The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1900, Page 3

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L4 * 6 - - * ® - * ¢ 3 @ . . b * - . * : s JEERT HART, BRITISH INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CHINESE | s - (8] oUT LAST MES: FROM PEKING, & - s > . @rheflieleNeteRNeNoNeRN Nt oR IR NN RN IR+ and w 3 a was deco- r accou f further ne ws the saf GALIFORNIA GAN PROYIDE TROOPS Total Force of Three Thou- nd Men Available for| Service Against the Boxers, | = seems little d < L LB B COSSACKS TO GUARD MANCHURIAN RAILWAY CHICAGO July 17.—A special cable to { ALL HEADQUARTERS, WEL | LINGTON HOTEL, WASHING- TON, July 17.—While negottation are in progress between the powers of Eurove relative to the strength of the forces the allies shall place in China, the United States is studious] fraining from partict sfon and continues to An effort has been TUnited States into these negotiations, and | this, perhzos, accounts for the fact that the State Department is well informed of the diplomatic developments that occur. does action which may 1d the United States in the future. The United States will send troops to China, and as many of them as may be necessary, without consulting the These troops wiil act solely for the pro- tection.of American int but if they sh such protection by acting concurrently with the troops of the other powers they will do so. At this time the course ef action lies in such concurrence, ut there will be no diplomatic action taken which will bind the American troops to continue to operate with the allies. vas reported to-day that the nego- between the powers related to th | desire of Great Pritain and Japan to per- mit the latter to place a force in China sufficlent to establish peace and order and malintain it. Russia, supported by was sald to be opposing this A high offictal of the Stete De- partment informed me that no such in- formation had been received. It was fur- not propose to | b other powers. | ther stated that the negotiations did not concern the future government of China. In fact, ne expressed confildence that as a result of the action of Secretary Hay in declaring a non-partisan policy, to which the other Governments had assent- ed, the dismemberment of China would not occur. Officlals of the administration are hope- ful that the Boxer insurrection will not extend to Korea. It was pointed out that turbances in Korea might lead to Rus- ding troops into the Hermit King- dom, and such action would undoubtedly be objected to by Japan. Mr. Tam, who is in charge of the Korean expressed surprice when informed of the operations of the Boxers near the Korean border. There had never been any trouble between the m tes and the Ko- reans, but Chinese frequently crossed the border and caused disturbances. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister, urged to-d civilla ccompany the | 0 vt American troops for the purpose of assur- ing the Chinese of the friendly purpose of thg American Government. op v ing the purpose of the Chinese Govern- ment in placing the responsibility for th existing trouble and In effecting a peace- ful settlement It is understood that during the Cabinet meeting to- there was no action as to the appointment of a successor to Minis- | ter Conger. though an American repre- sentative probably will be sent to China, and the name of Minister W. W. Rockhill In Mr. Wu's fon such officfals would be of great continues to be mentioned in connection | ! with this post. PERILS Mrs. Drummeond Worites Besieg ANTA ROSA, July —Two letters were recefved here to-day direct from Tientsin, the seat of the pres- ent disturbances in Chin: from Mrs. J tne American Con other s from Mrs. Lucy Campbell Drum- mond, daughter of Judge John Tyle | Campbell of this city. Mr. and Mrs. R: dale and family left here upon the mer's appointment shortly after the el stdent McKinley. Mrs. Drum- as Miss L Campbell, is w. E ul at Tientsi for- left here several years ago, when her fa- ther was appointeu Consul to Foochow by President Cleveland. married a wealthy Englishman there has made her home in Tientsin that time. Her letter brings the joyful news that, with her fam- ily, she left Tientsin on the last armored train which succeeded in getting out and found safety in Shanghai. Mrs. Ragsdale’s letter is under date of June 14 and gives a thrilling account the dangers which beset the American colony at Tientsin at that time, as well as the foreigners in general. The letter ved by Mrs. Dr. Finlaw and is h an unsettled state of affairs on every of the quest the time aches you is will all be settl but how e are | £0 anxlous for the people at Peking with- iving ourselves a thought—three hun- dred foreigners with a three hundred guard of foreign troops against 100,000 Chinese soldiers wel] armed and drilled | as the foreigners are. Before aid can h m they must se troops two walls fifty feet high and thirty thick. The gates are ten feet wide and well guarded. How is it to be done? The Chinese have elgn guns moul ] on the walls and train on the lega- tions. The fear is that when our troops reach there and trouble begins at the outside wall the Chinese will try to kill ry foreigner that is Inside. Railroads Destroyed. “The ailroads have been badly dam- aged, bridges burned, etc. All this week they havebeen trying to put them {n shape, and are only half way. The other forty miles they will march, starting this even- ing, as the remainder of the road is so badly damaged that it would take a long troops could be rushed up. Not less than 10,000 should try to force an entrance, and there are less than 3000 on the road. They have eleven field guns, but the Chinese have them also. There is a fort just ea of Tientsin on the other bank of the river. The fort has three cannon trained | on the settlement. For three weeks we | have had a houseful. Admiral Kempff of ptain McCalla have | the Newark and ( | had their headquarters here. Just now. the admiral is on the ship and the captain is at the head not only of the Americans ! on the way up to Peking, but of all the forces. He is a particularly fine spectmen rep ge to & req ow say: for informatio atch from Port Ar-|of the finest nation on earth. If any one 1 out of railway guard of | can take the troops there he is the man. gether with 500 Infantry. arbin, where it will that will swell the ) before attacking the Box- in that region. M. Youge- eer of the Manchurian ervising the fortifying of renches and barricades. ieff has ordered several d the Gulf of Pechiil in th: of the Chinese warship and give battle. losses in_the fleld du ~d as: K dent f infantry regiments 1 band ez troops ca nree signal detac men; grand tc 1 and brigade com- nd Governor's staff, | eruisers to g | hope —The Secretary has wired Adju- king how many h tor & war in and” burned. reply was that X 5,160,000). The tea pon to furnish | l;_!f‘rv . of Kalgan are taking refuge in | Port Arthur. ent might call FROIRe CONFIRMATORY OF MASSACRE. July 17.—Gover- telegraphed President | . pARIS, July 17.—The French Consul at the services of three| shangha s under date of July 15 e batteries of Indiana | tnat the Taotal of Shanghai had com- ction of Americans municated to him a dispatch from the Governor of 8 antung stating that orelgn legations at Peking were retes Ty o g were again Tuan after a sortie by a European. de- tachment. and that all hope of saving the forelgners seemed lost. A second telegram from the Consul dated July 16, which arrived at the same pe RS T FATE OF PAO TING-FU ' REFUGEES IN DOUBT W YORK, July 17.—While hope for | time as the one given above, says L{i Hun missionaries in Peking was practicaliy | Chang denled the news relating to mas- ied several days ago, there stiil | sacres in Peking. d a gieam of hope that the litt nd reported on July 6 as at Pao Ting- might have escaped the fate of their gues In the gapital and that some 'who were reported to nave gone to Peking were Getained and are still at thelir sta- — The excursion to Ukiah and return on | Sunday, July 22, will allow over four hours in Uklah in which to lunch, visit fish hatchery of the California North- western Railway, Vichy Springs, asylum and Rancheria. Fare only $2. ” the | troops under General | His wife and family are in California, and Admiral Kempff claims to be aCalifornian, as his wife was a San Francisco woman. We have just heard that the rallway is being destroyed between here and the troops. It looks as 1f it might be true An engine was sent out, and the crew re- | ported that a bridge was on fire. This is very bad, as it i3 the line just repaired and no supplles can be sent to the front, and it will make it harder to get rein- | forcements to them. We all feel very sad this evening, In spite of the music of a Russian military band, playing the best | music I have heard since we came to China. They belong to the 2000 Russlans leaving for Peking to-morrow. Our near- | est neighbor s the richest Russian in | Tientsin, so for the past two days he has | had the officers with him day and night, and in spite of war they manage to keep | up a gay ttme. The band has been play- | ing there. Band music always did hurt me. When a child I cried, without know- | ing why. Some of the music the band | plays glves me the old thrill. They have some grand hymns—quite Russfan I think | they must be, for I never heard them anywhere before. Lives in Jeopardy. 4.we have just heard that it is only by the most persistent efforts on the part of a few Chinese officials who are friendly to | foreigners that the lives of the foreigners have been spared so long, and they fear | they cannot avert it much longer. Those | who know say there never has been such | a bad lot of men at the head of affairs. Li Hung Chang has gone south. Some say he was sent there to get him out of the way in view of bringing about the present OF TWO SANTA ROSA LADIES AT TIENTSIN a former Santa Rosa belle, | time to fix it, and such anxlous letters come from Peking that they must press on. If the rallroad was finished the of the Escape of Mrs. Ragsdale and Herself From the ed City. Special Dispatch to The Call. | state of affairs. The air is full of rumors. | Every one is restless and asking for the v morning, 6 o'clock.—I don’t al- up quite as early as this, but heard that all the mission churches in Tientsin (the Chinese city), two blocks from here, were burned last night. They ed e er since the trouble be- gan and were turned over to the Chinese offictals. The Chinese official seal had been placed the doors show > protection. on to that they It points e of things and proves how powerless they are to protect anything. A | mob made one of the officfal servants of the Viceroy get out of his chalr and walk while the mob jeered him because he had been carrying messages to foreigners. More than a week ago a guard went from here to meet and ald some Belgian refu- gees trying to reach Tientsin. At several villages they were given tea and things to eat. The Boxers burned ever: villages a killed every man, woman and child they found because they aided for- elgners, Boxers Bullet Proof. Chinese, from the highest to the lowest, think the ‘Boxer' a spirit-that t be killed. If hit by a bullet they | just cough and spit it out. One man, duate of Yale, even belleved it till the diers killed some of them. That's the reason it is so hard for the Chinese offi- cials to put them down. The soldlers will not fight them. They do not have guns, but use swords and pikes, and for a mark of the order, wear a red sash and turban, and a small sh box with a paper charm is worn around the neck. During a fight, when they advance, they run a few steps and fall down, jump up and run a few steps and fall. This they repeat over and over to convey the idea | that they have been shot, but can get up | and run just the same. The mail must g0 now, so I will close and send, as we | cannot be certain about getting mail out.” | Mr. Drummond’s letter, augmented by a letter from a Mrs. Fearon, the wife of an American merchant located there, tells of the haste with which the foreign resi- dents left Tientsin for Shanghal on the 15th of June. Mrs. Fearon is a niece of | the late John F. Swift and a cousin of | Judge Campbell. With their family Mr. | and Mrs. Drummond left Tientsin on the armored train which succeeded in ving the city. Almost all their posses- tons were left behind, the same being the case with the other foreigners. No time | was available for packing. Every mo- ment counted. A few things were thrown | together and they were off, glad to leave “All t | the scene of trouble behind them. The safe arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Drummond | in Shanghat is chronicled at length. While | nothing is sald of Mr. and Mrs. Ragsdale | and family, it is presumed they, too, are afe. The Ragsdales and Drummonds are great friends and it is presumed they may have left together, although Mr. Rags- dale’s officlal duties may have prevented this. 'NARROW ESCAPE OF VAN NORMAN M’GEE DENVER, Colo., July 17.—Professor Van | Norman McGee, who has been in the thick of disturbances in China, Is safe, at least for the present. His father, Dr. B. A. McGee, to-day received a dispatch from | him, sent from Nagasaki, Japan, whers | he evidently went on leaving Tientsin. As professor of clvil engineering in the Imperial University of China at Tientsin Van Norman McGee was in the most pre- carious position when the Chinese Boxers | swept the Eurcpeans and Americans from the streets and drove them to the foreign concession. He barely escaped with h!s | life in one of Admiral Kempft's launches, | The party was fired upon by the mob ali the way down the river to the foreigners’ place of refuge, the foreign concession. Later, It appears from the cablegram re- ceived in Denver, he went to Nagasaki. - BUT RECENTLY APPOINTED. 'PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Lieutenant Smedley Darlington Butler, who was wounded in the engagement between the allied forces and the Chinese, is a son of Congressman Butler of Westchester, Pa. He has just passed his twenty-first year and was appointed a second = lleutenant {in the First Regiment of Marines two years ago. s SR CHINESE LAUNDRY MOBBED. VERDEN, Ills., July 17.—Enraged at the SDAY, JULY 18, 1900. legation here, | lue in learning the facts and ascertain- | one of the | 2. | AND CONGRESS WILL NOT BE CONVENED ‘AT PRESENT ‘United States Will Continue to Act Independently in China and Refuses to Enter Into the Negotiations of the European Powers and Japan. Special Dispatch to The Call. —_— LE SAM PREPARING TO RUSH LARGE FORCE TO CHINA Offers Made to Owners of Eight Big Ocean Steamers That Are Wanted Immediately to Transport Troops to the Orient. R R UNC * * & PP . > ;o * @ ®- K B e R = '} R R R R SRCHR SRR SONE O S SR 3 N > . > . | > . > B | > - | > J * | 2 | p¢ - L S S e AR T S S S e e S o e S g | CLE SAM wants transports, and and then there will be a general mix-up , Gignoux, Eleventh Cavalry, U. 8. V. | he wants them in a hurry. Offers |in transport circles. The chance: First Lieutenant Dennis P. Quinla: | have been made to the owners of e A TS S e ( AL B2 the Australla, Zealandia, City of {3 r very h Fourth Second Lieutenant | sydney, Colon, City of Para, Ohlo, Sen- | {ime of the year. but all the other vessel 1 City of Puebla, d Uncle Sam may ts ator (:n be se \\li‘(‘d. 2, . . are that all these v, els will be pressed the Australia, even though the owners L 3arry, who vil R t o aa ther es ort, | protest. of the forces in China 3 Into service as soon as they reach POrt | "The transport Sumner and the chartered aner is to stop at Nagasaki on The rush of troops to China has not yet | steamer Californian both got away fc and officers and men all expect | begun, but inside of a fortnight the the Orfent y y afternoon. A orders to go from that peint to China. United States can have 10,000 men on the two men on the Sumner The Californian is not going o itie Oolent under direet. to Join the Erom “fere”sne" gucs'to "Ho L ) o from Seattle and | Under Brigadier General Adna R thence to Manila. She carries The Oilo 1s due here from. Heattle MG, “mikn. These are Malor tons of eargo, and a great the Australia from Honolulu. e Ce Stephenson, surgeon in the tion. The Sumner al will ‘get here from Panama on the 20th. | anl Kecond Ticute ; of rovaleer and repld while the City of Sydney and City of Para th Cavalry. The and was delayed three ho aking on the tug Fear! The Californfar an less. orders from Gener xtra supply ight t a will come here direct from Central Ameri- can ports, their places being taken by the San Blas and San Juan, now laid up in the stream. The Senator and City of Puebla are now in Puget Sound waters, and both can be and dow n brought home Inside of a week. Th v Zealandia is at Harrison v to whom « | ready for sea, and she and_also by Charles Cabell, Acting As: and Robe sital Steward Hengy A. Peel, Thi X 8. V.; First Lieutenant Frederick E. | the first of the new fleet to sail. Every one of these vessels wa port during the S| h war, one of them can be refitted mo: moment’'s notice. Should the situation 1 warrant all of them will be called upon, | U. got under way her extra supply of amn straighte d ed the troopship Remodeling Sale When prices are greatly .re= duced you will overlook the noise and confusion made by the carpenters who are remodeling our store. Sac- rifice comfort but effect a saving---we mention below just a few of the reductions. | Blue serge ready-made suits which sold for $12.50 and $15.00 are now selling for $6.85. Made-to-order suits usually $13.50 and $15.00 are now made for $10.00. Silk front golf shirts worth $1.25 now go for 75c. Hats which were $2.50 now reduced to $1.50. As these reductions are actual you can easily count on a big saving. Save when you can— it’s economy 00D 718 Market Strect. news from China, a mob to-day attacked a Chinese laundry here and demoli fhe entire front of the bullding. Six shata were fired at the two Chinese laundry- men, but without effect. No arrests have yet been made.