The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1900, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHINESE GOVERNMENT Prince Tuan, the Leader of the Boxers, Strikers Declare the Collieries Shall Not Resume Taotai of Shanghai Removed Because|ggigiers Plan for the 8 OFFERS DEFIANCE TO | GERMANY’S DEMANDS Appointed Grand Secretary to ! the Emperor. He Signed Friendly Agreement With Foreign Consuls. Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright. 1800, by the Herald Publishing Company. leaders in nd Germ that the tsin soon “ " | CHINA'S PROPOSAL TO JAPAN. w E— PBiEE,; =m L Advocated an Alliance of the East Against the West. | IN OIL BY FANATICS cal | x e s News of the Massacre 1 Japan i essed by ATTACKS AMERICAN POLICY. ncreases r task more their opponents has been disturbed. the 1 have West. | ror m‘ tter's | sed regret f of Japanese | d stating that action b neellor the h the perpet Emperor Your Majesty’s Majesty's mtenable The int linked together, Majesty may e present countr es are, therefore, re to hope that to set aside ¢ minor importance and ATTITUDE. Will Not Return Peking Palace. Dowager Government re- | ese surgents and rescue the foreign heir suites and other forelgn- tuation will be simplificd and the he crisis will be found relatively ression of the insurgents and | e forelgn representatives are | r Majesty owe no less to your | e other nations of the world | and must be accomplished without the least de- | Since last month the powers | ched large forces to Tientsin, and likewise found it necessary to send | hesitation. s step the object kept in view | spress the insurgents and to | he diplomatic representatives and other | nd that the powers have no Our Government, as is known | entertains feelings of cordial | for your Majesty’s country, so should | ake it necessary Japan will not | e her good offices on behalf of | r motives that to your Majesty, And thus Japan prevented the consum- mation of China's plan to array the East against the West. EARLY EVACUATION OF PEKING | Indications That Allies Will Depart | Before Winter Sets In. CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—The Record has the following from Peking under date of or 16: TAKU, Sept. 22, via Shanghal, Sept. B— Changes in the plans of the allled com- indicate the evacuation of Pe- king before the winter sets in. The Brit- ish leadérs have countermanded the order | for extensive winter supplies and the Americans are also making evident prep- arations for departure. At the same time all foreign residents have been warned to prepare to leave Peking. The missionaries are protesting against this ““desertion.” From North China come reports of a long series of disturbances. The attempted control of the local author- itles there is synonymous with anarchy, and the eountry is only safe where floats the allled flags. Native Christians are| still being attacked and besieged in many different places in the province of Chfll S G T EXTERMINATION OF BOXERS. 14 Hung Chang Adopts Drastic Meas- ures to Restore Peace. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—The Sun has this | from Taku: Pending his arrival here, Li hove SHINRD SRS or | gung Chang ordered that a proclamation "fifi":’q:‘:n?:‘::; :”n::“:: {be posted at Paoting Fu and in the prin- cipal cities of Chill calling upon the peo- ese presumption and insolence | .. ;4 golaiers to exterminate the Box- ers. All the taotlas, perfects, magis- trates and others who abandoned their posts will, according to the proclamation, be arrested and superseded. Military of- | ficlals must count their troops and report | guish betwe »0d and bad Boxers he Boxers co be dealt w ve, however wi they manders that edijct can be * ther report says declares that no execution; has } juate ingul rd from Shanghal allies at Peltsang to the explosion of ch, 200 yards long, ex- an earthquake, killing and ing large numbers and literally ng two mounted officers to pieces. el e Itke Editor Declares It Means Pro- longation of Bloodshed. | , Sept. 28.—Discussing the an- the United States Government to & proposal regarding the Chi- | lement, the Vossische Zeitung | not omatic ont knowled of the United States is equivalent to andonment of the commercial interests cidental civilization and probably will a prolongation of bloodshed. RIOTING AND BLOODSHED MAY ATTEND TO-DAY’S ATTEMPT TO OPEN SHENANDOAH MINES| Operations in the District Where the Dis- turbanc FTRE Protection of the Non-Union Men. e :Battalions to Guard Roads Leading to the Mines This Morning. —— |Citizens Are Called Upon to Aid in Preserving the - Peace. | | B | & MINERS IN THE WOODS AND FIELDS. es of Friday Occurred. AT SHENANDOAH RESPONDING TO THE STRIKE ORDER. THE UPPER PICTURE IS TH. A YOUNG “SLAVE OF THE LAMP,” AT OF WHO IS GLAD OF THE BTRIKE THAT HE MAY WANDER SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 28.—It now begins to look as if the strike would extend to the railroaders, at least in this region. The switchmen had another conference to-day with their national officers, Grand Master Frank T. Hawley and Grand Secretary John E. Tipton, of Buffalo, to discuss the request of the striking miners that they refuse to handle non-union coal. Nothing could be learned of what was done, further than that the national officers and a committee of the local switchmen would go to New York to-morrow and that on their return something definite would be done. The purpose of their visit is supposed to be to petition President Truesdale of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western to spare them the task of handling the non-union wash- ery calum and save them from the alternative of striking or refusing the miners’ request. HENANDOAH, Pa., Sept. 23.—An alr of expectancy was noticeable among the people here to-day and, was any streets. noticeable activity on the In the morning churches of all | Workers would. Million for Two Days a Now Immense damage has been ¢ three days in Sonoma and Maru serve itself | able-bodied man. ¢ | been exhausted by intense ceaseless vigil, is out fighting the con- flagration.® The fire has over a tract at least 1 wooded hills, destroying e | pathway, and is s course at present change in the 5 town is not now in any danger, but how long this security will last none can foretell | The conflagration started on the land of | an Itallan farmer named Jame nces | ehi, who was burning brush. In some un- | known manner the brush fire got beyond almost instantly th nd dense brush on The point at which his control trees, chapparral ¢ sides were in flames and n | | ‘lhe con n originated is one mile ; west of cidental. In p sing through a |canyon the blaze divided imwo three | branches, one going toward Bodega. one | toward the coast and a third toward Oc- |ciaemal. The one which made its de- | structive march toward the coast has | been subdued, but the remaining two are | stin advancing, Occldental’s great peril came on Fri- | day night. The hills which surround the town were completely burned over. The fire advanced the edge of the | town. Back fires were started within the to very | town itself, just in the rear of the Native | Sons® Hall. The air was filled with huge | billows of smoke mingled with thousands | of burning firebrands, some of which were blown miles from the fire. The exact loss can never be computed. The North Pacific Railroad will lose thou- sands of dollars In burned trestles alone. | One trestle which was totally destroyed was valued at $3000. It was eighty-seven feet In height and spanned a wide can- yon. The loss in timber and tan bark will never be known. The county bridges and all feneing that stood in the course of the fire have been completely wiped out of existence. The homes of many lumber- men and dairymen have beeu completely desolated. W. Pattison, M. Bigelow, A. ' Crain and Martin Farrell, an old-time res- ident and pioneer, have lost their homes and all their possessions. Jasper O'Far- rell, for whom O'Farrell street in San Francisco is named, lost his barns, fenc- ing and all the equipm.ent of his dairy. The water system of the town, which was situated on the side of a nelghboring hill, has been destroyed and the people are threatened with a water famine. Occidental is by no means the only town that is suffering from this scourge of fire. | An appeal for men to go to Bodega to fight the fire, which is making rapld pro- gress in that direction, has just been re- celved. None can be spared, as all but the exhausted are impressed into service. The report states that unless help is sent immediately the dairies around Bodega are doomed to destruction. Valley Ford is situated directly in the course which the fire is now taking. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the town of Freestone was surrounded by fire. The wall of flames approached to within nfty yards of the town before the fire fighters succeeded in turning it back. The big trestle on the North Pacific, 137 feet high, had a narrow escape from destruction. It was threatened by conflagration from four directions, and the back fires started in the attempt to check the advancing flames got away from the control of the men. The conflagration is now working toward Sebastopol, and the town is in danger. As accurate an estimate as can possibly be made places the total losses of timber, farm houses, dairies, ranch properties and rallway trestles at $1,08,000. The area of , | 1and burned over is 100 square miles. S MANY FARMERS ARE HOMELESS Thrilling Escapes of Persons in the would not starve, he said, but the mine- Path of the Conflagration. Speetal Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 22.—Under the im- petus of a strong wind, which blew during all of to-day, theforest fire which has been raging for two days past in the vicinity of Occidental spread with terrible rapadity | to-day. doing incalculable damage. The North Pacific Coast Raflroad was probably the heaviest loser, for in addi- tion to the destruction of several miles of of Occidental, was destroyed by the flames. The fire spread quickly along the track and only by the hardest kind of | in timber and ranch and railroa | at $1,000,000. One hundred squc | flames. | cCID Sept. 23.—Envel-| | oped in stifling smoke and thr ened with destruction, Occidental has bee hting since track, the trestle, 219 feet in length, north | 'ONE HUNDRED SQUARE MILES OF TERRITORY DEVASTATED BY FIRE Value of Property Destroyed in Sonoma County May Approximate a Dollars. i | Citizens of Occidental Combat the Flames nd the Town Is Safe. | | Special Dispatch to The Call done by ¢ pre ma C 1re miles of territory was swept trains the des in ope by another tra force of men have been 14 the burned trestle arnd track. FIRE CHECKED NEAR NOVATO. Flames That Raged in That Vicinity Now Under Control. ss the tinguished. Th fire spent its fury in burning and Pacheco ranches near Ignaci east of Nicaslo the a strong breeze it is belleved that it can soon be e w late tk The damage to farm buildings ha lght hav all been destroyed Fences and cord wo Hun livestock have perished, b some weeks before the exact cattle lost ran be determined. I that a great number of cattle perished the Cat Gulch on the Mille Men will be kept poste ridges to-night ready to t flames shouid t - RANCHERS LOSE HEAVILY. Field Fires in the Vicinity of Suisun Do Great Damage. Special Dispatch to THe €all SUISUN, Sept. 23— e the fire that swept over ranches north of Sufsun ¢ lence of the north wind F was much greater than was at mated. The heaviest w Dickle, whose entire ranch except portion occupiled by the buildings burned over. About six miles of fencin was burned and about 800 ac e dry feed. Mr. Dickie's loss will e loser The fire started on the ranch of F. B. Chandler, about three miles south of Va- caville, shortly after noon and traveled a | distance of over six miles in hours. A hired man who baled hay lighted a cigarette, the match on the hay. A blaze started, frightening the team, w away, and burning hay 'was about the fleld. The d carried t from one fleld to another. S S MANY BUILDINGS BURNED. | City of Hanford Narrowly Eseapes Destruction. Special Dispatch to The Call HANFORD, Sept. 23.—The | astrous fire that has visited Han | the memorable fire of '81, when pra | the whole business portion was bu | occurred this afternoon about 5 o The fire started in a barn belor | Bush, situated in an alley between Sixth | and Seventh streets, and under control a block and a half buildings had been destroyed, three livery stables and several | The fire had gained considerable headway | when discovered and as the wind wwas blowing a gale from the north the firs company was practically powerless. I | the barn the fire jumped the alley | caught the fine new livery stable | Sweeney Brothers. It was afire before any one knew it. The horses were cut | loose and driven from the barn. but sev- | eral of them were burned. From Bere ths | fire jumped a vacant lot and caught Wed- | dle’s blacksmith @op and livery stable. The livery stable of Marion Griffes was next to go and was followed a minute later by Merrick's sale stables. Just back of the burned buildings are situated sev- eral fine residences, and for a time it | looked as if all would go, but by ths herolc work of the fire department and hundreds of cifizens these residences were saved, though all the outhouses and barns were destroyed. The loss is estimated at between twen- | tv-five and thirty thousand dollars; tke insurance will not cover more than one- third of this. The heaviest losers s before it was of frar including horses 24 - ROCKHILL WILL ADVISE. | Commissioner Favors Early Withdrawal of Troops. yright. 1900, by Associated Press. KING, Sept. 18, via Taku, Sept. W. Rockhill, special commissioner of | United States, has already conferred | Mr. Conger, the United States Min- | namely. ter, but he has not yet met Prmce‘ ing. It is understood Mr. Rockhill will thereon to Li Hung Chang. sl s Unworthy Act of Vandalism. September 19, protests against » at Pel Tal Chu. Weshington to withdraw the | correspondent, the masonry was too solid. | although it would be difficult to find a more peaceful community, | the opinion s generally expressed that to- LONDON, Sept. 24—Dr. Morrison, the | morrow morning will witness a renewal Peking correspondent of the Times, wiring | of the riotous scenes of Friday. The su- what he perintendents of all the mines in the vi- calls “an unworthy act of vandalism on | cinity of this city and S8hamokin to-day the part of General Wilson's expedition,” | | reiterated their intention of resuming op- the attempt to destroy the su- | erations to-morrow. The strikers, how- perb white pagoda in the temple grounds ever, declare that they wili not succeed— Fortunately, says the at least in the Shenandoah mines, It was not until aftdnoon that there denominations were crowded and the ser- mons were Invariably on the subject of mine troubles. In the Church of the An- nunciation Rev. R. F. Rellly, the rector, told his congregation that the mine- workers could not win. He advised them to refrain from acts of violence and to return to work. He pointed out that the mines were their only means of support, while the proceeds of the Reading Com- pany from the mines were only a small nortion of its receipts The .company Father Peter Abramats of the Lithuani- an Church of St. George said that if the | men expected to win perfect organization was necessary. He beiieved that if they were undivided their struggle would meet,| with success. During the afternoon demonstrations were made by the Governor's Troop and Battery C, which marched through the streets of the city and along the roads leading to the mines. Representatives of Continued on Second Page work was length, saved. Notwithstanding the company has larg fear, maty the nightfall again, the trestle is almost sure to go. In way county road were destroyed and also Sweeney" Brothers, John Wetel and Mar- fon Griffes. How the #@re started Is a mystery, but it is presumed it was ed by small boys playing with matche: the Bush barn. At one time during the fire the water gave out for a few minut s and 1t looked as If it was all up wita Henford. The pump was got In werk- ing order agaln in a couple of minut however, and the people of Hanford a happy to-night in the ownership of the® fine Holly water system that saved haif the town from destruction. the next trestle, 300 feet in a e force of men fighting the fire, it is ed that the latter trestle may ulti- ely be burned, so flerce is the sweep of blaze. Should the wind, which at somewhat abated, spring up addition to the burning of the rafl- trestle, two county bridges along the