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VOLUME LXXXV-NO. 178.
DEWEY STATUE AN
ASSURED SUCCESS
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Sub- °
scribed in One Day to the Monu- 1
ment to the Hero of Manila. •
TWENTT-PIV E THOUSA NP
DOLARS was the amount
subscribed toward the monu
ment to Admiral Dewey and
the American navy yesterday.
It vms the tirst day the citizens'
committee having charge of the
project had hpgun ihf> Rotual work
.if raising funds, and one-fourth of
the entire amount necessary for
the purpose was the result But the
.: not going to
come in in $5000 and $10,000 lumps,
li must be distinctly understood
that California's tribute to the hero
of Manila Bay and the officers and
men who shared with him the
glorious victory is an offering from
all the people, and not from a few.
The committee wisely decided to
give the people an absolute guaran
tee of the success of the movement
by securing a safe start before
calling upon the multitude's for their
offerings.
Thousands have already been
pledged; now the dimes and dol
lars will begin to pour in.
The general committee met in
r Phelan'fl private office at 4
Lay afternoon, there
. a larger attendance than at
either of the previous meetings,
which attests to the growing popu
larity of the Dewey monument.
Mayor Phelan presided, and there
were also present E. B. Pond. Irv
ing M. Scott, Captain Fletcher, F.
W. Van Sicklen, George D. Clark,
Charles 1.. Patton, Joseph D. Grant,
Bloss, W. C Stafford, J. B.
Reinsteln, Charles Bundschu, Jo
seph S. Tobin and Colonel C. H.
Murphy. Mr. Scott announced that
he was going East on the evening
train and would see the California
colony in New York and elsewhere
and -nlist their co-operation.
\ finance committee, consisting
O f ]•:. W. Hopkins, K. B. Pond,
Charles L. Patton, F. W. Van
KILLED BY LIGHTNING
WHILE PREACHING
Awful Death of Rev. H. H. Baldwin
While Conducting Revival
Services in Oklahoma.
NEW YORK, May 26.-A special to the
Bun from Guthrle, O. T., says: Rev, , H.
H. Baldwin, an aged preacher, was killed
by lightning while conducting religious
hers.. at Fountain, in Dewey County,
last night. For a week he had been con
ducting a revival, and the little church
was crowded yesterday. He gave out the
hymn and led in prayer, and then went
to the Bible and gave out bis text. Then
the storm broke. He appealed to' the con
gregation to lead better lives and to feel
spiritual calm after a life of sin, the
roughness and turbulence of which he
compared with the violence of the storm
raging out of doors.
Just then the crash of thunder came,
while a brilliant flash almost blinded those
in the front pews. When they recovered
from the confusion the minister lay on
the floor dead. The congregation was in
a great state of fear, and the men in the
audience, mostly cattlemen, feared to ap
proach the body for some minutes.
Women screamed and some fainted.
Mr. Baldwin had been living in the Ter
ritory several years. He came from ll
nois.
AN APPEAL TO AID
THE FAMINE SUFFERERS
Rev. Mr. Francis Writes That Two
Million Dollars Are Required
for Russian Relief Work.
NEW YORK. May X. A cable to the
Bun from London say a: Rev. Mr. Fran
pastor of the British-American
church in St. Petersburg, writes to the
papers a pitiful appeal for help for 5,000,
--000 famine Bufferera in the eastern prov
of Russia, where lie is now work
ing as chairman of the relief committee.
fives distressing details of the Buf
fering of the people. Tic says that $2,000,
--000 will be required to keep the starving
] pi<> alive during the three months to
the next harvest.
The San Francisco Call.
Sicklen and Leon Sloss. was ap
pointed to take charge of subscrip
tions as they come in and attend
to the other financial matters.
Captain Fletcher submitted
sign for a Bouvenir receipt,
was adopted with a few slight al
terations suggested by the mem
bers present. The souvenir is a
marvel of artistic elegance and will
long be cherished by the fortunate
ssors.
Then the question of raising funds
was brought up and it was decided
after some discussion as to the best
method of proceeding, that it
would be advisable to go before the
people with a positive assurance of
the success of the movement in the
shape of a sufficient sum pledged to
dispel all doubt. Mayor Phelan an
nounced that although First
Vice President Claus Spreckela
has been out of town for
some days, and consequently
unable to attend the meetings
of the committee so far, he had
sent word to the Mayor that he
would be happy to send in his sub
scription to the fund as soon as the
committee was in readiness to re
ceive It. The Mayor was requested
to send a telegram to Mr. Spreckels
inviting him to head the list. The
dispatch was sent and promptly
came the reply that Mr. Spreckels
would head the list with $10,000.
Mayor Phelan told the committee
that he was anxious to pay $5000
for one" of those souvenir receipts;
another member announced that
John W. Mackay's check for a
similar amount was awaiting
the committee's pleasure, and still
another stated that "a friend"
who modestly declined to
have his name made public
just at present was ready
with the third $5000 subscription.
Each announcement was received
WHEN DOES THE 19TH
CENTURY CLOSE
This Question Takes the Presbyterian
Assembly Longer to Decide Than
the Roberts Case.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 26.— 1t took
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church longer to decide to-day when the
nineteenth century ends than it took to
pass the resolution against the Mormon
Congressman Roberts and in favor of
the anti-polygamy amendment to the na
tional constitution. These resolutions,
which represent the matured thought of
the Presbyterians of the United States
after many months of consideration, so
exactly expressed the sentiment of every
conunisisoner that they were adopted
without even a single supporting speech.
The commisslone rs generally feel that in
calling for the expulsion of Roberts and
for the adoption of an amendment to the
national constitution detlning legal mar
riage to be monogamic they have started
a movement which will be taken up all
over the country and will reach event
ual success. The adopted resolutions were
originally written b» K<-v. William Paden
of Salt Lake City, but were modified arid
expanded by the committee on bills and
overtures, though not essentially.
As for the end of the nineteenth cen
tury, one of the reports spoke of next
year as the opening of the new century.
I'pon objection and after a little debatt
the stated clerk held that next year is the
last of this century. Presbyterians will
henceforth get along without this exciting
topic of discussion.
DEWEY AMAZED MY
LAVISH PREPARATIONS
NEW YORK, May 27.— The World's
Hongkong corespondent cables he gave
Admiral Dewey to-day the first Informa
tion that the city of New York will ex
pend $150,000 and the State of New York
$7fi.000 in giving a fitting welcome to the
hero of Manila Bay. The Admiral said:
"I am amazcu at such lavish prepara
tions."
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 27. 1899.
with hearty applause, and the
members expressed themselves as
more than satisfied with the out
look. Some of them suggested that
the committee on design would
have to hurry up with Its work or
the money would all be collected
before the plans had been cum
plete 1.
With a quarter of the total
amount pledged at the start, the
committee felt that the people
would feel assured that the monu
ment was beyond the sentimental
stage and had become a reality, and
th"y would respond accordingly.
The city was divided into districts
and every member of the committee
assigned to one section with in
structions to make a most thorough
canvass for funds. Every bank and
insurance company, merchant and
broker, tradesman and professional
man will be called upon to contrib
ute. As the Dewey monument is a
State affair the country is looked to
for support as well as the city, and
for the benefit of those living out of
town as well as residents of the
outlying districts all the local news
papers have been authorized to re
ceive subscriptions. The commit
tee will appoint no collectors and
nobody aside from the business of
fices of the daily papers and the
members of the committee them
selves is authorized to collect sub
scriptions. If you are not nerson
ally acquainted with some member
of the committee the best plan is
for you to drop into one of the
newspaper offices and leave your
contribution or write to the com
mittee for a subscription blank,
which has been prepared and will
be sent to you. Fill this out and
send it in and one of the committee
will call upon you.
The first $25,000 was raised In one
day, the people should strive to
raise the second $25,000 in equally as
short a time.
RECOVERS THE BOY
HE MOURNED AS DEAD
Kidnaped Son of T. S. Gardiner Found
With a Family at Otter
Bay.
VANCOUVER, B. C, May 26.— The
seven-year-old son of T. S. Gardiner, said
to be a merchant of San Francisco, was
discovered to-day by the police in the pos
session of Samuel Cawker, who lives at
Otter Bay. Three months ago the Gardi
ner boy mysteriously disappeared from
Seattle, where his father had placed him
in a private family. It was learned thai
he had been stolen while on the way to
school, but the father persisted in the be
lief that be was dead. So certain was he
of this that he wrote to a firm of under
takers in this city, asking if they knew
anything about the boy having beeh bur
ied. They did not, and then the case was
placed in the hands of the police.
The boy, who is a bright little fellow,
was enticed away by his stepmother, who
■I' • rted Gardiner two years ago. She
brought him to Vancouver, and here
treated him cruelly. Then she took him
to the Cawkers. which is an out of the
way place, and left him there, promising
to pay for his board. The child was thin
and emaciated. Nothing has been seen of
the stepmother since. She lived at the
place for a while, but used the child so
badly that Cawker, taking a fancy to the
boy, agreed to take care of him.
Oardlner is expected to arrive here next
week after his -son, who will be placed
again in the care of friends at Seattle.
GERMANS ARE JUBILANT.
Gratified by What They Are Pleased
to Term Kautz's "Recall."
BERLIN, May 26.— The newspapers
here are jubilating over what they term
Admiral Kautz's "recall."
The Lokal Anzelger says: This shows
anew the American Government's good
will to remove all obstacles to a peaceful
understanding. It also says that a third
German, Captain Knlse, is now under ar
rest on the German cruiser Falke, at
Apia, charged, like Herron Huffnagel and
Marquardt, with complicity in the recent
insurrection.
COLD BEDS
WILL HELD
MILLIONS
Thus Declares the Discoverer
of the Cerro Pinto
Placers.
ALLEN FRASER TALKS
By the Crudest Methods Indians
and Mexicans Have Taken
Out Fortunes.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
LOS ANGELES, May 26.— Allen G.
Fraser, who has gained prom
inence through having been the
first white man to enter the rich
placer dig-sings j n tne Santa
Clara district. 300 miles south of En
senada. In Lower California, is a fruit
grower, having his home at Arlington,
Riverside County, in an Interview with
James Irving, the assayer, Fraser said:
"I can fully confirm the reports of
discoveries of gold in the placer
grounds in the Santa Clara district.
The half has not been told, neither has
the greatest wealth in that section been
touched. These placer grounds have
been worked in a crude way by Indians
and Mexicans for many years. They
have used the simplest of appliances.
! In keeping with their nature they have
been very secretive. The large quan
tity of gold that came from the lnt< rior
had aroused much speculation, hence
the receni discovery.
"The find that I practically made
covers about fifteen square miles, but
there is another field that la equally
as rich several miles from the first that
has so far not been touched. The fu
ture alone can tell how much the dig
gings will yield. The output will run
i into the seven figures before it is ex
, hausted. Pres mi appliances are so im
perfect that the heaviest gold only is
taken out When modern dry washers
I are in operation the yield through Tiner
gold will rapidly swell the output.
"The lti(ii;ins with their methods took
"Ut from $1 to $20 a day. I have taken
up 250 acres and shall go back as soon
us I complete some business arrange
"One peculiar thing is that after dig
ging down two feet water is encoun
tered, and it iooks to me as if an un
derground swamp had at some time
existed. It is a peculiar condition and
one that offers opportunity for the
student. I think sufficient water can
be developed for all purposes."
Fraser says the process of taking up
claims is Blow and the Mexican Gov
ernment wiil not issue a certificate un
less the claim has been surveyed by the
proper persons. He knows nothing
personally of the $158,000 reported to
have been shipped to Guaymas. That
the report is true he does not deny,
because the field Is rich and the con
tributions of the many would soon
reach that figure if nuggets were in
cluded in the shipment.
The Santa Fe passenger department
is making preparations to accommodate
the travel expected from here. The
new El Dorado can he readied <>nly via
the Santa Fe from San Diego, and in
quiries as to rates and routes are nour
ing in upon the passenger department.
Work will at once be begun upon the
necessary printed matter, showing, in
detail how to reach the district. Kates
of fares will be quoted and dates of the
Bailing of steamers out of San Diego.
Should the bonanza pan out as has been
predicted, a regular passenger service
will be instituted from San Pedro down
the coast. The Southern Pacific pas
senger department may also recom
mend to headquarters at San Francisco
that a steamer line be placed in service
from Port Los Angeles.
THE STAMPEDE IS ON.
Schooner Anita to Take the First
Load of Gold-Seekers.
SAN DlE<;<>. May 26.— Scores of pen
pie are only awaiting an opportunity to
try their fortune in the Cerro Pinta
placers. Captain Dunne of the schooner
Anita, which will sail on Monday for
San Pablo Bay, has been besieged with
applications for passage on his vessel,
and application was made this morning
to the Board of Inspectors of Hulls at
San Francisco to allow the vessel to
take fifty passengers in addition to her
crew.
"We could book 250 passengers on
the Anita," said Agent Mendelson this
morning, "if we could only rind room
for them."
At noon to-day Mr. Mendelson re
ceived a dispatch authorizing the Anita
to take the additional passengers asked
for, and when the vessel sails she will
be loaded to the guards with passen
gers and freight for the placers.
Manager Swain of the Ibarra Mining
Company at Calmalli, who has a thor
ough knowledge of the country where
the excitement is on, believes implicitly
in the reports of the rich gold discov
eries at Sierra Pintada. and has given
local carpenters an unlimited order to
supply him all the dry washers they
can make by Monday at $25 each. They
will be taken down on the Anita, and
will sell at the mines for not less than
$150 each.
The St. Denis is being fitted up with
additional berths, and on her next trip
will go to Ascension Bay. She will
have accommodations for 100 passen
gers.
The next definite news from the
placers will be received by the Santa
Barbara, which is due at Ensenda
about May 30. The schooner was sent
south from that port with a full cargo
of provisions, and is expected to bring
back a quantity of gold.
Every available craft on the bay has
CHINA WILL TURN
UPON HER SPOILERS
Orders to Put Troops on a War Footing
to Resist German and Italian
Aggression.
LONDON, May 27.— The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Mail says: "Orders have been issued from Peking direct
ing the Viceroys and Governors of the neighboring prov
inces to put all their forces on a war footing, owing to the
arrival of six Italian warships in San Mun harbor.
"It is thought also that the Chinese propose to drive the
Germans from the Shan Tung peninsula."
NEW YORK, N. V., May 26.— A Sun Cable from Shanghai
says the North China Gazette says Great Britain has agreed to
transfer Wei-Hai=Wei to Germany two years hence in return for
German concessions in South Africa.
FINLAND INTENDS TO
SAFEGUARD ITS RIGHTS
ALEXANDER'S STATUE AT HELSINGFORS.
Around This Monument, Built by the Subscriptions of Thousands of Finns in Grati
tude to the Czar who Granted Them All the Liberty They Enjoy, the
People Lately Gathered to Protest Against the Tyranny
of Alexander IPs Grandson.
V fELSINGFORS, Finland, May 26.
nThe Finnish Diet, r.fter a pro
tracted deliberation over the new
i military law, is discussing a counter
1 measure by which some of the Rus
sian institutions will be accepted, but
the principle of the rights of Finland
i will be strictly safeguarded.
been chartered by parties going to the
mines, and business houses report a de
cided increase in sales of supplies dur
ing the past few days. Horace G.
Lowe, W. E. Hadley, A. J. Culver. M.
Kew and T. M. Loop have organized a
company under the name of the On
ward and Upward Mining Company,
and to-day commenced to get their out
fit together. T. Loop, F. A. Culver and
J. T. Kew will represent the company
at the mines, £.nd will leave for the
Sierra Pintada gold fields as soon as
their transportation can be obtained.
Inquiries regarding transportation
were received to-day by the agent of
the schooner Anita from Virginia City,
San Francisco, San Jose and many
other parts of the West. The following
passengers were booked to-day for pas
sage on the Anita, en route to the
placers and as many more are expected
to engage passage to-morrow: F. A.
Garretson, F. M. Vernon, W. W. Morris,
G. BrackenhofL", S. K. Weed, W. C. Kal
The closing of the Diet is now im
minent and will accentuate the differ
ences between the Russians and
x inns.
The ITinnish press declares that
proclamations are being circulated
among the population, urging them
to niake "common cause with the
ston, Theodore Baker, J. Moss, A. Bell.
F. S. Carter, Frank Safford, Alfred Orn,
J. W. Thorman, Alfred Cave, Fred
Hacke, J. P. Israel, E. C. Hlckman, Mr.
Kahln, S. J. Agnew, J. Runk, W.
Sheldon, H. M. Snyder. Joe Tobin. M. O.
Loughlin. J. J. Price and partner.
NO MORE PAPER MONEY
FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Uncle Sam Cannot Afford to Feed
Ants on Bills of Large Denom
ination.
NEW YORK, May 26.— A Washington
special to the Herald says: Paper money
cannot be used in the Philippines, for
there is variety of ants in the islands
which eat almost everything, and arc par
ticularly fond of paper. In a recent ship
ment of money for troops was H ,000.000 In
paper money of small denominations, and
preparations were beins made- to send
more paper in the next shipment, when a
warning was siven that hereafter nothing
but told and silver coin must be sent to
PRICB FIVE CENTS.
Poles against Russian barbarism,"
and declaring that the aiceptance of
Russian rule will result in a division
of the land pmong the poor. The press
adds that this agitation is inspired by
malevolence and with the object of
involving the Finns in differences
with the Russian Government.
tne islands. Jt was stated that the ants
got Into the boxes and attacked the pack
ages (if bills, which were saved from de
struction only by the greatest care. As
far as the officials here know none of the
money was actually destroyed, the dam
age dune being probably no more serious
than the eating away of the edges of
notes, or perhaps making holes through
some of them.
PRUSSIAN DOCTORS
DRUGGED RECRUITS
Method of Exemption From Military
Service Has Caused Four
Deaths.
BERLIN, May 26.— A sensation has been
caused by the arrest of two physicians
in Elberfeld and Renischeid. towns of
Rhenish Prussia, charged with system
atically drugging recruits so as to exempt
them from military service. It is assert
ed thai four of the persons thus treated
have died from the results of the drugs
administered to them. The prisoners of
fered bail in the sum of 50,000 murks, but
this was refused.