Siege of Wepener

VOLUME LXXXVII?NO. The SanSAN FRANCISCO,FranciscoTUESDAY, 17, 1900. Call FIVE 148. APRIL PRICE CENTS. ASSASSINATED BY SIEGE CHINESE COACHED ITALIAN STRIKERS OF WEPENER AND THEN LANDED RAISED BY BOERS Militia Sergeant Shot to Death at "School of Instruction" at Mazat- Croton Dam While Relieving In pull Retreat (Hong tfye Basutoland lan Where Mongols Were Taught Guard. to Become "Native Sons." dam, Closely LANDING, April dispersed. Border by the N. V.. 16. to be made to work the Watched newspapers they The first blood shed as the outcome From the New York Special Dispatch to the Call. of the strike at the Croton dam learned that troops were on the way. Be- was the life's blood of Sergeant fore the hour for their arrival the Bowery Tribesmen. Robert Douglass cf the Eleventh was filled by Italians, who stood ingroups Warlike CROTON ANGELES, April 18? In separate Company of Mount Vernon, who and listened to the talk of the leaders. At With the ers. taken connection with the steady v.as by an unknown assassin 11 o'clock a telegram was received by one exposure of the organized system of increase of the Japanese population of the shot dead Bianchi, importing Islands; while he was relieving guard at 8:50 of the leaders from Consul advis- Chinese contract labor Hawaiian have attracted the at- ing quiet and informing them the facts are reached that the con- tention of the executive branch of the o'clock to-night. The wildest excitement them to be Government, prevailed throughout the camp as soon of the fact that the militia was on its LOSspiracy to defraud the United it b said that even suppos- may involve Government official ing the presence as the news of the assassination spread way to tho dam. States a of the Japanese within holding an Important foreign billet: that our territorial limits should be tn the different tents and the soldiers are It was after noon when the special train regarded from Vonkers carrying the two companies several Los Angeles citizens are under as undesirable the subject of restriction frantic over the crime. highbinder is point where the sergeant fell is of troops arrived here. Their arrival was suspicion- and that a Chinese entirely beyond executive reach at The faction is of the se- present, known Post 10, which in charge r)otel by an Italian on a bicycle, who re- in absolute control being one for the consideration as wes crets surrounding this nefarious business. of Congress. of Corporal McDowell. It is situated on mained lor.g enough about the station to hill, Little where count them and then started for the dam. From evidence that has been collected The figures of the immigration bureau* tnp of the near Italy, coast in- drilling half a mile from the village he was the exposures that followed the of the Pacific Coast are. however, being arra^d strikers were seen or About the shifting of the watched, marching about early this morning. met by another strike messenger on a vestigations compelled closely for upon their showing wheel, who carried the news a mile, base of operations from San Francisco may depend Important recommendations brandiflilngrifles and shotguns. The spot Mazatlan, Where different to high r huge pile cf masonry whence a third messenger rode with all to tactics upon this subject. is ov» the ar.d encompass the same results were Insti- it one can command a view of the haste to the Bowery. from Deputy tuted. country on each side up and down the Before the Sheriffs about the gang smug- EXPOSE of troops The ringleaders of this of OF TRAFFIC Croton Valley. works knew of the arrival in Wong Valley the strikers were aware of glers of human flesh was one Kirn. Douglass was talking to Corporal Mc- Croion through offi- IN RETURN CERTIFICATES of it. was a blowing of horns, and His connection Government Dowell and the other members the There cials is directly traced. Kirn was by guard when he suddenly clapped hi? while the troops were resiing at the sta- se^n move, ¦witnesses and inspectors of San Fran- SAN JOSE. April 15.? examination fcsnds to his stomach txclaimlng, "Lord, tion, waiting for the word to forty The Italians, cisco in Mazatlan and in Los Angeles. of Chinese to ascertain if they are legai- boys, I'm shot." and immediately fell to r.rmed carrying an American flag }n- and Italian flags, crossed the Little Through this operator the plan to |lyin this country or not, which has been the ground. two law going but, Hill the Bowery. They were struct Chinese how the American on In this city the past few day-* It was pitch dark at the time, Mc- Italy to coaching them as to under the volley into cheered by the men in the Bowery and could be evaded by direction of Speci?.! Treasury Dowell ar.d the others fired a adopted. This was ? Agent Putman, hitting with . interest by the Deputy its requirements was la developing evidences of a clump Of bushes nearby without watched demonstrated when seven Chinese, who [ crookedness In certificates. any one. No one saw the flash or heard Sheriffs. troons claimed to be native son.?, and two who In all about twenty-five Chinese have the sound of the shot which killed Doug- When the had been rested and to merchants, held, wagons were known be were been arrested for deportation. Six were lass, and it was a most mysterious affair. the carrying the camp equip- They under up to for deportation. described before Court Commissioner James to- Meanwhile the men picked up the fallen ment had been loaded the march the they had met Kirn near day. Go Pong. Ah Sing the hill dam was bcrjuri. When they were ap- what conditions and Ah Fung were p<rgt-ant and carried him down Canton, how they v.-ere sent in bond to ordered deported. Of the others two pro- on a stretcher, but as soon as they prcaching the Bowery three nervous accidentally discharged their San Francisco, but later were transferred duced worthless certificates. Lee How reached Douglass' tent the poor fellow. miiitiamen finally entered the a rifle?, but no ono was As the to Mazatlan and showed certificate purporting on its face died without saying a word. Lieutenant hurt. United by landing at Ensenada to have been Issued at San on Clover, went up to hill troops swung into the lane called States Francisco with a squad, the .narrow and at night crossing the line at San Di- May 3, BH by W. Stairley. a deputy Col- t-;p, where they made a thorough search, the Bowery a strange sight met their of a eyes. ego. These were the forerunners lector. It Is written on a form of blar.ic but failed to fir.d ar.y person up there. About 2CO men were on the broad gang that were- that Inspector were hanging from of three hundred Chinese Putman declares was not Then th<- guards were called in and con- sidewalks. Flass the if the scheme on Mexican issued untilISOS. examination has windows and held by the men crowded later to land Further centrated in the valley, with the excep- soil worked. been continued. A certificate produced by tion of those placed at the cable station en the stoops. About twenty Italians To-night States District Attor- Sam was issued InPortland, on May guitars United Louie where th« shooting took place. with mandolins and were seated ney F. P. said: 7, ISD4, after registration had en the walk playing a lively tune. To- Flint closed. It At about 10:30 o'clock to-night the Dep- "But the first batch coming to grief so was issued for some other Chinese and uty Sheriff* who were guarding the cable day was Kaster Monday, a holiday in the plan was nipped. That this the description erased with acid, which Italy. early fiction, )i«.use on the east side of the river saw smuggling plan existed is no for can still be easily made out. These two three figures lurking near the place and The militiamen pitched their camp in- convincing evidence was produced. will work "Old Creaky," the' Boer Long Tom Which Gives So Much the have a further examination on the the deputies fir.^d their revolvers at them. side the ground, where construction Trouble \ many may have entered rfiatter. the dam is temporarily suspended, and ¦ How hundreds The figures disappeared quickly in the on "at Mafeking. t this country before the l'~ht dawned Some Chinese firm In San Francisco is darkness. A few minutes later, while the patrols were thrown out. Everything was through the efforts of ofilctrs none can making a practice of loaning money quiet and the strikers' leader. Angelo oa dppuiif-s thought there was no person tell. The records are filled with cases in certificates. Most of these arrested by near them, three shots rang out from the Rottella, said that there would be no every was made to reach [Special to the Copyrighted. 1900, by the New which attempt Agent Putman have not had their certifi- direction of Little Italy, but the Sheriffs trouble. Cable New York Herald. York Herald Company. Republication of this legal requirements, and the cunning de- cates with them and propose fight soldiers," dispatch is prohibited. All rights reserved in the and Britain.] had to dispatch men men wt-re not injured. "We dp not to United States Great the magnitude of the testimony to behaving and vices and San Francisco to get them.

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