The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901. TO-DAY AT NOON THE OHIO WILL SLIP FROM HER WAYS INTO THE WAITING WATERS OF THE BAY President McKinley Will Almost Certainly Be Present at a Reception to the Workingmen Which Will Be Held at Eleven O’clock, and if He Can He Will Remain for the Launching, to Be Held -an Hour and a Half Afterward N the turn of the tide just after noon to-day the Ohio will leave the cradle in which she has been resting and will take place among floating thifgs, where she will fily her flag with the proudest in the navy. The arrangements for the launching have been completed and nothing now re- mains but to knock away the shores that have held her for so long, let her gently down upon the sliding ways and then wait until 2 woman’s hand frees her from ker shore moorings and lets her slip into the bay. The time set for the launching is 12:25, or just as the highest tide of the month reaches its full depth and hesitates a mo- ment before it runs back again into the ocean. At that moment the ship will go, for tide walts not even for battleships, and the depth that will carry the huge hull clear of the mud is as fleeting as a sunset sky, though sure as the sun. Tt is almost a certainty that the Presi- Gent will be there, for Mrs. McKinley has rallied so satisfactorily that he will feel free to take the necessary time unless an- other unfortunate turn should hold him the bedside of his wife, The launch- is what he came West to see, but if hing should keep him from it he will least be at the works in time to greet the workmen, for he has said that he will make every effort io meet the men who id the best ships of the navy. The reception to the workmen will be held at 11 o'clock, and at that time they will present the gold plate they have had engraved as 2 souvenir of the President’s Visit to the works. It was at first thought that the plate would have to be sent East 1o him in default of his presence, but as | it is now practicak:y certain that the | President will be at the reception at least the plate can be presented as originally intended. To prevent accidents and to protect the workmen from annoyance before the | launching, no one will be allowed in the | y rds until 11 o'clock. A squad of police | under command of Lieutenant Mooney | will be on hand to enforce this order. The President will leave house at half-past § o'clock and will take the transport tug Slocum for the works. As he passes down the bay the warships will give him the fuli salute of twenty one guns. There are two lines of cars that reach | | | | | the Union Iron Works, one coming over | L the hill by Sixteenth street and arriving | at Sixteenth by way of Fillmore and by | transfers from all the electric and cable | systems of the Western Addition and the Mission, and another line running up Kentucky street, reaching Kentucky by way of Third street and by transfers from the lower town systems of cable and electric cars. Any line that will transfer to the Fillmore and Sixteenth street lines will bring passengers to the works that way, and any line that will transfer to Kearny and Third streets will get passengers to the works by way of Kentucky street. The last and perhaps the most delicate | work of the launch will be done this morning. The vessel is resting now on her shores and keel blocks, both per- manent supports; she must have her weight transferred from these to the cradle that rests upon the sliding ways, | and the ol@ supports will have to be knocked away. The cradle is wedged up to take part of her weight and then the | shores and keel blocks are cut away to | let the cradle take the remainder, and then she will be held by a single beam of wood, set like a trigger, ready to epring aside and let her go only when | the proper force is brought to bear upon it It is a delicate piece of work, delicate even considering the thousands of tons that have to be handled, and 2 sigh of | relief will rise from the Union Iron Works if to-mdrrow, at half past 12| without accident and without hitch, the' hull of the Ohio will be floating safely in the waters of the bay. LAUNCHING OF THE NEW OHIO Her Weight, Her Size, Her Speed and the Guns She Will Carry. The act authorizing the building of the Ohio, Maine and Missouri was passed May 4, 1898. When the bids were opened it was found that Dialogue & Son had offered to build one ship on department plans for $2,840,000. The Newport News Company, one ship, department pldns, $2,580,000, and one ship bidder’s plans $2,680,000 and $2,850,- 000. Cramp & Sons, one ship, department plans, $2,650,000; for two ships, department , each $2,625,000, and for one ship, er's plans, $2,725,000 and $2,885,000 and $2,700,000, and $2,870,000 each for two ships, bidder's plans. Union Iron Works, one ship, department plans, $2,674,00 and 5,000 and $2,899,000 for one ship bidder's e contract for the Maine was let to the Cramps on department plans, for the Missour! to the Newport News Company on department plans and for the Ohio to the Union Iron Works on bidder’s plans at the highest figure. The first rivet in the keel of the Ohio was not driven until May 19, 1899. Ever since the work has proceeded without a hitch, save that there have been some delays due to Uncle Sam’s tardiness in supplying the armor plate. There were some hitches in the building of the Maine and Missouri, however. The plans supplied by the Government were modeled on those of a Russian battleship and defects were found in them. This necessitated some changes in the con- struction of the Maine and Missouri and they are now practically the same as the Ohio. All the world has heard of the Oregon, wkich has been aptly called “the bulldog of the United States navy.” No vessel they have ever buiit do the Scotts take as much pride in. In comparing the Ohio with Ler some idea of the former’s dimen- sions will be gained. OHIO. 388 feet 72 feet 3 inches 3 feet 9 inches 12,500 tons 16 knots, but under an agreement with her builders she is to make 18 knots or better on her trial trip. The armament of the Ohio will be as follows: Main battery — Four 12-inch breech-loading rifies, sixteen 6-inch rapid- fire guns. Secondary battery—Six 3-inch rapld-fire | suns, eight 6-pounder rapid-fire guns, six 1-pounder rapid-fire guns, two 3-inch rapid-fire guns (field) and 2 Colts, The 12-inch guns are of the latest type, with smokeless powder and a muzzle ve- ¥ locity of 3000 feet per second. The Ohio, Maine and Missouri have two submerged torpedo tubes and carry eight 17-foot tor- pedoes. These are the first underwater torpedo tubes as yet introduced in the United States affivy. The 12-inch guns,will be mounted in two turrets and will have arcs of train- ing of 280 degrees each. Five of the 6- inch guns will be on each side in the main deck battery and will have arcs of fire of 110 degrees. The bow 6-inch guns will have each a total sweep of 133 degrees. Four 6-inch guns mounted in the two citadels on the upper deck will have each an arc of fire of 138 degrees. Two of the 6-pounders will be mounted:on the main deck, one on each side, between the two foremost of the 6-inch guns. Four others will be placed aft, while the rest will be mounted on the superstructure. All of the 6-inch guns will carry heavy cylin- drical shields and the fighting stations between these guns will be separated by s 7 R i oy - " splinter bulkheads an inch and a half | thick. The manipulating rooms will be behind the armor belt and below the water line. Armor—Water-line belt, thickness amid- ships: To 1 foot below load water line, 12 inches; bottom, 8% inches; height above load line, 3 feet 6 inches; total depth of belt, 7 feet 6 inches; side armor above main belt, thickness, 7 inches; superstruc- ture armor, 7 inches; turret armor (12- inch guns), 12 and 11 inches; roof of tur- ret, 3 inches; barbette armor, 12 and 9 inches; protective deck armor, 2% to 4 inches; conning tower armor, 10 inches. _General Schedule of Weights— Hull and fittings. Armor and bolts. Protective deck armor. Armament and ammunitios Machinery, with wate Diameter of high pressure cylinder..38% inches Diameter of intermediate cylinder.....59 inches Diameter of low pressure cylinder....92 inches Length of stroke 42 inches Cooling surface, main condenser......9600 sq. ft Cocling surface, auxillary condenser..800 sq. ft Boilers will consist of 24 Niclausse water-tube type arranged in three groups of 8 bollers each. Each group is subdi- vided by the center line bulkhead. Each boller will have 15 elements of 24 tubes, the whole number of elements being 360 and the number ofgubes 8640. Total heat- ing surface, 58,104 square feet; total grate surface, 1353 square feet. The boilers are designed to carry a working pressure of 250 pounds per square inch above the at- Equipment . Pt 418 1,000 12,500 Indicated horsepower. 16,000 | Number of revolutions. 126 mosphere. Thus armed and equipped the Ohio will be one of the most perfect fighting ma- chines in the world. LAUNCHING -OF THE OLD OHIO How She Was Built and Ifiamgd and Sailed the Stormy Wav\§5. : To-day, May 18,"1201, the splendid new battleship Ohio, the equal of any fighting machine afloat, the product of California | enterprise and skill, will take the waters | of San Francisco Bay. On May 30, 1820, nearly eighty-one years ago, an earlier Ohlo, a “ship of the line,” made her first plunge into the waters of the Atlantic at | Brooklyn, N. Y. She, too, was one of the finest specimens of American workman- ship afloat in her time. She was bulilt of wood, 198 feet long and carried an armament of eighty-four guns; twelve 8-inch pieces and seventy-two 32- pounders, all muzzle-loaders. Her cost was $647,889; less than one-fifth of that of her namesake, which, however, will be able to whip a sea tull of such battleships as she was. The old Ohio performed much useful service, but never had an oppor- tunity of testing her fighting powers. She, however, was on hand and ready along these very coasts Juring the latter part of the Mexican war, and at its close she T R e i S e g 2 Al THE OLD OHIO, FRIGATE OF EIGHTY-FOUR, A MODEL OF HER DAY. b ERONIE ot SRR G LR O SR e eaX ¢ remained for some time as the flagship of Captain Thomas Ap. Catesby Jones of New Orleans fame, the then commander of the Pacific squadron. She was put out of date by the naval developments of the Civil War and in 1883 was sold for $17,100. ‘What changes have been wrought in the period between the ,two launchings? Large libraries hardly suffice to tell. Where the first Ohio could have found but a handful of not friendly people a great city of 400,000 veople, citizens of the United States, moves to its bay shore to witness' the inauguration of the career of the moderh Ohio, in company with those who have come near 3000 miles from the -great State for which she is named to the baptism. From Niles' Register, Baltimore, of June 3, 1820, the following description of the first launching is given: The United States ship of the line Ohlo was launched at New York on Tuesday last in the presence, 1t is supposed, of nearly 1,000,000 per- sons, amidst discharges of artillery from the ‘Washington, 74 guns, and the sloop Hornet, which were answered by a battalion of artil- lery. She glided into the water in majestic style and no accident occurred. She is a Ves- sel of the first class, built of the very best nfaterial, and with great care by Mr. Eckert. There was quite a stir about the name she should bear. Up to within a few days of the launching it was generally believed and published that she would be called the New York. The following from the National Intel- ligencer, Washington, shortly before the launching, explains how she got the name Ohio: Agreeably to the mode adopted by the Navy Department of determining thd names of our vessels of war, under the resolution of Con- gress, the navy commissioners proceeded om the 2%th ult, we understand, to assign by lot the name of the ship of the line just built at New York. The name which she drew, which of course from her rate must be that of & State, was Ohlo. The resolution of Congress referred to was passed the second session before and provided that vessels of war then “build- ing or hereafter to be built,-should be named by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the fol- lowing rule, to-wit: The first class shall be called after the States of the Union; those of the second class after the rivers | and those of the third class after the prin- cipal cfties and towns, taking care that no ssels in the navy have the same Tkis rule was followed up to and after the Civil War, but since the inception of the new navy the names of rivers have been dropped and those of the larger cities bestowed upon cruisers such as the New York and the Brooklyn. ¢ B —_———— YARDS SHOULD ALL BUILD WARSHIPS Naval Shore Stations Are Equal in Rank to Pri- vate Concerns. The Increase of the shore establish- ments of the navy has more than kept pace with the growth of the material | afloat, and the sums asked for the im- provement and malntenance of the shore stations are yearly increasing at a rate that is likely to- cause Congress to con- sider the advisability of limiting the de- velopment to the most important. The Navy Department now controls no less than thirty-five navy yards, naval sta- tions and coal depots, and several more of the latter *have been recommended, in addition to a naval station at Charleston in Heu of Port Royal, which latter is to be abandoned. Of tius multitude of naval establishments ashore only ten have facil- ities, of more or less extent, to build and | repair ships, of which the most prominent | are Brooklyn, Norfolk, Mare Island, Bos- | ton, League Island and Portsmouth. Vast | sums have been expended on permanent improvements and plants at these yards during the last fifteen years and their fa- cilities are up-to-date, but at the same time money has been wasted in building | up other stations of no other than polit- ical utility for years to come. ‘Modern ship yards require millions of money to make them really useful and the appro- priations have been divided among too many objects when better results would have followed by putting a few yards in firseclass condition. The only navy yard on the Pacific Coast —Mare Island—is beyond doubt admirably located, considering its strategic and eco- nomic points, and no other navy vard in the country compares with it in pictur- esqueness, extent and future possibilities. Years ago naval officers were reluctant to serve at the station, it being considered as punishment and exile, but with the elimination of political chicanery, the in- troduction of civil service reform and con- sequent improvement in the public service Mare Island is eagerly sought for by offi- cers as a relaxation from the sweltering summer and rigid winter of the Atlantic seaboard States. The changed methods in navy yard ad- ministration have likewise had 4 bene- ficial effect upon the city of Vallejo, the home of the Mare Island workman. Its population has increased about 3 per cent during the last decade, large num- bers of attractive homes have been built and the brief spasmodic periods of activ- ity in the yard, with consequent precari- ous existence of mechanics and laborers, have passed Into history. There is now | steady employment for an average force of 1600 men, resulting in a training of bona fide mechanics, whose services are of benefit to the State and the country at large, and there is no other navy yard town. in the United States showing so good results as the Government expendl- tures at Mare Island. The importance of that yard was plainly shown during the late war, when it stood "second in the amount of money expended upon repairs of vessels, the flgures being: New York, $917,797; Mare Island, $552,564; Norfolk, $465,916. The bureau of construction ex- pended from March, 1888, to July 1, 1899, $1,407,633 in fitting out vessels for commis- sion and on repairs and alterations of ships at the three yards above mentioned, distributed as follows: Mare Island, $633,- 362; Norfolk, $487,824, ew York, $236,447. The utility and importance of Mare Isl- and has been demonstrated time and again, its reputation for good and eco- nomical work has been established, and the only excuse advanced for not pushing its completion toward a real first class yard has been the somewhat vague asser- tion that its approaches lacked sufficient depth to allow battleships am_l other deep- draught vessels to proceed with safety to the yard. In view of the fact that ships | drawing 28 feet/are almost daily passing | to end from Port Costa, and that coal laden vessels drawing 21 feet have dis- charged cargo at Mare Island, it would seem that the Oregon and Iowa, drawing less than 24 feet, should have no mm;mw in going to the yard. Besides, dredging bas been in progress over the shoals com- plained of, and the reasons for not send- ing these ships to Mare Island, where they could be repaired at less cost than at a private yard, is probably due to the efforts of contractors and to the relue- tance of officers to forego the superior social and other attractions of San Fran- cisco for those of Vallejo and the re- straint from the commanding officer of the navy yard. The contractors have practically monop- olized the construction of the new navy, which has thus far resulted in building up important industries, but the time is approaching when it would be ecomomy on the part of the Government to utilize its costly plants for building ships. There is no reasonable excuse whatever for giv- ing out repair work by contract, for the navy yards can do it better and cheaper than a private yard. On two occasions of recent years Mare Island has done new work at 50 per cent less cost than demand- ed by a Sap Francisco firm, the 100-ton shears and the new caisson at Mare Isl- and being the objects referred to. Then, again, there is not a vessel built by con- tract which has been delivered when due, not a dollar has been collected by the Government of the penalties forfeited by failure of contract stipulaticus, while on the other hand several millions in pre- miums have been paid and there are now claims against the Government for about three million dollars alleged to be due ‘o contractors, which will no doubt be paid. These incidentals added to the original contract cost would more than wipe out the, assumed greater cost of navy yard work, and as the great contracting firms of the country have reaped a harvest in prior contracts and become self-support- ing it would be good business and policy on the part of Congress to let the navy yards get a share of future navy building and so allow the money to get into the hands of mechanics and others without the intermediary middleman. It is no doubt a part of the programme of centractors so to divide the appropria- tions of Congress as will give them an iny definite control of navy building, and to that end money is expended upon a num- ber of stations, none of them receiving any permanert benefit and none of the yards making any appreciable advance toward becoming national workshops. It is this policy which has created such em~ bryo naval stations as Port Orchard, Port Royal and other money absorbers, naval stations by name only. OIL 15 STRUCK IN-NEW FIELD Petroleum in Northern San Luis Obispo & County. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. PASO ROBLES, May 17.—News reached here this morning of the first strike of oil in a new field befng developed northwest from here and lying between the Naci- miento River on the south and the San Antonio River on the north. F. D. Frost, manager of the Nacimiento Compan which made the strike, confirms the re- port. He says that the drills passed intc | oil sand yesterday at a depth of about 1800 feet and an oii vein was.struck- as | soon as the sand was penetrated. The y#€ld s small, but the conditions under whiich it was found give great hopes of 2 good well when the drill gets lower. ur other companiesyare drilling in the samie section and should oil be found in paying quantities un entirely new fleld have been opened. “The Great American Company’s drill, north of the Nacimiento well, is now down about 700 feet and the White Oak Com- pany’s drill is down 300 feet. The Acme hag its rig on the ground and will com- | meénce spudding wiikin a few da he | Monterey Company is now down more than 1200 feet, but so far has not been( successful. P AT GAS FROM CRUDE PETROLEUM. Successful Experiment That May De- cide the Fuel Problem. {BAKERSFIELD, May 17.—The Bakers- field Electric Light Company is preparing to utilize the wealth of crude ofl in Kern County to supply fuel in a practical form 10 the residents of this city and Kern- ville For some,time past the company has been experimenting with an appar- atus for the manufacture of gas from oil. The experiments have been so satisfac- tory that a contract has been awarded the California Light and Fuel Company for a complete plant for this purpose. The company expects to extend its sys- tem and ptg the price of the gas fuel so low that all other fuel material will be forced from the market. Stoves will be sold at cost and meters will be put in free of charge. For 1000 feet or less $2 will be charged and for 5000 feet or over the price will be $150. The plant will be ready for operation by the first of Oc- tober and will cost in the neighborhood of A pilot engine is an Insignia of royalty FIREWORKS EXPLODE O A LAKE STEAMER Eleven Persons Are Badly Burned, One Receiving Fatal Injuries.’ BEMIDJI, Minn., May : 17.—During a celebration to-night of Norway’s national holiday, which included pyrotechnic dis- plays on Lake Bemidji, fireworks explod- ed on board the steamer Shadow. The boat was crowded with spectators and eleven persons were badly burned. Only one was fatally injured, although seven are in a serious condition. Many of those on board the boat leaped into the lake and saved their lives by swimming ashore. Fred Driver, a boy, is supposed | to have been drowned in his efforts to escape. The names of those most, seriously in- jured, so far, as could be asecertained, are ‘as. follows: - Fred.. McCauley, . fatally burned; Al Barcharias, Ed Scarrott, C. E. Arnold and Emil Jestin. PRODUCERS - PERFECT PLANS. All Los Angeles Well-Owners May Join the Association. LOS ANGELES, May 17.—Members of the Los Angeles Oil Producers’ Associa- tion to-day made public the hature of the business transacted when the organiza- tion of the association was completed. W. H. Allen Jr. was elected president and A. W. Morgan secretary, this election be- ing .with the understanding that there would be another election as soon as all producers have had an opportunity to de- cide whether they wish to enter the or- ganization. * The membership: of - the - assoclation at present includes 365 wells in the Los An- geles field, and it'is proposed that the as- sociation proceed to_handle the oil of (he members, whether “others join or not, though there is every reason to believe that at least 600 of the 800 wells from which oil is marketed will be brought into the organization at an early date. —_————— Democrats. Democrats will assemble from all parts of the State May 19th to .celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first' Demo- cratic State Convention of California. ~D. Delmas will-deliver the oration. Steamer Onisba will leave Jackson street wharf May 19th at 8:30 a. m. and leave Benicia 5:30 p. m. Fare, round trip, New 7 cents. ickets at Bryan's Druy, ore, Montgomery and Market: Merle s, Miasion and Sixth; Shinkwin's, Larkin and Turk; Fybush’s, Market and Sansome, and wharf, Sunday morning. . —— e o In 1898 there were 544,283 children under m Bngland which American rafiroad cings have not yet copled - - .. . fourteen engaged in industrial and factories:in German R ADVANGE OF BRITISH OPPOED BY BOERS Engagements in Which Both Sides Sustain Losses. PRSI R,y Special Dispatch to The Call. CAPE TOWN, May 17.<A column under Major Paris has returned- to Kimberley from Boshof, whither it escorted a con- voy. It met with opposition as it neared its destination, but the Boers were dis- persed. Their loss is unknown. On re- turning the column was opposed oy fifty Boers, but they were scattered when a pompom opened fire on them. The British had few casualties on the latter occasion. A sergeant and six colonial troopers, re- leased by the rebels and cast adrift in Khama's country, northwest of the Transyaal,. May...3,-have-reached Van Rhyns Dorp, Cape Colony, after making their way on foot for 870 miles through a Bushman land. In an engagement with the Boer invad- ers south-of~Maraisburg 1ast Monday the colonial defense forces had six men killed P RSARG. North : . Northern Tr: Wednesaay, May §—Ninety Bocrs aei’ ing Barendvorster and Heystek, the for- mer Landrost, and many former officials have surrendered, The district s rapidly settling down to the usual conditions, BABY MANGLED BY MOWING MACHINE While Playing in Tall Grass the Lit- tle One Is Run Over and Terribly Cut. SANTA ANA, May 17.—The two-year- old child of Mrs. Hattle Hayworth of Garden. Grove was run over by a mow- ing machine and terribly cut/ to-day. She had ‘lain down in a patch of! barley and gone to sleep. The grain iwas so thick that the man driving the mower did not see the child until she was struck by the machine. The keen edge of the sickle cut her terribly about the face. and body and one of the sickle guards plerced her thigh. The child -probably will live. g : Décisim; on Divorce Law. TACOMA, May 17.—Judge 8nell to-day denfed the nonsuit asked for by the at- torneys for Edson Sturgeon inthe trial, of the case for blgl.my now being heard before a jury in_the Superior Court. The effect of Judge Snell's decision is that'a marriage contracted in another State within the period of six months after ‘having obtained a divorce in this State SoAat was, .according to the law then ‘in force, ot rgpe lon 5 s SLUIGING 0T SEASON'S GOLD Klondike Output Will Be at Least Thirty Millions. SEATTLE, May 17.—The steamer City | of Seattle arrived this morning from | Skaguay and other ports in Southeastern Alaska with a large number of passen- gers. Among them was Captain J. B. Libby, manager of the Puget Sound Tug- ’bom. Company, who is just out from | Dawson. He left there on the 20th of April, chme up the river to Selkirk in a boat and then “hit the trail” to White Horse and the railroad. “It has been a bad winter in Dawson for dogs and a very good one for gold, Captain Libby said in an interview. “A latge proportion of the dogs, including some of the most valuable ones, have been killed. The police did the work a | short time before I left. The animals were afflicted by a sort of hydrophobia, and a number of perscns were seriously bitten before it was decided to minimize the danger by shooting all dogs found at large, “Sluicing had begun In the creeks, but operations were not very extensive. They are now probably in full swing, as there was a thaw on when I came up the river. The output of gold is going to be immense. It is believed by people in a position to know that the ‘total production of gold will be at least one-fifth larger than last year, or about $30,000,000, and there is no reason in sight why it should be any less next year. Dawson is quiet in general, though the hydrophobia caused a little flurry for a while. There has been plenty of food all winter."” A telegram dated May 12 from G. Mellott, the company's agent at White Horse, was received this morning by Man- ager Hawkins of the White Pass and Yu- kon Railway to the effect that the river is rapidly breaking up. “The river is now open to the head of Lake Lebarge,” it states. “From the foot of Lebarge the river is open to Little Salmon. In fact, the Yukon {s open at everfi‘ point where branch streams empty in. The ice is getting very soft, and in- dications are that the river will be open to Dawson in a very few days.” Captain Connell and Purser Harris of the City of Seattle confirm other reports that there is no smallpox in Southeastern Alaska except at Sitka, and possibly a few cases at Huonah, on Chatham Straits. These cases are among the Indians. The inspection on all ships and passel s from north or south is still maintained at Skaguay and Juneau. agony on April 8 at Moose Camp, on Klu- ' tena River, l:vhflc engaged in- trmpgmm‘ s execut C. |"The fact that the crew dealt Avugust Schone of California died in | BRITONS ARE ANGRY OVER EWOD INCIDENT Firing of Germans Upon England’s Flag Causes Indignation. P e B LONDON, May 17.—The Ewo incident at Tientsin May 4, when some German sol- diers guarding e German bridge across the Peiho, at the south end of the British concession there, fired on the British tug Ewo, wounding two of her crew, after the vessel had touched the bridge, which im- peded river traffic, is assuming a graver character. Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the German commander’s ex- planations, the matter has been refarred to the British Minister at Peking, Sir Ernest Satow, with a view to diplomatic acticn being taken. Acccording to a dispatch from Peking to the London Times, published to-day, after two of the Chinese crew had been wound- ed (they have since died) the remainder were arrested, taken to a German prison and flogged. General Dorne Campbell asked General von Lessel for an explana- tion of the ‘“unwarrantable brutaiity.” Von Lessel’s reply, which has just been received, promising that the incident shall not be repeated, at least so far as the use ot arms 1s concerned, is refa.rded as quite inadequate. The Times in an editorial says; Apart from the question of the flag which the tug flew we have no hesitation in declar- ing that such punishments are out of all pro- portion to the alleged offense. We would have condemned them if they had been inflicted on cdol German flag at Kiao- o flogging proves that the German authorities deemed that something more than two lives was necessary to atone for the heinous offense of running against a German brid, ‘We will want to know who the au- thorities were who took i the law in their own it in this brutal fashion. with in this high- handed style were under the British flag intro- duces a serious factor. Vop Lessel's apology is an aggravation of the mflul wrong done us. It is not the sort of satisfaction we are likely to accept. Tientsin is not the only, place where Germans are to forget that we are their allles and not their subord! inates. The Times concludes with a condemna- tion of the various German expeditions. e e e i e Rl ) his outfit frem Valdes to the Chesna sick a week previously and had numerous fits and convulsions. His aymlnoms indi- cate that he died of cerebro spinal menin- gitis. Schone was “‘grubstaked” by Mel- vin Demrl'glat Valdes, and little was known o except that he was a pro- fessional malmr. His brother lives in Los Angcles and a sister in Alameda. u‘lfic;flilbn conm cleven tons of sait ‘River diggings. He was taken seriously | MONTANA: SMELTING CONGERNS ARE GLOSED Companies Determined Not to Grant Demand for Eight Hours. S R BUTTE, Mont, May 17.—The Colorado FLEET MAY FORCE THE DARDANELLES French to Present Mandate to Turkey on Postal Question. smelter to-day followed the example of the Butte and Boston and shut down. A meeting of the Mill and Smelter Men's Union will be held on Saturday night and ( | an effort may be made to patch up the dif- / ferences between the companies and the ¢ men The miners are said to be taking an active part in trying to effect a settle- ment, as a continuance of the shut-down at the two works may eventually result in closing -some of the mines. The com- panies adhere to_their determination not to grant the eight-hour demand to men not actively engaged in the smelter. Loses Both of His Hands. SACRAMENTO, May 17.—Thomas Den- nison, a laboring man, was knocked down d run over by a flatcar at Roseville Junction this svening and lost both of his hand: f— LO&I’DON. May 18.—“It is rumored here,” says the Constantinople corres- pondent of the Daliy News, “that an ar- rangement has been agreed upon wi by the French fleet is to rm'cl;o the '3{: danclles with a European mandate un- less Turkey yields on the postal ques- on. —_— > — Fire in College Park, SAN JOSE, May 17.—A two-story dwell- ing in College Park was burned to-night, together with its contents. It was owned by John Angis and was occupied by Mrs. George B. Wilson as a students’ rd- ing-house. All were absent at an enter- talpment and the origin of the fire is not . 'wn. Loss about 33000, insurance not OWn. ————————— The Berlin Women’s Club has 205 mem- bers. Nerves Need To feed the vital fires or they losexthe stimulants won’t do.. . _€ontrol the body. Unnatural blast on dyi all is dead. T fretting, the headaches, the nervousn digestion, neuralgia, rheumatism and heart troubles, the brain substance and forever, - Don’t wait till m youl ess, loss of the nerve-force, will disappear “I was so nervous and restless Uttle sleep, and the headaches 'mw“ xm“Md.M chords at the back of my neck to chest and arms. > Dogs ‘ors gave no reliet, but Dr. Miles’ Nervine cured me.” Mges. A. H. WiExAN, German Valley, Illa A s S e et Sold by druggists on guarantéé. Dz Mrums Mzdicar, Co. Eiknart, o8