The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1901, Page 1

TURN Century Plant! 1 That New lLeaf on the VOLUME LXXXI_\'—I\_(). 32, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, BOXERS LINE UP TO FIGHT ustering of Chinese Forces Along the Railway Between Peking and Paotingfu. —_— Emperor Approves PO\\’GI‘S Ten Days 8= cor WA coorair Peking Gerer S A . m CLAIMED. Admit Exist China ennouncement ¢ Chinese ar ®Been received a King for they ACCEPTS CHINA At the < TEW A Vi KNR k LN AD_R MEN GRI HARM&WORTH Dzmands Declared I rdance with cceptance garded liplomacy. 2id that condi- It olved over- of the w but FLEEING PURSUED. One CHINES d Mun ions of War. #_Count ldersee date of pur- south- scat- great ing and Sinnan CHAFFEE'S CASUALTY LIST. & ds Names Heve Died. 3 Chaf- ws: Gene neral casualties ge WBell, Cooper. tho- N Radical Chang rid’s Made by the Londcn E ditor. patch to The Call s P: s s morning 4 n the new < B — ished for t y on by Alfr H PLANNIN THE R gorth, - propr e Lon D: afl, in a World woul friend. It @rug-store Bearly was hard ver the w: of the # = dry eve ir t he had he which some ings dearest to the rt of an Ameri- u mewspaper m Mr. Harmswt walked int menaging edl 4 o'clock gesterdey game his. In paper decepitated, cist aside the displ type, annihilated subliea cred the | @biguitous freak and put th depart- | ment out of commission practically. “Pictures are *but erowd out too much important news Ve will mot have any story to-night " than 20 words.” ¥ ¢ an hour later a cohort of editors fame J with glad light: in tnelr eyes. “OW, sir,” they excialmed in chorus, ‘tm-’! has been a murder over in Brook- n A woman shot her sweetheart. Good story back of it. human interest, feart throbs and pathetic circumstances.” “Splendid enterprise’’ was the enthusi- stic comment. “If it turns out very good gou can give it full limit space—250 words. Condensation is the password Iurl he coming newspaper. Bverything should presented in condensed form. People “s mot thme 10 read iong stories.”’ « prearrengement the World men all | ne down to the office in evening clothes. 2t Harmsworth never showed the slight- | 6t intention of changing bis. He onened‘ nis waistcoat and his necktie slipped up | pehind his ear. He had one lead pencil stuck bebind bl ear and ome in his hand. ’ | in VeneZuela is TO PRESIDENT McKINLEY Acres of Flowers Will Be Planted in Sante Clara County to Be Used in Decorations. SAN JOSE, Dec. 31.—Preparations for a floral honor of President McKin- ley’s visit to California in resent w invited to spend a & citizens here in the be May will com- | The President | in propose to > the ek d the give him of a flower car- equaled nowhere else A meeting of the executive | s been called for Friday lans for the event will then Clara County will with orchard blossoms he roses and other flowers ot will be at their best tation 1 by Professor Dalley of the 1 School, who is now in the East, cxecutive committee has been | that he woulé come to San Jose | if he possibly could B des the mass cf flowers that will be in bicom in May, the committee will see that acres and acres of sweet peas and marigolds are planted to be used for decorations. to - CONTROVERSY OVER T TTASPHALT IS GROWING | Venezuelan Gover—;l—lent Ignores Pro- tests Forwarded From Officials at Washington. CURACAO, Island of Curacao, Dec. 31, via Haytlan cable.—The diplomatic con- troversy over the rival asphalt interests approaching an acute stage. The Venesuelan Government ig- nores the protests of Washington against the semi-official conspiracy to deprive the New York and Bermudese Company il- legally of the Burmedese asphalt lake, Minister Loomis at Caracas Is striving for a peaceful settlement of the difficulty. of the| and an Armistice for Foreign Column Seized Aban-| n Jose | In| President MeKinley | ¥ JANUARY 1, WHAT WILL THE ANSWER BE? - 0 = ik / DON’T! 8 7 &Zuringc?ms Century Don’'t Be a Clam! all, 1901. l’RICE IrIVE CENTS. 1_17510 o & DELVING FOR DIAMIONDS IN \I‘*W MEX;CO In- | Recent Diccovery of the Precious Gems Causes Biz Rush. e Call “The recent diamonds in County 2 Vitdhns whible: ¢ mining men, and | flocking to that locality. of for monds was accident. J. J. Blow, of the Linderman Coal tones in an anthill of the ground, whers they ited by the large red in- convinced that the gems nd took them to a local | ler for examination. The jeweler de- | clared that the were of the first i ter and were aluable, rivaling in | beanty those from the South African | fielas. | ! had been ¢ He | were diamond | Jewe | sects w very Blow investigated where he found the j of twelve feet further at the spot wels, and at.a depth uncovered a bed of pre- cious stones, collecting twenty fromh the sand. The ne of the discovery created the greatest excitement in the small vil- lage of Capitan, causing many miners to quit their positions to prospect for dia- | monds, and when the report reached El | Paso it immediately started a rush of prospectors iv ‘he Capitan aistrict. diamonds have been forwarded to New | York to be tested by experts. GIACOPINIT’S COMET OBSEBVED AT LICK It Is a Faint Object and Its Distance From the Earth Is Constant- ly Increasing. LICK OBSERVATORY, Dec. 3L—The comet recently discovered by Giovanni | Giscopint at Nice, France, in the con- stellation of Thetis has been observed here the past week by Mr. Aitken. It is a faint object of the eleventh magnitude and therefore requires a telescope of con- siderable size to observe it. Mr. Altken has determined the path in which the comet is moving. Its perihelion passage, or time of nearest approach to the sun, occurred December 1, at a distance only 2 per cent smaller than the earth's dis- tance from the sun. The plane of its orbit makes an angle of 31 degrees with the elliptic, and intersects it in longitude 193 degrees. The present distance of the comet from the earth is some 80,000,000 miles and the distance is Increasing. The brightness is decreasing, 8o there {8 no chance that the object will be visible without a telescope. The | | | sell A. A |MILES ADVISED NOT TO REPLY TO GEN. ALGER| e hould ”e Do So the Com-| mandinz General May l.ose His Rank. St Sy clal Disnatch to The Call CALL , 195 G STREET, N W., W Dec. 31.—Secreta | Root advised Li General Nelson A. Miies not (o a articles of former r on the Miles-Eagan beef cdn- troversy. It is rumored—but the rumor is denied by high officials—that an intima- tion has been given to General Miles that any answer he may make ger will be construed as an attack on (he commi: v department, and will be fol- Towed proceedings which may in his relief from command of the army. Such ‘action will cause the reduction of General Miles to the rank of major gen- eral, as the law reviving the grade of lieu- tenant general declares especially that | the sentor major generni of the line com- manding the army shall have the rank, pay and allowances of a lieutenant gen- eral. * General Miles is not !n especially gocd standing with the War Departnient be- cause' of his antagonism to the artillery feature of the Root army bill—an antag- onism parficipated in by every depart- ment of the army except the adjutant general's department. titude on various questions that have aris- en, and it is freely stated in administration circles that, provided there is sufficient cause, the President will not hesitate to detach General Miles from duty as the commanding general and direct him to awalt orders. It is also pointed out that if General Miles disregards the advice of his supe- riors it will be possible for the depart- ment to suggest that in the pending army reorganization bill a provision be inserted repealing the law authorizing the revival of the grade of lieutenant general. It is learned that the article published is only a chapter in General Alger’s forthcoming book, and that it is only “the entering wedge for a sensational exposition of Gen- eral Miles' attitude on many important matters during the war with Spain. General Miles is anxious to make a statement regarding General Alger's atti- tude not only with respect to the beef con. troversy but also with regard to other matters of discussion beween them when General Alger was at the head of the War Department, but he is disinclined to go farther than he did this' morning until he can discuss in detail the statements made In the North Armierican Review ar- ticle. A close personai friend of General Alger stated to-day ihat he belleves the former Secretary of War has the com- manding general on the hip. to General Al- | resuit | Nor is he in favor with the administration, because of his at- | | | | |SIOUX CHIEF i | | ‘ | ‘ ‘ Bangor and Sherborne. v dld some amage to the railway. The column un- ral Colville reported himself at the der Willlams will be in touch with this | War Office to-day body to-da General Wood, adjutant “The force which entered the c ¢y to | general, mere a subord te to v assed 8 C Carnarvon | meet the general the vi\esv Dv‘ <t« the n.xul hl'm:( u:' x:’\ ral R ey i i vesterda¥y gELVETIA POST SURPRISED. mornin; They were going south | were closely followed by Thorneyc Kitchener’s Version of the Disaster o TWO STRIKE'S LIFE CLOSING LT SN, Implacable Foe of White Man and Pawnes Is Dying. et ch to The Call STREET, N 'wo Strik Sioux.Indians a white man and 8. Informaticn Special Di 1406 G CALL BUREAU, W., WASHIN the implacable foe of noted chief of t | t the Bureau of In-| dian Affairs that the old warrior is Iylngi at the point of death at Pine Ridge | agency It is said at the Indian Bureau that Two | Strike never pretended to be reconciled to the supremacy of (he white man, and never modified his intense hatred for efth- r the whit or the Pawnees, lhe‘ hereditary enemies of the Sioux among | Indian tribes. He participated in the Wounded Knee uprising agalnst the whites about ten yvears ago, and he had the distinction of leading the Sloux In their campaign against the Pawnees In 1574, when there occurred the last battle on the American continent between two hostile tribes of Indians. MORE THAN FORTY-SIX TONS OF GOLD ASSAYED Record of the Last Year's Work in the Government Office at Seattle. SEATTLE, Dec. 31.—At the close of | business hours for the nineteenth century and the year 1900 this afternoon Assayer Fred A. Wing of the United States assay office at Seattle said that In the past twelve months his receipts at the office havs been forty-six and one-eighth tons of gold and silver. The total quantity of gold for the year was 1,345,123.41 troy ounces, with an assay value of $22,088,.- 755 12, and it represented the individual deposits of T108 persons. More than $16,- 900,000 came from the Klondike and the re- mainder from other parts of Alaska, Brit- ish Columbia, Washington and other States. The highest mark was reached in July last, when more than fourteen tons of the yellow metal was deposited in the assay office In twenty-six working days. Nome's output was $3,723,272 14. POPE CELEBRATES MIDNIGHT MASS His Holiness Ushe's in the New Century in His Private . ROME, Jan. 1—The Pope celebrated midnight mass in his private chapel. Car- dinal Rampolla, Papal Secretary of State, celebrated at St. Peter's Cathedral, where there was a huge md in spite of the rain. i Meanwhile Kruger | which entered the colony to the east broke | away th south of Carnarvon in the we: INVASION OF CAPE COLONY CAUSES ALARM Loyalists Are Appealed To in the At- tempt to Resist the Advanc- ing Boers. o ‘mportunes Powers of Europe to Stop the South African War. — . ONDON, Jan. 1.—The Boer: now reached a point half tween the Orazze Ri east have | necessary way be- | the sion prom upon y. and and Cape | sval inhabitants Town; and, in spite of | to aia the rv in this duty by the of the Lon p < | formation of a cclonfal force for the so ment anrouncement at ( Town shows | and exclusive purpose of ling inva how seric the ins on, guar nes of communication and there. The only thing that maintaining order in the disturbed dis- the British public is the loss triets. Vclunteers should 1 with th daval gun. The Times to-d civil comm s in thelr respec draws attention to what might prove a | tric They will be paid 5 shillings serious danger, namely, the possibility of | gay with rations, forage, arm another outbreak of enteric fever among ' horees. The term of serviee is not ex the soldiers worn down the hardships and privations of a prolonged and exeit- ing campaien. It is now ascertained that the Boers who trekked westward from Vryburg and who were supposed to be going to Da- for the Prieska by ed i exceed three months. This notles especially applies to the districts named in it assist. Eniist- it, but other districts m: ing will begin Thursday.” It is estimated that no fewer than 1500 ape Dutch have joined the invaders, who e penetrated further south than ever. TRAPPED BY BOGUS TELEGRAM. Boer Strategy Caused the Undoing of General Colville. LONDON, Dee. 31.—Since his arrival in London. Major Gemeral Sir Henry Col- ville has received information tending to show that Lieutenant Colonel Spragge A aispatch from Cradock say: “The Boers burned empty goods train near Ros- mead Junction. The authorities at Ros- mead have sent the women and children away to Cradock. It is reported that a commando has crossed the line and is making toward Middleburg.” Mr. Kruger is again importuning Queen e correspondent of | actually received a forged telegram, he Hague, to write | POTting to be signed by General Colville r,.re(.,“] letters to Emperor N dated Lindley, May 23, saying President Loubet and Emperor \\nndm “I am badly in want of mounted troops. with a view to stopping the war. It is A Come here at once.” reported that the Queen is not unwilling, The above telegram was sent off three but The Netherlands Ministry is divided. | days before General Colville reached o Lindley a the -ause of Lieutenant | BOERS DAMAGE A RAILWAY. Colonel Spragge hastening there . One of the principal charges against Kitchener’s Troops Worrled by Bapid | General Colville is that, atter appea Tactics of the Republicans. LONDON, Dec. 31.—Lord ner in a dispatch to the War Office dated De- cember 31 says “A small portibn of the enemy’'s to the Yeomanry them to their fate. “I never heard of this telegram,” General Colville, “until now. But it plains the mystery of my alleged mess to Colonel Spragge. It was k one was tampe for help, he aban says force ywn at the ing terest in a southwestern and rall roszed the and Delisle. to the British Troops “Very few recruits from the colony Dee. oined the enemy. Hertog's men are al- ing from Pretoria. ready dropping their worn horses.” mber 30, says: SR The post at Hely tia was surprised READY TO REPEL INVASION. at 2:3) a. m., the enemy first rushing a h gun. At dawn the officer - Cape Government Calls Upon Loyal- jing the past tskopje sent ists to Lend Aid. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 31.—The Cape Gov- ernment has called upon the Loyalists in twenty-seven districts, including trol and d the enemy out of H making them the gun temporarily. The Boers, however, formed prisoners ar: etia, abandor our Town, to assist the military to repel in- | away eventual vasion by the formation of a paid force. 1 g In a preamble to the call the Govern- | casualties were four ment announces the situation as follows: | eleven n killed and “Owing to the fact that the armed | wounded. A column wa forces of the ememy have penetrated | Machadorp, but, and south | it failed to arri (o @ ettt ® LENTZ MAKES OPEN CHARGES OF BRIBERY Contests Tompkins’ Right to a Seat and Attacks the Administration. lican leaders connected with the national administration at Washington feared the effect of my exposures of the meaning of COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 31.—Congress- man Lentz to-day served formal notice on Congressman-elect Tompkins that he | would contest the latter's seat in the|the Eagan pardon by President McKin- House on charges of eholesale bribery |ley; my exposure of President McKinley's and fraud in the county. misrepresentations as to the conditions of In his notice of contest addressed to |the Philippines; of President McKinley's Tompkins, Lentz says: | use of the United States army to intimi- “T claim and shall prove that your al- | date and destroy union labor in the Coeur leged plurality of 18 votes was ob-|d’Alene district of Idaho and President tained by bribery, debauchery and corrup- | McKinley's appointment of Orson Smith tion of voters; seducing certain students|and J. C. Graham, polygamist Postmas- in various educational institutions in the | ters at Logan and Prove City, Utah, and district to remain here and vote for you | my criticism of Presideat McKinley's rati- without having any legal right to \-me“ fication of the treaty permitting slaver in this district; by inducing many of the | and polygamy in the Sulu Islands, a part employes connected with the . various | ofthe Philippine archipelago; and my ex- State Institutions located in this city to| posure of President McKinley's appoint- remain here and vote for you, although | ment of Rufus W. Lane as Consul to their voting residence was in some other | Smyrna immediately following and in con- district in the State; by importing and | sideration of ‘his voting for Marcus A. colonizing voters in this district for the | Hanna for United States Senator, al- purpose of having them vote in your be- | though said Rufus Lane was elected to half and against myself. | the Legislature of Ohio on the Demoeratic “In your alleged plurality of 18 votes | ticket: also on account of my exp out of a total of 51,392 votes cast in the | sure of President McKinley's treatme district, you are the beneficiary of the | Of Secretary of State John Sherman.” methods and proceedings aforesaid, | alleges that Willlam Burns, ass well as the beneficlary of manifest errors | chief of the United States secret service, in the count and return of votes, and div- | Participated in the bribery and debauch- ers and sundry illegalities and irregulari- | T ©of voters in a scheme to elect Tomp- tes. | kins, and that he was assisted by va- Mr. Lentz then sets forth in detail the | FI0US Other agents of the Federal Govern- ific grounds of contest, alleging that a | Nt | Specific instances of brrbery are alleged, systematic plan of campaign was project- | ed by the Republican leaders connected with the administration at Washington | and “that a large corruption fund,| amounting to many thousands of dollars, | o e SO e was procured by men residing beyond the | boundary of this district and sent into| Date of Wilhelmina's this district with the determination to se-| TEE HAGUE, Dec. 31._The as but the names of the persons alleged to have received the bribes are not given. There are in all twenty-nine specifiea- tions, alleging bribery, illegal voting and other irregularities. i of Queen ina to of cure your election and entompass my de- | \ecklenburg-Schwerin has be b feat by bflurym certain Repub- ! fixed for February 7, 1901 gt e