The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1900, Page 3

L] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17. WOONDS THRER PERSONS BEFORE HE IS OVERCOME S = (4 nt ———— a Monica Fires Upon His Own PREF. Sends Dauwnter ERS DEATH TO CAPTURE AL 2 Bullet TI When Officers His Barricaded d this Constable him at his ed, finng TOWLy bt China 2 of the Ger- g Gets a Divorce. Combinatien Writing Desk COMPLETE and Music Cabinet. HOUSEFURNISHING A SPECIALTY. sp';.nl P” cs Gnr the Holidays. BRILLIANT'S, 338-342 Post Strect. Powe Open Evenings PAINLESS EXTRACTION O cts. Our $500 Plctas fitlike a glove. '»R. d. L. WALSH RY STREET | 1S HIDNEY & LIVFP BITTERS A NOT PLEASANT SLAXATIVE? INTOXICATING IERCES FAVORITE RESCRIPTION WEAK WOREEN. RADW unrivale Pain Re cures al itis, | - S . AY’S READY RELIEF has stood d before the public for 50 years as a medy. It instantly relieves .nd quiddy 1 Colds, Sore Throats, Influenza, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Toothache end all pain. Internally and all Bowel Pains. All druggists. Criminal | 'Says the Californian May Have Obtained a Royal Signet but It Was Not the Emperor's Emblem of Authority JOSE, Y Dec. 16.—Consul General | Chi- representative of on vernment bt upor d Weitzenberg great seal of the Campbell Chinese em in the latter's possession. Weitz- | | | t of his visit to.the m-.‘ printed exclusively over his signature in The Sunday Call of 15, was as romantic as the| s with the f Aladdin. He | States troops on their entry into| Not being an enlisted man, he i several days to a search for art| curios and treasures. Penetrating to the | very heart of the im city he came | upon what he believes was the keeping place of the great seal. Here he picked t he supposed was the great seal, ing it from a collection of articles | one of which was worth a fortune in f. This he now nas at his home m mpbeil a beautiful block araciers. The | square, sur - shaped after a t alone ionged to tne royal house Yow admits this much, but i declares positively that it 1 Chinese sea He | would I no } al. 1 nfident he 1s right, | hat the fact that the- seal is the real reason why ce the Emperor has left been engrussed with it. | s it highly, and expects to ob- e 1or its return to the Chi- ent. | ral Ho Yow is of the belief | t seal is with the Emperor ue in the interfor of China berg gained access to the palace, claims,” said the obtained one of ng to the royal family, ly is not the great seal of China. That is the last thi the limperor would part with. It means his life, his office. autho and he would not be so foolish as to leave it behind when he tied the allied forces. All the mem- | bers of the Emperor's household havc as do all the gentlemen of China, robably one of these private Weitzenberg may have obfa E one of the most care- ded tr in the Chinese he keep a high nsible person are ntinuously stationed about it, these are changed very often, so no conspiracy could be hatched. If the great lost or stolen off comes the Keep- t assured he r it. When the r left C al undoubtedly with him, and the keeper of the seal peror's suite. By capturing and his party one might get t when the whole court haz can depend upon it the seal has a dragon on the handle household, but that &reat s Deinoces. of mperor have The dragon means royalty. 1 office seal Weitzenberg has, e of person of royal blood. be impossible for Weitzenberg r it was the royal seal or and it would be impossible for him i the way to where it is kept. Not Prime Minister or any of the ces would know where the seal and could go to the spot unless d there. not be lood and the eve Weltzenberg has y number of seals gre. He may have on of clothing and trinkets from ! erial Palace, but there are wagon | s Of these and ‘they might be easily Yow said the loss of the great seal ob Ho would make little difference in the work- of the empire. An edict could be | d —umm.mmg its loss and another would be made, sald if Weitzenberg had the seal it not worth more than its value for the stone, and he need not expect the Chinese Government to pur- chaz it. | \\dtl,er*hflrgt account of his wander- ings in the Chinese capital, as he gave it to The Sunday Call graphically de- scribed the events leading to_his obtain- ing possession of the supposed great 1 For one ole day this Californian | the forbidden city to himself; free to where he pleased and take cled. Peking was full of sh who hid in the roofs and hots at all who came within range. The Chinese and Tartar cities of Peking were thronged hooters, | with people, despite the tremendous exo- dus et the sacred forbidd was empty and silent. Its Tafrtar m had left, but though they had de , the | fear of them had not. The custom of story he ex—‘ | Special Dispitch to The Call BELIEVES CHINA’S GREAT SEAL WAS NOT .STOLEN| BEGEROW ENDS 'Consul General Ho Yow Casts Doubt Upon Fred Weitzen- berg’s Story of theg)_oting of the Forbidden City + SIR ERNEST MASON SATOW, MAJESTY'S DIPLOMATIC L THE NEW CHINA, WHO HAS HAD CONSIDERABLE SERVICE. — BRITISH MINISTER TO EXPERIENCE IN HER generations still bound the timid Chinese and deterred them from entering the pal- aces of their former masters. So there was no one to molest the American. He had but to make up his mind as to what he wanted. The sacred tablets of jade which the Emperor worshiped; the great Jadestone seals of empire; the most beau- tiful statuette of Buddha; the fifty-eyed peacock feather of the Emperor, and pri- vate correspondence of the Dowager Tsi Hsi An, with jewels and bullion were his selections. All of these he succeeded in bringing with him from China, and they are now at his home in Campbell. e WILL CA;SE MORE DELAY. Great Britain Makes Demand for Further Modification. PEKING, Dec. 16. — Definite instruc- tions, supplementing terday’s com- munication from London, have been r2 ceived by Sir Ernest Mason Satow, the British Minister, and he now demands a modification of a point in the joint note, which the foreign envoys generally re- gard as important. This means further delay, as all the Ministers must com- municate anew with their respective gov- ernments. Just what is the nature of the objection raised by Great Britain the Ministers decline to say, but they ad- mit that the new demand will involve a great deal more diplomatic procedure. S LI HUNG CHANG THANKS CZAR. Grateful for Permission to Rule Over Manchuria—No Danger of Re- currence of Recent Troubles. LONDON, Dec. 16.—Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Peking, says: Li Hung Chang has wired to Emperor Nicholas (at the inst pression of gratitude for permission to rule Manchuria under Russian protection. This permission purports to have come from the Czar, who is, of course, quite ignorant of the matter. Prince Ukhtom- 1s leaving Peking within a few days, mission having been accomplished. Telegrams from the north, says the Shanghal correspondent of the Times, ng Saturday, report renewed activity | the connivance of tne Taotal of Shanghai. + on the part of the Boxers in the neighbor- hood of Peking and Tientsin. It is be- lieved that certain forelgners are continu- ing a surreptitious business in arms, with There are persistent rumors here that the foreign troops have arrived at Tai- Yuen Fu. While the Ministers in Peking are hag- gling over the collective note, Russia has consolidated her power in Manchuria, which, under the guise of friendship she 1900 THIRD TRIAL OF I NO VERDICT Eight Jurors Vote for Ac- (uittal and Four for Conviction. RSO ERY PROSECUTION NOT DISCOURAGED Ll A Slayer of Cech and Berger May for the Fourth Time Be Placed on Trial for His Life. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. 16.—Three times has Frederick Begerow, the Alviso ex-Consta- ble, who shot and killed Joseph Cech and August Berger at the picnic of the San Francisco brewers here on July 15, been placed on trial for murder without a ver- dict being reached. After more than fifty hours' deliberation the third jury was dis- charged to-day because of inability to ree. It stood eight to four for acquittal. he first trial was suddenly ended by B. Benjamin, a juror, leaving for Aus- | tralia just as argument commenced, and in the second the jury stood six for man- slaughter and six for acquittal. Bege: Probably will be tried again, ‘aithougn un attempt will be made to have the charge dismissed on the ground that it wouid be impossible to obtain a conviction. THEIR BACK PAY HELD OUT. No Checks for November Services of the Operators. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 16.—Yesterday was payday throughout this end of the Santa Fe system. The railroad has for some time done away with the pay-car system and has been sending checks to the employes of the road and the checks are always on hand con the 15th of the month following the month in which they are earned. To- day when Operator Clendinin, who as a member of the Order of Railway Teleg- | raphers is out on a strike, applied to the cashier for his November check he found that none had been sent and that his name did not appear on the payroll for the month of November, though he had | worked every day of that month and un- til the 8th of this month. He said to-night that he, with the rest | of the operators, expected that the pay for the days they had worked during De- cember would be held out, but that he| did not expect it to be eliminated from | the payrolls for the month of November. | He telephoned to the headquarters of the | order in Los Angeles and learned that all the operators there who had gone out had GNEISENAU GOES DOWN IN HARBOR OF MALAGA German Training Ship Is Wrecked and the Number of Dead Pi aced at One Hundred. Members of Crew Cling to Rigging Until Exhausted and Drop Into the Water. Special Dispatch to The Call. MADRID, Dee. 16—While the German | training ship Gneisenau was entering the harbor at Malaga to-day, where she was putting in to seek sheiter from a storm she was completely wrecked. Her com- mander and many of the cadets drowned. left the wreck and heard of. It Is feared that it I lost with all its occupants. The senau’s masts were left projecting above the water when she settled to the bottom and many of the officers and cadets sought safety in the rigging. Few detalls have been received of the loss of the ship. It is stated that she was commanded by Commander Kritchmann and there wera 360 persons aboard her. The reports of the loss of life are con- fiicting. The latest vary from forty to one hundred. The wreck was caused by the vessel dragging her anchors. She struck the rocks and sank close to the lighthouse. The violence of the sea prevented the rescue of those who sought safety in the rigging. The Gneisenau, which was bullt at | Dantzic_in 1879, an iron vessel. sheathed with wood and had a displace- ment of 2856 tons. She was 242 feet 9 inches in length and 4 feet 1l inches In | beam, having a mean dun of 19 feet & inches and a coal capacity of 400 were has not si tons. | A boat with forty persons in it | Her armament consisted of fourteen 5§ inch Krupp breech. s, two 3.4~ quick-firers, one fleld gun seven torpedo tu plement was 461 and she w boys WANTS THE EXCLUSION ACT MADE FERPETUAL Agitation Set Afoot by the West- ern Federation of Miners. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 16.—The Western Federation of Miners, whose president, Ed Boyce, resided in North Idaho until re- cently, is agitating the question of m ing the Chinese exclusion act perpetual The provisions of the act become inop. tive by its own limitation in 1902. The matter will be called to the attention of Congress. S s Want McKinley to Be Present. PACIFIC GROVE, Dec. 16.—The local committee on arrangements for the an- nual encampment of the Grand Army of California _and Nevada, to be held here next spring, is in communication with the State committee relative to postponing the date of the encampment from April to June, 1901, in order to invite President Kinléy to include Pacific Grove in his California itinerary been treated in the same way The operators are inclined to the opin- | fon that the railroad company is ul.k(ngj this means of crippling them. The only | explanation that can be found here is that by the agreement of November 15 the | operators at this end of the line were to | recelve more pay in the expectation that all differences had been settled and that their checks had been made out on the | advanced scale, but that the railroad, when the strike showed that all differ- ences had not been settled, withdrew the | checks for the purpose of making them out at the older and lower rate. is_wresting from her deluded neighbors. The Evening Post published the follow- ing from its Peking correspondent, dated Saturday: The Boxer organization is nearly destroyed. There appears now to be no danger of a recrudescence of the re- cent troubles, although activity is shown in some unprotectei places. The Boxer leaders were In reality not numerous and most of them have been punished by the Chinese authorities. _ AGREEMENT BIN DS POWERS. Great Britain Tnkeu Time to Consider the Matter. BERLIN, Dec. 16.—The Foreign Office officials say that they do not know why Great Britain has not yet authorized her Minister at Peking to sign the joint note of the powers. Sir Ernest Satow has asked London for further instructions on the subject. Germany believes the in- structions have not yet been received. It is pointed out that the signing of the note vum be the first step of a binding charac- ter yet taken by the powers jointly, hence it is supposed that Great Britain wants to consider the matter fully. It IS be- lieved Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching will be able to show satisfactory creden- tials, and it is assumed they are now com- municating with the court in this connec- tion. The Foreign Office officlals admit that the Indications are now more favora- ble of getting China to come to terms. They_also say the early return of Empe- ror Kwang Su to Peking seems likely. Private dispatches from Peking say Lieutenant Count von Wintzingerode and Captain von Usedom have, been severely injured by accident; that Lieutenant Dus- terberg during the skirmish near Pao- ting-Fu was killed, and that the Manchu general Fang was captured, with great ooty. e S 2 2 S e S 2T ) ?TRAINMEN NOW OFFER TO MEDIATE " THE STRIKE OF THE TELEGRAPHERS TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. 16.—Representa- tives of the trainmen, conductors, engi- neers and firemen held a conference this evening with General Manager Mudge of | the Santa Fe for the purpose of attempt- | ing to mediate the trouble between the | road and the Order of Railway Telegra- | While no agreement was reached | of mediation was encouraged | ge to hold a conference with Third Vice President Barr, which wiil probably be done Monday or Tucsday at Chicago. | “Representatives of the different rail- | way orders,” sald Mr. Mudge, “hel] a | short confe ce with myself ard Mr. | Resseguie this evening. They stated that | they had ro grievance against the Santa Fe, but at the request of the telegraphers Gesirad to offer their services to mediale the differences between the Order of Rall- way Telegraphers and the company. | Th() xpressed a desire to act for the | entire tem and include the trouble on | the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe as well as the line west of Albuquerque. As my | authority extends simply over the Santa Fe proper I could not deal with them. They will probably hold a meeting with | Mr, Barr and attempt to reach a settle- ment upon the best possible basis to be obtained for the telegraphers.” But little Information could be obtained | from the members of the board of media- tion. They were not disposed to talk about the situation, but intimated that there would be something to give out In a day or two. The telegraphers feel very much encouraged over the turn affairs have taken, and think there is no doubt of ultimate success. While the representatives of the differ- ent orders deny that there is any likeli- | | Bood of a strike should Third Vice Presi- | with the Order of Railway Telegraphers, it is still the general feeling, should this take place, serious complications might ensue. The position taken is that if the Santa Fe refuses to recognize the Order of Rallway Telegraphers at the present time similar action might be taken should trouble arise in the future between the road and other organizations, and it would mean_the establishment of a dangerous precedent. A Wt Trainmen Restive. TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. 16.—Santa Fe trainmen are bacoming restive and dissat- isfied with conditions on account of the risk of running trains. The new men at many of the block stations are unable to take the trun orders with any degree of speed, and several cases have occurred where the red signal has been thrown just as the train was passing. This has caused the trainmen to be exceptionally cautious, and in most instances to slow up : our stations operators—as we have found when passing biock stations, so that there may be no mistake. Trains are running nominally on time to-day, although several were irom fifteen to thirty minutes late, due to stoppages | | along the road for block station signals. “This thing is grating on our nerves,” said a trainman to- “We can never tell when the board will be thrown against us. We want fo the difficulty settled for our own safety.” - BOYCOTT WILL BE LEVIED. Strikers Have a Way to Force the Santa Fe to Terms. TOPEKA., Kans., Dec. 16.—Should the Santa Fe officials persist in refusing to ar- bitrate the treaty between it and the Or- der of Rallway Telegraphers a systematic boycott willi be ung by the members of the order all r the country and an effort made to bring the road to time by | cutting off its busin The Order of Railway Telegraphers has about 12,000 members, comprising telegra- phers and station agents on every road in the United States. If no agreement can be reached an order will go out to all the members of the or- der to route all passenger and freight business, both from the East and West, by some line other than the Santa Fe. Eastern agents instead of routing Califor- nia traffic over the Santa Fe will turn it to either the Southern Pacific or the Union Pacific. The former, however, will be given the preference, as the telegraphers have a very advantageous schedule with that road. Freight business will be hand- led in the same manner. ““We can bring the Santa Fe to terms,” said a prominent striking telegrapher to- day, “if we are compelled to adopt this method. We have tried it before in Colo- rado and in the East on the Burlington. In each instance we were successful, as we ruined the business of the company for the time being. We have it in our power to take away from the Santa Fe practical- ly adl its through freight and p&mnger business, and we_ have assurances froj the men on the other roads that they will act in our interests as soon as notified.” ot N BOAST OF A SUPERINTENDENT. WICHITA, Kans., Dec. 16.—"The oper- ators’ strike in my division is past his- tory,” said Superintendent Tice of the Oklahoma division to-night. ““Two small stations are without operators, but not because_we cannot get men to suppl; them. We have agents sufficient for l.{l the purposes of the statios Our trains mtontlunoundolmm are coming In and going out in better shape than before the strike. In most of out since, the strike began—are more of a conveniehce than a necessity. Many of our old operators, say 80 per cent of them, would like to come back, and a great number have asked to come back, but it is out of the question. In many places, es- pecially at the smaller stations, they are securing the signatures of patrons of the road to petitions praying for their rein- Matement. The only trouble we are ex- periencing from the strike now clerical time sacrificed in receivin cations for reinstatement. “e strikers’ file In my office, and I will say to you in all candor that it is the biggest file we have at present. The statement issued by the strikers that my special was tled up in Oklahoma for lack of operators is_absolutely false. had no trouble whatever and ran on time over the divi- sion; so did the regular trains.” “What about lrnln'men, do you expect them to strike . Tice was asked. ““It is all nons eme No one knows bet- ter than the trainmen that there {s noth- ing in the operators’ strike—not even the semblance of justification. I am in very close touch with the trafnmen of my divi- slon, and to me the clalm that they are seriously in sympathy with the Order of Rallway Telegraphers’ tively absurd.” FIRED ON NEW OPERATOR. ARDMORE, 1. erty, L T., strike s superla- T., Dec. 16.—At Dough- to-night unknown persons smashed the Santa Fe station w(ndowl yiith stones and fired on the new ope Marshals who were pro!ecuni exchanged several shots wit! ants. No one was hurt. tor. the butding the miscre- —"“The American Porter’—The name describes the color but only one who has tasted it can describe the flavor. - The perfect production of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n. of Corruption, VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 16.—The ques- tion whether the 'Domlnlon or th Pro- Yinclal Government owns Dead s Isl- and, 'h has been a polmcn.l luue in Vlnwuver for over a year and upon which the Semlin Government split, is to come up before the Supreme Coun are next n-'c"“i'l?. ol “uo'nr': Frior and Barie: e an e i)mlnlon Parlia- lon. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Two-Story Building on a Yolo Ranch Demolished. WOODLAND, Dec. 16—News comes from Western Yolo that during the thun- der-storm Friday lightning struck and al- | most demolished a two-story building be— longing to Mrs. B. B. Nissen. Storm which began last midnight | and has continued at :ntervals ever since ‘was a surprise, as the barometer was as high as it has been at any time this month. The rainfall for the season now amounts to 8.14 Inches. UKIAH, Dec. 16.—The rainfall last night at this place, as recorded by Dr. George McCowen, Government observer, was 1,12} inches, making 13.75 inches for the sea- son. Grass on the ranges is far ahead | of what it has been at a correspondin; date for several years. Crops are wel advanced. Er PASSES A BOGUS CHECK. Stranger Defrauds Former Real Es- tate Dealer in Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 16—A plausible, well-dressed man answering to the name of C. M. Meyers visited Sacramento last week posing as the inventor and promoter of a loom to weave wire netting. He en- tered Into an agreement with Caesar Ro- doni, formerly a real estate man, to travel with' the patent, sell rights, etc. On Saturday eveninz Meyers went to the store of C. P. Nathan & Co. accom- panied by Rodoni and after purchasing a bill of goods presented a check on the California State Bank, drawn in his favor by a mythical person named C. Balley, who was supposed to llve somewhere in Yolo County. The firm did not know Meyers, but Rodoni indorsed the check with him and he received the changa, something over $100. When it was found this morning that the check was a for- gery Meyers had disappeared. —_———— Enters a County Hospital. MONTEREY, Dec. 16.—Thomas J. Jones, a veteran of the civil war and a ploneer resident of Monterey County, was admit- ted to the County Hospital at Salinas last week on an order from Supervisor T. Fleld of this place. of age and suffers from acute sheumatism and senile debility. He goes to the hos- pital according to his own wish rather than become a burden upon his children. The case {s a pitiful one and Is exciting much sympathy hereabouts. Jones was at one time an inmate of the Yountville Soldiers’ Home, but being a member of the Sah’n(lon Army and an ardent tem- perance advocate, he was dissatisfied with the “army canteen system” as practiced at that institution, it Is said, and left several months ag —- Crushed Under a Falling Wall. PHOENIX, Dec. 16.—James Nevells, an employe on the McKittrick ranch near | Wileox, was to-day crushed to death un- der an old adobe wall. He was tearing down the wall and instead of taking the adobe blocks from the top he tore them away from the bottom, weakening the foundation until the heavy structure fell upon him. B444+444444444 44444440 + THE DAY’S DEAD. } [ FOSTOUSUTNSTORINT SISTER SUPERIOR LORETTO. Mourning i Notre Dame College at Marysville. MARYSVILLE, Dec. 16.—Sister Superior Loretto of Notre Dame College died here to-day of pneumonia after an {llness of six days. She was known in the world as g‘nn‘ney of Los Gatos. Sister Lo- retto was a native of Callfornia, years. She had for six years been superior of Notre Dame College. She was a sister- in-law of Judge Kinkead of Auburn. The funeral will occur on Tuesday. Michael O’Keefe. MENLO PARK, Dec. 16.—Michael O’Keefe, a ploneer resident of this place, died at the ot 36 years last evening, after an iliness of two months. was the father of J, H. O'Keefe. a loc-l merchant; D. Kt tdltor of the B iette of Redwood, ity and oxo Assemblyman James T. OKufe. an a torney of the same place. Mrs. Catherine Brice. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Mrs, Catherine B e T T lence I"I Fifth avenue of Bright's disease, aged 60 Mr. Jones is 88 yean i | | I i | i l is the best for the money 1 | : | vou with just what you want Mothers: If vou intend i | i | furnishing goods, hats and can Baseball outfit free with who call. Santa Claus has plentv of candy for Give Him an Overcoat Christmas is drawing near—it will be here a week from to-morrow—now i< the time to buy the presents you intend to give. 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