The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1900, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1900. EVIDENT DISCORD AMONG TH General Chaffee able United Under vance With Japanese. Chinese Government May Now Threaten to tack ug. 4—Some of | the dispatch re- | om General Chaffee | and which the de- | t refused to make pub- | own to-day. The first dis- by the War Department al Chaffee contained very littie ion, but closed with the stale- | ihat he was going forward to Tien- gid give his views. That is| s done. His views, as cabled ¢ of yesterday, would be abie to several forelsn Gov- t is one reason why the This much e nd th s not made publie. affee and the United States under his command have forward toward Peking with the en by General roed is understood m contained in the Asso- tch received yesterday existing at Chaffee’s he matter be has been and the names of the com- given which failed to take recaution for ihe health of hational forces. Jepartment officials generally re- use the contents of the dis- retary Root announced em- d not be given to that no ad- e public, and it is fur- the proposed movement t be heralded to the ge of the Chines the advance biedly bas who have endeavoring to use at Peking as pro- ¥ dispatch re- h Yuan and ndition and the imperial Govern- o force a suspension Peking Ty menacing ~ ed ineffectual to stop it would not be surprising e pent should next ther come for- w the attack the advance is mnot n of delivering | His Command Ad- on the ILegations, or Deliver the Ministers to the Relief Column as It Ap- proaches Peking. - | ing been rejected a! and the Avail- States Troops the British and Renew the At- the Ministers safely at Tlentsin or at least to the commanders of the interna- tional column, trusting in that way to| abate the force of the invasion and induce the powers to consent to negotiations for a settlement of the trouble. It is learned here that 1i Hung Chang actually under- took to do this, but sought to make the condition of the safe delivery of the Min- isters that the imperial Government should be held blameless for what had occurred at Peking. This condition hav- olutely by the terms President McKinley's reply to the | inese Government, it may be that Li | Hung Chang is trying to arrange for the delivery of the Ministers without condi- tions, trusting to the gratitude of the | powers to secure the desired absolution. HOW MORGANOWOULD SETTLE CHINESE TROUBLE | B R e B S S S AP, | NEW YORK, Aug. 4—A special to the | Journal from Washington says: Senator Jobn T. Morgan said to-day: “If 1 had my way I should enlist a vol- eer army of 100,000 men and send them | to the nd of Luzon to take the place | of the seasoned troops now there. Ttose | 00 seasoned troops I would send to China and deal with the aitustion that has | arisen as it ought to be dealt with. I| would protect the life of every American citizen in China and compel respect for | he rights of every American citizen in | country. I would do this independ- | ently of other powers. I would not inter- | fere with their plans, but independently and alone I would show China that the United States was the power whose rights and privileges could not be trampled upon. Such action would ahowi the whole world that the United States | was a great power, and that every right conferred on its people through treaty stip- ulation or otherwise must be respected. “] am afraid there will be a great war in | China. I do not want to see the United States get into it for the mere sake of war. However, we must rescue our Minis- ter and compel Ghina to pay the cost of | that expedition. I believe Congress should | now be in session. The President ought | not to be conducting a foreign war with- | out the advice of Congress. Up to this time the diplomatic situation has been | bandled well, but indications point to the inevitable conclusion that diplomacy is | fast giving way to sterner measures. Even | now Wwe see War movements going on. When that condition arises it is time Congress should have something to say. There are in the Philippines within strik- ing distance of China men acclimated and accustomed to the bardships of war in the Orient. Take them, send them to China, and let the world and China know our strength and our power. Let us util- (SEE SMALL PLAN). SEVEN ACRES. THERE ARE, OR WERE, AT LEAST TWENTY-FOUR SEPARATE BUILDINGS WITHIN THE COMPOUND. A PATHWAY LEADS UP FROM THE MAIN GATEWAY TO THE FIRST OF THE TWO OPEN PAVILIONS, WHICH POSSESS GORGEOUSLY PAINTED PILLARS AND CARVED WOODWORK. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FRONT OF THE FIRST PAVILION HAVE FREQUENTLY BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE + L 4 4+ KING.” THE PAVILIONS ARE BUT @ . + [ B ize the point vantage we have in the Phil- ippines and of our own accord do a thing which this emergency requires. “That would be the American policy and would make the American Government and the American flag a thing to be re- spected wherever the Government is rep- resented by its flag. From my point of view our Government unaided and alone has the facilities at hand and is able to deal with the situation. We should do it and do it with a promptness that would emphasize the American method of trans- acting business.” NO MESSAGES BECAUSE THE ALLIES ADVANCE WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The State De- partment to-day issued the following: Minister Wu this morning handed to the acting Secretary of State the following telegram from the Taotai of Shanghal, dated August 2, and received by Mr. Wu on the evening of the 3d. It confirms the message of Yuan Shih Kal, Governor of Shantung, to Mr. Fowler, Consul at Che- fu, purporting to communicate the same telegram of July 30 from the Tsung li Yamen, but it is to be noted that it con- tains a passage omitted from Governor Yuan's message, namely, the announce- ment that as fighting is going on in Tien- tsin it is inexpedient to send cipher tele- grams to the foreign Ministers in Peking. JIn this particular the present telegram SAYS THAT WAR WITH CHINA CANNOT NOW BE AVOIDED Vi ce Consul Fulkerson of Nagasaki Takes a Most Gloomy View of the Complications in fet siebeie@® s 0d 04 PP o e S o o o o R g FULKER- E R SON. k3 O 0-0-0-0@ - CON! @ 4. e REGARD the situation in China as ne of the most ous that civilized ave ever had to contend | cannot be avoided between | nd the foreign powers, spilled and property d these acts of hostility must the views in a nutshell of | , United States Vice Con- | . who arrived in woon on the Pe- reon has been obliged ial duties in Nagasaki h. He has come back s for a needed rest » that change of climate | nefit ¥ He has been a resident | Japan for eleven years and has been : 1 with the lcgation there for the ree years. Jkerson has a comprehensive un- | the situation in China and tingly for ten minutes entative at the Occiden- h the hope ¥ the situation is because have underrated a possible fighting power. The -n diligently at work since war increaging their de- on for regardii very grave,” sala nations tion 1= a hard one to deal part of the powers. Why? Occidental soldier has every thing against him—the climate, the food end the water—and it is next to impossi- ble for a forelgn army to penetrate into the interjor of China. “Japan is the only power able to deal | anti-foreign and you will strike the nail | have aroused China thoroughly and have ‘;un\'xnced her that it is time to call a| ha | the very midst of the fighting and tells the Far East. with the situation eflectuall{;e This is so use she s near by and being an Ori- | ental power her soldiers can live off the products of China better than other fo But_the jealousy of the powers ent Japan from taking the lead gain she is not able, financiall take a continued war with Chin: he to do.so it would precipitate war between Japan and Russia, as there has been a hostile feeling between these two latter countries since the close of the Japan-China war. “It is commonly believed that the cause | of the war is anti-missionary. . Make it on the head. True, the missionary has | located in the interior of China, Wwhere he has been the object of attack and much bitter regentment, but the real seat of the | trouble is the fact that China has awakened to a realization that she is | about to be partitioned by the powers. Port Arthur has been gobbled up by Rus- | sia; Weiheiwel has been taken by Great Britain, followed by the taking of Kiao- chau by Germany. These three things | 1t War cannot be avoided. Life has been n and property destroyed. The Jap- anese feel that the fival crisis has come and must be fought out. The United | States has no business in China further than to protect her people there. The Peking relief column I consider far too small to gain the ends sought, for the reason that the Chinese can cut off the » of supplies. The present Boxer movement, 1 believe, is backed by the Empress Dowager, if not by the entire Chinese Government. I regard these con- flicting reports from the capital as very suspicious.” DR SMITH SAYS THE - WOUNDED WERE NOT SHOT Dr. G. P. Smith, for eight and a half years surgeon in the London Mission hos- pital near Tientsin, is in San Francisc having been forced to abandon the hos- pital during the heat of the massacres there early in July. The doctor was in B e T Sy S, ©of a number of narrow escapes. He ar- rived on the steamer Peking yesterday afternoon and will be in this city for several days. The first shot, he says, was fired on June 17 from the Chinese fort toward the Gor- don Hall, which stood on the British ter- ritory. The charge struck the bullding but did little damage. It seemed as if the Boxers would get possession of all the territory occupled by the allled forces. But by an exceptionally brilliant charge led by 300 British blu kets and closely followed by 1500 Russians the Boxers were forced back, and the conditions then be- came emlrefy changed. The doctor sayvs that had the Chinese gone around by way of the Manchu College it would have been all up with the foreigners, as that section was flr:el.m 3 to;lmea. 2 the of e big n the heart of e cit) Tientsin, followed by the burni: 3'f°£ l-.rxe theater, was credited to the an oxers, the morning after the second fire, the | hurried out of the city. doctor says, his hospital bore the red mark of the Boxers, which was a warning that the hospital would be the next struc- ture for the incendiary, The building, however, was not burned while Dr. Smit] was there, The docgor left Tientsin on July 5, at the time the women and children were | He says the story that Seymour shot his wounded so as to {Jrul‘-(l them from the fury of the Boxers s without foundation. He saw Seymour upon his return and personally attended a number of the wounded. None of the men were killed by any members of the | American forces. “I met the column when it arrived,” said Dr. Smith, “and assisted in attendin the wounded ‘men on their return. I talked with them and am positive there is nothing in the story that the men who were wounded were shot during the re- treat. The admiral had barely enough men to carry the wounded and look after them, but there was no shooting of them, He was very hard pressed and the city of ’l;lem!in was also In stralts when I was there.” @+ - o000 00> eseg@ DR. G. P. SMITH, WHO HAS ARRIVED FROM TIENTSIN. L ot e e e ot et i o e o 3 | Hung Chang had told the French Consul From the agrees with Consul General Goodnow’s re- port, received yesterday, that Earl Li at Shanghai on the 3d that no messages would be delivered to the Ministers be- cause the foreigners were advancing on Peking. The Tsung li Yamen's cablegram of July 30 is as follows: “Foreign Ministers in Peking are all safe and well. Recently vegetables, fruit and provisions have been repeatedly sup- plied to them. Relations most friendly. | At present consultations are going on for the protection of various Ministers going to Tientsin for temporary sheiter, which | will 'soon be concluded satisfactorily. But | as fighting is now going on in Tientsin it | is inexpedient thatcipher telegrams should | be sent. Different Consuls have been noti- | | fied so that they may inform their respec. tive governments. Please inform the For- | eign Office. Besides wiring* to other Min- isters I transmit the above to you. “YU LIAN YUEN.” GENUINENESS OF THE ' CONGER MESSAGE WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The Depart- ment of State authorizes the following statement in regard to the probable date of the first telegram from Minister Con- ger to .which, in transmitting it through Sheng, at Shanghai, to Minister Wu, the Tsung li Yamen assigned the date of July 18: The Department of State is in posses- sion of the original cipher text of the en- tire message as received by Minister Wu on July 20 and communicated by him to | Secretary Hay on the morning of that | day. It is partly in the Chinese cipher | code and partly in that of the United States. The two texts were separated by several groups not intelligible in either cipher. As deciphered on July 20 the Con- | ger message appeared to begin with the words “In British legation under contin- ued shot and shell,” etc. With the aid of the full text as tele- graphed from Chefu by Consul Fowler and already given to the press, the doubt- ful groups, which were distorted in tele- graphic transmission, have now been cor- rected and found to read: “For one month we have been besieged,” which intelligibly complete the sentence, making the telegram read: “For one month we have been besieged in the Brit- ish Legation under continued shot and shell from Chinese troops. Quick relief can only prevent general massacre. “CONGER.” + As it is known that the various lega- | tloners and foreigners took shelter in the British legation about June 17, the date of Mr. Conger's telegram is fixed with ap- proximate certainty as July 17. This agrees with Consul Fowler's cabled stat ment that the original message as wrl ten on a regular telegraph form and signed ‘‘Conger,” is supplemented by the words, “E. H. Conger, July 17, , address United States legation,”” written on the same form but evidently not transmitted. The fact that the authentic text of the original message as received in Washing- ton on July 20 agrees literally with Consul Fowler's report of the wording of the original form written by Minister Conger and bearing the file date of July 17 ap- pears to establish the genuineness of the message gnd its date beyond doubt. DEBS SENDS FORMAL LETTER OF ACCEPTANGE Says He Claims Consideration Only as a Representative of Class- Conscious Socialism. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 4—FEugene V. Debs. Presidential nominee of the So- clal Democratic party, has sent his letter of acceptance to Willlam Butscher, na- tonal secretary of the party, in this city. Mr. Debs says: ‘I am deeply sensible of the responsibil- ities which rest upon me as a socialistic candidate for the office of President of the United States, Fully imbued with the philosophy of socialism, I seek no personal preferment, and I claim consideration only as a representative of the principles of Interest, class-consclous soclalism. In ca%cf!y, and that alone, I appeal to the working class and my countrymen for # thelr support. The confidence implied by the unanimous ‘action of my comrades moves me limitations and to 0 regret m: wish myael‘t a wonhle’r representative of ] them because ve import to the count- ling in the grasp of FREDA GALLICK THE WIFE OF DRAMATIC CRITIC California Actress Quietly Married Several Months Ago to Col- gate Baker. Special Dispatch to The Call. MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, Aug. . 4—Freda Gallick, the California actress, was mar- ried several months ago to Colgate Baker, a local dramatic critie. For ot Sk T B SR 0 ] ion church wedding, which is umounced".u: | by PERIL IN PEKING---British Legation, Where Europeans Made Their Last Stand. Sphere. THE SPECTATOR IS STANDING WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE TARTAR CITY, A LITTLE TO THE SOUTHWARD OF PRINCE SUNG'S PALACE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT IS THE IMPERIAL CANAL, SOMBTIMES FULL AND SOMETIMES HALF EMPTY, WITH 1TS MUDDY BANKS EXPOSED. A SMALL FLIGHT OF WELL WORN STONE STEPS LEADS UP TO THE ROADWAY IN FRONT OF THE LEGATION COMPOUND. THE WALL SURROUNDING THE COMPOUND IS SEVERAL FEET THICK AND FROM 10 TO 11 FEET HIGH AND INCLOSES AN AN EXTENDED ENTRANCE TO THE MINISTER'S HOUSE, AND FORM BUT A SMALL PORTION O THE WHOLE. INCLUDING THE MINISTER'S HOUSE THERE' ARE FOUR LARGE TWO-STORY HOUSES. THE OTHER BUILDINGS ARE COMMODIOUS, BUT OF THE BUNGALOW PATTERN AND NOT USEFUL FOR DEFENSIVE PURPOSES BEHIND SUCH A HIGH WALL. TWO SMALL GATES PIERCE THE WALL, ONE FACING THE CANAL AND THE OTHER LEADING INTO THE MARKET PLACE AT THE REAR. the cards for September 2. Baker will not quit the newspaper business for the ltnxe, as reported. QUEER HALLUCINATION OF A PACIFIC GROVE MAN Sometimes Imagines He Is Christ and at Other Times Believes He Is a Wild Bull. Special Dispatch to The Call. PACIFIC GROVE, Aug. 4—James A. Cunningham of this town is the victim of peculiar hallucinations. At times he im- agines he is Jesus Christ, and then he de- votes his time to preaching. At other times he thinks he is a wild bull, and then he goes roaring and charging about the neighborhood. ree years ago Cunningham was sent to Agnews Asylum, and there he remained until a short time ‘ago, when he was dis- charged. A few days ago he again show- ed signs of mental distress, and so he has been taken to Salinas jail ostensibly to serve a thirty days’ sentence for disturb- ing the peace, but he is to be brought be- fore a lunacr( commission, and it is quite likely that it will be necess: to send him to the Agnews Asylum again. REPORT OF A STRIKE OF OIL IN HUMBOLDT Eureka Is Excited Over the Rumors That Are Coming From the Mattole Fields. Special Dispatch to The Call. EUREKA, Aug. 4—It is reported here to-night that flowing oil was struck in the McIntosh well in the Mattole oil fields, fifty miles south of here in this cdunty. There is great excitement”in Eureka, as many people in this city are interested in adjoining claims. No particulars as to the amount of the flow is obtainable here to-night. The well is located on the Zanone ranch, in McNutt Gulch, Mattole Valley, and is owned by a company organized in San Francisco J. R. McIntosh. who subleased the land from Gariick & Co. of Los Angeles In Mattole Valley there are about 50,000 acres of oil lands that have been spasmod- ically prospected with little success for the past forty years, but no systematic boring has been done until lately. Now there are ten or twelve large companies operating there and about ten wells are being sunk. AL +WWWM’ LIED AREA OF ABOUT “BRITISH LEGATION AT PE- | % g | TORNADO SWEEPS THROUGH NORTH DAKOTA TOWNS One Woman Carried a Half-Mile by the Storm and Sustains Fatal Injuries. GRAND FORKS, N. D., Aug. 4—The town of Hatton, forty miles southwest of this clte;. was struck by a tornado, accom- anied by hail and rain, this morning, do- ng much damage in the town and the surrounding country. No loss of life has been reported, though several people were severely injured in the path ofihe storm, which extended !ron-tsomhwest of Hatton for 100 miles in a nbrtheasterly direction to St. Hilare and Thief River Falls, Minn. All'the unharvested crops in the vicinity of Hatton are a total, loss, and the dam- age to farm bulldings and stock is heavy. At St. Hilare the houses and buildings of John Hendrickson were totally de- stroyed. Mrs. half a mile by the wind and was uncon- scious when found. She will die. The damage to the buildings generally in that | and the umeut section was very heu-x B e storm in Min- crops in the path of t. nesota are a total loss. ——— 0il Exchanges Disagree. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4—The proposed consolidation of the two oil exchanges is off, and it is now, stated as a positive fact that such a movement is impossible. determination, it is claimed, was reached yesterday, and all previous negotiations were swept away. It is now said that the active brokers in the two exchanges may withdraw in a body and form a third exchange by themselves, but this move has not vet taken definité shape. Accord- ing to this plan the brokers will pay the expenses of their exchange pro rata. et s Sann i Wants Back Her Lands. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 4—This afternoon a sult was commenced in tha Superior Court by Maggie Mitchell and others against P. Weiling and J. Waters, asking the court to set aside and declare a deed of 130 acres null and void, alleging that the deed, which is to land in this county, was given by Waters to Welling on ac- count of the latter’'s false and fraudulent representations in alleging that the deed was given at plaintiff’s request. - WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 4—An Inquest was held this afternoon over the remains 07 W. D. Buchanan, who was shot and_ killed last right by Jameés M. Simmons. A verdict of * tifiable homicide’” was returned. Simmons has not been found yet, and some think he has committed suicide. B e e S S S S S e e I S SRR ] Hendrickson was carried | This | FORCES. THREATS AGAINST CHINESE CONSIL T HONOLOLL Makes an Appeal to Gov- ernment for Personal Protection. AT S Gave Names of Members of the Re. form Party in the Islands, Which | Caused Arrest of Their | Relatives in China. | T HONOLULTU, news from Chi ’here to the d | Pin, the Chinese to the Gov 1 | tion, saying mous letters cuses the Bow form Soclety. of | The Bow Wongs to the Empress having a liberal p; empire. They under the leade the exiled reform sent to China t came members. of Honolulu Bow prison in Chir Consul runs hi frightened Y: action in Wongs to t told him that doing. The Consul and Vice have made purchases of weap ized a guard at the Chinese | secured the protection o lice. The officers are the legation. ! z Yang Wal Pin made no nmrlf_al celebra< July tion of the birthday of the Emperor of | China this year, but the Bow W. up a celebration of their own. The gave as a reason for not holding the usual celebration that he had been instructed | not to have any by Minister Wu at Wash- ington. It has been his custom to hold a large reception at the consulate. German residents of Honolulu, thmuer} the movement Consul J. F. Hackfeld, have offered men for the Chinese war, ister at Peking. Now that news of the | killing of all whites in the Chinese caj ital has come other nationalities are taking the same steps. Honolulu has over a thousand men who want to €0 to China and fight with the powers to aveng murders at Peking. The offer of their services by the steamer Peking day. 1 For many years no steamer has brought | news here &n has produced such pro- | found sensation as that which came ye terday_telling of the slaughter at Pe- king. Preparations had been made for a Republican ratification in honor of tf turn of the delegates to the Natic [ Convention, but all the plans were giv up when the news of the terrible inte | national tragedy was heard. Most of the | Chinese here are Bow Wongs, and in view | of their large numbers it is a fortun circumstance, as an equal number of € | nese of the Boxer variety might ca serious trouble. reat difficulty is being encountered by the United States postal authorities in filling the small postmaster jobs about | the jslands. Under the American system the pay is not large enough to tempt any | one to take the jobs. The American way of having the postoffices in small country stores, which do postal business as a side issue, cannot be followed, as the stores do not exist. _As a result a number of country postoffices have had to be closed. 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