The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1900, Page 1

- The @all "YOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 34. SAN FRANCISCO, ,WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NO REDUCTION TO BE 'STATESMEN WILL ASK PHELAN'S FIRST DEAL MADE IN OTIS ARMY, UNCLE SAM TO MEDIATE @ HAS BEEN COMPLETED Big Force Will Be Maintained IN SOUTH AFRICAN WAR Chief of Police Lees Retires to for Months to Come. While Fighting Between the British and Make Way for Esola. Seventy Thousand Men Must Be Keptat ~ DOCTS Continues, Members of the yey commissioners Must Now carry Out | League of Peace Take Steps | the Work of Subjugation in the | i : | the Contract Through Which They Philippine Islands. ‘ to Interfere, | Received Appointment. TR w‘ BRUSSELS, Jan. 2.—Scnator Dejeane, former Minister of = = =i Justice and now member of the Council of State; former Scna- | r tor La Fontaine and other Icading members of the Universal League of Pcace, have convoked a meeting to be heid next oyt ooty <ot T sacgnc Thursday in favor of appcaiing to the United States Government ., whie the retirement of |to offer to mediate in the South African war. has the sem L T T S e S R e S e S R e e e L. 4 . £ the new come George on was in ‘the admin- | San Francisco aiah W. Lees He - re v C state nt of By ced to give y will be € 5w was rea Mayor and G--0—9- e Departr 1. Candi- vevese e . 'S ve. shown some in- + | dependence ¢ were sacrificed to it fe He had no alterna- 5 | those who were willing to pledge them- | tive in the matter. He was forced to | ;‘ @ eI+ 85060000 500020008000 e000b020g o 119 + . - ¢ s bt ! ¢ |7 . . i 4 > s+ : . sl % . ® + é +le $ : ¢ $14 { . . sl )4 2§ e . - b 4 . ¢ #iY . ¢ f * > * b - . . ~ 9. “ . ot | L2 . ‘o o . ® { . @ i+ ) 4 . ¢l g ¢! . ¢ - A d : ek CANDIDATE FOR THE V:CTORIA CROSS, DER! b Ps 13 i n Pomeroy of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, when retiring from the field on the occasion of the ¢ @& > ) 4 e er 8, suw a wounded and dism trooper nceding help, and, regardless of the bul PeE 4 - 2 .. nd, took bim up and carrfed him tety. +? 3 ' : [ R e e S S I ; : . @ ONDON, Jan. 3.—Colonel| Generals Buller and Joubert; But can Ladysmith hold out?|4$ b 4 : 6 Pilcher 1s another British|are engaged in a great.game of{ We hear reports of plenty of : 2 : . offi who has adopted|war before Ladysmith, like two!food and ammunition and the|é 3 { 4 : Boer tactics and has gained a|experienced chess players, { fine spirits of the troops, but the ; )4 2 < | small but strategically important | neither making any decisive report issued yesterday shows { & . ¢ success. 1t been known for| moves, but trying to find out the|that while an occasional *Boer | ® ' 2 + | some time that there was.a con-| other’s intention. Buller is{shell finds its victims among thef b 4 ¢ - # siderable Boer force at Douglas, | anxious to ascertain the force left | besieged at Ladysmith, disease is| ¢ : * * |a smal’ village on the Vaal River,| by the Boers on Ulangwana \\orkmg considerable havoc. | { L 4 s o | fifty miles west of the Modder|Mountain and the exact loca-| Dy sentery and enteric fever are|¢ 1 : & | River. A portion of this force | tions of the guns in the Colenso lmre(mng daily, and the dverage ; * + LIEUTENANT COLONEL T. D. PILCHER, Northumber- +|aqvanced to Sunnyside, twenty-| position. - Joubert, thinking this | of deaths is also increasing. |4 ISAIAH W. LEES, RETIRING CHIEF OF POLICE. 2 1 F—usixeers, Who Signalized New Year’s Day‘ by ':;fi\v(— miles from Gras Pan, and|exclusive attention to xh_eA left | (Jene.ra[ White reports sev- %qua-o*—o—momowaorwo—HQ-. Capture of‘ the Boer Laager at Sunnyside, & | was in position to lln:e:ncn (len.A | center of his position s‘u.\‘plcxous.:fm'_v—one SErtous ‘cases of enteric] i, 1o clevate Esola to the' position figpoint ‘sten who .. would elect: Egols Beélmont, Cape Colony. ¢ | eral Methuen's line of communi-| has strengthened the right. {fever and dysentery among. the | he has long sought. The gentlémen |and these men must carry out their con sation It would be unwise to refuse|troops, with. niany others * si¢k| Who will direct police ‘affairs under the charter were chosen -simply becau Colonel Pilcher, with the Aus-|to face the facts, and, notwith-|from the same causes, not se- they gave their absolute prontise- th tralian Mounted Infantry, com- | standing the optimistic dis-|riously, the number not being | they. would make Esola. the successor pletely defeated the Boers and | patches from some of the cor- stated. Such ' conditions "must | of Lees f i ren Mayor Phelan gave way to the 1 having staried the rumor captured forty prisoners at very respondents on the Tugela River | neces:ar\l\ weaken the garrison’s P,i‘j,':c'{f,’a?’“.,: bmfigm upon _him }’1‘-”“ ool i - r velle intends even- i i e eas mbers of the present com- 7 o rec Dx’\_ Fppolntment of slight 16ss. Pilcher then pushed about the eagerness of the troops| pouers of resistance. };nd changed the commission as Tedghal et g CKInnon as Archoishop of the s . & i . - 5 2 £ rox. the datters defenss of the|on to Douglas, which he occu-|to engage the Boers and prepar- | It is understood in . well-| originally selected it to suit the ideas of e ds in the American newspapers those whom he accepted as his dicta- | Ghief Eees. wo een retained | slated and drr-ulaud’pic(lA In this position he is on|ations completed for -the ad- | informed circles that the defense tors. I¢ was his first intention to mm\,,,,d ML friokds Secting toat s B = for the purpose. it is ed it his duty to retire with the men i tha! Father McKin: | the extreme of Cronje’s right | vance, the facts are that Buller | committee of the Cabinet has | Reuben H. Lioyd a.Police Com - ) E "!:h whém he has served so many em and otherwise cause m to serve upon had been dome port the brotherhood if he is ; : 3 | S 3 A Such statemems as these create | flank and with the mobile force. has before him a .task of the ut-|had under ' consideration the sioner to_satisfy the demands of M H rs. For nearly a quarter of a century hehas i i i - ung, When ~the su orters of s ; - source of considerable annoy-: -With a force which lacks mo- n pu‘e generally, and of its artlllery protest and Mayor Phel:m <cra!ched the‘ contributed the greatest part of the effi- ctency which has made the local pelice name of Reuben H. Lioyd from his list | s e o it om of eligibles. He had also decided m‘,,_?mn LN ot 5 name D. I. Mahoney as one of the Pa- | réquired he feels that greatest in the ces are no long: he also should re- tire. He does pot wish it to be under- ‘ ! novance to -that general, espe-| bility and is dependent upon one | m particulat, and thatin conse- | ‘briest, and it Is said the num. | cially as it is reported that Meth- | line of railway and with cumber- | quence a statement will shortly | o Pitmsiat ey age’ MEGOOE T > es continuelly mcreases, o °*|uen’s mounted troops are al-|some transport, he has to cross|be made to the effect that a very | lice Commissioners, but Mr. Mahone pod il etacn ? : stood, however, that he has resigned Ha Ewing |ready in communication with|the Tugela and march to Lady- ‘large ewpendxture is to be pro-| was not satisfactory..to the friends of |} simply gone upon the retired list an <.t GOVERNOR OF GUAM kg i b led § ~d |'Esola and went the way of Lloyd. D. | may pe asked to return to active m.(, ] ABOLISHES SLAVERY "7 smith in the face of an enemy su-| vided for'in otder to make.goed | v Keily was also another choice of the [in the osition which he n'r- fl'mlfl- From reports of the fighting | perior in mobility and little infe- | Britain’s deficiencies in this re- Mayor, but fell before the Esola !0““& n}r'z’fu:;“;’m"’u‘: ‘("fl":"":‘! | there is one - prominent, domi-|rior in numbers and inspired‘ spect. SR atve - SECepti: eYca) Sacosties: o To the Honorable the Board of Poe nant fact—that the mounted in-| by succes 2 —A naval officer wh here from Guam orings a pro- ed by Captain Leirr, 1 | the new commission, before he re-|' jco Pension Fund Commissioners of he has either to turn| ~As the CO“‘"““'O" of artil-| ceived his commission, gave his sol- | the City and County of San Franecie open the > m.:’a ’1"["(;:‘ at ,,qsn;_la:rr]..fl:s] T . | fantry, this time the colonials, the hostile intrenchments or take | lery is a matter of time, : it may | emin, definite pledge to make Esola ‘;‘r’“—_’;r’n"v";':;;l‘éa d t rens o g, n and total abolition «f ’ i 8 % S | e : s . - mated that pe e. the order taking er- | can fight the Boers in their own | the bull by the horns and deliver |not be possible to ' manufacture | Chief of Police. b : pehsion under t thelr Influ- | foct : 8 When The Call makes this assertion | three &) of an cp the hemp ¢ the proclamation a.. | way and on their own' ground|a fresh frontal assault. new armament cumcnem]\ - L s what b i Sdhing: shiost of the State podiokadl. . f - ¢ Svanish svetem of peon- | \ith a good chance of success. | It is not obvious how slow- |idly for use-in:the South African| " There is now a disposition on the part ‘.‘E'I..,'l:,“',."““‘ a oo has not reached ges wuaranteed by the Americsn | Aside from this . encounter, |moving infantry are to get round | campaign, but it is said thiat the | of two members of the new commi | Cies agdE ARCHBISHOP CHAPPELLE I i | however, there appears to ~ have | fast-moving mounted infantryi defense Gommitt.ee ‘has decxd‘ed‘;‘If;“m'g]ed"{{-‘:er:s“f:,‘".r'm“{.h'o;u:“:\"‘afl = 'Hzii e TRANSPORT MANAUENSE been no other move. The offi-| such as the Boers.” Of course if | that the matter is to be pushedwnform:d that he might be apvointed a | amend an ac ARRIVES AT MANILA WAS NOT SEAWORTHY |cial report from General French it be possible - to wait another.through as rapidly as possible. = | Commissioner of*Police he was forced : . = - t -omise that he would make F. L. 2—Archbishop Chap-| MANTLA, Jnn. oce shows that the fight at. Coles- month, and if Ladysmith can| Much of this new equipment, .;;;’,'a Chisk: of - Dolice. . Williin 1 delegate to the Philip- | manding the Thirty- ;:‘,”,"”,,f,’:;‘f; com: | berg was a stiff one. His night|hold out- for that time the|it’is stated, while - being suffi| Biggy and Dr. McNutt were compelied . qh:;,a.«\; on .m. rnn.mv X‘;-‘u;'en::(‘;rlflnev Hayes, who command- | march from Rensberg with cav-ysixth division, with more: co-|ciently mobile for use in the fie]d, | to make the same _promise. and those Sherman. which satiea | ed the three companies of that regimen; : pthar kaow theseficla 068 30, 3 )0ie W |- G ORGT understand why ‘thes . wiih N Trible cxperiencer nt ey o Te0oM- | fantry, and his seizing the|arm in- which Buller is partic- | necessities of what are known as | the:exception of Biggy. who ‘admits his of San Frgichst e 8th day of April, satd city and county mu! a citizen of said ad of the 1 a"p‘vlr‘l *d and swo a_member of Polic n December 5, o o7 Poard the transport Manauense, which | alry, mounted infantry and in-|lonial mounted - troops — an ! is intended for adaptation to the vy occupiea 2rrived here on November 28 and report- ;S ippine Ad- - e o action on the ',“mn:‘R‘.I’L::‘%‘rf,":.",’:,n.:?":"r’q’,:a"‘?;','é‘fi"i,:.;‘:_i‘fi(,::‘; heights overlooking Colesherg | ularly weak—would be available, f guns of pos!u‘on. Vshow_n}_g that | glent::zles oa(rfh:?v:, r:\:u‘s:?flr}l‘e::‘ rn}n‘er:;r s friar broth- | tall the story fin;‘"x:flné_.,hn;nr;;ergpfr;;-,é: 1 to the west of the town, took the | and with full preparation by the|the l'efson Wwhich the British have | yave gone so far as to ask them if they Fi ence to obtain | #oldiers The colonel's report. which js | DOErS by surprise, as it was a|far more powerful artillery now | received from the Boers has not | have any reason to regret- what they | i 0 ity on the 2h dav of bt 2t O Ber i ‘f,:;d:;:: :;;‘x‘fifi"mfle’ s‘flfif:"&:n;'r;"r'&'-"ffl‘:firfifo?fi:'mafch only possible for .a very|at his disposal, Buller may suc-| - - :!}:;"e d;;:ldMn‘\‘al:lt‘eyxh];i'}owglér(‘i‘;;m:f twenty Sears ;T mare i the aeer ] he whole battal : - . Jase of the California Volunteers, and now | uring the passage. * T ch Were ruined | mobile column. ceed in a fresh {rontal attack. Continued on Second Page. Esola an impropriety. i;’é':,::n:ef9&;‘,;32:"2;9&:2"““03 3 2 . b2