The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME X —NO 107. Call, . AN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS RUSSIAN OFFICERS BETRAY WAR OFFICE SECRETS TO THE GERMANS STORM’S GRIP ON DAKOTAS Railroads % All Attempts to || Run Trains. Fury of the North- western Blizzard || Is Unabated. Scores of Passengers ‘ Held at Prairie || Stations. | 6.—North Dakota | | Northwest have ex- | | roa is practically n Pacific and | t moved a wheel | y-six hours in the bliz- | distriet, and have aban- | until the fury ©f the storm abstes e high wind has I piied the snow in m ous @rif 5 and | | packed ses, many deep cuts | being entirely filled. The temperature has | been fal ally and is now at or | | below zer anscontinental train | | has arrived in Paul since Friday and s expected for several days. The | Pacific its westbound | n, which 1 tieg v Paul yesterday | et Fargo, the road be- ng blocked. It will start train to-morrow and hopes | it through. The east- n, due here on Saturday ld at Mandan, N. D., and be made to move it before to- | rorrow effort is being made to | | keep the engers warm | end wel or this reason trains | are being held at sta fons where the ac- | dztions are good, rather than at- get through with a possibility " g tied up between s ations. | FNTIRE DIVISION ABANDONED | Red River Valley i ern Pacific, between Frankfort and | | eg entirely abandoned. No | ns have attempted to run since Fri- he exact conditions on e not known as the wires bei division of the Win is n the Great Northemn is e line is tied up entirely Forks and Williston, N. of abeut thirty-five miles, ave been lost beyond Far- | | s of wire is gone between | D., a distance and a wires Carroliton, N. D., and com- with Western Dakota and | s has been lost. So fierce e storm that it has been able to attempt to reopen it abates. Reports to-night re gale has subsided some- | t that snow continues to fall The branch line running to Winnipeg | s tied up. No trains have been started | | morthward since Friday night and those | | that were caught out on the road by the Abandon | ._ IRISH SOCIETIES WILL CO-OPERATE IN PAYING A TRIBUTE OF SONG AND 3 o V.7 ORATORY TO MEMORY OF ST. PATRICK Vg i L Swag 5 -: A ¢ 1 B | | | { Solemn High Mass Will Open Day’s Services. A e Prayers for Old Erin | Rise With Those for Boer. PROMINENT CITIZENS WHO WERE PRESENT LAST NIGHT AT BAN- QUET GIVEN BY KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK AT PALACE HOTEL, AND SCENE AT THE BOARD DURING DISCUSSION OF ELABORATE ME TRAITORS . IN CZAR'S | SERVICE iMilitary Plans of Ten ‘ Years Past Are | Revealed. Sixty Arrests Follow Colonel Grimm’s Conviction. Suspect Condemned to Death on Wife's : Testimony. o+ VIENNA, March 16.—About been made in sixty arrests have | connection with the condemma-, | tion to death by courtmartial at pWarsaw of a Russian colonel %namecl Grimm for the systematie | revelation of military secrets to Among the | persons apprehended are a num- fher of Russian high Grimm has-not a foreign power. officers of rank. Colonel It is asserted that Colonel | | yet been executed. b e ; Grimm, during ten years, has re- vealed to Germany every plan prepared by Russia in the eventu- |ality of war between the two countries. The discovery was due to Colonel Grimm's wife, in I:e\'finge fox his having paid court | to anether woman., { who denounced her husband [l General Puzrevski, the come | | mander at Warsaw, is suspected of being implicated with Colonel [ g | | Grimm. | | Vienna advices, by way of | | { London cn March 13, reported | [that a courtmartial, had com- 1 | demned Colonel Grimm to death, | and added an unconfirmed rumor | that the sentence had been car- ried out two hours later. that aristocratic It was | added several 1 storm have been held at the station near- est the border. Winnipeg is reported entirely cut off from rafiroad communication with the | | outside world. The Canadian Pacffic| | transcontinental trains are snowbound somewhere west of there and nb pros- pects of rellef are yet in sight GALE DRIFTS THE SNOW. The storm Friday was preceded by & light rain 1 accompanied by high | the ing to sleet and then & without cessation for | more six hours. The (errmc' gale { Etreets of | now so badly that the n the storm district t it was next to ough them. Busi- ias been at a standstill | 1 not much can be | des. So far as were filled s impossible tc ness of all ki since Friday @one until the known there has been no loss of life, but owing to the demoralized condition of the wires 1 new has been r!(‘ei\'ed: from the remoter “TENDERFEET” IN DANGER. North Dakote Immigrants Not Pre- pared for the Storm. FARGO, N. D., March 16.—The storm prevailing in the western part of the State since Friday struck Fargo to-day ts | fn full force. The temperature is ten @egrees below zero. All traine in the transcontinental roads are tied up here and the pessengers are being cared for at botels The worst trouble is between Valley City and Bismarck. Four freight trains are stalled in the drifts between these points and the rotaries are uhable to clear the track, the wind filling the | j cuts with gain as soon as they are opened little apprehension felt for the of residents through- out the State. .hose who will fare worst are the recent immigrants. Many who have arrived this week went on to their claims with nothing but tents or board shanties, and their fuel supply i limited. Advices from the northwestern part of the State sre that old settlers are driv- | ing over the country and rounding up the “tenderfeet” to see that no one is frozen. | DEVILS LAKE, N. D, March 16—A | blizzerd, the worst in ten' years, has been raging for the past thicty-six hours. large amount of enow has fallen. All rallroad and other trafc is entirely snow But safety dnt;n;lnd on Page Three. of | officials, draped. ing, HE twenty-seventh annual banquet of the Knights of St. Patrick was given in the maple room of the Palace Ho- tel gentlemen, “1875. “Kathleen last evening. Justices, Patrick The floral St. Patrick’s Mavourneen” representing various socleties affillated together in the observance of St. Patrick’s day, many city Supreme Judges and others were in attendance. About” 125 the Superior It was 7 o'clock when the discussion of a rich and varied menu began. The march | to the banquet hall was led by Mayor | | Schmitz and James A. Emery, president of | the Knights of St were arranged in the shape of a hollow square, and at the eastern end, facing the diners, were séated Mayor Schmitz, Presi- dent and Toastmaster James A. Emery, James V. Coleman, Judge M. T. Dooling of Hollister, Joseph S. Tobin, State Chief Supreme Justice Willilam H. Beatty, Neal Power and Assistant District John T. Greaney. were characteristically green, but over the head of the table the stars and stripes and the green flag of Erin were graceful- Each guest wore on the lapel of his coat a green badge with gold star binding two ribbons, scribed “Knights of St. Patrick” and the other Grace was spoken by Rev. Brady | Baptist The enjoyment of the collation to put all in a proper, receptive mood fo the good things intellectually that were | to foliow. Before dessert was reached the orchestra struck up the stirring strains of the “Star-spangled Banner," A | throats joined in song, each guest stand- winding up with three cheers the glorfoue flag of the Unlon, The strains The tables Attorney decorations | left a one in- day. 1902.”" Father P.| pastor of the church of John the served and 125 for and ' the “Wearing of the Green” evoked intense . i : K 2 Knights of St. Patrick Hold Their Twenty-Seventh Annual Ban- quet at the Palace and Brilliant Speeches Are Made. enthusiasm, so that at the end of a gas- tronomic exercise of two hours’ duration all were prepared to' give President Emery a royal reception on his assumption ' of the office of toastmaster. PRESIDENT’S WELCOME President Emery delivered the opening address, in which he extended the hearti- | est vielcome of the Knights of St. Patrick to their guests. He spoke of the divine mission of St. Patrick and of the intre- pidity of the Irish people in their strug- gles for liberty. St. Patrick’s day at this time was one fraught with tremendous interest to the Celtic people. Iretand has taken one more step in the direction of freedom, for in Parliament the Irish cry is being raised in behalf of the Boer cause—a cry that finds its echo in the uttermost ends of the world. Reference was made to the gallant struggle being carried on in South Africa and it' was applied to the cause of Erin. The storms of centuries had swept against the Irish people, the only result being to cement them closer together In their struggles for freedom. Driven from thelr native heath, the Irish founded new countries in Can- ada and in the United States. They were tortured in their own country, but exile did not prevent them from sharing in the responsibilities of a citizenship in the greatest union of States known to all the world. The speaker closed with an elo- quent peroration in which he extolled the virtues of the Irish people and predicted that they would ultimately gain the free- dom for which they have so long been striving. His closing remarks were re- ceived with prolonged applause. Corresponding Secretary John Mulhern next read the following telegram from Governor Henry T. Gage: “BACRAMENTO, Cal.,, March 14,~John Mulhern, secretary Knights of St. Pat. rick: Your kind invitation to attend the twenty-seventh annual banguet of the So- ) clety of Knights of St. Patrick has this day been given to me by my secretary. “I regret very much that previous offi- cial engagements will prevent my attend- ing on that pleasant occasion. ¥ sincerely thank you and the members of your so- ciety for your consideration and courtesy. “HENRY T. GAGE.” A letter from Major General W. R. Shafter, dated at Bakersfleld, was read, announcing that ill-health prevented his acceptance of the invitation extended to him to attend the banquet. A letter of regrets from Archbishop Riordan, and ex- pressing his best wishes for the success of the soclety was also read. Each mis- sive was received with cheers. COLEMAN’S ADDRESS. The first toast of the evening was that of “The Day We Celebrate,” responded to by James V. Coleman. In the course of a brilliant address Mr. Coleman said: “The celebration of the Irish anniver- sary, such as this, if it did nothing more than recall our recollection to the achieve- ments of our ‘ancestors, it would be enough to inspire sacred thoughts of the future. In every country of the globs where Irishmen assemble to-day, the love of Irishmen for liberty will be foreibly expressed. “Even in South Africa, where English generals of Irish parentage are battling agdinst a liberty-loving, foe, they know as they fight that liberty must rise su- preme against oppression even at the hands of England. (Cheers.) 'The badges on our breasts to-night tell the story of faith and hope and the story of love of the child for its native land It the |’ a country 'is worthy the love of its chil- dren, then patriotism Is a God-given in- spiration, This day is big with serlous WAL AR A T SRR A g Continued on Page Two. O-DAY the Catholic world will pay sacred tribute to the memory of Ireland's patron saint. Throughout the city the bells of the churches will peal in call to the worshipers of his faith. Solemn high mass at St. Patrick’'s Church will open the celebra- tion of the feast of St. Patrick. From thence into.the night Catholics will make known the reverence they hold for the memory of him who led Erin's people from the wildernes of superstition into the light of the cross. PLANS FOR THE DAY. Rev. P. J. ,Cummins will be the cele- brant at the’ mass at St. Patrick's Church, and a large number of priests will assist. Archbishop Riordan will be present. The sermon will be preached by Rev. Father Collopy. The officers of the conyention will also attend. The St Patrick’s day convention, which met-at 1133 Mission street, concluded its labors yesterday afternoon. = Fathers O'Ryan and McMahon made brief ad- dresses and Jeremizh Deasy prayed in Gaelic. . John Mulkern was made vice chairman of the reception committee, and J. D. Condon and Captain H. P. Fligate were added to the finance committee. The executive committee announced that some additions had been made to the programme that will be presented at the Alhambra Theater this afternoon and evening. As agreed upon the programme is as follows: AFTERNOON PROGRAMME. Overture, popular airs Orchestra Opening address. ra +...3. S. McCormick, President of the Day Vocal solo, Mo Breedhen Bawn Asthore Savourneen Dheelish”...Miss Daisy Keene Double Irish Jig....... Miss Pear] Hickman and Miss Bessie Allen Grand chorus, “St. Patrick's Day in the Morning’ Boys of the Wexford Gaelic Choral Soclety Overture, popular Amerie Orchestra Recitation, ** Story of '98”......T. W. Hickey anklin of Cornet solo, “'Killarney" Vocal solo, ‘““Rapparees the Dead). Four-hand reel «Mies Irene ¥ .4iv....Gaelic Dancing School in costume Song in Garlic, he Snowy-Breasted Pearl' .Jeremiah Deasy Double Irigh. hornpipe and jig va Professors O’'Connor and Kelleher Vocal solos, (a) “The Little Red Lark, (b) *“The Roving Peddler’’..Miss K, High card cap.. Ladies and $chool In costume. Operatic selection. ., seesnrens Orchestra Grand Cchorus, “God Save Ireland”....... . ..Members of Gaelic Choral Soclety Conclusion, ‘‘God Save Ireland”.. Audience EVENING PROGRAMM Overture . s >rehestra Introductory remarks veed. 8. MeCormie Vocai solos, (a) “Irish Love Song," (b) “On the Banks of the Daisles’’...... ‘“The Harp That Once * “Wearing of the Grand vocal chorus, Thro' Tara's Hal Green',. Vocal solo, ““My Colleen Rue'’ Double Irish hornpipe 1. G. Oration, “The Day We Celebrate’. “God Save Irel ‘“Grand March’ ST. PAUL’S CELEBRATION. Elaborate preparations have been made | at St. Paul’s Church, Twenty-ninth and Church streets, under the direction Father M. D. Connolly, and an able com- mittee of parishioners for the celebration which will be held in the evening. Father Smith, C. S. P,, head of the Paulist qrder will deliver the oration, and a splendid musical and literary pro- Rev. Father Kennedy, will be presented. Qne of the features will be the first public appearance of the newly organized St. twenty- on this coast, gramme, under the direction of Paul's orchestra, composed four young men of the parish. of SPEAKS ON DAY OF PRAISE. Father 0’Neil Delivers Sermon Befors Large Congregation. A St. Patrick’s day sermon was deliv- ered last night by the Rev. Father O'Neil at St. Rose’s Church, on Brannan street, The sermon was given last night in order that'many who could not be present to-day might have the pleasure near Fourth. ident of the Day Miss Annfe Roone; aelic Choral Soclety Hughes .. Professors Kelleher and O'Connor The Rev. P. C. Yorke .. Audfence | +.Orchestra #*| Polish ladies had been arrested | as accomplices of Grimm. BN F¥REPARATIONS FOR WAR ARE GOING ON STEADILY Siberian Railway Is Kept Busy Car- rying Troops and Materials to Vladivostok. LONDON, Ma 1.—With reference t | the Russo-Japanese war rumors the St | Petersburg correspondent of tk . | says he is able to vouch that the Siber- | fan Railway is declining consignments from merchants because the resources of | the line are fully occupled in forwarding material to V | troops ana adivostol. | THREATEN TO ABDUCT MILLIONAIRE'S CHILDREN Anonymous Correspondent Worries Alexander R. Peacock of the Carnegie Company. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 16.—Repeated threats to abduct his three children uniess a ransom of 000 were left in a certain spot and a warning that murder would follow the placing of detectives on the case have caused Alexander R. Peacock, former first vice president and general sales agent of the Carnegie Company, to remove his little family temporarily from his Lexington-avenue home to the land House, New York. The case was put in the hands of de- tectives, and it is sald the arrest of the guilty parties is now practically ¢ 2 Two unsigned letters were received from the would-be kidnapers two months ago. They caused consternation in amily. Mrs. Peacock became ill, and thinking it necessary that his-wife should have the services of di uished New York phye sicians, removed her together wi the children to New York City, where they have since resided. of Hoi- e of hearing it. The huge edifice was o o crowded to the doors. E SLAY MADDENED Father O'Neil said in part: “Ireland o has submitted to a persecution so fiend- ish in its nature that the history of the Never world fails to record a parallel. since time began has such persecution BULLS IN AN ARENA Ten Thousand Spectators View the Feats of Matadors at Juarez, as Ireland has endured for 700 years been | Mexico. carrfed on. 'And all because she was a | Bl PASO, Tex., March li—Fuer and poor, weak nation, and her people were | Maazantini, the Spanish matadors, fought | dotermined to worship God as consclence | 5% bulls to death tc at Jua x- dictated, They have ever loved -their | i¢0, in 'the presen 10,000 Americ church and been true to their faith, and | and Mexicans. The fight was fuil of ac- all the persecution In the world could | tlon aund thrilling incidents from gtart to never change them. finish, and many narrow ecscapes were "#All that has been done In the United | made by the bandarillas and picadores. Conm; ed on Page Two, ~ ~ | Five hor!eu were killed In the ring and three taken out mertally wounded, &