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

The Tall, e P - 7 VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 157. SAN FRANCISCO, THU RSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900. PRICE Fi\'E CEXNTS. ROBERTS FAILS IN EFFORT TO ENTRAP BOERS AT WEPENER Raise the Siege and Retreat in Time to Escape Being Cut Off. Federal Entire Southeastern Portion of the Free State Now Cleared% of Patriots-——-Report That Brabant’s Colonial w Horse Has Been Isolated. nti —_— @eieieieiet e e et eIt elt 4i e et edeo i@ i d . ONDON, April 25. — The s War Office has issued the wing from Lord Roberts, # ed Bloemfontein, April 25, * 5 p. m.: ¢ The enemy retired from in of Wepener last night is morning fled north- E tward along the Ladybrand Their number was be- | . tween 4000 and 5000." - ‘ Lord Roberts also tele-|*? | graphed the following mes- : | e to the War Office: P ‘ SLOEMFONTEIN, April 25. ¢ ewetsdorp was occupied by Chermside without opposition ? 9:30 s morning.”’ f § CAPE TOWN, April 26.—The ¢ relief of General Dalgety was ¢ ac General Bra- *© ¢ . 26.—A dis-|? toria says that ! | Ge Brabant's | ‘ H SO d and has re- . | puls attempts to re- o | capturing fi British- & | . > - ¥ P e 1 ¢ . . 5 %L 4 r r % B § DISINTERESTED ONLOOKERS. WATCHING THE FIGHT- ¢ FREE STATE ¢ TERRT ' ACROSS )RY, THE ORANGE EIR OWN >ENER, J1 r BETWEEN THE BOEF AND BRITISH. BASUTOLAND HAS ¢ s ATION OF 223,00 BLACKS A JAN 600 WHIT. axp ¢ | - ITUD! QUITE INTEREST- z { | - L o e o S o o et - AMERICANS SLAY SCORES OF NATIVES Two Maxim Guns Turned | Upon Filipinos Armed With Bolos. p Kraal, four ¥ BOERS SLEW NATIVES IN OPEN COMBAT = | FIGHT 1N SOUTH CAMARINES Detachments Sent Out by General | Bell Almost Succeed in Sur- | rounding a Band of Islanders. D000 0000060000000 606000 004600600000 (ZAR COMES T0 THE AD OF SULTAN Report That Russia Will| Oppose Arbitrary Action by America. EUROPE'S MENACING STAND SR R | | | Porte Considers That Its Offer to | Burned Structures ! | Rebuild Will Close the Question. T The Call and New York Her- | 1900, by the Herald Puo- cable Copyrigh g Company. s - + Q4+ +++444445044404440 LONDON, April 26.—The Constantinople of the Daily Telegraph correspondent says “The Porte considers that its offer to rebuild the American structures burned Kharput will close the question. It belief on news that Russia has an intention to oppose any at- art of the United States to force payment.” Inquiries made at the British Forelgn e confirm the dispatch from Constan- Associated Press, saying | view of the steps taken by the es regarding claims arising Armenian massacres the em- ain. France, Austria, asked their Gov- »ple that in United out of the bas: Italy 3 ernments struct them as to their laims. It is also learned that the Government has not yet answered sador’'s request for instructions ntemplates individual action o attitude of her Majesty's G one of regret that the British have come to this stage, it wil co-operate in any plan decided upon by powers cancerned. It is not be- lieved at Foreign Office, however, that | int action will take the form of an ulti- | tum or result in anything except the renewal of use! s protestations to the Turkish Government. Should the conti- nental powers agree on insisting that they | be treated on the same basis as the United States, they will only have & lukewarm follower in Great Ryitain. Lord Salisbury s ne further {Umplicaticrs =t pres-| ANGRY COMMENT OF : CONTINENTAL PRESS| Profess to See in America’s Action'a Desire for Further Con- | quests. VI NA, April 26.—The Turko-Ameri- can dispute excites much comment in the Austrian press. ‘The Neue Freie Presse remarks that since the Spanish war the Americans seem to have lost all respect for Europe and It comments at great length upon the “new aspects that threat- en ta intrude on European politics when America feels strong enough to threaten | a European state with a naval demon- stration.” This journal then goes on to t 1e difficult to concelve what practi- | vantage would accrue to the United | pation in the eastern question, but it will be a disagreeable sur- | prise to Russia to find In America a new 1 in a domain which Russia has al- ays regarded as her traditional inherit- ance.” The Neue Winer Tageblatt, in a similar article, says: *‘America as a great power h bee: too long left out of accounmt. American imperfalism may involve many perils for the American Unfon itself, but it is far more dangerous for other states.” BERLIN, April 25.—The Berlin papers publish a dispatch from Washington an- nouncing that the Sultan of Turkey has | —_— April rounded £ whom were the Fi armed helme fcl los and wore and shields. The Filipinos were put flight, leaving the field Their riflemen were alght and the bolomen never got near eénough to the Americans | to do any execution. Therefore none of | Americans were wounded. | Lieutenant Batch, with twenty cavalry- from the Thirt venth Regiment cornered fifty bolomen in a river and shot y one, the bodies floating away. One soldier d his head struck off with a be 1y trewn with armor. able to shoot s 1t and then the of them, who, ; that the | General Bell's two regiments are hard | ing e v pointed out | Worked In clearing the country. . They | . . ves were destitute | €€t with ma small squads of bolomen | = bs hafl Besn bursid wnd | 200 J’af: we;ek hkm;dl a total of 1%, A | » by the Boers. He de- | Squadron of the Eleventh Cavalry 1is| ROBERTS DESCRIBES THE ponsible for the ma. | about leaving Manila on board the teans. | port Lennox to reinforce them. The in. surgents keep the province In a state of | terror and are wreaking vengeance on na- ADVANCE UPON WEPENER ““Mafe- The correspondent king may be forgiven If it begs to prefer concludes: some attempt at rellef rather than empty | tives who trade with the Americans, | congratulations for its gallant stand. | burning many villages, including the pop- Though there is only sufficient to keep | WOUS towns of San Fernando. General Bell has issued a procla declaring that he will retaliate relonaoor 1y unless this guerrilla warfare cease. and that he will burn all the towns which har. bor guerrillas. 5 In ‘a fight at Sorsogon, Albay Provi on April 15 three companies nr)(h.\"}-!c‘.;'f;_' seventh Infantry, Captain Gordon com. manding, routed large force of insur- gents, mosily bolomen, killing fifty-three, body and soul together, it will never sur- render. It is very weary of it all.” ARTILLERY DUEL WAGED FOR HOURS WARRENTON, Wednesday nig! April | —The Boers, having become embolden- ed, shelled the village and the British trenches, and it became necessary to give them a lesson and to ascertain their The plans of General Otis have nof ] announced, but it is understood he ietoags | to ail on’the Meade or Grant early 1o | : }l}le wlll|hvbl.‘accn|in!panged bi his im'rr;, and will_probably visit Hon other ports. Qs s Modder | strength. On Monday night Colonel Pa- | e Boers t placed several guns on the river bank Son mear | under cover of the darkness within 1000 FIRE DESTROYS nd cas ds of the Boer trenches ss th withdrawn beyond range, and at daybreak | the British opened a heavy bombardment with shrapnel and lyddite. under o the TRUCKEE, April 26.—The Truckee Ho- tel caught fire at midnight. The total loss 1 The rs were taken compietely by |is $30,000. It was an old landmark of Brigade marched AN Truckee, having been built in 186S. The twenty r s yesterday to support = | insurance is unknown, but probably is General Hamilto nd halted for the | Continued on Senond Pa | $15,000. vielded to the demand of the United | States in the Indemnity claim. The | Vozstsche Zeitung, discussing the matter, points out the ili-success of FEuropean | powers in getting money from Turkey and add “Through the payment to the American missionaries, the Sultan is reminded that a new element, expressing itself in unac- customed forms, has entered into inter- national intercourse.” The Berliner Tageblatt thinks that the United States, fearing Russta, will be satisfied with the Sultan’s acknowledg ment of the indebtedness and will not force payment. | | o EX-MINISTER TERRELL AGREES WITH WALLACE | Says That the Sultan of Turkey Will Keep All the Promises He Ever Made. | AUSTIN, Tex., April %.—When asked to-day for an expression as to the merits of the Unitéd States’ claim against Tur- | key for indemnity for the burning of mis- property during the Armenian | trouble, ex-United States Minister A. W. Terrell, now residing in this city, gave out the following interview: | 1 entirely agree with General Lew Wallace in s estimate of the Sultan of Turkey. Thers is much ignorance about the nature of our claims against Turkey. We claim indemnity for the burning of missionary property at Ha: poct and Marash, places then dominated by Kurds and & fanatical populace, and remote at the time from Consular protection. Mis. siovaries claim that the burning was done with | the aid or connivance of Turkish soldiers. The Porte has Insisted that it was done by Kurds and by an ngovernable mob. Our claim 1s sustained by circumstances resting on miasion. ary evidence, the denial of the Turks fs sustained by official reports by the Turkish offi- cers and Pashas, and the issue of the fact has not been settled by an Impartial tri. bunal. The burning was done during the Ar. menian massacres, and the Kurds have been the enemies of the Armeniars from the time of Xenophen. Healthy public sentiment should protect the President in his foreign dipiomacy against the spirit of religious Intolerance. I pressed our claim for indemnity to the utmost limit of friendly diplomacy while in Turkey. If the Sultan has ever promised to pay it he wyy | keep his word, and If he ever made the prom- jse he will not deny it. I regard him as an honest man. I know him well and belteve he was the most intellectual man I met while 1 was in Eurege. - - | circles of the cit -+ men 50000000000040¢000000. etk e At + 4 | ness and craft of th + LONDON, April 25.—The Con- +|cet the gossips by the ea + stantinople correspondent of the b his of $hia T + D Telegraph says that Russia e ther of duts 4 has intimated that she will ()p;?o:‘e terest Charles J. King, w + attempt to enforce the United 4 |of felony embezzlement, is 4 States claims against Turkey. + | acter. | King of William, a prominent merchaat KING CHARGED WITH ANOTHER GIGANTIC COMMERCIAL CRIME His Associates Forced to Steal the Records of an Alaskan Company to Trap Him. Sensational Deal in Which George Fish, W. J. Rideout and William Boots Figured to the Pickle HE scandal in the California Packing the Pacific Vinegar Works has created commercial, fraternal and » prominence of the volved, the e R R R e e ] * L 4 3 ® . L 4 * © . P . L ¢ » . 4 L3 £y * » . . 4 . 4 . . rY + @odeieioioeieiesieided and while the detectives are using every resource of their trade to locate and ar- rest him the story of another audac conspiracy in which he was the leadin, spirit has become public property. In this second alleged crime, for which King was never called to account crimi- nally, although the facts were placed be- fore the District Attorney of this city, it is charged that the arch manipulator s duped several wealthy men and women into what appeared to be a legitimate business venture. Having red thou- thousands upon of dol- lars King, it to rob the investors, records of the corporation, using of prominent bankers and business men as dummies, manipulating. bank books and accounts so-as to misrepresent the finan- clal standing of the concern, and then filching the money which rightfully be- longed to the corporation. For many months this gigantic s of duplicity and fraud was maint with success. So craftily did King manip- ulate the books that no suspicion Ww: excited in the minds of the duped in vestors. One day, however. a false play was made, an investigation was and the crash came. The delud vestors were forced to steal the books | of the corporation and found upon in- specting them that they had been robbed of $22,000. King and his assoclates were forced to refund most of the money and were then kicked out of the corporation. For the sake of those that had been in- jured and with a view of protecting the credit of the corporation at a critical stage of its existence King was not pros ecuted. Charles J. King is a remarkable char- He appears to be a man of great versatility, and while he Is a gentleman among gentlemen he can be a scoundrel among scoundrels. He is a son of James who made history in San Francisco in th days of the Vigilantes and who, It wii be remembered, was murdered by Casey during a local relgn of lawlessness and terror, Charles J. King has occupied a position of honor in San Francisco for many years. He was looked upon as a man above reproach in commercial and social life and his probity was the stand rd of emulation among his fellows. De. ‘out to a marked degree, he set an ex- | ample which others might admire if not follow. A close and earnest worker in fraternal affairs he won many friends and through them opened many avenues of revenue and profit which he used to the very best possible personal advantage. S Man’s Undoing. hem now b e floated the s f which hav 4t the b “Walter J. Ridec thousands of he, with Ri gan- ad ad c which Fis been looking. He wi e e i e e GEORGE FISH STEALING THE RECORDS TO PROVE A CRIME . INCIDENTS IN ANOTHER OF KING’S GIGANTIC FRAUDS. 1 to send a stock of good | north. King t e barges were in course tion and with a little mo: to sald, was president of the com: the genial King was secretary ager. The an ad his partner advanced They interested their short time, through t thelr fri t betweer change for the corpo! nwhile the b s were building at Stockt g was handling the books of the com- | y. Fish and his friends received no entation on the board of directors | nor did they desire any, as they trusted | | implicitly, through the confidence of F}sh.l {in the integrity of King. Affairs went along smoothly for some time. There was plenty of money in the bank, so tne books pparent construction of the One day company when : he secretary dec the customary sixty days | ed why it was not discounted and received no satisfactory reply. He became sus- | picious and determired to make an in-| vestigation. He went to Stockton and | found that the contractors were not mak- | ing progr n the boat because they | had not received their money. The books f the California Yukon Trading Company | howed that the contractors had already | received thousands of do raud of the grossest kind had been perpetrated | and the crime had been committed in the | office of the company. Fish lost no time in pursuing his inves- | tigations. He consulted with the firm | which was building the engines and the | boflers for the ship and found that very | little money had been paid there on ac- count. Fish concluded that he was being | robbed. He consulted with his attorney, | | Robert M. Fitzgerald of Oakland, and | suggested that the only way in which he | | could tell how he was being robbed and to what extent was to secure possession of the books, and the anly way to obtain | | possession was by stealing the books. | | This course was decided upon, and one | night Fish and a friend entered the of- | | fice of the company at @32 Market street | nd stole the books, taking them to Fish's | | apartments in the Palace Hotel. There | a minute and careful examination of the | @ | and he robbed me. revealed the b The accounts ompelled hich wa came affairs 1 we would have R e e e e B R e R R R U SCIR SR SRR S A SRR S S RO A R T been ruimed. I trusted King Implicitly The entire scheme was him. Rideout and Boots » simply dummies used by him for names for the prestige which received from their family connec- But it was King who did the dis- honest work on the books and bank ac- counts. “When I was induced to enter the company by him as a stockholder I rought so well of it that I persuaded hers to go in with me. My brother-in- law took some stock: my wife bought some; my wife’s sister and aunt took me an d others until our interests presented many thodsands of dolllars. Vhen I found out that I was being robbed I consulted my attorney, R. M. Fitager- ald, and we settled upon the seizure of the books. Mr. Fitzgerald told me jocu- lar} he would provide for me at San in if I stole the books and dis- covered that my suspicions of King wers wrong, that if I found that I had been robbed the rest would be clear sail- ing. . “T discovered that I had been robbed and I confronted King. He refunded and was then kicked He is a dangerous man to the community. While the detectives are searching for King they need have no further concern about Ele J. Cote, the president of the defunct California Packing Company. Cote insists that he has not been in hid- ing and not intend to run away. He says he is at his office every day and can be found there when any one wants him. He declared last night that he can show conclusively that every dollar spent by his company was legitimately expended, and that he made no false representations to the San Francisco National Bank. He denfes that he knew that King verified his statement to the bank or that he asked King to do so. In explaining the financtal difficulties of the Califor: Packing Company. Cote says that a great deal of money was lost in establishing a new and high class grade of goods on the Califor- It ‘was through his fraternal associa- | records was made and a startling condi- | nia market.