The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1899, Page 1

= to be tanc: . the Libr ary-* VOLUME LXXXVI— SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS ®:0: i the announcement that | val nd John D. Davis will | ¢ om the Hera building | t morrow in an attempt to make \\ e shall find stretches of " said h “over which we can make twenty to. thirty I n to encounter, ¢ - | miles an hour, but in order tc ns were ahout equall led | avoid accidents, we shall not use ! s to the chances of their rea the full speed of the motor except g the Pz > Coast in their 1 where there is a straight road e It was admitted that if lahead of us clear of vehicles. - As the run is successful it will open the eves of French and English as to the ability omobiles to make aut or of consideration. be more or less cautious. ~ We' it 'may result in the first | shall “start prepared for . emer- itional race being held in ncies and will have ' an extra ioned as a | front and rear tire, and we will of the 0- | also carry. some: duplicate * parts of the motor, 1 have been to the v of the Missis- [ factory and watched - the' work- sippt Rive T seli-propelling | men put a carriage together, so ving cart will be a revelation. | that 1T am familiar“with" all -the Like the advent of the s 1| parts of the machinery. toward the “In’ addition- to..the . regular| a sensation. | foot brake, which acts upon the no auto- | rear axle and is sufficient for all| Vo6 Dae expected to make the best vhole continent one ordimnary emerger COLGIDI G 6 DI HIEOE TALKS OF Forke fadC¥s e e et n R T RO R S IS ROUTE ACROSS THE SETv s T > for touring- purposes in ""m‘.%'“ . Day hat he time e vis said to-day t n New roads i1 the roads will be new to us most of the v vy, and - we have ‘the to cross and 1ot o make, day’s run t we shall ncies, I have had a hand brake put on, which oper- ttes on the tires, and will- stop b own power the carriage almost instantly and 1ess hold it on any grade. A - lever Davis regards his trip as | thrown forward connects . the y a tc of iment. | gear and starts the carriage- for- Besides ft hing dw ward. Speed may he regulated the road with an ol les- at will and the ~motor can - be son as to the i stopped or reversed by moving \merican mecl the lever back. The gasoline A Davis hopes to demor t < is in the bottom of the car- to the world the feasibility of and water jacket sur- ring in private vehic as one would cruise in vacht by sea. Mr. Davis d not expect to make the wheel journey without accident or hap of scme kind, but fdent that he can His experiences on will and mis he is con all overcome difficulties. road, he thinks, to the trip, public may be informed | e: progress tward, add in- st in order of the auto- Mr. and Mrs. ake stops at the ¢ Post-Stand e Svracuse sion of hydro-carbon gasolin clectricity in the cylinder. I shall take four cells, the 1SV “I - expect when we get into the foothills of the Rocky rounds the motor and keeps it cool. “Power comes from the explo- | gas, . and which is ignited by Dry the electricity. which are furnish lated to last 5000 miles. batteries give out it will to 1‘(’1:1 be ce them in any city through which we pass. to reduce speed Mountains, as the car- ¢ Buffalo Courier, thelriage, with both of us in it and . : Imes-Herald, the | our baggage will weigh 1250 Omaha World-Herald and the | pounds. - It has a climbing Denver Republican, and will end | caj acity that will take us up 23 their jot ont of the San | Francisco Call buildine v oin Mr. Davis’ schedule ¢ .-p~ over night at A\l ”(m.x]n. Clevela f Toledo 3 ‘l Chicago. In these cities rests will be miade and fresh sup- p of gasoline secured, Al careful record.will be kept of the | actual running time and mileage es made, and bulletins will be sent | to the Call-Herald giving the | ner the moun r|as far a Itrails to Denver and bevond. | may go either to the north or to the south after leaving Denver, according to what we learn there | of the condition We shall follow the trail outlined carly in the '40's by trappers to General Bidwell, and made fam- ous by the ‘Forty-Niners.’ cent grades or better. .In shall follow, s possible, the old stage We ns e of the passes. It is & GO OO & IN THE AUTOMOBILE from | If! DSOSt © TOLOLITINIO0Oe HIS TRIP A CITIZEN SHOT DOWN BY SOLDIER Negro Soldiers En Route to Manila Raid a Saloon at Winnemucea. T PLAEWRECKED /) | People Gather in the Railway | § ( ' Station and the Town Is 01 Greatly Excited. Special Dispatch to The Call. ¢ INNEMUCCA, Nev., A 29. —Companies M and L of | the Twenty-fifth and X of cazeEgcgeeele ettty ] CONTINENT. S TS %’b\/@@@% S ored troops. passed through Winne- | (/ | mucca this evening, Major Noble in | ) | command, on the way to San Fran- ) cisco, whence they will go to Manila. The train stopped here and a party of the negroes raided a saloon near ' | the station, wrecked the bar and shot the bartender, Chris Deiss. It is ) feared that Deiss will die. / The greatest excitement prevailed. The station was filled with citizens, and the local authorities held the |train to find the would-be murderer if possible. Major Noble, r L in London. S D who was in command, | dered out twice for the inspection, and foothills of the Sierras and select the most available pass to cross that range into California.” A CALIFORNIA WELCOME FOR THE TRAVELERS The most | the shooting occurred closely inspected | each man. | But was identified, Sergeant | Smith, who gave a satisfactory expla- | nation of his presence in the saloon. one in daylight he could identify one of the men connected with the robbery. Mr. Van Duzer insisted that the train re. main here until daylight so that 1he identification coud be made. elaborate preparations will at the San ancisco end of in to welcome N and Mrs. Da- de the Twenty-fourth Infantry, all col- | rt and finish of each day’s run. | north of the Great American! Tl ot erior na g st Data in ard to the roads will | Desert and through a compara- | the local authorities to delay the ex- il el iy e i pedition, consented that the train be| 1ch © will. ibe & oty tively fertile ‘country. Beyond | gelayed until a thoroughsearch couldbs > to automobilists and bi- | the Palisades we will enter the! made. The three companies were or- thP citizens who had been present when | At this point a recruit gave out.that | [ =l on e e O a iy s Ce e Cu s ol %6 QRODOVOVLIOLE & GO0 SOHD@IDELEIQIIID DD G TROOPS TO KEEP ORDER IN S e P ud T ) BELGIUM'S CAPITAL [ Bea e et 2 i AR BEOODINIGE ELEOPOLD MAY LOSE HIS THRONE RO TR R TR T RN O R O RN T RN N A N N RO R R R RN T R R R 9 OO0 SO0 B0 SRRR R T RN R Rioters in Front of the King’s Palace at Brussels. RN RO AR TS R RN RN RN T RO RN RN @ RUSSELS, June 79—1hc‘]>ulwlu square, the shops glosmvv storm of verbosity was re-| sumed in the Chamber of | The Socialists | Mm[ to-night, M. Destre, Social- | stabbed ist, called attention to the nuti‘]\mf(‘ which had occurred since the ad- | persed, was | point. Deputies to-day. hurled anathemas at M. J. Van der Peereboom, who endeavored | to explain the action taken by their adventurous trip across | Major Noble weuld not consent to X G the continent. They sill be siven 5| this. At 12 o'clock the District Attorney | the police yesterday, and the So specimen of genuine California hospi- | #7d the major came to an issue, and | cialists persistently mtmmptcd tality, and will deserve it. the major gave orders to have the train i % Their trip. will be followed with rt. A writ of attachment was then|2nd insulted ‘the P‘(’““_“~ re keen interest. not alone by the veaders | Secured on the local ticket agent pro-| proaching him with being re- hihiffug ‘e we Winnemucca unlll of tile- train | 5 of The Call, but by peopie all over the St | United States ahd in Europe. %he au- tomabile is the vehicle of the Puture, a future treading close. upon the present. | from o'clock in | had been turned over to the officers. In the large Eastern cities, in fact, the| Major Noble claimed that by dela mator carriage . has already taken a | iNg the train the expedition which place.in everyday street life. Mr. Davis | t0 leave San Francisco to-morrow night for the Philippines has been delayed. WINNEMUC 1:30 o'clock this morning District At- and his accomplished wife hope to zuc- { ceed in: demonstrating that the vehicle is. well adapted for long dis ances as short trips. Their suec m;.‘: torney Van Duzer consented to the re- nean a measure of independence of (hn.l lease of the train. t'railway compan 80 far as the 3 5 = ansportation. of passengers is con- | ROUGH SEAS AHEAD cerned, in _the. future—and with good | road may mean full measure, The | f Mr. .and: Mrs. Davis, it will be o ed; is-mere than a test against Other Governments to Aid the Enterprise. WASHINGTON, June seas are ahead for the American isthmus Ship - Canal Company, con- trolled by the Grace syndicate, ineor- porated on Monday in Trenton, if it trie ‘enturous 7 .Of thmr il ,-m f!nm day to¢ )gress; As f can be forwarded: th st strated . by pictures of penings along the way as phs'| will be dctual hap- and when the st-as photogr: the morning or until the soldier wanted | the people and police. [ pold had a long conference with | Nev., June 30.—At|and Bernaert, the tsummoned from The Hague. It| | was reported that M. Van der | to obtain aid from a foréign Gov- | 5 i ernment to construct an_isthmian | journey is ended The Sunday Call < ernmen : broeent iilgk s ’r”( Will| canal. According to a high official, no s readers a s I 3 ST R e Tni I ticles from the pen of ‘Mr. Davie, (ther Government than the United | profusely illustrated, relating the full | | States will have anything to do with | | el Rl 3 the proposed canal. The papers of in- | ‘;‘," tory of his most remarkable ‘expe-| corporation “state that the new com..| | — pany intends to “obtain aid from-the /GOOD ROADS WILL United States, England, France, Ger-'| | many or any other Government” in its ! box o (‘lnw together and where a amount of mail is- collected. from box. It may be found possible - to i FOLLOW THE TRIP, work | r 2 | 'he. State Department has been. too HIGAG SR active in secking to- bring about the | g EAGO, Tune 20—The Times-Her- | yhrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer | : editorially to-morrow | treaty, under which Great Britain has | morning: h the roads of France it would be a .most pieasurable under- | taking to cross this country from New | York to San Francisco in a motor car- riage, but with the roads of the United States the same journey promises much weariness: of the flesh and pertubation | of mind. Mr. and@ Mrs. John Da\‘i=.} or any other foreign government to have in future-anything to do with the proposed waterwa It has been rep Maritime Canal Company will pool in- terests with the new isthmus company, and if so an embarn ing feature of the canal question will be revived. | who are to make the trip under the| The State Department has not been ispices of the New York Herald and | taking a hand in the fight between the [The San: Francisco. Call, may| w0 concerns !)P_l‘io\'mgbi\l\\us h:;! to| | be rega as cour: . et them ve it out between em- | 3 reearded as comrageous.adventurers i s Sl B St ok so; thanghiithe The test for the automobile will be of the severest kind. There will be moun-'| tains to climb and descend, rivers to ford and the.difficulties of nature will | be but slightly ‘diminished in many places by pat that are a mockery. Even in the East the highways will be Maritime Company, if it does not com- bine with the Grace company, may try to secure from Nicaragua an extension of its concession after October next, he time of the commencement of the Eyre-Cragin concessions. The administration, it is authorita- tively stated, will do nothing in canal found diversified with awful mud-|matiers until the new isthmus com- holes and forbidding patchwork. At ion makes its report. At least a certain seasons of the farmers’ year preliminary report is expected from the ancient ruts are only less terrible | the commission during the next s sion of Congress, and the President will than the mending. “The conditions provoke j 1 iThe conditiogiiprov e a reasonaiic to the construction of the canal imme- FOR COLLECTIDNS FROM veyance, and in any event it will per- | form. a’ public service in-giving a new .,,”..ua.\ to the .agitation for hetter | s. It may | id that there is no ctical value in such agitation he- | causé good roads are attained through | development. With an in- | Automobiles Expected to Be a Great Improvement Over the Pres- ent Wagons. { erease. of population there is increased | need of them, and they will come just| WASHINGTON, June 20.—Automobiles | at- the time when it is demonstrated | for the collection of mail from street let- that it is more profitable to put in im- | ter boxes and for the transportation of mails to and from railway stations and steamer wharv are expected to come | into gene use as soon as their vaiue for 1as been demonstrated. agon service is performed by con and the contractor in each v ia ¢ ltherty’ to Dropel. his waxons: by any motive force he desires. It is believed st the Postoffice Department that the pr ent high price of tomobiles wiil tend to retard their general introduction, though it is expected there will be a material re- duction in the price after the manufac- ture of various types of vehicles becomes thoroughly established. Postmaster Dorr of Buffalo is interasted in the adoption of automobile mail wagons and he wishes to have them tested. Thero are serious defects in the wagons drawn provements than to avoid expenditure. In a.thinly settled country combined | | capital is not sufficient to enable the | people to establish highways through | their wilderness. But the tendency is to accept what | we are used to even after the necessity has passed, and it is this tendency that blocks public improvements of- all sorts, In every ¢ public spirit must be aroused by jolting complacent conser- vatism with facts, figures and humili- ating comparisons, and the era of good s- will undoubtedly be hastened by ions resulting from just such en- s as that of the New York Her- malke an effort to secure action looking | STREET LETTER BOXES | rted here that the | | | | | Van der Peereboom, | suspended the sitting. 29.—Rough | { rumors are rife as to the cause of | sponsible for* confiicts between | was announced that King ILeo- Bergerem latter being Peereboom would resign. Although a vote censuring the | FOR ONE CANAL COMPANY | Government was rejected by 87 | The United States Will Not Permit | t0 31, the tumult in the ch a!nhcr‘ was so great that the President The So- cialists then -led a lique,” to the park, where a con- flict with gendarmes accurred. Thence the mob proceeded to the | Later it | cheering| crowd, shouting “Vive la Repub- | as the rioters appeared. When the Chamber reassem- | | journment, in which he | struck by a gendarme’s sword, and demanded the man’s pun-| ishment. R TR ORRONRS @ % oo sppi SRR NP SR, RGN MO RO N N NG A N Shots were fired on both sides. | Three persons were wounded and a police officer was severely with a shoemaker's The rioters, on being dis- assembled at another A large crowd gathered in the Rue Royale, tearing up the paving stones and using them as Thereupon the Cham- | missiles. Finally the Civic Guard ber at once returned to a state of | was ordered out to relieve the |tumult. The Socialists, sur-!police. ‘mum ing M. Van der Peereboom | Despite these - attempts to 'with clenched fists, denounced |suppress the disturbances, rioting him. As the tumult’ incrc;lscd‘cnminuevl to a late hour, many the Chamber rose. | persons being injured. A tram- In the meantime the streets|way conductor received two bul- were filled by -a shouting mob, |let wounds. which ~eventually gathered in | front of the War Ministry, where | ¢ | N . attempt- | made, many of those taken into mes with swords isperse the rioters. gendar led to ¢ At t | meeting in the Town 1e conclusion of Tall this cross the Grande Place, the Town Hall stanc { gendarmes charged with | swords and the crowd retaliated with stones. evening, thousands attempted to | his entire staff, in which | The | Ville. drawn | the troops r-five arres Ultimately alled.and thir were S were cn~tm[\ being in possession of re- a "leat volvers. Prosecutor, with remains on per- the Hotel de The Public manent duty at It is reported that one man who was wounded has since died i | at the hospital. s are used in New York The chief- trouble with | , such enough ‘to_proper 1e mail as it is collec ally true when ¢ districts where do not .have handle and ed. hi s- are in wagons whea the automobi duced. Pos m'wtl'r Dorr is to submit to the de- partment a report giving his ideas as to an interest in the canal, to permit that | {pe hnrndun(mn of .\\nmnr\hfln wagons. BODY FOUND ON A RAFT OF LOGS Mystery Surrounds the Death of Mary Schweitzer, a Pretty Washington Giri. SEATTLE, June 20.—The news of a | mysgerious tragedy was received this even- ing from the lumber town of Hoguiam, on Grays Harbor. The body of Mar; Schiweitzer, a prepossessing girl of 1\ years, was found to-day in a raft of log: being towed down the river. All kind the prevafling opf the result of a lov developments are T on being that it was affair. Sensational cen mi ening, about She sing for ten June 18, sk urned home tleman escort. tances told her parents that she had gone to Seattie with money furnished by 3 Her people believed this and werl ? Hiats e i greatly. shocked when told that. hs | oubt that . the icerriags will | get| gistely iatter this report s submitted. | foiy' faa heen Ton. ¢ b | through, but if it does it will prove its | | Her gentleman friend. whose name is own title to be considered a useful con- closely” guarded, elaims’ (o be ignorant of Those who have hinted pos bly be h(‘ld for examination. “Several who have seen the re ns claim to have found blood on the arm and the appear- ance of the neck and face gives the im- of choking and foul play. 4 Schweitzer's home was a pleas- ant one on the banks of the Hoquiam River, just out of town. Her parents came here from Chicago in 1897, and know of no _reason why she shoujd take her o life. She had a slight impediment in.her speech, which, it is claimed, once caused her to remark that one day she would jump in the rf nd drawn’ herself. st Irregularities at a Custom-House. Special Cable to The Call and Xhe New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gor- don Bennett. LiMA, Jun» 20.—The Lima Chamber of Commerce has addressed a note to the Government complaining of the incorrect- ress of the scales at the Callao custom- house. and of the ignorance, faith and_disgracefui greediness of employ- in charzing double duties in order to crease their own bonus funds. This con- t, the Chamber points out. is discreds le to the administration and exasper- ing to commercial bodies. 29. ' the |mn<r~d A great sensation among the | s information ‘will prob- | | R0 Soboretaso this e friend, RENNES, by others. EW YORK, June 23.—A Sun cable from Paris says: The Government has issued an em- phatic denial of the report of | Dreyfus’ death. The rtumor reached the palace of the Elysee during | reception following dinner and| but Prime Minister Waldeck- seau, M. de Lanes: Minister of Marine, and M. Decra Color ., who were present, immediate- Iy denied it. n, Government had known for forty-eight hours that Dreyfus had committed sui- cide on board the Sfax. most extreme of the continuous rumors arising fr the whereabouts of the Sfax, caused much stir on the boulevards: An order was issued by the Govern- ment after the adjournmert of the Cah- inet council to-day designating wit- m es to the disembarkation of Drey- fus, who, upon his arrival at Renne: will be clothed in military dress, with stripes and insignia, as before deg- radation. A persistent report is in cir- culation here that the Sfax has -been cruising around the island of Ushant, off the coast of Brittany, since yester- day. Mme. Dreyfus was greatly pleased at her receptiohn upon her arrival .at Rennes. The house of Mme. Godard, where she is staying,’is guarded by The story was to the effect that the | This was the | m the uncertginty regarding | and | hours ago that Dreyfus committed suicide on which he left Devils Island for France. June 29.—The house occupied by Mme. Dreyfus was guarded by genddrmes all night long, and at daybreak these polic I 1040+ 0404040 +0+0+0+ & +0+0+0+0+ 0 $otats S+m STORY OF THE SUICIDE Bei4040409 4045404045404 4040 OF DREYFUS PHo40404040 4040404 404040454 IS GIVEN AN OFFICIAL DENIAL ARIS, June 29.—As an example of the Dreyfus rumors current the Soir >ning declared that a high official, id-the French Government received infor speaking to an intimate ration forty-eight cruiser Sfa on the men were succeeded In addition a porter keeps the outer gates locked and barred. No one is allowed to enter without the express permission of Mme. Dreyfus. four gendarmes nightly and by a de= tail of police by day. It is probable that, owing to the pre- carious condition of Dreyfus' health he will on his arrival hers be lodged in the hospital and not in prison. Mme. Dreyfus hassaid to friends that sie will see her husb: d on July 1. GREATER RADIUS AND SPEED. - |Irving M. Scottfls_peaks of Future ‘Warship Construction. NEW YORK, June 29.—In spe probable changes in the future co tion of battleshi fluenced by experiences a late war Irving M. Scott “The two gr Anges made in the censtruction in thie future will be the greater radins of uction and which will make vessels: swifter. -improvements in power and steel will enable a_decide duction to be made in the size of and therefore in the amount of amr s to 1 r vessels h will give tion to he carried. This will reduce the weight of the boat and enable great radgius of action with the same disp ment. S S 0il Found at San Miguel. June 20.—While boring a wéll to get water for domestlc DUFPOSES rd of Supervisor J. Redmond 1d a consic at the water is un- fit for use. The well is in the vicinity of the recent oil discoveries in that section, and it further encourages the belief that oil in paying quantities will eventually ne found.