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

The VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOER INVADERS | ARE CLOSING IN ON LADYSMITH Attacking Army Has Mounted Two Big Guns Within Range of the British Camp. Defenders Hourly Expecting an Assault That Will Begin the Decisive Battle of| the War in Upper Natal. RHOIOHO+040+ O +0+O+0+0+0+0+0+C+040 + 01+ O+ 0+ 0404040+ TH+0O+0+04+0 + O + 0+ 0+ O+O+0104 OIOITIOIO + O+ 0 + 0 + O+04+04+0+ C+O+OHOI0 + O + O+ 04 O+O+0404 4041040+ 0 +0+0+0+040+0 ing around Ladysmith. They have mounted two big guns on Tinta Ingoni, 4500 yards from the British camp. An attack is expected. DURBAN, Oct. 28 (Delayed in transmission). — The Natal Mercury has the following from Ladysmith: “The Boers have been seen dragging heavy artillery up ni. It is expected they will adopt tactics similar to v pursued at Dundee—demonstrating in one direction !-ADYSM!TH. Oct. 28, 7 p. m.—The Boers are gradually clos- while king in another. “The British intelligence department is completely informed e Boer plans. The enemy have planted two guns, 0 be those used in sheiling Dundee, on a kopije, two and a iles aways in the direction of Elands Laagte.” LONDON, Oct. 30.—The Daily Mail publishes the following dispatch from Pietermaritzburg, dated Sunday: “Patrols from Ladysmith report that there are four large Boer camps within a radius of ten miles, extending in a semi- circle northeast of the town. Evidently the enemy is concen- trating all his forces. Commandant General Joubert is in su- preme command. One Boer laager has a Red Cross tent care- fully posted in a conspicuous pasition. “The British had several skirmishes with the enemy to-day. Railway communication with Ladysmith is still intact. At Co- lenzo a couple of Basutos were arrested for putting bowlders on the railway. They confessed they had done this by order of the Transvaal authorities. “A war balloon. very small and so light that two men can nd haul it down with a wire strand, and which can as- CC feet, is now in use, and the full position of the Boer s been ascertained. y and incessant rains have flooded Tugela River, an effectual barrier to any Boers proceeding railroatl bridges are strongly guarded.” HON. HORACE DAVIS ORACE DAVIS is making a splendid campaign. Vs & and prosperity of San Francisco. cature. where he goes and with whom he consorts. of its pages to maintain the respect of his fellow men. w from him just and considerate treatment. - =" > 7:40 a. m. from a Boers sent an was prepared to Powell replied shelling of the left, and the consultation continued for some time afterward. h from Mafeking dated in possession of the wa- Tlous- | squadrons of the Eighteenth Hussars K way and approached a strong force of ¢ ied by | With a Maxim, accompanied by of our | Dublin Fusileers and a detachment of The conduct Lieutenant Lachlan. IN EVERYDAY LIFE. Multitudes of people assemble to hear him speak. He is a clean, honorable, outspoken man and conducts the campaign in a manly, clean and creditable fashion. He does not stoop to slander his opponent, but, on the contrary, treats Mayor Phelan with distinguished consideration. Democrats are not assasled as traitors, but are persuaded by honest arguments to support the Republican party and contribute to the progress In this campaign the Republican press has not indulged in personalities or resorted to cari- To some extent Mr. Phelan’s personal wishes have been considered in the exclusion of topics foreign to the contest, but his desire to exclude the discussion of national questions has not been grati- fied. Fair reports of Phelan meetings are published in the Republican newspapers. not been employed by the Republican press to shadow the footsteps of Mayor Phelan to ascertain Yet the wilted morning glory of the Democratic press 1s very much concerned regarding the appointments that Horace Davis prefers to keep. Myr. Davis has nothing to conceal. His life iz an open book. He is not obliged to obscure any He 1s wiiling to meet on terms of perfect political equality every Republican in San Francisco. No one is excluded or proscribed. Whén he is elected Mayor he will be the Mayor of all the people, and men in every station of life will receive All the political signs indicate his election. fies more readily to his growing strength than the desperation of his opponents. Martin Kelly, an ex-boss, no better and no worse than the bosses with whom Mayor Phelan every day consults, desired to speak personally to Horace Davis and present the grievances of his friends in the Twenty-eighth District. Mr. Davis employed no go-between, but met the ex-boss face to face, man fashion, and here followws Horace Davis’ statement to the people as to what took place: | have been repeatedly informed by leading Republicans that Martin Kelly desired an in- terview with me. Believing that no man in the Republican party should be denied a hearing, and believing all the elements of the party should be harmonized, | met him last Saturday afternoon, with other gentlemen of the party, and a consuitation ensued regarding the cam- paign. Mr. Kelly complained that a fence had been built around the party organization that shut out him and his friends. He made no proposition and asked no favors, and | made no promises or pledges of patronage or position, and told him | would make none. The conference was held at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and lasted an hour, at the expiration of which Mr. Kelly (., % 3 2 $ g : : 3 8 3 ? % % g 2 & he the | encmy, who opened a hot fire, wounding 4 did. ‘The enemy’s loss | mounted infantry, Colonel Moeller com- | "iThe cavalry ‘retreated across Vants a ¢ rtained | manding, kept under cover of a ridge | jer held the ridge for some time, but the i 2 s | north of the camp and at 6:30 p. m. moved | enemy enveloping his right, he fell back Srotn AR HOW THE EIGHTEENTH down toward Sandspruit. across the spruit. The Maxim stuck In a 3y o4 shelled by the enemy, but without casual- | ¢4 . i g e DESULTORY FIGHTING " e, Cofonel Moeller 1ed his men round | nd the horses of Major Greville and Cap- re shot under them. Talana Hill, in a southeasterly direction, | "Wy o rorce finally re-formed on a rid d in lrnnsmls-‘ al account of | nth Hussars by | aptain Ha battle at Glencoe, ARGUND N, C MAFEKING | orrnax. oot o e fol j0ers and saw the Boer ambulances retir- | | ing. Then, with Squadron B of the Hus- 7: | sars, the Maxim and the mounted infan- | try, he crossed the Dundee-Vryheld Rall- time. ing Lieutenant Crum, who had be wounded, Colonel Moeller's force retire tch from | ‘“After the y three e e o o e CE S SRR SCRR SR =Y TROOPS LEAVING LADYSMITH TO TAKE THE FIELD. The tllustration shows a battery of field artillery and hussars passing the headquarters of the permanent camp to go to the tront. Proeded e B A A LA o e e B S e e e S e = —— OO+ 00000 across Vants Drift road, captured several | to the north, which was held for some 3 While ‘Captain Hardy was attend- ge en ed into a defile, apparently Intending to re- B S e ] | moved toward Elands Laaste in the hope DESPERATION DRIVES PHELAN'S POLITICAL ORGAN TO A FIGHT OF PERSONALITIES Detectives have Nothing testi- — @+O4O4+D4O4U4 O 40+0+040+040+0404040 4 0 + O+ O+ 0404040+ 040404040+ 0+ O+ 04 OH0+0+C+ 040404040 + O+ O+ O+ O4040+0+ 040404040 4+ O + O+ O+ 04040404+ +0+4040+ O +0+040404040 turn to camp around Impati but it was not seen afterward.” OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF YULE'S RETREAT CAPE TOWN, Oct. 20.—The following official data is made public regarding the fighting near Dundee: The Boer losses during Friday's engage- ment at Talana Hill are estimated at 500 in killed and wounded. Saturday the divisional staff was recon- stituted. The country was clear of the enemy eastward, but as big forces were reported closing in on Dundee from the north and west, it was considered advis- able to move the British forces across the railway to a new position south of the camp. During the afternoon the infantry moved out and began Intrenching a new position. availa transportation ‘was used to carry Mountain, At 4 o’clock in the afternoon the enemy opened fire on the intrenchments and camp from the shoulder of Impati Moun- tain with two six-inch guns, getting a fairly accurate alm over a range of 700 yards. The soft ground rendered the per- cussion fuses useless. In spite of the fall- ing shells the wagons were loaded with stores. Lieutenant Hannah and an ar- tillery sergeant were killed, During the night of October 22 a fresh osition was occupied, about 7300 yards rom the enemy’s guns. News was re- celved at 8 o'clock Monday morning of the victory at Elands Laagte, and a di- vision was moved toward Glencoe Junc- tion for the purpose of cutting off the re- treating enemy. should they use Glencoe Pass. Two fugitives were captured. We moved our guns down the ridge to the west of Impati Mountain and our ar- tillery exchanged shots with the enemy, who brought six-inch guns to bear on the transports. Rain and mist coming on, it was deemed advisable to concentrate on the positions occupied that morning. The movement was completed at noon, the British troops having marched ten miles. The column was en route for Ladysmith at 11 o'clock that night, passing through Dundee into the Helpmakaar voad with- out attracting the attention of the Boers. Major Wickham of the Indian commis- sariat service joined the column with fifty-three wagons from the old camp. Moving eastward through Blesbok Pass, Belth was reached, and here the column rested, after which the night march was resumed and Waschbank River reached the following morning at 9 o’clock. At 11 o'clock two batteries, two squad- rons and all the available Infantry were Continued on Third Page. MODUS VIVEND! GIVES CANADA NEW TERRITORY Boundary Agreement Loses the Porcupine Placer Fields to the United States. England Gains Possession of a Rich Dis- trict to Which She Did Not Even Lay Claim in Previous Contentions. BY HAL HOFFMAN, UNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 24 (via Seattle, Oct. 29).—The modus vivendi, as agreed upon by Canada and the United States, as stated in press dispatches of the 13th inst., if correctly de- scribed therein, either wilfully or unintentionally misleads the people of the United States and makes a concession to Canada of a <wide extent of valuable mineral territory—including the Porcupine placer mines. The line of delineation has officially and in general for years been understood to be at a point on the Klahena River known all over Southeastern Alaska as Pleasant Camp and for nearly two years the British flag has been flying there. The Canadian Gov- ernment has there built expensive barracks and established a com- pany of soldiers, now under command of Captain Jarvis. Pleasant Camp s about thirty-eight miles from Haines Mission, or Chilkat, on Pyramid Harbor, and, by an unofficial survey made by a Jusicau surveyor over a year ago, twenty-seven miles from high tide of Chilkat Inlet, or threc miles distant inside American territory, under the original agreement fixing the international boundary line ten marine leagues from the sea, where the coast mountain range ran back more than that distance from the sea. Thus, under the modus vivendi, the boundary line s moved from Pleasant Camp, on the Klahena River, a point beyond which the Canadians have never dared to come and where they “broke out” their flag as the limit of their terri- tory, at least fifteen miles further down to the Indian village of Kluckwan, near the confluence of the Chilkat and Klahena rivers. On some maps the latter river is spelled “Tlehinl.” This is within ten miles of tidewater. So far as is known in Southeastern Alaska the Canadians never claimed the Porcupine diggings or any country farther down the Klahena toward the Chilkat and tidewater. The Canadian barracks are about five miles above Porcupine City, the placer mines being between Pleasant Camp and the Kluck- wan. Tydar the modus vivendi the boundary ne 1s understood to he, though not permgnently, Indefinitely fixed until such time as the two Governments czn come to a final agreement on the subject, which may not be for years. Consequently, the miners at Porcupine “don’t know where. they are at,” or rather, where they may ultimately be, and the situation has serlously disturbed and unsettled min- ing interests there. The British Columbians have made a clear, galn of at least fifteen miles of territory, taking in one of the richest placer ‘camps in Alaska, which has been located under American mining laws. These laws give the locator 1500 by 600 feet on a creek, whereas the British Columbia laws grant only 100 feet, and from rim to rim of a creek. It will thus be seen what a damage to original locators and what a juggling of mining claims would result Another serious difficulty arises from the location of the Canadian barracks and customs post at Kluckwan. The Chilkat is a mighty river. It drains a vast and rich country. More water comes down it in one season than down both the Chilkoot and Skaguay rivers in five summers. The head of canoe navigation is near Boulder Creek, about thirty miles up the Klahena. Kluckwan is one of the oldest and perhaps the largest Indian village in Alaska. The name itself, in na- tive vernacular, means “mother town.” The village possesses a number of two- story frame houses not very elegantly furnished, but which have been bullt at considerable expense. are usually the residences and property of chiefs and rich men of the tribe. There are a few men among the Chilk: the most intelligent natives in Alaska, who could, if urged by their own ambition, up $3000 and more for a pot latch, and most of this would be in silver dollars. The Indians will not understand the wholesale and retail levying of a cu toms duty, and when such duty is sought to be collected upon their merchan- dise and furs and things to trade at Kluckwan by the Canadians upon their na- tive stream, where they have been accustomed to travel of their own free will from time immemorial, it is thought there will be trouble. dig L e B e e e o O R SRR SRS SR aacan = ] | | | e +-040+-0- ! { 1 ?. + Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Natal i and Zululand. B S S S S e S B S S S S e LS A S o S o e o