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The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
NATIVES WIN THE DAY.
The Small Force Sent to Ouell
Them Is Almost Wholly
Annihilated.
TWENTY SURVEYORS SLAIN.
The Appointment of an American to
Settle Boundaries Leads to
the Revolt.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May ia special
from Ell Paso, Tex. says: Information
has been received here of bloody revolt
which took place in settlement between
Guadaloupe Calva and Varvagama, in the
State of Chihuahua, Mexico, a few DAYS
ago.
The trouble began when the natives
living in the district attacked a surveying
party under Captain Morrison and killed
twenty of the party. The affair was re-
ported to the commander of the Mexican
troops at Parrat, who Immediately started
detachment of 100 men to the scene.
Last Wednesday the troops were assaulted
by the natives, and retreating, left half
of their dead and wounded on the battle
field.
The appointmentof the American, Nor
rison, to survey Government land, which
is now occupied by native farmers, caused
the trouble. Morrison was to receive a
certain portion of the lands for his work.
The natives number about 1000 men, living
in a district surrounded by mountains.
Troops have been ordered from Chihuahua
to quell the revolt. Morrison escaped.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
MEXICO JUSTICE.
Train Robbers to Be Shot Without the
Formally ofa Trial.

Train Robbers to Be Shot Without the
Formally of "a Trial.
CITY OF MEXICO, Mex, May 49,
The bill which has just passed the Ma
tional Congress here regulating the man.
ner IN which train-robbers will hereafter
be dealt with in Mexico, provides:
"If, during the assault of any train.
there should result case of robbery or
death of one or more passengers, the Grim
inals, if apprehended, will then and there
be condemned to suffer the death penalty
without any other formality than the
drafting of the minutes regarding the exe-
cntion by the officers in charge of the
forces effecting their capture. Those
whose capture shall not be made at the
moment of the commission of the crime.
will be tried by the authorities most ada
cent to the spot of their apprehension in
the peremptory period of fifteen days and
be made to suffer the death penalty"
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
GANGS OF BOY BURGLARS,
The Hayes Valley Contingent
Has a Long Record to
Answer For.
The Quartet Committed TWENTY
Two Burglaries During the
Past Four Weeks:

The Hayes Valley gang of boy burglars
who were arrested by Policemen Harry
Reynolds and ]. T. Donovan were booked
at the City Prison yesterday. There were
four in the gang and their ages ranged
from IA to II years. They are sons of re-
spectacle parents, and their names are
Joseph Hess, Thomas Lawler, Frank Coo
ney, alias Smith, and Hugo Forrest.
Within the past four weeks they have
committed DO less than twenty-five bur-
glaries in the following places: 9O2 Eddy
street, corner of Turk and Cough; 2489
Jackson street, corner of Bush and Hyde;
Pierce and McAllister; Grand View
Hotel, Pine street, between Polk and
Van Ness avenue, corner of Franklin and
Bush streets; hotel on Bush and Stockton
streets; OPT Pine street, corner of Van Ness
and Ash avenues; Van Ness avenue, be-
tween Geary and O'Farrell streets; 22O2
Jackson street, 1928 Steiner street, 1915
Lyon street, 841 Post street. corner of Jack
son and Pierce streets, 2444 Jackson street,
1884 Devisadero street, 1885 Pacific avenue.
200l California street and 210l Webster
street.
In the house on Van Ness avenue they
tore up $1,000 worth of mining stock when
they found it was not greenbacks, as thew
expected With the $45 stolen from the
mouse on Pierce and McAlllSter streets two
of them bought new suits of clothes. AS a
rule they hunted for money and when
they did not find any they took articles of
triting value, which they could readily
sell to other boys.
Reynolds and Donovan have recovered a
lot of old coins, stamps, two watches. a
ring, two pairs of trousers, silk handker-
chiefs, stockings, neckties, two scarfpins
and purse.
The officers also arrested two other bows
on Saturday. James Brown was caught
begging at house on Leavenworth street,
near Filbert. When searched a skeleton
key and other burglars tools were found
in his pockets and he was charged with
carrying burglars tools. Edward Reniager
was arrested while sneaking through the
back yards of houses ON Jackson street,
near Fillmore, and was booked for va
grancy.
Of the six boys three of them, Lawler,
Brown and Reniager, are ex-messenger-
boys. Cooney, alias Smith, has already
served three years in the Whittier Reform
atory.
This is the third gang that Reynolds
and Donovan have broken up within the
past four months. They have arrested
thirteen boys and five young men, all of
whom operated in the Western Addition.
And they say they are not done yet.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
AMERICAS IRON PRODUCT,
Report of an Expert Shows the
Output to Be Steadily
Increasing.
Production and the Value
of the Ore.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 19.-Mr
John Berkenbine, the iron-ore expert oi
Philadelphia, has prepared for the di-
vision OF mineral resources of the United
States Geological Survey an exhaustive re-
port of the iron-ore resources OF the world
in which the production of iron ore in
1894 is estimated at about So, SOC, 900 lone
tons.
The portion of the report relating to the
United States shows the total production
OF iron ore in this country in 1894 was
11,S79,679 long tons of 224U pounds, as
compared with IL 1,5S7.629 long tons in 1893.
This is an increase of about 2% per cent.
This production is only 73 per cent of the
maximum production of the United States,
namely: 16, ,296, ,666 long tons, which was
the output in 1892, but is slightly greater
than 1898, the proportion in that wear
being II per cent of 1892. showing a re-
markable falling Off The falling off is
further shown by the statement that the
average production for the years from 1888
to 1892, inclusive, was Is ,260, ,4S2 long tons,
while for the last two years it has been
but Ii, ,733,654 long tons, difference OF
3,626, ,S2S tons.
Of the classes of iron ore mined the red
hematite continues to be the leading vari-
ETY., being 70 per cent of the total produc-
ton, brown hematite, magnetic and
carbonite following in the order named,
the last being only about three-fourths of
per cent of the total product.
The number of blast furnaces in opera
ton also shows an increase over 1898. The
number in blast at the close of 1893 was
137; at the close of 1894, 1S5.
Twenty-four States produced iron ore in
1894, ranging in amount from 4,419, ,074 tons
IN Michigan to 1915 tons in Maryland.
Most OF the increase in production was in
the Lake Superior region, Minnesota show
ing the greatest increase, from ], ,499, ,927
IN 1898 to 1850, ,463 tons in 1894, ranking
second among the IRON producing States,
while in 1893 she was third. Michigan
continues to be the largest producer, hold
ing this rank for six years; Alabama is
third, Virginia fourth and PENNSYLVANIA
fifth.
In spite of the increase in production
noted the total value of the product was
but $13,577, ,325 or 81 IA a ton, as compared
with 19,265,973 or 81 &c a ton in 1898.
Michigan also leads the country in the
value Of her iron ores. In 1894 they were
worth S., ,s44 ,955 while Texas foots the list
with value of $11, ,521
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.
No Trouble VIII BE Had In, Raising tn.
Re0lire6 dm0alnf.

No Trouble viii Be Had In RAISING the
Required Am0ssnt.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May ia care
full compilation of the figures of the Chi
nese national debt shows that at the pres
ent moment it only aggregates about
f10,0Oo,000, a sum insignificant in view of
the great resources of the nation.
The first loan was made in 1875. and
since that date there have been various
issues, mostly for small amounts. The
rate OF interest on the loan varies consider
ably, probably owing to the different char
acter of the security offered, but the high.
est figure is 10 per cent, and it NAV be
significant that the last, made during the
pendency OF the war last year, was placed
as low as per cent. Most of these loans
were paid to the Chinese in silver. but in
only two instances is it stipulated that
they shall be repaid in the same metal
and the balance must be refunded in gold
In view of this small floating debt if is
believed here the Chinese will have no
difficulty in raising the entire amount of
the indemnity to be paid to Japan at a low
rate OF interest, the Chinese taking silver
and paying the loan off in gold
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
LIGHT FOR THE PERS|ANS,
Splendid Work Done in the
Missionary Schools of
Teheran.
Minister McDonald's Report Of the
Commencement Exercises That
Recently Took Place,

WASHINGTON. D. c., May 1e.-In a
dispatch to the State Department from
Teheran, April 10, Minister Mcdonald
gives an interesting account of the work of
the American missionary schools in that
city
He states that he had the pleasure, by
special invitation, on the 9th of April of
attending the commencement exercises at
the school for boys of the American Mis-
sion for Teheran, of which Rev. S. Law
renee Ward is principal. The exercises
took place in the American Church, which
was filled with an assemblage of both
natives and foreigners. Mr.. Mcdonald oc
cupied seat on the platform, and repre-
sentative of the Shah's college was present
and made brief speech of commendation
of the school. The Rev. Messrs. Potter
and Signs also took part in the proceed
ings.
1.-The exercises" said Mr.. Mcdonald.
'were such as take place at an American
school of high grade. Speeches in four
languages were made by the several honor
graduates-in Persian, Armenian, French
and English. The young men spoke with
perfect ease and iuency. The branches
taught in the school are the languages
already named, with Arabic and Hebrew
added; arithmatic, Persian and European !:
algebra, bookkeeping, geography, general
history, etc. There are over 100 students
and nine teachers. Some of the pupils are
assisted in their living expenses"
There were twenty-five graduates. The
school, in Mr.. McDonald's opinion, is
doing much good, and he described it as
being mot the least of the praiseworthy
works carried on by the disinterested
Americans in Teheran." The Shah has
visited it in person and commends it.
A girls school, conducted in like man
ner, is regarded by Mr.. Mcdonald as being
equally worthy of praise. In it the pupils
receive board and lodgings, either free or
at nominal rates, and the excellent ladies
In charge are devoting themselves nobly to
a laudable work; girls are sent out by
them every year fit to support themselves
or to become ornaments of society"
Minister Mcdonald also makes mention
of the American hospital in charge of DR..
]. G. Wiseard, which he says, is a splendid
charity in high favor with both Govern
ment and people. The hospital has like
wise received the commentators of the
Shah.
''At all the missionary stations in Per-
sia, adds Mr.. Mcdonald, 81 believe there
are similar institutions engaged in the
same ends, not to speak of the faithful
and jealous labors in behalf of the spread
of the Christian religion by the mission
aries"
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
SENT THROUGH TO LIVERPooL.
Neo York No Longer Has Control of the
Export Grain Trade.

Neo York No Longer Has Control of the
Export Grain Trade.
NEW YORK, N. Y, May 10.-The small
ness of the grain traffic of the Erie Canal
is the subject of considerable comment in
Produce Exchange circles. Some memb bers
OF the body named say they are forced to
the conclusion that the city no longer has
control of the export grain trade of the
country. The reason is alleged to be that
the railroads have made through rates on
grain from the West, and it is proposed to
have grain delivered in Liverpool from
Western interior shipping points on a
through freight bill at rate even lower
than the same grain could be delivered in
store at this port. One member is quoted
as saying:
This port is Disseminated against by
the railroads on rates of through freights.
The terminal charges on grain are higher
tn n at any other port. One great handi-
cap to our trade here which other ports are
free from is the double handling of grain
received by rail; that is, it must be trans
ferred to lighters from cars and re-elevated
aboard ships. Vessels are practically pro-
hibited from loading grain alongside rail
elevators under an extra charge of 1 cent
per bushel."
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
FIRED UPON BY MINERS.
mayor Stmons' Statement of the TroMbl
IN Vest pirgtria.

mayor Stmons' Statement of the Trouble
tn Vest pirgtnia.
PoCAHONTAS, VA, May 10.-The fol-
lowing written statement has been given
to the Associated Press representatives at
Pocahontas by Major Simons. Commander
OF the Virginia troops, in reply to Gov
ernor McCorkle's statement:
In reference to the statement of Cover
nor McCorkle that great injustice had been
done the West Virginia miners by charg-
ing them with firing on our pickets. /
Will state the facts in the case:
ION the night of the Sth, the officer in
command reported that his sentinel was
fired on six times. The officer in com
mand OF the same post reported having
been fired on fifteen times on the night of
the l7th, ana that two of his sentinels mar
rowly escaped being shot.
"ln the last two instances I was within
hearing of the shots, which were fired
from the adjacent hills toward the West
Virginia side. We have not interfered
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
LATE SPORTING EVENTS,
The Winners Are Picked In
the Olympic Swimming
Tourney.
Max Jaques Made His Bicycle Trip
From New Orleans in Sixty
Days.

The swimming tournament at the Olym-
pic Club Tuesday evening promises to be a
very interesting event.
There will be lively contest over the
John Lind special medal for fancy diving,
and the wise ones are already picking out
the winners in the several feats.
F. Gravel is thought to have strings on
the 5O-yard maiden race and also on the
100 yard race.
The breast-stroke race, it is thought, will
go to either Krelling or Wheaton. Both
are expert in the stroke which gives its
name to this race.
Pape is said to have the quarter mile
race sure. 1t is ore of those things which
in sporting parlance is sometimes called
''dead."
]. P. Jackson is the favorite for the fancy
diving, with McComb and Wheaton close
second and third. Jackson does the most
difficult diving among the memb bers of the
club.
There are to be six dives, go as you
pleaSe-the somersault, somersault and a
half, the corkscrew dive, cutoff from the
gallery dive and back dive from the gal
lery.
There will be five dives, "go as you
please" for the special Lind medal.
w. ]. Kennedy has completely reorgan-
lied the Olympic baseball nine, and claims
for the club the strongest nine on the
coast. He has retained the old battery,
O'Kane and Waldon, but the other posi-
tions have been rearranged. Fallensbee
plays first base, Beckett second, Monahan
shortstop, Corbett third base, Gimmel left
field, Shean center field, Cosgrave right
field. Ii circumstances are propitious
Manager Kennedy will take his nine to
Portland and Denver during the season.
The first game to be played by the reor-
ganized team, will be with the Alliance
club of Oakland next Sunday. If suitable
grounds can be secured the game will
probably come off in San Rafael.
AT the boxing tournament on the night
OF the 18th inst. four or five good ex-
hibitions out of the six contests are as
,sured. The men are in good training and
some lively work is expected.
Herman Oelrichs has promised to be the
patron of tournament held later in the
season and will furnish several handsome
trophies, providing the club will give it
the title of the "OeIrichs Tournament" !"
The offer will no doubt be accepted.
Max Jaques of Warsaw, Ind, who is
making the tour of the United States on
his wheel for wager of $4,000, will leave
for Portland Tuesday or Wednesday. He
arrived from New Orleans Friday evening,
having left there on March a. He is to
make the trip on the money he is able to
earn along the route. As is usual with
such wagers he will lose his time as well
as the stakes if he accepts donations or
asks for assistance. He says he has had
no serious trouble so far, though he went
broke" twice. Each time be was among
the Mexicans on the frontier of Texas.
He is 20 years of age and the son of re-
tired capitalist of Warsaw His average
daily expenses are 81 so, which he earns
any way he can.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
QUESADA MAY COMMAND.
He Is Asked to Take the Leadership o.
the InSurgent Forces.


NEW YORK, N. Y, May 2o.-A local
paper says General Quesada, who landed
yesterday from the steamship Philadelphia,
is at the Fifth avenue Hotel. The general
says the insurgents have offered to him the
command of all the irsurgent forces, pro-
viding he will join them and accept the
position.
He has this offer under serious consid-
Grafton, and it is possible that he will dis
appear quietly in a few days, and that the
next the country will hear of him will be
of his safe arrival inside the lines of the
insurgents. 1t is known he received much
encouragement from leading Cubans in
this city, but from whom it is impossible
to learn.
This will not be his first military posi-
ton in Cuba. Alta previous instruction
he led the largest body of soldiers to the
island ever landed. He fought under
President Juarez of Mexico against Maxi
milan and his sword has been unsheathed
number of times. His movements will
be watched with interest by the Spanish
Government.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
REUNION OF CONFED ERATES.
Warrtors of the Gray Gathering In Mum
bers at Houston, Ter.

OeTS at Houston, Tea.
HOUSTON, TEX, May 19-Every train
arriving since last night has brought in
military men, and there are now in camp
at Camp Culberson twenty-five companies,
besides a. battery of regulars and United
States mounted band from San Antonio.
General Stephen d. Lee arrived last night
and General Joe Wheeler will arrive in the
morning. There will be a grand military
parade tomorrow of State troops and
United States regulars.
On Wednesday the Confederate reunion
proper begins. One of the features of that
day will be decorated procession to escort
Miss Winnie Davis and sister to the audi
forum, where they will be formally well
coined. These ladies will be rendered sew
eral receptions. Sponsors and maids of
honor to the number of 1000 will have daily
receptions at the Light Guard Armory.
Governor Culberson will welcome the
United Confederate Veterans, General J.
B. Gordon, commander in chief respond
ing, and on Friday there will be parade
of the Confederate veterans.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY,
Scores of Buildings Raced and
Their Occupants Buried
in the Ruins.
At San MARITIME a Church Is De-
molished While Filled With
WorShiperS.

FLORENCE, ITALY, May 19.-The earth
quake which occurred here at o'clock last
evening has proved more serious than ii
seemed at first. Thousands of people spent
Saturday night in the streets, and second
shock at II o'clock increased thousand
fold the first alarm.
Similar events occurred at Baris, near
here. The casualties there included four
deaths and many injured. Numbers Of
houses were badly cracked.
Other villages in the vicinity suffered
still worse damage. At Grassina forty
houses were wrecked. At La Paggi several
buildings fell, and three persons were en-
tombed. The church at San MARITIME was
destroyed while full of worshipers. Sew
eraI persons were crushed to death in the
ruins. Many who were wounded are still
in the ruins. The villages of Gallezzo and
Gambino were badly damaged.
The Prince of Naples and a corps of en-
gineers have gone to these villages to aid
in the work of rescue.
LONDON, ENG, May 19-The Stand
ards dispatch from Vienna says the earth
quake was also felt in Moravia, Southern
Hungary and Dalmatia and also at Lai-
bach, where hardly day now passes with
out one or two shocks being felt. Serious
earthquakes have also been felt in the
Ionian Islands.
Death of a Famous Banker.
FRANKFORT, PRUSSIA, May 19.-Johr
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Catholics Celebrate at Dmbuoue

DUBUQUE, Iowa, May 19.-The third
annual convention of the Luxemberg and
Central Society of the United States COM
menced here to-day. The programme in
cludes parade of several thousand mem
bers of Catholic societies, high mass by
Bishop Schebach of La Crosse and SER
mon by Rev R. Willmes of Milwaukee. In
the afternoon a statue was dedicated with
appropriate exercises. This evening Bishop
Schebach of La Crosse delivered an ad-
dress. Regular business meetings will
begin Monday and continue Tuesday.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Ordered to suspend Fuo,scatton

PAWHUSKA, o. T., May 49, Colonel
H. b. Freeman, the Usage Indian agent,
yesterday ordered the stoppage of the pub
lication of the Wahshahshe News the
newspaper at this place. The News has
been making fight on the agent for hi
methods in regard to the confscation OF
the lumber force and the stoppage of the
construction of the bridge across the Ar
kansas River at Blackburn, O. T. 1t is sup
posed that Freeman will order Mr.. Tinker
to move the paper off the reservation.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Celebrating the Cxar,s Birthday.

NEW YORK. N. Y, May 1s.-The cele-
bration of the birthday of the Gear of
Russia was continued to-day with even
more show and festivity than on Saturday.
In the house occupied by the Russian
people of the city as church there were
two services, the one at 10 A. M. being high
mass, the other being vespers. Both were
celebrated by Bishop Nicholas.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Death of General Fferdem.

LONDON, Eng. May 19.-Lieutenant-
General Randall Joseph Fielden, Conserva-
tive member Of Parliament for Chorley
North Lancashire, is dead He sat for Lam
cashire, north, from 1880 to 1885, and for
Chorley since. His election from there was
unopposed. He was opposed even to the
consideration of the question of home rule
for Ireland.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

honor OF the Odd Fellows convention,
which practically began to-day. The pur-
pose of the assemblage is the dedication
OF the new temple at Broad and Cherry
streets on Tuesday next. Over 100000
visitors from other cities are expected.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
IL Hang Chano,s sou Hono,.,,

LONDON, ENG, May 1O.-The Times TO-
morrow will publish dispatch from Tien-
tsin which says that Lii Tien Fang. son of
Ii Hung Chang, has been appointed a
committee to hand over the island of For
mosa to Japan.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Wa1,er,s Nephe,U in washiaoto,,.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 19.-Paul
Bray, the nephew of ex-Consul Waller.
who arrived in New York yesterday, is
now in Washington. To-day he saw AS
sistant Secretary Uhl of the State Depart
ment, to whom he told his story. Mr.. Uhl
declined to give the press anything con.
cerning the matter.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

with the West Virginia men in any way
except to prevent their interference with
the men who were disposed to work In the
Virginia mines.
am of the opinion that but for the
presence of the military the Virginia mines
would not have been permitted to continue
operations and that there would have been
oloodshed and destruction of property"
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
several addresses in support of his none,

eI'11 uoe u eo7e- - 01
policy.
The party will reach Covipgton, KY, to.
morrow morning, and in the evening Sec
r.tary Carlisle will speak at the rink
Thursday afternoon he will speak at the
convention of "sound moneyites' at Mem.
phis. The following Saturday afternoon
he will make an address at Bowling Green
KY, and will then go direct to Louisville.
He will speak in Louisville on the follow
ing Tuesday. His return to Washington
will be made the Wednesday after.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
CAaLIslE ON FINANCES.

The Secretary to Emti0hte, Soatheruers
on His Gold Policy.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 19.-secre-
tary of the Treasury Carlisle and party left
Washington at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for
the South, where the Secretary is to make
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Riots at Ant,rern. .

ANTWERP, BELGIUM, May ia col
ision of some Catholic societies with the
Liberal associations occurred this after
noon and the police were obliged to charge
the mob. Many arrests were made.