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ATTEMPT
TO MURDER
KING GEORGE
Greece's Ruler and
the Princess Maria
Fired Upon.
Shot at Repeatedly by
Two Men While Out
for a Drive.
Charge Intended for Them
Wounds One of Their
Footmen.
BRAVERY OF THE KING.
Shields His Daughter by Standing
Before Her During the
Fusillade.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
ATHENS. Feb. 2f>.— The King was re
turning from Phalenum at "> o'clock
this evening in a landau, accompanied
by the Princess Maria, when two men
who were bidden in a ditch alongside
the road opened fire with guns upon the
occupants of the carriage. The first
shot missed, but the second wounded
a t"'>"tman in the arm. The coachman
whipped up his horses and the royal
party dashed away at a gallop. The
miscreants fired seven more shots after
them, none of which took effect, and
the Kins and the Princess returned to
the palace unhurt.
The King says that one of the assas
sins was dressed in gray clothing, ar.d
his Majesty declares that he could
easily Identify him.
When the second shot whizzed past
the carriage the King arose and stood
in front of his daughter, in order to
shield her. one of the horses was
slightly wounded. One of the assail
ants knelt in the middle of the road
and aimed straight at the King, who
noticed that the man's hand was shak
ing. The shot missed and the King had
a rlear view of this man, who, his? Ma
jesty says, was barety 20 years old. He
continued to fire after the carriage un
til it was out of range. His compan
ion did not leave the ditch.
As soon as the news became known
all the leading politicians hastened to
the palace to express their congratula
tions over the escape of King George
and the Princess Maria. The action of
his Majesty in shielding the Princess at
the risk of his life has aroused great
enthusiasm.
A cadet who was on horseback some
distance behind the royal carriage heard
the Bhooting and galloped to the scene
in time to see the. King's assailant
fleeing in the direction of Hymedus.
Strong parties are searching the dis
trict for the assassins.
M. Delyannis and M. Kalli, former
Premiers, were among the first to ar
rive at the palace to offer their con
gratulations. At half past 9 o'clock the
metropolitan held a thanksgiving ser
vice in the palace. The Queen knelt.
Bobbing, throughout the service. A
solemn to denm will be held to-mor
row, at which all The members of the
royal family will attend.
All of the diplomats and personages
of prominence have called at the pal
ace. His Majesty said to them that the
subversive propaganda of certain jour
nals had brought about deplorable re
sults. King George and his eldest son,
Frince Constantino, have been very un
popular since the overwhelming defeat
inflicted upon the Greek army by the
Turks last year.
Shortly after midnight the police
were on the track of the club of which
the Kinp's assailants are members. The
assassins were chosen by lot. It is ex
pected several arrests will shortly be
made.
VISALIA YOUNG
LADY DISAPPEARS
Miss Meta Baker Sought in
Vain by Relatives and
Friends.
Special r>ispatch to The Call.
VISALIA, Feb. 26.— The fire bells in this j
city were rung for a short time at mid
night last night. The alarm was given to [
summon help for the purpose of searching
for Miss Meta Baker, an estimable young
lady, 22 years old, who had suddenly dis- j
appeared from her home.
Miss Baker had left home in the after- ]
noon to go for the mail. As she did not
return her mother thought she had called
to Bee a neighbor. But when darkness i
came all the family became alarmed, es- j
peclally when it was found that she had
not been to any of the neighbors' houses, i
The young lady's brother drove out to j
the home of a friend in the country and
a force of over fifty men went out in al! ,
directions with lanterns and remained out j
most of the night, but without success.
This morning it was learned that a girl :
answering the description of Miss Baker !
had purchased a ticket for San Fijincisco i
and had gone north on the Valtey road I
passenger train that leaves here about 1 j
o'clock in the afternoon. She had no bag- ;
gage, no grip and not even a wrap. Of- j
fleers In Stockton and San Francisco were j
notified of her disappearance and this
afternoon her brother boarded a train for j
Stockton in search of his sister.
Miss Baker never exhibited any desire ]
to leave home before. Her parents can
ehe no reason for this action. She- has
been In ill health for about a year, and
it is thought she left while suffering from
a fit of mental aberration. She is small
of stature and looks younger than she
really is. She taught school in lowa be- i
fore coming here with her mother two
years ago. Her sudden disappearance has
caused a profound sensation and great '
sympathy is expressed for the afflicted :
family.
When the disappearance of Miss Baker
was reported at police headquarters in j
this city it was intimated that the young !
lady had been mentally deranged for \
many months past. Captain Bohen has j
given instructions that a strict watch be j
kept for the missing woman, but as yet ;
no special detectives have been detailed i
on the case. It is the general supposition j
that Miss Baker has gone to Ssiockton.
FITZSIMMONS SAYS
HE WILL MEET M'COY.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 26.— Champion Bob
Fitzslmmons expresses a willingness to
fight Kid McCoy. Fitzsimmons says:
"I will fight McCoy any time he puts
up enough money to make it worth my
while. McCoy and Ruhlin have no more
right to fight for the championship than
a yellow flog. I will fight McCoy any
second he puts up th£ stuff. McCoy is
a miserable upstart. He has been a little
successful and it has made him daffy.
The Kid has the swell head and he thinks
he is in the heavy- weight class. I will
■how him how to fight if he has the long
»reen to back up his bluff."
HURLS ITS
INSULTS AT
HONEST MEN
San Jose Mercury At
tacks New Char
ter Club.
Speaks of That Body as
a Combination of
Blatherskites.
Organ of the " Gang " Vitupera
tive in Discussing the
Campaign.
TRIES TO FOMENT STRIFE.
Efforts to Create Discord in the
Organization Fail of Their
Purpose.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
SAN JOSE. Feb. 26.— That the ticket
selected by the New Charter Club is
i an exceedingly strong one and virtually
! invincible is shown by the attitude as
sumed toward it by the Mercury, the
acknowledged organ of the "gang."
While perfectly willing to wound, it
; dare not strike any one of the gentle
| men who have been made part of the
I city ticket by the friends of the new
charter and of good government. By
i reason of the known probity and abil
j ity of each and every one of
! the candidates named the Mer
cury has been forced into a position
where It must put up men of straw as
a target for its peculiar style of men
j dacious warfare.
For the past two days it has devoted
columns to vilifying certain individ
uals who have long been lending ef
ficient aid to the cause of good govern
! ment, but who have not been nor have
sought to be leaders, as the organ of
the gang has endeavored to make the
: people believe. It has also brought into
! the fight the name of at least one j
j person who is not a member of the
I New Charter Club at all, and has i
| thereby hoped to bring discredit on
that organization. It has also, by in- j
j nuendo and indirection attacked the |
1 New Charter Club as a whole by mak- j
ing deliberate mlsstatements concern- j
i ing it. But throughout its many col- |
umns of unfair criticism and malicious !
abuse it has not had the temerity to j
assail a single one of the candidates j
named by the New Charter Club.
No one who understands the relations I
existing between the "gang" and the |
Mercury under its present management i
; is in any decree surprised at the stand '
the newspaper has taken. Had it taken I
' any other course than opposition to j
; the g(X>d government movement there j
would have been cause for wonderment
by the people of San Jose.
There is one thing to be said in fa
vor erf the Mercury— people always j
know where it will stand when there
is an issue up in which the "gang" is
interested. In the course of an article
to-day the "gang" organ says:
"Many of the members of the New j
! Charter Club either live in the suburbs
i or outside of the city."
This is denied by the president of the !
club. It is true that three members [
are not actual residents within th^ j
: present limits of the city of San Jose, j
but they hope that under the admin- j
lstration of the officers who will be
: elected through the efforts of the New j
Charter Club and kindred organizations ;
there will soon be a Greater San Jose, ;
and that they will be residents within
Its boundaries.
At one point in this same article the
feeling of bitter animosity toward the j
New Charter Club is manifested by a j
reference to that organization as a
| "combination of political blather
skites."
The Mercury is doing all In its power
to foment trouble and discord among
the members of the New Charter Club
and between that organization and oth
er bodies which are working in co-op
eration with it, but up to the present
time its efforts are without success and
without hope of success. All that it
has accomplished has been to impress
upon the people at large the strength of
the New Charter Club ticket, and to
announce to the public that the "gang"
is "agin it." In all its vaporings not
one word has been said against the
honesty or integrity of any individual
connected with the New Charter Club.
Petitions in the interest of the candi
dates of the New Charter Club were
placed in circulation to-day. Every
candidate, no matter how nominated,
must file a petition with the City Clerk
at least twenty days before the day
of election. It is believed the New
Charter Club petitions will be ready,
with the necessary number of signa
ture?, for filing early next week.
All citizens who have moved since
the last election are being urged by
the members of the New Charter Club
to reregister before March 12.
It is now the general report that the
"gang" will be back of the following
candidates: C. J. Martin, for Mayor;
J. W. Cook, for City Clerk; J. N. Ew
ing, for City Treasurer; J. D. Miner,
for Councilman-at-large. Cook and
Ewing are incumbents of the respec
tive offices for which they are named.
NICARAGUA BELIEVED TO
HAVE DECLARED WAR.
Cable Company of Panama Refuses
to Accept Messages for Costa
Rica.
Copyrighted. ISSB, by James Gordon Bennett.
PANAMA, Feb. 26.— The action of the
cable company here, with reference to
messages for Costa Rica, leads to the
conclusion that war has been, or soon '
will be, declared between Costa Rica j
and Nicaragua. A notice to the public
was posted yesterday, to the effect that
messages for Costa Rica would be re- I
ceived only at the senders' risk, in t
plain language and subject to censor- i
ship at San Juan del Sur. The cable j
company posted this afternoon another
notice stating that no messages would J
be accepted for Costa Rica until fur- j
ther notice.
The posting of this notice has caused
great interest here as it is generally
understood to mean that Costa Rica's
reply to the diet of the Greater Re
public of Central America is unsatis
factory and that the relations between
Nicaragua and Costa Rica have been
definitely severed. This leads to the
conclusion that war has been declared
between the two countries, or that a
formal declaration of war will be made
within the next few days.
THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1898.
DYNAMITE
PLACED ON
THE RAILS
Attempt to VSfreek an
Overland Train in
Arizona.
Tramp Seeks Awful Re
venge for a Fancied
Wrong.
First Blows Up a Section of the
Track, Then Places More
Explosives.
FOUND JUST IN TIME.
Track-Walker Prevents a Catas
trophe and the Culprit Is
Captured.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
WILLIAMS. Ariz., Feb. 21— That
section of the Santa Fe Pacific be
tween this point and Ash Fork known
as the "Hill,' on which the late tunnel
disasters occurred, came near being
the scene of a frightful wreck. The de
tals, meager and unsatisfactory, have
been unknown untid to-day, when the
fiend who attempted to wreak his ven
geance on the railroad because he was
ejected from a freight train was
brought to Williams from Congress,
where he was captured after a hard
chase by the Sheriff.
When the freight train in charge of
Conductor Low was ready to proceed
westward from Crowley a boxcar pas
senger was discovered crouching be
tween the cars and was ejected from
the train. As he alighted on the
ground he cursed the crew and the
railroad company, avowing that he
would have revenge, and had it not
been for the timely arrival of the track
walker his revenge would have been
the demolition of the westbound ex
press, No. 1, which was due in fifteen
minutes. The track walker made the
terrifying discovery that several yards
of track had been blown up and that
ten feet of the rail was missing and a
piece over a foot in length was found
fully 200 feet from the scene of the ex
plosion. There were evidences that
enough dynamite had been used to
cause wholesale destruction. The sec
tion man found two sticks of dynamite
under the head of the switch stand.
He flagged the train and immedi
ately reported his discovery and Sher
iff Cameron was notified. The Sheriff
followed the culprit to Ash Fork and
thence to Jerome Junction, where he
lost him in the darkness. He was lo
cated later at Congress, where he was
arrested. The railroad is determined
that he shall be punished to the full
extent of the law, and besides District
Attorney Clark, E. L. Doe of Flagstaff
was retained aa prosecuting attorney.
Oscar Gibson and J. E. Jones of that
place represent the defendant.
Public feeling runs very high and
had the fellow been captured at the
time of his crime he would have fared
badly at the hands of the train men
and the citizens, who plainly showed
their feeling at the trial. The express
train was unning down hill at the
rate of fifty miles an hour and had it
crashed into the break in the track,
with two sticks of dynamite ready to
explode when it passed over, the loss
of life would have been appalling.
Such a crime but a few years ago in
Arizona would have been the signal
for a lynching, but in these later days
justice is allowed to take its course.
At the hearing it was shown that the
dynamite used by the man was ob
tained by him from the rock blasting
near Ash Fork, where he had been em
ployed a short time before. He seemed
to thoroughly understand its use and
evidently was prepared in case he
should be thrown from a train. At the
hearing he showed no feeling what
ever and did not seem to realize the
extent of the crime that he had com
mitted, having the idea that he was
justified in his revenge. His only re
gret was that his diabolical scheme
had not been successful. After the
evidence was all in he was placed un
der $5000 bonds to await trial. He was
escorted to the train and taken to
Flagstaff.
ADAMS WILL SOON
LEARN HIS FATE
Findings of the Court Martial
Forwarded to the Navy
Department.
The Officer Detained Under Arrest
on Board the Monterey at
San Diego.
Sperlal Dispatch to The Call.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26.— The trial by
court-martial of Lieutenant-Com
mander Charles A. Adams, executive
officer of the Monterey, on the charge
of intoxication was finished yesterday.
The finding and decision of the court
have been forwarded to Washington
for approval, and it will be at least
two weeks before the final result of the
court-martial is known even to the of
ficers directly interested.
Lieutenant-Commander Adams, who
is considered a very able officer, and
was popular with the crew, was acting
captain of the Monterey for a day, two
or three weeks ago, and while in that
capacity, it is reported, he became in
toxicated. He was under the influence
of liquor when Captain Clark returned
to the ship, and met Captain Clark at
the gangway.
Captain Clark was so indignant over
the flagrant conduct of Lieutenant
Commander Adams that he ordered him
to his room, where he has since re
mained under arrest. He will be kept
under that restraint until the finding
of the court is heard from at Wash-
ington.
Lieutenant Commander Adams was
once before placed under arrest and
confined to his room for intemperance.
That was about four months ago, when
he arrived from the East under assign
ment to the Monterey, while the moni
tor lay at Portland. He is said to have
become intoxicated almost as soon as
he went aboard, as a result of which
indiscretion he was contined <*» hU
room.
LEFT THE
VESSEL TO
SEEK AID
Officer and Nine Men
of La Champagne
Picked Up.
Report the Liner Disabled
Off Newfoundland
Banks.
Dispatched by Their Captain to
Hail Some Passing
Vessel.
SIX DAYS IN A LIFEBOAT.
Almost Dead From Exposure When
Sighted by the Steamship
Rotterdam.
■
Special Dispatch to The CalL
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— The Holland-
American line steamer Rotterdam, from
Rotterdam, arrived at quarantine to
night with third ofli.vr George Uns
worth and nine seamen of the overdue
French liner La Champagne, who were
picked up from a lifeboat on Thursday,
February 24, in latitude 40.l north, lon
gitude 57 west.
The men when taken aboard the Rot
terdam' were in a helpless condition,
having been in the ship's lifeboat for
six days and nights. They were all
more or less frostbitten. Unsworth said
that La Champagne broke her tail-end
shaft on Thursday, February 1", at 5
p. m., in latitude 45:57. longitude 51:52.
The steamship being in a helpless con
dition Captain Perrot anchored. The
steamship was on the edge of the New
foundland banks, and. there being a
possibility of her not being picked up
in her position, Captain Perrot decided
to send a lifeboat in Ft-arch of assist
ance.
On the morning of the 18th, the life
boat being fully provisioned, Unsworth
and his crew of nine men left the ship
in the hope of Intercepting some pass
ing steamship. The weather proved
tempestuous, with intense cold. A sharp
lookout was kept for passing vessels,
but none were seen. The crew kept to
the oars and for six days worked with
might and main, but, owing to the cold
and exposure, became wellnigh ex
hausted.
On the 24th, at 1 p. m., the Rotter
dam bore down and stood by and with
no little difficulty rescued all hands.
La Champagne experienced strong
head winds up to February 17, when
the tail-end shaft gave way. When the
accident occurred th- best of order pre
vailed. The steamship was perfectly
tight and not mak:M; any water. The ;
passengers, on bei.g informed of the
accident to the mnchinery, were per
fectly calm and the best of order pre
vailed.
La Champagne carried 304 passengers,
48 being cabin, 53 second_ cabin, 203
steerage and a crew of 175.
DIERSON MUST
PROVIDE BEANS
11l Luck of a Man Who Con
tracted to Supply Folsom
Prison.
Held to His Agreement, Though the
Price of the Staple Has Gone
Skyward.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
FOLSOM, Feb. 26.— The meeting of
the State Board of Prison Directors to
day was attended by Chairman Fitz
gerald and Members Wilkins and Ray,
Director Devlin being absent from the
State. D. Dierson of Sacramento ap
peared before the board, and asked for
a modification of his contract for Bayo
beans. The unexpected demand for this
commodity by reason of the Klondike
excitement had rendered it almost im
possible to procure the quantity con
tracted for, and the price at the pres
ent time had gone up to $3 25, the con
tract price being $1 57. The board ex
pressed sympathy for Dierson, but be
yond that he received little consolation.
The board could see no way to release
Dierson or to modify his contract, con
sequently he will be compelled to sup
ply the State with beans on the con
tract price.
"vvhen the question of considering the
proposed bids on the contract for a new
boiler to be used in connection with
the rock crusher came up. Chairman
Fitzgerald said that, as some misap
prehension seemed to have arisen as to
whether the board should make any
distinction between an Eastern ana
California-made boiler, he suggested
that new specifications be drawn, pub
lication for bids be again made and the
present bids rejected, returned to the
respective bidders and not given pub
licity. The motion was carried, after
which the board went into executive
session and adjourned after auditing
the February claims.
OPENS PRISON GATES
FOR PETTY OFFENDERS.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.— The decision
given by Judge Van Dyke yesterday that
the Police Courts of this city are ille
gally constituted has precipitated a seri
ous state of affairs, and will probably re
sult in a demand for a new law by the
next State Legislature. The Police Judges
were elected as City Justices also, and
thus occupied a dual position. Yesterday
they took up the criminal business of the
city as City Justices when they learned
that their positions as Police Judges were
invalid. To-day the question of their
standing as City Justices is raised.
They were elected under an amendment
to section 103 of the Code of Civil Pro
cedure, which provides that cities of over
15.000 inhabitants and less than 34.000 shall
elect one justice, and of over 34.000 and
under 100,000 shall elect two justices.
When they wtre elected there had been
no census taken showing the population
of Lob Angeles to be over 100,000, but sub
sequently a census has shown it to be
over 100.000. The question now raised is
whether they have been legally in office
since the taking of the census. It is con
ceded that after their present term the
city cannot have City Justices.
I nder the decision declaring the Police
Judges illegally in office the chaingang
must be done away with, a number of
persons now serving sentence can be re
leased by habeas corpus proceedings, and
many other results of a like nature fol
low.
ZOLA YET
HOPEFUL OF
REVISION
Believes Others Will
Carry on the
Campaign.
However, He Will Take
an Appeal From the
Judgment.
Policy of the French Govern
ment Is to Stop All Fur
ther Agitation.
M. MELINE SO DECLARES.
And Now His Cabinet Is Stronger
Than Ever and Will Safely Meet
Coming Elections.
Copyrighted, IS9S, by James Gordon Bennett.
PARIS, Feb. 26.— Z01a has accepted
his sentence without evincing surprise.
"After all," Zola told us journalists, "it
is more logical perhaps and better as
iit is. Persecution has always been the
handmaid of truth." He is not dis
i couraged, and believes firmly that the
i campaign for revision — so hateful has
the opposition been from the point of
■ view of this special object of "revolu
i tionary measures" (that is the expres
; sion he uses) — will be continued by
■ others. He has decided, however, to
j profit by the right of appeal against
the judgment, and if the Court of Ces
sation admits the ground, which seems
! doubtful in spite of the numerous
; points of appeal taken by the defense,
all will commence over again before
another court and another jury, but
; this cannot be done immediately, and
there is general lassitude. The need of
quiet is preached almost without dis
tinction of opinion by the greater part
of the press, with the exception of
journals which can only thrive upon
agitation. This sentiment has reached
such a degree that the mot of the situ
ation was said on Thursday, from his
chair, by the President of the Council,
M. Meline, replying to the numerous
interpellations the Zola trial called
forth in the Chamber.
"The conclusion to deduce is that it
is necessary that this should stop to
day," cried M. Meline amid the ap
plause of the Chamber. "The role of
the Government will be to bring about
a cessation of the agitation on the part
of all and to make all accept it,"
This declaration procured for the
Cabinet the greatest majority it has
been able to obtain since the com
mencement of this dangerous affair,
and so often brought before Parlia
ment, where it excited those violent
signs you know.
Mellne's Cabinet is stronger than
ever. It will safely meet the approach
ing elections. The arm of the War De
partment which Socialists would have
liked to have employed against him has
burned their hands, and the imprudent
intervention of their chief, M. Jaurez,
who wanted to make the witness-box
of the Court of Assizes a political ros
trum, and was only saved from com
promising seriously his personal posi
tion, has taken their weapons out of
their grasp. So true is this that the
announcement has already been made
that certain candidates who have
wished to present themselves as Social
ists pure and simple must cut loose
from certain compromising sections
and openly adopt a more refined line
of conduct.
INTERESTS THE PEOPLE
OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— The House
Committee on Rivers and Harbors to-day
gave a hearing to the members of the
California delegation relative to the im
provement of rivers and harbors in Cali
fornia. There were present Representa
tives Loud, De Vries, Barham and Hil
born, Hugh Craig of San Francisco, State
Senator Gleaves of Shasta County, and
Robert T. Devlin of Sacramento. Mr.
Craig advocated an appropriation of $500,
000 for the removal of Arch and Shag
rocks in San Francisco Bay. Mr. Devlin
asked the committee to insert in the bill
an appropriation of $280,000 for improving
Sacramento River. The other members
of the delegation argued in favor of vari
ous improvements throughout the State.
The committee, after the hearings, re
quested Representative de Vries to pre
pare and submit to it all engineer re
ports (State and Federal) on the pro
posed improvements of rivers in the Sac
ramento and San Joaquln Valleys.
Representative Custle to-day Introduced
a bill providing for a new judicial cir
cuit in the State of California, to be
known as the Central Judicial Circuit.
The court is to be held at Fresno.
By direction of the President, the Army
Retiring Board convened at San Francis
co by the War Department on an order
dated October 5, 1897, is dissolved, and a
board is appointed to meet at the call of
the president thereof at San Francisco,
for the examination of such' officers as
may be ordered before it. Detail for the
board; Colonel Charles R. Greenleaf, as
sistant surgeon-general; Colonel Evan
Miles, First Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel
Johnson V. D. Mlddleton, deputy sur
f eon-general ; Lieutenant-Colonel Louis T.
lorris. Fourth Cavalry; Major David H
Kinzie, Third Artillery; First Lieutenant
Robert H. Noble, First Infantry aid-de
camp, recorder.
By direction of the President, Major
William C. Shannon, surgeon, will, upon
Ine expiration of his present sick leave
of absence report in person to Colonel
Charles R. Greenleaf, assistant surgeon
general, president of the Army Retiring
Board at San Francisco, for examination !
by the board.
Sergeant Charles Leidenberger, detach
ment of ordnance, Benicia Arsenal, Cal.,
and Hospital Steward Christian Schmidt,
Presidio of San Francisco, have been
placed on the retired list. First Sergeant
John F. Studt and Private James W.
Garrett, now at Benicia Barracks, Cal.,
are, upon their own application, transfer
red to the Fourteenth Infantry as pri
vates, and will be sent to Vancouver
Barracks, Washington, for assignment to j
companies.
Pensions: California: Original— James i
Reeves, National Military Home, Los
Angeles, $6; Charles Hoofman, Veterans'
Home, Napa, $8; Joseph Lucas, Golden
Gate, San Francisco, $12; Richard M.
Coates, Magalia. $S; Samuel E. Chapman,
Napa, $6; Lyman Allen, Pasadena, $8.
Oregon: Original — Augustus Wagner
(dead), Milton, $12; Edmund D. Barton
(dead), Portland, $12. Original widow,
etc.— Clara Wagner, Milton, $8.
Washington: Original— George W. Mills
Tumwater. $6.
Will Soon Reach Panama.
Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett.
PANAMA, Feb. 26.— The Panama Canal
Commission is expected to arrive here
on March 7. The Herald's correspondent
In Nicaragua, under date of February 5,
said the Nicaragua Canal Commission
would arrive In Colon between March iO
and 15. Panama canal and railroad au
thorities have been instructed to extend
&l\ facilities for the Nicaragua Canal
Commission to visit the works.
DASHED ASHORE
ON THE FLATS
Disaster to the Alaskan
Steamship Oregon
at Juneau.
Passengers Suffer Greatly From
the Cold Before She Is
Floated.
City of Topeka Speaks the Overdue
Scotia, Which Reports All
Well.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
SEATTLE, Feb. 26.— The steamship
City of Topeka arrived here to-night
from Juneau, Alaska. The officers of
the Topeka report that during a ter
rific windstorm at Juneau last Sunday
the steamship Oregon was blown
shore on the Juneau flats. She was ly
ing in Juneau harbor at anchor when
the gale struck her, and after strain
ing at her anchors, for some time she
began to drag, and then a tremendous
sea hurled her upon the flats. Several
horses were thrown against the side of
the vessel as she struck, and some were
killed.
All day she lay in that position, the
passengers suffering terribly, as dur
ing the gale a terrible snowstorm
| raged. The thermometer registered 8
degrees below zero and the wind was
piercing cold. When the gale abated
;at high tide the vessel was floated.
! Fortunately the flats are soft and the
Oregon suffered no injury.
On the way down the Topeka spoke
I the Corona and brings word from Cap
; tain Goodall that she can be /aised.
j Divers found no large holes in her hull
j and what leakages were found had
I been stopped and the water pumped
I out. Everthing was in readiness when
i the Topeka left to raise her.
On Thursday the long overdue
i steamship Scotia was passed, bound to
Seattle from Skaguay. She reported
all well. The steamship Rustler had
returned to Juneau from another un
successful search for the bodies of
those who perished in the Clara Ne
vada disaster.
Juneau has a coal famine and there
is only sufficient fresh meat in town
to last from the arrival of one boat to
that of another. The weather has
been something terrible for a week
past, cyclonic gales have been blowing
continuously and the thermometer has
been from zero to nine below.
STRIKERS NEED
FINANCIAL AID
Appeal to Be Made to the
American Federation
of Labor.
Believe That the Prospect of a War
With Spain Will Cause Fac
tories to Reopen.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
BOSTON, Feb. 26.— The New Bedford
strike council issued a call this morn
ing for an important meeting to-mor
row afternoon, when questions of the
gravest importance in the progress of
the strike will be considered. The lead
ers of the strike realize that the fight
cannot be maintained ■without financial
aid, and it has been decided to appeal
to the American Federation of Labor,
which never assists until formally ap
pealed to. It was thought the strike
could be maintained by voluntary con
tributions, but although the sum real
ized this week far exceeds that of any
previous week during the strike, the
amount is insufficient to carry on the
fight.
At the meeting to-morrow it will be
decided to delegate Secretary Samuel
Ross of the Spinners' Union to go to
Washington on Wednesday. The spin
ners have not yet touched their re
serve fund, for the mule spinners are
so well organized that they are being
supported by outside comrades. The
case is different with larger bodies, but
the feeling is that with the American
Federation of Labor behind the strikers
the operatives will be able to hold out
long enough to win their battle. The
war talk has entered largely into this
feeling of buoyancy, and the leaders
look for such a jump in the cloth mar
ket that the manufacturers will be
forced to open up on the old prices.
In the discussion of the situation this
morning there was but little hope held
out for a settlement. Good judges say
that should the American Federation of
Labor take up the fight the strike will
be prolonged to such a length that it
will either wear itself out or come to
an end through some unexpected event
which cannot be foreshadowed.
Attempt to Murder a Chinese.
VENTURA, Feb. 26.— Chinatown was
the scene of an attempt at murder last
night. Chu Toy. a cook in the Santa
Clara House, was slashed with a knife
and cleaver across the face, arm and
body. He was horribly mutilated, but
will live. His assailant, whose name is
not known, cannot be found by the of
ficers.
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