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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03

USTICE CHAMBERS Press Bu-
reau has again been discredited by
the publication this morning OF
~ Berlin dispatch stating that the
Cologne Gazette has a special from
Apfa dated June 26 to the effect that
Malietoa Tanu will soon be transport
ed to the Fiji Islands, and that Cham
bers will soon follow MaXse and Rose,
who are now on their way nome. The
Cologne Gazette has scored what is
called in newspaper parlance a scoop
over Chambers Press Bureau, for the
Judge has not sent out either of these
facts The Call has also 'scocped' the
Judge, for it predicted both events in
its Samoan letter published on July l.
The correspondent Of the Cologne Ga
zette now at Samoa is DR. Genthe, a
cultured gentleman having the title
of PhD from a German university.
AS representing an official Crgan of
the German Government much credit
attaches to his statements, and they
NAV be taken as straws indicating the
further action of the commission. Evi-
IDENTIFY Tanu has refused to keep his
part of the compact and remove from
Mulinuu with his followers. The
American and German Commissioners
have insisted upon this, but the Eng
lish Commissioner not standing with
them has given them courage to- resist
the order. and it would seem as if the
English Commissioner had been COM
pelled to reluctantly consent TO his de-
portation.
AS an instance of the unreliability of
+he reDorts sent out from Apia, atten-
ton nav be called TO an address to
American citizens in Samoa, purporting
TO have been issued by United States
Consul General Luther w. Osborn
shortly after the overthrow of the Su-
prerne Court. This address was patri-
otic in tone, eulogized Judge Chambers,
stated that in America any one who
criticized the Supreme Court would be
severely punished. and closed with the
exclamation: Americans. stand by
the fiag!" The address was sent out
and published throughout the United
states; but Mr.. Osborn says that he did
not sign 1t. nor did he dictate a word
of it, The first knowledge he had of the
existence of the address and its sigma
t11re was received from one of the
newspapers in which the article con-
tanning them was published. Thus were
Osborn's name and influence used
to support the dignity of the Supreme
Court of Samoa.
Later on, when Osborn incurred the
i'll will of Chambers and others by re-
fusing to perform some act which they
required of him to further their
schemes, he was charged in an article,
which was published extensively, with
having refused while acting as presi-
dent of the Municipal Council to pay
the salary of young King Tanu for the
month of January, as ordered by the
Berlin treaty, and proceedings were
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
DECISION ADMITS
EXISTENCE OF WAR

WASHINGTON. July BY the decis-
ion OF the Controller of the Treasury that
all soldiers now in service are entitled to
% per cent increase of the payment au-
thorized by Congress to be paid lin time
Of war admission is made by an Off
cial for the first time that the Philippine
insurrectlon has reached the dignity Of
war
Heretofore the authorities have care
fully refrained from admitting that we
are in a state of war, and even now none
of the administration officers outside of
those whose duty it is 10 pass on ques-
tions of army pay will consider the con-
test in the Philippines as anything but an
insurrection.
For obvious reasons the administration
cannot formally admit that we are in a
state Of war. The international obliga-
fiOns which would result therefrom would
cause nc end of embarrassment. The Fill
pinos would have good reason to claim.
even If they did not get it. recognition of
belligerency. Such recognition, In addi-
ton to increasing the risk of foreign COM
plications would seriously handicap the
tinted States in the prosecution Of war.
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TO
PEKING TO BE
IMPRISONED
Chinese Student Of Yale
Tortured by Order Of
Prince Ching.

bamboo cage, in which he was carried
to Peking On the arrival at the
Chinese capital the unfortunate doctor
was imprisoned in a temple. While
there he was horribly tortured, his
body being burned with hot irons
1t was given out by the local authorl-
ties that DR.. Yung Wing was impris-
oned because he was believed to have
had some relations in, or connection
with. the late unfortunate reform
movement, but this was only a blind.
for it afterward de eloped that the
doctor was imprisoned bv impecunious
Prince Ching so that he might extort
money from the doctors friends, who,
it was thought, would be ready TO pay
heavily to deliver him from imprison-
ment and torture or death.
This scheme was nipped in the bud by
an American resident of Peking, to
whom the doctor managed to send word
of his pred;cament by bribing one OF
his keepers The American, who was
dressed in Chinese costume, went to
the temple, and by threats. accom-
panied by the persuasion of pointed
revolver, obtained DR.. Yung Wings re-
lease. From the temple he took him to
Tientsin by train, whence the unfor-
tunate doctor took a steamer for
Japan. He probably will return to
America.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
BY w. E. WILLIAMSON.

instituted in the Supreme Court to COM
pei the payment The dispatch also
stated that Mr.. Osborn was the only
one of the American or British ofhclals
who would have anything to do with
the German Consul General Mr.. Os-
born states that the whole dispatch was
misleading. and was intended to be so.
My duties as diplomatic and con-
sular representative of the United
States and as acting president, sald
Mr.. Osborn, required me 10 nave dally
intercourse, by letter and otherwise
with the other consular representatives
and treaty officials. 1t would be pc
culiar representative of great ma.
ton who, on account OF a difference or
opinion on certain political questions,
would not have anything to 90 win
his colleagues and others with Wnom
he must transact business. PoSslpl!
very much which will ever be regret
ted might have been aVerted if others
had not refused to have anything TO
do with certain ether officials with
whom it was their duty TO cooperate.
The Berlin treaty contains nothing
whatever upon the subject of the
Kings salary, either as to amount, or
time or manner of payment. For the
past three years there has been a cen
tinual dispute as to the amount which
the King should receive. For Whlie
he was paid $500 a year, and at other
times only one third of that amount.
The reports are very imperfect, and
do not show clearly just how or when
the amount of the salary was fixed and
determined In April last. after the
Young King had been installed by the
military authorities, the question Oh
salary and amount and manner or pay
ment again came up. While L was act
ing as president the three consular rep
resentatives were in reality responsible
g. III t,gTr~ r~C-eaTH1 1laYNf =
that / might make. ] asked the joint
action of the three representatives but
they could not agree. the German con-
sui contending that no disputed claim
should be paid pending the arrival or
the High Commission. In order that a
matter which had been subject or
contention for years might be settled,
suggested to the solicitor for the King
that he file in the Supreme Court a
short bill asking a judicial determina-
ton of the question. The bill was filed.
and l answered the same without sum
mons. interposing no obstructl0ns, put
simply asking that the disputed ques-
ton be settled that l might be justified
in the payment of the claim and that
no liability of myself or colleagues
might be incurred. The proceeding
was in reality for the benefit of the
King and the Government, and no other
course could have been pursued by
prudent and careful official.
During the troubles Consul General
Osborn received a communication from
an American citizen residing in Apia,
who was suspected of being in sym
pathy with Mataafa, protesting against
the continued loGting and destruction
of his property by Tanu natives, and
asking him to communicate the matter
to the admiral with the request that the
latter take some measures to put stop
TO this pillaging and destruction of his
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Y VICTORIA, B. c., July "A
| strange story of the decoying of
u IN Americanized Chinese doctor
u from Yale University to China's
capital. where he was imprisoned
and tortured before his release was OBJ
tained by an American resident of Pc
king, is told in copies of the North
China Daily News received by the last
Oriental liners.
According TO the Peking correspond
ent of the Chinese paper DR.. Yung
Wing. LII. D., of Yale University was
studying medicine and law at Yale up
to three months ago, when he was Wis
tied by Chinese, with whom he left
Yale for the West. 1t has since been
learned that this Chinese brought to
DR. Yung Wing letters and papers from
Prince Ching, comforting upon him
position under the Imperial Chinese
providing he accompanied
the bearer of the letters to Shanghai.
The doctor accepted the position and
at once left Yale for San Francisco,
whence he and the Chinese friend
sailed on the steamer Coptic for Shang-
hal
AS soon as the two Chinese were put
ashore from the launch which took
them from the Coptic at Woosung they
were met by a number of Chinese who
bound the doctor and threw him into a
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
TROOPS TO INCREASE
GENERAL OTIS COMMAND

WASHINGTON. July 2-Having
heard to-day from Major General Otis
that he needs 633S men to fill up the
regular regiments and about 2000 men
for the two volunteer regiments. he
was authorized to enlist about $1,000
men. This will actually give Otis about
A. 900 men, Allowing a loss Of y per
cent for disease, wounds, etc, which
he states as the present percentage of
'ineHectives. he will have, instead Of
an effective force Of 90. 600, one of near
ly $4,000
The War Department has anticipated
the need of men for the regular regi-
nents, and has sent 1000 unassigned re-
cruits to Manila within two weeks.
Four thousand recruits are now being
drilled at the Presidio, and will sail the
middle OF the month. leaving only 95S
more men to be supplied to the regular
regiments.
1t is confidently predicted that by
August ! the eight regiments 10 be or
ganized in this country and 1000 men
REQUIRED for the two volunteer regi-
n1ents at Manila Will be ready 10 pro-
ceed 10 Otis aid. In order to put
volunteers in an effective condition as
rapidly as possible eight military posts,
one for each regiment will be selected
to which recruits will be sent as fol-
lows: Plattsburg Barracks, New York;
Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Columbus
Barracks, Ohio; Fort Sheridan, Illi-
nois: Leavenworth, Kans; Presidio,
California, and probably Fort Crook.
Nebraska, and Vancouver Barracks.
Washington.
Vacancies existing il the regular
regiments under General Otis COM
mand represent men whose terms of
enlistment have expired, and not cas-
ualties. Most of the vacancies exist in
regiments which sailed for Manila with
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
MATAAFA COMPLAINED
OF A BROKEN PROMISE

LONDON. July 2.-The correspond
ent of the Times at Apia, Samoan
Islands, reports that he has made a
tour of the islands of Upolou and Savay
and had an interview at FaIefa with
Mataafa. The chief complained that
the International Commission had not
kept it's promise to have Mulinuu evac-
uated by all parties as sonn as the
question of the kingship was decided.
On returning to Apia the correspond
ent laid the matter before the commits
sion. He says that he found some diff
ferences had existed between the COM
missioners with regard to the measures
to be made but it is now decided that
MaIietoa Tanu shall go to Fiji and
that Mulinuu shall be Immediately
evacuated
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03

MANILA. July 2.-According to the
latest reports from the province of
Cayite the insurgent leaders there are
ouarreling. Aguinaldos cousin. BaldO-
nero AguinaIdo. has been killed or i'm
prisoned by General Mariana Trias
commander Of the insurgents in the
southern department of Luzon, and
most Of his men have deserted to Trias,
who is now at San Francisco de la
Afalabon.
Yesterday General Lawton and Pro-
fessor Worcester Of. the commission
visited the principal towns in the prov
ince Of Cavite out of which the natives
were recently driven. Their chief pur-
pose was to direct the elections of the
Presidents OF linus, Bakoor and Par
anuue and Las Pinas. Under the mu-
nicipaI system thus inaugurated the
Presidents or the Mayors of the towns
are empowered to appoint minor Of
tcials and to levy taxes, which are to
he expended solely in public improve
ments.
Before acting General Lawton and
Mr.. Worcester had consulted with the
leading men IN each town and selected
candidates whose honesty and friendli-
ness to American rule were beyond
question. Wherever they went the
Americans were heartily cheered by the
people.
Tomorrow the public schools in Ma
Mia Will open and il is expected that
there will be 5000 children in attend
ance. one Of the instructors is the
widow of the Filipino patriot, Dr. Ri
zsI. who prepared the statutes OF the
Philippine League. and who. when
about to board a steamer at BARGE
Iona in the autumn Of 1885. was ar
rested by the Spanish authorities and
sent to Manila. where he was tried by
court-martial on a charge of having
organized the uprising in the Philip
pines. sentenced to death and shot on
December % of that year. After her
husbands execution Mrs. Rial, who is
the step-daughter of a HongkOng gen
tleman. went to linus and was chosen
captain of a company of insurgents.
English will be taught in the schools
one hour each day. The prescribed
holidays include the twenty church
days observed in Manila. Washingtons $
birthday and the Fourth of July.
Almost every steamer brings mis-
sionaries. The arrival Of one in Cebu
made no little trouble, as the report
spread rapidly among the ignorant
classes that the Americans intended to
compel them to give up their churches.
The American authorities. in the inter
est OF harmony, requested him TO with
draw and he complied.
The rain has fallen almost contin-
uousIy for nine days. 1t has been
tremendous downpour and the whole
country is flooded. The trenches at
san Fernando are filled with water and
the mud is knee deep in the temporary
camps in several of the outlying towns.
Some Of the permanent camps have
been made fairly comfortable by the
erection of bamboo shelters, rooted and
fioored. The transport Hancock. which
left yesterday with the First Nebraska
Infantry and Batteries A and b of the
Utah Light Artillery. and the transport
Senator, which carries the Pennsyl-
vania troops, win remain several days
at Nagasaki and Yokohama, Japan.
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reason of his attitude in the present
complications has been repudiated by
the Catholic party An attempt tie
break I'd the meeting by the police was
strenuousl'' resisted. The police
charged the crowd with extraordinary
violence and many of the people were
seriously injured. The popular feeling
at Alost is in such an excited state
that further serious trouble is feared
tonight or tomorrow. Abbe Daen's
brother has been arrested.
Incidents of extreme gravity occur
red at Liege. A review of the civic
guards took place to-day, and while It
was in progress a procession composed
of Socialists and Radicals marched past
the troops singing the 'Marseillaise"
and "CarmagnoIe." While the Socialists
were marching the civic guards re-
mained unmoved, but afterward they
marched in uniform to the celebrated
Maison du Peuple of Liege, thus dem
onstrating their entire sympathy with
the Socialist party.
A monster meeting of miners was
held at Mons, at which resolutions in
favor of going out on a strike In the
event of the Governments refusing to
give them satisfaction on electoral
questions on Tuesday were passed.
This means that from $4,000 to 10000
men are preparing to go on a strike.
Mass meetings were held in Verviers
to-day by all the workmenS aSsocia-
tions of that district, and a general
strike was agreed on should the Gov
ernment refuse to give way.
Some 10000 Radicals and Socialists
held a demonstration in Antwerp last
evening. The Government was very
hotly attacked, and there was a feel
ing of hostility to the Government in
general. Order was maintained by the
police. The Burgomasters of Brussels,
Antwerp Liege and Ghent have in
form the Government that it will be
impossible for them to be responsible
for the maintenance of order unless the
Government yields to the demand of
the masses.
According to the Petit Bleu here if
no means of reaching a satisfactory So
luton be brought forward by the Gov
ernment on Tuesday the King is think
ing of dissolving Parliament and con-
sulting the country.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
DAN LUCEY CONVICTED.
Found Guilty of the Murder of Pat
rick Reagan Near Butte.

BUTTE, Mont, July AT an early
hour this morning the jury in the case Of
Dan Lucey, charged with the killing of
Patrick Reagan brought in a verdict of
murder in the first degree. This is the
third conviction for this grade of murder
in comparatively short time.
Lucey and Reagan left here on Septem-
ber 2 last to go to British Columbia for
with him. His body was found next day
some distance from the railroad track IN
the canyon. The head had been crushed
with rock and the pockets rified. Lucey
was caught later in Victor, Colo.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
ITALIAN STATESMEN
ARE BEING ARRESTED

| \ says: Signor Costa, q Socialist Deputy was
arrested as he was leaving the Chamber on
Saturday evening for oD offense coDmtted in 1895.
1t is stated tbot orders bove been issued for the
arrest Of Deputies De FeIice, Aprile and Mdcolo
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
SECRETARY ALGER SENDS
REASSURANCES TO OTIS

NEW YORK, July "A Journal special
from Washington says: Alger cabled Otis
at Manila to-day to pay no attention to
the rumor that he is TO be relieved The
rumor the Secretary refers to is one al
leging that General Brooke is to be sue
eeded as Governor of Cuba by Robert p.
Porter and that Brooke goes to Mania TO
succeed Otis.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
COURT Or ARBITRATION.
Germany Officially Announces Her
Approval of 1t.

THE HAGUE. July 2.-The German
delegates at yesterdays session of the
drafting committee of the arbitration
committee of the Peace Conference Of
ficiallv announced the assent of Ger
many to Sir Julian Pauncefotes pro-
posai of a permanent court of arbitra-
ton.
In the evening NJ de Staal, head of the
Russian delegation and president of the
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03

TEES LADEN
WITH GOLD
Alaskan Vessel Brings Down
a Million From the
Klondike.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VANCOUVER, B. c., July 2.-The
steamer Tees arrived tonight from the
north with a large party of Dawson
miners. Wallace Haywood, ex-ser-
geant of the local police, brought out
S55. 900 in gold dust. Eight others had
heavy boxes of the precious metal
Captain Gosse says he had one million
dollars on board.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
Children Start a Blaze.

NOVATO, July "A combination of
children. matches and bale OF hay re-
suited at noon to-day, in a fire which de-
stroyed the stable of Anton Swaze. Two
horses were burned to death, and il was
only by the combined work of all the citi-
zens that the business portion of the town
was saved from destruction.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
"INSURGENT
LEADERS ARE
s. OUARRELING
A6uinaIdO'S Cousin Has
Been Killed or Impris-
oned by Gen. Trias.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
DR.. Fuller Lived in vacaville.

VACAVILLE. July 2.-Dr. B. F. Fuller,
mentioned in The Call as having been
robbed of $1700 was formerly in business
in Vacavilie and is we'll known here. as
is his wife. who was formerly Mrs Amby
Hill. The news created quite sensation
here, and conjectures are heard on all
sides relative to the loss.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03

conference. gave a brilliant reception and
ball. at which Mr.. Andrew d. White,
head of the United States delegation: Sir
Julian Pauncefote. head of the British
delegation, and most of the other dele
gates were present.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03
BISHOP NEWMAN
Is CRITICALLY ILL
Report of His Serious Condition Sent
Out From His Cottage
at Saratoga.

SARATOGA, n. Y, July 2.-Bishop John
P. Newman of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. whose episcopal residence is i'll
San Francisco, is critically i'll at his cot
tag here.
Bishop Newman suffers from paralysis
and pneumonia. and his recovery is not
likely.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-22

as to its drouth-ro Sisting qualities and
It's adaptibility to our climate have
been received from Washington, Ne
braska, Georgia, New Mexico, South
Dakota, Minnesota. Montana, and
Pennsylvania. 1t has been grown on
the experiment grounds of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington,
d. c., and has proved to be thoroughly
adapted to and valuable for this local
ity. The seeds terminate poorly when
they are more than two years old.
Most of the seed used in this country
is imported from Europe, so that par
ticular care should be taken by i'm
porters and dealers to handle none but
such as can be sold under guaranty as
good. fresh seed.
Cultivation-Hairy vetch may be
sown in autumn, from about the middle
of August to the middle of September,
or in spring from the latter part OF
April to the middle of May. 1t should
be sown broadcast or with grain drill
at the rate of one to one and one-half
bushels Of seed per acre. The drill
method of sowing will require a less
amount Of seed. When the seed is put
In broadcast bushel of rye. oats or
wheat should be sown at the same
tine SO as to furnish a support to keep
the vines up off the ground. If 1t is
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-22

The sending to Market of wormy
fruit that has fallen from the trees
should be discontinued This fruit Is
mt only for hogs and other stock, and
should be collected and so fed as soon
as 1t falls. This will destroy the worms
that are usually the cause Of the fall
ing. The good small grades of apples,
peaches and pears may be disposed of
in several ways, and should so be dis
posed of. If an evaporating factory
is handy, the fruit can be taken there,
or in the absence of that, the old
fashioned method of sun-drying can be
used. In sun-drying any of the fruits,
they should be protected from flies by
screens of some sort. Another method
is canning, which needs no explanation.
II the fruit thus canned is to be
worked up in sufficient quantities to go
on the market, more than individual
efforts will be needed. 1t is probable
that canned fruits will be sold with
more difficulty in the future than in
the past owing to the wholesale use OF
preservatives. 1t is possible that fruits
canned at home and free from all OBJ
iectionable ingredients could be sold in
the neighborhood at an advance over
what is paid for them in the market.
The utilization of all the fruit that
is now wasted would be great boon
to the human race. A large per cent
of cultivated fruit is lost and Still
larger percentage of that growing wild.
One man said, in the presence of the
writer: "Blackberries grow wild in my
neighborhood in such quantities that
we do not cultivate the tame ones. We
pick and ship the wild ones till they
get too low to pay us q good profit,
and then We let the rest rot on the
vines" This man was located more
than 100 miles from Chicago, but on
a railroad. What happens in the local
tiles that are long distance from rail-
roads? The writer has passed through
mountainous regions in the Middle and
blackberries were growing wild In
great profusion over hundreds OF
square miles, with no one to pick them.
More and more these wild supplies are
being utilized, but as yet only par
TALLY. What is needed is more COM
plete system of utilization combined
with more commercial honesty. In
addition to the free bounties of nature
there is the immense supply Of cult
waited fruit, large part Of which is
lost by rotting. Theoretically cold
storage is the means Of saving 1t, but
practically very small percentage Of
our fruits ever gets into cold storage.