The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 9 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 PRICE FIVE CENT FIGHTING RENEWED BETWEEN THE | RIVAL FORCES ON MODDER RIVER + ing Britons and Boers Pre-| cedes What [s Expected to| Be a Most Important Battle. .ie . i of Eleven Thou-|4 1 Men Surrounded by Fifteen Thou- General Sari« Methuen’s Force - SYNDICATE ENRICHED BY LUZON BLOCKADE tfo Obtain a ADQUARTERS, HOTEL, W HIN FON, 1 1% Compla the 1d Boers—Advance to Relief of Lady-|+ shipping Inte inu- N . . ation of the s {sland smith Commenced. | ¢ f Luzon has : forma- £ . 3 ETORIA, Thursday, Dzc. T.—The follow-|} cpatch, dated to-day, has been received| ! ) > head laager near Ladysmith: “The EBEritish are advancing on Coienso, but last nicht passed without an attack. There was |+ - a desuitory cannonade this morning, the naval|, a . & | - guns in Lzdysmith replying vigorously to our | LADYSM!TH, Thursday, December 7, via|! ; —The tota! British casualties here since officers and 26 men Killed and and 130 men wounded, with 3 miss- R I R A S R e e B r Admiral eneral Otis directing them to open additional ports to American tr Officials of the 1 War Depa: ments maintain that the exigencies of th military situation necessitate the contir uance and striet rcement of omising, however, to remove ible moment grounds, indorsing. in enfo on patriotic blockade th tinua fts ¢ rd, ment, fra adm that the as been compy to 1 a substitute for hemp in the manufacture of certain ropes for mer r LIEUTENANRT L.EDYI\RD KILLED BY NEGROTES Chief of Kly Equ ing. The Boer force is still around us in large | ; pe numbers, but all within the town are well and|* . cheerful. $ ONDON, D M + ® .“ . L 4 w I Y . N secem able to mak ¢ L 4 m the direction of v . - a . Our aving i 4 > - > erley, Jacobsdahl : * s be 2 > ;9 e - 2 * s ihave [ GENERAL WHITE'S NARROW ESCAPE A r g f n incident of the battle of Elands Laagte. From a sketch by M. Prior in the Illustrated London News. : 4 *ieie n ~ he @ eé i e e R = siebei et obeieiet e eioieie® iere is a | ing has been received from Orange River | husband's name in a tion: to him. H newspaper and wrote came at once and the reunion A railroad culvert was blown up ncar | after fifty years' separation was most af- sy as Pan this ng. The telegraph | fecting. The old couple have begun house- | = g 3 | also cut. The guides report heavy | keeping, and as both are rugged and 2\ 1 one shllling a | firing of guns toward the north ™ | healthy may yet enjoy many years of hap- | pound and bread is four pence a pound. | ——————e | piness. tion of the :;"1\ lquors and - delicacles aro scarce | FLOUR FOR TRANSVAAL SEIZED | GERMA SEEIE{EE oF t his was probably a | lhere. . assault. and it is 1o bé presvmed | A Hoer commando with two guns has | LONDON, Dec S—A speclal dispatch | N | taken up a position on Bia west of Colens s repulsed. act, is felt for the safety | Farm, to the | from . Another commando has AMERICAN FRUITS Cape Town announces that the Brit- ] ish gunboat Partridge captured the Brit- £ ot & caing after a prolonged siege | 80n¢ Westward to Remys, their object be- | jsh steamer Mashona, Captain Johnstone o . TR the soldiers hold thelr athletic sports as | I08 1o dispute seriously the passage of | which left New York November 3, via St. | Vexatious Inspections Resumed, o and officers indulge their love for | the Te imn. The British new vol- | Vincent, November 16, for Algoa Pa Though Experts Declare They Nor does meat at a shilling or | Untee its were fired upon by the |jaden with flour for the Transvaal. The d] . » t four pen Boers near Coler ks ~, 2 Are Needless. 2% i A pound suggest the i cargo will be landed at Cape Town and % . t of famin | R A | the ship reteased BERLIN, Dec. §.—The seizures and vex- poste of a hospital| MACRUM HEARD FROM. T e e Lo e o el 0-d » -morro fas wintt RS ARMING THE NATIVES. | contain a timely article by Dr. vohrn, the " . and in a cable | TOWN, Wednesday, Dec. 6. It | “"‘L’“l”‘_";," e ot l’ f',”“’_;"" i On Noven & tate Departme Is announced that Major Elliott, comn-| 200€ O¥ :i\- A My the" St in w 3 o e buil ing one man innounces that | manding in the native territorles of Gri- | noe Fecently awardec S et % nine’others. It %3 18th inst. via N qtilant is arming the matives by | Pomological Soclety, in which the writer Berlin atch be cor- 1possible to attribute this to ac- This is imperial authority with a view of assist. | [Urnished strong evidence that, owing to i ignifica c received the depart- | i the defensive forces. | climatic differences between the winters t significant ting his application | "% 29 . s | here and in America American insects 8 ¢ h Gen- Adelbert Hay, e cannot spread he Dr. Dohrn empha- : zdvices to t seige ia to replace Macr sizes Dr. Krueger's demolition of the t must be some | T v £lon 10-MOrrow to be- FOUND HIS FAMILY | long-held hypothesis that the Colorado 2 B that | bug and the San Jose scale did sever i Lord Methuen, g -{‘:R from the end of last month R ah AFTER FIFTY YEARS e e, e 11.00C men. LERRCoDN Daen soven:l Sul PATROLS FIRED UPON. | “Summarizing his conclusions, Dr. Dohrn wever P 1 from the beleag ,.,.2 l':.‘v;‘ LONDON. T e tollbmi A Remarkable Life History of Nathan ;}prfl.‘q.\ “_;1..‘?.‘..“,,;,: lm‘,,l ;-,.,;h, l‘,r A h qu R e o LONDON, Dec. 8—The following ad- S = . | Fra in a book issued last year by the R v ",‘_ would appear to bear | yices have been received from General Keith, Who Came Out in the | Imperfal Health Bureau, should have to- h e e e cume | Nothy at Modder River under Early Days. | tally ignored the acknowledged deduc- 1 2 sentn Al Croniws fatpk was | mber 5: STARBUCK, Wash s tions of Marlatt, the entomologist, show- o T naintoree (tha 1 Eohey tat | cx fly passing between eparation Kelth. at | erminating the scale Lol und Kimber! Spy »sdal laagers. Th . found h nd daugt s climatic conditions under en-Powe imself, under date frequ patrols. Mounted ith was a ‘49 who tert | it alone can flourish. — sald that all was well: | gone; vere fire while patrc 13 ) sta home to, join the rush to e our Government experts them- . ment was Intermitteat, | juo gix miles toward the north. There | California, leaving his wife and daughter | selves,” says Dr. Dohrn, “now acknowl- X 1 e *kb. besleging force was now | were no casualties. An hour's cannon |to Wwalt for his return with a fortune. | edge that the scale cannot spread here, it N pi | firing has been heard at Kimberley.” Through zlow means of communication |is high time to abolish measures that are | rl casage 'frr\mhl]:“ramp\‘n announced = | and the I¢ s en route the I.\m»].\llll enforced against American fruit, reparations had been completed for BRIDG ¢ lost track of the measures which heighten the price. There & - e In force for the purpose of | SIGNIFICANT e e him dead. At are instances in which the cost of inspec- ; line and restoring CAMP, D S~The trestle tewn they left no clew by whien | tion amounts to one-eighth of the market Mafeking {shed and the trains are now could be traced, and when Keith | value of the fruit. If the imper i earch in carnest he c ernment of its own not Bk th loved anes. The family haq | this ance let us Relchs- "W i Tis. | M st and during ars lived | tag will L TENETE. SPomt Ore Decem riv w and | in various parts of the P. : L R IR ’ { Tuesday, says that reporis the ‘railway br pldly approach Keith, after a long and fru | Sierra Road’s Terminal. th Mafeking has been re- ing completion t train wiil cross | took up *he life of a miner | ANGELS CAMP, Dec. 8.—A. Arnold and " ; ' 5L ko il to-night. After extraordinary exertions | Pector and he, too, lived const | W. H. Newell, Sierra Railway ;-m«»m.-. o N he pontoon bridge has been completed.” roving from camp to camp, rg | PUrc property here during the week ‘ g MULES AND BEEF. e ERioted the memory of the 'ufinne for a station and rallroad yards for the v > NBAR e nd those left in it. Some time | Sierra road. OMclals say this will be the v battle | KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8—A local com- CULVERT BLOWN UP. i thodu 168 e Ouie, tme terminus of the road. The route is all mber of the settled on Whisky Creeck, ssion firm to B+ 00+9 000800000000 0bededbeisdodssodossed Beitich artiiiers e 5 it I(mm”'-{‘:.rh:x};:nx!nrlm the clos- 0: (?;’:y; xx(_-d\ '!-(:\‘J“m»inv fssued | ton, Wash. His v;mi_ who resides n»n-“x;'_:”;‘u‘»fi.’,.‘.llx;.&!«l' o ao L L‘x: 3 ey e i i e h"- ivery of 1000 e War ce to-day says the follow- | with her daughter, Mrs. Eaton, saw her ! the State along the Stanislaus River. METHUEN'S POSITION - e = O DU DD G IO S OB ‘o IS NOT TOO SECURE red more mules sold by the | § + ave already been shipped to | g PY from New Orleans. LONDON, Dec. £ —Such disquiet as w Dec. 8.—Libby, M R4 n L gL shipped 750000 pe canned beef to the British army in South Afri, Twenty-four to carry !t ars w requir This is the Arge hipment e k of canned beef ever made from this city | ¥ i i if G iver b again becs veard trom. 1| LADYSMITH COULD had arriv 1 River to take com =il River to take com- HOLD OUT FOR A YEAR| up w r portion of a | X ‘e Herald. Copy A skt lv came a brief dis- e L A ut ot g bl le prohibited. | ’ relief of L mith had -} - news was ‘con- 9.—The Dally Telegraph | am from Pre- 1es these dispatches from its spe- | 5 2l report from ponden | " ger near Ladysmith w CAMP, Thursday, Dec. v | awvy firing in the direction of 1 were of « date began at daybreak and continued to 10 | o'clock. The weather is hot. Major Chi- chester, provost marshal, with half the A r positions | troops of the Natal ers and six of | ' n acked up the Natal police, started on Wednesday Sxgu ‘mation of | Morning to go thirty miles westward un- | ther from the War | der the Drakensberg Range and capture | i 2% four disloyal Dutch colonists, who wers | some of the lat- joining the enemy 1 looting English | special to the | farms. The men were caught making rom Frere of Thurs- | with their plunder. Major Ci hand of the censor | covered part of the loot, consis has be work | cattle and thirty horses. The | 1':1";;: en . the news | attacked him on returning, but the lish shot six of the enemy. turned to Frere at daybreak. I have interviewed Mr. Harold, a resi- dent of Ladysmith, who left that town on Tuesday night. The Boers continue to d begun on | ning of Wednes- | thuen's communica- + was looked upon as was inferred that it MAUO R POORE. 7TD HUSSARS T MARDHAL . possible 1o keep fn- | shell the place daily, but are using fewer -FIELD FORCES . tact the ln communication, which | guns than since the siege began. The stretches along the railroad enemy’s shells have not killed twenty per- matter | sons, and so far as any risk from the parties of Boers | Boers is concerned Ladysmith could hold jala themselves, out for a year yet. The people and sol- between the Orange and Modder rivers a ‘ of fifty miles, and that had managed o mal British Officers and Officials on Important Duty in South Africa. B S S Y I o o s | T e . ° . L4 + @ : S * [ 4 + ® + ? . L 4 * @ 3 L 4 + MANTLA, The uprising in the d of Ne was led by the police of t, wh a small an garrison. The police inspire | false reports of insurgent victorfes in L There a »s who are arme zon ar lice in fleld rifle: American ¢ president o road and a popu WASHINGTON s to-day cables the War Department in re- gard to the uprising in Negros as follows General Otis | “MANILA, 8. | the outbreak of natives in the Dis | South Negros was the result of reported | recent great insurgent victories In Luzon and Panay, which the natives belleve The extent of the outbreak has not been ascertained. Lieutenant A. C. Ledyard, Sixth Infantry, was killed and two pri- vates were wounded “One of our chief difficulties arises from the circulation of falsehoods among the Dec. I am informed that nativ defamatory new per articles of | the United States and Europe, promptly published in Spanish in San Franc Madrid, and by the Hongkong Junta, an circulated in the Philippines. The insur gents have based all their hopes upon false rumors. | A secon ch from General Otis, dated Mani says: “The hospital ship R from Vigan, with lief, just returned ck soldiers an | Spanish prisoners, reports ral dred Spanish prisoners at Vigan whom we will send a transport tnis even- ing. Colonel Hare of the Thirty-third Ar- | thilery took Bangued on the 5th inst. and is now, with a portion ment | and a battalion of the Thirty-fourth In- on the insurgents Lepanto, then guinaldo and fantry, in pursuit of roads southeast to Bontoco, on which surgents are supposed to with American prisoners. The inhabitants of the Western Luzon coast are friendly id glve assistance.” General Otis also reports the arrival of | the transport Olympia, with the Thir | ninth Infantry, one battalion of the Forty-fifth Infantry and some recruits. There were no casualties on the voyage. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. §.—The news of the death of Lieutenant Augustus C. Led- ard, who was killed in Negros, was to his father, Henry B of the Michigan Cen- a the fr d to send s he president’s car s the blow. | The lleutenant was the father's second son. He was at Yale at the outbreak of | the Spanish war, and had outlined for himself a raflroad career. Joining the | patriotic rush of students, he enlisted in | a New York battery and spent most of his time as a volunteer in camp life near Tampa. Afterward, at his own and his father's desire, he entered the army as a second lieutenant and was at- tached to General Miles' staff during the | Porto Rican campaign. He was a grand- son of the famous General Lewls Cass and nephew of General Ruggle adjutant general of the army. LINO'S ARMY DEFEATED BY GENERAL YOUNG A. Dec. S.—There was consider- € in Manila when the news was that General Young's small force had arrived safely at Vigan, province of South ilocos, on December 6. Anxiety has been felt for General Young and the ince it was 1own that General Lino had a large, ag- body of insurgents operating in the vicinity | Ger | mov Quinto. MANTIL. o re ive Lino made a stand in the between Narvacan and San wtural strength of the posi- ;lln-n w ugmented by tre | talls. The fight lasted five hours. Genes | Young had three companies of the Thirty- | fourth Infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Howze; the troops of the Third ralry, Captain Swigert commanding, | and one troop under Captain Ch He was reinforced during the fight by Colonel Luther R. Hare, with a battalion of the | Thirty-third, en route to Vigan. General | Young ended the fight by charging and routing the enemy, who left twenty-five | dead and several rifles and thousands of of ammunition In the trenches. The enemy employed artillery. Only one American was serfously wounded. BELIEVE AGUINALDO WILL SOON BE TAKEN WASHINGTON, Dec. §.—The town of Bontoe, toward which Aguinaldo with his bodyguard Is saild to be retreating, lles | no difficulty in getting in cl. regular | formerly | Takes Advantage of the Sitvation this or sixty mil uthea last report as to Aguinale Is true, it indics tha headed off to the r time, and Is being ¢ teps toward the in his ol his cha Directly has rthward for the pelled to retr h. If he Is str nghold in a8 are which ¢ in disg LIEUTENANT BRUMBY LIES CRITICALLY ILL WASHINGTON Dec. 8. —Lieutenant 'T. flag lleu Ad LILLIAN KNOTT IS SENT TO PRISON Former Operatic Favorite Is Locked Up on a Charge of Petty Lar- ceny in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOL Knott havin, vil beer adeline and having sung with th Duff opera companies, | house charged with Her case is a most singu the daug! of the manager « Wa bash Iron Works at Terre Hau She has been out of work, pennt and finally fll with typhold fever Hospital in St. Paul Upon recovery st wrote her father, to whom she had hitherto been too proud to appeal for assistance. He promptly re- plied that he had sent money and a ticket to take her home. There was some error in the issuing of the ticket and while waiting for it to be remedied by wire she was arrested for stealing a from an abandoned colo womar explained to Judge t loaned her the and she had no n of stealing The Judge put If credence in her story and sent her up for forty days. He also sent her accuser up for a similar perfod on an old charg fully asserts her | t tear- 1 seems e. Iny ne the verge of nervous vate life she is Mrs. Joseph Barrett, having married Mr. Barrett whe was musical director of “McGinty the Sport.” and she was in the comparn ever, has left her. CAMERON TO ASSIST IN THE QUAY FIGHT No More Republicans Will Be Added to the Committee on Mem- Her husband, how- bership. WASHINGTON, Dec. S.—Former Sena- tor Don Cameron of Pennsylvania has come to Washington to t a hand in the Quay fight. He was at the Capitol this afternoon conferring with his former colleagues with a view to securing pledges avorable to seating Mr. Qua Mr. Cameron's here shows that evident, te Mr. Qu ing uneasy, f as ¢ t short his trip ! retu ington next week. Mr. Camero Quay both have privileges of the the Senate, and they will, therefo communi- the Senators now in tne cation with all doubtful column. An adverse report from the Committee was on Elections is now certain. stated to-day that Republican ship of this committe not to be creased, and there is no truth. therefore, in the report that the committee had put off the hearing of former Senator Ed munds and other counsel until December 16 in order to allow time for a caucus committee to add other Republicans to It mem| | the committee. | Admiral | ing and steer tying were t The committee, of three other c declded to in having the organization % in charge the membership those committees which have to do with matters affecting public works and’ pol- fcy. The Election Committee I8 not in- cluded in the list. PRI FLEET MANEUVERS FOR THE BATTLESHIP 10WA Ordered With the Philadelphia and the Marblehead to Lower has of California. WASHINGTON, Dec. $.—The ecruiser Brooklyn arrived at Sing n her way to Manila, yesterday wd has been received of the New s since she left Colo e must be close be Instructions K the Paclfic = flagship, the hip lowa to the Guif ing up the Marb! sage in fleet maneuvers. to-day were sent Cowboy Carnival. PHOENIX. Dec. §.—The last day of the given over to the cowboys. Broncho rid- given over to the cowboys. Bronco rid- he chief attrac- first money for Rellly second The steer tying Ed Harroll, tions. Joe Barrett won bronco riding, One-eyed and Doc Goodin third contest resulted as follo: 36 seconds; Walter Kline, 5815 seconds: Doc Goodin, 59 seconds. Fifteen thousand s:;ple witnessed the events of the.