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Alexieff Is Practically
Sovereign of the
Territory.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16.— The press
here unanimously dilates on the magni
tude of the powers j conferred upon Vice
Admiral Alexieff, the new Viceroy of the
Amur territory and the: Kwangtung prov
ince, as even exceeding the authority con
ferred ori the Governor of the
Caucasus ; insurrection, and explains the
difference as being, due to international
complications. The newspapers agree that
the innovation strengthens the Russian
position; in the Far. East and renders im
?rncdlate action on the spot a more easy
matter. ¦" ¦¦ . ¦ " ¦ ¦ ;¦ . '->."• " - .' ' .¦•
rVThe Minister of the Interior has allowed
the St. Petersburg Vedomosti to resume
publication, which had been forbidden for
unknown ; reasons since . February 25.
LONDON, , Aug. . 17.— According, to a
Toklo;< dispatch to ' the Daily Mail, "the
Japanese consider :Vice Admiral Alexieff,
the * new Viceroy : of \ the Amur '< territory
and the Kwangtung province, their ablest
and most bitter , r enemy. •
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AMUR'S VICEROY
ALL-POWERFUL
It is said h'ere that Count Lamsdorf ,
the Russian Foreign Minister, advised
Mme. Rostkovski, widow of the mur
dered Consul at Monastir, to accept the
$80,000 Indemnity offered her by the Porte
and which she refused, declaring that she
did not want Turkish charity.
A Belgrade dispatch to the Neues Wel
ner Tages reports that a Servian priest Is
recruiting large numbers of insurgents
among the serf element in the villages of
the Uskub vilayet.
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A number of Greeks and Wallachians,
who joined the insurgents under threats,
have gone over to the Turkish troops.
Official information saya that the In
habitants of 100 villages have laid down
their arms and been pardoned.
The Times correspondent at Constanti
nople says the summary execution of the
murderer of Rostkovski has greatly in
censed the lower classes in Monastlr. The
foreign Consuls there have been provided
with military escorts and their houses
are guarded. by Turkish soldiers.
According ' to the newspapers. General
Zontcheff, the president of the Macedo
nian committee, who was reported Aug
ust 13 to have been arrested by the Bul
garian police near the Macedonian fron
tier, has escaped from Bulgaria into Mac
edonia.
According to official reports the insur
gents massacred all of the officials in
Krushevo.
About 200 of the insurgents were killed
in the fighting at Perlepe. northeast of
Monastlr. ;?a-- ,.;:;.>
stlr, and the center of the district
where the insurrection is hottest. The in
surgents captured the place August 4, two
daya after the proclamation of the revo
lution. Three Turkish columns from dif
ferent points effected its recapture.
After a bombardment of the entrench
ments of the insurgents, dynamite mines
behind the entrenchments were exploded,
causing much damage. The insurgents
retired to the mountains, -where the right
ing continued.
LONDON. Aug. 16.— Turkish dis
patches give details of the recap
ture of the town of Krusheyo,
twenty-three miles north of Mona-
FLORENCE. Colo,, Aug. 16,— A mass
meeting of coal miners was held to-day
to organize the men of .this district and
bring them Into the United Mine Workers
of Ame rica. After | the meeting a large
number of the miners present signed '• the
roll of -membership. It was said that as
soon as the field was thoroughly 'organ
ized the miners of the Northern coal fields
would help the Southern Colorado men , In
a stand for the < eight-hour day, abolish
ment of company, stores, a' better system
of ventilation in the mines ; and -l recogni
tion of their union, when the time is ripe.
Join the United Mine Workers.
By this and other similar acts the Ottoman
administration can be Judged. What must be
the result of all this? Tired of awaiting the
fulfillment of promises of better conditions and
driven to despair, the Bulgarian population
has thrown itself into a revolution, which is
now spreading in an Ottoman province 150
miles from the Bulgarian frontier. The causes
of this revolution are to-day known. The re
sponsibility is fixed and the Porte can no
longer accuse the Bulgarian principality.
The memorandum has made a strong
impression in diplomatic circles. The
Austrian diplomatic agent has already
called upon the Premier" to express his
anxety regarding the results that may
ensue from its publication. The French
and Italian agents also expressed uneasi
ness, although they took a less gloomy
view*
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Not only has the Porte failed to observe- a
single one of the promises, but' it has en
acted sterner measures of repression. To give
only one example: It is prescribed as a condi
tion of release that a Bulgarian prisoner must
furnish financial or personal security, but in
the latter case the surety must be by a Turk
ish • subject of non-Bulgarian origin. It is
easy to comprehend that the imprisoned Bul
garians find it impossible to obtain release un
der such conditions.
Not Ions ago the Porte denounced these rev
olutionary movements as being: fomented by
Bulgaria and tried to put the responsibility
on this principality. To-day it must ac
knowledge that it is its. bad administration
which is the only cause for the trouble. From
sad experiences the Porte must learn that
cruel injustice and bloody repression do not
restore order and peace in a country.
Lastly, the Porte formally promised the Bul
garian Government to cease the arrests of Bui
garian priests and schoolmasters, reopen the
churches and schools. . release the prisoners and
punish the officials guilty of exactions; in
short, to adopt a policy of Justice and amelior
ation.
In conclusion, the memorandum asserts
that the foregoing exposure once more
condemns Ottoman administrative gov
ernment in Europe. It says:
Encouraged by the Ottoman authorities,
the Greek bishops and archimandrites
forced their way into the Bulgarian
church, burned, the prayer books and em
ployed menaces to compel the people to
acknowledge the patriarch. The archi
mandrite of Salonica declared in a recent
sermon that the Sultan did not want Bul
garian exarches in his empire, and if*they
remained they would be exterminated.
In addition to the decree banishing the
Bulgarian tradesmen from Constantinople
and Salonica, the Porte adopted measures
to ruin the traders elsewhere. The Gov
ernor of Monastir issued an order on April
23 forbidding Bulgarians to go abroad, or
even to Constantinople. This order was
Interpreted to prevent Bulgarians going
to any large city and forcing them to deal
only with the Turkish merchants.
The provincial administration employed
every possible means to install Mussul
mans in the Bulgarian villages. On the
slightest pretext the Bulgarians were
forced to sell their lands to the Turks
at any price the latter chose to pay. Bur
dened with taxes, liable I to perform
statute labor for the Turkish land own
ers, the population is reduced to a state
of serfdom. This is one of the principal
causes of discontent, and, when the ex
actions of the tax gatherers are added,
it is not difficult to understand why the
wretched people should revolt from such
a despotic government and servitude. , .
FACTS CONDEMN THE TTJBK.
PERSECUTION OF CLEBGY.
the memorandum states that the Bulgar
ian merchants living in Constantinople
and Salonica were ordered to return to
their native villages and were hot allowed
any time or opportunity to dispose of their
business and property. Some of these Bul
garians, who with their families had been
established for twenty years or more,
were . utterly ruined. As the order ap
plied equally to professors and school
masters, the Bulgarian schools were
closed before the end of the school year.
The authorities rigorously enforced the
same order against the Bulgarian priests,
making every effort to paralyze the de
velopment of religious and educational
work, depriving the Birigarian patriarch,
of all of his privileges and forcing people
to come under the authority of the Greek
patriarch.
550, a grand total of 2800. As Information
is lacking- from many districts in these
vilayets it is believed that without ex
aggeration the number of prisoners may
be placed at even three times this total.
Dealing with other acts of oppression,
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for a very moderate outlay. Sanborn, Vail
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Poster Pictures.
¦ With all the thousands that went out on
the cars from all parts of the city there
was not'a single accident to report. There
was a tendency, however, on the part .of
professional pickpockets to carry on their
nefarious practice and they used their
skill successfully In crowded thorough
fares, to the annoyance of several vic
tims. .
The police have been notified and a
sharp lookout is to be kept for the thieves.
The usual Sunday crowd at Golden Gate
Park and the beach was tremendously
augmented yesterday by some thousands
of the visitors to the city. The day was
ideal and the veterans enjoyed the sylvan
retreats in the park and viewed with joy
the sportive seals on the rocks at the
cliff.
Visitors Make Merry at the Sylvan
Betreat and Watch the Spdrtive '
Seals.
THOUSANDS ENJOY DAY
AT BEACH AND PARK
' The cars were returning to Kansas City
from Forest Park and were crowded with
passengers. The trolley of the first car
had slipped the wire and while it was be
ing replaced the second car, running at a
rapid rate, crashed into the rear end.
Those seriously injured were on the rear
platform of the first car, which was badly
smashed.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 16.— In a rear
end 'collision of two trolley cars to-night
on the Independence-Kansas City line
two persons were fatally injured, four
seriously hurt and a half dozen other3
sustained minor bruises and cuts.
The seriously injured: Eric Cobb, aged
30, will die; William "Wood, 16 years old,
both legs' broken and badly cut, will die;
Minnie Darner, aged 20; C. H. Ingalls,
Barney Haney, Ed Brown, conductor.
Two Injured Passengers Will Die
and Four Are Seriously
Hurt.
REAB-END COLLISION \
OF TWO TROLLEY CARS
Government inspectors passed upon 59,
158,649 live animals last year at a cost of
a little more than a cent each.
GREAT FALLS. Mont, Aug. 16.— By the
overturning of a picnic wagon from St.
Petersburg Mission late last night a party
of nuns and Indian girls were dashed
many feet down the side of a hill. Sister
l'Annunciate, an TJrsullne nun, was fa
tally injured and Mary Reed, a half-breed
Indian girl, badly hurt. Another nun and
several Indian girls were badly bruised
and lacerated. The accident occurred
during an electric storm, a flash of light
ning frightening the horses and causing
them to dash down a steep embankment.
Party of Nuns and Indian Girls Are
Dashed Down Side of a
Hill.
PICNIC WAGON TOPPLES
FROM AN EMBANKMENT
A certain degree of nervousness con
tinued on the American market and pur
chasing orders thus far have chiefly
emanated from Berlin. After a tem
porary decline a3 the outcome of profit
taking, it is expected that the Balkan
trouble may drive investors Into the
American railroad section of the market.
There were large purchases of Canadian
Pacific on both English and American
accounts. Kaffirs again had a good tone
accompanied by improving prices.
LONDON, Aug. 16.— After a compara
tively buoyant week, due to the turn
taken by the American market and the
fact that the settlement here involved
much less difficulty than had been an
ticipated, the stock market closed yes
terday rather dull and below the best
prices recorded. Macedonian affairs, which
hitherto had but slightly affected the
stock market, are thought now to have
taken an ominous appearance, and this
feeling had Its effect on transactions, con
sols being dull and. foreign securities gen
erally lower.
Ominous Appearance of Macedonian
Affairs Has the Effect of Caus
ing Depression.
LONDON STOCK MARKET
CLOSES BATHER DULL
King Charles of Roumanla, In an Inter
view, has conveyed the information that
he would not be traveling if he had any
fears of a rupture of the peace.
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VIENNA, Aug. 16.— It Is reported "on
good authority that Russia's. demands on
Turkey were made after a full under
standing with the Austrian Cabinet, but
that the Austrian authorities had no idea,
that Russia intended to support her de
mands by a naval demonstration. In any
event the situation is considered more
favorable to peace than before.
. .The Porte denies the report emanating
from Sofia that it has armed 5000 Mussul
mans in the vilayet of Uskub.
¦A military train was slightly damaged
last night near Velescal, between Se
lencko and Kuprlll, on the Uskub-Salon
ica line. One soldier was killed and sev-:
eral others wounded.
Two bags of dynamite were found at
tached to the metals on the Vardar rail
way bridge near Kuprlll.
The British Embassador has called the
attention of the Porte to the situation in
Macedonia. He pointed out that grave
consequences may attend fresh murders
of Consuls or forelen subjects. The Em J
bassador had an audience with the Sultan
on Friday morning. ,
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16.— The Rus
sian press does not lay emphasis ou the
dispatch of a division of the Russian
Black Sea fleet to Turkish waters, merely
repeating the official statement without
comment. The Novoe Vremya, in an out
spoken editorial, says:
Bitter experience has shown the uselessness
and disadvantage of all concerted measures.
Now, since the murder of M. Rostkovski does
not concern Europe, we are proceeding with
out any concert, and, therefore, we can more
confidently predict complete satisfaction for
our demands of Turkey.
thirty-two batteries of quick-fire
field artillery guns, each constituted of six
guns. ¦ / .
The officials here affect ignorance of the
news that Russia is sending a squadron
to Turkish waters. They say that two
divisions of the Russian Black Sea fleet,
which recently assembled ' for the usual
autumn maneuvers, left Batoum three
days ago and Bome of the vessels will
probably visits ports on the Turkish
Black Sea littoral, as was the case last
year, but the movement has no signifi
cance and they scout the idea of a Rus
sian naval demonstration.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 16.— The
Ottoman Government has con
cluded negotiations with the
Krupp works for the supply of
Mv mother. Mrs. Goodwin, and I never con
ducted a reading-room in Oakland together or
at any place else. In reference to Schafer not
having knowledge of the divorce, the fact that
his lawyer advised him not to kidnap his chil
dren because he would only get himself in
trouble, but to coax his daughter to go with
him to Oakland and then fight it out in the
courts there. Is sufficient evidence of their
knowledge of the legality of my custody of the
children. But he did not obey, and he took
his daughter forcibly away from her teacher
against her will, as any one who heard her
screams for help can testify. Schafer used his
political pull (as he is doing now in Nebraska)
to work the police of Sacramento, and as he
had done in every city where he supposed I
would locate, and his movements are not now
•nd never have been aboveboard. My husband.
Mr. Beck, never figrured In any way In my do
mestic troubles and any assertion to the con
trary Is false.
I went East because be threatened my life,
and also he told my mother that he had every
lawyer and Judge in the county of Alameda
"fixed" so that they would not dare bring a
decision contrary to his wishes, and this later
1 believed firmly, because my suit was post
poned many time against my express wishes.
As for the fraud charged about the Ne
braska divorce, I have ample proof and wit
nesses to prove my allegation of habitual
drunkenness against Schafer. The State law
of Nebraska Is somewhat different in regard
to summons in either civil or divorce case from
the California code, and the law was coirplled
with In every point, as the judgment roll of
the case shows.
The cause of our domestic troubles was
drunkenness and frequent absences from home.
These absences sometimes extended for a
month or more at a time and no excuse waa
ever given for them. The fact that he gam
bled and drank waa no excuse for them to me.
In September, 1901, I commenced a suit for
divorce against Paul J. Schafer in Oakland.
where I then resided, on the grounds of ex
treme cruelty and non-support, as my applica
tion there on Ale will show. Instead of Sehafer
being "the aggrieved party" in this affair. I
moEt certainly am, as I could have brought
suit under all the necessary allegations for di
vorce under the California law save that of
felony. Schafer made no cross-complaint at
this time, which he certainly would have done
bad he such facts as he now claims he had and
now puts forth to the public.
My. divorce was granted on the ground of
habitual drunkenness in Omaha, Nebr., Octo
ber 22. lim'Z. My residence in Nebraska was
bona tide, as I can prove, because I went there
with the avowed purpose of practicing Chris
tian Science, and was going to locate in the
Bee building, Omaha.
SACRAMENTO. Aug. 16.— Mrs. Herbert
W. Beck of Sacramento, former wife of
Assistant Postmaster Paul J. Schafer of
Oakland, was interviewed to-day with
reference to the story in this morning's
Call announcing that Schafer had filed a
petition in Omaha, Nebr., to have her
decree of divorce from him set aside on
the ground of perjury and fraud.
Mrs. Beck lives with her husband, Her
bert W. Beck, and her mother, Mrs. Jo
sephine Hunt Goodwin, in this city, where
they are practicing Christian Science. A
sensation was caused in this city a few
months ago .when Schafer kidnaped his
child while she was in the custody of a
governess employed by the mother, now
Mrs. Beck. Schafer was arrested and ex
amined in this city, but was discharged.
Mrs. Beck to-day 'prepared and signed
the following Btatement for publication in
The Call with reference to the Nebraska
divorce and the charges uttered by her
former husband:
Special Dispatch to The Call
Two Divisions of
Russian BlackSea
Fleet Are Moving
Claims That Drunkenness
Was the Cause of All
Her Trouble.
Mrs. Beck Denies That
She Secured Divorce
by Fraud.
Sultan Makes Large
Purchase of GunS
of Krupp Works
REPUES TO HER
FORMER HUSBAND
TWO HUNDRED MACEDONIANS ARE SLAIN;
BULGARIA ADDRESSES PLEA TO POWERS
CONVICTS VISIT
CAMPING PARTY
Make x Known Their
Identity and Secure
Provisions.
Turkish Atrocities
Are Set Forth by
Sofia Government
Outlaws Start Off in the
: Direction of the Glen
Alpine Trail.
Memorandum Cites
Long Series of Ap
palling Outrages
PL.ACERVILLE, Aug. 15.— Attorney
Fred Irwin of this city, who has been
camping at Phillip's station, near the
summit, in company with John F. Arm
strong, Register of the United States
I-«and Office at Sacramento, returned home
to-day and reported that last Friday
morning three men armed with rifles vis
ited their camp and. stating they had
gone two days without food, asked for
something to cat. The men appeared tired
and exhausted and they were given
breakfast, after which they left taking
eome provisions with them in a sack.
When getting their provisions, the women
and children of the camp gathered round
them to see who they were, and the
strangers suggested that they had better
not get too close to them as a sheriff's
posse might be in the neighborhood and
lire on them. They further stated that
they were escaped convicts and that they
would not intentionally harm any one.
They were extremely courteous to the
campir.g party.
Theron, who was recognized from a pic
ture, caught sight of Register Armstrong,
who in appearance and size somewhat
resembles Sheriff Bosquit, and, clapping
liis hand on his revolver, inquired. "Isn't
that the big sheriff?" He remained sus
jiicious after being told who Armstrong
was, for he kept his eye on Armstrong
until his companions had started off in
the direction of the Glen Alpine trail-
I^ater in the morning a boy named Pen
nick visited Irwin's camp and reported
that he had Feen two armed men a short
distance away. From their appearance
he thought them to be escaped convicts.
The two may have been covering the
camp while their three companions en
tered to get breakfast and provisions. The
oscapes evidently followed the Glen Al
pine trail, for a report was received from
Glen Alpine last night that the convicts
had taken dinner there.
GIVES UP THE CHASE.
Sheriff Norman Returns to Jackson
With His Man-Hunters.
JACKSON. Aug. 1C— Sheriff Norman and
Deputy Jackson returned from the con
vict-huntirg expedition yesterday and de
tailed iho facts of their trip. Norman's
posse consisted of twelve men and was
well provisioned. He was the only Sher
iff who took the field after the band of
live convicts excepting one deputy Sheriff
from El Dorado. The other pursuers
were volunteers attracted by a promise
of reward.
Norman says the convicts were never
in Fight at any time, nor was the smoke
at their camptires visible. At Caples Lake
he discovered that they had passed
through a deep gorge which is the outlet
of the lake. He did not attempt to follow
them in the canyon, as the nature of the
country was such, he says, that it would
be like leading his men to certain death.
The first five days the convicts traveled
only fifteen miles. While securing a fresh
tuppjy of provisions and believing that
the outlaws would continue their easy
pace, they slipped by him, making nine
miles one night, heading toward Carson
Valley.
Norman had to bear the expense of the
posse from his own private funds, and
having followed them through two coun
ties, and neither being Amador, he did
not feel Justified, without some volunteer
help, in pursuing them further. He be
lieves the five convicts broke into two
bands after crossing the summit
SAN JOSE LIUEMEir
WILL RETURN TO WORK
Settle Their Differences With Sunset
Telephone Company and Will
Be Reinstated.
SAX JOSE, Aug. 16.— The local union
and linemen have declared off the strike
against the Sunset Telephone ¦ Company
in this district and the men will return
to work to-morrow. The local linemen
claim a victory In that most of the de
mands asked are granted and they secure
an Increase of pay. This action in de
claring off the strike does not affect other
parts of the State. This district Includes
Santa Clara. San Benito, Santa Cruz,
Monterey and part of San Mateo counties.
The linemen of this district became dis
satisfied with the way the Western Con
ference was handling the strike and took
the matter In their own hands. Journey
men linemen in this district will get $3.50
ppr day. under foremen $3.73 and foremen
$4 per day. The men who went on strike
are not to be discriminated against and
will be reinstated. Those who went in on
the strike will be retained as beginners.
$25.00 to Yosemite and Return
In one way and out another over the
"Double Loop." The scenic way into the
Tosemite is the Santa Fe Merced Route,
which takes you directly through two
Groves of Big Trees. Special coupon
tickets, covering total expenses, five days
JG4.&0; seven days, SSS.iW; ten days, $42.90.
Full information at Santa Fe Office 641
Market street. ' •
SANTA ROSA, Aug. 16.— The street cor
ners of this city are being adorned with
handsome Flgn-posts giving the names of
streets and cross-streets. The work of
placing the street guides is being done
under the direction of the Woman's Im
provement Club. Money for this purpose
was raised at a series of entertainments
rriven by the club. Chief among the sub
htantial improvements made by the club
v.as the planting of shade and ornamental
trees and shrubs on Santa Rosa avenue
and other thoroughfares.
Wcmen Carry on Improvement "Work.
SOFIA. Bulgaria, Aug. 16.— The Bul
garian Government has presented
a memorandum to the powers, set
ting out at great length the condi-
tion of affairs during the past
three months in Macedonia since the
Turkish Government undertook to insti
tute the promised reforms. The most pre
cise details, dates, places and names of
persons are given in the memorandum)
the whole constituting a terrible category
of murder, torture, incendiarism, pillage
and general oppression committed by the
Ottoman soldiers and officials. These
particulars were obtained entirely from
official circles, such as the representatives
of the Bulgarian Consuls and agents of
the Bulgarian Government, and, in many
instances, the reports made by Turkish
authorities. The Bulgarian Government
guarantees the absolute truth of every
statement and challenges the Porte to* dis
prove a single charge made in the memp
randum.
The memorandum begins by stating that
daring the past three months the'Ottoman
Government has taken a series of meas
ures with the alleged intention of inaugu
rating the era of promised reform and
of assuring peace and tranquillity to the
Bulgarian population of European Tur
key, but which have had the contrary ef
fect of further exasperating this popula
tion and reviving the revolutionary move
ment. Instead of proceeding solely against
persons guilty of breaches of the public
order, the military and civil authorities
have sought every possible pretext to per
secute, terrorize and ruin the Bulgarian
Inhabitants, alike in the large cities and
in the small villages. Wholesale massa
cres, individual murders, the destruction
of villages, the pillaging and setting fire
to houses; the arrests, ill-treatment, tor
tures, arbitrary* imprisonment and ban
ishment; the closing and disorganizing ot
churches and schools, the ruining of mer
chants, the collection of taxes for many
years in advance — such proceedings, the
memorandum says, are the acts of the
Ottoman administration of Monastlr, Us
kub and Adrianople.
PRISONS ARE CROWDED.
The memorandum next relates in de
tail a number of such cases in each vil
ayet. Beginning with the vilayet of Sa
lonica, it states that in the town of Sa
lonica itself the Bulgarian professors of
the university, the students and shop
keepers—In fact, all the intelligent Bulga
rians in the city— have been cast Into
prison.
One hundred and twenty soldiers entered
the village of Gorna-Ribnltea on May 19
and tortured to death five men and two
women
During the first three weeks of July
twenty-five villages In the district of Tik
vesch were subjected to the depredations
of the Turkish soldiers and Bashi Ba
zouks. The villagers were beaten and
tortured, the women violated and the
houses plundered, while the administra
tive authorities took no action.
In the vilayet of Monastir, artillery bom
barded and razed the flourishing town of
Smerdesch, 300 houses being left a heap of
ruins.
At the beginning of July two Greek
bands with the connivance of the author
ities plundered Bulgarian hous-es.
In the vilayet of Uskub the entire Bul
garian population has been systemati
cally persecuted since lasl May. The di
rector of the normal school at Uskub
was imprisoned because his library con
tained the "revolutionary" works of
"Othello" and "Les Miserables."
In Palanja. Kollschini, Koumanovo and
Gostigar the prisons are filled w\th Bul
garian priests, schoolmasters a^jd mer
chants.
During June the soldiers and Bashi
Bazouks terrorized the inhabitants of the
Schllft district, torturing the people with
red hot Irons. Similar atrocities perpe
trated in the vilayet of Adrianople are
cited.
, Altogether, the memorandum gives par
ticulars of no less than 131 Individual and
general cases of excesses and outrages
committed by the Turkish authorities. In
summarizing the specific details of the
outrages mentioned the memorandum de
clares that wholesale massacres were
perpetrated by regulars and Bashi Baz
ouks in the town of Salonica nnd the vil
lages of Balevet, Banitza, Echourilove,
Karbinza, Moffhila and Smerdesch and
Enldje, while the scenes of carnage, pil
lage and incendiarism were everywhere
terrible.
MTJRDEBS IN SMERDESCH.
At Smerdesch, more than 200 Bulga
rians were shot, killed with swords or
burned to death. More than 250 houses
and the churches and schools were set
on fire with petroleum and pillaged, the
property being sold by the soldiers and
Bashi Bazouks In neighboring places
Similar scenes occurred at the villages of
Gorhnah-Rlbnltz, Igoumentz, Dobrilaki
and Nlkodon. The villaeers there aban
doned their homes and fled to the moun
tains. More than 3000 men, women and
children fled from the sanjak of Seres and
even more from the sanjak of Kirkk-
Iisse.
It Is difficult, says the memorandum, to
obtain the exact number of Bulgarians
•who were Imprisoned, mostly on the
flimsiest pretexts, as when they were re
leased others were Immediately arrested.
The estimates obtainable give for the vi
layet of Salonlca 900 prisoners; for Uskub
BOO; for Monastlr 850 and for Adrianople
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1903.
MINISTER OF. FINANCE WHO
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