The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1903, Page 1

D — IRE T+ ~ UDNEARTHED America and stop at various ports will use the canal when it is finished and South America will get the go by.| Hence those countries are now back- ing Colombia to as great an extent as | they dare in its opposition to the new Forecast Eads ot Aloazar—Tne G113 Teft Bo- - cieco for thirty ho quuu- hind Me.” el ghee e T et e, | e S e e < | s edion glbgs District Forecaster. Orpheum—Vaudeviile. The Chutes—Vaudeville. 3 - :‘ . B i - —— s VOLAME X( 5, T SN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1903. § PRICE_FIVE C RUSSIA'S REPLY TO JAPAN | ‘NLEAGUED iEMBEZZLER McKOWEN STAYS REJECTED BY THE COUNCIL REPUBL]CS IN PRISON WHILE EXPERTS OF THE ELDER STATESMEN . INVESTIGATE HIS METHODS 1 ! our-Filths of Navy o May Be Sent to | , Panama. | |Gathering of the Fleets a0 || Affair of Vast Sig- | nificance. H Mare Island Officer Declares That the;: Lituation at the Isthmus Is | i Most Serious. T ing of powerful fleets of warships m! | : the isthmus,” remarked The Call cor- | | | respondent to a naval officer this even- | | ing, “seems much ado about nothing, | dc:'eg\'ilnlt:-ultxze;ans," replied this v ‘ I A e e AR o s fob long service. Thepre is m:che\::rdser:‘; I 4 \ | “ a canal through the-isthmus of Papa- > 7 ] % ¥ J : | ;:?U‘\:en;::fc a:a;:flfluzgefit:n:l:narn;: ! l\l L \ | ( O\BP RA(Y cut most of the many vesgels that now | \ pass up and down the coast of South | Duel Is Fought in a2 Room in Los and he and his 10 o'clock to-night the deci@ed to search the lo the fugitives and were s room. W the cer cking for admittance the the door and walked was lying on ers came in he i. Before he could Detective Hawley is hand Cho the which eturned Chc allet-from the officers, Joe they promptly p mer was struck t " A momen: he @oor and \ldlked inte the hall revolver in each hand, firing as th 2 me rectly at Detective fired, but missed e he could take Mur s breast, the officer. Be- for a second shot both Murphy and Cowen fired, the two bullets passing through the young an's breast. He died instantly. : he battle was over the officers the room again and found jisser lying dead upon the Jet had passed through his another had lodged in the he When was search v Choisser. Very © the two telegrams from Equality. is thought they were horse traders or dealers in livestock. The officers were taken by surprise when young Choisser opened fire upon hem, as they were not seeking his ar- ’ st They declare that they were forced to ghoot to kill in self-defense. The bodies were removed late to-night to the Morgue to awelt instructions from Equality, Iil Aiming one of his revolvers| clothing of the dead men | $1500 was found on Louis | little is known of the | beyond the information uvn\e}eld" t i JAPANESE LEADERS WHO .: ? \‘_QR FXF?MEP. ATTITUDE ] TOWARD 8T. PETERSBURG. 1 ; i Mikado Will Send an Army Into Korea. c. 18.—A cable dispatch says the dispatch of troops imminent, and that er statesmen have b riday nce of ‘the indorsement : Government's deter- to recede from the de- ssia concerning the Far | d on June 22, 1903. This | s the correspondent, the repection of Russia’s reply. How-| it does not necessarily mean that | less stage, according to the correspond- ent The Shanghai correspondent vh savs that according to Peking Govern- the n warned the provincial | repare for immediate the offensive action taken by Russia and her allies regard- | ng Far Eastern affa SITUATION IS GRAVE. TOKIO, Dec. 17.—The conference of the elder statesmen of Japan, including e Marquis Jto and the Cabinet Min- terday resulted, according to semi-official statement, in a deter- a mination to present a strong front to Russ view of the latter’s un 8- y to the Japanese proposals, r report says it is understood although the Russian reply was nsidered highly unsatisfactory the rence decided to make ancther a friendly settlement. The situation is considered grave. Even the most sober section of the Japanese press declares it is higa time for action. In addition to the Marquis ito, Field | Marshal Yamagata, senfor field mar- shal of the Japanese army, and former Premier Count Matsukato, one of the greatest financiers of modern Japan, vice Premier of Japan, Count rmer Japanese Embassador , and at one time a finance Mi V]|e((v‘ of Japan, and the Marquis Oyama, field marshal, who distin- guished himself in the war between Japan and China, were among those who took part in the conference with Premier Katsura, the War Minister and the Marine Minister. IGNORES KOREAN ISSUE. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 17.—The reticence of the Foreign Office here has increased since the dispatch of the re- ply of Russia to Japan, and the offi- cials decline to confirm or deny reports of the character of the reply printed abroad. The feeling in diplomatic eir- cles is not quite so optimistic as it has been. It is believed the unfavorable impression apparently created on- the Japanese Government by the reply is due to Russia’s unwillingness to place the settlement of the Korean and Man- the | n summoned | spondent tiations have reached a hope- | of the| and probably last attempt to arrive at Texas Agitator Plots |, Against Nation’s Noted Men. —— i Epecial Dl(pllch to The Call. GALVESTON, Te\: Dec. 17.—A man claiming to be Charles Pierzon, an or- ganizer for the Socialist Labor party, was arrested by the police to-night for attempting to deliver an anarchist speech in the street. He had gathered a crowd of more than 300 persons and was denouncing the President and the | Government and inciting a rising of the | laboring classes when the police placed | him under arrest. Judging from the men who came to his assistance at the | police station the department believes it has unearthed a plot of anarchists. ral Sicilians, known to the police archists, avowed friendship for n, and the police have recovered and information Wwhich they Rough plans rtm-rd< will not give out in defail. of several buildings have been found |and it is said they are the plans of homes of men prominent in the affairs of the national Government, and the executive mansion in Washington is in- cluded. Communications were received from Paterson, J., Chicago and New | York Ci ¥ the Galveston anarchists |and an interpretation of one of them appears to reveal a plot of anarchists scattered throughout the United States, i“hh headquarters at Chicago. All of the local anarchists are being shad- owed and the department has commu- | nicated with the police departments of ‘Washington and New York. | - Two lists uf names, with addresses of | prominent = personages, have been | found. Pierzon refused to give any explanation of his acts and defies the police to vrosecute him. He is a swarthy mung man, about 30 years of age, apparen well educated and speaks Eng‘uh fluently. Galveston labor leaders have de- | nounced him-as an enemy to the la- ‘bormg classes and will have nothing to do with him. His sanity is not questioned and he declares he is sim- ply foilowinz his life's work. — SHOOTING STAR FALLS NEAR TERRORIZED MEN Redhot Missile From the Central Azure Strikes the Earth Very Close to Oregon Ranchers. FOSSIL, Ore., Dec. 17.—On Wednes- ;day night Robert Wilson and Oscar Fritz, two ranchers living mear here, were startled nearly out of their senses by a shooting star which, instead of fading away, grew larger and larger. The frightened men saw that it was actually descending upon them, but | before they could seek safety in flight the aerolite passed over their heads {and struck the.earth less than a hun- dred yards from where they stood. The strange missile was redhot and the spot where it struck was easily found by Wilson and Fritz, although the night was dark. Next morning the mass had cooled off and was found to be of a porous stone and to weigh twenty-three pounds. L e e e ) churian questions on the same footing. Russia desires to cover only the former with the treaty, leaving the latter on a sort of understanding, the exact character of which is not determined upon. - Further negotiations will be necessary if Japan insists, with the al- ternative of their entire suspension. H republic of Panama and the proposed canal. “The administration at,Washington is fully alive to the situsition and is concentrating the navaliferce of this country on both sides of the isthmus | and will crush any opposition that may | appear. I expect to see four-fifths oH our navy in Panama wi before the ale-of Jammary.” s The United States gunbeat Pctrel cleared from the navy yard this morn- ing with the understanding ihat with as little delay as possible she is going right through to Panama. For work along the coast the Petrel is one of the most serviceable and formidable gun- boats in Uncle Sam’s navy and will prove a valuable acquisition to Admiral Glass’ fleet on the west side of the | isthmus. .The torpedo-boat destroyers Preble and Paul Jones,Vwhich have been on the dock in San Francisco for several days, are expected he to-morrow. During their absence preparations have been going forward to get them started | for Panama as soon as possible. Hos- | pital Steward Saxon has been assigned to the Paul Jones and Hospital Stew- ard Shaw to the Preble. Provisions and ammunition are in waiting to be hoisted on board the destroyers, which are to go.down the coast under con- | voy of the armored cruiser New York, | which will arrive within 3 day or two from Bremerton. < - GIVEN WARLIKE RECEPTION. Naval Officer’s Visit to Colombian Mil- ftary Camp Near the Frontier. COLON, Dec. 17.—The United States | cruiser Atlanta, Commander William | H. Turner, returned here last night| from the Gulf of Darien. She discov- | ered, on December 15, a detachment of Colombtan troops numbering about 1500 | men at Titumc‘.. on the western side of the gulf, just north of the mouth of | the Atratc River. the Atlanta sent ashore an officer, who conversed with the Colombian com- mander. The latter protested energet- fcally against the presence of Ameri- can warships in Colombian waters, as war between Colombia and the United States had not been declared, and po- litely requested the Atlanta to leave the gulf, because it belonged to Co- lombia. Commander Turner ignored the request and the Atlanta returned to Colon to report to Rear Admiral Coghlan. The Colombians are clearly busy with protective and strengthening measures. Although they treated the Americans courteously, they decidedly resented the presence of the Atlanta‘s landing party. The Colomtian force was composed partly ¢f the men landed recently at the Atrato River by the Colombian cruisers Cartagena and General Pin- on. zEux—ly in the morning of December 15 the Atlanta sighted a small schooner in the center of the Guilf of Darien and follow€d her to the western shore, where the schocner attempted to hide behind an islet. Lieutenant Harlan P. Perrill of the Atlanta was ordered to board her and a whaleboat was low- ered and pulled toward the schooner. Lieutenant Perrill's boat’s crew con- gisted of twelve men. They were un- armed, excepting four revolvers. When the whaleboat approached the schooner four soldiers were seen seated on the side nearest the direction from which the Americans came, With rifles lying handily aeross their knees and point- ing toward the whaleboat. General Novo, who ig a Venezuelan by birth and second in command of the Colom- bian forces. stood upon the deck of the schoonet and insolently called out in broken English: .« “What way is this to mm wuf' The commander of | | namely, — CUBAN BILL IS PROLIFIC OF TROUBLE -Other Nations Seek to Profit by the ‘ ’Ifiaty. WASHINGTON, Dec. The Presi- dent this afternoon issued a proclama- tion reciting the passage of the Cuban reciprocity bill and declaring the Cuban reciprocity treaty to be effective ten days from to-day. The bill was taken to the White House by the chairman of the House | Committee on Enrolled Bills. With the same gold pen with which the measure had been signed by Speaker Cannon and Senator Frye, president pro tem of the Senate, the President affixed his signature to the bill;"thus making it a law. The pen belongs to Minister Quesada. Now that the bill' has become a’law a question of great Interest has arisen, the effect .of.the;readuction of | the duty on Cuban sugar.upon; im- portations of sugar from othercoun- tries. The British Government has served formal notice upon the State Department that under the favored na- tion clause it expects that British sugar from the British West Indies shall be admitted into the Unitéd States on equal terms with Cuban sugar, and it is not ‘doubted that Germany, France, Austria and the other great beet-sugar producing countries will ‘do likewise. An old holding of Atiorney General Olney under President Cleveland's md- ministration was adverse to such de- mands, but the question promises to be reopened with vigor. WOMAN USES AN AX SAVING HER HUSBAND | Wife of a Washington Man Quickly Severs a Live Wire Which Wonld Have Caused th. HOQUAIM, Wash., Dec. 17.—In- stead of fainting when “her h fell insensible with ‘a live - wire seized an ax, chopped the wire in !wo and saved_her husband’s life. - Cramer was moving heavy ing wire which carried the mm‘to thus 't his house. A heavy Storm was raging. and when Cramer M the wire'a stream of water trickled down it ‘from |- o v_——-‘ i W..A. McKOWEN, DISGRACED _SECRETARY OF THE UNI- VERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. : i | Engages Attorney and Becomes Reticent. William McKowen, the defaulting sec- retary of the University of California, remains ‘a_prisoner in County Jail, while. Norman McLaren and another expert bookkeeper are ex-| j amining his accounts with a view to | ucennin]ng Just how much money he embezzled sifice his peculations began, | about half.a dozen years ago. The man | himself lpp‘rently clnnol state with | any detree “of fxn(‘lnesa the total| amount of “his 'defaleation, and until the - experts< haye finished their task, | Whichis ,eg(lmned will consume about | ten days,. Regent'Britton's ovinidn that the. stealings foot up to not less than $40,000 must:be ‘accepted as the’ closest possible, calculation. ; McKowen in_his confesgion+ to ~President: Wheeler de- clared.that he had not appropriated .to his own.use more than $20,000 of the univers ¥'s funds, but a brief scanning of his’ books "Mr. Britton satisfled that very’ thoraugh business man that the to cmud be, doubled ' without overshogting the mark. Arother thifig that only the experts can disclose is”the mr.hod of McKow- en’s em nm!lm-. On _this polnl. 400, thg self-confessed thief seems to be at sea. He ackndwledged having turneéd to his ‘use_mon- eys In;o his hands for u:hohnhlpo and as donations to the medical school, but ‘since hls attorneys have talked over the situation with him he has de- al fund of the " As al- md“ ool ‘Ofthe revision may be, carinot 1 mc'w ‘the university from the" hhlt 0( -t m.ry dw ~he can State the Alameda ! management AIRSHIPS FLIGHT \ - A SUCCESS Craft Sails Skyward Without Aid of 2 Balloon. R e Special Dispatch to The Call. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 17.—The prob- lem of aerial flight without the aid of | a balloon has been solved by Wilber kll’\d Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio | To-day at Kitty Hawk, on the coast of North Carolina, they successfully navi- | gated 'a flying machine of their own in- vention_for three miles in the teeth of |a twenty-one mile gale, and. picking their point of descent, y landed the r machine there. During the trial Wilber Wright occu- pied the oberator’s seat and steered the apparatus. ° | The flight began from a platform con- structed upon a high dhill near Kitty Hawk. A The machine was pro- pelled by a gnsounq engine in the floor of the car.. The. first mile was covered and then Qrville Wright, declared the invention was a success; but it was not until the third mile had been accomplished . that the inventor cast his eyes about for a suitable landing place, found it, and, with his irivention. under perfect con- trol, slowly" let his machine alight as easily and gracefully as a bird. —_———————— AMERICANS ARE SWINDLED BY PARISIAN ART DEALER PARIS, Dec. 17.—Many 'Americans who visited-Paris last year purchased water colors bearing the names of prominent artists, but which were got original, - according - to testimony ‘brought out at a trial to-day of a pie- tgre, dealer. M. Bidreau, a merchant, ~explained lhu ‘the pictures weres pur- /chased-from an artist named Ranold -nd were sold prineipally to Ameri- cans. —_————— Russian Soll in America. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17.—According to advices received at the world’s fair headquarters, Russia will have the most extensive exhibit which that cmntr, has ever made at a foreign . - The exhibit space will cover more than 750,000 square feet, which will be eccupied by more than 2500 individual exhibits. Russia’s national ptvluon will be constructed on - native soil and brought to St. Louis in sections and erected by Rus- carpenters. —_—e————— Will Go to Philippines. HONOLULU, Dec. 17.—Rear Admiral Evans received orders to-day to have the Aslafic squadron, which -.unvod here yesterday, in readiness to for after Christmas. Caailog bas