The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1899, Page 1

Tall |’ to be taken from § VOLUME L SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER KRUGER MAY DECLARE WAR ON PORTUGAL AND W hile British Troops and Boers Continue to Exchange Shots at Long Range, New Com- plications Crop Up—-Signifi- cance ofthe English-German- Portuguese Secret Treaty. iger to-night -Portuguese ¢ 1orce and The decision, it is ebruary, and will prob- e Portugal must pay 1,000,000 pounds m Portugal the right of n of Delagoa Bay to 1 March next. pub- secret soon as Goldau, have iger may now declare war France -or Russia ( 1er.1.".’\_\' rege by g the -olonial possessions. Germ possessions—that is i Diu, 10 sa 20,000 s Germany north e for Ceci Goverr red at nly refers to Aifrica and . be remembered that Samoa treaty ication took place. can possessions of Por- and al kilometers consent of Po: e have to this The Lo- news from such a source that ONDON, Dec. 28 —The!as far south 4s Blaaukrans River. Soutt can cables are On Wednesday, the 2oth, a 1 " g satisfactorily. picket of the Thirteenth Hussars ley r the N Carabiners WORK OF THE BRITISH NAVAL The naval brigad tober 1§, when the Bo Estc urt, advancing on nany of whom were killed by its e Do o006t et 0006 eiedsdoededoioie PDITPIVDIDPIVIDIVIPITIVIPEDIDITIIOIDIDOITEIL L 0D08D Boer i at Colens« ed, there are signs | opponents on . t and west of a| It is clear both from the oper- recrudescence of Boer activ ations in the recent battle and On the the enemy have f equent events that ronstructed a bridge near Pieter Station to take the place of the one at Colenso destroyed by the Jritish camp at Chieveley is some extent threatened from the castward, although it is more than doubtful whether any attack is intended. When the American attache s shown the Colenso position 1 gune’ shells. The enemy’s ct is probably to main communication with the which is in position on the siopes force f Mount Inhalawe, and which| his pithy remark was, “Colonel, might, if left unsupported, be at-!| was there no way round?” Ina tacked by General Buller few days the British are very rushed. likely to try a way round the/ What does seem certain is that | strongly posted foe. som2 commandos have been In other fields of war compara- pushed down to menace the Brit- | tive inactivity is reported, except in the far north, where Mafeking n, lving to the eastward, was, according to a Boer tele- - intrenched. | gram, heavily bombarded on the There are many sm\M] signs of| 18th, and Colonel Plumer Bocr activity in this region, even|making strenuous efforts to re- t wing, and that Inhalawe strongly been was suddenly attacked. The next | ATTACK DELAGOA| 28, 1899, i the Library.+*+* AR PRICE FIVE CENT! | .fswwwswé+bflflfl—o—fl. TS be b e ew e e .. @ . . L 4 * 3 . THE STEAMSHIP * « American flour by a British warship. and Colonial Steam Navigation Com 6 , and was chartered by Flint, E 4 flour to Delagoa B: outh . ield up by a British P nd that her cargo of flour was intended for 6 nd of war. The American firm, ! ave appealed to the Department )4 the matter is awalted w! . ¢ mer of 4142 tons and was b (@640 00 08060+ 06000 d-0bdedeioideioietdeise This vessel was lately seized on the South African coast with a cargo of @4t 0io0iasnasdededeiesdedeiedeiedesdesdodedoedesded MASHONA. The Mashona belongs to the British Bucknall & Co., man- York, to carry a cargo Off the Natal coast she Elizabeth on the alleged rs, and therefore con- . Eddy & Co., through their attor- ate at Washington, and the final h interest. The Mashona is a steel Greenock in 1884, and taken to Po DREAD BUBONIC PLAGUE | | | { Honoluiu. That Centennial, which port last evening. 4640046+ beoeieosesg|cut off from it. This M BRIGADE. As pictured by the London Dally Graphio.® from the ships at Durban have done good work at other places besides Ladysmith. On Oc- the naval brigade from the ships at Durban, which had been by a singlar piece of luck hit upon the exact range and planted the xplosion. | rones. Boers are advancing to' An exchange of shells is proceed- ing at long ranges. The Boer projectiles generally fall short. There is no sign as yet of Brit- ish advance, but the Boers are re- ported to be fortifying Jacobs- dahl, being evidently apprchemi sive of a flank attack. LA ARTILLERY DUEL ON | [Spectal Cable to the New York Herald. Tight, 1599, by James Gordon Benneit. publication of this dispatch is prohibited, All rights reserved in the United States and Great DBritain.] LONDON, Dec. 2.—The special corre- | spondent of the Dally Mail sends this dis- patch: MODDER RIVER, Deec. | ets dropped an occasional The bubonic plague has reached is the story | brought in by the armv transport reached this The dread disease appeared in | been Te- | the Hawaiian capital on December ed the compliment, manag- | 12th and twenty-four hours later | district and all communication was THE MODDER RIVER Copy- 21.—Lyddite shells from our big guns pald to-day the . | usual morning call on the Boer camp at 1S | daybreak. During the morning bluejack- shell from i bl guns and twelve-pounders in the Boer REACHES HONOLULU ‘Armed Men Surround the Infected Dis- trict and the Terrible Scourge Is Held in Check. fight the dread disease and in six | hours the sum of $25,000 had subscribed. Armed men wer e stationed around the infected precaution + |undoubtedly saved the city, for :‘lthereatter the plague was kept | under control. s | 4| After the transport Centennial ..Ieft Honolulu every precaution « | was taken by the offi.ers on board $ | to prevent any development of the o dread disease, The passengers +|were examined daily by the sur- ;‘ fgeons, and all baggage and fur- + | nishing were thoroughly fumigated. ¢ | The disease usually develops in ¢ |five days and it is far more than . lthat time since the transport Jeft 4 | Honolulu. ¢| How the disease was introduced + |into Honolulu is not definitely @ | understood here as yet, for the ; Canadian-Australasian liner Aor- ¢+ | angi, which has just reached Vic- ¢ |toria, B. C., with the news, de- ziclined to accept harbor privileges, ¢ |in view of the risk involved, un t‘iher call at the Hawaiian city on & | the 22d inst., and would receive + | neither papers, passengers, freight © | or even mails. ! i The general information of the | . > o | Aorangi’s passengers is that three | cases developed among members |of the coolie class recently ar- rived from Japan under condi- R “+® tional contracts for work in the | ing to strike a smart blow at their, pair the railway as far as Gabe- | plantations. | The understanding that the | At the Modder River the!plague was introduced from Japan their | Is in a manner confirmed by the the trenches toward the British lines. | {act that plague was reported to be working considerable fatality |1n the northern and western parts | of that empire. trenches. There was no response in any | case. | ,,Suddenly, about noon, some shells from the Boers popped over the bridge and dropped only a few hundred yards outside | of the line of our tents, a couple of thousand yards this side of our outposts, This was quickly followed by half a dozen more shells, which dropped along the | front of our camp. Instantly there was a rush of soldlers to the front of camp, eagerly watching shells papglng over the | ridge and fervently hoping that the Boers were really coming out to lr{l a little of the kind of fighting that we have had to do so far. They were disappointed, how. ever, for after an hour's ineffectual pop- : ping of unexploding shells, the Boers | stopped altogether. LONDON, Dec. 27.—The War Office here | has received the following dispatch from | Cape Town, dated Tuesday, December 25: ““There is no change in the situation. Methuen reports that the enemy's force has increased, and has e in in- trenching three and a half miles from his outlying pickets. Methuen reconnof- Continued on Second Page. Re- {2 FIVE DEATHS WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS & | & For park extension . . 21,800 five deaths had occurred. It u&‘? Against . . . ... .. 7,880 i e |5 Rejected votes . . . 218 ated a panic in thecity. The Board % of Health asked for $10,000 to Total vote cast . . . 29,958 | | | | | T NEW SAN FRANCISCO NO LONGER A DREAM By a Tremendous Majority the Voters of the City Declare in Favor of Park Extension and Decree the Passing of a Historic Silurianism. : Fifty Per Cent More Residents Favor Making the City Aftractive Than Were Anxions for a New Charter—Southern Pacific Company Insolence Is Again Rebuked. @otio tietie et et oot ’30’30§0330?’3"'4'0';0&'07.‘050’3‘0?20?305050. { ’.:'.Q. DDV O DIV D ?g RESULT OF YESTERDAY'S ELECTION. O Necessary to carry bonds . . . . ... .19,873 Majority over two- thivdis's s Sive o s LOBT OHUIOOV IS L S L0 DS GAELITID S DAL OT 4@ E voters of this city by voting the }Imnds for the extension of Golden Gate Park yesterday have decreed that the new year shall mark the commencement of an era of progress. New San Francisco is no onger a dream & : ;‘: every financial center of the world the fact is known to-day that San Fran- cisco has taken a big leap forward and that an enormous majority of her citi- zens have decided that it is their duty to develop the work so well begun by the sturdy ploneers half a century ago. The victory for the advocates of progress is so marked that were the battle to be fought over again the small minority would doubtless vote to make it unani- mous. The great public interest in the ques- tion decided at the polls yesterday is shown by a comparison with the new charter election held in May of last year. Just three thousand more voters have proved that they are more interested in park extensions than In a new charter and there are nearly elght thousand votrs more anxifous for parks than there were anxious for a new charter a year and a half ago; and over four thousand less voters are opposed to parks than were opposed to the new charter. The true significance of these figures Is that there is 50 per cent greater public interest in the material progress of the city than in obtaining the much-vaunted new organic law that in a few days will cause the City Hall to turn a somersault. For a special election there was an un- usually large vote. The most sanguine optimist only gambled that thirty thou sand voters would visit the polls, while many believed that twenty thousand would be nearer correct. The higher fig- ure was all but reached. The returns show that the attempts to overthrow the creation of the magnificent entrance to the park by creating a feeling of sec- tionalism falled entirely, for in some of the districts where the vote for the Im- provements might have been reasonably Expected to be light, it was disproportion- ately high. In the districts chiefly inhab- jted by workingmen the vote shows that facts and clear argument had infinitely ore weight than sophistries and preju- d‘f;f the acts of the voters yesterday the city will soon have a grand entrance to her great park right in the heart of the city. The Mission district will have a playground two whole blocks in extent and the immense government reservation at the Presidio will be connected by a magnificent boulevard with the extended park system of the city. These features of adornment, together with the smaller public squares distributed all over the city, will make San Francisco notable for Bt et it et e i et e e tie et e i e i e ietio e tietiet, sts have + @ “ 2 THE VOTE BY ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS. 5 | clable propartion ¢ sJictory 7 o | street Raflroad ¢ 1o general i 7 : X s -xsju advisable to # DISTRICT. Total. For. Against. Rejected. & ZiRRm, R L | E e | Yesterday's it _possibl $ 28th .......... 1,099 829 2354 16 Bleort it the eity's @ aothy oo 00 1,117 281 10 8 B by e Sireet ra by % 2 ; - & | and xplofted @ 3oth .......... 1281 1,038 227 16 during the cimpa; voes ool E 3 ui C T S SN 1 ] 1,256 283 15 s p 1€ glection was one of the quietest ever eld in t city and the o % 32d .. i TTOT 296 16 cation w the strest thos thily 3 e ere taking a su i & 3ad .. e 1,001 606 16 2 irection. More than haif the ) 4 . ad been cast by 2 3ath’, e 2,041 514 19 b » polls opened It was 4 ] =2 - - gmen had decided & 3sth . .o. 1,498 53 7 . F South ef Market ® i ) 0 nearly hun- ¢ 36th . e 2,220 681 225 in some p”r'.’. s K4 showes o 2-th . - 620 13 \ 4 in th e 37 p - = i in the Western Addition. K ’;:Q\h 5 e 522 3 L s fon offi all T town, ap- PO . 397 ; - ith marked punctual. % aoth 3 ) after the polls opened $ 39 Dadd X er had R ard " from % 4“‘}1 : o (,14 11 ‘. ncts that everything F3 P n good working order and running (HTR o5 664 7 o hly. Equ vorthy was the P d ‘;_1 R . AY}A ns were l-»n( & 42d. 39 9 K3 ct’ officers had re- A I 291 10 & | ported with full returns to the City Hall g2 3 6 & | and exactly at £:30 p. m f;.» last precinet 0 athy Lre il 491 $ | citizens wera congr ng each other on 2 n <] 4:11] SR o 2[4 11 & | their mutual good judgment. K z cees & | | The success of the park extension bonds K & | leaves no doubt that the majority at . 2 :' r{l-rl:r;‘x in favor of the {ssuance § 2 214 o J or schools, sewer system ar {5 TFotals'Z: .5 000 7,840 218 & | hospital. will be much greater. e 8 b % R v adl o WILL IMPROVE CITY'S HEALTH. Local Health Board Advocates Pass- | age of Bond Measures. The Board of Health, through its secre- tary, Edgar B. Carroll, has ‘addressed the following open letter to the public re- garding the issi of bonds for schools, sewers and hospitals, which is self-ex- planatory: At this time whem questions of rreat fm- portance are coming before ihe people in the election for the purpose of arranging bonds to secure new school houses, sewer systems and | hospitals, the Board of Health desires to ad- vocate these measures from | her attractions among th e o] & the great cities of | The great sj election, howe nm;‘nnve of . yesterd : T. Is not to be estimated by the park acreage which it will xflzlm l'l‘w city. This is but one element in the | victory. through the campaign the 'y raised that it is just as es- sential for the welfare of the city that | It proclaim the beginning of a new era 35 w0 cquire parks, sewers, schools and a h{‘z’"‘("’g!} sll_h r f"&flln , Irving M. . Gustav Sehnee. 5 A. Dohrmann, E. A: Deniere ang & | other advocates of progre. many weeks been ‘appealing as | clvic pride as trying to impre: s he | pot 1 | Yoters'the physical need of all the things | Lo the b mecrieiment r | which are to be procured through the fs- | cromee e These 4 uance of bonds. - Perhaps it Is not ton | fe Sees iacases In " the much to say that many voters who will | vasicas diserices *ach diseass Dot B¢ Girectly benefited by the carrying | may be aid to defects 1n i arainage . the plans of improvement sup- | and poorly arranged condui it is feit that Forted the bonds hecause of the pride | the advantage in having an t m they feel in thelr cf fulfliling all modern sanitary req final disposal in deep water at points will remove not only odors and other objectionat at_present men properly sel sease, | of the voters who | city to'a higher munief- | thelr votes served pub- favor ralsing t pal plane have by lic_ notice that features which no_silurians need apply | I chool { henceforth for support of measures i at v Rl the Dresent &l savor of antlquity or for assistance o “use. w e not which are not y but afford insuf opposition to plans that are distinetly fin de siccle. Tt has demonstrated that I nt_protection to the many children atten. if progress be what Joseph Britton desig- | ing them, city is laid open to epldemics. nated s “municipal lunacy” this city | The chiliren attending our schools are gener- must be an enormous lunatic asylum-—a | ally of such e that they should have the conclusion that hardly seems to be borne | benefit of all wholesome and sanitary surroun out by fact ings that it is possible to provide. In the mat- ter of hospitals we are suffering at present as much as in any other defect in our publie service. The present hospital was constructe twenty-elght years ago, and was supp be only temporary then. Since that time over 100,000 cases have been treated in the bulld- ing, and many in ectious diseases have matur ally been among the number. These causes, together with the miserable plumbing, draine age and general sanitary faults of the prem- 1ses, e saturated the entire institution from of to cellar with almost every form of ine fection known and lead to a very high more tality and give our city an unfavorabie record. The premises are practically beyond repair and efforts in patching up are extremely expensive, It in furthermore & that the capacity of the present hospital is entirely inadequats to the demands of our city, and many cases which should be treated in common justice to those u success of the firsi - tempt to beautify San l-'mm’L‘ ‘zr':r!n::-‘ the tremendous power and usefuinces for £00d of the city's improvement clubs. The | organization of the Public Improvements Central Club for the carrying out of a campaign of progress has materially raised the value of the improvement club in public esteem. Each little elub, wor Ing in its particular locality for some in provement purely local to ftself. has | seemed to cut but little figure in gencral muricipal affairs, but now this aspect .5 changed. A league of Improvement elubs has demonstrated its ability te spur the whole community, and many matters of | material improvement will doubtless be | undertaken in the same manner in the fu. ture, and with equally happy results. To the many clubs in the central organization is due entirely the educating of the pub He in the outside districts that helped so | largely in the triumph of yesterday. | Once again, also. has (he. Selfeh | narrow pollcy‘ of the [Southern Paciie | ompany received a rebuff. The people have once more resented the insolent dic: | i+ sarpertrs Fench Thas ooy vrrer e, 424 1t tation of the tax-shirking monopoly and | the advantages of our fatr city will support its attempts to bulldoze the voters Into these meastres throughout. | @+ Netetietie et etietietistie HetiotieNetietie e tistietietietisti e @ ‘¥ MAYOR PHELAN CONGRATULATES THE CITY. sanitary standpoint it s felt by -1 that an opportunity presents itself mow for relief in these troubles which will undoubtediy bring an {mprovement in sanitation and mor- hich will benefit this city more than HIE result of this campaign for a new San Francisco must be as grat- iying to every citizen as it 1s to me. I may truthfully say that the re- sponse of the intelligence of this community to a call for something greater and better than it now has is exactly what I expected. The advocates of these improvements have used no beguiling words, have painted no impossible plctures and have drawn ro irrational corclusions. They ldve circulated facts and have striven to show what Is the duty and what would be to the best advantage of every citizen and the result is now known. It has been a simplc campaign of education with no eppeal to pre- judice and I am satisfled that no campaign was ever prosecuted more con. sclentiously. San Francisco 1s to be congratulated, for it has again been proved that her citizens have implicit faith In their new charter and are confident that under it wor of improvement of great magnitude can safely be undertaken. I have no doubt of the resuits of Friday's election. JAMES D. PHELAM President Central Improvement | NN NN NN NNk N Tudb. e eNINI NN N NeNe N NN Tt has been a hard task, but | feel that the grand result would havé jus- 5 | tified many times the labor necessary to secure it. This is, however, but & the starting point. San Francisco's appetite will soon be whetted 5o that she & | g will demand and acquire many similar improvements, > | GUSTAV SCHNEE, . 1? Secretary Central Improvement Club. b . - © ofietietietien oo e NN e e e e e e e NN N e e it e NNt e e i i i tiatin g BLOODY CIVIL WAR WAGED - VICTORTA, B. C., Dec. 27.—News was recetived by the steamer Aorangi, which arrived this evening from the Antipodes, of the bloody civil war which has been raging among the natives of Kiriwina, New Guinea. In the fighting the boss chief was defeated and eleven viilages in all were destroyed, with heavy slaughter. Rev. 8. B. Fellows, a Wesleyan mis- sionary, stationed at Kiriwina, writes a lengthy detailed account to an Australian paper, telling of the civil war from an eye-witness' standpoint. For several years, he says, there has been discontent among the people because of the rapa- M of Enamakala, the boss chief, f-’°i‘.§~,m. eavy tribute on food suppiles BY NEW GUINEA TRIBES The crisis came early last month, when the natives of the northwest, who are yet without a teacher, rose against Enama- kala. They attacked his village, Omora- The burning of this village lowed by weird dan cesses, for the triumphant warriors were in a frenzy of excitement at their great success. Next morning they began their kana, and after much fighting, In which | advance. Other villages were attacksd scores were killed, captured it. Enama- | and by nightfall six others in the neigh- | kala fled and escaped. When In posses- | borhood had fallen and been burned to the ground. In the cases of two thers was no resistance, the inhabitants flee- ing, but In the others there was great resistance, and the field after the com- bats was thickly strewn with dead and wounded. Still pushing onward. the victorious natives from the northwest boasted and threatened that nfm;dn‘::l l;ndmsllld Enamakala they woul Y aries, whom he calls his friends. -1% sion of Omorakana the natives made eager search for the teacher to kill him. | He was absent, and they stole his goods | ana despoiled his residence. | In accordance with the Kirlwina custom ilhe victors burned down Enamakala’s vii- lage, with the famous yam heuses in the T "New Guinea, Ther il mot jeave s n New not stick to show where &'nouhu stood.