The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1900, Page 1

v VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO, 88 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, -+ - -+ - -+ - a village four miles to the southwest. AUGUST 217, FLOOD OF YELLOW FIGHTING MEN IS ROLLING 1900. —— PRICE FIVE CENTS. TOWARD PEKING AND THE FORCES OF THE ALLIES ARE PREPARING TO STEM THE BALEFUL TIDE ."*‘¢6¢¢§+*§§++§§++##4¢0¢0440¢4004004§00###6Q##QQ#O#&O?#Q?###¢§+4§¢¢#§§0§¢¢¢#404094&0t##§4¢¢6064¢+¢4¢4§§¢¢§+¢4¢¢+000##*##&##00#0000000490#404*094900002 4 + looting. The imperial city and the forbidden city are under close gquard by the international authorities. P e T T T UL UUUTUUDPDDUDUUDUBDSDSEDES SR S At A et ssa s SRR R DR LR E S TSPV VTP S PSS PPSUGS GGG OSSN SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION war upon China. The general political outlook in China i —_— however, Not without more fighting will the Chinese forces abandon the field to t Peking. Advices from the Chinese capital dated last Sunday represent the Chinese soldiers as in- trenched only four miles southwest of the city. From Taku, by way of Tokio, comes an official Japanese dispatch saying that the Russian and Japanese cavalry were expected to meet the foe on Monday. RBepeated reports of the capture of the Emperor are not confirmed by the Japanese commander, wiring from Peking on August 18. Washington regards with skepticism the report of the Russian-German-Japanese alliance to make regarded by the administration as serious. IN CHINA. allies now holding Over Thirty Thousand Box:rs Are Moving From the South to Give Battle to the Alien Warriors Holding the Chinese Capital. ONDON, Aug. 27, 4 2. m.—The latest news from Peking is that the allies, when the last e south § 17 , her capital. dden City | is surrounded. left, were still refraining from aggres force and the British artillery, . 16 (via Taku, has been eva according ated ive action, pending instructions from their ents. An attack from 30,000 Boxers was anticipated, and to meet this the whole to a dispatch to the Morning Post ed August 18, was moved to the outer city wall. The Boxers were reported ALL YELLOW FOES DRIVEN FROM THE CITY OF PEKING e to The Call and New Tork Herald. Copyright, 1800, by the Herald Publishing Company. ug. 24).—The enemy has been dispersed and wholly cleared y them and is guarded by the allies. The im- re is .'cpnn'cd to have been brought to bear on the Dow- 10 has abandoned Peking for the provinces, making Hselnfu, in the island prov- MOLINEAUX. JAPANESE STILL GUARDING THE FORBIDDEN CITY. o 27, ss Dowager. hai correspondent of the Times, wiring August 24, say n re from Peking that the Japanese alone will occupy the imperial palace. vernment has renewed its assurance that it will protect the persons of the Emperor 4:20 a. m.—Tientsin dispatches to Berlin, dated August 23, say: “The e in possession of the walls around the innermost part of the Forbidden t vet made their way to the imperial palace, owing to lack of Government in- “Li Hung Chang has The ference of Ministers and generals held at Taku Friday it was decided, according h, to refer the date of the entry into the Forbidden City to Europe. JAPAN REFUSES TO BEGIN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. L*’v‘.")f'.\' Aug. 27, 4:20 3. m.—Dispatches from Shanghai state that the Japanese Govern- ¢ >lc to the powers are appointed. If these are appointed and China expresses a willingness to make full indemnity Japan ist to the utmost. notified Earl Li that negotiations will be impo: ssible until plenipotentiaries accept- Japan suggests the Viceroys of Nanking and Wu Chang and MASSACRE OF THIRTY-SEVEN FOREIGN MISSIONARIES HANG Si Nga at Tai S cred uenfu. EMPRESS NOT TO BE PURSUED HAI, Aug. 24—Mr. Morgan of the China Inland Mission, who has arrived here from reports that thirty-seven foreign missionaries and thirty converts have been mas- CHINESE PLAN REAR ATTACK She Is Fleeing With a|ajarming Dispatch to Bodyguard of 1500 Soldiers. 27 (4:20 2. m.)—Shang- y the report of the peror Kwang Su by e is erroneous. It was ken identity. pondent of the Daily August 19, Teasserts Dowager fied westward bodyguard of 1500, character of the nt artiliery following she wiil not be pur- L 4 enznt General Linevitch, com- P r he First Siberian Army Corps, Petersburg under date of 16, = : “There are no longer xers in Peking. They were driven the French and Russians, re hoisted over the imperial press Dowager, the Em- apparent and the whole the province of Shensi NGT Aug. 26.—Had the Japa- nese force succ-eded in capturing the im- on in Peking would simplified, for the Em- been restored to power f the foreign Ministers rs of the co-operating - government could have red in his name in a man- to the powers. It is not t will be made to and capture them, king would be most dif- more probable that an effort ade 1o induce the Emperor and Dowager 1o return to Peking. inderstanding that it would be afe for then to do so. Even if be induced to return it 1s prob- considerable time will elapse y can be brought back, and antly growing danger of Ong the powers in the cantot be induced to may be compelied to some sort of provis- that power in Cl Japanese L-=gation at Washington. ASHINGTON, Aug. A dis- patch was received to-day at the Japanese legation from the For- Office of Japan, conveylng thentic informal \%% e of a dis- ated that re, n attack upon the al- uld prove that the -d forces were besieged in Peking it 1d account for the lack of advices from “haz As made public , the di “An official telegram, dated at Peking, st 15, .was received at Tokio from al Yamaguchi, commander of the Japanese forces, to the following effect: “ “The capital is now entire| the enemy. A c had been sent to W Empress Dowager’'s ace is located), re- ports that the imperial family, who had left Peking on August 14, started, after a short rest at Wanshaushan, for the west, and were under escort of General Ma and his troops, consisting of only about 500 horsemen and twenty car he Japanese t which shan (where the forces occupled the Treasury Departmnt, | in which over 2,000,000 taels in silver and | a large quantity of rice were found.’ “Another telegraphlc dispatch, dated Taku, August 23, states that as the Chi- | nese troops and Boxers who had gathered at Nanyuen were about to attack the for- eign forces at Peking, Japanese and Rus- sian cavalry were expected to encounter them on the 20th. The dispatch further states that the Chinese infantry, some %000 strong, with 15 guns, are advancing for- ward from Shantung {o make a rear at- tack on the allies.” A copy of the dispatch was transmitted to Acting Secretary Adee at the Depart- ment of State, and by him furnished to the President. While the news of a pos- sible rear attack upon the comparatively Small force of the allies was not received with surprise, it generally was not re- garded as serfous, as the foreign forc:s are believed to be abundantly able to take care of themselves against any force of Chinpese likely to be sent against them. ; cleared of | 1‘ fon | around Peking. In | phases of ON DOUBTS RUMOR Diplomats Insist That Russia Must Declare War Officially. A% ASHINGTON, Aug. absence of official information from Chipa or from United States cfficers there to-day the e Ol ool et 26.—In the | them until interest | “entered in the diplomatic | 7 ing trouble. The rumor | in the Senate to vote to ratify the treaty EKING, Aug. 19 (via Taku, Aug. 24).—Armed Chinese are reported to the southward and westward. A well-intrenched force has been located by the Bengal Lancers jp It is believed that the best Chinese leaders are in command. Detachments of the allied forces ,were out to-day reconnoitering and ® ‘006000600 ONE OF THE BARRICADES IN THE STREETS OF TIENTSIN WHICH THE FRENCH MARINES DURING THE RECENT FIGHTING. WAS GALLANTLY CARRIED BY. | HICAGO, Aug. 26.—Hon. Denby of Indiana, States Minister to Charles nited Chin to the Philippines, a lifelong urging the re-election of President Mc- | Kinley. 1t is entit] the Philippines, the Republican National Committee. The letter, in part, is as follows: “In his | speech of April 17, 1900, in the Senate Mr. Hoar said he could not forget that Mr. | Bryan, ‘un he is much misrepresented, used all and influence with | those of his friends who were ready to | listen to his counsels, to secure the rati- fication of the trea meaning the Paris treaty. ““There were seventeen Democratic Sen- | ators who voted for the ratification. A | hirds majority was necessary | twi treaty was ratified by one vote. a “Bryan's Attitude Toward | “Mr. Bryan has squarely | responsibility of the ratification. We had | taken Manila_on August 13, 1898. In De- pain had made a treaty ced- to us. We had occupled y 5, 1899. On that day Aguinaldo made war on us, our soldiers | having to fight for their es. “The treaty was ratified on February 1899. Mr. Bryan advised his friends | cember, 1 | ing the is |of a declaration of war by Russia, it is| after the battle of February 5 had been had rallied their forces, and | by | tch from the | China, and therefore se Foreign Oftice at Toklo is as fol- | communication with the Chinese. Neither | | explained, may have grown out of the operations of the troops of the Czar in|might have readil | the protection of the southeastern fron-| cations might pos tier of his empire, or it may have ansnn‘ from the reported statement of the com- mander of the Russian forces at Peking | that his Government was at war with he must prohibit the operations of Russia on her frontier nor the prohibition by a Russian general of communication with the Chinese would constitute, it is said, a declaration of by Russia. No general.could de- clare war. Even his statement that his Government had declared war would not make it so. A declaration of war, it is pointed out by the best authority, is a perfectly dis- tinct and obvious proceeding. In this country a declaration of war may be made only by Congress. Among European nations the method of procedure is simpler, but quite as ob- vious. War is declared by them by edict or proclamation. It may be a declara- tion of war or it maye be the officia. recognition that a state of war exists, In either event the news of such action would be published to the world imme- diately. Diplomatic representatives of the power making the declaration would be notified instantly In order that they might communicate the information to the governments of the country to which they were accredited. The information, too, would be conveyed at once to the nation against which the declaration was made. In turn this nation would notify its diplomatic representatives abroad that they might govern themselves ac- cordingly. Within three hours after the official declaration of Congress that the Continued on Second Page, He knew that war had begun. He foreseen what compli- sibly occur out of the | fought. sting conditions. “Then was the time to have talked about the ‘consent of the governed,’ | and not now, when every speech he makes adds ten names to the roll of our dead and 100 to the Filipino dead. Bryan Denounces His Own Adviee. “Mr. Bryan, having the undoubted the ratification ot the by his own confession, advised its ratification. Neither in law nor in morals can he be permitted now to secure political advantage from de- nouncing a course of action which he himself advised. “Mr. Bryan gives as his reason for ad- vising ratification that ‘he thought it safer to trust the American people to glve independence to the Filipinos than to trust to the accomplishment of that pur- pose to diplomacy with an unfriendly | nation.’ | “This puts Mr. Bryan in the attitude of desiring independence for the Filipinos very ardently. Why should he become so suddenly imbued with antagonism to the Democratic prineciple of expansion, as ex- emplified by all Democratic statesmen from Jefferson to Voorhees? If he could stand the annexation of Hawail why balk at the acquisition of the Philippines? “Mr. Bryan's own explanation is as fol- lows: “ ‘I belleve that we are now in a better position to wage a successful contest agalnst imperialism than we would have ‘been had the treaty been rejected.” *‘Here, then, we have the real reason for ex 'DEMOCRAT DENBY URGES | McKINLEY’S RE-ELECTION Former Minister to China Points Out How Bryan Created the Bogie of Imperialism ‘ for Campaign Purposes. - | and | perialism’ in order that he might fight and | member of the first commission | overcome the monster. Democrat, has written a letter | tion of the treaty the Filipinos would have and is made public by | | | | | | | | this strange parody of Jekyll and Hyde. He wanted to create the bogie of ‘Im-| “If Mr. Bryan had opposed the ratifica- gone their way—either into the arms ot | Spain or Germany, or into discordant, | warring and petty states. At all ev we would have done with them. would not have suited at ali, beca Bryan wanted to wage a succ against ‘imperfalism.’ And so 4 ul mperial- | ism’ was born, and its actual father was war William J. Bryan. He is now endeaver- | ing to ‘destroy his own child.'" Let it be remembered that this extraordinary dread of imperialistic rule comes from a gentle- man who has accepted the nomination of the Fusion Populists, or People’s party. | The Populist platform demands that ‘the | ountry should own and operate the rail- roads in the interest of the people.” Is not that imperialism?” Mr. Denby then reviews the work of the first Philippine Commission, appointed in | January, 1899, and continu “‘Another commission was sent to es- tablish a civil government for the Philip. pines. It is now at Manila, and the gov- | ernment it has framed will be put in}| cperation on the 1st of September, 1900. | s it not fair and right to assume that it be tested in practice before it is con- demned? | Encourages the Filipino Rebels. | | “It is believed by the insurgents | that Bryan’s election will insure their independence, and they are encour- aged to hold out. The success of the Democratic party means success for them. “If the Tagals quit fighting and take the oath of allegiance on that moment the | ‘paramount issue’ is dead and so is the | Democracy. In this contest the Demo- | crats stake their all on the continuance of | the fighting. | “It strikes one as odd that a grea party should base its hopes of suc- cess on the killing and wounding of | our troops. “Will not a flame of patriotism rise up | over the land which will testify that at all hazards we will stand by the flag, that come what may we will not turn our | backs on the Fillpinos, a disgraced and | dishonored nation? “What we may do with the Philippines ultimately is not the question now. The | Democratic platform favors ‘an immedi- | ate declaration of the nation’s purpose tc | give to the Filipinos—first, a stable form of government; second. independence; and, third, protection from outside inter- ference, such as has been given for neariy a century to the repubiics of Central and South America.” “In the list of things to be done first comes ‘a stable form of government.’ We are trying to give them that now. If we retain that the third clause, ‘protection,’ will necessarily follow. Why, if we do not retain them we should burden our- selves with protecting them is not clear- Contiaued on Second Page. ONE MILLION IN GOLD FROI' CREEKS OF NOME Anvil King Lindeberg Ships Some of His Yellow Nuggets—Big Strike on Blueston e River. By Fred A. Healy. Bpecial Correspondent of The Call at Nome. OME, Aug. 17 (via Seattle, Aus. | 26.)—The steamer Ohio left here | under special charter to the Alaska Exploration Company this afternoon. Stowed away ir the big steamer’s strong box is a consignment of gold dust amounting to $2,000.000, including $1,000,00 of Nome gold The buia of the Ohio's treasure is Klon- dike gold, which came down the river from Dawson on the river boat Leon. It| was over a month on the way. The Leon did not make expected connections with the Ohio at St. Michael, a fact which ac- counts for the Ohio’s prolonged stay at that port. The exact amount of the treas- ure brought down from Dawson on the Leon is not known. The gold dust ship- ped through the exchange department of the Alaska Exploration Company alone amounted to $830,000. Nearly $1,000.000 of the Ohio’s treasure is Nome gold, the bulk of which is being |®hipped outside by Lindeberg, the Arvil king. Neither is the exact amount of Lindeberg's consignment of gold dust known. It was shipped in seven large steel boxes. Lindeberg's shipment pos bly amounts to a little over half a million dollars. It was consigned to the bank in Seattle. Lindeberg's treasure was taken aboard the Ohio late last night ..s scon as the gold was safely en- conced in the steamer’s spacious treasure caults they were immediately sealed and Purser Hedges placed an extra guard over it. | The Ames Mercantile Company also shipped a large consignment of gold on | the Ohio. Strikes on the Bluestone. | The sensational reports of a big strike in the Bluestone country are fully con- firmed by the reports of those whe reached here by the steamer from Port Clarence. The Bluestone is a river empty ng Into Port Clarence and the discoveries | g0 far made are up near its headwaters, Pans are reported to have been taken out running from $2 30 to $12 each. These prospects are taken out at less than eight- een inches below the surface, and old prospectors say if the pay dir{ extends to bedrock, the Bluestone country will be a world beater. No development work had been done so far, but rockers are being taken into the country as rapidly as pos- sible and there will soon be reports indi- cating how the diggings are to show up as a permanent proposition. It is said 1o be now almost impossible to reach the new diggings by pack train, since the ground is so soft that pack horses are mired to their knees and traveling by foot is difficult. In fact, the Bluestone is next year's proposition and not much of an output is expected there this season. The first discovery was made on Gold Run, left fork of the Bluestone, about ten days ago, too late in the season to ren- der extensive work possible this season. Every foot of ground has been staked, even to the second and third benches. The population of Nome is decreasing at a very noticable rate. With every steamer great numbers take their depart- | | population of 5000 or 600, ure, and vacancy thus caused has ale ready become quite apparent. No longer is the street crowded wi A ne hunters hurry for good Frost Settles on the Camp. An apathy ms to h: settled upon the camp, and ut the only places that give any great impression of active lifa are the few fortunate szloons and gam- | bling halls that still manage to hold their patronage. The long cxpected rain has been falling for some days past, but it has been productive of nothing but mud. The gold which was expected to come in from the creeks is all in the care of receivers appointed by the court, and not a color of it gets into cir ation in the camp. The feeling here is one of depression and un- certainty. A number of good discovers have been rep: ed, but as yet the only evidence we have had of their riches is the reports. One of the hardest blows that has struck the prosperity of the country has come from the litigation that has been started here. I know of several cases where good finds have been made and the holes filled up and concealed. The discoverers would not report their luck for fear they wpuld be bunkoed out of it. Several cases of pneumonia and typhotd have been reported, but the only death that has occurred lately is that of Beatty, | which I spoke of in a previous letter. The indications_are that Nome, which to be incorporated, will hav is soon a winter THAT EOUNDARY NT LINE. Haines’ Storekeeper Talks of the Russian Demarkation Point. Special Dispatch to The Cal VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 26.—The steamer | Danube to-night brought a report show- ing where the Russian boundary was maintainned on the Dalton trail. Tt in- dicates that the line was much further to the north than the present line. S. Weftz- mann, a storekeeper of Haines, who same out, sald in an interview: “The present provisional boundary runs only four miles from tide water. which backs up the Chilkat River. The bounda- ry in Russian days was at the summit of the trail far back. The Russians kept their soldiers stationed at that summit, This 1 got this year from some of the oldest Indians living on the Haines and Kiuckwan, who were there In the time of the Russians. They remember well the Russians, and at times had trouble with the Czar's people, which they also re- member. “This summit. at which the Russian soldiers were, is the place that should mark the boundary to-day between the United States and Canada. Sixteen miles back from the Kluckwan are old huts or cabins in which the Russian lived. Other evidence of Russians in the district still remain. At Luckwan is a Russian grave- yard, and over the graves wooden memo- rial pleces bearing words in the Russian