The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1899, Page 4

KDAY, JULY 29 1899 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SA ROOSEVELT URGED THAT GENERAL OTIS BE CALLED HOME ! Dissatisfaction Also Expressedi With Alger’s Conduct of the | War Department. Special Dispatch to The Call HEADQUARTERS HO WASHINGTON atement is retirement ti with th of Mr. from the Cabinet that Governor Roosevelt York wrote a letter urging 1ent, and also that General Otis be reli in the Fhilippines, and Brooke be superseded by Woc military governor of Cuba. This let it is stated, was written by 3 mber of the to the last i-Alge talk, his actual aid to have been evival of the matter i sev al times in umors that he would mentioned in one qu pient of the letter, v will not admit’ his letter Gover- severe in his course of the isted that the afford to to con- in the Philip- ued for more operations. It was shown to as it was intend- d that om this renev f the demand for tirement that resulted in his n t sent for Governor little time is said that ling him to the White this letter, and rstanding that action in the matter. LIVELY FiGHT WITH INSURGENTS IN FOOTHILLS MANILA, J ris: at Tur he it Che insurgent gar- . with two is a with ench- s are hem the pre yroach of are UNCENSORED T_IST OF ARMY FATALITIES in mo: of fatalities is d 14 civi emarkab und_in 1 number riv killed in num- | nila immediately WEL- | twenty-three officers dead sixteen were killed in action, two were drowned and | five died of disease, as follows: Typhoid one, meningitis two, rheumatism of heart one, paralysis one. Of the 699 privates 204 died of wounds received in actlon, 9 were killed accident- ally, 23 were drowned, and 7 committed 106 died of typhoid, 9 of smallpox, sentery. 28 of pneumonia, 19 of ma- meningiti; rious di. ver, and_ fourteen of remaining 17 dled from cases. Of the fourteer seven were from ot wounds rec OTIS’ OFFICIAL RE_PORT OF BATTLE AT CALAMBA WASHINGTON, July 28.—The War De- partment this morning received its first official report of the capture of Calamba in the following cablegram from General ot . deaths among civilians 1pox, and three from ived in action. Hall and one thousand men captured Calamba, an import strategic position | on Laguna de Bai, ye day, driving out | three hundred insurgents. The commana s composed of portions of the urth Cavalry, Twenty-first Infantry and Wash- | ington Volunteers, t sporte launches | c0es accompanying th upp. Fourth, 3 t, killed Company G, dan, Herbert 0l , Company K iously wounded and Plummer, Company | Company C, Fourth; | and Sanson, Philipls, Company H; Christie and Hollis- G v D, and Ashland, Company htly wounded. ualties are unknown . Compa . Twenty-first, The insurgent Forty Epanish prisoners were released. A Spanish gunboat in good condition, long | sought for in the bay, w aptured. This town was the direct objective point of | Lawton when he captured Santa Cruz in | oril, but he was unable to reach it | boats on account of shoal water. | DETAIL OFiTR.C'OPS ON TRANSPORT SHERMAN GTO al Otis July e ed the following detalls of the route home on the transport with the Cali with th one officer V. Tve Noonan, James M »wn, Wil D. G. Collin n F. Hurd, Ralph action lark Dub- Stew- LAYING A CABLE TO FOLLOW THE ARMY MANILA, July 28.—In compliance with an order received from Madrid the Span- | ish trarsport Alva will proceed from Ma- to the Caroline Islands in order. to repatriate the garrison and the inhabitants of those islands. Thare is great interest in the first attempt of a cable boat to follow the { movemerts of the army. The boat left Tamb; near Taguig, at the northern end of 'Laguna de Bai, this morning, after making connection with the land wire and suc fully laid eilghteen miles of cable. It is ted that the cable DAWSON CITY IS FREED FROM ITS FETTERS OF ICE Steamers Arrive From Up and Down the River—Precau- | tions to Avoid Fires. BY SAM W. WALL. No person the tion of Daw- the destroyed build- replaced by othe; tial, are at least Building is stili in every part of wn in burst of business follc preparation for the spring ywing the clean-up. he fce in the river broke at Dawson the 17th and w a complete faflure spectacle. The season had been so the snow had melted and run river never rose occasioned by a he hold of ice to the work of the sum. It passed out of the river in two days. Jams in the river above, however, have delayed catic nd not until the 23d did soat arrive from the upper river. ora of the Bennett Lake and Navigation Company, arrived afternoon with some twenty pas- and a quantity of freight that carried to her over. the lakes on nd which consisted of sugar, but- things known to be scarce f which there Were not 0 a dozen wholesale and Were a disappointment to the man who brougit them in. On ‘the evening of the s Bonanza King came down "hree or four small boats and bar came down also, but only onc of these from the lake re: 1 reports from these agree that S to be no rush of people from the this spring or summer, though ne day the there outside Bears’ Soap not only for toil- et and bath but for shaving. Pears was the inventor of shav- ing stick soap. t building of Dawson. [ | which latter most of the fires have had there will be a reasonably falr contingent | of new comers, a large proportion of them being invest The cl prom pected and have br: old pe AsONS El Dor: for two nches on both are turn sly. Hunk d Dominion creek ulphur are turning out better than ide past season, and the bench or hills 8 here, too, producing more than was expected of them. Gold Run and Eureka :ek will add considerable to the general There has been and is still much 2 th ter question. The | washup began this vear fully a week car- lier than last year, but cold weather set in and checked it. The weather has since | continued cool, and only within the last few days has there been a sufficient flow of water to warrant tne work heing un- dertaken in earnest. The dumps are still frozen, and this makes the shoveling in heavy and slow. Whether the water wlill last for the complete cleanup is the im- | portant question. 1 shall to-morrow start on a general tour of the creeks and gain what data may be possible as to the sit- uation and the value of the vear's output. | i The fire of the 26th of April swept out of existence two blockst of buildings, includ- ing nearly all the dancehalls on Front street, the big Alexander McDonald build- ing and the Bank of British North Amer- | ica on Second street. The bank's vault destroyed and all the papers in it were burne E About half 2 ton of gold dust was tered in the ruins, and the charred earth about the vault had to be run through a rocker to save the yellow stuff. The bank will_be rebuflt in" brick—the first brick Clay has been found on the billside back of town, a kiln has been built and the. bricks are being burned. The fire stared in the rooms of a woman of the town, Helen Holden, over | the Bodega saloon. on Front street. The | fire engine, which drew its water supply through a hole in the ice on the river, as over thirty minutes in raising steam, and to this was directly blamed the spread ) the fire. The Governor and his Council | have thus since been supplied with plenty | of work. They have been making an ¢ tended inquiry into the cause of the fire | department'’s failure, with a promise at | the end of reorganizing it. A self-appointed Jire Commission had summarily dlsmissed the -chief the day | after the fire, but he refused to recognize its authority. After an extended inquiry into the cause of the fire the Council passed an ordinance requiring the demi- monde to move back two blocks further from the water front, or the busginess part of the town. This was intended to put u full block between the busiress houses and the houses of the scarlet women, in thelr oglzin. The order at first confined them t@wwo blocks In the center of ‘the swampPand immediately the land speeu- lator saw his opportunity. He proposed to bufld a great bagnio covering these tw | blocks nnd setting a rental upon each of | its divisions that in the aggregate would have beeen better to him than any gold mine in the Klondike. The Council, however. saw its mistake. | the sam | to sign of the and gave the women the right to go wherever they would so long as they kept three blocks away from the water front. This had_the effect of bringing the rent down to a front foot for land within blocks referred to, and there the tenderloin, is being re-established. The women have to effect their removal be- fore June 1. Following this order of the Council came another from the commissioner goverr requiring the tenants of the water front e under which_they mignt be removed on or after the I5th of June, and requiring them to pay rent in advance to that time. The occupants of the shacks along the water front had been petitioning for an extensionof their Jeasehold through the coming summer, while many, contend- ing that the nt of the ie orig- | inally was ilicgal, had been refusing to pay rent and had vet been allowed to re- Under threats of eviction, how- . they had finally as for time in which to appeal to Oftawa, and as a tacit consent to this the order referred to had been Issued. Many fearing that they uld be compelled to move in the midd 1son prepared to move 1 ring down their buildings ving gr. s in the water front. igned the 1 , and as the end in that of opening up the water front amboat landings and for fire emer- —has been in a measure conserved. te hope to be allowed to remain there indefinitely. Yesterday the first steamboat from down the arrived, the John C. Barr of the North American Transporta- tion and Trading Company. She had been 2 the river about thirty miles Mile in a very dangerous po- wintering below Forty ition and the odds were laid hea she would be broken up by the ice. t with no injury whate and re- Arnold of th 2 Iving back r up the ury. The npany, island four r from her, also escaped ir event, therefore, so much longed for and yet §6 much dr king of the ice—has passed off and nobody is hurt. The flagrant scandal just now of this town of many the one that hurts Americans, {s the Consul, James Chureh McCook. ' He is a most conspicu- ous figure in the d halls and the water front saloons and has so fallen in the general esteem that an American is loth to be seen on the street with him. His suit for libel against a local paper, that wrote up one of his escapades, has not come dal, but, if it be a_jury trial, to win. There is a in the city, princ ly scurvy. The Queen's birthday w erved yesterday by outdoor sports that entertained the public throughout the i by a grand ball in the evening. Great numbers of men were in from the creeks | and_public or official business w pended; the iness of the saloor vastly increased. To-day the scramble for gold is resumed. CRITICIZE LABOR COUNCIL'S LET il L Hawaiian Planters Contract System. gt BY HORACE WRIGHT. July 21.—Some of the lead- \ters are, not unnaturally, very t the letter of the secretary of the AT co Labor Council, but do not erious effects from it, es- after the careful investigations by the officers of the Italian war- hip recently in our port, which, there is on to believe, were decidedly favor- That the reports of 1l cruelty rds the present day— in undoubted fact. on TR TO ROUND UP A DESPERATE BANDIT Posse Searching forTom Ketchum. s LEADER OF A FAMOUS BAND g it HAS ENGINEERED MANY TRAIN ROBBERIES. P He Is in Hiding in Tom Green County and the Officers Are Detefmined to Take Him Dead or Alive. Ll iy Spectal Dispatch to The Call. AUSTIN, July 28.—Tom Ketchum, the most rotorious train robber, murderer and bandit leader known in Texas, Is about to be rounded up in Tom Green County by a posse of State Rangers and Deput United States Marshals, according to re- liable official information received here to-day from that section. Tom Ketchum and his band have plotted and carried’ out successfully more train robberies than any other brigands who | ever operated in the Southwest. In addi- tion to holding up and robbing the Fort Worth and Denver City passenger train near Folsom, N. M., recently they have committed a dozen other equally as des- perate robberles in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona during the last four rs. Tom Ketchum is a brother of Sam Ketch- um, who was shot and fatally wounded in the fight with officers in New Mexico a few days ago. Tom was in that fight and the officer: firing and unerring aim that did so much deadly work in their own ranks on that occasion. arated and Tom and two of his men made their way to their old rendezvous in Tom Green County. Their presence in the vicinity of San Angelo became known to the-officers of that county four days ago, and steps were | immediately taken to effect their capture. | Four rangers who were ordered there from San Saba County and several deputy United States Marshals are close on thelr trail, and it is expected that the final round-up will occur to-morrow. Tom Ketchum was raised In San Saba County, near here. highly respected relatives living in outh- west Texas. He entered his career as a leader of a train robbers gang about four | vears ago. One of their first notat beries was at Lozier, Texas, whe held up the California passenger t the Southern Pacific road and se about $40,000 from the through Wells, Fargo & Co. State Rang deputy United States Marshals w yon { never be | He | conser: present Government, frequent visits and inspection of the Government agents, have put almost an end to the | hideous acts of cruelty which were report- ed some few years ago. It is undoubtedly true that com tively recently the Government has had to warn certain plantations that they | could not have any more labor permits treated their present labore with more consideration, and it does oc- asionally leak out thaf here and there are planiations upon which some of the lunas are little superior to flends; but then these men are being weeded out by the managers in self-defense. The wh blame of the matter must be placed upon the planters for using thelr influence to maintain the penal provisions contract labor law. The readers of he Call will probably remember that the present Government made the promise of il they ing these laws one of the stronges for annexation, and t willfull its pledges at the nod of the planters, 1 his report to the last of our Legisla- tures the Chief Justice shows that in 18%4- gioutof thetotalof 7108civil cases brought before the courts no less than 3403 were for ‘“deserting or refusing hbound ser ice’’; and for 1896-67 out of 6319 civil cases 2473 were for the same cause. e facts | alone would appear to be sufficient to con- demn the law_ without entering into the criminal record pertaining to it. To thoroughly appreciate the meaning and effect of these laws would be a long but interesting story. It would be neces- vy to peruse it by the light of half a entury ago, when it was first drafted and study the many amendments and de- cisions that have considerably modified it. In brief, it was originally enacted in the | the whaling trade the main and sugar was in its in- fancy inese were not then here, and the principal laborers were the Ha- days when walians. However, leaving history alone the more impartially and even generously this law is studied, the more helnous and outrageously out of place it appears to be on the statute hooks of a land Christianized and civilized by New Eng- land missionaries. The most obnoxious sections are as fol- lows: ection 1419, to service shall willfully absent himsell from such service without the leave of his maste any district or I Justice of the kingdom. upon complaint made under oath by the m ter, or by any one on his behalf, may lssue warrant to apprehend such person and bring him before the said justice; and if the com- plaint be maintained, the justice shall ord nder to be restored to his mas- all be compelled to serve not to exceed double the time of his absence, in the discretion of the court, unless he shall make satisfaction to the master for the loss and in- jury sustained by such absence; provided, al- ways, that such additional term of service shall not extend beyond one vear next after the end of the original term of service. Sec. 1420. It any such person shall refuse to serve according to the provisions of the last section, or the terms of his contract, his mas- ter may apply to any district or Police Justice where he may reside. who shall ba anthorized by warrant or otherwise to send for the person €0 refusing, and if such refusal be persisied in, to commit such person to prison, to re- main, at hard labor, until he will consent to serve according to 1a And_in case such person so bound as afors- caid shall have returned to the service of such master in and obedlence to such order af said justice, and shall again willfully absent himself from such service without the leave of his mas- ter, such district or Police Justice may fine such offender not exceeding $5 for the first af- fense, and for every subsequent offense there- after not exceeding $10, and in default of pay- ment thereof such offender shall be imprisoned at hard labor until such fine is paid; and at the expiration of such imprisonment, such Justice shall order such offender to be re- stored to his master to serve for the remain- der of such original term of service. Sec. 1422. All the costs incurred in any pro- cess against a servant under sections 1419 or 1420 shall be paid in the first instance by the complainant, and if the complaint shall be sus- tained, the master shall have judgment and execution therefor against the offending servant. These sections require no further com- ment than the fact that the Stars and Stripes float over the islands and the Ga- licians are still in prison under this law. GERMAN FRUIT MARKET. | Growing Demnmi aE Hamburg for the Dried Output. SUISUN, July 28.—Four years ago Ernest Luehning tried the experiment of establishing a dried fruit market in Ham- burg, Germary. The first year he ship- ped twenty carloads and in succeeding years doubled the shipment named. Mr. Luehning has this week completed the erection_of one of the largest and best- equipped warehouses in the State and will make Suisun his headquarters. The quantity of dried fruit this vear will be less than in former years, but Mr. Lueh- ning expects, nevertheless, to increase his shipments to foreign markets this year. He said to-day that since the Hamburg Exposition the demand for dried fruit had greatly increased in Germany and that an extensive market would be opened there in the near future for California products. Orders have been received this week tor dried apricots and three car- loads will be forwarded without delay. If_any person lawfully bound | | | ing miles to see. on the scene and purued the band through the rovghest part of West Texas for a distance of four hundred mile At the New Mexico line the band separated and Tom Ketchum returned to Tom Green County, but the e location of his rendezvous there could never be found: A short time afterward the band got together again i robbed an Interna- tional and Great Northern pa. near Austin. A few month ter they committed the robbery of the Texas angd Pacific passenger train near Coleman, Te Chey secured a large amount of money from the express company in the latter robbery. Ketchum participated in this latter robbery, but it is thought that few of the remaining members of his des- erate gang were connected with it. Tom ctchum then fled to New Mexico, where he committed other successful train rob- beries. Texas officers who are acquainted with Ketchum's record claim that he onged to the “Black Jack” gang. has the reputation of being a dead shot with a Winchester and pistol. It is atively estimated that Ketchum and his band have secured over $100,000 from the express companies within the past four years. |PRESIDENT JORDAN BACK FROM COLORADO Stanford Educator Pleased With the Success of the Recent Teachers’ Convention. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 28— President David Starr Jordan returned to- day to the university from Colorado. Dur- ing his trip he attended the meeting of the National Educational Association in Los Angeles, and was one of the principal speakers before the Texas-Colorado Chau- tauqua Assoclation at Boulder, Col. While in Colorado Dr. Jordan was royally entar- tained by the Rocky Mountain Cornell Association, which gave a banquet in his honor at the Albany Hotel, Denver. Dr. Jordan reports having met some Yale men Who expect to attend Stanford next vear, and who will add materially to Stanford's strength upon the gridiron and digmond. In regard to the meeting of the National Educational Association and its benefits to_California_President Jordan “The meeting of the Natlonal Educa- tional Association at Los Angeles was the most successful in its history. The meeting will have two very important ef- fect In the first place, it has given 11,000 teachers, mostly of the East, a better un- de anding of California and what it is, and of the reasons why Californians are so proud of their State. On the other hand it does California a great deal of £00d to have so many bright minds from the older States turned loose within her borders.” President Jordan leaves on Saturday for Kings River Canyon, where he will spend the month of August campin He will be accompanied by Mrs. Jordan and by Professor and Mrs. Elwood P. Cubberley. THOUSANDS OF CARP IN A CLOSED SLOUGH Tons of the Fish Will Be Left to Die by the Evaporation of the Water. STOCKTON, July 28.—Thousands, seem- ingly millions, of carp are imprisoned in a closed slough near Fishermans Landing, on Unfon Island. It is a sight worth go- The fish were deposited in_the slough during the high water, and when the river went down they were all left on the wrong side of the levee. The slough is about thirty feet wide, averag- ing three feet in depth and fully a haif mile long. The fish are so thick in the place that they can hardly swim about. They swim on the surface in such num- bers that they could be thrown out on the bank In a scoop shovel by the wagon load. The water is rapidly evaporating un- der the torrid sun, which plays upon the island, and the carp are growing bigger. It is only a matter of a few weeks when they wiil be left in the open, dead and decaying. Some of the fish have reached a large size, nearly twenty inches in length. Eventually the fish will be left baking in the sun and a stench will arise that will call for heroic measures. The dead fish make an excellent fertilizer, and this is probably the use to which they will ut. be TRP slough might be opened and the | fish turned back into the river, but the opportunity to destroy so many of the river pests is not one to be passed by the people, - The carp is valueless as a table fish and they destroy many of the more desirable inhabitants of the rivers and channels. Engineer Baird Killed. LOS ANGELES, July 28.—Word has reached here of an accident which oc- curred on the Santa Fe on Wednesday. At Angell station, a few miles east of Flagstaff, the fourth section of a freight train coming east ran into the third sec- tion, and neer Richard Baird was instantly Killes His fireman jumped just as the big engine piowed into the caboose of the third section and escaped with a few bruises. Toiled, Though a Rich Man. SONOMA, July 28.—Charles Gerber, who had been employed as a butcher in the ‘Webber meat market for several years, died suddenly yesterday evening of apo- plexy. A search of his personal effects revealed that he had in the neighborbood of 315,000 on deposit in San Francisco banks and owned stock in the Spring Val- ley Water Company. say that it was his rapid | After that fight the band sep- | He has wealthy and | nger train | FREE POAT IS -~ UNSATISFACTORY Canadian View of Boun- dary Dispute. |ARBITRATION IS DESIRED TRADE WITH KLONDIKE CHIEF CAUSE OF TROUBLE. i Many Canadians Believe That Seattle Steamboat Men Have Had Much to Say in the Nego- tiations. gk Specizal Dispatch to The Cail. OTTAWA, Ontario, July 28.—Whatever be the ground for the optimistic dis- s that have their origin in the State artment and the British Embassy at ashington, neither party in Canada i3 sfied with the hints that England is | going to settle the boundary dispute out | of hand without reference to Ottawa and | accept the offer of a free port under | American sovereignty on the Lynn canal. Canada may have to accept that very thing in the end, but the suggestion that she wouvld have to do so would at this time be very llke dropping a can of nitro- glycerin on a brick pavement. What Canada will be satisfied with, if it cannot get arbitration, will be the ces- sion of a free port under British sov- ignty at Pyramid harbor and also the jon’ of a strip of territory ten or twenty miles wide leading from Pyrami:l harbor to the Canadian Klondike. In the face of aroysed public sentiment ringing from one end of Dominion to _the other no _public m vould dare stand up | and say he w atisfied with what seems to be under discussion at Washington. The whole trouble just now is over the trade in the Klondike. Mining is carried | on almost entirely on Canadian territory ifton, Minister of the Interior, esti- | | Mr. { mates the number of American miners at 90 per cent. Sir Charles Tupper estimates it at 60 per cent. In the opinion of many Canadians Seat- tle steamboat men have dominated all negotlations and prevented a compromise. The Premier's figures show that Seattle alone has 8) per cent of the carrving | trade. The proposition of Canadians to build a railroad from Kitimat Harbor, skirting the_ disputed strip, into Dawson | City, is made in dead earnest. One has | only’ to figure the cost to realize how deeply Canada is stirred. Such a railroad would have to be subsidized for at least 5000 a mile. It would be 700 miles long. Thus, in order to accomplish what wa sought to be accomplished by the recent negotiations, Canada will spéend $3,500,000. TRACK RECORD - 10 THE CREDIT | Fast Heat Paced at Cleveland. | — Special Dispatch to The Call. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 28.—Search- light, in addition to winning the 2:04 race from Anaconda and Frank Bogash, placed a new mark to-day for the Glenville track —2:03%. It was the fastest mile that has ever been made in harness on the Cleve- ‘land track. The great son of Dark Night | has been seen in many a day. | " Another mark was fixed by The Maid, | when in the second heat of the 2:14 pace | she went the mile in 2:044, breaking the record of 2:07% for four-year-old pacing mares in races, made by Much Better at n Jose last August. The track record at Gienville was 2:03%, held by Frank Agan. The fourth day of the races presented the best programme so far this week, the | star attraction being the fast pacing race. It proved to be in every way as i ing it advertised to be. With the horses in good condition they made good | rehlight knocked the opinion endwise, winning the race time, of the bool a they had scheduled for Anaconda. | Cresceus was the disappointment in the 10 trot. After winning one heat he was | hardly heard of except | drive in the last heat. The race went to | Elloree, who got better as the race pro- gressed, and finally won from Tommy Britton 'and Cresceus. A peculiar state of affairs existed with the 2:14 pace. The Mald was the favorite, but Will Tranby was placed.most against the field. 'The favorite in the opening of the betting finally won the race after dropping a heat to Tranby. Bessie K was the hot favorite in the 2:21 trot, but Dainty Daffo was the winner. | “The crowd which attended the races was not as large as it had been on the days preceding. W Howe about 7000 persons re in the grand stand when the bell led the 2:04 pacers out. The threaten- ing rain did not materialize and the day ideal with the | was an one, track: fast, although a trifie dusty. Results: 2:04 cl purse $2000, best three in | five heats won second, third and fourth heats. Time, 2:0313, 2:06 2:04. Ana- conda won first heat in 2:04) and was second, Frank Bogash third. Directly also started. | ~2:10 class trotting. purse $3000, best three in five heats—Elloree won fourth, fifth and sixth heats. Tim 0834, 10%, 12. Tommy Brit- ton won first and second heats and was sec- ond. Time, 2:10, 2:12%§ Cresceus won _third heat in 2:10 and was third. Pilatus, Battle- ton, Belle J, Caracella, Gayton, Monterey and Oakland Baron also started. 2:14 class pacing, purse $1200, best two in three heats—The Maid won second and third | heats. Time, 2:06%, 2:08%. Will Tranby won first_heat In 2:06% and was second. Hontas Crooke was third. Fairview, Lolita, Nerva | Patchen, Lavena, Daniel, Moronial, Bay Leaf, Lilly of the Vailey, Walnut Lad,” Scapegoat, Burr Patchen and Lady Herold also started. 2:2) class trotting, purse $1200, best two in | three heats—Dainty’ Daffo won' in__stralght | heats. Time, 2:13%, 2:13%. Bessie K second. | Esparto Rex third. Anita S, Willlam C K and Thornwitch al | FORBES WINS ON A FOUL. | Rotchford Strikes the Chicago Man Below the Belt. | CHICAGO, July 28.—A repetition of the foul blow that lost for Billy Rotchford in his fight with Pedlar Palmer in Eng- | land a few months ago lost for him again to-night in the first round of a boxing con- | test with Harry Forbes of Chicago. The | blow caught Forbes in the stomach just | above the_ groin, knocking him flat on | his back. He did not regain consciousness | for neariy a half hour. Both men started out at a fast pace, | Forbes having a shade the better of it | until the accidental blow was struck | Forbes had straightened Rotchford u | with a left jab and came rushing in with his right. “Rotchford tried to uppercut | with bis right, but Forbes, stepping up close, caught the blow in the stomach. TAYLOR'S FAST MILE. Paced by a Motorcycle, He Covers the Distance in 1:32 2-5. CHICAGO, July 28.—Major Taylor, paced by the steam motor cycle, rode a mile on the Ravenswood track to-night in 1:32 2-5. The motor cycle, which is a rather complex affair, went wrong in its insides a dozen times before it was patch- ed up sufficiently to make the pace. The macuine and Taylor started from the farther, stretch and by the time they had reached the tape they were going like the wind. Taylor tacked himself close to the rear wheel, and, fast as the ma- chine went, he stayed with it. The quar- ter was made in :22 1-5, world’s time. The half was made in :44 1-5, also record time. The three-quarters was a second slower, - OF SEARCHLIEHT did it in one of the warmest heats that | terest- | in a wonderful | for the machine was not true, and al- | ing MILLION 1 FROM Anchor in th The Alaska Commercial Company's| steamer St. Paul arrived from St. Mi- | chael shortly before midnight last night| and anchored in the stream. | The St. Paul brought down about 250 passengers, most of whom were miners. | It is estimated that the total amount of gold on board the steamer will reach close to the million mark. Of this amount sev- eral hundred thousand dollars is the property of Messrs. Erickson and Hunt, two of the best known men on the Klon- dike. The passengers aboard the St. Paul | bring discouraging reports from the Cape . Nome district. They say, that the gold | there is hard:to find and of a poor| quality. | The St. Paul left St. Michael on fl‘\ei 1Sth _and made an unusually fast trip| ngers died on the voyage, ane a Frenchman named Israel Desrosiers who died of scurvy, and the other a miner named J. A. Fischer, who had been in the | Klondike region for several years, died of locomotor ataxia. The St. Paul will dock this morning. el SEVERE WINDSTORM SWEEPS ST. MICHAEL ST. MICHAEL, July 28.—The most se- seen here in vere summer windstorm many years swept over this bay yester- | day from early morning until nearly mid- | night. Boats anchored in the-stream were torn from their fastenings and either swept ashore or sent flying sea- ward. The direction of the wind was southeast. Fortunately no lives were | as the majority of the vessels wrecke were small steamers, built in 1887 for the Koyokuk rush and which since early ipr]ng have been idle at anchor in the ay. Their owners In many instances have | either gone to Cape Nome or Golovin Bay, | glving up all hDE(-‘ of selling or leasing their vessels. The damage will amount to many thousands of dollars. Beginning | about 6 o'clock in the morning, the ve- locity of the wind increased until it ap- | proached a hurricane at noon. Ocean craft and large river steamers tugged at | their ponderous anchors firmly rooted in the mud, but try as he would the storm king was unequal to the task and turned attention to the smaller fry with great success, as the beach for several miles will testify. The point of land on which the Alaska The Steamer St. | masted schooner Carrier Dove, while try |ing to row to the wharf, were upset, but ARRIVES WITH A N GOLD THE NORTH Paul Drops e Stream at Midnight. not the greatest care been taken; as it was, the company lost its lately acquired tugboat, the Anna KEva Fay, purchased last winter at Unalaska, and nearly lost the fine large river steamer Margare which was swept to sea several miles by fore her captain could get her about. The Margaret had a successful trip to the troo ip St. Paul, which also belongs to the Alaska Commercial Company, and with a number of passengers aboard started for the dock about noon. As sha cast logse from the steamer the wind caught her square astern and sent he flying seaward. At that point it was us less to attempt to put her about, and for about ten miles she went along faster than she ever gone befare. The St. >aul pas gers flng several of the crew were almost washed overboard. During a temporary lull she put about, and after fighting the head wind she was driven into a cove a mile from St. Michael and an- chored there for the night. The stern-wheeler City of Paris, lately purchased by the Alaska Exploration Company, snapped her anchor chain and drifted rapidly to sea with two watchmen aboard. - As soon as possible the St. Paul got under way and went to the res- cue, overtaking the Paris about ten miles out. Owing to the high wind and choppy sea, it was difficult to get a line to the Paris, but this was finally accomplished and the stern-wheeler pulled back to port. The tug Anna Eva Fay dragged her an- chor Dpposite the Alaska Commercial Company’s whart and drifted on the rocks a few feet astern of the river steamer Louise, which was firmly tied to tha wharf. All efforts to get the Fay off wera in vain, and she pounded to pleces in a few hours. The river steamer Dorothy, owned by James Deitrich, dragged her anchor and went ashore, but there ara hopes that she can be saved. Along tha beach several other small steamers and numerous sloops and Yukon River boats are total wrecks. Among the wrecked craft is the steamer Willlam McKinley, The river steamer Ana Wanda is smashed to bits. The May West and the W. Seig are also on_ the rocks. One of the fine new barges belonging to the Alaska Explora- tion Company was blown to sea with a valuable cargo. Captain_Brant and mate of the four- were pulled out, narrowly = escaping drowning. E News of the storm at Cape Nome is anxiously awaited. The barrenness of ths beach upon which the city of Nome is built and the high surf that continually rolls in will make the storm unusually fatal to shipping. With such a wind as ed here none of the dozen ve: | nois, for the last quarter was made in | Whén Taylor realized that more s | was necessary he started to spurt and in | | the homestretch he had gained the length | | of the motor cycle and finished a yard to | the good. This record is the best ever made in the Wes| McFADDEN AND NEW YORK, July 28.—George McFad- den of New York and Joe Gans of Baiti- | more fought twenty-five rounds at a kill- ing pace In the arena of the Broadway | Athletic Club to-night to what Referee John White called a draw. A majority of | the 5000 persons who packed the audito- rium of the club was of the opinion that the colored lad from the southern city had made a_better showing, but the contest had been so fast and jnteresting that cheers alone greeted the close and the | decision. 0 e RN | COLUMBIA’S BAD LUCK. HONOLULU, July 21.—The unfortunate | City of Columbia vainly endeavored to reach Hongkong. She started and reached the island of Niihau in two days and then returned to port. The impression exists that she is enter- ing the list of sea coffins, but her owners think differently and still keep tinkering her up for the Valhalla of Hongkong. GANS DRAW. | Hunter Accidentally Shot. SANTON, July 28.—Elsie McCann | vermore, while hunting deer in the Valpie m beyond Sunol yesterday, | was accidentally shot. His rifle was left | standing against a tree, and while he s lying down drinking from a spring ifle fell and was discharged, the ball ssing over his chest and through his left arm. McCann made a wild ride on | horseback to Sunol, a distance of eight miles, where a cart was secured, and then | he came to Pleasanton, where the wound | was dressed by Dr. Hershiser. el Lambardi Confesses Judgment. LOS ANGELES, July 38.—The suit for $250 attorneys’ fees brought by Martini & Co. of San Francisco against the Lam- bardi Opera Company was decided by | Justice James this morning. Martini & | Co. obtained a judgment for $20. Lam- bardi confessed judgment on that amount. | He had already E\hl $20 before leaving San Francisco. The costs of the suit are | on Martini & Co. O Nuggets for Stanford Museum. STANFORD UNIVERSIT July 28.— | 3. James Hollister, Stanford, '$, has r turned from the Klondike in company ‘whh Stewart Cotton, '98, and visited the | campus. Hollister brought with him from the Cape Nome mining district a collection of valuable gold ore, dust and nuggets, which he presented to the department of geology and mining engineering, of which | e is a graduat SOUTHERN PACIFIC NEEDS FOREIGN TALENT ATTORNEY C. STEELE IMPORTED FROM NEW YORK. Herrin, the Mpysterious, has evidently found that the burden he is called upon to bear as attorney for the Southern Pa- cific Company is more than his frail and sensitive nature can easily support. There- | fore he has called in some one to help ‘him. That some one is Charles Steele of the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Steele, law- | yers of New York. It is not exactly plain what particular portion of the Herrin bur- | den Steele is retained to assume, but, | Judging from the secrecy that is thrown around his advent into this city and the amount of work that is being done by his | stenographer by the aid of gaslight in | suite 50 of the fifth floor of the Palace Ho- tel, it is evident that the aforesaid Steele's share of the load is to be of no small pro- portion. | When the Southern Pacific Company | | start to import an extra attorney into | this State theydo it in good style. In the case of Steele, Mr. Herrin and a private car were sent on to Denver to meet him. Noth(ng wns said in either the Denver or the Salt Lake papers about the comin together of these judicial stars, thoug the incident was-of sufficient sighificance to cause some comment. The reason for this silence {s possibly better known to Herrin and the publishers of the papers than anybody else. However, Mr. Her- rin secured his wise men from the East and, carefully hiding him from the prying eves of reporters, whisked him into this city yesterday morning behind the drawn curtains of his private car, a local train. g St Arriving at the Palace Hotel no less secrecy was maintained. Mr. Steele was fihen suite 50, on the fifth floor, without aving to undergo the formality of reg- istering. His baggage was sent up im- mediately afterward for fear that the trunks might excite the curlous specula- tion of the passerby. All these precau- tions proved futile,” however, as it was but a short time before it was whispered around that there was ‘‘something doin’,” and a reporter going to the desk inquir- of the clerk as to which room Stecle | | the fact remains that these two | ment committee, | of naming Commercial t,‘om?un, s plant is built got | pre the full benefit of the wind and consider- | anchored off the city could have es- able damage would have occurred had | caped. | though the major could have gone faster | was occupying, that functionary said that he was not pushed. The time was t the: guest by that name in the slow to allow the record to come to Il hotel. However, Herrin was later seen coming out of Steele’s apartments. ‘A subsequent Inquiry of Mr. Herrin a3 to the business of Mr. Steele in this city brought the rather astonishing answer from Herrin that he “knew no such per- son as Steele at all” Be that as it ma ent! men have been in close consuitation on some scheme or other which, whatever it may be, is of sufficlent importance to Kkeep a stenographer busy at his desk un- til_the “‘wee sma’ hours’ of the mornin The stenographer, when s at o'clock _this morning, said; os, 1 Mr. Steele did come out here in a private car. But he is not on business. Oh, no. He i3 merely making a summer tour of the dif- ferent points of interest on the coast. The stenographer did not come with him. Steele just picked him up en routs as he was crossing a desert with his type- writer under his arm. Steele liked his looks and -asked him to make. the tour | with him. The stenographer was not em- ployed by Steele. He was merely working at 1 o’clock in the morning because he hated to be idle. —_— e e————— Twenty-Ninth District Republican Club. TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT RE- PUBLICAN CLUB—Advisory committee— James Dhue, John Glynn, H. Lutgens, L. Lyman and Charles Corey. The same trouble that bothers many of the other clubs, that of securing a hall, caused this club some anxiety, but finally a building was secured at 819 Howard street. Notwithstanding the fact that the meet- ing place of the club was unknown ta many who were anxious to attend, the attendance was fairly large. An_ enroll- in addition to the ad- visory committee, was appointed, consi ing of the following members: W. Freitz, James Flynn, J. Collins, J. Cav: naugh'and R. Williams. ~After the wo these committees had been concluded an adjournment was taken until Friday of next week. —_———— Pledged Phelan and Dodge. 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