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The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
COMING CONVENTION
OF THE EPW0RTH LEAGUE
Delegates Who Will Meet at Santa
Cruz as the Guests of That
Citv

SANTA CRUZ, April 13.-The Methodist
young people of this city are very active
and are making great preparations for
the Epworth League convention, which is
to be held in the local Methodist church,
commencing tomorrow evening and con-
tnuing over Sunday. The delegation will
be large and all are to be entertained at
the homes of citizens.
The church is being decorated in a very
elaborate manner. The delegates who will
be present are:
Campbells-F. H. Tbbetts, E. HurIbut. Della
Cook, Ella Wade
College Park.R. J. coyne. D. NJ. S. Cross,
M McClish. Miss l.. Shearer Miss A. John
st9n; Miss Mabel Wright,
Rev. and Mrs. Thompson, Miss Lola Miner
Miss Myrtle Kious. Miss Josie Lawson.
Gonzales-Rev. e. S. Robertson.
Hollister-Miss Bertha Wyman. Miss Luella
Lorenzo-Mrs. Annie Peery. Fornia Bennett.
Lamb ]. Crummy Misses Ibbie Case, Mabel
Warwick, Lou Penny Carrie Gilliary, Vivian
Geatt, Libbie Crummy
Morgan Hill-ReV. and Mrs Peters
New Almaden-Rev J. w. Buxton.
Pacific Grove--H. Scott, G. Fitzsimmons. H.
May White, Eta B. Lloyd.
Palo Alto-R. E. Swain Misses Moe, Barring
and Harriet Cuthbertson.
Redwood City-Mrs. E. w. vasque Sophie
Saberg, Edna Wilson.
Salnas-Cleona Hops, May Howard, Rev
and Mrs. j. w. Bryant, Mrs. Bassett.
saratoga-Rev Mr.. Gober. Mrs. Eta Nc
Grew.
San Jose-A. L. Peterson L. Erkart C. S
Osgood, w. L. Lean, d. Buck, H. Hunter H
s. Kumna. l.. Harter, ]. Williams L. Wright
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. ]. Bennett. Misses Mary Kun
mer Rena Johnston, May Koerber Lottie Man
ger, Elizabeth Blaisdall, Olive Alexander EN-
ma Jordan, Addie Dungstan, Minnie Frick,
Jessie Nichols Tessie Crothers. Lottie Bow
man, Iva Cutler. Helen Hansen, Mrs A. will
liams, Mrs +. Soderstrom.
Watsonvllle-H. Richardson, Rev. and Mrs
Pettis, a. Hyde Lizzie Berg, Christine Nilsen
Bertha Hyde, Tiny Fisher.
Mayheld-D d. Cool.
Santa Clara-L. A. offred A. Harris A. b.
Mcneil, Mr. and Mrs. McSaunders, Mr. and
Mrs. j. r. Worthngton Misses Nora Fassett
Bessie Harris Blanche Horr.
Powell street San Francisco-F Fish, w
Simmons. Mrs. G. G. Bruce Mrs. F. Claiming
Misses Ethel Urmy. Clara Noutre. Winnie
Craig
California street, San FrarnLsao.--I. C Chan
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
MISHAP THAT COST
LANSDALE'S LIFE

In the cabled reports received by The
Call Of the recent disastrous engagement
at Apia it was stated that Lieutenant
Lansdale and his comrades met their
death through the jamming Of the Colts
automatic gun at a critical moment The
little body of q hundred English and
American bluejackets was ambuscaded
on Vailele, one of the German planta-
tions, by an immensely superior force of
Samoans, and just at the time when ma
chine-gun fire, judiciously applied, would
have saved the party the Colt automatic
gun is stated to have hopelessly jammed.
Lieutenant Lansdale lost his life While
trying to get the gun into action again
Freeman Of the Tauranga and several
marines were killed at the same time
!. X. b. Grubb, who is the Pacific Coast
agent for the Colt Patent Firearms Man
ufacturing Company, is utterly at loss
10 account for the occurrence
cannot believe he said yesterday.
that a Colt automatic gun could behave
in this way. Why the weapon was sub
Jected to the most exhaustive series of
tests before being adopted by the Navy
Department. The gun has been used with
great effect in Cuba and Porto Rico, as
well as in the Philippines, and no case
of its jamming has ever been reported be-
fore You will notice, too. that in the
official report OF the engagement nothing
is said about the misbehaVior of the
weapon. Therefore I should prefer TO
wait until the naval officers engaged
make a detailed statement before admit
ting the possibility of such a mischance"
The Colt automatic gun in question is
universally recognized as the most ad-
Vanced instrument of modern murderous
warfare. Designed solely for military
purposes, it is in many ways an i'm
provement on the English Maxim, which
recently wrought such terrible havoc on
the Dervish forces in the Soudan. It is
constructed TO use any kind of rife am
munition, and the force Of the recoil is
utilized To keep the gun working. Thus
all the gunner in charge has to do is to
hold his hand on the trigger and the gun
will pour out a stream of lead in any de-
sired direction. To prevent heating the
barrel is made of extra thick metals, and
the cartridges are fed by means of an
endless band. 1t is easy, as long as am
munition lasts, to fire a hundred well
aimed rounds a minute with this weapon.
and doubtless had the gun been brought
into effective action the bush could have
been cleared Of Samoans before they
found time to seriously assault the An
glo-American forces.
The cartridge used in this weapon is
similar in shape to that of the Mauser
or Lee-Metford rifles The only differ
ence is that the caliber is instead of 7
millimeters. The bullet is of lead encased
with steel, and the shell is made of thick
solid drawn brass.
1T would be impossible for one of these
shells to burst and jam the gum, eX-
claimed Grubb, as he lovingly han
died the dangerous little plaything. II
cannot believe such a thing could hap
pen"
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
VIRTUALLY MEANS
A CONFISCATION
Objection to Improving
Into Debt.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

FRESNO. April 13.-A sensational in
junction suit was to-day brought in the
Superior Court against the City Trus-
tees by property-owners on Tulare
street. between NJ and N, to stay the
attempt to confiscate the property by
improving it into debt
The suit is brought by Charles c.
Chance, a minor (by Mary Chance, his
guardian), Margaret Smith. j. D. Dem
ing, H. V. Deming and E. Q. Deming
against Joseph Spinney, c. ]. Craycroft.
w. M. McVey, F. NJ. Chittenden and E.
L. Austin, as Trustees of the City of
Fresno.
The order to pave the street was
made by the board about three weeks
ago in spite of the protest of the prop
erty-owners. The cost of improving
the street would be over half the value
of the property facing upon it and
would amount practically to a confisca-
tion of the property. The complaint
makes pretty warm reading, not min
cling words and declares that these
plaintiffs are now informed and be-
lieve that on the goth day of Febru-
ary 1899, the defendants cOnspired,
combined and confederated with one J.
H. Bingham, who was the agent of the
City Improvement Company, to cause
the street to- be paved with bituminous
rock and curbed with granite or con-
crete curbs at the expense of the own
ers of the property fronting on the
thoroughfare, and combined, conspired
and confederated with each other and
with Bingham and the officers and
agents of the company to give the con-
tract for doing the work to the City
Street Improvement Company"
The complaint further alleges that at
the time of making the order the TruS-
tees knew the public interest did not
require the paving of the street and
that they ordered the work solely for
the City Street Improvement Company
In support of the last statement it is
pointed out that in order that the City
Street Improvement Company might
get the contract the board willfully re-
fused to require the City Engineer to
furnish any estimates whatever.
Judge Webb issued an injunction as
prayed for in the complaint. The plant
ifs furnished bond in the sum of $500
as required by law with A. d. Chance
and Herman Peterson as sureties.
The Trustees meet tomorrow night.
and it was the intention to award the
contract at that time. Should they do
so now they would be in contempt of
court. Much Indignation has been
aroused against the present Board of
Trustees as a result of their action, and
open charges of jobbery have been
made. All the contracts awarded UP to
this time have been given to the CITY
Street Improvement Company.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
"HONORABLE" BILL
CODY TESTIFIES
Witness for Mrs. How
ard Gould.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, April 13.-Colonel Will
liam f. Cody, sworn as the Honor
able, gave his testimony to-day be-
fore referee in the case of Miss Kath-
crime Clemmons, now Mrs. Howard
Gould, against the World for 100000
damages. In the article of which she
complained, the plaintiff was spoken
of as the ward of Buffalo Bill" whom
she had deserted and left to languish
in illness and sorrow. The well-known
scout was pictured at the time as re-
clining upon couch, with his eyes
rolled up and his brow crossed and
recrossed by numerous corrugations.
There was no sign of either illness
or sorrow when Colonel Cody appeared
this morning in the office of Edward
la Fetra. Colonel Cody testified that
he had been presented to Miss Kath-
crime Clemmons in London in 1887. He
explained that he was then making a
tour of Europe with his Wild West
show. Miss Clemmons was at that
time appearing in a play entitled The
White Lily" Colonel Cody said he was
not interested in the play, but that
subsequently he undertook to obtain
for Miss ClemmOns the rights for the
dramatization of H. Rider Haggard's
novel, She"
After that, said the witness, I ad-
vanced money for the presentation of
a play called The Lady of Venice
which was produced in this country 1
paid for the scenery and costumes.
Miss ClemmonS was then in my en-
ploy. She was under salary"
The colonel was as':ed concerning his
illness in the West at the time of the
publication of the alleged libel. He ad-
mitted that he had been ill-for one
day. He had cold, and was obliged to
remain in his room for that period.
There were few questions asked and
the inquiry was hurried along
1t is expected that the case will be
taken UP in fourteen or fifteen months.
judging by the present state of the
Supreme Court calendar
Mrs. Gould was not present. The
hearing was attended only by the at
torneys of those interested.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
DEWEY DAY AT SAN JOSE.

SAN JOSE, April 13.-Extensive prep
arations are in progress here for a cele-
bration of Dewey day. May l. The affair
is in charge of ladies' committee of one
hundred of the O'Connor Art Association.
The entertainment at Agricultural Park
and the Rose Carnival Pavilion will be for
the benefit of the building fund of the as
sociation. it being the design TO erect a
spacious and handsome free art structure
in this city Prizes have been offered for
sitions appropriate for Dewey day, includ-
ing a, poem and essay on Admiral Dewey,
a song. march, etc. The. merchants. of the
citv TilI also compete for prizes for the
hest Dewey day show window decora-
tions. Preparations have already been
begun for a grand reception for a strong
Contingent of the marines and sailors of
tbe baftle-ship Iowa, who will be guests
Of honor in this city on Dewey day
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

Zealand will do anything possible to
render assistance in the emergency
which has arisen. Our steamer is
awaiting orders at Auckland. The Dep
uty Governor has communicated to the
Admiralty at Sydney that the Mildora,
a British third class cruiser detailed for
the protection of floating trade in Aus
tralasian waters, is on her way to
Raratonga with the Governor"
The comment of the afternoon news
papers on the Samoan situation is
mostly a repetition of the remarks
made in the editorial columns of the
morning papers.
The Globe declares that the mainte-
nance of the German Consul at his post
is an act of apparent Unfriendliness
which requires TO be explained.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

respondent wrote it in English, and
with all the relays that were neces-
sary, 1t was received here free from
errors. From Auckland the message
sped overland to Wellington, where
it took it's first submarine plunge.
Emerging from it's bath at Sydney,
Australia, it started on long over
land journey to Augusta, on the
South Coast, thence due north the
entire length of the southern conti-
nent to Palmerston, where it took
another dive. emerging for an in
stant at Banjuwangi in Java, only
to be transferred to another cable
which landed it at Singapore. At
that point it took another header
clear across the Bay of Bengal,
coming to the surface at Madras,
India. There it started on its trip
across the empire, reaching Bonn
bay without loss of a second, and
taking the cable there across the
Arabian Sea to Alden, Arabia, at
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
PREMIER SILVELA
HEARS FROM CAMB0N

NEW YORK, April ia Madrid cable
to the Journal says: Premier Silvela, af-
ter visiting the palace to-day, said that
he had received an official communication
from NJ Cambon, French ambassador at
Washington, saying that the United
States had placed s2O,OOOOOO at the dis
posal of the Spanish Government, and
had also appointed Bellamy Storrer
Spain, he said, welcomed the designa-
ton of Storrer as American Minister to
Madrid for the reason that he is a Cath
Spain
M. Cambon also assured Senor Silvela
that the United States entertained the
very best feeling toward Spain.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
LETTER FROM SAMOA
READS LIKE PROPHECY

NEW YORK, April 13.-The follow
ing is taken from letter just received
by a gentleman in New York from an
American friend at Apia, Samoa. which
was written on March %:
1T is rot improbable that Mataafa's
men will soon resort to the fire stick, and
it is thus possible that the whole of Apia
may soon go up in smoke, as on a dark
night one or two determined men could
easily crawl in and set the town on fire
in different places. Several days ago all
persons living between the British CON
sulate at Vaiala and point beyond the
Tivon Hotel, in Apia proper, were ordered
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

dler. R. H Overton. Mrs. H f. Lincoln, Mrs.
E. Griffith. Miss Annie Powell.
Epworth, San Francisco-W. Vance, Theodore
Harvey. Carrie Nelson, Mrs. Boscow.
Howard street San Francisco-Mesdames j.
b Wilson. J. B. Clifford. A. Chandler Shat
tuck Walters, Hopper. o. r: Adams; W. h.
Hughes, Misses Haushalter, Veale Morrlson
Lamb Captain Jennings, Messrs. Moore, o. r.
Adams, w. L. Hughes.
Chinese Mission, San Francisco-Lee Fong
HAY Ian Ming Doe, J. B. Landon.
Grace Church, San Francisco-J. c. Tooker;
F r. Butler, c. Jacobs, J. Martin Mt and
Mrs Knox, Mrs. Shook, Mrs. L. Birth, r.
Potrero church. San Francsco-Miss Mabel
Woodward. ,
Central Church, San Francisco-Miss Susie
Abbott. ~, 14.,.
liant. Mrs Walter Anthony, Misses Eta Sre-
decor, Marcia Holway, Helen Weber May
Grant Harry Carter. Frank Caseoeer.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

to vacate by the American and English
naval authorities. A mine has been placed
under the Tivoli Hotel so that if Ma
taafa's men attempted to rush and occupy
II they would be blown higher than they
ever were before. 1t was from the Tivoii
on the night of March IA that signal
vas made just previous to the attack by
Mataafas men, in which three English
sailors were killed. A spy gave the sig
nal Poor Samoa has never seen such
umes before l fear that American and
Englsh blood will be spilled before many
end the trouble You may be sure that if
americans and Englishmen are killed Ger
man blood will flow also"
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
FOUR HUNDRED WERE
KILLED IN THE BATTLE
Result of Conflict in Peru Between
the Presidents Forces and
INSURGENTS

Special Cable to The Call and the New York
Herald. Copyrighted, 1s99 by James Cor
don Bennett
LIMA. Peru, April 13.-The train with
President Alonzo, Senior Ichazo, General
Lopez, Minister of War, Senior Herrero
and others. with a bodyguard of forty.
arrived tonight at Antofagasta.
The total number killed in battle near
Oruro between the insurgents and the
Presidents forces was more than 400 The
Indians are quiet.
Railway traffic has been re-established.
President Alonzo's Ministers, who re-
mained at Oruro, were unmolested
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
GOVERNMENT SUES
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Will Recover Money for Public Lands
Sold by the Railroad
ComDanV

LOS ANGELES, April 13.-The Govern
ment, through its special attorney here,
brought suit this afternoon in the United
states Circuit Court to recover the pur-
chase price of about 10000 acres of land
sold by the Southern Pacific Company to
settlers and according to a recent decision
heloneing to the public domain and not to
the railroad company at the time of the
sale. ,,.
to show lust what amount was received
from the sales of these lands, and the suit
IS f1rl Brought I for the recovery of the amount
The land involved is, that within the
Pacific and the Atlantic and Pacific which
the courts have decided revert to the Gov
orr
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

~ YER four -fifths of the circum-
ference of the globe was the
distance traversed by the mes
Osage from Apia to San Fran
cisco which told, first to the
readers of The Call, and later to the
entire civilized world, that the Sa-
moan savages had slain Lieutenants
Freeman and Lansdale, and En-
sign Monaghan, of the British and
American navies, and in transmit
ting this thrilling information to
The Call the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, with it's cable con-
nections, performed one of the most
remarkable feats in telegraphy.
The message was conveyed by the
steamer Alameda from Apia to
Auckland New Zealand, where it
was Immediately turned over to the
telegraph and cable company. In
stead of transmitting the message
in the special cipher The Call has
arranged for Samoan news, the cor
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

the entrance to the Red Sea. Under
the entire length of that body of
water, it arose again at Suez and
journeyed overland to Port Said and
Alexandria, dipping into the Med
iterranean at the latter point. It
touched at Malta and then con-
tinued its submarine voyage to Ca
diz. At Lisbon it took another ca
BILE to Penzance, England, from
there to Valentia, Ireland, and from
there across the Atlantic to Cape
Canso, where it took it's final plunge,
coming up at New York. The over
land wires landed it in San Fran
cisco at 1890 Tuesday night.
The remarkable feature of it's
transmission, and one that speaks
volumes for the secrecy of the tele-
graph, was the fact that the mes
sage, which was of vital Importance
to three great nations, passed
through two of them without a hint
of its contents being disclosed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
Seized a Distillerv.

SANTA ROSA April 1S.-Deputy Col
lector Price and Gauger McMinn seized
the distillery of Henry Bolle on the So
noma road this afternoon. The officers
searched the distillery and found two
packages of brandy hidden in the tubs.
The matter will be reported to the Reve-
nue. Commissioner
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
], W, HYLAND, CORRESPONDENT OF THE LONDON ECH

Seddon, has cabled to the Agent Cen
eral of New Zealand here, the Hon. w.
P. Reeves, saying:
We deeply regret the adversely which
has overtaken our forces in Samoa
Inform the Secretary of State that New
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
Fatally Burned by Matches.

SANTA ROSA, April 13.-Little Dora
Byrd was severely burned about the body
while playing with matches this after
noon. The childs clothing caught fire,
and before 1t could be taken off she was
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
serere Earthauake Shook.

BUENOs AYRES, April 13.-An earth
quake shock was felt yesterday in various
nrovinces through which the Cordilleras
PASS The shock was most severe in the
province of Rioja. Serious damage was
done but no lives were lost.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

The Call of Wednesday. He leaves this
evening for the Yosemite, and upon his re-
turn from that place will start for the
East and the Paris Exposition.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
NEW ZEALAND Is
ANXIOUS TO FIGHT

LONDON, April 13.-The Premier Of
New Zealand, the Right Hon. R. G.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-02-09
law reporter and we'll fitted for tn,

law reporter and well fitted for the
place.
Miss Anna Carlson, formerly Of
Salina and later connected with the
Lindsborg papers, has leased the Sol
ONION Sentinel. The Sentinel is q
good property and the young lady
talented. She ought to do well. In
case she does not there is always the
chance OF consolidation with the
Tribune.
A Wichita school teacher, Miss
Brinker, is public benefactor She
has organized an 5 o'clock club and
the signatures Of great many little
boys and girls have been secured as
members. Each member of the club
solemnly binds him or herself to 60
to bed at or before 5 o'clock every
night. Those who keep the pledge
until the end Of school will be given a
big picnic next summer by their
teacher. Parents say the new scheme
is working excellently.
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Would Divide a County.

A bitter fight is going on in Colora-
do to divide FL Paso county and make
Cripple Creek the county seat OF
new county to be called Teller. W.
P. Seeds made a speech before the
Colorado legislature on the matter
last week and said: "What harm are
you going to do to anybody in allow
ing the bill that is before you to pass
and what good will you do ty killing
it9 During the dark days of 1898
there was one bright spotin the whole
state. And that little spot of land |
want you to know produces more gold
than the whole state Of Colorado be-
aide.
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PREPARE TO VOTE.
Where Do You Want Another Arc
Light Located!

The Dramatic company's play Fri
day night will be a good attraction.
In addition there will be a lively con-
test for the arc light to be located by
the vote OF the audience vote for
each ten cents represented in the
ticket. Now is the time to get your
nelghborhood in line and prepare to
buy tickets. The following locations
are most in favor: Buckeye and
Tenth, Third and Walnut, Third and
Mulberry, Fifth and Mulberry, Cedar
and Sixth, Broadway and Second,
Southside, Buckeye and Santa Fe
track.
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Ladies' Home Treatment.

In an other column Of this paper, is an
advertisement for the Woman's M edical
Association of Kansas City, Mo- This is
. perfectly reliable association and we
advise any Of our lady readers in need Of
medical attention to write to them. The
cost is nominal and their success is truly
wonderful
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-02-09
Powdered Butter MILK Baking Powder

The only Baking Powder with the milk
already in it. Makes everything with
cold water Highest grade made. Guar.
anteed absolutely pure, Ask your grocer
for it. 50 cents pound can. One trial
and you will always use il.
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j. W. Creech of Herington for
whom Henry Miller is handling
string Of fine trotters and PAGERS has
recently bought in Chicago fast A.
year-old in Barney, sired by the great
Ashland Wilkes. The horse has no
mark, but has shown 2:lS speed.
Miller will go out this season with a
swift string.
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Advertised Letters.

The following is the list Of I'M
claimed letters remaining in the Abb
lene postoffice for the week ending
Feb. 7, 1899. Have your mail ad-
dressed to your box number and it
will be promptly delivered.
GENTLEMEN's LIST.
Baker, FA Brewer, Charlie
Hines, Matt kincaid, J
Leedy. Ed La Lone, Geo
Lowery, James Miers, Fred
Stroud T (foreign warren, John
Wilson, Thomas
LADIES LIST.
Allen, Miss Emma.
One cent will be charged for all ad.
vertised letters.
Persons calling for the above will
please say advertised" giving date.
RICHARD WARING, ?. M.
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HENRY FARM SOLD.
Handsome Property Northeast Of
Town Changes Hands.

The old I. G. Henry farm, north
east Of the city, adjoining East Abb
lene, was sold at sheritf's sale for
$500. 1t has 367 acres but no
buildings. Once there was the big
gest barn in the county on the
bluff but high wind blew it over
L. A. Bigger Of Hutchinson bid it in.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-02-09

Egyptian Hair Tonic cures dan
druff, invigorates the scalp, promotes
a healthy growth, prepared by ". A.
I.andes at City barber shop, Abilene,
Kansas. 2l6-tf
For hack anywhere in city leave
orders for Joe Badger at Contra
hotel. II