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Mr.. Schreiner allowed to pass through
Cape Colony came direct to Pretoria. 1t
was never intended for the Orange
Free State.
President Kruger does not hesitate
to express the view that war is almost
inevitable. He has stocked the presi-
dency with ample supplies of provisions
to secure his own person from priva-
ton and he is often heard repeating the
eighty third psalm.
The Matabeles are showing signs of
unrest The Beers are energetically
engaged in poisoning the minds of the
natives against the British and they
have approached the Zulu chief, Dini-
zulu, who appears undecided which
cause to espouse. But the Zulus are
prepared for the expected fighting and
ii must be remembered that DiniZulu
was deported to st. Helena with sew
eral other chiefs, and kept prisoner
there by the British for several years. p"
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.-The Amer
lean interests in the Rand are making
strenuous efforts to induce the United
States Government to cooperate with
Great Britain in demanding justice for
the Uitlanders in the Transvaal. To,
day Mr.. Seymour of New York. repre-
senting an aggregation of American in
terests in South Africa, called upon
Secretary Hay and had a long confer
ence, pointing out that about a thou
sand Americans were among the per-
sons who are seeking to benefit through
the intervention of the British Govern
ment, and urging that they were en-
titled to the protection of their own
Government. Secretary Hay gave as
surances that the State Department
would do all possible to look after
American citizens in South Africa. but
could not give any undertaking to in
terfere in the political phase of the
difficulty.
LOURENZO MARQUEE, Delagoa
Bay, Aug. 30.-Two Transvaal police
officers were arrested to-day upon their
arrival here.
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rooming themselves. but such chances
are very scarce.
Formerly dressmaking offered a re-
munerative field, but improved facilities
of transportation have created a uni
versal demand for ready-made suits, of
all shades of value, from a modest
street costume to gowns that are
dream of art and represent many
ounces of dust.
There are at least 800 women in Daw-
son proper, but few children. This year
about $50 women residents were added
to the population, most of whom came
in search of honest employment. Their
inability to find work has driven many
to open up small road houses on the
numerous trails and creeks about the
metropolis, but these have become so
numerous as to be without much profit.
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WORK FOR WOMEN
SCARCE IN DAWSON
Mrs. N. B. ellis Tells of Her
Experience in the
Klondike

SEATTLE, Aug. 3O.-About forty
passengers from Dawson arrived to-
day on the AI-Ki. Prominent among
these was Mrs. n. B. .Gillis of San
Francisco, who leaves tomorrow for
home, in company with her husband.
Mrs. Gillis went into the Koyukuk
country over year ago, and finding it
destitute of gold made her way to
Dawson. She endured many hard
ships, particularly in the Koyukuk
section, and regards neither Alaska
nor the British Yukon a suitable coun-
try for woman unless attended by
her husband Mrs. Gillis tells of hav-
ing met L. Myers on the Yukon, en-
route to Dawson with a hack and a
hearse, which will be the first Of either
seen in the Klondike metropolis.
Myers observed that he would have no
trouble in getting Dawsonites to ride
in his cab, but feared that they would
not take kindly to the hearse.
During her residence in the north
Mrs. Gillis obtained much information
regarding the opportunity for women
to gain employment and make money
in Dawson. She states that in the new
metropolis women are handicapped on
every side, their services not being in
much demand, while the wages paid
are considerably below prices paid for
the same class of work when performed
by men.
Washing, ironing and cooking are
about the only fields open for women,
and even these positions are scarce and
hard to capture. Restaurants and
hotels that furnish meals at all hours
pay women cooks S125 per month and
board. walters S100. Good ironers of
starched clothes are paid from s5 to 81
per day of ten hours, boarding and
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COMBINE FOR WAR
AGAINST COSTA RIGA
Alliance Said to Have Been Formed
Between Nicaragua and Hon
duras for the Purpose

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30.-On the au-
thority of an American just returned here
from Nicaragua, where he has lived for
the past seven years, it is stated that
there recently took place a secret confer
ence between President Zelaya of Nicar-
aqua and President Terencia Sierra of
Honduras, the purpose of which was to
effect an offensive alliance between those
two countries for an invasion of Costa
Rica.
The conference took place at Amapala
Honduras, the chief seaport on the Pa
cifc side, and it is stated that war be-
tween the allies and the Costa Ricans is
bound to eventuate. The casus belli is
contained in the fact that Nicaragua is
intent upon regaining from Costa Rica
the province of Guanacaste, the boundary
line between Costa Rica and Nicaragua
and which is adjacent to the proposed
route of the Nicaragua, Canal This prov
was wrested from the latter country in
the last struggle witt. Costa Rica, It is
likewise stated that $50 900 in gold has
been shipped to Hamburg, and that the
father-in-faw Of President Zelaya is now
in Belgium for the purpose of buying UP
arms for the allied forces; also that SOS 900
in gold has been shipped to Zelaya' s
agents in New York for the same purpose.
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MAHDI'S TWO SONS
KILLED BY TROOPS
Accused of Inciting an Instruction,
They Resisted Arrest and Thus
Met Their Death

LONDON, Aug. 30.-The Sfrdar. Gen.
eral Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum- has
cabled the Foreign Office that the NAH
dis two sons have been killed by Brit
ish troops while resisting arrest at tha
village of Shukaba.
A force of British troops had been dis-<
patched there in consequence of report
that the Mahdist insurrection on the Blue
Nile was instigated by MALTA Cherif and
the Mahdis sons. The latter had been
living under supervision at Shukaba. On
met them with a warm fire. During the
fight the Cherif and the Mahdrs sons,
were killed and the village was burned.
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PROMOTIONS
FOR OFFICERS
OF THE ARMY
Two Major Generals Soon to
Be Named by the
President.
VACANCIES TO OCCUR
War Department Sanguine That
the Philippine Insurrection Is
Nearing an End
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel,
Washington, Aug 80.
When President Mckinley returns to
Washington he will discuss with Sec
retary Root the appointment of officers
to vacancies existing in the grades of
major general and brigadier general
The increase of the army, regular and
volunteer, to $4,000 men will increase
the list of major generals to eight and
that of brigadier general to twenty
four. There are in the service to-day
seven major generals and twenty one
brigader generals. The retirement of
General Shafter on October 16 will ere
ate another vacancy in the grade Of
major general of volunteers and a va
cancy in the grade of brigadier general
of the regular army. The President
will therefore have authority, after Oc-
tober 16, to appoint two major generals
and as it is generally understood that
Generals James F. Smith and Frederick
Funston are shortly to return to the
United States from the Philippines and
be mustered out the President will have
five brigadier generals to dispose of.
Undoubtedly it is the intention of the
administration to leave some brigadier
general appointments vacant in order
that some unusual display of gallantry
in the operations in the Philippines
NAV be promptly rewarded. One va
cancy now existing in the grade of
major general will be promptly filed
and the name of Brigadier General
James H Wilson, now on duty in Cuba,
is mentioned in its connection. I'm
doubtedly the vacancy will be filled by
the promotion of brigadier general.
Administration officials seem un-
usually confident that it will not be
long before the insurrection in the
archipelago is brought to an end. When
pressed to state the information upon
which they base their confident state
ments they decline to answer. 1t is
| known, however, there have been no
recent advices from General Otis and
so far as known nothing has come from
! the commissioners now at Manila. 1t
| is undoubtedly expected that the moral
! effect of the assignment of so many
! troops to the eighth corps VIII be bene-
/ fetal.
| Before his departure from Washing
ton to-day Secretary Root discussed
with General Ludington, quartermaSter
general, the question of transportation
of the ten regiments organized and ten
being recruited. Two of these regi-
ments are now ready for transportation
and will probably be sent from New
York and the remainder will sail from
San Francisco. Three of the latter
volunteer regiments will be sent from
New York. General Ludington in
formed Secretary Root that there will
be no difficulty in securing plenty of
transports for the regiments being or
ganized. but more difficulty will be ex-
perienced in getting the regiments
ready to sail off for Manila. Orders
have been given by General Ludington
directing that the steamer Psyche,
which has been used for transportation
of animals. be transformed into a pas
senger ship as rapidly as possible.
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TWO FRIARS ARRESTED.
Held as Filipino Spies, but Released
by General Otis.

VICTORIA, Aug. 80. Missionary
Prautsch is doing a rushing business in
marriages, according to the Manila DEM
ocracia Eleven couples of F'ilipinos five
Americans with Filipinos and one Fill
pino with an American woman, have
been Joined in matrimony according to
Protestant rites. The Liberals, organ of
the friars denounces it in plain terms and
condemns any woman who lives with a
man under Protestant auspices.
Salvador Pons and Augustine Alvares,
two Spanish Augustine frars from Hong
kong, were arrested by order of General
Otis. 1t is rumored at Manila that Pons
and Alvares are emisSaries of the Fill
pino junta at Hongkong. sent here by
that bod. to encourage the revolution,
airy spirit in Manila. Afterward they
were released by Otis, as nothing was
found to incriminate them.
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: in case of war. a deputation of out
landers has called on the British agent
at Pretoria regarding the trade depres-
sion. merchant whose stock is val
ued at 10000 pounds sterling said his
daily sales were not about eight pounds
sterling.
1t is said in Afrikander circles that
in spite of persistent warlike rumOrS
there are good prospects of peace. 1t
is believed that several strongly
wOrded communications have been ad
dressed to President Kruger of the
Transvaal Republic urging the de-
STABILITY Of using every effort to OBJ
tain a peaceful solution of the trouble.
Premier William P. Schreiner of Cape
Colony has telegraphed to President
Steyn of the Orange Free State earnest
" expressing the hope that peace will
be preserved and declaring his conf
dence that he president Steyn) would
do his utmost to this end.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-AS the result Of
correspondence between John Z. Red
mond, member of Parliament for
Waterford City and leader of the Par
nellite Nationalist, and Timothy NJ:
Healy Irish Nationalist member of
Parliament for North Louth. a further
I conference Of all branches of the Ma
tionalist members of Parliament will be
held to consider the unity of the Irish
party in Parliament.
A consignment of carrier pigeons for
military service was sent to-day from
( Dover to the United States.
/ The Pretoria correspondent Of the
/ Morning Post says: The Boer Off
! cials, after reading the cabled reports
/ of Mr.. Chamberlains Birmingham
/ speech. consider that war is newt
/ able The speech has undoubtedly In
! famed the war spirit here. The Beers
are now all armed. except those in Jo-
hannesburg. Their commissariat is
fairly good. All the forts are amply
victualed The Johannesburg forts
have been strengthened with several
quckfire guns. The ammunition which
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GENERAL MACEO'S
SON ARRESTED
Charged With Threats
Against Life.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SPOKANE, Aug. 30 - Lieutenant
Santiago Maceo, son of the late Gen
eral Antonio Maceo of Cuban renown.
was arrested by William G. Cody. a
nephew of Buffalo Bill.
The arrest was made last evening at
the Grand Hotel on a warrant sworn
to by W. E. Davidson, and issued on
his representation that Lieutenant
Maceo had threatened to shoot him be-
cause Davidson had requested the
Cuban to move from a table to a box
in the Grand Hotel cafe. At the police
station Maceo wept, when, a few
minutes after his arrest, the little son
falo Bill went together in search of a
SIS cash bond. The e-uniformed
prisoner kept linen handkerchief
pressed to his eyes. A bondsman was
finally found in the person of William
H. b. Hayward of the San Francisco
firm of L. and M. Alexander & Co. He
came to the station and put up the SIS
and MaCeo was released.
To-day Maceo was convicted in the
Police Court. The fine was remitted
and the spectators quickly made UP a
purse to pay the costs and secured
his release.
Maceo was a guest at the hotel and
walked into the dining room with MI
Hayward, to whom he had applied .or
the price of a meal They sat at a table
in the public room when Waiter David
son asked Maceo to move into a box
and the trouble started.
Cody is member of the police force
Maceo has been here several days on
his uppers. He is drifting slowly home
ward from Victoria, B. c., where
Katherine Tingley, the theosophist
hn +n loFt y hi,,,
stranded. Since his arrival here he has
been a frequent speaker at meetings of
the Volunteers of America. A purse
will probably be made up to take him
further east
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her cheek and neck, she makes the fondest
preparations for its arrival. Everything
that a wonan's dainty taste can imagine
is provided for the newcomers wardrobe.
Nothing is overlooked save one thing, and
that one thing is the most important. Too
many mothers forget that baby's strength
and health. its ability to witfStand the
usual ailments of childhood, ana its vigor
and welfare as a man or woman, are de-
r,eudent upon her own health and physical
condition during the period OF prospective
maternity If during that critical time,
she is weak, sickly, nervous and despond-
eut because OF troubles peculiar to her
GOV these conditions are bound to have
their influence upon her baby's health
Neglect of these conditions invariably
means that baby will be weak, puny and
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who suffers as ] did to use your medicine"
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torney for the defense that the prisoner
was suffering from nervous collapse
and to bring her into the courtroom
would endanger her life. A continu-
ance until Saturday was granted and
the witnesses were instructed to appear
without further notice on that date.
Tonight the unfortunate woman is
resting under the influence OF opiates
and all visitors are strictly excluded
from her cell in the female ward of the
prison. Popular feeling is strongly in
her favor and although not probable it
would surprise no one were she to be
set free at the conclusion of the pre-
liminary examination.
The chief witnesses in the case are
Miss Mabel Moody. G.. w. Moore and
w. NJ. KeSman. Miss Moody was en-
ployed as a servant in the house. Mrs.
Cook accused her husband of intimacy
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- ERLIN, Aug. 30.-The NeueSte
Nachrichten, which reiterates
its declaration regarding Euro
u pean neutrality in the event of
hostilities in the Transvaal.
says:
The Beers should have fought the
question on the basis of the Bloemfon-
tein sphere of discussion. The anti
Boer feeling in Great Britain would
pass away if Great Britain's demands
We're granted. France. without Rus
eia, cannot stir a finger, and Russia
Will not. Austria Hungary declared
neutrality in 1895, and Italy will do
nothing. Firmly convinced that the
German Government will maintain the
strictest neutrality, we consider it all
the more our duty to warn the Trans
vaal against a destructive policy"
PRETORIA, Aug. 30-The British
diplomatic agent here. Conyngham
Greene, has handed to the Secretary of
State. F. ". Seitz, the reply of the
British Secretary of State for the
Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain. to the
Transvaal alternative proposals to the
Joint commission suggested by Great
Britain TO inquire into the effect which
the proposed franchise reform measure
Will have on the Outlanders.
NIr. Greene also had a long confer
ence with the state officials. The ma
ture of the conference was not dis
closed. but was subject to the consid-
Grafton Of the executive this afternoon.
1t IS understood that another confer
ence may occur at Cape Town. The
result is anxiOuslv awaited.
~
Of the Scandinavians of Johannes
burg. just held. only two Of them voted
in favor Of forming a volunteer corps
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in the morning the crowd began to
assemble in the Justices courtroom,
but long before the hour for the ex-
animation arrived word came from the
County Jail that the prisoner was unfit
to face the ordeal and the case would
have to be postponed.
Strict in the performance Of his duty
the District Attorney grasped at an Of
fer made later to go on with the ex-
animation at the Jail and the office of
that institution was extemporized into
a courtroom. The hour came but not
the prisoner. Instead a statement from
the doctors was presented by the at
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AGUINALDO ORDERS
AN ATTACK ON IMUS
Americans Intrenching the Town and
Have No Fear as to the
Result of the Fight

MANILA. Aug. 30.-It is reported that
Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader, has or
dered the rebel generals in the province of
Cavite to close in on and attempt to take
the town Of linus, and it is added that
troops are concentrating around the town
from the lake country.
The rebels. it is further said, have an
outpost of 700 men on the Dos Marinas
road and an equal force in the town of
Anabo. The Americans are intrenchlng
the town and they have no fear of the
result Of any attack by the rebels.
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PURCHASE A RAILWAY.
Hidalgo Northern Passes Into Hands
of Belgian Syndicate

MONTEREY, Mex, Aug. 30.-The Bel
gjan syndicate which now owns and oper-
ties the Monterey and Mexican Gulf Rail-
way has purchased the Hidalgo Northern
D ailway II is announced by A Mormon,
renresentatiye of the syndicate in Mexico,
nat the newly acquired road will be i'm
mediately extended from Pachuca to
Tomnico where il will connect with the
Monterey and Mexican Gulf road, making
a new through line from Northern Mexico
TO the City Of Mexico.
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Bound for Philippines.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug 30.-Ths
Twenty-seventh Regiment, Colonel Bell
commanding, started from Camp Meade
to-day in three special sections for San
Francisco en- route for the Philippines.
The regiment is fully armed and equipped
for duty in the tropics.
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MRS. COOK TOO ILL ' :
TO APPEAR IN COURT
Forced Continuance of the Preliminary
Examination of the Santa Ana
MurderesS.

ANA, Aug 3O.-To-day at
10 O'Clock was the time set for the
preliminary examination in this
~ city of Katie Cook, charged with
the murder of her husband.
Thomas J. Cook of Peatlands. Early
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THROUGH MILES OF ICE.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. SO.-The ice
breaking steamer Ermak has just fin
ished a fortnights trip to the northwest
of Spitzbergen. She went through 200
miles of ice, the estimated thickness of
which was fourteen feet, without the
slightest interruption.
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Mountain Climbers Killed.

ZERMATT. Switzerland, Aug. 3O.-While
two Erglishmen, Messrs. Hill and Jones,
were ascending Mont Blanc. their rope
broke and Hill and three guides were pre-
cinitatnd down the mountain.
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Archbishop Alarcon's Plans.

MONTEREY, Mex, Aug. 30.-A cable
gram was received here to-day from Rt
Rev. Alarcon, Archbishop of Mexico, who
is now in Europe. stating, that he would
not return to Mexico until the middle of
November. He is now at Burgos, Spain,
attending the Third Catholic Congress.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
A Tandem.


What woman in
II the wide world
not be glad
o be a tandem for
wo happy, healthy,
rafting babies ?
W he Il Nature
\ whispers th e
sweet assurance
sA in a woman S
y ear that soon a
~ little stranger
Il will come TO
@c aress with
- b by fingers
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Keith's opening Friday and Saturday;
everybody invited; no cards. S0S Market.
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Advances made on furniture and pianos with
or without removal J. Noonan. 10l7-l023 Mission.
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ERLIN, Aug. 30.-The Neueste
Nachrichten, which reiterates
its declaration regarding Euro
pean neutrality in the event of
hostilities in the Transvaal,
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PetHnzbFg the capital the colony
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-11
BALLOTS.

These figures will not lie. Add Cons
force, a. to Atkinson's II and you have
Is, the number required TO nominate
Scott, therefore it's very plain that
Golf and his force, Poffenbarger, Cald-
well and Gaines, defeated Atkinson by
staying in the fight after the first bal
lot, as they all went over to Goff, as
shown by following their vote up to
the fifteenth ballot. The above table
shows it, beyond contradiction, and 1t
also shows Golf with at no time a shad-
ow of chance TO win, but on the other
hand it shows plainly how Atkinson
was defeated and Scott elected against
the will Of the people, for ninety-nine
Republicans out Of every hundred will
say they wanted Atkinson before
Scott. OF course many think Scott used
Doodle, and large amount; if So these
two things beat Atkinson alone, and
against the wishes OF the people. as
shown by our city election. and-fn 1900
we will hear from it fearfully. If Goff
could not be elected Governor by the
mass of voters, where in the name OF
God will Scott be with no influence at
all in his own county, and Elk
ms will have all he can do to take care
Of his own shoes, and his man Scott
will have to look after the State, and a
terrible state of affairs it will be, led
by Scott. Now, who will be to blame
for it-Elkins. Scott or Cot? Now,
Con- aided by Poffenbarger, Caldwell
and Gaines votes, could not pull
through, and it shows plainly that he
is not wanted But he is fixed for life.
What will become Of Uncle Steve Elk
ms? Probably after the people get
their eyes open they will send Akin
son, who has no Doodle, but has brains,
and has filled the chair OF Governor,
with over 1000 ahead OF MeKinley's
vote, and has been COTS wheelhoFse
in his elections to Congress- which Cor
should kindly remember. There IL one
thing certain: 1t took pile OF Doodle,
and all the crowd could do TO down
Atkinson, a poor man, but the people
won't have it that way any more.
GLASS EYE.