The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1899, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 169. PRICE FIVE CENT BRITISH TROOPS AND BOERS ARE FIGHTING AT CLOSE RANGE Investing Forces at Ladysmith Approach Within Fifteen Hundred Yards of the Defensive Lines. English War Office Yet Refuses to Give Out the News. DURBAN, Sunday, Nov. 12.—It is rumored here that Commandant General Joubert of the Boer forces is dead. The Times of Natal publishes a telegram from Lourenzo Marquez saying that Gen- cral Joubert was killed in action on Thursday, November 9. Qv P et 00000000t ode . - NN ‘e bedboeiLebesebebebebes e British Troops on the March to the Relief of Mafeking. @io oot oototooote DON, ov. 106, netrable veil of silence » the movements of the 1 and Cape wes, but this must there ant happer > Very reverse he case When war began news of the at ‘Dundee was ‘being. at Dundee was being sold on the streets of lLondon while the battle was actually go- ing on, by cable time. Lack of news from Ladysmith is not now owing to defective means of com- munication, but simply to the fact tha actically no infc 1o tar m as v lowed movements 1 to come through. General Buller | the northern Cape frontier. There and Sir George White are once| 1S no material change, so far| more in direct communication as known. From the transports | with each other. The messages of last Friday Past week more than 18,000 men | reporting a continuation of the | have been added to the strength | inefiective bombardment are the last news received from Lady- smith. Even the Boers do not claim much for their bombard- ment. In a Pretoria dispatch it is stated that the investing forces are at one point within vards of the defensive lines of Ladysmith. This would require very strong Fif- teen hun mencement of what is technically known as “decisive ranges” of field artillery firing shrapnel shells. Ttis quite apparent that| the Boers have a heap of respect | for those missiles. Heliograph messages Friday | have reported that the British position was not affected by the| immhardment. Still it seems evi- dent that the investment has be- come closer and the Boers bolder. | An important fact is mentioned by the Daily Telegraph’s war cor- réspondent. which, if confirmed, would seem to indicate the begin- ning of the end in Natal. He says that the Free State burghers are returning home. It has been sus- confirmation. 1500 ired yards is the com-| Afotemined o resist attag Sofhe: Peieiece 4 The | pected that the besieging army of | The ¥ Boers must be feeling somewhat » the pressure of hunger. Their commissary arrangements have been exposed to a heavy strain, with only a single railway connecting them with their base. The Free Staters also have only one railway to Harrismith and afraid that General Buller may be advancing on the Orange republic from the south. News of the fighting from Mafeking shows that’ the strug- gle there has been fierce. Colonel Baden-Powell is reported as hold- [ ing his own up to the 6th. Kim- berley reports continued ineffect- ive bombardment. All is well on which have arrived within the ) ) of the British force. The total British casualties, so far as at present known, amount to 2362. The killed are reported | as 267 and the missing 1202. ' CANNONADING CEASED AND RIFLE FIRE COMMENCED | CAPE TOWN, Nov. 10.—A dispatch re- | cefved here from Pretoria under date of | Thursday, November 9, says the reports received there from Ladysmith said heavy cannonading started at daybreak, and that some of the Boer forces were within 1500 yards of the British, when the cannonading ceased and rifle fire com- menced. The Pretoria dispatch also announces that all was quiet at Mafeking and Kim- berley. An undated dispatch from Mafeking, re- ceived by a runcer via Magalapye, Wed- nesday, November 8, says: “To-day all is quiet. We have been bombarded pretty heavily all week. Fri- day night Captain Fitz-Clarence and Lieutenant Swinburne, with a squadron of the Protectorate Regiment, made a magnificent bayoget charge upon the Boers' intrenchmeht, driving them from their positions and bayoneting numbers of the Boers, who must have lost very heavily. The charge was most gallant and determined. The party could not hold the trenches and lost six men killed, two prisoners and nine wounded in their regiment. We expect another attack to- morrow. The bombardment has been most ineffectual. Every one remains un- der shell-proof cover. So far the shells have only wounded one man. ““The enemy is using one %4-pound How- itzer and seven other guns from 7 to 14 pounders. The town is most cheerful and R S = . D S S S e e S e e S S e SR B e great numt lly closer fications. We and water, and fighting. General ( are intrencaed on every side rs and are pushing grad- d closer to the town forti- are well off for provisions though tired dodging st Quite civilized lines always given due no- tice of a bombardment and allowed an ambulance party two hours on Saturday to recover the bodies of six dead left in the vicinity of the Boer trenc On vy night Jan Botha, the wel-known Boer commandant, told a man with the ambulance party that their loss had be on very heavy a that his heart was ve sore. The wounded included Capta Fitz-Clar: nd Lieutenant Swinburne, both slight “In a skirmish at the outposts day one trooper was killed and nin Vi wounded. Only fifty-five men of D squad- ron were engaged in the attack, though they were assisted by the flanking fire of a gun of the Cape police. The Boers made a desperate attempt to drive back the British and thelr rear trenches opened a terrific fire in every direction, the flash of the rifies lighting up the entire posi- tion. A hail of bullets rattied off the roofs of the houses of the town. Upon completing a circuit of the Boer front and the line of trenches, the drew in independent lines of retrea ered by the k fire from the lice. intervals during the night. The Boer loss is estimated at 100 killed and wounded. The Boer commander informed the officer in charge of a flag of truce that he esti- mates the attacking squadron at 1000 and was not aware that the British force at Mafeking was so large. The Boers were | observed from Mafeking burying their | dead all day long. —_——- BRITISH TROOPS FOR THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH LONDON, Nov. 15.—It was officlally an- nounced that the British transport Goorkha, with the First Brigade staff, | the Third Battallon of Grenadiers ana a | detachment of the Royal Engineers, the | transport Manila, with the Second Devon- | shires, and the transport Nomadic, with their mounts, have arrived at Cape Tow: | The transport Britannic, with the Royal | Irish Rifles, has salled from Cape Town | for East London. | The troopship Hawarden Castle, with the Second Battalion of the Royal Is Fusileers, has arrived at Durban |ing the number of reinforcemer have landed there up to 5227. Fiv or troopships are now en route fron. .ape Town to Durban. The total reinforcements that have ar- rived in South Africa since Friday are 19,000 men, chiefly infantry, nearly 13,000 horses and mules, three batteries of field artillery and a number of quick-firing Maxim guns. The fact that the Britannic proceeded for East London is taken to mean that General Buller is satisfled that the trocps which have already landed or are now on the way to Durban will be sent to carry out his plans for the relief of Ladysmith, e GENERAL CRONJE'S . TACTICS AT MAKEKING LONDON, Nov. 15.—A dispatch to the Daily Mall from Mafeking, sent by way of Magalple, because the runners sent southward were unable to traverse the Boer lines, Evu an interesting account of the figh during the last week in October, The correspondent . “Atier the' fallure” ta rush ihe 'ape po- The Boers continued to volley at ¢ | pants of the British with- | —--0- : ! . 1! - e b e b e BOROEORCECORCACEORCECHOBOR *ie i siei e ebei e ORONCA . PSP RNP RIS o 7 e | General Cronje 1 employed during stroem in 1881, town by a succe d recourse to the tactics the sfege of Potchef- aking an advance to the sfon of trenches in ech | lon. Such a mc ent had been antl pated by us for some time and for that reason there had been sent out parties to worry the Boers by night at- tacks. 3 disliked, but he ed himself with a daily ilch exposed him to little per- 1 Colonel Baden-Powell card by sending out arty to worry the occu- nches. The little force | stole out silently in the darkness. No shot was fired and the men, with fixed 5, creeping rather than walking Boer position they closed screech. It t was a shrill Fitz-( | onslaught. A ringing cheer, which the | isteners back in camp caught up, was the | only reply as the party dashed into the | trenches. There was a short struggle, the | attacking forces catching and bayoneting Boers under the tarpaulins where they crouched, cfying for mercy. At least fifty + to work, and the havoc they ht was terrible S just a moment there was no sys- atic return fire, but then a perfect hailstorm of bullets poured in from the trenches to the rear. Again Fitz-Clar- | ence’s whistle sounded. It meant ‘cease | firing and scatter homeward." The British forces scattered, creeping back under the furious fire in the darkness to the ap- | pointed rendezvous, where the roll was called. “‘Colonel Baden-Powell met and congrat- ulated Captain Fitz-Clarence and his men upon their splendid work, saying that it was a heavy price to pay, but that the Boers had to be stopped making rifle trenches within the range of the town. The members of the party are now the envy and pride of the garrison. “Even the Boer commander,Botha, ex- pressed admiration of the attack, and added that he would take Mafeking before long, for he meant to do one thing or the other quickly. Sunday passed quletly, the volunteer band playing in the woman's laager. All Sunday night the Boers poured | a rifle fire into the town. It was set going | after Sunday evening, when Colonel Ba- | den-Powell hoisted a red lamp on the | commonage, which was the signal for Captaln Fitz-Clarence's night attack. The ruse answered splendidly. The moment light appeared the Boers opened fire ad thelr fusillade lasted the whole night through. ““There has been a tremendous waste 'n’ ammunition. Indeed, it is estimated | that 30,000 rounds of ball cartridges were wasted on the occasion of the night at- tack on the Boer trenches. Double rations have been served out to the men, who are under shelter, 80 a8 to be on the safe side if the Boers should sweep the town by a long rifle fire. The garrison is hanging on finely. Colonel Baden-Powell has the fullest confidence in everybody, and es. pecially in the matter of Implecit obedi- ence to the order to hold the fire until the Boers get to close range. ““The shelling continued all Sunday at intervals. About 4 o'clock in the after- noon General Cronje sent a flag of truce, giving Mafeking a last chance to surren- der at the eleventh hour. While the flag was recelving attention the heavy bom- bardment continued.” The dispatch then describes Genera: Cronje’s great attack of Monday, the d tails of which have already been ob- tained from Colonel Baden-Powell's offi- clal dispatch. “The end came,” says the correspond- ol te bl "l tieias Continued on Second Page. - whistle and the signal for | LELAND STANFORD. go CROCHORORCECBOBOTOROEY 2 B Cash from sale of— 283,000 shares of Southern P 10,000 shares Central Pacific 10,000 shares Central Pacific Market Street Railway stock. - Cash endowment....... ESTIMATED One-fourth interest in Pacific § 1) 1 BN SRR R Palo Alto Ranch........... Vina-Raneh: . o ooloonuis Ridiey Ranch.... ISPATCHES published exclusively | in an edftfon of The Call yesterday | conveyed to the public the first news that Mrs. Stanford had sold her Southern Pacific stock for a sum ex- ceeding $11,000,00. The intelligence pro- duced a profound and gratifying sensa- tion throughout the State. The news compr! highly acceptable reading, as | every town In California manifests a keen interest in the growth and development | | of Stanford University. | | Aaditional advices by wire from New | York corroborate The Call's story In all | | the essential particulars. | The number of shares of Southern Pa- cific stock =old by Mrs. Stanford was 283,000. The Huntington-Speyer syndicate pald $40 per share. ‘ Yesterday word was received by wire that Mrs. Stanford had transferred $11,- 000,000 to the endowment fund of the uni- | versity. Mrs. Stanford still retains 20,000 shares of Southern Pacific stock, wnich she can re. sell for $800,00, but the shares may be o joined with others trat she cannot now place the remaining block on the market. | From inside sources The Call ascertains that Mrs. Stanford sold a portion of her 20,000 shares of Central Pacific stock for | 325 per share. When she sold the residue the price pald by the purchaser was $7 | per share. It is ascertalned from trust- worthy sources that the sum she derived from Central Pacific holdings approxi- 20,000 From the sale of her Mar- Rallway stock the sum of $1,- s derived. The Call i informed that the proceeds of the Central Pacific and Market-street 10ldings were also conveyed to the university endowment fund. It is known that Mrs. Stanford still | retains a one-fourth interest in the | Pa¢ific Improvement Company. News | | that will surprise and gratify all | those interested in the university is | now coming to light. The Call ascer- tains that her one-fourth interest in | the Pacific Improvement Company is | worth at least 7,000,000 and may | produce an ultimate cash return of | $10,000,000. | The company was established oy Le—' land Btanford, Charles Crocker, C. P.| | Huntington and Mark Hopkins as the | bank of the great rallroad corporation. | Each one of the founders took 2 per cent | of the stock. The operations of the bank | were vast and varfed. At one time, | when C. P. Huntington was employing | every resource of personal energy and | | mental skill to meet the demands of the | | Government and other creditors, the nb~; ligations resting on the Pacific Improve- ! ment Company were tremendous. One could hardly belleve, even after inspect- ing the records of financial transactions, that a single company could borrow as | much money as the Paclfic Improvement Company was obligated to pay. Readers are advised to bear in mind that the Santa Fe, Unlon Pacific, North- ern Pacific and many other railroad cor- porations succumbed to the pressure and consented to settlement by appointment of receivers. At this time C. P. Hunting- ton, Mrs. Stanford and the sons of Charles Crocker resolved to raise the money to meet every obligation, redeem every bond and pay to the United States every dollar of princlpal and Interest. even if the payment required a pledge of thelr personal fortunes. When the de- mand for money was greatest C. P. Hun- tington mortgaged his New York man- sfon. At that time he secured assurance that the Crockers were ready to assist with their real estate and personal prop- erty—in fact, were ready to pledge their private fortunes. It is a matter of history that the Gov- ernment was pald In full. There was no OO0 HOHOH CHO-HOHD 40 + O 010 40 1O H0-CH-0 O OO0 HOHOHOHO OO0 O+ O 00 100 Continued on Second Page. 20,000 shares Southern Pacifi MILLIONS MULTIPLY FOR STANFORD UNIVERSITY Revelations of Mrs. Stanferd's Wealth in the Pacific Im- provement Company. Seven Millions May Be Added to Previous Estimates of the University’s Cash Endowment---Transfer of Money Derived From Southern Pacific Stock. E< acific stock at $40 per share. ... .._$11,320,000 stock at $25 per share........... 250,000 stock at $57 per share.......... 570,000 -$13,640,000 CASH VALUE OF UNSOLD INTERESTS. Improvement Company............ $7,000,000 ¢ stock (unsold). 800,000 REAL ESTATE. $7.,800,000 8,000 acres tevieee--- 55,000 acres 8.0 R /) ) 1 Stanford mansion and grounds, San Francisco and Sacramento. Estimated value of ahove real estate. ... ..._......._...._...... $4,300,000 @000 OLO O OHCH OO0 -0 OO 40+ O-H-C-H-O+O-HOH0-H0- ¢ EXAMINER AGAIN CAUGHT STEALING THE NEWS & DAKLAND =~ THOMAS' SLAYERS STILL AT LARGE West Oakland Saloonkeeper, Shot by Bandits, Is Dead. 5. STANFORD SELLS ALL HER SOUTHERN STOCK Receives Eleven Million Four Hundred Thou- sand SOUBHTAN | INTERMTOML WIRE COMBINE The Germans, However, Wanted Major Part of the Profits MORE SUBSIDIES U 13O0 1O OO 0 OO0 00O HUNTINGTON THE BUYF” HE ~REMAINS 'uuco-.sc-’ e 2 e “mission- savers Figura in THREE STAGES IN AN EXAMINER NEWS THEFT, The three clippings represented above are from the fourth page of yesterday's Examiner. That on the left shows a corner of the page as finished for the street sales and Oakland patrons. That in the middle shows the same corner of the same page as re-made for country circulation and generally for city subscribers. Both of these pages were sent from the Examiner pressroom and circulated before the news thieves obtained a copy of The Call and discovered that this paper contained the exclusive news of Mrs. Jane Stan- ford’s tremendous sale of Southern Pacific stock in New York. All haste was then made to the Examiner office, the presses were stopped and a new page prepared. The third clipping on the right shows the theft of the important item stolen from The Call. e M Ol Ol OO 10 'HE Examiner is Improving its sense of what constitutes the news, aven if 1t is not advancing above the low plane of its morals. It Is a matter of public interest to announce that the Examiner stole from The Call the imporiant item telling of Mrs. Jane Stanford's gigantic sale of Southern Pacific stock to the Huntington-Speyer combination. This theft is worthy of comment simply because it demonstrates that the yellow sheet will publish legitimate news If such news can be stolen. It Is an acknowledgement of the fact that the energy of honest newsgatherers and the success of their efforts are recognized even In the curiosity shop of the Ex- aminer. H When The Call gave exclusive publication to the fact of the absorption of the Union Tron Works by a mammoth trust, the Examiner strove, with every effort pecullar to itself, to discredit the news. After floundering In its own fafl- ure it was forced to admit the truth of what. The Call had published several days before. Since then the yellow sheet has displayed a certain improvement. When it finds itself outclassed in a service which it pretends to render the public it will stral what It cannot honestly obtain. With this policy The Call is not particularly concerned. It has no protec- tion against such larcenies. and it .s pleased to see even In the Examiner some legitimate news. Tt would be better pleased, as an agent wishing to see the regeneration even of thleves, to record a further reformation in the Exam- iner. The Call would consider it an act of common decency and courtesy if the Examiner would give credit to The Call whenever a news item of import- ance is taken from this paper. The vellow sheet finds such a necessity nearly every day. and an admission of the fact would be accepted as a pledge of oth- er honesty. It is the business of The Call to publish the news, and this latest triumph is another indication that the business, as conducted by The Call, is a suec- cess. It Is a matter of Interest, therefore, to tell how the Examiner obtained the news of the great transaction in which Mrs. Stanford figures as a prinei- pal. The Call had exclusive information from New York. The Examiner knew nothing of the affair. The Call appeared on the streets yesterday morning and was read by members of the Examiner staff. When these worthy orngments of the yellow sheet discovered that they nad nothing of the Stanford sensation they rushed back to the Examiner pressroom and stopped the presses while the stolen news was being filched from The Call and prepared for the Examiner. The presses had not been stopped soon enough, however, as the street and country editions, without the stolen dispatch, had already escaped. The best of a bad situation was accept- ed, however, and the stolen news was sold to some of the local subscribers of the yellow sheet. After resorting to these desperate measures to prevent another humiliating defeat the Examiner might have had at least the gra- clousness to give credit to The Call. It may perhaps admit now what The Call is in a position to prove—that it did not receive from New York a line of the dispatch which gave an outline of the Stanford sale. $:010101010+01010+0+010 O OHOHOHOHOHOHOH0 HOOHOH 010 CECZCECECECRCHONCNO HOH ORONCEONOEONONONONON ENDOWMENT OF LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY. g . . BoNCEORORCEOECNONONON H F O QOO+ OOk Ok OO 40+ OO0 OO OO 10O OHOH 00 01Ok 01O+ O O+ 0404 O 010 +O-+ OO0 OO+ 01O 100 040+ 040 +O 401 O+ O 50