The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 102. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. A ] [@HHHHHE 4L 4L HHEH I E P IR S P P e D[MU[HATS i CZAR SEEMS TO BE AIMING AT ENGLAND. | : ; \ \ i | LATEST UKASE BRITISH AND <EXAMINEHS Russian merchant ships in the Black Sea have been called on for resetve. The Russian cruiser Schernor--ret: 3z, URBAN'ZINE LOOKS A GOOD stationed at Constantinople, has received orders to hold itself jn readiness for immediate service. % 2 + + 3 -3 + : « C ONSTANTINOPLE, March 12.—A ukase of the Czar orders the rapid mobilization of the Russian army and navy re- i % serves. This movement appears to have for its objective India and North Asia Minor. The sailors of a number og RUSSIAN FLEETS T % $ ps & ® : DEAL LIKE WAR /4 JOSCOW, March 13— aisnatch ;r:)mofl::nan. annourices that twelve British battleships and four crulsers ARE MOBILIZING . TH[IH AHMY ifir0¢¢49¢¢04#f?¢0?’1flw9m¢0?00******9”%%0?00'0##*—#&#% 3 AH[ AT UUTS Btate Guard Being Formed‘BOERS DEFE ATED BY LORD ROBERTS LE AVE iState Office-Holders Strike by Governor Beckham | ' Back at One Au- at Frankfort. ‘ Lthfr_. Bepublican Militia Being Steadily ‘m-Orplnn Claims Are Contested i \Driven From Thelr Works at the Point of the Bayo-‘ T o Mountains. Them. —_— | SERELINGIN—. reasrors s e o net After Stubborn Resistance. — move on the part of Governor Beckham's SACRAMENTO, March 11.—The decree followers toward the formation of a| has gone forth from the State Board of g vy Mg rrap o g | []RIETFONTEIN, Orange Frec State, March 11, 6:35 a. m.—Broadwood’s cavalry brigade, advancing on Bloemfontein, unexpectedly found the Boers in a strong | Examiners that_the #0000 worth of laims T ! o . Sk i ke syttt | position in the Drietfontein Kopjes yesterday. General Kelly-Kenny’s division arriving, severe fighting ensued. ' The Boers resisted stubbornly, but were driven ]fm&";on'?fie”x’n prive g Bl o v .. e s et | from their center position, leaving a number of dead and forty prisoners. The British force is moving forward to-day. During the fighting, in which five regi- | 1o e finee hies which put them n pr ! - through claim agents, want their money most of them bvems either| ments took part, with artillery, the Boers, though forced from their center position,.clung tenaciously to the other kopjes. shelling the British freely with three guns | (o s cjaim ssents. want their money Vinchesters. | = report gained cirewta- | and two Vickers-Maxims. The British cavalry began to turn the Boer position, but night fell before the movement was completed. The Boers retired during the | Yane. secretary of the Board of Examin- N e Bk et 80 ers, declines to approve any such clatm to arrest Governor Beck-| Night. : e, firwilcion lo 1908, ant M. Kevaiie Mg = =t X clicegs o Ethe Dimeseatic LONDON, March 11.—A dispatch to the War Office from Lord Roberts, dated Drietfontein, March 11, 7:15 a. m., says: am;’:,‘i',. but he is locally resarded as the en solisted 19 Cuptxin Max- | “The enemy opposed us throughout yesterday’s march, and from their intimate knowledge of the country gave us considerable trouble. OWing, NOWEVEr, | &aze in maticrs amtecting the inances ot in as spectal potice for {0 the admirable conduct of the troops, the enemy were unable to prevent us reaching our destination. The brunt of the fighting fell on General Kelly-Kenny’s 6 Wats. _ The detenmingtion. of. S Kevane may therefore be accepted as T i auarcered ai wne| division, two battalions of which—the Welsh and Essex—turned the Boers out of two strong positions at the point of the bayonet.” conclusive of the stand of the administra~ AR e f4 ttes A dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Drietfontein, March 11, 9:55 a. m., to the War Office, says: Secretary Kevane and. the. members-of pos 51 the botsl to oftar | “I cannot get the precise number of casualties before | march, but will communicate it as soon as possible.* The Boers suffered heavily, 102 of their | ii%ui’tue aticuse of this bureas respect: w WA RN dead being left on the ground. We captured about twenty prisoners. : {5 R ; R . e by rof oy gy A e guard Jouse, were reinforced “Among the killed are Captain Eustace of the Bluffs, Captain Lomax of the Welsh Regiment and Mr. McKartie, a retired Indian civilian attached to Kitch- The connection between the two may mpa wtyone men. all of whom| _ener’s force. Cotared o' Ve suscoatilhe o Setn: s Sined _sod suttaped. Moce “Amonrg the wounded are: Buffs—Colonel Hickson, leg, severe; Lieutenant Ronald; Welsh Reglment—Lleutenants Torkington, Pope, Wimberley; EsseX | "3y v . camitiar tact that state con- oked for to-night. The Pine- panies are expected| . Regiment—Captain Brownwood; field artillery—Lieutenant Devenish; medical corps—Major Walte, Lleutenant Berne; Australian Artillery—Colonel Umpheley, ab- | trolier Colgan hay “heid up® the claims 3 nam this afternoon ap-| dOMen, dangerous. I e e T o ey “A large number of Australians were engaged yesterday. The First Australian Horse Brigade, with the Scots Greys, advanced within 800 yards of the and their approval by the State Hoard of xaminers. "ol olie al Boers, under heavy fire. The New South Wales Mounted Infantry joined in the pursuit of the Boers-northward.” attitade on the stryngth-of s eplain ve: 4[5 : g 4 : * | dered some time ago by Attorney General This “ L Spectal Cable to T Ch il e N Tk (@000 0000000000000 0404 00040400000 400000+0-004040+6+0|command in the west from Gen- | Ford as to the tenure of the Commis- his was’regaefieh as eis Hoewld. Oeprrish, 190, 'by-the New. Yok { | sioner of Public Work under the law pass- inderstood that Colonel Herald Company 1% eral Clements, will collect the od by the Laglelsture of 196, intment oo ao-| i |+ co prsent s | ONDON, March 12—+ | Tenth Division on the Orange| Easy Money in Sight. " ndi that e | | 4 s . o s e News from South Africa ;: River north of Colesberg. When | i omee of the State Contratie oud: has been for years. Mr. Douglas has a General White unites his forces‘mm"r e B e P s he will have Generals Hunter's, | ot the flrrln of P’b"":, o Dongieh. deted y B | agents. t is asserted that throug o Warren’s, Gatacre’s and Bra-| business of collecting oid claims due the R e : countles from the State for the support of bant’s dw‘s’o'fs' | iAidigents and half orphans this firm has The Morning Post’s corre-| grown rich. In one instance—that of the i 3 | Yolo County clalms—it is asserted the spondent at Drietfontein, tele-| frm of Pyburn & Douglas realized a clear < > e | profit of some $6000. In the case of Los graphxpg Sunday' says: | Angeles County, it is declared, another “The fight, throughout was | 36000 was cleaned up by the firm. s Those who are commenting on these much involved. The enemy evac- | matters at this time assert that it is not | extravagant to say that the firm of Py- uated and reoccupied posmons,‘ burn & Douglas have realized some 350,000 - | Or $30,000 In commissions from the coun- subtly concealing - their inten ties on back claims due from the State. tions and only withdrawing their | it is aiso asserted by those who think that i 3 .| the engineers of the Commission of Pub- guns a few minutes prior to their | jic works should be paid, that no legal H : obstacle was raised by the State Con- impending capture. Their guns|gosiacle as rased payment of these outranged ours, the naval brigade | 0l claims, on which the firm of Pyburn e . . & Douglas drew down commissions of 1§ not arriving in time. Our cav- | per cent, although with most of them, since they ran far back as twenty alry horses were completely tired | years, the atatuty - of Tmitetitos et by ‘the repeated withdrawals. The | have been invoked by the Controller's of- this morning, in addition | 4 jail here charged | to the confirmation of the report | ¢ e e e ?:;‘, % an | that Presidents Kruger and Steyn i® o )ul’hAh‘ and takem to| < S acsisn 5 have made overtures to Great !X le under a heavy | Britain looking to the ending of | ¢ d they will be kept the April term the war, at the same time invit-| + hen they will b ing the intervention of European | ¢ . =T powers through their consular| LEXINGTON CALM AFTER representatives in Pretoria, tells THE STRIFE OF SATURDAY | of Lord Roberts’ successful at- i1.The sabbatn | tack at Dnetfontem,‘dn\'mg the storm which | Boers back, and of his successful night threat- . . The adopt- advance to Aasvogel, which is nd Powers in A z % eakfort puts an ugly | Only twenty-five miles from for the prisoners, in | in. of their friends here, Bloemfont_eln . | ain that they did so | This action practically puts the from the I 1 Goebel 4 + alege woula work | Free State capital at the mercy of in securing a fair the British. Lord Roberts’ vic-| | fice were the desire present. now that in this tory over the Boer rear guard ap- | pistakes, as both .. { Jeence of any con peared to have been decisive. The | i o ot Coebel 222 burghers withstood the cavalry; and horse artillery of Generals| )mi;;rzg[o[l;.ru'l:!;:;a | Colville and Kelly-Kenny, but P o ey o | were turned and dislodged by'the I men are very calm | infantry. The Welsh and Essex | gl R | regiments drove the Boers from \Q;TF::,‘ ‘g‘;’;;g "{: their mtrenc}t;ed positions at the, ould like to have | noint of the bayonet. ey E‘f‘cz‘?::‘;":“;:l:hfs The British losses are un- - known, as the troops continued e O T oy e*™e | to advance, but Lord Roberts Jbe warranis| a5 telegraphed the names of a| arrested last | few officers. The Boer losses \{, “ma recurmatie | must have been considerable, as| ¢ ock ity says ne | 102 Of their dead were left on the|? iy an examining | field. he does not think 2 3 ive their trial for several| Aasvogel Kop, which the Brit- | nt of the excitement. . . 3 ) o Buter stated that he aia not|ish reached last night, was ex-| men would be taken back | nected to be the last place at| o ; mot, however, until the ex- 2 { trial is over here, which will|which the Boers would make P4+ 0040000000 O s * B q \0 | & [+ B¢ e ‘o p that the local court has no % 5 3 3 the prisoners will then | their stand before Bloemfontein. 1 , Frankfort 3 4 | 3 O ht, with soldiers st [ 1t would appear that no such| safl. The armory is deserted. | stand was made and that Rob- are in the hands of |hl local duty at the Jjail mel | erts’ cavalry are now practically e vlur. dpt 5 : ‘IJ:.’\ fon | at the gates of Bloemfontein and‘ e ety | the "way $0 the capital is now | o-night tha se will take no | open to the whole force. ase there wiii | ry au"mnrm wna 12, The insurrection in the west of | e to do it by force. This be pressed, as the prison- | Kitchener is now on the spot tal oved by the time Colonel ol ing steps to suppress it. An inde- ks are that Governor Beck- sued no orders and wili | City Volunteers “and the War-| 1tucky Regiment returns from s regiment which will be | 10, to this date are as follows: about the jail and the armory tain Calhoun of Company and will rewct any order from | Fticadiiss e e ere to-night. but | rebels and a force- composed of | 3 ays he will do all in his = . Withains ot lhc‘\uckshire Regiment. e fing & ciaen oz | The British reported casualties yncile. Captain Longmire, oo il aal 1he Rty [Killed ..... sonssun O IS UIR e ety i TS | WOWIIRD. . sosis T B 8.747 battation will make ¥ public Dl;d'of disease.......... 1,029 _decision be cannot do otherwise | Missing ......... . 3.483 her source in con@ict with his | Total ...vvnnrnnn. i 15,677 el Williams s a Republican and | The changes in distribution of THE SOUTH AFRICAN “DUST DEVIL.” Not the least of the troubles whick the British troops on the Orange Free State border have to encounter are the which at this season of the year are very prevalent. tornado, moving straight across the country, and then again like the cyclone, traveling with a rotary motion. quantities of fine sand and dust are taken up and driven with terrific force, blinding for the time all eyes, ruining food and clothing, tearing up tents and overturning the lighter vehicles. many such visitations. [ @0 000000000 0000000000000000000000000000+0+04600000000000+0 enabled | the center of the Orange Free newly constituted in the south’of the same State, {and that under General Buller in General White will have annoying and destructive duststorms, They are at times like the -+-0-+-¢ 0‘\:0 The troops along the River have had ( —0—0—%0—«0»—0—044—0—0'—0“—0—044—0—0—0—0—0—0‘“ B I R R e e R e S S S S R SR = under him, for- General Warren and his division upon landing at | was fired and the officer fell.” army. corps, under General White East London will either join or lief of Ladysmith Lord Roberts to make have near- | State, been completed. k- ithere will be three large British armies in South Africa, the main | Natal. cisive action was fought Tues-|One under the field marshal inlavery large assemblage of troops y move the State capital here, | Jay near Britstown between the‘ .uoxsnsemsusasanwmmmmfifiufiasnmwauusuu PRESIDENTS OF THE REPUBLICS VAINLY INVITE- lNTERVENTlON des to take the arm- Cape Colony is spreading. Lord | i1y In a few days | LONDON, March 12.—The Daily Mall has received the following dispatch from Pretoria, dlM Saturday, March 10, and censored by the Boer Government: “President Kruger und President Steyn have wired to Lord Sallsbury peace »ropouh on evndman that the inde- pendence of the two republics be respected and, the.rebel colonies amnestied. “‘Yesterday the forelgn Consuls ‘were called into conference and were requested to Invlle “the intervention of the powers they represented in order to prevent further bloodshed.” - The overtures made by Presidents Kruger and Steyn to Great Britaln looking to the endlu of the war and their juropean powers, through their consular ' representatives " at Pretoria, - have both met with a chilling reception. The British Government has sent an uncompromising answer to/Pretorta, and Berlin, Vie. na and Rome newspapers reflect’ “official opinfon by stating that if President. Kruger still ‘hopes for interven- tion ‘or arbitration he is cherishing a delusion, as not a m simultaneous Invitation for the intervention of E: mumnv.mmunummmu-mmm- turning movement was begun late. . The enemy attempted with | heliograph to lure us to occupy a kopje which they held, but, de-| turned.” The Daily News has the fol-| lowing from Aasvogel Kop, dated | o March 11: “The march was con- | tinued to-day to this point. Boers were seen on the way. The | raised.” flag treachery was personally wit- nessed at Drietfontein by Lord The New South Wales Mounted successful attempt to capture a is not improbable.” Roberts, who was looking through a telescope when the Welsh were charging and saw| the Boers hold up their hands, | show the flag and drop their! guns. He saw an English officer | advance to receive their surren-| der, whereupon a Boer yolley | Infantry made a gallant but un- gun... According to the latest re- ports another engagement to~dayi y,.d to be refe Boers must have had five hun- | dashes would be essential Many of the claims now held up in the Board of Examiners are of the same character as those mentioned. Many of | them, it is asserted, have been gathered | up by the firm of Pyburn & Doug? Legal Objection Found. The Controller’s office declines to allow tecting the deception, we re-| ne Board of Public Works' ciaims on the | ground that a legal obstacle exists to their payment. The Board of Examiners, as | represented by Daniel Kevane, locretu’{ decllnt! to allow these back claims in favor of the counties put in by Pyburn & Douglas and others because it is declared | the statute of limitations applies to them. Thus the situation stands, and it gives romise of some Interesting developments, No | ¥ lecretary of State Curry, a member of the Board of Examiners, declares that the State Controller and Deputy Douglas have acted entirely within their eonception of British are now only twenty-five | the law of the case. and, in fact. this seems to be the general view. But the miles from Bloemfontein. One | salaries of the engineers are unpaid and the old claims of the counties, submitted of the Boer prisoners says the in part by Pyburn & Douglas, are being | held up: ‘and the circumstance has fur- siege of Mafeking has been! mished a breezy topic in and about the itol I? lhe opinion of M. A. Nurse, chief en- gineer of the Commission of Public Workl. A dispatch to the Daily \Iall were to be given. with an attempt at lit; from Aasvogel Kop, dated Sun- day, March 11, says: “The white| gral reproduction. the frequent use of d Mr. Nurse to The Call representative to-day: Ford’s Opinion. ““Attorney General Ford told Frank | Ryan, the present Commissioner of Publle Works, that he thought the claims of my- self and Colonel euer, consulting !n- gineer, ought to be paid, and was will and anxious that they should be paid. My uln claim is $800, that of Colonei Heuer esides there are traveling expenses of $40 and $100 for the assistant ne-:reu‘g | of the board for four months, in all $l | Spenger Wilkinson, in the!! Morning Post, says: “With one hundred dead at Drietfontein the A dispatch to the Times from | Drietfontein, dated Sunday, says: | support General ‘Gatacre, whif®| “The storming of Alexander | General Hunter, takmg over the | Kopje by the Welsh was a par- ticularly fine piece of work. The| mobility of the Boers in moving their guns was very remarkable. o e & 8 o £ o | These claims were passed upon by the auditing board and submitted to the State Board of Examiners. The Governor ap-: proved them and said he would encourage their payment. One day Colonel H-uer and I went into the Controller's office t» pay our respects to Mr. Colgan. We re- marked something about having to wat a while for our pay. whereu Deputy Controller Douglas sald: ‘Send the cl‘lms down to us and see how long we will hold them up.’ From this remark Colonel Heuer and myself inferred that the Con- troller intended to draw warrants for our claims. The Board of Examiners approved them and a long wait ensued, Juring which Deputy Douglas went to San Fran- cisco to see the Attorney General about the claims. The latter said that he was willing and anxious to see them paid, hut he did not wish to commit himself to a written opinion. Presently we received the ultimatum of the Controller's office - our claims would not be paid. “Our special grievance is the refusal to give Gotonel Heuer the salary due him. It was only by the most repeated persuasio | that we induced him to become the con- sulting engineer of our board. Colonel Heuer stands bigh in the army engincer- ing corps. He has had charge of big gov- ernmental - work on the llnl-lspl and Ohlo. rivers. We knew he woul value to }u lnu’vflrr‘l on t.::e B.enm and San Joaquin rivers, since our ?rrrd to _the river board of rs, whose members were often far red, and he was in a position to tur- m them. He declined to accept any sal- ary until Secretary of War Alger seut him permission to serve. “Deputy Controller Douglas blocked our way from the first. He wrote to Alger on ml-dovm account to ask if Colo.al Heuer could aceept a salary from State while he was on the salary lvl r muufiunufimm cmmfidnflemdmo Continued om Second Page Continued on Third Page the British forces which the re- | guoapomsomomcs s nszcssonsons o ORISR R S SOOI B I gic