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ITALY'S MINISTER OF MARINE, ONE OF HER NAVAL HEROES AND
AN ITALIAN SHIP OF WAR WHICH IS NOW HOVERING NEAR
THE WATERS OF THE SULTAN'S DOMAIN.
Continued From Page 1, Column 2.
WIZARD LOEB PROBES.
Dr. Elvira Castner of Marienfelde. near
Berlin, who was one of the first German
women to come to this country to study
a profession closed to her in Germany,
has given up h«r profession of dentistry
after many years of successful work and
is devoting herself to a school of horticul
ture for women founded by herself. There
are now a number of women dentists In
Germany.
"Sinffle taxers are greatly exercised over
the accuisltion of a clubhouse by the
Manhattan Single Tax Club. The club
has made a dangerous departure from
the teachings of Henry George In regard
to the private ownership of land. The
members are not all reconciled to the fact
that the club has become a private prop
erty owner. It was for the purpose of
promulgating hfs single tax ideas that
Henry George founded the club years
ago.— New York Letter.
The Italian Embassador at Constanti
nople has telegraphed to the Foreign Of
fice that the Porte has declared it will
soon be able to re-establish order In Mac
edonia and that it has already secured
effective protection for all the foreign
Consuls there."
.LONDON. Aug. 19.— A dispatch to •
news agency from Vienna says Bulgaria
has ordered 15,000,000 cartridges from A
Vienna firm for prompt delivery.
Bulgaria Buys Ammunition.
The can was deposited in the baggage
car at Waltersburg by a man and woman
who said they would take It off at Drav
osburg, their destination. When. Dravos
burg was reached the couple were ar
rested. They said their names were Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Jublller of Tucker and
that the boy was their son who had ac
cidentally killed himself with his father's
revolver. When they found he was dead
they decided to keep the matter quiet
and bury him privately at Dravosburg.
MON'ONGAHELA, Pa.. Atrg. ©.— Th*
blood-stained corpse of a five-year-old
boy was discovered to-day by the bag
gageman on a Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston Railroad train en route to
Dravosburg. The body was packed tight
ly in a large coffee can and was wrapped
In the blood-soaked folds of a woman's
dress'. The only mark on the body was a
bullet hole In the breast.
They Decide to Keep Matter
Quiet and Bury Body
. Privately.
Boy's Parents Declare
His Death Was Ac
cidental.
CORPSE 15 FOUND
IN BAGGAGE CAR
NICARAGUAN MINISTER TO WASHINGTON. ,WHO BELIEVES THAT
HIS GOVERNMENT WOULD PLACE- NO OBSTACLES IN THE WAY
OF A CANAL TREATY.
Ready to Profit by Russia's Difficulty
With the Porte.
LONDON, Aug. 19.-rThe Italian Embas-
JAPAN GROWS WARLIKE.
Turks Pursuing Remainder -of a
THIRTY REVOLUTIONISTS FALL.
Macedonian Band.
SALONICA, Tuesday, Aug.' 1S.-A revo
lutionary band engaged a force of Turk
ish troops yesterday' at Dailar. Thirty
of the revolutionists were killed and the
troops are pursuing the remainder of the
band. . ¦ . • --¦ ¦¦ ¦ .
A message from the Metropolitan of Sa
lonica further confirms the reports that
the.) Turkish troops on entering Krushevo
terribly maltreated the inhabitants.
About 150. Greeks and others, including
eighty children, were marched' as prison
ers to Monastir. Five of. them died on
their way.
ALL MALES ARE MASSACRED.
Bulgarian Village.
Women Report Turkish Atrocity in
SOFIA, Aug. 19.— Reports from Monastir
say 200 women, who have arrived there
from the Bulgarian village of Rakovo,'
hav.- ar.sented petitions to the Russ'lan
and Austrian Consuls and to Hllml Pa
sha, the inspector general, setting forth
that their village has been burned, and
that all the males of the population have
been massacred.
Fifteen villages in the district of Ok
rida, three In the district of L»erln and
three in the district of Rezen have been
destroyed. .
Further details of the fighting at Krush
evo show that the insurgents retired to a
point in the vicinity of the town, after
losing.sixty men killed and twelve wound
ed. The Turkish loss was 250 men killed
or wounded. ¦. ¦ ,
A band of seventy insurgents, near-Ko-
Jle, in the vilayet of Uskub, fought a de
tachment of Turks all day. Nine of .the
Insurgents were killed. Th& Turkish
losses are not known. On the following
day a party of Bashi Bazouks entered the
village and slaughtered all of the inhab
itants. . . iv
Severe fighting Is reported to have oc^
currei' • near Vetarsko.. The result Is not
known.' ' -
BULGARIA AGAIN PROTESTS.
Austria Supports Demand for Censur-
J ing of Hilxni Pasha.
VIENNA, Aug. .19.— The newspaper Die
Zeitung asserts that M. ZInevieff, the Rus
sian. Embassador. at Constantinople, yes
terday presented another ' note to the
Porte demanding that severe official . cen
sure be passed upon Hllml Pasha, the in
spector • general . of Macedonia, ¦ ! for his
negligence in permitting excesses by
Turkish soldiers. The Austrian' Embas
sador personally .supported the demand.
An unconfirmed rumor from Sofia says
that the insurgents have captured the
town of.Utschebo, in, the vilayet of Mon
astir.'.They are reported to have mur
dered* the Mayor and to be holding tho
inhabitants for ransom. * • v*
Bandits Attack Magazine.
: ST. .PETERSBURG, Aug. 19.-A dis
patch; received here from Port Arthur
says a band of bandits recently attacked'
a. dynamite. magazine near the Manchur
ian frontier: station " and : attempted to
blow It up. ¦"'.: A detachment of Cossacks'
TRAINS TO BE DYNAMITED.
Boris Sarafoff's Warning to Railroad
¦¦yx:'- ¦ Company Is Plain. "'
VIENNA, "Aug. 19.— A telegram from
Boris S.arafoff, the active leader of . the
Macedonian insurgents, to the manage
ment of the Oriental Railroad is pub
lished here. Sarafoff says. that the gen
eral staff of the revolutionary committee
of Macedonia and Adrianople announces
that In consequence of the rising of the
Christian population of Macedonia for lib
eration'from Turkish rule they williVnec
essarlly have to commit outrages on rail
ways," and he begs the ¦ management
During the last fifty years land 'values
in New York and Chicago have prdbably
Increased more" enormously than in any
other two" cities in the world.' In 1626 the
Dutch " purchased t Manhattan Island for
$24; in 1890, according to the census, the
real estate/of the city of New York was
Valued at J2, §27,000,000— figures that the
mind Is utterly incapable of comprehend
ing.
The advance in the value of land In
Chicago has been ; equally as wonderful.
In 1816 there was not a single white per
son on the present site of Chicago, . and
the raw prairie land was practically val
ueless. ., The .census of 1890 estimated the
real estate value of the . city .at , $1,330,
000,000. .:¦¦¦:"; .... . ... ... . : - ' ¦
• The most valuable quarter acre In. Chi
cago In 1830 was worth 530; In 1840,; $1500;
in 1850." $17,500; in' 1860, $28,000; in 1870. $120.
000: in -1S8, $130,000 ; in 1890, . $900,000, and in
1894, $1.25O,uuO. At the present time this
tiuarter-acre is worth close; to $2,000,000.
The * Illinois Land Bureau some years ago
made a careful estimate of land values in
Chicago in Seventy Years Presents
Figures! as to Values That Are
Simply Wonderful. , .;.-,,,
INCREASING VALUES
- OF LAND IN CITIES
PLANS A NEW TBEATY.
Colombia's Move Finds No Favor in
• • '. £ Washington. '
S BOGOTA.. Colombia, Friday. Aug. 14.—
A bill is ready authorizing the Govern
ment to make a new canal 'treaty with
the United States upon a fixed basis and
also providing for modifying the national
constitution.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.— In State De-
captured "twenty of the bandits, but the
majority of tne band escaped.
partment circles the news that the Co
lombian Congress intends to ratify the
canal treaty Mn an amended form or to
propose a ;new treaty is not regarded as
changing the* situation at Bogota. It has
all along been declared, both at the State
Department and the "White House, that
substantial- amendment of the treaty In
any part would mean its death. There is
no indication here that this view is not
still held by the President and Secretary
Hav.
Information received by Dr. Herran, the
Colombian Charge d'Affaires here, Indi
cates an intention on the part of the
Colombian Senate to resume considera
tion of the subject of a Panama canal
.treaty in place of the one disapproved by
that body on the 12th inst. This shows
a decided change in the turn of events
and leads Herran to hope that a meas
ure yet will be passed by the Colombian
Congress which will form the basis for
the ratification of a treaty between the
United States of Colombia and the United
States of America for the construction of
an Isthmian canal. Dr. Herran's infor
mation is that on the 13th Inst., the day
after the disapproval of the treaty by
the Senate, that body voted to appoint
a committee of three members to act
jointly with a committee from the House
of Representatives for the formation of
a measure having for its object the rati
fication, of a treaty between the two
countries by the executive of Colombia
after the two houses of the Colombian
Congress have passed an enabling act out
lining the terms and conditions on which
a treaty should be drawn. The President
of Colombia by this act would have full
power in the premises and the treaty
would not have to be afterward sub
mitted to -the Coiomblan Congress.
Dr. Herran was not surprised at the
news. He admitted that the previous ca
blegram announcing the rejection of the
treaty contained the words: "Another
proposition is under consideration." Dr.
Herran, after further reading of the ca
blegram announcing rejection now con
tends that the Spanish word used should
be translated "disapproved," rather than
"rejected." Of the news from Bogota to
night Dr. Herran said:
! This shows that the Senate has not aban
doned the idea of canal leglslat on of some sort
at its present session. I take It that the con
ference committee will asree upon^modifications
to the Hay-Herran treaty, which the Colom
bian Coneress will Insist upon, and that the
canal bill will be passed incorporating the pro
visions of the canal treaty which are satisfac
tory to Congress, and empowering; the President
to ratify such treaty.
the city of Chicago. The most valuable
section is known aa the "South Side." and
Its boundaries are the Chicago River on
the north and west. Twelfth strefon the
south and Lake Michigan on the east.
All- the great stores, wholesale and retail,
the high office buildings and the great
banking institutions are found within this
area.
, Deducting thirty acres of public land
owned by the nation. State, county and
city, and -55.13 acres owned and used by
the railroads, there remain 266.29 acres be
longing to individuals and private cor
porations. This the bureau estimated to
be worth $319,000,000 for the land alone,
without reckoning the ' Improvements,
which are worth as much more. Marshall
Field owns $11,000,000 worth, and the next
largest holder. Levl. Z. Lelter, $10,500,000
worth. There are in all 1198 owners of
this $319,000,000 worth of . land. Eighty
eight persons own $136,000,000, which Is
nearly one-half of the business center of
the city of Chicago.— New Tork'Commer
cial. ;, . . ; ..
Count de la Vaulx, who tried last fall
to cross the Mediterranean In a balloon
and failed, owing to bad weather. Is re
constructing his balloon and will make
the trial again this year. His ballast
will be In the form of water pumped up
through a hose, the lower end of which
trails in the sea. When the balloon rises
more water is pumped up, and when it
descends some is let out.
In the meantime tne Russian squadron
will not proceed to Constantinople, as has
been reported, but will rendezvous at the
email port of the vilayet of Adrianople,
above the' entrance of the Bosphorus.
For the present this squadron has no or
ders to assume an aggressive course. Its
action will depend on Turkey's fulfillment
of the t*rms of Russia's final demands
In connection with the assassination of
Consul Rostkovski: The punishment of
a number of the persons implicated Is
not considered to be full compliance with
the terms of the demands, which include
an adequate indemnity.
Besides the Rostkovski incident, the
proposed joint naval action before Sa
lonica Is due to the. earnest representa
tions of the foreign Consuls at Salonica,
who set forth that their lives are In dan
ger. The first representation on the sub
ject reached the French authorities sev
eral weeks ago, and since then other Con
suls have made similar representations.
The assassination of M. Rostkovski is
giving such emphasis to the statements
of the Consuls that consideration of a
joint naval demonstration of sufficient
strength to Impress Turkey with the nec
essity for taking decisive action looking
to the maintenance of order in Macedo
nia is now In progress. The exchange of
communications has shown that Russia
and Austria continue to co-operate fully
In the action taken toward Turkey.
PARIS, Aug. 19.— It was learned In offi
cial Quarters to-day that the action of
Russia in ordering a naval squadron to
Turkish waters may be speedily followed
by an important joint naval action on
the part of the powers. Communications
are at present being: exchanged between
the powers relative to a Joint naval dem
onstration before Salonica. The final de
termination will depend largely on Rus
sia, but if a joint demonstration shall be
determined on the fleets of France and
Austria will certainly co-operate and it
Is probable that the fleets of all the Eu
ropean powers having Turkish Interests,
except possibly Germany, which through
out has not favored taking energetic steps
against Turkey, will take part in the dem
onstration.
ticipate in Movement.
Germany Alone May Refuse to Par-
JOINT ACTION BY POWERS.
Since my Government has not given me in
structions I - am unable to say. aa Minister,
-what the terms, .or conditions will be; -but,
speaking In my private capacity. I am sure
Nicaragua will approach any new negotiations
In a spirit of complete frankness and fairness^
She has always considered the. great enterprise
as one in which the pommerce Of the world was
concerned and has never viewed the subject
from any restricted, personal standpoint, but
rather as an undertaking of international mag
nitude. ¦•• ¦ ¦ ¦ •' ' ¦ '
PAJtIS, Aug. 19.— Dr. Corea, the Min
ister of .Nicaragua to. the United States,
who Is here on a vacation, when seen to
day declined to discuss the rejection of
the Panama canal ' treaty by the Colom
bian Senate. The Minister was asked
whether. If the United States desired to
reopen negotiations, Nicaragua would de
mand new terms and conditions beyond
those contained in the Hay-Corea proto
col. He replied: . . ,. ....
Minister Corea Says Republic Would
• ' Welcome Proposals.
ATTITUDE OF NICARAGUA.
them and without the assistance of
sperm. He reasoned that artificial par
thenogenesis might be practiced on the
eggs of other animals and set to work
on experiments with the result that his
efforts were justified. His most success
ful experiments were carried on with lim
peta found at Pacific . Grove, from the
eggs of which he produced the young..
The results of Dr. Loeb's experiments
and hla. observations upon them- are con
tained In a bulletin issued at the Univer
sity of California to-day. It reads as fol
lows:
After the discover!' of the fact that the un
fertilized eggs of a sea urchin can be caused
to develop by merely extracting water from
them and without the addition of sperm tho
question arose whether artificial Partheno
genesis is confined to a few species or whether
it Is as general as the phenomenon of sexual
reproduction Itself. If the latter could be
shown to be the case it would be of importance
In two directions. It would suggest the possi
bility that the artificial physical or . chemical
me an> by which the unfertilized eggs can be
caused to develop have something in . common
with the means by which the *perra causes
the development of the eggs. Thus the ex
periments on artificial parthenogenesis might
pave the way for the solution of the problem
of fertilization. Second, if it be possible ever
to gain any positive evidence for ablogenesls
the experiments on artificial parthenogenesis
may have sonw bearing on this problem.
It can, of course, not be expected that the
eggs of each* of the numerous forms of ani
mals can b€#txamlned in regard to the possi
bility of artificial parthenogenesis. If it can
only be shown that the eggs of each form on,
which the experiment has been tried can be
caused to develop without sperm by physical
or chemical means we may conclude with some
probability that the eggs of the animals of the
same group not yet tested would behave in the
same way, although the technical difficulties
may be greater in one form than in another.
The forms thus far experimented upon aa
belong to two groups, echinoderms and anne
lids. No species of these two groups whose
eggs have been subjected to the test for arti
ficial parthenogenesis have proved refractory.
I had long Intended to see whether the unfer
tilized eggs of mollusks could not be caused by
physico-chemical means to develop, but at
Wood's Holl no forma with separate sexes
were obtainable. Meanwhile Arlola reported,
that he had tried In vain at Naples to produce
artificial parthenogenesis In a mollusk. "Den
talium Entails." It must be said, however,
that this author, through a blunder on his.
part did not use the right solutions, and hence
his experiments could not be successful. Pro
fessor Kostaneckl recently published a short
paper announcing that he had succeeded In
producing the first segmentations in a mol
lusc, "Mactra." by the method employed by
me on sea urchins. The fact that he did not 1
succeed in causing the eggs i to reach the
larval stage he ascribed to the possibility that
he did not use the optimal concentration for
thla form.
I have recently had an opportunity to try
some experiments on the limpets at Pacific
Grove, namely. "Lottia glgantea" (owt limpet)
and three other limpets, some or all of which
are species of Acmaea. In each of these forma
I iucceeded in producing swimming larvae
from the unfertilized eggs by submitting them
for two hours to sea water the concentration of
•which had been tncreaaed by the addition of
potassium chlortde or sodium chloride. The
optimal concentration differs somewhat for
each species. In from two to three hours after
the eggs were taken out of the hypertonic so
lutions and nut back into normal sea water
segmentation beiran. which wa» very regular
at least in the two and 'our cell stages. For
the eight cell stase I did not obtain
any satisfactory observations. In from
twenty to twenty-four hour* swimming
larvae were found. In most cases the Utter
developed within forty-elsht hours; la one
species only <!ld I fin<* larvae which showed a
tendency to live longer, fteath was caused or
at least accompanied by a tendency of the cella
to fall apart and to disintegrate. In older cul
tures were found a comparatively large num-
What the cause of this disintegration was I
am not yet able to state. It i» probable that
the eggs had not yet reached their full matur
ity at the time of my experimentation. I am
inclined to conclude this from the fact that I
did not succeed In fertillxtn* the eggs of "Lot
tla" (on which the majority of experiments
were carried out) wtth sperm of their own or
any other species. It Is perhaps worthy of
note that the «K83 which could -not b£ fer
tilized with sperm could be caused to develop
by a physical agency such as the extraction of
water from the egg. This refractory behavior
of the eggs toward sperm was in one r»spect
welcome in these experiments, aa it added to
the feeling of security that the precautions
against th«. contamination of the eggs with
sperm were adequate.' In the control experi
ments no segmented egg or swimming larvae
was found. ..... .- .
Treatment of the eggs with acid led only to
a beginning of segmentation. Mechanical agi
tation as far as tried had no effect. I can
therefore state that on the basis of these ex
periments and taollusks may now be added to
the list of animals in which it is possible by
physico-chemical means to cause the unfer
tilized eggs to develop Into- swimming Urvaa.
The experiments will be continued.
The general consensus of opinion among
the diplomatists Is that there is nothing
in the present situation' to warrant the be
lief that it will -develop Into a general
conflagration, as the powers are co-oper
ating generally to preserve the- peace -of
Europe. The situation in the Far. East,
especially the national agitation in Jap
an, Is regarded "by some diplomats as be
ing as threatening as the Balkan situa
tion. The Japanese officials hardly at
tempt to conceal their, belief that their
Government would act 'in the Far East
should such an opportunity offer as th«
embroilment of Russia in the*Balkans.
Dispatches received to-day from Yoko
hama state that the leading newspapers
of Tokio have abandoned '. the silence
which they - have hitherto observed re
garding the situation in Korea- and pub
lish articles strongly denunciatory of the
action of Russia. The Jiji i declares it is
time to show Korea that Japan's patience
is exhausted, while- the Shimbun urges
the Government to demand explanations
of Russia. Both the papers mentioned are
newspapers of moderate tone.
sador here to-day received a dispatch
from Rome that an Italian
squadron had been ordered to- Macedonian
water to "watch events." No explanation
was given of the reasons underlying the
orders and the embassy officials were/un
able to say whether it was a result of
Russia sending a- squadron to Turkish
waters. It was regarded as probable that
the Foreign Office had received advices
showing that Italian interests, which are
important at Salonica and In its . neigh
borhood, are menaced and that it was
deemed wise to have a strong force handy
to convince the Turks of the inadvlsabil
lty of affecting such interests by any hos
tile act. It was added that the presence
of the Italian fleet would deter the Turks
from committing outrages on Inoffensive
Christians. '
Servian refugees are arriving at Uskub
from Dibra, having fled from there, on ac
count of fear of a massacre. The Alba
nians In that district have burned a num
ber of Bulgarian villages.
Letters received here from Uskub state
that there Is a great feeling of unrest and
It is feared they may be attacked.
The monastery of the Holy Virgin, near
Kitcherc, has been burned by Albanians
after a determined struggle between the
defenders of the monastery and the in
surgents, during which both sides last
heavily.
The Embassadors of the powers have
again drawn the earnest attention of the
Porte to the fears of a massacre at Sa
lonica, and have demanded the adoption
of immediate and effective measures for
the protection of the foreign consulates
and the subjects of the various powers.
Consular reports received here from
Monastir continue to emphasize the dan
ger of an outbreak of Mohammedan fan
aticism there. The consular^reports have
asked for protection and the question of
again dispatching warships to Salonica
is being discussed by the representatives
of the powers.
Dispatches from Turkish sources say
the insurgents have destroyed another vil
lage in Macedonia. ; .
soldiers left the train and pursued other
Bulgarian workmen to a neighboring sta
tion, where the Turks murdered them all
in cold blood.
COLON, Aug. 19.— Mail advices
fronv Bogota,' under date .of
August 5th, report that "United
States Minister Beaupre had
sent a strong official note to
the Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, stating, in the name of
Secretary Hay, that all American claims
pending against Colombia must be settled
by diplomatic intervention, and not by
the local courts.
Advices from Barranquilla say . that
General: Jose Vasques.Cobos, former mil
itary chief of Panama, who headed the
military coup in July against the Gover
nor, was imprisoned there and sent to
Bogota on August 15th under military
¦escort.' _•" ' "¦" ' ' "
Special Cable to The Call and New Tork
• Herald. Copyright, 1003, by the New York
Herald Publishing Company.
Japan Shows Disposition to Profit by
Russo-Turkish Entanglement.
The killing of Bulgarian workmen who
were repairing the railroad track near
Uskub Is another grave instance of the
insubordination of the Turkish troops.
Details of the affair chow that a trainload
of Turkish soldiers, soon after leaving
the railroad station at Uskub, not only
fired on and killed three Bulgarians who
were at work on the road and left . the
bodies lying on the line, but some of the
Notwithstanding the warning which
Russia addressed to the Bulgarian Gov
ernment, it Is generally believed here that
the Russian naval demonstration In Turk
ish waters will dangerously encourage the
Macedonians, who, it Is asserted, will in
terpret Russia's action as being the first
step toward Intervention In their behalf.
The Insubordination of the Turkish
troops is regarded as being one of the
greatest dangers of the present Balkan
crisis. The lack of discipline among the
soldiers Is marked. It Is found necessary
to humor them in order to prevent con
flicts between the soldiers and their of
ficers. For Instance, a regiment, while
on the way from Uskub to Monastir. de
nianded that the train be stopped at Sa
fonica for twelve hours Instead of the
schedule half-hour, so that the soldiers
rright amuse themselves In the town-
After futile endeavors to prevail on the
men to allow the train to proceed, the
officers were obliged to grant their de
mand.
The Russian demands on Turkey grow
ing out of the recent murder of the Rus
sian Consul at Monastir, ML Rostkovski,
were formally presented at the Yildiz
J'alaee to-daj*.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 19.— The atti
tude of indifference hitherto assumed by
the Turkish officials toward Russia's ac
tion Is giving way to one of marked con
cern. The Porte fears that Russia con
templates making still more Important de
mands than contained in the recent note
of M. Zlnovoff, the Russian Embassador,
such as the appointment of a Christian
Governor General of Macedonia. This
idea, however, does not find Support In
diplomatic quarters, where the convic
tion prevails that Russia is working In
full agreement with Austria. Turkey is
expected to accept the Russian demands,
with the possible exception of the ap-'
poJntment of European officers to com
mand the gendarmerie. This Is likely to
arouse opposition and it is believed that
Russian anticipation thereof led to the
dispatch of the squadron, the presence of
v.-hich was hardly required to enforce a
fulfillment of the other terms.
With Indifference.
SULTAN BECOMES ALARMED.
No Longer Regards Russia's Action
LONDON. Aug. 20.— The Daily
Chronicle hears that Admiral
Domville. commanding the Brit
ish Mediterranean fleet now off
Portugal, has received urgent
orders to dispatch some vessels
to the neighborhood of Salonica. imme
diately.
ROME, Aug. 19. -The Italian Mediter
ranean squadron, now off Cagliari, Island
at Sardinia, has b<?en ordered to Sicily,
so as to he nearer the scene of the trouble
in Turkey. Italy, it was announced to
day, has decided to act In accord with
the other powers in the Balkans situa
tion.
BERLIN, Aug. 19.— Baron Marshal von
Biebersttin, the German Embassador at
Constantinople, is to be received by Em
peror William, at the castle of Wilhelms
hohe. His visit- is regarded as one of the
highest political importance.
The Daily Mail admits that Great Brit
ain. Russia and Turkey are laying in an
enormous and abnormal quantity of
Welsh steam coal, presumablv in prepar
ing for all eventualities. The British Ad
miralty has asked for quotations for 1.000,
000 tens for storage at British coaling
Ftationp. principally Gibraltar and Malta,
for four months ending December, which
Is double the quantity usually required.
Russia warts nearly as much coal, and
Turkey is buying extensively.
The Daily Mail further understands that
unless the Macedonian situation improves
all the powers will probably send squad
rons to Turkish waters.
Owing to the elation of the Turks at
Premier Balfour's recent announcement in
Parliament that he was of the opinion
••that the balance of criminalities rested
on the insurgents." says the Sofia cor
respondent of the Times, the British Em
bassador at Constantinople has been in
structed to give a warning against any
misconception and he has notified the
Porte that BaJfour's language was of a
purely parliamentary character, being de
signed for purposes of debate. The Em
bassador said that Great Britain was
firmly resolved to support the Austro-
Russlan representations, even though a
greater measure of ethical turpitude must
be assigned to the insurgents.
Italy Dispatches a
Squadron to
Sicily.
Great Britain Or
ders Warships to
Salonica;
Bratnober is said to be a. reliable man
and his story is believed in Dawson. He
is returning to the- district within ten
days himBelf and will, with a. couple of
assistants, take in a consignment of pro
visions for ..the suffering miners.
"from humane considerations to accept
no passengers, in order that' there may
be no unnecessary sacrifices to deplorp."
Another bomb outrage Is reported to
have occurred at Philippopolis. A bomb
was thrown into the house of a merchant
there and three persons were killed,
"l r/ passed through, the northern end of
the Tanana streamtwo weeks ago and ten
days before joining the jsteajmer at Fair
banks. The sceries'along the/route from
the Nazina. ' country whicn lies to the
northwest of Tanana are the most pitia
ble ever witnessed in tho north. Nearly
300 miners are in actual want and so
many are sick and unable to travel that
almost the entire number are stranded.
Many will never reach the outside. I and
my partners had been away to the north
on a long prospecting tour. We were
working nearly 500 miles northwest of
Fairbanks, the nearest port on the Yu
yon. For the first 100 miles of the trip I
met few prospectors, but even these were
In hard luck. Then I came on a camp of
twenty who were in such bad shape that
they had almost to a man given up hope
01 ever reaching the river, 300 miles
away. They had no food and were then
emaciated and too weak to travel. Some
of them had managed to travel five or six
miles in the right direction, but they were
in such bad shape that they were over
come with the effort. They had stayed
In the country till they had no provisions
left and their search for gold was abso
lutely fruitless. The country they were
in when I passed through is only sparse
ly wooded and in some parts practically a
barren waste. Many of the miners were
keeping from starving to death by eating
berries and even moss. There is little
that is nourishing grow* on these wastes
in the far north v The' men were mostly.
Americans and they wanted' messages
sent to United' States authorities asking
for relief to be sent in.
'"One member of this first encampment
had died the day before I arrived. He
was a young man from New England an'd
he had' literally starved to death. For
days all he had was a. biscuit and some
shreds of dried meat, which one. of the
stranded men gave him.
"On the road further north; I met other
parties and heard of .more deaths. It
was the same story of starvation and ter
rible hardship in .the unavailing search for
gold.. I left with them all the provisions
I had except barely enough to see me
through. And I was even hungry myself
before I reached. the, posts in the Tanana
country close to the river, where I could
obtain .goods., I notified . the authorities
at these posts as I came through -and I
expect that before this, some efforts have
been made to succor tfte. .unfortunate .peo
ple. ¦ . .... •'":*¦'
"The rush to the Nazina started early
in the year. Though. they were warned,
the average prospectors took. far too little
in the line of provision's, with; them.. Their
luck was uniformly bad and. when all at
once every, one Iran 'out of, food and they
realised how far, , they any post,,
a panic resulted.*. Men started., on forced
marches to get out' of the country, and
some lost their way. "In a fortnight the
condition of affairs was. terrible. Many
are prostrated with disease and unable to.
move, even if they had good food."
DAWSON, Y. T., Aug. 1&.— Two hundred
and seventy : flve miners are face to lace
with starvation; stranded and helpless on
the trail from .the Nazina country. Five
men 'have already died from starvation
and- dozens of the remaining ones who are
trying^ to reach the Yukon River are liv
ing on nothing but berries and moss and
•whatever , they can find on the waste
north 'of the Tanana. < Such is the news
brought' to Dawson to-night by H.*Brat
nober, .one of four? passengers to arrive
by the steamer' Sarah. The. vesseT is one
of' the ' few to- arrive this year from the
lower, river and it was late this afternoon
when she tied up at; her berth.
. Bratriober's* story is as fpllows: V <
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Unfortunate Gold Seekers Are Trying
to Fight Off Death Until Assist
ance Can Be Sent to Them
From Dawson.
Returned Prospector "Tells
Story of Hardship and
Starvation.
Several Hundred Men
Are Stranded and
Helpless.
MINERS DIE
OF WANT ON
NAZINA TRAIL
POWERS UNITE IN COERCION OF TURKEY
THE SAN FBANCISCP CALL, THU.RSpAY, AUGUSTv 20, ,1903.
Secretary Hay Serves Notice That the
Colombian Courts Will Be Ignored in
Settlement of • Claims Now Pending
NO FURTHER TRIFLING
WITH BOGOTA REGIME
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