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VOLUME LXXXIII.— _STO. 31.
PROBABLY
SLAIN BY
TRIBESMEN
Fate of Sir Henry
Ha velock- Allan
in Doubt.
Horse of the Commander
of the Royal Irish
Regiment Shot.
He Is Either Dead or a Prisoner
in the Hands of the
A Zakk-Hols.
h
'CAREER OF THE OFFICER.
After Gnining Distinction He Was
Sent to India to Investigate
Charges of Cowardice.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
CALCUTTA. Dec. 30.— Colonel Saw
yer, commanding the British forces at
Fort AH Musjid; telegraphs:
"On learning that Sir Henry Have
lock-Allan had left his escort yester
day and had not been seen since, a
search was organized. He rode a rest
less horse and might have been thrown
near the camp. The affair, however,
resulted in finding the horse stripped
and shot, with Sir Henry missing. It
is feared that he is dead or a pris
oner in the hands of the Zakk-Hols.
The search is being continued."
Sir Henry Ha velock- Allan is the
commander of the Royal Irish Regi
ment; and left England recently to in
vestigate charges of cowardice and in
subordination brought against the
regiment. He was born in Bengal in
1830. His father was the celebrated
Sir Henry Havelock, the hero of
Cawnpore and Lucknow during the
Indian mutiny.
He is "the first Baronet, though the
baronetcy was conferred on his father,
who died before receiving it. He
served in the Persian expedition, 1856
-1)7, and was with his father in the cam-
Ipaign against the rebels in Oude. In
I*lBo hft "assumed .. by royal license the
radditJ >nal surname of Allan. From
' J. 574 to 1881 he sat as a member of Par
liament for Sunderland, but resigned
the seat to assume the command of a
brigade at Aldershot. In 1895 'he was
elected member for Durham. He mar
ried Lady Alice Morton, daughter of
the Earl of Ducie.
GENERAL WEYLER
ISSUES A PROTEST.
But the Authorities Refuse to Transmit It
to the Queen and the Ex-Cuban
Butcher May Be Prosecuted.
MADRID, Dec. 30.— General Weyler,
in his memorial to the Queen Regent on
the subject of President McKinley's
message to Congress, says he is hon
ored by the attacks made upon him
and that his conduct as Governor-Gen
eral and that of a soldier was animat
ed by honor and patriotism. Such at
tacks, therefore, General Weyler adds,
will do him no harm, as they are aim
ed at him, he asserts, simply because
he has done his duty. Nevertheless,
"since the mo-sage contained insulting
observations on the Spanish troops in
Cuba," he believed it to be his duty to
address a protest to the crown. He
claims that the concentrados were the
prime abettors of the rebellion.
The protest of the general is couched
in courteous language.
El Correro' Espanola, La Nacional,
El Poca and other papers that have
published General Weyler's protest
against President McKinley's message
will i... prosecuted. The publication
had been prohibited on international
grounds.
It is rumored that Weyler will be
prosecuted. The authorities refuse to
transmit the protest to the Queen Re
gent through the War Office.
CHILDREN ENTERTAINED BY
MISS KATHERINE CLEM MONS.
Lots of Fun and Presents for the Little
Guests lncidentally Howard
jgjjM| Gould Drops In.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.— Fifty children
of employes of the Holland House, and
of servants of Howard Gould, were en
tertained' this afternoon in the parlor
of Miss Katherine Clemmons' apart
ments in. thevioteL The children were
brought fromnJielr homes in carriages
and taken back\in the same way.
A corner of the room was screened
off by a crimson curtain. Back of this
was a Christmas tree and tables.con
taining gifts for each of the tiny
guests. The. room Was decorated with
festoons of evergreens interwoven
with strands of golden tinsel. The
mantel in the south side of the room
was almost concealed with branches of
natural fruit, taken from trees in Cali
fornia by Miss Clemmons' mother.
Howard Gould dropped in and helprd
to entertain the little ones. There was
a Punch and Judy show and then the
Christmas tree. Following the dis
tribution of gifts some of the children
furnished an impromptu concert.
THE STEAMER CLEVELAND
PULLED OFF THE ROCKS
Her Bottom Not Badly Damaged— Will Be
\ Towed to Tacoma and Placed on
the Drydock.
TOWXSEND, Dec. 30.—
which arrived here to-day
iy Sound, reports that the
nor Cleveland was pulled
: last Tuesday evening
reached. Her bottom Is
'ly damaged. Arrange
been made to. have the
to Tacoma, where she
<> in the Quartermaster
The San Francisco Call
DISCONTENT
IN SALVADOR
SPREADING
The Causes That May
Lead Up to Another
Revolution.
Apology to Guatemala and
Depleted Condition of
the Treasury.
In the Event of an Uprising
General Regalado Will Be
the Prime Mover.
CARLOS EZETA NOT IN IT.
But Lieutenants of the Ex- Presi*-. Nt
Promise to Make a Fight
Against Gutierrez.
Copyright, 1597, by James Gordon Bennett.
PANAMA, Dec. Advices from
San Salvador, Salvador, have for some
time reflected a critical condition of
public opinion, but there has been no
indication that it was so serious as to
make necessary the presence of a
United States warship at La Libertad.
The discontent in Salvador has been
steadily spreading since President
Gutierrez sent a special envoy to
Guatemala to make an apology for the
invasion of Guatemala by Jose Leon
Castillo and his followers during the
recent revolution.
In the event of an uprising in Sal
vador the prime mover will probably
be General Tomas Regalado, who bit
terly opposes the rule of President
Gutierrez, and who is regarded as a
candidate for the Presidency next
term. General Regalado was dismissed
from the army of Salvador for aiding
General Castillo to cross the frontier
into Guatemala and capture Chiqui
mula.
Another cause for discontent is that,
owing to the depleted condition of the
treasury, the President has been com
pelled to suspend many, sinecure offices
and place certain officials on half pay.
These have become enemies of the Gov
ernment and joined the opposition.
A revolution will now mean the ruin
of Salvador's hope of securing a loan of
£50,000 in gold to establish the gold
standard, as such a change could not
be made if there should be an uprising.
It is not likely that the former
President, Carlos Ezeta, is taking part
in the agitation against the Govern
ment. He is considered politically
dead. General Regalado was one of
his principal commanders in former
rebellions.
FLAN NELLY IS TAKEN TO
SAN JOSE FOR TRIAL.
The Redwood City Parricide as Reticent as
Ever and Refuses to Talk of
His Crime.
SAN JOSE, Dec. 30.— Thomas Flan
nelly, who killed his father and Sheriff
McEvoy at Redwood City a short time
ago, was brought to the County Jail
here to-day by Sheriff Mansfield to
await trial. He received a change of
venue to Santa Clara County from San
Mateo County. He will be tried for
the murder of his father first, the date
of which will be soon set. Flannelly is
as reticent as ever, and refuses to talk
of his crime.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Weather forecast for San Fran
cisco: Increasing cloudiness on Fri
day; fro. 1: easterly winds.
Maximum temperature for the past
twenty-four hours:
San Francisco 62 degrees
Portland 50 degrees
Los Angeles 74 degrees
San Diego 76 degrees
FIRST PAGE.
Salvador Close to Revolt.
Soldier Shot by Tribesmen.
Carman ln More Trouble.
Japan Prepares for War.
SECOND PAGE.
McCoy "Will Fight Choynski.
Pasadena Rose Carnival.
A Matricide Cries in Court.
THIRD PAGE.
The Best Road to Dawson.
J. B. Haggin Married.
Politics Hot at Los Angeles.
Great Floods in Washington.
Burglar Roup a Train Robber.
FOURTH PAGE.
The Fight Against Mark Hanna.
Finnigan Scores a Point.
A Smart Show at Blenheim.
Sealskins to Be Barred.
To Improve the New Navy.
FIFTH PAGE.
News Along the Water Front.
Funeral of Dr. Stanton.
Strong Plea in a Divorce Case.
Narrow Escape From Death.
Police Capture Two Crooks.
Durrant in the Death Chamb»-
SIXTH PAGE
Editorial.
What Dole Expects.
A Jurist and Diplomat.
The Miners and the Jubilee.
Will It Get There?
Postal Savings Banks.
California Public Library System
Personal.
SEVENTH PAGE.
Preparing for the Jubilee.
Sir Chauneey Has Returned.
Arson at Seal Rock House.
EIGHTH PAGE.
Commercial News.
NINTH PAGE.
News From Across the Bay.
TENTH PAGE.
Racing at Ingleside.
Tolls Drawn Around Hoff.
ELEVENTH PAGE. ,
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
TWELFTH PAGE.
Teachers in Session.
SAN .FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1897.
MANY WOES
OF CARMAN
INCREASE
Has a Lively Day
With Dupes in
Chicago.
"Warrant After Warrant
Sworn Out for His
Arrest.
Justice Martin Besieged With
Applications From Com
plainants.
AND MORE ARE COMING.
Resigns From Secretaryship of the
Alaska Committee in Time to
Escape Removal.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30— This was the
busiest day Dickerson M. Carman has
seen since his arrival in Chicago from
California. A capias was issued by
the Superior Court for his arrest in
connection, with the case begun by
Willis H. Binns, charging that he was
defrauded by Carman in 1893 to the ex
tent of $1100, paid for California land,
which Carman did not have power to
sell.
Justice Martin was besieged with ap
plications for warrants during the
morning, but became tired and sent
part of the applicants to other justices.
William Bovenzer of 3806 Elmwood
place claims to have been defrauded
out of $1000. and Louis Adams says he
gave up $400. These cases were set for
January 3.
Dr. F. R. Potter, 1831 Chicago avenue.
Evanston, charges Carman with de
frauding him out of $200. Justice Rich
ardson issued a warrant in this case.
M. H. Mihills secured a warrant from
Justice Everett on a charge that Car
man swindled him out of $600.
In the meantime Carman broke away
from legal troubles long enough to ap
pear before his colleogues of the Alas-
ka Trade Committee of San Francisco
at the Great Northern Hotel and re
sign the secretaryship. He accom
plished this just in time to escape be
ing removed, a telegram being re
ceived from President Barling remov
ing Carman and appointing in his
place ex-Governor Sheakley of Alaska.
Carman hints his troubles' may have
been precipitated by Portland (Or.)
people, who are opposed to his efforts
to divert Alaska business to San Fran
cisco, and who have trumped up these
old charges with a view toward dis
crediting the work of the committee.
Mr. Carman's colleagues on the com
mittee are not inclined to believe his
troubles are due to Oregonian jeal
ousy. While they are sorry for the
plight in which he finds himself they
refuse to allow the interests of San
Francisco to suffer by being coupled
with the ex-secretary's woes.
DENIAL OF EMMA
BOOTH-TUCKER
Declares the Reports as to Her
Husband's Statements
Are Not True.
Meanwhile Mrs. Ballington Booth's
Condition Is Said to Be Steadily
Improving.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.— Emma Booth-
Tucker, wife of Commander Booth-
Tucker, issued a formal statement to
day to the effect that reports that
Commander Booth-Tucker speaks un
kindly of Mrs. Ballington Booth's 11l-
ness are untrue. In her statement Mrs.
Booth-Tucker says: "I am amazed and
grieved beyond expression to read the
message from Chicago which purports
that Commander Booth-Tucker speaks
of Mrs. Ballington Booth's illness as of a
non-serious and even feigned charac
ter. I am hoping to be able to catch
the commander on his journey West by
telegraph to-day. that I may get his
own denial of this alleged statement.
In the meantime I would most unhesi
tatingly assert that there has been
some grave misapprehension on the
part of your informant, and I point to
our written statements, both to the
press and as contained in our period
icals and papers, as proof positive that
no such attitude has Tor one moment
been taken by us."
At the Presbyterian Hospital the
physicians stoutly deny the insinuation
of Booth-Tucker. Dr. McCosh and Dr.
Thompson say that they consider. Mrs.
Booth's condition very serious- that
she is confined to her bed, not allowed
to see visitors, except her husband and
secretary, and is forbidden to do any
work, though she is Improving slowly.
At the hospital to-day it was stated
that Mrs. Booth had not been out of
her bedroom once since she was ad
mitted to the hospital, but as she was
a private patient any further discus
sion of her case would not be enter
tained by the hospital authorities. A
continuation of Mrs. Booth's improve
ment was announced to-day.
♦
COUNTESS FESTETICS TO
REJOIN HUSBAND AND YACHT.
NEW YORK. Dec. 30.— Countess Fes
tetics will leave New York for Hong
kong, where she will join her husband
and his yacht. The Countess is con
templating writing her diary of her
trip to the South Sea Islands and pub
lishing it. It will be illustrated with
photographs.
VICE-ADMIRAL EDWARD HOBfIRT SEYMOUR, C. 8.,
Admiral Superintendeot of tbe British Naval Reserve.
HARBOR OF CHEMULPO, THE GATEWAY OF KOREA.
BARK OAKLAND
IS A WRECK
Picked Up Off Cape Flattery
and Towed Into Port
Townsend.
Deserted by Her Crew and the Fate
of the Men Is a Mystery
of the Sea.
PORT TOWNSEND.; Wash., Dec. 30.
—The report . sent , out last night that
the bark Tidal Wave had been wrecked
was a mistake. It was the bark Oak
land, Captain Whitney, which passed
out of the Columbia river, December 22
with lumber for San. Francisco. The
bark was. picked up -yesterday- after
noon at 2 o'clock three miles ; off Cape
Flattery. |^pff^fffH^Wj^MpW^ipteM
She was in a -terrible condition, her
deck load and -bulwarks being washed
away, the cabin . smashed and the en
tire house badly wrecked. Not a soul
was found aboard and there was noth
ing to indicate why, or where the "crew
had gone, except that the bark's boats
were-all gone, from which it is inferred
the crew either put off for shore or for
some " passing. " vessel.
; When picked up heavy seas were
running over the bark, which was full
of water,, less than three feet of her
house I>< in- above the surface.
Captain Sprague, of the tug Sea Lion,
which towed the Oakland • in, thinks
that her crew is safe, either on land or
on board some other vessel. The fact
that the Oakland is ; a sister bark to
the Tidal Wave caused the report to be
sent out last night that it was the lat
ter craft which was in distress.
PRESIDENT ZELAYA WILL
GREET THE COMMISSIONERS.
Special Train to Be Sent to Granada to Con
vey Admiral Walker and Associates
to Managua.
MANAGUA, Dec. 31.— Rear Admiral
J. G. Walker and the members of the
Nicaraguan' Commission, with . the
newspaper correspondents, will arrive
here to-morrow from Greytown, after
stopping over to-day at Castillo.
President Zelaya will send a special
train to Granada for, the. party, and
Minister Munoz will go with it to re
ceive them. It is understood that all
the members of the commission are
well. ■ The Nicaraguan • Congress will
. reassemble - on - Saturday,
JAPANESE
PREPARING
FOR WAR
Every Indication That t\)e
MiKado Will Figh)t
Russia.
Eoglaod Said to Be Mobilizing Her
Naval Reserve and a British
Fleet of Eight Ships Has
Arrived at Ghen)ulpo.
LONDON, Dec. 31.— dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Shanghai, dated
Thursday, says:
A British fleet of eight ships and four
torpedo-boats has arrived at Chemulpo,
the port of Seoul.
It is reported that there are two Jap
anese cruisers in the Yang-tse-Kiang
river. Japan is working night and day
preparing for war. It is believed that
the British and Japanese fleets are in
close touch.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Tokio says Marquis Ito is forming a
Cabinet. According to a dispatch to
the same paper from Nagasaki, dated
Thursday, it is believed Marquis Ito
will aim to maintain a peaceful atti
tude. ,
The Daily Graphic asserts, "on au
thority," that the British squadron was
definitely instructed to assemble off
Chemulpo to support a strong British
expostulation with Corea on the dis
missal of McLeavy Brown (British Su
perintendent of Korean Customs), who,
under the advice. of the British Consul,
has twice returned the notice of dis
missal served upon him.
With regard to Port Arthur, the
Daily Graphic asserts that there is
every reason to believe the Russians
will adhere to their pledge to evacuate
at the end of the winter, and there is
therefore no ground for complaint on
'he part of England. Neither does the
Government regard the occupation of
Kiaochau as calling for action, be
cause British interests are "not threat
ened. According to the Graphic, both
the Foreign Office and the Admiralty
agreed upon this point.
A letter from Kobe says: Military
maneuvers of great magnitude were
executed in Japan last month for the
first time since the war with China.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
GETTING READY FOR WAR
WITH UTMOST EXPEDITION.
The Naval Reserve to Be Called Out, A/though
the Fleet Is Already the Strongest in
Asiatic Waters.
LONDON, Dec. 30.— news agency
announces that the British naval re
serves will be mobilized. ;
According to recent estimates the re
serve forces of the British navy num
ber about 28,000 men. Of this number it
is caloulated that at least 10,000 men
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
will be required in the case of war to
complete the manning of the warships
of Great Britain, which are understood
to require a complement of 110,000 men,
whereas only 100,000 are actually in
service. The naval reserve problem,
has long been discussed by British au
thorities, and the general opinion ap
pears to be that the number of men
available is far short of the number
that would be required in case of war.
In addition to the men in the naval
reserve Great Britain has a large re
serve fleet and a number of reserve
merchant cruisers, including such ves
sels as the Campania, Lucania, Etru
ria, Umbria, Majestic and Teutonic.
NEW YORK. Dec. 30.— A Montreal
special says: War rumors are preva
lent here and the reported requisition
ing of Canadian Pacific steamers for
the transport of troops from Vancou
ver for service in China has created
considerable excitement, though for
the present the people who know doubt
their truth. It . would be necessary
that the transports should be immedi
ately sent to Halifax from England
with troops. If any great force is to
be sent before the transports could
reach here the river St. Lawrence
would be frozen. This would necessi
tate rather a long journey, first by the
Inter-Colonial (now the Government)
railway system from Halifax to Mon-
treal, thence by the Canadian Paclflo
Railroad from Montreal to Vancouver.
The entire journey could be made by
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, but
the troops would have to pass through
American territory, through which the
Canadian Pacific . Short Line runs.
The usual time taken for a journey
like that is eight days, but it could
easily be done in five, and perhaps a
little less. *
How the Inter-Colonial is prepared
for any such emergency is hard to say.
In all probability not at all. But the
Canadian Pacific Railroad has done a
great deal of that work and has cars es
pecially fitted up and ready for just
such an occasion.
As to the taking of Canadian Pacific
steamers for the purpose of transport
all three of the steamers the Empress
of India, the Empress of China and the
Empress of Japan — are royal navy re
serve cruisers, which receive an annu
al subvention and are at the disposi
tion of the admiralty. , The total num
ber of militia available in Canada is
about 32,000. In Montreal there are
about 2000. In adidtion to the militia
there are here about 3500 regular Ca
nadian and imperial troops that could
be called upon.
Great Britain's fleet on the China
station exceeds in numbers and ia