The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO: CALL,; SATURDAY,; JUNE 2, 1900. T ANSVAAL WARRIORS WILL MAKE A LAST A STAND IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE PRETORIA Peace Party Believed to Have Failed in Its Attempt to Deliver the Capital Over to Lord Roberts Patriots Re-enter the Free State and Engage the Biritish. )N, June 2, 3:15 a. m.—Lord Roberts continues silent regarding Pretoria, probably e cannot wire of events personal knowledge. Lourenzo. Marques, Boer side is rehandled, cables that communication with Pretoria ages by courier have reached I.ourenzo Marques, but none of later asssert that the burghers are.in a state of panic and that Pretoria is Lourenzo Marques again sends the report that Presi- from his own e al l the news from th. ed le 1 Wednesday. Some mes These igilance committ ured. news gives rise to a suspicion that the citizens’ committee at: Pretoria -may not out ifs p 1g the peaceful entry of Lord Roberts and sparing A peace party appeared to be in the ascendant, and-as soon as eft Pretoria-to organize a new ‘capital the - citizens’ ‘commiitee e forts to withdraw some of the troops fromthe defenses, perhaps n the town. If messengers were sent to the: British, or if the Brit- Pretoria on, Wednesday, entered then ‘or:at any time prior to ertainly. have teleg Hence' it looks as though en Pretoria and Johannesburg. *k toward Pretoria, some of them fresh from the fight with Gen- i into the Situation and -would . probably overrule ection of affairs out of: their han If this has happened the “hard fighting” before the British flag flies three forts standing close together on the hills south een cap lanis for ‘securi 2 siege 1-his Cabinet of s:‘iact. .. See some e Boer 1 position: to. stz 1l a siege. g from Lourenzo Marques, dated June 1: ¢, due-to the activity of the Boer agents. “Reports of the most While one section de- 1ed-to Pretoria for the purpose of arranging terms of sur- ave been repulsed outside of Pretoria. Nothing authentic AR e G R G E e e e e e e B E e e A e s e e aa b e e e e e ae oo o o e a e o e T ) s or the situation i the Transvaal.” . ( 31.—General Warren with 700 men occupied:a strong defensive po- 'i s At dawn he found that he was surrounded ~and he ‘was fiercely |o t a e horses were stampeded, bu f oncentrs . 1ce the issuance of Lord Rob ; : h es (.: tar p.uu : 4 l\..IA t.h(‘ IH\’C(’. concentrated and the 3 of thase suspected of not ai € T¢ S¢ \ small party ina garden continued to fight tenaciously, but evacuated as | ¢ according to the London The'I nber of wounded. ish lost fifteen killed; including Colonel discomfiture of the fami @ eieieieieted NORE TRODPS T0 SUPPRESS - THE TAGALDS Several Reglments of Cav-| s dispatch to the [T— gard to the lanpd in Color: for the ttie on_that in his opinion his | too ‘thoroughly in love with | Africa to emigrate. He added that r much impre d with the welcome SCHOOL BOYS’ MESSAGE the svovyHad received i New England. The Boers Make a Plucky Stand. WINBLU l‘f' M 1.—After considerable the Boers, v\l'h two guns and Ve . s Nordatelat. gisas: are making to Manila. stand eight miles of Sen- 1 has succeeded in i . thus permitting, to The Call, n of Lindle- follow- received from ast Speeial Dispat CALL TON HOTE HEADQUARTERS, W WASHINGTON, June 1 - Rumor of Kruger’s Death. A new tack is to be ued by the War | & , LONDON, June belated dispateh | Department to bring about prompt sup--| from Kroonstad Tuesday, May 29, | pression of the rebellion in the Philip- | s Kruger is very ill, | pines. Several regiments of are f master at Kroon- | to be sent to Manila during the summer, - nt s dead. This, | and as soon as the rainy season is-at | r are | hand act operations by bodies of w : mounted troops are to be made :xg:\mfl‘ = COBRE MINE LITIGATION. i i oral M acarthur informed | | ge ¥ ; e depa @ a eliev ellen Members of Rival Factions Now | cuire B e b fl;\,ur\", | i Make Crxmmal Charges and that horses now readily subsist on the | s Spectal Dis ;7 and the supplies which the cav- | e SR s with it in_campaigns. Before | TU ':17,\ 1.—The rival factions of tary Root said the Cobre e Copper Company are | this 1l'tnr|mn§| (e “1'1‘1 consult with Gen- i i p tis an 3] er Gene ping up an incessant fight. Having | °ral Otls and . | o hausted all kinds of civil remedies, they | POtR of whom come to W the former after visiting Roche The department has contemplated for | weeks the dispatching of cavalry to Ma- | nila and has been considering what addi- tional regiments to send. ed to the e turned thelir. hs inal charges against other. Presi- dent W. C. ay swore out a warrant against Con (’Keefe, one of the cach Greene yesterd, perty has been very bitter. The courts | begin to return home in November and . of Mexico and Arizona have been bur- | battalions of regulars which will beé with- North American, con- igation over it. Things have | drawn and stationed in the United States f - th T = L at times the Mexican Gov- | as the home organization. ernment had to e troops on the Since the beginning of the war the Uni- property in order to tions ‘from using force. ep the rival fac- | ted States has transported to the Philip- pines a total of 11,518 animals, - 6698 of A AT AT AT AT A T AT AT AT A TR TR T AT ASASA @ SENATORS DENOUNCE to the Amer- to the liberty lads * ) * 9 the hope that he % ¥ safe return to his dis- ¥ is Coming - ey INDIA AND AFRICA graphed * collapse s Com ny i s when the stomach and di- | POWERS MAY FIND 84 g tritive_system begin to ) ASHINGTON, Ju v $ ¥ - he SHINGTON, June 1.—TIn the Senate to-day Perkins of California e S o { E00 S P 2 [ CAUSE TO PROTEST —\/ \/ presented a petition from organizations and individuals of his t food must be digested, before L% State asking Congress to make an appropriation for the relief of nourish the body. It is not what e . 1.-Various German | ¢ the famishing people of India, and he asked that it be referred to hat we ¢ . .ption to the terms | % the Committee on Appropriations. He was not, he said, in possession of suf- the first wa o W hich it is said Lord | () ficlent information to enable him to prepare a proper resolution dealing with 8 The ti jssue on the occupation of | 5 the question. In 1897 he had asked for and procured a ship to carry to India Pierce's Golden Medica % the British troops, especially | ) Drovisions donated by: the people of California, Oregon, -Washington, Ne- e Ecbee for Ghe dimn of 45 s it oF DOAOeHIE () braska, Kansas and Jowa. The provisions aggregated 4000 tons. No official : Ot sl bt o gl | SmE opposed to combatant burghe: % acknowledgment had ever been received of that donation so far as he was mach and organs of The Vouslache Zelting says: | /) aware. He hesitated now, therefore, to press a resolution looking to the re- § n atrition will in nine y-eight “Were the Boers who have honorably | § lief of the people of India, lest the Government of Great Britain might not Cast hundred result in @ per- | fouone for their country to. be punished * ook with favor upon the action of Congress In sending 'to India unsojicited T The percentage of cures ,.fvnr the conclusion of peace, the ef 0 alms, as it might not look with favor on a friendly intervention by this Gov- i p ctual figures and facts, re- | lized powers would have cause to protest. | ernment in the South African war. C ent of hundreds of | Any detention or tr of *. President | ) The resolution brodght from: Hale of Maine a bitter attack on Great Brit- t c people. The “Discov- | Kruger would be contrary to the tradi- | (/ ain. He demanded to know what England had been doing for her starving pi - e ] = ok ¢ always | tions of international w, a general | % millions in India while she was pouring out unlimited treasure to crush two always belps. It almost ai being the logical result of | n republics in Afrfca. Said he: € | % The world has been horrified—almost stupefled—at the suffering now being endured > fllo"l for about two | AR SRl in India. That is the chief of England's colonies. ~The pesttlence and famine are appalling to the imagination. Whole families are being wiped out of existence; the babe lles dead beside its mother. The situation: fs awful. Now the Semator comes here with a proposition that we should appropriate money for the relief of these people. 1 should l'ke to ask the Senator what England has -done for the people of India. She has spent tens .and hundreds of millions of dollars in striking down and crush- of Yu!l aptta, nd [ TESSE RN B TR e S Ty 3 LORDS ROSSLYN AND MANNERS LIBERATED Now I am all right £ Tk now without pain and I don’t LONDON, June 1.—In reply to an in- | ing republics. It is the most brutal manifestation of strength against liberty and have hat I used to have. | quiry the United States Consul at Pre- weakness that the world has ever seen; and I em moved, therefore, to ask the Sen- s of 1 fedical Discovery L IEr¥ o Hay, has cabled to' ths ator what Great Britain has done to relieve the suffering of her Indlan subjects. it Peliets’ cured What has he'in the way of information upon this point? What information has he as to England’s action in this matter while she is spending hundreds of millions in destroying the. Boer republics? Aldrich- interjected some caustic remarks about making pro-Boer and po- litcal speeches every time a petition was presented, and then Perkins, replying to Hale, said he fuily realized the force of Hale's question. “I am not asking the Senate to take action at -this time. I ask that the memorial be referred to the Committee on Appropriations in order that the members of the committee may carefully consider the subject,” said he. The petition was so referred. TAATA T AT AT A TAT AT AT A TR TSRS TS TSR T'nited States Bmbassy that Lord Rosslyn was liberated on Wednesday, but was a}- | lowed to remain in:Pretoria. Lord Cecil Manners, he ‘adds, also was liberated. Both were acting as newspaper corre- | spondents. Although ( s Common Sense Medical ng 1008 pages, and over is sent frée, on receipl to cover expense of mailing Send 31 one-cent sta amps for ex- 15e .A mailing cloth bound volume as , or stamps for the same | er covers, .u'k.res; Doctor- | sul Hay's cablegram does e conditiows prevailing at Pretoria, is | gard it in some m official indorsement re as a kind of semi- the statements | | | 2 disposition here to re- | DU R DT W R HD RS N AT NS M N 2 D N R R e ot re made largely on the informa alry Soon to Be Ordered ‘ It was suggest- | this afternoon that | Secretary ent members of the opposing fac- | fhere was alry in Cuba, but the Sec- | s arging him with burglary in enter- | retary replied that he could not say message Greene’s, office in his absence. whether any of the force there could be ring Pre Last week a prominent officer and mem- | witharawn until after the Cuban elections ber of the company was arrested on the | on June 16. It will be necessary to send ) % | cha of perjury. The fight over the | additional regiments to the Phillppines | st e sion of this famously rich copper | to take the place of volunteers who will PAClFlCATION OF THE ORANGE FREE STATE ARREST OF DUTCH SUSPECTS erts’ cting in good faith, to whom punfshment will in time be duly meted o The abc papers, is one of many occurring dally over all that portion of the Orange Free State ation of Kaffirs, servants of the household or farm hands. The illustration shows ly on the advent of the arresting party. B B S SCS *h are horses. General Ludington, termaster general, said that this work | been accomplished with very small | There are two animal .transports | he Philippines which will return ancisco in July, and one tra | Mot for portation ¢ anin now at co. that to t avalry to Manila additional v ave to be hartered. CAPTAIN ROBERTS WELL TREATED BY FILIPINOS l ‘ - 1; by BHIT!SH Relief Force Enables the|: Garrison to Escape the Besie ging Ashantis. MANILA. June 1.-Captain Roberts of mn G fifth Regiment and his two | missing cnmpmlom captured at San Miguel de Ma umo, province of Bulucan, nd of Luzon, May 29, are still in the | hands of the rebels, who have communi- ted to the Americans their intention to treat the prisoners weil and in accordance with the laws of war. During 1 ght Captain Roberts' wife, | who was at San Miguel de Mayumo, re- | ceived nnouncing the capture of | he good treatment of the s continued and Captain Roberts s the rebels will exchange him and | companions. LONDON, June 1 nial Office has recelved a dispatch Cape Coast Castle, dated May 31, s¢ ptain 45 p. m.—The Colo- from he first report of the capture of Cap- | it IS belleved there that C Ha tain Roberts and his companions was | With a relief party, entered lvwmmdr erroneous. The captain with six scouts | May 2. The Governor, was surprised while lunching. Three of | Mitche!ll Hodgson, with the the party were killed and four captured, one of whom was wounded. The wounded | man was liberated ed and refugees, was expec at Fumsu on May 3. The u..np Captain Abbott of the Forty-second | added, have been co: Regiment recently met 250 Ladrones near | to overcomé any Sinalion. One American was killed and | the rebels, who are rvphrn‘vl the Filipinos had elght men killed and | north. Notwithstanding the optimistic tone of proclamation calling on the burghers to surrender their arms and return to their farm ve plcture f one of t *-+-o Blue Serge, Black Clay Worsted, Black Cheviot, Blue Cheviot, Oxford Tweeds, Mixed Grays. $/10 .00 suIT The Red Front A.J.PRAGER & SONS 8571-859 MARKET ST. o e e o e e e e e e g ] B arrests have which - ‘.'@060&'&0»’;'i"@’@‘@’@l"@Q‘Ofl*@"@Q""' B e e S IC S S S S S S A AL S i e dispatch | | | study »'claek H. ndament dress To-night pastor of the reh San 1 the members of the claims of 1, and the da | delegat Double-Breasted Sack, Round-Cut Sack, Three-Button Cutaway. 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