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Enthusiastic I can fancy any one not fond of trout fishing. Tender-hearted Unless It be the trout. Collier's Weekly. EMIL ULBRECHT DROWNS IN HONOLULU WATERS At One Time a Champion Bicycle Rider of This Ccast and of Chicago. Emil Ulbrecht, at one time one of the fastest bicycle riders in California, was drowned at Honolulu on the 13th Inst.

Deceased was a member of the Bay City Wheelmen and carried the Maltese cross, its emblem, to victory In many famous races. On two occasions he practically won the annual 'hundred-mile relay race for his club, gaining so much distance on tne men pitted against him that the result was never thereafter in doubt. He w.is* originally from Chicago, where he gained fame as a road rider, capturing first prize on one occasion In the great Pullman road race from Chicago to Puilnau. then removed to Southern. California, whwc his talent a mechanic In demand.

From Los Anze'cs he July Emperor William. In announcing the appointment of Captain I'Fedom of the cruiser Hertha, now in China. a5 an aid-de-camp said: "This valiant and drcumFwct leader has won the admiration of all. eppecially the English and Russian admirals. To him and all who valiantly helped win laurels for my young navy I express my thanks.

I -i jir.t him aid-de-camp." lection of an Aid-de-Caxnp. Empc-rcr of Germanj Announces Se- THANKED BY Megaphones are comparatively new. and their introduction as means of calling carriages after a reception at the White House in Washington is noted as a useful innovation. But. the megaphone seems out of keeping with modern inventions and usages.

The tendency of the age is toward quietness and concentration and the big. resonant megaphone in association with social functions is suggestive of anything but quiet New York Times. Megaphones to Call the Carriages. "I have Just -received from a lady a check for $150." said a New York man the other day. "You cannot guess why this check has been sent to me.

Perhaps you will not believe that it is to pay the burial expenses of a pet dog. Such is the case. The dog will be buried in the 'pet cemetery' at Dell Wood. The pet cemeterv is just what its name implies. It is a cemetery for the burial of pet animals.

You would be suprprised at the number of persons who pay for the burial of pet dogs. cats, birds, etc. The cemetery Is located on the east bank of the Hudson River, near the town of Stockport. in about 110 acres of land. Pet animals from all over the country are sent there for burial.

Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan's collie Hurricane has been interred in this cemetery. The first interrment was that of a pet horse owned by Buff ffalo Bill. It is the only cemetery of Its kind in the country." Correspondence Kansas City journal.

Cemetery for Pet3. Definition of a Dachshund- This Is what the boy wrote about the dachshund: "The dachshund is a dorg, notwithstanding appeat-encis. He has fore legs, two in front an' two behind, an' they ain't on speakin' terms. I wunst made a dockshound out of a cowcumber an' fore matches, an' It lookt as nacheral as life. Docks-hounds is fairly considerin'.

thare shaip. Thare brains bein' so far away rum thare tales it bothers them some to wag- the lattur. I wunst noo a dockshound who wus too ampasnunt to wate till he cood signal the hole length of his body when he wanted to wag his tale, so he maid it up with his tale thet when he wanted it to wag he would shake his rite ear, an' when thetale seen it shake it wood wag. But as fer me. gimme a bull pup with a Saturday Evening Post.

Elias Carr. RALEIGH, X. July Ex-Governor Ellas Carr died to-day In Edgecomb County. BERLIN, July Baron von Manteuffel, the distinguished Conservative statesman and member of the Reichstag, died to-day. Baron von Manteuffel.

The Day's Dead A Lewiston, Maine, girl, who has never tasted the weed and who dislikes the smell of a much-smoked pipe, has one of the most remarkable collections of tobacco pipes in the State. She began to collect them when she was a little girl, and ha3 kept up the fad. until now she has a wonderful variety of them. And what more, she has sent them around the world for great men to smoke. She has one.

that was smoked by Bismarck, one by the Prince of Wales, and her pipes, which arcall new when she buys them, have been smoked by many great men in Amehlca. When her girl friends gather at her house she brings out her pipes to display ar.d will not show them to straifgers. She fears notoriety, but really her collection is Kennebec Journal. Famous Men Smoked Her Pipes. Before Dulce came I had seen many of his kind die agonizing and, I know now.

unnecessary deaths, not from climate, but from bread and milk. But Dulce came to teach me how to keep his race in health, beauty and happiness. His first object lesson was to pounce "upon a box where I kept weevils or mealworms for my mocking bird and make away with a dozen or more at a In this way he told me that the marmoset is insectivorous. Mealworms may be had all winter from bird dealers, as well as live bait from the fish market; but when summer comes Dulce and I go on grasshopper hunts, and such sport as we have chasing them about In the warm Krass and ferreting under stones in cool places for crickets! In June, when Dulce is sound for he snoozes from 5 o'clock in the afternoon till 10 next I go out in search of the brown beetles that fall under the electric light. Eggs, both raw and hard-boiled," cooked lobrter and paper-shelled clams are all capital s-ubstltutes for the summer Insects.

It is now six years since I found my little companion, and to-day he is as active and as strong as a Shetland The Century. I went close to his cage, and, to my joy! instead of shrinking from me in agitated aversion, as all the others had done, he came to meet me. I opened the door, and before I knew it he was on my shoulder and, with one of his white rosettes pressed against my cheek, singing the tenrlerest and sweetest little song, which told me that I was his and he was mine. I took him home, and because he was so sweet in disposition I called him Dulce. When I first saw Dulce he was trying to make the best of things In a grimy corner of the shop of a dealer in animals.

He had that very day come from his tropical home, and I wondered if the hands that had decorated his ears with ornaments of coral and tinsel were hands that had loved him. and if so, how they could ever let him go, a being so beautiful. No silk was ever softer than his fur. through the gray of which I caught shades of orange and black. His eyes were sparks of electric light, struck from the white tufts of hair on each side of the face that scrutinized me so critically.

Dulce is a gentleman of the old school, fastidious, alert and valiant. Vehement in his likes and dislikes, and quick to recognize the good and the bad, he acts as my divining rod. I know when Dulce sings softly upon first acquaintance that here is a person to trust, but when he goes off In a succession of short clicks, like a policeman's rattle, I am on my guard. What is a marmoset? you will ask. The books of natural history will tell you that they are the smallest of the monkey tribe; but when I hear them singing like a tnlcketful of thrushes, as I do when they are quite content, then I say they are birds: again, when I see them Jump about my room as light as puffs of smoke.

I say they are spirits; and yet again, when I look into their faces and see the expression there, 1 half human, half elflike, I say they are hobgoblins. I have been under the spell of these bewitching little things for many a year, and to-day I am no nearer knowing what they really are than I was at first. Even Dulce, who 'is the head of the family of which I am going to tell you, keeps up the mystery of his identity. Dulce comes from Colombia, South America, but ho goes wherever I go, in winter in a furlined basket and in summer on my shoulder. key Family.

The Smallest and Cutest of the Mon- I SOMETHING ABOUT MARMOSET. Gold at Washington. WASHINGTON. July Government's holdings of gold to-day reached the highest point in its history and amounted to $427,499,482. including the lawful reserve of $150,000,000.

The next highest amount $427,425,800. which was in the Government vaults on May 2. 1300 Lives Lost in a Fire. CHICAGO, July Two girls arc dead and two men v. ere badly burned as the result of a gasoline explosion at 331 North Franklin street.

The dead: MARGARET POCH. aged 11. ANNA POCH. asred 17. The injured: Gustav Keppler, scorched on face and hands in trying to rescue Anna Poch; John Moore, face and hands burned.

Consul Ellsworth Denies the Current Rumors of a Revolution. NEW YORK. July Luther T. Ellsworth. United States Consul at Puerto Cabollo, Venezuela, was a passenger on the steamship Olinda, which reached her dock to-day.

"All reports about war in Venezuela are false. I left Venezuela July 8. and there was no trouble there whatever," said Consul Ellsworth. USED BODIES OF PAUPEKS. How Secretary of Knights and Ladies of Security Defrauded the Organization.

CHICAGO. July Miss Margaret Sheehan, former financial secretary of Illinois Council No. 402, Knights and Ladies of a fraternal insurance ordf-r. pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of conspiracy to defraud that organization of $6So0. It is said that, hoping for leniency, two more of the persons indicted will to-morrow plead guilty.

Pauper cadavers were used as a basis for the collection of money alleged to be due on pollcies QUIET IN Claim They Do Not Mix With Chinese and the Embargo Is Wholly Unjust. DENVER, July Governor Thomas to-day received a brief communication from Secretary of State John Hay, inclofing an extended letter from N. Nabeshima, the Japanese Charge d'Affalres at Washington. The latter's letter is In the nature of a demand upon the part of the Imperial Government of Japan that the Colorado State Board of Health raise the quarantine on Japanese subjects. The Japanese, according to the Charge's statement, should not be included with the Chinese in anything.

He says they are not given to plague and never have been; that the suggestion of the Colorado Beard of Health to such a fact is rather an exhibition of Ignorance than a manifest understanding of prevailing. race conditions. The Japanese, he maintains, do not mix with the Chinese in any part of the world. In concluding, he states very plainly that the- Imperial Government of Japan will insist that the race shall not be discriminated against. Governor Thomas will confer further with the State Board of Health in regard to the quarantine which is still effective In this State against Asiatics.

JAPANESE OBJECT TO QUARANTINE IN COLORADO The Labor day celebration, through the untiring efforts of the committees havtng the affair in charge, gives promise of surpassing all previous events of Its kind. A meeting of the joint committee on celebration was held Saturday night last at 1159 Mission street and the following committees, made up of members of various unions, were appointed to take charge of the events scheduled for the occasion: Alex Dijeau, August Iten and P. H. McCarthy. Game? Walter H.

Goff, Florence Barnett. Philip J. P. Smith, Patrick Hannon and William McGowan. Talent and J.

H. Brady. H. Caasidy. Alex Dijeau and W.

McGowan. O. A. Tveitmoe. J.

K. Phillips. John E. McDougald, J. Smallbone and Walter H.

Goff. Finance John Nugent, J. H. Brady, Walter H. Goff and O.

A. Tveitmoe. The officers are: P. H. McCarthy, president of the day: A.

Dijeau. secretary, and John E. McDougald. treasurer. Arrangements were made for a number of athletic contests.

Prizes to the value of about $1500 have already been donated. There will be a competition between the unions for the Phelan trophy, which was won at Glen Park last year by the cement workers. The union winning the trophy three consecutive years retains it. Literary exercises, music and dancing will also be features of the day. The celebration will be held at Central Park.

OFFICERS CHOSEN FOR LABOR DAY CELEBRATION FORT WORTH. July Jerome Kerby of Dallas will be nominated for Governor by the Populist State Convention at Waco Tues- IRONTON. Ohio, July A terrific wind, rain and hall storm swept over here last night and demolished a large planing mill, unroofed several houses and uprooted trees. Severa! houses were struck by lightning. REDDING.

July William Sevens, engineer on the Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad. was arrested to-day and charged with assault on 14-year-old Etta Morgan of Bella Vista. who Is the complaining witness. SACRAMENTO. July On the ISth a stranger left his horse and cart at a stable here and has not Elnce been seen.

The outfit consists of a large bay horse and a black cart. SANTIAGO DE CUBA. July The medical congress of Latin America will meet here In together with the International hygienic, pharmaceutlc and dentlstlc exhibition. BUFFALO. July The Lehlfch Valley freight house at East Buffalo, together with fifty cars loaded with merchandise, was destroyed by fire to-day.

Loss. J150.0CO. BERLIN. July Emperor William has accepted from the manufacturers automobiles, in which he Intends to ride during the August maneuvers. WASHINGTON.

July The resignation of S. Heath as Assistant Postmaster General reached the department to-day. It Is to take effect July 31. TUSCALOOSA. July Eleven negroes were drowned In the Warrior River near Akron.

at 3 p. m. to-day by the capsizing of a skiff. BERLIN. July 23.

An oleomargarine trust has been formed in Germany, to go into effect the beginning of next year. day. The convention will be strictly middle-ofthe-road and opposed to fusion. -A. full State ticket will be named.

PHOENIX, July Harry Arinott. locator and part owner of the Little Annie proup of mines In the Blgr Bug district, committed suicide by taking strychnine this afternoon at Prescott. Despondency due to ill health was the cause. CLEVELAND. July Senator Hanna, accompanied by his family, will leave here for Elberon.

X. Wednesday afternoon for recreation until September 1. He will, however, make daily trips to the national headquarters In New York. July 23. Postmaster General Smith has returned from Atlantic City.

While there he read the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow on Cuban frauds ftnd stated this afternoon that an abstract of the report would be made public to-morrow. BFRLIX, July The hot wave has broken and there have been terrific rain and thunder storms since last evening In many parts of Germany. The- temperature Is again moderate, but an enormous amount of damage has been done in the district west of Berlin, especially to fruit. ST. JOSEPH.

July The two young men found murdered yesterday on the Maple tracks near Savannah, were this afternoon identified as H. Speth and Guy Spielman, bcth of Plattsville, WIs. The supposed murderer Is another voung man seen In their company at Savannah Saturday. He has not been found. ST.

PAUL. July The St. Paul Cold Storage and Warehouse Company's large warehouse was destroyed by fire to-day. The total loss Is estimated at with an insurance of J3S0.MO. The warehouse was filled with butter, fruit, tobacco, eggs, tea, whisky and other commodities.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS CONDENSED "The situation in the Philippines is just what it was during the last years of the Spanish rule." said Captain F. V. Krug of the Twenty-second Infantry, who has jijst returned from eighteen months of campaigning in the Philippines and is staying at the Occidental. "The best peopl the educated classes have become convinced that the American rule is the best they could possibly have, and the fighting is all being done by roving bands of robbers who have harassed the Islands for many years and levied tribute on their more fortunate neighbors and tribal enemies. Practically all of Manila and the immediate districts in that vicinity are at peace with us and the people are anxious to see the war ended.

They are only prevented from openly joining the American cause by agents of the robber bands who manage to creep through the lines and intimidate them by threats to burn down their houses and places of business and to murder them in the night. Too often these threats are carried out. Captain Krug speaks with some authority, for. in addition to campaigning pretty well over the Island of Luzon, he nas had the command for several months of the provost guard in charge of one of the largest and most thickly populated districts of Manila. He has had to deal with all classes of the Filipinos and has learned their characteristics.

Just now he is on two months" sick leave and is making a round trip on the transport HancocK to recuperate. "One of the curious things we have to deal with," he continued, "is to keep our prisons from being overcrowded with voluntary prisoners. All prisoners of war are kept in a closely guarded section of the town, where they have plenty of room to rove about and plenty of fresh air. In spite of all we can do to keep them out. the number of prisoners increases daily.

The only way that I can account for it is that the poor fellows find better living in the prisons than can possibly get outside. feed them the regular army ration, which consists of frozen beef, hard bread and vegetables. The beef cannot be secured outside at any price, even by the wealthy. "Under such treatment the Filipinos are becoming altogether too fastidious. On one occasion, while I was superintending the distribution of the ration, instead of beef the commissary had chanced to send mutton, thinking, perhaps, that the prisoners would enjoy the change of diet.

Instead they refused absolutely to accept the mutton, and went without meat rather than accept It. It was not until some days later that I learned the real reason for their refusal; they thought the frozen sheep were dogs. While they were willing to eat dogs before the Americans came, they prefer beef now. "The policy of leniency pursued by General Otis is bearing good fruit now. In nearly every case spies, murderers and other desperate criminals who have been convicted by military courts and sentenced to death, have had their sentences commuted to imprisonment by the reviewing authority.

I understand that these prisoners are to be brought to country, to serve out their terms In military prisons here." Captain Krug of the Twenty-Second Infantry Declares Voluntary Prisoners Are Filling Detention Places. Fear Prevents Their Joining Our Forces and Ending the War. FILIPINOS ARE SATISFIED WITH AMERICAN RULE GEORGETOWN. July The courtroom was only about half filled with epectators when the Powers case was called up to-day. The prosecution gave r.otice that they would excuse a half dozen persons summoned as witnesses for that Among excused was Ike Golden, brother of Sergeant harton Golden.

Lieutenant John Ricketts. an officer in the Barboursville militia, of which John was captain, was the first witness to-day He arrived in Frankfort January £5 with the trair.load of mountaineers. Before the train reached Frankfort, witness said, the men were ordered to W. H. Cultcn for ratior.s.

The men were armed gur.s and pistols. Arriving at Frankfort they took possession of the agricultural building and stacked their guns there. Witness said each morning a crowd or JM to GOO mountain men occupied the yard in frcr.t of the executive building. Witcess had a conversation with Youtsey the day before the assassination. Youtsey eaid Goebel had to be put out of the way ar.d he had RM which he would elve for that purpose and knew ten or fweive others who would also contribute to euch a fund.

Youtsey also said Goebel could be from the executive building that the assassin could escape the basement and never be detected! He Bald his jor. depended on Goebfcl being killed. Fifteen minutes before the assassination the witness saw Youtsey and the latter told him he wanted or thirtv mon to accompany him to the executive' building. Continuing the witness "Youtsey put us inside the executive building "near the stairs. He told us something was going to happen and we must remain there.

hen he started through the hall I left and went into a private residence across the street from the buiidir.e. I had boen there a few minutes when I heard the shooting. I did not know any of the men whom I left at the foot of the stairs in the executive said that the men whom Tout- ev placed were just outside the office of the Secretary of State. He said he left because he did not want to be present in case of a killing. Cross-examined, the witness said that when Youtsey placed the men in the hall he told thfin soon cs "something happened" a man would come down the steps and go away with them.

Witness saM that when Youtsey left the men he went in the direction of the Governor's office. E. Coombs, private secretary to Prolate Judge Hobson, the next witness, told cf a conversation between two mountaineers in the Housp lobby a day or two before the assassination. In which they ppoke of ''ricking tht-m out." meaning the Democrats. During of Coombs -Governor Brown objected to testimony that mountaineers went to Frankfort armed, as the right to carry arms was a constitutional privilege.

The court took issue on this point and said that the law did not permit crowds of armed men not In the military service and called out In Jhe regular way to gather for any purpose. flutstast Adjutant General Murray read a Icttfr which he fourd on file in his office at Frankfort, having been left there at the time of the evacuation of the Tay- Icr trnnps. It was from Powers to Adjutant General Collier, dated January 22. Powers says: "We have undertaken a periouF matter. We must win.

We must have the men and gur.s." Claims That Youtsey Pointed Out a Windo-w to Him and Said the Killing Could Be Done From It. Testimony of Lieutenant John Ricketts in the Powers Case. SAID GOEBEL MUST BE PUT OUT OF THE WAY Mrs. Duke is the daughter of Count Alfred Festetics of Austria, and is first cousin of Count Festetics, who married Ella Haggin, daughter of the California millionaire. Her husband, who died six years ago.

was a graduate of Columbia College and was at the time of his death a rapidly rising attorney practicing at the New York bar. Mrs. Duke is now about 28 years old, of handsome figure and intelligent face. Since the death of her husband she has almost entirely supported herself by painting. With Mrs.

Redstone, Mrs. Duke has been living at No. 4 West Eighteenth street. The former loaned Mrs. Duke a valuable lorgnette, which she was later unable to recover.

Mrs. Duke at first denied any knowledge of the trinket, but when threatened with arrest she said she had lost it. She promised to replace it and begged her friend not to disgrace her. Mrs. Redstone in a moment of anger turned the matter over to the police and then for two days tried to undo her hasty action.

It was made apparent that the case today was the outgrowth of a quarrel and Mrs. Redstone seemed even more anxious to withdraw the complaint than her onetime friend was to have her do so. Magistrate Meade quickly settled the affair by ordering the discharge of Countess Festetics on the ground that no crime had been committed. NEW YORK, July Two young women, each of attractive personality, made a pathetic picture in the Jefferson Market Court this afternoon. One, Countess Festetics, known in this city as Mrs.

Annie N. Duke, was a prisoner charged with larceny of a valuable lorgnette. The complainant was Mrs. Dora Redstone, until recently the warmest personal friend of the Countess. Special Dispatch to The Call.

Case Was Apparently the Outgrowth of a Petty Quarrel and the Fair Prisoner Was Dismissed Without Trial. Mrs. Annie Duke Accused of Stealing a Valuable Lorgnette. COUSIN OF FESTETICS IN A POLICE COURT "I considered their representations of little Importance." said the admiral, "and did not take them to Manila. Later I gave permission to Aguinaldo and about a dozen others to come to Manila.

All that they were anxious about at that time was an end of the tyranny of Spain, against which they were lighting. After the destruction of Montejo's fleet the city virtually surrendered, and I am satisfied that if we had had 5000 troops there at that time we could have gone ashore and been received by the Filipinos as deliverers. They had absolutely no thought then of independence. That was an after-thought of their leaders during the interim between the smashing of the Spanish lieet and the arrival of the United States troops." Speaking of the report that Cuba was to be evacuated by the American troops after the holding of the constitutional convention. Admiral Dewey said he did not see how the United States could turn over the island to the Cubans until a stable government had been established.

"We are responsible to the world for the orderly conduct of affairs in Cuba," said he, "and until such a government is established I cannot see how we can withdraw We are confronted with a similar situation in the Philippines. The world looks to us, and no matter what political party wins in November, the United States cannot relinquish the islands until a responsible and stable government is set up there." The admiral said he had never heard of Alejandrino. Several Filipinos, after much Importuning, came aboard the Olympia at Hongkong. They were anxious to be taken to Manila. WASHINGTON, July The letter received by Senator Pettlgrew from one of Aguinaldo's generals, J.

Alejandrino, containing an alleged account of an interview between himself and Admiral Dewey on board the Olympia, April, 1S93, in which it is stated Admiral Dewey promised independence to the Filipinos, was shown to the admiral to-day by an Associated Press reporter. The admiral characterized it a "tissue of falsehoods." He declared it absurd on its face. "I not only had no power to promise Independence to the Filipinos." said he, "but the whole tenor of the words put in my mouth stamps them as false. 1 am made to say things which 1 never thought of, and which. I could never have uttered.

You notice that I am addressed in the alleged interview as when at the time I was a commodore. Points Out the Fact That It Mentions Him as Admiral When He Was Only a Commodore. Characterizes the Alejandrino Letter as a Tissue Falsehoods. DEWEY STILL INSISTS HE MADE NO PROMISES He met his death near Honolulu at Makapuu Point. He was searching for sea shells with Harry IX E.

Hayes and a young man named Rylander. The men removed their clothing and walked along the rocks beyond Koko Head. was swept off the rockst by the heavy waves and carried beyond the reach of his friends. Moore was thrown off his feet at the same time and nearly drowned. three rnen saw friend drowned, but were unable to him any assistance owing to the the water at that point, which kept sweeping the doomed man away from them.

The body was not recovered. leaves a wife and three small children. He was 2S years of age and employed at the iron works In Honolulu. raada several racing pilgTiramagtf-? to this city. He was at his best on the road, but was also a factor la several big handicaps.

in the first part of the movement. The War Department will send to China as soon as possible several batteries of mountain guns, for which contracts will be made in the course of the next week. Already army ordnance officers, acting on instructions from Secretary Root, have placed an order an American ordnance company for 20,000 rounds of ammunition for the 2-pounder and 12-pounder mountain guns now at Manila. The amount of the contract is about $100,000, and the shipment is ordered to be made without delay. The proposition to buy more mountain guns for transportation to China is the result of a recommendation renewed by General Miles and is in addition to the -two batteries of Vickers OFFICERS MENTIONED IN THE DISPATCHES.

SEIZED BY THE ALLIES OFF TAKU. From ths isavy ana Army. This vessel, the Chinese cruiser Haitien, with the Chinese admiral on ooard, was detained by the allied commanders at the mouth of the Pleho River at the time of the capture of the Taku forts. June 17. Later a crew from the German vessels boarded her and are still in charge- guns ordered last week.

The batteries of mountain artillery probably will be manned by detachments of men from the regular artillery arm in this country or sent over to China from the Philippines. The belated detail of the staff for General Chaffee has excited a good deal of comment among army officers. That officer left this country and will reach China ready for service in all respects save that he will have no staff. The officers now chosen are not those for whom he asked and no Inspector general is included In i the detail, although General Chaffee was anxious that such officer be assigned to duty with him. He probably will select one of the volunteer field officers from Manila for that possibly Captain C.

E. Muir, who was formerly an inspector general of volunteers. It is an interesting incident of General "Wilson's detail for duty with General Chaffee that In 1363 Wilson was major general and Chaffee a sergeant. Time has wrought a change in the position of each, so that Wilson reports to and becomes his Junior in rank and tion. The War Department is placing orders for a great quantity of supplies.

Contracts nave been awarded recently for $2,000,000 worth of stores of all kinds, and bids will be asked to-morrow at Boston. Chicago and Philadelphia for Jl.OOO.OOO worth of material. This will replenish the diminished stock of the quartermaster's supplies and camp equipment. Army quartermasters are bothered about means for heating the tents of the soldiers in China. Cold weather does not occur until November 1 in the section where the operations are likely to be undertaken, but the question must be settled at once In anticipation of a protracted campaign extending through the winter.

No further orders were issued for troops to reinforce the American detachment in i China to-day, but two additional briga- general? ordered to report to General Chaffee for duty in the Peking expedition. They are General Frederick Grant, now on duty in the Philippines, and General Thomas II. Barry, who Is on hoard the transport Sumnor, which sailed on July 17 from San Francisco to Nagasaki. If the start Is made on July 30 neither of the three brigadiers who have ber-ri ordered to report to General Chaffee will be on hand in time to participate It is the general opinion among officers the army it would be difficult for the powers to find a man better fitted for the supreme command than General Chaffee. His experience la Indian campaigns and in Cuba, it is said, fits him peculiarly Sor the leadership of such an expedition.

The Question of supreme command is EtIIl unsettled. Admiral Remey has gone to Tientsin to participate in a conference of senior officers present on the question of the command. At his request instructions have be-en sent him for his guidance In this conference. He has been informed that he is not necessarily to favcr puttir.g an American ofScer in comxnar.d. He must advocate the selection of the best mar.

to command the expedition without regard to the proportion of troops supplied by the several powers. It Is understood that if this conference falls to decide upon a commander for the expedition to Peking the question will be taken up and fettled by negotiations directly between the governments participating in the Campaign. PAL.L HEADQUARTERS. WELLINGTON HOTEL. WASHINGTON.

LJuiy 23. Further advices received from Rear Admiral Remey leave r.o doubt in the minds of officials here that July SO is the date which the commanders of the combined forces In China have decided upon for the beginr.lr.g of the advance on Peking. Special Dispatch to The Call. DETROIT. July Paul Merlins.

German Consul General to Peking. China, and an intimate friend of the late German Minister, Baron von Ketteler, passed through Detroit to-day en route to New York, whence he will sail Wednesday for home. Just before leaving Peking he had a long talk with Minister Conger, who. he said, was very sure that the uprising "would not amount to much." "I cannot believe," said Baron Merllng, "that all the foreigners have been massacred, I am quite certain that the cipher message received by your Government from Peking is genuine and was written by Minister Conger. I have several reasons for believing so.

but I cannot givo my reasons, for my Government would not like to have me talk too much. "You can believe one thing that is as certain as the rising of the sun: The armies of Europe will devastate Northern China." GERMAN CONSUL THINKS THAT CONGER IS SAFE WASHINGTON, July lstration officials are more hopeful over the situation In China, as a result of the dispatches which have come in the last few days, more particularly the European advices of to-night asserting that the Ministers are safe. If an answer is received to the second telegram, which has been sent through the Chinese Minister here to Mr. Conger, and that answer should bear International evidence of genuineness, the situation will be materially Improved and the Government, with the additional Information that Minister Conger may transmit, will be able to move Intelligently toward the rescue of the beleaguered foreigners. It seems probable from the Brussels dispatch that the note of Mr.

Hay to the United States representatives abroad, directing them to urge upon the governments to which they are accredited, the opening of communication with, Peking; la bearing fruit and the officials hope that united action by the powers generally on this matter may be taken. Administration Expects to Get Second Message From Conger. GROWING HOPE AT WASHINGTON July 30 Faxed as the Date for the Advance oN Peking and Commanders Will Meet at Tientsin to Select the Leader of the Relief Expedition. BETWEEN CHINA AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY .24, 1900. A Shrewd Surmiss.

3 Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Coolidge of the Fourteenth United States Infantry succeeded Colonel Liscum (killed on 13th Inst.) in command of the American troops at Tientsin. Vice Admiral Alexieff of the Russian fleet, since Admiral Seymour returned on board his vessel, is in command of the allied naval contingents at Tientsin. Captain E.

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