The San Francisco Call

vm t mi; lxxxvii-no. is. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

ROBERTS PUTIN COMMAND

OVER BULLERd' al ier Nami as

Chi< >f Stafi to the NewL< of the British ForcesO] ing in South Africa.

c tched tothe 1 i the London War01 eers From theYe

LONDON. Dec. 17 —Baron Roberts of Kanda-har and Waterford, commander of theforces in Ireland, h>as been appointed to

the chief ccmrocnd in South Africa, with Gen-eral Lord Kitchener of Kbartouri) as h>is chiefof staff.

Toe War Dff<ce to-day issued the followingannouncement :

"f^ctinq uDon the cdvice of the iT>iiitary au-thorities her Majesty's Government approved thefollowing measure :

"fillthe remaining portions of the army re-ser. on D> are called out. The SeventhDivision, which is being mobilized, will proceedto South Africa without delay. Thje commanderiQ chief in South Africa has been authorized tocontinue to raise at b's discretion local troopsmounted.

"Nine battalions of militia,in addition to twobattalions w'nict) have already volunteered forservice at Ma'ta and one tor service in the Chan-nel Islands, willbe allowed to volunteer for serviceoutside the United Kingdom, and an equivalentnumber of militia battalions willbe embodied forservice at t)on)e.

"A strong rorce of volunteers, selected fromtbe yeomary regiments, willbe formed forserviceiQ South Africa.

•'Arrangements ore being made for th)e em-ployment in South Africa of a strong contingentof carefully selected volunteers. Thje patrioticoffers which) are being received from the colonieswill so far as possible be accepted, preferencebeing given to offers of mounted contingents."

HOWARD TUTTLE DECLINES TOREMAIN A SUICIDE.

THEcemetery

of the Exam-iner has givenUp Its dead.On Friday the*yell \u25a0heft;

with much experd'-ture of sl!ly senti-mentality and avante of type amiprinters* Ink. con-signed a perfectlyharmless and Inof-fensiye young mmto a suicide's graveIn the waters of thebay. Hip tragic fatewaa c]»th<-<l in allthe romance of ;;rir.-.

QUlted love. It wasembellished with lhesorrows of a wan-derer fleeing from anangry father's wrath.It was made Inter-esting to love-lornservant miMs byharrowing dit.iilF ofa fairone's cruel dis-<lain.

Vision** of a Imik-en^hearted youl lithrowing awaywealth, ambition and!if*>.floated thlBUffhhysterical jia r a-Kraphß. Th*» strangetale of h fatal p-is-cinn, the \vi<»idly fas-cinating figur" ofpale death Invitingand beckoning thesad youth frr.m thevwikp of an indus-trious ferryboat, thedespairing cry of thejilted lover and theleaptbdeath into :heblack waters of thehay loft muhiiiß to< ritirizo in the story

of the sentimentalreporter of the yol-I>>u- sheet, and marteslilvers of sympa-thetic horror chasethemselves down thespines of love-sickreaders. And all

would have been well wore it not for'

the obstlnacs of tbe sad youngman. Another \ouhr; life would have goneout in it..> shadows of \u25a0 great city, theeditorial writer of tbe Examiner wouldhave worked himself Into spasmi over thetniK.iiy <•{ unrequited love and the socialmenace of disdainful young ladles and yl-low Journalism would have scored anothertriumph. Bui th. sad young man wasobdurate: ho positively declines to staync-.Tfi. Not all the heaviness of the Exam-iner can keep him at the bottom <>f thehay. and he is seriously thinking Of ask-ing police Interference to prevent the yel-low journal from placing him there. Hehas almost convinced liims"!!" tint ho hasan action against the sheet for throatsagainst life, but admits that he thorough-|j enjoyed reading the romanci ..f whath" is not and of feeling; th" very uniquesensation of t»»-inp dead.Ii name is Howard Tuttle. He is a

youn* cook, who has been too deep yconcerned in his pots ami pans to feel thepansr? of unrequit<-ii idve. if he has everfell 'he uneaslrxs--- that SOmel<m Iis sniil!•• afflict love-sick swains lv- has attribu-ted it to biliousness. As he told his stoiy i

\u25a0 lay h.- appeared t" i)( a matter offart young fellow, who has found hisStruggle in life difficult enmiKh to preventhim from being too particular in his oc-cupations. He says that he has been aprize tißhter. a foot racer, a ball playerand a cook, hut it was not until the k\-aminer Interfered in his affair; that hebecame absolutely a dead one.

To those that may haw a similar tri-bute from the imaginative fiction writersof the Examiner ho says ii Is not un-pleasant to see one s self rl''tureil as arollicking, reckless prodigal son. culturedthrough the care and indulgence of rela-tives, provided with m<>n.\\ to burn andendowed with the graces that dpture thefrminim- heart. But he says it is an aw-ful shock to hump against stern realityaeain ami remember the jolts in th.- prise-rinK and the smoke and hrat of the oven.

'He w.hjm give what he has 1.-tt. he says,t<> know the particular brand use.l |qthe Kxaminer office.

H.- declares. i>i passing, that it was un-kind for the yellow sheet to ref,-r t,) hislocal acquaintance with a sH.-ct circle, aslie Intends neier to enter the rinp wgslnIt is in the love episode that he t.ike*most interest, as it is practicably an un-known field to him. He assures thefriends that he has left that his is nota "strange tale." nor has he a "fatal,passion." He read it in the yellow sheet,but it was not his dope. He watched nopale death stalking in the wake of thoSan Rafael boat, as he had an importantengagement In Sacramento. lie did not

l^ap Into the blackwaters with the de-spairing cry. "Thisend 3all," as he hadn o troubles, andcan't swim. He wasnot tormented by themadness of lost love,as the young ladywhose name the Ex-aminer made trafficof Ina shameful andunwarranted mannerhas been married forseveral months, andhe never enjoyedwith her more thana passing acquaint-ance

Tuttle is naturallyconce.rned to knowhow the ExaminerIntends to resurrect

him. It baa beensuKßosted that thetragedy departmentof the yellow sheet,which .-\u25a0. cleverlytoppled him HIT theBan Rafael boat Intothe bay. turn himover to the modern-miracle departmentami have him walkalong the bottom ofthe bay to the Marinshore line. 'I' omake the narrativemore characteristic-ally sensational, themarine reportermipht throw In anexciting chase by theinhabitants of tnebay. A battle withthe fish in a tishstory ought to be iii-

terestintr.Bui Tuttle doesn't

care how the tnckis done. He insiststhat the yellow sheettake .him off thedead list and restorehim to his plat aaan inoffensive mem-ber of the commu-nity who wants tomind his own busl-

Tf this is nnr d«ne speedily he\u25a0•\u25a0 the >fl!ow journal

for thai princely family fortun.- whichi's dip Utor says hr- Is to Inherit Hei- tx ginning t.> think that ittrying t<> persuade your friends that you

\u25a0 h after beingto the bottom of the bay with a yellowpaper weight.

policy of the Examiner totract anything even when in

error. Tuttle thinks thai in simpleto himself the yellow sMeei nncht. if itwill not take him off the dead list, fo an-nounce him in iho list \u0084 f births.

This iihli •\u25a0j.ininti of the mendacity ofthf Examiner Men and women \u25a0

repute at tbe mercy .>i yellownewspaper Irresponsibility, wi>t.'t> may be attacked, irho may i>.. |,;t

-iivi..i aa yellon Journalism sees tit

r ii.» may even be represent•.lin a very different "pin-

lon. in this partlculai > u.,e oi Tattle the!n.ts nro simple. The Examiner inits characteristic, sensational style repre-sented him ai 8 young man of pr >spectlvefortune who hail killed himself "ii the

HOWARD TUTTLk, Who Refuses to Consider Himself Dead.

THE LOST BARK COLUSA.

VISIONS THAT CAME I*l AN EXAMINER PIPE DRLAM.

MAJOR-GENERAL LORD KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM.Th:i fom to South Africa as Chief ot Staff to Field Marshal JLprd Roberta.

BARK COLUSAHAS GONE TO

THE BOTTOMNews Reaches Victoria of the

Sinking of the Overdue VesselAfter Striking Near the Car-manah Point Lighthouse.

Captain Ewarts, His Wife and the Crew MeetDeath in the Disaster— lndians on ShoreWatch the Angry Waters Cover theFoundered Craft.

VICTORIA, I^' !" I ttcr r—\u25a0m Lighthouse

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Identity if which he was unable tolearn, and her subsequent release. Atthe same time A-a Drinkwater. a pr->s-pector of Albert!, cornea forward with astory Irough! to him by the Dodge CaveIndians, which goes to prove that thebark seen on the Point, which wan noneoth*»r than tho overdue Colusa. afterwardfoundered. The Indians watched thewaters tover her.

That th.- I"ulusa has gone down and thatCaptain E warts*, his wife and the crewhave Rone down \ ja sailor's crave In thewaters they have lied so long seems toho a certainty. Mar.. have surmised tlintthe bark was lost, hut the surmiseshave been based on nothing more than thefact that she was long overdue, coupledwith that of her un.sea worthy condition,she not having been repaired propertyafter the accident she sustained when en-tering Kahului on her last trip from fc.m

Francisco. The letter received from thelighthouse keeper, who has been unableto get word here for some time past owingto the collapse of the telegraph wire, wasas follows:

"On tne morning or tne imh two or myboys heard some rille shots. Thinking itwas some one signaling to them they re-turned toward Ronilla I'oint. On the samerock that the Duel* of Argyle struckthey saw a bark, the identity of whichthey could not ascertain. There was athick fog. with light,baffling winds, heavyrain and a heavy surf on the beach. henfirst seen she was lying over considerably;her anchor was down, but her stern, asshe swung, caught on the rock. A He si astruck her and she swung cl»-ar nndstraightened up to her anchor wit) herhead out to \u25a0«•, hut her stern well in thesmall bay at the Chusapis waterfall, be-tween and within a few yards of thewrecks of the Duchess of Argyle and thePuritan.

"The boys, being unable to cross theriver to get home, ran down to Kllde,about two miles east of Bonilla. wherethey could open the wire,and then tappedwith the ends of the wire, callingme, andsaid there was a vessel- on shore atBonllla. There being no Indians here Itelephoned to Cloose to my eldest SOB tocome vp1 at once and bring assistance,which he did. At 1a m. the tog cleared,

when Isaw* \u25a0 bark dangerously nearBonilla. She was heading about west, butthe wind hauled and she headed off short.When the boys returned they said it wasthe bark they had reported, that a breezesprung up off shore which enabled her toget clear, but they think she was badlydamaged and shipped her cable. It wasa miracle that she ever got clear, es-pecially with the heavy surf runnlnp.

She seemed a medium-sized vessel,rather smart looking, painted black witha white stripe around her. She haddouble top-gallant yards and 1 think aBkysall Several pieces of redwood werepicked up near where the bark wentashore.'

Asa Drinkwater says that when he wason his way down ho heard of the founder-ing of the vessel from the Dodge CaveIndians. The Indians said the bark, whichfrom the description given must havebeen the same one seen ashore on ikmlUaPoint, was carried up In a, northwesterlydirection before the heavy gales, andwhen the vessel was abo opposite LongBeach it was seen to roil from aide toside and went down rapidly as thoughher bottom had fallen out or her seamsparted. This was about the beginning ofDecember. Many different Indians toldthe prospector the same story of thefoundering of the vessel, and he says hehas every reason to believe the report Istrue. Since the Indians told the pros.pector of the disaster th. have gone to

the big potlatch now In progress at E.*»peranza Inlet, which Is attracting th«Flwa.shes from ut> and down the coast,and they have not reported the founder-Ingof the vessel to the local customs. Aneffort will, however, be made to reachthem and g<t their report.

After the vessel went down theywatched for boats, but saw none. Thenthe) searched the bcarh and rocks forwreckage without avail.. Not a man orv*>stlrr»> of anything from th* wreckseems to have reached the shore. Ofcourse, it has not b»-en proven definitelythai the los: vessel Is the Colusa. huteverything seems to point to that havingbeen the case.

HAS BEEN IN HARD LUCK.

Colusa Was on Her Way to Depart-ure Bay for Repairs.

The Colusa Is well known In the SanFrancisco trade, having been owned herefor nearly a generation. In IS*O nhe waaone of the smartest barks on the coastand was then In command of CaptainBackus, The captain has not been In th»»vessel for many years, hut always retain-ed his Interest In her and |g now one ofthe principal sufferers by the loss of th«vessel. In those days O. P. Smith & Co.were the managing owners, but during th«last few years A. 11. Paul has looked afterthe vessel.

The Colusa left here on September •»last for the Hawaiian Islands. During .1storm she w«-nt ashore and was sot offagain after some difficulty. She wastaken to Kahului. where an examinationshowed that her forefoot and part of th«shoe was gone. It was decided to sendher to the sound for repairs, and on Oc-tober 21 she sailed In ballast for De-parture Bay. On November M Th- fallIn telling of the then overdue fleet said:"The old Colusa is out thirty-nine daysfrom Kuhu'.ul for Departure Bay. and sh<*is the vessel for which the gravestanxiety is felt, as she was. ashore on rtvisland of Hawaii and was on her way tothe sound In ballast for renairs."

Th. CohtM was built In Bath, Me. In1573. She was 1111 tons net burden. 177feet 5 inches long. 2S feet IInches beamand "4 feet 1 Inches deep.

FIERMAN CHURCH DEaD.

Aped Attorney Passes Awaj After aLong Illness.

FRESNO, Dec. 17.—After suffering long

from a complication of ailments. Hon.Flerman Church died to-night In thiscity. He would have been 73 years of ago

had he lived until next February. Mr.Church was a practicing attorney In Chi-cago before coming West, associated withLyman Trumbull.

He lived at La Porte and Valparaiso,Ind.. for years and represented his dis-trict In the Legislature. He went to Lo*Angeles !n l*s.">. afterward removed toFresno and was District Attorney forfour years, and for two an at the bumtime ex-offlclo Mayor of this city a*

chairman i f the City Trustees. Survlvlnchim here are the widow and a son, JessQChurch, besides daughters. Mrs. C. A.Harding of Chicago and Mil Sarah A.Fisher of Lansing. Mich.

CARLISLE TEAM EN ROUTE.

Indian Football Players Coiring toSan Francisco.

CHICAGO. Dec. 17.-Elghteen CarllM*Indian football players. in charge ofCoach Gler.n S. Warner, passed throughChicago to-night en their way to PanFrnnclsco to play the University of Cali-fornia on Christmas day. The team wasIn first-class condition and expect* to ar-rive In San Francisco' Thursday night. •

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