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

177. VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1900. PRICE FIVE€ENTS. TURKEY SHOWS ADDITIONAL UNFRIENDLINESS TO AMERICA AND VIOLATES ALL TREATIES Following the Order for the Battl eship Kentucky { | i to Proceed to Smyrna the Sublime Porte Re-| fuses to Issue an Exequatur to Dr. Norton, the New United States Consul to Harpoot. GENERAL TUNG'S INSOLENCE. Emperor and Dowager in Danger of Their Own Troops. LONDON, Nov. 24.—Special dispatches ribe the situation at g Fu Siang’s troops personal body guard ror and Empress Dowager REBEL FORCES ARE ROUTED AND TWO OF THEIR GENERALS CAPTURED Government Troops of Colombia Defeat the! Liberals After Some Hard Fighting. s pPs Special Dispatch to The Call | PANAMA, Nov. 2 —Governor Alban of arrived here from Colon, reports that State of Panama, who left here a few e fighting occurred Monday and « 2go ox the British steamer Taboga ¥ at Culebra. The Government | attacked the rebels, who occupied | a good position h the result that the | ses Of the former were heavy. The| ng was proceeding when the steamer | ed Secret here Arjena ra. This blokaded by revolutionary craft selv besieged by the Liberal forces. srswere closely pressed and the 3 armed in order to or Alban telegraphs restaurants at Colon were | rebels held a portion of the | closed and th raflroad line. h sed the blockade yesterday and | Another reby ce was reported to be | P ssiult on the rebel position | engaging the Government troops near | F an important strategi- | Panama. Business is entirely suspended | rhoking the city that had | at the latter place and both Panama and | | Colon are in a state of terror. ! he rebels. After a hard | ! © was recaptured. Gemer-| The rebels are attacking In a deter-| ani Hoges, leaders of a|mined manner,and it is feared the slaugh- | rel forces, have been |ter will be great before decisive resuits | sers. Three of the rebel guns, | are reached. The Liberals, it is asserted | 24 beem ukd effectively against|by the passengers of the Barbadian, still | 5's defenses, were captured. hold Buena Ventura, though the Colom- GETO! Jamica, Nov. 23.—The |blan Government is making a great effort British steamer Babadian, which bas | to regain possession of it. = | | | { | | | | ——p TO WHICH PLACE THE BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY IS BOUND, TO REMIND | HE OWES UNCLE SAM INDEMNITY. THE SBULTAN IS ALSO PICTURED IN | —_— ce and declares ting the ng the ted the court f ot 1 Ges ered Ma's e 24.—The Japanese have The Boxers bearing DIFFER AS TO PUNISHMENT. Representatives of the Powers at Peking Not in A correspondent of Wednesday. “Japan Russia and Fran ing a milder punishmen rince Tuan and t Germany, deem any ga the death penalty “A tmportant decision has been arrived wever, that this divergence fs not eral peace nego- Another remarkable featurs of the situation is the sudden bold face of Russia. which now declines either to with draw her troof from the province of Chili or to hand over the rallway as prom- ised.” at, tiations. FRENCH SENATE ADOPTS THE AMNESTY BILL PARIS, Nov. 23.—The Senate to-day | | i | ARBITRATION adopted the amnesty bill, which had al- | ready been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies. Gustave de Lamarselle, Senator for (he' department of Morbihan, asked whether | the amnesty extended to the persons con- | demned by the Senate sitting as the high court and to the Assumptionists. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the Premier, answered: “It is impossible to grant am. resty to those who continue to menace the Government, and as for the Assumption- ists, their offense has not ceased.” In the Chamber of Deputies Faui Vigne, Radical Socialist, for Dodeve, delivered a long discourse upbraiding the Govern- ment for alleged crueities in Algeria and Madagascar perpetrated by the French troops. e WILL BUILD BOAT TO REPLACE THE PLUNGER WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—The Navy De- partment to-day entered into a contract with the Holland Submarine Boat Com- pany for the construction of a boat of the type of the six heretofore contracted for, tc replace the Plunger, the company agreeing to take the Plunger off the hands of the Government and to bufid ir. her place the best type of modern sub- marine boat for the sum of $17,000, re- funding to the Government the sum of $90,000 already paid on the Plunger and the sum of $4365, which represenfs other expenses to which the Government has been subjected. | | | Arbitration. NOW READY 10 FOLLOW UNCLE SAM Powers Agres t Act | | URICUE ROUTE FOR THE CANAL L | All' Other Proposi- in Harmony as to ~ tions Rejected Dy China. President to Secure Settlement. BEING i ASKED |PANAMA PEQPLE ARE BEATEN Commission. ' (Clever Diplomacy of the Recommendation Is Made for a Waterway Thirty - Feet in Depth. | | This Government Aims to Preserve the 1 Company Merely Attempts to Delay the Territorial and Administrative Entity of China. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call AU, WELLINGTON HO- -day given the Russia, Germary, e and Japan. These powers are due f the Presiient ani See- in Peking rely that ny of the alive to thé importance of ng demands with which the Chi- nese Government could comply. Proposi- T owers whose po . the adop- result In rejec- rnment and the It was there- fore deci .hat in the interest of a prompt set it was desirable to ap- peal to the powers direet. An identica note was, therefore, ad- dressed to the Interested governments In urape and Japan, and “3¢ correspond- ence which followed culminated in the assuran - referred to. These assurances repeat the declarations which were made in connection with the indorsement of the Anglo-German agreement, and would seem on their face to show that the pow- gle purpo: unsatistacto; al Empirs. at least two pow- ng In ceking the and have evi- e tactics, nt about these latest the powers expre: desire such solutions of as can be adopted ment without dan- Conger is directed declarations state that they the Chinese troubl b~ the tmperial g ger to its safety. to urge of agreeing uvon demands w! reasonably certain of acceptance by t.e Mr. on his colleagues the neces: Chinese. The President and Secre Hay appreciatc the weakness of S perial government, and do not want the shadow of imperfal authority to disap- ear as a t th achinations of rowerful officials. Even d spite the assurances of the powers that they desire a prompt settlement and are willing to work harmoniously to secure it. the authorities here apparently expeet disagreement. In anticipation of the fau- ure of negotiations and des@ing that ef- forts to reach a joint agreemen: skall continue, the officials are casting avout for a method of solution that wi all. This subject has been given care- ful -onsideration by the President and Cabinet, who at to-day’s session discussed the whole Chinese solution. The sugges- tion for settlemert of the question by an international conference, participated in by the representatives of the powers, to be held in a European capital, has been result “aces and Work on the Nicaragua Route fo Further Its Own Interests. | S Spectal Dispa CALL BUREAU. WELLINGTC TEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. McKinley port of the Isthmian his hands within two or three days. It is now complete and its various parts are baing assembled have It favors the construc- courage: canal a gh estimates for a canal > been made. A thirty-five-foot canal would cost about $175,000.000. The report recommen hat and thirty-foot ¢ cor permit the canal to be deep: d five feet when commerce requ and prac- tically eliminates from consideration the Panama canal, which route has been the only real competitor of the Nicaragua how- ever, ams tructed as to it | waterway. This is owing jo the apparant revived, but among consecrvative officials | it is belleved that an even better plan would be the adoption of a policy refer- ring the matter to the Hague Court of ! The main aim of the Presi- dent is to obtain a settlement that will insure the territorial and administrative entity of China. The story that the President contem- plates acquiring Chinese territory is posi- | tively denifed by the State Department. This authoritative statement was made to-day: “There is no foundation what- ever for the report that the United States purposes to acquire Chinese terri- tory. This is contrary to the declared policy of the President. Every effort s being made to preserve the territorfal in- tegrity of the empire, and ‘o this end rthe President is endeavoring to bring about a prompt settlement.” s 1 B FIGHTING AGAINST BOXERS. BERLIN, Nov. 24—Fleld Marshal Count | von Waldersee cables that Colonel Yorek's | column reached Hsueng Hwa November | 12. The weak garrison immediately sur- | rendered. The column commanded by Colonel Muehlensfels, the dispatch adds, is proceeding to Amkia Chwang. The health of the troops is good. Another dispatch from the field marshal says Muehlensfels’ detachment, Novem- ber 29, drove a stronger band of Boxers out of Amkia Chwang. after a short en- gagement, during which forty Boxers were killed and the latter lost eight guns. A squadron belonging to Colonel Yorek’s column, it is further announced, has at- tacked the rear guard of the Chinese retiring from Pruen Hwa-Fu on the Hwanan The troops killed thirty Chinese =1d captured eight wagons loaded with money, ammunition and equipment. inability of Director General H: to make a proposition to sell to the United States. The present camal eommission was ap- pointed to examine all the rossible canal routes to be found on the isthmus. Al an early stage of the investigation it w: ascertained that only twn routes were practicable Nicaragua and Panama. the next best being the Darien canal. which crossed the divide 600 feet above tae 3ca . requiring a tunnel 200 feet In height It is found that e are no engineer'nrg or physical impossibilities on elther the Nicaragua or Panama ro The mattes of cost is larg as the estimat aceount o b2 paid made on Serious considera Panama isthmu: of the Panama project has been impo: sible owing to the refusal of its swners to set a price at which it could be bowght The Panama company was asked two questions, the first being: right to the United an vou sell ' he com ers to-day have continued to evada = question: and the American engineer have reached the econclusion. lonz 2g2 foreshadowed, that the Panama men have no intention of selling to the Ame Government, the opposition to the ) ragua canal being based on a de nullify that project so that they can float another French lean to comolete e work themselves. Willlam Nelson Cr New York Is here as attorney for the company. The route adopted across caragua by the present commission Zollows closely that reccmmended by the Walker com- mission two vears ago. The total distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic is 1% miles. Commencing at Brito, on the Pa- cific Coast, and following up the east side of the Rio Grande a vessel would, by aid of four locks, reach the summit and level of Lake Nicaragua, which is 11§ feet above the Pacific Ocean. The distance from | Brito to the lake s 17.5 miles. Tha canal line then crosses the lake, a distancc of about seventy-one miles, to the heal of | the San Juan River. | Following this river for ity | the site of the proposed dam is reached | at Boca San Carlos. Here the canal leaves | the river bed, but follows the valley for | twenty-one miles to a point opposite the mouth of the Rio Saripiqui. From this point a nearly straight line = mads t> the Atlantic Ocean at Greytown, twenty-two miles more. To bulld this canal a depth of tairty | feet, as recommended by the commuission, | it will be necessary to remove about 180, 000,000 cublc yards of earth and rock. A great engineering feature of the enter- price is the proposed dam at San Carlos, | which will be 138 feet high from its rock | bed to the crest, and the crest will be | nearly 1500 feet in length. The buiiding | of a dam =2t this point avolds questions | which arose inder previous surveys from possible flood watcrs of the river San Carlos. which in the proposed plan enters the San Juan below instead of above the dam. The full report of the commission, which will be rendered some time this winter, will contain many papers of great interest and value upon climate, trade influences, effect upon population and other economic questions arising in con- sideraticn of the canal. ‘The work of the present commission has been most thorough. Every possible va- riant has been surveyed and hundrads of sites for dams and locks were considered | The following bulletin was issued TAX COLLECTOR SCOTT NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH IN A SALOON QUARREL Assaults. Jack MceNamara, the Saloon Keeper, Who Fires at Him, a Derringer Bullet Passing Through His Coat. TAX COLL DEATH WHO NARRO RACEFUL SALOON -KEEPER, BRA AND MARTIN AX Collector J. Harry Scott be-| came lnvolved™ # A disgracesul ! saloon row yesterday, in which he narrowly escaped with his iife He owes his escape from death to the mercy of a man whom he savagel attacked dur lach's saloon 3 o'clock t and Martin friend when you wanted ome.™ “In what?™ asked MeNama to ge in the a See saloon. In the sion Jack McNamara, who keeps a sa- ity Hall a e, approached aimed both have fou im aside they have been sock: more than om manded but ve: made a motion as if was not quick ed a derringer med to have the counter to a McNamara to fire again shoot, Mac; I've on cepted sal Then Scott foste you Namara was McNamara's reply, re old friends." This pleasantry might have ended there, but Seott “Kelly id. “because good friends.” Kelly's fri probably a which Se . leged to enje McNamara retorted with scme w: “1 don't know why | friendly with Kelly. He w larly your friend when you e the Grand Hotel ‘push’ and needed|yyryck him, but had gome through the left e | shoulder of his coat. He was almost One angry word was leading to another | paralyzed with fear, however, and was and Kelly stood stlently listening to the | taken home by Martin Keily. Last night discussion of himself. Again Scott took | all efforts to see him were in vain. Vis- the offensive. Addressing McNamara he | itors to his home were Informed that he sald: “You shouldn’t have any objection | had retired early and under no circum- to Kelly or to me. I have been your |stances could be seen. CZAR NICHOLAS THREATENED WITH LUNG COMPLICATIONS If Fresh Disease Develops It Will Diminish the Ruler’s Chances of Recovery. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 232 —It was day yest rumored here this evening that Emperor | Nicholas was threatened with lung com- plications, which, if they exist, would materialiy diminish his chances of recov- ery. Inflammation of the lungs is a com- | mon complication of typhold fever in| Russia. Thus far there is no official con- firmation of the rumor. LIVADIA, European Russia, Nov. 8.— this ““The Emperor passed a quiet rday. He slept about an hour. At 9 in the cvening his temperature was 1027; pulse, 2. His Majesty passed a very good night. His condition and strength are very satisfactory. This morning at § o'clock his temperature was 101.2; pulse, 5. PARIS, Nov. 24 G:# a m.)—"A nosis of the Czar's malad patch from St. Pe “shows that he His brain is aff powers are endange: . .- says a dis- tersburg to the Stecl as typhoidic d and his intellectual - morning: before the present ones were selacted. SERVED IN FAMILY Thousands of borings have been made | OF JEFFERSON DAVIS from the six-fathom line in the Atlantie e CHICAGO. Nov. B.—The poverty-strick- to the six-fathom Lne in the Pacific, and | . condition of Mrs. Adelia Bur‘,):m. ::o an intimate knowledge of the geoligical claims to have been a confidential servant formation along the entire route has been | 1B the family of Jefferson Davis during the civil war, was brought to the atten- obtained to a depth far below that re- | tjon of the :fii“ here to-day and her quired for canal purposes. It is found wapets attended to. that it will take less than ten years ¢- | M3 Burton. who was discovered in o build the canal and some of the engincers that when the President of the Confeder- ate States fled to escape she was entrust- least 50.000 men will be given employment was born in slavery ~seven in the United States and on the Isthmus. | years ago. lonely hovel on the south side, dec! estimate that during Its comstruction at | L 0p R, Drivate effects of the fugitive,