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THE SAN IRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1902 HOLDS UP NOMINATIONS FOR ARMY PROMOTIONS Senate Committee to Investigate Complaints That Great Injustice Is Done. CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE OF ARMY OFFICERS. ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, COMPLAINTS OF INJUS- MEROL WHICH WILL INVESTIGATE NU TICE IN THE PROMOTION i ASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The Senate Committee on Milita Affairs has held up pending an estigation all of the army ominations sent in before the ecess below the grade of major. The nembers of the committee have received merous complaints about the method he selection of officers under the re- is asserted tha* been done to officers who have served quite a long time. Com- siaint has been made that the men werc elected from those who formerly served volunteers to fill original wvacancies, d that they became captains as scon as Ley were appointed. »rganization it is alleged, waited months before aceept- commissions, which date th 1ce’ of any numbers above West Point gradu- ates and others appointed from the vol- unteers, who entered the service and did m acceptance were enjoying them- selves or interests. Another aliegation is th large num- ber of men appointed under the reorgani- zation law immediately became captains of artillery and were placed in charge of guns and machinery of which they had no knowledge. To obviate this difficulty to some extent the Secretary of War, with the approval of the Committee on Military Aff4irs, obtained the resignation of seventeen second lieutenants of artil- lery, who thereupon were named to fiil origina s as first lieutenants in other of service, and in some instances very soon were made cap- tains. It is expected that the sub-committee om the time the appointment was made, which 1 ting the subject of re- a etermined by the dats ccnt promotions will be ready to report | jon. This gives them abopt the ti soersdcadty MANY FRIENDS PAY LAST 1 SAD TRIBUTE OF B.ESPECT} Funeral of the Late George W. Jack- son, at Sacramento, Is Largely Attended. | Dec. SACRAME:! TO, Jac! cultural Society, took place 28.—The funeral | secretary of | L | | his afternoon from his late residence at | Yenth and T stre The services were | onducted by the local lodge of Elks, of | shich was a past exalted ruler. | Jackson >. L. Miel read the burial ritual of -opal church. | rment was in the city cemetery and | “rank Lyman, Richa Kimbrou, Mackey and B. U. Steinman o and G. W. Kingshury rancisco. of ADVERTISEMENTS. | 0il Heaters No Smoke No Gdors No Ashes Safe Economical nfl:“n or “El'ie” . W. 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While some of the rebels battered the gates another body surprised the outer fortress, but the soldiers fought desperately and ultimately defeated the Boxers, killing many and capturing some. Had the fort been captured by the Boxe; the city would have been at the mercy of the invaders. The captives were tor- tured and from information given under this pressure several citizens were ar- rested, charged with being in league with the reb nd all were beheaded. Before the execution a messenger arrived from | th Boxers demanding the release of the prisoners. a cage. Hu Nan correspondents of the Shanghai papers send particulars regarding the ex The messenger was hanged in MAY NOT AGGEPT PLACE ON BENCH W. I. Foley Not Anxious to Succeed the Late Jackson Temple. S S Intimates That He Intends to Decline the Position Tendered Him. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 28.—W. L Foley, who has been tendered the position on the Supreme bench made vacant by the death | of Justice Jackson Temple, may not ac- cept it. He said this to-Gay in an inter- w, in which he told more of himself o | ana his plans than the people of the cap- ave known regarding him dur- | ing his four years’ residence in this city. | Foley spoke with evident sincerity con- | cerning himself and his plans for his four young children, one of whom is a con- firmed invalid, and who by their mother's Geath have been left entirely to his pro- tection and care. The conversation re- vealed a glimpse of Secretary Foley's life with which the general public has cer- tainly been entirely unfamiliar. During the past four ars Foley has seldom been seen in a public gathering of any sort. He has taken no part in the life of the city, and it must be said that he has not been popular with those hav- g business with the Governor's office. % possessed of special ability along any | lines he has never taken the pains pub- | licly to reveal it, nor has any one appar- { ently considered it worth while to dis- | cover and proclaim it. He has led a si- | ital ci lent, solitary life except for the society | 02 his young children, one or more of wkom could every day be seen in his company. While discour- teous to inquire he has never been | known to volunteer any information con- cerning himself or the public acts of his | chief. That he should have spoken with such freedom this afternoon is on this account a matter of no small surprise. | MAY DECLINE THE HONOR. Foley said it was a fact that he had been offered by Governor Gage appoini- ment to the place on the Supreme bench made vacant by the death of Justics Jackson Temple, but that the fact shouid hdve become public was not due to any of his. He said that perhaps every act lawyer has an ambition to occupy a place of honor upon the bench, but this was ! not the first time he had been tendered | honors by Governor Gage, which he had respectfully declined. He said his sole ambition was to do whatever seemed best for the four young children who had been left motherless to his care, and he be-| lieved he could do better by these chil- dren in declining an honor which the most _distinguished member of the bar would gladly seize. He stated that George A. Knight had in August last resigned as attorney to the State Board of Health | and that the Governor had offered him | this position, but he had declined it. It | “may be said parenthetically that this is | the first Intimation given out at the cap- itai that Knight had resigned. The salary i $3000 a vear and the term four years. Foley said that in 1899, soon after he| assumed his duties as private secretar he was offered by Governor Gage appoint- ment to a vacancy on the Superlor bench of Los Angeles County, but he believed that he could do better for himself and | his children by remaining at his post in the office of the Governor. | DOES NOT COVET THE PLACE. He said Governor Gage had offered to take him into partnership at the expira- tion of his term in the practice of law in | | Los Angeles, and that he looked upon this offer with more favor even than the tender of an appointment as a Justice of | the Supreme Court. He believed that it | gave promise of a better future for him- self and for the littie ones, to whom he | has been since the death in his family in | a sense both father and mother. Foley frrther said that he did not desire to an- | ticipate the formal answer he would give the Governor by making a positive decla- ration at this time with re: ct to his ac- tion on the tender made him, but his words and his manner gave the impres- | sion that he meant what he said when he i declared that the opportunity to become a law partner of Governor Gage seemed ! to offer what was best for himself and { his little ones, and that the position of a Justice of the Sppreme Court claimed o | | special favor in his eyes, situated as he | was, . In conciuding the interview Foley made this significant statement: “In the event of my declination it is'not out of a pos- sibility that the vacancy caused by Jus- tice Temple's death might be filled by | Governor-elect Pardee. 1 do not know | the Governor’s views, but I do know that | pleasant relations exist between him and ccessor, and J venture to say it is ! a political possibility that Governor-elect | Pardee will make the appointment.” | George A. Knight could not be located {in town last night, but Mrs. Knight did | not believe her husband had resigned as | | attorney of the State Board of Health, He | had never spoken of it to her, and if he | had resigned she felt sure she would have | | known it. | MINISTER LI YONGIK | IS STILL IN DISGRACE ecution of Major Liu, the Chenchou mil- | itary official, who refused to protect the | murdered missionaries, Bruce and Lewls, | from the mob and whose execution was | demanded by the British Government and | China forced to accede after a naval | demonstration at Hankow. The con-| Loses His Emblems of High Author- ity, but Still Comm.nds the Korean Guards. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 25.—Advices re- celved here from Korea announce that a Convenient | in a chair after being taken before the Governor and British representatives, to a place outside the city walls, where he was beheaded. He was clad in his official robes. The execution was witnessed b, a large number of foreigners from t tower over the city gate. After the ex- ecution the remains were wrapped in a red wrapper by the magistrates and all day a continual line of people swept by the coffin. Before leaving Peking en route to ‘Washington Su Liang Cheng, who will replace Wu Ting Fang as Chinese Min- ister to the United States, was given a thousand taels and a large bouquet by | the Empress Dowager, with whom he was n audience for some hours. ! News was received from Bangkok of a | collision in the mouth of the Menam | River between the North German Lloyd | steamer Phra Chom Klao and the Eas | Indian Comp: steamer Kelantan, the | | | 1 | demned man was taken from the Yamen { | latter sinking in a few minutes. No ltves ‘were lost. The bark Aberystwick Castle, which was dismasted 250 miles off Yokohama on | a voyage from the Celebes to Eureka, as before reported, has been sold to Japan { at Yokohama and the crew sent to New York. ‘Will Prospect Mining Ground. GRIDLEY, Dec. 28.—The American Gold Dredging Company, owners of sub-aque- ous dredgers on Feather River, north. west of here_ shipped to Redding to-day a drilling outfit, with which it is proposed to prospect mining 2};vund near the northern town lately bohded by the com- pany. If the ground shows up well the section may become a dredging district like the Oroville region. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Dec. 28.—Governor Dockery to-day offered a reward of $3C0 each for the mrrest and conviction of the men who rh?l‘hbed the bank at Union, Mo., Saturday morn- | | great scandal has resulted at Seoul over the disgrace of Li Yongik, Minister of Fi- nance, whose peacock feathers and other | emblems of high authority have been re- moved. This means that he ceases to be the head of the Imperiat Estates Bureau head of the Imperial Printing Bureau and head of the Ginseng administration. Three charges are preferred against Li Yongik; first that he used outrageous lan- guage toward a member of a highly re- spectable family: secondly, that he called | himselt “subject” in addressing Lady On | lately created Empress of Korea, where. as under Korean laws any one calling himself ‘“subject” of any person other than the Emperor is supposed to be a | conspirator; thirdly, that he played into the hands of Russia to the detriment of Korean interests. The Emperor refused to entirely dismiss Li Yongik and he con- tinues commander of the Imperial Guards. TWO CHINESE STEAMERS COLLIDE AND ONE SINKS Sixty Sailors and Passengers Are Missing and It Is Believed They Are Drowned. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 28.—News was brought by the steamer Tartar, which ar- rived to-day; of a disaster in the Malacca Straits, as a result of which sixty lives were lost. The Tokio Ahi publishes a tel- egram from Hongkong stating that the | steamer Bunsang was in collision with | the steamer Kiang Yan in the Malacca | Straits and the Kiang Yan was sunk, Sixty sailors and passengers are missing, Dispatches from Hakodate report that an outbreak of fire occurred 'on board the Iwanai Steamship Company’s sieamer Hokuun Maru, off the coast of Suttsu, on December 3, and the vessel was sunk, eighteen of the crew losing their lives. WILSON WHISKEY. THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. BOTH MEN FALL BADLY WOUNDED |Redding Husband Shot, - by Brring Wife’s Friend. Special Dispatch to The Cail, REDDING, Dec. 2.—William Turpin and Burt Law are under surgical treat- ment in this city to-night for wounds re- ceived this morning in a shooting affriiy at the home of Turpin in the Boardman Addition to Redding. The wounds of neither are necessarily fatal. Turpin was fotind in the rear of the Golden Eagle Hotel carly this morning, bleeding profusely and faint from the loss of blood and the intense cold. le was removed to the hotel, where later his wounds were dressed. His chin was al- most entirely shot away, his shoulder- blade shattered and several teeth were shot out. Turpin, who had been at V lows visiting his mother, arrived in Red- ding this marning and proceeded to his home in the Boardman Addition to see his wife. He says the door was locked and he proceeded to force an entrance. As he did so young Law, who was in the house, grabbed a double barrelea shotgun and began shooting. He was only about five feet from Turpin when he fired. The first charge of shot tore through Turpin’s lower jaw and passed into his shoulder. Turpin fell to the floor, but succeeded in regaining his feet and drew his revolver. The blood was stream- ing into his eyes and although his aim was bad he succeeded in sending a bullet into the fleshy part of Law's leg. After emptying his revolver Turpin started up town. He dragged himself for twelve blocks and sank exhausted in the rear of the hotel, where he was picked up. Law went back to his room and there re- ceived surgical treatment. He was ar- rested later and placed in the County Jail. Turpin claims Law has been trying to break up his home while Law and . Turpin claim that Turpin deserted the woman several months ago. Bad blood has existed between the two men for some time. VOLUNTEER FIREMEN ARE BADLY INJURED Section of Burning Building Falls and They Are Buried Under tke Timbers. REDDING, Dec. 25.—Word has just | been received of a probably fatal fire at Pittville, sixty miles east of Redding, the morning before Christmas, The A. A. Baker store, the largest in the little town, was completely destroyed. Two persons, an Indian named Joe and a man whose name is not known here, are said to have received injuries from which they cannot recover. They were acting as vol- unteer firemen and a section of the buila- ing fell on top of them, pinning them down. The fire was a heavy blow, not only to the Baker Company, but to nearly every family in Pittville. The store was the headquarters for the holiday trade and hundreds of dollars’ worth of presents that had been purchased and paid for by residents of the to and left at the store until Christmas. were destroyed. Many a child in Pittville did not have a visit from Santa CRus as a result of the fire. There was no insurance - on store. Sotel o Japanese Sealers Have a Good Season VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 28.—The Japan- | ese sealers had a profitable season, al- though four vessels of the fleet of nine- teen were lost, three of them, it is be- lieved, with all on board, although there were rumors that the men of one, the Tanya Maru, have been seized by the Russians. The total catch of schooners forming the Japanese fleet amounts to 12,621 skins. o — Canada’s forests are found to ‘be equal to supplying the world with pulp wood alone for 840 years on the basis of 1,500,000 tons of manufactured pulp a year. 1 the Baltimore, Md. \ ' That’s All! ELECTRIC SHOCK KILLS A BAKER Wire Attached to Lamp He Was Using Is Not Insulated. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 28.—John G. Buss, who was found dead in his bakery in Mill Valley last night, was killed by an electric light wire. Russ was in the habit of using a sixteen candlepower lamp to throw light into his oven so that he might see if the bread was baked. The insulation was worn off of a portion of the wire and when the wire came in con~ tact with, the iron of the ovca Saturday night Buss, who was standing in his bare feet on a concrete floor in front of the oven, received 110 volts through his body. Buss was troubled with heart disease and the shock killed him. He was found at 10:15 p. m. lying face down on the floor and dead. A Coroner's inquest was held this after- noon and the verdict rendered was to the effect that Buss came to his death from an electric shock. During the course of the investigation it developed that Buss was not the only one who received elec- tric shocks last night in Mill Valley and evening that there was a leakage of elec- tricity in his house. About 5 o’clock Mrs. | Buss was turning on the electricity in her home and received two severe shocks.: Rev. H. Howitt was also injured by an electric current last night. He was turn- ing on the lights in his parsonage when he received a severe shock. Thinking it ‘was through carelessness in handling ths lamp, he made another attempt. The sec- ond time he received a severe burn. John G. Buss was well known in San Francisco, having conducted a bakery on the corner of Eilis and Leavenworth streets for several years. For the past few years, however, he has been a resi- dent of Mill Valley. He was 50 years old and married. DEATH SUDDENLY COMES TO A NOTED CHARACTER Thomas H. Jeffries Dies in the Chi- nese Quarter of Oroville After a Checkered Ca-eer. GRIDLEY, Dec. 28.—Thomas H. fries, an old resident of Oroville, Jef- was nese quarter. -Heart faflure is assigned as the cause of death. Jeffries was a native of Virginia and 8 years old. His career had been a check- ered one. He was a member of a gang of thieves that infested Oroville during (h early '80's, and when the brutal murdel of a restaurant keeper named Miller was committed he was arrested with several others and charged with complicity in the crime. Though he was not convicted guiity and sentenced to five years prison. turned to Oroville. He became the owner of considerable property in the tenderloin district, from which he derived quite an income. After getting out of prison he led a quiet life and professed religion. —_— EKOREAN GOVERNMENT MUST PAY THE CLAIMS United States Minister at Seoul Looking Out for Intérests of American Contractors. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 28.—The steam- ship Lyra brings the news that the Unit- ed States representative at Seoul is press- ing upon the Korean Government the claims of the Atlantic Coast firm which constructed the Seoul waterworks and eleetric street railways. Minister Allen {insists that if Korea cannot discharge her liabilities in conection with these en- terprses they ought to be handed over to the American firm which built them. Un- ,der American management both enter- i prises could be made to pay handsomely, in also that he was aware earlier in the | found dead Saturday morning in the Chi- | He served out his term and re- | he 'was tried on another charge, found | | ' | - Her cargo was not damaged. ably will be necessary for her to dock at | oiorators Ryan will attend the conven ARMY TRANSPORT MINERS TO ASK aTRIKES ON ROCK Disaster to the Sher- man Off Southern Luzon. MANILA, Dec. 25.—The United States army transport Sherman struck a rock near San Bernardino light, south of Lu- zZon, on F¥riday night. The transport sustained a heavy shock and some of her plates were damaged. After the accident twenty-three inches of water was found in hér forwara bilges, but was controlled by steady pumping. The steamer pro- ceeded to Manila under her own steam and arrived here to-day. When the Sherman struck the pas- sengers were terrified, but there was no disorder. They promptly took to their stations, with life preservers on, in the small boats. The officers of the Sher- man handled the situation splendidly. It prob- Hongkong. The census of 1900 shows that there are 13,157 negroes to every 100,000 whites, com- pared with 13,579 in 1890. FOR MORE PAY Action Will Be Taken at the National Convention. Special Dispatch to The Call. SPRINGFIELD, IlL, Dec. 28.—W. D. Ryan, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers’ Union of Illlinois, in a statement to-day says that the miners of the United States will make a demand for a material increase In wages at the national convention at Indianapolis on January 19. Ryan says that the opera- tars are receiving a larger price for coal than ever before and they cannot maks the excuse that the mines are not paying expenses. Ryan says that the convantion will pro- duce figures to show the total cost of mining a ton of coal and give the public an idea of the profit being reaped by the tion and no doubt will lead the fight for higher wages. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Cornelius Vanderbilt continues to improve. HAPPENED LAST YEAR ? able —_— Everything Under the Sun in Nex! Sunday’s Call O YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT Do you want to know everything about anything that took place in the year just gome? Do you know in what month the most things happen all over the world | every year and why? Do you know on what particular day of the - ! year all these strange things take place as they do? Do you know, for instance, that every nation on the globe must now make war according to fixed rules, and that those rules were only made last year? Do you know what those rules how many airships really worked last year, or the remark- are? Do you know ers? dous accident last year of course you think of the lives lost at Mont Pelee, but was that the biggest accident? know when and where and how the biggest disaster occurred? know what was the strangest crime on record? Do you want know the latest records for everything in love and war, finance, science, \ art, crime, in short, EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN FOR THE PAST YEAR? Well, then, just get the SUNDAY CALL of January 4, 1903. It will be the most astonishing fount of knowledge you ever saw. There is absolutely no event of any importance whatever that is not recorded in THE SUNDAY CALL’S TABULATED REVIEW OF % ~ away—a bureau of ready information always at hand. If you want to read simply for amusement youw’ll be surprised over the number of things you have forgotten or have never even heard about. However, as this original and unique review is a special plement in itself, the SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE contains so many features besides. Just read about some of them. Have you fathomed the strange personality of the author of THE “COLONEL KATE” PAPERS yet? The next brilliantly satiri- cal article will be, “THE WOMAN WHO WO00S OVER A DISH.” b In the line of fiction you will get one of the best short stories ever written, “A CHILD OF CHRISTMAS,” by JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. Ancther splendid achievement is THE SUN- DAY CALL’S NOVELTY ART CALENDAR for 1903. It gives you three calendars in one—a big one for a mural decoration, a smaller one for your desk, and a compact and complete calendar for your watch case. Think of it. % Then there are entertaining and absorbing news features ga- lore. Chilaren’s unique travestry of Cleopatra, odd fads in jewelry, the pathetic adventures of a Yaqui Indian girl, the secret of good looks, how the Czarina’s loneliness was cheered by American gowns, ete., ete. 3 Then there are seven new puzzles for children and grown as well and a brand new game, “MANILA TO THE ( A GATE.” YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS ANY OF THESE -i.——.—_—.—— sup- ever N