The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1900, Page 1

Tall, SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, WHILE ROBERTS ADVANCES, MAFEKING'S FATE WAVERS Big Force on the Way to the Beleaguered Town, but the Troops and Inhabitants Cannot Hold Out Much Longer. y @rteei et eies of oh & b - 5 - @i . Ps e “ - - P - R S . PR tbed b ime of old comrades in arms made George Wk Bull PP PPV O 4420000000000 0000000000000 m where ong th bank try force Roberts the contempt ibed as rig porridge e ha sage d of the garrison now mber 460, feking correspond gnore the f: ng whom man: for use in the d by correspondencs le course of debate end Lucas Meyer holding the roads bet IMPRESSIVE SCENES IN THE TRANSVAAL CONGRESS PRETORIA, 2 The official closing of the 18% V. , which broke up un- officially in September last, took place to- day. The vacant seats of General Jou- bert and General de Koc led with flowers. The hall was crowded, & large number of ladies being present. In the prayer of the chaplain an allu- elon to Geperal Joubert moved many to tears. After the prayer the Raad ad- journed to the afternoon, when the ses- slon of 1900 was inaugurated. The cere- monies were accompanied by the custom- ary salute. President Kruger arrived in the state carriage with the usual escort All the éiplomatists and foreign attaches including General Gourko, attache, were prysent. years when General Buller’, +ieieteiaie Four thousand British cavalry Lord Roberts continues to date his dispatch stream have found no Boers south of the river. Thus the B the expectation that Kroonstad will speedil preparing to ap; women a st headquarters are now wiring freely concerning the incidents connected with 3 ith which the Boers escaped with For instance, when the British entered Smaldeel the Boer ox wagons coolly out-sy te of horseflesh e gloomier than ev information come ng Eloff, . E the Times, who also emphasizes the extreme gravity of the situation, says: “It reference to the hardships endured b; siready occurred. The commissariat is holding a certain stock of food- nifi=: mn is reported to hi burg, which is half way between Wa £ colamn. R N s e S RS S S S S S SO o8 A GRAND GREETING—AN INCIDENT OF THE NATAL CAMPAIG (From the Sphere.) The First and Second Battalions of the Devonshire Regiment (Eleventh) came together for the first army marched into Ladysmith, and the recognitions and greetings very moving spectacle. The First Battalion, under Lieut. Col. J. H. Yule, cceeded General Symons at Dundee, and conducted the retreat to Ladysmith, was in Natal at the reak of the war, having gone there from India, and, under Colonel 3. W. Park, bore a gallant part in te's masterly defense of that town. : The Second Battalion went out later, and under Colonel G. M. Bullock did great service with Gen- forces in the several attempts to relieve the beleaguered garrison. When success finally s rowned their efforts no more cordial greetings were given than those that passed between the twobatches of Deven boys. 4 54 itish advance guard is wi ransfer their government to Heithbron have little effect upon the 1 children. All the men are a: ability of the British to overtake them. nwill +be b e et ebe e watered their hors hin forty become untenable are, according to informa- , a little more than fifty mil nhabitants of the invaded district fighting. 1g to sacrifice his horses for the sake of a comparatively n spite of all precautions, is enormous. canvas city, and the glow of the camp fires look like a scene in an iron- by the immedlate progress of the infantry to Zand River. rybody there has an empty stomach and a pinched face. 43 g s N. 60 ebHeb ebedebe s at Zand River Monday, twenty-five The = who have been searching The Boers are laagered in un- five miles of Kroonstad. s northeas:. . Every farm the occupation of transports before the anned only their minor ad- Smaldeel village of a is a The nd the whites now have but a quart of that substance and a pound of horse sau- gor ufiiclent food, able natives. President Kru; s grandson, who »f Colonel Baden-Powell's ed Taungs, thirty miles north of renton and His forces embrac supposed. Lord Met »parently 0,04 organization. ent to St. Helena the republican cause with the Volksraad. and | capacity and the seene was most impres- nd others were | | under the treaty. the Russian | nations, stve. President Kruger, in his speech opening the session, alluded feelingly to | the vacancies. Referring to General Jou- | bert, he said | “Future generations will be able to judge the work of the deceased, whose de- | meanor inspired the enemy with respect | and whose humane and brave conduct | gave fame and importance to the state | among civilized nations.’” He was profoundly struck, he said, with the proof of sincere friendship given by | the people of the Free State, who had ful- f filied thelr obligation to the Transvaal They realized that a united front was required, as an attack | upon the independence of the Trans- vaal meant the threatening of the Free State. He had implicit con- fidence in the future of the Afrikander By deeds the Free State had shown, ‘the President declared, a good | wet trenches and cold nights are deadl; Lady Sarah Wilson, under date of April 2 o the health says: “The has sent for six more gu he women ‘Warrenton. According to Pretoria ad- Mafeking. General Hunter is probably infantry and from five to six thousand horsemen, is apparently preparing an orderiy advance as Lord Roberts’ left flank. 2 un that an important movement in Natal is expected within the next four days, General leting his transpor J?'ouév ad reiterates President Kruger's undiminished tcnacity of purpose, ald be be consult Maseru, Bacutcland, dated Tuesda; een Wepene: a subordinate. While the relief col- advance northeast along the Vaal In the would still go on. Generals Luis Botha . May 8, says: “Lord Roberts' rapld advarce has confused the ocolan, along which a continuous stream of wagons and cattle has v some of those countermarches and the herds got into a t knowing which way to turn.” b S b which had proved of great moral value to those gulding the efforts of a small state to maintain its independence. He was pleased to say that the relations of the Transvaal with the foreign states, with the exception of Great Britain, were good, As to the peace proposals of the Presi- dents of both republics to Lord Salis- bury, President Kruger said: “We have proved by legislation and our dealings with Great Britain last year that it was our desire to preserve peace, an now that war has broken out we will do everything to restore peace.” After alluding to the deputation now on a mission to Europe and the United States and the presence of so many at- taches, proving the Intense interest of the powers in the republics and their methods of fighting, he said he mvas pleased to see that the sympathy of the world was on their side in the war; that ambulances psen The Raadzaal %as crowded to its fullest | example to the people of the Transvaal | had been sent, and that their friends BP0 0P oD ePePD eI ID 0090000000 0040 0000006506045 600000000000e0 0000000000000 edtdedt Oedt0 606000000 [PPSR TS S S S | car and while | which took place on Washington avenue, | them a hoy was shot by a non-union con- | STRIKERS THE CAUSE OF RIOTS —_————— Q4444444024+ 4444044440 53 RECORD OF A DAY’S RIOTS. b ST. LOUIS, May 8.—Appended is a partial list of those Injured to- day in the riots attending the streetcar strike: Conductor Steve Sellers, ban line; eve knocked out. Joe Kohring: shot by Conductor McClellan at Thirteenth street and Washington avenue; not serious. John Caruth, motorman Bellefon- Subur- tein line; struck in face with brick. John Granath, driver; slightly hurt in a collision. The following arrests have been reported: tor George H. Mc. Clellan, for < Holmes Doyle n line motor- r rioting; man, ie Rickey, 14 vears, stone throwing; unknown n, refused to give pame: John Walsh, 12 rs, stone throwing; + | Charles 14 years; Frank | Tui 18 stone throwing; | Henry Beck, — McMahon, James + | R R R o i Kelly. ;0¢¢H4990400 ¢QMW¢¢; | Employes of St. Louis Streetcar Lines Tie Up the Traffic. of the City. LR During the Attempts to| Run Cars Mobs Assail | the New Employes, and | There Is a L.oong Lisfl of Casualties. ! T. LOUIS, May 8.—The employes of | the St. Louis Transit Company, numbering about 3600 men, made good to-day their threat to tie up | the street railway trafic of the city, In doing o y paralyzed t mpany, which operates | the electric and cable roads in the with the exception of owned | - the St. Loufs and Suburban Railway ch a strike has been In -ks past, but brought to a standstill in half a dozen | other lines of business as well. It was | the most complete tie-up ever seen in St. | Louis. | Riotous proceedings began almost im- mediately. When the company trled to | take car: for two matters out from the various barns of | the system the non-union men who had undertaken the task were immediately surrounded and urged not to make the attempt. If they persisted the cars were surrounded by a howling mob, and as if by magic sticks and stones filled the afr, | forcing the men in charge to desert their | posts. During the fusillade windows In | | the cars were broken, while their sides would be scarred and dented by the mi siles. At first the storm centers were con- | fined to these remote points. By and by a few cars managed to slip away from the crow car bar round the power houses and and made their way downtow Then the theater of activi ferred to Washington avenue, street and other downtown The same tactics were res town that had proved so effic: the barns. A crowd would surround each the boys and young men | “scab” and ‘‘cheap crew Locust | roughfares, orted to down- cious about | would shout | at the motorman and conductor from fur- | | ther back in the throng would come a | volley of rocks and bricks, smashing the | windows and irightening the men in charge from their posts. The most serious personal injuries sustained up to nightfall were received in riots of this character, from Sixth to Eighth streets. In one of ductor who was trying to push his car through the crowd. In the fracas further down a motorman was seriously injured by a brick thrown by some one in the crowd, A man was shot at Grand and Franklin avenues to-night and still another man was shot at 9 o'clock to-night near the ng of the suburban tracks on Tay- renue. As a suburban car was crossing Taylor avenue a big crowd gathered. Some one pulled the trolley from the wire and this act so enraged a passenger, at present un- known, that he drew a revolver and fired three shots Into the crowd. Bert Gilbert, a barkeeper, an onlooker, received one bullet in the arm and another in the lung. He was taken to the City Hos- pital, where his wounds were pronounced mortal. The police were powerless to-day in the face of the mob, which was augmented at noon by thousands of clerks from business houses and workmen from the factories. Many women, also, gathered with the crowds. Boys and young men, most of whom had no connection with the strikers whatever, furnished most of the noise and did a large amount of the mis- chief downtown. There were compara- tively few of the strikers in the mob and many of those who appeared most zeal- ous in the cause of the street railway men were animated by no more feroclous feel- ing than the love of excitement. Vehicles of all sorts were pressed into service to-day by the citizens of the town in getting to and from business. Chairman Samuel W. Lee of the na- tlonal executive board, the man who is conducting the strike, said to-day that the union was satisfied with the results of the strike. b “We struck to tle up the system,” he sald, “and we have succeeded. The company has precipitated this crisis by its retusal to treat with us. We are ready at any time to do our part toward set- tling the differences between us and the company.’" Mr. Lee sald he did not know what the strikers would do if the company should hire new men. The union claims that about 3400 men are out and that they rep- resent about 90 per cent of the transit company’s employes. [ e s e e s e S Y were united in endeavoring to alleviate the distress caused by the struggle. After references to alleged violations of the Red Cross convention and to the consequent protests of forelgn powers, President Kruger continued: “Notwithstanding the difficult circum- lmlmwhltmtournnucul MAY 9, | who app! 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COOMBS STRIKES A BLOW He WiTIBemand Thatthe Chinese BureauExamine Coolie “Natives” et If Collector Jackson Refuses to Assist the/ Courts an Appeal Wil Be Made to Washington. PP P S S S S S S A S SO S S S S NOTHER triumph has been won in the crusade made by The Call against the wholesale importation of Chinese coolle contract labor- ers, who are swarming Into this port in the guise of native-born citizens of the United States. After mature de- liberation United States District Attorney Frank L. Cocmbs intends to take a hand in the desperate game which the Chinese ring, notwithstanding expcsure and the probability of worse consequences, con- tinues to play. District Attorney Coombs | intends to demand that Collector of the Port John Jackson, through the Chinese mine every Chinese 1 to the United States at this port. Each coolle shall be examined and his statements be before he leaves the ship upon which he | arrive Mr. Coombs says that the time has come | for him to use every endeavor to prevent | the gross frauds which are being per- petrated and to assist the United States courts in the serfous business of handling the “native son” cases. The decision of Collector Jackson not to consider ‘‘na- tive son” cases has given the scheming lawyers, their Chinese middlemen and perjured witnesses time and opportunity in which to coach the yellow “natives.’ Collector Jackson has done even more than this to make posstble the cheating of the Federal laws. He has left the United States courts absolutely without an timeny with which to trap the incoming coolles and involve th Chinese wit- nesses in the contradictions which follow from perjured and manufactured testi- mony. he door has been thrown wide open to frauds of the grossest kind, and District Attorney Coombs says that he will do all in his power to close it. He intends to demand of the officials of the Chinese Bureau that they take a de- tafled, critical statement from every Chi- nese immigrant before he leaves the ves- sel upon which he arrives. Those Chinese that cleim to be “iative sone” will then, according to the promise of Collector Jackson not to handle their cases, be turned over to the United States courts. The authorities will possess, however, the incriminating evidence taken at the pre- liminary examination and will be in a po- sition to do a double service—to send the yellow “natives” back to China and their P ureau, e for admissi E | Frank L. Coombs, the United States Distriet Attorney. B+ 0+ 4040460000200 40+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 Chinese witnesses to the penitentiary !or| perjury. 1 If the officials of the Chinese Bureau, | who are under the direction of Collector of the Port Jackson, and subject to his decisions, refuse to do as District Attor- | ney Coombs asks, then the District Attor- ! ney says he will present the entire matter to the Department of Justice at Wash- ington. He will show how the ends of justice are being defeated by the refusal of the Collector of the Port to examine all Chinese immigrants and will ask for an immediate remedy. It is difficult to understand the position taken by Collector of the Port Jackson. After admitting more than 3000 “native sons,” he suddenly arrived at the conclu- | sion that he had no right to do so and re- | fused to handle any more cases. He was very well aware that a better plan, which would assist and not ecripple the United States courts in their efforts to keep out these contract laborers, is to take the | statements of the “native sons'" as well a8 of the others, and then remand the ‘icoolie citizens” to the United States | courts. This is the simplest and oniy straightforward course to take. It would, for example, make at least one member of | the ring seek another field of usefulness. | This attorney has had marvelous s in handling and landing Chinese I sons” before Collector Jackson. If the cases go into court in the manner which the District Attorney now demands this highly favored for whom the Collector shows s adship, could do nothing, as he cannot practice In United States courts. If United es District Attorney Coombs carries his point another blow will have been dealt in the Chinese traffic It city. The yellow “citizens 1 ck has proved that he is serupu- examination of Chi- be States Commissioner Heac admitted at this port, as Ur beyond any questio lously careful i nese. In speaking yesterday of the nmew and important phase of the crusade, United States District Attorney >mbs said “I believe that United States Court Commissioner Heacock is right in the remarks quoted in this morning's Call.. There should be a check to the incursions of these coolie contract laborers under the guise of nativa- born citizens of the United States, and they should be examined on board the steamer before they have an opportunity of communicating with their friends on shore.” LUZON REBELS CAPTURE AND BURN BULAN MANILA, May 8.—Unofficial letters re- celved here state that 3000 burned Bulan, in South Luzon, on May 4 and drove out fifty men of the Forty seventh Volunteer Infantry, garrisoning the place. They killed many Spanish and Chinese residents. Last week some Sor- sogon firms, in response to a petition, sent | a steamer to rescue the merchants of Bu- lan, who were expecting the attack. | Detafls of the affair are meager, but it is reported the American troops were | forced to take refuge aboard ships and that a gunboat shelled the city while the rebels looted and burned it. Bulan had a population of 20,000 and there were many large commercial estab- lishments located there. Twenty-seven Spaniards, liberated in Batangas province, arrived in Manila this jat morning. | Sy gl BAROTAC GARRISON ATTACKED BY TAGALOS Three Americans Killed and Seven Wounded Before Reinforcements Arrive. MANILA, May 8.—A force of rebels on insurgents | American Garrison of Fifty Driven From the Place. e | Spanish and Chinese Residents Put to | Death and Buildings Looted Before the Torch Is Applied. L Special Dispatch to The Cali. ‘ May 2 attacked twenty men of Company I of the Forty-fourth Regiment, stationed Barotac, Iloilo province, island of | Panay. Three of the Americans were killed and seven were wounded. The enemy, estimated to number 400 men, surrounded Barotac and attacked | the place on all sides. After two men had been killed and four wounded the | American commander sent four men to | | try to get through to communicate with | the remainder of the company. at Du- mangas. Of the four men one was killed ‘and three were wounded. The latter man- 2 | tmportant. aged to return Barotac. A friendly news of the fight » Twenty-sixth, Barotac on the sses were who night of May heavy. A court-martial, Ball (presiding), General eral colonels, conv composed of General rant and sev- ned to-day at Manila to try Colonel James S. Petti the Thir- | ty-first Volunteer Infantry on the charge of violating the sixty d article of war in having delivered the c: law Juan Ramc the local authorities of Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, with the result that Ramos was almost imme- diately killed without trial. ptured out- Pedro Paterno, the former pmesident of the so-called Filipino Cabinet, who was recent 1 in mountain Trinidad, has arrived here and placed communicado in the political jail. He is suffering gre: sickness, WASHINC ., May $.—The War De- partment has received the following cable- sram: MANILA, May 8.—General Pantaleon Ga: prominent Insurgent officer, nc n provinces, captured yesterday, with some locu- ment, by Funston's t Kegard capture as MacARTHUR. v will enable us to bear the great expense of the mines, and that the mines are flourishing.” The President concluded with a refer- ence to the Free State loan, and suggest- ed that the session be not prolonged, and | that only matters of importance be dealt | with. He invoked the blessing and help | of the Almighty. The proceedings terminated with unus- ually impreesive speeches and prayers. Fifty out of a total of sixty legislators were present, several of them still suffer- ing from wound MAFEKING YET EXPECTS RELIEF FROM ROBERTS LONDON, May & e following dis- patch from Lord Robérts has been re- cefved at the War Office: “SMALDEEL, May 8—The railway from Brandfort to this place has been con- siderably damaged and the bridge over the Vet River has been hopelessly dam- aged. This delays supplies coming up. Every few yards charges of rackarock have been lald under the rails. This might have created loss of life, but was fortunately discovered by, a West Aus- trallan infantryman. “Winburg has been occupied by the Highland Brigade.” » A dispatch from Cape Town, dated to- day, says: “Lord Roberts’ phenomenal advance is not only utterly demoralizing the Boers but is striking terror to the rebel colonists. The relief of Mafeking Is expected at any moment."” The Cape Town correspondent is slight- Iy optimistic as regards Mafeking, judg- ing from the direct dispatches, the British forces south of Mafeking being still nearly 200 miles from their objective, while the latest advices from Mafeking itself, dated April 29, show little amelioration in the conditions there. The dispatches say: “With the exception of a little rifle fire at the outlylng trenches everything is quiet. ' The slight epidemic of typhoid is abating as a result of the medical precau tions.” The enemy’s artillery, with the ex- | arms. | organ April 24 that the enemy intended to attack | it and the entire garrison stood to its | When day broke Colonel Baden- | Powell took up a position on the lookout, | and the heavy rattle of musketry and the | boom of our guns convinced us that an at- tack was about to occur. But it became apparent that the Boer officers could not persuade their men to advance. Through | glasses we saw the officers vainly urging the infantry forward. The enemy re- | formed and retired. Our men fired a shot in the hope of inducink the enemy to come | to close quarters. | “The native disquiet has been alleviated, | many of them slipping through the lines. | The men of the garrison forego their and children. After the bombardment April 24 all was comparatively quiet. “The besléged are celebrating the two hundredth day of the siege with horse dinners, and Colonel Baden-Powell sent a message to Lord Roberts, saying: ‘After two hundred days of siege 1 desire to bring to your Lordship's notice the excep- tionally good spirit of loyalty which per- vades all classes of the garrison and the patience of everybody at Mafeking in making the best of things under the long | strain of anxiety, hardship and priva- tions, which is beyond all praise and a revelation to me. The men, half of whom are not accustomed to the use of arms, have adapted themselves to their duties with the greatest zeal and readiness. The pluck and devotion of the women have | been remarkable. With such spirits our ation runs like clockwork. I have ope it will pull us through.” " BOERS BEATEN ON | THE VAAL RIVER LONDON, May §.—The War Office has issued the following dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Smaldeel, May 8: “General Hutton, with mounted infan- | try, reconnoitered yesterday to the Zand | River and found the enemy in considera- ble force. General Broadwood's brigade | of cavalry, with General Ian Hamilton's | every ception of two five-pounders, has appa- rently been withdrawn, It was learned force, performed the same operation with much the same result, sugar ration for the benefit of the women | * | communicate with “General Hunter reports that he occu- pied Fourteen Streams yesterday without opposition, in a great measure to the able dispositions made Paget on the left bank at Warrenton, where s art dered the enemy tenable. useful. ““As the Sixth and half of the Fifth bri- gades of infantry advanced under cover of the artillery the enemy retired precipte tately, abandoning their clothing, ammu- nition and per=onal effect ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE ROBERTS LONDON. May 8.—The Standard hears that information has been officiallly re- ceived of a plot to assassinate Lord Rob- erts; that the latter has been warned, and that telesrams are now passing be- tween the Cape authorities, Lord Roberts and the home authorities on the subject. The JParliamentary Secretary for the War Office, Mr. Wyndham, informs the Associated Press that the War Office has ery fire ren- s position practically un- A 6-inch gun was found most | no information tending to confirm the re- to assassinate Sunda received here from Plumer's camp, bearing date April 2, states that, the Boers around Mafeking have been gradually reinforced and their strength is estimated at 300, Colonel Plumer has succeeded in com- municating with Mafeking by means of carrler pigeons and is endeavoring to the southern relief column. AT WUBM STREAMS. WARRENTON, Cape Colony, May 8— A British camp is now being formed at Fourteen Streams. The old raliroad bridge can be repaired in a week. A Boer prisoner says the burghers, who number 10,000 men, are now on their way to Chris- tiana.