The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1899, Page 1

- The VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 182 =. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. OLANGAPO OCCUPIED BY AMERICAN TROOPS | i l Gieneral Young's Forces Divided and I the Pursuit of Aguinaldo Con= | | 'tinued Under Difficulties. ANILA, Dec. 11—The advance! The insurgent commander, General Plo - of General Grant's com- de his headqyarters under ) ence arrived v_the largest force | 2 Obihe & By, Guring 4 a, is believed the WP SNTaSY. Dobbtiber scattered its have petitioned ce was occupled with enemy fleet arduous rison. with cavalry, had two t in rgents, the Ameri- two wounded insurgents attacked a commis- g from Capas to escaped with the nd effects. ®is, wWith a troop of the ‘avalry, surprised forty in- under_‘General Pando, near The insurgents had a privates killed, a_lieu- "¢ privates wounded and fourteen men, with , captured. tw twenty-one NAVY'S PART IN THE SUBIG BAY AFFAIR WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The following cablegram has been received at the Navy from Admiral Watson telling played by the navy in the oc- of Subig Bay: MANILA, Dec. 11.—On the morning ot Sow $th about 11 o'clock I received a tele- K Schwan asking, for Mac- operation with Grant's toward Olangapo, Subig pended the Charleston court of ted the same evening for timore, the Oregon and »s from the barracks. along the e vlight on the 10th, with w r nd Major < ngapo, having r 2 De Relieved the g o with 100 marines, Myers com- n army detach town was abandone ant arrived in_the aft- e Oregon, the Garodqut Mindoro and returned to Cavite 11th. The Olangapo navy-yard ma- nery is in fair condition, the sh ly by the previous attac ARRIVAL AT MANILA OF TWO TROOPSHIPS WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The adjuta.t 1 received a telegram to-day saying oh ; the tr Meade, carrying the - Forty-third inteer Infantry, Colonel the Murray commanding, arrived at Aden str the southern extrem of the Red Se: this morning. He recelved word that the sport Logan, carrying the Forty- fantry Volunteers, Colonel 1 commanding, arrived at Port » entrance to the Suez Canal, ernoon. with all well on se two regiments are on their way to the Philippines. General Otls rej rts to_the War De- | > ofpes partment the arrival at Manila of the s transports Conemaugh and Leelanaw, | T sixteen enlisted men, | ans and 492 horses. | CASUALTIES NOT na PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WASHINGTON the War T Dec. 11 General Otls In action at 1 Infant . Panay Robert e DECISION INVOLVING : FOUR MILLION DOLLARS ¥ ’ La Abra Claim Against the Republic of Mexico Declared to Be | Fraudulent. N, Dec. 11.—The United affirmed the 3 Claims in the cz La Abra Silver Mining publ Mexico, olding that claim to be f: ent and unfed. The clalm for about was pitl- to opinion was handed down by Jus- here were ¢ similar Harlan, who went fully into the his- 2 Abut y of the case. He said that the claim | escribed him as cheer. | 45 first ~resented to the American-Mexi- ¢ salvation through | A0 Commission in 1880 was for $1,50,000, ' alvation through | hy¢ that it wa terward enlarged to a everywhere trying | $3,92000. It was based upon the allega. | = proclaiming with t damage to this amount had been seeming sincerity that the United States La Abra company by the - a e iastiog e authorities while the company | gt g ating in the Mexican State of 1 v T mmission, through its 1 umpire d_Thornton, has al- the natives exhibited notes | lowed $5 1 the case came before t Gilmore and other | the Supreme Court on appeal f ers in which the recip- | ¢ision of the Court of Claims tha nded to the Americans | B been perpetrated in presenting the n ; claim, Justice s opinion . re of kindness shown to the | this dec He tthe (\'IT:;:"N’ ers re are twenty-seven Ameri- at the ry of loss on with Lieutenant Gilmore. Another of the misconduct of the Mexican |- was taken through les was impro e and un- 1 - de A that the company. while e 2 upt, Was not 80 because of the acts and the | of Mexican authorities. The {-f"{l:" T d for- | this opinion is to r any further pay- | | ment to the La Abra claimants, | AMERICAN GIRL IS LATEST PROTEST{ GIVEN UP FOR LOST respon«e | Schooner Left San Francisco for Se- end ah] E attle Two Months Ago and Has i o Not Since Been Heard Of. e | SEATTLE. Dec. 1L—Local shipping men have practically given up as lost the schooner American Girl and the bark Co- lusa. The former is two months out from | San Francisco and_the Colusa left Hawaiian Islands October 21 bound Departure B: Each v of perhaps fifieen men. In ce for ! had a crew W. H. Smith, part owner of the Ameri- can Girl, says that he has not as vet given up all hnge of the vessel reaching o doubt was advised to | port in safety. She was in charge of Cap- | ken, and all I can |tain Vincent Roos and a crew of seven | t the me ® 10 express my re 5 regrets. urs very men. She left 8an Francisco two months tr JOHN SHERMANX 1zo n ballast and was bound for Port | Gamble to load with lumber. Ordinarily | | she makes the trip in seven days. The Colusa was sighted some days ago GENERAS L—AW?DN_TAKES In a disabled condition and was 80 report MIGUEL WITHOUT A FIGHT‘f&'n‘. The Call, 28 e | Acquitted of Murder, MANTLA, ‘Dec. 12, 9:20 a. m.—General l | ¥ LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—Charles T. La with the Thirty-fifth Infantry| yo04y was acquitted to-night of the and four troops of the Fourth Cavalry,| charge of murdering his wife on the night tas occupled San Miguel without a fight. | of September 15 last. " mobilized at Aldershot, will also | the plain and heavy fighting is | column. i .__ 0000000005000659589000000000200600 GATAGRE'S DEFEAT DELAYS THE INVASION OF THE FREE STATE A R e e d as e R R R R SR S Y ) CAPE TOWN, Dec. 12.—It is reported that heavy fir- $ § ing was heard all day yesterday in the direction of Modder ; River. b4 s t st e ree e ® TRILIS “THE WAR QFFICE, PALL MALL, .mwwww«o’ LONDON, Dec. 12, 4:40a. m. !t No further news has been re-|(J ceived to remove the mystery |+ overhanging General (;m:wre';% not vet forwarded the promised B¢ additional message, and the cen-| ¢ sorship has prevented the corre- ¢ spondents from explaining the | o R e e e I o g retreat from Stormberg. He has | matter. Stormberg is described | : as a stronger position than|g Laings Nek. The only road|$ ’. . . winds through lofty hills and|¢& flanking is impossible. Coles- : i ‘. burg is also said to be an almost | 4 / b impregnable position and as no /: ;! troops are available to reinforce | [ 3 the two columns acting in those | ¢ 3 directions . it becomes .evident | 7 : that General Gatacre's misfortune [ . p¢ or error will delay the invasion of | f the Free State perhaps some| e 3 weeks. It is exceedingly probable | § 3 that he will be compelled to retire & CENTER OF INTEREST IN LONDON. )¢ b - on Qu(‘cnslu\\'n and to wait for Btudying the Casualty Lists Posted at the British War Office. reinforcements, which can hardly | @+ee+se o060 0060000600060 o P TARA A reach him until Sir Charles War- + 4 9 FRERE CAMP, Natal, Dec. 11, 7 p. m.—The British cavalry ren’s division arrives at the Cape. reconnoitered to-day abreast of Colenso and exchanged shots with The first detachments will sail 8 parties of Boers, who fell back across the river. The kopjes were Saturday next. Even if (}cm'r:\]‘§ observed to be thickly occupied by the enemy. French is not compelled to re-| in his advance. | @+ C 404040+ C+0 30+ G40 404040 104040 4040 40404 04040 404 Two stone piers were blown up last night. The highway bridge is The railway bridge at Colenso has been completely destroyed. - : | intact. treat he will be obliged to pause | T + -] v ? e [ - o X Q | It now seems certain that the | Modder River. There is a report ‘“:";“(“}‘ force ”I‘lf’m was supposed. Ge G SRS y R eral Gatacre will require powerful rein. seventh division, which is being | that the British are advancing on | forcements before he can make another It remains t e seen whether the ‘ P h Boers, emboldened by their s . will | be sent to South Africa. | anticipated. General Prinsloo s dauth to try: o, cut’ Gatacre's line | ] % of communication. No news has yet been received ‘ :E’d (xfcncra] Cronje command thc} Before another ten days have passed s rote Yoer foraes transports bearing the fifth division, confirming the Boer report of !hl:*i (x:::r]h ts lo be commanded by Sir i S AR 2 g % 52 | Charles Warren, will begin to arriv capture of fifty prisoners at f\[O(} [ ONDON, Dec. 12—What little in- | South African waters. It is almast o der River from Lord Methuen’s | formation reached London last |tain some of the newcémers will be hur. night from the seat of war con- tained nothing pertaining to the advance of General Buller or Lord Methuen. Details of General Gatacre's ‘defeat | show that his column was guided Into a | who were investing Ladysmith h position where they were at the mercy |called off and hurrted down to the soutn. Boer fire. Ignorance or treach- | ern part of the Free State to bar the ap- ery on the part of the guides and neglect | proach of the British from = Northern of proper reconnofssance precautions are | Cape Colony. The extreme mobility of the responsible for this serious setback to the | Boers has always been one of their chieg British arms. | sources of strength. Saturday was an attempt to take| It is not yet known at what stage the | General Buller yesterday held a review 4 men were cut off. As at Nicholsons | of trocps at Frere Camp, probably as a the Boer position at Camperdam | Neck, it Is assumed to be certain that | prelude to giving the order for an ad. ; 5 | they continued to give a good acount of [ vance. We are still without intelligence and to secure the water works. | of the fighting by Lord Methuen's e, at Modder River, although it will be no- ticed that the Boer telegram from Pre- toria states that General Cronje sent fifty prisoners to the Transvaal capital. Stormberg s now known to hold a far . One important statement is that the BRITISH LOSSES TO DATE. The following table, compiled from reports to the British War Office and the press dis- patches, includes the sortie from Kimberley of November 28, but does not take in Mafeking and Buluwayo, concerning which no figures have been made public: Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total. To November 28—O0fficers . 44 118 63 225 To November 28—Non-com. officers and men... 385 1,315 828 2,528 Modder River, Novemher 28 ................ 76 386 P 462 Ladysmith, Lombard’s Kop, December 8....... 4 17 21 Stormburg, December 11 ... cccc ceeeeal 1 25 625 Scattering since November 28.....- ccceea... 14 36 85 Grand:totals:oh2mh oot el .--...E 139—7- lfi : 3;6. AN ESTIMATE MADE AT LONDON. LONDON, Dec. 11.—lt is just two months since the Transvaal ultimatum was delivered. Nine engagements have been fought and the British have lost 566 killed, 2027 wounded and 1977 missing or prisoners. | ried up .to strengthen the hands of Gat {acre and French and protect Methucn | line of communication. Experts here find that a considerable part of the Boers PRETORIA, , Dec. 11, via Lourenzo Marques.—The Boers captured three British guns in the engagement with General Gat- acre’s forces at Stormberg. The sortie at Kimberley last | themselves @s long as their ammunition All the British shots fell short. | held out. g The result of the reverse is that Gat- Details are expected from the | aer Boer outposts in the direction of | e's advance is delayed, as is also that of General French from Naauwpoort. 599 25 PP S R SPID S S S S S 1ld not be surprised to a been | SENSATIONAL AFTERMATH - OF MERCENARY MARRIAGE ‘Bride and Groom of Unhappy Match of Adelbert Gale, Brother n»f_Mrs. Asa Fisk. a Few Months Hurl at Each Other Charges of Bigamy and Blackmail. N order issued yesterday by Ju. [A/\ Daingerfield granting the petit of the defendant in the suit Frankle Grant Gale agalnst Ad bert Orlando Gale for a cha | venue from San Francisco to Son County marks the beginning of a le contest which, if it reaches a final issue, will teem with sensational disclosures Frankie Gale is suing for an annulment She Or- who v of her marriage to the defendant alleges that her husband, Adelbert lando, is a bigamist. The husband, A brother of the widow of the late As k, will contest the action on the | ground that his bride of but a few months is an adventuress; that she married him | for the dollars she thought he pe | and charged him with being a bigamist cover up her own sins In the same line and prevent possible prosecution in Den- | ver, Colo. Incidentally there are hints of blackmail and Insinuations that Fri Grant Gale has hopes of securing balm for the alleged shock to her affections from the fortune that passed into the hands of her husband's sister, Mrs. Fi Through all the story of scandal and ro- mance that Is interwoven throughout the suit of Gale vs. Gale the Fisk fortune seems to form a prominent part. The litigants nad been married but three months when the wife played her ard in what is claimed to be a de perate game of blackmall | which occurrea at the Geysers, in Sonomi County, was a pyrotechnical affair. Scenes :d tuere which rival in bacch; iry the wildest occurrences famous r¥rench ball, and in wnich many prominent people drank champagne and "Kicked the gloves off the e lignts, side by slae with painted by waose home addresses are in San kran cisco’s tenderloin. Frank Jordan, County Cierk of Alameda, Wis a prominent figure | in the ceremonies. And the bride—well, even her husband did not know who she was or whence she came. He had known | her but three weeks. She had made vio- | lent love to him. He could not resist her | charms, and so the wedding took piace The husband finds himseif charged with | being u bigamist, and the custodians of the risk fortune are taking every pre- caution to prevent the woman they ciaim | 1o be an uaventuress from getung any part of their propert, |~ Adelvert Gale and Gliman Gale, his | brotner, backed by their sister's mone were Uie lessees of the Geysers in S oma County. Adeibert is now running the place all by himself as one of the resuits | 0t the weading, which has turned out so | disastrously. or his brotner packed his | valire and left the day before the cere- mony and he has never returned. It was while the Gale brothers were en- gaged In extending the “glad hand’ to summer guests that a dashing woman arrived on the stage one day in the middle of last July ana registered as Miss Frankie Grant of Denver, Coloradc The wedding, She was accompanied Pearl Elkins and by Mrs. Argle Marie Wone, thre women who subsequently played star en- ts In Gale's matrimonial drama ‘s nephew, who also enjoyed the festivities that attended the wedding, S4YS now he did not know at the » character of the last-named trio | » might not have allowed them to be | bridesmaids at might have obj gloves off the el his uncle's nuptials and rted to them Kicking the ctric lights. of I Adelbert at the Geys o WaS 8 the start, but within n him and from tha minister was brou | from Cloverdale to make then wife they were seldom out of ght up man and company. Mrs. Argle, Pearl | Marie Wone w slose observers of the | lov aking. hanged knowing es and held onversa while the ts at the Adelb mer flirt 2 was the surpris ter a thi ‘were going to be married and had settled upon August 5 as of the ceremony. Mrs. Asa Fisk the dat ¢ was at the hotel at the time and so was | | her son, Arthur Fisk. They did not of ge | young | a protest to a wedding following such a brief courts [ 0! the rea 18 was t they were to stonished at » much f affal t as more than head « pants say tha ered into the s but that his bride o four month: and proper little woman, was yond expression at the manne the party celebrated bridesmaids were kins and Mary We & banquet was nearl nowed her agilit from one without hind entrancing performing And the champ and_was still po awoke next morning All of the guests the ceremony and were alone with th noma scenery. Sce 10 the bride, and ol prevailed upon her h to this city. He nur weeks, when she tol recovered and for him to ret Geysers. He did not want to her, but she overcame his ohjections b the assertion that she was not yet strong enougk for the journey and would join | bim in a few days. He left San Francisco | the morning of October rewhat | lonesome, but happy In the thought that | his bride would soon join him. A couple of hours after departed from the city Attorney Ji h Rothehild, rep senting the wife, 1 a suit in the Sup rior Court of San Francisco ment of t Gale had r an annul- d th on th e living wher ant of Dei Miss Frank! plaint does not state who where the ceremony wa where the alleged Mrs present residing. Arthur Fisk, wh says that the first matrimon Gale t A rmey 1s for Gale, his client’s ; h o is at dal with a handsom. Attorney Rothchild reporter that a settlement was suce it and an inch. case tra and have suc that the plaintiff wi r | that far away. main Boer position is not at Spytfontein, | yut at Magersfontein, a point on the rail- | ed, necess; ¢ ovtx way nearer Modder River. They ar- also | thing by . . 2 force at Jacobsdahl, within the Free | means r delay in dispatches, t e border. first effect of which was felt last t. The sharp artillery duel between the British howitzers and Boer guns on Satur- day ended in the latter being tempo rily silenced, while the Boers did not reply | to the 4.7-inch naval gun. | For the moment the great turning of the ! operations which had been going on in the | western fleld stops. Lord Methuen, on the extreme right, had been thrust for- ward to turn the Free Staters when they would break toward Bloemfontein. As an | incident to the general plan to relieve Kimberley, General French was creeping up as a center line and occupied town after town, conforming to Methuen's movements. At last the time came when the pivot of the movement, General Gatacre's force, should move forward. The strategic sity of seizing Stormberg was ob- It is the junction of the main line ;ast London into the Orange Fre with the little branch line running t, which, when the bridge recently de- ;:nru'gws communication by rail bet Generals Gatacre and French. It was a necessary to make a forward moveme nt tion of the 3oer commanders, v\'!llr.h might otherwise fall upon Methuen's | weak line of communication. Methuen has nearly omplished his share of the scheme. He has been suc- ressful at a great price in all his engage- ments. In all probability he has but one more action at Spytfontein or Magersfon- tein before Kimberley will be relleved. He s more anxious about the long line of communication behind him than the en- trenched position which he has sooner or later to assault. General French has had no great diffi- cultles in his way. He has advanced from village to village with the intention of eventually occupying Colesburg and re- bounding into the Free State at Norvals Point. The first movement on General Gata- cre’s pagt was to seize Stormberg if pos- sible. This attempt has been defeated and he has retired to Molteno. The effect of this on the future conduct of the cam- paign cannot be prophesied with any cer- tainty. General Gatacre will have to be reinforced very strongly. General French will have to pause in his advance. Lord | Methuen, once the final action for the re- @ | lief of Kimberley is fought, will have to momomommomuflmmmommg turn his attention to the line of communi- cation with De Aar. ed and culverts have been repaired, | on the center and right to keep the atten- | | MANY PRISONE.RS TAKEN BY ROERS AT STORMBERG PRETORIA, | seventy-two British | at Stormberg. In t der River yesterday | Cronje maintained his | tured fitty British soldiers, |BRITISH AT LADYSMITH NOW ON HALF RATIONS LOURENZO MARQUES, Dec. 11.—Thne following dispatch has been received from e Boer laager near Ladysmith Dec. 11.—8ix hundred and isoners were taken fighting at Mod evening. G al sition and cap- eral Kaflir runners from Ladysmith stcourt have been captured. The r elved from £15 to £40 for the trip. The intercepted messages show that men and horses in La h are now on ha rations, that whisky Is £1 a bottle and that beer s exhausted." FRENCH AND GERMAN COMMENT ON THE DEFEAT PARIS, Dec. 11.—The news of G Gatacre’s reverse made an imme pression in Paris. Although th papers predict the gravest in the disaffected portion of they cannot be accused of uns tation over British misfortu Most of the journals s an undoubted trap lald by in conjunction with Dutc Journal des Debats epitomizes the opinfon, saying that Sir A Mi threatened in vain to overwhelm the dis loyal Dutch with the thunderbolts of Brit- ish wrath and that even he must to-d. admit that race sympathy Is stronger than loyalty. It sees in the attitude of the Afrikanders the inevitable result of the tactless language of the British press in referring to the war as a st neral g5le be- tween the British and Dutch for suprem- acy in South Africa The Temps says “The story of the am- bush at Stormberg reads like a chapter from Cooper's ‘The Spy.’ The situation resembles that of the American war of independence, when the colonists devoted ilhemulvel to decelving, misleading and