The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1901, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO ¢ JALL, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1901. BAIL DISKSTERS WEST OF OGDE Head-On Collision Occurs on the Southern Pacific Railroad. While the Track Is Being Cleared a Special Orange Train Crashes Into the Wrecking Outfit. EVANSTON, Wyo., April 15.—A head-on collision occurred at Balfour, on the Southern Pacific, about fifty miles west of Ogden, yesterday morning. The wreck was about all cleared away wnen a spe- cial train of oranges came down the grade, crashing into the wrecking outfit. The road is blocked, and it will be twen- ty-four hours before trains can reach Og- den. But meagre reports are obtainable from raflroad officials, and it is not known | whether there was any loss of life or not. | IRE THREATENS PLEASURE BOAT Three Hundred Excursion- ists in Peril on Water Near Tacoma. ®pecial Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, April 14.—When the big steamship Duke of Fife, from Yokohama, | was coming into port this afternoon the | ekipper, Captain Cox, noticed smoke aris- | ing from the stern-wheel steamer Dalton, | on which were 300 excursionists. Flame: were issuing from the deck over the bnilerJ room and were spreading rapidly toward’ the hurricane deck, where the passengers.| were huddied togsther, fearful that an explosion might hurl the vessel into frag. ments at any moment. Captain Thomas shouted to the affright- | ed crowd from the bridge, and with the assistance of the crew restored COmpos- ure. Several women fainted, but no per- sons were injured. The Duke of Fife steamed alongside the burning vessel, and the crew pr any assist necessary - blaze was soon ex- tinguished, , and the liner pro- | ceeded to her dotk. | The Duke of Fife was sixteen days out | from Yokohar and brought no a__ large_ Oriental Kobe March 2, The following | an open_fishing boat nd found a party . 'who had been | water or food other | stain Cox took the un- men on board the Duke, where made comfortable, and their taken in' tow | LOCKOUT TO OCCUR WHICH WILL INVOLVE CARPENTERS | MIN boat wa POLIS, April 14.—A Jockout to-morrow, involving 503 | id other workers. | s Council and the | Association are the | chief factors four co, tractors are involved. The trouble caused er the refusal of the master build. ‘ to agree to the working rules of the nters union. i | [ | Francisco announces that Joseph A. ' St. Louis Fair sociation and judge at the Fair Grounds | oot SIS JUDGE MURPEY HANDS IN HIS RESIGNATION ST. LOUIS, 3 San Murphy, secretary of ih A April 14—A telegram from and Delmar tracks nere, has resigned | both positions, s 11 not be connected | with cither t any capacity. | President Ti Bi. Louls Fair | Association sai from him early in the w the right to name th saying that he th 3 permiiied to name the not feel justified in conceding those priv- ileges, s0 notified him. While w to lose him, we did not think it ri should ask such exteasive authori have not yet determined wkat action we | will take in the matter.” ! oot Y | Entries for Narragansett. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Awril 14.—Secre- | tary Dexter announces the entries for the | early closing stakes of the Narragansett Park grand circuit meeting August 26-30, | which closes with the record list of en- tries for the circuit. The total number of nominations to the six stakes was 184, | which is a record. The Park Brew 2:10 | pace, stake $10,000, has thirty-one nomina- | tiong.. The Roger Williams . 2:14_ .trot, stake $10,000, has twenty-eight nomina- tione. All of the stakes are filled and are as folio 2:14 trot, stake $10,000, 28 momimations; -2:20 a letter received e qid | trot, stake $2000, 3¢ nominations; 2:30 trot, stake $2000, 33 nominations; 2:10 pace, stake hominations; 2:14 pace, stake $2000, jons; pace, $2000, 35 nominations. el July Date Acceptable. LONDON, April 14—It was pointed ont | here yesterday, as bearing on the date of the forthcoming series of track games be- | tween Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cam- bridge teams in New York, that the En- glish athletes have never absolutely ex- cluded the idea of a meeting in Juiy; as | seems to be the impression in certain at letic circles in the Uniied States. The of- ficial communication sent by C. M. Jack- son, treasurer of the Oxford Athletic Club, to the challegne dfstinctly said | although July 15 was impossible, it | possible, though difficult, that | ontests might be held at the end | Examining Government Lands. LOS ANGELES, April 14.—United States Examiner of Surveys W. O. Owen California. Governme: d by contract. y examined and reported upon | cannot be approved and’ opentd to :?e«- tlement. Owen has just completed the examination of the surveys in the Grand Canyon district of Arizona. He has wor planned that will take him all over Cal- ifornia and will occupy him for a period of six months. —_— Russian Easter Promotions. ST. PETERSBURG, April 14—The lst of Russian Easter promotions and decora- tions includes Count Lamsdorff, the For- eign Minister, and his assistant, Prince Obolenski: Count von der Osten-Sacken, Russian Embassador to Germany; M. de gx‘m‘. E'((usslén )‘flnlat&er to China; M. "Isolysky, Russian Minister to Japan, 2nd obhers, e - Jesuit Convent Fired. MADRID, April 14—Dispatches from Lisbon announce that an attempt was made to destroy by fire the Jesuit convent at Aviero, Portugal, but the flames were extinguished by the police. The incen- diaries have not been discovered. LT Italisns Leave France. TOULON, April 14—The Italian squad- ron, commanded by the Duke of Genoa, which participated in the Franco-Italian festivities here jast week, safled from Toulon this morning. —_——— Coursing in Sacramento. SACRAMENTO. April 14—In to-day’s coursing Sacramento Boy Dixon Boy ™\ second and Buxton third. it was the best day’s coursing of the season. X | brother of Mark Twain. { will deliver fruit in the Twin. Cities the | | heit, a change of onl | across the Pacific to the ports of China WEALTH TRACES HIM TO SHASTA Aged John Baronet Now Said to Have Located Near Redding. Draft of a Thousand Pounds Sent to Tacoma Is Still Awaiting the Missing Miner There. PR T TACOMA, April 14—John D. Baronet, the miner, 72 years old, who has a fortune of $200,000 at his command in England, is | | believed to be at Redding, Cal., where he | | went six weeks ago. On reading about | the search for Baronet, William J. Sey- | mour of Tacoma came to the conclusion that the missing man was his friend of | thirty years' standing, whom he assisted | in sending to California last month. Sey- | mour says that Baronet was very poor and had to be given assistance to reach California. He went there to secure work in a mine which is superintended by a man named Clemens. who is said to be a It seems peculiar that Baronet should leave without uotifying E. G. Sperry of | Seattle of his whereabouts, since he had given the latter authority to get his mail. Sperry’s object in seeking Baronet is to deliver to him numerous letters, including a draft for £1900, which ‘'was sent him for traveling expenses to England to secure the fortune left him by a brother who was killed in the Boer war. Seymour has known Baronet for thirty years. The latter served in the First Tex- as Cavalry during the civil war. From 1867 to 1876 he and Seymour served togeth- | er in the United States cavalry, under Custer. Later Baronet engaged in mining in Montana, going three years ago to Nome, where he was wrecked and lost everything. GREAT NORTHERN WILL HANDLE MORE FRUIT Fast Coast Steamers May Be Put On if California Roads Raise the Rates. SPOKANE, Wash, Avpril 14.—The Great Northern Railrogd will continue to handls | hipments of California oranges East over its road. If the California roads in- sist on charging full lscal rates on the to the wharves, teamers may be | put on to rush the fruit to Seattle and the | railroad will make even Leiter time than on trial shipments ‘n getiing the consign- | ments East. So declaies Assistant Gen- | eral Superintendent P. T. Downs of that | road. He added: | ““We can, if necessary, make the run from Seattle to Minneapolis ia sixty hours ara eventh day out from Los Angeles. Ac- rding to California papers, it takes ten days to Chicago by the Southern roada. The second shipment arrived at Minneap- oplis yesterday in_fine condition. Over twenty-two miles an hour was made, de- spite orders to hold down speed. The tem- & perature of the cars taken three times each twenty-four hours, between | Seattle and Minneapoiis, by George R.| Cox, agent of the Southern Pacific Fruit | Growers’ Exchange. The highest tempera- | ture registered was 48 degrees above and | the lowest 44 degrees above zero, Fahren- | four degrees during ss the continent. the entire run ac Salinas Will Co-operate. MONTEREY, Apri! i4.—The committee in charge of arrangements for the recep- tion of President McKinley in this city has received word from the City Council of Salipas accepting Monierey’s.invitation to participate in the welcome to the Chief Executive. EERERREPRTRR TR REIN W FLOATING FAIR ‘ BEING PLANNED | American Wares to Be Ex- hibited Abroad on a Fleet of Vessels, St = Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 140§ G STREET, N.' W.; | WASHINGTON, April 14.—Instead .of in- viting forelgn purchasers of American £oods to comte ‘to this country and see our | wares in salesrooms or in expositions, O. P. Austin, Ghief of the Bureau of Statis- | tics, proposes that American merc . nd manufacturers shall unite in carrving | samples right to the doors of foreign cus- temers in a great floating exposition. idea has aroused a great deal of interes: in this country and abroad, and the letters. | Mr. Austin is receiving from prominent | business men encourage the hope that it will take practical hape. | Mr. Austin’s plan is to have men en:| gaged in different lines unite in charter- ing several ships on which they will in- stall exhibits of their wares, each ex- hibitor to be allotted space in proportion | to the amount he subscribes. Agents will accompany. the exhibits to expolain them | ayd negotiate for sales. As the lower h of the vessels will not be suitable | for * exhibition purposes, it is proposed | that they be utilized for carrying limited | stocks -of goods for immediate delivery when sales are gade. The fleet would sail down the east coast of South America, up the west coast, | | and_Japan, possibly Australia, the ports of the Indian Ocean and thence home by | way of Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, taking in the principal ports of Europe | and consuming about two years. SOLDIERS’ HOME MANAGERS COMING TO LOS ANGELES Will Investigate Site for New Insti- tution at New Orleans En Route. ; KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 14—The | board of managers of the National Homes | for Soldiers completed their investigation ; of a site for a new home to be erected at | Johnson City. Tenn., and passed through | here this afternoon en route to>Los An- geles to inspect the home at that place. The board hes under advisement iwo sites | known as_the Carnegie and Lyle tracts, one 6f which will be selected and an- nounced by the time the party reaches New Orleans. The Lyle tract of 400 acres | will probably be selected. The party con- sists of General Martin T. McMahon, New York; General W. J. Sewell, Cam. den, N. J.; Colomel L. J. Mitchell, Mil watkee; Colonel George W. Steele, Mar- jon, Ind.; General W. B. Franklin, Hdrt- ford, Conn.; General A. L. Parson, Pitts- burg, Pa.; General Charles E. Anderson, Greenville, Ohio; Colonel 8. G. Cooke, Harrington; General T. J. Henderson, Princeton, Ill.; General M. J. Brown, Portland, Me.; Major W. H. Bonsall, Los Angeles, and General J. B. Patrick, New Yor! CLEVER BANK SWINDLER SUCCESSFUL IN TORONTO Victimizes Several Banks by Altering Small Check to Larger Denomination. TGRONTO, Ontario, April 14.—A clever bank swindler made a heavy haul in To- ronto on Saturday, the total amount of which will not be known until the tellers and ledger-keepers in various banks check up business to-morrow. A stranger, cfx’ahnlng to live in Halifax, opene® an ac- count in the Imperial Bank Saturday morning, depositing $50. Shortly after- ward he presented a check for $2, which was marked by the ledger-keeper. Short- Iy before 1 o'clock, during the rush pre- ceding the close, this check, rais to §2455, was presented to the teller and ed. The same procedure was adopted at the Bank of Commerce, where a check | sed from $20 to was cashed. It is believed several other banks were simi- larly victimized. . GORGEOUS ARCHES SPAN STREETS WHERE MERRYMAKERS WILL RULE Elaborate Preparations Being Made in Honor of the|y.. WITH RALAOADS Carnival Hosts to Throng Sacramento’s Decorated|. - Raise Indemnity Money Thoroughfares in the Early Days of the Glad Maytime + EARLY NEXT MONTH. Special Dispatch to The Call ACRAMENTO, April 14—L and N streets, bordering Capitol Park, are no Icnger thoroughfares. Four magnificent arches are being erected thereon as decorative fea- tures of the State Fair and Trades Carni- val, which opens May 6. The asphait pavements, which the arches will enclose, will be kept as clean and | smooth as a baliroom floor, and when all the booths are in place and the thou- sands of lights turned on at night, a de- lightful promenade will be afforded the throngs that are expected to join in the festivities of Carnival week. The arches really deserve more than assing notice. The beautiful structure which is to span L street at Tenth sug- gests the Ttalian renaissance with its Ro- man areanthus. The arch will be white e B e CIVIL FEU DS RENDING KOREH Political Crisis Threatens the Safety of the Gov- ernment. o AT TACOMA, Wash., April 14—A sensa ional political crisis exists in Seoul, the capital of Korea. The news was brought to-night by the steamship’ Duke of Fife that the Government has beheaded Kim Yang Chun for planning to make the son of the Emperor's favorite mistress Lady Om. heir to the throne, displacin; the Prince Imperial, son of the murdere Queen. i The decapitated official was the leader of the Kim faction, which has been en- gaged for months in deadly rivalry with the Min faction, led by Min Konssik, for the domination of Korean politics. The Min faction learned of the plot against the Prince Imperial, and a street fight between the factions resulted: After Kim Yang Chun was beheaded that clique gathered in such force that Min XKongsik and his chief supporters were imprisoned, Min being ordered ban. ished for fifteen years. Ku Won Cha’, Minister of War, and another official, ad- herents of Kim Yang Chun, resigned, and precipitated a Cabinet crisis. Li Cai Yong, Minister of the Household, and Governor Yim Tak Yong of Kyonkide were arrested for complicity in the same plot. It was planned to take Lady Om ana her son away from Seoul and await a avorable opportunity to place the lat- ter on the throne. Late tidings received at Yokohama from Seoul states that the crisis continues. STEEL WORKERS STRIKE 70 SUPPORT PRESIDENT Refuse to Work Again Unless Asso- _ciation Official Is Re-employed Also. McKEESPORT, Pa., April 14.—The em- ploves of the Dewees Woods plant of the National Steel Company held a meeting to-night for the purpose of discussing the dismissal of several of their fellow work- men, because it is said they- had recently organized a branch of the Amalgamated Association. Several of the men were discharged and on application of the employes all were Teinstated except George Holloway, presi- dent of the lodge. The offictals absolutely refused to reinstate him and the emplayes decided to strike. One gang of men are supposed to go.to work at midnight and trouble is feared if any attempt to re- sume work is mad Engine Bumps Into a Cow. PETALUMA, April 14—The southbound passenger train that left here at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon bumped into a cow as it was nearing a small station eight miles below this place. The engineer blew 2 dogen whistles, but the cow refused to budgeand was crashed into, comminuted and macadamized. The engine was slight- Iy ditched and damaged to a small extent. 'lyr‘amc was delayed an hour. Mrs. Wiliam Day Better. CANTON, Ohio, April 14.—Mrs. Wiiliam R. Day, wife of ex-Secretary Day, has re- ctoad £ Sulite s S e p?:y‘d a very comf 5 = m are more hopeful to-night of her reco’ ONE OF THE YOUNG LADIES WHO IS AMONG THE -FAVORITES IN THE CONTEST FOR MAY QUEEN AT THE BRILLIANT STREET FAIR AND TRADES CARNIVAL WHICH IS TO BE HELD S and will contrast strikingly with the green foliage of the park. On either side Bf the great arch will be tapering col- umns, supporting a beautifully ornament- ed entabliture, the freeze of which will be ornamented with festoons and masks, and a moulded cornice supported with carved medallions and dentals. The arch at Tenth and N streets will | be of French design and of equal beauty | with the one described, The most skilled | artisans will be employed to®o the work. | The two._arches at Fifteenth street will be of corresponding attractiveness. | The Labor Day parade will be one of the interesting events of the fair week. | Assemblyman Louis Reeber has been chosen grand marshal for the occasion. | The various local unions announce that | they will spend $8000 on their turnout. Every available member of every labor | union in the city will be in line, and each {‘ union will be represented by a float illus- trative of the trade to which its members RRESTS MAY UNCOVER CAIME San Francisco Police Want Persons in Custody at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, April 14—t is now claimed that the man and woman under arrest here for stealing jewelry from the home of Moritz Meyberg are old hands at the business and are wanted in San Francisco. A telegram from Captain Sey- mour of the San Francisco detective force states that the real name of the man is Francisco Gardella and that the woman is known as Julia Ganzaliski. There are four chages of grand larceny against them in San Francisco. The woman was recently engaged as a cook in the Meyberg home, and on Friday afternoon disappeared. At the same time about $1000 worth of jewelry also disap- peared. She was later seen in the com- pany of Gardella. At the time she had a valise supposed to have contained the stolen jewelry. ‘When thesman and woman parted.the latter refained the valise, but_when ar- rested the jewels were gone. The police are of the opinion that the jewelry was secreted in the Arroyo Seco, and all day officers have heen searching the arroyo, but so far without success. * The San Francisco officials are anxious that the couple should be returned there, and if no case can be established against them here they will be taken back to San Francisco. The persons mentioned in the foregoing dispatch are known to the police of this city, but whether a connection can be es- tablished between the woman and a series of burglaries In the Mission is yet & ques- tion with the police. Captain Seymour received a dispatch yesterday from Los Angeles, but, owing to its indefiniteness of description, was unable ta form any conclusion. The Los Angeles officers were instructed to hold tl{e couple pending further developments. CLASH OF AUTHORITIES OVER SCHOOL CLOSING Board of Health of Los Gatos Orders Suspension of Education Because of Smallpox. SAN JOSE, April 14.—There is a clash of authority between the Board of School Trustees of Los Gatos and the Town Board of Health of that place. Los Gatos has had one or two sporadic cases of smallpox, but the School Board did not think the situation serious. The Health Board, however, viewed the matter differ- ently, 'and one day last week ordered the schcol closed. George C. Russell, pal of the school, was notified of the ac- tion taken and discontinued the school as requested. The School Board considers the action of the Health Board unwar- ranted and says that the school will be opened to-morrow, while the Health Board threatens to resort to an injunction to up- hold the position it has taken. Australia Wants Island. MELBOURNE, April 14—The Federal Cabinet has decided to request the Impe- rement of K llenland, or Island of Becoiation, in the Tndian Ocean; Which was annexed by France in 1893. 4 rial Government to negotiate for the ac-s + — iN SACRAMENTO —_— belong. The horseshoers will do the ac- tual work of shoeing a horse on a_plat- form on a float; the Dairymen’s Union will show a lot of fine cows; the Typo- | graphical Union, several hundred strong, | will print a paper as the procession | passes, and so on throughout the scene of organizations represented in the local | council of the Federated Trades. The | May Queen and her Maids of Honer will also appear in this parade. Arrangements$ for the great floral pa- rade on the second day of the fair are progressing satisfactorily, and the joint committee of the three local parlors of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, who have it in charge, declare that it_wiil far excel the last floral pageant. The contest for May Queen is growing interesting. Nearly 13,000 votes have al- ready. been cast. It is still too early, however, to prediet which of the several handsome young candidates will secure the honor. S e e e R R ST ) DEPUTY SHERIFF Revival of Frouble in the Coeur D’Alene Mining Region. WALLACE, Idaho, April 14.—*Jack"” Powell was shot and killed at Mullan last nflghtflh;:i ?epuly Sheriff Williams. Three men fired from ambush at Deputy SHerifr: James Rose und Williams at ¥nldnighls wounding Rose twice in the right arm and once in the right thigh. Deputy Wii- liams fired six or seyen shots in the direc- tion of the flashes and fatally wounded ‘Jack” Powell. Powell was seen running away after the shooting, and his body was not found until this morning. Martial law, which had been in force in Shoshone County since the Bunker Hill and Sulllvan concentrator was blown up, on April 29, 1899, was abolished last Thurs- day by Governor Hunt. Threats had been made that with the abolition of martial law all who served as officers under it would be ‘“‘done up,” and it is said these officers went out alone after dark. —— TRUDGE MANY MILES TO A LAND OF GOLD Miners Hurry From a Klondike Camp at Night to Locate Claims Before Stampade. NANAIMO, B. C., April 14—John Mec- Gill of this city, writing X0 his mother from Eureka Creek, Indian River district, Klondike, tells of how the rich strike re- ported from that quarter was mad March 2. Another Nanaimo man, onee ‘::; the large party of men from here noaw working in Klondike, found rich pay dirt h No. Bureka Creek, and reported his find quietly to McGill, who at once let all the other Nanaimo miners Into the secret, Arrangements were then made to travel the sixty-two miles from their. camp to Eureka Creek during the night. Imme- diately after dark McGill, Pearson, W. S(pteck, Willis, Pettigrew and Swanson set off, and got clear of the camp without at- tracting the attention of their neighbors. They covered the sixty-two miles in ree: ord time, promptly staked out all they wanted and then returned to record. 1t ‘was found that the dirt runs as high as $1 to the pan, and in some places more. The discovery is on a hillside claim, as most of the claims are in that locality, and it will be very easy to work. McGill says that it will take a month or six weeks to determine the full extent and value of the discovery. As soon as the news got out that a strike had been made on Eureka a stampede set in, and in a short time every foot of land within miles was under claim. The Nanaimo miners are now developing as fast as they can, A settlement has -already grown Hureka and the population e lncr::su:; daily at a surorising rate. All the Nana- imo party were doing well at their fo; locatiors, but from McGill's letter m: bonanza they weragexpecting. A numbe: of men who started for Nome on hearing the news turned back and decid: with the Yukon Valley a little longer. The Nanaimo miners will remain in the Kilon- dike all the coming summer and fall, and :ome scuth at the beginning of next win- er. A Month’s Test Free. leumatism,’ Wis., box137, for six bottles o hisRheumaticCure, | express paid. Send no money. Pay $5.50 if cureds KILLS DESPERADD evident that they have now struck the | ed to lt;‘gi in This Way. iy Powers Could Use Sum to Operats Utilities Until Investment Is Re- turned, When Chinese Could Purchas> Improvements. NEW YORK, April 4—H. T. man of Hongkong, accompanied by his wife and servants, is in the city. At home Mr. Bos- man is better known as Mr. Ho Tuns. and he is one of the leading merchants of his native city, as well as one of its most extensive property owners. Mr. Bosman, though an Orfental, is a British subject | and a Justice of the Peace in his Majesty's | service. Mr, Bosman is deeply interested in the trend of events, politically, in the | far East. In an interview he said: “I believe that this is the golden oppor- tunity for the introduction of Western ideas into the Flowery Kingdom, and the | apparent disagreement of the powers up- on the amount of indemnity to ¥e paid for the Boxer disturbances should lead to| some sort of compromise having for its | object the development of undeveloped | Asia, rather than the levying of a mere | monetary fine which could be raised by | additional taxation and in the end per* haps leave the real situation of the coun- try unchanged. I have a plan in my own mind which I think worthy of the atten- tion of diplomats, because I believe it would be a civilizing influence. It is this: Let the powers agree upon the amount of | indemnity to be paid - and to contract among themselves and with the Peking Government that the entire sum, say $200,000,000, shall be used for building rail- roads and for other international improve- ments in China under the joint control of the powers, to be operated by them until China is in a positicn to become, by pur- chase, the sole ‘owper of the improve- ments. “Railroads will do more to enlarge the | prospectivé of the Chinese than any one agency. They will tause the people “of | the interior to travel and to acquire that | breadth of view which comes from con-| tact with the world. Now China is in| great need of railroads, while the rest of | the world is clamoring for broader trade facilities. The situation seems to have been created for reciprocal negotiations aleng a certain line. | ““Railroads could be built by the powers | on the basis of a 3 or 4 per cent cumula- | tive interest-bearing indemnity bond until the claims of all the powers are paid. Af-| ter years a chance could be given to China | to acquire the properties out of the net earnings, after the indemnity had been provided for. Any surplus, and I believe there will be a surplus, could be used to develop more rallroads. By that time the Chinese problem would have been solved.” Improving Big Copper Mines. TACOMA, Wash., April 14.—J. D. Mee- | nach, an Eastern mining expert, left yes- terday for Virgin Bay in the Copper River district, Alaska, to double the force of men at work on_the Virgin Bay copper mines, owned by Meenach and John Low- ber Welsh, a Philadelphia banker. They paid $6000 for the property last year, a since have spent $200,000 in installing ma- chinery and building wharves and tram- ways. S GRS A Prefers Death to Disease. PHOENIX, Ariz., April 14.—Despondent and tired of his long fight against di ease, Edward Naegele 6f Chicago yester- day committed suicide. His body, with a bullet hole in the forehead, was found in a tent where he camped on his chicken ranch north of this city. et MARVEL AMONG | OFFICE-HOLDERS| —— i General Kasson Refuses to Draw a Salary He His Not Earned. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 166 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April A. Kasson of Towa enjoys the novel dis- tinction of being an officer of the Gov- ernment who refuses to receive a cent of | salary, although carried on the salary | rolls. 14.—General John | _ | MIGHT PAY DEBTS | ASSASSIN AIMS BLOW AT KRUGER ntal Says China ‘Could |Paris Paper Reports Attempt to Stab the Boer Patriarch. Secret Recruiting of Soldiers for the Burgher Army Is Said to Continue Throughout Holland. A PARIS, April 15, 5:40 a. m.—L'Estafette publishes a report that an attempt was made to stab Mr. Kruger. According to a dispatch to the London Dafly Express from Amsterdam cabled on Saturday the Dutch police recently got wind of contemplated attempts upon the life of Mr. Kruger. It is quite likely tb the report to which L'Estafette gives ¢ reney iIs traceable to a similar source Amsterdam dispatch says the purely imaginary. BLOEMFONTEIN, orted that the health of former Pre: teyn has broken down. It is also that he has advised all Boers on c mando to surrender immediately. LONDON, April 15.—The Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Mail reitera: the statement that secget recruiting bas been going on in Holland for the Boers. He intimates that this has been conducted on a considerable scale since last January and thet new recruits have been sent to A report is April 14.—It the Transvaal by way of Swakopmund. in German Southwest Africa. The correspon- dent adds that British military officials will probably first hear of this movement when they run into an unexpected com- mando in Northern Cape Colony. e AMERICAN CAPTIVE FREED. The British Release a Yankee Wh> Fought With the Boers. PARIS, April 4.—“Among the Boer prisoners who recently arrived from Lou- renzo Marques,” says a special dispaich from the Portuguese capital, “was a young American, who described himself as a son of president of.the Missouri, Kansas Texas Rallroad. He was captured by British, but released as an American promising not to fight again. Subsequen he was arrested in Lourenzo Marques the request of the British_authorities, un- der suspicion of being a Boer agent. Mr. Martinsen, on_ being brought her secured his release through the Americ Charge d'Affaires, and his father him money to pay his passage home. cording to his representation. he w: de camp tor Colonel John Blake, mander of the Irish brigade.” Randolph Martinsen, the and A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Lourenzo Marques, cabled to the As sociated Press on March 11, said that M | Martinsen, who was said to have resis a post in the United States army to joir the Boer forces, had been shipped Lisbon on the Portuguese transport Kai which carried 103 Boer familles. after had made an ineffectual attempt to obt. consular. protection. - - Plague’s Ravages in Cape Town. CAPE TOWN, April 14—There is no in- crease in the progress of bubonic plague here, although there is an average of five cases daily. Since the outbreak 392 ca: have been officially reported, of which I have proved fatal. (D44 444444444044 444090 '+ THE DAY’S DEAD. 3 [ D4+ 44444444444+ 44940 FX-MAYOR JAMES BERRETT OF WASHINGTON DEAD Imprisoned for Treason at Outbreak of Civil War, Lincoln Re- leased Him. WASHINGTON, April 14 — Colonel James G. Berrett, former Mayor of Wash- ington and one of its best known citizens, died to-day, aged 36 years. He was a na- tive of Baltimore, and in 1360 was elected Mayor of Washington, as a Democrat. He was chairman of the inaugural commit- tee when President Cleveland was inaug- { urated the second time, and during both Cleveland administrations was always welcome caller at the White House. On August 26, 1861 Colonel Berrett, a b | order of Secretary of War was arrest as a Southern sympathizer, the cha against him being that he had wr letters containing utterances against the United Stat He was sent to Fort La Fayette and held there for two weeks as a military prison er. When President Lincoin heard of t arrest he ordered Colonel Berrett's a charge. General Kasson was appointed by the President immediately after the passage | of the Dingley law as speclal reciprocity | commissioner, and the salary he is re- | ported to have been tendered was $10,000 a | vear. . His negotiations with foreign gov- | ernments resulted in reciprocity agree- | ments and reciprocity treaties with | France, Great Britain, Argentine, Nicar- | Ecuador and other countri: ! agua, . Be- cause of the failure of the Senate to act | on the treaties General Kasson decided last month to tender his resignation. | President McKinley declined to receive it and requested General Kasson to retain office. As the administration has declded | not to permit the signature ot any more | reciprocity treaties until after the ratifl- | cation of at least one of the instruments | by the Senate, there is now comparative- | 1y little work for General Kasson to_do. | He has agreed, however, to resume duty provided the Senate will at the next ses- sion ratify a reciptocity treaty or treaties. | General Kasson has announced his un- willingness to draw salary while he is not actively serving the Government, and his pay will recommence when he resumes the work of negotiation. NO IRISH-AMERICAN FUNDS FOR HOME RULERS PARTY Mayor of Limerick Says Chicago Visit Convinced Him of This. LIMERICK, April #4.—John Daly, Mayor | of Limerick, in the course of an address | to a meeting here to-day, said his recent visit to €hicago had convinced him that Irish-Americans would contribute noth- ing to the fund of the party seeking the freedom of Ireland through parliamentary agitation. He declared that it would not be desirable to pin faith to constitutional agitation at a time when England’s power trembled in the balance. - - Irrigation for Yolo County. WOODLAND, April 14.—The committee appointed by a comvention of taxpayers | to investigate the irrigation question made | a partial report to-day, which is encour- | aging to she farmers and fruit growers of Yolo. It includes a letter from W. H. | Mills, which expresses the opinion that a system of irrigation can be developed for olo County unsurpassed by any in the | State and which will result in Increasing olo County’s population to 50, Woodland's to e Mountaineer Mine Is Leased. NEVADA CITY, April 4.—A lease of the -Mountaineer mine has been filed with | the County Recorder conveying the prop- erty for a period of two years to T. J. J. Sloat of Ohio. The instrument gives the | Jessee the right to purchase the p v for $50,000 at any time during its term. The lessée must expend $15,000 in develop- ment, which is to include $4000 for a sand lant already erected. Sloat has an abun- ance of capital and Is determined to ex- | plore the property. New Crossing for a Railroad. MONTEREY, April 14.—The Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railway Company | has clo;l;ed a e‘ciomra.ct for the construction of an elevated crossing for its tracl the Southern Pacific “ompary's i of track about one and one-half miles | volumes. Colonel John R. Musick. OMAHA. April 4.—Colonel John R. Mu- sick, author, journalist and politician, died of heart failure at his apartments in this city to-day. Mr Musick devoted the greater part of his life to W¥iting h torical stories for young people. He was twice_president of the Authors’ Guild of New York City and was for several terms grand chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias for the State of Mis- souri. His most ambitious work was the “Columbia Historical Novels,” in twelve Edward William Wilkins. LONDON, April 15.—Sir Edward Wil- liam Wilkins, former chaimpan of the Southeastern Rallway, the \ Manchester. Sheflleld and Lincoinshire F&;flil'a! and the Metropolitan and East ndon Rail- way, died yesterday, aged nearly 82 years. -ttt B. Reinecke. PITTSBURG. April 14.—B. Reinecke, one of the ploneer oil refiners of Western Pennsylvania and for thirty-one years president of ~Reinecke, Wilson & Co.. rass foundry and piumbers’ supplies, died here to-day, aged 67 years. Emil Kempin. BERLIN, April 4.—Emil Kempin, doc- tor of laws and one of the foremost lead- ers of the women's ‘movement in Ger- many. has just died in an insane asylum at Balse, Switzerland. John Brightman. ST. JOSEPH, April 4.—John Brightman, qne of the best known business men of this city for many years, died at the Stats Hospital for the Insane hers to-day of paresis, aged 65 years. —_————— Object to Sunday Concerts. LONDON, April 14 — The agitation agalnst Sunday concerts has been revived in Irondon. 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