The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXX:\'\' I—-NO. 49 SAN FRANCISCO, WED ESDAY, JULY 29 PRICE FIVE CENTS. (ALIFRNIA DREYFUS COURT-MARTIAL WILL MEET IN AUGUST BOYS, ARE DELAYED Held in the Har-| bor of Manila by Typhoon. g 10 RELIEVE OTES. S It Is Said That General Thomas M. Ander- son Will Take His Place — - ateh o @+H++++0 444444 440444444440 ASHINGT ON. ] cable received Wash- ued heavy nic storms ess in the he Pri vates Horne - of Cor dis- 130 various or- itions assage on the but the ves- and await the subsidence of the he prevailing. OFTS. coaled oW RS A s O S R R R R AR S R RRR ~O ST LOTOTOTO OO0 [ R e R R e e e e e e e e R R R R e R LEEE P I L 444444444440 and of he re- commander to he Philippines is because I am too xt February, and the Goverr hardly send broad with that date so near.” General Anderson left the o night for Camp Thomas Bee he recruiting of the T Infantry. - DISAGREEMENT OF ANDERSON AND OTIS Subordinate General Confirms the Reports of a Clash at Manila. YORK, July the Her Ande nent of tk Chicago neral of 18.—A says: commander akes, confirms M n, aper itements about his ith General Otis In the Phil- ippines It was ed that even before the t att sbruary thworks lines s >d the American aldo threw ht of Gen- latter ‘in- being en- Otis for first insurge troops on F up Strong ¢ And that h Genge permission to stop the Filipinos’ opera- tions. Then the following colloquy is ported to have occurre | “We will do nothing.” said General | Otis, “until the ipinos commit :-um-*‘ act of war.” . | “But they are intrenching themselves ast us,” replied General Anderson, nd the moment a man puts a spade into the ground with hostile intent he committed an act of war.” menting on this reported tion General Anderson con- said to- “That is a true statement of matters that are now of record in the War De- partment at Washington, but it is in- | formation whi was never given out by me. Asidé from what the facts re- SovaEA In my veport may #BOW, L have] no comment or criticism to advance in regard to General Otis’ acts as com- h I Ester hazy Says He Was Ordered to Write the Bordereau, and the Ministers Knew o OF THE o5 OO0 OO0 0O 000 o 9 < 00000 mander-in-chief of the army Philippines “It is hardly fair to of the say that General Otis had no active commands in the field before being sent to Mani In- deed, > fact is G eral Otis cut a very creditable fig in the war against ting Bull, he having command of a that exciting campaign. Tt he has never gone to the Philippines, but then neith- ubordinate officer s of knowing what in- ctions may have been -sent him Washington I was second in under him, and he was com- ler-in-chief; it was not mecessary He directed m his headquarter: ship of the press was per- too rigid at times, but,I ard it d until now that A the privilege to make all the roes of the Philippine war or that he regiment s true that 1 to go to the front. £ eliminatec ampaigners. About int heard against Gen- or ot ton the or eral ¢ Philippines while I was | there > personally undertook too muc g hardly anything for t that he kept General Lawton from taking part in active operations for five days is a misstate- on came to succeed d T was in the 1t maneuver, which ry for me to finish before he took charge. “I don’t believe that General Otis ever made the statement attributed to him in regard to not allowing the American public to know anything about the campaign that would excite or agitate it. 1 am an intimate friend of General Otis and have been at the same post with him for a r er of years. We were good friends while I was in the Philippines. “The statement that he exer censorship over Admiral Dewe: messages is absurd <0, because the naval cipher code is dif- ferent from the army code. Then again, it would have been a dis b tween the two branches of the service.” DIRECT OVERTURES FROM INSURGENTS WASHINGTON, July Hay confirmed to-day the n import and w ised any cable 18.—Secretary Cajl-Herald's atory mention of Funs- | He could not do | |FILIPINGS WOULD JEAN CHIEF GUARD It Was Forged. D & ‘ DO ODOIOIOTO0TO0TO Q0" QOO OO © * | NsIDE DREYFUS CEL exclusive announcement this morning of the receipt of an important dispatch from the Philippine Commission giving optimistic views respecting the Philip- pine situation. Secretary Hay was empowered by the | Cabinet at its meeting to-day to make public an extract from the report of Colonel Denby descriptive of the condi- tion of affairs It can be added that further informa- tion received from Colonel Denby and General Otis, which was not made pub. lic, is to the effect that overtures in the direction of peace have been made by prominent Filipinos. At least one Cab- inet officer with whom I talked inter- preted the dispatches to mean that Aguinaldo and some of his subordinates are concerned in these. The authorities are still disinclined to discuss the mat- ter because, in the first plac they are not very sanguine that the negotiations will be attended with satisfactory re- sults, and, in the second place, it is not wished to acquaint the opposition to the Americans in the Filipino ranks with the communications passing be- tween their leaders and the Americans, because of the danger that it might prevent their success. Conservative leaders of the adminis- tration, remembering the optimistic conclusions drawn in the past from of- ficial dispatches from Manila, are in- clined to believe that present communi- cations with the Filipinos will not bring final peace, though they may impress upon the native leaders the exact in- tention of this Government. They ex- pect no cessation of hostilities, and think peace will not come until after another campaign. Most of the officials estimated that peace would not be re- stored until six months, but certainly within a year. One member of the Cabinet, however, is sanguine enough to believe that volunteers will not be needed at all. WELCOME PEACE Masses of the People Are Weary of Aguinaldo and His War Policy. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gor- don Bennett. HONGKONG, July 18—Isabelo Ar- l OO OO OO0 OO OO0 OO OO OOV 0 [ >~ OO0 OS Q-0 OSOSOO0 ARIS. July 18.—The Rennes cor- of the Journal des Debats says: “The Dreyfus court-martial will not begin its sittings until August 10. The Matin this morning publishes 2 statement of Comte Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, in which he says that he respondent wrote the bordereau by order of Colo- | nel Sandherr, and that it was sent to the house of Colonel Schwartzkoppen, then military attache at the German Embassy in Paris, whence it wasreturn- ed to the war office. Colonel Schwartz- koppen being at that time in Berlin. never saw the bordereau, which was forged in order to suppl material proof of the guilt of Dreyfus. The statement contains the assertion that secret agents in Berlin, whose tes- timony it was Impossible to use, had demonstrated that leakages had occur- red In the war office and the fact that treason existed was undeniable and ev- erything indicated Dreyfus as the trai- tor. All the war ministers, the statement further say: knew the ts and thought the forgery of the borde necessary. The evidence implicating Dreyfus were the words put in Colone! Schwartzkoppen’s mouth. General Mer- cler, De Boisdeffre and Gonze knew that the bordereau was forged, and that Dreyfus was illegally convicted. SO0 T-O OO0 OO0 OO0 OO0 @ tacho, former Filipino Cabinet Minister, believes that Aguinaldo and other rebel leaders would welcome opportunity for a peaceful settlement of the war, as before Artacho’s escape from Imus | a majority of the people were disgusted at the non-success of the Filipino arms | BANKS OF NEWF B A S S M U S and regarded Aguinaldo’s followers as bandits. Artacho is absolutely friendly to the Americans, but maintains that the Filipinos will doubt all proclama- tions unless made by Congress. He fur- ther declares that the rebellion Is now being conducted solely for personal ag- grandizement. An independent Filipino Government, he asserts, means domes- tic slavery, and misery and ruin would quickly follow. Personally icans’ ability to restore peace and lead the islands to prosperity. Artacho is about to bring an action in the Hongkong Supreme Court to re- cover from the Filipinoc Junta $100,000 (Mexican) as his share of the peace purchase money transmitted here by Spain. A friend with whom he resides has recelved a threatening letter. Isabelo Artacho is one of the most prominent of the Filipino patriots who for years fought the Spaniards. A trained lawyer at Manila, he early es poused the cause of his countrymen. He was Aguinaldo’s Minister of the In- | terior in the second rising, and when Primo de Rivero bought peace by paying large amcunts to the leaders of the insurrection he was left as hostage with the Spaniards to effdct the dis- arming of the natives. Upon his release he began suit at Hongkong against Aguinaldo to restrain him from taking the money which had been sent there by Rivero for the insurgent junta. As a result of this action, when he returned to Cavite following Dewey’s victory, he was promptly thrown into prison by order of the rebel dictator, and several of his relatives were similarly treated. In an interview with the Herald cor- respondent in Cavite Prison on August 5 the ill-treated patriot bewailed the wrongs he had suffered. Nothing has been heard frcm him since, but it can easily be inferred from the special cable dispatch here given that he has been held prisoner and only recently escaped from Aguinaldo’s toils, possibly during Continued on Second Page. SOD- OO Artacho | places absolute confidence in the Amer- | FIGHTING IV Sk -~ HENEWED P Chiefs Killed in | ‘a Battle ‘@t Suatele. — LEADERS CAPTURED — Chief Justice Chambers . Wants to Come Home and Give Up His Place. BN Special Dispatch to The Call. | Writing of the situation in Samoa on June 16 The Call’s special corre- spondent at Apia said: “The situation is not one that promises a lasting peace. If Com- | missioner Eliot refuses to recede from | his present ground it is almost cer- tain that the commission will not succeed in concluding the work it has begun, and a conflict between the two factions of natives which will again involve the whites may be looked for at an early date.” From the tenor of the dispatches | from Samoa this morning it is ap- parent that the clash has come. Whether the result will be serious | remains to be seen. Readers of The Call, knowing how close the Asso- ciated Press Agent is to Chief Justice Chambers, will be permitted to doubt the accuracy of that agent’s informa- tion about President McKinley's de- sire to retain Chambers in his po- sition. PIA, moa, July 12, via Auck- land, July 18.—Fighting occurred at Sofata, in the Suatele district, on July 4, and one Malietoan chief was mortally wounded and two Mataafa chiefs and one §$uatele were killed and three others wounded. The British cruiser Tauranga and the _German cruiser Cormoran arrested three chiefs and brought them to Apia | | for trial before the Supreme Court. The joint commissioners will leave for Washington July 18, Chief Justice Chambers will leave for San Francisco on the steamer Moana on July 14. Not desiring to return, he has sent his res- ignation to President McKinley, who does not Wish to receive it. The ques- tion whether this constitutes a vacancy | in the chief justiceship cussed by the comm claims that he will pre preme Court if Chambers leaves the island. If there is a vacancy, then eith- er Hunter or Mair may be designated to fill the chief justiceship. The commissioners are much blamed for not rdering the restitution of loot taken by rebels. Mataafa partisans among the rebels are raising funds to fight the kingship question through lawyers and are confi- | dent of obtaining a rehearing. Mataafa, however, accepts the abolition of the kingship and will be present at a meet- |ing with the commissioners on Savati Island. His supporters request the dismissal of Chief Justice Chambers and defy the | order of the Supreme Court. The International Commissioners are is being dis- ners. Dr. Solf | Continued on Second Page. e N J B % + S S G S S S M S M A | oo i SR FRtbERIck BEDFORDKCE. R S M Jn i e e e et R e S S S SO ® ¢t iee ide over the Su- | THE BLACK DRAUGHT ~ HER DEATH POTION With a Night of Reck: | less Revelry. Efforts Made to Have the Girl's Body Quickly Cremated to Prevent Expose of the Tragedy. Florence Parker died by her own |loin from their escorts and set them hand dancing on the tables. It was such a That the dubious reputations of those ' dance as made the Midway famous, who had brought her to what she was might not suffer the Coroner h: her end came and der of. things, but up into the light of d: e He: direct to that official's statement and lend to Florence Park ory all the glamor of a romance of t f world It is a story that always hay Francis 1 permitted to flow as strong and | and for so long as the city’s Coro { rob those who have not vet been set camples that afloat upon them of the might deter. Of the world which she left Florence Parker was a pronounced type. Of her companions who were gay s the gayest and she claimed more She w gnetic and won to after once she had been star of wealth and influen extremist in all thir her inborn love of excitement and in- ordinate, jangled passions | In the gay, garish throng that made infamous and memorable the night of | the celebration of the Fall of the Bas- | tile at the Chutes she was a prominent | figure. She had gone out to and had, after her fashion, stayed to par- take. It was a day of wild, feverish | merrymaking, was that Frankish cele- bration, such a day as only the hot- blooded denizen of the French ‘colony could start going and such a day as only the hotter-blooded half world could bring to the bedlam it was at the finish. From the first fanfare of trumpets in the morning to that time in the evening when the “green lady’ was set up as goddess of the night it was the day of the Gaul. After that it belonged to the tenderloin, and the tenderloin put it to characteristic use. From the less enthusiastic ones who were poking fun at the animals in the 4oo Florence Parker found her way | through the crowd to the door of the | big theater, with its thousand lights | and tawdry tinsels. Her friends were | everywhere; with the dancers on the | floor, with the drinkers who were drip- | ping their absinthe at the tables around | theentrance,and in the cafe where wild- | st orgies were already breeding. It was | only a suggestion that was needed to | plunge her, body and soul, into the gid- ldy maelstrom, and the suggestion | came. From the moment she went out { onto the dancing floor the fever of the | night entered into her blood and ‘the melancholy that had led her there she | knew no more till morning. | From the ballroom the party that | had gathered around her were attracted by a crowd of students who had turned themselves loose in the big cafe. They had stolen two fair ones of the tender- ma was an spealed to TO DRIVE FRENCH FROM D o e T e e J B et S I S S S SOl S e ny cold green drinks, howing no small skill. and inspired by women wer the ne one in party struck a tray @ with glasses from the hand of one of the rushing waite One of them fell at the feet of Fiorence Parker, and, g it, quickly jumped to a by table, held it at arm's length deftly kicked it back into the crowd from which it had come. In a minute a fight had started, the dancers were forgotten, and police, students and laughing women were mixed in a yelling, cursing crowd that forced the of it all and her com- panions out through the doors and over to the whirling hobby-horses that spun round under a tent near the entrance. A whirl on these and more to drink. the Chutes and Florence Parker was miss- ing. At 8 o'clock Saturday morning, the morning of her frenzied debauch at the Chutes, the maid hz ly wakened Mrs. Ella Parker and told her that Florence s in her room and in a serious con- dition. M Parker quickly wakened State Senator Sigmund Bettman, ‘and together they hurried to the girl's room. She lay on her bed, unconscious, breath- ing heavily, her face fast purpling. It was evident to them she was suffering from pe applied an- tidotes and worked over her for haif an hour. Then Senator Bettman dressed and quickly summoned Dr. Levison. All the phy . however, availed naught, for an hour after she had been discovered she died without having regained consciousness. Florence Parker was 25 years of age at the time of her taking off. When but 17 she met and shortly after be- came the mistress of George 1. Bailey, proprietor of the Golden Gate Stables W at Golden Gate avenue and Jones street. Bailey was a man of wealth and lavished money upon her. For vears he made her an allowance of 200 per month and decked her in gems of much price. They lived part of the time at her home at 1419 Devisadero street, where the menage was com- pleted by the presence of Senator Bett- who was on terms of close ac- man, quaintance with her mother, Mrs. Ella Parker, and the rest of the time at 3ailey’s rooms at 110 Jones street. They lived the fastest of lives until a vear ago they quarreled. Taking her diamonds with her., Florence left for the ¥ t in company with a prominent traveler for the Goodyear Rubber Com- pany. Their itenerary included all oi the big cities of the East, and Florence returned to the West well satisfied with her new lot. A second trip followed and her drummer deserted her at the Continued on Fifth Page. OUNDLAND D e S S S R S Y R S e e R Mg ® HARBOR OF ST. .JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND. g * ® The dispatches announce that Great Eritain is making preparations on a 9 * large scale to settle the French-Newfoundiand fisheries troubles. England has j; $ collected in the port of St. Johns. Newfound . the largest fleet assembled & under the Rritish flag on this side of the At nce the war of 1812. For & % some time Commodore Giffard’s squadron has been lying there. It consists of % € the Comus (flagship). 23 tons, 12 xtns. 250 men; the Alert, 1770 tons, § guns, 2 & 219 men—both of these being third-cl the Buzzard, s ® % 8 guns, 145 men, and the Columbire. spes s e ship, 300 tons, 3 guns, 36 x : men. This has been reinforced by Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford's fleet. & e BOFOKOHOKDKO K O HOROHROROUOHON D 4OHPLRUDLDXOX & % DL OXAUDXDXLAM