-making | tion open to settlement, requiring them | Railway with a desire to build a BE 4 L T T S S S I R S R I R R e SIS B . CHEYENNES TAKE THE WARPATH s e s One Hundred Indians Out and Several Ranchmen Have Been Killed. Speeial Dispatch to The Call. BILLINGS, Mont., May 25.—News reached here to-day from the Tongue | He requests | the English TRIPP CHAIRMAN OF SAMOAN COMMISSION e ADMIRAL KAUTZ T0 BE UPHELD e The Trouble at the Islands Will Be Settled in Short Order, mre e CLAIM OF MATA4FA e — Not Likely That His Men Will Ever Acknowledge Malietoa as King. —_— BY W. E. WILLIAMSON. Speclal Cable to The C Herald. Copyrigh don Bennett PIA, Samoa, May 16, via Auckland, N. Z., May 25. The Joint- Samoan Com- mission arrived here on the 13th of May and organized yesterday, electing Bartlett Tripp, Ameri- can Commissioner, chairman. 1l and the New York 1599, by James Gor- Mataafa has written to the commission asking permission for himself and three hundred unarmed supportérs to occupy the eastern section of Apia, so that he may be near his counsel. the withdrawal of and American sol- | diers to their ships and the dis- arming of the Malietoans during the hearing before the commis- sion. The Philac to depart for J. Moors porter of Mat lelphia is prepared San Francisco. H. he American sup- aafa, has written to River Agency of the Northern Chey- | which nad been brewing with that | tribe for several. months past had | Cheyennes were on the warpath. | Several ranchmen living in the vi- : cinity of the agency are said to have | been killed, and the Indians are burn- | ing every ranch they car reach. | -he Indian police have been strengthened at the agency and every precaution is being taken. Major | Clifford is the agent in charge, and | says the present outbreak is caused | by fancied neglect on the part of the | Government of Indian wants. The | Indians say they are only half fed. | They have been dissatisfied for some | time and it was said have been kept | on the reservation by force of arms. | | THE NEZ PERCES * THREATEN TROUBLE | S I A R I HOM E I O- DA 1'broken out and that mere than 100 | military power toward the oppo- | | LEWISTON, Ida —Although the Nez Perces Indians have not been in a state of revoit since Chief Joseph | led them on the warpath in 18’ it is feared they are about to go out again. | The old difficulty of the Government taking their land is the cause. About 200 Indians about the Lapwai Agency. where the Northern Pacific Railway building a branch line, have been in council for the last three days and the sessions have been most exciting. 0 ‘white man has been permitted to visit the councils, but outside the Indians are talking in a denunciatory way of ali whites and making threats to repeat the scenes of 1877, when seventeen ‘whites were massacred almost on the spot where -the present councils are being held. . Formerly there were ten thousand square miles in the reservation of the Nez Perces. By a treaty made with several of the chiefs, the Government took away nine-tenths of this and brought on the war of 1877, Joseph and other members of the tribe refusing to chiefs. Since then the Nez Perces have been peaceable and have risen to a high state of civilization. In 1896 the Government threw their reserva- to give up 542,074 acres out of a total of 746,651, all that was allowed them be- ing their allotments in severalty. They were paid a small price for the land taken. Now comes the Northern Pacific iine sixty-five miles up Lapwai Creek. Without securing any rights from the Indians, the company secured per- mission from the Government to build across the farms of Indian owners, tak- ing such land as it wanted. On the completion of the work a commission- er will be sent from Washington to as- sess damages and what he assesses is all that will be secured. The company has filed a two hundred thousand dollar bond and is golng ahead, cutting down orchards and des- protest again Rear Admira sensational st the departure of Kautz. He makes 1arges of abuse of C destruction of villages and sition, wanton many cruelty. boats and COMMISSION WILL SUSTAIN KAUTZ The American Admiral Has Treated the Samoans in the Proper Fashion. PIA, Samoa, May 17, via Auck- land, N. Z., May 25.—The first sitting of the Samoan Commis- sion, consisting of Bartlett Tripp, former United States Minister to Aus- tria-Hungary; Baron von Speck von Sternberg, representing Germany, and C. H. Eliot, C. B., of the British Em- bassy at Washington, representing Great Britain, took place o May 16. The commissioners were engaged all that morning in conferring with the Chief Justice, Willlam L. Chambers. Nothing was disclosed regarding the deliberations, but it is reported that they will uphold the action of Admiral Kautz, the American naval com- mande Mataafa sent the commissioners a letter of welcome and ex the hope that they would satisfactorily end the troubles in Samoa. It is under- stood that Mataafa will obey the unanimous order of the commission, though it is doubtful whether he will order his followers to disarm unless the Malietoans are first disarmed. The Ma- taafans will disperse to their homes if ordered to do so, but they will never recognize Malietoa as King and doubt- less there will be further trouble in the future if the Kingship is maintained. Only one or two cases are known of the wounding of natives by the shell fire of the warships, and as the natives have not realized the strength of the Europeans, they may go to greater ex- tremes if war arises again. The rebels remain outside the lines indicated by the Admiral and have strongly fortified a new position, while | the loyalists are being drilled and have fortified Mulinuu. A, considerable number of loyalists have been brought by the warships from other islands Half the male adults of Samoa is awaiting action on the part of the com: mission in order to support Malietoa. The Germans are preparing compen- sation claims. It is understood one German firm claims $60,000 and that other German subjects claim $20,000 The British Consul, E. B. S. Maxse, in- vited them to put in their claims and it is understood that the Commission wil adjudicate them. Replying to questions submitted te¢ him by a correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press, Mataafa said it was the head chiefs and not himself who begar the war, adding that they did so be. cause they were angered at power be- ing taken from them by violence and also because they were made angry ecrating graves, hence the wrath of the Indians. by the Chief Justice's unjust decision Mataafa claimed he had upheld ths