The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1900, Page 13

B G B TRFOHONSADAD XON SXOXOXOROXH - - N 068 02 Brrer® it e rereror & X exexPro4OLONOQ * * * * 3 VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 3. i Pages 13 10 22 i.m‘l’"i‘* PEPRO KO SXROXOXORNOROG SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1900—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRETORIA STILL UNOCCUPIED BY THE BRITISH AND A NEW CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE TO BE PLANNED Some Rather Forcible Evideneeié That the Boers Have Noti Yet Given Up the Struggle Against Roberts’ Forces. Recent Trapping Which Britons of Sharp Fighting Brabant’s Near Lost Patrols, Senekal in Heavily, and Fierce Attack on Warren. into the mpaign must be have not given t's patrolk which th 4 thirty-two e fierce at- , in Cape Col- x as to Pretoria is a pres: Br 1 nd the citizens’ | ng order. In a| tells vaguely 1p & pos! to which b that the British E g on Pre ry mi precaution were the enemy known trength on their front. In would be following the dierly nature, not mak- the armed foe were out pital PR A DETAILS OF THE RECENT TAKING 0F710HANNESBURG 2.—A !cablegram d Johannesburg, 3 not dispatc; of June 1 a o le 10 CArry on t followed into | is speedily | dispatches | patrols | ® eved | serve order, 1y | force is encamped north of the town on ss | the Pretoria road.” pective duties until eved of them. ‘Johannesburg they could be re- | main are by the time the British flag | was being hoisted. A royal salute was fired and three cheers for the Queen were givern t the end of the ceremonies the Seventh and Ele th divisions marched with the naval brigade, the heavy nd two brigade divisions of the d Artillery. Ian Hamiiton's column and the | cavalry division and mounted infantry | were too far vay ak a e ediod 30 phenky” Wy | away to take part in the ceremony. The troops looked very work- | maniike and evidently took keen interest |in the proceedings. “The Fourteenth and the naval brigades have been left in Johannesburg to pre- while the remainder of the bt TS e HOLDING THE HILLS AROUND PRETORIA LOURENZO MARQUES, June 2.—Pres- g late Fri- | ident Kruger vesterday was still at Ma- not a word | iodorp (about half way between Pre- and the Portuguese frontier, on the the Transvaal capital Boer commandos, to- ing about 10,000 men, held Thursd, ns and hills around Pretoria. other large command was at Bronk- ursts Spruit (about forty miles from Pre- on the ratlroad leading to Delagoa ia), raphic communication with the al is closed the public. Fever- excitement prev here, owing to the Imost total absence of news from elther | side. | | Roberts: | Sir Henr: | and thirty-two men were wounded. The object of the trip here of Frichie Eloff. President Kruger's son-in-law, ana r. Heian, the President’s physiefan, eppears to have been to place. & “large amount of gold in safs = LOSSES SUSTAINED BY BRITISH FORCES LONDON, June 2.—The War Office has received the following dispatch from Lord “JOHANNESBURG, June 1, 9:25 p. m. Colville, in reporting the ar- rival of the Highland brigade at Heilbrun May s es that he was opposed ‘more or less the whole way from Ventersburg. Jight men were killed and four officers Col- vs the Lancashire battery of fleld did ezcellent work. Grant's na- guns were most valuable and the troops behaved in a most soldlerly man- ner throughout the trying march. Rundle telegraphs that his c: alties were thirty- two killed and 150 wounded.’ Lord Roberts has reported to the Sec- very empty, but a | good crowd of people assembled in the ! | @000+ 0—2o i | | | | | R R A 0—0+¢+¢—0—0«-H*0»%¢-‘0-’4—\-0—H0—0‘0-0 ¢ *O—O-H;@M‘vo—&kéw | | | - | s * [ s s B e e (From the Graphic.) of State for War, the Marquis of | Boers and thousands of our people be- retary Lansdowne, as follows sides. I wish there were more of them in “JOHA URG, May 31, 9:40 a. m.— | this country. French's report of his operations during | place of a good many Republicans who May 28 and 29 reached me at 3 a. m. to- | & He was opposed throughout his | march, but managed to drive off the en- emy" from' the =trong positions they sue- cessively held with very little loss, and is now holding the place which I directed him to do; morth of Johannesburg. Two | officers were wounded and two men were | killed and twenty-seven wounded.” 'BRYAN HOPES BOERS "WILL COEE_ TO AMEBICA 2 NEW YORK, June Tn answer to the World’s dispatch to Willlam J. Bryan at Lincoln, ‘Nebr., yesterday, asking his view on the suggestion to invite the Boers to America, he replied: “The Boers are industrious and intel- ligent and have shown themselves lovers of liberty. depen United States. soon enough to from the imperial from South Africa. A small part of the | money now being expended on a war of | conquest would, If spent in reclaiming | arid lands, furnish homes for all e I hope they will come to the I, wish they could come help save this country | | If they lose their fight for in- | ism that is driving them | My brothe the | Iy | of the South African republics. Britain.” POINTED TALKBY. - ““ " THE PEOPLE’S CONGRESS GRAADENET, Cape Colony, May 31— ‘The people’'s congress opened here to-day. Of those present many were Dutch cler- gymen, commoners and bunites. Mr. Villiers, brother of Chief Justice de Vil- liers, presided. Mr. Pretorius, a member of the Legislative Assembly, offered a res- olution declaring that in the opinion of a majority of Cape Colonists the chief im- mediate cause of the war was the unwar- ranted, intolerable Interference of the Ministry in London in the internal affairs A mem- ber, spegking in support of the resolution, sald it would be impossible to hold out the hand of friendship after the war, and asked: *Can I RUNNING OFF BOER CAPTIVES. On a recent dash into Ladybrand, an Orange Free State town, the British captured the Landvost and a fleld cornet. Compelled by the appearance of a body of Boers on the outskirts of the town to re- tire hastily, they placed the two captives in a cart with a native driver, and with a trooper riding at each side with a drawn pistol, carried them out of the place at a gallop to safe custody. | believe in the imperialistic policy of Great | o Lo R e o sl G e SUn S S e i S S oo e S i SRR SRCEY SO SO S S that if the republics were annexed the ! peace and prosperity of the country would | On Tuesday General Rundle defeated the | They could well take the | be irretrigvably wrecked, and that in or- | Free Staters near Senekal and received der to insure lasting friendship and pros- perity the settlement must include the restoration of unqualified freedom and in- dependence to the republics, and the Col- jonists. - to Dbe aHowed . a - -vofce ‘M the “appointment of the. Gov- ernor © of Cape Colony, thus ob- de | | Olive Schrefner (Mrs. take the English hand | that perhaps is stained with the blood of | o The chairman advised moderation in all the speeches. The resolution was adopted unanimous- Other resolutions presented affirmed viating the necessity for keeping a stand- ing army, as the republicans would be prepared to assist the Colonists to repel any forelgn inrcads in South Africa, unity would be insured and loyaity to Great Britain cemented. A delegation was appointed to visit Great Britain, Canada and Australasia to explain the views of those represented at the congress. Before the close of the people’s congress Conwright) made an impassioned speech, in which she pre- dicted that the South African republics would regain their independence. o PRETORIA WILL SURRENDER. CAPE TOWN, June 2—A dispatch to the Argus of this city from Delagoa Bay |that the Pretoria telegrams expected the says Pretorla will surrender. - President Kruger, according to this correspondent, 1s sald to be at Middleburg, and, he adds, the last stand of the Boers will be made at Machadodorp. e o e i Siae S R St i ol e ol o o e | | | | | | | | F | | | | | | In Reviewing Events of the Week Spenser Wilkinson Says the War in South Africa Is Practically Over. Loxd Roberts Supposed to Be Before Pre- toria and the F Capital May Be Future. ONDON, June 3.—Spenser Wilkin- son, reviewing the events of the week in South Africa for the Asso- clated Press, says: “The situation can clearly be understood if we in the first instance neglect the Pretoria tel- egrams. Lord Roberts advanced over the Vaal in two columns. he himseif with the main body, following the line of rallway and Generals French and Hamilton keep- | of Klipriversberg. The Boers retreated before General Roberts, but resisted the left wing. On Tuesday night General Roberts was at Germiston and the left wing near Florida, just west of Johannes- burg. | “On Wednesday morning General Rob- erts arrived at Johannesburg and agreed to give twenty-four hours' delay before entering the town, which, however, he surrounded with troops. Generals French | and Hamilton were kept away from the | town and pushed forward. | “On Thursday General Roberts entered Johannesburg and made a formal occupa- | tion. He held a review of two divisions | and then, leaving a brigade to garrison the town, he put his main body into camp to the north on the Pretoria road on Fri- | day morning. At that time French and | Hamiiton were well forward toward Pre- | toria. Very likely General French was east of the railway and the remainder of the army within two easy marches of the capital. “Meantime Lord Roberts’ communica- tions were well covered and the Free State forces were receiving punishment. reinforcements from the Third Brigade. On the same day the Highiand Brigade, which had marched in from Ventersberg, entered Heilbron. 5 ursday the Free. Staters rear Ficksburg were reported from Maseru to have~been surrounded by Generals Bra- bant and Rundle, which proves that Gen- eral Brabant has an infantry brigade, 5 which, though not Rundle's, may be Chermside’s. “Now to Pretorja. On Wednesday President Kruger left. The Boer troops | were dismissed from the forts at Pretoria and the town resolved to surrender and made its arrangements. The burghers were in a panic and believed that Roberts was close at hand. These facts were tele- graphed ‘here by two independent wit- nesses. “Our news of Lord Roberts was twenty- four hours old, and there was nothing im- probable in his troops being where Pre- toria reported them to be. Then we were | ready to believe that Pretoria would be | occupied on Thursday. Now it is clear | occupation two or three days too soon. “General Roberts must be new before | Pretoria, but the evidence is not suffi- cient to'enable us to judge whether he has met serious resistance. There might be | stays with her mother. all of the Transvaal Expected in the Near slight diffcully if the Boers havé reoccu- pied the forts. but in all probability the entry into Pretorfa will not be long de- ved. The Boer military power is now pletely broken a is over, althcugh the oceup of the country will take some time and probably will be delayed by many guer- rilla bands. “President Kruger ma y form a band at | ing with him a short march to the left | Lydenburg, which. however, can do no and slightly in advance. On Monday | great harm, as Ge night General Roberts was at Klip River | up to the Delagoa E station, the left wing columy being south | Kruges’s supplies. $o seon as have all the rallways flying columns will quickly make an end to all great opposi- tion and the Lydenburg region can be dealt with at leisure.” BRABANT SURROUNDS BOERS. MASERU, Basutoland, June l.—Gen- eral Bratant has practically surrounded the Boers five miles oatside of Ficksbu The only side open for the retreat is the Basutoland border, where thousands of Basutos, under Chief Jenathan, are await- ing events. The Grenadier Guards were the heaviest | sufferers during. General Rundle’'s fight- ing. They lost thirty men killed and had eighty-eight wounded. -~ AUSTRALIAN SCOUTS SHOT. PRETORIA, May 31 (delayed in trans- mission).—Johannesburg was formally handed over to the British at 11 o'clock this morning in an orderly manner. Lord Roberts was accompanied by a small force. The banks are guarded. There was a slight engagement outside Johannesburg and some Australlan scouts were shot in treet fighting. After this a message was sent tp the nearest British general notify- Ing him that the town would not be de- fended. CHARGE OF BIGAMY AGAINST EARL RUSSELL Former Wife of the English Noble- man Decides to Begin a Prosecution. Special Dispatch to The” Call. NEW YORK, June 2—The World has the following from London: The Countess of Russell bas been advised that the best means of testing the validity of the Earl's American marriage is by prosecuting him for bigamy. Accordingly she has laid her complaint before the Public Prosecutor, with whom the Initiative re: The Countess wishes to avold, if possible, a proceeding for divorce, which would be playing into the hands of the Earl. He is living with his new wife in a cottage at Taplow, close to where the Countess They often meet in the village street and in boating and stare at each other continua The Earl last week attended a meeting of the London County Council, of whick he is an_ Alderman. He was sreeted by his friends as usua FOREIGN GUARDS ARRIVE DURING DRAGON FESTIVAL Their Presence in Peking Has Already Had a Marked Effect on the Treatment of Europeans in China. EKING, June 2—American and her foreign numb: arr i h the midst dragon fe The streets sually crowded, and though the people were greatly interested in the spectacle no manifestation of hos- de. The presence of the y had a marked effect ¢ the Chinese toward excitement in the ad- the bearing refugees are still flocking as been much allayed, but | | Lord Salisbury “Boxers” are evidently moving p 1l Unfortunately no leaders of the | Boxers have been arrested, though their c re would have been easy. All the| nment has done has been to occupy the scenes of the disturbance and no real e measures have been taken. Murder of Foreigners. {, June 2—The forelgners who Pastingfu are from here. Four of the party have been Kkilled and four are wounded. An expedi- tion is procecding to their relief. esc NGHAIL June 2—The Empress has ordered the Governor of st Lin. the Chinese manager te; Kia, chief of the ymmercial Bureau, nker, on the ground that they : characters, but in reality » connected with British bec enterprises Stand of Great Britain. use 1LONDON, June 2—The Chinese question | is attracting much public interest here, the ravages of the “Boxers” and the of British and other armed par- ties have scarcely caused a flutter of ex- citement, for Lord Sa . the Asso- ciated Press learns, dc bitbine itha 1a outbreak will result in -anything serfous. That it will bring up acutely the question of the partition of China is a possibility at present considered too remote for an expression of opinion. The attitude of the British Foreign Office may be described as nothing less than phleg- matic “Everything is jeft in the hands of Sir a o and Fan, a | ten miles | t | Czar. Claude McDonald, our Minister,” said one of the officials responsible for the con- duct of these affairs. *“He is empowered to requisition the guns and men he needs from the China squadron. All the Min- t Peéking seem to co-operate har- We know practically nothing isting there, and ‘Boxers’ until the day. I am inclined to believe we 1 not hear of them again in the near future. “Yes, neve: oth heard of the perhaps the Chinese pzucy is weakest point. But as a matter of fact England cannot have any Far East policy. The constant change of government leaves nothing for the Foreign Minister to do but become an opportunist of the extreme type. With Russia it is different. She is an auto- cratic power, whose Foreign Office re- mains in power as long as it pleases the During the lifetime of a ruler a consistent policy can thus be carried out. In England we have no such chance.” This, perhaps, 1= the most truthful de- scription of the British policy, or rather, lack of it in the Far East, ever given to the public. The fecling among the offi- ciais is that Russia’s inroads om Japan's prerogatives in Korea constitute a much graver source of danger than the “Box- ers’ " outhreaks, though Korean matters have temporarily ceased to figure promi- nently in the press dispatches. AMERICAN LOSSES IN THE PHILIPPINE WAR Secretary Root Submits Figures Called for by a Senats Resolution. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Secretary Root fo-day sent to the Senate, in response to the resolution of inquiry, an extended re- port on the number of soldlers who have been killed or have dled of wounds in the Philippines. Secretary Root also gives the number of those who have gone insane and have committed suicide since 1898. ““Whereby It appears,” he states, “that the number of insane cases and the num- ber of suicides have not been increased by service in the Philippines, but remain substantially the game number per thou- sand as in the period of peace prior to the war with Spain.” The (casuzlties in the Philippines from July 31, 1888, to May 24, 1900, according to the report, were: Deaths—Regulars, 36 officers and 920 men; volunteers, 41 officers and 854 men. ‘Wounded—Regulars, 37 officers and 721 men; volunteers, 91 officers and 1115 men. The number of insane soldiers admitted to the hospital at Washington from the Philippines to May 24, 1900, are: Regulars, 47; volunteers, 16, of which 19 have been discharged as recovered and 41 remain; one discharged unimproved and one on a visit from a hospital. The number of insane soldiers from the Philippines now in theé United States hos- pital at San Francisco, to be sent to ‘Washington, are: Regulars, 5; volun- teers, 4. Held at San Francisco, dlagnosis not confirmed: Regulars, 6; volunteers, 18. e R MAJORITY REPORT. WILL ACQUIT GENERAL MERRIAM Findings in the Coeur d’Alene Inves- tigation About to Be Sub- mitted. WASHINGTON, June 2—The report on |@e Coeur d'Alene investigation will be submitted to the House Commhittee on Military Affairs on Monday, and will prob. ably be made public then. riam and that they were there to maintain order, with the State officlals directing affairs. ‘The minority report, on the other hand, | The first will be an arralgnment of the United States authorities, holding that they did not vacate their functions to the State and that they were responsible for the treatment of imprisoned strikers. authorities from _responsibility, holding | Of the corner of Seventh and i § RATIFYING THE HAGUE CONVENTION . THE HAGUE, June 2.— Queen Wilhelmina has ratified The Hague peace.convention. Spain has done likewise and the adhesion of Germany and Great Britain is expected im- mediately. e s s A e e st + z G444+ 4444444 4444444 PAPAL CENSURE FOR ARCHBISHOP IRELAND American Prelate’s Letter to the Duxe of Norfolk Displeasing to His Holiness. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ROME, June 2.—The Archbishops of St. Louis and New Orleans and the Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie have been/ reccived by the Pope, to whom they presented $20,000 Peter’s pence and a number of costly pres- ents. The Pope received at special audi- ence the three prelates named agd talked on a number of American questions, in- cluding the so-called ‘Americanism. The Pope referred. in. severity to Arch- bishop Ireland’s letter to the Duke of Norfolk. The letter, he said, ought never to have been written. There was, contin- ued his Holiness, a deplorable laxity of discipline in the church in North America. Certain prelates appeared to forget that maintenance of discipline and concord among the faithful was one of the first duties of thos> responsible, for without it Catholics ran the danger of becoming a mere rabble, like the members of heretical churches in England. The Pope declared, in conclusion, that the Catholic churck could not be nation- alized. There we~: . lics nor American ) all Roman Apostoli: “athocs, MOSS W HIS LIFE. PORTLAND, Or., June 2—Riley M. Moss, who on Thursday night murdered were The majority | g wife, Naoml Moss, at Willamette report is expected to acquit General Mer- | Helghts Park, this evening shot and killed the TUnited States military | himself in the Silyer State I lodging- 3 Washington Moss entered the building without being en, and going to a room locked the door. 5 rovolver which the landlady o e She nnt to the room, and flndln‘ the police sta. tion. Two officers !hma’loor and Moss found on th a hnav.h'ole mw‘flx"in %ur:. Mr '“. heard. the door locked telephoned forced TFOUR STAGES STOPPED BY A LONE HIGHWAYMAN .Compéls Thirty-One People to Stand and Deliver and Successfully Evades a Troop of AYMOND, i\txne 2.—One of the ccol- est and most daring robberies ever commited In this section occurred near Raymond this morning when three of the Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Company’s coaches, a private coaching party, two soldlers and three teamsters were help up by a lone high- wayman, who commanded thirty-one peo- ple to “dig up.” A. H. Foster, one of, the oldest employes of the stage company, was taking a party of tourists to the Mariposa Big Trees. As he reached the top of a small hill he was commanded to. halt by a lone highway- man, who ordered him to drive to one side. The passengers were ordered to hand over their valuables and the robber got $80. Instead 6f ordering the teams on he held them an hour and a half, when two soldiers of Troop F, Sixth Cavalry, came along. The robber covered the soldiers, compelled them to hand over their guns, tie thelr horses to a tree near by and join the other party. The next victim was a Spanjard with a wood wagon. He also was ordered to line up. About twenty minutes elapsed before the first Yosemite stage came along in charge of Bright Gellispie, with nine pas- sengers, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Griffin of San Francisco and Walter Harp and wife of Berkeley. The bandit pursued the same course, ordering the tourists to hand over their valuables, get- ting $111. ‘The next stage carried the mail and ex- press, driven by Tom Skelton, who was or- dered to throw out the express box and line up. Next came another stage driven by Earnest Stevens, with fiv# Chinamen. The Chinamen were ordered.to hand over their valuables, but they sald, “No sabbe talk.” The robber leveled his 44 caliber rifle on them, saying, ““You can't fool me as they did on the Big Oak Flat road.” The Chi- namen then ‘“heep sabbe,” turned their pockets inside out, and the robber ob- ' Cavalrymen. Special Dispatch to The Call. tained.about $15. The driver was ordered | to line up to await the next vietim. After waiting some time the robber or- dered all the teams to drive on, telling the | soldiers to get into one of the stages and ordering two of the passengers to mount the saddle horses and go down the road and stay a half-hour before returning., The passengers started ott, but had not | gone over 300 yards when they met Major Rucker and Captain Wilcox, in command of a detachment of Troop F, Fourth Cav- | alry, from the Presidio, San Francisco, consisting of sixty-eight men en route to the Yosemite National Park. TUpon being informed the officers hurried to the scene of the holdup. In the mean- | time the robber attempted to open the ex- press hox, but seeing the soldlers advanc- | ing upen him. disappeared in the brush. | A sergeant discevered a sack coutaining | clothes, a sweater, hat, box of cartridges | and a pair of large field-glasses, which will undoubtedly prove valuable as evi- dence. That the bandit had good judgment in the selection of his ground is evidenced by the fact that the spot for hoidup ‘was one of the best for the purpose in the vicinity. A long stretch of sand covered by brush Is met at this point, and wagons are compelied to go slowly, as the pulling is hard on the Lorses. Tom Skelton, the driver of the mail and express stage, when seen upon his arrival here to-night by a Call reporter sald: “Just as we were reaching the top of a hill two miles this side of Grub Gulch, where the brush is thick, I noticed several teams ahead of me. I was covered with a rifle and asked it T had any firearms or a hatchet with me. Upon saying “No" [ was ordered to throw out thef express bhox, which I did. The robber then ordered me to line up. He was evidently a Swede, | about five feet nine inches in height, wear- ing overalls, a pair of brogan shoes and a black hat. He had a blue bandana handkerchief cver his face and his hands were blackened. The robber gave Foster a card reading, ‘The Black Kid,’ and sald, “I hope we will get better acquainted, oid méan.’ " Sheriff Thurman, Constable Leonard and a posse have left for the sceme of the holdup, and thée greatest amount of ex- citement prevails here. The officers be- leve the robber is the man who held up | two of the Sonora stages three weeks ago. MESSAGE FROM PATTERSON. Believed the Steamer Pelican Sanic ‘When Twelve Days Out. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., June To-day Mrs. M. T. Patterson, wife of the mate of the ill-fated steamship Pelican, which sailed from this port October 12, 1897, with a cargo of railroad ties for ths Siberian Rallroad, received the following message, picked up February 8, 130, by Augustus Wyman on Ukomk Island. The message was forwarded to this city by M. F. Wright, the Alaska Commercial Company’s agent at Kadiak: Latitude 50 riorth, longitude 175 west, October 24, 13%—70 whom it may concern: S. S. Peli- can is about to sink. We are leaving in frail boats. We realize our fate. God bless my darling wife. M. T. PATTERSON. Chief Otficer. Port Townsend, Wash., is my home. This is the second message from Mate Patterson received by Mrs. Patterson. ‘The fifst message was not dated. Ac- cording to the date on the above message the Pelican met her fate tweive days after leaving this port, and shipping men say it is strange that no wreckage from the Pelican has ever been found. Johns Case Closed. Special Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, June 2—In the Johns note-forgery case, which has cccupied the attention of the court for two weeks, ar- yment was concluded this afternoon. 1!:“. G:ddl' n.nnmuI p::ucdn tha! s one of great imj ce ve reasons for his decision ore took it under ad 2 and he there-