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VOLUME LXXX.-NO. 9.
McKINLEY MUST NOT DODGE.
Called Upon to Squarely
Face the Free Coinage
Question.
PROTECTION IS FIRST IN
THE FIGHT,
But All Classes Are Demanding
That Silver Be Given a
Fair Chance.
SENTIMENT MANIFESTED DUR
ING AN EASTERN TRIP.
John Panl Cosgrave Tells of the
Demands Made on the Bona
parte From Ohio.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., June B.— As one
crosses the snowy summit of the Sierras
when leaving the garden land of Califor
nia he realizes that the public sentiment
of the Golden State is for protection first
and free coinage after.
Since the Democratic Wilson tariff bill
ruined the Democratic sheep-raisers, raisin
yineyardists and wine-producers all over
the State, the Democrats of the San
Joaquin Valley, chiefly in the Bourbon
hotbeds of Stanislaus, Merced, Fresno,
Madera, Kings, Tula re, Mariposa and
Kern, where Democracy is said to be a
religion, have lost all interest in their
party. They have become impoverished
by a theory, and now that the free-trade
condition confronts them with a jeer at
their poverty, in the same manner as the
footpad clubs and kicks his victim be
cause he had not more money to be robbed
of, they have become convinced by the ir
resistable logic of a hungry stomach that
■protection will lead them ontof the desert.
Hence they are protectionists first, silver
ites second.
The placer and quartz mines of Califor
nia are gold, and if the issue before the
people was simply as to the relative mone
tary value of silver to gold they would be
unanimously anti-silveritee, but outside of
the banker and most of the capitalists
class the people are outsptucen in favor of
silver, the question of free coinage being
second in importance to that of the protec
tion of American industries, because free
coinage means the employment of thou
sands of idle men with which the country
is at present afflicted, and a return of the
prosperity which prevailed before the sen
timental theories of Democratic free trade
had lured the voters into the jaws of pov
erty and desolation.
After leaving California and plunging
into the heat and solitude of Nevada's sage
brush deserts, the traveler finds that pro
tection has ceased to be so much of an is
sue, and that free coinage is looming as
the great question. Silver is the life-blood
of the sagebrush State. Without it she
must relax into barbarism, typefied
by the shiftless Piute, ana into
that semi-barbarism of which the cow
boy is the most conspicuous example.
Silver nngled in the notes of the meadow
lark when I awoke at Ogden at 5 in the
morning. Even the great Salt Lake shone
like a sheet of burnished silver, reflecting
the snow-streaked peaks, the blue sky and
the white clouds that curtained the gate
way of the silver land of Utah, and along
the line from Ogdenjto Salt Late City and
up high in the treeless rocky mountain
to the coal-begrimed cabin at Castle Gate,
silver was the cry. Its echoes flowed down
the mountains and across dreary wastes of
sagebrush deserts to the pictured pink
cliffs and the dark green alfalfa fields of
Colorado.
Ask one of these adventurous settlers,
whose cabin of cottonwood logs starts up
from the sagebrush with the suddenness
of a surprised jackrabbit, as to his opinion
on the subject ot the tariff, and ne will tell
you with some show of indignation that
he would not be so poor were it not for the
goldbugs of Wall street and the gold
bonds of Grover Cleveland.
In Denver, that pretty monochrome in
red brick, they say that tne prosperity of
the State was paralyzed when free coinage
was slungshotted in '93, and that they are
silverites first, silverites second, and Dem
ocrats, Republicans, Populists and Pro
hibitionists last. The same song is sung
on the gently undulating praries of Ne
braska by the thrifty farmer as he walks
behind the cultivator between the rows of
young corn. He wants protection, too.
but he demands free coinage first. Thence
through lowa, Kansas and Missouri, free
coinage is the prominent topic. Protection
increases in importance until the rippling
of the Mississippi is heard, where protec
tion seems the more pressing need.
Farther East, in the thickly settled cen
ters of trade and production, protection
stands in the first place, so that all in all,
taking into consideration the wishes of
the great masses of the people, protection
will be the battle-cry.
The personal characteristics, the intel
lectual and political strength of the candi
dates for the Presidency whose names will
be presented belore the Republican Na
tional Convention at St. Louis next week
are the subjects next in importance, the
cfcief question being, "How does he stand
upon silver?" for it is assured that, no
matter who the nominee may be, he will
be a strong protectionist. Within the past
two days the question has been repeatedly
and even threateningly asked of Mr. Mc-
Kinley and his managers by the leading
newspapers of the West.
The Bt. Louis Republic, a Democratic
paper, in a prominent editorial calls upon
Mr. McKinley to define his attitude on
the financial question, and strongly in
sists that he cease "this palpable jug
gling." Republican papers, evidently
guided by a common suggestion, are
fiercely making the same demand. They
base it upon the fact that the lieutenants of
the Bonaparte from Ohio are claiming 530
votes in the convention— nine more tban
are necessary for a choice. Hence Re
publican adherents of free coinage in
sist that they have a right to be
informed as to whether they will I
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be asked to cest their ballots next
November for a foe in the guise of a friend.
They have come out into the open and are
declaring that unless Mr. McKinley drops
the role of the sphinx and speaks his fealty
to the cause of free coinage they will fight
him, not only on the floor of the conven
tion but on the stump during the campaign
and at the polls on el ction day. So much
at heart have they this subject that they
say they will bolt the Republican party, if
needs be, if that party should refuse or
neglect to rear aloft the banner of free
coinage, and will tight and vote with the
Democrats, the Populists or any other
party that will espouse with their cause.
Leading advocates of the silver cause are
saying hard things about the Ohio major.
They assert that he has been too long asso
ciated with John Sherman to be expected
to be a friend to the silver cause. They
add in corroboration that amons Me-
Kmley'n foremost backers i- G. W. Baker,
president of the First National Bank of
New York, a nephew of John Sherman,
and they insist that a politician should
always be judged by bedfellows. One of
these bedfellows is said to be Superintend
ent Fricke of the Carnegie works, and the
other is J. Pierpont Morgan of the Ameri
can Gold Trust.
If there be any truth in a political rumor
current in Utah, Colorado and Nebraska,
the gold rin- has unlocked its treasury
and has made arrangements to make its
fight in the St. Louis and Chicago conven
tions on a gold basis, the story going that
the hotel biils of the gold workers, amount
ing to $60,000 per day, will be paid by
checks from Wall street Stress is laid
upon the fact that within the last two
weeks several papers have become gold
advocates and that the Associated Press is,
under the guise of news, sending to the
newspapers served by it editorials boom
ing gold and McKinley. Thus, in an ac
count of a battle between a dog and a coon
somewhere way down South, the Asso
ciated Press makes a drunken man shout
"Ho Ray for McKinley." Instantly the
dog and the coon are forgotten, the air is
black with flying hats, and every welkin
in seventeen counties rings with cheers for
McKinley.
Colonel Isaac Trumbo, who is on this
train on the way from San Francisco to
St. Louis, is makine a fight for Teller and
is ripping McKinley down the back at
every stopping place all along the line.
Colonel Trumbo's grievance is that the
wool and lead trusts have domineered the
far East, and that they are attempting to
cripple the West and the South. He says
that the lead trust wants the duty on
manufactured lead to be as high as possi
ble and raw lead to be imported into this
country free cf any duty whatever. This
is because of their cheap investments in
the peen iabor of Mexican lead mines.
"The silver question is not sectional,"
I said Colonel Trumbo this morning. "It
belongs to the entire Nation. New York
is more vitally interested in silver than is
California, Main than Utah, Ohio than
Colorado, and so on through the entire
list, and it must be settled by the Nation.
When they speak of the silver miners beins
the foremost advocates of this issue they
say that which is untrue, for they are in
reality the smallest losers in the game. The
loss of their entire product last year was
$19,200,000, while the loss sustained by cot
ton producers was over $80,000,000. The
loss on wheat, corn and other grains was
$127,000,000. Dairy and other agricultural
products had losses correspondingly as
large. 1 So you may see that the farmer
and the manufacturer are really more in
terested in free coinage than are the silver
miners. Outside of the silver-producing
regions, however, everybody from the con
ductor to the porter and men at the way
stations express the opinion that protec
tion will bring back prosperity and that
the Republican party may be safely trusted
to wipe from the statute books the ruinous
Wilson tariff, which helps England and is
ruining America, and to inaugurate
measures for the protection of the Ameri
can farmer and laborer. All admit that
the money question is the important issue,
but it is safe to say, leaving purely local
interest aside, that the first controlling
issue of the campaign will be Republican
tariff with a surplus against the Wilson
tariff and an increasing deficit."
The Caiiforman excursionists have had
brilliant weather during the whole trip
since leaving the drizzling rain at Truckee.
All along the route, wherever there were
cultivated lands, and particularly along
the green and rolling prairies of Nebraska,
the crop outlook is excellent, the grain
being exceptionally heavy and the young
corn thrifty. Farmers are therefore in a
hopeful mood, and are waiting for the
return of the party to power, when they
will obtain good prices for their products.
The avant couriers of the California dele
gation on this train are in high spirits,
but I regret to say that instead of admir
ing the beauties of nature they are playing
peiro, George Heazleton and M. H. de
Young of the Chronicle being pitied
against Samnel M. Shortridge and Colonel
Isaac Trumbo. Mrs. Clara Foltz of New
York is reading a new work on constitu
tional law and the remaining ladies of the
party are listening to the song of the
meadow-lark and watching the refreshing
prairie breeze ripple the fields of young
j corn, aslant as with a woman's pen. We
will arrive in Bt. Louis to-morrow morning.
Thomas D. Riordan : who is a delegate
to the National Convention, being W. W.
Montague's alternate, expressed the opin
ion that the regular delegates from the
San Francisco Fourth Congressional Dis
trict will be seated, as it is against all
precedents for a National Convention to
go behind the decision of a State Conven
tion and inquire into the facts.
John Paul Cosgravb.
COMPLICATIONS AT ST. LOUIS
Trouble May Grow Out of Accommoda
tion* for Colored Men.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June B.— The complica
tion that arose yesterday over the hotel
accommodation for negro delegates deep
ened to-day. The warmest expression on
the matter came to-day from National
Committeeman George W. Hall of Ten
i^ssee, who has sought in vain for rooms
for the Tennessee delegates.
"Unless quarters are provided," said he,
"I shall telegraph the colored members of
the Tennessee delegation to stay at home.
1 do not intend they shall come to St.
Louis and either go hungry or eat in a
place in which they would not stable a
horse at home."
Judge Loug said: "I am thoroughly dis
SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1896.
gusted with the whole matter. I have
spent all day in looking for rooms for the
colored delegates. The doors of all the
hotels are barred against them. Mr. Hill,
National Committeeman from Mississippi,
told me that he actually went hungry dur
ing the forenoon. The local committee
promised us quarters for colored delegates,
but there is none. Unless this whole mat
ter is remedied by next Wednesday, when
the National Committee meets, the facts
will be placed before them and a motion
made to adjourn the convention to some
other city.'.'
James Hill, National Committeeman
from Mississippi, arrived in St. Louis a
day or so ago and has tried to find quar
ters for his delegation. So far none have
been found. He said : "When St. Louis
was asking for the convention I did all I
could to bring it here. The local com
mittee promised that no color line would
be drawn. We are looking to the local
committee to see that the pledge is ful
filled."
The secretary of the Business Men's
League says that the Mississippi delega
tion did not apply for quarters until all
the ieadine hotels had contracted their
rooms. He says further that every prom
ise of the league will be fulfilled."
"Five weeks ago rooms were engaged at
the Monahu," said the secretary, "for the
Mississippi delegation. After the storm a
letter was received from the secretary of
the delegation saying: 'Understanding
that your city is destroyed and the con
vention will be removed to Chicago, please
release us.' "
The proprietor of the Monahu wrote
back denying the rumor, but he received
no reply. He has, therefore, contracted to
furnish rooms for the H. L. McGregor con
testing delegation from Texas. The Ten
nessee delegation had made no arrange
ment, and are receiving the reward of tar
diness. However, they will all be cared
for, the convention will be held in St.
Louis and every promise fulfilled.
National Committeeman Charles Leland
Jr. of Kansas arrived to-day. He says
Kansas will have a full delegation for Mc-
Kinley. "Besides," said he, "there are
30,000 McKinley soldiers in Kansas."
Applications for quarters from Alaska
were received to-day. The delegates are
Thoma.« S. Nowell and Charles S. John
son. They will be in St. Louis on the 13th.
A splendid bust picture of the Ohio
statesman graces all the show-windows of
downtown shops and stores and McKin-
The Late Frank Mayo, Who Achieved Fame and Fortune on the Stage, and Who
Was a Great Favorite on the Pacific Coast.
[From a photograph taken by the Elite Gallery.]
ley button-venders do a thriving trade.
Hon. William Gaittree, alternate dele
gate at large from Ohio, has the matter
under his care and is doing it thorouehly.
McKinley pictures and literature are scat
tered broadcast and the order of the Mc-
Kinley ribbon will be conferred upon the
general public next Monday.
The gavel of the temporary chairman
was made from the timbers of a secession
convention hall by a Confederate soldier.
That for the use of the permanent chair
man has a great historical interest. It is
an excellent piece of wood carving done
by W. H. Bartels of Carthage, 111., who
selected the wood— a hickory log taken
from the log cabin occupied by President
Lincoln at New Salem, 111., in 1832.
There are panels on either side, which
are filled with inscribed plates of gold
and silver. The donor is understood to be
a bimetallism as he snowed no discrimina
tion in the ornamentation of the gavel.
"There will be but one rollcall in the
convention, and that will result in the
nomination of McKinley," were the words
of Judge A.. C. Thompson of Ohio at the
McKinley headquarters to-day. Judge
Thompson's statement was in reply to an
interview with Mr. Filley of this city,
printed in an evening paper, wherein he
stated a rollcall must be completed before
a nomination could be made, and proposed
an informal ballot.
"I am familiar," added Thompson,
"with the mode of procedure in National
conventions and I have never in my life
heard of such a thing as an informal
ballot. If, when some State like Penn
sylvania, South Carolina or Texas is
reached and some delegate sees that Mc-
JCiniey has already received votes suffi
cient to nominate him, who is to say that
a delecate has not the right to move that
Major McKinley be nominated by accla
mation ? It was done at Minneapolis four
years ago. When Texas was reached it
was evident that Harrison had votes
enough to nominate and the vote was
made unanimous. No one objected to it
and no one proposed an informal ballot."
One of to-day's arrivals was Hon. W. S.
Manning of New York, who is chock full
of McKiniey enthusiasm. "Major Mc-
Kinley will win on ths first ballot," said
Manning. "Threo-fourths of the conven
tion's vote will go to him. The only ques-
Continued on Third Page.
FRANK MAYO'S
SUDDEN DEATH
Expired While Traveling
From Denver to
Omaha.
COULDN'T BE AWAKENED
Companions Watched Him, Little
Suspecting That His Sleep"
Was Final.
HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER.
The Noted Actor First Achieved Fame
During the Early Days in This
City.
OMAHA, Nibj., June B.— Frank Mayo,
the distinguished actor, died to-day on the
train while en route from Denver to this
city.
Frank Mayo missed his last engage
ment. Yesterday he was looking forward
to an evening of recreation and rest in
Omaha. Rest came all too soon for his
friends. With his head reclining gently
on his arm, while his companions sat all
unwittingly near him, quietly and peace
fully his long sleep began. An hour, two
hours, maybe three, passed before his com
panions called him. No answer came, and
they told each other sadly that 'Pud
diu'head Wilson" was dead.
The company was en route from Denver
to Omaha, as was also Roland Reed's com
pany. Mr. Mayo was to finish his season
with a four nights' engagement in tnis
city. Sunday evening he was bright ana
even more brilliant than usual. During
the night he complained a little of dys
pepsia and slept the greater part of the
time in his chair. In the forenoon he was
sitting with Julian Reed and Mr. Cam
peau, chatting and napping. About 9
o'clock he went to sleep. About 1 o'clock,
while the train was west of Grand Island,
Nebr., Manager Block went to wake him
and found him dead. His face had been
visible to his companions all these hours
and they had walked on tiptoe so as not to
awake him.
The shock was a great one to the com
pany and nearly prostrated Mrs. Edwin
Mayo, who was on the train. He died
from paralysis of the heart. It is feared
that the news will prove too much for his
wife, who has been receiving medical
treatment at Philadelphia for some time.
Mr. Mayo worried considerably about her
condition the past few days.
Fifty-eight of the Elks Lodge met the
remains at the train. Sadly and tenderly
the body was borne on a stretcher by the
pall-bearers— W. F. Gurley, "Spud" Far
rish, Charles Howard, John Tetard, Lloyd
Jones and Walt Misener— to the Elks'
lodgeroom.
Mayo leaves a widow, who is critically
ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Elverson, in Philadelphia. The children
are Mrs. Elverson, Miss Derondo Mayo
and Edwin Mayo, all of whom are in Phil
adelphia. Mrs. Elverson is the wife of a
prominent newspaper man and Edwin
has just finished his theatrical season in
New York City.
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral.
DENVER, Colo., June B.— Frank Mayo
played "Puddin'-head Wilson" for the
last time on Saturday at the Broadway
Theater. It was the three hundred and
sixty-seventh performance, closing a sea
son of forty-eight consecutive weeks. The
business of the company in Denver was
the lightest of the entire season. For
some time Mayo had complained of severe
pains about the heart, which he believed
to arise from dyspepsia and from the
effect oi his hard work writing out the
play from ihe story as written by Mark
Twain. He declined to call a physician
i hough repeatedly urged to do so, and two
nights he did not unaresa as the oain was
so severe. He alternately felt that death
was near and that he would soon be well
again. He longed for rest and was glad
he had but a few days more. Although
he kept up during the latter end of the
week by the liberal use of stimulants he
left Denver last evening apparently in
good spirits. All his company had signed
for another year, and their signatures we*e
attested by thumb marks.
\FRAXK MATO>a CAREER.
Achieved JTame in This City I>uring
Early liaya.
The news of the death of Frank Mayo
came to the theater-going people ot this
City last evening with that shock that
never fails when suffering from a sudden
personal loss.
He had but left this City a few weeks;
had played here a successful engagement
and appeared to be in perfect health.
Frank Mayo was, perhaps, the oldest
star actor on the stage. After ten years of
financial failures he was, with ''Puddin'
head Wilson," on the road to the making
of another great fortune. One of the old
men of the stage— he was 64— he still
played young, vigorous parts, and he was
still young in heart and spirit. Among
his fellows he was popular and, notwith
standing the financial failures that at
tended his excursions into the legitimate,
he was one of the most capable of the
artists who have essayed these roles. ■
He had, however, so completely identi
fied himself with the romantic part of
"Davy Crockett" that the people "refused
to accept him in any other. He made a
large fortune with the play. He attempted
Shakespearean revivals on a splendid and
extensive scale, himself assuming the
leading roles. They failed. He had a
play written for him under his own direc
tion, a romantic play that tie and many of
his friends thought was exactly fitted to
him ; but it proved a failure.
Then he secured the play in which he
recently appeared in this city, "Puddin'
Head Wilson," a dramatization from
Mark Twain. This became an Instant
success, and was so continuing, and Mayo,
it was predicted, would soon recover the
fortune he had lost in bis expensive at
tempts at the legitimate.
Frank Mayo was born in Boston sixty
four years ago. Be came to San Fran
cisco as a boy and in the early sixties
entered upon the duties of "super" at the
Jenny Lind Theater in the old City Hall
building which has just been torn down.
Within eighteen months after that he was
playing as leading man at the same place.
He played d'Artagnan in the '-Three
Guardsmen" with Charley Thome. Soon
after this he went East, playing Tom
Badger in the "Streets of New York."
He returned to this City in 1863, playing
a long and successful engagement. His
first appearance in the metropolis was in
1869, when he was engaged to play Ferdi
nand in "The Tempest."
It was shortly after this that "Davy
Crockett," written for him, was first pre
sented. This idyl of the Western pioneer
made an instant hit and "Davy Crockett"
and Frank Mayo became one and the
came in the public mind and so continued
for many years.
Mr. Mayo was married in this City.
His wife residing in Philadelphia sur
vives him. Two children also are living,
a daughter, Ellen, .he wife of a wealthy
merchant of Philadelphia, and Edwin, a
youns actor, now playing in "The Heart
of Maryland."
A Call reporter conveyed the intelli
gence of Mr. Mayo's death to Nat Good
win yesterday afternoon at his rooms in
the Palace. The actor was greatly
shocked. "I have, then, lost a dear
friend and the stage a great actor. Only
this minute I had in my nand a portrait-of
his daughter, whom Mayo was wrapped
up in. This is a great shock. The last
time I saw him we stood together at the
presentation of the loving cup to Joe Jef
ferson. He was a man. I considered him
the best all round actor on the stage."
JULES FRANCOIS SIMON.
Death of the Celebrated French
Statesman After an Illness
of a Fortnight.
Accepted Cousin's Advice to Change
His Name B fore He Became
Famous.
PARIS, France, June B.— M. Jules
Francois Simon, the celebrated statesman,
life member of the French Serrate, mem
ber of the French Academy and formerly
Prime Minister of France, died to-day. M.
Simon has been ill for a fortnight with
neurosis of the stomach.
Jules Francois Suisse was born at
Lorient (Morbihan) on December 31, 1814.
He renounced his patronymicjin 1839 at
M. Jules Francois Simons, the Great French Statesman Who Died at Paris
Yesterday.
LAKE CITY IS LAID IN RUINS
the instance of Victor Cousin, who said
to him : "Leave off that frightful Suisse.
A man can't become famous with a name
like that." After studying at small
leges in his native town and at Vannes he
became assistant teacher at the Normal
School at Rennes.
M. Cousin, whose disciple he was, called
him to Paris and got him a place in the
Normal School there. After being sup
plemental teacher in philosophy he gave
the principal lectures. He succeeded
Cousin in the chair of philosophy at the
Sorbonne about the time he gave up the
name of Suisse. For twelve years he had
been one of the chief instructors of France.
He was made a Knight of the Legion of
Honor in 1845. The next year he pre
sented himself as a candidate for the con
stitutional Left in the Assembly at Lan
nien, but was defeated. He was elected
from the Cotes dv Nord after the
revolution of 1848 and classed him
self with the moderate Left in the As
sembly. After the coup d'etat his
lectures at the Sorbonne were suspended,
as he refused to take the oath of allegiance
to the empire. He was returned to the
Corps Legislatif in 1863 and continued a
member until the fall of the empire. He
ranked high as an orator and was the chief
of the Republican party. He made him
seif prominent as an advocate of free trade.
He had the post of Minister of Public In
struction, Fine Arts and Public Worship
in the government of the National Defense.
Having failed of election in Paris he got
himself elected to the National Assembly
in 1871 from the department of the Marne.
He classed himself among the members
of the Left and received from Thiers, on
February 19, 1871, the portfolio of Public
Instruction in the Cabinet of the Concilia
tion. He retained it until May, 1873, when
he resumed his seat in the Assembly, be
coming the chief of the Left. He was
elected a Senator for life on December 16,
1875. He became Premier of the new
Ministry, which was formed in December,
1877, holding, with the presidency of the
Council, the portfolio of the Interior. He
wao forced out of the Cabinet by Marshal
MacMahon in May, 1877.
M. Simon was elected a member of the
French academy in 1875 and the academy
in 1880 elected him to the new supreme
educational council. He was elected per
manent secretary of the Academy of Moral
and Physical Science in 1882. His last ap
pearance in political life was when he ad
vocated frte trade to no purpose in No
vember, 1891.
The list of M. Simon's works is a long
one. Most of them are on politico-eco
nomical and historical subjects. He con
tributed largely to the reviews.
CARRIED OFF BY BRIGANDS.
Wealthy Women Seized Near Constant!-
nople, and Are Held for a
Big kansom.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Turret, June B.—
A startling case of brigandage occurred
yesterday almost within tne precincts of
the capital of Turkey. Two carriages, one
containing Mme. Branzau, a wealthy
French lady, and the other bearing Mme.
Paragamian and daughter, the wife and
child of a rich Armenian residing in this
city, were attacked by brigands at Yalove,
twenty miles from the city, and the occu
pants of the vehicles were carried off. To
day their captors caused to be conveyed
to Constantinople the information that
the ladies will be held until the demand
of the brigands for £2000 ransom is com
plied with.
EGYPTIANS FOUGHT GAMELY.
Eight Hundred Verviahes Killed in the
Battle at JFirket.
CAIRO, Egypt, June B.— Advices re
ceived from A&asheh, the advanced post
occupied by the Egyptian troops in the
Soudan, this morning sayinjr the battle
which took place between the Egyptians
and Dervishes at and around Firket, 800
Dervishes were killed and 450 taken prison
ers. The number of wounded Dervishes
is not reported. The number of Egyptian
troops engaged in the battle was 4000,
while the Dervishes are estimated to have
numbered 4500.
The gallantry displayed by the Egyp
tians is highly praised.
The »tr Nhah Enthroned.
TEHERAN, Persia, June B.—Muzaffer
er-Din, the new Shah of Persia, was for
mally enthroned to-day at 12:30 p. m. His
Majesty will receive the members' of the
diplomatic corps in audience at 4 o'clock
to-morrow afternoon.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Disaster Comes From the
Skies Upon the Modoc
.Village.
BUILDINGS WRECKED BY
A WATERSPOUT.
Few Structures Escape the Fury
of an Awful, Whirling
Torrent.
MANY MADE HOMELESS BY
THE FLOOD.
Great Loss of Property in the Little
Hamlet — Aituras Is In
undated.
REDDING, Cal., June B.— The once
beautiful little village of Lake City, nest
ling in the foothills at the head of Surprise
Valley, in Modoc County, is a scene of de
vastation, ruin and disaster. What was
once a brisk and lively burg of 200 inhabi
tants, with neat and cozy dwellings and
substantial business nouses, is now but a
vista of tangled wreckage, nearly every
building in the town being wholly or
partially demolished.
The inhabitants of Lake City were
aroused from the"ir early morning slum
bers last Friday by the roar and rußh oi
angry waters, and before many of them
had time to look to their own safety, with
out attempting to save their effects from
residences, stores or business places, a
flood of water came pouring down upon
them from lowering clouds that had been
threatening destruction all night, and
when the torrent had passed buildings lay
in ruins on all sides. Lake City had been
struck by a waterspout — a veritable water
cyclone.
The whirling mass of water struck the
center of the town with terrific force. The
frightened residents, warned by the on
coming roar, hurried to and fro in frantic
efforts to save themselves from what for a
time seemed certain death. Small trees,
stumps and timbers were carried down
and through the streets with awful force,
and the most substantial structures were
weakened and tottered before the rush of
the water.
Dry's flouring-mill, a well-built building,
was completely ruined, the damage being
estimated at $6000. W. T. Cressler, who
owned a store, storehouse and residence
on the bank of a small ravine that runs
through the town, lost everything and
barely escaped with his life. Twenty tons
of sacked flour was carried off as a bundle
of 1 eaves would travel on the water.
Mrs. Hamlin, a widow living opposite
Dry's mill, was sick in bed at the time of
the storm and her escape was miraculous.
She vainly attempted to rise and breast
the Hood, but failed. A man swam to the
rescue, and she was carried in safety to
dry land. Two minutes later the waters
carried away her cottage.
The whole town was undermined by the
flood, and the damage is estimated at over
$30,000, a heavy loss considering the size
of the place.
At Alturas, the county seat of Modoo
County and about twenty miles from Lake
City, a waterspout struck later in the day.
In a few moments all the streets were con
verted into great waterways, and people
fled to the second stories and roofs of their
houses for safety. Boats were brought into
use and the only travel for hours was ac
complished by the aid of small craft. The
roads between Alturasand-Cedarville were
washed out and traveling was almost en
tirely stopped.
Out of four substantial bridges across
Thorns Creek only one remains, and that
near the head of the creek. Across Cedar
Creek two bridges are washed out, leaving
but one standing, just above Cedar ville.
Never before has such a disaster visited
Modoc County, and the wonder is that no
lives have been lost.
The waterspout started near the north
fork of Pitt River and traveled in a north
easterly direction for about tbirty-five
miles before it spent its force. Everything
in its path was ruined. From down the
mountain-sides huge trees, bowlders and
rocks were carried, and at one point
along the creek, near Cedarville, a
small farm, which before the storm
was bearing a fine crop of oats, was made
the dumping place for an endless number
of trees and stumps. But meager reports
have been received, and when full details
come in they may carry accounts of losa
of life and stock.
Added to the calamity of the storm, an
epidemic of typhoid pneumonia is spread
ing in the valley. Several deaths from
the plague have already occurred.
Pitt River, even as far down as Fall City,
in Shasta County, was higher than ever
known before. People have been com
pelled to provide temporary lodgings, and
tents have been brought into use to ac
commodate those who have been rendered
homeless by the flood.
DEATH OF MILLIONAIRE YOUNG
Was Voted as a Progressive Lumberman
and PhtlanthropiaU
CLINTON, lowa, June B.— W. J. Young,
the millionaire lumberman and philan
thropist, died to-day.' He was born in
Belfast, Ireland, in 1827, came here in 1858
and engaged -in the ; lumber business.
He built his first mill here in 1860, 1 and
when his mills closed and he retired three
years ago be had the largest plant of the
kind in the world. . He is : accredited with
introducing new rafts and being among the
first to tow logs with steamboats. He has
been the poor man's friend always and
will be sadly missed. He has liberally
aided the churches, especially the Metho
dists', and built and presented to that
society the Esther . Young . Memorial
Chapel.' He .was reported worth from six
to ten million. _.-. :,*■ ,:.-..
Approved by Cleveland.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June B.— Th»
President to-day approved the modified
general deficiency bill.