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VOLUME JjXXVIII.— NO. 127.
MONEY FOR MISSIONS.
That Was the Theme at
the Great Episcopal
Convention.
PLEAS FROM ALL LANDS.
Bishops From Abroad Told of
the Manner in Which They
Are Hampered.
LARGER FUNDS NECESSARY.
Division to Be Made of the California
Ses by a New Diocese at
Los Angeles.
. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 4.— "Money
for Missions" was the all-day theme of the
two houses of the Episcopal Convention,
and which, in accordance with the consti
ner as the General Board
of Missions. From Darkest Africa and the
Flowery Kingdom, from the colored juris
dictions of the South, from Territories as
yet but sparsely settled, from the happy
bunting grounds of the Indian and from
the republic across the Texas border, the
fathers of the church came together to tell
of tiie work that had been done, of the
difficulties surrounding them, and then< ed
of finances without stint and ministerial
recruits without numbor, to the end that
the church both abroad and at home
• might be pushed forward in the n .me of
the Master.
ae of the narrations were pathetic,
- were pleading, but the majority
bristled with criticism of the failure of the
loan church to adequately hold up
ands of its representatives in other
Che meetings drtiv an audience
that overflowed the church and the
galleries were crowded with women from
all over the country identified with Uie
Woman's National Auxiliary.
Following the action of the House of
Bishops yesterday Dr. Daniel Roberts of
Minneapolis submitted a resolution thank
ing the Governor and Legislature of Texas
for its action in preventing the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons mill. It read as follows:
Chat this' house record its cordial
approval i.n>l hieh appreciation of the courage
nn! : to exacted trust with which
the- executive and Legislature of the State of
Texas have used the sacred powers of govern-
I in them for the suppression of
prize-fighting, making it a crime before the
law, as it is a crime brfore the moral tense of
a Christian community.
Objections to immediate consideration
were made by Lay DeJegates J. 6. Biddle
of PhTTaaclphia and George 11. Fairbanks
of Florida, and under the rules it went on
the calendar. This was not satisfactory to
a majority of the convention, and when ex-
Governor Prince of New Mexico moved
that the resolution be taken from the cal
endar for immediate consideration more
than the necessary two-thirds voted in the
affirmative. Roars of laughter were pro
voked by the earnest declaration of Dele
gate Riddle that he did not know what
had been done by the Texas Governor and
ature, and had not the remotest idea
of what was intended by the resolution,
and Rev. Dr. Frank Page of Texas under
took to enlighten him by briefly narrating
how far the preliminaries for the mill had
gone when Governor Culberson interfered,
and eulogized the young executive for pre
serving decency and good order in his
commonwealth.
Delegate Fairbanks again objected that
it was an irrelevant subject for such a
body to consider and opened the door to
grave departures from established prece
dent. It was explained by Dr. Roberts
that the resolution was submitted in be
half of the entire delegation from New
Hampshire without consultation with the
brethren from Texas, and being put to a
vote it was carried by an overwhelming
majority, only 20 vocal 'noes" being
heard.
After the adoption of the resolution two
voluminous printed reports on f reign and
domestic missions were presented in be
half of the board of managers. It showed
that the gross receipts of the boanl for the
year were, including the balance of last
year and a personal loan of $65,00 1 from
George Bliss, $784,829, and the disburse
ments $716,278, leaving a balance of $■ J. 561
on hand on September 1.
The loan from Mr. Bliss had been re
turned. Comment was made upon the
fact that in not a few instances the Lent n
offerings of the children, which for t. c
fiscal year aggregated $67,000, had taken
the piace of the gifts of the congregation^
for missions, and it was suggested that it
would be unworthy of any parish to per
mit the youth to usurp its privileges and
discharge its duties in this regard. The
report of the Women's Auxiliary showed
tnat it had collected $167,643 for the fiscal
year, of which $!*),833 had been disbursed
without coming into the central treasury.
The report was referred to committees,
and then the missionary Bishops were pre
sented in regular order. Bishop Ferguson
of Africa, a distinguished-looking colored
man. protested against the disposition of
the people to put the lives sacrificed and
the money contributed on one side of the
scale and the number cf converts on the
other, and declared that the African work
was but an experiment, and unsatisfactory
at that. The sole question was whether
the church had done its duty in regard to
the foreign missions. Had it fully equipped
the African Bishops for that work? It
had not.
Bishop Graves of China was next pre
sented. His diocese, he says, has a
population of 60,000.000 souls, ministered
to by one Bishop and six laymen, while
the Church of England had six dioceses
in the same territory. They wanted
more money. The missionary Bishops
something else to do besides going
here and there among the church and
among its women and asking for funds.
He was cut off politically from the
church in this country, and wnen he
crossed the ocean he knew not at whose
door to knock or whose influence to seek.
Bishoj. IfcKim of Japan said that in
his diocese, with ft population of 16,000.000,
there were three dioceses of the Church
of England, and he had united with
them in forming the Holy Church of
Christ in Japan. They were now carry
The San Francisco Call.
ing the word to a hostile peopie. Up to
a year ago a man who became a Christian
became a foreigner. But the war had
taught the Japanese a lesson, for there
were hundreds of Christians in the front
of the battle, and the way they fought
was known all over the country. It was
now recognized that a man was no less
a Japanese because he had become a
Christian.
The work of the colored commissioners
was presented by Bishop Nelson of
Georgia. He said that his diocese was !)0
per cent missionary, and yet the total
moneys received last your for the building
up of this jurisdiction only averaged ~%
cents a head for the people reached. The
Episcopal church was the only one mak
ing any advance in the moral condition of
the people of the South.
Bishop Brooke of Oklahoma spoke
briefly for the Indians in New Mexico and
Arizona. Bishop Rudolson of Central
Pennsylvania, speaking for Alaska, said
that it was about to become the most val
uable of Uncle Sam's possessions, yet the
people were dark and benighted and
needed the sympathy of the church. The
country needed an assistant Bishop and
he trusted that they would be given one.
Tne Bishop of Olympia, speaking on the
same subject, said that the money of the
church was spent on the edge of Alaska
and none where there was life. Sitka, the
capital and the harbor of the United
State? warships, had nothing but an In
dian minister. The Bishop of Pennsyl
vania, who was presiding, remarked that
he would opuose the election of a mission
ary Bishop for Alaska. He held, he said,
an opposite view to the previous speakers,
'.vho were evidently laboring under a mis
apprehension.
Bishop Whittaker wanted to state his
views then and there, but the regular or
der was insisted upon. Reports on the
mission-fields of Mexico and Brazil were
made by Bishop McLaren, Dr. Forrester of
Mexico City and others, the fact being
mentioned that in Rio de Janeiro copies of
the Holy Scripture cost from $15 to $20
each.
In speaking of the work of tho church
missions in this country Bishop White of
Indiana said that in his diocese, with a
population of 3,000,000, only one out of
every 500 was a churchman. Other bodies
which called themselves Christians, and
doubtless were, had colleges and univer
sities, while even the churches of the Epis
copalians were little, inferior affairs. It
vas a fact that in a territory live times as
large as the diocese of Connecticut there
was not a single Episcopal altar.
The order of the day was suspended at
this point, and in an eloquent address
Bishop Dudley of Kansas submitted this
resolution :
Retolvcd, That upon the first assembling of
the board of missions since the recent massacre
of Armenian Christians, this board would
place on record its sense of horror at the atro
cities which have been perpetrated upon the
Armenians, and its sympathy with all those
that have suffered for the truth's sake.
Support was given to the motion by Dr.
Greer of New York city, who has done
considerable missionary work among the
Armenian colony, and it was adopted by
a rising vote. Similar action was taken
on a resolution supporting the appeals
which have been made to the Christian
nations to exercise their full power for the
protection of the Armenians and to secure
redress for those that have suffered. Still
another resolution submitted by the
Bishop of Albany, deploring the Chinese
massacres, and sending prayerful sym
pathy to those affected, and calling upon
the United States Government to exercise
its strong arm of protection over the citi
zens of this country residing in unhappy
China, and to secure them their treaty
rights, was unanimously adopted.
At the instance of Assistant Bishop Gil
bert the meeting adopted a resolution call
ing upon the I'nited SUtes Government to
immediately investigate the attacK upon
the Snake River Indians in Idaho last
summer and to mete out pnnishment to
the offenders, and the board placed on
record an expression of its deliberate judg
ment that neither difficulties nor opposi
tion should deter the church in the devel
opment of its missionary work, but that it
would press forward with the gospel of
peace and good will.
When the hour for adjournment arrived
a number of Bishops and laity made strong
appeals that the session to-morrow be dis
pensed with in order that both houses
might attend the morning missionary
meeting, and at which ex-Secretary of
State Foster is to speak on the condition
oi things in China. Dr. Morgan Dix, as
chairman of the deputies, announced,
however, that he proposed to call the body
together at the regular hour and to pro
ceed with the order of the day.
The Bishops and de puties who have been
working with the local committee in the
interest of ihe proposed meeting again ap
pealed for an adjournment until Mon
day, but on a vote being taken they
were in a deciSed minority. When the
lower house ia called to order in the morn
ing a motion to adjourn to the missionary
meeting will again be made. The matter
is being generally discussed among the
delegates, and there is a strong tendency
that courtesy demands this action.
The committee on new dioceses to-night
■agreed on a report recommending the di
\ sion of the see of California and the es
tablishment of the diocese of Los An
gles. With the concurrence of the
H< ise of Bishops and Deputies, and
t hi- may be regarded as having been se
cui- 1 in advance, the Episcopal General
Conention will make a gift to California
of a: ew see. This afternoon the commit
tee or. new dioceses unanimously decided
upon a favorable report, and this may be
presented to the lower house to-morrow.
The prompt action of the committee was
due to t!.e fact that through the alertness
of Rev. Dr. Trew the California petition
was the :irst to be presented and conse
quently headed the roll. Dr. Trew, who
has presented a strong argument, said to
night: "The division will show the
strength of the new diocese and of the old
respectively. New diocese— Seven coun
ties, 400,000 population, thirteen parishes,
twenty-nine organized missions, thirty -six
clergy, 3HOO communicants, $03,785 contri
butions. Old diocese -Twenty-three coun
ties, 850,000 population, twenty-nine par
ishes, thirty-one organized missions,
seventy-seven ck.-gy, (5995 communicants^
$114, 640 contributions. In 18S9 there were"
within the propobed new diocese eleven
parishes and twenty missions (total,
thirty-one), twenty-seven clergy and ii4f;j
communicants. There are now thirteen
parishes, tl.irty-three missions (total,
iorty-six), thirty-four clergy and :stioo
communicants.
''The city of Los Angeles will be the see
lOontinued on Third Page.] I
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1895.
WHEN THE BARREL GETS LOW THE KNIFE DROPS.
It's fun for the Wall-street syndicate {16 per cent profit for keeping the barrel filled) but death to trade.— Judge.
USE FOR THE MOGULS
Construction Trains to
Aid Valley Road
Builders.
RAPID PROGRESS MADE.
Laying of Rails Outside of
Stockton to Commence
Next Week.
DAWN OF A BRIGHT NEW ERA.
Soon Trains Will Be Running to
Points First Reached by the
Graders.
STOCKTON, Cal., Oct. 4.— The prepara
tions for the beginning of construction
work on the Valley railroad outside the j
city limits are being pushed with all the i
epeed possible. In order to facilitate the !
work the switches in the material-yards '
THE MONSIEK. ENGINES ON TH- SA.i JOAQTJIN VALLE ST EAILEOAD. '
[Sketched for "The Call.' ] ■ ■ _\- ■
are being placed in working order to the
end that the ties and rails may be loaded
directly on the cars and not have to be
handled several times.
There are many little details in railroad
construction work the importance of which
can only be appreciated by railroad men,
and Superintendent of Construction Wil
bur says they take almost as much time as
the work on the Jine.
It is thought now that the first trainload
of material will start for the country about
Thursday next. Tbe Ciaus Spreckels has
been selected as the engine to move the
cars and Henry Vogelsang wiil be the en
gineer.
Mr. Vogelsang can be seen any day pol
ishing and decorating the big engine at its
place on a switch in the rear of Buell's
lumber-yards. The engineer seems to
have taken a great fancy to the locomo
tive, and guards it as carefully as though
it were some animate h^nig.
More cars from the Hammond Works
are expected daily, and if it is found that
one construction train cannot do the work
a second one will be put on.
Grant Brothers and the sub-contractors
are pushing on toward the Stanislaus
River at such a rate that it is hard to keep
track of them. The seventeen miles of
grade winding its way from the city limits
speaks more plainly than any pen descrip
tion of the progress of the Valley road. A
local paper says in regard to the first con
struction train:
"The making up of this construction
train gives the enterprise much more of a
business appearance than anything else
could do. We will soon see it going out
in the morning with its load of men and
material and coming back at nixht with
the tired men, until presently work has
progressed so far from Stockton
that a division headquarters must
be started down the road, and
then will commence the running of a local
passenger train to accommodate the num
erous inhabitants of the several new towns
that have been started along the !ine who
are now anxious to have railway com
munication with btockton. At the rate
this work is beine carried on, a year from
now will show such a remarkable change
in the aspect of this county that we will
hardly know ourselves."
Tho Valley railroad directors will meet
with a rousing reception on their visit
next Monday. A meeting of citizens will
be held to-morrow evening to make ar
rangements. After the inspection of the
railroad work a banquet will probably be
given.
Death of a Botanist.
BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 4.— Professor
Henry Maurice Willkomra, the distin
guished Germany botanist, is dead.
WENT TO KU CHENG
Dangers of the Journey
of the Commission
of Inquiry.
GUARDS NOT TRUSTED.
Boat of Soldiers Kept at a
Distance From Foreign
Representatives.
IMPUDENT MONGOL MARDARIN.
At First He Refused to Recognize
the Investigators, but He Was
Called to Time.
LONDON, Eng., Oct. 4.— The Pall Mall
Gazette publishes a letter received throueh
the mails from a correspondent in Kn
Cheng, and bearing no date, in which oc
curs the following:
"It seems strange that the only Western
fighting man sent to Ku Cheng with the
commission of inquiry should be Lieuten
ant Evans of the United States warship
Detroit, although the English boats Linnet
and Rainbow were lying at Foo Chow.
British Consul Mansfield, accompanied by
Mr. Allen and United States Consul Hix
son, the Rev. Messrs. Banister anci
Star and Dr. Gregory, -.vent with
Lieutenant Evans. The purpose of
tnis party was to go into the disturbed
district with a high Chinese official, Chut
Seng Ping, accompanied by a hundred
picked men from the Foo Chow garrison
under command of Colonel Chu.
"The commission went in two house
boats, flying the American and English
flags. The boats, which were towed by
steam launches, were nearly wrecked by
coming into contact with the piers of the
bridge above FooChow. The Mandarin at
Tuchu ordered a halt for the night at the
customs station. The feeling of confi
dence in the soldiers on the part of Euro
peans was so slight that while lying at
anchor they objected to having the
soldiers' boats moored with them. The
soldiers were also refused permission to go
asnore, as it was uncertain what depreda
tions they might commit. The party re
sumed their journey on August IS and ar
rived at Suey Kow, the end of their jour
ney, by river, on Augnst 15. At this point
began their land journey to Ku Cheng.
"During their night halt at Suey Kow
Colonel Chu begged the commission to
moor alongside the junks occupied by the
soldiers, but the commission was sus
picious of the soldiers and refused. Ac
cordingly a guard of four men were sent to
each boat to protect it during the night.
The party filed off in the morning on their
journey to Ku Cheng. It consisted of four
mandarins in state chairs and eight Eng
lish and Americans, also in chairs, guarded
by stalwart soldiers, every one of whom
was over six feet in height and armed with
breech-loading rifles. During the march
the heat became so great that the soldiers
were obliged to give up and let the English
and Americans walk nearly half the way
in order to relieve the chair-bearers.
"As the commission neared Ku Cheng
bands of Christians, catechists and school
boys came out to meet the procession,
saluting them with "Peace to you."
About 200 of these people fell in and
marched behind the commission.
"When the city was reached the people
crowded in masses, their silence broken
only by whispers. On the following day
the great Mandarin in charge of the in
quiry ariived. This dignitarian was not
inclined to admit the English and Ameri
cans to the proceedings of the inquiry.
The American Consul insisted upon the
admission of the English and Americans,
faying he did not care how great a person
the Mandarin might be, he would arouse
the powers to action in the matter unless
they were admitted to the inquiry. He
gave the Mandarin four hours in which to
make up his mind and all the day was
passed in discussion with the bowing and
arguing Mandarins.
"The debates were finally ended by
Consul Hixson sending the Rev. Mr. Star
with dispatches to Foo Chow. Upon his
arrival there Mr. Star boarded the United
States warship Detroit, where he was told
by Captain Newell, the commander of that
vessel, that his Government had appointed
him by cablegram a member of the Ku
Cheng commission, and this in the face of
the fact that no English officer was ap
pointed on the commission. The local
newspapers are very sore on this point and
say that if the United States can send two
officers as members ot the commission
Great Britain might certainly do as well."
The letter is very discursive and breaks
off abruptly. It mentions among the
vegetarians caught by the authorities but
few head men. The lawyers are dis
tinguished by their nails, which are longer
than they are allowed to grow by men of
inferior rank. One of the prisoners taken
had his throat cut. The wound was sewed
up by Dr. Gregory.
TRICKERY OF CHINESE.
Dr. dlaclcay Tells of Formosa and the
Riots in the Mainland.
VICTORIA, B. C, Oct. 4.— Dr. G. L.
Mackay, whose mißHonary work in For
mosa has made him known throughout
the world, is here after an absence of two
years. He is a Canadian, a native of Ford
County, Ontario. "When he went to For
mosa in 1872 he was the first missionary in
that field.
"The whole trouble in Formosa might
have been avoided," says Dr. Mackay,
"had the Japanese pursued a different
course when they took possession of the
island. The indifference and contempt
shown by Japanese troops to all things
Chinese was taken advantage of by Chi
nese literary men, who wrote and circu
lated slanders against the conquerors, and
so aroused in the minds of the inhabitants
a feeling that great injustice and indignity
would be heaped upon t hem.
"Had the Japanese at once issued, as they
since have, proclamations that inhabitants
would not be interfered with in their
occupations and that no taxes would be
imposed for the year all would have been
well. Instead they assumed an arrogant
attitude and soldiers went about carelessly
in parties of ten and twelve, which were
often attacked and destroyed by the
Hakais, a warlike tribe occupying the
country between Chinese settlements on
the coast and savages in the mountains.
"These Hakais, erroneously supposed by
many to be aborigines of Formosa, origin
ally came from China and their name,
Hakais, means strangers. They are high
spirited, hardy and finely developed
mountaineers, well armed, as on the out
break of war between China and Japan
modern firearms were brought in from
outside places."
Mr. Mackay says that to a certain extent
they might be compared to the High
landers of Scotland. These people en
rolled under the Black Flags to make
Formosa independent.
"I venture to say," remarked Dr. Mackay,
"that had the Japanese acted as Great
Britain would have done under like cir
cumstances Formosa could have been
occupied practically without firing a shot.
The war in Formosa has done great harm
to mhsionaiy work. Native Christians
have necessarily suffered heavily.
"Refusing to take arms with the Black
Flags, they incurred the enmity of the
Hakais, while on the other hand it was
bard for the Japanese to distinguish be
tween them and the hostile element.
There is only ole missionary in Formosa
at present. He is at the treaty port, for
with hostilities going on no one's life is
safe away from the coast."
Respecting the massacre of missionaries
on the mainland of China, Dr. Mackay
says it is altogether wrong to suppose, as
raanv do, that it is enmity against the
missionaries and missionary work that has
actuated the Chinese. It is simply a
breaking out of the hostility felt against
all foreigners. That missionaries were
the men who suffered was because they
were on the spot unprotected and easily
reached by the Chinese.
The Chinese official system he describes
as simply a mass of corruption, but it is
wonderful how the worst of them can
write like angels and send the most moral,
beautifully worded dispatches in explana
tion. They are the greatest experts in the
world in quibbline and preparing dis
patches. Gladstone himself was no match
for the eloquence of a Chinese official.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RUSHED INTO AM PUSH
Slaughter of the Troops
at San Salvador
by Rebels.
WAR UPON GUTIERREZ.
it : )
Roving Bands United and
Defeated the Forces Sent
Against Them.
NO QUARTER WAS ACCORDED.
Wounded Soldiers Bayoneted to
Death by the Merciless Men
of the Insurrection.
SAN SALVADOR, Oct. 4.— For the
last two weeks small bands, which the
Government claimed were bandits, have
been prowling near Chaltenango, threat
ening to attack that town, which is gar
risoned by only sixty soldiers. Two hun
dred addition al soldiers were ordered
there.
The bandits, hearing of the arrival, pre
pared an ambush seven miles off. When
the soldiers arrived they were attacked by
the bandits.
At the first volley thirty soldiers were
killed. The rest commenced to retreat,
pursued by the bandits, who killed many.
Soldiers wounded on the ground were
bayoneted.
Over fifty soldiers ]oined the enemy.
The garrison at Chaltenango, hearing
the firing, went to the rescue of their com
rade?, but the rioters prepared an ambush
for them, into which they were easily led
and from which it is believed only ten es
caped. The rioters claim that their loss
was insignificant.
The Government claims that the assail
ants were only bandits and small in num
bers, while others claim that this force
combined five small revolutionary bands,
who united. They recognize no leader,
and are only opposed to the Gutierrez
regime.
GEXBBAIj AI.IA.RO WOK.
Sharp Bttttte in ■ Ecuador Itetteeen the
Rival Forces.
- NEW YORK, N. V., Oct. 4.— Advices
were received to-day by Ecuador's Vice-
Consul in this city, Luiz Delgado, of a bat
tle, fought September 12 at Ibarra, between
adherents of the former administration,
commanded by Colonel Ribandenirn, and
a force, under Colonel Arrelano, of the fol
lowers of General Alfaro. After two hours'
fighting the forces of Ribandenira were
routed. It is believed that there will be
no further trouble, as the majority of the
people are satisfied with Alfaro.
On October 9 General Alfaro will go to
Guayaquil and c\il a convention to choose
a President.
BACHELOR BILL'S HEIRS
Lucky Residents of Ohio Who
Will Inherit a Snug
Fortune.
The Millionaire of California Died
Without Disposing of His
Property.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 4.— Calvin
Ball of Canton, Ohio, sixty miles south of
this city, was the recipient a day or two
ago of a letter written from Northern
California by a man who advised him that
he was his cousin, several times removed,
and one of the descendants of Ephraim
Ball in Onio, who were the heirs to a half
interest in the property of a California
millionaire named Ball, who died in Cali
fornia a bachelor anri without a will.
Mrs. Homer McDaniels of Cleveland,
who is one of the family, was in Canton
when the letter was received, but was just
starting for her home in this city. She
brought the news herej but was not well
posted on California names and addresses,
However, there were three brothers named
Ball, who lived in Maryland in the latter
part of the last century, having arrived
there from England. One of these brothers
later went to California, another was
wholly lost sight of, and the third,
Ephraim, moved to Stark County, Ohio.
He died in 1865, aped 97. His son, also
named Ephraim, was of the firm of lJell,
Aultman & Co., manufacturers of agricul
tural implements, and a distinguished in
ventor.
He is dead and his daughters are Mrs. J.
G. Geiger and Mrs. W. L. Laffer, of this
city, and Mrs. C. D. Cobaugh of Canton.
The last named is Mrs. McDaniels' mother.
These daughters and their children are the
heirs. The writer of the letter said ho
was the descendant of the third brother,
who had been altogether lost sight of, ana
that he had located the Californiau and
found he had died a bachelor, rich, and
w'thout a will. The letter ask«d for a
family tree of the Ohio people, which will
be furnished.
Death of Romero Rtibto.
CITY OF MEXICO, Mexico. Oct. 4.—
Manuel Romero Kubio, Secretary of the
Interior and father-in-law of President
Diaz, died this morning at 8 o'clock from
blood-poisonine.
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