The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1900, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 147. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BASUTOS ARMED BY BRITISH TO RESIST BOERS Three Thousand Natives Sta-| tioned on the Border, Near| Wepener, by Order of the| Resident Commissioner. Will Be Utilized Only to Prevent Inva- sion and Are Not to Be Permitted to Cross the Frontier to Ravage Free State Territory. Rl Br44 4444444444444 44444044344 4244444044044 4 444100 - + ) ¢ + - - > + + + D444 4444444444444 44404434444444444440404444440 MAY CAUSE TROUBLE BY JOINING BOERS - arm permission 2 his alleged purpose f the B of beco rs in the f RUM [ ORED VICTORY OF BRABANT'S HORSE il 16.—The he Daily LONDON t is in circulat nt has inflic Boers at Wer prison- correspondent of the g y, says: “It is nforcements for the 1 sixty wagons, have arrived sdorp, en route for Wepe 1ld precipitate an action atement that President Kruger south seems to confirm the reports the Boers are getting disheartened 1 exertion of his personal ars now to have become a T be TEXT OF ROBERTS’ PROTEST TO KRUGER MFONT! IS WELL AT WEPENER BURG, April d _yesterday: s apparently slacken- as if He cases o the pri srmside’s division en- een miles east of the rail- supposed to be in the vi- an attack by them is improb- - Diamond Mine Owner Captured. WARRENTON, April 15.—Frank Smith, vell-known mine owner, fell into the of Boers while driving from Bark- oward the Frank Smith dia- aced in an open sh and that it was or r threatened to resign d mattresses were sup- esident Kruger to things and contrasts t the British give the and wounded, who, | GAS MAIN EXPLODES “receive the same | WITH FATAL RESULTS wn soldfers.” e ers who had taken the oath| One Man Is Ins from further co-operation with | were found signal-| ley We mond min tantly Killed and Five Others Are Seriously ¥ " at Karee Siding and | Injured. - rought here. | LOGANSPORT, Ind., April 15.—Too | much pressure and a piece of defective | Bas pipe in the mains of the Chicago Pipe | Line Company at a point four miles south- east of here was the ¢ plosion to-da TOURISTS NOT WANTED IN SOUTH AFRICA| use of a terrific ex- . in which Michael Ellison Jr. was instantly killed and five other | ONDON, April 15.—Joseph Chamber-|men received injuries from which It is s ¢ State for the Colonies,| doubtful if they will recover. Twelve men were in the trench repairing a leak in a ten-inch main, from which the gas llowing dispatch from Sir British High Commis- sone S . had been transferred to an elght-inch ~ in near it. The men were around a . s J‘;"f"m’;)”:":c;"l"“fi “T" in the eight-inch main, and Ellison % s have no particular call of | WAS Stooping over it when the pipe ex- ‘ busine sure this would not be | Ploded. His body was found 150 feet alized at Mome that vis. | away. Many bones were broken and he probably met instant death. times would be most | Vzo,rge Morrison, who was in charge of conditions, become < e - 3 the work, was sent sprawling on inconvenience, interfering | ground thirty feet away with gravel b e military and civil offi- §ln blown into his skin. His body was m our limited means | wrenched and his clothes torn and tat- tered. Will Briggs inhaled gas and was taken home unconscious. Three laborers were knocked down and bruised in g frightful manner. The rest of the men escaped with slight injuries from flying dirt and rock. The * welghs 1000 pounds and it was carried a distance of fifty verform here or t the front e increase in the expense of liv- times very high—is caused by this f visitol s i& & hard- ship to persons of the latter class. After saying that there is no place less suitable for recreation than South Africa feet. The explosion tore the ground for a qi. tance o?m feet and was heard for il = @b e SNAPSHOTS [~ d D e S e T e o 0 o o e L S S S Y AP PP WP S S R R B e e S R S R S R S R SRR S I SECRE SO S S S S T S S SRR S L B e e SN = QUIET EASTERTIDE FOR has | BRITON Lord Roberts Now I?éady to Give the Ufa-jMa//-C'arr/er Bri R e e e e Sl e e o PP AT THE SOUTH FACING THE BoERS, CHIEVELE> IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS ON SCOUTING DUTY 1 | AND BURGHER ‘ der for a General Advance of the 15. — Colonel | Invading Forces. : Special Cable to The Call and New ¥ ork Herald. Copyrighted, 1900, by | the New York Herald Company. . DON, erly April 16.—England walts ON ea for war news, but cor but at work. its immediate neighborhood the British army is enjoying a comparatively | quiet Eastertide. Preparations for the | general advance are being actively pushed | and indications are that Lord Roberts is now. able at a moment's notice to con- centrate an overwhelming force against | the Boers to the southeast or wherever | they may elect to make their stand. The severity of the recent fighting at Wepener is proved by the reported heavy casualties sustained by the little garrison —eighteen killed and 130 wounded. Colonel Dalgety’s men continue to hold their own, | but the Boers, who are surrounding them, | apparently had not up to Saturday given up the siege. General Chermside’s division was still at Reddersburgh on Saturday, but Gen- | eral Brabant with the bulk of his force left Aliwal North that day for Rouxville. | In Cape Town it was reported yesterday { that the Colonial general engaged the Boers and had captured men and guns near Wepener. It does not seem likely, however, that even his quick moving col- umn could have reached that neighbor- hood in so short a time. Lord Methuen is still at Boshof, which, in conjunction with the fact that the crossing of the Vaal at Warrenton re- mains in the Boers’' hands, would seem to upset the theory that a column for the relief of Mafeking has gone north through Boshof. Thus the mystery surrounding the plans of the military authorities to reach Baden-Powell remains as dark as ever. . All seems quiet in Northern Natal. The Boers apparently have abandoned for the time being their intention to push south. ‘Winston Churchill telegraphs to the little | Lord Roberts is still silent, | In Bloemfontein, and | _Post from Bloemfontein, under|his Saturday's date, reiterating his opinion | the war is bound to prove an expen- ive husiness. He says: Two hundred and Afty thousand men will be | needed before the end Is attalned. The ques- | | tion of remounts will continue one of vital im- | portance. Great, numbers are now arriving, { but, owing to the fact that they have to be put | | to work before time is given them to recover | from the effects of the voyage, their condition |is low and the death rate among them high. | Thousands, therefore, will be wanted In addi- | | tion to those now here or on the way, and great [resting depots must be formed, together with | an ample staff to nurse and exercise them. If that is done, then, about four or five months hence, you will be able to give your cavairy a new lease of life and strength. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily News, telegraphing Saturday, says: “President Kruger attended a conference of the Boer commandants at Brandfort on Thursday. It is belleved that a de- cision was reached to withdraw the Transvaal oforces to the north of Vleit River, preparatory to a general retire- ment across the Vaal River, if hard pressed, leaving the Free Staters to their own resources. COLONEL SCHIEL’S VAIN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE ST. HELENA, ‘April 15.—Colonel Schiel and two other Boer prisoners were landed to-day and sent to the citadel in conse- quence of an attempt to escape. It ap- pears. that Cblonel Schiel bribed a boat- man to take a letter to a Dutch cruiser, but the boatman by mistake took it to the British cruiser Niobe. A large knife was found In possession of one of the three. Colonel Schiel walked t. the citadel, declining a carriage placed at | Michael, thence to Andraoefsky, s disposal, “ ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR” AFRICA. - GUNS CROSSING THE Moo Riwv SIGNALLING NEAR B B B B e C C SCSY SICSS S S DY EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID FEVER AT CAPE NOME : IN 00000'-0@.2 oER ER .. B O S ST A A B B g R S S N T & T s 4| i b dl 4 3 bd ° + > 1 0 4 * - ® ENsuUIN @rPOereteD et Do ngs News of Sickness an Gold Strikes in the Northern ? Mining Special Dispatc ICTORIA, B. C.. April 1 lier St. Paul, which r. Comox _collleries Al | rier from Cape Nome. | rier, Loyal L. Wirt, is the first man to| come down this season from the new El | Dorado by the ocean route and the last who left Nome to reach the “outside.” | Mr. Wirt left Nome City on January 10 with the Alaska Commercial Company's mail and had as a companion as far as Kodiak, where he found the St. Paul, Cap- tain Worth, the Alaska Exploration Com pany's mail carrier. The captain took a steamer to Juneau, and should be down | by one of the Alaskan liners shortly. They were fifty-three days in making the trip from Nome to Kodiak, traveling, however, but forty days, thirteen days being spent In resting. Mr. Wirt describes the journey as an outing. It was very | cold, of course, the thermometer at St. Michael registering 40 degrees below zero and running from that to 20 below during the trip. On the Yukon a heavy snow- storm was experienced, which greatly re- tarded progress, but, on the whole, the weather was good and free from storms. | ‘With the exception of ten nights, when | they slept quite comfortably in their | sleeping bags, lald on a snowbank, the travelers got their nights’ rest in Indian | —The col- the cabins. They had a good dog team and | Several beach claims were worked with | carried their own food, the stock being replenished five times en route. There is plenty of game to be had, food for dogs is plentiful and the Indians are friendly and kind. The two mail carriers traveled by what is known as the Katmel route, which Mr. Wirt says is the most practicable winter route to Nome and fully a thousand miles shorter than the one via Dawson and Skaguay. They went from Nome to tmsL m hera they made a three days' trip to- Camp. h to The Call. Kuskokwin River. which they followed to Bristol Bay, an arm of Bering Sea. From there the route continues to Nuskagak, thence across the peninsular range of mountains, which is on the main land op- posite Kodiak. They reached the latter place on March Mr. Wirt erected a hospital at Nome and a busy season he had of it during the winter. There were 300 cases of typhoid in the city during the winter and 125 werg treated at the hospital.. In all thirty per- sons died of the disease. This sickness and the shortage of fuel—beach wood, and poor beach wood at that—selling for $40 a cord, made the lot of the miners not an enviable one. There were 3000 people in Nome on Jan- uary 10, but many were coming from Dawson and Kotzebue Sound. Those from Dawson had very hard trips and at St. Michael Mr. Wirt heard that many had perished, although this could not be con- firmed. All the ground within 100 miles of Nome has been staked, but there is, much country outside that radius which will amply repay the prospector. Many néw strikes have been made and are apparently very rich. There was little work done during the winter on ac- | count of the scarcity of fuel and thawing machines. A few boilers were taken from steamers and launches and in this way considerable success. The report that prospectors had turned from Siberia with an account of fabulously rich ground on the far side of Bering Sea, Mr. Wirt said was absolute- ly false. A party left for Siberia a few days before he started, but none had re- turned. When asked as to the prospects of steamers which have already started for Cape Nome, Mr. Wirt said that i would lrflwanble to reach there before June 15. owever, there is open water at the head of Norton Bay, 100 miles east of Nome, and by May passe: be landed withun fifty miles | In reinstating he | has requested tha re- | night on a steamer to take charge bod: n?er: mgm has not been recovered and the nv-"lfi of the city, |be dragged. JAPAN SENDS HER PAUPERS T0 AMERID United States a Dumping Ground for Destitute Asiaties. NOT PERMITTED TO CONGREGATE IN CITIES SRR Municipal Governments Assist in Ridding the Little Empire of an Undesirable Element. PRSP Caill Special Dispatch to The e e ] VICTORIA anese are sti terday the ste brought &0, a Goodwin B il 15.—Jap- » here. Yes- Maru 1 passage A AR R R R affect Its fr Japan. Mar bia Premier. sald tha election tion wi migrat don to ment did Many of th crossing the States. + Br44444444404040444404040 ACOMA —~Yokohama ad- vices bre ¥ by the steam- er Rio J at r itable soc probably, the munieipal « Japan ] cities are taki id in the shipping of a large r ¢ Japanese pauper la- borers to The Japan Mail says that destitute Asiatles are not al owed to corgregate at Yokohama and Tokio, but across the Pacific as fast as p Frequently s done by one of the numerous Japanese emigration compa- nles, which appeal to friends or relativ of destitute Japanese for a sending him to the United St he is certain of getting work at compa tively good wages from railroads a other corporati The emigration ties are chiefly t obtaining their regv relatives of the me hand, are willing t toward placing him where he c himself and tk 1 of further co cern in his behs The Japan M two Turks who shipped from Yo with the contrib in supportin Yokohama. ported lar became interes connection with frigate Etorgou money for shipy REINSTATEMENT OF MRS. WHEELER ORDERED Must Be Restored to Her Old Posi- tion in the Boise Post- office. contribute wreck He them t has Californt Special Dispatch to Apri BOISE, Idah 15.—The contro- versy between Postmaster Fe and the Civil Commission and ent over the d Postoffic of Mrs. Sencerbox ice, the de make the ¢ they are un ne him n pu It is said t J at he opened a letter se: milton, the notorious woman who w y re sponsible for th ¢ itor and Recorder Lamort Mrs. Wheeler was ordered some time ago, but the signed her to a position r old position he > be on duty o tinuously from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. and sh will appeal to the Civil Service Commi 5 sfice Tow has ere- 4 a sensation Is sald the Post liable to find himself in before long because of his the authoritie ted in the history of ivil service, and it is doubtful if the Postoffice Department ever ran across a more stubborn customer. AMERICANS SHREWDER THAN LORD SALISBURY British Press Comments on the Ne- gotiations for the “Open Door” in the Orient. LONDON, April 16.—The Daily News, commenting editorially upon the corre- spondence between Great Britain and the United States on the ‘“open door” In China, which was published in a blue book on_Saturday, s “It gives a strong impression that the United States recognized Lord Salisbury's incapacity to respect the tendency toward a partition of China. The honors are de- cidedly with the United States, which took a much firmer and more impressive tone than had characterized the squeezable Lord Salisbury’s previous communications with Russia and Germany. - Boatman Drowned. Special Dispatch to The Call ANTIOCH, April 15.—The owners of tha schooner Energy anchored in the river op- posite Jersey Landing sent a man named Oscar Johmnson up from the city - T of the boat. Johnson lingered at Jersey until he had consumed more liquor than was good for him, when he started from Jersey in a small boat to pull over to the Energy. He then attempted to put some supplies which he had brought with him in a skiff over the side of the Energy, and in 5o doing_lost bis balance and toppled over into the water. Bill Hand saw the acei- | dent from the Jersey shore and started | across to his assistance, but he sank from view before Hand reached him. The