The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 147 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY APRIL 26, 1901. PRICE F1VE CENTS. EDWIN' H. CONGER, UNITED STATES MINISTER 10 GHINESE EMPIRE, ARRIVES HOME AND DISCUSSES ORIENTAL SITO DIPLOMAT RIDICULES ANY POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER UPRISING OF THE BOXERS Regarding Affairs in lowa He Says He Is Not a Candidate for the Governorship, but May Accept Offer of the Nomination | | | | i o« e PEATI DWIN CONGER, E Ex-| | rdinar d Minister Plenipo- ol or 1 the United States to mpe ourt of China, at Pe- afternoon Maru voyags from of Mintster the democ- has yea yond the con Surveyur welcome at | >, Trish, Naval | nelsc as not marked by m ng with fes te by Deput accompanied by his Mary Conger of the hted off the noon and While . "My EXPECTATION AND DESIRE 15 TO 6O BACK TO MY POST IN CHINA" before m Fode ' offie a number of tugs fn the vicinity of diplomat came 1o ged heart and d exct who tossed The nver whistling of at long tion ship was rel representative Nippon Maru Mi 1 interview on | for centrat where of ‘the the whole 2 watched by nterview Minlster d the missionarics lared that they were hatred of the Chi & expressed by d that the mission- guilty of looting. The sutrages commiltted to Pe- the maren a.as groes cxags: the friend- ecn the United ted that one of United States would e was the occupa- the troops of the is of the opi dem power n that ty of $300.- for war cx- ionaries, must be bility i and | le of China are fe- | on | ms of the 155 MARY PIERCE = 3 b = 2 1 situation in s f 1 er Coj b was not a candidate for the | AboUt eight weeks ago from my State. In ¥ s vas asked i i i p e, Ml ¢ refuse the | the first T was asked if I was a candidate him. for Governor. I sent a reply saying_that —_— - | I was not a candidate and was not seek- PEOPLE'S VOICE iin]z the nomination. The second telegram | A = { asked me if T would accept the nomina- | MAY INDUCE HIM }\son for Governor if it were tendered to | TO SEEK OFFICE | me. T replied that if the people of Towa | | wanted me for Governor I would accept, | but~that in no case was I to be consid~‘ tingu 15hed Dlplomat Is | ered a candidate for the office. y ths ago, and y s v | Not a Candidate for the \mo months ago, and many things may Gove D rnorship of Iowa |the sitvation in Towa.” | Minister Conger was shown a telegram from Des Moines stating that there were on in the State of Iowa, said: | many candidates in the field for the Gov- ved two telegrams in China | ernorship, and that his answer might pos- JIM HILL'S NEW HLAEK K TELLS } RAILWAY PROJECT ~NEW STORY OF ROBBERY 1 i‘Bandit Who Is to Die To- Morrow Declares Three | | | Buying Wisconsin Central for St. Paul-Chicago Connection. | Prisoners Innocent. S bl R T EEHR s L, Minn., April .—It is Te-| DENVER, April %.—A special to the ported on the best authority that J. J.|News from Clayton, New Mex., says ¥ = £ Wisconsin Central for con- | Tom Ketchum, alias “Black Jack,” whose’ execution for train robbery is set for to-morrow, to-day asked his attor- 1 John R. Guver, to write President McKinley that Len Ailberison, Walt Huffman and Bill” Waterman, who are! serving time in the Santa Fe penitentiary | Pau connection. | hicago active here e very snsin Central on tips ne from the Hill Hill has long in-| wi c ave ec d that onsin E for the mail robbery at Steens Pass in d the tramsaction |ieor are jnnocent, and that the robbery s deal was ‘CONSUM- | wae committed by Will Carver,’ Dave e its acquisition DY | ,yne 34 Cullin, “‘Broncho Bill, Sam | NS migh T negotiations or ArOUSe | yo hum and himself. He told where ar- | s strong opr from other Chicago- | jcies taken at the time might be found | 8 | to prove his assertion. | e nsin Central it is said | " pfrorts are being made to discover the | a move ire the Erie for|source of the forged telegrams received | t K mtinental line | Jast night anncuncing that the President | - e . two lines from | had reprieved Ketchum | « ’ g with his roads at St S ; | P. » LR Demands of Strikers Acceptad. PARIS, April > directors of the mines at Mgntceau-les-Mines, the scene | of a vrolonged strike, decided to-day to | M. 1 important nother ef- fort will be n to get the St. Paul, |yy would ac- when the end of Hill's schemes will be | cept almost entirely the demands of the reached for the present strikers. That was | | | have happened since that time to alter | ., 1S WELL 15 POLITICS IN 10w REV. W. S AMENT-MAKES REPLY TO MARK TWAIN'S ATTACK ON HIS METHODS | Man Whose Acts Furnished Text of **To the Person Sitting in Darkness”” Defends His Conduct Following the Siege of Peking B ) ‘L THINK THAT CHINA COULD PAY 400,000,000 DOLLARS INDEMNITY " — sibly decide- who would be the next Gov- ernor of the State. Ini-relation to this telegraphic statement Minister- Conger said: “T cannot say anything more now than I have just stated. I have a largs amount of mail awalting me and it will take me some time to go through-it. In any case I think that it will be best for me to say nothing more on the subject until I reach my State.” Proud to Serve His State. UNITED STATES MINISTER CONGER AND HIS FAMILY, WHO RE- TURNED HOME YESTERDAY-FROM CHINA AFTER ENDURING TERRORS OF SIEGE IN PEKING BY THE BOXERS. —% | Minister Conger was told of the asser- tion that the breach in the Republican ‘ranks In Iowa would be healed if he would accept the nomination, 'and was asked if HA[I TASTE 5H WN BY SPANISH CAPTAIN Should Have Refrained From Boasting of Sinking of the Colon. L B CALL BUREAU, 1% G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 25.—Criticism | | is made by naval officers of Captain Diaz Moreu for the speech he made at the Tou- lon fetes. This criticism has not caused any action by the State Department, but, nevertheless, officials generally believe that it would have been in better taste | for Captain Moreu to have refrained from | boasting of his action in sinking the Colon to prevent her from falling into the hand of victorious Americans at the battle of Santiago de Cuba. Minister Storer at Madrid has not been instructed to make any representations to the Spanish Government. and if he has done so the State Department is ignorant of his action. It is not believed that he would suggest the detachment ‘of Moreu from the battleship Pelayo. as reported. as this might tend to inflame Spanish feel- ing against the United States, and the mission of Storer is to re-establish the friendly relations which existed between the two govermments before the recent War. | tered into the fight between the Oregon | row or Saturday. ‘q"“;:l[:_’;;";‘_‘:" "”h;é\nf:,“"i‘;:"'éo::::“ Dr. Villar did not divulge the character ment has forbidden the ' exhibition -at | Of DIS serum. but it is krown to be a yel- | <f | he would accept if all the other candi- EUHES GHNSUMPTIUN WITH-A NEW SERUM Argentine Army‘Surge n Re- ports on Trea.tmex of Cases. SALT LAKE, Utah, April 2.—A special | BUENOS AYRES, April 25 to the Herald from Uvada, Utah, says| L. Villar, an Argentine army surgeon; has that the Sheriff of Iron County has en-| just published a report of the treatment of fifty cases of tuberculosis with his serum EHEHIFF TAKES HHNI] IN SHORT LINE FIGHT Rival Forces Will Soon Meet, But Clash May Be Prevented. Dr. Carlos | Short Line and Senator Clark’s forces x‘r)r] at the military hospital in this city. The the possession of the old California and | Utah Rallway, :and . has . notified both | [re2tment extended from December 2, 1900, [ forces, now within less than two miles of | t0 APTil 20, 1%01. . | cach other, that any infractions of the| Tuberculosis in an early stage, says Dr. law would be “epressed. Villar, was cured within forty days. The patients whose cases were more advanced, It is believed~the = Sheriff's.action re- moves the danger of a clash between the but witheut complications, he reports, were all cured within ninety days. Of opposing forces, which, at the present rate those patients whose cases were far ad- of Toad extension. will mect either to-mor- Both forces have been | vanced all were cured except those who | could offet but very little resistance to the | disease. i largely reinforced. Bars Tolstoi’s Portrait. injections are every: second, jow fluid. Hypoderm made. varyng“a quantity third, fourgh or fifth day. according to in- aividual cases. Argentine physicians-have been invited investizate the alleged cures and serum treatment. Moscow of Repine's life-size portrait of Count Teo Tolstoi, representing him in the costume of a peasant and barefooted. When ihe portrait was recently exhibit- ed ag St. Petersburg the public pald un- usual tributes to the picture and sur- rounded it with flowers. 1o | —— CCOMPANYING Minist Conger on the Nippon Maru was the Rev W. S. Ament of the American | Board of Foreign Missions of the | Congregatignal Church, the mis- j slonary whose collection of indem- | nity for damages done by Boxers formed the text of Mark Twaln's caustic article, “To the Person Sit | | ting in Darkness,” published it the Feb~ | | ruary number of the North American Re- | |view. He has been stationed at Peking { |for twenty-three years. | | Rev. Mr. Ament takes vigorous cxeepe | [tlon to the \criticlsms made by Mark { | Twain and others as to the alleged mix | | conduct of the missionaries. Te says that | | owing to the arduous nature of their du- tles most of the mi maries had been obliged to return home for edical treat. | | ment, and Rev. Mr wikesherry and | | himselt were practica n active misslonaries left In Peking. Ha complaing | | that the correspondents of the English | d Amerfcan newspapers in China did | | not treat him fairly, as th rmed thelr | | ideas In Shanghal, Ile says they admitied | such to be the fact in personal | ences with himself and that the 4 hearsay reports without having made, In “THE MISSIONARIES DID NOT | |all cases, personal investig Those A who did make personal L,OOT'AND 1 DID NOT ™ made favorable reports of the COUNTENANCE_LOOTING | artes, He satd A TG o e “We found ourselves at the close of the slego with 500 native Christians upon our dates should withdraw in his favor. To | hands, no food, no clothing, no mones this query Minister Conger replied: | and every Christian house burned. All the “I can only say that if the people | Christian property had beey..de of Towa want my servioss I shall be | In my own church three hundred out of prodd to serve them, but I. wish it | Pine hundred Christians had been mur- . | dered. Thirty thousand native Christians distinctly understood that I am Dot |, ;1 oiggionaries were victims to the & candidate for the office. Circum- | ranaticlsm of the Hoxers. This is exclu stances mfight be such on my return | sive of Catholic missionaries, the returns rom which we have not been abie to ob- ‘te the State that I might decline the | henor of & nomination. ain. -'The total has been estimated to be as high as 40,000 men, women and children. “T am home on sixty days’ leave of ab- : e sence, counting from my arrival in San | Occupied Prince’s House. Francisco:. My intention is to leave to- | “On the very day of the arrival of the morrow for Des Molnes and then go to | allied forces we were informed that we must leave the British legation, as that legation was to be used as headquarters for the officers of the British arm Something had to be done and done quick- ly. T immediately thought of a Mongol Prince, Hsi Ling, who was an ally of the Washington. I‘intend to return to my post In Peking when my leave of absence expires. I have brought my family home with me and at present I think they will g0 back to china when I return.” On being informed public that recep- | tiohs would be tendered' to him in Des | Boxers and whose place was the heud- Moines, Council Bluffs and other Iowa |duarters of Boxers and blacklegs. He cities, Minister Conger said: | was also one of the leaders of jhe anti- “I do not care for public demonstra- | foreign movement and s were tions, but I beiong to the people of Iowa | Chtertained and fed by til - the and shall”feel honored to accept a re- | at¢ him cut of house and heme. Un the ception at’their hands. Jowa_has been | Second day after the arrival of the allied very kind to me and.has granted me all forces Mr. Tewkesber: and my 1f made I ever asked of It, ~while I have beep | OUT Way to his house, not knowing obliged to refuse many requests from the | Whether he was there or not. We found people of the State. i | the place entirely empty, not a human “I wish again to state that my coming | Soul on the premises. he having fled some home has nothing to do with the’ ques- |time before. We found banners, fla tion of the Governorship of Iowa. guns, swords, sabers and Boxers' uni- MISSIONARIES | | forms, together with tablets and registers : of fighting men. he next day we brought | up our native Christians and occupied NOT GUILTY OF | the deserted place. In that house and { its nelghboring houses that we occupied we than LOOTING HOUSES 100 people. | “We took only abandoned prop- Minister Commends Their | erty.” Actions and Says They “On the Prince’s grounds we found 2 large stable of mul Are Grossly Maligned | s et i o put more There was very little feed for thess animals, and something had to be The first to meet Minister Conger on 2 one with them or they would starve board the steamer were Colonel John P. d L Continued on Page Five. | | | | | i { | i Continued on Page Five. AETURNS T0 LQUOR WITH THE BATISH D SHOIT L Arn Engagement Fought With | Edward J. Sexton Fears to the Invaders of Cape | Face Wife After Fall- BflEHS N BATTLE Colony. | ing From Grace. CAPE TOWN, April 25.—A dispatch DENVER, April %.—Because He had from Dordrecht. Cape Colony. savs the | rajen from grace and become intoxi- Yeomanry under Colonel Wodehouse and | .;10q after seven years of strict sobri- the Dordrecht volunteer guard were e i 2 st = s | gaged all day. vesterday with Boer in-/° 2 Kton,: oo of tie et vaders in the v of Dordrecht known insurance men in the West, shot Wheii & messeriger- left the scene the | himself with = ent at Cripple Boers were between twn British forces. | Creek at an early s morning. . The Boer losses are unknown. The Brit- | will die. He is a son of William F. Sex ish had no casuaities fiam T Steaq | 107 Of San Franc neral adjuster LONDO. —William Steac = e £ 4 1in an interview, with a representative of | ° the Fireman's Fund T o A the- Difly Mt 4 pany. Sexton % years old and lived “The Boers are calculating upon Eng- | With his w at 22 East Twenty-seeond land’s growing embroiled with avenue, Denv He went to Cripple or some other complication. If T am not | Creek about a week ago, representing mistaken we are on the verge of a Storm | yp. National Fire Insuranee Compdny, ros: ic that w dely shat- > across the Atlantic that will rudely shat- | " o F e ST st { ter our peaceful calchlations. 4 2 “When the United States Congress | MBIt two of his friends found h' W meets the Clayton-Bulwer treaty will be | °ring about the streets apparenily in a torn into shreds and thrown inte our | SIUDCT. hey took him to his reom in faces. We shall have to choose between | the National I|.,vr’.’“r.wn- in their pres- fighting or eating humbie_ple. The first | e7ce he shot himzell through the breast sericus discuseion of the possibility of | AS he fired the shot he said: “i have such a war will do more to keep the |50Re seven years without touching a Boers in the field than all the speeches | 6rop. I cannot face my wife and father of all the pro-Escrs in existence.” now.”