The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1900, Page 15

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 1900. 15 SCIENTISTS MARVEL AT THIS ABOLISHES STORY OF THE NORTH POLE -THE SYSTEM La Joie Gives a Straightforward Description of His OF PEONAGE Alleged Adventures and of the Strange M Race He Discovered. P’;’,f}:";f:;?;‘éi?,i‘i,}?;fi?* Special Dispatch to The Call. Guam. ————— Practice Declared to Be Nothing Short of Slavery and Ordered Ceased After Washing- ton’s Birthday. RS WASHINGTON, March 17.—The follow- ing proclamation has been issued by the Governor of the isle of Guam: To the' Inhabitants of Guam: In issuing this decrce the Government desires and earnestly invokes divine blessings and guidance in its official action and in the dally pursuits and occupations of the citizens of Guam. By the cession of the isle of Guam to the United States of America all of the authority, power and responsibilities of soverelgnty were transferred to this Government, and in trans- forming and organizing the ' new political Dower the surest and spesdlest route to suc- . March 17.—The Herald TTOW present the and most remarkable of Arctic adventure and that has ever come out rious land which surrounds | Were it set forth in fi d be noteworthy in the last would rank for vividness of for daring range of human | the best products Jules Verne. b Canadian, Joseph Zotique la y name, believes that he has dis- To this he is will- and take solemn e claims to have € in language, in in appearance from the known world. great Northwest Territory, whither Ta Jole accompanied him at the age of 18. He was raised to the life of a hunter and trapper. Inured to the intense cold, hard- ships and exposures of northern winters, he yet inherited the warm blood and love of adventure which pertain to people of Latin descent. He was bred to maintain existence undefl conditions which can be endured as a rule only by the Eskimo. In December, 1886, according to his nar- rative, La Jole and his father startedl from Montreal for Battleford, Northwest Territory. Leaving his father in Southern Canada, La Joie started on a hunting an trading expedition out into the far nort} west. After three years' hunting through British Columbia and Alaska he arrived at Great Bear Lake In the fall of 1SS but he was unable to get ashore. On the morning of the thirty-seventh day, having eaten six of his dogs and suffered many torments, La Joie found that the berg on which he had drifted had touched land. He got ashore with the remaining dogs. He says that the farther north the berg drifted the milder became the cli- mate. Attacked by Natives. That night La Jole was awakened by the barking of his dogs. He jumped to | his feet and fouRid that he was surrounded by a tribe of copper-colored natives, who were shooting at him with bows and ar- rows. La Jole was armed only with a knife and club, but his double suit of skin protected him from the grrows. The next day they weré willing to treat appearance in the United | Game having grown scarce, he determined | for peace. La Jole held two wounded na- | CoSS. Prosperity and happiness for the in- ates, some five months ago, he has been | to push further north with a partncr, a | tives as hostages, and the fact that he | abiants of this taand b b rmeioies. tha St Canubu arded in order that the | man named George White. | trea them kindly allowed him to put | constitute the basis of free American Govern s on might not himself, through a little diplomacy, on |ment. Honest labor, with just compensation, digni- fied by faithfui consideration of the mutual in- terests and welfare of all concerned, should in- sure prosperity to this community; whereas, the exigting labor-degrading svstem of human bond- age and unjust, indefinite servitude or peonage, permitted during the late Spanish control in this island, Is in faet.a system of slavery, and as such is subversive of good xovernment, s an obstacle to progressive civilization, a men- ace to popular liberty and a violation of the sacred privileges guaranteed by the comstitu- tion of the United States. Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested In me by his Exceliency, the President of the United States, 1. Richard P. Leary, captain United States Navy, Governor of the {sland of Guam, do hereby announce and pub- licly prociaim absolute prohibition and total abolition of human slavery or peonage in the jsland of Guam on and after the 224 day of | February, A. D. 1300, and all persons are nere- | by commanded to comply with the requirements Adrift on an Iceberg. Leaving the mainland, they crossed Un- fon Straits to Wolloston Land. With sleds and dogs they pushed across the frozen al elements of con- | straits and island during the following straightfogwardness. More. | three years to Grant Land. Toward the mpossible to conceive that he | spring of 1592 they found themselves near | ? it aueht b enviable | Cape Brainard. Hunting in this vicinity, they learned from the natives of an iron post left by some explorer. On this they found the following marks: “Eighty-two degrees of latitude Jorth, 8 degrees longitude west.” To the north of this a few miles they made their camp in May, 1892. This camp was established at the junction of two immense icebergs, and White proposel ome 1l a thorough was set afool or falsehood of story is simple. good terms with the remainder of the party, which consisted of about forty-five. He describes the men whom he joined as belonging to a strange race, speaking a tongue entirely unlike that of the other natives whom he had met on his travels. Their complexion, he states, was of a red- dish brown hue and their eyes and hair were either black or brown. The men were very large, averaging more than 6 feet In helght. Their Clothes Were made of skins and shaped after a strange | fashion. They took him to their camp, in which as a big tent framed of whalebones and covered with whale skin. He remained in the camp five months and learned a few words of their language. “I lived two years amon, Joie, “and le(lfn(‘g | | [ | | | { | { ing that | t stands | explorations s of predictions and | theoretical explorers an first attempfed polar reglons. tioned by Scientists. | Ques the natives,” Bos 4 in New York | that they separate and each take a ten|says La in that time | 3 | lamation. Eion ithe: Saowt ey on these diverging points of | their lanzauge and how to read their |, this Proclaral oot T hereunto set my hand s and men d the best hunung. La Jole, | hieroglyphics. T then determined to re- | and have caused the seal of the United States turn to civilization. naval station, island of Guam, to be affixed. Done at Agana, isle of Guam, the st day of January. in the year of our Lord 1800, and of the Independence of the United States of ‘America the one hundred and twenty-fourth. o RICHARD P. LEARY, United States —t Masonic Meeting. Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. WOODLAND, March 17.—A big meeting of the Masonic fraternity was held at Madison this evening. Large delegations from Woodland and other towns in this county were present. A big banquet was served at midnight. 1 ordered the people | to build me a boat. This was constructed of whaleskin. It was thirty feet long, five d four deep. upon the return journey with two ives. To go over and detail my s during the subsequent period ¢ months would be merely to repeat in lesser degree the sufferings of the trip to the island. The great change of cli- mate as we came south so affected the two faithful fellows who were with -me {hat both died before I reached the main- and. returning, félt on the seventh day a mendous shock, like an earthquake It meant that the ice had parted and that hs drift. Admiral Melville the other day in‘Wash- ington agreed that La Jole's description | of this phenomenon wWas accurate.) i The berg drifted to the north. For three days he lived on fish, hoping against hope | that a wind that had sprung up from the south would drive him back to the main- nd. For a period of thirty-six days he | 05" )} 3 Nekalek, Alaska, 1 b X, . In the fall ys, amid terrible storms | of 1304 I there sold my boat for a train | of dogs and journeyed overland through sighted on several occasions, | Alaska and British Columbia to Ottawa.” versed with mains in Wash- | ¢ and at the re- of the Smith- | .a Joie is now un- gid and searching ex- e experts of the United I whose opinions 1 prove almost contest the truth hing story of vy, Governor. ou have seen our advertisements every week since the first of the year telling you of our made-to-order suits and over- coats for $18.50. Possibly you have not ordered as yet. If you have not, we want to talk directly to you for your and our benefit. You believe in success—everybody does. w our sale has been very successful. We have received orders from hundreds of people for these made-to-order clothes. In every instance we found the customer pleased with the value. He realized that he was getting $17.50 worth of clothes for $13.50. The cloth for this sale was bought before trade prices went up. We purchased largely, make the clothes at a special price and this double saving amounts to about $4.00 on a suit or overcoat. Don’t you think that if you are in need of a suit or overcoat and want a value, our sale offers you just the advantages vou want? Suppose, then, that you get our samples—pick out a neat spring pattern. You will be pleased. STRIFE IN THE OFFICE OF TH CHRISTIAN DAILY ES N o9 Stockholders, Quarrel .Over the Future Policy. of the Capital. SRS Attempt to Perpetuate Rev. Mr. Sheldon’s Methods May Lead to Injunction and Dam: Suits. e Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. TOPEKA, Kan., March 17.—Rev. Charles M. Sheldon’s experiment of conducting a Christian daily newspaper reached a sen- sational and spectacular climax here to- day. Some of the stockholders want the Topeka Capital continued permanently as a Christian daily. Other stockholders op- pose the idea and insist that the papet-. 1esume its former methods. Several con- ferences between the directors were held to-day, but no agreement was reached. Each conference augmented the bitter feeling. Both sides are standing firm, and several damage and injunction suits are threatened. Indications to-night are that endless litigation will ensue. Rev. Mr. Sheldon endeavored to act as peacemaker to-day, but his efforts were futile. After several attempts to come to some agreement it was finally arranged to hold a stockholders’ meeting on Mon- day. However, no adjustment of the aifficulty outside of court is probable as both sides declare that no compromise Is possible. Popenoe Will Not Recede. The trouble was®brought on by F. O. Popenoe, president of the company and majority stockholder, who announced last night that the Capital Company had decided to adopt Rev. Mr. Sheldon’s methods and continue the paper as a per- manent Christian daily newspaper. He | sald the stockholders consic d Rev. Mr. Sheldon's experiment a success and, be- Meving the time ripe for a religious daily, had decided to adopt his idea. 1t seems that Mr. Popenoe did not con- sult all the stockholders, neither did he mention the matter to General J. K. Hud- son, editor in chief of the Capital; Harold T. Chase, associate editor, or Dell Keizer, business ‘'manager, who are also heavy stockholders. It Is these men who are creating the trouble to-day. Aill three threaten to bring suit if the Christlan daily idea be pressed. Mr. Popenoe was seen to-night and ask- ed iIf he had ary additional statement to give out. He replied in the negative. “Do you stand by your statement of last night e was asked. o. “Will the Capital be continued as a per- manent Christian dally?” . “It wilL.” Others Are Indignant. General Hudson, Mr. Keizer and Mr. Chase are eq':.m]l positive in their asser- tions that the Christian dally idea will not be consummated. General Hudson claims he has a contract with the Capital | Company the provisions of which are to the effect that he is constituted editor in chief of the Capital and has absolute con- trol of its politics. The contract, he says, | covers a period of years and calls for a | salary of $5000 a year. He says he not | only was not consulted in regard to the roposed change of policy but that he pos- tively disapproves of it. He is extremely indignant and declares he never will sub- mit to an abrogation of his contrac neither will he surrender his editorship. In other words, he declares he proposes to hold the Capital Company to its con- tract to permit him to dictate the policy of the paper. ‘Mr. Keizer assumes a similar attitude to that of General Hudson. Next to Mr. Popenoe, he is the heaviest stockholder in the company. He declares it would be suicidal for the Capital to attempt to, be- come a religious paper. “T will never consent to jeopardize my stock in such a foolhardy scheme,” he de- clared to-night. “The scheme was all right for a week, and proved a moneY- maker; but as a regular thing it woul ruin the per. The other stockholders can't work any ‘con game' on me. If they want to run a Christian daily news- paper let them buy my stock. If they do not I will fight the scheme to the bitter 8. en: For the Money There’s in It. The scheme of having Rev. Mr. Sheldon conduct his experiment with the Capital here this week, it now develops, was first | conceived and cleverly planned by Mr. Popence. He is t#¥ financial end of the Capital and he is an adept in the art of Judicious advertising. His idea now is to take advantage of the free advertising the Capital has been receiving and establish a religious paper that would have a cir- culation throughout the United States. 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Unupx- many famous poker games, this one was played for cash. The game was played at the aldorf-Astoria Hotel. e participants were: John W. Gates, Josepn Leiter, L. L. Smith, John A. Drake and two others, whose names could not be learned. proponuox: in the center and ‘without ‘‘openers’ deal each of the players with a check valued at $100 mt wr tinally “broken” tl sl ~ essed 5 Mr. Gates, being first to s af that his Stter here was gus hand was worth ,_and had dropped out Mr. his cards also wel worth Mr. Draks opined that Leiter Scares 'Em Out. Young Mr. Leiter was seen to be ner- vously fingering the hand that had been dealt to him. He showed symptoms of having received a smile from Dame For- tune. He offered the opinion that his friends could each have another guess. Then he pushed $15,00 to the center. Soon there was more than $50,000 in the pot. Lelter looked across at his old friend, and, Temembering the wheat deal and Mr. Armour, remarked: “John, when a man has reached your age he should quit his bad habits. There is only one way to break a man of play- ing poker, and that is to make It too expensive for him. It will cost you Just B it my(fxm'iooked at the card opponent then 3 pl\',lo It had not hel ten. He has 1 Detore, and it took him quite five to make up his mind to “lay Drawing a long sigh, he finally , T guess you have "em. T'll quit.” Had Only Two Sevens. As uired, Mr. Gates, being the opener, shovrethhu hand. Then Leiter could net restrain the impulse to/ chuckle. showed down two sevens, an ace, a tr and a king. It had been a superb blwif, successfully carried out. ym that moment the game went Lei- ter's way. It continued. with enforced in- termisdions, for five days and five nights. During_ that_ time millions of dollars changed hands, being shuffled back and forth across the table. The play was finally broken about two weeks ago, when Mr. meE ;‘nd Mr. Drake were compelled Ao Unteslo. 'hen a final reckoning was made Jo- seph Leiter had recovered about all that he had lost on the train on the way East. Perhaps he bad a trifling balance to his was “plui minutes down.” sald: “Joe, That incident in which the two sevens | He | credit. Mr. Smith, who had played in uniformly good luck, was $1%,000 winner; Mr. Drake and the two unnamed players aggregated winnings of about $60,000. NEGRO ATTACKED BY A GEORGIA MOB Doors of the Marietta Jail Battered Down and a Hundred Shots Fired at the Man. ATLANTA, Ga., March 17.—A spectal to the Constitution from Marietta, Ga., says that a mob of 120 men battered down the doors of the jail at that place at 1 o'clock this morning and went to the cell where John Bafley, a negro, was confined and fired about a hundred shots at him. Bailey dropped to the fidor at the first fire and only three or four balls struck him., He will die. On Thursday afternoon, a mile from Marietta, Bailey met Miss Amanda Snell- grove, a yourg white woman, and In an attempt to outrage her, beat her savagely. She screamed for heip and the negro fled. He was arrested and taken before the young woman. She identifled him as her assailant and he was placed In jall to be tried in a few days. g Money for Boers. SANTA ROSA, March 17.—A large |crowd attended an entertainment and meeting In Germania Hall this evening, the proceeds of which will be sent to heip the Boers. The opening address was made by Jay Willlam Hudson. oo o Tannery for Petgluma., PETALUMA, March 17.— Carl Willen of Redwood City, who is to start a tannery in this city, was here to-day and has upon all conditions, and expects to commence building April 1. Cuticura Soap 15 Cents. NO MORE. NO LESS. And this price every day in the year. SEND FOR 100-PAGE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, Paine’s Celery Compound. . . ... 75¢ Baker’s Honduras Sarsaparilla Hood'se Sarsapariila. 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