The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1903, Page 1

Call, VOLUME XCIII—-NO. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIA'S EXPLANATION OF HER MANCHURIAN DEMANDS LEAUES NO GROUND FOR PROTEST BY THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT HARRIMAN COMES TO CONFER WITH MERCHANTS Anxiet siness About Huntington’ %F,p A W AR D A OO \NG 7 Sy - oHa SOl e LUN: SHYZEF coJ TR ANER R SADE g, M H O SviiTT e NSEL in R—ference to Transport Service and Inspection of South- fic Properties Bring Him to California---He Manifests Electric Lme Extensxons HERE is once more the likelihood that San Franeisco will lose the re- munerative transport business. The danger signal has been flouted by \e Secretary of War in a call for bids arrying men and supplies to the Phil- ippines. The commercial men of the city are up in arms and are preparing for the hardest kind of a battle. The steamship lines that are engaged in Orlental traffic to be earnestly urged to come to the One of Harriman's principal rea- in coming to the coast at this time, was to attempt to make some are it is said definite arrangement for the permanent tention f the army transportation 3 at s port. and it is asserted isine » will confer on this subject with President Schwerin of the Pacific Mail and the presidents of the various lo- S rganizations within the next two three < ose of the transport ser- all absorbing topic of inter e lea g business men and executive confer- It was generally had fought Decemger when was t t among elty yesterday battle last first seen zle has but commen Hill has stolen a march on that Wily just d. “Jim" PEES\bENT E.H NARRIMAr _— - S | 4+ - - % S — —— o i SNAPSHOTS OF THE PRESI T OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, TAKEN BY A CALL PHOTOGRA- | ER YESTERI AFTERNOON AS THE MAGNATE WAS WALKING FROM THE RAILROAD BUILDING THE PA NION CLUP. i | or, in other words | back of the movement to start an electric street car system in Los Angeles, which ¢ He left hie daughter, who is | Will compete with the Huntington lines nly member of his family accom- |in Southern California? A franchise has ng b at Millbrae, where Mr. Har ’been applied for and it has been an- S g D. ©O. Mills | nounced that you were the power behind ohs = % | the throne in this step.” ) arrival in this| “I have nothing to do with this new directly to the | Street car company in Los Angeles,” he replied. “I do not usually deny or affirm any statements, and in this case I have no | right to deny the report, but I will. I have nothing whatever to do with this r am I interested in the appli- »mpany in tbe | hour and ng lrl'-ra he company , | eation for the franchise.” { Mr. Huntington recently stated that he Later | had forwarded his resignation as vice- | president of the Southern Pacific Company .| to Mr. Harrimon. The last named sald | vesterday that he had not received this resignation, it evidently arrived in New York after Mr. Harriman started on his trip to the coast. In answer to a request for an explana- tion as to why the Union Pacific and Bouthern Pacific stocks are now down so Milis. s0 Harrin tittle ilos Mr. H hour Towns = low be d “Show me any railroad stock that has ool not gone down recently. Santa Fe is e orelie down; all trunk line stocks have sunk. Ysinag You cannot keep them from tumbling—it iy 8 . is in reference 1o a meei- | o owing to a stringency in the money & H Huntington, and - Baitagn ¥ come to an understas Mr. Huntington's street On being asked when the Southern Pa- going to pay dividends, he smiled ms in Bouthern Califo, he was asked by a Call reporter cannot andwer this question. ~We Skl | bave still lots of work to do. You want . to know if T am going to order more roll- | ’ Mr. Harriman, after X a moment's pause, | If there will he any more great im- provements. I can only answer you by that we are up to our heads in Humtir in against re meet him gton. I wor Julius Kruttschnitt, assistant to the I ani con-| president. arrived in the city yesterday. He has been for several weeks in the East conferring with Mr. Harriman. ls it not a fact, Mr. Harriman, that if there will be more cut-offs | i his rivals and is girded for the conflict which he has invited. He is confident of victory, as can be deduced from observa- tion of the gigantic preparations which he has made. - And the business men of this city are wildly disturbed lest their interests be seriously injured by the weight of the millions and the influence accruing thereto that he will add to the arguments of the people of the sound country. HILL'S TENACITY. Hill's tenacity of purpose is known throughout the financial world and is ex- emplified in this matter of attempting to take the Government transport service to his chosen land. The storm of disap- rroval which his previous unreasonable effort to turn the tables on San Fran- cisco aroused did not swerve him from kis plan and while he apparently slept the work still continued. Local commercial men are assured that he has the ear of S¢cretary Root and the latter is inclined to favor him. A strenuous attempt was made by the California delegation in Congress to have laws enacted which would insure perma- nent enjoyment of the greater portion of the transport business by San Francisco, but this in a great measure failed. Had the Perkins amendment passed there would have been little danger of the threatened change. It was thought, too, that the War Department had been de- terred from following out its supposed in- tention of delivering the millions of dol- lars involved into the hapds of Hill, but s last step shows that this, too, was a false aséumption. Secretary Root has caused to be pub- lished within the last three days an ap- parently harmiess chll for bids for carry- ing soldlers and military supplies to the but it appears | | efrorts | could find on his pers | had ek i WURDERERS Ve CAINE I MYSTERY Gorpse Found in a House in Los | Angeles. Well-Known Business | Man Suffers Cruel Death. Police Baffled by Astounding | Features in Btrange Tragedy. | | 1al Dispatch to The Call | - | LOS ANGELES, April George L. | Mills, manager of the Syndicate Loan | who disappeared last Wednes- brutally murdered, | as yet there is not the slightest ciew to the identity of the murderer. Lured to an unoccupied furnished house §1 West Eighteenth street, he v struck on the head many times with some biunt instrument, then tled with a rope. This afterncon his badly decomposed body was found in an upstairs bedroom of the ho his hands tied behind his back, rope tightly tied about his neck and his head were seven distinct wounds, ernoon, was at v one of which would have produced death. The body was »ying on its face tn | a large pool of blood, and on the “:.ns; were splashes of blood, showing that | after he was down Mills was struck sev- | cral times by his murderer, the blows | using blood ere the body lay There no signs of a struggle and | no weapons. The theory of the police iz | hat robbery was the motive—that Mills | was enticed to the house which is hand- | s furnished, for tue Larpose of nc- ating a loan upon the furniture; that was held there by enemies, who de- manded of him certain concessions that refused to make; that failing in their | the robbers killed him and took money and other valuables lhve}‘l’ n. | ROBBERY COMMITTED. theory is supported by the fact | the pockets of the murdered man | been rif It is known that le | habitually carried several hundred dol- lars, and he invariably wore a diamond stud and a diamond ring worth several indred more, so that if the murdered for the purpose of robbery the to be dashed from | were he what This tha man was th | ! murderers secured money and valuables | worth eastly $500. ! There are oth however, in | which Mills’ known relations with women | ure, but the detectives are all at sc with reference to the . While they have not accepted the robbery theory as | final, they are working on that theory, believing that-the is similar to t ot the murder of James E a money lender, enticed into 2 house on South o case who on January Main and there murdered in an almost identical | manner by Martin E. Cox, who was| never captured. The officers, however, are follow- ing the other theory—that some enemy who had it in for Mills because of his relations with women killed him for re- venge, but they point out that a man who would have murdered him for venge would not probably have robbed him. They admit that they have no tangi- ble clew. 1t is known that the man was first killed | by blows on the head and then his body was tied up with the rope, and the very fact that he was so tled adds to the mys- tery. The autopsy showed beyond a doubt that he was dead before the rope was used, and if robbery only was the mo- tive it cannot be understood what the purpose was in using the rope at all. CALL BY TELEPHONE. Mills' business was that of lending money on collateral security, and a large portion of his business was advancing money on household effects. He did a big business and his company was making big profits. The last seen of him alive was last Wednesday afternoon. He was sitting in his office on South Spring street with & friend when he received a tele- phone message. From what his friend heard him say, it was evident that he had been summoned to some place on West Third street, for he excused himself} saying he had to meet a eclient. He left the office and was seen no more. ‘When he did not appear Thursday noth- ing was thought of it, but on Friday his safe was opened by Dr. Bryson, an officer of the company, and an examination of his accounts was ordered. No money was found in the safe, but there were thou- sands of dollars’ worth of jewelry, on which loans had been made. His aceounts were found to be correct and the officers of the company could not account for his absence. His wife of three months had heard nothing of him and as time passed those who knew of his regular habits as- serted their belief that he had been the vietim of foul play. The discovery of his body was made u). day by the agent of the house in which it was found. The house had been placed by its owner in charge of the firm of W, H. Allen & Sons to be rented, and last Tuesday a man giving the name of Wil- Continued on Pm 7, Column 3, l Oond;:u;d ofl l’m 3, Col-uen 2 | ria entered a denial of a number o United States interests | agreement. SHINGTON, April 27.—Russia’s categorical rc['[\' to inquiries regarding the scope of her Manchurian programme appears to have settled the u:ufrmtra_\', as far as this | Government is concerned. It is announced in St. Petersburg that the two reported de- mands upon China to which the United States entered formal objection were never made. this statement is made officially to the American Government the protesi will be twithdrawn. are not endangered by other features of If the proposed Rusgo-Chinese o Russia Minimizes Importance of Demands. T. PETERSBURG, April Russian Foreign Office when the_Peking dispatch of April 23 set- | ting forth the eight demands made | by Russia upon China regarding Mhnchu- peints and minimized the importance eof others. Commenting on each point scpa- ately the Foreign Office sa; First—Absolutely false. Not our affair. Second—Depends on China. Not in our purparlers. Fourth—Unimportant. Fifth—Such is the present arrangement. Sixth—Extremely important, since an English vessel in’ 1%2 introduced the plague. Seventh—False. Pighth—The integrity of China is al- ready adopted into the Russian pro- gramme. No need to discuss that now. Regarding the whole negotiations, which have been dragging on, the Forelgn Office says: “There is nothing directed against the interests of the powers or their com- merce; others enjoy the same rights of commerce in the interior as we. Of the towns not opened to trade the rallroad | will carry Russian and foreign goods through the country, not sell them in unopened towns. If the towns are opened all will benefit alike. It is of the greatest interest to demand deviopment of trade. The pourparlers concern multitudinous detailed questions, which were not foreseen when the evacu- atlon was decided upon.” As cabled from Peking April 23 the Rus- sian demands were as follows: First—No more Manchurian ports or towns are to be opened. Becond—No more foreign Consuls are to, be admitted into Manchuria. Third—No foreigners except Russians are to be employed in the public service of Manchuria. Fourth—The present status of the ad- ministration of Manchuria is to remain unchanged. Fifth—The customs receipts at the port | of Newchwang are to be given to the | Russo-Chinese Bank. Sixth—A sanitary commission is to be organized under Russian control. Seventh—Russia is entitled to attach telegraph wires to the poles of all Chi- nese lines in Manchuria. Bighth—No territory in Manchuria is to be alienated to any other power. e HEAD OF BRITISH BOARD OF AGRICULTURE DIES LONDON, April 28.—Right Hon. Robert “William Hanbury, president of the Board of Agriculture, died this morning of pneu- monia after an iliness of a few days, but we or they can-| of the | | | AMERICAN REPR | FICIAL WHO | 4 TURES OF ESENTATIVE WHO PRESENTED AND CHINESE OF- E "EIVED P ST OF UNITED STATES AGAINST ‘ f THE PROPOSED RUSSO-CHINE AGREEMENT. '.flmenca Formally Protests Against Two Features of Proposed Agreement. mean a termination of the open door pol- icy, but only a continuance under Rus- sian administration of similar restrictions now imposed by China. In Government circles unmistakable sympathy with the Russian attitude is shown. - It is claimed that Russian inter- ests in Manchuria and its proximity to Siberia entitle Russia to take supervision. o o SCORE SECRETARY HAY. United Irish Societies of New York Object to His Policy. NEW YORK, April 2.—The United | Irish Societies of New York City have adopted and sent to President Roosevel a resolution protesting against the report- ed action of John Hay, Secretary « State, {n instructing the United States Minister at Peking to reject the demands Russia in Manchuria. The resolutio St ¢ | @eclares that such action is fraught with Admires the Conservative Attitude ... \, ine United States and is taken of the United States. |at the of England to promote interests which are not EKING, April 27.—Minister Conger | has sent a note to Prince Ching, the Grand Secretary, protesting against two features of Russia’s proposed Manchurfan agreement, which are considered particularly antago- nistie to American interests. The note ‘objects to China proms:&ng‘ not to open more towns to foreign trade, because negotiations are proceeding in | connection with the American commercial | treaty for the opening of Mukden and | Takushan, and It objects to promising | that ‘the foreign employes in China shall | be Russians only. The United States withholds expressi regarding the other demands, but is pre- pared to insist on her treaty rights it in- fractions occur. | S s FRANCE SUPPORTS RUSSIA. ot instance PARIS, April 2z.—The Foreign Office American. Pres has recelved lengthy advices from Wash- | ident Roosevelt was asked to nmote that ington regarding the feeling aroused in |the course of the State Department, ince John Hay has assumed control of it, has been and is still dictated by a sole purpose to serve British at the expense of American interests.”” A Kl NEW ANTI-FOREIGN SEOT. Catholic Missionary Predicts General Rising Against Aliens. BERLIN, April 2I.—The Cologne the United States over the steps taken by Russia in connection with \lnchuna The dispatches show that the America: Government does not intend to join lhe powers in.opposing the Russian demands put that the United States will confine i action to safeguarding its own comme: clal interests. The assurances have cre- | ated a strongly favorable feeling her Volks The advices also state that Embassador | McCormick at St. Petersburg has been | Zeltung to-day prints a letter from a instructed to forward information on the | Catbolic missionary in Shang Tung prov- ince, China, saying that a mew sect, sim- subject to Washington. The officials here say this will probably disclose that Rus- sia’s action has been less radical than ap- peared at first. The view prevails that the powers ha ilar to the Boxers, has assumed enormous | proportions in Kiang Ning. Eighty per | cent of the population afready are mem- bers, including many soldfers and offefal | 'The writer adds that he expects a whole- ing political antagonisms toward Russia | ¢ Soee (50 UGl tion against for- are*responsible for the present agitatlon. | eigners and asserts that the maudaring 1t is stated that Russia’s demands do not 'arc using thelr influence therete, -