The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1899, Page 1

s s ; < g This Paper no Nk . raken If o be e R . A N + the Library: VOLUME 2 LXXXVI-NO. 20. SAN FRANCISCO., TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS, BOERS’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST BRITONS PLANNED. OUBERT MAY INVADE CAPE COLONY. i | J B e e T S O = ] D D M DU S S S | @ * T i BT Lt . | P @ + ; . % . b + o | @ .‘ | + @ © * . & Y . ‘ * @ @ g ¢ @ @ * 3¢ @ ¢ * * @ b . . & S 4 * . °5 o Cape Town, With Table Bay and Table Mountain. : B0 s 0000600000000 eBigo g iGN e N St. James | ¢ = taneously, it is added, the railroad from 7 ¢ | Cape Town to Buluwayo will he de- ! * @ stroyed by Boer sympathizers, and X Y ¢ |agents in Cape Colony will destroy the | 3¢ & Port Elizabeth-Pretoria line south of 7 + Bloemf n to prevent British troops 1 s | from using it ® o Finally, immediately after Kimberly s ¢ . |is captured, Gene Joubert will ad- @ | vance Cape Town, the capital Cape Colony, through the provinces, where the Dutch 3 inate and are expected to join the Boers. Joubert calculates that he will be master of Cape Town a fortnight after the declaration of war and that | ( he will then be able to dictate terms HEAVY GUNS TO DEFEND THE DIAMOND FIELDS LONDON, 0.—The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Malil says: The Government has forwarded a bat- of 1vy guns to Kimberly for the > of the diamond fields. There ¢+ GENERAL P. J. JAUBERT, the Commander-in-C hief Doisivsisieieieseiene * of the Boer Forces. i 3 ctivity in the Cape imperial > command and munitions of war are be- Do o eieieisieiae ing sent northward in large quantities. TIilR r no evidence for or p‘! i and time enough has not ! ; ) [ tablish or disprove the r AUGUSTIN DALY LAID TO HIS FINAL REST Large Gathering Mourns at the Bier of the weparted Theatrical Manager. Tt MONTANA KID s gss i | WTHOUT PERMITS Mine Managers Must]| Obey the Rule. e in Three Scouts Bring Captives. | WALLACE, Tdaho, June 19.—A Dep- | NEW YORK Special Dispatch to The Call. uty Sheriff went to Mullan to-day to = rers wer notify the Independence and Hunter | ¢ mines to cease working men without Moss, Ric Roger A ., Willilam Wir Jose permits from the State authorities. The | Independence complied with the order, | but the Hunter declined. Uniess work | s to-morrow the Sheriff states that the mine will be put under guard and the superintendent imprisoned. Upon the opening of court this morn- | ing the defense moved to quash the| citation to Sheriff Young on account of | Pryor ed Sher- to nd the abso 1 with | o ounced l{v\”."‘l hbishop Cor irregularities in its issuance. Thni el The funeral sermon was State was taken by surprise and asked | he | I r Lavelle, rettor time to investigate, so the mattar was | 100k for his text, “Let us praise men I continued until 3 p. m. The defense g 1tiful floral offer- £ave notice that the same objectio 1 the iecite hh g the largest being those from | would be offered in the cases against with eact i Tombeaid the | the County Commissioners. there was In Calvary Cemetery. { This afternoon counsel for the State = SR confessed a motion to quash the cita- e Paymaster Sullivan’s Luck. tion in Sheriff Young's case. The de- WaSHINGTON SIua Tt developed | fonse then made a similar motion in to-day that John Clyde 1, who was the case against the Commissioners with the same result. Application was then made for a new citation. - Stewart as much as possible, the » rank of s action he \4"(;;{1‘”,\““; d“;ml‘g'slvl n((”['m'\\; with no result except to decide tha : a : ) farsos five years as the mMartial law existed, and counsel for | nt « ldiers in_charge dismissal on charges of em. | defense partially promised to walve the some other misc! . ete, he has lost but seven Statutory notice and take up the Com- amination VIRGIN GOLD IN CHUNKS IN YUKON BASIN. WONDERFUL F[&D'ON DAHL RIVER ICT( A, B June 19.—The steamer Tees, the second of the treasure steamers from the nortl ngs news of a wonderfully rich strike on the hills at the back of the Dahl River, in the Koyokuk district. If the reports brought to Dawson by passengers up the river from Circle City and Forty Mile be true chunks of virgin gold, some two and some more inches square, have been found. A mad rush is on to the scene of the finds—the maddest, it is said, in the his- tory of the Yukon The find was made, according to the reports which reached Dawson on the river steamer Victorian, about six weeks ago. Miners who reached the Klondike capital by that steamer say that the big find was made by the purest chance. Two prospectors, A. Creivghton and an old German, were pitching camp while roaming through the hills, and when digging a hole for the tent pole they turned up a flat piece of gold about one and one-half by two inches. A further search revealed more chunks of virgin gold, and before darkness had fallen the two fortunate g sack. miners had a | They told no one of their find and hurried to Circle City to record it. After recording their properties the old German let some friends then at Circle City in on it. They told others 1 soon a small stampede began. ; More finds of virgin gold were made. The news was then spread broadcast and the trail was soon black with miners struggling on as fast as they could go to the gold-laden hills. Late arrivals from Dawson say it is the maddest stampede that has as yet occurred in the northland. 1C rged counsel to ex- | court having heen in session ten days | SURROUNDED BY THOUSANDS OF THE ENEMY At Major Bubb's Battalion Is| Attacked by a Horde of | Insurgents. [ TRE.&CHE@ES AMICOS Force of American Troops Suffers a Heavy Loss and Barely Es- capes Annihilation. —r Special Dispatch to The Call. D e e + + 4+ MANILA, June 20, 8 a. m.—The + + first absolutely authenticated in- + + stances of the mutilation of Am- + + erican soldiers by Filipinos oc- + 4 curred yesterday. Two privates + + of the Fourth Infantry, who + + were wounded during the recon- 4 + noissance toward Perez das + + Marinas, were left temporarily + 4+ on the roadside owing to a lack + + of transportation facilities. Later + 4+ when men went to bring them in 4+ + found they were dead. + + right ears had been cut + + off by the natives. The throat + + Bf one was cut and the face of + 4 the other hed with a knife. 4 + + B R R R R S s ANILA, June 20—Sur- rounded by thousands of the enemy, six miles from reinforcements and with a thou- sand rapidly down on their left to make their annihilation com- plete, the First Battalion of the Fourth Infantry, Major Bubb commanding. in all 300 Ameri- cans, fought their way back from more msurgents moving Perez das Marinas, three miles toward their military base at Imus., where the rest of the Fourth came to their support. Reports were received that Perez das Marinas had been de. serted by the insurgents. The Alcalde of the place came to Imus and formally surrendered his town. The houses along the roadside were filled with amigos, and the battalion advanced confidently until within three-fourths of a mile of Perez das Marinas, when they ¢ Par- alleling the road at long distance on both sides and practically sur- rounding the little force, the na- tives began firing from houses in the rear, and natives in white clothes were captured with guns in hand. The whole scheme was to wipe out the small body of American troops, and it might have suc- ceeded but for the marvelous courage of the troops and offi- cers. The fight began at noon and sflenced the cnemy’s fire in one hour. The Americans on retiring ered that they were surrounded. The skirmish lines crowded the Filipinos and drove the insurgents back toward Imus, while the outflankers were on the right and left. Under the flanking fire the rear guard was desperately holding the enemy's rushes in check. An incessant and galling fire was poured upon the main road, and the men were falling every- where. The ambulance was filled, and carts were pressed into service, loaded with the wounded, and dragged by hand by prisoners. Two of our dead were left behind. At 3 o'clock it looked as if nothing | could save the battalion. At 4 o'clock | they had pressed the enemy off, and | iscovered the enemy. discov- them. Fifteen minutes later Hazzard, |ald of General Wheaton, pushed through alone wtth the news that Wheaton was coming to the relief. The men with a cheer wildly went for the Filipinos. found a force of the enemy a thousand | strong moving to intercept the bat- talion along the road where it runs at right angles. nel fire and mowed down gents. He then cleared and advanced rapidly. At 4:30 he had the enemy in full front and gained a mile and a half of lost ground. The regiment bivouacked at last in the rice fields, and food and ammuni- tion were rushed forward to them. | The day's fighting developed the most determinéd and best-planned resistance yet made by the Filipinos. General Wheaton makes the follow- ing signed statement: “I am glad to say ! i | the the insur- out the left who held back two thousand insurgents for three hours, the troops acted gal- lantly and with the courage and cool- ness of veterans. “Major Bubb, commanding, every officer on the field should receive congratulations for their heroism and the manner in which they handled Continued on Second Page, | on the right they were at last behind | Then General Wheaton | He opened with a shrap- | that in tn-day's] reconnoissance of the Fourth Infantry, | and | OTIS TO BLAME FOR THE AMERICAN REVERSES. MORE TROOPS NEEDED AT ONCE ALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, June 19.—With professedly friendly natives attacking General Wheaton’s troops from the rear, and with Aguinaldo’s forces taking the ag- gressive instead of the defensive against the forces of General MacArthur and General Lawton, as shown by dispatches during the past few days, the military situation in the Philippines has assumed an aspect which seems to make a call for more troops imperative. Yet, while advices from the Philippines em- phasize the almost universal demand in this country for an immediate call for a provisional army, General Otis remains silent on the subject. Upon him is fixed the responsibility for the delay in taking advantage of the provision of the law contemplating the creation of a provisional army of 35,000 men for use in case of an emergency such as now exists. The President stands ready and willing, according to all authorities here, to promptly comply with any request General Otis may make for additional troops. Not only has General Otis been told this, but in the last dispatch sent him on the subject, the suggestion was thrown out, I am told, that he ought to have more troops. In answer to this his reply was the same as trocps were necessary and desirable. before—that only 30,000 In the face of this, the President, before he left Washington, declared in the presence of his Cabinet that as long as General Otis was in command in the Philippines his judgment as to the needs of the situation must be paramount to recommendations from other sources. Whether he has changed his views on this point in the light of recent developments in the Philippines, and of the general demand from the Governors of States for an immediate increase in the military forces in the archipelago, as shown by the careful canvass of the situ- ation made by the Herald-Call, has not yet appeared. “In the absence of the President,” said Adjutant General Corbin to me to-day, ‘there is no compe- tent authority here to say whether or not an additional number of volunteers will be called for. All we can properly say is that steps have been taken to give General Otis all the troops he has asked for, and that ths siightest intimation from him that he needs more than those already in the Philippines and those ordered to go there, will receive prompt attention from this end of the line. There will be no trouble about organizing the provisional army. It can be organized and under way to the Philippines within less than sixty days. Whether it be needed I am not prepared to say. General Otis must be the judge of the situation.” The authorities are naturally very much pleased over California’s promise of assistance, made in the telegram received to-day from Senators Perkins and White, but it is stated that the offer will probably not be accepted in the form in which it is made, even if more volunteers are called out. It is not the intention to call for State troops under the existing organization, nor will a proclamation be issued calling up the Gov- ernors of States to furnish volunteers. The Secretary of War will simply be instructed by the President to organize a certain number of additional regiments and call for recruits, who will be enlisted at the various re- cruiting rendezvous, just as men are now enlisted for the regular army. ASHINGTON, June 19.—The fol-, been established at San Francisco and | lowing telegram was received *ISCO, Cal., June 19 Adjutant General, Washi Southern California supports adm! istration in efforts to suppress the Philippine insurrection and tenders the President ervice a well | organized and ughly disciplined reg- iment of infantry. Officer to em 15 lipment can be furn: GEORGE € United State STEPH M. s the following tele- n t WHITE. In response to th gram was sent to snator Perkins at San Francisco to-day: Hon. George C. Perkins: Your telegram offering a regiment received and forw: President and Secretary of W, as yet been determined to ¢ r regiments into service fc telegram will have 1id ft be decided to 1 General Otis is mq , and requisition terial will be met with promptness. He will determine from time | to time the number 6f men required to meet the demands of the situation. H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. The following cablegram has been re- ceived from General Otis: MANILA, June 19.—Adjutant Genes Washington: All volunteer organizatia here desire to be mustered out in Francisco. OTTS. The ble message of General Otis was in response to a specific inquiry of the War Department based upon its | declared policy of having each volun- | teer organization elect whether it tional the men ter for an | should be mustered out at San Fran-| cisco or its home station. It appears ! from General Otis’ message that the | volunteer organizations prefer to dis- | hand at San Francisco, in accordance with the original arrangements of the | War Department. A model camp has | W | comfort and con | ing soldiers. | visable, from a sanitary standpoint, to | | volunteers tendered to the Gov: | kins ana | some ttme that the matter of tendering | fOTmMs me thas ALDECK-RO ator Perkins and ex-Senator White to General Corbin being the ri It of his effor Former Senator White to-day expressed a desire to do all in his pow to have the regiment mustered into t e provided with facility for the| >nience of the return- s been deemed a Itk l'icéep icaeh orza fon in the camp at | service of the United States for work | least two or three weeks before permit- n or anywhere > in the Phil- ting the men to go to their homes and if the office and men in the scatter through the country. T ent really desire to go ab d. > Some time ago,” said Senator White, THE SEVENTH REGIMENT “Colonel Berry said to me that he would like to effect a reorganization of ANXIOUS FOR BATTLE the old Seventh Regiment, as n arly all of the men in the regiment, officers Ex-Senator White Believes the War | and privates, desired t reoniiot oo in the Philippines Should service in the Philippines, and that he i was about to fill vacancles as they might « L5/ that S Perkins should make a contingent te regiment to the War De was done, as I under jutant General H. SAN DIEGO, June 19, cx Dodge of Company B, ment, N. G. (., of this city, the senior captain of the regiment, states in an | interview to-day that the regiment of rhment rvice at Manila by Senaters Per- White is undoubtedly the Seventh California. He has known for Captain R. V. eventh Regi- lonel Berry reques f the Seventh ument, which offe nsidered. “‘General Corbin, in his télegram, in- i ms B Jor e erai Elwell 8. its service to the Government had been | QU8 Is entire master of the situation agitated in the regiment and this[ 300,00t General Otis' desires In refer- morning he received a letter from a | compl with. The sum :‘mi ?{h::;pr:.i high official of the regiment stating | of the situation at present i in my that the tender was to be made. | opinion, that nothing is,to be done in Captain Dodge declares that if their | the direction of additional forces for services are accepted the Seventh wilt | the Philippines vntil General Otis so go to the Philippines almost to a man. | ©C0tS I for s would be duly onally, while have ne: rer LOS ANGELES, June 19.—The spe- taken and do not now take the smallest cial tender of the Seventh Regiment, |particle of stock in the Philippine ex- National Guard, to President McKinley | pansion, I believe, nevertheless, that it for active service in the Philippine cam. | IS the duty of the Government to for- paign has, whether the regiment goes | Vard to Manila large forces if we are military circles. Officers of the regi- | contest is to g0 on. A small forcs v mental staff are desirous of going and | not ¢ 1ly bring a ut casualti to our- St members of Companies A, C and F of Los Angeles exhibit no desire to thwart their efforts. Colonel Berry for weeks has been at work upon the matter, the joint telegram of United States Sen- ves, but will also tend to prolong tha truggle, to the disadvantage of all concerned It appe to me incon- | sistent with the policy of the admini tration to continue the present unsatis- factory condition of affairs.” SEAU FAILS US TO FORM A CABINET. POINCARE M ARIS, June 20.—Tt was announced this afternoon that Senator Wal- deck-Rousseau had declined the task of forming a new Cabinet. This morning the effort he was known to be making looked most promising. | The Senator had informed President | Loubet that he hoped to complete the list by to-night, and the newspapers were so certain that a forecast of the | probable construction of the new Cabi- | net was given, as follows: M. Waldeck-Rousseau, Premier and Tinister of War. Senator Monis, Minister of Justice. | M. de la Nessena, Minister of Marine. M. del Casse, Minister of Foreign Af- | fairs | M. camille Krantz, Minister of Pub- | lic Works. M. Cailleaux, Minister of Finance. M. de Lombre, Minister of Commerce. M. Leygues, Minister of Public In- | struction. | M. Guillaine, Minister of the Colonies. | M. Lepine, Minister of the Interior. The failure of M. Waldeck-Rousseau is due, it is said, to the refusal of Camille Krantz to accept the portfolio \’(rf Public Works, which he considered | inferior to the portfolio of War, held | by him in the retiring Cabinet. But | for this the Waldeck-Rousseau slate | was complete. | MM. Poincare and Guillaine made | their acceptance of office dependent upon the inclusion of M. Krantz. The | latter, besides refusing the portfolio of | Public Works, pressed his disapproval | of certain measures which M. Waldeck- Rousseau proposed to take against the | generals and colonels who recently in- spired a newspaper propaganda in fa- vor of the army. After formal conferences to-morrow | it is expected that M. Loubet will again | summon M. Poincare. | The failure of M. Waldeck-Rousseau | makes the situation exceedingly diffi- | cult. Both M. Casimir-Perier and Gen- eral Bruguiere declined to enter the Cabinet. It is quite uncertain whom M. | | ™ ® ® * + s + & . ¢ + 3 + kS . 5 3 AY RESUME D R O R R O S S THE TASK RE k4 & > - O B S O SR S -Q B B e e R R O o O e B S e S S R O O SR SECSS SPOSY SROIP O FOIE SO Loubet will now summon. Possibly he | chanel, President of the Chamber of may call ypon M. Sarrien or Paul Des- | Deputies.