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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-07
BRIGANDISM is
ON THE INCREASE
THROUGHOUT CUBA
Most OF the Desperadoes Are
Negroes Who Come From
Eastern Provinces.

HAVANA, June 6.-Brigandism Is on
the increase in the country and a reign
OF terror prevails in towns where no
United States soldiers are Quartered. The
so-called bandits are mostly negroes who
came from the east with the Cuban army
of invasion They have taken full possess
sion of towns outside of the railroads and
are living there during the day and rob-
bling at night
Mariel is a town of 1000 inhabitants. At
the close of the war twenty negroes took
a school building for their quarters Eight
of them raided a grocery next door Fri
day night. They fired at the proprietor
and took his safe containing $1,000 into the
street and tried for two hours to shoot 1t
open with rifles. Finally they carried it
away on truck. Other soldiers left the
town on Saturday and probably joined
the bandits in the mountains. Four cat
tie were stolen on the outskirts last night.
Citizens have appointed eight resident
Cuban soldiers as police, but they have
little faith in the soldiers ability to pre-
serve order. No work is being done on
plantations, and those who started work
have had their cattle stolen. Since the
robbery ON Friday Spaniards have Sc
creted their valuables and barricaded
their doors day and night.
mayor Quaintana came to Havana to-
night and asked Governor General Brooke
for protection. The Spanish Consul ca
bled the Spanish Minister in Washington
TO-DAY advising taking action against the
United States. holding the Americans re-
sponsible for the death of Jose Lobregat
at San Antonio on Sunday. Lobregat was
killed by mob of Cubans Infatuated over
the fact that he was formerly Spanish
guerrilla. His funeral occurred this at
ternoon. Feeling in the town is very bit
ter against former Spanish soldiers. A
Cuban soldier told me this afternoon that
when the republic was formed 1t was the
no
eral Brooke sent to San Antonio a COM
pany of the First Infantry yesterday and
a company of the Seventh Cavalry this
morning. General Rivera says there is no
fear of further trouble, but the Span
iards want a larger force and also galri-
sons in all towns.
General Maxine Gomez, the former
Communicated chief of the Cuban army
issued his farewell manifesto to-day. In
substance it says:
The miSsion 1 have been intrusted with is
nearly concluded. l have attempted to find
solution of questions concerning the army
which l commanded during the bloodiest war
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EXCITEMENT CAUSED DEATH.
Captain Eeiro's Assailant Did Not
Commit Suicide

SAN JOSE. June 6.-Paola Arata. the
man who shot Captain Zeiro yesterday af-
ternoon, died from collapse after the
shock of excitement, and did not commit
suicide by poison, as was supposed. This
is what City Physician Hablutzel said at
the Coroner's inquest to-day, and the be
lief was founded on an analysis Of
had swallowed poison, but no trace was
found in the stomach He was in the last
stages of consumption. The lungs Were
to have resulted from the excitement fol-
lowing the attempt at murder. The jury
returned a verdict along these lines.
serious than was at first supposed. The
bullet is in the temple, near the brain.
If fever can be kept down it is thought he
wi
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HENDERSON is
ASSURED BEING
CHOSEN SPEAKER
Endorsed by the Republican Con-
0PeSSmen Of New York at
Conference.

NEW YORK, June "a conference
of Republican Congressman of New
York State to decide upon a candidate
for the Speakership of the House Of
Representatives was held at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel to-day, and resulted in
a decision to support David b. Hen
derson of Iowa.
The conference went into session be
hind closed doors. Representative
sherman did not go into the confer
ence. He said it was his intention to
obey the decision of the conference,
whatever it might be congressman
Ray and Wadsworth left before the
conclusion of the conference, and said
they did so because Representative
Littauer had offered a resolution in
dorsing Mr.. Sherman. They said they
considered this an insult TO Mr. Payne,
whom they favored as a candidate.
Soon after this those in the confer
ence notified Mr.. Sherman that they
had decided to vote for him. Mr.. Sher-
man then went into the conference and
said that Mr.. Henderson of Iowa, hav-
ing developed such strength as
would make him practically the only
candidate, he would suggest that the
delegation go over to that Congress
man. An informal discussion followed
and ii was decided to support Mr.. Hen
derson.
Representative Sherman was request
ed to telegraph Mr. Henderson, notify
ing him of this action. The conference
then adjourned.
The conference was attended by six
Of the Republican Congressman of this
State and six of the other were COM
municated with by telephone or other
wise, SO that twelve of the New York
delegation Of fifteen had decided for
Henderson. Mr.. Payne, before leaving.
for Alaska declared himself in favor
of the Iowan, and it seems certain that
Henderson will have fifteen votes from
New York
The Washington correspondent of the
Herald telegraphs: Representative
Henderson's selection as Speaker of
the House of Representatives seeming
TO be assured the Republican Repre-
sentatives are now discussing with in
terest the political distribution of chair
manships and appointments on the
House committees which he will make.
Mr.. Henderson has refrained from say
ing anything as to his policy in or
ganizing the House, but two of his lead
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BATTLE FOUGHT BY
GERMANS AND CHINESE
raid Upon a Temple Leads to Con-
fict in Which Many Mongo-
lians Are Slain.

VICTORIA, b. c., June 6.-Advices
are brought from the Orient by the
steamer Empress of Japan that on May
Is a sanguinary encounter took place
in the vicinity of Kiaochau between a
vast army of Chinese rioters and rebels,
said to have numbered between 10000
and $4,000, and German soldiers. Chi
nese kilograms to the Jill Shimpo of
Japan say that the conflict was the out
come of the action of the Germans in
ransacking some temples. A band of
Germans out on a fOraging expedition
wandered into a temple, and, driving
out the priests and attendants, camped
there. They built a fire on the brick
floor and disarranged the temple gen.
orally. Some of the idols were broken
down. two being totally demolished.
Later in the day a number of Chinese
came lack to the temple headed by
the priests. The Germans, deeming dis
cret'on the better part of Valor, fought
their way through the advancing Chi
nese and fed. The Chinese pursued
them for some distance, but the Ger
mans, with the exception of two, man
aged to distance them. The two I'M
fortunates who were not as speedy as
their fellow Teutons were killed by the
excited Chinese.
The demolition of the idols caused
great excitement throughout the prov
ince. Proclamations were posted every
where calling upon the villagers to
arise and avenge the wrong done their
gods. Kiu, rebel leader who has led
two big risings, then came forward and
planted his standard in the troubled
district. Thousands rallied around him,
their avowed intention being to drive
the foreigners into the sea. When about
20 900 or more had gathered, the CORE
spondent of the Shimpo says, a body of
German soldiers came from the Kiao-
chau garrison to disperse them.
The Chinese moved several small old
brass cannon into position and opened
the conflict, but a charge from the Ger
mans soon silenced their ancient bat
terry. The charge also altered their in
tention to fight the Germans. They
broke and fed, the Germans pursuing.
About 200 Chinese and three Germans
were killed Kiu and his lieutenants
have fed 1t is said they are at the
yamen of a magistrate of a village
about thirty miles south of Kiaochau,
who promises them protection. Further
riSings are feared.
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ing supporters, Burton of Ohio and
Babc0ck of Wisconsin, have declared
that 1t will be his policy to preserve
the House organization as it stood in
the last Congress as far as possible.
There will, of course. be some changes.
Men who have earned the right TO pro-
motion to more important committee
assignments will receive them and the
individual wishes of Representatives
Will be consulted as far as possible, but
as d rule, according to Burton and Bah
cock, there will be few changes in i'm
portant places. OF the Republicans
who were chairmen of committees in
the last House thirteen fail of re-elec
ton, leaving vacancies at the heads of
that many committees.
In addition to these, the chairman
ship of the Judiciary Committee will
be vacated by the promotion OF Mr..
Henderson, while Mr.. Payne of New
York was chairman of both the Ways
and Means and Merchant Marines and
Fisheries committees after Mr.. Ding
ley's death. 1t is probable there Will
be only one Elections Committee in the
next House, so that Mr. Henderson
will be able to promote thirteen men
TO chairmanships without displacing
any one who was chairman of a COM
mittee in the last Congress. There are
four vacancies on the Committee of
appropriations and two on the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, which are
considered equal or superior TO unim-
portant chairmanships. There is a va
cancy on the Committee on Rules, thus
giving Mr.. Henderson twenty places IF
Importance to dispose of. Some of the
Republican Representatives think it
very probable that Mr.. Reed will con-
tinue to represent the First Maine dis
trict in the House In that event there
can be no question of the position he
would occupy. He would take the
craftsmanship Of the Committee on
Ways and Means and would be a men,
Der of the Committee on Rules and the
Republican leader on the floor
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American Delegates Will
Go to London.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, June 6.-The departure
of Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indiana
on the Bremen Thursday marks the exc
dus OF American women to London for
the quinquennial meeting of the Interna-
tional1Council of Women, which will open
Monday, June 26, and continue until
Wednesday, July 3, inclusive. At present
vice president and prospective president
of the international council, Mrs Sewall,
naturally leads the hundred American
women who will attend and in most cases
participate in this convention of world
wide import.
Mrs. Sewall speaks enthusiastically of
the brilliant delegation this country will
have a the qUinQuennial. Every outgoing
steamer has had or will have, party or
board, and among the number are such
well-known women leaders as Miss Susan
B. Anthony of Rochester, president of the
National Suffrage Association; Mrs. Fan
ME Humphrey Gaffney of New York,
president of the National Council of
Women; Mrs. Rebecca Lowe of Atlanta
Women's Clubs; Mrs. Cynthia Westover
Alden of New York of the National
Woman's Press Association; DR.. Sarah
Hackett Stephenson and Miss Sadie
American, of Chicago; the Rev. Anna
Howard Shaw and Miss Agnes Repplier,
of Philadelphia; Mrs. Clara b. Colby of
Washington; Mrs Susan Young Gates
and Mrs: Emeline B. Wells, of Salt Lake
City; Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson of
Hartford; Miss Octavia William Bates of
Detroit Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller of
New York.
These one hundred American dele
gates said Mrs Sewall, represent the
900 women in our national council of
women. There are nine other countries
IN the international council with similar
membership, so you have some idea of
the immense proportions Of this organiza-
ton.
The two principal meetings in this ten
days Recommendations with three
simultaneous sessions-will be one on In
ternational Arbitration and one devoted
10 suffrage The prospect is that the in
ternational council will take some decided
stand on the peace question"
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REA's WILL BE DONE.

SAN JOSE, June 5.-Politicians are al
ready scrambling to secure the Office Of
Supervisor in the Fifth District made va
cant by Supervisor Ayers death last Sun
day The filling of the place lies in ap-
pontment by Governor Gage. So far Ed
Topham of Milpitas, Ex-Sheriff James
son of Palo Alto are the most prominently
mentioned for the place. There is a strong
movement among the people of the dis
trict to have Gage appoint Henry NJ.
Aver. a son of. deceased. L. A Sage,
chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee, would accept the office.
prevail with Gage. 1t will make no ma
terial change in the complexion of the
board.
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ORE CON BOYS
TO Be SENT
HOME FIRST
Continued From First Page.

leave, but fingered here beyond the
limit and failed to reply to repeated
kilograms from his commander Yes
terday he was put under arrest on his
commanders order This morning an
other officer called to see him, when he
suddenly pulled revolver from under
his pillow and shot himself through the
heart His friends say his mind was
affected by a recent sunstroke.
A Spanish paper asserts that Colonel
Arguilles, one OF the two members of
the original Filipino military commits
sion, who were placed under arrest at
Tarlac last month, after returning to
Luna's camp from their conference
with the United States Commissioners,
has been court-martialed and sentenced
to twelve years imprisonment for
friendship displayed toward the Amer
leans"
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establish a government with or with
out a King. Mataafa thought the Sa-
means should have a King. but eX-
pressed willingness to disarm his fol-
lowers and leave the matter in the
hands Of the commission.
Ehe Germans acted for the first time
in many months with the representa-
tives Of the other powers and have Off
cially sent a guard ashore.
The naval authorities and the mis-
sion societies have submitted their
views TO the commission, and the lat
ter, by proclamation, fixed May q as
the date for the natives to surrender
their arms. Mataafa, however, asked
for an extension Of the time until to-
day. when he surrendered 1900 guns on
board the Badger. The Malietoans are
now disarmed.
The United States cruiser Philadel-
phia, flying the flag of Admiral Kautz,
sailed May q, and the British and Ger
man Consuls (Maxse and Herr Rose)
proceeded to Europe May q. The
Queens birthday was celebrated with
great rejoicing, about 5000 men of the
Malietoa party attending the festivi-
ties at Mulinuu in the presence of the
British Consul and naval officers. The
procession visited the graves OF the
British and Americans and then
marched TO the graves of the Germans
who We're slain in the battle of Fagalt
in 1873 The Americans fired salute
over the German graves.
The natives are gaining confidence
and are freely submitting their griev-
anCes to the commission.
The natives brought here from other
islands at the time of the disturbances
will be returned to their homes and all
the warships will probably leave Samoa
at an early date.
The Chief Justice, William L. Cham
bers. will continue the sittings Of the
Supreme Court. DR.. Wilhelm Solf. the
newly arrived German President of the
Municipal Council here, has not yet as
sumed his duties.
The commissioners are reticent, but ii
is understood they are considering a re-
duction Of the cost Of administration,
as established by the Berlin treaty, and
that the number of officials may be re-
duced.
The residents of Apia express dis
Satisfaction at the INDICATIONS gwen by
the commission that the rebels will not
be punished, and that they will also be
paid for arms illegally imported They
consider this a bad precedent, but it is
admitted this is too early to criticize
the action of the commissioners.
The American engineering staff has
arrived here and will proceed to erect
naval jetty and coal stores at Pago-
Page.
Judge Mullan, the former American
Consul, has arrived here to conduct the
compensation claims and defend Ma
taafa. But the commission has init
mated that no notice will be taken OF
the claims beyond recording them, an6
it is possible the commission win ask
each power to compensate its own ciu-
zens or subjects as the case may be.
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LATE SHIPPING INTELLIaENcE
ARRIVED.

ARRIVE
Tuesday, June G.
Stmr Ruth Strand, 80 hours from Point Con-
ception.
DOMESTIC PORTS
REDONDO-Arrived June 6-Stmr Westnor+
from Eureka.
HUENEME-Arrived June e-Stmr Grace
Dollar, from Ventura.
SEATTLE-Arrived June 6-Stmr Willamette
hence June 2.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS
QUEENSTOWN-Arrived June 6-Stmr Ma
jestic, from New York, for Liverpool and pro
ceeded
NEW YORK-Arrived June 6-Stmr Polar
stjernen, from Stettin and Copenhagen; Prince
Regent Luitpold, from Bremen
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TAKEN TO FEDERAL COURT.

BOISE. Idaho, June 6.-The ATTORNEYS
Commissioner, held for completely ~ II,
petition for a writ Of error from The
Supreme Court. After consultation WITH
members of the court in chambers. the
petition was dropped. Application will
now be made to Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States for a writ of
error.
1t was intimated to the attorneys that
under the rule governing In such mat
tiers 1t would be necessary for the State
court to refuse to issue the writ.
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Marysville's Race Meet.

MARYSVILLE, June 6.-Friday Of this
week will be Marysville day at the Jockey
Clubs spring race meeting, which will
begin on Thursday at noon. All the pusi-
ness houses will close in the afternoon.
An orchestra has been engaged for the
ladies stand, and all other arrangements
perfected for a first class meeting. To
accommodate the horses that are here
from without the district special races
have been arranged.
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First Carload Of Grain.

STOCKTON, June 6.-As usual. the
Farmers Union received the first car of
new grain to reach Stockton. 1t arrived
to-day for storage until it's owner. a
farmer at Pixley, in Tulare County, wants
to dispose OF it. Shipments have reached
Stockton as early as May 49, but the ship
age. Heavy shipments will begin coming
in about two weeks
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GREAT BRITAIN WILL
NOT SUPPORT MATAAFA

AUCKLAND, n. H., June 6.-At the
Queens birthday celebration in Samoa
it was officially announced that Great
Britain would absolutely veto any
proposition that Mataafa should ever
become King.
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Mourning in Glen Ellen

SONOMA. June 6.-Mrs. C. Justie died
at her home near Glen Ellen yesterday.
She was a native of Bavaria and was
70 years of age.
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of Los Angeles gold hunters is
to start for the new placer dig
- gings in the Sierra Pintadas
Lower California, and expects
to reach the gold field within the
next six days. The party was organ
lied by Captain Don Orril, an expert
enced placer miner, who has been in
the Klondike, and by James Irving &
Co., assayers of this city With Cap
tain Orril Will go E. L. Entler, R. E
Dean, S. Collier, D. B. Low, 7. l.
Stringham, Merit Evans, w. T. Elliott
A. Conner, n. r. Miller, w. H. Kern
E. l.. Hall, Ben Barney, Whiteside and
Hoffman.
The party will sail from San Pedro
on the schooner Rambler Captain
Crosby commanding. First it will &c
to Ensenada to clear and next to Sar
Rogue, the landing nearest the dig
gings, which are twenty-one miles from
the coast. The gold hunters will be
fully equipped with dry washers and
all necessary tools and supplies pur-
chased here. They will take two burros
and mule to do their packing over the
desert. Irving & Co. sent a man to the
disgings a week ago and they are daily
expecting information from him. In
stead of waiting for advices from their
lieves the current reports of the re-
gion's richness and has assisted in
equipping this party.
Antonio J. FLORES, who is an attache
of the Office of the Mexican Consul in
Los Angeles, has just returned from
Ensenada, where, he says, he saw and
heard the official reports of the consul
lar department there. To-day he re-
ported the facts to his chief, General
Guillermo Andrade, the Mexican Con-
sui. When seen to-day General An
drade said:
There is not the slightest doubt
about the present richness of the Sierra
Pintada placers. How long 1t will last
l cannot tell. No one can tell. 1t may
be for long, it may be for a little while
only There is gold there in plenty. 1t
only remains to be taken out. There
are other regions of the peninsula that
are just as rich. The problem of water
has kept back development, but that
is to be remedied. There is plenty of
good water within six miles of the
placers."
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ST. LOUIS GETS BACK
INTO THIRD POSITION
Wins From the Phillies, While Chi
cago Is Again Beaten by the
Senators.
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.

NEW YORK, June 6.-The Giants easily dis
posed of the Clevelands to-day. Carsey pitched
we'll until the fifth. when the home team be-
gan to hit his curves, and 1t was then all over.
Attendance, AGO. Score:
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PORTLAND, Me, June THE
Argus this morning says that
> Speaker Reeds resignation has
been sent to Governor Powers,
and is to be presented at the
next meeting of the Governor
and Council.
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Batteres-Carsey and thinner Doheny and
Grady Umpires-O Day and McGarr

Batteries-Carsey and thinner; Doheny and
Grady. Umplres-O Day and McGarr.
NEW YORK. June 6-The Cincinnatis threw
! scare into the Brooklyns to-day but the
| home team won out in the end. McJames had
good control until the ninth, when, with the
! bases full Setback brought in three runs by
hitting for two bases. Kennedy then went into
| the box and no more runs were made. The
! fielding of both sides good. Attendance,
1000. Score:
Clubs r. H E.
! Brooklyn ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0
Batteries-Phillips and Petz; McJames. Ken
needy and Farrell. Umpires-Emslie and Nc
Donald.
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.-The Phillies tied
the score in the seventh inning but they went
TO pieces in the field in the eighth and made
four errors, giving St. Louis four runs. At
tendance, 2723. Score:
Clubs R. H L.
Philadeiphia NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5 /
Batteries-Young and Oconnor; Donohue and
Mcfarland. Umpires-Burns and Smith.
BOSTON June 6-The Champions had little
difficulty in defeating Louisville to-day. Gun
pecially Lowe. aelded superbly. Attendance
1900. Score:
Clubs r. H e
Boston 10.
Louisville OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. II 9
Batteries-Killen and Clarke; Cunningham
and Kittredge. Umpires-Gaffney and Andrews
WASHINGTON. June s.-The Chicago ,eo,,
could not hit Dineen to-day, and while Crif6tb
was not hit often the Senators were fort,,na a.
In connecting with the ball at the right tirns
Chance was struck in the neck by foul bali
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= SANTA BARBARA, June =
= Ga letter received from !
. Clarence Libbey and Joseph \
: Price, who left here three !
= weeks ago for Lower Califor- \
; MIA, says the stories of the \
|. new gold fields at San Rogue =
; are fakes. It costs $3.50 to To- \
|. cate and it is impossible to \
: work a claim three months. !
}, They found the reported dis =
!. coveries exaggerated and have !
l left the country.
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I'd was replaced by Nichols. Attendance 1000.

Batteries-Nops and Robinson; Tannehill and
Schriver Lmplres-SWartWOod and Warmer.
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SAN ROGUE
PLACERS NOT
A KLONDIKE
Discouraging Letter From
Two Santa Barbara
Prospectors.
"A FAKE" THEY SAY
Write That the Reported DiScOv-
cries of Gold Have Been
Greatly Exaggerated.

Special Dispatch to The Call.