The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1900, Page 13

Pages 1310 22 | VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 174. The SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1900—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. @all, B PEOUP RO RO X PRICE FIVE CENTS. ROBERTS MARCHES INTO KROONSTAD, and Repub- lican Troops| Retire Before| the British In-| President Steyn} vaders Arrive.|: and New York Her- y the Herald Pub- scepti- the Boers offering strong ry critics | y behind protracted ved serious cut off | could be | Although | don beyond | pled | live to the ronghold. ever im- onstad Lord ndon | country. from South- | of wel- | reporter for his ssengers. He | anything re- which in of his be- | ing the prospects to-day a by a s r, WELCOME IW.ATTE { THE COMING BOERS| R e A S L S S 2 chief execu- I desire to y Post- affectionate would feel within her Missour! te of Arkansas | t0 become iem freedom | Republican | 3oers anley—The people of Kansas | welc the Boers. We have the thousands of ave already prospered and happiness of our State., Kan- honorad 4f the sturdy citi- aal would locate with- 5w spe i Boer peace envoys, due | v soon, each Governor ex- | URGENT APPEAL FbR HELP FOR MAFEKING May 12.—Lady Georgiana s issued an urgent appeal for 1 g Bhe says: solute knowledge of the people of Mafeking . ugurate another fund: nding accounts received from | dy Sarah Wilson, must be She writes with authority, equally with them the rivations of the long siege. the destitution of the in- the absolute ruin of all the le. whose homes, in many demolished. The nuns’ iered roofless by the sisters are unremitting tion upon wounded anl the inhabitants have »eds. They have given y and stood by the gal- vell until their courage and e thrilled the whole world. concludes with hoping the the relief of Mafeking is announced writer will be able to wire congratu- ons accompanied by a substantial sum Y. i i irish Priest Expelled. 13.—A special dispatch Lourenzo Marquez says: So-called lance men arrive on every steamer they are being hurried to Pretoria sent to join commandoes in the field. LONDON, May from a There has been further trouble with the Irish brigade at Johannesburg. The Boer Government recently expelied an Irish priest named Delacey, who was accused e THE SECOND FREE STATE CAPITAL D e Ciovboetoedodeteiedetdocodtedoededoede ROBERTS’ TROOPS TAKE KROONSTAD Steyn and Free State Forces Flee! Before the British Enter the New Capital. - & + hd . @ o o o ol o 2 ® ONDON, May 12—The War Office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: “KROONSTAD, May 12, 2 p. m.— I entered Kroonstad at 1:30 with- out epposition to-day, when the union jack was hoisted amid cheers from the few Bri sidents. ~President Steyn fled last even- ter. vainly, endeavoring to persuade burghers to continue opposing. The Transvaalers sald they would no longer fight on Orange Free State soll and made off for the Vaal River. Free Staters ac- cused the Transvaalers of having made of them and then deserting them. of the Free Staters have gone to their homes. ing “The procession entering the town was headed by my body guard, all of whom were colonels, and after my staff and for- eign officers came the North Somerset Im- perial yeomanry, followed by Pole-Ca- rew’s division, consisting of the Guards and the Eighteenth Brigade, navals, the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth and Eighty- fifth batteries, two 5-inch guns manned by the Royal Artillery Company and the Twelfth Engineers. The firsc of the force encamped around the town. “Before leaving Kroonstad, President Steyn issued .a proclamation making Lindley the seat of government of the Free State. Generals Botha and De Wet accompanied the Transvaalers.” Earlier in the day the War Office re- celved the following from Lord Roberts under date of Geneva Siding, May 11: “My headquarters, with Pole-Carew's division, marched twenty miles to-day and are now at Geneva Siding, four miles from Kroonstad and about six miles from Boshrand, where the Boers are holding entrenched positions. Gordon’s brigade is in touch with them, Tucker's division is a short- distance southeast and Hamilton's force is #till farther east. “Broadwood's brigade overtook a part of the enemy's convoy at Potgleters Laa- ger, southeast of Ventersburg, and cap- tured several wagons and some prizoners. “French, with Porter's and Dickens’ brigades and Hutton’s mounted infantry, is some distance due north of this place. “We have taken nearly 100 prisoners during the last two days. All the Free Staters who could give a good account of themselves have been disarmed and al- of having British sympathies. The brigade protested vainly and sixty men resigned from the service in l lowed to return to their farms. The nights e getting much cooler.” The War Office received the following B o R e el ] ; ’ B e e OPERATING UNDER FIRE, A BRITISH SURGEON RISKS HIS OWN LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS. A FREQUENT SCENE WITNESSED DURING ROBERTS' ADVANCE ON KROONSTAD, dispatch from Lord Roberts at 2:30 this afternoon: “BOSHRAND, May 12, 9 a. m.—I am eight miles south of Kroonstad. The en- emy evacuated the first line of intrench- ments during the night. We are now re- connoitering toward Kroonstad. General !"rc‘nt'h" cavalry seized the drift over the Valsh River at 4:30 last evening, just in time to prevent passage being opposed by the enemy.” MOBILITY OF THE BOERS. EDEN, Friday, May 11.—The Boers re- turned somewhat to-day, but it is impos- sible to say where they may turn up next, owing to their great moblility. Gen- eral Grenfell succeeded in pushing them :ack nbm;’ Rapuishop, while General Bra- ant pushed for Brands Drit, along with Generer omngs bell and the Sixteenth Brigade. ———— CAPTURE GERMAN JOURNALIST. 5 BRANDFORD, May 1lL—Among the prisoners of the forelgn legation captured during the flzhtln% at Zand River was a German npamed Trickman from Erfurt, He claimed to be a journalist, but was found hiding in the cactus bush with a rifle in his hand. : i 004000#00000040000400000§¢000¢¢640¢§w44§¢:§*0*0‘5’00# PR e e e e e S g ] FREE STATE IN BRITISH HANDS ONDON, May 13, 4 a. m.—The situation at the seat of war in South Africa is as satisfactory from the British viewpoint as the most sanguine friend could have hoped a week ago. The occupation of Kronstad practically places the whole Orange Free State in Brit- ish possession. It is evident from Lord Roberts' Jast dispatch that the disintegra- tlon has commenced. The Free Staters are scattering to their homes, while the Transvaalers have gone northward, declining to fight longer in the Orange Free State. What Mlttle resistance the former still are likely to make seems to be centering at Lindley, whither Presi Gent Steyn has transferred his G ernment. It Is evident that the strategy of Lord Roberts and the rapidity of his advance have be- wildered and disheartened the Boers, as their resistance since the British reached Zand River has been slight. The only point where they seriously attempted to check the advance seems to have been on the British right, where they de- fended with some vigor two kopjes, which eventually were carrlied by the East Lancashires and Bussexes, the Boers finally retreating, leaving a group of gunners dead on the top of one of the hills.. The only point in the Free State where the Boers em Insany force, except at Lord berts’ front, is on the southeast, where Generals Rundle, Campbell and Brabant are holding them in check west of Ficksburg and Lady- brand and are gradually pushing them back as well as effectually de- feating all their efforts to break through and threaten Lord Rob- erts’ communications. + O+ +++ 444444444444 4444 DEADLY FIRE POURED UPON BRITISH TROOPERS GENEVA SIDING, Friday, May 11.— The British forces have arrived here, marching splendidly, General French in the advance. Firing was heard yesterday | in the direction of his force. Some of the Inniskillins had ‘approached a kraal where a force of Boers were concealed. A white flag was flying from the kraal. While the troopers were unsaddling thelr horses a deadly fire was poured In upon them from the windows of the farmhouse, killing several of the Inniskillins. A score of them were also captured, most of Wwhom had been wounded. It is expected that the railroad to the Zand River will be completed to-night. The line was almost entirely destroyed north of the river, but beyond, where the British are, the Boers retreated from their positions too hastily to do much damage. [ B ] .006#060044004004004060000OOQQQf0#0040*000#00004&##004 - JOINED THE ABHAN‘vs. ACCRA, May 12.—There is no news from Kumassi. Troops from Lages and Slerra Leone are massing at Prahsu in | Ashanti as a base of operations against the natives who are in a state of revolt. Tt is supposed that the Bekwais have joined the Ashanti confederation after having been armed by the Government. — Demand for Steel Cars. PITTSBURG, May 12—The Pressed Steel Car Company has decided to meet the demands for its steel under-frame wooden box car and to this end the pres- ent works of the company at McKees Rocks will be enlarged to provide for an output’of eighty cars of the type in ques- tion per day. When the addition s com- pleted the total car capacity of the com- pany will be 180 cars per day, an increase of %0 per cent over the present capacity and a net increase of 260 per cent over the capacity of the company one year aj Orders already received aggregate $L! . The change will in no way affect th, steel car fleld of the company, being, simply a departure into a field which has not been covered. —_——— Suicide of J. L. Wood. NEW WHATCOM, Wash.,, May 12.— James L. Wood, a printer residing at 600 Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco, com- ' n}’lltted‘ suicide here last night by taking chloral. KROONSTAD, PRESIDENT STEYN'S LATE CAPITAL, OCCUPIED YESTERDAY BY LORD ROBERTS. - OPTIMISM 4= SO 4D+ 0400+ 0+0+P ——0—-0— 1 e e0 e e ededeOebeteDetedete® i F THE BRITISH PEOPLE Boers Said to Be on the Eve of| Playing Their Last Card in the United States. | | | | | Copyrighted, 1900, by the Associated Press. ONDON, May 12.—The Boers seem to be on ‘the eve of playing their last card, and according to many keen observers in England it is be- ing played not in South Africa but in the United States through the medium of the Boer delegates who sailed for New York from Rotterdam last week. As the bulk of British opinion does not contemplate for a moment that Mr. Fischer and his companions will achleve success, it is only naturai that serious thought is now con- fidently devoted to prognosticating the date when the war in the Transvaal will be ended. Most estimates concur in agree- ing that hostilities will have ceased by June, when President Kruger learns that the last country appealed to, namely the United States, will afford no help and that he has no alternative In the face of the overwhelming force now victoriously sweeping Into his territory but to sue for peace. What Great Britain’s answer to that re- quest will be was unmistakably defined ty Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, at Birmingham yesterday, when he declared that the Boer republics must become a ecrown colony whose,initial stage of organization einieieininie--t @ BOER PRIVATEER SdID TO : HAVE SAILED FROM BOSTON OSTON, Mass., May 12.—A well equipped priyateer sailed from Boston this week to transport faen to Join the Boer forces in South Africa and to prey upon the smaller coastwise commerce of England and Canada. The expedition was organized by the combined efforts of Boer agents, Fenlans and Hibernfans. It was only after the most strenuous efforts that the filibusters preserved the secret long enough to get the craft away before the authorities could interfere. they finally escaped detection. There were many narrow escapes and it was only by the barest chance that The vessel was chartered through a regular shipping house and apparently was embarking upon a very innocent commercial undertaking. The utmost precaution was taken to conceal the nature of the real cargo and the extra men who had enlisted to join the Boer army were not taken aboard at this port, but went out in several small pleas- ure craft and boarded thelr ship while well outside. fighters and the majority of them veterans of the Spanish war. They are excellently armed. These men number only about 100, but they are able bodied’ The privateer is only armed with one small caliber rapid-fire gun of modern make and two Gatling guns, but the men are confident that with these and their rifles and their numbers they are able to cope successfully with any sort of coastwise commerce of small size. The object is two fold—to seize as much goods as possible that might be of value to the Boer)army or which f they could sell to sympathizers in America and send the cash to Kruger, and to destroy everything of the enemy’s that is not of value to them out of a spirit of revenge, and thus terrorize Canadians and realize that the cause of the Boers is being espoused the world over. lishmen and force them to PUSHING ON TOWARD PRETORIA—-GENERAL FRENCH WATCH- ING THE ADVANCE OF HIS DISMOUNTED MEN TO ATTACK A BOER STRONGHOLD. B e e R R S O R e O S SR S CSSY J D e will be controlled by a military ad- ministration. By agreeing to these terms President Kruger must, of course, give up all ‘for which he has been fizhting. But, on the other hand. now that terms have been so emphatically _enunciated. they must either be granted or England will stand defeated. . The latter alternative, however, does not enter England’s cate- gory of possibilities. Her people are firm- ly convinced that rLord . Roberts will steadlly advance, perhaps with delays and losses of daredevil units, and maybe without inflicting a crushing defeat, until he occupies the Transvaal. His forward progress, they believe, will be stopped only when President Kruger, learning of the failure of Fischer’s mission, asks for peace. That this will come sooner than previously expected is the trend of popular opinion to-day. A long siege of Pretoria has become a remote contingency. Sharp fights at Kroonstad and on the Vaal River, a series of rear guard actions with con- stantly retreating forces, an organized devefopment of a hostile country, and then by June, or perhaps July, peaceé and occupation. Such is the average forecast of the. struggle in South Africa. Maybe it is altogether too optimistic, but the present successes of the Brtish arms and the evidence of their well-defined plans and excellent organization form much excuse for optimism. FRENCH 'GOVERNMENT FEARS THE ELECTIONS To-Day’s Second Ballots in Ilunici- palities Awaited With Anxiety. PARIS, May 12—Second ballots to de- cide those municipal elections which were left without definite results last Sunday owing to insufficient majorities will make to-morrow a crucial day.in the political history of Paris and will have a consider- able influence in France generally. The reballots will either paint the Paris Mu- nicipal Council with Nationalism or mere- ly leave the Nationalists in sufficient num- bers to form an aggressive minority which ‘will be a thorn in the side of the Govern- ment. Semi-official declarations that the Gov- ernment regards the eventuality of a Nationalist Council ,with equanimity, in view of the extremely satisfactory returns in the provinces, must not be taken lt- | | | and two Indians of the schoa L.ondon Enthu- siastiec Over L.ate British Successes and PredictsEarly Surrender. erally. It is useless to attempt to the fact that the Governmen are looking forward to with grave con; 1 Radicals predict th will make a muni policy make Paris uninhabitable f gulse ipporters foreigners who come to spend their money here. This remark is based on the Nationali tics since las ich appear to have been to ende embroil e In foreign co: fons in order to shake the Government position thereby Pursuant to these tac the National organs continually p tended to excit ers. The Nationalists cre ment with the Machiavellian scheme, the event of a sweeping victory t row, of instigating the Ministerial mir ity in the Council into creating a serles of violent obstructv which would give the Government a pretext for dissolv- ing the Council on the ground of divided factions whose opposition would prevent the carrying on of municipal works. The feipal Commission would then be ap- pointed to take charge of affairs until the election of a new Counecil, which would be postponed as long as possible in order to give the Government time for electioneering. Such a plan, which would be tantamount to a veritable coup de main, could hardly be put into execution, especially now that the alleged intention has been divulged DIVORCE SUIT LEADS TO A TRIPLE TRAGEDY Butte Athlete Kills a Man, Wounds a Woman and Commits n or- Suicide. BUTTE., Mont.. May 12.—Char| Paus- tein, a well-known athlete, this #fternoon shot and ki 1 Alexander Tate, manager of a butchering concern, serfously wound- ed Mrs. Alexander Tate and then com- mitted suicid Paustein’s on account of crueity granted this afternoon. fe had sued him for divorce and the decree was Within an hour Paustein armed himself and started for the home of the Tates, two miles from town. He confronted Tate and his w charging them with having been respon- sible for the Separation of himself and wife and began firing. The first struck Tate in the forehead and he fell dead. The next struck Mrs. Tate In the hand. The third hit her in the head, but glanced and did not penetrate to the brain. She fell unconscious and Paustein, thinking he had killed her, started for town. The police started to find Paustein and went to his room In the Steele block, where his body lay with a bullet hole in the head- GERMAN ARMS FOR LUZON INSURGENTS Three Shiploads Said to Have Ar- rived at Hongkong Within as 7 Many Months. NEW YORK. May 12.—A dispatch to the Evening World from Hongkong says: The Fillpino Junta has been receiving large amounts of money at Manila. Within the past three months three shiploads of arms have arrived here from Germany the insurgent cause. The Junta gave a big banquet here last night in honor of the recognition of their Government. The Filipinos claim they will open aggressive hostilities just as soon as the rainy sea- son begins. TROOPSHIP MONTEREY WAS ON FIRE AT SEA After Hard Work the Flames Were Extinguished and a Terrible Disaster Averted. Special Dispatch to The Call VICTORIA, B. C., May 12.—In a letter recelved from Trooper Winkel, one of t Victorians in the Strathcona Horse, new is given that when the troops Mon- terey was seven days out on way to discovered between Cape Town fire wa decks and for half an hour engaged the active endeavors of all on board. For- tunately it was at length suppressed and one of the most terrible disasters of mod- ern times averted Enind 8 SRR YUKON OPEN. Three White Men and Two,Indians Lost From the Schooner Turpel. VICTORIA, B. C., May 12.—The steamer Amur arrived this afterncon from Skaguay. She brings news that the Yu- kon River opened at Dawson on the morn- ing of the Sth and steamers are now run- ning regularly from Lebarge through. Preparations are being made by several of the small owners outside of the com- bination to carry passengers from Ben- nett to Nome at $5 and the Skaguay Alaskan announces that the Kiondike Corporation (limited), the Flora, Nora and Dora will adopt the low rate and give bat- tle to the White Pass and C. D. Company pool. The Democrats of Skaguay have lssued a call for a nominatiug primary on the 2ist inst., preparatory for the Juneaw convention, one week later. The Allie H. Alger, one of eight schoon- ers returning to port this morning, bringi news that ate Gillad, two white men r Sadie Turpel were lost from that vessdl on the 19th of April and ten days later had not been heard from. There is a possibility that they have been picked up by some other vessel of the fleet, but It is more probable that all have been drowned, ll: very heavy weather prevalled at the time. The flagship Warspite returned this aft- erncon from South American ports. —_——— Populist Headquarters. LINCOLN, Nebr., May 12—The Popu- Hst national committee will establisn headquarters in Lincoin and J. H. Ed- miston, the vice cHairman, will be m charge. This announcement was made to-day by Mr. Edmiston on his return from Sioux Falls. Senator Butler, the chairman, will be kept busy with other in- terests until August. After that he will establish an astern _headquarters at Washington, but the greater part of the campalgn work will be in charge of Mr. Edmiston.s