The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1899, Page 1

en e VOLUME LXXXVI-NO FRANCISCO, TUESDAY NOVEMBER o = PRICE FIVE CENTS, ALLEGED DEFEAT OF BOERS, ARRIVAL OF RELIEF COLUMN 1 Many Conflicting Reports Come % From Ladysmith, but the In- . dications Are That a Decisive ¢ Battle Will Soon Be Fought. ! S ok T S * . * ® + : * b * pe * : * & * > * * . s Sses are s Anot K < P st € s ¢ - : MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FRANCIS C. CLERY. b 1 . > This officer Is ¢ Q she € r @ i ¢ va g B '.........,;...,«...-5.;*;,.;”‘;0..:.;.:...,...;..““. i et : of which : ations here regard- e ene r too ¢ s ¢ 1 whe rts it will < I ¢ HEAVY ENGAGEMENT OCCURS NEAR KURUMAN LONDO 21.—The Daily Tele- graph llowing: CAP rday, Nov. 18—The horitles auth the publi- he news that a h engage- occurred near r an. The attacked by the enemy in force, ™ ing the Boers were with considerable loss. t P ed to have been P! amn, but x tails are expected shortly. News as reached here from Mafeking, under te of November 2, to the effect that the rtened by the failure of It 1s report at many treating in various direc- dish operati helr of th GENERAL CLERY’S TASK IS DIFFICULT 20 a see a LONDON, according to gh Nov. The present week, patches from the change in the de- intained by the h Africa. It is said that to General Clery, that smith, will tax his gen- most. The Boers are deal of strength | to t ourt and Ge re 1 to be mpving f in order to direct the 1 the British advance, m, attempting to isolate t movement is al- “Hitherto we ha it 0] @edeieieisieieded e h 4 Cape| « - b4 rvt prepared | 7 j L3 for a general risi 1€ natives | & + throughout Cape Color They| ¢ 0 s are y at any moment to make | [ > « se with R + @ e e reie i es ebeieie 36 - —_—— 3¢ é . . » $ 4 s - » € ¢ : * - .‘v»’ 3 * e : ? . b 4 @ | - 11 ° @ p{ - - 11 . PS o | . .| ) bd| - | : ¢ L3 L4 )| - - ¢ ‘ - ¢ ‘; a. L 4 . )¢ ) § B 4 :.4 ALY : 1 * BOER ACTIVITY ABOUT LADYSMITH. bs é View of the Klip (stony) River near.Ladysmith, with Boer column advencing along its banks toward Colenso, . L e e T o e o e Hfi*4fiwflflmww-mq ! | the Tageblatt low, eve rection thus be would and en- e River it main a side, but it is Gatacre is able to ly and push back occupying so many River, the mmunication will be west lines seriously thr General [ rders (- his officers on the sub their eguipment are taken to mean that the nflicers are to carry rifles, like the troops. BOER PRISONERS ARE SOMEWHAT DISCOURAGED | LONDON, Nov. patch 2L—The following dis- s spec espondent is Telegraph: A batch °rs who were from cor; hed by the Daily capture by the ste were wo Many of the men rious cases, ded and dis- h 10spital at Wynberg. ners were taken to Simons Town to Join t mrades, who are detained on board the Penelope. I conversed with some of the wou Including Com- shot through members of the led both thre: and Joha rg detective force, who were enrolled in his commando. With trifling exce, the B » conception of the ress they In their own words, “We ex boys, t we were var n | e majc ate Boers, oked u; s a pleas- ant p thr h peace terms to be dic General Joubert from Pie with British withdrawal and an fmm strengthen- ing of the Dutch republican position in the country. All prisoners to whom I ke extc forces at § ery of the British gte, UNSUCCESSFUL NIGHT ATTACK OF THE BOERS LONDOX Nov. 21.—The Dally Tele. graph publishes the following from fits special correspondent: ESTCOURT, > 19.—Some parties of Boers appeared this afternoon and even- ing at Willow Grande Highiands, near Moot River. Bodles of our mounted vol- unteers, who were out in that direction, attacked the enemy, firing volleys at them. Skirmishing continued until dusk, when the Boers fell back, having suffered slight losses. Our casualties were re- | ported nil. Natives report that more Boers are ad- vancing from their camp at Colenso to reinforce the laager which is now be- fore teourt. Runners from Ladysmith, who came in to-day, state that all is well there. A night attack was made by Boers on Fri- ay, but they were repulsed with heavy Cannonading went on all night. - POLICY OF THE POPE. BERLIN, Nov. 20.—A correspondent of in Rome learns on good authority in Vatican circles that an in- fluential group tried to influence the Pope against British policy In South Africa. The Pope, however, declined to follow their counsels because England has never given the church any ground for complaint and because an anti- British policy would check the movement in England in favor of good relations with the Vatican. - ALLEGED STARVATION. PIETERMARITZBURG, Nov. 20.—A party of British heliographers, cut off by the Boers outside of Estcourt, connived to escape to New Hanover, on the Grey- town line, and arrived here to-day. They report that 6000 Boers, driven by starva. tion, are foraging toward Greytown. No alarm {s feit, but it may require a divi- sion of the relleving column to annihilate them. ————— BOERS OCCUPY CAMPBELL. HOPETOWN, Cape Colony, Nov. 16.— Yesterday the Boers occupied Campbell, in West Griqualand. inds Laagte arrived to-day | tval in San Fr in that widely excit | Directory of San Fra anguish, found that thers are eleven John J | Sullivans in San Francisco, the most of them | bartenders, coalpassers and elevator boys, but | nothing to of them was th cate which » driven to the conclusion that ung man who fonducts the ele- rated far above his t Ordinarily I would no notice su h a ns by the above facts rega: mentioned y General blue silk gold the statue his possession a be taken from loocan church on Februa stripping this robe from the s was mutilated and The which glass case in broken into a Although t Funston himself stole this robe statue, Mrs. S a hospital lorado, a Fox, a who gullty Mrs. army, was robe, its bea | to her by her She went to th for the purpe obtai & it, but | way she was told that Fu | about the robe and at that time was en- | gaged in av ue of it. On en- us ty get pe ¥ having bee ng the chu; s report was confirmed. At the time the sacred robe was stolen Mr. Peters, a sketch artist for either Harper's . was enguged In sketch- station in C can, and it is )X that the artist was an e robe was quently presented to the wife of General Funston by the latter, who constdered it a most extraordinary and valuable gift. Fox served in the ambulance corps under Cap- tain Black of the North Dakota regiment. claimed by Fo witness to the theft. T This is all very interesting, but, unfortu- | nately, a lle. When the Twentieth Kansas oc- | cupled the Caloocan church on the night of | February 10 1 at once ordered Lieute: Hopkins, officer of the guard, to remove all of the altar furniture and such of the images | as were portable to a side room and place a guard over them until & lock could be pro- cured for the door. 1 perso was done. The sergeant o su C Murphy, a Roman Catholic. Present dress of both Hopkins and Murphy, worth, Kans. In another room was a chest of drawers containing ‘priest robes, etc. The | guard, which was changed every day, had in- | structions from me to see that nothing in this room was disturbed by anybody About February 16, not on the 1ith, as the “reliable journalist”” says, the sergeant of the | guard, Lewis, of Company E, Twentieth Kan. | sas, came to me and said that an American woman was dragging the robes out on to the | floor and that she pald no attention to his ad. monitions to stop. 1 went with him and found a middle-aged woman of short stature and fron-gray hair indiscriminately packing away & number of robes. I told her that unless she desisted at once I would put Ler under arrest. She turned on me lfke a tigress, and said: ““There is not anything in this trash that I want. If I did it would take a bigger man than you to stop me from taking it.”” 1 ordered her from the building, and she left, | vowing to get even. I never learned this wom. an's name, but saw her several times after- was J. ad- Leaven- ward. Her reputation was that of a meddle- some ~ad disreputable camp follower. She is probably the Mrs. Stevens spoken of by the “reliable journalist.” Thomas Fox, spoken of above, was never in the hospital corps or in any way connected with the army, but was a dissolute and worthless fellow used as a lackey by McCutcheon and Bass, two correspondents in the Philippines, to care for their carrier pigeons and do their camp work for them. Three times he was fined in the provost court of Manila for drunk- enness and disorderly conduct. I myself put him under arrest for looting a private house in | there on March 5 ally saw that this | He stowed himself away on th for h or at any « : for lie No. 2 I quote again from the “‘reliable § The members of the Twentleth entered a church at Mal Mare and ected to saints er similar to tha sued by " In the church at ococan. A statue encased in glass in a recess of the wall was oved and broken into pices by the soldlers, the ivory h head being taken. utilized as a bed by The empty casket one of the soldier los nor within How could any thirty miles of that place. American troops have b or & when M captured until the 3ist day of that month? tar, 50 good. Now for lie No. 4. Second Lieutenant Lapp, Company First South Dakota Regime a plice taken from hurch at P Macati. It was joining the sanc Vestments were a or misla b the United States. would not sell the article at any he considered it a valuable relic of Philippine campalgn. The South Dakota Regiment was in MacAr- thur's division, many m from Macati, and never during the whole w within twenty miles of that place 1 pass over a number ¢ garding private soldiers tions, as I have not at hand the facts necessary to refute all of the “reliable journalist's’ statements. One of them, bowever, as it deals with my old regt ment, I can attend to. Private Andrew Dalton, Twentieth Kan- s=as Regiment, has in his possession a mani- taken from a church in San Pedro Macati. It is of gorgeous pattern and magni- ficently orname: d In gold and silver. Iis value is intestimable “l can thank & Filipino for this vestment,” he said, in tell- ing how he procured it. “The regiment was encamped In the church for several days, and during that time nearly everything of value was taken by the boys. Although I was with them. I was unable to secure any- thing save a piece of the altar. One day I noticed a native crouching in one corner of the vestibule leading to the church. Al though he was detalled to clean the church, I noticed that he was unusually quiet, ap- parently hiding from the boys. I accosted him and ordered him to leave the place and get to work. No sooner had he left than I began to investigate the cause of his hiding, FUNSTON WILL BACK HIS HONOR WITH HIS COIN He Challenges Any One to Prove He Looted Churches While Fighting in the Philippines. \Denounces the Charges Made Against Him and Scorches Those Who Will Not Take Up His Defiance —Thomas Fox Enters the Controversy With a Communication. Now, fu n the Bank o n netsco as llars and kguards of the first RICK FUNSTON, U. 8. Volunteers vembep FOX DENIES CHARGES. Answers a Statement Made by Funston in Kansas City. Referring to a dispatch from Kansas City, published here and sent the day Funston left there for this coast, Thomas Fox takes occasion to deny some of the statements made about him by Funston. In speaking of the charges of looting, | Funston made the following statements: 1 have found who the author of the libel is. It was & man by the name of Fox, & eamp erted from an English salling 1 us during the ¢ gn. He ree times in the provost court for enness and dis conduct. At Ma- found him In a private h and or- dered him under arrest, as he had no business there. The paper that printed his story satd it was from a reliable newspaper man. His con- fon with the press was the valet to carrier- by McCutcheon and Bass, two cor- respondents of the Philippines. Fox stowe himself away on board the Tartar when we left Manila, and when he was discovered re; work nel Metcalt placed hi breac | water for two weeks, and he swore vengea: against us both. He has attack Colonel Metcalf, but made this one on me. made B | These statements Fox takes up in the | following letter: | Editor Call: Funston says he has found out that | was a camp follower. He | was & camp follower, it he wish quote from a signed testimon Bell, “the only camp follower who was wel- come everywhere or who fol with the knowledge and ¢ anding general. ‘ox deserted from an English sal and foliowed us during the campaign.” | 1 not only never deserted from an English | satling ship, but never even set on one in | my life! I did, indeed, follow the army during | the campaign and essed the spoliation of ‘aloocan Church incidentally. There is an & sinuation in this statement that I deserted Manila to try the fortunes of war. 1 tur- nish plenty of proof that I departed f San Francisco on the transport Pennsylv nd w compelled Homolulu five weeks the result of injuries. 1 then re-embarked the transport Warren for the Philippines. “He was fined thres times in the orovost