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The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06
HAULED DOWN
 BY AMERICANS Stars and Stripes Not Lowered by Mexicans on Clipper
 ton Island. No Resistance Offered When the Denocrata's Force Demanded
 Possession.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
 CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 5.-A high official of the Department of Foreign Relations said to-day regarding the Clipperton Island incident:
 "The sending of the gunboat Demo- crata on a visit of inspection to DOT tions of the Mexican territory was de facto, attended by no conflict or diffi- culty with the individual Americans found there, and in no event should that visit have given rise to international questions, inasmuch as the occupation of the island, if occupation it may be called, was the act of private persons having no official character.
 "The American flag was found flying there, but the Americans themselves, on hearing from the lips of Mexican of ficers that the island was Mexican ter ritory, hauled it down and allowed the party of Mexicans to run up the flag of this country without the slightest op- position, either in act or in word There was no i'll feeling or bitterness between the Americans found on the island and the expeditionary party. On the con- trary, nothing but good will and friendly disposition was displayed on both sides.
 "The claim made in behalf of France by La Liberte of Paris is regarded as a canard. France never held the island. D
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PLANNED THE
 CAPTURE OF
 ARANCUREN Spanish Plot Rolled by the Caution of
 a Guide. Sought to Make of Con- gressman King an
 Innocent Tool. He Was to Have Been Fol- lowed to the Insurgent
 Chiefs Camp. WAS VERY INDISCREET. Had Arranged a Secret Rendezvous but Spies Learned of All His
 Plans.
Had Arranged a Secret Rendezvous but Spies Learned of All His
 Plans.
Copyright. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

Copyright 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.
 HAVANA, Jan. 5.-All Havana was talking this morning of the illustration of plot to kill or capture General Aranguren, in which General Lee and Representative King of Utah were in- nocents instruments.
 Mir. King since his arrival ten days ago has proved himself an enthusiastic. but most indiscreet investigator. He made no secret of his intention to com pressed a particular desire to meet General Aranguren. He succeeded in inducing General Lee to provide a guide, who agreed to take him to Gen. eral Aranguren, but insisted that the proposed expedition be kept a close se- cret, for fear the Spanish authorities would take advantage of it to learn of General Aranguren's location.
 In spite of this, the story not only leaked out, but MT. King was offered assurances by the secretary of General Congosto to the effect that no opposi- tion would be made to his passage through the Spanish lines. All was ar ranged for Mir. King and his guide to pass the lines this morning. and go to the rendezvous where he was to meet General -Arauguren- and Colonel Del. gado tonight. The guide became alarmed last night. Noticing that MT. King was closely shadowed by Span- ish police agents, he watched and about 10 o'clock discovered MT. King and Secretary Congosto in earnest con versation under a dark colonnade in the Prado. Fully realizing the danger. the guide started for the country, and in half hour was on his way to warn General Aranguren.
 It is openly asserted that the author ities made every preparation to follow MT. King to the place of meeting and to have force on hand ample to over come resistance by the rebel chiefs.
 A train of seventeen cars filled with troops left this morning, going in the direction in which the meeting was to take place. MT. Kings first intimatfon of the failure of the proposed expedf- ton came this morning, when he learned that his guide was missing.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06
FALLS SIX HUNDRED
 FEET DOWN 4 SHEFT,
FTghtfuf Death Of Captain HnH, Suoerinten. dent Of the Leroi Mine ct
 RoSsIdnd.

ROSSLAND (B. O, Jan. 5.-Captain Hall fell from the surface to the 6OO- foot level to-day in the Leroi mine. His body was crushed almost beyond recognition. He had been making his daily inspection of the mine and com ing to the surface stepped from the skip to a narrow beam dividing the double compartment shaft. He lost his footing and plunged down to death.
 Captain Hall was a native of Ire land. aged 61 years. For seventeen years he was superintendent of the Alice mine, near Butte. He leaves a widow and five children in this city. The remains will be taken to Butte for burial.
 The only witness of the tragedy was the engineer. He saw MT. Hall stumble and fall, catch desperately at the tim bers and vanish into the pit. A man working on the 300-foot level. near the shaft, heard a cry and saw a fleeting glimpse of the falling form. The alarm was given and men descended imine- diately to the 600-foot level. The body had fallen across a skip and was man gled beyond recognition.
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l as now, which was interpreted to mean that they should be in the hands of an Englishman."
 The paper believes that England would not accept Herr Detring as Sir Robert Hart's successor.
 The Standard says editorially: Eng land need not be ruffled, because she can claim exactly the same privileges as Germany. This is the logical and unassailable position the Government has taken up; and it is not astonishine to find that 1t has made a profound i'm pression in Europe. as we'll as had a satisfactory reception in America Whatever MT. Sherman may say, the mercantile community is well aware that England. in claiming equal rights for all, is fighting the battle of the American merchants and traders as we'll as that of her own subjects"
 The Daily Mail, commenting upon the fact that the United States and Japan are. openly on our side in the Chinese affair" says: For once we are getting some recognition for our generous com mercial policy"
 There is a general feeling m England anu u 10 tCICClCd OIl lnt SIOCk eX- change that the situation in the far East is improving. It Is believed the proposed Chinese loan of s16, DOG, 900 will be guaranteed by the British Govern ment.
 The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon refers to the "ascendency of money over the mailed fist" and says: Great Britain's vessels are anchored off Che mulpo and at Port Arthur. This is quietly implying that Great Britain will have voice in future arrange ments. Further, the latest telegrams clearly indicate that she has plenty of friends"
 The Pail Mall Gazette continues: Aside from Japan. nations like the United States. whose interests are purely commercial, are well disposed toward our Government and are op- posed to trade exclusiveness."
 Ernest Terah Hooley, who negotiated with China simultaneously with the J Pierpont Morgan and other syndi- cates, is not concerned in the present loan.
 Special dispatches from Shanghai to- day say that J. McLeavy Brown, the British Corean Customs Agent al Seoul, maintains a firm hold on his post, and that M. Alexieff, the Russian Agent, who has been endeavoring to supplant him, has been unable to ob- tain control of the finances, owing to the fact that all the funds are vested in MT. Browns name in the Hong kong Bank at Shanghai, which insti- tuition honors MT. Browns signature only.
 The negotiations between Sir Claude Mcdonald, the British Minister al Picking, and the Tsung Ii Yamen with reference to the questions arising from the Russian occupation of Port Ar thur, are proceeding.
 The idea of an alliance with Great Britain is reported to have excited in- tense enthusiasm in Japan. The Mar Quis Ito's Cabinet, it is added, will en- deavor to promote an Anglo-Japanese alliance.
 PORT SAID, Jan. 5.-The German
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06
THE AMERICAN FLEET IK AS4TIc WATERS
 TO BE STRENGTHENED.
The President Has Also Determined That Be WH Send q Strong Man to the
 Chinese Mission.

NEW YORK. Jan. 5.-A Washington special to the Herald says: Tele- graphic orders were to-day sent to Commander A. Walker, commanding the gunboat Concord, directing him to proceed with the vessel under his com mand to the Asiatic station and report to Commodore George Dewey. its commander in chief The Concord will stop at Honolulu en route and ought to arrive in Japanese waters within a month. The American force on the Asiatic station at the time of her ar rival will be composed of the Olympia, the flagship of the station; the Boston, which is at Chemulpo, Korea; the Ral- eigh, which is now en route to the Asiatic station and is expected at Alden in a few days; the Petrel, en route to Canton; the Monocacy, which is at Woo Sung. The Helena, which sailed from Bermudas on December 30 for Funchal, is not expected to reach the Asiatic station before next fall
 Captain A. s. Crownnshield, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, told me to- day that with the addition of the Ral- eigh and the Concord he thought the naval force of this Government in Asiatic waters would be ample to pro- tect American interests.
 The muddle the administration has got into over the Chinese mission will. according to the present plan, be solved by the transfer of Dr. James B. Angel from Constantinople to Pe- king and the appointment of Charles Page as Minister to Turkey instead of China.
 MT. Bryan, l understand, has been sounded on the question of acepting the Turkish mission. and says that he will accept it in view of opposition which has developed against his ap- pointment to China. The fact that Mr. Bryan's nomination was formally laid before the Senate to-day and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations was something of a surprise to the President. AS previously stated in the Herald, it was sent to the Senate be- fore the holiday recess, but before it was formally laid before that body the President received such strong protests from Senator Frye and others that he asked the President to temporar- fly withhold 1t. Some days afterward. during the recess, the President decid- ed that notwithstanding the opposition he would carry out the promise he had made to Secretary Gage, Senators Gull lom and Mason, and other friends of Mir. Bryan, and would allow the norni- nation to take it's course. Since then. however, the question of the transfer was taken under advisement, but prob ably through an oversight the Presi- dent failed to inform the Vice-Presl- dent of that fact.
 Now that it is known the President Is considering the transfer, the commit tee will delay action, and when all ar engagements have been made it will be just as easy to recall the nomination from the committee as from the Vice Presidents hands.
 The increased importance given to the Chinese mission by reason of the at titude of the European powers toward that country is the main reason for the desire of the President to make the transfer he has in mind
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06
ABOUT TO DOCK
 TIE CLEVELAND
Will Soon Be Running Again Between Tacoma and
 This Port.
to Be From the Second Mates Boat.
special D.spatch to The Call.

NF-SAeAA A'-Sl'dAth Ap Aht tdll
 TACOMA, Jan. 5.-The steamer Cleveland arrived at Quartermaster Harbor drydock to-day and will be docked Friday. Tomorrow the steam CT Skagit Chief will go alongside her and take aboard her freight for Taco ma and Seattle. A large part of this Is floating around in the hold abso- lutely worthless and will be dumped overheard
 Captain Hall reports that on Sun day, just before he left Barclay Sound, Indians reported to him the finding of what is believed to be wreckage from Second Mate Henderson's boat, which Is still missing with six men, The h. dians claim to have found rgrt of the boat, a cracker box and some clothing on the beach two miles farther north than Captain Hall and his men search ed for the missing boat. The tugs Czar and Tyee were then fastened to the Cleveland ready to tow her to Victo- ria. and he had no chance to person. ally investigate. He considers the story plausible.
 Neap tides were so high where the steamer Cleveland was beached that plates had to be bolted over the holes in her bottom by a diver. Her beach, ing and repairs here. it is estimated. will cost $15,000. She Is accompanied here by MT. Tyson. her manager; Cap tain Metcalf, Lloyds' surveyor at San Francisco, and Captain Cartmel. Lloyds' engineer and surveyor at Vic toria. It was reported to-day that the Cleveland had been sold to the Cana dian Pacific Navigation Company for its Victoria and Wrangel route MT. Tyson tonight denies this and says she will again run between San Fran
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06

BERLIN, Jan. 5.-The Reichsanzei- ger this evening announces that ac- cording to a telegram from Picking an understanding has been reached be- tween Germany and China regarding the cession of Kiaochau Bay to the former. The arrangement, it is added. is substantially as follows:
 It is intended by the cession torender possible for Germany the fulfillment of her just wish for the possession, in the same way as other powers, of a base of trade and navigation in Chinese waters.
 The cession of Kiaochau Bay to Ger many takes the form of a lease for an indefinite time. Germany is at liberty to erect on the ceded territory all the necessary buildings and establish ments and to take the measures re- quired for their protection.
 Continuing the Reichsanzeiger says: '"The ceded territory comprises the whole of the inner basin of Kaiochau Bay as far as the high-water line. the larger headlands situated south and north of the entrance of the bay to the point where they are naturally bound ed by mountain ranges, and also the . islands situated within and front of the bay. No obstacles are to be raised by China to any measures Germany may deem necessary for the regulation of the watercourses. China has trans ferred to Germany for a period not stated in the telegram a lease of sov- ereign rights over the ceded territory
 Do should prove unsuitable for the objects Germany has in view, China, after ar irving at an understanding with Ger many, will cede another piece of terri tory on the coast which Germany may regard as more suitable for her pur- pose"
 LONDON, Jan. 6.1The Times edi- torially says this morning: Tt would be simple to assume that the Reichsan- zeiger's dispatch tells the whole story, for it quite omits to say what China gets in return. To the world at large, however, the material fact Is that Ger many, by physical force, has obtained a naval station. This is the fact that must guide other powers in determin- ing their own policy.
 The talk of lease is a mere saw ing of appearances. There is no doubt 5 that both Germany and China are aware that 1t Is a practical cession in full sovereignty. It provides further argument In favor of an English guar anteed Chinese loan"
 The morning paper editorials general ly are in the same strain as that of the Times, They point out that the con- tract is ope in which Germany appar- ently gets everything and China noth- ing, while the question of the safety of the missionaries is entirely dropped Nothing is said about railways or mines.
 The question has been raised here as to Herr Detring's right to succeed Sir Robert Hart as director of Chinese imperial maritime customs
 The Daily Chronicle says: "The agreement upon which the last Chi nese loan was fioated in England con- -tained a clause declaring that the man. lagement of the customs should remain
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Death Of Edward Harford.

LONDON. Jan. 5.-Edward Hartford, one of the delegates from the British Federation of Labor Congress held re- gently at Nashville. Tenn, died yester- day of pneumonia, while returning on the American liner St. Paul, which ar- rived at Southampton to-day.
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PEKING, Jan. 5The kiaochau difficulty settled yes terdav Tsung Ii Yamen necessary concessions.
 LONDON, Jan. 5-A dispatch the Times Peking, Wednesday, says Germany for fifty years also the report there French occupation of Hanan Island imminent
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06

warships Deutschland and Gefion. un- der the command of Prince Henry of Prussia, have arrived here on their way to China
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FIRST PAGE

FIRST PAGE. Germany Takes Kiaochau. Plan to Capture Arrenguen. Buried in a Chilkoot Avalanche. Colonists Reach Soledad.
 SECOND PAGE. Jack Dalton Leads Relief Farmers Close Their Work. The New Monetary Bill. Women War on a Woman. Left a Widow to Starve. Find 0 Thief in the Fold
 THIRD PAGE. Congress Talks Civil Service. Struggle on Annexation to Begin. Coolies Preferred to Whites.
 FOURTH PAGE. Still Fighting Hanna. Los Angeles School Scandal. Burglar Fillxins Caught Plea to Save a Murderer Ratcliffe's Double Life.
 FIFTH PAGE. Election Commissioners in a Row. First New Year Wedding Schoolboy Manacled and Whipped. An Oakland Society Sensation.
 SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Special Laws for Hawaii Going New York One Better. The Rush for Alaska. The Ohio Contest. Corrupt Journalism. A Los Angeles Accomplishment. Music and Musicians.
 SEVENTH PAGE News Along the Water Front A Party for Buds. Police Judges Rest Easy. Personal Mention.
 EIGHTH PAGE. A New Hack Inspector. Raising Cash for the Jubilee. Freeholders in Politics.
 NINTH PAGE. Dow Mystery Points to Suicide. Durrant Loses All Hope.
 TENTH PAGE. Commercial News.
 ELEVENTH PAGE. Blythe Hinckley Population. News From Across the Bay.
 TWELFTH PAGE. Racing at Ingleside.
 THIRTEENTH PAGE. Births. Marriages and Deaths.
 FOURTEENTH PAGE. Merchants Denounce the Bulletin.
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Buried m Hew York.

PARIS, Jan. 5.-Mrs. Ayers body will be embalmed and is going to New York for interment. Funeral services will he held at Holy Trinity here on Friday
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Weather forecast for San Fran cisco: Cloudy and unsettled weather on Thursday; probably showers In the afternoon or at night: light northerly, changing to southeasterlv winds.
 Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours
 San francisco .......... .54 degrees fortiand .---..--....-....46 .46 degrees Los Angeies .............64 degrees san Diego ...............60 degrees
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-14

Do you remember how broken hearted
you were when you found out that your
patron saint, your dear, mysterious Santa
Claus, was q myth? You spent days and
nights wondering how he could get down
the chimney without covering himself
with SCOT and powdering all the presents
he must drag down with him with coal
dust and smoke You examined as care
fully as you could the length and breadth
Of tho chimney; you speoulated ~ to how
he could make the descent without drop
ping suddenly, since there was nothing
inside the chimney to which he could
cling. Did he use tiny ladderi Perhaps.
But your wise father and mother had
never seen the ladder, and, besides, there
wasn't room enough In the chimney for
Santa, ladder and packet But then,
what mattered all these perplcxing, trou-
blesome questions, since Christmas morn
ing your stocking was full to oyerd0wing
and not the slightest trace Of soot on .
single gifti Once upon . Hateful day you
discovered that your new doll, bearing tho
euphonious name Of Minnie ChristmaaL
was clad In frock Of blue and white, ex-
actly like your little sisters cloak. Heso
was q mystery. How did Santa Claus got
that piece Of the new CLOAK? You appealed
immediately to your mother, who admit-
ted that 1t was q singular coincidence, and
from that moment the suspicious Of the
truth haunted your troubled heart. Whom
the next Christmas dawned, with your
maturer knowledge you announced
mournfully, IT guess won't hang up my
stocking-there isn't any Santa Claus,
and he never did come down the ohm.
neyp'-Washington Post.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-14
Cheap Christmas Trees.

Christmas trees need no longer be OBJ
jected to on the score of expense. with %
to spare, and moderate allowance OF wit
and patience as WELL really wonderful
one can be turned out, and if this should
be doubted here are a few facts, mere Kris
Kringle market prices as it were, to prove
the truth of the statement.
To begin, Is cents will buy the tree it.
self
One of the fragrant young pines that
come to us from Berkshire county or
Maine is best for the purpose. For the
price given, it may measure all the way
from to 51S feet and be fat or slim as
fancy likes, though the plumper article
might be suggested as tending toward
more gratifying results The wooden rest
that supports 1t will be 10 cents extra.
Next comes the business of trimming, and
here the maternal breast will swell with
pride and joy.
For the vast number Of dainty trifies
S1.75 can buy for this use-elegant Pari-
sian little trifles-is something to produce
sensations of positive wealth, even opu-
lence.
A box of one dozen selected ornaments,
comprising champagne bottles, rolling
pins, washtubs, coal scuttles and flower
pots, sells for 12 cents.
Each tiny object is a bonbonniere, heav-
lily frosted with gilt or silver somewhere
and showing sides or tops of isinglass,
through which CLEAN the tinted candles.
In the Same bag are made splendid gold
and silver mallets and hammers, seven
inches long, that sell for cents apiece.
Colored cornucopias Of thick glace paper,
ornamented with heads or figures, can be
found at cent each.-St Louis Repub-
lican.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-14

,.r, spare, dark eyed young man,
=, violin case in his hand, came up
~. narrow stairs three steps at once, as
' ~ he were anxious to reach the little
' '..,o room which was his destination.
s'~ w.. A lamp in the hall below, but
me- ,,sh. on the stairs or landings, save the
d. s,eam which came through skylight
aln ..s cot and at Q O'Clock in the even
~ u =, ,be cath Of December it is needless
.Ds ..m.rk that the top story was envelop-
=. .ota, darkness. But Guy Fairfax
,.d 10 know his way by instinct and
"a not pause until he reached the SCRATCH
u and shabby looking door which formed
~. .rtrancc to his abode. There he stop
-, a abort, waited and listened for mo-
ut - arrested by a sound that issued from
r. was the sound of a violin, family
.,.ved as though the instrument itself
r0,o small and the hand Of the player
we.k Presently there arose also sweet
.,.,o thread of childish voice, singing to
,hs tune picked out on the violin the
~o,ls of well known Christmas hymn:
while shepherds watched their hocks BY
night.
euv's face contracted a little as II with
cain Then he smoothed 1t resolutely,
,slled up smile and opened the attic
door.
It was miserably bare room, not very
o,ean nor very tidy, and the small fire that
burned In the rusty CRATE did not avail to
warm the atmosphere. On the bed, with
an old fur cloak tucked round him for
warmth, little boy was curled up, his
hands holding the tiny fiddle, to the notes
Of which Guy had been listening But he
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-14

When Guy Fairfax, half distracted by
the note which he found on his table, ar
rived, painting with haste, at Carston that
night, he was shown at once into the din
ing room, where tho general sat in his
armchair with child's figure gently era
died on his knee. Tony was fast asleep,
and the general would not move or dis
turb him. He only looked at his son for
a moment and then at tho sleeping child.
"Forgive me, Guy" he said at last
"You-and this boy-are all that remain
to me. Let him stay-and stay yourself,
too, and cheer the few last years of my
life. Twas wrong-I knew was wrong
but you must come back to me"
And when Tony woke next morning In
a soft white bed and coy room, such as
he had never seen before, he was little
bit grieSed to find that Santa Claus had
filled stocking for him while he had been
fast asleep, but he was quite consoled when
Guy told him that the old gentleman with
the white hair and mustache, who must
henoeforth be called grandad, was the best
Santa Claus that he had ever seen and
that Tony might go to him after break
fast and sit on his knee while he sang how
shepherds watched their focks by night
as the Christ Child came with gifts of peace
and joy and good will to men.