The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 175. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 14, This Paper not to ke taken from 4he Library.++++ PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL FRENCH FAILS TO CUT OFF THE BOER RETREAT FROM KROONSTAD british Cavalry Strikes Too Late at the Federal Troops and Supply Trains Trekking Toward the Borders of the Transvaal. Correspondents W.ith Roberts’ Army Reiterate Tales of Strife and Jealousy in Patriot Ranks and Assert That the Backbone of Resistance Is Broken. ROONSTAD, Orange F v.22—The arrival of Lord Roberts was habitants. Three hundred Free Staters were not been destroved, but the large bridge near with the Federals yesterday burned the people many of 1 drunk. » Boers are now trekking to the 17, : e entrenching. “General French en- line. The project succeeded lale ar with enthusiasm by all '] rions to surrender. The bridge to t woltshed. The Iris 1g to the town own had been de were in € nt form on entering the town. ned the British. It was found that many for ultra sympathy cwith the British. President Steyn has 1te Governmient. A numb-r of the burghers are trekking The oppost in the Free State is practically over. Al the prisoners in the hands of the ree that the quarrel between the Free Staiers and the Transvaalers is so acute that the and lact of patriotism. feated at the Vaal River the Boers will ut there appears to be a growing distrust i the Transvaal Goveritment. In a word, » have been broken. The burghers are fighting without their to retreat on the ext. The prisoncers, even the aptured. They say they are sick of a war which can have Several have exclavmed, “1W e have lost our liberty, but why should we lose our lives?” i to leawe their whom they accuse of cowardi ransvaal prisoners thin if they are d Boer resistance s cem read » b htest fre —aalers. appear @++4444444444+ 4444 944444@ interpreted as confirming the rumors of KIPLING APPEALS FOR ANNEXATION MOB IN POSSESSION OF ; ‘ PENNSYLVANIA TOWN OF THE REPUBLICS g0 LONDON, M fror corresps ess definite ter s is the view to be gathered PR % e the correspondents. Thes - tterly demoralized St : Lord Roberts’ unex- pectafl pid advan 1 by his faclle doned School Building for a P:sthouse. PITTSEURG, May 13.—A mob of 2000 1 . ling Town the 1 boys has had pcssession of Tur- E ck was hoisted in the app a well-known We a small town eight miles east & e by Mrs. Lockhead, the Am- the sident of al ng, and at midnight the . faB Most of the ference in fa- Sheriff was called upon to aid the lécal ¥ r a wretched con- of the two The trouble was precipitated by this appeal Mr. Kip- s he rd of Health t g to take pos- session f an abandoned school building in the town for a pesthouse. The citizens B e e R e R R R b e R o AR R R S S O o 000000060000090000000660060‘0‘000000 t he Boers at Kroon ny intellectual las- E einforced by 3000 men {r civiousness we in England prefer to objected to this, and when the board » nd th tickle emotion by made pre; tion to remove six cases of & once to the building it prevented = pense when by the moB. Special officers sworn in ¥ S Haait all this weary work could do nothing and the volunteer fire r o hments in h, to be done v from t department succeeded in dispersing the . reat g g. five or ten years back. I rioters by turning the hose on them. The . < Their assume that you have full knowl- on returned, however, and, cut- wever pears to have edge of the situation in South Af- g hose, velted the firemen with be "Ry with all their rhu_ but I do not think you can stones and beat them with clubs until the gen = ich again they have realize how pa officers retreated. A number of the fire- i hed Pl b erly the loyalists look to F men were badly cut and bruised. o o S ey for a sign that the mc The mob then surrounded the school- e ¥ will neither desert them nor betray house, in which three of the members of President § i s them o the Dutch.” the Health Board had sought refuge and A ¢ : i barricaded themselves. The Sheriff and X 1 cuffe vain. @444444444444 444400000040 ived at 1:30 Monday morning 1y fmploring them to cor fight et ¥ s % ¥ ded the crowd to disperse. Purgherndorp --when - ¢ MEWs CamME | The men withdrew some dista i Danger of Over-Confidence. through. He writes | friidpa it g 4 is reported their numbers are being con- n the news came the folks would | stantly augmented and it is feared trou- selieve it. They would just as S0on | ble will be renewed late have be ved that the sun could fall from p —_—— the he and leave the earth in dark- nes that | hearted Cronje, could throw down his cavos | arms. Had the news come that he had | FOR DAYS IN THE SUN i a mad rus at our guns and p sz with all his men around him they | Fatalities so Numerous in Indian eved it—believed it . - as they wept they would Famine Cemps That Victims rn to avenge him. But they Cannot Bes Buried. hey could not and they did not LLONDON. Mas ‘The Bombay corre- he, the man in whom they | spondent of the Times sa “The chol- their faith, had surrendered era contiues to rage in the famine camps. ands of his men. There have been 400 deaths in three days jut at last the truth became known. |at Mandivoe. So numerous are the cases wh had e ped from Cronje's at Go that it is impossible to collect E r brought in the fateful news and | the bodles, which lie for days in the thea t tolid looking fighting men Broke | sun. The people have fled and cannot be hey wept like s. Great, |induced to return. A similar state of jed men dashed thelr rifles | affairs prevails at Broach.” retiring before ground and spurned them with | NEW YORK, v 13.—The Indian fam- al Rundle in |their boots whilst down their sun a ine relief committee to-night issued an Brabant has Wind tanned faces the tears poured stead- | appeal, asserting that despite systematic ok, half way on the road the news sadly with |aid furnished 6,000,000 people in India, at chu to Ladybrand. i chests, with hard, | least 6,000,000 are starving. The appeal t a word of Bews pegarding while with passionate lmnlu too sa)fi‘:‘}.\dl Admle!rlca ought to send at least ovements or from the words the 81000 ean- | a million ollar: T Nothing is_ known, upon thelr rifies with hands Bt 7, Roberts . not having t very few mer taught the critics to be epting reports of Boer de- ization. The Times says ry breakdown but, after ex- we cannot accep »orts of demoralization without re- - game of war must be strictly the end.” new Free State capital es southeast of Kroonstad way 1o Bethlehem, and was proba- | oW T 1 a ndezvous bea . eking relief column. | “L:ll’x;s»l 1d mrzrv‘x: one “.,ulu‘a :hlnk BILLIARD AND POOL All Residents Must Fight. the impress of th aining fing e e R at a¢| npow the S0t toel. T DRy e TABLES IN CHURCH graphing Sunday, says: ned them. Had Paul Kruger betrayed at the Transvaal Raad. | them to their foes for the sake of Britich . has resolved to order all | gold, they would not have felt the shock rrespective of nationality, 1o |as they felt this one man's surrender. e of the republic. in | «1f Cronje had loved his country half r € X terms of the amend- | g5 well as his country loved him he would ed miltary Jaws. The Boers recognize | have marched right on to the point of a | that t re now in the last extremity | British bayonet on that morning so dis- nd conditions of men are | astrous to the Boer arms, and have yield- red The merchants | eq up his life in order thaf the memory 4 against the StOPPage | of his name might have remained as a sent of clothing and corned | watchword on the lins and in the hearts Innovation Proposed by a Young Minister Who Objects to Present Methods of Worship. TOLEDO, Ohio. May 13—Rev. F. E. preached from the stage of Burt's | Opera-house to-night. He safd: “By the practice of the church more | people are doomed to eternal perdition | than were ever caused by the saloons or |any other influence. Plaee no faith at all of which the latter was purchased | of his gallant yoeman soldiery. Whe; 4 - - S 89 3 . s . N | in you oy . Mark my words whose sym are notorious, is sald | ypunderbolt into the Boer camp which | ghy - & to have re ted against what bhe | grecked it forever.” | shake the religious world to its founda ed “interference with American 5 | tion. Tsms and schisms will be parts of T8 ntard ubisnen 1he tonowing | CAPTURE OF KROONSTAD P g ey | hRs»\'i‘ ‘\gl"fl Pa(!gn ‘fim A 3 {gr a | churc E vi 3 < from Durban, dated Sunday: ‘“There are [ oTitard, v s patien o o tent rumors here of heavy fighting i AS VIEWED IN BERLIN ! Natal. A Red Cross train left last - ht for the north ing bilifard and pool tables. Shatcs i READY TO ADJOURN. e REIER, BERLIN, May 18.—The occupation of 3 HOW NEWS OF CRONJE'S S cimdiil G Tiova TeoBerts mwithont’ 76- Before End of Week the House Will C D A R D R A e e et I o o S B o e e sl o o o gs between the Transvaalers andi Objects to Project to Utilize an Aban- | b= Patton, a young Christian minister of this’ gistance has caused great surprise here. » Have Finished 1ts Work. CAPTURE WAS RECEIVED cence of e Assoctated Press. {DON, May 5.—The Daily News cor- ondent, A. G. Hales, who was taken prisoner by the Boers and returned by them to General Gatacre, sends his paper an account of how the Boers recelved the pews of Cronje's surrender. He was at The military expert of the Lokal An- zeiger finds an explanation in the fact that many of the Boers have deserted. He says: “Lord Roberts' aduance was splerdidly exeeuted. It is worthy to be placed be- side the Kandahar expedition. The situ. ation is now changed so greatly in favor of the British that the fate of the Boers is settled.” President Steyn’s movement eastward is WASHINGTON, May 13.—The House this week will send to the Senate the last of the general supply bills—the generai deficiency and the military academy ap- propriation bills—and will be ready for adjournment as soon as the Senate passes them and adjusts the differences between the two houses upon those already passed or Eendlns in conference. The Senate to-morrow will resume con- sideration of the naval appropriation bfl! and it is expected that the measure wil be passed during the day. VENTED A MORE SHAMEFUL DI Qe VAST GOLD . - FIELDS T0 BE 0N Siberian Tract That Is Ex- pected to Rival Nome District. AMERICAN - MINERS INVITED Russian Expedition Will Sail From San Francisco in June to Inves- " tigate the Possibilities of the Region. PUCEA ™ R NEW YORK, May 13.—New gold fields Tivaling in richness the deposits of Cape Nome will be opened to American min- ers if the expectations of the members of the Russian expedition which arrived last night on the Campania on its way to Northeastern Siberia are fulfilled. Vladi- mir Wonlarlarsky, a colonel of the Ru sian Imperial Guard, obtained the conc sion of the vast Siberian tract which the expedition is to examine. There were more than forty applicants for the grant, which had been sought with eagerness since the discovery of gold on the Ameri- can side of the Bering Sea. By means of court influence, Wonlarlarsky carried | off the prize. He formed u company in Russia, which planned the present éxpe- diticn, headed by A. Bogdanovitch, the engineer. It is understood that a subsid- jary company has been formed in Eng- land in connection with the section, but secrecy is maintained in regard to the English and American interests, Miners who have visited the Siberian | coast by stealth reported that it is prae- tically the same as thé Nome coast, con- sisting of a strip of beach, behind which lies a tundra or belt of gold-bearing sand, which had been thrown up by the action of the waves and frozen. Many compa- nies have been formed to work| dredges and pumps off the coast of Capé Nome in order to draw up the preclous sand where it reaches the beach. It is ex- pected that the operation of these ap- pliances will be prevented by the beach miners, and that apparatus in which large capital has been invested will be idle unless new fields are opened to it. If the expedition to Siberia finds what it expects the company will invite the pumps and dredges to cross to the Siberian shore and operate there upon payment of a royalty. Hooley, the English promoter, has noth- ing to do with the plan. George D. Rob- erts, who is a veteran California miner, will be a member of the exploring party. Mr. Roberts has made a study of gold deposits In sea sands and has a ‘plan for extracting the gold from the frozen tun- dra. The expedition will sail from San Francisco on June 1, after the Russians have conferred with the Russian Minister at Washington. It will return about No- vember 1, and expects to be able to make a complete report on the possibilities of the region. Mr. Roberts sald to-day that from in fogmation which he had received the de- posit of gold on the Siberian coast prom- ised to be the most valuable ever dis- covered. No attempt will be made to work in the tundra this year, but the party hopes to be able to make some con- tracts with American owners of pumps and dredges. S Status of the Plague. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., May 13.—The num- ber of cases of bubonic plague officially reported to this date Is 216. Of these sev- enty y-three have proved fatal R N W s BATTERY U, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, CAUGHT IN THE BOER TRAP AT KOORN SPRUIT ON MARCH 30. From the Spear. IT WAS IN THIS ACTION THAT THE BRITISH SUSTAINED THE SERIOUS LOSS OF A WHOLE BATTERY OF GUNS AND 250 M TECK, WHO WAS IN COMMAND OF THE CONVOY, IS SAID TO HA LEAVING HIS MEN TO DO AS BEST THEY COU vl THE ESCAPE OF GENERAL GATACRE AND OTHERS, IS EXCITING MUCH COMM B R O ATk Tk HEADQUARTERS, 13.—Prosverity abroad wiil be LLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, the keynotes of the of party leaders ar the declaration of ned and the best feat national platform. = * s platform, which had the approval of President McKinley and all of ) vili more closely followed tnan any other X *|PALACE OF HOMERIC ERA | Archives Contain a Serles of Clap SO, Louls four years ago, is expected to preside over the same A A A S k> k> A h kI h A A The platform of@ls% will be reafirmed and the country will be congratu- lated on the restoration of prosperity resulting from the carrying out of the principles then declared for. The adoption of the zold s of the country rests. The course of the administration which freed Cuba and relieved Porto Rico and the Philippines from the yoke of Sp: platform will declare that the Republican part 3 arge the duties impos bans a free and Independent government will sults of the war already made tow be pointed to with commenda in Porto Rico will be tion of the Philippines the elevation of the institution of the greatest degree of self pinos are capable. The ‘doctrine that Congress has plenary power to govern territory belong- ing to the United States, without restrictions imposed in States or where the constitution has been specifically extended by act of Consress, will be af- firmed in the most positive manner. The party will be pledged to the pacifica- e inhabitants the navy, construction cf the Nicaraguan canal and the pas subsidize American ships will be indo the war revenue taxes, which are m one af the policies to be carrled out in the next session of Congress. The most difficult task plank dealing with che trusts. servative business interests. CHANGED THE DIALS ON THE WATER METERSE | me by Which the City of Chicago | Director General of Posts in Cuba | Avenges the Killing of a White Man Has Been Defrauded Out of Vast Sums. CHICAGO, May 12.—A scheme by which | the city of Chicago has been defrauded | out of sums aggregating $200,000, according | tq Chief of Detectives Colleran, has been“ George W. Piggott, employes of the water | in the City Hall, 1t is alleged that Wolfe and Pig- gott were caught in the act of changing the dial of a water. meter in the Rainier are under ar- | The conspirators’ scheme was to break the cap of a water meter wherever they chose and change the hands on the dial so as to cut down the record of water The alleged fraud was reported to the authorities by James G. Trayner, who said he was approached by a man who the meter of the of which Trayner was said he had Rainier Hotel, manager, and wanted money. Trayner that a number of buildings were getting three times as muCh water as they were paying for® Wolfe and Pig- gott admit they had been practicing the fraud for two years. Other arrests are Die of Yellow Fever. CITY OF MEXICO, deaths from vellow fever are reported from the Tehauntepec Sorba, 40 years of age, an agricultural expert, died at Coatzacoalcos. He was a son of Don Bernado Sorba, proprietor of ich at Santa Ana, Cal. ;: E fif&n"‘v'v':- t('z:: ‘ot 3. Sim) an Iglismman connec Cruz and Pacific Raliroad, May B.—Two PRINCE ADOLPHUS, DUKE OF TECK, \WwHO A s (R COMMAND ; ; Bl OF THE CONVOY. AND WHOSE ’ § < 3 CONDUCT 1S MUCH CENSURED .. NOT SO HIGH IN RANK, STAY * e xphns 2 of American commerce % Repu¥lican national platform. Confer- already discu ¥ iith and their exact conventlons are being scan- * each are being noted for incorporation into the the planks to be included in who was chairman of the platform te no shifting on the gold issue, as %* rd will be put alongstde of the Ding- s on which the Increased prosperity will be commended, and the is willing to accept the re- d by them. The progress the -government already established ree schools in’ the islands for n standard of intelligence and yvernment of which the Fili- * * v * The maintenance of the Monroe dcctrine, a formal recognition .of. which ’ was secured by the American delegates to The Hague conference, increase of V e of a bill to % ed in the platform, and the repeal of () t burdensome, and the retention of 5 | which is not required by the necessities of the Government, will be declared P} ¢ of the platform committee will be to frame a % | A middle course probably will be steered. ) | ‘Fhat plank probably will be finally adopted which goes farthest in denun- ¢ ciation of trusts and combinations without Qeing so extreme as to alarm con- % | AT AT A TA T AT AT AT AT AT AT AT E T AT A TR 2 | RATHBONE WILL BE ' REMOVED FROM OFFICE| Considered Incompetent to Fill the Position. WASHINGTON, May 13.—The Post to- | morrow will say: ‘“An order will be i sued to-day relieving from duty E. G. Rathbone, Director General of Posts in Cuba. He Is held res of postal affairs on the island, resulting | in an embezzlement of funds estimated at | $100,000. He is not charged with or sus- pected of any complicity in the frauds, but the Postmaster General and Secre- tary of War are convinced that his unfit- ness for the highly responsible position | has been clearly established. A reorgan ization of the Department of Posts will | follow." sible to get C. F. W. Neely here for trial. The military authorities do not wish to | disclose the evidence in their possession | e until the issues come before the courts. It is estimated that the brickyard In which Neely is interested is worth, with the machinery, $18,000. and it is said that | his interest represents S0 per cent. s dasxas et 2 o Death of a Jurist. LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 13.—Judge Horace Biddle died to-night, aged %. He was an eminent lawyer and literateur. He picked flaws in Professor Tyndail's work on “Sound” and made a reputation in music. Musical Director Dead. MUNICH, May 13.—Dr. Hermann Leler, court musical director, is dead. HIMSELF TO A PLACE OF SAFETY CRITICISM, IN VIEW OF WHAT FELL TO THE LOT OF girl in M onsible for extrav- | agance in the department and for the | loose business methods in the conduct J S S R R e e =X | N. THE DUKE OF T PROMPTITUDE, R POSTS AND PRE- WITH GRE AT TH SRR R e R R R R R R e e R R R S RS R S S S R A A A o AR A -0 404 0+0-00+060+00045 60004000+ 000+0000000 AT AT AT R T RO A T R T A TS A TR TR TR TR T @) NATIONAL PLATFORM - TO BE ADOPTED BY 3 REPUBLICAN PARTY Special Dispetch to The Call. OWELLING OF THE ARCIENT CRETAN KINCS Find Made by Scientists Ex- cavating on the Site of Cnossus. e Tablets That May Throw Light Upon the Civilization of g That Perlod. i LS S “Special Dispatch to The Call o NEW YORK, May 13.—British scientist | excavatiiig on the site of Cnossus, an cient ital of Crete, have unearthed what is believed to be the palace of the Kings of Crete In the Mycenian age, about 1400 B. C. In the chambers of the’ palace were found a whole series of clay | tablets, the palace archives, analogous to | the Babylonian, but with indigenous Cre- | tan script. Profe ssor Arthur J. Evans, director of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, who had charge of the work of excavation, telegraphed to Professor | Richardson news of the discovery, whicht is regarded as one of unushal importance. The question of Mycenian writing and the actual plan and construction of the palace are regarded as settled. In a cor= ridor was found a fresco representing a fan costume, holding a_long vase. The colors are brilliant and the picture is said to’ surpass in grace of form anything known of the period. The tablets may establish characteristics of the civilization of th a sung in Ho- meric poetry GEORGIA MOB LYNCHES A NEEF!O MURDERER on a Street Car in Augusta. AUGUSTA. Ga., May 13.—Alec Whitney, aged 25, a society leader, was shot and killed on a street car here to-night by a negro in a quarrel over a seat. The negro, Gus Wilson, was taken off a Georgia Railroad senger train later at Har- lem, twenty-five miles from here, to= night by a mob and lynched. He was be- ing taken to Atlanta for safe keeping. Whitre; d a friend were riding on the electric line car, when Wilson and an- | other negro entered, one sitting down In Whitney's lap Whitney slapped the negro, and a scuffle ensued, during which Wilson fired. The ball struck Whitney below the left eye, and he died .wuhm a { few mihutes. HAVANA, May 13.—There are no fresh | developments in connection with the pos- | tal frauds, but light will be thrown upon | the whole situation as soon as it is pos- | Large crowds collected, and it was with difficulty that Wilson was landed in jail. There a special guard of twenty-five po- licemen guarded him till a start could be made for Atlanta. Wilson was secretly put aboard a train, but a number of citizens had boarded the train also, whila others” telephoned ahead. A crowd met the train and dispatched the negro quickly. PRt Ve Rev. Rowland Hills in Jail. OMAHA, May 13.—A special from Blair to the Bee says: Officer Mencke arrived there to-day with Rev. Rowland B. Hills, charged with bigamy. and placed his pris- oner in jail. The English woman claiming to be his wife arrived aL Blair two weeks ago. Mrs. Hills remained at Tacoma, ‘Wash., with friends. The rnllnlnlry trial will be held Tuesday. Hills says he is willing to compromise the trouble and y the expenses of clamant No. 1 back to E’n‘llud.