The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1900, Page 1

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P . 2 . lie PSR 1 ? * % *1 L + 04 : EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHINA. z 2. : m a Photograph of the Only Portrait of Her in Existence). 3 $ @+ 4 40 ieieisieisittesistedsdrd st NT YORXK, June 6.—Cable from China this morning ‘:’ \ fhe = tsin to be even more | ¢ continue to closeinon | ¢ practically under arms, while Russian troops | ¢ to & fr Port Ar - to neighborhood of : tal to e rebels for killing two Cossacks and wounding . s, L 4 fifty more American marines at R4 T dred previously landsd, his ciphel | @ 4099604 0+0000060000009-0000¢ b somewhat obsc indicating that an engagement A and imperial troops. dnight Sunday appealed 5 s r immediate aid, as the mission was be- from Lord Roberts: ndig: was felt over the delay in sending e ed by Chinese red tape. It developed yegterday — . . A ; 7 : < Mr. Robinson, of the English Episcopal North | T he official entry will be made this afternoon at 2 o’clock.”” t Yungching, has been murdered, and it d the fact. On the “highest .uthority” the the Empress Dowager ordered the For- is believed ‘ ONDON, June 5, 12:47 p. m—The War Office has issued the fcllowing dispatc PRETORIA HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY ROBERTS British Commander Reports Occupation of the Transvaal Capital by His Army, but First Sustained Heavy Loss. | Bl e e an e e i e o i o e e e e e ] et P TOO: LATE. During the Fierce Fighting the Thirteenth Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry Was Surrounded by the Republican Forces and Captured--Methuen 4 @ | - ® Db + L 4 L3 & - @ . ~—New York World. T e e s @ . ® * @ + ® - @ + @ * @ 3 ¢ * ® + L3 . Ld h “PRETORIA, June 5, 11:40 a. m.—We are now in possession of Pretoria. [ R e o o e e o S o SRR S T S PN SRR SR P A S S S S DALTON REPORTED TO BE INDICTED Rumor That the Alameda Grand Jury Found True Bill Against the Assessor Causes a Sensation. Judge Greene Refuses to Receive Report of the Inquisitorial Body Because of the Absence of a Juror. D e e e e - >+ O R I L e o 3 Ccunty Assessor Henry P. Dalion. D e b e b ebeb et ed eded eI ebebeiedebedes s D Oakland Office San Francisco Call, j that there was no personal property roil 1 1118 Broadway, June 5. |except what had been collected. An in- SENSATION was created this af- | vestigation into this phase of the m ternoon by the report that County | ter brought the ch: that the origin: Assessor Henry P. Dalton had | Property roll had been destroyed and t roll as it existed had been made to the collections. That the these affairs and this caused the e: lowed the announceme had been indicted the fact that C dan, who is | Mr. Dalton’s camp! been indicted by the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury concluded its labors this afternoon and attempted to make its re- | port, but Judge Greene refused to accept it on the techmical ground that R. M. \+entworth, one of the Grand Jury men, | was abeent; holding that the fuM jury /| must be present when the report was filed. He ordered the Grand Jury to be present Thursday, when it will file its re- | tement that fol- t that Mr. Dalton This was added to by Clerk Frank C. Jor- connected with n for Congress and | port and receive its discharge. is doing the active work of a campaign Scarcely had the Grand Jury been dis- | manager, s: et A Dudietient missed temporarily than it was reported been found the Gr: Jury against that its investigation of the County |p, and h the e breath de- Assessor's office had resulted in an in-|nounced it as a political scheme to inju dictment against Assessor Dalton. In a | palton. As Mr. Jordan is so intimate very few moments the report spread in | connected w every direction. 1t was well known that the Grand Jury had paid no little atten- uon to the office of the County Assessor. No actual indictment was found, how- ever, though the conduct of the office was gone into with great attention to de- tails, and the last s on of the Grand | Jury this afternoon was a very stormy Dalton’s camp: and as he was led as one of the witnesses before the Grand Jury to color was given to his first statement. County Assessor Dalton denies the in- dictment story_and also charges politics as the basis of the Grand Jury's move. Mr. Dalton said this evening: “I have ard rumors during the day one over this very point. ki to the effect that I am to be In- The Grand Jury began an investigation ted. by the Grand 3 . of the office of Countx Assessor Dalton | there is any TR byt | some weeks ago, paying special attention | um unable to I can truth- to the manner of the collection of personal | fyjly assert that they cause me ab- roperty taxes and the retention by the | solutely no worry. If the Grand Jury ssessor of fees for the collection of poll | tyrns an & ment against me it taxes. A civil sult covering this latter | be at the instigation of my polit Lord Reberts reported to the War Ofiice at midnight that the Thirteenth] gn O t st of more European troops and to *>fy all | Li 2" erfere with the “Boxers.” Naval representatives | indley. ked permission of their Governments |toO iate. 1as Tientsin. ! s ominous and dreads an encounter It is believed in Berlin that atches with a view to the selection Peking is believed to be men- r E ipress face has ordered the Tsung-li- | all Europe rather than to e Boxer movemeht. sserted that the Viceroy red troops to oppose the further f parties from foreign warships t the troops now engaged in opera- to prevent further tor- | ts reaching Peking. igned L ed Huang Tsun ntsin Rallway, to-day he station and two n burned. The officers the Chinese troops there sald | 20 of his men had bolted and only-| . killing The boiting n the adjacent ted that six Some of the ed, frightrully mu ers are patrolling the have not interfered T th w Marines Landed. 5.—The Secretary the following com- ates ship Newark More ASHINGTON, June elved P = it neighborhood, but with the party of Associated Press repre- | sentatives. ! All the yes are deserting i hinese railway em. . States & . their posts and the | e Taku forts at the mouth troops sent to guard the stations r River, dated Taku, June 5: s se the " o g e to be worse than useless. A guard of 20 sent to Feng Tai bolted at Lu Kou Chao terday morning when they *heard of the trouble at Huang Asung. | News has just been received from the | Viceroy, through the men he sent' to Yung-Ching. that Norman of the Yorth China mission was murdered Fr-l ay or Saturd: It is thought that the has commenced. f fifty seamen g essage is not entirely legi- osed at the Navy De- received a | Viceroy knew of Mr. Norman's murder at nger at Pe- | the time of Mr. Robinson's, - . taken a Boxers Approaching Tientsin. ; No detalls LON. ON, Jjune §.—A dispatch to the| ated that the | Daily Mail from Tientsin, dated June 4, | very closely | gays: “The situation is \e}? serfous. e State Depart- The Boxers are approaching Tientsin on | . The _Shanghai correspondent of the | Daily Mail telegraphing vesterday says: E ! “The Boxers are within:three miles of | d even if they | Tientsin. In addition to the marines the | s disinclined | defensive force includes volunteers under | demonstration the command of or Higes, late of the | Sixteenth Lance The town is practi- + grity of the ! oy inder arms. | is statement is a sufll- | “ppe Berlin correspondent of the Daily | tion coming | Chronicle save: “In officfal circles here | it is belleved that the situation in China | has grown worse. The powers are now | exchanging dispatches regarding the ap- pointment of a single commander of the | united European and American squad- ron.” hat Un‘ted ish forces in June 4. —The! y i Gazet 1t has the high- est authority for stating that the ])OW-A\ drank to the cannot dwindled to tenburg. moved. neshurg, occupled the city, and made a tour of it unmolested by the armed burghers. § Battalion of the li:perial Yeomanry (Irish) was ‘‘overwhelined by the Boers at Lord Methuen made a ‘‘magndicent march to the rescue,” but was i b ONDON, June 6, 4:40 a. m.—Queen | of the dispatch from Lord Roberts an-|Commandant General Botha, and a gen- Victoria, i Duch of York, Princess ristian, Princess Victoria and many other notables of her court, his. vietory. The dispatches of Lord Roberts, telling | hour after the recelpt cf my telegram, on | of the incidents before the surrendering | June 1, he started off. By 10 a. m. of the | of the capital by three civilians, stand | | alone, as the correspondents | hz ave not had their turn with the wires. g 5 the army at Balmoral last evening. ue of their damage to property and |, e lighted at her Majesty's com-| £ the Chinese troops on the railway. |mand. blazed on C rounded by the Duke | nouncing the disaster to the Thirteenth | Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry: “PRETORIA STATION, p. m.—I regret to report that the Thir- June 5—12:5 health of Lord Roberts and | teenth Imperial Yeomanry had to surren- | A | der to a very superior force of the enemy | on May 31, near Lindley. aiggown Mountain. il- | formation of the battalion being attacked | luminating the country for miles around. | | ordered Methuen to proceed with all | The nation joins in the toast, glorfying | speed to its assistance. Lord Roberts and turbulently rejoicing in | On recelving in- | ‘“Methuen was then on the march, on the | Hellbron side of Kroonstad, and, half an following day he had marched forty-four | with him | mijes in twenty-five hours, but he was too | |late to rescue Colonel Lord Roberts® postscript announcing the | manry “Methuen attacked the Boers, who were between two and three thousand strong, and after a running fight of five hours completely routed the enemy. he newspaper commentators consider the incident deplorable, but as having no e battalion numbered between 400 and 500. eight to speak of in the results. The General Botha and most of his men got away from Pretoria. This is inferred from Lord Roberts’ message, but the presump- on is that the Boer commandant-general escape the British dispositions ithout a fight. Operations elsewhere seem to have nothing. General Baden- owell joined Hunter on Sunday at Lich- Sir Redvers Buller has not Bennett Burleigh, wiring from Johan- ceburg, says President Kruger took £2,- 5,000 1 eash to Middleburg. Mr. Burleigh and Guy Scull, an merican correspondent, entered Johan- the night before Lord Roberts ROBERTS REGRETS TO REPORT THE SURRENDER LONDON, June 5.—Following is the text Fuigig Uneeund'y. | 1oss of the Yeomanry battalion came too | representative of | jate for the public to know it last evening. J ©+C+ 040+ 040+ 0404040404040 40+ 0404+ “It is a very regrettable circumstance, | but T trust it will not be very long before | are released from the Irish captivity IR LB=g Yeomanry Sprague’s Yeo- | BOERS BEATEN BACK AND PRETORIA TAKEN LONDON, June 5, 11:07 p. m.—The War the following from Office has received Lord Roberts: “PRETORIA. June 5, 12 . before dark yesterday the enemy were beaten back from nearly all the positions they had been holding and Ian Hamilton's mounted infantry followed them to within | m.—Just 2000 yards of Pretoria, through which they De Lisle then sent an officer with a flag of truce into the town retreated hastily. demanding its surrender in my name. Shortly before midnight I was awakened by two officials of the South African re- public, Sandberg, military secretary to BHCHO 44T+ OO+ 40404 D040 43404 G0+ 0404043404040 40+ CHO+ o0+ O4040 40404045 4040 * MOORS MASSIING TO BATTILE WITH FRENCE ONDON, June 5.—Special dispatches received this evening from Algiers portray a serious situation. Thousands of Moors are massing at Fuigig and in the neighborhood, preparing for a determined attack upon the advance posts of the French. The French columns have joined hands at Zoubia, but the men suffer terribly from heat and thirst and hundreds of camels died. The French are preparing entrenchments and are confident of their ability to repel an attack and even to take the offensive against . eral officer of the Boer army, who brought | me a letter from Botha proposing an armistice for the purpose of settling the terms of surrender. “I replied that I would gladly meet the | commandant general the next morning, but that I was not prepared to discuss | any terms as the surrender of the town must be unconditional. I asked for a re- ply by daybreak, as I had ordered the troops to march on the town as soon as it was light. “In his reply Botha told me he had decided not to defend Pretoria and he trusted women, children and property would be protected. At 1 a. m. to-day while in line of march I was met by three of the principal officlals with a flag of truce, stating their wish to surrender the | town. “It was arranged that Pretoria should | be taken possession of by her Majesty’s troops at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Botha and Mrs. Kruger are both in Pre- toria. Some few of the British prisoners | have been taken away. but the majority are still at Watervil. Over a hundred of | | the officers are in Pretorfa. The few I | | have seen are looking well | —_————— |ALL ENGLAND CELEBRATES 5 THE FALL OF PRETORlAi LONDON, June 5.—England has been celebrating to-night the fall of Pretoria | very much as she did the rellef of Mafe- | king. Drunkenness has been a trifle less | | than when Baden-Powell was the hero | of the moment, but in London and in other large towns the scenes last evening | were practically a repetition of those who | marked the other victories, and long after midnight uproarious yelling, the tooting | ot horns and the discordant chants as- | cended from city streets usually at such | an hour as silent as the grave. During § | $ | faquiry went into the withholding of fees | Whitechapel costermongers intermingled | lar form of showing one’s exultation until | the worst form held sway. point was ordered by the Supervisors yes- terday, so that this was disposed of out- mies, who are attempting at this time to | do everything that tends to my defeat for side of the Grand Jury. | the office of Congressman from this dis- The County A or at once opened | trict. While I have not conversed with upon the Grand Jury and accused that|any member of the Grand Jury, I have of attempting to injure him and of | heen led to believe by my friends that o “doing politics” against him. The Grand | there have been no findings against me by Jury replied by summonins Mr. Dalton | that body. In fact. I am at a loss to know on what charge I could be held ac- countable to the law. My administration as Assessor has been free from scandal, and my force of de s honorable_and men that could be any public oftice. “There has been some talk that I have been dilatory in the collection of personal property taxes. The only thing I can say in relation to this charge Is that I have | done my full duty. y deputies have been instructed to overiook nothing, and if there have been any difficulties in this matter, it has been because of their in- ability to gather the money.” and all of his deputies and their examina- tion occupied several days. The principal point under inves: tion was the collee- tion of personal property taxes, but the reliable for the preparation of the Oakland cit; | broug! sment roll and the Assessor’s report \t labor upon that work, his withholding | of fees for the collection of poll taxes'and alleged fallure to collect poll taxes. The | law_covering the collection of personal property taxes makes the Assessor liable upon his bond for all uncollected taXes of this variety. It was found that M. | Dalton’s accounts exactly balanced and morning issues the following dispatch re- ceived from Lord Roberts: “SIX MILES SPRUIT, 8:3 p. m., June 4.—We started this morning at daybreak and marched about ten miles to Six Miles Spruit, both banks of which were occu- pied by the enemy. Henry's and Ross” mounted infantry, with the West Somer- set, Dorset, Bedford and Sussex compa- nies of yeomanry, quickly dislodged them from the south bank and pursued them nearly a mile, when they found them- seives under a heavy fire from guns which the Boers had placed in a well concealed, commanding position. “Our heavy guns of the naval and royal artillery, which had purposely been placed in the front part of the column, were hur- ried to the assistance of the mounted in- fantry as fast as oxen and mules could travel over the great rolling hills sur- rounding Pretoria. The guns were sup- ported by Stevenson’s brigzde, and after a few rounds drove the enemy from their positions. “The Boers then attempted to turn our left flank, in which they were again foiled by the mounted infantry and yeomanry, supported by Maxwell's brigade of Tuck- er’s division. ““As, however, they still kept pressing our left rear, I sent word to lan Hamil- ton, who was advancing three miles to our left, to incline toward us and fill up the gap between the two columns. This finally checked the enemy, who were driven back toward Pretoria. I hoped we would have been able to follow them up, but the days now are very short in this part of the world; and after nearly two hours’ marching and fighting we had to bivouac on the ground gained during the day. “The Guards Brigade is quite near the southernmost fort by which Pretoria is defended and less than four miles from the town. “French with the Third and Fourth cavalry brigades and Hutton's New Seuth Wales Mounted Rifles is north of Pretoria. “Broadwood's brigade Is Dbetween Continued on Second Page. v rocessions marched along :g: ;:::ggg Ppiccéxmuy and other leading thoroughfares. In fact, so great was the crush that the easiest method of locomo- tion was to join onme of the processions, for whose strident choruses and waving flags all traffic was stopped. Coaches and cabs were freely chartered, in honor of the joyful occasion, and these were soon so packed with invited and uninvited guests that they assumed the aspect of living pyramids of bacchanalians. Bables in arms, white-haired womer, girls of the street, clubmen in evening dress and in the flaring thoroughfares, bent upon celebrating the victory. Into the faces of all were continually thrust huge peacock feathers, described for no known reason as ‘‘Kruger's per- suaders.” Girls were indiscriminately kissed, jostled and tossed around amid the ecstatic jubfiation of the erowd. A species of confetti which stuck to the clothing of the recipient proved a.popu- the stores of the peddlers ran out. As the night grew older rowdyism of From almost every barroom came sounds of inebriate attempts to sing “God Save the Queen” and “Rule Britannia. : At the music halls and theaters last evening the mention of Lord Roberts at Pretoria brought every audience to its feet in a second, and it was almost im- possible for the performers to hold the interest of those in front of them. Every butlding possessing an illuminating device used it for all it was worth until the metropolis was ablaze with light. The clubs on Pall Mall were lit up with a huge torch and the staid old street of murky buildings was scarcely recogniz- able. PLENTY OF FIGHTING ‘ON WAY TO PRETORIA LONDON, June 5—~The War Office this