VOLUME LXXXII.-NO. 165. THE REVENUE CUTTER BEAR IS GETTING READY TO SAIL TO RESCUE THE WHALERS This is the principal reindeer station in Alaska. The picture shows the Bear in the harbor, where she will probably spend the coming winter. SEATTLE, WASH., Nov. ii.— "The motives and energy of THE CALL in be- j half of a relief expedition to go to the aid i of prisoned whalers are deserving of the highest commendation," said Cap tain Francis Tuttle, commanding the revenue cutter .Bear, to-day. He added: j "I certainly shall contribute my best;' efforts to the success of the expedition." (The authorities at Washington have I ! '. as yet communicated very definitely j -iih Captain Tuttle with reference to the J , I&sßSGmms^JUr~wuu^ m - im ***S**r T*HMMTT7VV-^Br i s ai, ti4 l i .nanner and method of supplying food to the 300 unfortunate men who are now} among the ice floes of Northern Alaska. ' He will formulate his plans as soon as he j is informed of the ideas of his superiors, j Speaking on the subject to a CALL correspondent to-night Captain Tuttle j said : "To-day I received orders to hasten I repairs on the Bear with all possible speed so as to start north with the cutter as soon as she can be made ready. 1 was also instructed to secure the services of a competent and experienced physician to accompany us. Dr. Call, who has been on the last two voyages with the Bear, had arranged to go to California for the winter, and as a consequence I j must secure another man. Just who it will be I cannot now say positively, but likely Dr. Camden, a brother of our sec- j M .J''*"™Mrt^«aß*B»»^^miuiP > ***TTltP~llM!inTa ond officer, will be selected. He is a ! resident of the East, but is now in Se- | attle and expresses willingness to make j the trip. "An inquiry was made of me from j Washington to-day as to whether I could procure at Seattle such provisions ; , as would be necessary to carry on an ex- | V edition of this nature. I replied that they V ." ild be secured here in any quantity and at short notice. "All the officers and crew of the Bear, with but one exception, have expressed j a hearty willingness to make the trip i north. They are anxious to do all in their power in aid of the unfortunate I whalers. Of course, some of them nat urally feel a disappointment that they are so soon to go again into the Arctic regions, after having just returned from a six months' cruise. But they are greatly interested in the project and feel pride ! that the Bear has been selected in the j emergency. "I hope to be able to sail north the latter part of next week, although there may be some slight delay. The run to Dutch Harbor will be made in about eleven days. There two days will be j consumed in taking on coal, after which we will push through Bering Sea and endeavor to get through the s raits. I It is, of course, impossible at this time to say how far north the Bear can get so | late in the season. She is a stanch yes- ; sel, and 1 certainly will put forth every I effort to get her as close to Point Barrow I as possible." PLENTY OF REINDEER TO CARRY SUPPLIES VT.-.omas Hanna. who has just returned •-> -a Cape Prince of Wales, says it is ut ter nonsense to si*y an expedition to Point Bartow lor the relief of the ice-bound whalers is impracticable. "There are plenty of reindeer in t c country," ho Mild, "which are available for the trip. While there may not be enou-rh already trained, the matter of breaking them to harness is a very simple one. The natives can taue an animal and in the course of two days have him thoroughly broken to a sled. At UnalaKlik there are nearly 300 deer. Part of these were ordered by the •"-overnment to be taken to St. Michael to The San Francisco Call A VIEW OF PORT CLARENCE. make a trip up the Yukon to carry relief to Dawson. That proposed trip is, in my opinion, an absurd proposition, as th" uistance of some 1500 miles is too great for the deer. Now, if these deer which have teen odered to St. Michael could be transferred to the Point Barrow expedi tion it would simplify matters wonder fully. However, if the Bear can get as far tip as If. Michael there is not much doubt that she can go up to tape Prince of Wales, as the strait is generally open until Christmas. At this point there are 360 deer owned by the natives and the American Missionary Association. These could no doubt be secured and the expedition could -tart from there. There is plenty of moss along the coa«t 10 feed the deer and the nat yes could get their meals at the nu merous little villages. The trip should be made along the coast, the traveling being dune on the ice which is frozen for about a mile out. A considerable disiaiic* can be saved by crossing the Kotzibue Sound, starling over the ice from Capo Espen berg. With this cut off the distance to Point Barrow will he about £00 miles. Two hundred and fifty deer at the most will be enough to carry in rifty tens of provision. Two deer to a ed can draw 1001) pounds twenty-five to forty miles a day with ease. A suitable system of re lays and rests coild be arranged so that without much difficulty the entire trip I could be made in about a month. "In my opinion, the best man to lead the ovenand party would be Kjel mann, fie superintendent of the Government reindeer station at Teller. He is nt pies entin Chicago on his way to Lapland taking a party of Lanlanders home. Some one else could he placed in charge of ihese people 3iid Kjeilmann be given charge oi the rescuing p»l**lllllSll|l SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12. 1897. AUTONOMY FOR THE CUBANS A Royal Decree to Be | Gazetted This ; Month. Madrid Surprised at the Ac tion of Weyler When Leav ing Cuba. Allowed Demons'raM ins In {His Honor as Though He Were Still In Au horlty. - Copyrighted, 1£97, by James Gordon Benuett. MADRID, Nov. 11. — Much surprise was j I caused here by notices received regarding ' General Weyler's conduct at Gibara, Cuba, { where the steamer had to put in Tor re- i pairs. It seems that he landed and a manifestation was held in his honor. The | road was patrolled by troop? and tiesame , honors paid to General Weyler as though j fee were still a captain-general. He vis ited a club and the same inflammatory speeches -were made as at Havana. General Blanco, on hearing of these pro ceedings, dismissed the commandant of j Gibara from bis post. A royal decree granting autonomy to j Cuba will be formally gazetted on Novem ber 23. THE CARLISTS WAITING They Will Rise Agrilnst th*=» Spanish Dynasty at the First Chance. LONDON, Nov. 12.— The Madrid corre spondent of the Daily Mail says: "Find ing it impossible to raise the sum of £.">, --000.000 by the loans or tax lo carry out its original naval plans, the Government has decided to build two new cruisers only. ■ ••They will b* of 2000 ton« each. It is in tended to summon the Cortes as soon as possible, in order to obtain credits to build mors men-of-war and to place more .powerful guns in the existing ves sels. "The Spanish naval authorities regard the Spanish navy as already superior to the American navy." The or.-an of Senor Sagasta, El Correo, says to-Gay it is "convinced that the Carlists are only waiting for the complica tions in Cuba to provide them an oppor -1 tunity for riain-.'." TO SATISFY ITALY'S DEMAND. Brazil ends Word That the Shooting in Spiritu Santo Will Be Investigated. Copyright. 1»9~, br James Gordon Bennett. BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 11.— Tne Minis ter ol Foreign Affairs of Brazil has sent a note to the Italian Charge d'Affalres, stating that the shooting of several Ital ians in Spiritu Santo will be investigate I and Italy's demand for redress considered. Several persons arrested on suspicion in connection with the alleged plot to kill President Moraes have been released, as no evidence was found against them. Many were beld, however, as serious evi dence against them has been found, and several others have been arrested. FRIEDERICHS TO GET THE PLACE It Is Reported That the General Will Be Appointed Federal District' * Attorney. WASHINGTON. Nov. 11.— Call correspondent learned to-day that General It. P. Friederichs of San Francisco will probably be appointed United States Dis trict Attorney. McKenna has had a Hue ' ramento man in view for this position bin will probably yield to a desire for the appointment of Friederichs. The correspondent learns, furthermore, th*--. Foote. the District Attor ney for the Northern District of Califor nia, will be allowed to serve out his lerm. The report that Colonel G org* A. Knight is here seeking to have a friend appointed to his plate is denied by Knight. 'lirey L. Ford seems to be a favorite for the at torneyship to succeed Foote, but it is yet too eariy to speculate about this appoint ment since Foote has a year to serve. SEVERE GALE O.V ERE. Owing to Great Velocity of the Wind Navigation Is Suspended on the Lake. CLEVELAND, Nov. 11.— A severe gale which has been blowing nearly all day and to-night has suspended naviga lion on Like Erie. At -1 o'ciock tnis afternoon the wind reached a maximum velocity of sixty-seven miles an hour. strntv ilftictm Transferred. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— These trans fers have been made: In tne Eighteenth Infantry, Second Lieutenant Murray Bald win from Company H to Company X, Second Lieutenant H. Y. Grubbs from Company X to Company H; in the Nintn Infantry, Captain W. L. Carpenter from Company B to Company I, Captain C. M. Rockefeller from Company I to Com pany B. NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran cisco: Cloudy Friday, probabl; without rain ; southwestern changing to westerly winds. FIRST PAGE. Cutter Bear Soon to Sai! North Autonomy to Be Given Cuba. P an to Partition Bolivia. D.xon Murder Mystery Deepen Murder on Daw.-on Trail. SECOND PAGE. Merced Coursing Meeting Ends Races on Eastern Tracks. - A Hitch in Thorn's Trial. THIRD PAGE. ' Sacramento for Good Roads. Holds Laborer-) at Bay. San Jose People Aroused. Kaiser Mov-ss Against Hayti. l^eavitt Not the Strang er. FOURTH PAGE. More Time for Durrani. Sealing Must Be Slopped. Boy Murderer to Be Tried. FIFTH PAGE. Aftermath of the Fight. The Baseball Outlook.. Pride in the Midst of Poverty Local Cyclist to Fight Fast. Al Hayman Returns. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. New York's Kingly Mayor. Inflamed Vermiform Appendi: A Month of Meteors. Discriminating Duly Again. Canada and the British Empire Personals and Queries. SEVENTH PAGE. In-rleside Rae nr. Two Wel -Known Men Dead. EIGHTH PAGE. Commercial. NINTH PAGE. News From Across tne Bay. TENTH PACE. Hard Luck on n Whaler. Assessment for.Democrats. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. • ". .-TWELFTH. PAGE. ". Rbttanzi Out for Hats. '_'.'.." Ttie Frawley •». Sail Away. . .. Six Involuntary -Cannibals. A Question of Mcd cal Ethics. Strychnine Did Not Kilt. NOW PLAN TO GRAB BOLIVIA Chile, Peru and Argen tina Scheming to Form a Dreibund. INTRIGUE IN SOUTH AMERICA. Schemers Who Are Figuring to Wipe One Nation Off the Map AND BOLDLY DIVIDE UP THE TERRITORY. Everywhere In Bolivia Chile Is Talked Of as a Faithless, Disloyal Country. Copyright, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett. VALPARAISO, Chile (via Galveston, Tex.), Nov. 11. — I have received informa tion from official sources to the effect that a plan for the Dreibund of Chile, Peru and Argentina is in existence which, if adopted by the three governments, will wipe Bolivia off the South American map, Chile, Peru and Argentina dividing her territory. . Startling as this statement is there are many who are inclined to give it cre dence. "Without doubt some international step of importance is unaer contempla tion. Chile and Peru have become en tangled with Bolivia and what the result will be no one can tell. Demands of the Alarmists for an explanation from the government, it is generally believed, are justified. I have it on the be.it of author ity that Senor Salinas, Chile's Minister to Sucre, Bolivia, has gone to Santiago to confer witn the government on the situa tion. The government flatly denies that he will not return to Sucre, though there are grave fears that he will be murdered if he does return, as the feeling there against Chile is intense. In clubs and cafes and at social gather ings everywhere in Bolivia one hears Chile talked of as a faithless, disloyal na tion. Reasons for all this feeling against Chile are to be found in the rebellion of 1801 and its bearing on the Ancon treaty. Revolutionists promised Bolivia, if she would recognize the belligerency of the rebels, that if they wero victorious they would give io Bolivia two years after vic tory the two Peruvian provinces, Tacaa and Arica, heid temporarily by Chile under the Ar.con treaty. More than six years have eian-jed since the victory of the revolutionists and Chile has not ful filled her prom for the reason that by doing so she would trample on the Ancou treaty. Bolivia now insists on the fulfillment of this promise, which Chile holds is illegal. In the meantime Chile has recalled Senor Lira, Minister of Chile to Peru, who be longed to the revolutionary party, and has sent Senor Vicente Santa Cruz, a Bal macedist, there with instructions to sound Peru on the alliance against Bolivia, against which the Government of Peru has many grievances'. I am told that for Peru's assistance Chile promises to return to Peiu the provinces of Tacna and Arica, without putting the question to a popular vote or demanding of Peru the 10.000,000 soles ransom, as provided in the Ancon treaty. Chile. I am told, is also prepared to furnish Per.i with all necessary arms and ammunition to carry on the war with 80l via. In this connection theD.eibund against Bolivia, 1 am inlormed. is being considered. Argentina, it is said, will be invited into the alliance to give strength to the movement. The Heraido bays this a'ternoon that it is reported all international affairs be tween Chile and Bolivia and Peru will soon be satisfactorily settled, Chile ac cepting the commercial and peace treaties drawn by Bolivia, and leaving the solu tion of the Tacna-Arico question until next year. THIRTY PERSONS MET DEATH. Terrible Disaster to a Wedding Party at a Railroad Crossing in Russian Poland. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 11.— A ter rible accident ha- occurred near Bielostok, Russian Poland, resulting in the death of thirty persons. A wedding party was returning from the church to the house of the bride. AH were in one wagon, a huge vehicle, drawn by eight horses. The road along which they drove crossed the raiiwav track on the level and the driver, either through carelessness or ignorance of the train scheduled, pushed his swiftly moving hordes upon the crossing just as the ex press was coming up. The locomotive struck tbe vehicle squarely, killing many members of the party outright and maim ,ng oihers so that they soon expired in frightful agony. Not a member of the party escaped. Eruption of Teturiu*. NAPLES. Nov. 11— The eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which began Monday, is increasing in activity. The spectacle is grand. Columns of smoke and tongues of flame are belching from the crater, while showers of cinders are falling. , '.. firetlith Polar Ji-xpedilton. STOCKHOLM. Nov. 11.— King Oscar and a number of private persons have contrib uted sufficient money to insure the dis patch of a Swedish polar expedition in 1806, wnich will be led by Professor Natborst, the geologist. The cost of the expedition is estimated at 70,000 crowns. UNABLE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY Dixon's Double Murder Still Puzzles the Officers. THEORIES, BUT NOT A CLEW. — Failure So Far to Connect Anybody With the Crime. FRANK EELEW AND WIFE INTERVIEWED. Indignantly Deny a Number of Ru mors—Excitement Over the Crime Unabated. Special Dispatch to The Call, WOODLAND. Nov. 11. — The Belew poisoning case is still a mystery to most of those who are directly concerned. Tne officers have been working to-day upon a theory that death was the result of foul play and that there was a strong motiva tor it, but they have not been very suc cessful in accumulating evidence. They learned that Frank Belew met his wife at the Davisville depot Wednesday night and perhaps attached more importance to the circumstance than it deserved. They have been living apart for some time and there was much speculation as to the mo tive that brought ihem together on the day oi the double funera'. District Attorney Devlin, Sheriff Rush and Constable Newby, all of Soiano County, went to Davisville to-day and sought an interview with Mrs. Belew. She was very reluctant to talk, but finally consented io answer any reasonable ques tions that might be asked her. She ex plained that the meeting at the depot Wednesday wa- not prearranged. She went to the train to meet her sister, who attended the funeral. The officers had been told Mrs. Belew had made. the state ment that her hu.-b.md had declared that a part of the estate was justly due him and he intended '.o have it by fair means if possible, but by foul means if necessary. Mrs. Belew denied this in the most posi tive terms. She said, however, that there never could be any reconciliation between herself and ber husband and that she was afraid to live with him. Belew returned from Sacramento on the afternoon train. He got off at the Davis vitle depot and shook hand with friends, but made no effort to see is wife. He continued his journey to Dixon. A Call representative met him on his arrival, and told him frankly that he was suspected of knowing something about the poisoning of his brother and sister, and asked him if be ad any statement to make. He stoutly protested his innocence, and said he courted prompt and thorough investi gation. ' He admitted that there had been :.n ill feeling between himself and bis brother ana sister, but declared that there had been a reconciliation, and that for some time befor- the awful tragedy they had been on amicable terms. He denied that he had made any objections to the proposed marriage of his sister with young Ehmann. He did object to her marriage with Harry Alien, an I • he and his wife had been instrument! in breaking off the match. He spoke with much bitterness concerning Allen, and while he made no direct accusation there was an evident de sire to give out an impression that Allen is a bad man. District Altorney Dsvlin to-day received a telegram from the San Francisco chem ist who is making the analysis of the stomachs, water and various articles of food, stating that the water contained no evidence of the presence of arsenic. He advised the chemist to hurry up the analy sis of the salt. Late Wednesday evening he received another telegram stating that there was neither arsenic nor antimony in the salt. Proiessor Grinstead of the Dixon High School applied the Marsh test to-day to water taken from the tea-kettle and found arsenic. Water from this kettle was used in making coffee and mush in the morn inn and soup in the afternoon. The offi cers now believe that the arsenic was nut in the kettle and not in the well. The re sult of the stomach analysis is awaited with great anxiety. Although the victims have been buried and the employes who were poisoned are considered out of danger, the excitement is unabated; indeed, ihe feeling is so in tense that conclusive proof of the guilt of any person would proDably incite a lynch ing bee. CONSERVAhVIS mRc PLOTTING. The Political Situation in Colombia Is Now Regarded as Extremely Critical. . Copvrijjht, 1897, by James Cordon Bennett. PANAMA, Nov. 11. Thd political situa tion in Colombia is critical. Fears are expressed in official circle* that Conserva tives are conspiring against the Govern ment, and the-e expressions have created general uneasiness; Advices just received from Bogota state that Vice-President Caro has had a conference there with General Reyes,, candidate lor President, and Dr. Aquiies Parra, leaders of the Con servative and iLiberai partie?. The Vice- President declared that in his opinion the only practical solution of the political proolem was to re peet every citizen's vote in the coming elections. Conservatives are alarmed at this stand, which if adopted, would inevitably bring the Liberal party legally to power. Thi" has caused the Conservatives to openly declare against the Government, and plotting is feared. TRICE jfIVE cents. MURDERED ON THE WAY TO DAWSON Thornbury Peterson Is Brutally Slain at Marsh Lake. EDWARD HENDERSON THE ASSASSIN. Upon His Arrival at the Klon dike He Will Be Promptly Hanged. TWO MEN DROWNED ON THE HOOTALINQUA. In Many Instances Canadian Pollca Have Aided Americans on the Way to the Gold Fields. t-pecial Dispatch to The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 5 (by steam ship Farad on to Victoiia, B. C, Nov. 11). — Following the Nicholson-Burns party the next to arrive here with information from Dawson and the state of things alone the trail and Yukon River were a party cf tive Canadian police from Tagish Lake, under Captain Fred Bevan of Vic toria, B. C, to-day on the steamer Faral lon. They are going home on a furlough. Bevan is just out from Dawson. He brings particulars of the murder at Marsh Lake in October of Thornbury Peterson by Edward Henderson, which proves to be the most brutal and colc-biooded crime committed in the Yukon country. Hen derson was formerly in the employ of the Seattle litis Company and Peterson is a native of Stockholm, Sweden. These two were members of a party of hve, including otheis, named Waily, Friednall and a thud man, name unknown, said to be from New York. , Peterson and Henderson occupied a tent together, while tne others slept in a larger tent. About 2 o'clock in the morning of October 18 Peterson and Henderson quar reled about tne bedclothmg. Henderson, who was the much larger man, drew a revolver and beat Peterson on the head terribly, lacerating the scalp. In the scuffle which followed Henderson shot nis bedfellow in the abdomen. Wally, Frieuuiann and the third partner were afraid to go near Henderson, and leaving Peterson, who was still alive, with his murderer they returned to Tagish Lake to inform the police. The officers hurried down to Like Marsh and found Hender son sitting moody ana silent in the tent with his dying partner. Peterson was mortally wounded and suffering great agony from his wounds and from th rs;. Henderson had not attempted to alleviate his condition. He died in about an hour after the police arrived, being conscious to the last and leaving a dying statement. Henderson was arrested without diffi culty and sent on down to Dawson under a strong guard. Captain Bevan .sail that the news of the murder had preceded their arrival and that the feeling against Hen derson was very bitter. Lynching was threatened. Henderson will have his trial at Dawson and the police think he will furnish the first hanging that will be cele brated at Dawson, and that in a few weeks. Captain Bevan says that tho miners at Dawson were belting on the arrival of the steamers when he left there on September 12, with odds against their arrival. He says there will be a shortage of grub if the vessels do not arrive, but he does not think there will be any real starvation. Hundreds can go down the river when tbe ice forms to the settlements below, where there is plenty of food. « He had not heard of the extraordinary rich strikes reported on the benches of Skookum Pup Creek. These dispatches chronicled the discovery of rich "diggings" on that creek over five weeks ago. which was the first report made of them. The Maloney party of Juneau first brought out the news. Major Walsh of the Canadian police is bu->y at Tagish establishing, with over 200 men, posts every forty or fifty miles between Lake Linderman and Dawson. Tbis work will be completed in about three weeks. The aanger of attempting to get into Dawson during the winter wid then be greatly reduced. In many instances the Canadian police have fed Klondikers and assisted them on their wiy, irrespective of whet they were Canadians or Americans. A sort of a fort an.l house has been built at Tagish. Many Americans who were "broke" and could not pay the duty on their outfits were allowed to work out the duty in the construction of the house and fort. Cap tain Bevan says he has seen doctors, law yers, ex-Government offiials and other piofessional men working with' shovel, pick, ax and saw alongside the scum of the stampede. Nearly a thousand people, instead of going on to Dawson, have gone up the Hootalinqua, Stewart, Pelly and other creeks and rivers to prospect Captain Bevan says that there are fine indications ot pay dirt on the Hootalinqua, the outlet of Lake Teslin. When most of the crowd arrived at Dawson he says they were gaunt, hungry and had the uncanny look of a lot of wild men whose only thought was gold. Two men whose names were not secured were drowned from a sailboat on tho Hootalinqua about ten days ago. The third man of the party wont insane over the loss of his companions and was taken on to Dawson guarded by the police. His name is also unknown to the police, but they said he formerly worked in a bard ware store in San Francisco. A negro named Edwards, who accom panied the Miller party of Port Town send, which started with 1000 sheep, stole