The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1901, Page 1

"VOLUME XC—NO. 59. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1901 PRICE FIVE CENTS, MARAUDING BOERS INFEST IPE COLONY Small Parties Scattered Throughout Upper Districts. British War Secretary Tries to Prevent Publication of News of the War. L United States Embassador Choate Said to Have Left for Holland at the Reguest of Eruger to Act as Mediator. CAPE TOWN, July 28.—Boers are scat- tered throughout the upper districts of Cape Colony in small marauding parties. Some are within a few miles of Indwe. Others are around Jamestown and be- tween Molteno and Burghersdorp. Sev- eral parties are close to Cradock. It is reported that among Steyn's captured documents letters were found regarding a plan for Generals Dewet and Delarey to join forces in making a dash into Cape Colony. Replying to an appeal to the Mayor that members of the Duke of Edinburgh’s the local corps, be re- active duty after twenty Lord Kitchener has the present disturbed volunteer rifies, Jeased from months’ service, pointed out that etate of the colony makes any reduction | of the strength difficult and most unde- sirable. Caves Vacated by Boers. PRETORIA, July 28—From July 1 to July 22 the number of Boers captured, ‘wounded or were occupied by the Boers have discovered in the Lydenburg dis- hey were hurriedly vacated by occupants the when the British ap- proached. The caves were well furnished and stocked with provisions. A quantity sat was also found in is supposed that these were and rrett in a skirmish near stured twenty-five Boers | Broderick Withholds News. | LONDOXN, July 29.=The Dally Mall makes the following statement to-day: | | | | | | In consequence of the Daily Mail's publi- of the fact that the Boers killed b tein all cables ho made pressed.” Mr. Brodrick, the g the Daily Mail's ener's new plan n for “the in- d the news of by purloining War Office,” and bas v list of casu- informed the Dally he had warned the ract with the ply the paper with | r official news. Choate as a Mediator. St the we ener’s scheme “mbassador Choate has nd, says the Daily iday, but, so rumor the invitation of Mr. Kruger, m to act as mediator in 2 settlement. be supposed that a d not take place without Leyds, but if Choate > Holland, Dr. Leyds has left for Brussels, starting Satur- repressible Dr has gone the o aay No importance is attached to this rumor by the Dai for the paper refers to it edit facetious vein as a “South Afric Express MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A SACK OF SILVER Vanishes Over Night From Outside Vault of Commercial National Bank of Chicago. ! CHICAGO, July 25.—A sack of 1000 sflver dollars has disappeared from the Commercial tional Bank. It had been left outs: se vault by mistake when the bank This terious of losed for the night. is the second strange disappear- ance of a package of money belonging to this bank within a vear. Detectives are still looking for a bundle of $20,000 in bills shipped by the bank with the Adams Ex- press Company to the National State Bark st Burlington, Towa, August 17 las When the package was opened at Burlington it contained only clippings of paper. EUROPEAN TOURISTS MEET WITH MISHAPS One of Them Falls Six Hundred Fect Into a Valley While Picking Edelweiss. GENEVA, July 28.—Frederick Horrli, while picking edelweiss, fell 600 feet into & valley. 3 LUTERBRUNNER, July 28.—Herr Wur- ster, the Austrian tenor, while descend- ing the Faulhorn, fell over a precipice and lodged in a tree fifty feet down. He was rescued without being seriously hurt. LONDON, July 20.—According to a dis- patch from Berne to the Daily Mail, Ar- thur Copel Davis, a London shipowner, while climbing last Friday to the Dolden- horn Clubhouse, fell over a rock 300 feet high Will Admit Women to the College. CHICAGO, July 25.—The Rush Medical College, it was announced to-day, has de- cided co-education will be introduced in the medical school. Hereafter women will be admitted to the freshmen and sopho- more classes on a equal footing with men. rendering was 1068. Caves | SCHLEY'S CAUSE IS INJURED BY THOSE OF HIS GHAMPIONS - WHO URGE THE PEOPLE TO SEND PETITIONS TO THE PRESIDENT BAANE WOMAN BATILES WITH FIERCE BEAST Exciting Adventure of a Girl Near an Idaho Ranch. A Cougar Jumps Into Her Wagon and the Horse Runs Away. P RGN Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, July 28.—Miss Mary E. Bow- ler, aged 22 years, of-Cavendish, Idaho, had a thrilling experience last week with | an enormous cougar. The details of the story reached here to-day. Accompanied by several other members of her family, Miss Bowier had been out picking fruit in a rented orchard several miles from any house and on a ranch which was not occupied. The family lives in a newly settled country, which is thick- | ly wooded. About sunset the young wom- | an startea home in a light wagon partly filled with fruit baskets. She was to pre- pare supper, leaving the rest of the fam- |13 to follow, with a lumber wagon an hour later. About a half-mile beyond the orchard | immense cougar creep out of the brush | within ten feet of her wagon. Her horse shied and began running. The road being rough the horse could not make very fast progress. The cougar started to race, and within five minutes had jumped into the wagon, leaving only a light seat sepa- rating him from Miss Bowler. Realizing that her life depended upon her presence of mind, Miss Bowler seized her whip, which fortunately had a heavy handle. With this she repeatedly struck the cougar over tke head, sometimes with the lash’and at other times with the butt end. With her left hand she guided the frightened horse, which broke into a gal- lop, drawing the wagon over stones and stumps, which fact contributed to Miss Bowler's success in warding off the in- furiated beast, since the latter was in Ganger of being dashed out of the vehicle. Miss Bowler's object was to keep the cougar from jumping over the seat beside her until her home should be reached, when she felt sure he would jump out. Her thrilling ride lasted for over two miles. - At the edge of the woods, where her home came into view, the cougar leaped from the wagon- . the young woman was startled to see an | ) R Chief Executive Ha g o | o T ALY CAPT. R..D. EVAND, 2 = 5 OFFICERS OF THE NAVY WHO TOOK ‘A PROMINENT PART IN THE DESTRUCTION OF CEVERA'S FLEET, WHO NOW DEFEND ADMIRAL SCHLEY FROM THE CHARGES OF COWARDICE DURING THAT MEMOR- ABLE BATTLE, AND THE .CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. = = -+ s No Power Over the Naval Court of Inquiry, and to Grant the Admiral Pardon Prior to In- vestigation Would Be a Confession of Guilt by Accused CROWNINSH constructor, one gunner and two miral George Dewey. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, July 28— Some of Admiral Schley’s cham- plons are getting on dangerous ground. They are urging the peo- ple to send letters to the President de- manding protection for Schley from the Court of Inquiry and the indictment mads by the Secretary of the Navy. Schley re- quested the Court of Inquiry, and Secre- tary Long in the precept brought together the charges that have been made against the rear admiral as subjects for a full investigation. The President has no power over the court. There is only one stage in the develop- ment of such a case where the President can interpose his executive prerogative. He has the power to grant pardons in case of conviction. Schley's friends would make serious mistake to petition for the Presi- dent’s interference.s It would be regarded as a petition for the President to inter- pose executive clemeney in an {llegitimate. way and pardon the admiral without giv- ing him the trial which he has demanded.’ marine officers. It would be regarded as a confession from Schley’s friends that the indictment, as the precept is called, is a verdict to be acted upon by the President. This would be a serious misrepresenta- tion of Schley’s position. He has not found fault with the precept. It contains only the charges that have been made against him and which he desires to have investigated by the Court of Inquiry. The court was demanded by him and consti- tuted by the Navy Department because he had the right to demand an investiga- tion by his brothers in arms. Champions of Schley who are urging millions of people to write to the Presi- dent regarding. the case are injuring their hero’'s reputation more than those who made the original complaints against him. They are casting a suspicion on Schley that he needs pardon, for pardon is the only thing which can be asked for in peti- tions relating to such cases. B SCHLEY HAS TRUMP CARDS. SALT LAKE, July 28.—The Herald to- morrow will print the following: ot IELD FAILS TO CLASS ADMIRAL DEWEY AMONG THE OFFICERS ADVANCED FOR WAR SERVICE N AN interview with a Call correspondent at Washington last Wednesday, Chief Crowninshield of the Bureau of Navigation said in refercnce to the Schley-Smmpson controversy: : “I am glad that the controversy is at last to be ended. presented for submitting of evidence to the court which will establish whether the item, ‘Burean of Fabrication,’ applied by some partisans to this bureau, is a proper one for the Bureau of Navigation.” Crowninskield also insisted that Zis bureau has been entirely fair throughout the whole discussion. In view of Crowninshield’s r:cent utterances it will be interesting to note that the July register of the United States navy designates in italics the names of a large number of officers who have been ad- vanced for war service in the war with Spain or other war service. nated five are rear admirals, twelve captains, twenty-one commanders, twelve leutenant commanders, fourteen lieutenants, seven junior licutenants, one. ensign, one surgeon, two paymasters, one naval There is one apparent omission in this list in that the name of George Dewey, No. 1 on the register, appears in ordinary type, and it is commonly be- lieved that he distinguished himeself in the war with Spain, thereby gaining the rank of admiral. The register is under the immediate supervision of the Bureau of Navigation, and it is possible that Rear Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau, has some good reason for the apparent slight to Ad- I am also glad that an oppertunity may be Of those thus prominently desig- ey 3 Captain Thomas F. Schley, eldest son of Admiral Winfield S. Schley, who is sta- tioned at Fort Douglass in this city, yes- terday outlined some points that will be breught out in the Court of Inquiry as to his father’s conduct at the battle of San- tlago. He declared that some startling facts will be brought to light if the whole truth shall become known and that the reputations of persons other than his father are likely to suffer. “I have just written to my father,” said Captain Schley yesterday, “that I thought he ought to spare nobody, and that he should withhold none of the facts in his possession about Admiral Sampson “or anybody else.;” Captain Schley is an officer of the Twenty-third Infantry, in command at Fort Douglass. Although he has not had a letter from his father since the Court of Inquiry was ordered he is familiar with the question at issue, and pointed out Continued on Page Two. | | — | STARVING MAN INSANE ON Hl3 JGLAND PRISON Marooned Japanese Is Found by an Indian Fisherman. —_—— | Brutal Captors Leave Him on a Barren Rock Near Nanaimo. L Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., July 28.—Bruised by a beating and emaciated from absolute starvation for five days, a Japanese fish- | erman was brought to this city to-day. He | was picked up by an Indian fisherman | from a small and uninhabited island lying | between here and Nanaimo. The Japanese was carried to the hospi- tal here and will probably regain ais| health in a week. He was insane wken | found and was vainly trying to batter | down the walls of the cabin where he ad | been confined on the little island where he was marooned. The Japanese was in a horrible condition. He told his story through an interpreter to the police tais afternoon. Last Sunday he left Steveston in a flsh- ing boat and was out all that night and all day Monday. On Monday night he says he was met by a boatload of white fishor- men, who told him to quit fishing. He saw them again after he had pulled in some fish. They were angry with him for fishing on account of the strike which was at that time being settled. They struck him on the head and when he became ccn- scious he found that his boat was gone, having been sivashed in and sunk. and his net and oars had been cut up and thrown overboard. On Tuesday morning they landed him on a rocky island just west of Bowen Island and well out of the way of any passing boats. The captors put him in a little shanty and there he remained almost unable to move. He remembers trying to get cut and obtain some water. Then he became weaker and the third and fourth days lay on the ground most of the time. Octa- sionally he saw a fishing boat away in the distance but was unable to give any signal. There is no clew to the perpetra- tors of the marooning. — e Munificent Gift to the Church. LONDON, July 28.—Baron Mount Ste- phen announces a gift of £40,000 to the Presbyterian church of Scotland, the in- come to go to the ministers in his native district of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. LOTTERY TAKES THE PLAGE OF RUN FOR LAND One Homeseeker in Thir- teen Has a Chance of Winning. Drawing for Opening of the Kiowa-Comanche Reser- vation Begins To-Day. Thirteen Thousand Claims Are to Be Distributed and Registrations Number One Hundred and Seventy Thousand. st = s EL RENO, O. T., July 28.—All is ex- pectancy to-night among the thousands of homeseekers here over the grand land lot- tery that begins to-morrow. There are 13,000 claims to be distributed, and so each of the 165,865 persons who have registered during the past fiteen days have about one chance In thirteen of winning. It is a long shot, but every one apparently feels con- fident of being numbered among the lucky, and in consequence good nature prevails. The scene lacks the great excitement of the “run” which has heretofore been a part of other land openings in this part of the country, but the last act in the throw- ing open to settlement of the Eliowa-Co- manche reservations will not be without life and animation. The drawing will take place in the center of the city and will be witnessed by thousands of people. It will be accomplished on a large plat- form in the open around which the slop- ing hillsides form a natural amphitheater. A commission appointed last week by See- retary Hitchcock and composed of Will- jam A. Richards, assistant commissioner of the general land office, and who has had charge of the registration; D. P. Dy- er of St. Louis, former United States Dis- trict Attorney, and Frank Dale, ex-Chief | Justice of Oklahoma. Anxiety of the Applicants. The situation here upon the eve of the eventful day is quiet, but one can see evidences of expectant anxlety. There are probably 5000 strangers here now and all Jncoming trains are loaded. Several dele- ‘gations have been organized and paraded the streets. The drawing will commence promptly at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. The registration by land districts as ap- proved by the commissioners is Lawton district, 38,000, and El Reno district, 79,000, making a total of 167,000 registrations. These figures were given out by a clerk in the Government employ. It is thought that the largest crowd, will be here to- morrow of any day since the opening of registration. But 500 names will be drawn to-morrow for each of the two land- dis- tricts. Land Inspected Beforehand. After the first day the drawing will pro- ceed with greater rapidity, and it is ex- pected that the last envelope will have been drawn by Thursday night next. The lucky ones will be permitted to file on a claim in the order that their numbers have been drawn from the wheel. All ap- plicants for homesteads have been per- mitted to Inspect the land beforehand, to select a claim in case he should bs lucky enough to draw a number. Besides the three commissioners ap- pointed to superintend the drawing and the men who will draw the envelopes from the wheel space on the platform will be provided for newspaper representa- tives. Representative Richards declines to- night to disclose the names of the ‘ten men who will draw the numbers from the wheel, and said the selection would not be made until just before the drawing be- gins. INDIANS SEEKING LANDS. Under Law They Can Make Their Own Selections. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 28.—Keo Tuck, a Sac Indian, has given notice at the Land Office of El Reno of his intention to file upon the quarter section of land adjoining the townsite of Lawton, which will be the principal town in the new county of Kiowa and Comanche reserva- tions. This Is probably the most valu- able tract out of the entire 13,000 acres to be entered. The application is made under a section of the United States Statutes passed in 1387, which gives to every homeless Indian the right to go to any part of the public domain and to make entry for any tract of land that is not in the possession of a homesteader. The section has never been repealed. and the right of the Indians who have no al- lotments or who were omitted from the tribal rolls, is one that it is stated they can exercise at any time. With Ko Tuck there were sixty mem- bers of the Sac and Fox tribes who pro- pose to make filings, and attorneys throughout the cotintry are searching for other Indians who have lost their tribal relations and who have not secured pub- Heation of homestead, tracts. It is be- lieved there are 530 in the two local tribes who can secure such claims in advance of the ones who have registered by sim- ply making their filings. The plan is to select the lands they de- sire and then go into court and ask for a restraining order to prevent the regis- ters and receivers from aceepting filings on the tracts selected. This will, if suc- cessful, give the Indians time to perfect their title to the best quarter sections of land in the new county. Crispi in Worse Condition. NAPLES, July 28.—The bulletin issued late’ to-night regarding the condition of Signor Crispi says the heart trouble is increasing.