The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1898 Page: 9 of 10
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THE SPANISH FLOTILLA
HAS HARDLY STARTED.
OFF THE AFRICAN COAST.
Anchored at the Cape Verd Islands,
South of the Canaries — A I-onp
Jonrney Ahead *—The Vizcaya
and Oquendo Sail Under
Healed Orders — Bound
for I'orto Rloo.
Madrid, April *.—The statement
cabled last night that the torpedo flo-
tilla of Spain has arrived at Porto
Ilico was taken from a newspaper
here.
Investigation shows the announce-
ment to bo erroneous. The Spanish
flotilla has arrived at the Cape Verd
islands, off the coast of Africa, and it
is sa (1 will proceed after coaling.
As it has taken the Spanish torpedo
flotilla ti ne days to make the Cape
Verd i ■ ands from the Canary islands,
which they left March 24, it should,
going at about the same rate of speed,
take the ilotilia about twenty-six days
from now to reach Porto Itico from
the Cape Verd islands. This is under
the supposition that the flotilla will
coal and start again to-day, which is
not probable.
WASirxaTON, April 4.—The navy
department up to 10 o'clock had had
no information concerning the arrival
of the Spanish torpedo flotilla fleet at
Porto Rico, as reported in a Madrid
cable. Doubt was expressed that it
would make such fast time. It is said,
however, that it would arrive without
interference, as no move has been
made to ntercept it, a course advo-
cated bv many naval officers.
New VoitK, April 4.—The Evening1
World prints a dispatch dated April 1,
on board the dispatch boat Triton, via
Key \\ est, which says': "The Spanish
warships Viz.-aya and Oquendo no
longer lie like big watch dogs across
Havana harbor. They are on their
way to Porto llico. The dispatch boat
followed them until this was made
certain.
"They left their moorings at 3
o'clock this afternoon and started east-
ward along the north coast of Cuba.
For days both of the big Spanish
cruisers have been ready to sail at an
hour's noticfe. Their coal bunkers
were tilled almost two weeks ago.
"Late last night a package of sealed
orders were sent out to the two war
ships from the office of the Almirante.
Early this morning preparations for
their departure were begun. Boat
after boat, loaded down to the gun-
wales with provisions cf every kind,
started out from Havana wharves for
the Vi/.caya anil Oquendo."
The correspondent boarded the
Vizcaya at 10 o'clock. lie was re-
ceived most courteously by Captain
Eulate in his cabin. "All I know
about it," said the Vizcaya's com-
mander. 'is that we are going away,
but where 1 have not the faintest
idea. Our orders are sealed, and I
shall not open them till 1 am several
miles out at sea."
A correspondent was put on board
the Triton with orders to follow the
cruisers. His narrative continues:
"As soon as the two .-.hips reached the
open gulf tliev turned to the west-
ward and ran three or four miles
down the coast in that flirection.
After they had reached a poijit on#the
coast about five mi let: westward of
Havana they turned completely
around and headed for Moro again.
Under a speed of about eleven knots
an hour they.pas&ed Mo.ro for the sec*
ond time, the Vizcaya leading the
Oquendo by half a mile.
"Down the coast to the eastward of
Havana the two men-of-war passed in
procession. At a distance of seven
miles from land the Triton paralleled
their course, sailing at about the same
rate of speed. As the sun dropped
down below the horizon the Vizcaya
and Oquendo became lost to view in
the shadow of the long green hills of
the shore.
"•The two ships had increased their
speed a little by this time and were
jogging along at about fifteen knots
They kept well within the five mile
limit. Most of the time they were
not more than a mile from shore. The
Triton followed the Vizcaya and
Oquendo until they rounded Point
Guanos.
"Point Guanos is twenty-eight miles
to the eastward of Havana. Had either
of the two men-of-war had any idea of
going to United States ports they cer-
tainly would have turned north at
Point Guanos. But they did not. At
a speed of sixteen knots an hour they
kept on to the eastward. The course
that they followed is indicated on
charts as being the most direct route
to Porto Rico."
A FALL IN SECURITIES.
American Mocks and Spanish I'.omls
Buffer In Foreign Markets.
London, April 4 —American secur-
ities opened very weak on the stock
Exchange to-day. Declines ranged from
2 to 3 points. At 11:45 o'clock Ameri-
cans showed some improvement.
Spanish 4s opened at *1%, a loss of
3 points. They sold at 48}4 after the
opening. At 1:30 o'clock Spanish 4s
weakened, and were quoted at 47%, a
pet lose of 3;"'"s from yesterday's clos-
ing.
TEA, COFFEE AND BEER.
PREPARATION OF WAR
DOCUMENT BEGUN.
LONG CONFERENCES HELD.
Will Recommend Independence And
Armed Intervention — The Senate
Foreign Attain Committee to
iteport That the Spanish
Government la Iteponsl-
ble for the Blatnft
peals has quashed "the sentence of one
year s imprisonment and $600 tine .m«
! posed upon M. Emile Zola. A new
j trial was not ordered. The decision is
based upon the fact that the president
of the court martial should have
lodged the complaint against M. Zola,
instead of the minister of war, as it
was the court martial that was as-
J sailed by the famous author and
i editor
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To Indict the lynchers.
Gutiihik, Okla , April 4.—The fed-
eral authorities have perfected all ar-
rangements for the prosecution of
persons who burned the two Seminole
Indians, Lincoln McGeisy anil Palmer
SampSon, near Maude, for the murder
of Mrs. Julius Laird. A United States
court will be convened at Tecumseh,
Pottawatomie county, Monday. Sub-
poenas are now being issued for wit-
nesses to appear before the grand jury.
Articles That Will Probably Feci the
War Ti*x First.
Washington, April 4. — Secretary
Gage and Representative Dingley of
i Maine, chairman of the House ways
and means committee, were summoned
; l>y the President during the forenoon
' and were soon in conference with
him on business that, while they
would not discuss it, can be safely said
| to have related to the national finances
■ and to measures to put the Treasury
on a war footing. No definite plan or
even an outline of a plan to raise war
revenue from internal revenue sources
has yet been formulated, but it is the
belief of persons who necessarily
would be consulted in the matter that
legislation for an additional tax on
beer is almost certain, in the event of
hostilities, to be recommended to Con-
gress. The question of laying a small
internal revenue tax on tea and coffee
is also under consideration.
It is true that a tax of something
less than ten cents'a pound on tea and
about three cents a pound on coffee
would bring in a large revenue, pos-
sibly 835,000,000 or 840,000,000 a year.
This tax, it is thought, would not re-
sult in materially increasing the price
to the consumer of either tea or coffee,
except possibly in the beginning.
The combined revenues from beer,
tea and coffee, it is thought, would
approximate §75,000,000 a year, and
possibly §80,000,000.
Washington, April 4.—At 11 o'clock
this morning a cabinet officer said
that there was no change in the situa-
tion from that shown by yesterday's
developments, and that he expected
events would move along the present
lines until the President's message
should be sent to Congress early
the coming week. The prepa-
ration of the momentous mes-
sage was begun by President Mc-
Kinley at a comparatively early hour
this morning, after long conferences
with his cabinet advisers and public
men upon the lines it should tako in
order that the position of America in
this crisis may stand forth in a clear,
intelligent and justifiable way before
the present and future generations.
. The advice proffered most urgently
upon the President has been recogni-
tion of the independence of Cuba and
intervention at once to end the hor-
rors of the situation. This course has
been urged especially by senators and
members of the House. The President
has listened to all these views, but has
not expressed his own so freely. 1
It is stated upon trustworthy au-
thority that the Senate committee on
foreign relations has decided to em-
body in the resolution for armed in-
tervention, which it will report Mon-
day, a statement that the Spanish
government is responsible for the de-
struction of the Maine.
The resolution will be drawn up by
Senator Foraker. Sensational devel-
opments growing out of the alleged
suppression by the administration of
the testimony taken by the court of
inquiry are expected.
Somo of the members of the com-
mittee are disposed to regard as posi-
tive the proof of Spanish duplicity in
the Maine affair and to resent it as an
act of war. There is good reason for
believing that there has been more or
less discussion in the committee upon
the advisability of a declaration of
war on account of the explosion,
rather than a recognition of Cuban
independence merely. At any rate,
the Maine incident will be thoroughly
exploited and made the basis of much
that may be said. The committee
feels this is the safest course in view
of Spain's recent action concerning
thp reconcentrados.
Iconoclast Editor Dead.
Waco. Tex., April 4.—W. C. Brann,
editor of the Iconoclast, died soon
after midnight from the effects of
wounds received in a pistol fight with
Captain M. T. Davis
No Armlstie for Ctibn.
New York, April 4.—Senor Quesada
says of Spain's reply: "The mere
fact that Spaniards' are willing to
even consider the idea of sus-
pending hostilities with us is
proof positive that tliey recognize not
j only our belligerency, but that they
' know they are already defeated. The
j Cubans will accept, under no consid-
eration except after the previous
1 recognition of th • iVIependenee of the
Cuban republic, my armistice what-
ever. The next thr'e months are the
favorable ones for our operations and
[ we will pursue them vigorously,while
i at the same time dis-ase wipes out the
! starved remnants of the Spauis'.i army
on the island."
TROUBLE IN COAL FIELDS.
West Virginia Miners Threaten to Strike
lo Secure the Chicago Scale.
Wheeling, W. Va., April 4.—The
indications are for a general strike of
the coal miners of West Virginia on ac-
count of a refusal of the operators to
agree to the Chicago scale of wages
and hours. In the Wheeling district
no mines were at work yesterday and
none to-day.
Cleveland, Ohio, April 2.—Work
was suspended yesterda3f in all the
coal mines of the Ohio districts. The
cause is the fact that the 10 per cent
increase in wages agreed upon be-
twees the miners and mine operators
at Columbus and Chicago has not yet
been applied to the common laborers
in the mines.
THE ARMY BILL.
Mr. MoKiuley Anxious to Have the
MoAHure Made a Law.
WAsnisoTox, April 4. —Senators
Wolcott of Colorado, Elkins of West
Virginia, Spooner of Wisconsin, (iear
of Iowa, and Representative Hull,
chairman of the military affairs com-
mittee, bad brief interviews with Mr.
McKinley this morning.
.Representative IIull'sconference re-
lated to the army organization bill.
The President expressed his desire
that the bill should lie enacted into
law at the earliest possible moment.
It will undoubtedly bo passed Mon-
day.
ZOLA WILL GO FREE.
An Appellute Court Ouailiea the Novel-
ist's Sentence on a Technicality.
AP£il.- 4v—The ,pourt of ap*
Spain Has French Sympathy.
Pakis, April 4.—The French Inter-
national Arbitration society has sent
letters to the Spanish minister for for-
eign affairs, Senor Gullon, and to the
American secretary of state, Mr. John
Sherman, urging the advisability of
the arbitration of the differences be-
tween Spain an! the United States.
The sympathy ot Frenchmen inclines
. rather to Spain, and the hope is still
clung to that some peaceful issue will
be found through the "sound sense of
the two governments aud the good
| offices of the powers."
a Shot From the New York.
Key* West, Fla., April 4.—A tug en-
deavored to pass the flagship New
Vork too close last night and did not
answer the signals of the warship,
whereupon a four pound shot was
fired across her bows. Those on board
the tug received a severe fright Af-
ter the investigation which followed
the tug was allowed to proceed into
this harbor.
The call to quarters and the firing
of the shot was done with extraordi-
nary rapidity and showed to what a
pitch of alertness the fleet has attained.
Printers Consent to a Compromise.
Gutiiuie, Okla., April 4.—J. W.
Cline of Kansas City, district organ-
! izer for the Typographical Union, suc-
ceeded to-day in compromising the
differences between the Guthrie Capi-
tal and its linotype operators. A • on-
tract for one year was signed,in which
it was agreed that machine operators
should receive $15 a week for day
wi.rk, 317 for night work and pay for
j overtime.
Itallroi 1 Men Are fur IVacr.
Atlanta, <ia., April 4. —Railroad
I men in this territory are against war
i unless there is absolute necessity
for it. Almost to a man they are
for peace with honor, anil ,a ma-
jority of them say that the recogni-
tion of Cuban independence is as far
as the United Mates should go at Ihis
stage, if Spain wants to fight on that
around, then let war coine.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1898, newspaper, April 8, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115376/m1/9/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.