The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1900, Page 1

s Paper not be taken from LIDrary. +++ 4 The Call VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 33. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE FILIPINOS FROM CABUYAO Insurgents Retreat to Santa Rosa, C}ngeleursued. Twenty-Four of Aguinaldo’s Warriors Are| Among the Dead and One Hundred | and Fifty Prisoners Taken. patch to The Call. B e e e S S SR 1o’s wife, sisters and eighteen Fili- March's battalion of the Third of that name. Three Filipino March, and the Filipinos gave up + - . + - + + & R T o o o S R R SR SR SR SR SR TR IR S TP SR S S SSa Appreciat persons hold ng a corner ports shall remain 1 then be able to force rers and farmers to they demand GOVERNMENT LINE TO THE PHILIPPINES 3TON. Jan. ‘1—U f Quartermaster Gener Root has dire f a government WASHINC s Manila, sim 3 k and Cuban s. ports. Vessels which will ed to Pacific lines are those r = are orts, the property of artered by the quartermaster’s depart ment will be released immediately upon . r eir arrival at San Franclsco. and sup- recruits and officers intended fo the army in the Philippines will go t ) a by the proposed line. Discharged sted men and officers ordered home return in theee vessels. It Is stated officers of the quartermaster's depart- that the establishment of this line be in the direction of an economical If the Government: were upon private vessels it freight and pas- ment wil compelled to rely would k e = 3 s would not ba a e s disposal. Very freque: e J e deems it in the interest of LIEUTENANT DUFFY economy to send enlisted Astatic station in an auxilia AND MEN MISSING |in trie past it has often been found eco- 1 to detach & ship from the squadron and order it home rather direct men whose terms of enl ve expired to come to the States by passenger steamer. NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD BEGINS AT CINCINNATI Noted Musical Directors Participate With Their Societies in the Contests. Jan. 1.—The ddfod attracted large crowd to-day. The musical and liter: tures in competition for the annual prizes tituted the morning, afternoon and 1ing programmes, and kept Music Hall packed with enthusiast E of the most noted musical directors of the ry participated with thelr societies contests. The preliminary examination of candi- lates for the contests were held early in the morning. and the opening sessior gan promptly at 10 a. ., with a g r march by George W. Webb. fo] by the opening choruses, “Am i and *“Hen Wlad ¥ Nhadau,” with Maldyn Evans as solo Benfamin Jones, pres teddfod Association, Judge David Davis as the morning session M far ENTS OF THE ARMY TRANSPORTS . VIOVEM NATI National to this ry fea- quarter audliences ne ur TO BREAK THE CORNER IN PHILIPPINE HEMP dent of the Eis- then introduced the president of After addresses by Jones and Judge Davis, Hon. H Edwards of Scranton, Pa., was Intro- as the conductor and literary followed by the pres musical adjudicators Broome of Montre 2 ies of Pittshurg bardic Secretar ad atior the Professor Professor T. J. Da- nd Pr or 0. H of Marysville, Oh After the salutations and proclamations by ans pen as practi-| “The Bards,” sontests were begun Hon, D. Webster Williams of Jackson, 3. Ohio, presided in the afternoon d Colonel B. Melish of Cincinnati 8 t night 2 1 addresses ywed b lutations and proclan fons by “The Bards.” George W. We t_the great organ in the after- | Miss Annie F in the evening. T persed with solos b Oscar J. Ehrgott, Miss “Annie ffiths, Miss Bessie Tudor and Harry | nd by selections from the Cam- of Cincinnati, directed by Da- | of Rac! contests we Maldwyn I ¥ decided to hold the National E cagprspe fod next January at Columbus, Ohio, | Sopeigir - e crowning event to-night was the | potca group, ‘dire t for $4%0 and a gold medal for | ¥ except those at xed chorug of not less than sev- | w tor The expl tion ¢ volces. The Ada (Ohlo) Normal | f tion in this cular ity and Lima Choral Union won, | . o S 1 the directorship of Hugh W. X - hough it is | Owens gathe his dispatches that fn . “ hemv KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS 1 Ly Fositoimiies TO CAUCUS FOR SENATOR | Blackburn Certain to Receive the Nomination by Ac- clamation. FRANKFORT, Ky, Jan. L—A war- rant has been issued for the arrest of John H. Whalen, charging him with hav- ng attempted to bribe Senator Harrold. Senator Goebel, chairman of the Demo- cratic joint caucus, issued a call for a s to-morrow night. He states (‘la( aucus is for the sole purpose of nom- | inating a candidate for United States Sen- ator. Of course Blackburn will be the ragere only name presented and he will be nom- Tis shall be | j;ated by acclamation. ¥ Mr. Meikle- | " The calling of a caucus for Senator at ng to th Englist ed § War, Mr. | this early date was a move on the part s that if the hemp now |of tiioebe;‘ lfle"nw Pultl.n hend to the th eral o! ) stories, that, in the event that Goebel immediately Gispatched to this coun- | Biadkburn. e 0| GENERAL FRENCH HAS RECAPTURED COLESBERG Minor Battle in Which Boers Retreat Before the Attacking British- Forces—Buller’s Ditfi- culties Vastly Increased. Eeagese iy Port Elizabeth . © French's base of operations at Naauwpoort + land, but was later ordered on up to > th ® ® Gordon Bennett. Republ rights reserved in the United 2.~This ished respon RENSBURG, ment General Fr Colesberg, to which they had place. We had occupied Renshurg siding in strength Saturday and had come into touch with the enemy, who fired on our skirmishers from what appeared to be an intrenched position. | We had, however, only one man slightly wounded, but the proximity of the Boers made every one eager to advance. Yesterday afternoon a force of cavalry under the command of General French him- self, left here, and after a detour occupied some hills three miles from Colesberg, where the Boers lay in strength, confident be- cause of the natural aid afforded them by the hills around. The ten guns, the whole enemy’s position extended for lage. Boers, though taken a little by The duel went on for two hours without cessation. guns. gunners showed marvelous accuracy and it soon told. the Daily Mai Cape ( olor fallen D S S e T e Ay Py i on Algoa Bay, 428 miles east of Cape Town and 354 miles south of Durban ad system, which runs to Bloemfontein and Pretori: atal o o ) Special Cable to the New York Herald: ication of this dispatch is prohibitsd. All Copyright, 1900, by James | States and Great Britain. dispatch from its special cor- I 3y a brilliant strate- the Boers out of ack on Saturday from this Jan. 1 1as driven and infantry with six miles round the entire vil- At daybreak to-day our artillery opened the battle. The their Our The first surprise, replied with enemy’s Hotchkiss collapsed and then the Boers’ big gun was silenced early in the action, but the other pieces of artillery held out until they gradually fell back. The Hotchkiss was aban- doned and we captured it, but the other guns were removed to the north, as our cavalry closed they shelled our cavalry, but caused no damage. ing guns speedily silenced them. [ The Bc our shells burst. Colesberg is now in our hands. main there are jubilant. are quite slight, but the Boers The enemy may stop at Achtertang or gether at Norvals Port, where ONDON. Jan. 2—General French's succkss in Cape Colony again em- phasizes what has been pointed out. i dispatches time and time again—the absolute nee of a strong force of irregular cavalry mounted infantry if the British able successfully to cope with the Boers. French is one general who has been for- tunate enough to command a as mo- bile or more mobile than the Boers. Hav- | ing this advantage and being a born cav- alry leader, he is the one British general | who has not rece check. He has | beaten the Boers at their own game by outflanking them continually. thor it may not be a very His success important feat o en kiy as the on in the ors have been e as quic rst o present w the B dislodged by a turning movement. General French is operating in a country which is fairly favorable to the action of cavalry, and his force is.mainly com- posed of mounted men. If the other Brit- ish columns had been as well provided with mounted men we should unquestion- ably have heard less of frontal attacks. General French has been constantly har- assing the Boers, finding out their strong positions and then working round on their flank and ever and anon threatening their communications. He has advanced, re- tired, maneuvered and fought until by successive steps he has driven the Boers eastward or northward, and Colesberg is once more in British hands. General French's successful action is not the only plece of news from this region. Further toward the east, near Dordrecht, which was recently occupied by the Brit- ish, there has been Some fighting, with abundant promise of more. Captain de Montmorency with a reconnoitering party fell in on Saturday with a large body of Boers eight miles north of Dordrecht. For six hours he managed to keep the Boers in check, until the arrival of reinforce- ments for the enemy with two guns made him retire. The Boers advanced upon Dordrecht, and when last heard of were threatening the town. No news has yet come in whether they made an attack on the town. That General Buller will -once more at- vers appear to be retreating north, but we are har- assing them and our shells are doing plainly see horses galloping madly away in all We have captured emy’s wagons and a considerable quantity of stores. Our losses in. As the gunswere withdrawn Our advanc- | | much damage. I can directions after General Cleary's divisiin was destined for this port on safling from Eng- A larger part of the Fifth and Sixth divisions will probably disembark at R R A e e S S S e . o sD e e T, It is the ocean ter- and is the nearest port to General T = IV PP AP - * ES + ® B COLE¢ BERG. This town, which Is a place of some 2000 inhabitants, was cap- tured early in November by the Boers, with its garrison of mount- ed Cape police. It lles near the Midland' Raflroad line, twenty miles south of the Orange River, thirty-eight north of Naauwpoort # Junctfon and 308 miles from Port ¢ FElizabeth. It is the center of a & large population of Boer sym- + Dpathizers. Qo e6 4606000506000 along the line of the Tugela Riter. These are swarming with the enemy. posted on positions of great strength and bristling with guns, while the river in front s in full flood. The coming battlé will cer- tainly be the stiffest and probably the most momentous of the entire cam- paign.” ———— STARTLING RUMORS OF A DUTCH RISING CAPE TOWN, Jan. 1.—Ugly rumors are in circulation of a Dutch rising with the object of sefzing Cape Town and the docks | and capturing the Governor of Capé Col- The few loyalists who re- many of the en- must have suffered heavily. cross the river alto- the bridge is yet intact. tempt at an early date to force a passage of the Tugela River seems to be the. fixed | apinion In Frere camp. He has been con- | siderably strengthened by the troops of | the Fifth Division, under Warren, urd | | fresh artillery, including several five-ineh | | and six-inch howitzers from the siege | train, He must now muster not far short | of 30000 men and sixty guns, without | counting. the naval complement. He is not strong in cavalry. though with the, tr- regulars he should have about 4000 men. | The problem before him is one of th | difficult that offer. He t o | e river of considerable volume, all the fords of which are commanded hy carthworks mounting powerful guns and lined with expert marksmen. The Boers are superior to him in mobility, and can | follow his movements with such rapidit that they will probably be able to frus- trate all attempts to turn their positions. They are not greatly inferlor In number, | having 20,00 or 2,00 men on the Tugela | River. A Free State commando 18 on the Tu- | gela west of Colenso, and guns have beén | mounted at Potgleters Drift, evidently to defeat a turning movement from the | west. Intrenching by both armies at| Modder River still proceeds, but ouside of desultory artillery duels and skirmishes between outposts there fs nothing to dis- turb the condition of masterly inactivity. - BULLER'S DIFFICULTIES HAVE BEEN INCREASED LONDON, Jan. 2—The Standard’s cor- respondent at Frere Camp, telegraphing on January 1, says: “Sir Charles Warren's division is now nearly complete. Its headquarters will be at Estcourt. It is rumored here that the guns which' were captured from General Buller at Colenso have been mounted in the hills commanding the drift over the Tugela River at Springfield” The Boers, | it appears, captured 620 rounds of shrap- nel when they took the guns. “General Buller's difficulties have been immeasurably. increased by the enforced delay since the last engagement. He now has before him a serles of walled and fortified hills, running sixteen ' miles ony—Sir Alfred Miiner. movement is sald The center of the to be Pearl, a village about thirty miles from Cape Town where a meeting of the Afrikanderbund was held yesterday. A similar meeting was held at. Richmond on December 25, | and it is reported that the members of the bund in these two towns are acting in concert. The members of the bund in Willington and the Dutch {n Clan William District are said to be armed with Mausers and to be anxious to use them in behalf of the Boers. Although the stories of a rising are dis- credited, the police and military are tak- ing ample precautigns. BOER SPIES ENLIST WITH BRITISH TROOPS LONDON, Jan. 1.—Alleged Boer spies, it has been discovered, have enlisted in the Yeomanry. A report of Lord Ches- ham, who is In command of ‘the Yeo- manry forces, says that the officials of this arm of the service are being pestered | by plenipotentiary agents of Dr. Leyds, the European of the South African Government. He adds that two of them were actually accepted, but that they were afterward discovered. He declares that the same thing occurred in Thorny- croft’'s Horse, seven sples being dis- covered in that bedy. He says, continu- ng: “We have given word to all our com- manding officers to keep a sharp lookout for. traitors.” No steps have been taken thus far to punish the alleged sples. PORTUGUESE PEOPLE SYMPATHIZE WITH BOERS LONDON, Jan. 2—The Lishon corre- spondent of the Standard says: "It is cur- rently reported that the speech of King Carlos In the Cortes to-morrow will refer at some length to the situation in South Africa, but it is doubtful whether any- thing will be said any more friendly to England than to the Transvaal. The pub- lic is with the Boers and the papers gen- erally fear British designs upon Delagoa Bay. The Portuguese Government asserts | that it has done everything to preserve neutrality.” . it VANCOUVER TO RAISE A MOUNTED CORPS "VANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. L—Consid- Qovoe0 050000060 es@ UNCLE SAM MAY BUY DANISH WEST INDIES ‘Good Prospect of Acquiring the - Islands at a Bargain. ‘Three Million Dollars the Present Price, Although a Much Better Offer Was Special Dispatch to The Call. JQUARTERS, WELL-| ate for the of the tslands, and - WAS when ti mes law the Presi- le officia will act t beer high fictal said to The t either buy e the Monros »se of them fuse to do » dog in the AS to pay every »f the islands U e budget stand it lenger. natter under very serious sftion to buy the meet with the Danish West approval of nck-Holm navy was | naval experts. Secretary Long said to- in Was > weeks ago and talked | night that he knew of no recent action on with authoritt lative to the trans- the part of this Government to acquire Government fer of the islands to this . not represent Captain Von Christmas d the islands. “I h Mahan to make not asked Captain report on the strate- the Danish Government of lly, having | gic value of the nds,” he said, “and I no connection with the Danish legation | know of none th Ras inide. 1 tocall here, and he had no cred®ntials | that during the war with Spain thers was from the Copenhagen Government, he sat- | goma agitation regarding the purchase of isfied officials that he would be able to ar- | the jslands, but there is nothing recent range the sale. Ahat. 1 hilow . of ™ It is a matter of officlal record that dur- ing the war with Spain Rear Admiral % | Bradford. chief of Bureau of Equip- 4 | ment, made a str »mmendation that X3 S ased by the United ® he valuable base for + | operation that St & | Thomas w e writ- | ten by Admiral Br: ublished In % | the Forum he ements re ® | garding the of establishing ¢ | coaling Atlantic Ocean, & | referring particularly to the Danish West ¢ | Indes: & | “The wri sires to present hers the - | question 4| our fleet @ | barely cross ¢ | not to sy & | them car eircumst ) fleet ® | ern s the North and South At- * o e - 10 Ed ¢ 3 PO 9 - % i a + H ® 0 * e 000V, 3, °°‘°-§ o sie e - e, ~o ®Sasconc D R R B R e R R R R R SR S SO R L e 2 Major General French, Who Recaptured Colesberg. @*isseseiene & e bebe B eIeIe et erepes e s? * England has her Halifax. rmuda a, where The United States will acquire the t | islands for $3.000.000 under his propositio | where thirty years ago Mr. Seward offered there v al, 0.000 for two islands, St. Thomas and | but t} cks 3 al stores St. John. Denmark at that time an- needed by the fleet, with cable communt- nounced that it could not dispose of the | cation between stations. It island of Santa Cruz without the consent | for us that these stations of France, but it is understood th but it is our duty to see authorities are convinced that this naval bases are establishec of the matter can be satisfacte ing dista of our coast | ranged. It is expected that within a short ion the attention of the people of t time a bill will be introduced in Congress authorizing the administration to negoti- itry is called to the fact that the Dan- ish West Indian Islands are for sale.” erable disappointment has been caused | throughout this province by the faflure of the Dominion Government to inciude in the second Canadian regiment for South Africa a company from British Columbia Prominent citizens of Vancouver have de- cided to raise a corps of 1 mounted in- | fantry. providing horses and defraying all announcement to-morrow at the quarterly convocation of the university in Stude- baker Hall. The president hoped to an- nounce that the university would be $4.- . but he has not been able to 00 which, duplicated by John that 000 09 riche raise the D. Rockef amount. However, would Mr. er, make Roc up kefeller expenses. wired that he will extend the limit th At a meeting called by Mayvor Garden months i in that time Dr. Harper 1t was decided to try to Induce the Gov- thinks he is reasonably sure of getting the rest of money, as he has several large donations in prospect Four years ago Mr. Rockefeller gave the university a $1.000.000 present and promised to duplicate every amount donated befora January 1, 1900, up to $2,000,000. One year ago Mr. Harper had secured $1,135,000 from | various sources to apply on the 32,000,000, " Since then this amount has been raised 009, It Is understood that much of the money has come from business men of this city. i Delayed by Landslide. SANTA ROSA. Jan. 1.—A landsiide on | the California Northwestern Rallroad of Money. north of Cloverdale delayed passenger CHICAGO, Jan. 1—The University of | traffic about one hour to-day while a tem- Chicago has recelved a New Year's gift of | porary track was constructed around the $3,310,000. President Harper will make tha | obstructions. ernment to accept this corps. Three hun- | dred applications have been received from | young men of this city and district. Ail | are skilled horsemen and good rifle shots, | and many offer to provide own mounts and equipments. MILLIONS DONATED TO CHICAGO UNIVERSITY John D. Rockefeller Duplicating All | Gifts Made by Other Men their