The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1901, Page 1

Call, "VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 73 SAN FRANCISCO, ULTIMATUM GIVEN KEEPERS OF JOINTS Citizens of Topeka Decide That All. Saloons Must Go, and There May Be Bloodshed. —b / | MRS. NATION REPLIES TO GIBBONS. DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 10.—Replying to Cardinal Gibbons, Mrs. Nation said to-day: “I bave no patience to discuss the declaration nal Gibbons made that moderate and occasional use of liquors is not to be condemned and is not immoral. He g & message of the devil. It came straight from hell d how 2 man pretending to be a minister and moral teacher can himself to utter such shameful sentiments I cannot under- I will not try to answer it only to say that the results of lerate drinking, shich almost always leads to some kind of ex- by every one, and certainly which Ca oholic speatl , are seen on eve'y side and know Gibbons cennot be an excepti rational, and I hardly think rance it.” GOVERNOR'S SON IS CANDID. Condemns Father’s Inaction and Commends Mrs. Nation's Course. .Kans., Feb. 10.—Ta yester- 1 of the Orange, the officia yaper of Baker University, Harry Stanley, t ernor Staniey and editor of the condemns his fathe prohibitory matters, and Mrs ue > as e mends the course He says in part: allo: olation of law t has been as done, almost u se who have sw »hold the cor age to do what ot violati 1 to dc ocal ¢ hs of office Mrs. air fai live sorry thai he had to be ght to have the wing laws to be violated, nk he ¢ am T d | in favor ¢ all f it will make vote Star s taker 1 Wichita =nd has interest in his - NATION MR. May Again Go After His Wife With a Horsewhip. Kans., Feb. 10. the saloon WICHITA Carrie Nz When Mrs. smasher, re- turns to her home at Medicine Lodge next ek not meet with a pleasant reception from her husband if he rema in ¥ t state of mind. To- she w is prese » some good,” he said approve of her going all over the East and aking a show of h as people the to make fun of her. I think ing to the world that she is her nerve, instead of telling them hed If she starts to raise any row in d other wns T hope they will il and make her suffer for it t and spent several hundred llars while she was fight- property to | | NOW OBJECTS. | | | were no new developments in the case in FLICTED MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. KELLER TAY RECOVER FROM WOUND IN BY BARKER Hysteria of the Assailant’'s Wife Probably Caused Her Confession and the Shooting of the New Jersey Minister. EWARK, N. J, Feb. 10.—Rev. John Keller, who was shot and badly wounded in Arlington a week ago by Thomas G. Barker, had a comfortable night, and | though there was no pronounced change in his condition to-day he was resting well, and there were indications of con- valescence. Dr. Exton, in charge of the case, is much annoyed by frequent state- ments that Mr. Keller is dying. There - | i i | J Mrs. Barker is still the home of Arlington to-day. living in strict seclusion in Miss Germond, on Laurel avenue, refus- ing to see or talk with interviewers, and being vis by an occaslonal inti- mate friend. In some quarters the opinion pressed that Mrs no resistance to the minister, and that her confession was made to her husbanad G d only is ex- | her sleep about the wrong Dr. Keller had done hér. The husband next inorning de- manded an explanation, and Mrs. Barker told him that the minister attacked her | while she was in a fainting condition. | quit attending Mr. Keller's church. People have | hs comtbions o in Wichita, but when she goes ! g r sphere 1 il have nothingy An not the . . : ’ with her should she get into connection it is well to note that ars ago David Natlon was run ;2 Columbia, Texas, for horsewhip- addresses, S0k ex. At . woman. Perhaps he will | to please him. made an address sl He & enforced if the | HATCHET PIN THE EMBLEM. Law and Order League Organized at Kansas City. “ITY, Feb. 10.—The Law and - has been organized here as »f the visit of Mrs. Nation. The ed in its by- see that “The laws of Kansas saloons and gambling are en- protection of homes and the general welfare of ect of the leag is te as st « . e o DENOUNCE SMASHER'S METHOD. et pin will be the emblem of the Women of Denver Who Differ From — - Mrs. Nation. Lecture Declared Off. X oo olorado women be- | CHICAGO, Fet The lecture of Mrs. | . - ance of thelr sex and | Nation advertise e given at the Audi- 2 e o de- ght under the aus- torium on n's methods of twenty leading not of | Here are ess Club has been Believing from the result of two days’ seat = less than $12, that the lecture would be {a financial fallure, the directors of the e of the Gov- | club decided to abandon the projec the lttle T haye | Nation says she will come r methods seem | Devertheless. fewed, ng. one to Chicago, - Rev. C. M. Sheldon’s Views. TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. 10.—The Rev. C, M. Sheldon, author of “In His Steps, preached a sermon to-Guy tn which he dis- agreed with the methods about to be un- dertaken by the citizens of Tpoeka to rid the town of joints. Rev. Sheldon said the responsibility should be laid on the individual and that the officers should be forced to do their duty. nsidered. M Patterson, wife of -elect: I think ch reason in the met as in lynching. Both »n against a stri aw and both, though intrinsical- almost justifi T am devoted to cause, but such methods s seem to me to be some- United there is ju w ENTS ARE VERY INSURG! | ACTIVE IN COLOMBIA Rebels Pressing On to Colon in Spite of Opposition by Government Troops. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 10.—Advices | to-aay from Colon, Colombia, show that e emperance Nation extreme <. James 1. Whitmore, president of | there is a continuance of insurgent actiy- the Women's “ suspect that no one | ity in many quarters. Last week there akes M Nation very seriously, and 1| was severe fighting petween the Govern- 2m quite sure that she will not accomplish | ment troops and the rebels near Panama, mt good by her performances. 1am in-|and the latter were then pressing toward terested in the temperance cause, but I, Panama and Colon in spite of the Gov- der her methods are rather more sen- | ernment reinforcements. com . Mrs. | which aggregated | | able proportions. Since the tragedy every one in Arling- ton has been recalling incidents that hap- pened about the time that Mrs. Barker sip has even recalled the suicide several years ago of a prominent resident of Ar- lington whose wife had been conspicuous in Mr. Keller's church. Even those who are friendly to Barker, however, pro- nounce any attempt to connect the min- TRANSPORT RAWLINS ON CORAL REEF GoesAground Near the Wreckof Collier[ler= rimac, but [lay Escape. SANTTAGO DE CUBA, Feb. 10. — The United States transport Rawlins went aground this morning on a coral reef near the wreck of the United States coi- lier Merrimac. She arrived at daybrea intending to embark the troops of the Tenth TUnited States Infantrv for New York to-de The pilot attempted to pass on the wrong side of the Merrimae. and struck the hidden reef hard. Three power- ful tugs pulied unsuccessfully all the afternoon in an attempt to float the ship. | 1t will probably be necessary to rig elab- orate tackle before she ean be got off. ‘| She is in no danger, and the likelihood is that she is not iniured. DRESSMAKING STRIKE IN PARIS IS SERIOUS Speaker Suggests That Houses of Re- calcitrants Be Burned With Petroleum. PARIS, Feb. 10.—The strike in the Paris dressmaking trade has assumed formid- About sixteen firms are such well-known involved, including | houses as Worth, Redfern, Pauquin, Dou- cet, La Ferrfere, D'Oelilt and Raudnitz. This afternoon the strikers held a meet- ing. Numerous seamstresses, whom the tailors are urging to strike en ma:se, were present. The speakers, among them Louise Michel, urged the men to hold out. The orator suggested burning the work- shops of recalcitrant firms with petrol- | eum, but this proposal met with a cold l reception. The meeting decided to demand an eight-hour day and six francs for women. The employers were given until to-morrow to reply. 1f they do not yield a general strike will be declared. Sultan Expresses Satisfaction. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 10.—United States Charge d'Affaires Griscom had a arewell audience with the Sultan last Friday. His Majesty expressed satisfac- tion at seeing that friendly relations be- tween Turkey and the United States were now assured. Mr. Grigcom has obtained an exequatur for Mr. Harris,United States Consul at Tripoli, Syria. Barker in fact offered | after he had heard her mumbling in | Gos- | | ister in any way with this sulcide most unwarranted and cruel. One explanation of Mrs. Barker's leav- Ing the church was told by a woman who was formerly assoclated with her in par- | ish organization work. It was that a | vear and a half ago the Bethany Chap- ter of the Women's Auxiliary propo: | giving a purse to Mr. Keller before went on his summer vacation. ker stoutly opposed this gift. Despite her opposition, Powever, the money was ralsed and presented io the rector. Mra. Barker, thus defeated, left the church. Mr. Keller corroborated this version of he the affair. To a close friend he said that Mrs. Barker left the church at the time of the purse incident, but that her troubles in the church had begun at least six months previously from some cause which nobody under- stood. | Another member of the |of an occurrence in | about the time that Mrs. began. During parish told the church Barker's disa- ser one | greement BLOCKADE OF ICE AT NEW YORK Severe Weather Ham= pers Traffic in the North and East Rivers. P NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The ice blockade | in the North and East rivers and in the harbor still continues, but in a less severe degree. The lce was thickly packed on | the New York side of the North River |and on the Brooklyn, side of the East River, driven by a strong wind. There was very little travel 6n the East River | ferryboats because travelers preferred to take chances across the bridge. North River ferries all made slow time. The boats of the South Ferry and Hamilton- avenue lines had the greatest difficulty in making their slips. on the Brooklyn side. The Staten Island boats ran on schedule time, On account of the ice which s solidly packed in the slip at the foot of Morton street, North River, the French liner La Champagne, which reached quarantine this evening, was compelled to anchor there for the night. MOTOR CAR CRASHES INTO SLEIGHING PARTY Dance in Ohio Are Szriously Injured. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 10.—At 3:% o’clock this morning a motor car crashed into a sleighing party of twenty-two per- sons. Eleven were more or less injur:l, but none fatally. The party had been to a dance in the country. The motor car, which was running at a high rate of speed, struck the sleigh in the middle. Several saw the car in time to jump and escaped injury. The injured: May, Marion and John Early; Christian and Thomas Kelly, Al- bert H ins, P. J. and M. McGuire, C. J. Dorsey, P. R. Hickev and Willlam A. Nunn. % S A Deadlock at Havana. HAVANA, Feb. 10.—The Cuban consti- tutional convention completed its work last night with the exception of settling the deadlock on the question of accepting the clause that would make General Max- imo Gomez eligible to the Presidency of the Republic. This matter will come up again to-morrow. It is thought that a compromise will be reached, but the fight is very bitter. Mrs. Bar- | Eleven Persons Returning From al | | | <+ P THE WOUNDED MINISTER, THE MAN Y7HO SHOT HIM AND HIS WIFE. | o B3 day she got up and started to.leave the edifice. Mr. Sands, thinking she was ill, stepped from his pew and went to her. | She threw herself against him, and then | went-down the aisle screaming and strug- gling as if in a fit. This is further cited as tending to show the man’s inclina- | | tion toward hysterical temperament. Adherents of the minister contend that the woman must have been laboring un- der a delusion. The theory is advanced that perhaps some fancied imprudence cr misconstrued act of the minister long | ago took form in her mind, which, as her illness increased, grew in magnitude until she imagined what she told to her husband. INSURGENT GOVERNOR CAPTURED Thirty Filipinos In- cluding Officers Are Also Taken Pris- oners. MANILA, Feb. 10.—A company of the Forty-sevnth United States Volunteer In- fantry operating in the island of Catan- duanes, off the southeast coast o. Luzon, captured Bustosas, the insurgent governor of the island. The United States gunboat Don Juan de Austria, co-operating with a detachment of the Forty-seventh Infantry, captured thirty insurgents, including a colomel and two majors, in the province of Ibany, Luzon. Evidence is accumulating against the in- criminated Manila traders who were charged with alding the insurgents. The attendance at the second evangel- ical meeting in the Tondo ward of Manila to-day was somewhat larger than the one several days ago. There were not many Catholics present, and Senor Buencamino said the priests had directed them not to attend. An affirmative expression was taken of the views of the meeting on the desirabil- ity of establishing an evangelical church, and Senor Buencamino has given the Rev. James B. Rodgers, missionary of the | Presbyterian Board of Misr‘nos, charge of | the effort. He is disposed to leave the Federal party ‘n order to prove that he is not mixing political with religious re- forms. The Methodist missionaries were not present at the meeting, having gone to at- tend the Methodist conference at Singa- pore. Duke of York Visits King. LONDON, Feb. 11.—King Edward and Queen Alexandra visited the Duke of Cornwall and York Saturday afternoon, and the Duke returned the visit at Mar! borough House, where their Majesties will remain until the opening of Parliament. King Charles of Portugal dined with their Majesties last evening. No Decision as to Connaught. the report that the Duke of Connaugh will be appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in India, it isascertained in official quarters that nothing definite LONDON, Feb. 10.—With reference tql BOERS DESPERATELY ATTACK THE BRITISH Fierce Fighting Renewed in South Africa and Casualties Heavy on Both Sides. i guese alliance is pending, I am fighting columns.” spondent of the Daily Mail, “and England will request Portugal to land Portuguese troops to guard certain points in South Africa in order to enable the British employed at those points to join the e BRITAIN SEEKS AID FROM PORTUGAL. LONDON, Feb. 11.—“A solemn reaffirmation of the Anglo-Portu- informed,” says the Lisbon corre- | T LONDON, Feb. 11.—The War Office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener, the commander-in-chief in | South Africa: “PRETORIA, Feb.9.—The columns work- with slight opposition. A large force of | Boers, estimated at 7000, under | with families passed through Ermelo on | the way. to Amsterdam, and a very large | quantity of stock is being driven east. “A_peace delegate under sentence of | death and other Boer prisoners were |'taken away by the Boers. All the reports f.show that the Boers are exceedingly bit- ter. Fifty Boers surrendered. | “Louis Botha, with 2000 men, attacked | General Smith-Dorrien at Orange Camp {at 3 a. m. February 6. He was repulséd | after severe fighting. | killed; General Randemeyer was severely { wounded and two cornets were killed. Twenty of the Boer dead were left in our | hands and many severely wbunded. Our | casualties were twenty-four killed agd fifty-three wounded, “Our movement to the east is reported to have thoroughly upset all the enemy’s | caleulations and created a panic in the | dtstrict. | =Christian Dewet appears to be crossing | the line south of Jaegerfontein road to | the wesf this morning, having failed to ef- occupied by Colonel de Lisle, who entered | February 6, the enemy retiring.” FIGHTS DEWET'S FORCE. | Major Crewe's Column Has Lively Battle With the Boers. EAST LONDON, Cape Colony, Feb. 10.— | Details have been received here of severe fighting at Tabaksberg Mountain, forty miles east of the railway, about midwa | between Smalldeel and Bloemfontein. Ma- | jor Crewe, with a composite column trav- | eling southwest. sighted the mountain en | the morning of Janudry 31. He heard heavy firing, and knowing that Colonel Pitcher's column was on the other side | of the mountain he concluded that this officer was in action. Consequently he hurried forward, only to meet the Boers streaming down and evidently retiring from Colone! Pitcher’s lyddite shells. Tm- | teen-pounders and a pompom to bear on be so numerous, that it was impossible to head them off. Orders were given to re- turn to camp, about two miles from the | mountain. The column rested until | o’clock in the afternoon, when the march | was resumed southwest. Just Major Crewe was touching of Boers in ambuscade on the mountain. The fight soon became general, the Boers attacking the British on both flanks and | the rear. The British pompom jammed | and became useless. Major Crewe | grasped the situation and by & brilliant | move got the cenvoy Into a safe position. Between 7 and § In the evening the Boers | charged the position and turned both | flanks. The British ammunition became | exhausted and Major Crewe was obliged to retire and abandon the pompom after the advance party had endeavored to save | it and had sustained severe losses. A rear-guard action was fought by Ma jor Crewe into the camp where the wagon had been laagered. Intrenchments we thrown up during the night. When morn- | ing came Major Crewe started to join Gen- | eral Knox, twelve miles to the southwest. | The Boers immediately reattacked him, | compelling him to fight a second rear- | guar. action for a few miles. General De- wet personally commanded the Boers. es- timated at 2500. Major, Crewe's force was only 700. Eventually the British officer joined General Knox and returned to French Troops SHANGHALI, Feb. 10.—It is reported here | that the Empress Dowager, ylelding to | foreign pressure, has allowed Emperor i Kwang Su to assume the reins of govern- ment. A dispatch from Peking asserts that all the fortified passes beyond the.territory held by the allles are being garrisoned by the Chinese, and that Boxers are entering Peking secretly. PEKING, Feb. 10.—Count von Walder- see is very much dissatisfled with the con- duct of the Frerch troops near Paotingfu, and also with their avowed intention, in spite of his protests against it, to orga- nize an expedition to take possession of the province of Shansi. He takes the ground that expeditions, except for police purposes or against bands of robbers, should not be undertaken during peace negotiations. General Ballloud, the French command- er at Paotingfu, says that he Is acting In ing eastward occupied Ermelo February 6 | Louls | 5‘ Botha, retired eastward. About 80 wagons | General Spruit was | fect a crossing by the drifts east of | Bethulie. | “In Cape Colony Calvania has been | mediately Major Crewe brought three fif- | | the Boers, who, however, were found to | 4] the | southern point of the mountain when a | terrific rifie fire opened from a large force | S—-- | Bloemfontein. Lord Kitchener has highly | complimented XMajor Crewe on the : achievement. | —_— REVIEW OF VOLUNTEERS. Milner Tells WhyWTmops Are Needed to Guard Cape Town. | CAPE TOWN, Feb. Alfred Milner | 10.—Yesterday Sir reviewed 7000 men of the ! new volunteer force and made 4 spirited ! address to the officers. He expressed his gratification at the loy =ponse the col ony had made to the call, emphasized tha great value of mounted men and compli- mented the officers and all concerned upon | the “excellent work already done in stem- ming the Boer Invasion.” “It has been sald that the enemy would never come to Cape To . but any one who, in the face of events of the 1 few months, will say a thing is impossible be- cause it seems imorobable, Is too silly to be argued with I am aware that T risk being called an alarmist, ut 1t is better to be called an alarmist than to run any | risk | “There was a time when it was regarded as impossible for the Boers to penetrate the extreme west and south of Cape. Col- | ony, but they have reached ene and are | within a few miles of the other. There- fore It 1s necessary to take every precau- tion. Most men prefer to be called alarm- ists and to safeguard their property. That is better than to be called a fine plucky fellow and to lose your property.” - PURSUIT OF DEWET. Seven British Columns Unable to | Capture the Boer Chief. LONDON, Feb. 11.—-The Cape Town correspondent of the Times wiring yes- terday, and giving a gemeral outline of the British offensive operations, “The British force directe Christfan Dewet's fo included | columns under Knox. Hamilton, Maxwell | White, Pilcher and Crewe. They hoped to force Dewet upon the British corps | concentrated on Orange River. The Boers under cover of a ched comm > swung westward and captured a ‘pom- pom’ from Major Crewe, and by crossing the railway between Springfontein and ‘Endenburg evaded the British concentra- | tion “Dewet is now probably in the Philop- polis district, and this probabl for the rthwest Boers in Cape Colony. “The latest proclamation Dewet and Steyn closes thus: ‘T shall now enter Cape Colony to give the farm- ers there a taste of what we have our- selves suffered through this war. —- | NO PEACE COMMISSSION. say against seven s accounts rement of the issued by LONDON, Feb. 10.—Lord Raglan, Under Secretary of State for War, informed a correspondent to-day that General Sir | Evelyn Wood is not going to South Africa | and that no peace comm on is contem- | plated. | " “The reort as to a peace commisston is false from beginning to end,” he sald | “t ae policy of the Government is the very | opposite of what would prompt such a | step. Troops. not peace comm . are going to South Africa.” It is also understood that Sir Evelyn Wood Is less likely than any other high officer to be chosen for important special duties, as he is now so deaf that his re- tirement is only a question of & short | time. | ety EVENTS PREDICTED. Feb. 10.—The Monde. violently attacking the of the Portuguese vernment for violating the neutrality laws by allowing the British to land troops on Portuguese territory in South Africa, says: “Such a course on the part of the coun- try invites certain disaster. It Is easy to | perceive symptoms of grave events in the near future.” polic: R ST E O SRR R oo CHINA’S ETMPEROR ASSUMES . THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT Count Von Waldersee Dissatisfied With Conduct of Near Paotingfu. | be to nip th inciplent rebellion in the bud immediately. Me asserts that he was at- tacked on three sides by a number of Chi- nese while out with a few men near Pao- | tingfu, and his theory s that the power | o€ the foreigners should be shown, If pos- | sible, wherever an occasion arises. | A staff officer of Von Waldersee who in- vestigated the Paotingfu affalr could find |no evidence of such trouble as | had been reported. On the contrary. he | believes there are grounds for supposing | quite the opposite, although probably | there, as elsewhere, considerable numbers of dangerous robbers Infest the country distriets. Li Hung Chang asserts that the Em- | press Dowager and Emperor Kwang Su | never had more harmontous relations than they have now, and that the former | quite agrees to the mecessity for modern | reorms. He has telegeaphed to the court | his refusal to agree to sentences of.exe- has vet been decided as to his future mili- | entire independence, of Count von Wal- | cution “fraught with extreme danger and tary status. dersee, and belleves the wisest course to threatening the dymasty jtself.”