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rail to prevent failing Into; the boW. For an
instant | thought of surety we would
plunge sidelong below the following sea,
pierce it, and be swamped inside the tenth
stroke of my pulse; but the send of the
water flung us partly out of the trough, and
as it passed lifted the bow to terrible in
cline, and, giving us an extra vicious lurch,
lett us almost stern out to the run of the
pillows Had it broken as it reached us, the
tons upon tons of water which would have
fallen on our deck must have driven the
schooner beneath the surface as though she
was no more buoyant than the lead in her
hold. 1t was wonderful view had of the
ocean from the height of the mighty comber.
The sharpness of it's ridge foretold the com
ing cascade, and, though it drove us down on
our beams ends and made the schooner
groan like a suffering mortal as she recov-
cred, it was not evil in its effects on me or
mine.
Two things on deck there were which
seemed to catch the infection of motion, one
being the surgeon, who was shot into the
scuppers with a violence which did some
thing to sober him, for, like man waking
from deep sleep, he threw out an arm and
began rubbing his eyes, muttering words
that might have been protest at his rough
usage. The other was the runaway scuttle
butt which had been captured by the fukes
of the spare anchor. AS the stern of the
Phantom sank to the hollow and the bow
pointed higher than it had ever been my lot
to see it, the barrel, like wild thing wait
ing it's chance, dropped from the position in
which it had been held and with a rush tore
aft like spent cannon ball. At the break
of the poop it was met by the lifting stern,
and, retracing its course, drove against the
door of the farecastle hatch with force
that split the panel from top to bottom.
As ball it sprang from the impact. spinning
on its chimes for an instant, the water flying
in circular shower from its now open bung,
then hurrying to larboard amidshps, it
reached well aft in time to be caught by the
| mounting stern. With wonderful agility
and seemingly with the instinct of one mad
| to escape environment, even if it ended in
self-destruction, it jerked itself on end as
though to look about, tottering and falling
again on its side with the life of the bow.
For brief space it hung see-sawing and
gurgling thiaily as though choking, then it
shot forward with the fury of bolt. Moth
ing interviewed to check its course, and, as
though it had wings, it ran up the mass of
rope and wreck which had now become
| jammed near the heel of the bowsprit,
| leaped into the air, cleared thelow bulwark,
| and plunged, shrouded inits own spray, into
| the frothing sea below.
| would sooner have fought the three pris-
oners than been forward in the path cf that
nsensate thing, and, though | was aware
that our available stock of fresh water went
with it, l was glad to see it spring off the
deck.
| FTo ha onntjpua61
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F. H, LORD. a. P. r. A., Chicago.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
Florence Parker Closed Her Life
With a Night Of Reck=
less Reyelfy.
Efforts Made to Have the Girls Body
Quickly Cremated to Prevent
Expose Of the Tragedy.

loin from their escorts and set them
dancing on the tables. 1t was such a
dance as made the Midway famous,
and inspired by many cold green drinks,
the women were showing no small skill.
Some one in the party struck a tray
filled with glasses from the hand of one
of the rushing walters. One Of them
fell at the feet of Florence Parker. and,
seizing it. she quickly jumped to
nearby table, held it at arms length
and deftly kicked it back into the
crowd from which it had come.
In a minute a fight had started, the
dancers were forgotten, and police.
students and laughing women were
mixed in a yelling. cursing crowd that
forced the cause of it all and her COM
panions out through the doors and over
to the whirling hobby horses that spun
round under a tent near the entrance.
whirl on these and more to drink. the
Chutes and Florence Parker was miss
ing.
At S o'clock Saturday morning, the
morning of her frenzied debauch at the
Chutes, the maid hastily wakened Mrs.
Ella Parker and told her that Florence
was in her room and in a serious con-
I =.
State Senator Sigmund Bettman, and
together they hurried to the girls room.
I She lay on her bed, unconscious, breath
ing heavily her face fast purpling. 1t
/ was evident to them she was suffering
! from poison. They hastily applied an
! tidotes and worked over her for half an
hour. Then Senator Bettman dressed
and quickly summoned DIR. Levison.
All the physicians skill, however,
availed naught. for an hour after she
/ had been discovered she died without
/ having regained consciousness.
/ Florence Parker was 25 years of age
at the time of her taking off. When
but II she met and shortly after be-
came the mistress of George 1. Bailey.
proprietor of the Golden Gate Stables
at Golden Gate avenue and Jones
street Bailey was a man of wealth
and lavished money upon her. For
years he made her an allowance of 5000
per month and decked her in gems of
much price. They lived part of the
time at her home at 1419 Devisadero
street, where the menage was COM
pleted by the presence of Senator Bett-
man, who was on terms of close ac-
ouaintance with her mother. Mrs. Ella
Parker, and the rest of the time at
BaiIey's rooms at 10 Jones street.
They lived the fastest of lives until
year ago they quarreled. Taking her
diamonds with her. Florence left for
the East in company with prominent
traveller for the Goodyear Rubber Com
pany Their itenerary included all Oh
the big cities of the East. and Florence
returned to the West well satisfied with
her new lot. A second trip followed
and her drummer deserted her at the
Continued on Fifth Page.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
lo0o0o0oDc0oNo NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

exclusive announcement this morning
of the receipt of an important dispatch
from the Philippine Commission giving
optimistic views respecting the Philip
pine situation.
Secretary Hay was empowered by the
Cabinet at it's meeting to-day to make
public an extract from the report of
Colonel DENLY descriptive of the condi-
tion of affairs.
It can be added that further informa-
tion received from Colonel DENLY and
General Otis, which was not made pub
lie, is to the effect that overtures in the
direction Of peace have been made by
prominent Filipinos. At least one Cab
met officer with whom 1 talked inter
preted the dispatches to mean that
Aguinaldo and some Of his subordinates
are concerned in these. The authorities
are still disinclined to discuss the mat
ter because, in the first place, they are
not very sanguine that the negotiations
will be attended with satisfactory re-
suits, and, in the second place, 1T is
not wished to acquaint the opposition
to the Americans in the Filipino ranks
with the communications passing be-
tween their leaders and the Americans,
because Of the danger that it might
prevent their success.
Conservative leaders of the admins
tration. remembering the optimistic
conclusions drawn in the past from Of
fetal dispatches from Manila, are in
clined to believe that present communi-
cations with the Filipinos will not bring
final peace, though they may impress
upon the native leaders the exact in
tentfon of this Government. They ex-
meet no cessation Of hostilities, and
think peace will not come until after
another campaign. Most of the officials
estimated that peace would not be re-
stored until six months, but certainly
within a year. One member of the
Cabinet, however, is sangufne enough
to believe that volunteers will not be
needed at all.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

Florence Parker died by her own
hand.
That the dubious regulations of those
who had brought her to what she was
might not suffer the Coroner has said
her end came naturally and in the or
der of things, but facts have come up
into the light of day that give the lie
direct to that officials statement and
lend to Florence Parker's story all the
glamor of a romance of the half world.
It is a story that has had and Will
always have it's parallels so long as San
Francisco's mighty undercurrents are
permitted to flow as strong and deep;
and for so long as the city's Coroners
rob those who have not yet been set
afloat upon them of the examples that
might deter.
OF the world which she left Florence
Parker was a pronounced type. OF her
companions who were gay she was the
gayest and she claimed more beauty
She was magnetic and won to herself
after once she had been started frlends
of wealth and influence. She was an
extremist in all things that appealed to
her inbCrn love of excitement and in
ordinate. tangled passions.
In the gay, garish throng that made
infamous and memorable the night OF
the celebration of the Fall of the BaS-
tile at the Chutes she was prominent
figure. She had gone out to see ana
had. after her fashion, stayed to par
take It was a day of wild, feVer1sh
merrymaking, was that Frankish cele-
bration, such a day as only the hot
Hooded deniZen of the French colony
could start going and such day as
only the hotter blooded half world could
bring TO the bedlam it was at the finish.
From the first fanfare of trumpets in
the morning to that time in the evening
when the green lady was set up as
goddess of the night it was the day of
the Gaul. After that it belonged to the
tenderloin. and the tenderloin put it to
characteristic use.
From the less enthusiastic ones who
were poking fun at the animals IN the
zoo Florence Parker found her way
through the crowd to the door OF the
big theater, with its thousand hghts
and tawdry tinsels. Her friends were
everywhere; with the dancers on the
floor. with the drinkers who were drip
ming their absinthe at the tables around
the entrance, and in the cafe where Wild
est orgies were already breeding. 1t was
only a suggestion that was needed to
plunge her, body and soul, into the gid
DIV maelstrom, and the suggestion
came. From the moment she went out
onto the dancing floor the fever of the
night entered into her blood and the
melancholy that had led her there she
knew no more till morning.
From the ballroom the party that
had gathered around her were attracted
hv crowd of students who had turned
themselves loose in the big cafe. They
had stolen two fair ones of the tender
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
DISAGREEMENT OF
ANDERSON AND OTIS
Subordinate General Confirms the
Reports of Clash at
Manila

NEW YORK. July 1S.-A Chicago
special to the Herald says: General
Thomas NJ. Anderson, commander OF
the Department of the Lakes, confirms
the newspaper statements about his
clash with General Otis in the Phil
ippines.
1t was stated that even before the
first insurgent attack on the American
troops on February 4, Aguinaldo threw
up strong earthworks in sight of Cen
eral Anderson's lines. The latter in
sisted that his troops We're being en-
dangered and asked General Otis for
permission to stop the Filipinos' opera
tons Then the following coIloquy is
reported to have occurred:
I'VE will do nothing" said General
Otis. until the Filipinos commit some
act Of war.
But they are intrenching themselves
against us" replied General Anderson,
and the moment man puts a spade
into the ground with hostile intent he
has committed an act of war"
Commenting on this reported con-
versation General Anderson said to-
day:
That is a true statement of matters
that are now Of record in the War De-
partment at Washington, but 1t is in
formation which was never given out
by me. Aside from what the facts re-
corded in my report may show, / have
no comment or criticism to advance in
regard to General Otis acts as COM
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

mander-in-chief Of the army Of the
Philippines.
1T is hardly fair to say that General
Otis had no active commands in the
field before being sent to Manila, In
deed. the fact is General Otis cut very
creditabIe figure in the war against
Sitting Bull. he having command of a
regiment in that exciting campaign. 1t
is true that he has never gone to the
front in the Philippines, but then neith-
er I nor any other subordinate officer
had any means of knowing what in
structiOns may have been sent him
from Washington. 1 was second in
command under him, and he was COM
mander-in-c chief; 1t was not necessary
for him to go to the front. He directed
affairs from his headquarters.
His censorship of the press was per
haps a trif1e too rigid at times, but l
have never heard 1t said until now that
he claimed the privilege to make all the
heroes of the Philippine war or that he
eliminated laudatOry mention Of Funs-
ton or other active campaigners. About
the only complaint heard against Gen
eral Osis in the Philippines while 1 was
there was that he personally undertook
too much. leaving hardly anything for
his subordinates to do.
"The statement that he kept General
Lawton from taking part in active
operations for five days is a misstate-
ment. General LawtOn came to succeed
me, and when he arrived I was in the
midst of an important maneuver, which
it was necessary for me to finish before
he took charge.
II don't believe that General Otis ever
made the statement attributed to him
in regard to not allowing the American
public to know anything about the
campaign that would excite or agitate
it. l am an intimate friend of General
Otis and have been at the same post
with him for a number of years We
were good friends while 1 was in the
Philippines.
THE statement that he exercised any
censorship over Admiral Dewey's cable
messages is absurd. He could not do
so, because the naval cipher code is diff
ferent from the army code. Then again,
it would have been a discourtesy be
tween the two branches of the service. -
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

Continued on Second Page.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

- hlNJAtTNt, Julg lS.-IoIlSdQttI NtH-
eral Thomas NJ Anderson, COM
manding the Department Of the
~ Lakes. according to advices that
reached here tonight, is to be re-
stored to the rank of Major General OF
Volunteers and placed in command OF
the army in the Philippines. The re-
call of General Otis and the appoint
ment of General Anderson in his stead
will occur within the next week. This
information comes from a private but
reliable source.
The choice Of new commander to
succeed General Otis is said to lie be-
tween Generals Merritt and Anderson.
General Merritt has first claim to the
appointment, but he was recently mar
ried and does not wish TO leave his COM
Portable home in New York for fresh
service in the islands. On the other
hand, General Anderson, who led the
first expedition sent TO aid Dewey. is
anxious to return there, and so he has
been selected for the command.
When interviewed tonight General
Anderson denied that he had any Off
cial notification that he had been Sc
lected.
Il have heard it in a grapevine
way" said he, but I have no official
intimation that it is true, and 1 place
no credence in the rumor whatever
"One reason why would not be sent
to the Philippines is because am too
near the age of retirement. 1 will re-
tire next February, and the Govern
rnent would hardly send me abroad
with that date so near"
General Anderson left the city to-
night for Camp Thomas, where he will
see to the recruiting of the Thirty first
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
TO RELIEVE Otis.
1t Is Said That General
Thomas M. ADder-
son Will Take
His Place.
Special Dispatch 10 The Call.

WASHINGTON, July !
I8.-The following cable !
gram has been received !
from General Otis; !
MANILA, July I8.- !
Adiutant General, Wash
ington: Continued heavy I
rain and cyclonic storms !
impede business in the har- !
Dor. The Colorados sailed !
on the transport Warren !
yesterday. Privates Horne :
and Wilder Of Company G :
were left sick. In addition :
to the regiment I3o dis !
charged men OF various or !
CARNATIONS took passage. :
The CalifOrnians, on the :
Sherman, have arrived J
from Negros, but the yes :
sci must be coaled and !
await the subsistence of the :
typhocn now prevailing. I
OTIS. I
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

Continued on Fifth Page.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

X HICAGO, July 18.-Brigadier Gen
eraI Thomas NJ. Anderson, com
manding the Department Of the
Lakes. according to advfces that
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
FIGHTING
IN SAMOA
RENEWED
Chiefs Killed in
q Battle at
Suutele.
uunUuIlD UHL | UlluU
Chief Justice Chambers
Wants to Come r iODe
and Give Up His
Place.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Writing of the situation in Samoa
on June 16 The Calls special corre-
spondent at Apia said:
'|The situation is not one that
promises a lasting peace. If Com
missioner Eliot refuses to recede from
his present ground it is almost Ger
tain that the commission will not
succeed in concluding the work it has
begun, and conflict between the two
factions of natives which will again
involve the whites may be looked for
at an early date"
From the tenor of the dispatches
from Samoa this morning it is ap-
parent that the clash has come.
Whether the result will be serious
remains to be seen. Readers of The
Call, knowing how close the Asso-
ciated Press Agent is to Chief Justice
Cham bers, will be permitted to doubt
the accuracy of that agents informa-
tion about President McKinley's de-
sire to retain Chambers in his po-
sition.
II PIA, Samoa, July II, via Auck-
~ land, July 1S.-Fighting occurred
! ~ at Sofata, in the Suatele district,
L 1 on July 4. and one Malietoan
chief was mortally wounded and
two Mataafa chiefs and one Suatele
were killed and three others wounded.
The British cruiser Tauranga and the
I German cruiser Cormoran arrested
three chiefs and brought them to Apia
for trial before the Supreme Court.
The joint commissioners will leave for
Washington July 49, Chief Justice
| Chambers will leave for San Francisco
on the steamer Moana on July ID. Not
desiring to return he has sent his res
! ignation to President Mckinley, who
does not wish to receive it. The ques-
tion whether this constitutes vacancy
in the chief justiceship is being dis
cussed by the commissioners. Dr. Solf
claims that he will preside over the Su-
preme Court if Chambers leaves the
island. If there is vacancy, then eth
er Hunter or Mair may be designated
to fill the chief justiceship.
The commissioners are much blamed
for not rdering the restitution of loot
taken by rebels.
Mataafa partisans among the rebels
are raising funds to fight the kingship
question through lawyers and are conf
dent of obtaining a rehearing Mataafa,
! however. accepts the abolition of the
/ kingship and will be present at a meet
/ ing with the commissioners on Savati
! Island.
His supporters request the dismissal
! of Chief Justice Chambers and defy the
order of the Supreme Court.
The International Commissioners are
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

II PIA, Samoa, July IL, via Auck-
~ land, July 18.-Fighting occurred
~ at Sofata, in the Suatele district
L L on July 4, and one Malietoan
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19


Debats says: THE Dreyfus
- court-martial will not begin it's
sittings until August 10.
The Matin this morning publishes 2
statement OF Comte Ferdinand Walsin
Esterhazy, in which he says that he
wrote the bordereau by order of Colo
mel Sandherr, and that it was sent to
the house of Colonel Schwartzkoppen,
then military attache at the German
Embassy in Paris, whence it was return
ed to the war office. Colonel Schwartz
koppen being at that time in Berlin.
never saw the bOrdereau, which was
forged in order to supply material
proof of the guilt of Dreyfus.
The statement contains the assertion
that secret agents in Berlin. whose tes-
timony 1t was impossible to use, had
demonstrated that leakages had occur
red In the war Office and the fact that
treason existed was undeniable and ev-
erything indicated Dreyfus as the trail
tor.
All the war ministers, the statement
further says, knew the facts and
thought the forgery of the bordereau
necessary The evidence duplicating
Dreyfus were the words put in Colonel
Schwartzkoppen's mouth. General Mer-
cier, De Boisdeffre and Come knew
that the bordereau was forged and
that Dreyfus was Illegally convicted.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19

tacho, former Filipino Cabinet Minister,
believes that AguinaldO and other rebel
leaders would welcome opportunity
for a peaceful settlement of the war,
as before ArtachO's escape from linus
a majority of the people were dsgusted
at the non-success of the Filipino arms
and regarded Aguinaldo's followers as
bandits. Artacho is absolutely friendly
to the Americans, but maintains that
the Filipinos will doubt all proclama-
tiOns unless made by Congress. He fur
ther declares that the rebellion is now
being conducted solely for personal ag-
grandizement. An independent Filipino
Government, he asserts, means domes-
tic slavery, and misery and ruin would
quickly follow. Personally Artacho
places absolute confidence in the Amer
leans ability to restore peace and lead
the islands to prosperity.
Artacho is about to bring an action in
the Hongkong Supreme Court to re-
cover from the Filipino Junta $100, 900
(Mexican) as his share of the peace
purchase money transmitted here by
Spain. A friend with whom he resides
has received threatening letter
prominent of the Filipino patriots who
for years fought the Spaniards A
trained lawyer at Manila, he early es-
poused the cause of his countrymen.
He was Aguinaldo's Minister of the In
terror in the second rising, and when
Primo de Rivero bought peace by
paying large amounts to the leaders of
the insurrection he was left as hostage
with the Spaniards to effect the dis
arming of the natives. Upon his release
he began suit at Hongkong against
Aguinaldo to restrain him from taking
the money which had been sent there
by Rivero for the insurgent junta AS
a result of this action, when he returned
to Cavite following Dewey's victory, he
was promptly thrown into prison by
order of the rebel dictator. and several
of his relatives were similarly treated
In an interview with the Herald cor
respondent in Cavite Prison on August
the ill-treated patriot bewailed the
wrongs he had suffered Nothing has
been heard from him since, but it can
easily be inferred from the special bile
dispatch here given that he has been
held prisoner and only recently escaped
from Aguinaldo's tolls. possibly during
Continued on Second Page.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
DIRECT OVERTURES
FROM INSURGENTS

WASHINGTON, July 1s.-Secretary
Hay confirmed to-day the Call -Heralds
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
FILIPINOS WOULD
WELCOME PEACE
Masses of the People Are Weary OF
Aguinaldo and His War
Policy.
Policy.

special Gable 10 The Call and the New York
Herald. Copyrighted 1899, by James Cor
don Bennett
HoNGKoNG, July 1s.-Isabelo Ar
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-12-13
FOUND GLASS IN STOMACH.
Testimony of Prof. Prescott in the
Sanderson Murder Trial.

Marshall, Mich, Dec 9.-Prof. A. B.
Prescott of the University of Michigan
was on the stand in the Sanderson muir
der case and testified that he had ex-
amined the stomach and intestines
brought him October Is, 1898, by the
sheriff of Calhoun county and DR.. Pitch
er of Battle Creek. He said that he
had found one particle of glass in the
stomach and five particles in the intes-
tines. The professor said there were
cases on record where mechanical irri-
tation produced by powdered glass in the
stomach or bowels had produced death.
He said he had discovered no evidences
of mechanical irritation ON the interior
of the stomach or mucus membrane.
When asked if he was prepared to tes-
tify that the amount of glass he had
discovered in the manner described
would cause death, he answered, GER
tainly not.
Ex-Sheriff Stone was taken in hand
by the defense. His testimony went to
show that he conveyed the telescope con-
tanning the stomach and intestines of the
late Rodolphus S. Sanderson to Ann Ar
Dor and delivered it to Prof. Albert Pres
colt. CrOss-examination went to show
the possibility of particles of glass hav-
ing been lodged in the different organs
during the autopsy, previous to their de-
livery at Ann Arbor.