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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29

The Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer st. Paul arrived from st. Mi
chael shortly before midnight last night
and anchored in the stream.
The ST. Paul brought down about 25O
passengers, most of whom were miners
1t is estimated that the total amount OF
gold on board the steamer will reach close
to the million mark OF this amount sew
eral hundred thousand dollars is the
property of Messrs. Erickson and hunt,
two of the best known men on the klon-
dixie. The passengers aboard the St Paul
bring discouraging reports from the Cape
Nome district. They say that the goid
there is hard to find and OF poor
The st. Paul left St Michael on the
18th and made an unusually fast trip
down.
Two passengers died on the voyage, one
a Frenchman named Israel Desrosiers,
who died of scurvy, and the other q miner
named ]. A. Fischer, who had been in the
Klondike region for several years, dled OF OF
locomotor ataxia. The St. Paul Will DOCK
this morning.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
TRACK RECORD
TO THE CREDIT
Of SEARCHL|GHT
Fast Heat Paced at
Cleveland.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 2S.-Search-
light. in addition to winning the 2:04 race
from Anaconda and Frank Bogash, placed
O new mark to-day for the Glenville track
-2:031R. 1t was the fastest mile that has
ever been made in harness on the Cleve-
land track. The great son of Dark Night
did it in one of the warmest heats that
has been seen in many a day.
Another mark was fixed by The Maid,
when in the second heat of the 2:14 pace
she went the mile in 2:04l4 breaking the
record of 2:O714 for four-year-Old pacing
mares in races. made by Much Better at
San Jose last August. The track record
at Glenville was 2:03A, held by Frank
Agan.
The fourth day of the races presented
the best programme so far this week, the
star attraction being the fast pacing race.
1t proved to be in every way as interest
ing as it was advertised to be. With the
horses in good condition they made good
time, and Searchlight knocked the opinion
of the bookies endwise, winning the race
they had scheduled for Anaconda
Cresceus was the disappointment in the
2:1O trot After winning one heat he was
hardly heard of except in a wonderful
drive in the last heat. The race went to
Elloree, who got better as the race pro-
gressed, and finally won from Tommy
A peculiar state of affairs existed with
the 2:I4 pace. The Maid was the favorite,
but VIII Tranby was placed most against
the field The favorite in the opening
of the betting finally won the race after
dropping a heat to Tranby.
Bessie K was the hot favorite in the
2:21 trot, but Dainty Daffo was the winner.
The crowd which attended the races was
not as large as it had been on the days
preceding. However, about 1000 persons
were in the grand stand when the bell
called the 2:04 PAGERS out. The threaten
ing rain did not materiaIize and the day
was an ideal one, with the track fast
although a trifle dusty. Results:
2:04 class pacing, purse $1,000 best three in
five heats -SearchliEht second, third and
fourth heats. Time. 2:O312 2:O61a, 2:O4. Ana
conda won first heat in 2:04A and was second,
2:1O class trotting, purse $3000 best three in
five heats-Elloree won fourth. fifth and sixth
heats. Time. 2:0S15, 2:101e. 212. Tommy Brit
ton won first and second heats and was sec
ond. Time, 210, 2:12H. Cresceus won third
heat in 210 and was third. Pilatus Battle
ton Belle J, Caracella, Gayton, Monterey and
Oakland Baron also started.
2:14 class pacing, purse $1,000, best two in
three heats-The Maid won second and third
heats Time 2:06I4, 2:0SA. VIII Tranby won
first heat in 2:O6A and was second. Hontas
Patchen, Lavena, Daniel. Morona Bay Leaf,
Lilly of the Valley Walnut Lad, Scapegoat,
Burr Patchen and Lady Herold also started.
2:21 class trottng, purse $1,000. best two in
three heats-Dainty Daffo won in straight
heats. Time 2:13A, 2:13A. Bessie K second.
Esparto Rex third. Anita S, William c K
and Thornwitch also started.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
NEEDS FOREIGN TALENT
ATTORNEY G. STEELE IMPORTED
FROM NEW YORK.

Herrin, the Mysterious, has evidently
found that the burden he is called upon
to bear as attorney for the Southern Pa
cif1c Company is more than his frail and
sensitive nature can easily support. There
fore he has called in some one to helm
him. That some one is Charles Steele of
the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Steele, law
yers of New York. 1t is not exactly plain
what particular portion of the Herrin bur-
den Steele is retained to assume but
judging from the secrecy that is thrown
around his advent into this city and the
amount of work that is being done by his
stenographer by the aid of gaslight in
suite so of the fifth floor of the Palace Ho-
tel, it is evident that the aforesaid Steele's
share of the load is to be of no small pro-
portion.
When the Southern Pacific Company
start TO import an extra attorney into
this State they do it in good style. In the
case of Steele, Mr.. Herrin and a private
car were sent on to Denver to meet him
Nothing was said In either the Denver
or the Salt Lake papers about the coming
together of these judicial stars, though
the incident was of sufficient significance
70 cause some comment The reason for
this silence is possibly better known to
than anybody else. However. Mr.. Her
rim secured his wise men from the East
and, carefully hiding him from the prying
eyes of reporters, whisked him into this
city yesterday morning behind the drawn
curtains of his private car, attached to a
local train.
Arriving at the Palace Hotel no less
secrecy was maintained. Mr.. Steele was
given suite so, on the fifth floor, without
having to undergo the formality of reg
1stering: His baggage was sent up i'm
mediately afterward for fear that the
trunks might excite the curious specula-
ton of the .passerby. All these precau-
tons proved futile. however, as it was
but short time before it was whispered
around that there was something doin' -
and a reporter going to the desk inuulr-
Ing of the clerk as to ruhinh ronr,, SfooIo
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
OTIS OFFICIAL REPORT
OF BATTLE AT CALAMBA

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The War De-
partment this morning received its first
official report Of the capture of Calamba
in the following cablegram from General
Otis:
Hall and one thousand men captured
Calamba, an important strategic position
on Laguna de Bal, yesterday, driving out
three hundred insurgents. The command
was composed of portions of the Fourth
Cavalry, Twenty-frst Infantry and Wash
ingtOn Volunteers, transported in launches
and the gunbOat cascoes accompanying
Casualties:
Privates Charles GIeesupp, Fourth, and
McDuffy. H, Twenty first, killed.
Corporal Thomas Totten, Company G,
Fourth, mortally wounded.
Privates Michael Sheridan, Herbert
Tracey and Napoleon White. Company K,
Twenty-frst, seriously wounded.
Privates Kinds and Plummer, Company
G, and Samson, Company c, Fourth
Philips. Company H; Christie and Hollis,
ter, Company D, and Ashland, Company
c, Twenty-ffrst, slightly wounded.
The insurgent casualties are unknown
Forty Spanish prisoners were released A
Spanish gunboat in good condition. long
sought for in the bay, was captured. This
town was the direct objective point OF
Lawton when he captured Santa Cruz in
April but he was unable to reach it
by boats on account of shOal water.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29

was occupying, that functionary said that
there was no guest by that name in the
hotel. However, Herrin was later seen
coming out of Steele's apartments.
A subsequent inquiry of Mr.. Herrin as
to the business of Mr.. Steele in this city
brought the rather astonishing answer
from Herrin that he. knew no such per
the fact remains that these two gentle
men have been in close consultation on
some scheme or other which, whatever it
may be. is of sufficient Importance to
keep a stenographer busy at his desk ,un-
til the wee sma' hours of the morning.
The stenographer. when seen at L
o'clock this morning, said; Yes, Mr.
Steele did come out here in a private car.
But he is not on business. oh. no He IS
merely making a summer tour of the diff
ferent points of interest on the coast"
The stenographer did nc not come me wi. With
as he was crossing a desert with his type
writer under his arm Steele hked his
looks and asked him to make. the tour
with him. The stenographer was not en-
ployed by Steele. He was merely working
at ! o'clock in the morning because he
hated TO be idle.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
ARRIVES WITH A
MILLION IN GOLD
FROM THE NORTH
The Steamer St. Paul Drops
Anchor i'm the Stream at
Midnight.

not the greatest care been taken; as it
was, the company lost its lately acqnIeq acquiIeqq
last winter at Unalaska, and nearly Iosl
the fine large river steamer Margaret,
which was swept id to sea st seTeIa haT about b5tS
The Margaret had a successIul trIp 70
the troopship st. Paul, which also belongs
to the Alaska Commercial Company, ana
with number of passengers aboard
started for the dock about noon; AS she
cast loose from the steamer the "Luu
flying seaward At that point 1t was use
less to attempt to put her about, ana for
about ten miles she went along taster
Paul passengers and several of the crew
were almost washed overheard. During a
temporary lull she put about, and after
fighting the head wind she was driven into
a cove a mile from St. Michael and an
ch%0red % there for the night. -
The stern-Wheeler City of Paris, lately
purchased by the Alaska Exploration
Company, snapped her anchor chain and
aboard. AS soon as possible the ST Paul
got under way and went to the res
cue overtaking the Paris about ten
miles out. Owing to the high wind
get line to the Paris. but this was finally
accomplished and the stern-wheeler pulled
The tug Anna Eva Fay dragged her an
chor opposite the Alaska Commercial
Company's wharf and drifted on the rocks
a few feet astern Of the river steamer
Louise which was firmly tied to the
wharf All efforts to get the Fay off were
in vain, and she pounded to pieces in d
few hours. The river steamer Dorothy,
owned by James DIETRICH, dragged her
anchor and went ashore, but there are
hopes that she can be saved Along the
beach several other small steamers and
numerous sloops and Yukon River boats
are total wrecks Among the wrecked
craft is the steamer William Mckinley;
The river steamer Ana Wanda is smashed
to bits.
also on the rocks One of the fine new
barges belonging to the Alaska Explora-
ton Company was blown to sea with a
Captain Brant and mate of the, four
uasted schooner Carrier Dove, while try
ing to row to the wharf, were upset, but
were pulled out, narrowly escaping
News of the storm at Cape Nome is
anxiously awaited. The barrenness OF the
beach upon which the city OF Nome IS
built and the high surf that continually
rolls in will make the storm unusually
fatal to shipping. With such a wind as as
prevailed here none of the dozen vessels
anchored off the city could have es-
capped.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
FREE PORT IS
UNSATISFACTORY
Canadian View of BOun-
Diary Dispute.
ARBITRATION Is DESIRED
TRADE WITH KLoNDIKE CHIEF
CAUSE OF TROUBLE.
Many Canadians Believe That Seattle
Steamboat Men Have Had Much
to Say in the Nego-
tiations.
TRADE WITH KLoNDIKE CHIEF
CAUSE OF TROUBLE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

OTTAWA, Ontario, July 2S.-Whatever
may be the ground for the optimistic dis
patches that have their origin in the State
Department and the British Embassy at
Washington, neither party in Canada Is
satisfied with the hints that England is
going to settle the boundary dispute out
of hand without reference to Ottawa and
accept the offer of a free port under
American sovereignty on the Lynn canal.
Canada may have to accept that very
thing IN the end, but the suggestion that
she would have to do so would at this
time be very like dropping a can of nitro
glycerin on brick pavement.
What Canada will be satisfied with, if
it cannot get arbitration, will be the ces-
sion of a free port under British SOW
ereignty at Pyramid harbor and also the
ceSsOn of a strip of territory ten or
twenty miles wide leading from Pyramid
harbor to the Canadian Klondike. In the
face of aroused public sentiment ringing
from one end of the Dominion to the
other no public man would dare stand up
and say he was satisfied with what seems
to be under discussion at Washington.
The whole trouble just now is over the
trade in the Klondike. Mining is carried
on almost entirely on Canadian territory.
Mr.. Sffton, Minister of the Interior, estt-
mates the number Of American miners at
90 per cent Sir Charles Tupper estimates
1T a 60 per cent.
In the opinion of many Canadians Seat
tie steamboat men have dominated all
negotiations ana prevented a compromise
The Premier's figures show that Seattle
alone has 80 per cent of the carrying
trade. The proposition Of Canadians to
build a railroad from Kitimat Harbor,
skirting the disputed strip, into Dawson
City, is made in dead earnest. One has
only to figure the cost to realize how
deeply Canada is stirred. Such railroad
would have to be subsidized for al least
5000 mile, 1t would be 700 miles long.
Thus, in order to accomplish what was
sought to be accomplished by the recent
negotiations, Canada will spend $350O,000.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
GERMAN FRUIT MARKET.
Growing Demand at Hamburg for the
Dried Output.

SUISUN, July 2S-Four years ago
Ernest Luehning tried the experiment of
establishing a dried fruit market in Ham
burg, Germany. The first year he ship
ped twenty carloads and in succeeding
years doubled the shipment named. Mr..
Luehning has this week completed the
erection of one of the largest and best
equipped warehouses in the State and
will make Suisun his headquarters. The
quantity Of dried fruit this year will be
less than in former years, but Mr.. Lueh-
ming expects, nevertheless, to increase his
shipments to foreign markets this year.
He said to-day that since the Hamburg
Exposition the demand for dried fruit had
greatly increased in Germany and that
an extensive market would be opened
there in the near future for California
products. Orders have been received this
week tor dried apricots and three car
loads will be forwarded without delay.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
THOUSANDS OF CARP
IN A CLOSED SLOUGH
Tons of the Fish Will Be Left to Die
by the Evaporation of the
Water.

STOCKTON, July 2S.-Thousands, SEEM
ingly millions, of carp are imprisoned in
a closed slough near Fishermans Landing
on Union Island. 1t is a sight worth go
ing miles to see. The fish were deposited
in the slough during the high water, and
when the river went down they were all
left on the wrong side of the levee. The
slough is about thirty feet wide, averag-
ing three feet in depth and fully a half
mile long. The fish are so thick in the
place that they can hardly swim about
They swim on the surface in such num-
bers that they could be thrown out on
the bank in a scoop shovel by the wagon
load
The water is rapidly evaporating un-
der the torrid sun, which plays upon the
island, and the carp are growing bigger
1t is only a matter of a few weeks when
they will be left in the open dead and
decaying. Some of the fish have reached
large size, nearly twenty inches in
length.
Eventually the fish will be left baking
in the sun and a stencil will arise that
will call for heroic measures. The dead
fish make an excellent fertilizer, and this
is probably the use to which they will
be put.
The slough might be opened and the
fish turned back into the river, but the
opportunity to destroy SO many of the
river pests is not one to be passed by the
people. The carp is valueless as a table
fish and they destroy many of the more
desirable inhabitants of the rivers and
channels.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29

and gave the women the right to go
wherever they would so long as they Kept
three blocks away from the water front.
This had the effect of bringing the rent
down to 81 so a front foot for land within
the same two blocks referred to, and there
the tenderloin is being re-established. The
women have to erect their removal De-
Following this order of the Council came
another from the commissioner governor
requiring the tenants of the water front
to sign a lease under which they might
be removed on or after the 1oth or June,
and requiring them to pay rent in advance
to that time. The occupants OF the sfacks
along the water front had been peutonlng
for an extension of their leasehold through
the coming summer, While many, contend
ing that the grant of the lease orig
inaIly was Illegal had been refusing To
pay rent and had yet been allowed to re-
main. Under threats of eviction, how
ever, they had finally asked for time IN
which to appeal to Ottawa. and as a taclt
consent TO this the order referred to had
been issued. Many fearing that they
would be compelled to move in the middle
of the busy season prepared to move now,
and did so, tearing down their buildings
and leaving great gaps in the water front.
Others signed the lease, and as the end In
View-that of opening up the water front
for steamboat landings and for hre emer-
genCieS-haS been in q measure conserved
they hope to be allowed to remain there
Indefinitely.
Yesterday afternoon the first steamboat
from down the river arrived, the John {.
Barr Of the North American Transporta-
ton and Trading Company. She had been
wintering in the river about thirty miles
below Forty Mile in very dangerous po-
sition and the odds were laid heavily
that she would be broken up by the ice.
She met with no injury whatever and re-
ports that the Arnold of the Alaska EX-
ploratiOn Company, which was lying back
of an island four miles farther up the
river from her, also escaped injury. The
event, therefore. so much longed for. and
yet so much dreaded-the breaking OF the
ice-has passed off and nobody is hurt:
The fragrant scandal just now OF this
town of many scandals, the one that
hurts Americans, is the Consul, James
Church McCook. He is a most consplcu-
Gus figure in the dance halls and the
water front saloons and has 50 fallen in
the general esteem that an American is
10th to be seen on the street with him.
His suit for libel against a local paper,
that wrote up one of his escapades, has
not come to trial. but If it be jury trial,
the paper is certain to win. There is a
great deal of sickness in the city, princi-
pally scurvy. The Queens birthday was
observed yesterday by outdoor sports that
entertained the public throughout the day
and by a grand ball in the evening. Great
numbers Of men We're in from the creeks
and public or official business was sus-
pended; the business of the saloons was
vastly increased To-day the great
scramble for gold is resumed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
BY SAM w. WALL.

DAWSON, May 24-No person has left
Dawson for the outside since the morning
Of April 2S, when two teams started up
river over the suu-rotted and uncertain
ice. bearing official and general adVIces
of the great fire that on the 26th reduced
nearly all of the business portion of Daw-
son. Since that time the destroyed build
ings are nearly all replaced by others
that if not more substantial, are at least
newer and brighter Building is still
actively going forward in every part of
the town in preparation for the spring
burst of business following the cleanup.
The ice in the river broke at Dawson
on the 17th and was a complete failure
as a spectacle. The season had been so
backward, the snow had melted and run
off so gradually that the river never rose
and the breakup was OccasiOned by a
mere Iocsening of the hold Of ice to the
shore the direct work of the sun. 1t
passed out Of the river in two days. Jams
in the river above, however, have delayed
communication and not until the 23d did
a steamboat arrive from the upper river.
The Flora of the Bennett Lake and
KlOndike Navigation Company. arrived
Monday afternoon with some twenty pas
sengers and quantity of freight that
had been. carried to her over the lakes on
the ice and which consisted of sugar. but
ter and eggs-things known to be scarce
here. The eggs. of which there were not
many, sold at 81 80 a dozen wholesale and
were a disappointment to the man who
brought them in.
On the evening of the same day the
Bonanza King came down. Three or four
small boats and barges came down also
but only one of these from the lake re-
gion. All reports from these agree tha t
there is to be no rush of people from the
outside this spring or summer, though
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
Twenty-Ninth District Republican
G111h

TWENTY NINTH DISTRICT RE-
PUBLICAN CLUB-AdvisOry committee
James Dhue, John Glynn. H. Lutgens, L.
Lyman and Charles Corey. The same
trouble that bothers many of the other
clubs, that of securing a hall, caused this
club some anxiety, but finally a building
was secured at S19 Howard street.
Notwithstanding the fact that the meet
ing place of the club was unknown to
many who were anxious to attend, the
attendance was fairly large. An enroll
ment committee, in addition to the ad-
visory committee, was appointed, consist
ing of the following members: w. +.
Freitz, James Flynn, J. Collins, ]. Cava-
naugh and R. Williams. After the wOr--
of naming these committees had been
concluded an adjournment was taken
until Friday of next week.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
PRESIDENT JORDAN
BACK FROM COLORADO
Stanford Educator Pleased With the
Success of the Recent Teachers
Convention.
STAMFORD UNIVERSITY. Inlv *

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 2S-
President David Starr Jordan returned to-
day to the university from Colorado. Dur
ing his trip he attended the meeting of
the National Educational Association in
Los Angeles, and was one of the principal
speakers before the Texas Colorado Chau-
tauqua Association at Boulder, Col. While
in Colorado DR.. Jordan was royalty enter
tained by the Rocky Mountain Cornell
Association, which gave a banquet in his
honor at the Albany Hotel. Denver. DR..
Jordan reports having met some Yale men
who expect to attend Stanford next year
and who will add materially to Stanfords
strength upon the gridiron and diamond.
In regard to the meeting of the National
Educational Association and it's benefits
to California President Jordan said:
1.-The meeting of the National Educa-
tional Association at Los Angeles was
the most successful in its history. The
meeting will have two very important eff
fects. In the first place, it has given IL 900
teachers, mostly of the East, a better un
derstanding of California and what it is,
and of the reasons why Californians are
so proud of their State. On the other
hand 1t does California great deal Of
good to have so many bright minds from
the older States turned loose within her
borders"
President Jordan leaves on Saturday for
Kings River Canyon, where he will spend
the month of August camping. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Jordan and by
Professor and Mrs. Elwood 2. Cubberley.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-29
DETAIL OF TROOPS ON
TRANSPORT SHERMAN

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-General Otis
to-day cabled the following details Of the
troops en- route home. on the transport
Sherman:
The transport Sherman, with the Cali
for San Francisco with the Twenty
Infantry, forty-one officers and 1000 enlist
ed men; artillery. nine officers and 276 en-
listed men.
The infantry left at La Carlota, Negros
Island. Privates Claud W. Huff, Com
pany E; w. ]. Clark, G.. W. Iverson, Com
pany f: John NJ. NOonan, James NJ Dub
ney, James H. Brown, William D. Stew
art, Company G II. G. Collins. Company
L. sick; Private Benjamin F. Hurd, Com
pany E, nurse; Private Ralph Coates,
Company K, missing in action near Ma
Mia April g.