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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
SANTA ANA MEN PRESENT
NEEDHAM DELIVERS A MOST
TELLING ADDRESS.
Avoiding Personal Abuse, the Com
ing Congressman Arraigns the
Populists and Demo-
Gratis.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ANAHEIM, Sept. 1.-THE Anaheim
cation from Santa Ana fired their first
political gun In the campaign tonight.
Preceded by the Santa Ana drum corps
and followed by the Anaheim band a
large procession led the way to the
decorated bandstand at the City Park,
where the enthusiastic 1000 spectators
welcomed with prolonged cheers the
speaker of the evening, Hon, James c.
Needham. Republican candidate for
Congress.
Carefully avoiding the use Of personal
abuse he commenced his arraignment
of the fusionists, which he characterized
as a recent political invention, and stat
ed that the platforms of the PopuliSts
and Democrats represented two eX-
tremes. BY study the Democratic party
has been known as a conservative
party whose RANKS were made up Of
resolutions of objections against any,
thing the Republican party attempted
to do, while the PopuliSt party was or
ganized to reform certain abuses and
was eminently a radical party. Further
the Democrats were not justified In
uniting with the Populists in a fixed
state at Sacramento because of unequal
representation.
From 1851 to 1893 was period which
Mulhall says represents a remarkab BILE
increase in material progress, and the
Republicans were in power at that
time. The speaker said that a great
crisis having been successfully passed,
and with the enormous administrative
responsibility about to follow. it would
be inopportune to tie the Presidents
hands by an antagonistic Congress.
The late war had taught us to keep
reasonably large standing army and an
adequate navy and coast defense. The
San Pedro harbor would be completed
by the Republicans and the Nicaragua
canal commenced For these reasons
he stood squarely on the platform of
1896 and the State convention.
Major c. w. Kyle in a pleasant and
eloquent speech showed how in the late
war our Republican President by adj
herring to Republican principles had
firmly cemented the United States as a
whole, while the fused party of every
ism represented by platforms of am
algamated errors would be sidetracked
for the grand old party and its faithful
adherentS.
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CHAMPAG FOR. THE
ILEIT!0lS CHRISTENING

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. Sept. 17.-Gov-
ernor Tanner has decided that the bat
tleship Illinois shall be christened in
champagne. and to-day sent letter to
Mrs. Matilda 3. Carse, Jessie Brown
Hilton and Helen L. Wood, the commit
tee of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, who protested against
christening the battleship with wine.
notifying them of his decision.
After assuring the ladies' of his an
probation of the great good accom-
plished through the W. c. T. u. the
Governor says: "In the matter. how
ever, of following the time honored Gus
tom of christening battleships there is
no dissertation of the laws of temper
ance. The ceremony is not one from
which any evil could possibly be set
forth and the most sacred religious or
dinance, the Sacrament which the
world commentaries with deepest SOL
emnity and honor. is one in which wine
is used as a symbol. Therefore, I dis
miss the subject as one unworthy of
so much agitation. If left to me, the
battleship Illinois will be christened ac-
cording to the time-honored custom"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED.

ARRIVED.
Saturday. September IT,
Schr Barbara Hernster. Jensen, Sc hours from
Coquille River.
schr Ocean Spray, ostlin. "a hours from Iver-
sens Landing.
SAILED
Saturday. September IT,
Stmr Grace Dollar Fosen. Yaquina Bay
Stmr CoQuille River. Johnson. Fort Bragg
DOMESTIC PORTS
SEATTLE-Sailed Sept 17-Stmr Sunol for
San Francisco.
PORT GAMBLE-sailed Sept 17-Bktn skagit.
for San Pedro; schr NJ Colman for San
Diego
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.
NEW YORK-Arrived Sept 11-Stmr Umbria,
from Liverpool.
Sailed Sept 17-stmr Campania. for Liverpool;
stmr Hecla, for Copenhagen; stmr Werra for
Naples; stnlr Spaarndam. for Rotterdam; stmr
Rhynland, for Southampton; stmr Anchoria
for Glasgow; stmr Pennsylvania, for Ham,
burg.
LIvERPOOI-Arrived Sept 17-Stmr Etruria,
from New York.
QUEENsToWN-s Sept 17-stmr Gym
ric. for New York.
ANTWERP-Arrived Sept 17-Stmr South
wark from New York
HAvRE-Sailed Sept 17-stmr L Gascognc,
for New York.
.MARsEILLEs-sailed Sept listing. Burgun-
dia. Tor New York.
ANTwERP-s Sailed Sept 17-stmr Friesland,
for New York.
land. for New York.
LIVERPOOL Sailed Sept l7-stmr Lucania.
for New York,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
CULTIVATION
OBL|TERATED
Fearful Work of the
Great Cyclone.
BARBADOS LOSES HEAVILY
BARBADOS LOSES HEAVILY
MAY BE TERRIBLE SUFFERING
IN THE WEST INDIES.
An Appeal to England for Help in
Caring for the Thousands of
Homeless People Meets
Prompt Response.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 17.-De-
tails of the hurricane. which are con-
stantly coming in, show the disaster to
have been infinitely worse than was at
first expected The destruction at Bar
BADGES was fully equal to that at ST.
Vincent, while st. Lucia also suffered
considerably.
The island of Barbados, presenting
practically a fiat surface, was complete
ly swept by the vortex of the cyclone,
the result being that the entire area of
cultivation was obliterated, while a
majority of the residences and other
buildings were destroyed, and two
thirds Of the dense population of 100 to
the square mile were rendered home
less. The population was seeking shell
ter at Bridgetown, and other centers,
only to find them little more than
masses of ruins. The consequent dis
tress is unparalleled in the history of
the West Indies, and the Governor has
cabled that instant and continuous
outside relief is absolutely necessary in
order to avert widespread famine and
possibly resultant peStilence
The actual extent of fatalities has not
yet been ascertained, owing to the eX =
tent of The ruin wrought throughout
the island. Apparently the damage in
ST. Lucia was comparatively less enor-
nous, although very serious.
Many plantations and houses We're
destroyed, temporarily paralyzing in
dustry. The loss of life in ST. lucia
was comparatively small. No estimate
of the shipping casualties is yet pos
sible.
LONDON, Sept. 17.-Queen Victoria
has sent to the Governor of Barbados
a message of sympathy with the suf-
ferers from the hurricane and the
Secretary of State for the colonies, Mr.
Chamberlain, has also forwarded to
him a sympathetic message from the
United States, where Mr. Chamberlain
is now on visit. The Governor of
Barbados has renewed his appeal for
aid. He cables that three fourths of
the people are without shelter or food
and that they are crowding into the
populous centers, which, he explains,
will not accommodate their own inhab-
itants. Cargoes OF food have been or
dered to supply the wants Of the suf-
ferers and the relief must be contin-
uous and must be kept up for a long
time to come.
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DEWEYS FLEET
IS DEMOLISHED
A Constable Is Greater
Than Montijo.
RUDE RAID OF OFFICERS
TROUBLES OF THE BATTLE OF
MANILA COMPANY.
Show Closed by Attachment Suits
and One of the Managers Is
Under Grim inal
Charge.
RUDE RAID OF OFFICERS
TROUBLES OF THE BATTLE OF
MANILA COMPANY.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO. Sept. 17.-Dewey's
fleet suffered the indignity. tonight of
being piled up in half dozen trucks
and carted down the streets to a ware
house, where it was stacked up in sec
lions. A township constable and ten
armed deputies overcame the defenders
of the fleet, accomplishing in three
hours a feat which Admiral Montijo
found impossible.
Last Monday the Battle of Manila
Company came up from San Francisco
and announced a weeks engagement
at the Snowflake Baseball Park.
Trouble arose at the outset. Two at
tachments or something like $50 were
placed on the concern by laborers who
claimed to have unpaid bills for work
done in San Francisco. They were con-
ciliated, but the show was unable to go
on for some reason or other and hun
dreds were turned away from the gates.
Nightly thereafter, however, the show
was produced and the ears of the in
as the reports of the demolition of
Cavite and the Spanish squadron rolled
over the house tops.
But the internal troubles would not
down before the splendor Of the nightly
pyrotechnics.
Ed Kripp, who had rented the park,
wanted his $50 per night therefor; the
New York Kitchen demanded SIS 25 for
coffee and doughnuts furnished to the
Manila forces; +. o. Sternberg claimed
$40 So for labor and an attachment was
levied on the concern for the restaurant
and laborers' bill, George Adams,
George c. Lang, w. G. Misner, w. G..
Stevens and w. F. Dunphy, all of San
Francisco, being made defendants to
the suit.
Constable Whitney informed the
managers last night that he would shut
them down If they did not settle, but
they declined to take him seriously.
Late this afternoon, while the ships
were lying at anchor and the crews
were down town. Whitney armed him.
self and ten deputies, got some trucks,
and proceeded out to the scene of bat
tie. He took down one after the other
of the ships and placed them on the
trucks. While he and his men were 80
engaged the managers of the produce
ton arrived with some helpers, and
there was a show of fight, which Whit
ney was soon s-ble to subdue So there
is no show tonight and wars rude
alarms will no longer alright the air.
To make matters worse w. A. Cas-
well, bill poster. has sworn to a
criminal complaint, charging that
George Adams, one Of the managers,
obtained $50 from him by false pre-
lenses. Two Of the attachment suits
placed on the concern were brought by
lumberman for $50 and the drayman
who hauled out the ships and the Ca
wife arsenal to Snowflake Park The
suits aggregate $700.
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Net amount of risks writ
ten during the year.
Net amount of risks ex-
pired during the year. .
Net amount in force De-
cember 81, 1897.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
PRISON DIRECTORS MEET.
Pardons recommended, Paroles and
PuniShments.

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 17.-At the
meeting of the State Prison Directors
at Folsom to-day the pardon Of William
R. Melville was recommended to the
Governor. Melville was sent from San
Francisco in 1894 for eight years for
embezzlement of moneys of the Cali
fornia Bank. His pardon was asked
for by General Barnes, Superior Judge
Belcher and many of the leading citi-
zens Of the city, who believe him to
have been sufficiently punished and
have confidence in him.
The Governor was asked to cut off
thirty-two days from the term of l. H.
Ffdler, sent from San Francisco for
grand larceny. He was kept that long
as witness in the City Jail. He will
go out on DC, Der 13 if the Governor
commutes.
The board paroled Mike L. Hanney,
sent from Sacramento for burglary;
James Lee Kings County, burglary,
and Cha les A. Burge, Fresno, robbery.
These have all been exemplary prison.
ers and employment awaits them in
their old homes
All of Convict William Downing's
credits were taken away because of his
assaulting a prisoner with an iron bar
and Convict Fred J. Curtis lost three
months credits for having a big knife
on his person to cut an enemy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
More Details of Its
Instructions.
LITTLE TROUBLE EXPECTED
THIS COUNTRY TO CONTROL THE
PHILIPPINES.
The United States May Eventually
Take Complete Possession of
the Entire Group Of
Islands.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE United
States Commissioners to conclude the
terms of peace with Spain sailed to-
day on board the Cunard line steamer
Campania. en- route to Paris.
The commission consists of former
Secretary of State William R. Day,
United States Senators William P
Frye, Cushman X. Davis and George
Gray. and Whitelaw Reid. Each COM
missioner is accompanied by his wife
or other members of the family. In
the party are J. B. Moore, secretary
and counsel to the commission; John
r. Macarthur, assistant secretary, and
wife; Frank Branigan, disbursing clerk,
and Mrs. Branigan; Miss Atkinson ard
Miss McNaughton, .stenographers, and
Edward w. Saver and Henry Freeman,
confidential messengers.
Prior to going on the steamer Judge
Day said to a reporter:
I'VE had conference with the Cabi-
net before leaving Washington, at
least all of US did except Senator Gray
All understood the wishes of the Cabi-
net with reference to the terms of the
treaty, and | believe that there will be
practically no change after our con-
ference with the Spanish commission
ers."
do you expect much opposition to
the terms from the Spanish commits
sioners?"
''I'think that the American terms will
be regarded as reasonable, and, there
fore, l believe the work Of the COM
missioners will not be impeded by US
less discussion
Senator Frye would say nothing as
to the intentions of the commissioners.
AS to the commission going to Paris
with set duties and irrefragible condi-
lions to be placed before the Spanish
commissioners, the Senator said that
schoolboys might just as we'll be sent
If such were to be the case. He de-
clared that nobody could tell what new
conditions might arise which would
have to be met, discussed and decided
wholly by the commission.
Senator Gray had no idea of the time
1t would take to complete the work of
the meeting. He said that Spanish
diplomats were not hasty in their work
Besides the five American Peace
Commissioners and their retinue of
thirty-two persons. there were as pas
sengers aboard the Campania: Count
Charles D. Ursell, Belgian Minister of
the Congo Free State; Frank Mack of
the Associated Press; Major Maitland
Kirwan; Gustav Miller, a special Bel
gian Commissioner, who has been in
vestigating the higher branches of COM
mercial education in the United States
and James T. Egan, delegate from the
Amnesty Commission, and ex-political
prisoner in England, who has been
chosen sword bearer to the municipal-
fly Of Dublin.
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Advances made on furniture and pianos, with
or without removal. J. Noqnan, lol7-loss Mission.
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PERSONNEL OF THE
SPANISH COMMISSION

LONDON, Sept. IA special dis
patch from Madrid says:
The Spanish peace commissioners
were appointed to-day They are Senior
Montero Rios, President of the Senate
who is president of the commission:
General Cerero and Seniors Abnarzuza.
Vellarrutia and Garnica.
The Spanish commission, the dis
patch adds, will start for Paris on Sep
TENDER 25.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
ADVERTISEMENTS
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Fatal Draught Taken by Mistake.

SANTA ROSA. Sept 17.-Mrs. John
Martin of Sebastopol is dying as re-
suit of drinking some blueing from a
cup in mistake for something else.
Friends have given up hope Of her re-
covery.
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Mother Dies, but the Children Liv,

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 17.-Mrs. Lille
Lopez of Pasadena, who poisoned her
self and two small children with rough
on-rats last Wednesday,, died yesterday
at the County Hospital. The two child
rem are still alive and out Of danger.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-05-06
Russia's Friendship.

Nations are not unlike individuals,
in most respects. We now find Russia
pouting, because England has extended
her sympathy to our government in
the present struggle and because our
people have shown some degree of ap-
probation OF the kindness.
4 Moscow correspondent of the
London Standard says that " Russia
has received a severe blow in the sus-
pccted friendly agreement between
the United States and England. The
Russians have not forgotten that they
placed their fleet at the disposition of
the North at critical time in 1861,
and they are bitterly aggrievcd that
the Unitcl States are unmindful of
the service now" 1t is indeed unfor-
tunate that craftsmanship cannot
wholly repress the selfish promptings
of humanity, otherwise it would be
seen that to reject England's volun-
tary manifestation of sympathy and
profier of kind Offices would be an act
of churlishness unworthy of modern
civilization, and it ght withal he
able to detect the trend of the popular
heart towards those who have mani
tested their sincerity by deeds of
friendship in the time of direst need.
In other words, statccraft should be
able to determine the difference be-
tween the diplomatic forms prescribed
by national amenities and the Ian
guage of the heart not the less ex-
pressive because unspoken. The peo-
pie of the United States have not for
gotten, nor will they ever forget, the
manifestations of friendship on the
part of Russia under circumstances
that leave no doubt of their cordiality
THE Rowan MAKES A BUILDERS
TRIAL.-The torpedo boat Rowan
built for the government at Seattle,
by the Moran Brothers, made build
ers' trial trip, Tuesday, and the Pr.
says "darted about the bay, like some
singing insect trying its wings. The
long, low knife-likc hull cut through
the water scarcely leaving ripple in
its wake" The best time made was
fifteen knots, but no attempt was
made at speed. 1t is expected that
she will come up to the required speed,
&c knots, on the official test. 1t is this
class of fighting-machine that our
government is most in need. 1t is
hoped and predicted that she, like the
cruiser Olympia, will give good &C.
count of herself if the war is pro-
longed sufficient time to afford the
opportunity.
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route from Hayti for Philadelphia, was
pursued and fired upon by Spanish
man-of war, off Tortugas, April 2Sth,
just after shutdown. The speed of the
steamer and darkness coming on doubt
less saved the vessel from capture.
1t is suggested that the victory of
Commodore Dewey at Manila will
form the basis of treaty with Great
Britain or some other power for an ex-
change Of possessions in which the
islands just captured shall be ex-
changed for station near the Allan
tic coast, the Bahamas or Jamaica.
The American Minister at Constan-
tinople has received more than 1900
offers of volunteers for the American
navy, chiefly from the Greeks, some of
whom declare themselves ready to pay
their fares to the United States in
grateful remembrance of Americas
aid i'll the Greek war of independence.
1t is said that the U. s. invading
vessels at Manila received some very
effective aid from insurgents at the
arsenal, who cut the cables connected
with the submarine mines making
their explosion impossible, thus enab-
ling fair duel between the American
vessels and the Spanish fleet aided by
the land batteries.
The U. S. gunboat Wilmington,
early Wednesday morning discovered
a force of men building fort, four
miles east of Cojima, Cuba, and leis-
urely directed few shot towards the
growing earthworks. In just two min
utes the labor of several days was a
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the Presidents proclamation giving
till the 2lst inst. for Spanish mcr-
chantmcn to get out OF harms way
will result in the loss of prize money
caused by the blue jackets in captures
already made.
The War Department has tele-
graphed orders to San Francisco
government authorities to select two
of the swiitest ships at that port, load
them with coal and dispatch them at
once to the relief Of Commodore
Dewey'S squadron.
Wheat jumped ten cents bushel
in Chicago in half an hour, on the
Board OF Trade, Wednesday, The
price advanced to l.3l for May wheat,
! closing at l.3O. Foreigners broke the
record-brcaking advance by taking
all cash wheat offered.
1t seems that Spanish cmissaries
have been cutting the anchorage of
submarine mines in New York harbor.
Six OF these torpedoes have come
ashore on the Jersey beach, that had
evidently been cut from their moor
ings by unfriendly hands.
One OF the most important captures
made since the outbreak OF hostilities
has been that OF the Spanish ship Ar
gonauta, by the gunboat Nashville,
last Friday. She had on board Col.
Corrijo, OF the Spanish cavalry, with
nine non-commissioned officers.
The German steamer Schleswig, en-
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meddling with the lock to one Of the
ships powder magazines, was only a
demented creature who was wholly ir-
responsible for his actions. While he
has not been shot, as he would have
been, had he been in his proper mind,
it has bean discovered that such men
are not needed aboard our warships
during these grave times.
Rear Apmiral Sampson has perfected
plans for meeting the enemy on the
high seas and giving battle ut a time
and place of his own choosing. The
successful issue of this battle may de-
pend in large measure upon the Span
ish admiral being kept in profound
ignorance of the intention of the
American commander and being given
the least possible time in which to es.
cape or to prepare for battle.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says that leading diplomats declare no
step towards European intervention
is likely to be fastened BY the Manila
disaster to Spain. 1t is their opinion
that the time for mediation has passed,
and the destruction Of the Spanish
fleet at the Philippine islands is re.
garded simply as a reverse, which can.
not be turned into political channels
by SPANS appeal to the powers.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
states that in reply to Congressman
Lewis, who accompanied Chairman
Hull, of the House military committee,
to the White House and the War De-
partment that the Secretary of War
concluded on Third Page.l
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shapclcSs mass Of ruins, rcsemblin. an
overturned anthill.
Navy Department officials are indir-
nant over stories sent out from San
Francisco of losses of life on board the
American ships at Manila. As no
official accounts had been received they
very properly think that reports which
bore evidence OF cxaggeration should
not have been sent out to inflict mis-
, cry upon relatives of the brave sailors
of the fleet.
The government rate for railroad
transportation of troops has been
finally fixed at one cent per mile, in
stead of two cents, the rate demanded
by the companies. The roads were
given to understand that the govern
ment was DESTROYS that they should
make the lower rate of their own free
Will, but in any event they would not
receive more than one cent per mile.
The queen regent of Spain places an
undue Importance upon the express
tions of sympathy from European pow
ers. She seems to think that every
word of sympathy comes from the
heart, and it is not the first time wo-
manly instincts have been misled by
mere professions. Some of the warm-
est attestations of sympathy, she de-
clared, came from people in this coun-
try.
1t turns out that the supposed trail
tor on the Puritan, who was found