The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME I.XXX\TIT——N(I 155. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, RUNDLE’S RELIEF FORCE CHECKED BY THE BOERS Roberts Finds It Necessary to Send Aid to the Coiumn Dis- patched to Wepener. - as well as four wounded-yesterday lanation of the apparent dis of the Worcester Regiment. April 23.—General Bra- 1t Bushman’s Kop yester- I when darkness fell. figures « utflanked the B ent had not comply C rit rces, apparently infantry, were seen approaching ms with a vic f surrounding the kop. Colonel 1t at Wepener WFONTEIN, Apr ore proceedi son not m lested to-day. eneral Pole Carew occupied He met with only 24— Lec ] The strong body and h by delayed the advance on The Morning Post. commenting upon the | aifficulty Roberts is experiencing, | = asserts the wisdom of arranging for a dy flow of reinforcements. The report that Boer commando was Wepener than around them.” The Daily Telegraph has the following Communication with Kimberley open.’ The Cape Town correspondent of the Bloemfontein. further south. | tured Paarde | is still e Boers evacu- he night, remov- ated Let force i= the only one going to the relfef ing their British occupied | of Mafeking, and that no force of any the koj ne kind is operating from the south. Although the r to be offer- e stout resist British advi G o = wneroi iy can | PATRIOTS DEBATE ON scarcely delay further th ward without ir ir retreat north- the risk of being BENEFITS OF VALOR ) cut off. Usuaily they have been well in- formed regar@ing the BDritish plans and | poER CAMP, THABA N'CHU, Orange they are not likely 10 run such a risk, es- o] th $ pecially as they have partially accom- Free. Sthje, Apiil, S+ Vistiing Soblinges wilished their object In drawing large Continued on Second Page. forces from Bloemfontein on long marches | ot nd, as the at Frankfort proved to be without foun- s roing T dation, but evidently there is a large force | e cuities of | opposing Lord Methuen. s always appear | The Bloemfontein correspondent of the times big ones— | Daily Telegraph sa *“The resistance of = | the Boers at Leeuw Kop was contempt- . Thaba N'Chu, | ible, considering the strength of thelr po. | <h supply of can- | sition. They escaped In an easterly direc. = renched General | tion, the guards failing to get quite from Boshof, dated Monday, April 23: | oned in Lord Rob- | “The Boers are closing fa on Boshof. | War Office, is fif- | Their nearest laager is five miles distant. Daily Mail says that General Carrington’s | | FESTETICS WD CREW M Wrecked Yacht Tolna Reach Suez. | | | | nd degrees char from the r while the | the islands el separates Minicoy 1 yrthernmost of the Maldives, cadives lie to the north of The islands are of coral for- MATIVES OF INDIA RPE FOR REVOLT Starving Mob Attacks a Force of Soldiers at Shappur. Died of Grief. CHICAGO, April 22.—John H. Clough, former State Senator and a pioneer in the | | mation, surrounded by recfs. The larger | packing industry in this city, died at his | are well wooded with palms, but the |home on Michigan avenue to-day. A Ift- smaller are mere barren islets. Altogether | tle over a week ago his only son, Carlos they sustain a population of about 15,000 Mohammedans, subject to a Sultan, who | sends tribute to the British. B. Clough, died in Californ} pr in very poor health. and the loss rated the father, who was himself ONDON, April 24.—George Douglass Cempbeil, Duke of Argyll, died this | morning. | | George Douglass Campbell, the eighth Duke of "Argyll, was born at Ar- dincaple Castle, Dumbartonshire, Scot- land, on April 30, 1823. As the head of the great nouse of Campbell, one of the old- est and most renowned of the Scottish peerage, and the father of the husband of one of the Queen’s daughters, he has well | been reckoned ome of the leading noble- men in the United Kingdom. Besides this, however, he well ecarned in other ways the distinction of being one of the | foremost noblemen of his time. Before he succeeded his father in 1847 he had be- come well known as an author on politi- cal, economic and religious subjects, had made his mark as a politician and gained | renown as a_public speaker. He carried | more titles than any ather nobleman in | | Scotland. With Lerd Rosebery he had | the honor of being both a Knight of the Garter and Knight of the Thistle, a dis- | tinction _enjoyed by no other nobleman. | He has filled many positions of honor in- | cluding those of Lord of Privy Seal (1853), Postmaster General (1855), Lord Rector of Glasgow Universitv (185), Secretary of State for India (185%) and’ Master of Her Majesty's Household in Scotland. His Grace was @ frequent speaker in the House of Peers on such subjects as Jew- ish emancipation, the Scottish marriage bill, corrupt practices at elections bill, sugar dutles, foreign affairs, ecclesiastical titles bill, Scottish law of entall and the repeal of the paper duties. His writings on the subjects mentioned above have been voluminon~ He is probablv best re- membered for his religio-scientific contro- versy with the late Professor Huxley. in which he was widely credited with hav- ing come off victor. be B e RS SR Y | DEATH’S SUMMONS | THE DUKE OF ARGYLL FOR @+ 0+04-04040+040+@ ® The Late Duke of Argyll. e S SRy S Sy = @eodod e ebsieieieg The Argyll estates, to Which the Mar- quils of Lorne now succeeds, comprise 170,- 000 acres besides larie properties in Lon- don, Glasgow and ot was thrice married and leaves three sons and six daughters. - To illustrate the esti- m mon people of of an old ck being hg‘nrnaad th':t" marry the Queen’ “Ah! what a_proud must be this day.” er cities. rhe Duke ion in which he was held by the com- n Scotland the story is told in Glasgow, who, on 1I's son was to ughter, remarked: woman -the Queen (EASELESS * NPOLR G PANESE Each Incoming Steamer Lands Hundreds at Vicloria. l UNI His Action Believed to demnity CONSTANTINOPLE, April 23 can mis: onariexs at Kaarput an WASHINGTON, <k The State Department the Ass. no -k ary property at Kharput. Kk tlement of SR TS AT ASATS S AR TR < ALL HEADQUARTERS. WEL- LINGTON HOTEL, WASHIN TON, April 23.—Turkey has again admitted her liability for outrages suffered by missionaries in Arme- d has promised that she will pay dam, demgnded by the United States, Mr. Gris faires in this effect com, American Charge d'Af- has cabled to the Department of State and his message was the subject of d cussion at the Cabinet meeting to-d At a conference which Mr. Griscom held on Saturday with the Sultan the latter liy repeated what he has on three occastons said to Minister While his declarations do not change ation, the an are satisfled that the Turkish opreciates that the United | States 1 earnest apd it is the purpose to continue the pressure which has been | applied in order to secure prompt ment. It is emphatically denied by officials of | the State Department that the Sultan has | promised to pay the claims on the condi- tion t they be placed on the same basis those which European powers hold against the Sublime Porte What missionary authorities are in- clined to regard as more important than the payment indemnity is the nego- tiattons for the re-establishment of the mission school at Harpoot. So far as ne- gotlations for indemnity are concerned. it is stated that no ultimatum has yvet been presented nor will it be. provided pay- ment is made as promised by the Sultan. It is stated by the authori that there 1= no occasion for discussion by the Buro- pean Cabinets of their attitude in the event of the ¢ ch of an American fleet to Turkish waters. There is no present | intention of going to war with Turkey. Information which the authorities re- Constantinople, to ally the ith or ttle- £ | | | erts, which is across Boundary Bay from Blaine. this point there are but a few isolated acres of United States ter- ritory A special from Ottawa to a local paper says: “Sir Wilfrid Laurler in the House to-day read a report from Mr. Parmlee, Deputy Minister of Trade and Commere pointing out that the great bulk of Jap- anese in British Columbia were merely in transit.” JAPAN MAY PUT A STOP TO EMIGRATION number of Japanese arriving here since | Government Believes That Effiux of of the Japanese. As a result of investigations made here and at shown that Vietoria and Vancouver are the distributing points’ for the incoming hordes®and nothing more. percentage remain in Canada. bound to the United States and the United States contract labor and pauper immi- gration laws are being openly violated, for hundreds of the Japanese are coing un- der contracts. Some go to work in Cali- fornia, but the greater percentage come to work on the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and some other American rail- way lines. The systems of getting the undesirable immigrant into the States are many. On the arrival here and at Vancouver the most presentable are selected from the crowds and these are carried In comparatively small numbers by the ferry steamers running to Seat- tle or by the Seattle and International Ratlway from Vancouver. Many hundreds have gone over the border in this way during last week Of the modus operandi of beating the pauper immigration laws T. H. Yamma, proprietar of a large Japanese employment agency here and at Vancouver, says: t Is eas pose a San Francisco, Seattle or Tacoma agency wants Japanese. They send here or to Vancouver. They go to men who build railways and when they get work for men they telegraph how many men they want and we send them right away. We give each man $3) so that he can gat past the United States Immigration in- spector and when passed they give the $30 back to an agent, who sends the money back to us and we | can give it to the next man. That's how we do it.”" Other revelations came to light to-day in connection with the underground rafl- way system over which hundreds of Jap- anese are nightly passed across the boundary. It has been shown that they go to New Westminster and Steveston on the Fraser, ostensibly for the purpese of fishing for the canneries or building sal- mon traps, and under cover of darkness numbers are nightly rowed across the boundary bay from the mouth of the Fraser to a point near Blaine. From this point they make their way by the railway train or through the woods to Whatcom. whence they walk to Sumas. Others cross the International boundary to Point Rob- We all work together. Sup- | the men have been | Its Commander Reports a List of Casualties| T b i par st e Ry TELL OF GREAT PRIVATIONS| REPELLED WITH DIFFICULTY MANY CROSSING BOUNDARY H <Ly i ; AViw | 4 Al i (918 99 )i £ the Patriots. % | | Breeivisioioioosebotdtsbeiesceéotedededed | e | 3 o 5 - 1 Pleasure Craft Burned to Save It | Made Desperate by Hunger, Famine Provided With Funds by Immigra- S From Being Pillaged by Na- | Victims Become . More Ugly tion Agents to Prevent Their . tives of Minicoy and Europeans Are i» Being Barred eos ;g € Island. Danger. Paupers. . - PRS0 Ll * e | ¢ nd New York Her-| CALCUTTA. April .—The latest official Special Dispatch to The Call. 3 the Herald Pub- | reports from the famine districts say that 1 | the misery existing there is indescribable | VICTORIA, B. C.. April 23.—Follc » The steamer Birchtor. | and unparalleled, and that the present re- | close ind the steamer Milos, which é ¢|n Count Rudolph Festetics | licf is quite inadequate. They add thai | Saturday landed 1000 Japanese here. 4 | and two of the crew of the yacht To the mortality among the cattle is so se- | other coolle steamer laden to her capacity o | recently wrecked in the Indlan Ocean. | vere that the authorities are trying to | with a human cargo of 1050 Japanese im- - o | arrived nere this mornine. | adapt farm implements so that hu migrants arrived at Williams H 1 quar- P 5 The C is in perfect health. In an | Power can e that of bullock antine n this afternoon. This . erview he sald that he would proceed | @ drastic measure has never before the steamer Braemar, one of the Northe o » board the Birchtor to Port Said. His | 3 n the greatest scarcity of | Paclfic liners on the Portla o . © ht, the Tolna, was wrecked off Mini- was diverted from her usu this t - Island, which les to the north of nced that the native in order to accommodate t num- ® Maldive group. The Count and the ¢ feelings and are at ber of s e passengers booked by h . & | crew remained on the island for two | opeans. A great crowd on iriday | for this port and Vancouver. Of the 105 o | months under most trying circumstances, | erously attacked a party of soldicrs | on board the B there are twenty- ¢ + | undergoing great privations. | at Shappur, the milltary center of the | two who are allegcd by Japanese here to 0 B R e O O O I g ¢ % 2 2 > 3 o . b ® . t ¢ - . - 4 . P * - . ®© * @ . * PS . * ¢ o * ps . L . LR NS P S i 2 . . - BATTLING ABCUT WEPENER. ° . 2 ¥ TWC KS NOW COLONEL DALGETY'S FORCE, ® : LITTLE TOWN OF WEPENER, + . LAND BORDER, HAS BEEN, 2 - {ING, FORTIFYING AND 4 =~ © 2 NS OF RELIEF FORCES b IR AID. THE SITUATION g ; § Di THE MOST INTERESTING IN THE WHOLE 21 iF ESENT TIME b g e RS e A ! : +i e et e ,4_$ K i RS P o S 3 1 late this afternoon is- |3 GUERRILLA WARFARE IN THE ORANGE FREE STATE. 2 From R, lated lo Fonte i rom L . dated Bloemfontein, b4 WHATEVER TACTICS ARE FOLLOWED BY THE BRITISH REGULARS IN COPING WITH THE BOERS, ¢ " 2:50 p. m., as foll “Yesterday I dis- | | THE BRITISH COLONIALS, LIKE. WASHINGTON'S MEN AT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT, ARE FOLLOWING THE b pat vision under General Pole-Carewv and the |e METHODS OF THE ENEMY, WITH VERY SATISFACTORY RESULTS AS COMPARED TO THOSE ACHIEVED BY [ B e B :, |+ THE REGULARS, WHO STILL CLING TO ALDERSHOT FORMATIONS. & General French from this pomnt to assist | ® 1 > G- 00000000000 -04000000000600040600-00+0+-00-0- The force reached Karriefontein without much o SR i e S 1D Gocn g e et ras 3 - d ey s The first steamer to be sighted by the | northwest provinces. The soldiers were | be coming under contract tn some orange iaiaacs reporied: i Count and his men was the Birchtor, a | rescued with difficulty, and in an uncon- | planters in Califo ese are booked Rk , B ) g e R o Jpn | British freight steamer of 300 tons, on | sclous conditiof. direct to San Francisc The greater ¢ t—Private kill Captain . Prothcro Motley | pr'on froes Shanghal via Singapore for | = One district lost 1,000,000 cattle out of | number are booked to Vancouver: more 2 md seven mer | New York. She went to the rescue in| 120,000, and almost numberless human be- | than six hundred arg going there. The answer to signals of the shipwrecked | jng< were found dead from starvation. In | others are divided bet¥een Victoria, Port- wounded. ew. All of the crew of the Tolna were | aqdition children were found wandering in | 1and, Seattle and Tacoms B e saved. With the exception of two attend- | a1 directlons. homeless. naked nnd eona.| The: Empress of China is coming close g ( ne ants upon Count Festetics, the men were | cintaq and cases were reported of children | After the Braemar, with 680 of the tiny e sent home around the Cape. In order to | iine cola. The officlal reports fully con- | Brown people, and following her. having : save the yacht from. being pilaged by | arnSu G0 fores of the. terrible na- | 1eft a week Iater, Is the Tosa Maru, on dytillora Tr0 7 ;m\m = of Minicoy Island the Count pre- |4 ro (6% Gictress. | which, according to cabled advices to the | i ; erred to burn her. el : 0y | officials at the quarantine station, there < 7 AR = - LONDON, April 25.—The Viceroy of Tn- | °ff » Dragoos ——/"‘u..r“.u‘t Jenkins, and ten men MIsSINg. The yacht na has had a most ro- |d|;\ S ‘_”r; ey, i o ams | are no less than 16m. This will bring the L " Roval Artillery broke an arm by a fall. |mantic career. The yacht wa e 10 | rainstorms have not improved the situa- A T : o the Count’s bride, Miss Ellen Haggin, by | tion: that the demands for relief are in- | the Deginning of the year to nearly 10,000, ( mownted infantry seized Leeuww Kop, a h»r“rmm-rI There were many adventures | creasing, but that the arrangements for | (;:«rl of :‘)'n-w- mn'rr:‘ ‘?;.(‘ h?!l{ have arrived 4 & iy . % at Honolulu and Samoa before the Tolna | relief are equal to the increasing strain, | QUTing the month of April. g ¢ ir last night's position.” The.en- | reacheq Japan, where the Count and BERLIN April 23.—At i ting of | A Veritable emigration fever seems to g e 1iles ol N | Countess resided for some time, and both | leading financiers and manufacturers to- | BAVE struck Japan, & fever similar to that % : the crew and its owners passed throuzh | ¢ under the presidency of Dr. Koch, | Which entices the American to Cape Ru reports that tweenty-five men of the First |many perils in varicus cruises underta president of the Imperial Bank, it was | Nome. Emigration agents are distributing . : > In eastern and southern seas. The Mal-| gecided to raise a fund for the relief of | Printed copies of letters and photographs J ( ere sent with Wood to an out- | dive Isiands, the “Thousand Isles,” are a | (yc gog o Toure ® T4 08 the relief Off ¢om Japanese ~ agents on this side Lt , S ornad s TR ’ 4 | chain of islands In the Indian Ocean about | \rooene subscribed £20.000. ~ | throughout Japan and this has caused the § eigl reiuined. wer numbers . an 3% miles southwest of India. The eight | PT* 5 ’ el big stampede to America, the Cape Nome Vancouver it has been plainly | A very smali | All are | | | Laborers Is Due to Rivalry Be- [ tween Companies. | WASHINGTON, April Information | has reached Washington to the effect that | the Japanese Government itself, and with- out awaliting a request from the United | States, is about to take steps to restrict the emigration of Japanese coolies to the United States It is asserted that the figures relative to this emigration have been magnified, and that, as a matter of fact. there are now not more than about 1500 or 16,000 Japanese within the limits of the United States outside of Hawafi. It is sald that such emigration as has lately cccurred has resulted entirely from the competition of the two great Japanese immigration sc cleties—that the laborers have been prac- tically brought here under the delusion that there were untold opportunities for work at great wages. The Japanese Go: ernment is Interested in protecting its people from the hardships resulting from such impositions, and that is the reason it intends to establish restrictions upon United | the outward flow. It is saild, however, that the Government would never contemplate with equanimity legislation by the United States directed exclusively against Japanese immigra- tion, for, though perfectly willing to abide by the results of any legislation on the subject of immigration that affects all outside nations alike, discrimination against Japanese would certainly have most disastrous effects upon the large and growing trade between the United States and Japan. The positien of the Japanese Govern- ment upon that point is that the Japanese immigrant is not for a moment to be classed with the Chinese coolie. CALCULATED TO ENLIST AMERICAN SYMPATHY LONDON, April 24—The Vienna corres- | pondent of the Times say ““The Boer peace commissioners will not be received efther at Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg or Rome. It is well that the United States Should know how the mission has fared in | Europe and the temper of Europe toward | the United States. The widespread hos- | tility to the United States which is con- stantly manifested on the Continent is a factor to be reckoned with, as the United | States will doubtless discover at the next | renewal of commercial treaties.” | The correspondent goes on, at great | length, to argue that “the latent feeling | of hostility to the United States,” though | not of a serious character, is yet strong enough to “make an opportunity of put- ting a spoke In America’ ‘heel very wel- come,” and he adds that ‘““on this account America will probably realize the desira- bility of maintaining a good understand- ing with England.” | SETA TR T AT AT AT R TR R R —An imperial irade has been pro- mulgated authorizing the rebuilding of the property of the Ameri- the Roberts College at Constantinople. April 23.—Lloyd charge d'nflnires nt Constantinople, has cabled the State Depart- ment that the Turkish Minister for Foreign the Embassadors that the Porte will not raise tariff dnuties without previous agreement with the powers. inted Press dispatch from Constantinople announcing the Sultan’s irade regarding the rebuilding of the The news was received erable satisfaction, being regarded by officials as a triendly act on the part of the Sultan and possibly an earnest o the indemnity claim. | th SULTAN SEEKING TO PLACATE THE TED STATES Issues an Order for the Rebuilding of the Property of American Missionaries. Be an Earnest of Full and Final Settlement of the In- Claims. Special Dispatch to The Call. * > A TR TR TORTAT @ i * the construction of an annex to Griscom, the United States Affairs has informed T ¥ offic al confirmation to-night of American mission- with consid- T ¥ full and final set- a2 >R TR AT ATAT AR @ ceived from Constantinople to-day and as- surances which have been given them by the Turkish Minister, who called at the department afternoon. satisfy them the incident will be speedily closed. Minister Straus also saw Secretary Hay and this afternoon returned to New York. It was pointed out this afternoon by a friend of the Turkish Minister that the position of the Turkish Government was not well understood-in the United States nor fairly judged. Not only is the Turk- h Government not responsible according to intern law for damages which occurred according to this were the value placed upon the losses they The total per- en missionaries are t 1 at Harpoot, gentleman, but by the missionarte sustained sonal losses placed at §: HOPES ABDUL HAMID WILL SEE HIS DANGER is excess of el PARIS, April 2.—The Temps to-day published a long article on the Turke- American situation, reviewing the eir- cumsts s In a manner quite friendly to the U 1 States, and expressing con- fidence that Turkey will pay the indem- nity demanded by the United States. Re- ferring to the alleged intention of the United States o occupy Smyrna In de- fault of payment, the Temps says: “The United States would not, perhaps, be sorry to display a little before the eyes, not only of the Sultan. but of entire Europe the newly acquired glitter of their navy, crowned with the laurels of Cavite and Santlago. The occupation of Smyr- na would be no joke and there is ground to hope that Abdul Hamid will see the madness of resistance, which, for sueh a trivial object. would bring about sueh serious results.” HOUSEWILL AT ON THE CANAL BILL | Unanimous Agreement to Take Up the Measure on May 1 [TS FRIENDS ARE HOPEFUL —— b Senator Morgan Expresses the Opin- jon That It Will Pass Both Branches of Congress at This Session. e i WASHINGTON, April 22.—At the opene ing of the House to-d: upon request of Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the Inter- state and Foreign Commerce Committee, unanimeus consent was given to set aside May 1 and 2 for consideration of the Nica- ragua canal bill. Hepburn sald that one day would be given for general debate and one for amendment under the five-minute rule. Senator Morgan, chairman of the Senate Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals, was in conference with Cha Hepburn of the House committee discussing ways and means of bringing about the passage of the Nicaragua caral bill at the present session of Congress. The Senator expressed the opinion that his committee would accept amendments suggested by the House committee and that it would act favorably upon the bill amended as soon as it should be passed by the House. He has no disposition to press the bill pending In the Senate previous to the action of the Hou preferring to take the House bill after that measure | passed the body In which it originated. The Senator expressed the opinion that the Senate would not refuse to take the bill up when the amended measure is ri ported from the committee and thinks the chance of its passage good. MASSACRED BY THE “CHINESE BOXERS.” Murderous Oriental Society Commits Many Atrocities in the Province of Pechili. TIENTSIN. April 2.—Members of the “Boxers” soclety Saturday massacred many Chinese Catholics near Pao Ting Fu, in the province of Pechill, south- west of Tientsin. The German gunboat Iitls arrived at Taku Saturday. The other foreign vea- sels have left those waters.