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LXV. BAN FKAKCISCO: FRIDAY MO RZi INC. DECEMBER 17, 1897. NO. 170.

facts were sent to the St. James "Gazette' to-day In a private Carlist letter. "TIE JOURNAL" CHARGED WITH The demonstrations against the Government ami there can be no mistaking the menacing attitude of the people are due to the arrival HOFF, THE UPHOLSTERER, THE OF of General Weyler. The manner of his reeep' STIRS OP THE FAMINE REARS NO THRONE IN DAWSON SNOWS lion was significant, and tha Government Is MRS. MARY A.

CLUTE. thoroughly" IE INT taken meaforer-CB rection. Every Important street in the city can be swept by artillery, which has been concealed In advantageous positions. Even these precautions do not add materially to the reeling of security among the officials, who think that the gunners sympathize with tb Travelers From Frozen discontented people, and therefore cannot THE OWNER OF THE PATH relied upon. The animosity displayed against the Gov Klondyke Bring Reassuring News.

ernment Is not moderated by the news of peace in the Philippine Islands. Starts an Investigation of Gage's Filibustering Policy. Senate Passes a Resolution Directing That He Report. Seek General Lee's Life. HAVANA, December 16.

A small box PIN, apparently made to contain samples of some Miners Who Trod description, was found yesterday at Casa fwo the Nucva, where the United States Consulate Ice-Bound Yukon Arrive. is situated. An examination showed it to contain a tube filled with an explosive. Fortunately the cover was not removed in the ordinary way, but was splintered open. Tracing the Instrument of Death to the Accused.

rAsked for His Authority for Underneath the cover was a piece of sand at They Declare That People the Treasure Fields Will Not Starve. paper, intended to light a box of matches and thus bring about an explosion. The harbor police, with a steam launch, will try to overtake the steamer Olivette, Using Revenue Cutters Against Cubans. outward bound from this port. After she IS NOT UPHELD BY THE LAW.

PARTIES PASSED ON THE WAY. HFs Movements on the Day of the Guerrero-Street Tragedy. sailed it was rumored that she had on board the insurgent leader "El Ingleslto" (Alfredo Godoy). SUBMARINE BOAT SUCCESSFULLY TESTED. Senator Cannon Wants to Know How Far the Administration Is Aiding Spain.

Thft Steamship Corona Carries Number of Notorious Criminals From the Northern Tow.is. and HeW Had Been Drinking Was in an Ugly Mood Traveled About on the Bottom of the Tbe latest news from the Klondyke received at Victoria last night by the steamer Corona completely verifies AvPRESENTIMENT OF DANGER. Patapsco River as Readily as on the Surface. BALTIMORE December 16. The lake submarine boat was tested this afternoon on the Patapsco river and In every respect fulfilled the requirement outlined by the Inventor.

About half past 1 o'clock the craft, which resembled In many re "7 be Examiner's" statements that there will be no starvation at Dawson, The Story the Murdered Woman Told to Her Friend, Mrs, Use hold. The officers of the Corona all agree 8peolal Dlspatcb to "The Examluer." WASHINGTON, December 16. The New York "Journal" baa thrown a bombshell Into the camp of the administration. It ha1 started a Senatorial Investigation o' the authority of the Secrtary of the Treasury; to use revenue cutters for the purpose of capturing Cuban filibusters. By order of the Senate to-day, Secretary Gage was directed to notify that body by what legal tight he used the Treasury vessels for this purpose.

Unofficially it Is learned that Secretary Gag has been using the revenue cutters In the interest of Spain by order of the President. The order was issued on authority given him by the statutes to suppress that the alarmist stories to the effect spects a miniature monitor, began moving that starvation will brevail on tbe from It moorings, traveling at a fair rate of speed. When it reached a given point Klondyke are pure moonshine. Tbe it came to a full stop and then slowly sank news also stamps as unrrue we mie to tho bottom, only the two hollow masts, told by Indian tAuk to the effed that which resembled flag staffs, remaining above Albert Hoff, an aged, eccentric German, black-bearded, low-browed, short of stature and toil-stained, appeared yesterday morning at the office of the Chief of Police. Tha old man said be had come as a law-abldinc citizen to tell the auhoritle what he knew of the murder of Mr.

Mary A. Clute. The water. For pearly an hour the strange craft starving miners were fleeing from Dawson by hundreds. moved along the bottom, yielding readily to the helmsman.

Then it came again to the visitor wa noticeably laboring tinder a (Speeisl Dlspsteh to "The surface and took on board another party. This time the experience was even more novel. Again it sank to the bottom, and VICTORIA (B. C), December 16. There after showing oft He powers of locomotion piracy.

Secretary Gage must now face the possibility of stating to the Senate that President McKinley has construed the laws of the country to mean that Cuban filibusters are all pirates and must be treated as such. Immediately after the publication of Secretary Gage's report on filibustering, "The Journal" began an Investigation of the law governing the use of revenue cutters. a driver prepared to make his way out. He walked Into an air-tight compartment, I no stampede toward the coast, and there will be no starvation at Dawson If every man there now remiin until spring. Such 1 the gratifying assurance given the door of which closed behind him and then opening an outer door marched inta by the officer of the Corona, which arrived the water.

So great wa the pressure from Within that although the door wa open to-nbzht from the jort of Lynn canal. A communicated It findings to several Senator and as a result Senator Cannon of Utah' Introduced the resolution to-day. to the alarmist rumor brought by Auk, the Indian mail-carrier, they have thl to say: That he, like other Indians, Is prone Vreat nervous strain. He spoke quickly, eccltedty and at time Incoherently. As he waited to see the Chief of Police he secVned to dread tbe intervlewhehad sought.

He V- ill at ease and auspiciously held hi hat over his left hand. At a moment whea the attendant at the office seemed not to be obBerring the old man left bis seat and tried to lip- He wa told sharply to sit down. -He resumed hi teat, and la a few minutes1 was1 questioned by the Chief of Police. (The Interview wa long and search-ing. jWhen It was over Albert Hoff wa taken down into the City Prison and charged with the commission of the awful crime ttiot he had volunteered to discus with the iwllce official.

The Evidence Aval a at the Prisoner. Tbe life 4f Albert Hoff will depend upon his ability to trace hi movement for a single day. He wa employed by Mrs. Clute to prepare her apartment at 803 no water forced It way In. The divot after- a time returned by the same route.

Maying for the union pacific railroad. The Reorganization Committee's Arrange-ment Brings About Tighter Conditions in the New York Money Market. NEW YORK, December 16. The payment by the Union Pacific Reorganisation Committee of to the Government was reflected to-day in a debit balance of the Fourth National Dank, at the New York which was Immediately passed. Senator Cannon, who is a warm friend of the.

Cuban patriots, in a statement to "The Journal," "My lesolutfon demands that specific in-forntdticta be accorded to the Senate, and through the Senate to the country. Let the people know Just how far our Government is aiding Spain, and what forces are utilised to this end, and under what laws we act as water police for the Spaniards. An appeal to- the Judgment of the people of the United States will show a vast preponderance of feeling In favor of having the Treasury De to story-telling, and be ha related as his own experience all that the dismal prophet met cn the trail had told him. Is not the regular mail-carrier, but wa sent to the coast by Joe Walsh, the Yukon Administrator, with letter'reporting the loss of hi complete outfit of provision. On the Corona when she reached here were two men who are the last to get out of Dawson.

These are J. Kastner and George McLaughlin, both of Helena, Mont. They made their way along the banks of the Yukon river, and are probably the first persons who have ever reached the coast Guerrero street for occupancy. He frankly partment attend to its legitimate business, admit that he was in the house with Joseph Foley and Mr. Clute shortly before I A CtBAVS SPARTAN STEHXXK.SS Clearing-house, of $6,923,000, and a balance credit of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States of $7,677,000.

The payment was made in a single check drawn by the Reorganization Committee upon the Mercantile Trust Company. Another payment o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Foley then left the place and Hoff remained with from the Klondyke by all-land travel. CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF MRS. MARY A.

CLUTE. Etffates the Friend Who Bore Pro ponala of Snneailrr. Mrs. Clute. A few minute later Mrs.

In describing their experiences Kastner NEW YORK, December dispatch to Clute was dead beneath the frenzied blow says that owing to tbe float Ice It would have Albert Hoff.a sixty-eight years of age, an upholsterer, having a shop at 202 Sixth street, of an assassin. The screams of the dying tbe from Havana says: Much anxiety Is felt for the safety of Llou has Ijccii formally charged by the police with the. killing of Mrs. Mary A. Clute at her home, 803 Guerrero woman and the fall of her body aroused by the committee of $8,500,000 falls due December 2Cth.

A third payment of $8,500,000 is due January 6th. The preparations for these payment account for the tighter cou-dll ions in the local money market In the last few days. street. Itoff was the last man seen in the Clute home Wednesday afternoon, a short time before the body been utterly impossible to make the trip by water on the Yukon. As It was his men, though they Btarted out with ZOO pounds each, discarded everything possible on the way and so made a quick trip, Dew- tenant-Colonel Joaquin Ruiz, aide-de-camp to General Blanco, who, It is feared, has met death as the penalty for bearing a proposition George A.

Legg and hi daughter-in-law, Mr. L. A. Legg, In the rooms below. of the murdered woman was found.

They rushed to the front of the house. for surrender to a rebel camp. It, seems that Colonel Ruiz is a personal and Mr. Legg started up the stair to Mr. Clute' apartments.

When half-way up, friend of Colonel Arangueren. Recently, tin son having said good-by to them on the 3d ultimo. Mr. Legg saw a man leave the room In der orders Rom General Blanco, Ruiz opened correspondence with Colonel Arangueren with which the murdered woman was afterward Three other miners accompanied Kastner and McLaughlin down, they being George the object of arranging an Interview. Colonel found.

Mrs. Legg retraced her steps, and with nor father-in-law opened the door Ruth of Thompson Falls, J. P. Hol Arangueren wrote that he would meet the Coldnel if the latter only desired to talk of personal affairs, to which the Colonel replied that he wished to talk about political (milters. land of Butte and William King, a Callfor- leading to Guerrero treet.

A they reached the small veranda they saw a man nlan. Theee men remained at Dyea. The party on their coastward journey passed emerge hurriedly from the passage leading Colonel Arangueren wrote that he would ah solutely refuse to receive him on these con only thirty passengers coming out, these being handicapped by heavy package and to the rear of Mr. Clute' apartments. -They called on him to explain tb sounds dltlpns, and called hU attention earnestly to General Gomez' orders that all persons entering Insurgent camps to offer terms of surrender should be put to death.

He assured of violence in the room above. He paid unable to keep up with Kastner' flying party. The weather all through wa terribly severe, as low a temperature as 70 no heed, and ran rather than walked toward Liberty atreet. Colonel Ruiz that he was prepared to carry out below rero being encountered. Captain That man ha been IdenUfied aa Albert tha order to the letter and while he esteemed him highly as an old friend, he would hang Hoff.

He admits that he left Mr. Clnte't him If he neclected the vimlni. In spite of this Colonel Ruiz started alone on rooms about that time and by the rear entrance. He carried a carpet-bag under hi arm and wore a black slouch hat. When Sunday for Colonel Arangueren's camp, deter mined to risk all in the attempt.

In leaving he appeared yesterday at police headquar Stearns' party wa met twelve miles below tbe Little Saltaon and asked to be reported to their friends In San Francisco. Thirty-five mile below Sink rapid a party of five men endeavoring to travel down the river towards Dawson attempted to cross on the Ice. Two succeeded In reaching the opposite shore, when the Ice gave way and the open water separated them from their three companions, who had all the provisions. There was no possible way ha said If he had not returned by Thursday night he might be given up as dead. So tar ters, he was asked to explain a newly made laceration In the palm of bis left band.

The wound may have been made by the shoulder nothing has been heard or him, and there Is little room for doubt that the Insurgent leader uai pui ma mreai into execution. of the coupling-pin with which Mrs. Clute was beaten to death. Hoff say be scratched PHILIPPINE WAR ENDED. his hand with a Uck.

The left pocket of hi of reaching the unfortunate two men, and nesri uovrrnment Permitted to rousers is smeared with fresh blood. r.mlairate to Honwkonar. though Kastner does not know their fate. Step by step the investigator learned MAimiU, December 16. Marshal Primeo the conclusion Is that they are dead.

This Riviera, the Governor-General of the Philip. new facts against the prisoner. Mr. Legg Is positive that no one left' Mr. Clute' was on November Hth.

Twelve mile txdow room after Hoff. It would have been Impossible for any one to escape by tbe rear pines, ns sent a aispatcn to the Government, according to the "Gazette." saying that In his opinion the submission of the rebNs Is the result of the 'eeent Spanish victories and that a peace has been attained which leaves Spain's the Big Salmon Major Walsh party was met, having lost its provisions and two boats, also one man. Freeman, a miner. Major Walsh was awaiting dog trains with fence, and Mrs. Legg watched the front fresh Etock, but Kastner reels sure mat be Administrator will not get further than Sel door and the side entrance.

But no on knew the owner of the deadly coupllng-ptn that had been used as the weapon of death until last night, when an acquaintance of Hoff offered the. Information that be haJ seen such a weapon in the possession of tbe kirk this winter. Kastner reached Dawson on the 22d of September, and he and hi partners hid taken a lease oh No. 23 and 35 Below, on Bonanza Creek. They had just time to sink boner cure.

He asks the Government's approval of the steps he has taken and sanction for the rebel chiefs to emigrate. Benor Sagssta, the Premier, telegraphed the necessary authority In reply, with congratulations and an expression of the Queen Regent's satisfaction. In answer. General Riviera telegraphed that the rebels had embodied their submission In a document very honorable to Epain. He "I ordered General Teigiro to suspend operations on condition that the rebel government would start for Pjngkon- the same day.

Lleo-tenant-Colonel Primeo Riviera accompenys them In conformity with their request for a two hole to see tne cnaracter or ground before they came away, leaving two partner lichind who will continue oper ations throughout the winter. While Kast ner doe not share the belief of starvation staring Dawsor.ites In the face, still the ersonai guarantee. stores are selling no food. He feci con THHOXE TOTTRRS. ark UtITA'S accused.

Further Inquiry Increased tbe evidence of guilt, when it wa proved that on Wednesday afternoon Hoff wa greatly under the influence of liquor and in aa Ugly mood. i The Hilary mt the Crlsac The movements of Hoff for tw day have been established. On Tuesday morning he was at the home of Mrs. Out at 230 page street, assisting in packing the furniture for removal. Mr.

Clute had employed the man on one or two occasions to perform small service. The old German waa well-known in the neighborhood. He I aa upholsterer and live at tbe Uadell House at Sixth and Howard atreet. Whea Mm. Clute decided te move left a not far Hoff telling him to calL Mr.

Chit ake4 him to return oa aislit bar Fl fceat Beady Leave Spain IgLK- ones Fu If liagB I Tvriuur-i rmiuiiHricruCI fident that if the population pool provisions there will be sufficient for all throughout the winter. The great difficult appear to be to find out the exact stock of previsions people have, a many with larg supplies have cached them for safety a sake and carefully concealed the fact. joe Brant of Dawson announced hi ta-tention of coming out with the first Ice and rr iua pupuiarc, yum negrui toni- ided by her children, sits In the I subf" gays vP Wbw rrf i ready to fly to france at the attack Irtdefri a revolutionary outbreak. All ble prars I flight have been made and the CUT IN THE LEFT HAND OF THE MAN GHARGED WITH MURDER. When Hoff was examined at police headquarters a cat about half an inch long was found in the palm of his left hand.

He claimed that he had cut himself with a tack -while at work. Drs. Kearney and Bunnell, who examined the wound, are of the opinion that it could not have been caused in the manner described by the prisoner. apology VftUry fore of the capital has been tanduct. that it can be called on In casa (Coat lael rt TaxeeJi Tfratreat beyoad th tronUer.

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