The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. £ 2 126. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 26; 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREAT BRITAIN'S CAMPAIGN EXTREME Losses in South Up the Big Total of 16,418 Blunders of Kitchenper at Paardeberg Have Caused Lord Rob the Cold Special Dispatch to the Call 415 a. m—Ex- “unfortunate occur- Lord Roberts calls it, the killing of and the wound- ure of Lieutenant Colo- ant Colonel Codring- s campalgn mishap to fmony to their etion. They five s, whom they The Boers took refuge f their comrades five minutes y party was tle progress is belng made Mafeking. A private tenant at Kimberley 3 arch 21, announc the point of starting for presumably with the relief col- s Forrestier-Walker and f Teck have left Cape ntein. It is reportea r he capture of General i, bring out interest- o rapldity with whic ged his plans when he nje had escaped re it was origi- or ciose in upon was sent forward at the battle of ener seems to have er organizer than order that the d the blunders of acking intrenched Britishers to get rds before opening had absolutely y and uselessly and back momentarily confusion and to s to a safe dis- significant com- that have been coolness between d Roberts, which rted for the former £ka to suppress the re- MPORTANT MISSION OF BOER PEACE ENVOYS ept him, and berg Lord that Van Reenans Pass | h | PROVING LY COSTLY Africa Now Foot Men. erts to Give Him ‘ Shoulder. (44444444444 444444444444 LONDON, March 25.—The total British losses, exclusive of the invalids sent home, are 16,418 in killed, wounded and missing. B G G e B S SE S S S 4444444 +444444+ FEEE4 4444444404404 440 | obey all the orders of the military and other authorities duly appointed, intimat- | Ing that the Landdrost and sheriffs had been reappointed under the Queen. The burghers have been taking the oath of al- legiance and surrendering their arms. DUTCH SIMPLY WANTED TO BE LET ALONE BALTIMORE, March 25.—An enthusias- tic mass meeting of Boer sympgthizers held here to-day was addressed by Mon- | tagu White, representing the Transvaal | in this country, and Phillp Louter Wes- | sels, & native of the Orange Free State. | Mr. White said in part: “The Dutch simply wanted to be let alone, to live by themselves and remain free and independent, the same as Ameri- ca. The war is far from being ended. will follow shortly which will star- Even: tle the world. “General Cronje's defeat was nothing for the English to be proud of. The Boer | | general was outnumbered ten to one, and had it nvt been for the terrible situation he was placed in, the intolerable stench{ | of dead horses and mules, which was fast | breeding disease, Cronje’s gallant band would have been in the trenches to-day.” Among other things, Mr. Wessels said: “I want to emphatically deny that there is anything like a religious persecution of the Catholics, Jews or any other denomi- nation in the Transvaal or Free State. The Roman Catholic church is one of the | most prosperous religious denominations | in South Africa. A Jew Is our chlef sur-| veyor of the Orange Free State, and an- | other Jew is master of transportation of | the federal army.” DELAGOA BAY JUDGMENT. BERNE, Switzorland, March %.—The | Delagoa Bay arbitration judgment, which | | f \and New York Her- Herald Pub- ished Boer, | close, though I a relative of Presi- p weid political positions ne o e well-known generals ch. He told - mport <, some of which wed to repeat, but I can Kruger's delegates to Europe bring with n from the smail repub- | c of the United | wous Boer also de- | £ not the least dan- ying the mine. “must have been It would mean he =aid nemies our own property. as reached a very | is why we have hur- over here.” id me in confidence of delegates. All I can with the ost Brussels and then Their mission is of the utmost interna- this relative of President Kru- can: he gave to the atement, and he ans that the loss of dous. Pretoria has built on the m ¥ ¥ To take these forts w ossible. Let me tell e s never give in. They d, go north into their a sort of a desert which is wood which furnishes end- TRANSVAAL YET , EXPECTS INTERVENTION ONDON, March 2%.—A Durban corre- epondent, te phing under date of March authentic Information ¥ that Pretoria is aware forces must finally be Boers in the Transvaal k they can hold out for from x months, when they firmly be- vention will force Great Britain favorable terms, including inde- They look to Germany and the es for intervention. is being prepared for a siege. occasionally fired in order to Mines have been laid and | tions made. Prisoners there | ¢ setter treatment. They have ple supply of bread, and each man :nd of meat weekly. terfall, where there are over 3000 s. the camp is unhealthy. Shelter n insufficient, and there is able sickness. The spir- sers have been raised by tish successes brought by captives. They do not in view of the numerous | heid prisoners by the Brit- ed that blican ut th D O S e o o S SIS GENERAL CLEMENTS ADDRESSES THE BURGHERS Friday, March 22 (via | ¥y, March 24).—Gen- | red Philoppolis at noon. | PHILOPPOL Norvals Pont eral Cle He assembled the burghers, addressed | them and read Lord Roberts' proclama- tion in Dutch and English. The future | of the Free State, he declared, would have to be decided by her Majesty's advisers, but the burghers might be certain that the late government at Bloemfontein would never be restored. He advised all the in- habitants to accept the inevitable and to b * had been announced for to-morrow, has | been postponed for a few days, hecauuel of difficulties with respect to the dis- tribution of the indemnity among the dif- | ferent groups of claimants. The amount of the indemnity has béen‘ settled and the question of division is one | of secondary importance, which will| speedily be settled. It is thought aimost | certain the Court of Arbitration will final- 1y ‘leave the division to the parties them- selves WOUNDED OFFICERS RETURNED | BLOEMFONTEI —The Boers who v tenant the Hon. Elygon of the Grenadier Guards and wounded Lieutenant Crabbe, tenant Colonel Codrington and Cap- tain Trotter of the Coldstream Guards, who had ridden eight nine miles be- yond thelr camp on the Modder River | without escort, except one trooper, were | members of the Johannesburg mounted | police. ~After dressing the wounds they | sent them to the British camp in an am- bulance. . Saturday, March 24. terday killed Lieu- | | | | | 000000000 @+ eie + A exhausted the cry for “Water, wate: Bt el o s St o n WIFE OF GOLDEN WILL \UNITED STATES - ON VERGE OF sy wdas CONFIRM HIS STORY otk il S Woman to Testify Regarding the Alleged Had to Make Threats to Prevent ° o 1 ° i t' T Conspiracy That Resulted in the Hssass"g;’ff'i‘c’;’rsf’f o Murder of Goebel. . @Ot +0+0-00+0+6 Serious Complications Over the Arrest of a Boston Absconding Bank Teller Were Narrowly Averted. O+ 404090+ 0+000-+0 i Militia Leaders Arrange Plans to Prevent a Clash. ’ —— . ~o Special Dispatch to the Call OSTON, March 25.—Chile and the United States have trembled on the verge of war over the case of Fred Moore, the Boston absconding bank teller. This startling fact was disclosed to-day for the first time by Ho- ratio N. Allin, the well-known Boston lawyer, counsel for Moore, who has just returned from' Chile. Police Inspectors Andrew Houghton and John Harris of Boston were marked as victims of Chilean retribution for the “Balti- more incident.” Hundreds of natives awalted the opportunity to assassinate them while they were in Chile in connection with the Fred Moore case. The authorities were notified that if harm came to them the deed might precipitate international hostilitles. The Chileans are bitterly hostile to tne United States in consequence of the ‘“Baltimore massacre,” and never have forgiven it. Inspectors Houghton and Harris were marked men before ever they set foot on South American soil. All that the Chilean natives knew of them was that they came as representatives of the United States to claim a fugitive who had sought refuge on Chilean sofl. So bitter is the feeling between the United States and Chile that the Fed- eral authorities hesitated for a considerable time over the wisdom of further irri- tating the Chileans by asking for Moore's return. They had not misjudged the situation. It had been a long time since two United States officials placed themw selves so recklessly at the mercy of a Chilean mob as did the two Boston inspec- tors. - They laughed at all precaution. at first, and their escapes were many. The city authorities and the Chilean newspapers both threw their sympathy with the mob. Mr. Allin sald to The Call man to-night: “They cared nothing for peril or threats, yet they were In a city where ev- erything conceivable had been done to inflame the mob against any representa- tive of the United States Government. The natives of European nations residing in Chile had not permitted the opportunity to be lost to stir up feeling against the United States. The two representatives of our Federal authority thus were easily marked men in a city teeming with a species of men that would calmly hire out to commit a murder for $25. The officers kept the big flve-shooters on their hips primed and well ofled, and they avolded going slumming at night.” “What was the nature of the motice to the Chilean statesmen?” Mr. Allin was asked. “They were notified that if the threats of wiping out the ‘blot on Chile’s honor' by making victims of the Boston men were carried out, there would be a new ‘Baltimore affair,’ with all the disagreeable details—and perhaps a few more that attended the original one, when war had been the alternative if Chile did not settle our claim for damages within a limited period of time.” conditionally. At the end of the war Great Britain will possess the finest army in her history. This, however, must not lure the nation from the fertile flelds of trade and commerce into the stony wastes of militarism. LATE ALLIES ARE NOW BITTER FOES ;KIPLING’S TRIBUTE TO A WAR CORRFSPONDENT LONDON, March 2.—A Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily Mail, tele- graphing Saturday, says that Rudyard Kipling, who Is hard at work assisting to edit the newspaper Friend, conducted "by SCENE ON THE MAIN STREET OF KENTUCKY’S CAPITAL. R e e R L R O R I S O S AR SRCaw SRS SO SR SRCER SRR = I = 3 f [From a Recent Photograph.] the war correspondents, has cor:]t::b:!«: the ith af > kS The sensational trial of the men accused of the assassination of Senstor Goebel has drawn crowds | {:;;.l;;rfo;lxo;.mv'v.lg.?w?n-. the famous | LONDON, March- 2%.—A Bloemfontein ¢ of people interested one way or the other in the outcome to Frankfort. The portrait on the left is of representative of the Dally Mail: correspondent of the Dally Telegraph, in % Caleb Powers, Governor Taylor's Secretary of State, of being one of the leaders in the “Through war and pestilence, red slege | * Jispatch m‘" B e 4 to.assassinate Goebel, while that on the right is of F. Golden, a Republican, who has turned o and fire, " hig | Strong is the popular feeling here that, ® state’s evidence. Silent and self-contained he drew were it desirable, a large body of Free + ~ breath. w of courage; his desire | Staters would take the fleld and fight im- Brave not for sh - SRR o S A o o S S SR R S A g2 e [ e R e e e R e A SRCSR =% ® Truth as he saw it, even to the death. mediately against the Transvaalers.' RANKFORT, Ky., March 25.—Not- withstanding that troops recogniz- ing the dual Governors were quar- tered “within two squares of each other—the Republican troops at the State House, under orders from Re- publican Governor Taylor, and the Demo- cratic troops at the court house, guard- ing prisoners Powers, Culton and Davis, under orders from Democratic Governor Beckham—the day was quiet. Republican Adjutant General Collier and Democratic Assistant Adjutant General Murray were | together some time this morning. General Collier called to disclaim = responsibility for the mine which some of the soldiers made a pretense of laying, but it Is under- stood their talk took on a wider scope, and that they discussed - and mutuaily agreed upon a plan to avoid the possibility of any sort of a clash between the troops. The examining trial of the Republican Secretary of State, Caleb Powers, will be resumed to-morrow morning. Sergeant F. Wharton Golden, who, it is alleged, turned State’s evidence, will continue on the witness stand for cross-examination, his direct testimony having been complet- ed on Saturday. When he is through Mrs. Golden, his wife, will be Introduced as a witness, also for the prosecution, and it is reported that she will corroborate her husband’s testimony on many important points. The physicians who made the au- topsy on the body of the “late Governor Goebel probably will be introduced-also as witnesses. The introduction of Mrs. Golden will prove a surprise, inasmuch as it has been the Impression from reports sent out from Barboursville that Mrs. Golden was angry at her husband on account of his confes- sfon. Since his illness in the courtroom Golden has completely recovered and was on the street to-day. Defense Will Not Show Its Hand. It is the general impression that the de- fense may make no effort to controvert Golden's statement in the examining trial. An examining Judge needs to have only a reasonable * suspicion of’ guilt to' bind a prisoner gver to the Grand Jury, andas it | numerous other persons have at various | | | PR | BRITISH CAVALRY 1 ENTERS THE TRANSVAAL | LONDON, March 2%.—A dispatch to the Dally Telegraph from Kimberley, dated Sunday, March 25, say: “Prisoners brought in here report that ¢ British cavalry has entered the times been suspected of having fired the | 3,i07C% 0 47 penetrated to a point elgh- fatal shot, but the prosecution has not yet teen miles north of Christiana. The Brit- e S e e | i&h forces at Fourteen Streams are being Republican Adjutant General Colller to- | strengthened. A movement northward is | day denfed that mines were being laid | expected soon.” around the arsenal and the Capitol MRS grounds, and in an explanatory communi- | MUST CONTINUE - THE STREAM OF TROOPS is evident Judge Moore has this it would | be folly for the defense to show its hand | before the real trial. The whole of Golden’s testimony tended | to throw suspicion on “Tallow Dick” Combs, the colored barber of Beattyville. Combs says he can prove his innocence, and is willing to go into custedy if wanted. Harland Whittaker (white), Combs and | BADEN-POWELL REPORTS ALL WELL LONDON, March %.—The War Office has received the follo'ln" dispatch from Lord Roberts: “A telegram from Nicholson at Bulu- wayo states that Baden-Powell reports: “*All well to March 23. During the last few days enemy’s cordon much relaxed.” ™ The Nicholson referred to in Lord Rob- srts’ dispatch is Major John Nicholson, commandant general of the British South African police, stationed in Rhodesia. s 2oteS MAFEKING CLOSELY INVESTED. LONDON, March 2%.—Lady Sarah Wil- son, in-a dispatch from Mafeking dated Wednesday, March 14, says: cation to Democratic Assistant Adjutant General Murray General Collier sald that some. indiscreet men at the arsenal had LONDON, March 26.—Winston Churchill, in a dispatch to the Morning Post, says: “It is imperative to continue shipping dug trenches and made a pretenss 6f lay- work was entirely without the sanection or troops to South Africa..The stream should konwledge of General Colller, and the men engaged have been sharply* repri- ing mines to create a sensation, but the manded.. never cease until the Boers surrender un- | ‘“We have received news of the rellef | of Ladysmith, but it serves to Increase our disappointment, as there is no pros- pect of our relief. The town remains closely invested. The Boers are reporetd equipped for the purpose. Tank cars are run on the railroad, and from convenient points tank carts are sent to the shows a couple of Kaffirs with a mule-drawn water cart making an eighteen-mile run to the fighting line. to be very numerous and strongly in- trenched between us and Colonel Plumer’'s force. Some of the natives are dying of starvation ;owing to their prejudice against horse flesh.” The Daily Mail publishes the following from Mafeking, dated Wednesday, March 14: e ot okt Sl on e e o B ot S b ot e o e i ol i o e e an an A e o e e e e e e e el e e e et I | | | | “We are still being heavily shelled. There have been several casualties. Skir- mishing continues in the trenches. The native food question is becoming a diffi- culty. The Boers have broken the ar- rangement to respect the Sabbath by not firing and have seized the opportun= ity to extend their trenches.” oot NORFOLK TO THE FRONT. LONDON, March 25.—The Duke of Nor- folk, Earl Marshal and Chief Butler of | England and Postmaster General, will safl for South Africa next Saturday as an of- ficer of the Sussex Yeomanry, which he has been Instrumental in raising. The Duke informed a correspondent that he will not command the regiment. He is Heutenant colonel of the Second Battal- fon of the Royal Sussex Regiment, but has heretofore been unsuccessful in his efforts to go to the front. iradl-bemmact CATS HURLED AT SPEAKERS. BRADFORD. Eng.. March 25.—An open alr meeting convened here to-day by Boer sympathizers proved an utter flasco from thelr point of view and was turned inteo a huge patriotic demonstration. The pro- Boer speakers were unable to obtain a hearing. Dead cats and other unsavory missiles were huried at them and they were violently hustled on quitting the latform. Despite the presence of po- Ecemen there much disorder. o i ALL LOYALISTS ARRESTED. BARKLEY WEST, Saturday, March 24 —Griquatown was reoccupled Thursday by 400 Boers. A column left Kimberley yes- terday (Friday) to drive them out. It is reported that all the loyalists there, including the women, have been im- prisoned. —_— SACRAMENTO’S PLANS : FOR BRYAN’S RECEPTION 4 ® : i : .f ’ RUSH ORDER—WATER FOR THE FIGHTING LINE. The exigenties of maneuvering on the South African veldt often keep the troops awsy from any water supply for hours at a time, and vhu't. the contents of their canteens are T,” goes up all along the line. It is the duty of-the Army Service Corps to make mflmpt provision in this line, and they are splendidly