The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1903, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1903. INFLUENCE OF AMERIGR MVERTS AR Powerful Factor in the Russo-Japanese Negotiations. — Peace News From Paris Is Credited in British Capital —aee wweeroy Alexieff’s Decision to Return to St. Petersburg Is Regarded as Confirming Press. Advices. i LONDON, Dec. 8.—The news cabled Assoctated Press correspondent s that the Governments of Rus- sia and Japan were on the verge of an agreement as to the Far Bastern diffi- and giving the basis of the agreement, aroused intense London. The inclination in probab! intere most well-informed quarters is to be lieve that agreement insuring the peaceful soiution of the difficulties is on the eve of arrangement. Even where some_ hesitation is shown as to the accuracy of the details, Viceroy xieff’s decision top go to St. Peters- € is beld as confirmatory of the in- rmation obtained by the press, it be- ing conténded that the Viceroy would not leave the seat of the difficulty un- he were aSsuréd that the negotia- ons had reached a stage where no se- rious misunderstanding would be prob- able during his absence. Assuming the news to be well found- ed, is supposed that the probabie tion of the United States may have had a great.deal of influence in the decision of Russia and Japan to consent to a compromise in order to avert war, the developments of which 1t would be dif- ficult to foresee. CZAR’S GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY The s morning, in a lead- ing Standard t ditorial, dwe! dangers which powers and ¢ conditions ga t arise for both that the known promise of protracted h, except by a miracle, t be confined to the two lead- The Standard adds s far too deeply concerned to of the United een with cer- ca would not’ be in- e of Alanchuria, France and Great Britain might honents. irawn into- the conflict. ' Rus- ponsibility, therefore, is very 1d she will incur the condem- the civilized world by an ob- e adherence to the policy of ag- Daily ich Graphie publishes an ar- claims that it is known n1 Japan have a at greement h & gain is not an ideal one, but says that the statesmen concerned had t the lesser of two ewils, WILL PLACATE JAPANESE. The Morning Post, which throughout the « is alleged to have been in- 1 Japanese quarters, thinks that the arrange- 1l- enavle the Japan- ese Premier to meet the Diet with such assurances as will calm the rising gen- eration and relieve the vrenston which exists among the press and populace of Japan aceept | The Daily Telegraph contends that, | & ghould Russia annex Manchuria, Japan would be justified in annexing Korea, | end that in such a determination Japan would count upon the moral support of the United States and Great Britain. The Telegraph believes the arrange- ment outlined from Paris would be a ble solution which well might cepted by Russia. The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Mail says that telegrams have been re- | ceived from Seoul to the effect that Japanese Minister Hayassi was in- formed by the Emperor of Korea at DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. there is gg It L E i ; ; i by Ei i i 5 E 3 i ' 7 1 4 ] | ] ] 8 3 8 d 3;} i Al P upon the unknown .| 18 framed it will not be in the nature Continued From Page 1, Column 5. {this "being so improbable we are | prompted to say that the court has been imposed upon. | “It is a fact that of the causes in | which the Public Administrator acts, | about 7 per cent are in the departments devoted principally to probate matters, towit: Departments 9 and 10, presided | over by their Honors Judge Coffey and Judge Troutt, respectively, and that 93 | per cent are in other departments hav- | ing no probate matters except those of | the Public Administrator.” FARNHAM'S STATEMENT. Public Administrator Farnham made the following statement last night: | “I was invited to meet the Finance | Committee of the JBoard of Supervisors | this afternoon to examine a réport sub- | mitted by Mr. Hassell to them and to | give my opinion of its contents as af- fecting the conduct of the office of Pub- | lic Administrator. ; “The report, as far as it relates to | thé office of . Public Administrator, runs back for about twenty years, and is in effect a lame apology for the thousands of dollars paid to Mr. Has- sell's concern during the last six| months or more. It is replete with | the opinions of Mr. Hassell} in which | he criticizes the office of Public Ad- | ministrator as useless, forgetting that | this is a matter for the Legislature | | alone. The report proceeds in terms | of glittering and malicious generalities | to charge *he various Public Adminis- | trators and their attorneys since 1880 | with having been overpaid. “In this connection he refers to cer- | tain estates which have been probated | during the past twenty years and as- | | sumes to state fact® in each case, and he in effect states that the Judges who have audited and allowed the accounts of various Public Administraotors, | If included, have violated their al"duty and official oaths, and have ordered payment in excess of the value of the services rendered by us. To support his assertion he has picked .out such insignificant and trivial f: from the records as suit his purpose, | and while not giving the full facts in | any case, he has presented a garbled | statement of facts, which when read | can only deceive and leave a false im- | pression on the minds of the reader. ALLEGES INJUSTICE. | “The manner in which these garbled | statements of facts are prescnted is a | gross injustice, not only to me and my | but to the Judges \\lm‘ hs mined the value of our services, upon | evidence submitted under oath. The | report to this extent bears esvidence of i had placed the question of the opening of Yongampho to foreign trade in the | hands of his Foreign Minister, and that the port would be opened within a few days., Pavioff, the Russian Minister | to Korea, is, however, still ]’“"fl(PSl‘ng; against the opening of the port. Lieutenant Colonel Tachibani, the I military adviser of Géneral Yuan Shi | Kai, Governor of the Chili province, | has arrived at Tokio with a confidential | message for the Japanese authorities. - | —— CRISIS IS ONLY DELAYED. Russia and Japan Put Aside Vexing { Questions for the Present. |- ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 2.—Inquiry | has been made at the Foreign Office | respecting the announcement from Paris that a basis of agreement be- | tween Russia and Japan hafl' been reached. 1t was impossible to obtain any confirmation beyond the statement that a mutual desire for peace exists, to which both negotiants have ex- | pressed adherence. With this end in view they have both decided tempor- | rily to put aside questions whose de- cisicn, on account of the position of each, is found to be impracticable. The negotiations, so far as Russia is concerned, are confined to delimiting | the rights of railroad, telegraph, ete., | of each in Korea. Japan holds in abey- | ance the Manchurian questions, con- | cerning which Russia declines to treat, | on the ground that they are matters ['between her and China, until she as- | certains whether satisfactory arrange- |.ments are reachable regarding Korea. | Russia contends that Japan’s treaty r%xhl! in Manchuria were secured from | China and stand on the same footing as those of the United States and the | other powers. Russia’s reply to the latest Japanese proposition is still unsent. When it of an ultimatum, but it may lead to counter-proposals. It is possible thatq4 the end may be a new Russo-Japanese treaty covering Korea. 3 Regarding the suggestion that the United States may ask Russia to sub- mit the question of the evacuation of Manchuria to The Hague tribunal, it is pointed out at the Foreign Office and in diplomatic circles that, political is- sues being involved, it is impracticable and would be unprecedented’ to leave them to the decision of a judicial tri- bunal. BERLIN’S HOPEFUL VIEW. Believes War Will Be Averted by the Course of Great Britain. BERLIN, Dec. 2—Dispatches in- dicating the extreme tension of the Russo-Japanese situation almost mo- nopolized the attention of the German press and officlal world yesterday and as greater than ever. But this feeling was changed by the receipt of the an- Peculations Reaching $36,000 in the County Clerk’s Office During the Last Eight Years P SOt o e A D | nothing has to be pald to the County a vain attempt to show that the thou- sands paid to Mr. Hassell from the city treasury in the last six months have been of some value to the city—which they have not. “His report also rehashes the asser- tion that he made six inonths ago that there is $1277 50 due to the city from my office. He artfully endeavors to| make it appear that this is due from.| me personally, whereas any one famil- far with the administration of estates | knows that if due at all it is due from the estates in my charge and not from me personally. “It may be proper to remark here that the law, as written in section 1741 | of the Code of Civil Procedure, governs | the payment of fees into the county | treasury from the estates in the hands of the Public Administgator, and ex- pressly places the services of the va- | rious officers, myself included, at the disposal of the Public Administrator | until such time as the assets and estate come into his hands. 1 i “Under this section it is .plain that Clerk until there is something in the estate with which to pay, yet Mr. Has- | sell, with great assumption of legal| knowledge, asserts that the law as here.‘ written is not & law, and that the| Judges and County Clerks and Publlc: Administrators in this and other coun- | ties who have for many years (accon«x-{ ing to his own admission) followed the law as expressed in section 1741 have | been really violating the law. } CHALLENGE ISSSUED. ! “The contents of this report as far as the statement of any facts are con- cerned is really too trivial and absurd | to demand any notice, if it were not for | PIS STIRRED BY DREVFUS CASE Much Bitterness Caused by the Government’s Course. Many of the Principal Figures in Famous Case Have Passed Away. sy PARIS, Dec. 2—The six members of the Dreyfus commission assembled to- day- at the Department of Justice. ‘While M. Durand, the president, says the commissidh did not take up the Dreyfus case to-day, no doubt exists that individually attention is being giv- en to it, as all the documents have been transmitted to M. Durand. A meeting of prominent Nationalists to-day dem- onstrated that they are bitterly antag; onistic to the action taken by the Gov- ernment. Former War Minister Cavaig- nac accused the Government-of dis- turbing the peace of the country by re- viving an affair which had been made an instrument for civil discord, and as- serted ‘that it was useless to interpel- late the Government on the subject be- cause the Ministry was too strong. General Mercier, the former War Minister, who is regarded as the chief accuser of Dreyfus, has issued from comparative retiremen# from public life as Senator from Loire-inferieure, and has affirmed that everything he has read in the Government newspapers re- garding Dreyfus was untrue. The bitter tone of the Nationalists is an indication of how the actual taking ADVERTISEMENTS. ADMIRAL SCHLEY ENDORSES Pe:ru-na Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio: W. 5. SCHLEY. —Washington, D. C. DMIRAL SCHLEY, one of the foremost notable heroes of the Nineteenth Century. A name that starts terror in the heart of every Span- iard. A man of steady nerve, clear head, un- daunted courage and prompt decision. Approached by a friend recently, his opinion | was asked as tothe efficacy of Peruna, the na- tional catarrh remedy. Without the slightést hes- itation he, gave this remedy his endorsement. It | appeared on later conversation that Peruna has been used in his family, where it is a favorite remedy. Such endorsements serve to indicate the won- derful hold that Peruna has upon the minds of the American people. It is out of the question that so great and famous a man as Admiral Schley could have any other reason for giving his en- dorsement to Peruna than his positive conviction | that the remedy is all that he says it is. . The fact is people. happened that dorsements. " bus, Ohio, for ple have felt about giving endorsements - remedy is giving way. Gratitude and a desire to help others has inspired thousands of people to give public testimonials for Peruna who hereto- fore would not have comsented to such publicity. Never before in the annals of medicine has it the fact, that the manner in which it is jup of the case to-day has revived all prepared and p esented, taken in con- | the old animositiés and bitterness of nection with the unsupported assertions | of Mr. Hassell, is calculated to deceive the publie.” as Young, in charge of the work 11 Audit Company at the City Hall, made the.following statement t night: Administrator that preceded him will perniit an examination of his accounts, under the direction of The Call or any other San Franeisco daily newspaper, we will make the examination without cost to Mr. Farnham, to any of his predecessors or to the city, provided that a report of the result of the-ex- amination be made public through' the press. “This statement is made because of the public utterances of the Public Ad- audited our accounts and deter- | ministrator to the effect that the Grand | Jury had experted his books and found them correct, and that he challenged investigation.” el et @ an audience on Monday last that he {is attracting much attention here, Nev- | = Colonel ertheless the foreign office, it is said, scarcely expects such a solution. It be- lieves that Russia “ will“ continue to pare American susceptibilities at the cost of commercial concessions, if nec- essary,” and that, in all events, the United States will hardly occupy an | exposed position in the matter. INTENDS VACATING PEKING. ress Dowager Will Go to Kaifeng in the Event of Hostilities. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 2.—The Iyo Maru, which arrived to-day, brought news that according to Peking reports Emp: | the Empress Dowager and court intend vacating Peking in favor of Kaifeng, in Honan, should hostilities occur with Russia. Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai and his for- eign-drilled troops are reported to have received orders to proceed to Kwang- Si to crush the revolution, which is as- suming such large proportions in that province. This revolution is being aid- ed by Chinese in America and other countries. Advices from Port Arthur tell of the sinking of a steam launch belonging to the Russian cruiser Askold by a Jap- anese steamer, the Kanko Maru. Twe Russians were drowned. The, Russians held the Japanese vesscl and the com- mander of the Askold proceeded on board and interrogated the Japanese master. Subsequently the steamer was released. She was not damaged and praceeded to Japan. At the Japanese army maneuvers now proceeding, in which 40,000 troops are engaged, the Emperor, after cor- dially recetving Sir Cyprian Bridge, British admiral on the China station, and other foreign officers, conferred or- ders on forty-seven military men, of whom forty were Chinese, others being Russian, French, German and Dutch. The Emperor viewed an engagement which took place in a wide expanse of rice fields near Purusato. A review was held by the Emperor at Shimeji on November 16, followed by an imperial banquet attended by the principal Japanese officers and visiting military men, 1000 being present. ————— BARON HAYASHI GRATIFIED. Believes That Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty Will Be Signed Soon. LONDON, Dec. 2.—The Japanese Minister, Baron Hayashi, speaking of the Paris dispatch announcing an agreement between Russia and Japan, said: $ “That is splendid news. I have wait- ed a long time in the hope of hearing it. With the basis reached, it will only be a short time before the treaty is signed. The whole difficulty sq, far has been to.arrive at a basis sati -fuctori to both nations.” Regarding the suggested arbitration to-day the danger of war was regarded | Of the difficulties between Japan and | and soldiérs, bar the roadsto troops Russia, Baron Hayashi remarked: “No such proposition has been men- ‘If Mr. Farnham or any other Public | nouncement from Paris that a basis of | tioned to me and I doubt if the Man- settlement had been reached. This |churian question could be settled by made the financiers hopeful and prices |that method. The Hague eourt appears on the Boerse opened strong. Later a |to me to exist more for the purpose of tide of alarming dispatches quickly re- | Interpreting knotty points of existing versed the favorable sentiment and |treaties than for dealing with such a nooxg)m'ld..1 u‘:‘e rctlm‘ absolutely. territorial question as Manchuria.” les take a more hopeful et e g view of the situation than the public. ENGLAND BUYS ummm The hope that war will be averted is Hon d based, to & large extent, on the beliet | %" m":,mm.l.“n""" D“n:"' for Two that Great Britain will not earnestly - ' support Japan. Acgording to this offi- | SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Dec. 2.—The cial view Great Britain’s present policy | battleship Libertad, now undergoing is based on a desire to keep Russia en- | SPeed trials on the Clyde, and the bat- gaged until Lord Curzon, the viceroy of | tleship Constitution, now in course of India, has completed his tour of the |construction in England, have been séld Persian Gulf and while the forward | by the Chilean Government to the Brit- movement of the British in Thibet is in | ish Government for $9,000,000. : progress. S g ] regarding Chinese Insult Russian Soldiers. ‘The Washington dispatches the possibility of an American sugges- COLOGNE, Dec. 2.—Eight regi- tion that The Hague court arbitrate |ments of infantry and a brigade of the question of Manchurian evacuation | artillery are reported, according to a | the last ten years. Intense feeling is { shown throughout governmental, politi- cal and army circles. The universal theme of the newspapers, society is that the revival of the case | will again bring out prominently the | leading actors in Dreyfus’ degrada- | tion. - Some of the most striking fig- | ures; including Zola and Colonel Henry, |are dead. General Mercier has ceased to exercise influence in the war admin- fstration and never speaks in the Sen- ate. General de Boisdeffre, former chief of the French staff, has practi- cally been retired, as he is on waiting orders and has no active command. Colonel Du Paty de Clam has retired, but he continues to be an active fig- ure. Count Esterhazy has become a | pitiful personage. He has left the army, was divorced in 1899 and lives in London. General Zurlinden, former Military Governor of Paris, has retired. { Most of the officers favorable to Drey- fus have been disgraced, in one way or | the other. | Picquart has become a Parisian newspaper man. Joseph Reinach, leader of the campaign for the revision of the Dreyfus trial, is no longer a member of the Chamber of Deputies, but continues to conduct a literary ' campaign for Dreyfus' full restoration to the’army. M. Reinach came out to-day with a strong inter- view in behalf of his friend, M. Bris- son, who first demanded a revision, is now a member of the Chamber. M. ber of -the Court of Cassation, has | retired from the judiclary ard directs the affairs of the Legion of Honor. Al- jthough there is no present purpose of | recalling the witnesses, the testimony which these persons will give in case the court requires their presence |is occupying much attention. % General Andre, Minister of War, has forbidden all officers and civilian em- ployes of the War Office to discuss the Dreyfus case, even within the premises of the Ministry. According to the Gaulois a new the- ory has been advanced that Dreyfus was meérely the accomplice of the real traitor, who is to be screened because of his close relationship to a well- known Dreyfusard and because of his former intimacy with a person who once held a high position. ————————— WANTS LESS RIGID MEASURES IN ARMY BERLIN, Dec. 2.—Eugene Richter, Jeader of the Radical party, has de- cided to interpellate Count von Bu- low, the imperial German Chancellor, regarding the maltreatment of private soldiers by their officers. He will ask the Chancellor to see what legislative and administrative measures can be adopted to more evenly counteract the abuses of their authority of officers of the army, which was demonstrated in a number of recent cases before the military courts. Herr Richter will fortify his interpellation by the state- ment that the known cases of the abuse of private soldiers have caused grave apprehension among the people and have detracted from the good name of the German army. ’ ' D e Everything that is new, good and mod- erate priced in trunks, valises, dress suit cases, travellng sets, pocketbooks and wrist hafl for the holiday trade now on sale. All leather goods lettered in gold free of charge. Sanborn, Vail & Co. * © oot sl @ dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Cologne Gazete, to be about to leave Russia for the Liangtung Peninsula with a view to the active prosecution of the fortification work. The dis- patch adds that the Chinese in Man- churia are displaying the utmost ill- feeling toward the Russians. They spit in the faces of Russian officers and throw explosives at the feet of | made f their horses. P Japanese. Populace Aroused. TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 2—A meeting of the Shempoto members of the Diet to- day passed a strong resolution de- nouncing the Cabinet’s dilatory foreign policy and recording the opinion that peace in the Far East demanded the evacuation of Manchuria and the open- ing of the principal ports there. Popu- lar feeling is increasingly in favor of the speedy dispatch of.an ultimatum to | Russia, but the Japanese Government is calm and confident. —— i Russian Fleet Reinforced. R!'l'. PETERSBURG, Dec. 2.—The ussian armored cruiser and the battleship Tsarevitch Bs;'l’v‘:d at Port Arthur to-day. D A Guarantéed Cute for Piles, « Itching, Blind, ¢ Yo druggist w o:'iuum-:"-'—n. clubs and | Loew, president of the Criminal Cham- | PE-RU-NA. ~ Gentlemen: “I can cheerfully say that Mrs. Schley has taken Pe:ru-na and I believe with good effect.” that Peruna has overcome all op- position and has won its way to the hearts of the The natural timidity which so many peo- to any so many men of national and inter- national reputation have been willing to give un- qualified and public endorsements to a proprie- tary remedy. No amount of advertising cogld have accomplished such a result. Peruna has won on its own merits. Peruna cures catarrh of what- ever phase or location in the human body. That is why it receives so many notable and unique en- Address The Peruna Drug M'f'g Co., Colum- free literature on catarrh. Ask Your Druggist for free Pe-ru-na Almanac for 1904. FIRE DESTROYS BIG UNIVERGITY Walls Are All That Re- main of Ottawa’s Great School. OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 2—The Ottawa University, one of the largest educa- tional institutions in Canada, was de- stroyed by fire early to-day. The loss is estimated at $800,000, with insurance at $200,000. All of the 450 students escaped. Three priests were forced to jump from upper windows and were badly hurt. They are Fathers Boyon, Fullham and McGuerty. Father McGuerty probably is fatally hurt. One of the domestics is missing and probably .perished in the flames, and another was so seriously burned that she probably will die. The missing woman, a Miss Davis, was last seen on the fourth floor. The fire started at 7 o'clock, while most of the students were at breakfast. | These escaped easily. A number who were still abed had to take to the fire | escapes in their night clothes or jump | into blankets held out by the firemen. | The fire escapes were all on one side of the structure and those who slept on the other side could not reach them. They had to jump, some from the fourth and fifth stories. Several stu- dents were injured, but no one was | seriously hurt. Two of the priests, thowever, were seriously injured, and | Father McGuerty is not expected to live. He was on the first story. He could not reach the fire escape and was forced to jump. He fell on a veranda, land- ing on his shoulder and afterward rolled to the ground, striking on his head. Father Folham, who was on the fourth floor, leaped into a blanket and sustained injuries to his side, but will recover. Father Boyon was burned on the head and arms, but not serious- ly injured. An old woman, & servant, jumped from the fifth story and was badly hurt. S. Harvey, a student from Brunswick, Me., awoke only when his bed was on fire. He sprang to the window and, climbing outside, hung to the sill for fifteen minutes, when he | was taken down safely by the firemen. A student named Cullen jumped from the fourth story with his glasses on and his face was cut. Miss Dupues, a domestic, was badly injured. The students lost all their effects. The fire is supposed to have resulted from a burning cigarette. A library of 30,000 volumes was destroyed. em———— . SEVERAL ARE INJURED IN TRAIN COLLISIONS To Serious Accidents Occur on Ele- vated and Cable Roads in Chicago. . CHICAGO, Dec. 2—In a collision Southside Elevated road to-day at the Fifty-first-street station, Harry Cottell, a motorman, was fatally hurt and sev- eral of the passengers seriously inured. The fog and frost on the ralls were re- sponsible for the accident. At almost the same moment several .persons were injured in a collision between two Cot- tage Grove-avenue cable trains at Thir- ty-first street. ‘While the guards on the elevated trains were holding the gates shut in order to prevent the passengers from jump! to the tracks below and bly being electrocuted, the wires one of the coaches e crossed, in the crowded car. Windows were smashed and a rush was the doors, Charles F. ers, selzed a fire ex- the bottle over the S S AT flrne.mi’.hrmple was quickly followed by others and the flames were extin- mhofl before any serious damage had done. REDWOOD CITY, Dec. 2.—Willilam E. Slater and Richard W. Hardin, thern Pacific brakemen who weré charged with stealing consignments of cigars from Lane & Connelly of San Francisco from a freight car, were ac- quitted by a jury to-day. ¢ “ i ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Dec, 2. Although forced to leave the coast by British warships on November 20 last, three French fishing vessels have re- turned to the French shore to engage in the herring fishery. Police have been dispatched to investigate. X —_—— A spur in the head is worth two in the tween two northbound trains on the CANAL PACT RATIFIED BY PANAMA —_—— A Continued From Page 1, Column 7. proved by the Government and Cabi- net. It is eXpected by the President that the treaty will be returned to Wash- ington within two weeks. The indica- tions now are that it will be transmit- ted to the Senate before.the adjourn- ment of Congress for the Christmas holidays. Senator Cullom, chairman of the For- eign Relations Committee, held a con- ference with the President to-day re- garding the treaty. He indicated that i serious opposition to its ratification would be developed, but expressed no doubt of its ultimtae ratification. Two telegrams, one from the junta and the other from the Minister of ama, announcing the approval of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty, were re- ceived by Minister Bunau-Varilla to- day. They were as follows: “PANAMA, Dec. 2.—At 10:30 a. 'm. the junta bhas finished the examination and approved and signed the canal treaty. ESPIRIELLA, “Minister of Foreign Relations.” “PANAMA, Dec. 2—We are happy to we have just ratified the Hay-Bunau- Varilla treaty, without modification and unanimously. This official act has been received with unauimous appro- bation. J. ARRANGO, “TOMAS ARIAS, \ “M. ESPINOZA, “Members of the Junta.” The treaty, as approved and signed by the Panama junta, will be prompt- ly returned to Minister Bunau-Varilla at Washington. To insure its safe and prompt transmission without interfer- ence by officials anywhere, the treaty will be intrusted to Consul General Gudger at Panama, who will forward it to Washington in the diplomatic mail pouch. Instructions to this effect al- ready have been sent to Gudger by Secretary Hay. This courtesy was ex- tended at the request of Minister Bu- nau-Varilla, who is anxious that there shall be no interruption to the safe re- turn of the approved treaty to Wash- ington. Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge, called at the State Department to-day and arranged with Secretary Hay that the latter should formally receive Gen- eral Reyes to-morrow. The doctor dis- cussed at some length with Secretary Hay the existing situation, but will leave it with General Reyes to broach Foreign Affairs of the republic of Pan- | communicate to your excellency that | any suggestions with which he may have been charged by the Colombian Government'looking to a settlemeft of the dispute betwedn.Colombia and Pan-. |ama. Secretary Hay Will give a cour- | teous reception to General Reyes, but it is .clear that, in the view of the Administration, the steps taken as to | Panama cannot be retraced, and it fol-: lows that, Panama being in/ sovereign possession *of the right of way of the canal, there can be no negottations with Colombia looking to thé acquisi- tion from her of any right to :the canal strip. i ? — REVOLUTION WAS - | Steamer City of Para in Port,at the Outbreak in Panama. ' | The Pacific Mail Company's steam- | ship City of Para, which airived, yes- terday, was at Panama’ whef the rgvo- lution ‘of November 3 took place. }To those aboard the ship the affair as decidedly. mild and but for the evéi | ing’s hilarious cclebration, sounds of which were wafted on the night breeze, there was little evidence to .tefl of Colombia's loss or of the birth of a new republic. The Bogota contributed the only suggestion of trouble and but for the dust that marked the landing place of the two shells she fired even . her shooting might have been in the | nature of a salute. It was learned later that the flying fragments of shell had killed two Chinese. E Thé officers of the Para, In com- | mon with many others, hdd a pretty good idea of thé impending change. None of them were ashore after the revolution, however, ard the liner brought no passengers fromr Panama, so that the knowledge of those on the. . Para of events subsequent to ‘the - change of administration ‘was obtained largely from what they read in the San Francisco newspapers, picked up as the steamship came along the coast. General Cerreosi, Minister from the new republic to Costa Rica, was a pas- senger on the City of Para as fgr as’ his new post. e Gl i Battelship Maine Is Crippled. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—In conse- quence of certain defects in the ma- chinery of the battleship Maine Seere- tary Moody has decided to withdraw that vessel from blockade duty on the Caribbean coast of the isthmus of Pan- . ama in order that the necessary repairs may be made at the New York navy- yard. This action, however, will not reduce the number of warships on duty on that station, as the Maine wiil - not leave Colon until after the darrival of the supply ship Culgoa, which is ex- pected to arrive about the 6th inst. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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