The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1899, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVI-N 07 SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER " 24, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAG ES. PRICE FIVE CENTS, APPALLING DISASTER ON RI0 GRANDE ROAD BRITONS FEAR THAT BOERS WILL PASS OVER NATAL'S FRONTIER DR. F. F. TEBBETS IS CHARGED WITH CRIME Collision in Colorado Between Ex- Transvaal Crisis Has Reached the Critical Stage Where [s Accused by Dr. L. T. Cranz cursion and Freight Trains. Six Persons Meet Death and Five Badly Injured. THE d 19, W re a ¥n_alon, SLOW SPEED PREVENTS HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE SPRINGFIELD, Alt as wrecke 0 passengers were , W. J. Long, a real y, died to-night in state w speed of the train was all vented a horrible catastrophe. ch 100 feet north of Elkhart spread a the entire train The locomotive and cars the ground and the loco- ungin injured except the two 1e smoking car, Messrs. King of Leroy, IlL., and were injured in a singular man- Jine thirty-foot rails which held r ran through the floor of the hrough the roof. the fioor Mr. Long jumped to his feet and end of the rail struck him in the forehead, inflicting terrible wounds. e same rail also struck Mr. King's leg and twisted his knee. Several pas- \gers who were on the train declare at the ties were rotten. ONE MINOR MISHAP ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC JAN JOSE, Sept. 23.—The north- bound train due here at 2:35 this after- noon on the Coast Division of the Southern Pacific and a switch engine collided in the city limits. No one was hurt and no great damage done. But g over the ties for | ashed up through | F. SALTER, manager of the excursion. EVA M. WALKER, aged 12, Westford, Ma EUGENTA B. JUDKINS, aged 12, Spokane, ADDIE F. JUDKINS, aged d 6, Spokane, Wash. ADDIE F. JUDKINS, aged 10, Spokane, Wash. —— WILLS, boy, aged 6, Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. F. A. Wills, Los Angeles, badly hurt. aged 25, Millers, Ind., bruises. | | | | OIL WELL EXPLODES -8 B3 E5-EERE THE KILLED. [} = ss. 2 Wash = [} Tt a INJURED. = ford, Mass., internal injuries; not = nt Biddle, Cole Camp, Mo., internal injuries. ged 21, Cole Camp. Mo., bruised. = B = CHARGES AGAINST A CONSUL ARE UNTRUE American Representative at Coburg Did Not Act as a Spy for Germany. SHINGTON KILLING TWO MEN Fire From the Boiler Ignites the Fuel and a Tragedy Results Therefrom. LE, C DISTRESS IN JAMAICA GREATLY INCREASED Had Escaped the Ravages of the Recent Cyclone. KINGSTON, Jamai capital of 2.—P Montserrat re of many the recent ept. ; intensifying the dis which is growing tardy and inad laborers refus: - FAIL IN FRENCH SHORE MATTER Request of the English Government to Renew the Modus Vivendi Will Be Refused. that the Colonial t = nmission, whic Chamberla for the Co s case, NEW UPRISING IN SAMOA IS PREDICTED Britain Charged With Machinations Inciting Natives to Feeling Against Germany. BERLIN, Sept. 23. correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, who is making a tour of Samoa, telegraphs to-his paper that there is increasing excitement and anti-German sentlment in the islands owing to alleged British machinations. The correspondent predicts a new upris- ing unless the malcontents are ener- getically restrained. PRUNE GROWERS ORGANIZE. Union Formed for the Independent Sale of Fruit. SAN JOSE, Sept. 23.—At a meeting of prune growers this afternoon the Santa Clara County Fruit Union was organized fo the purpose of mutual protection and selling the products of its members in 2astern markets independently of and without antagonizing any other company, Direetors were clected. as follows: 5. K. Joknson, president: Jacob Miiler, vice president: W. P. Craigin, secretary; J. €. Abbott and J. R. Johns. At the meetin, 150¢ tons of fruit were represented an 1000 tons were immediately pledged Peace or War Rests Entirely Within the ONDON, Sept. 23.—Never at any age of the Transvaal crisis has e or war rested so entirely the hands of President The longer he delays| : a definite issue the better | for peace. He now| T 1ances to yns of South Africa to uphold him n will, if a conflict until the last her men, and he is too void hat comes to the aggressor. to the foreign powers to in the n success- nds to defy er will have a bet- portunity than at It is n which is upperr in the thinking B! h and presen net meeting the Boers over Natal's ve not there will be much lieving President uitimate backdown, er he is strong enough to le with him in such ac t doubts. The cab- ely verifies the logical t Great B in will is- ultimatum until to back it up. on that war i s open to g upon the the | t submi! is im- | recede | ht about. »n the part of the C not tended to arv in England. The “to fight over a f ety vy is naturally im- by which the paper refers t v being the whole base of the eaker and some of the other riberal papers take the view that Mr. Chamberlain has made it as hard a e for President Kruger to ac- cept ‘his terms. Sir BEdward Clarke, Q. C., former So- licitor General, writes to the Times | that he sees no casus belll and hopes Parliament will be summoned. so that . affair may be exblained to Conservatives. | Mr. Chamberlain’s bit- | is bringing ot I Slay My Bro vhich he reiterates his ac- amberlain’s com- ian conspiracy of s that “war would be at Britain's escutcheon by which the Dreyfus the fair name of mpares Mr. Chamber- al Mercier and the South ittee which tried ' the aiders to the Rennes court- But such diatribes do not r the popular feeling. If Presi- ¢ Kruger decides to hold his ground | th the only means at his disposal, | that is, almost immediate hostilities, hei i1 he has but small sympathy will fi from any class of British. | The Transvaal negotiations are now} so long drawn out that though the pa- pers devote great space to them, popu- lar interest seems flagging. The Gov- | ernment organs while regretting the at- titude of the Orange Free State point out that its open hostility will even- | tually prove advantageous in ridding | at Britain of the annoyance of| g a presumably neutral bul{ hostile power so close to the scene of action, and enabling Great Britain to add the Free State to her possessions without encountering for- elgn protests or accusations of inhu- man aggrandizement. CECIL RHODES MAKES ‘ CHARGES OF TREASON LONDON, Sept. 23.—A special dis- patch from Cape Town says: There an extraordinary scene in the As- 1y Friday during the debate on the istration of voters bill. Cecil Rhodcs, | hitherto has deprecated the advis- ability of hostilities, repeated the statement that several members had cepted money for electioneering pur- | ses from the Transvaal!, with which | ngland i3 now on the verge of war. | This statement created a great im-| pression. Later, speaking on th2 same | bill, Mr. Rhodes pointedly indicated that some of the members were practi- cally guilty of treason; that they were “supporters of a Ministerial party, who lived entirely on offal,” and were noth- ing more than “political scavengers.” He called upon the Premier to hold | | | these in check. " e — | was SPECULATION ON THE OUTCOME OF WAR | BERLIN, Sept. 23.—Experts are b: | ginning to speculate on the probable | outcome of the war and the losses on | both sides. The Kreuz Zeitung says: | *“The British plan is an invasion on| | three sides simultaneously from Rhode- | | sia, Natal and Mefeking or Kimberley. | The best and most effective part of the | English forces will probably be the vol- unteers raised in South Africa. There are 7000 mounted men already in Rhodesia, who, with other volunteer: will be the real corps of the expedition. In the Frankfort Zeitung General von | Boguslawsky, a military writer of note, predicts that the British will sustain enormous losses in the Transvaal, ow- | ing mainly to the inferiority of their | officers and their inability to under- \stand or apply modern tactics. | what extent he can rely oni‘ t to know the military | n to fear that before | tron- | Kru- | LA 8 S o g e is in | | ultramontaine and Center press Kreuz Zeltung /CUBANS FAVOR AN | strongest interest Hands of Kruger, R R i R A A A . ® . THE N . o ® Waterva : K . m Delagoa Bay to t e - Poeieieieieieie DECLARE WAR A QUESTION OF FEW DAY Ly While Germans Sympathize With Boers Government Will Not Interfere. . it L Spectal Diepatch to The Call. R e o R e e R o o o s + + 3. —The first of friends d here ge Emperor Willlam g for his aid in preventing a war between Great Britain and the South African Republic BERLIN, Sept. 4+ a series of r of th +ee e e + c R o e D e e e e ] ETHERLANDS RAILWAY, 1 from Black an frespondent “here. of R e e e e e e BERLIN, Sept. 23.—An- outbreak of war in the Transvaal is regarded here | as a question of a few days, or at the | most of weeks. The whole press de- votes conslderable space to the matter. Neither the attitude of the people or of the press has changed materially. With out exception they disapprove of such a war and blame Great Britain for badgering.the Transvaal beyond en- durance. The liberal press 'also blames the Transvaal for its {llogical stand in first sanctioning Great Britain’s attempts at interference in its internal affairs and then rejecting such attempts and mak- ing thereof a casus belli. the Vossische Zeitung, Cologne Gazette, Tageblatt and othe: The whole* con- servative jingo, anti-Semite, Agrarian, sides with the Boers. The E Vo matter how things may develop it is certain England is preparing for another act of brutal coercion.” The National it is still possible to adjust things in South Africa except by force of arms. The Vossische Zeitung says: “War is a foregone-conclusion. England is only delaying hostilities in time to prepare a sufficlently large army of invasion. It will not be ready until the middle of October. The Boers just now are stronger in a military sense.” The Deutsche Tages Zeltung says: “Germany unquestionably has the in maintaining the independence of the Boer states, which form a natural wall of protection against the British possessions. The people must demand that the Govern- ment vigorously protect these impor- tant interests. The only way to avoid annihilation of the German colonies is to get Germany, Holland and Belgium to join in any direct emigration there, especially to the Boer State The Leipsic Neuste Nachrichten as- serts that if the Transvaal loses, Ger- man South Africa can no longer be held, Great Britain then being enabled to isolate it economically until it be- comes worthless and drifts into English hands, adding: ‘‘The Boers defend the advance post of German civilization against Anglo-Saxondom and fight as our agvance guard.” The Deutsche Zeitung severely blames the Government for its inac- tivity in the quarrel, saying: “This is a dangerous game for, German Inter- ests.” In spite of these criticisms, many of which are most bitter, the Government has not altered its views or attitude. order to gain | D R e R S i i Poort, t Transvaal. D e et e eieie® evident from the inspired utter- f the Government pres Hamburger corresponde points out that Ge t again 1y look in th France Boers situated precisely mpathies are with the A Foreign Office official said to a cor- | the Associated | Press: “Of course it is in no sense to our interest to have England and the | Transvaal go to war. That little Boer | nation will finally succumb and prob- ably will be wiped out of existence. It| only too | at this will dimin- ish our prestige in South Africa and in- jure our not inconsiderable intere re, for our trade with the B is increasing and is only next to 3 Other interests will ized and injured in such Still there is no occasion and no political or moral right for us to interfere. So long as our undoubted rights are respected by the belligerents we shall not inte 2 | The informant of the correspondent refused to say whether it was a dis- tinet formal understanding with Great | Britain or whether the agreement of a | year ago on the subject of South Afriz‘a,J | also be jeopard a struggle. included German neutrality in the event of war in the Transvaal. 1 MORE DEMANDS, MORE j TROOPS, MORE BULLETS| CAPE TOWN, Sept. 23.—The Ums- | land, the Afrikander Bund organ, com- menting on the British Cabinet meet- ing, heads its article: ‘“More Demand: More Troops, More Dumdum Bullets. It says there is no casus belli, but that itish troops on the border are | likely to make one, and hopes the Afri- | Thus argues | eitung doubts whether | | | | | | | kanders’ protest will be heeded before it is too late. GORDON HIGHLANDERS , DEPART FOR NATAL BOMBAY. Sept. 23.—The second bat- | talion of the Gordon Highlanders and | other detachments of troops sailed to- day on three transports f atal. AMERICAN PROTECTORATE| Recent Editorial Appearing in a| Prominent Journal Tend to Such a View. HAVANA, Sept. 23—Much comment has n caused by an editorial article which | appeared in La Lucha to-day and which | may be taken, in connection with others which have recently appeared In the same paper, to mean that La Lucha is beginning to favor an American protect- orate over the island. The editorial sa; Che social and moral progress of Cuba depends upon the island’s wealth and fu- ture commerce, which is entirely in the hands of the United States. If the Amer- | ican colonies obtain preference in the American market Cuba, however fertile and rich she may be, will be unable to sell her products and consequently will We reduced to beggary. If the United States open their markets to Cuba they are bound to have compensation. The people of Cuba should bear in mind the fact that they cannot progress without an American market.” DOMESTIC INFELICITY OF WALES AND WIFE The Prince Said to Have Paid Too Much Attention to Fascinat- ing Mrs. Keppel. NEW YORK, Sept. 24—The World's| correspondent in London cables that the domestic felicity of the Prince and| Princess of Wales is now at the lowest possible ebb. The Princess is growing al- most eccentrically self-absorbed and | pious, while the Prince’s determination | to get the best he can out of life, accord- ing to his conception, is less and less dis- guised. The Prince has been having a highly en- joyable visit to Sir Archibald Edmon- stone’s Scottish seat, Duntreath Castle. The party was almost wholly a family | | fic in illegal dental certifi | Monday to investigat | attacked Olangapo, on Subig Bay. of Selling Certificates. State Board of Dental Examiners to Meet in Special Session To-Morrow to Inves- tigate the Charges. R. LOUIS T. CRANZ is hot on the trail of Dr. F. F. Tebbets of State Board of x He states that he of absolute p cused member has tion for fllicit purposes £ has been endeavoring to e: offered to sell atpricesr: from $75 to $1000. The a special meeting of t bets will not be given a cha and if the assertions aga in office are proven he w decapitated. The exclusive publication Call of the impendin shock to the dental frate ment that influence had b bear on the Governor al head and that the Chiet E: more promptly is emphatically Dr. Cranz. He said: “When I presented my f to the Governor he w Tebbets without any de an who had done would not stop at anytl would not be safe to office. I pleaded for de opportunity to complete t the case and get certal would establish guilt be evidence was secured ve: once telegraphed Dr. M rm the Gove! procees to the statements ma Cranz to a repre Governor knew h. there w: ¢ tate Board of D was unable t ranz owed h to_the in h “Dr. all_the Previous to my appointment I that Dr. Tebbeis was making inquiries i T was a man that could be reached. He was told that 1 was not a drinking man and that did not seem to please him. “After the iast meeting of the State Board adjourncd we all went to a saloon and while there Tebbets called me aside and told me he had some important in- formation to communicate. 1 suspected coming and put him off for a | antime 1 told Major | urrence and asked e bets on and get asked me if I was in_for making some | big mone: ily. I told him that I was | and he sai hout any that hesitation he had a man who was willing to pay $1000 for a dental certificate. I agreed to | stand in w him. His intended im | m w a Chinaman, but the deal was n S CHINESE TROOPS CUT DOWN BY THE REBELS Imperial Force Falls Into Ambush at Saichau and Several Hundred Sol- diers Are Slain. ICTORIA B. C., Sept. 23.—Oriental ad to-night chronicle a sanguinary encounte troops and the rebels at Saichau, the former bei loss of several hundred warriors. Referring rival forces, the correspondent on the field wired as follows from Canton: “The Nahoi Magistrate Yiang, sent to su chau and arrest the brigands, upon iis arriv enough and requested reinforcements. The V men of the Ngai regiment, under Colonel Choi Chui. veved by four gunboats to Lokahwai, where the: march to Saichau, but when they landed they fell enemy was in strong force and had from for 3 A terrible fight ensued and several hundred were k loss being far the greatest. Upon the news of th troops being received by the Viceroy, his E: v flag chief, Liu Yung Fu, with his four regiments to the on the 13th by the gunboats Kwong Yuen, Kwang and Kwong On. “The imperial troops already on the field have This forc to d an an ; pieces o us pended operations for the present, pending the arrival of the black fla. The brigands set fire to nearly all the villages in the neighborhood, ar per cent of the houses have been burned. This is intended to terr he authorities. Another correspondent wires: “Intelligence ha: en received in Can- ton of the disastrous and signal defeat of the imperial troops by the bandits in the West River districts. A body of about 500 soldiers has, in effect, been cut to pieces. About half the number were killed outright, and a majority of the remainder wounded. The engagement took place at a place called Colkow, on the West River, and the fight was fiercely maintained, the i perialists being surprised and scouted. The rebels only lost about fifty sixty men. from Canton to suppress the insurrection. work cut out for them."” or A fresh force, consisting of some 2000 men, has been dispatched th ind all They are lik one, including Sir Archibald’s fuclnntlngI sister, Mrs, George Keppel. The Prince | drove out in the woods every day wurt Mrs. Keppel and this was more than the | Princess could bear. sand Virginlans, West Confederates from n State and_men_and north as New York wit ing of a monument erecte vivors of Colonel FORTIFICATIONS ON LIRS SUBIG BAY DESTROYED 832 5 wers im it s [ Richards of Eawisville, K7 n of the day was c United States Vessels Shell the S " ** | AUSTRIAN MINISTERS RESIGN IN A BODY | MANILA, Sept. 24, 11:15 a. m..—The | Cabinet Crisis Caused by the Failure United States crulser Charleston, the monitor Monterey, the gunboat Concord to Terminate the Parliamen- tary Deadlock. and the supply ship Zafiro this morning VIENNA, Sept. 22.—At a Cabin Counell B e One AL len. s woanded. this morning the Ministers resolved P e | resign in a body. The NUMENT UNVEILED. | 1ster of the Interior, Count Thun-Hoden- 0 stefn, saw the Emperor at 10 o'clock and Erected to Commemorate Memory of tendered the resignation of the Cabinet. The crisis was caused by the impossibil- Mosby’s Guerillas. ity of terminating the parliamentary RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 2.—Five thou- | deadlock. osby’s famous en of thel The warships, after briskly bombarding | Olangapo, landed two hundred and fifty sailors, who destroyed the insurgents’ po- 1