The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1903, Page 2

2 HE SA FRANCISCO PROTOCOLS 60 | NTD EFRET Concluding Act in 'chei Venezuelan Nego- | tiations. Bowen and the Allies’ Repre- | sentatives Sign the Conventions. esence of Herbert W. nipotentiary; Sig- the Italian Em- Herbert, the Brit- k von Stern- tative, and H. ry of the British em- r a's pl es Planc Michael signed with the three for- | es three separate proto- eferential treatm owers in the payment st Venezuela, and NAVAL OFFICER IS PLACED UNDER TECHNICAL ARREST Will Not Be Permitted to Leave Dis- t of Columbia Pending an I stigation. ON, May 7.—Charged with counts, of his bo 1t board a which recent- c station by SULTAN OF MOROCCO MEETS CRUSHING DEFEAT Rebels Rout the Imperial Forces and Capture All of Their Tents he rebels forces after nd have cap- d by the Sultan's and much - loot. The rebels sent ! nder asking for tents unable to | » The rein- 1 sent. | ————— | JEALOUSY LEADS HUSBAND . TO TAKE SHOT AT FRIEND rvine Shelnerdine Fires Point Blank ‘ at Rollo Blovet and Runs Inerdine fired the latter laid was killed and ssin quickly ran away | ed. y jealous of | past, it is said, and | tter of being too in- | 1 mster taxed his friend | the affections of his were exchanged and fin- d out a revolver and Blovet. The latter at 1d pretended he was dead, allet did not come near him. murderer, thinking he had killed Blovet, at once took to his heels and is still missing. ! 1 was sent to the South- ation and Officers Lagrange, nd Desmond were sent to look r. He could not be found d that he committed sui- cide yesterday afternoon he_had bottle of ¢ ic acid in his pocket, of which he spilled, burning himself SR R | Longevity in Ceylon. Ceylon, mecording to its recent census | returns, has no fewer than 145 inhabitants over 100 years of age, Seventy-one of these | are males and seventy-four females, Of these forty-three men and fifty-two wom- | en (clalmed to be exactiy 100, while the| highest age returned was 120. One hun- | dred is a good round age, and no doubt | every indolent octogenarian who could mot | be bothered to remember the year of his | birth put down 100 to save time.—Ex-| change. ADVERTISEMENTS. Al d Chas. Keilus & Co. Brxeilandt ve High-Grade Clothiers NO, BRANCH ETORES. NO AGENTS, Donegal Homespuns The Genuine Article In Outing Clothes Overcoats and Suits Some Very Smart Weéaves And Swell Colorings. Prices and Ideas Meet. g nmy TR el3Z e Kearny Street Thurlow Block FORTS YIELD TO ASSAULTS OF AMERICANS - COMMANDER OF VICTORIOUS AMERICAN FORCES ON ISL- | AND OF MINDANAO. ~ | Captain Pershing Dis- mantles Ten Rebel Strongholds. T lumn h: Ampur ganos' strong in the Taraca shore of country, 1 nao. The Leke Lano, Americans ed ten forts. One hun dred and fifteen Moros were killed, thi teen were wounded and sixty were made 1 T pS s captured ineluded icans were killed ted serfous and banks of the rom them the Moros -d Captain Pershing’s ad- 1 troops attacked the ptured eight of them iffering any losses, though the ix obsolete cannon mounted on tha served with the best The garrison of ications were of the enemy’s ability. ninth fort res . and Cap- ordered the fort to be tured by assault, which Lieutenants Shaw and Gracle, ¢ two companies of the Twenty- Infantry and a detachment of ounded the tenth fort, where ad sought refuge, and it sur- rendered Tuesday. The forts have been an to complete the exploration of the lake. The Spanish gunboat Velasco, sunk by the ships of Admiral Dewey off Cavite, has been rais Her hull is not injured, but her upper works show the effect of the American shells, @+ e s e et et ete@ STRIKES A ROCK NEAR FLATTERY Steamer Leelanaw Has | Narrow Escape in the North. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, May 7.—The steamship Lee- lanaw, which arrived yesterday afternoon, struck a rock as she was roundinggape Flattery yesterday morning, but b¥tked off without apparent damage. The Leelanaw was coming up from San Francisco with part of a cargo of hay. As she neared the Cape she ran into a thick fog and was steaming along at mod- erate speed when suddenly there loomed up directly in front of her bow a huge, perpendicular rock. Her engines were re- versed at once, but too late to avoid hit- ting the rock. The vessel came to a dead stop with a jar that shodk her from stem to stern. For a* moment she hung, then slowly minded her wheel and pulled awa from her dangerous berth. A hasty e amination showed no damage, and as she | mon, and so completely covers with its | s not leaking Captain Munroe decided | network all the principal towns and cities, | w to continue to Tacoma. Surveyors for the insurance companies made an examination last night and re- port that there is no apparent damage. The report was sent to the owners in San Francisco and the Leelanaw will awalt orders before proceeding to load coal, as | it is possible that she may be ordered on the dry dock. The rock on which the Leelanaw butted her nose, lies just north of Tatoosh Island. It is the center rock of three and the Leelanaw passed between the other two before striking it. It is a large one, with a perpendicular wall standing high out of the water. PINE TIMBER IN THE SOUTHERN STATES “Exhaust the pine timber of the South- ern States? Not in a thousand years, said T. H. Grosvenor of Atlanta to a Star man at the Arlington. “Much of the Southern pine has been cut into lumber and shipped, but most of this has been taken from lands lying next to the rail- road tracks and the river banks, where it was easy of shipment. As tnis becomes exhausted the lumbermen move their mills back into the interior and thus get at a much larger supply. During the past five years thoughtful sawmill men have | been investing larger sums of money in timber lands, but this was through no fear of the timber giving out, but rather to insure themselves against the expense of moving their mills at the option of the next land owner who refused to sell his timber. “Of late, however, a nmew danger has arisen. That is the coming of the turpen- tine man. At first he was thought to do little harm, as it was necessary only to bore a small hole in tho trees and ex- tract the juice, but it has been found that these holes so weaken the small trees that they are easily blown over by the wind and thus destroycd. There are, however, thousands of acres that neither the turpentine man nor the mill has touched; again there are many forests that were abandoned many years ago with the idea that the trees left standing were too small to saw. These have grown into good large trees now and add to the supply. I think it will take many years for any person fo figure exactl; ‘when the supply will become exhausted. —Washington Star. defeated the | d. Captain Pershing moved north Tuesday | REJECT TERMS -~ OF ARBITRATION |Striking Italian Labor- ers Vote Not to Re- turn to Work. \ ! N |New York Subway Contrac- tors Will Now Seek Non-Union Help. ! oo R \ NEW YORK, Ma 7.—Sweeping aside the pleading of Che: ier Branchi, their Port Warden James E. March and officials of the Central Fed- eration of Lab the 15,000 striking Ital- laborers voted almost unanimously not to returnsto work in the city until they are assured of $2 for ours’ work. sans that the arbitration agree- ment entered into by the federation and the subway contractors on Tuesday is repudiated. Not a stroke of work will be done in the subway to-morrow, as was promised by the committee, and an- other handicap is enforced against the al- Consul General ian to-day subway Immediately after the meeting the police were called to suppress a demon- stration at One Hundred and Eighteenth street and Second avenue. Only one thing remained to be done, according to a sub-contractor. As soon as the formal reply of the union is re- ceived they will seek non-union labor wherever it can be found. |@+046004000000006+0 WAGONS aTART - FOR RESERVATION Warner Ranch Indians Will Begin Moving l Saturday. Speclal Dispatch to The Call, SAN DIEGO, May 7.—Work preparatory to removing the Warner ranch Indlaps from their location at the Warner Hot Springs has commenced, lha\lgh it is not expected that any ot the parly will leave the springs until Saturday. The wagons in which the household goods and imple- ments of the Indians are to be conveyed left Pala, the new reservation, this morn- ing and other wagons left San Jacinto for the same purpose. They are expected to reach the springs to-morrow noon and the start back is expected to commence early on Saturday. The trip to the new reservation should not take more than two days. tor Jenkins, In whom the Govern- much confidence because of his s in dealing with Indians, has been at the Warner ranch reservation for sev- al days and there have been numerous * or conferences, in which it is ald he gaihed the confidence of the dy crippled building operations of the | VON GOSSLER WILL RETIRE FROM CABINET | & & PRUSSIAN WAR MINISTER WHO IS TO RETIRE PROM OFFICE. | — Prussian War Minister Lacks Support of Government. ERLIN, May 7.—It is announced that General Von Gossler,who for seven years has been Prussian ‘War Minister, will retire after three months' leave of absence. It has been reported and denied several times recently that General Von Gossler | must leave' the Ministry because he was unable to repel the passionate Soclalist attacks in the Reichstag on the army. | General Gossler's reply to Herr Bebel's | denunciation two months ago of non- | commissioned officers’ brutalities was re. | garded by the Government as being sin- gularly ineffectual, and it was perceived | that the Ministry must have as War Min- | ister an energetic hand in the Reichstag. On General von Gossler's behalf it is ex- | plained that two wounds which he re- ceived during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 trouble him with his increasing | years, and that the Emperor permits him | to take a long leave of absence. It is also said that other changes in the | Prussian and imperial Ministries are im- minent, among them, according to the | Frankfurter Courier, being the retirement | of Admiral von Tirpitz. [ A e et ol ol e o e e ] ;TWO NATIONS MAKE READY FOR WAR Continued fromi "Page 1, Column 1. ALL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1903 WILD SCRAMBLE | FOR THE STOCK Thousands Eager to In-| vest in the Trans- vaal Loan. American Money Will Not Figure to Any Great Ex- tent in the Issue. e e Y LONDON, May 7.—The prospectus of the Transvaal loan was awdited with the greatest interest in financial circles here to-day and there was a scene of considerable excitement at the Bank of England, where thousands of people congregated hours before it was finally given out that the prospectus an- nounced the issue of $150,000,000 of the $17: 000,000 authorized and that the price would be at par with interest at 3 per cent. The loan is redeemable in 1953.%A sinking fund of 1 per cent will be applied to the purchase of stock when below par. Through various London- houses appli- cations in behalf of American clients were made this afternoon for allotments of the Transvaal loan. These, however, were not very large and as they must take their chance with the other applications American money will not figure to any great extent in the present issue. The bankers expect that applicants will only receive about five per cent of the amounts asked for, as the qver-subscription of the loan is assured. | The rush for prospectuses was unprece- dented. At the hour of issue thousands of people stood in the pouring rain, four deep, in the stteets leading to the Bank | of England. Thg scene in the lobbies dur- | ing the first issue of the prospectuses re- sembled a football gerimmage, in which | the weakest went to e wall. Later street | hawkers sold copies of the prospectuses ' as fast as they could get the cash. Crowds continued to enter the bank long after the usual closing hour. | BERLIN, May 7.—German bankers sent much money to London for subscriptions to the Transvaal loan. Telegraphic ex- changes rose to-day to 20 marks 50% pfen- | nigs per pound sterling. | D e ) . i issue of the “reds” and. explained to them that the | Government is doing the very best thing | possible for them under the circum-| o¢ the ‘““open door* in China, as that policy stances. It is said that the Indians have | has been advoeated by the United States and agreed to go to the new reservation with- | accepted by all the powers who have com- 11“1[ further opposition,* though none ot | mercial interests within the Chinese empire. | them like it. ! In his reply Count Lamsdorft sald in Indian Agent L. A. Wright of San Ja- | part: cinto will be in charge of the work of The Imperial Government, always desirous of |removal and will be assisted by Willlam 1 rv\“lix'l’x‘?":-“’\'::ml g"\';l:p!nx’ l:\‘" d‘{?!! l':‘lfllwcn! | Indians in most all of the matters con- | ments between Russia and China appear to nected with the removal. he caused the Cabinet in Washington, but People who live near the ranch declare | it feels itself bound at the same time to de- | that they believe that some of the In- | clare that negotiations carried on between two . . e | entirely independent states are not subjects to >};};|m% will have to be lifted and carried. | . submitted to the approval of other powers, ey report that four of the leaders There is no thought of attacking the prinei- among the Indians have gone to San Ber- | ple of the “open door” as that principle ia nardino to see if they cannot get an au- |Uiderstood by the Imperial Government of Rus. . bl ey . | sia, and Russia has no intention Whatever dience with President Roosevelt and make | fot, 20 Thes 008 10 ieition Npatever a last appeal to prevent the threatened | respect up to the present time, removal. If the Russo-Chinese Bank should obtain con. ' ra:!lnn! in China the thl'tl‘menl!‘gl a private | character relating to them would not differ HOW TROLLEY CARS | from those heretofore conceded by so many AFFECT BOOT TRADE | other forelgn corporations. But would it not ‘ dast st | be very strange it the “door” open to certain | nations should be closed to Russia, whose Growth of the System Has Lessened | rrontier adjoins that of Manchurla and who ! and’ for Hea | has been forced by recent events to send her the Dem: N { troops Into that province to re-establish order Footwear. i? the x;!en;\ and cn}x;nmog m[\erehn of all na- | tions? t is true that ussia has conques {mata dnauy Jine f‘“l‘""d; ls ohten | Manchurin, but she Still maintains Tt Bem | strangely affected by factors that at first | getermination to restore it to China and recall | would not be taken into consideration In | her troops as soon as the conditions of evac- the least. For instance, a recent number | uation have been agreed upon and the nec- of the Commercial Bulletin contained a | essary steps taken to prevent a fresh outbreak paragraph to the effect that electric and | °f trouble in the nelghboring territory. steam roads had changed the demand for Because of the announcement of the certain lines of boots and rubbers. Before | Anglo-Japanese agreement at about the the advent of the suburban electric cars | Same time that Hay addressed the Rus- in stormy weather those who had to go | Sian Government relative to the Russo- | any distance to their business wore either very heavy leather boots or rubber boots, unless they drove. | Now the electric car has become so com- that there is less need of the protection of rubber boots or very heavy boots. As a | result the sales of rubber boots and of old-fashioned heavy boots have been ma- | terially curtailed in this section of the | country, It is very probable that the electric road, by furnishing cheap and rapid transportation, has also affected a great many other industries. It makes | the keeping of a horse less of a neces- | sity in country towns, and it also doubt- less cuts down the trade of country stores by allowing purchasers to reach the city stores with but small expendi- ture of time and money. It has also made it possible for those living in the small towns to find employment in the larger ones without losing too much time in go- ing and coming to their work. To some | extent, therefore, it can be argued that the nickels which pour into the treasury of the electric roads consist, at least in part, of money that in ‘earlier years would have been expended In other di- rections.—Boston Herald. e Illusions in Estimating Weights. It is well known that if two masses hav- ing exactly the same weights are pre- sented to a normal subject he will invar- |ably estimate that mass to be heavier | which has the least volume. The denser body will seem to be the heavier. This {!lusion is all but invariable. It was point- ed out by a Belgian physician, M. De- moor, that in the case of abnormal chil- dren, of imb and idiots especially, the reverse is the case. Demoor experi- mented on 380 children between 6 and 15 years of age. He gave them two bottles having the same weight (150 grams), but having capacities in the ratio of 15 to 115. | Of the 380 children 870 declared the small- er mass to be the heavier. Ten others save an answer directly contrary or else Geclared the two masses to be of like weight. Eight of these children were iciots, one was imbecile, and the educa- tion of the tenth child was very much in arrears, although there was no defct in its mind. It was simply on a plane with the abnormal children for lack of educa- tlon. A diagnostic sign not to be neglect- ed is, therefore, this test of judgment of ‘weight, especially after further experi- ments have been made to discover the exact differences between the judgments of children born of idiots and those who York Sua., \ are dull simply by lack of training.—New | WHE Chinese Bank, Hay directed Embassador | Tower to advise the Russian Government that this Government did not know that | negotiaitions for such an arrangement were pending and that neither Great Brit- ain nor Japan was consulted regarding the note. b To Join Britain’s Asiatic Fleet. HONOLULU, May 7.—The British tor- pedo-boat destroyers Virago and Sparrow- hawk, convoyed by the cruiser Amphi- trite, sailed for Hongkong to-day and on | arrival there will become a part of the | already immense fleet which Great Brit- ain maintains on the Aslatic station. He Was Not a ‘“Gynephobo.” The wife of a German farmhand in Ohlo was taken sick recently, and finally died, the husband, of course, leaving his work | for several days in consequence. Two weeks later he appeared at the house of his employer and asked to be relieved from work for a couple of days, when the following conversation took place: “I vould like to get off for about two tays.” “I can't spare you unless it is absolutely necessary. You know you lost several days two weeks ago, and we are behind in the work. What is the necessity for your getting off?”- inquired the farmer. “Vell, I vas to be married.” “Why, Fritz, your wife dled only two weeks ago, and now you are about to get married again? I don’t understand that.” ‘“Vell,” replieq the German, “I don’t hold spite long.” The farmer dismissed the case without prejudice—~New York Tribune. —_————— Bishop Potter's flauqhterl have pre- sented a stone Bishop's chai. Church, New York Cil:y. b i TULLOCH REFUSES PAYNE'S REQUEST Will Not Give Informa-| tion to Postoffice | Department. WASHINGTON, May 7.—The feature of, to-day’s developments in the postoffice investigation was a letter by Seymour W Tulloch, for many years cashier of the Washington City postoffice, to Postmas- ter General Payne in reply to the latter's letter requesting any information Tulloch might have to sustain his published state- ments charging irregularity in the Post- office Department and the Washington City postoffice several years ago. Tulloch takes exception to personal comments by Payne and refrains from giving any facts bearing on the investigation, suggesting that the officials to whom Payne nas | written have all the necessary data If they choose to give it. While thus refus- ing to give any information under the circumstances, Tulloch said to-night that he was ready to substantiate everything he had said, but that he wanted first to read the replies of the persons to whom the Postmaster General had written be- fore going into details. Tulloch's leiter to Payne says: According to accounts published throughout the daily press, it would appear that the Post- master General during a public interview with reference to the article in question and in the presence of representatives of the leading news- papers of the country, referred to me as a “mere wind bag,”” as one who should ‘‘make good his hot air or be publicly branded as a calumniator, a slanderer and a lar.” “Such language at such a time was apparently um- | necessary and certainly undignified. It is also publicly stated that you have ad- dressed letters to ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, R. J. Tracewell, Comptroller of the Treasury, and John A. Merritt, Postmas- ter at Washington, D. C., requesting them to inform you as to the truth of the statements contained in the interview as published. 'If the gentlemen in question will reply and tell the fruth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they cannot, 1 believe, but fully substantiate | the statements made, and anything further from me is unnecessary. | Considering, however, the language attributed to the Postmaster General, I would consider “‘ a favor to be furnished coples of the replies re- Celved in response to this request. ' WOMAN AND ESCORT I KILLED BY STREETCAR | Louise LOS ANGELES, May 7.—Mrs. Schleicher and Ray Morton, both resi-| dents of East Los Angeles, were instantly | killed to-night by the derailment of a heavily loadéd car on the University-Gar- vanza line at Pasadena avenue and Daly street. The car had barely come to a stop when a crowd of people bound for the city attempted to board it. Mrs. Schleicher and Morton got on the front step, and as they did so the car left the track and crashed into another car stand- | ing on the north-bound track. The man and his companion were caught between the stanchions of the two cars and crush- ed to death before assistance could be rendered. } The weman was dead when her body was released and the young man lived but a few minutes. Mrs. Schleicher was the . wife of a butcher. Morton was an ap- prentice at the Llewellyn Iron Works and but 19 years of age. —_———— CORNERSTONE IS LAID BY PROMINENT MASONS RIVERSIDE, May 7.—The cornerstone of Riverside County’s new courthouse was laid this afternoon with imposing cere- monies. The ceremonies were in charge of the Masonic order, Grand Master Orrin | S. Henderson presiding. Addresses were delivered by Noyes and Evans. The courthouse is a one-story structure of classic design, 125x260 feet in size. It is being constructed of pressed brick and will cost when completed $200,000. Im- mense crowds gathered to witness the ceremony. e grand master, Judge istrict Attorney Lyman | Established (323, WILSON / WHISKEY. g T That’s All! Next Sunday's — —0 ’ o—_ ) . e— —_ SUPPLEMENT —m—-e- - - “King of the Flock” is reproduced from a painting by the celebrated Belgian painter of poultry, E. R. Maes. The original, which hangs in the Chicago Art Institute, shows the fowls life size, and the remarkable real- ism of the painting is faithfully preserved in every detail in The Call's Art Supplement. The artist’s remarkable skill is shown not only in the accurate delineation of the fowls and the lifelike rendering of their sleek plumagec, but also in the painting of the land- scape background and the accessories. The artist raises his own models and keeps them on a farm which he owns at Coutich, near Antwerp. Many of them, like their master, are winners of medals and prizes, for they are not of common stock, and Maes is one of the leading poultry fanciers of Belgium. His pictures show clearly his great familiarity with his subjects. Each hen and chick shows distinct individuality. They differ not only in form and color, but their attitudes and even their expressions differ. Note the air of watchful responsibility of the mother’of the chicks, the alertness of the brown hen, and the pride of the cock. Edgar Remy Maes was born at Puers, near Antwerp, in 1849. His father was a black= smith, and at the age of 12 Maes became his assistant. It was a visit to an uncle, who was a portrait painter in Brussels, that first gave him the idea of becoming an artist. He was about 15 years of age when he began ‘to paint. For several years he made copies in the museums to earn a livejin6od. Finaily a dealer, who saw his ability, agreed to pay him 30 francs a week to paint pictures of animals for the trade. This gave the young artist an opportunity to attend the night classes of the Antwerp Art Academy, and he so well applied himself that in four years he had won three prizes. It was his ambition to become a figure painter, but his reputation had been launched and connoisseurs came so rapidly for paintings of animals that he found no time for figure painting. He was engaged for considerable periods to work exclusively for a London dealer, a Paris dealer, Mr. Wilson, United States Consul at Brussels, and, final- ly, by Dhuyvetter, the Antwerp dealer, for whom he has painted nearly 300 pictures ce 1875. KING OF THE FLOCK.