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

The sl VOLUME LXXXVI— SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS, AN ULTIMATUM SADD TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO KRUGER Great Britain Determined to Enforce Reforms in the Transvaal and Seems to Be Prepared to Send a Large Force of Troops. PP 00000000000 0040 0000000000000 000 400040000000+ 000400 . « - . - " ONDON. Aug. 20.—The Peo- ays it learns through “a n occupying a high offi- 1 Commissioner Africa, being convinced conflict had tical stage, tolerant endurance of which would lapse into weakness, cabled the Gov- ernment urgently reguesting au- thorization to insist upon the Transvaal Government accepting the terms offered by Great Brit- zin. According to this source of information Sir Alfred Miiner’s decision was in full accord with the opinion and intention of the Government, and consequently Chamberlain dispatched an ulti- natum to President Kruger. through Alfred Milner, based on the terms already propounded, namely. that of the irreducible minimum of five years’ qualifica- tion for franchise. The People also states the War Office is prepared to dispatch 30,000 troons to Cape Colony, half coming from India. There is no cessation of the war preparations on either side. The Transvaal Government is be- ginning to move troops to the hor- der, and the police on the fron- tier have been ordered to strictly prohibit any cattle leaving the country, while the treasury of the republic is receiving large amounts of gold beyond ordinary reguirements. Field Marshal Lord Wolsley, commander in chief of the British army, was in consultation at the War Office yesterday with Gen- eral Neville Gerald Littleton, as- sistant military secretary, and the headquarters’ staff. Tenders for an immediate supply of large stores of forage and general LONDON eneral Sir uth Af W r at the W Transv: force, General 1ded that Gen h South African forces was ing. P R R I R R A R A R N R R R RS ’ that Sir Alfred Mil- ¢ diction of It ev v rloo station. entirely 1al P R S 2 2 2 g g g g inquiry th £ host concession. Government was on the point of returning a favorable reply to England’s invitation for a joint Outlanders’ grievances when the news of the | Delagoa Bay episode arrived, and | the reply was in consequence withheld. FOOWEEEEE AT L LY LR h o o i g b b o g oo oo WALKER DEPARTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA into Aug. 19.—Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Walker, .m Francis Butler as commander of the British § iled for his post to-day. tic farewell by the crowds surrounding the train on It was stoted by an army of- companying General Walker that in the event of hostili- General Redvers Buller will take command of the Walker remaining at Cape 1 Butler's retirement from the command of voluntary. d frequent conferences with the officials of the War Office be- The previous announcement of General Walker's depar- ture for South Africa was incorrect, as at the time in question he had only left Devonport in order to come to London. I & R R R It is officially Ang! s been ente -Italian into ish subjec n the epublic are placed ot 1 and Juriss an consuls in the ilities in the Trans- Aug. Aug. tary Types—Officers of State Troops and Volunteers. PPN DU DD SO SO S0 SO SO S Sh S S0 SRS SR SN S A S B e e i dn b it b b g 3, Aug. that an - + - K + + + + + + stores were under consideration. Six months’ supply of compressed forage for 10,000 horses has al- ready been sent out. CAPE TOWN, great sensation has been caused here by a statement in the Times, a local newspaper, that Premier Schreiner, since the crisis. as- sumed an acute phase, has al- lowed 1,000,000 rounds of car- tridges to be moved from Port Elizabeth to Bloemfontein for use of the Transvaal Republic. Schreiner. in an interview held an hour prior to the writing of this dispatch, explained that the inci- dent was - five weeks’ old. cartridges, he said, were the ab- solute property of Free State, the relations of which with England were perfectly friendly. He said that he saw no objection to their removal. PRETORIA, Pretoria Government is incensed at the detention of munitions of war in transit to the Transvaal by the Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay. President Kruger and Vice President Joubert are openly opposed to the Volks- raad’s report on the dynamite 19.—A Mr. The the Orange 19.—The It is said that the the who He was given an en- which he Town. The officer General AR R R R R R T R S S S O S e i | g b =’ 3 JOHANNESEURG INFANTI D e S I R e o S S = - Kruger’s reply to Chamberlain, it is said, was to have been handed the British agent to-day, but this was postponed until Mon- day. The Government declines to state the nature of the reply. SIGNS POINT TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF WAR LONDON, Aug 19.—Though many signs point to the extreme likelihood of war between G t Britain and the Boers, and though troops are pouring in the direction of the Cape, and the British army chiefs are deep in prob- lems of preparation for possible hos- tilities, the English people as a whole scarcely heed the portents that at an- other time would raise a whirlwind of patriotic enthusiasm. The nation seems completel fus case. passes without an answer from th s to the propo- sition of Great Britain for a joint com- | mission to inv ate the effect which the franchise reform legislation would | have on the Outlanders, the rvrnh.’ihilil)“ of a pacific settlement of the difficulty decreases. Yet, national interest, tired | | of delay, flags as the tension at the | War and Colonial offices grows: - If war | comes Great Britain will awake with a | tremendous start. If the Boers surrender to the British | demands scarcely more than a ripple | of interest will be excited, so long as; | absorbed in the Drey- da As eac | the Rennes court-martial holds the world under the spell of its dramatic recital. From a political point of view | a rapid and successful war against the Boers would probably strengthen the | hands of the Conservative Government | more than any other outcome of the present crisis, for the vast preponder- ance of public sentiment already heart- ily indo: s the course of Mr. Chamber- cretary of State for the Colo- | and if only the British soldiers cculd meet their old enemy, the Boers, few would remain bold enough to open- ly oppose the morality of the war. Many awkward questions in regard to the Government’s. home policy are | pending, and perhaps it is fortunate for | the Conservative party that the exist- ing events abroad distract attention | from them. Of these home matters | none is more serious than the Church of England problem. The Conservative | press and broad-minded clergy are beg- | ging the ritualists to obey the decision of the Archbishops against their prac- tices, but, as the Daily Graphic says: “Now we have come to the parting of the ways, and even before the various | Bishops have formally issued their anti-ritualist order, prominent clergy- men have raised the flag of rebellion | and defiance. The high church party seems hopelessly divided as to whether to temporarily obey or to openly defy.’ | The Saturday Review to-day in an article on Europe and Americans, sneer- ing at the proposed Anglo-American | alliance, frankly declares that it | amounts to little or nothing. “We have,” the Review says, “accepted it | almost as an axiom of sound policy that | friendly relations with the United| | States is the only object worth aiming |at in the Western Hemisphere. A few music hall ditties and after-dinner | speeches would convince us that the object is secured and that we should forthwith ignore all American concerns as contemptible strife of parties.” The Review goes on to say there is,| nothing in all that. *“Our future in the west never received so severe a blow as that dealt it by Lord Salisbury's recognition of the right of North Amer- ican interference in South American concerns.” X JMINELS | such control is at pe s | what court could take cognizance of | | are to have opposition in their respective | NEN SCORE ONE VICTOR San Domingo Troops Sent to the Front Defeated by Revolutionists. SEREAD OF TROLE War Vessels Patrol the Coast of the | Islani to Prevent the Would-Be President From Landing. L Special Dis| to The Call. APE HAYTIEN, Aug. 19.— The reinforcement of troops sent to the front by the Gov- ernment of Sante Domingo in the efforts to suppress the revolu- tion have been defeated and driven back at Monte Cristi. The province of San Pedro Macoris has proclaimed a revolu- tion infavor of General Juan Isadro Jiminez. the aspirant to ithe Presidency of Santo Do- mingo, with great enthusiasm. PORT AU PRINCE, Aug. 19.— A revolutionary group which as- sembled between Cupey and Es- terovasa, in Santo Domingo, has dispersed without fighting and re-entered Haytien territory. A thousand "men, commanded by Minister Cordero, are guard- ing Fort Belair and watching the frontier, while war vessels are patrolling the coast in order to prevent a landing of Jiminez, who aspires to the Presidency of the Santo Domingo republic. S NEUTRALITY LAWS ARE TG BE ENFORCED WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Seeretary Root said this afternoon that he had been informed of the arrést of General Jiminez, the Dominican leader, by the Collector of Customs at Cienfuegos. This action was présumably taken by direction of General Brooke. Nothing has been received here indicating that Jimine s been released, and General Brooke not asked for instructions, nor will any be given him unless he specifically requests advice. The ar- rest of Jiminez'is doubtless in accord- ance with instructions recently sent to General Brooke, directing him to pre- vent any violation of the neutrality laws of the United States by residing in‘ Cuba. He directed ta mainta car surveil- lance over Jiminez, and it is presumed the latt t W ordered when General Brooke deemed he had suffi- cient evidence to hold him for legal pro- ceedings. The report of his release is very sur- prising. The administration officials | are still struggling with the question of whether the neutrality laws of this Government can be applied to Cuba, | which is only temporarily under its con- trol. It is a recognized principle of in- ternational law that any territory un- der control of the military authorities | shall not be made the base of military operations against a foreigy Govern- ment with which the country exercisin Tt cannot be stated by the authoriti any violation of neutrality by Jimi- | nez or any of his associates, or what laws could be applied, but they are cer- tain that this Government has ample |‘authority to prevent filibustering from | was as assertive as before, though his Cuba, and they propose to see that it is | respected. | GROCERS COMBINE TO FIGHT THE TRUST | Members of the New Organization ‘Will Be Able to Buy Direct From Manufacturers. NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—The sugar trust and incidentally other concerns which manufacture supplies dealt in by grocers lines. | In Newark., N. J., a New York Retail Grocers' Assoclation has been incorpor- ated with a capitalization of $200,000, there being fifty incorporators, of whom forty- seven are New York grocers and the oth- er three Russell J. Williams, Bernard S. McKean and John S. Price. The company as combined with the following com- ics, whose capital stock ranges from 5,000 'to $200,000 each: The Philadelphia Grocers' Company, Altoona Grocers' Com- pany. Cleveland Grocers’ Company, Mid- dletown Grocers’ Company, Boston Gro- cers' Company, Syracuse Retail Grocers® Company. Scranton Grocers' Company and Utlea Grocers’ Company. Messrs. Williams, McKean and Price represent the Advanced Beet Sugar Construction Company. Mr. McKean, in speaking of the matter. said: “The construction company owns an interest in the beet sugar factory in Rome, N. Y., and will erect other fac- torjes for the manufacture of beet sugar elsewhere in New York State. Beet sugar Will be sold to stockholders of the Retail Grocers” 5 tion direct, thus saving middlemen’s pre Small retail grocers will also be enabled to buy other goods at wholesale prices through - the company whenever needed and in as small quan- tities as they may desire, which formerly they were unable to do except through a wholesale dealer.” > Agnews Asylum Inquiry. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 19.—The State Commissioners of Lunacy will meet in the Palace Hotel at San Francisco next Wednesday, August 24, at 10 a. m., to continue the investigation into the ‘Ag- news Asylum scandal. The directors of the asylum are expected to be resent and the Governor will preside, The in- vestigation was to have.been continued in the State Capitol in,this city, but Gov- ernor Gage is expected to be in San Fran- cisco in his official capacity to receive the troops returning to Sdn Francisco. | not to speak until he was addressed. | throw on the railway! SPECULATION AS TO WHETHER DREYFUS WILL BE CONVICTED From Rennes Comes One Story That the Court- Martial Has Already Decided That the Accused Captain Is Guilty. ? * Maitres Mornard and Demange, Counsel for Dreyfus (From a sketch made during a session of the Court of Cassation.) T e S e S B B S S @—0—0—0—@—0—9. R g @ D . 4 ENNES, Aug. 19.—Opinions differ | ¢+ + + + 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ ¢+ + 4+ + |low General Billot or the others in their as to what the judgment of the Dreyfus tribunal will be. Towns- people who know well General Germain and General Lucas of the army corps think the deciston will be against the accused. On the other hand at the Hotel Modere. which is | now the great conversational news cen- ter, the idea prevails of a reluctant judgment in his favor. | The tribunal certainly shares the feel- ings of the military witnesses, but there are signs of coming around. I noticed a member of the court-martial watching Dreyfus to-day with an ex- | pression of compassionate interes Then, again, Colonel Jouaust, the pres dent, did not rebuke him for apostro- phizing Major Cuignet, who led the pro. cession of military witnesses to-day, nor order him, as he was wont to do. PO O R R R Maitre Demange is more hopeful, al- though acknowledging the perverse use the Nationalists make of the Schneider and Panizzardi telegrams to inflame patriotic sentiment. That party now demands the full publication of the secret dossier so as to heap disgrace on the military attaches and the illus- trious German Prince involved a Prince who lived long in Paris. I should not be surprised at a tie. This would enable the prisoner to leave the court a free man, but would show that half the judges believed him | guilty. The Schneider letter or telegram is resented by all but the Dreyfusites as an attempt to cast odium on the French | army. It ought to benefit the prisoner, but does not. Military men say it would set the face of the court-martial harder against him. The majority seem to adopt Cuignet's opinion. Tt is thought, though not ex- pressed, thus: That the military at- taches have behaved abominably in the Dreyfus affair; that the French Gov- | ernment is in possession of numerous | specimens of Schneider’s handwriting; | that the document on which General | Mercier relied will be a severe test and | that it has been accepted by every | Minister of War since 1894 and been | ompared with letters written to six of them by Colonel Schneider. | Cuignet spoke with a hollow voice, | quite different from that in which some | days ago he made his virulent attack | on Dreyfus. His attitude, however, | language was less so. He is a fair, sandy-haired man, with a big red mus- tache and a resonant, metallic voice, good for command. He is among the | few military witnesses who have de- | posed while standing. | To-day his task was to destroy the effect of the question of Maitre De- mange and to set up again the demol- ished theory of General Mercier. Cuig- net was in the fourth bureau of the general staff when Dreyfus was in an- other bureau there, but not under his orders. They were both engaged in cal- culating what work invasion would but were en- gaged on different lines Dreyfus, he said, constantly came to him for information which he had no cause to do. Cuignet kept refusing un- | til he was tired out by the importunities of the accused. Then, by degrees, he gave him, Cuignet deposed, all the notes he himself had made. Dreyfus, according to -the witness, never re- turned the notes. When search was made at his home they were not found. What had become of them? Dreyfus | was not the man to cast them away. | Cuignet’s insinuation was that they | were sent to Berlin. The conclusion was far fetched, but the members of the court-martial made a note of it. Cuignet then defended Esterhazy against Picquart and next against Du Paty de Clam. He gave fresh peeps at | the secret military dossier, in which are many ordinary letters from women, opinions on public men and tittle-tat- tle of a spicy sort. Cuignet said he was sorry the court had not examined this voluminous dossier, which proved a deal of light, sometimes crude light “on spies of different categories, in- cluding military attaches.” The latter, he remarked, were far from oeing the only spies regularly kept up by foreign Governments. It was only natural, he argued, that the military attaches ‘should accuse Esterhazy, but they knew the traitor had been in the very heart of the citadel, in the general staff. “The traitor,” he exclaimed, “is not + + + NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—A Tri- bune cable from Rennes says: According to the impressions just communicated to your cor- respondent from such an excep- tional source as to carry with it unusual presumption of truth, the sentence of Dreyfus is al- ready decided upon. He will be found guilty of disciplinary in- discretions, for which he will be sentenced to five years’ impris- onment. As he has served this term of sentence the practical re- sult will be that he will be set free, and take his position in the army as a captain en reforme, without pay or emoluments, and any career in the active army will be closed to him. FEILEI LI LI L E A Esterhazy, but Dreyfus.” tain Dreyfus lost his Starting to his feet, he violently apos- trophised Cuignet. If he had been Here Cap- more charged with electricity. But Cuignet did not seem stung to anger. | Cold as a toad he went on with his in- measured | vective, the diction clear, and slow. He constantly drank sweet- ened water to moisten his palate. In speaking of Colonel Picquart, he said nature intended him for a novelist; that he was first rate at the construc- tion of a plot; that Gaboriau did not touch him in this respect and that Pic- quart’s deduction showed ‘‘romantic in- vention bordering on genius."” No new fact was brought forward by Cuignet, and every one was tired of him. When he turned to Colonel Schneider's Ems telegram, which he compared to another dispatch from Ems that let loose invasion upon France, Maitre Demange shrugged his shoulders. General de Boisdeffre was also a wit- ness. on the occasion of the first Dreyfus trial was sent with secret papers to the President of the court-martial. He was a cautious witness, but he had to sup- port the other generals. He eulogized the suicide of Henry as “worthy of the fullest confidence,” and spoke of Pic- quart as ‘‘the organizer of the Dreyfus agitation.” Boisdeffre declared himself convinced of the guilt of the accused. Really, the “guilty” might be. the chorus of generals in an opera houffe. Picquart, he accused of substitute a man of straw for the real traitor. He argued in this wise: The three years Dreyfus spoke of on the day of his degradation had passed. Pro- scription for the crime of treason would, therefore, protect a man of straw from legal consequences. As he was, Picquart perhaps thought, a scamp, no great injury would be done by throwing on him the odium that Dreyfus deserved. Nevertheless, he (the witness) had learned of Picquart’s scheme, black and abominable. “Ester- hazy now admits himself the author of the bordereau,” remarked Boisedeffre, “but did he ever tell the truth? He lies still, as he always has.” But why follow General Boisdeffre? Why follow General Gonse? Why fol- + ARRAY Special Cable to The Call and the Ne PARIS, Aug. 19.—M. Cornely, w! the course of this sad debate the pa Jjustly indignant at seeing officers o ters so down upon an unfortunate c been able to prove. There is some veritable squadron of generals of dl ilege of their rank to transform pr: proofs, and re-enact the famous sci an end to the doubts of the court- the traitor.” But none of us, I beli maintaining their' accusations in t! himself, whose words went furthe: ‘My conviction is immovable'—eve! it is inevitably proved to him that hi + + + + + + + + 24 + + + 2 + + + + + + + + 28 and absurd gossip.” + R A F A AN D S self-control. | a | Fish torpedo he could not have seemed | He denied that Colonel Picquart | subject of a | wishing to ! James Gordon Bennett. R e e o e RS R R R S | long-winded disquisitions? Colonel Picquart at the end was allowed to de- fend himself against the malignant in- sinuations and assertions of all. | Until Maitre Demange and Labori speak one should risk no opinion as to the outcome. General Billot thinks there will be many fluctuations before | the trial is over, but he confidently ex- pects a verdict of gullty. The Government seems more neutral since the Foreign Minister, M. Del- casse, returned from his visit to Count Muravieff. EMILY CRAWFORD. BELIEVE IN THE GUILT OF DREYFUS Major Cuignet and Generals de Bois- ! deffre and Gonse Testify | at Court-Martial. | RENNES, Aug. 19.—No special inci- dent occurred this morning when the second trial by court-martial of Cap- tain Alfy us of the Fourteenth Artillery, with treason, was re- sumed at the e. The first witness called to-day w Major Cuignet, for- merly attached to the Ministry of War. The witness, who declared he was co vinced of the prisoner's guilt, w: cr xamined by M. Demange of counsel for the defense, who succeeded in pointing out that several of his statements contradicted his previous depositions. The president of the court, Colonel Jouaust, asked Dreyfus if he had any- thing to say, whereupon the prisoner arose and again ve against the denunciations against him, an innocent man. Genera De Boisdeffre and Gonse were also witnes; Following is the evidence in detai Major Cuignet, the first s ordered to ma Cavaign <h to men~ in conjunc- evidence already heard, will proof of the prisoner's or when employed on the taff. 1 was on the staff was a probationer, during alf of Among other duties, I was connected with the railroad service and the mining of ra s, with the view of rrupting traffic in case of tion with the constitute fre indiscreet beh: headquarters when Dreyf the .latter need. It is hardly n ary to point out | the secret c sych matters. Dreyfus w srobationer on the Easter railroad, and had been ordered to special- study the minin d information Dreyfus Iy on them, and pc lating solely to them to give him »f mining, which 1 iving as the reason for the re- quest that he was anxious to increase his knowledge and that it was nece ry for him to know eme in order to properly to him. I re necessity of giving him th that in ¥ | his own chief, | tended Bertin woi | formation. Da | so that finally trust him, I uld nc fter day he pestered me, ng no reason to dis- i plaved the keenest in- | pious notes. When lat- i 5 searched these notes were not discoverable. I do no what became of them. But it is to believe they were destroyed, consider- ing the importance he seemed’ to attach to” the information and the persistence shown in procuring it. After launching the above declaration. which he apparently considered to be (444444444444 4444444444444+ 4424444444 CORNELY ARRAIGNS ED GENERALS w York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by + riting in the Figaro, says: “During rtisans of trvth have often been made f the highest rank and former Minis- reature, whose guilt nobody has yet thing revolting in the spectacle of a ivision taking advantage of the priv- esumptions and impressions into un- ene by which Henry, the forger, put martial of 1894, by crying: ‘There is eve, considers these men capable of he face of violence. General Zurlinden r than his thoughts when he said: n Zurlinden himself must bow when is conviction is based upon forgeries A R R R R R R R R R R g