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The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
WAR BREW WING ON
DEAD MANS ISLE
Vancouver Defies Ot-
taWa Government.
DECLARES A LEASE ILLEGAL
POLICE FORCE BACKS UP THE
OITY'S CONTENTION.
DECLARES A LEASE ILLEGAL
Representatives of Chicago Capital
lists Will Attempt to Take Pos
session by Force of
Arms.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VANCOUVER, B. c., April 23.-On
five-acre piece of land commonly
known as Dead-Mans Island. which
guards the entrance to the harbor here.
there promises to be a fierce conflict
between two forces tonight and early
Monday morning. The island was re-
Gently leased to Stuart & Wells. Chi
cago bankers and capitalists, for a
sawmill site. The lease was disputed
by the Mayor and City Council. on the
ground that the island is an imperial
naval reserve and cannot be leased.
The Dominion Government granted
the lease, and when it was disputed
by this city again looked into the mat
ter, and ratified it's former action.
Armed with authority from the
Government, Theodore Ludgate. who
represents the capitalists here. arrived
in the city from Ottawa to take pos
session of the island and erect a mil
lion-dollar sawmill. On Saturday he
said he would take possession on to-
morrow, although the city has armed
guards and policemen to prevent him.
Mayor Garden held hurried confer
ence with some of the Councillors late
last night, and instructed Chief of Po
lice Stewart early this morning to place
the entire police force of twenty five
men, fully armed, on the island and
prevent Ludgate landing men there.
Ludgate yesterday engaged fifty robust
laborers, and at midnight managed to
get their tools secretly to the island.
He expressed his intention to land
these fifty men on the island early to-
morrow morning, no matter what op-
position might be met. He is deter
q
determined that he shall not get DOS
session, a conflict seems inevitable.
The policemen in a body will march to
the island at daybreak. They may be
outwitted as it was learned from re-
liable source tonight that Ludgate
would land twenty-five or thirty of his
men after midnight and surprise the
guards.
Ludgate said this afternoon:
Il am authorized by the Government
to take possession of the island. and
will d0 so, no matter what the oppo-
sition. / do not want to see sbloodshed,
but 1 can only say the word defeat is
not in my vocabulary
Mayor Garden said: THE police
force win be on hand hight and early
to prevent Ludgate's men landing. We
have taken the matter into our own
hands and will carry . through"
The island is now inhabited by fisher
men, who favor Ludgate. When they
heard of the prospective fight to-day
they got out all of the guns and re-
volvers in the settlement and loaded
them in readiness to help the capital
lists, who have promised them free rent
on the island for all time. AS the mat
ter now stands it is simply the Chi
cago capitalists and the Dominion Gov
ernment against the city
Several thousand citizens, many in
Of ia mill
hand tomorrow to see how the affair
turns out.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
TWO DAYS At SEA
WITHOUT WATER
ShipWrecked Men Reach
Shore.
SURVIVORS OF THE WHITNEY
THRILLING TALE OF AN OCEAN
DISASTER.
SURVIVORS OF THE WHITNEY
Second Lifeboat Of the Foundered
Steamship Rescued After Hav-
ing Been Given Up as
Lost.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ST. AUGUSTINE, April 23.-Consid-
cradle excitement was created here
early this afternoon by a small boat
out at sea giving signals Of distress.
Captain Allen Immediately went to the
assistance in the yacht Baldwin. Upon
nearing the boat he found it to be the
missing lifeboat of the steamer General
Whitney, which foundered north of
Cape Canaveral during Friday night
Captain Allen transferred the sailors to
his yacht and brought them to Cor
belts deck where a large crowd
awaited them. Hot coffee and food
were given them at once on the boat.
and the poor fellows fairly banoueted.
The story of the disaster. as told by
Mate Mattson and his men, was a
thrilling one. One of the bulkheads
sprang leak from the heavy seas
which were prevailing during the early
part of Friday night. All hands were
ordered to the pumps and worked hard.
but the holds soon began to I'LL in spite
of their efforts. The officers and men.
realizing that the steamer was settling
fast and certain to founder took to the
two lifeboats. ~aptain j. w. Haw-
thorne and fifteen men went in the first
boat and were never seen again by the
remaining men.
Shortly afterward Mate Mattson and
the balance of the crew, fourteen men.
took to the second boat. That was
about midnight. They obtained COM
pass and began to row for shore. A
strong wind was prevailing, creating a
heavy sea, and the men at the oars
could make no headway.
All day Saturday the men tried to
reach shore, but could not even get a
glimpse OF it, and almost despaired
when they found they had plenty of
provisions but no water. They spent
all of Saturday night at the mercy of
the seas, which washed over their frail
boat frequently. Early this morning
they sighted land, and with redoubled
energies, made strong by desperation,
they took their turns at the oars. When
near enough to land they improvised
a flag, which they tackled to an oar,
and it was then that Captain Allen
went to their rescue.
The men, when they landed, were
drenched to the skin and almost fam
ished They will await instructions
from New York.
Besides Mate Mattson who conducted
the party through the rough trip, the
survivors are: Charles Andy, H KEN
per, D. Jackson, Louis Cook, George
blum, Patrick O'Neal, N. Larson, J,
Nelson, George Lingo, j. Davis and
Thomas Cavanaugh.
These mon were at sea in their open
skiff forty eight hours and most of the
time without water.
NEW ORLEANS, April %. = The
Southern Pacific Company officials in
this city have received no further ad-
vices concerning the loss of the steamer
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
SOLDIERS URGED
NOT TO RE-ENLIST

CHICAGO, April pa Washington
special to the Inter Ocean says: Secre-
tary Alger received from General Otis
tonight a reply to the cablegram ask
ing him for particulars of the recent
by United States soldiers in the Philip
pines of what has been described by a
member of the Cabinet as ''treasonable
and seditious communications from
the United States
General Otis says in reply to the Sec
retary of War that kilograms were sent
to soldiers urging the not to re-enlist
and that they were variously signed
committee" and the committee" and
that some bore no signatures at all
Secretary Alger has not made public
the text of General Otis cablegram
and it is, therefore, uncertain whether
the cOmandmer of the forces in the
Philippines has confided the names of
the senders of these seditious communi-
cations.
General Otis, however, is explicit
enough to confirm the absolute ac-
curacy of the Inter Oceans story, first
published on Saturday morning, eX-
posing the work that is being done by
enemies at home of the Governments
policy of subjugating the Filipinos and
bringing about peace in the Philip
pines
The cablegram of General Otis to the
Secretary of War is orlv the first link
in the chain of evi1o~oe against the
authors of the reasonable propaganda.
Other proofs will be forthcoming from
time to time until the futile plot is fully
exposed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
BANNER YEAR OF
FOREIGN TRADE OF
THIS COUNTRY
Exports the Largest Ever Re-
corded and Imports Are
Exceptionally Small.

with our imports, showed an excess OF
$5S4, ,242, ,259, or more than twice the eX-
cess for 1897, which was the largest
previously reported.
An interesting fact developed py the
report of Mr.. Hitchcock is the increase
in the exports of agricultural products.
being 1898 per cent of the total, or
$85S, ,5O7, ,942, a gain of nearly>25 per cent
over 1897. Exports of this class also
show a greater gain proportonateIy
than agricultural exports.
? Our purchases of foreign agricultural
products in 1898 amounted to only
$314, ,291 ,796, as compared with S400S ST.
46S in 1897, a decrease of. $S6,579,672, or
about % per cent. The value of the
American farm products sent abroad
during 1898 was much more thar
double that of our agricultural inS
ports, the excess of the former over the
latter amounting to $544, ,216, las In
1897 the excess on the side OF agr1-
cultural exports was only $288,SS3 725,
and in the years Immediately preced-
ing still smaller.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
FATE OF YORKTOWN
PARTY Is IN DOUBT

WASHINGTON, April 23.-From a
dispatch received by Secretary Long
from Admiral Dewey to-day it is evil
dent that the latter is still in the dark
respecting the whereabouts of Lieuten-
ant Gilmore and party of the York
town, who, it is thought, were am
bushed and captured by a party of
F1lipinoS While on a voyage to rescue
Spanish prisoners near Baler. The ad
miral says he is endeayoring to ascer-
tain the situation of the lieutenant and
his party. The dispatch is in response
to an inquiry sent by Secretary Long,
not because the latter thought the ad-
miral was not making every effort to
rescue the men, but to show the friends
of the prisoners that the department
was not Indifferent to their fate or re
miss in it's endeavors to assist them in
regaining their liberty.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
DEATHS AMONG TROOPS
IN THE PHILIPPINES

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The fol-
lowing weekly death report from Cen
eral Otis, received to-day, is as fol-
lows:
MANILA, April 23-Adjutant General
Washington: Following deaths since last
weekly report: From wounds in action
April Is, Joseph Grabowsky, private
Company c, Fourth Cavalry; 18th. Archie
A. Aldrich, private, First Colorado; 2Oth
Bruce l.. Macy, private, C, First Ne
braska.
Drowned, accidental, April 21, John
Montgomery, sergeant, K, Third Artil-
lery.
April 2S-Jacob Boyd, sergeant X,
Fourth Infantry, variola 9Th, Samuel ].
February, private, 1, Eighteenth Infant
ry;. 21st, Thomas '5auble, private, D,
Third Infantry, diarrhoea; 26th, Joseph
Gompman, private. 6, Eighteenth IN
fantry, malarial fever; 18th, B. C. Chan
dler, private. C, Second Oregon, erysip-
elias; 10Th, Charles NJ. Parsons, private,
M, First Washington. tuberculosis; 10th,
Jay E. Taylor, private, B. Second Ore
gon, peritonits: 21st, Michael Ryan, ser
geant, A, Fourteenth Infantry OTIS.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The fiscal
year of 1898 was the banner year of the
foreign trade of the United States, our
exports being the largest ever recorded
for a like period and our imports eX-
ceptionally small. According to a com
prehensiye report just prepared by
Frank H. Hitchcock. chief of the sec
ton of for ign markets of the Agr1-
cultural Department, the total value Oh
our. domestic exports reached the enor-
nous sum of 81, 30, ,913, exceeding
the record breaking. figures OF the pre-
ceding year by $17S, S,2S4,S10. on the
other hand the imports during 1898
were the smallest since 1885, their value
being $616, ,049, ,654, a decline of $14S,685,- :
568 of the figures of 1897. Broadly stated,
for every dollars worth of foreign mer-
chandse brought into the United states
two dollars worth OF our products
found market abroad.
our DOR exports, as compared
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
GERMAN AGENTS OFFER TO
AID CUBANS TO REVOLT
AGAINST UNITED STATES
Captain Juan Fernandez Who Fought Under
Maceo, Declares He Was "AL-
prOaChed at Paris.
Special Cable to The Cali and the New York Herald

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The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24

General Whitney than were contained
in the press dispatches this morning
The vessel belonged to the Metropolitan
line Of New York and the crew was FUR
nished by that company.
Captain ]. w. Hawthorne commanded
her pending the completion Of the ships
now being constructed for the Morgan
Company at Newport News. He had
been in the employ of the Morgan line
for thirty years and this was the only
vessel he ever lost. The loss of the
General Whitney marks the first dtsas-
ter accompanied by loss Of life that has
ever occurred to a boat of the Southern
Pacific or Morgan line.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
HOT FIGHT
WITH ENEMY
At QUENCUA
Continued From First Page.

perately contested that has oc-
CURED since the fighting with the
Filipinos began.
1t is known that the American
loss was eight men killed and for
ty-three wounded. Colonel John
M. Stotsenburg, commander of
the Nebraska Volunteer Regi-
ment, was shot through the heart
Immediately after arriving on the
battlefield.
Major Bell had taken a party
of siXty-one to reconnoiter the
enemy's position along the
Quengua River, the object Of
the movement being to develop
the strength OF the Filipino
forces. The detachment arrived
near Quengua at daybreak. 1t
continued to advance and drew a
heavy fire.
The cavalry detachment held
its ground until the enemy threw
hanking parties right and left and
almost surrounded the American
force. Then the cavalry drew
back until reinforced, a battalion
of the Nebraska Volunteers
under Major Morford being the
first to arrive. This force being
insufficient to drive the insur-
gents back, the remainder of the
Nebraska Regiment, with the
Iowa Volunteer Regiment, was
hurried forward, and then four
guns of the Utah Battery were
advanced to a fighting position.
Colonel Stotsenburg, COM
mander of the Nebraska Regi-
ment, arrived on the battlefield at
II o'clock, having just returned
from Manila, where he had been
visiting his wife. He immediate
ly led an advance of the regi-
ment, storming the enemy's
trenches, but was shot fatally, dy-
ing instantly about two hundred
yards from the breastworks.
The Nebraska Regiment, how
ever, continued to advance and
beat the insurgents out of their
position. Lieutenant Lester F.
Sisson of the Nebraska Regi-
ment was shot through the heart
during the action.
The cavalry lost three men
killed and five wounded.
The loss of the Nebraska Regi-
ment was five killed and more
than thirty wounded.
The Iowa Regiments losses
were slight. The heat during the
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
PHILIPPINE REBELS
AIDED FROM WITHOUT

LONDON, April 24.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: A
Spanish prisoner recently released by
the Filipinos says the insurgents have
$4,000 rifles, plenty of ammunition and
200 pieces of artillery, some of them the
latest pattern of quick firing guns. Ac-
cording to his description of the situa-
tion they established two large car
fridge factories, and as it is impossible
for the Americans to blockade such a
coast as that of Luzon the Filipinos
can easily procure from abroad every
thing they require. The informant as
serts that Chinese, European and even
American merchants doing business in
China are helping the Filipinos in this
way
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Ephraim P. Davis Dead.

SALINAS, April 23.-Ephraim P. Davis,
a druggist of Castroville, died suddenly
this morning after three days illness of
pneumonia. The deceased, who was So
Monterey County and at the last Presi-
Dental election changed from the Repub-
lican to the Democratic party. He leaves
a widow, three sons and one daughter.
He will be buried under the auspices OF
the Masons, of which order he was a
member
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
New Raisin Packing House.

FRESNO, April 23.-William Forsyth,
the raisin grower and packer. will begin
the construction of a new raisin seeding
plant and packing ouse next week to
replace his handsome structure that was
destroyed by fire last summer. The new
plant will cost about 900 and will have
a capa .ty of five carloads of raisins
daily The plant will be completed in time
to handle this seasons crop of raisins
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
CHINA MAY HAVE
TO BE DISCIPLINED
Altitude Of the Government To.
ward Foreigners Becoming
IDtolerdble.

itude of the
ton w
made by the Tung
Council o
hostile foreigners foreign
takes place it is believed the
to the Emp
AS demonstration of the ignorance
body just its
commanding the troops in the
a blow
There little likelihood to
power.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Roumania,s New Cabinet.

BUCHAREST, Roumania, April 23.-M.
Cantacuzena has formed a Cabinet to
succeed the Ministry of Demtrio Strudza.
which resigned on April II. The Premier
will take care of the portfolio of the IN
terror also. NJ. Lavovory will take care
of the portfolio of Foreign Affairs
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Counterfeit Revenue Stamps.

PUEBLO, Colo, April 23.-J. C. Allard.
deputy revenue collector, has seized in
this city 1900 cigars bearing counterfeit
revenue stamps, the cigars having been
made in Lancaster, Pa. Mr.. Allard is
making thorough search throughout his
district
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Fireman's Leap for Life.

TACOMA, April pa dry kiln and
store house at the st. Paul and Tacoma
Lumber Company's mills burned this
afternoon, entailing a loss of about $780,
Trosper. a. fireman. broke an arm in leap
ing to safety before falling walls. SEN
ator Foster is a heavy stockholder in the
ST Paul mill
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
LADY SCOTT MISSING.
Disappearance of Daughter of the
Earl of Cadogan.

LONDON. April 23.-The family of Sir
Samuel Edward Scott, Conservative men,
Der of Parliament for West Marylebone.
is in state of great CONSERVATION over
the disappearance of Lady Scott, who was
daughter of the Earl of Cadogan, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland The Daily Mail
says her ladyship drove out shopping on
the 17th, dismissed her coachman in Bond
street and has not been seen since.
Lady Sophie Cadogan. who is in her
Scott, now in his twenty-sixth year, in
1896. He is a lieutenant in the Royal
Horse Guards
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Left the Case to- Enlist.

COLUMBUS, Neb., April 23.-Lieu-
tenant Lester F. Sisson, killed at Ma
Mia, was born in this county and his
parents reside at ST. Edwards. He was
printer by trade and worked on the
Times in this city when the call for vol
unteers was made. He was % years Of
age.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Stockton's Relay Team.

STOCKTON, April 23.-Some changes
have been made in the Terminal City
Wheelmen team for the contest next Sun
day with Sacramento riders. The try-out.,
to-day resulted in the selection of tbs
following team: Barnes, Morris, Miller
Fore, Ford, Shoemaker, McHugh
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Lineman Seriously Injured.

STOCKTON; April 23.-John Hunter,
lineman, was brought to Stockton this
afternoon on the 1:10 train with both
bones of both legs broken between the
knee and the ankle and the bones of one
ankle fractured. While he was stretch
ing a wire five miles the other side Of
Bethany a pole broke and fell upon
him,
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Rain BENEFITS Crons.

SANTA ROSA, April 23.-Rain has fall
en- here to-day which will greatly benefit
growing crops. Tonight indications
favor a heavy precipitation.
SANTA CRUZ, April 23.-Heavy show
ers. with occasional nail, fell to-day. The
rain is beneficial to growing crops
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
The Raleigh at Sandy Hook.

NEW YORK, April 24.-The cruiser
Raleigh. Captain Coghlan, bound for
Philadelphia, completed coaling to-day
and dropped down to Sandy Hook.
where she anchored for the night
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
Fnglish Wheelman wins.

PARIS. April 23.-In the fifty kilometers
bicycle race here to-day Tom Linton. the
Englshman, won in 80 minutes 33 seconds.
Edouard Taylor was second.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24

ST LOUIS. April 23.-The two ball games
scheduled for to-day were not played on &C
count of rain.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
April 2s.-The Orphans played

CINCINNATI. April 23.-The Orphans played
like wooden men for the first two innings and
the Reds gained a lead of eight runs. Phillips
colHded with Demont at first base in the eighth
inning and was knocked out. Taylor took his
place The finish was exciting, Chicago having
three men on the bases with but one out At
tendance, $500. Score:
Clubs r. H e
Cincinnati .................'....,...-
chicago o
Observation-Disclosures. Taylor and Petz; Taylor
and Chance. Umpires-Burns and Smith.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-24
REDS BEAT THE ORPHANS.
Win the Game Through Errors in the
First Two Innings.

.ONAL LEAGUE STANDING
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-09
Charity a National Trait,

Several of the calamity bowling pa
pers in the country are making a great
amount of fuss over the fact hat in
1898 $25, 600, 900 were expended in char
liable purposes in the United States.
The ground is taken that in a country of
the extent and of this there
should not be any occasion for the dis
tribution of aid to the INDECENT. The
contention made by these papers is
just as sensible as it would be to assert
that there should be no illness, because
nature intended that all should be well
and strong.
Many hundreds of years ago the Mas
ter said: THE poor we nave with you
always and that saying is truth itself,
based upon the environments of life,
the limitations over which human pow
ers have no control. To eliminate the
causes of charity would require an en-
tire transformation of conditions
which have obtained since light first
shone. All sickness must be perma-
nently cured and wiped out; every men,
tai qualification must be made the
same; all wrong doing must be driven
from the hearts of men; all commercial
rivalry must cease ard society be re-
duced to a communistic state. To the
man who looks upon life as it is, these
things are impossible and the next best
thing to be done is for those who have
escaped the miseries of existence to aid
their unfortunate fellow men.
In place of calling for condemnation
and fault finding. the fact that $25, 0o0,-
600 has been expended in n year for
relieving the distress Of the unfortunate
the entire nation should congratulate
itself that there are persons who have
the welfare of humanity at heart
enough to take any interest in the poor
and suffering. One Of the noble charac-
teristics Of the average citizen of Amer