The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1903, Page 1

Call, VOLUME XCI~NQ 64. FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY o =y 1903. FORCES ARE ANNIHILATED Sultan’s Troops Surprise Buhamara and FIRE SPHERE | FROM SKIES - BENDS WAL His Men. Kiil or Capture All of fi | Remarkable Phe- | nomenon in Shasta. —_— 3 Meteor-Like Ball Ex- plodes and Shakes a the Towns. People Near Anderson Are Amazed by Visitor From the Central Blue. Special Dispatch to The Call. | REDDING, Feb. 1.—One of the strang- | est freaks in electrical phenomena that has ever been reported in Northern Cali- fornla occurréd last evening about 8 o'clock. During the day the thermometer had lowered and about 4 o'clock there | was a slight fall of snow. After the sup- | | per hour the snow and ratn ceased. There | | had been no thunder nor lightning dur- | | | ing the day nor during the present storm. | | Suddenly and without warning from what | | appeared a clear spot in the heavy bank | of clouds overhead, a brilitant ball of fire “ shot from the heavens and struck the | i | ground in a farm about two miles east of Anderson. The illumination was plain- Iy visible in Redding, thirteen miles dis- | tant. A few seconds after the descent of the fire ball there was a loud report as of a | mighty explosion. The shock was felt in | Reddiug,. where w:t%l‘ rattled and houses shook. Ia (i€ town of Ander<on | the people were pahic-strieken, Glass in | windows was crashed, walls were broken, | houses rocked as though tossed by an earthquake, and telephone, telegraph and electric light wires were put out of action for a time. | Where the ball of fire struck, the ground | was badly torn, and the inhabitants of | | % Ll MOROCCO'S RULER AND LEAD- ER, WHO DESTROYED THE PRETENDER'S POWER. + and the artillery which was lost by the Sultan’s army in the battle of December 23 was recaptured. | the farm, who lived about half a mile | Even if Buhamara escaped it is|from the spot, were shaken up. The phe- | S ; | nomenon had ail the appearance, while hopeless for him to seek to re-| faliing, of a brilfant meteor, but w accompanied by a roar like thunder, and | | there is no meteoric matter visible where | |1t struck. In Redding the fuse-boxes In The details regarding the hats | the CHREN) SThirohne . dflice: ogs A1 P Z el .. | blown out almost simultaneously with tle are meager, hut. it is known | the report, and the operators were badly | that the pretender’s camp was | 5 frightened. surprised and rushed at dawn, | trieve his defeat, as his claim that | he is a saint is exploded. A strange feature in connection with | this phenomenon is that about an hour be. | Z : : I'here is great rejoicing here over | fore it happened what appeared to be a | {GIER, Feb. 1.—The capturing Buhamara. the Sultan’s victory. e R AE Aepended ‘om0, clond 4 G R i e e w2 : e & . Bkt .| cast sky in the wicinity of Bear Mountain | tro have ut- Another runner who has ar- LONDON, Feb. 2—A dis- | eighteen miles north of Redding. There | " e forces of rived here from Fez confirms patch from Tangier to the Morn- | ¥% N report following this and no par 2 : : ik X i 4 5 | ticular attention was given to it by « ‘ pretender the news of the defeat of ing Leader mentions a circum-| nesses until after the incident ne. .‘| “Mv 3 pture hamara himself. the rebels, but -says that the stantial report current in that city | 9erson. Then people began to wonder, | 7 S e 2 1 J - |and the superstitious, bei ady | o vho arriv - rej 0 aptur: Sty Hhat Buhamars wias sl . being already | r who arri e.d to- report of : the capture of the (ll-\ I.h«n Buhamara was taken to| wrougnt up by the terrible storm and - making a record jour- pretender is incorrect. He adds Fez in a cage and exposed to | floods, engaged in prayer and prepared | ym Fez. brought the news that it is ~ : . % a- .. S ; | for the oft-foretold coming of the end of Sk t is uncertain whether Bu- public :lc'nfmp, Tlhc dispatch | the world. To-day opened bright and | 1 evening. He reports that at hamara’s body was among the adds that it is impossible to ascer- | clear, but with the heaviest fall of snow | daybreak on Thursday the army great number of slain. tain the truth and attributes the | py, ::::::l ':;:km,f;‘,',""“"‘al"s B ehae the Sultan, commanded by the The Sultan’s victory was abso- Sultan’s victory more to his : | : B R s z s o . % + ! ” 1 Minister, EI Menebhi, at- lute, almost the entire following bribery of the tribes than to mili- | RUSSIA'S NEW TARIFE | tacked . the pretender’s position of the pretender being either slain tary tactics. The bribed rebels e 2 R | a o 1 - M H : i e { cted 2 complete defeat on or captured. His camp, provis- suddenly abaridoned the pretend-| ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 1.—The Novoe | s followers, at the same time ions and ammunition were taken er’s standard. | Vapinxd glEnpanes un article i which it} IR ¥, A R er e oot % G < ‘mlalyzes the new Russian customs tariff, @ i it I e 2 e e e S e 2 ieieriieiiiimoiim i~} @ | which was promulgated on June 25, The | TWO VESSELS JTRIKE SHORE DURING GALES Crew of the Norwegian Steamship Avona Is Lost. PRELATE HITS AT THE DAKOTA DWORCE MILL Cardinal Gibbons De- plores Growth of an Evil, ‘ —— BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.—Preaching at the | LONDO! eb. 1.—-The Norwegian ARl o rist, the only enduring | teamership Avona, Captain Dreyer, from | New Orleans, for Aarhuus, at Dartmouth January at Lemvig, Denmark. which called 28, has gone Three boats me ir only true re- 1l Gibbons to- warning in a dis- six bodies have been washed ashore. | = number of divorce 4 5 |1t is feared that the remainder of th» r crew were drowned. here i « more blight- | . i . = aoil > mily it | The Danish steamship Captain Mormonism,” said he. “It is the | KTU% from Stettin. for Boston. has gonc increasing number of divoree | *POT€ 8t Cruden, twerty-five miles from it e Dabted Stass | Aberdeen, and iz compie And as if the differen . 1 Two of the crew were & s bt SO “|captain and the remalncer of the crew pepis, = RS vere saved. Rowgh - w prevails . e A has the | around the British cousts. A lifeboat e & . ol divorce | cros<ing Swansea Bay o assisy a vessel for the mere i, 0n the sole con. | In distress, was caught in a squall and Journ within her ber- | copsized. $ix of the lifeboat men per- ishied. > 11t was thought he would recover. paper says the increase in rates over the existing tariff is 30 per cent for the great majority of imports and more than 100 per cent for many groups, among the lat- ter being delicatessen and various manu- factures of wood, leather and metals. The tariff, it continues, is characterized by a | mere detailed differentiation, whereby the lower priced articles are taxed less than the higher priced ones. The paper points out that all of Ger- many’s leading exports to Russia will pe | taxed under the new tarlff 5 to 150 per | cent above the treaty rates, and in con- clusion observes that Russia is now suf- ficlently equipped for a discussion with Germany. The new rates, if applied, will seriously cripple mutual commerce, but the paper hopes that mutual concessions will gbviate a tariff struggle. UES S Royal Eloper Coming to America. PARIS, Feb. 1.—A dispatch to the | special | Matin from Mentone says that the Crown |from Dawson City savs that the first| Princess of Saxony and M. Giron intepd Nome advices over the ice arrived to-day, | going to the United States. | being more ‘than three months en oot | @ ettt ° el @ | The latest advices are dated Novembor |26, The Arctic ice pack came opposite | Seven are dead in Machuck. The popula- ome on November 2 The wind was | tion of Nome is 1200 less than last winter. | holding off the pack, with prospects of | The Oregon and Laramie bench claims, the sea freezing smooth along the shore, | on Oregon Creek, have been bonded to | Commissloner Gunderson was reported | W. C. Wilkins for $100,000. The Prouty quartz mine, near BIuff City, has been geriously il with pneumonia and hemor- rhages at Kougarok on November 25, but [ bended for $15.000. Pay dirt has been found on Willow and Camp Creeks in Natives on Fox Creek and in Machuck { Norton Bay. Barney Cole has reached lare ill and destitute from exposure and | Nome from Siberla and says promising {lack of nourishment and need medical | preepects have been found in St. Law- | aid. Tt is feared they will perish during | rence Bay. American miners there are [ the severe weather. The Nome health | hopeful and satisfled to stay. Cole will officers are caring for some natives. | rewurn, NATIVES PERSH 1N THE SHOWS NEAR NOME i ‘Belated News Comes From the Northern Mining Town. SEATTLE, Wash.,, Feb. 1.—A i l | ognized as Venezuela’s | footing and Venezuelan Predicts PRICE FIVE CENTS. CASTRO REPLIES TO ALLIED POWERS, REFUSINGTO ACCEPT THEIR TERMS MOROCCAN PRETENDER’S World War and Threatens to Seize Trinidad. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the Herald Publishing Company. ARACAS, Feb. 1.—President Castro this afternoon received m expressed a willingness to grant an interview for publication in f uation between Venezuela and the blockading powers. “I cannot grasp the news from Washington. be made the pretext for a world war. I have answered, however, the d ment as follows: “The Venezuelan Government desires equal treatment for every cred the same time keeping in mind and respecting its previous diplomatic agréement “Yet I am hopeful of a peaceable outcome. We will exhaust all peaceful means, with the understanding that when not give in, but fight. “The way we will set about it will"demonstrate that we have as well as diplomatic procedure—not as taught, but practiced—by some great powers “The sitnation reminds me of what happened once in my out a testament, to the disappointment of expectant heirs, A string was tied about the dead man’s neck, so that w great scoundrel. mative nod was given. ““You leave your cattle to Maximo? “In answer to each of these questions the string was pulle Then came the bequest of the notary, when the person holding the string “‘Oh,” said the notary, threatening to tear up the paper, ‘the string must be pulled for he Your hacienda to M body or there will be no testament.’ “Perhaps there will be no testament with Venezuela but wa “We have concluded that if there is no honor among n Bowen has cabled me to be prud Andes home ons or vir rafloras Palace he Call concerning the He said: I fear that the Venezu n conflict will itial and for fere pr has | lez A ric vith » con coffee coffec irmative fo! got to p not shr 1 which I do > in it rnatio al Irini ments we must defend ourselves, and to insure tranquillity we must take possession dnd other adjacent places from which, with the consent of an unfriendly power, filibustering exp tions have started and have made Venezuela welter in blood. “The Ban Righ, which sailed from England, and the expedition under command of General Caribe Vidal, which sailed from Trinidad, landing arms two weeks ago at Higuerote, would cost England as much as the Alabama claims if we had equal rights with the strong.’ “JrASHINGTON, Feb. 1.— |special to the World says: Baron Speck | Fe ~In reply te Propositlons involving a | von Sternberg’s inquiries and observa N n as to compromise of the allied powers' contention for preferential treatment in the settlement of their claims against Venezuela have been sub- mitted to the governments of Great Brit- ain, Germany and Italy by their repre- sentatives in Washington, and while no answers have been received as vet there is reason for the bellef that the allies will see a way to accept the latest proposition. The compromise has been suggested b: one of the representatives of the allies here, and, while it has not formally re- ceived the indorsement of Minister Bo- en, it 1s felt that he will not enter serfons objection to {its adoption, provided the Unitad Statez and the other claimant na- tions outside the alllance can be con- vinced that their own interests in Venez- uela will not be substantially injured by elding to a plan which seems to offer a solution of the present serious hitch in the Washington negotiations. LETAILS OF THE PLAN. The details of the proposition now un- der consideration by the three allled na- ions it is understood to be a modification of the allies’ contention that they be rec- preferred claim- ants in the payment of the indemnity. The plan suggested provides that for a short period, perhaps six months or a year, Great Britain, Germany and Italy shall receive exclusively 30 per cent of the customs receipts of the ports of Porto Cabello and La Guaira, and that at the end of this period, the exact length of i t open to decision, all the claimant nations be placed on the same at the expiration of that time the 30 per cent of the receints of these two ports be divided among all the claimant natfons in a ratio based on the amount of each nation’s claim. The plan is regarded as a compromise which will enable the allies to withdraw their ships from Venezuelan waters with- out a serious loss of prestige. FRANCE MAY' NOT AGREE. Whether the claimant nations outside { the t rtite agreement will assent to this scheme is not yet known. he Brit- ish Embassador called by appointment on ¢ Hay this afternoon at 2 o'clock, believed that some such pian as under discussion, the British this was Embassador wishing to acquaint himself with the exact attitude of the United States reg: ing Lord Lansdowne's con- tention for a preferential agreément for the allies. France has it in her power to continue the present deadlock in the Washington negotiations. While the other unallied claimants have outstanding against Ven- ezuela certain unadjusted clajms, all of the French claims are in a very forward state. France contends that, so far from as- sisting her in the collection of the Ven- ezuelan claims, the blockade, if anything, has hampered her in that it has closed all the Venezuelan ports to commerce and has prevented for the time being the col- lection of the 13 per cent of the receipts pledged her by treaty. EARLY REPLIES PROMISED. It is the hope of the representatives of | the allies in Washingion that in case their governments accept in principle the kind of compromise suggested, they will not insist that the period for preferentlal payments be made so long as to prevent its acceptance by the other claimant na- tions. Bowen has been assured that the representatives of the allies will give him a final answer at the earliest possible mo- ment. Meantime exchanges are still in prog- ress between the allied governments and their respective embassies here in the ef- fort to agree on a plan of settlement that will be acceptable at once to Venezuela and to the octagonal a'liance of France, Belgium, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Nor- way, Sweden and the United States. STERNBERG SUPPORTS BOWEN. Proposal. NEW YORK. Feb. [ | 1 1 | when he left Berlin or than he suppo | | re not obtainable, but in a general | | | States Government and the strong | German public sentiment g | ollowea Urges the Kaiser to Accept the Peace | S!i8ht damaze resulted. tions have caused him to pronounce favor of Bowen's offer of a guarantee for the settling of the claims of all countrie: on an equal basis. He expects it may quire some argument to convince his Government that this is the best plan t follow, but he is hopeful of suc though it may be two or three days be- fore a decision is announced. He sent a long message to Berlin day reporting the attitude of the and - advising the acceptance of Mr. Bowen's terms. It @id-mot long to discover that the Venezuelan sit- vation is much more serious than it was d it to be when he first arrived in Wa ington. S0 SR ST, FOREIGN COLONIES PROTEST. De- in Caracas Denounce mands of the Powers. Aliens Spectal Cable to The Call and Herald. _Copyright, 1903, by the lierald Publishing Company. CARACAS, Feb. 1.—Members of the American, French and Spanish colonie met last night and addressed prote: their legations against the ‘outrageops propesal” of the blockading powers tha “the United States should be a tool of Germany."” The French colony declared that “France cannot agree that, in the bank- ruptey of Venezuela, Germany shall .- | ceive special treatment on a loan which is comparable only to the Madame Hum- bert loan.” After the meeting speeches were ideliv- ered in which attacks were made upon the conduct of W. H. D. Haggard, the | British Minister, who was represented as being blind and as having conducted a campaign in favor of Germany. It was earnestly asserted that the members of tl:e English colony would join in a protest | if he were returned to Caracas. 1 am able to state on undoubted author- | ity that the French Atlantic squadron has received orders to be ready, to return to Martinique. AR T S Offer Their Warships for Sale. WASHINGTON, Feb. L—Both Argent and Chfle, through their respective Min- isters tn Washington, have proposed the United States the purchase this Government of the armored cruisers and battleships these South American coun- tries have under comstruction in Europe ATTEMPT IS MADE TO BURN THE UTAH REFORM SCHOOL Boy and Girl Inmates Enter Into a Conspiracy and Set Fire to the Dormitories. SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb: 1.—An unsuc- cessful attempt was made ' to-night to burn the State Reform School at Ogden, which contains about 150 inmates. Short- Iy after 7 o'clock fire was discovered in both the boys’ and girls’ dormitories and for a time the flames threatened to en- | | velop the entire buiiding. gotten under control before serious dam- | The fire was age was done to the building. It is charged that there was collusion between the boy and girl inmates in a plan to destroy the institution. The offi- cials have already begun an investiga- tion. PEBE T RESIDENTS OF URIQUE ARE PANIC-STRICKEN Severe Earthquakes Followed by Loud Explosions Continue to Dis- turb the District, CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Feb. 1.—Reports from Urique regarding the earthquakes in that district state that there were four shocks throughout that section, cne oc- curring on the 22d, one on the 25th and one on the 26th and one on the Zith. All were by loud explosions, but only houses were The people Eighteen Guazapares. destroyed at of the district L—A Washington | are panic-stricken and fear a volcano. take Barof .von Sternberg ( ] iri\f‘d this afternocon from Manaos, reatmes Government d Americz Europe additi in ma and ante French eral custa r her diplomatic previous re torev as a guarantee f. arist Fran rig out of the is said, renounced onvention of 1555 the exe on condition that this debt should always & | As this payment has then Fran wit v asking th 3 | n of G wgland and Ttaly intends to revive her rect col- 1’ Affaires has pald Minist 1as s activity con- KING EDWARD ENTERTAINS MEMBERS OF SOUSA'S BAND Says He Wants All American Music at the Next Concert at ~ Windsor Castle. LONDON, Feb. 1.—At the cor by Sousa’s band at Wir evening in the presence ¢ ily King Edward asked several of the es p court stood while the band render Star-Spangled Banner” and *( the King.” At the close of the their Majesties advanced and shook h with and complimented Sousa. The King inquired how long the band was to re main in England, and said, “T shall vou again, and I want all Amer he programme the next time. desire Mrs. A wa The Pr an musi ‘s then sented to their Majestie: £ Wales conversed h Sousa and prom- ised attend his concert when the band returned to London in April An elaborate supper was served to the | members of the band Tl Mg STEWARD OF A STEAMER DIES FROM YELLOW FEVER Disease Attacks Him Soon After Ves- | sel Leaves Para and Victim is Buried at Sea. NEW YORK, Feb. L—There was one death from yellow fever on board the Booth line steamer Bernard, which ar- Para and Barbadoes. Charles W. Caine, the ship's steward, was taken sick on Jan- vary 21, after leaving Para, and dled on the 2%th. The patient showed marked symptoms of yellow fever. Caine was buried at sea the same day. He was a rative of Liverpool and 5 years of age. When' the Bernard reached Captain Coxon stated that | members of the crew were fil; they been sick since January 2, but fair way to recover. Both men were moved to Swinburne Island Hospital treatment. The steamer will thor { oughly disinfected. } CONFERENCE COMMITTEE arantine two other had were in 4 | IS NOT LIKELY TO AGREE | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Feb. 1.—The scals | committee of the miners and operators will meet again to-morrow t um ‘slderdiion of the demands of th mir | for an iner in wages. Expre opinion heard to-day indieate t! ' ; se on will be stracted and that if | miners insist t demar { ma that the wi he | reached, which will mean a susper | work on April 1. Both sides seem deter- mined and the opera! never agree to the pre: